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Hala Sultan Tekke (Turks: Hala Sultan Tekkesi, Grieks: Χαλά Σουλτάν Τεκκέ) moskee, ook wel de moskee van Umm Haram genoemd, is een moskee aan het zoutmeer van Larnaca vlak bij de luchthaven Larnaca op het eiland Cyprus. Het is een islamitisch heiligdom aan de Griekse kant van het eiland.

Geschiedenis

Toen de Arabieren in 647 Cyprus veroverden, was Hala Sultan daarbij aanwezig, een tante van vaderskant van de profeet Mohammed. Ze viel in het latere Hala-Sultan-Tekke van haar muildier en stierf. Ze werd ter plekke begraven, haar graf ontwikkelde zich tot een pelgrimsoord. In 1760 begon sjeik Hassan de bouw van een moskee. In 1816 was het gebouw gereed, zodat vanaf toen het graf in een zijruimte van het gebouw was gelegen. Later werd ook voorzien in onderkomens voor pelgrims. Het graf van de Turkse vrouw van Hussein ibn Ali, die door de Britten naar Cyprus werd verbannen, bevindt zich eveneens in de moskee.

Het complex bestaat uit een moskee met minaret, een mausoleum, een begraafplaats en woonverblijven voor mannen en vrouwen. Het woord Tekke of Zawiya (klooster) duidt op een gebouw dat bestemd was voor bijeenkomsten van een soefi-gemeenschap of tariqa. Tegenwoordig is het complex vrij toegankelijk en behoort het niet tot enige religieuze stroming; het ligt in een rustige omgeving aan de oever van het zoutmeer en is geclassificeerd als oudheidkundig monument.

Archeologische vindplaats
De locatie van de moskee is een belangrijke vindplaats uit de bronstijd. De eerste opgravingen vonden plaats in 1897 en 1898 in opdracht van het British museum. In 1948 deed de Cypriotische oudheidkundige dienst onderzoek. Archeoloog Vassos Karageorghis was er in 1968 en 1974 aan het werk; de Zweedse Cyprus-expeditie onder leiding van Paul Åström vanaf 1971. Nabij de moskee ligt een stad uit de bronstijd, het huidige Dromolaxia. Deze stad werd vermoedelijk rond 1600 v. Chr. gebouwd. Ze bereikte haar grootste omvang in de eerste helft van de 12e eeuw v. Chr. en besloeg toen ca. 2,5 ha. Evenals bij het nabijgelegen Enkomi was er sprake van een regelmatige plattegrond met een rechthoekig stratenpatroon. In de stad werden onder andere werkplaatsen van kopersmeden uitgegraven en werden gietvormen voor sikkels, een stenen aambeeld en blaasbalg-pijpen gevonden. Ook werd de aanwezigheid van een ivoorsnijder ontdekt, en werden praalgraven blootgelegd.

Betekenis
De locatie wordt erkend als een heilige plaats voor Turks-Cypriotische moslims. In een beoordeling van de culturele erfgoederen van Cyprus zei Professor George E. Bowen van de University of Tennessee, dat de Hala Sultan Tekke de derde heilige plaats ter wereld is voor moslims, na Mekka en Medina.

Het wordt ook wel de vierde heilige plaats genoemd, dan met Jeruzalem op de derde plaats. Omdat het complex in het Griekse niet-moslimgedeelte van het eiland ligt, komen er niet veel pelgrims.

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Externe links

 Historisch Cyprus in het British Museum (Engelstalig)
 Restauratie van het Hala Sultan Tekke complex
 MP3 en PDF audio guides door de Cyprus Tourism Organization.

Moskee in Cyprus


God inspired holy writers to record His Word in the Bible, which makes the Bible without error and perfect for clearly proclaiming all we need for salvation. In another sense, however, God's Word is not limited to the Word of the Bible. Pastors who faithfully preach from the Bible provide a living voice of Jesus for His people still today. Through such reading of His Word and preaching, God creates faith when and where He chooses in those who hear the Gospel. (Romans 10 traces out well the sending of preachers for the end result of us hearing, believing, and being saved.) Thus, every worship service at St. Paul features at least the reading of Holy Scripture, if not also an homily or sermon based on it.
Baptism is regarded as the entrance Sacrament, as it replaced Old Testament circumcision as the entrance rite into the Kingdom of God (Colossians 2:11-12). Through Baptism God brings about the salvation of the person baptized who, regardless of age, by faith receives the forgiveness of sins, rescue from death and the devil, and eternal salvation. Baptism connects us to Christ, alive with Him, and makes us God's children. (Various Bible passages speak of Baptism, such as Titus 3:5.) Newborn babies of St. Paul families and any others desiring Baptism may seek it out at St. Paul.
The ongoing and repeated Sacrament Lutherans practice is the Lord's Supper, also called "the Sacrament of the Altar". The true body and blood of Jesus Christ is really, physically present in, with, and under the bread and wine in this holy meal. The body and blood are so given in the bread and wine for the forgiveness of sins, life, and salvation. (Jesus's own words are clear, as in Matthew 26:27-28.) So important is this gift that every Divine Service at St. Paul offers the Sacrament of the Altar to those who have been instructed, examined, and absolved.
Holy Communion is a visible means by which our Lord Jesus Christ forgives our sins and strengthens our faith through our reception of His true body and blood in mystical union with the bread and wine. Participation in the Holy Communion or Lord's Supper is a confession that you share our beliefs that Jesus Christ is the only way you can be saved from your sins and receive eternal life, that forgiveness of sins is received in this Sacrament of the Altar, and that our Lord's body and blood are truly and physically present. When we commune together at Christ's Altar we all renounce any contrary teachings or practices regarding the nature and benefits of this Holy Supper.
Baptized and confirmed members of Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod congregations and those with whom we share altar fellowship have publicly confessed these beliefs. Out of love and concern for your spiritual welfare, and not a desire to be exclusionary, we ask that those who do not yet share this understanding and confession of the Sacrament refrain from communing until they have been instructed in our beliefs regarding this Sacrament, and brought into fellowship with us.
If a worshipper should not yet commune with us but wishes to receive a blessing, he or she is invited to come forward and kneel at the rail, with arms folded and hands on opposite shoulders.
In keeping with the historic practice of the Christian Church and the Lutheran Confessions, Holy Communion is celebrated at both services every Sunday of the month, as well as on significant feasts and commemorations of the Christian Church's liturgical calendar.
People often ask why the Word and Sacraments are so important if Christ has already won forgiveness and salvation for us on the cross and gives us those gifts by grace through faith. The answer is simple: the preaching of His Word, Baptism, Absolution, and the Supper are the ways that He distributes those gifts in order to bless those who are willing to receive them in faith. We cannot go to the literal cross some 2,000 years ago, but we can come here and now to find Christ where He promises to be—in His Word and Sacraments.


The upcoming event, 4th International Conference on Life Skills & Livelihood Skills (LSISI) is focused on Leveraging Digital India for Rural Empowerment. The conference will be held from 16-17 November 2017, at Dr. MCR HRD Institute of Telangana, Hyderabad. We caught up with Dr Ravi Kumar Reddy, Organizer and Secretary Rural Economic and Educational Development Society (REEDS), to know more about the themes and key takeaways for the delegates.
Life Skills and Livelihood Skills International (LSLSI) Conference Series were initiated in 2010 with prime objective to improve the skill levels of rural Indians through raising the awareness of the need and importance of developing life and livelihood skills through exchange of best-practice research, experience and innovative policy proposals in the area of skills development towards socio-economic rural empowerment.
All the LSLSI conferences have been a success for discussing and promoting the ideas to build, sustain and scale initiatives in skill development among relevant stakeholders for an empowered rural India. In addition to sharing of a wealth of knowledge from the participants and speakers, some of the recommendations are being furthered for realizing the objectives of the initiative. LSLSI's first conference, held in 2010, was honoured to have an inaugural address by Dr. APJ Abdul Kalam, the former President of India.
The theme of the current conference, Leveraging Digital India for Rural Empowerment, was chosen to provide impetus to the ongoing Digital India programme that has potential to transform rural agricultural economies. Digital India is, by far, the most potent opportunity for the transformation of India by empowering nearly one billion rural Indians with advanced skills and the latest digital tools, enabling them to "leapfrog" into the Digital Age.
Currently, India is far from a leader in three critical areas related to digital infrastructure for rural empowerment: the provisioning of high speed and high capacity broadband; mobile and related wireless technologies; and data governance and security issues. For example India ranks 131 in the ICT Development Index in 2015. India holds 105th place in the world and lowest in the Asia Pacific region in average Internet speed. And, over 55,000 villages have no mobile connectivity.
India set a Guinness World Record for the achievement of the most new bank accounts, with over 200 million bank accounts opened as part of the Pradhan Mantri Jan-Dhan Yojana [PMJSY]. However, according to numerous reports, financial literacy, a necessary condition of financial inclusion, has become a major impediment to inclusiveness, resulting in high bank account dormancy: 28 percent of the total; and at lower income levels, only an average of 10 digital transactions, compared to 163 in Brazil, 420 in South Korea and 429 in Sweden in 2015. Clearly, much concerted effort needs to be undertaken to turn financial illusion to financial inclusion.
New digital tools offer the best opportunity for rural economic empowerment by transforming India's more than 1.4 million schools and 36,000 higher education institutes to advanced learning centers using the latest technologies to improve the speed and efficacy of learning. India has increased basic literacy rates from 12% at the time of independence to 74% (as per 2011 census). Despite this impressive improvement, the "digital divide" – lack of access to digital products and services – as well as "digital literacy," are critical impediments for the development of livelihood and life skills.
Fundamental to empowering a growing rural economy is providing accessible and affordable healthcare. India can ill afford to neglect this critical component of economic success, as the World Economic Forum, for example, predicts that the economic burden of non-communicable diseases in India is likely to be $5 trillion between 2012-30.
Stimulate corporations, NGOs and social and business entrepreneurs to create long term demonstration projects, commercial models, products, programs and services necessary to accelerate Digital India for sustainable rural economies.
SKILLS 2017 will provide set of specific, constructive proposals to help achieve the Digital India program objective – an incremental 20-30% increase in India's GDP by 2025 — by bringing together a diverse group of knowledgeable and committed stakeholders to propose supportive solutions for enhancing India's digital infrastructure, financial inclusiveness, agricultural productivity, and accessible rural health, and education, through the use of new digital technologies and tools.
Following the conference, REEDS & LSLSI will publish and promote the conference recommendations with appropriate change agents. Further, they will develop and promote demonstration projects to support the achievement of the Digital India mission. In addition, we expect the conference to inspire social and business entrepreneurs to engage in developing innovative products and services to achieve the goals of Digital India.
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Q: Proof that $L^1(\mu)\cong L^1([0,1])$ for a probability measure $\mu$ A classical result of functional analysis states that the space $L^1(K, \mu)$, $\mu$ a nonatomic probability measure on a separable metric space $K$, is isometric to $L^1([0,1])$. The key ingredient for this is the existence of a bijection $\sigma\colon K\to[0,1]$ with the additional properties that $\sigma$ and $\sigma^{-1}$ are both Borel maps and that $\mu(B) = \lambda(\sigma^{-1}(B))$ for every Borel set $B\subset K$.
I am interested both in a reference to the standard proof of this result as well as a reference to the "original" proof in case it is known who gave the first proof of this result.

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My dad loves cherries, but I hate preparing (or buying) a cherry pie. This slow cooker recipe surprised me with how EASY a cherry dessert could be! The only thing you have to do is open a can and a box...works for me. If you are serving more than 6 people, you may want to add another can of pie filling.
Grease the slow cooker (a 4 quart one works great) or put a crock pot liner to save clean up time (I just bought my first box of them!).
Add cherry pie filling to slow cooker.
Mix dry cake mix and butter (to make a crumbly mixture)-if time is a problem, I have just dumped the cake mix in and topped with butter.
Add walnuts on top if desired.
Cover and cook on high for 2 hours on high or 4 hours on low.
Note: A coworker of mine makes a similar dessert, and she adds a 16 ounce can of crushed pineapple and juice to the bottom of the slow cooker then adds the rest of the ingredients. It is a delicious modification.


Bridal hair and make up trials, really necessary?
Every time a bride-to-be comes in for a hair and makeup consultation for her big day, we get asked if a bridal makeup and hair trial is necessary. We always answer yes, and for a good reason.


Morning gets you from Nainital railway/bus station and you are greeted by the tour representative as well as taken to your coach for the seven-hour trip to Nainital. Nainital is one of the renowned tourist place and also enchanting hill station in India. Nainital is 1,938 mtrs. Over the water level, bordered 3 sided by the high hills as well as a gorgeous eye designed lake among them. In Nainital one can delight in boating, Horse riding, hiking as well as numerous other activities.
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Q: Convert GraphPlot[]s with many nodes into something that's human-understandable This is more of an abstract/creative problem. I think everyone who has played around with GraphPlot, ended up with an image that looks like this, at least once in their life:

I am looking for general solutions to convert many connections -> many connections into something that's human understandable.
Here's my code above:
d = DictionaryLookup[RegularExpression["[a-z]{1,5}"]];
d = Take[d, 1000];
g = {};
Do[Do[If[Abs[StringLength[d[[i]]] - StringLength[d[[j]]]] > 1,
   Continue[]];
  If[EditDistance[d[[i]], d[[j]]] == 1,
   AppendTo[g, d[[i]] -> d[[j]]];
   AppendTo[g, d[[j]] -> d[[i]]]], {j, i + 1, Length[d]}], {i, 1,
  Length[d]}]

Needs["GraphUtilities`"]
s = StrongComponents[g];
sc = Last[SortBy[s, Length]];
gc = Select[g, MemberQ[sc, #[[1]]] &];
GraphPlot[gc,
 EdgeRenderingFunction -> ({Orange, Arrowheads[Small],
     Arrow[#1, .07]} &)]

I would love something like this, where strongly connected nodes are grouped into single pie-chart vertices which represent the # of node connections over total connections.

A: Your graph has many vertexes, while the exemplary graph you link to does not and this is why it looks so nice. Styling with pie charts is not a problem at all:
g = RandomGraph[{15, 43}];

vfc[{xc_, yc_}, name_, {w_, h_}] :=
 Inset[PieChart[{VertexDegree[g, name], VertexList[g] // Length},
   SectorOrigin -> {Automatic, .7},
   ChartStyle -> "AvocadoColors"], {xc, yc}, Automatic,
  VertexDegree[g, name]/30]

SetProperty[g, VertexShapeFunction -> vfc]

I by the way understand that you want more - to replace "heavy" sub-graphs by nodes reflecting their statistics. That could be done, but it is a bit messy and ambiguous, more of a research question. If I find time I may post a solution.
Here is another angle at a quicker analysis. Automatic spatial layouts Mathematica uses for graph carry a lot of information too. We can use FindClusters to analyse it. I will remove directed and multiple edges for clear picture. To see clustering of regions, after you execute your code do this:
n = 10;(*number of clusters*)
grr = Graph[Union[Sort /@ gc], DirectedEdges -> False, GraphStyle ->
      "LargeNetwork", VertexSize -> 0];
cls = ListPlot[FindClusters[AbsoluteOptions[grr, VertexCoordinates][[2]], n],
      PlotStyle -> ColorData[3, "ColorList"]];
Show[grr, cls, BaseStyle -> PointSize[.01]]


Oh dear. It looks like Rachel is piiiiiiiisssed at Mike for keeping things from Harvey.
If you're not up to date with Suits Season 7, look away now. A few key themes are unfolding and Wednesday's episode, which airs in South Africa on Thursday night, will be no different.
Season 7, episode 6 is called "Home to Roost" and will see Mike Ross officially in the line of fire for continuing to work on a pro-bono prison case.
Pretty much everyone is upset with Mike by now. Rachel (Meghan Markle) found out about his lie in last week's episode and Harvey (Gabriel Macht) isn't exactly the kind of person you want to upset.
But it's not just Mike who is in trouble. Harvey still has to figure out how to tell Donna (Sarah Rafferty) that he's dating Paula (Christina Cole).
Woah, okay. So we don't actually know if Harvey will find out about what Mike is up to. But Rachel is not stoked.


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Q: Upload photos on my website in real time with twitter, instagram or another service I have a question about uploading images from my smartphone to my website.
I want create a little blog where I write and upload image in real time.
For example I like this restaurant, i take pictures of dishes and I share those pic on my blog.
My question is: is possible using the Api/App of twitter or instagram do that?
Take a picture from my smartphone camera, have a "button" for share image on my website.
I hope my english let you understand what I say.
thank's Davide

A: The answer is yes - you can publish your photo on for example twitter and then use one of many  ways to show this (your twitter feed as an example) on your blog. The easiest will probably be to use a twitter widget: https://twitter.com/settings/widgets/new
Of course, you can also use the APIs to import the photos from twitter/insta - but that requires more coding,


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England in safe hands
SVEN GORAN ERIKSSON today threw his weight behind Chris Kirkland's claims to be England's number one.
The national coach has described Kirkland as "the future of English goalkeeping".
And Eriksson says it's a certainty Kirkland's dad Eddie will soon be cashing in the 11-year-old bet on his son playing for his country.
After placing a #90 bet at 100-1 their son would win an England cap, the Kirkland family could be celebrating a #9,000 win within a few hours if the 22-year-old plays in the second half of tonight's friendly with Croatia.
The Liverpool keeper sat out of the practice match in training yesterday as David James and Paul Robinson were preferred.
But speculation is rife Kirkland may be preferred to his Leeds rival in the later stages of the game at Portman Road.
Eriksson is predicting a similar rivalry developing to that between Ray Clemence and Peter Shilton all those year ago.
He said: "Chris is a very interesting player, that's for sure.
"It was only when I stood next to Chris I realised how tall he was.
"He is one of the big, big talents for the future. Paul Robinson is another in my view who is going to be one of the best.
"I have no idea which, but I suppose in the future one of them will be England's number one.
"I have heard about the bet Chris' dad has had and I think it was a good bet to do. Sooner or later he will have that money. I'm sure his chance will come."
Steven Gerrard is expected to play for an hour this evening. Emile Heskey is likely to start alongside Michael Owen.
Liverpool's John Arne Riise will be in action against Scotland in Oslo tonight and has hit back at claims the Norwegian are the 'dullest team in Europe'.
"I would definitely pay to watch us play and we will show why against Scotland," said Riise.
"Those who come to watch us will be entertained."

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Dennis Peters
A private memorial service will be held at at 3:00PM on Friday January 14, 2022. Interment prior to the service at Westridge Memorial Gardens at 11:00AM. Public viewing will be from 1PM-8PM on Thursday at Wiebe Funeral Home, Winkler. Donations may be made in Dennis' memory to Pembina Valley BIble Camp
Dennis William Peters
1956 ~ 2022With deep sadness we mourn the loss of beloved husband, father, grandfather, son, brother uncle and friend of many, Dennis William Peters, age 65 years. He was carried to his heavenly mansion by the angels, on Thursday January 6, 2022 at 5 pm. His sudden passing at home, came as a shock, despite his struggle with terminal brain cancer the last 20 months.
He is survived by his wife, Amanda (nee Loewen), 1 daughter, Melissa (Brian) Degelder and 3 sons, Joseph (Jerilynn) Daniel (Miranda), Tim (Jamie) Peters; 14 grandchildren Kelsey, Hannah, Chloe, Reece Degelder, Katelyn, Luke, Caleb, Micah Peters, Owen, Evelyn, Ethan Peters, Silas, Leeland and Cambria Peters; his parents, Bill and Dora Peters, 1 brother Laverne (MaryJane) Peters, 3 sisters - Norma (David) Wallace, Joan (Darrel) Heide, Karen (Rob) Wiebe, sister / brother in laws Elsie Dueck, Luella (Jake) Giesbrecht, Paul (Melody) Loewen, and Naomi (Lawrence) Dueck, plus many nieces and nephews.
It was a stormy winter day on March 31, 1956 that Dennis entered this world. Most of his life was lived on the soil of section 27-3-4west; 3 ½ miles north of Winkler. His telephone introduction was usually "Hello, this is Dennis Peters from North of Winkler." His earlier years of education was received at the Rosenbach country school just half a mile north across the field from his home. He completed his Elementary School years at the Winkler Elementary School and then his high school diploma at GVC. He always regretted not having received a higher education but he read many cattle magazines and farm related books which certainly helped his farming practices In the summer of 1979, he met Mandy for the first time. From that very first meeting, he felt comfortable being in her presence and so took courage to ask her to a "Blue Bomber's Game". Despite the fact that Mandy was totally ignorant about the game and he had to constantly answer her questions, despite receiving a speeding ticket while driving home that night and then realizing his date had locked herself out of her apartment, the relationship continued. Well, I guess now you know the rest of the story. Dennis and Mandy were married on October 4, 1980. In that same year, Dennis decided to quit his job at Hometown in Winkler and start farming full-time. As a young boy, growing up on the farm together with his grandfather and father, he became naturally attached to this lifestyle. He was always fond of animals…especially the cattle. He treated his 4-H calf as a pet. He would lie down beside her in the pen; dreaming of having his very own herd someday. His dream came true. Being a patient man, he was well suited to take care of his cows. He rarely got flustered and never drove his cattle hard. The chores were always done before he himself came in to eat. He spent many hours just observing the animals, all the while thinking of how he could improve things. He understood their personalities and because of his peaceful nature, the cattle trusted him. He also had favourites and sometimes it was hard for him to part with those. Farming certainly had it's challenges. Drought, low grain prices and high interest rates in the 80's, BSE from 2003 - 2010 and high land prices following that, almost broke him. It was difficult not to give up, but his faith in God never wavered. Miracles reflecting God's faithfulness kept him going. It was particularly exciting for him to be able to farm together with his sons and then to be able to pass it on to them. Added to the business of farm life was the blessing of having a family. Dennis loved children and tried to be involved in their lives as much as possible. There were times when he was willing to stop the combine in order to attend a horse / cattle show so he could watch his children perform. On most winters, he made an ice rink or cleared the creek ice in order to play hockey with the kids and their friends. Dennis always enjoyed sports - specifically hockey, baseball and curling. In his earlier years he played on a mixed slow pitch team for the Bethel Hospital, hardball and baseball for the Winkler SOX. A dream came true for him when he was accepted to play slow pitch baseball for the Rock Lakers. It was a great disappointment for him when he realized he was no longer able to do so on account of his illness. His curling interest began in high school and continued on for several competitive years until family and farming pressures took priority. He particularly enjoyed playing third for Hank Klassen's team and later curling with his sons. Dennis played recreational hockey from 2000 to 2020. Once again, this opened the door for him to meet and become friends with many wonderful people. One cannot conclude this obituary without the mention of Dennis's faith journey. He accepted Jesus into his life at age 16 at a crusade held at the Winkler Elementary School. A year later on June 10, 1973 he was baptized and became a member of the Bergthaler Mennonite Church. He continued to grow in his Faith as he took part in the church youth program and prayed for God's direction regarding his future. His desire to attend Bible School was never fulfilled but he studied God's word in order to find answers for life's complex questions. When his son Tim attended Bethany Bible College, he and Mandy had the opportunity to take a weeklong course, on the book of Mark, taught by professor Tim Geddert. This was a highlight for him. In an effort to pass his faith on to his children, summer camp became important for the family. This was reflected in his involvement with Pembina Valley Bible Camp. He served on the board and also spent time working at the camp. He loved God and strove to follow His ways the best he knew how. For him this also meant leading in daily family devotions and a commitment to the church. He was an usher and taught Sunday School for many years. He particularly enjoyed being involved in several church dramas, especially the WMBC Easter drama where he played the role of Nicodemus. To him the empty tomb was the most important part of the story. He understood that "Because He (Jesus) lives we too shall live." John 14:19. Right now, in the presence of Jesus, Dennis is more alive than ever before. To God be the Glory.
Donations in memory of Dennis Peters may be made to the Pembina Valley Bible Camp. Thank you


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Parking open at Astroworld lot, but not so fast says Reliant
HOUSTON He's leased the old Astroworld lot and wants you to park there for $20. But we found out the stadium isn't too eager to have a new neighbor.
The old Astroworld is a fixture so many Houstonians can see without looking.
"I still see it. The big one was right there," said Kent Maree.
Today, it's just a dirt field; no more roller coasters, no more fun. The few reminders of what was here are tired, old, and almost past any useful life.
"I would love to ride that ride again," Maree said.
But Maree does see something here - his childhood paradise will be a parking lot this weekend for the biggest game of the year.
"Parking passes on the internet are going anywhere from $100 to $250," he said.
A spot in his lot, right across from the stadium, is $20.
"Do I spend $20 across the street or do I buy a blue parking pass for $250?" Maree asked.
And remember that old bridge to Astroworld? It's still there. You could walk right to the stadium and avoid all dodging or stopping, all that feeder road traffic below. If the people that run Reliant Stadium would unlock their gate.
"I don't want to promote that parking area," said Mark Miller of SMG Reliant Park.
But the stadium doesn't want to do that.
"We don't think we need to open the bridge. We don't want to encourage people parking over there. We think it adds more traffic," said Miller.
They promise us that keeping the publicly owned gate closed has nothing to do with competition and everything to do with keeping traffic moving. They say cars over there would slow down people coming in here.
"His parking is going to damage my traffic. His efforts are going to damage my efforts and I don't want to do that," Miller said.
With or without the gate, Maree will open his lot. He did it two weeks ago and months ago for the rodeo, and he's hoping to convince the Texans he can help.
"I want to be the good neighbor. I want to be like, 'Hey guys whatever you want me to do, I will do,'" said Maree.
The property's been vacant since 2006 and will likely be vacant until the economy turns around. As for the publicly owned gate, so far there's no plan for the stadium managers to open it up.
If you don't have pre-paid parking for Sunday's game and want to park at the old Astroworld, there are three entrances off the South Loop feeder between Kirby and Fannin and one more off Kirby south of the Loop.
Click here to see a map of the parking lot at the old Astroworld.


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Diese Liste der Dozenten und Absolventen der Hochschule für Bildende Künste Braunschweig zeigt bekannte Personen, die an der Braunschweiger Hochschule lehr(t)en oder diese erfolgreich absolvierten.

Professoren

Präsidenten und Rektoren

Ehemalige Lehrende und Studierende
 Marina Abramović (* 1946), serbische Performance-Künstlerin
 Hermann Albert (* 1937), deutscher Maler
 Hans Alvesen (* 1965), deutscher Künstler
 Carsten Aschmann (* 1965), deutscher Filmemacher, Videokünstler
 Andreas Bee (* 1953), deutscher Kunsthistoriker und Kurator
 Hannes Böhringer (* 1948), deutscher Philosoph
 Markus Brüderlin (1958–2014), schweizerischer Kunsthistoriker, Kurator und Publizist, Direktor des Kunstmuseums Wolfsburg
 Gerhard Büttenbender (* 1938), deutscher Medienwissenschaftler, Drehbuchautor und Filmemacher
 Roland Dörfler (1926–2010), deutscher Maler
 Bogomir Ecker (* 1950), deutscher Bildhauer und Objektkünstler, Fotograf und Installationskünstler
 Frank Flöthmann (* 1967), deutscher Illustrator
 Henning Freiberg (* 1937), deutscher Kunstpädagoge und -didaktiker
 Anzu Furukawa (1952–2001), japanische Butoh-Tänzerin, Performancekünstlerin und Choreographin
 Bernd Grimm (* 1962), deutscher Diplom-Designer, Architekturmodellbauer und Künstler
 Klaus Grözinger (1923–2011), deutscher Grafikdesigner
 Sina Heffner (* 1980), deutsche Bildhauerin
 Birgit Hein (1942–2023), deutsche Filmemacherin
 Birgitta Heiskel (* 1962), deutsche Illustratorin
 Hans-Oiseau Kalkmann (* 1940), deutscher Bildhauer, Fotograf und Aktionskünstler
 Thomas Kapielski (* 1951), deutscher Autor, bildender Künstler und Musiker
 Michael Kaul (* 1957), deutscher Maler
 Friedrich Kunath (* 1974), deutscher Maler
 Susanne Kathlen Mader (* 1964), deutsche Malerin
 Peter Marggraf (* 1947), deutscher Bildhauer, Zeichner, Drucker und Büchermacher
 Mara Mattuschka (* 1959), österreichische Filmregisseurin und Performance-Künstlerin
 Bjørn Melhus (* 1966), deutscher Videokünstler
 Michael Mende (1945–2008), deutscher Technikhistoriker
 Siegfried Neuenhausen (* 1931), deutscher Maler und Plastiker
 Heinz-Günter Prager (* 1944), deutscher Bildhauer
 Michael Ruetz (* 1940), deutscher Fotograf
 Malte Sartorius (1933–2017), deutscher Maler und Grafiker
 Christoph Schlingensief (1960–2010), deutscher Film-, Theater- und Opernregisseur sowie Aktionskünstler
 Christine Schulz (* 1961), deutsche Künstlerin
 HD Seibt (* 1956), deutscher Maler
 Ben Siebenrock (1951–2018), deutscher Bildhauer
 Klaus Stümpel (1941–2015), deutscher bildender Künstler
 Friedemann von Stockhausen (* 1945), deutscher bildender Künstler
 Norbert Tadeusz (1940–2011), deutscher Maler
 Brigitte Tast (* 1948), deutsche Fotografin und Künstlerin
 Wolfgang Tiemann (* 1952), deutscher Maler
 Gert & Uwe Tobias (* 1973), deutsches Künstler-Zwillingspaar
 Lienhard von Monkiewitsch (* 1941), deutscher Maler
 Hubertus von Pilgrim (* 1931), deutscher Bildhauer
 Peter Voigt (1925–1990), deutscher Maler und Grafiker
 Sascha Weidner (1974–2015), deutscher Fotograf und Künstler
 Ludwig Zerull (1942–2011), deutscher Maler, Autor und Kunstberater
 HP Zimmer (1936–1992), deutscher Maler und Bildhauer
 Markus Zimmermann (* 1978), Bildhauer
 Petra Sophia Zimmermann (* 1962), deutsche Kunsthistorikerin

Weblinks
 Personenregister der Hochschule für Bildende Künste Braunschweig auf hbk-bs.de

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Among the obstacles to digital financial inclusion is the challenge of serving people who lack traditional identity data. But as Trulioo founder Stephen Ufford explains, our online activity creates a digital footprint that can be used to identify us quickly and cost-effectively. He describes how Trulioo is cultivating partnerships to advance its goal of establishing a digital ID for the entire global population.
The vast majority of financial transactions are based on "Personal Knowledge IDs". These include ROSCAS, ASCAS, savings groups, Self Help Groups, solidarity guarantees and all the transactions between friends and families and traders and shopkeepers. Except for solidarity group guarantees none of these involve financial institutions. Over the last months I have come to appreciate the ingenuity of immigrant ROSCAS in the USA where those at the absolute bottom of the economic pyramid are saving in their groups and taking care of their financial needs outside the formal financial structure. Along the way they are building solidarity based on trust and compassion utilizing the most complex algorithm ever known - how we size each other up.
There is a vast informal peer to peer banking system in place that finances virtually every kiosk, food cart, magazine stand, ethnic restaurant, taxi medallion in NYC and across the nation. As Portfolios of the Poor so brilliantly illustrates, we are bit players in the financial lives of the poor. How can we expand the peer to peer financial system? Savings groups are one of the best examples, but this is only a start. Why only start with financial institutions when we could learn so much from those we supposedly want to help and then build on what they are already doing? See www.intheirhands.com. "In Their Own Hands: How Savings Groups are Revolutionizing Development.


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From David Beckham to Olly Lee – are goals from the halfway line over-rated?
Despite it boiling down to lumping a ball forwards 60 yards, the appeal of goals from a long way out to both fans and pundits seems to be endless
1 October ~ It took exactly 2.8 seconds for David Beckham to become a household name. The time between the ball leaving his right boot, arcing 55 yards over a furiously back-pedalling Neil Sullivan, and nestling comfortably in the back of the Wimbledon net. Scoring from the halfway line had seemed possible up until that moment but still tantalisingly out of reach. Pelé famously came close in 1970, Chris Waddle nearly managed it at Italia 90 (but the offside flag was up anyway) and when Manchester City's John Bailey did it in 1982 he quickly admitted the whole thing had been a fluke.
Beckham's emphatic statement on the opening day of the 1996-97 season is probably the most iconic goal of the Premier League era, an anything-is-possible-now symbol of the game shifting through the gears on its way to becoming today's multi-billion pound box office industry. But it's also the ultimate example of how (and probably why) ultra-long-distance goals have become curiously over-rated. In 2002, Beckham's effort was voted the best goal of the first ten years of the Premier League and, in a reminder of just how frenzied Beckham-mania was at its peak, the 18th greatest sporting moment of all time by Channel 4. It's certainly a great goal but is it technically better than Tony Yeboah's crossbar-endangering howitzer for Leeds? Dennis Bergkamp's mesmerising hip-swivel, feint and finish at Newcastle? Superior to everything from the glittering Matt Le Tissier canon?
When a goal is judged by public vote there's always a nagging sense that Manchester United's support can skew the results (Wayne Rooney's overhead kick in the Manchester derby won best goal of the first 20 years of the Premier League in 2012) but even when the vote is closed the outcome is often the same. In April, guests at the EFL's end of season awards were asked to vote for their goal of 2017. You couldn't have wished for a better cross section of football insiders to act as an expert jury. And still they voted for Luton's Olly Lee punting the ball 60 yards over hapless Cambridge stopper David Forde.
The sheer popularity of these goals, then, is undeniable. But as with all puzzlingly successful modern phenomena, from the broadcasting career of Jake Humphrey to the Stereophonics selling out Wembley, it's incumbent on us to probe deeper in the hope of gaining some sort of insight into our fractured society.
There's something appealingly transgressive about a goal from the halfway line – the idea that they are simply not supposed to happen, combined with the cruel joy of watching a goalkeeper desperately trying to prevent their impending humiliation. Accompanying this is a feeling that even attempting a shot from so far out is enough to place it on a higher plain. Having the confidence and ambition to try to beat a goalkeeper from inside your own half is laudable. But so is writing a ballet about UKIP and neither should be immune from critical judgement.
Ranking goals is always a subjective process but there's a definite whiff of emperor's new clothes about the long-range punt. That when placed alongside the greatest swerving volleys, delicate chips and flowing team goals, it's just someone kicking a ball quite a long way, quite accurately. And isn't that something that most professional footballers should be able to do? In fact, most of us can have a go at it, which is exactly why kicking a ball into the goal from the centre circle is the half-time entertainment at a lot of clubs, as opposed to making punters recreate a bicycle kick from 25 yards (although, thinking about it, that would be pretty entertaining).
Football often conflates the biggest with the best and there's a sense that the sheer scale of these goals steamrollers all other considerations. It's the longest novel automatically being awarded the Booker Prize; Great Danes winning Crufts every year; Torvill and Dean missing out on Olympic gold because the Russian skater brings the house down by launching his partner 30 feet into the crowd.
Thank goodness for David Batty. In a rarely remembered footnote to Beckham's goal, Wimbledon travelled to St James' Park the following Wednesday. In the third minute, Sullivan raced out of his goal to make a clearance and, in one of football's most chilling examples of déjà vu, the Newcastle midfielder calmly fired the bouncing ball 40 yards back over his head. With hindsight, it's clear this was Batty's way of warning us that Beckham's strike wasn't quite as special as everyone thought. If only we'd taken the hint. Tom Lines
Photo by Colorsport: David Beckham celebrates his long-range goal against Wimbledon in 1996
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