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Call Me Ishmael
And I only am escaped alone to tell thee.
Chapter 101: The Decanter
"The Decanter" finds Ishmael at his silliest — in fact, I think he might actually be drunk in this chapter. One chapter after recounting Ahab's disturbing meeting with an English ship called the Samuel Enderby, Ishmael chooses to recount a gam he shared with the same ship years later, on a different voyage altogether. Beyond being an interesting narrative device that allows Ishmael some comic relief, the device suggests that Ishmael's narrative of the Pequod is distant in memory, and as such possibly unreliable.
The long and short of the gam itself — it was a blowout, indeed. The English provided not only an abundance of good cheer and good humor for their guests, but backed it up with piles of beef and dumplings, not to mention many gallons of "flip" — the whalers' version of moonshine. Besides bugs in the bread, the only downside to this gam was having to weather a squall at the height of the party, causing many of the drunkest men to accidentally furl their coats into the sails, and dangle from the masts as "a warning example to all drunken tars."
In telling of this gam to end all gams, Ishmael points us to a major difference between the English whaling fleets (and the Dutch fleets before them) and the whaling fleets of New England: the English and Dutch really stock their larders –good cheese, butter, beer, gin, beef pork, etc. — and the New England fleets do not. Ishmael admires the English for their high living, and gives them their due respect for significant contributions to the whaling industry, but he also constantly points at the longer-lived and more significant history of New England whalers. Ishmael's subtext, intended or no, points to a superiority in the Puritan tradition of hard work and moderation. Of course, Ishmael and his fellow workers benefit from this ethic in little more than bragging rights — they're poor no matter what. And so goes Ishmael's excellent parting advice, "when cruising in an empty ship, if you can get nothing better out of the world, get a good dinner out of it, at least."
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Oh, everybody knows you're an Englishman,
Leaning with a beer on the still capstan.
A party in the bow, with beef to pass around —
Oh, you're out of sight!
Extend your generous hospitality —
We're worked to the bone.
Whether it bull-beef or dromedary,
It's more than I've known.
And so we sing it!:
Make me an Englishman,
His life is for me!
Never to lift a hand,
Without some relief!
That's how we sing it!
Dizzy in the head when you're harpoonin' —
You throw it in the dark, but always hit your mark.
(c) and (p) 2009 Patrick Shea
Words and music written by Patrick Shea July 27, 2009
All parts performed, arranged, and recorded by Patrick Shea June 5, 2010
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Anglo Boer War (1899-1902)
QUEEN'S SOUTH AFRICA MEDAL FOR GALLANTRY
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While looking through some old copies of the O.M.R.S. Journal for an article for a fellow form member I came across a number of other articles that struck my fancy that I had forgotten about and of course had to read again.....
Articles titled: Q.S.A. & K.S.A. To Natal Police..... Members of Parliament and the Boer War (Those who served)..... War Correspondents: South Africa 1899-1902.....
and of course especially this one:
The Queen's South Africa Medal for Gallantry by Mr. Patrick Smith....
In his article he mentions that a number of Q.S.A.'s were awarded to members of the Postal Telegraph Department..... And I quote......
"Although the Post Master General and his staff had relieved the military of the responsibility of the telegraph, it seems as though the P.M.G. could not make his men work in a dangerous area, and most of this work was done by the military, or with their protection, the medals issued off this roll appear to have been issued to volunteers who went with the military, or lone men out on the veldt caught up in a surprise attack".....
The roll is broken down into two sections: Postal Telegraph Department, Cape Colony, (26 names 2 medals un-issued) and Engineering Staff, Department of Cable and Telegraph (26 names) Each name with a short description of why they are on the roll..... Each name is just Initial and Last name..... Roll: W0100/279
I have in my collection:
CARLISLE, J., Linesman with the GPO.....
"Accompanied Colonel Scobell's Column to relief of Jamestown and patrolled section of line while district was in disturbed state."
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WO100/279p149p154 makes for interesting reading as you suggest with detailed notes for each men.
This is the header for the page. To some extent you can see why Ancestry indexed the unit at Cape Colony but did no one think that was odd?
A couple of sample Notes sections:
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Brett Hendey
Mike, thank you for an interesting account of another ABW medal oddity.
Your mention of the QSA and KSA to the Natal Police reminded me of a thread on this subject several years ago:
angloboerwar.com/forum/5-medals-and-awar...natal-police?start=0
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About The VC
The Bihar Agricultural University The Bihar Agricultural University was established on 5th August, 2010 on the sound base of erstwhile Bengal (Now Bihar) Agricultural College, which was instituted during 1908. The university has been acclaimed for its outstanding contributions to teaching, research, extension and training services in state and nation building. Today, the University stands to meet the enormous expectations of farmer's society. Society wants us to nurture professionals and scholars of high caliber, who can offer solutions to a broad range of issues related to agriculture. This requires excellence in teaching, research and extension at par with the best in the world.
Bihar, an agrarian state, with a population of 103.8 million, is the second most populous state in the country. The population density of the state is 1102 persons per sq km compared to 382 persons per sq km for the rest of India. About 80 per cent of its population are engaged in agricultural pursuits though the share of agriculture in state's gross domestic product is 18.9 per cent, attributable to agriculture still being at subsistence level with little commercialization. Nearly 91 per cent of 16.1 million land holdings are fragmented, small and marginal which belongs to 88 per cent of the farmers of the state. Although, state is rich in soil and water resources, the average yields of rice, wheat, maize and pulses in the state are only about 32, 44, 40, and 38 per cent of their potential yields; largely attributed to the incidence of abiotic stresses, especially in the rainfed areas. Similarly horticulture is another focused area in the state. Although, horticulture (fruits, vegetables, tuber and mushroom, spices, honey, medicinal and aromatic plants) occupy 12 percent of land area but income realization is much higher and per ha productivity is also higher than the other field crops.
The greatest challenge to the agriculture in the years to come is to provide adequate food to burgeoning population in order to combat with hunger and malnutrition. We will have to feed more people with scarce water resources, degrading lands and difficult access to energy. The state has achieved good growth rate of 6.2% in agriculture in recent past, however, maintaining this rate will be a challenge. The onus of turning these challenges into opportunities lies in reposing faith and commitment in ourselves in accomplishing this task.
In view of these challenges and opportunities that are likely in the next decades, the university is focusing its strategy and framework to address issues such as climate change through crop improvement and efficient natural resource management; biodiversity exploration, conservation and exploitation for future food security; development of biotic and abiotic stress tolerant new crop varieties; solution of malnutrition through genetic improvement and fortification; production of quality seed and planting material; technology for small and marginal farm holders; rainfed / dry land farming; precision farming for high value crops; post-harvest handling, loss reduction, storage structures, value addition and rural agro-processing; farm mechanization; entrepreneurship development; management of energy and agricultural waste; agri-knowledge management and dynamic technology extension network and policy research and analysis.
Many innovative programmes were launched and popularized for reaching to the unreached. Some of them are very successful and adopted even at national level. Some key programmes initiated and continued are Kisan Chaupal, live mobile television broadcasting, Video conferencing, Community Radio Stations, Mobile messaging services, Kisan Helpline, Kisan Gyan Rath, Agri-Entrepreneurship development, Agri-business Consortium and Incubation Centre and Programmes for Under-Privileged, Kisan Mela and Technology Week.
The university is committed for education, research, extension and training activities and dedicated to the cause of livelihood and income security to the farming community of the state. Indeed, I am pleased that faculty, staff and students of the university have brought many laurels to the university through their sincere commitments, dedication and contributions. We believe in providing needed support to faculty, staff and students to establish good academic and scientific environment in the university and take the university to the level of excellence. I invite all the stakeholders to enrich the University with your intellectual resources, rich experiences and fruitful suggestions.


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Industry Snippets - November 2016
VW has done a deal with its workers to reduce its global workforce by 30,000, or nearly 5%. Most of those will be in Germany. The reduction will be achieved by not replacing workers who leave the company. It is to save money associated with the diesel scandal that is costing billions of dollars to fix. As a compensation to the German workforce, two new electric cars will be built in Germany.
My take: This is what VW has wanted for years, less workers in Germany. The unions wouldn't agree to reduced numbers. This crisis means it now has to happen. Obviously VW didn't plan all of this, but let's say that the diesel scandal has become a cloud with a silver lining.
Jaguar is to produce an i-Pace electric crossover vehicle, to be released in 2018. The manufacturing will be done in Austria, at Magna Steyr in Graz. This is one of two models JLR have stated they will have assembled at this plant, though what the second one will be hasn't been revealed. Approximately 13,000 units per annum are expected to be made of the I-Pace
My take: JLR has capacity restraints in the UK. They already have assembly facilities - with varying local content - in China, Brazil and India. Slovakia will soon join that list as will Austria. As JLR grows, it is becoming more multinational.
GM Europe has been losing money for some time. At the beginning of 2014, Morgan Stanley estimated 2015 would be profitable. However, no one could have predicted the slump in Russia and Opel's decision to leave the market and close its assembly plant there. 2016 was then heralded as the time for black ink. However, GM Europe has now said it's doubtful.
My take: The UK is a huge European market for GM, with too little investment there from the giant car maker. The drop in the value of the pound will therefore be a factor. However, there are many reasons. Sales should be product driven, not price driven. The product has to be good enough and factory capacity needs to reflect demand.
I'm sure GM Europe is working hard to improve the product, hurt by years of under-investment while GM US was struggling. It will take time to win back customers it has lost over the years...providing the product is now good enough.
DS (Posh Citroën) Car Production By Model : 2015
The DS5 model
PSA have a desire to tap into the more lucrative premium segment with the DS range, which is for now at least a posh range of Citroën models. Initial reaction is muted, as can be expected in what is a conservative area of car buying. Brand cachet is everything and it will take years for DS to reach bona fide premium status.
DS commenced in 2010 and became a stand alone brand in 2014. Production peaked in 2012 with 129,000 units made but for 2015 just 103,000, that despite the range going from three to four models*. PSA will have to be patient as they strive to build the brand perception to the level of genuine premium vehicles.
*The fourth model - the DS6 SUV - is a China only model.
14 15 Model 2015 % +/-
1 1 DS3 48,392 46.8% -13%
3 3 DS4 19,387 18.8% -5%
4 4 DS6 15,264 14.8% 239%
Picture source: Netcarshow.
Data source: CCFA.
Labels: Brand - PSA
Citroën Car Production By Model : 2015
The Berlingo MPV.
Citroën production fell 3% during the year, not huge but not ideal either. The mainstay of the brand, the C4 range fell 5% and that loss was the majority of the reduction in production. Add the C3 variants to the C4 models and there you have 70% of total volume. The latter had a sizable production hike. Meanwhile the Berlingo also did well with a 10% improvement.
The brand does well in China, but despite that isn't that big in terms of volume. PSA is working hard to turn things around in a profitable way. How it all pans out for the double chevron brand remains to be seen.
1 1 C4/C4 Picasso 406,744 42.0% -5%
2 2 C3/C3 Picasso 271,859 28.1% 17%
3 3 C-Elysee 117,432 12.1% -5%
5 4 Berlingo 66,241 6.8% 10%
4 5 C1 60,628 6.3% -6%
6 6 C5 35,395 3.7% -35%
8 7 Nemo 7,922 0.8% 64%
10 8 C-Zero 1,554 0.2% 285%
- 9 Spacetourer 108 0.0% n/a
7 10 ZX 3 0.0% -100%
Peugeot Car Production By Model : 2015
The 308 model
I had some data about Peugeot production I decided to share. It shows that brand production grew 6% in 2015.
The 308 model provided much of that increase, about 70% of the total.The 308 and 208 contribute nearly 45% of all production. For a company with this many models, Peugeot would prefer a more diverse spread than that. Much hinges on thir success. Still, the increase in volume was achieved despite improving profitability as well and that is not easy.
1 1 308 350,805 23.5% 21%
2 2 208 305,431 20.4% 6%
3 3 2008 231,192 15.5% 11%
4 4 3008 139,922 9.4% -9%
6 5 408 115,197 7.7% 56%
5 6 301 98,434 6.6% -8%
9 8 108 67,201 4.5% 46%
8 9 Partner 58,135 3.9% 10%
10 10 5008 33,500 2.2% -2%
11 11 206 7,075 0.5% -66%
16 12 Bipper 6,677 0.4% 34%
14 13 4008 5,824 0.4% -17%
15 14 RCZ 4,187 0.3% -37%
19 15 Ion 1,804 0.1% 133%
13 16 207 778 0.1% -94%
- 17 Traveller 105 0.0% n/a
Picture source: Netcatshow.
Reality checks come in various ways. I haven't written an article here for over a month and yet viewer numbers have not gone down, in fact they are up! I really didn't see that coming and perhaps a reminder I did some things worth reading. Or perhaps I say it best when I say nothing at all.
The other reality check is there are people out there who do know what they are talking about. The obvious reality is few of them - if any - work in the media. Another given is that businesses are self serving and jump at any opportunity to make a dollar or save face when their substandard management is exposed. My last piece expressed that quite clearly. I resisted getting into government meddling in industry, but we all know the disastrous consequences of that anyway.
I digress. The point was there are people who know their onions so to speak, but are rarely sought out by the media (I guess ignorance is bliss). When finally their comments see the light of day, reality is reestablished.
I've commented about the unfounded hysteria of those who berated Brexit and the irrational claims of doom for civilisation as we know it. Well someone decided to interview Professor Garel Rhys, who seems to know more than most.
I didn't comment initially as I am apolitical, and Brexit is very much a political issue, but I see the social side and that is my focus. So what were his comments?
1) That UK car manufacturing isn't going anywhere because of Brexit.
2) The UK's car manufactuing is the most efficient in Europe. It is 6% more efficient than Germany, 25% above France and Italy, and 40% better than Poland. So a 9.7% 'worst case scenario' duty will be offset by that efficiency level.
3) As to whether car makers depart the UK would be due to factors other than Brexit. The French government pressuring Renault to move some Nissan production to France for example.
4) The fall of Sterling is helpful to exporters, especially those who have higher local content. Those who import many components may need to revisit sourcing more parts within Britain.
5) A quote from the professor: "Workers, unions, suppliers and politicians must be alert to the temptation for failing businesses blaming everything on Brexit."
Summary: So there is a more balanced way of looking at a subject than the hysteria and misinformation bandied about. The world constantly changes. Some are ready for that and embrace it.
British Car Industry - Enough
I see the greedy, self serving commercial system is well and truly well reflected in the car industry. Mr Ghosn who runs Renault/Nissan wants the UK tax payer to stump up for any loss of sales to the EU due to tariffs. What unbelievable arrogance. How could one quantify a sales loss anyway? Nissan sales have been falling heavily in Europe all through 2016 and that's just because less people want his cars. Is he trying to put the blame elsewhere? Change is part of business so deal with it Carlos.
I also see UK journalism's 'smoke & mirrors' tactics at work on the subject. A headline at The Guardian website said "some EU customers are boycotting UK cars". The article then almost straight away said "Jaguar Land Rover has said some customers in Europe may be boycotting British cars following the UK's vote to leave the European Union". Sensationalist rubbish! I hope when you read headlines, note if the article backs up the bold title. I call it willful deception.
If there is anti UK sentiment affecting car sales in Europe, then European car brands can rest easy that there won't be retaliation. The British don't have a national sense of purpose or loyalty anyway. With something like only 14% of UK car sales for locally made products - despite several car producers - confirms that. Many UK car buyers proudly buy European brands and loudly proclaim that. Which begs the question does Britain deserve a car industry?
Nissan have threatened not to invest in future models in the UK. That will hurt factory profitability and Nissan. Duh. JLR would "realign its thinking" on investment after Brexit and possible compensation to Nissan would have to be for all car makers. JLR has already moved away from Britain, with factories to be used in Austria and Slovakia for future models. JLR's investment in the UK was going to be limited in future anyway.
Summary: The media circus revs up the whole situation and car makers feed it with their appalling comments. Talk privately to those who need to know but going public with inflammatory statements is pathetic. It also seems that some car makers are queuing up for tax payer handouts. I don't want any part of this nonsense. I now feel bad writing about and promoting an industry like this. Time to move on.
Ferrari Production (Model) : 2015
The 488 doing what it does best
The marque known for its prancing horse logo is doing just fine. 2015 production was close to 8,000 cars, which would be a record. There has been a policy of not chasing too many sales to retain exclusivity but at what point a luxury car takes volume too far is open to debate.
458/488: Currently the 488 mid-engine sports car is replacing the 458 model. Between them they account for 48% of total Ferrari production. An exceptional supercar.
California: The 2-door, 2+2 coupé cabriolet is a popular addition to the range with the updated T model released in 2014 adding to that. A 43% increase in production was registered. Great long distance cruiser.
F12: It's a grand tourer model that's a smaller than the FF. more focused and less practical as a result. Powerful, yet usable.
FF: This 4-seater, 4wd model is a grand tourer model with shooting brake versatility. Production has fallen to 300 from a high of 1,000 in 2012. A supercar for the family (a well heeled one).
LaFerrari: Lastly the 2-door hybrid sports car which can be also had as a soft top too. Very quick and very expensive.
Summary: How far can and should Ferrari go with production volume? Not diluting exclusivity would be a good place to start. This is a limited market so it's a fine line to walk. Plus there is some quality competition out there too but Ferrari does have unique attributes and a very loyal patronage.
Model 2015 % +/-
458/488 3,754 47.7% 5%
California 2,629 33.4% 43%
F12 903 11.5% -29%
FF 311 4.0% -21%
LaFerrari 276 3.5% n/a
Data source: ANFIA.
Labels: Brand - Fiat Group
Maserati Production (Model) : 2015
The trident marque made 6,200 cars in 2012. That was quite a high figure historically. However, things changed in 2013, for the better. The 6th generation Quattroporte large car arrived and on top of that the 3rd Ghibli mid-sized model was also introduced, different from the grand tourer that bore that name in the 1990's. It went from being a 2-door coupé to a 4-door car, widening the vehicle's versatility and appeal.
So for 2013, the production numbers were up to 19,000 and 40,000 by 2014. Obviously the lower priced Ghibli was mainly responsible for the higher volumes. The initial surge was followed by a dip in 2015 to 29,500 units made. The new Levante SUV is coming out now and 30,000 sales are anticipated in 2017, so that will give production another spike. It would surely take some sales off the other models but overall a solid increase can be anticipated.
Ghibli 20,986 71.3% -18%
Quarttroporte 5,631 19.1% -44%
Gran Turismo 2,820 9.6% -34%
To see historical production, simply click here for 1994-2014.
Picture source: Maserati.
Tesla Production History: 2008-15
Is Tesla on a slippery slope or a gold medal winner?
Some companies are different. Everything about Tesla seems different. The way it markets its cars for one. Some people are attracted to different and they are the people that are keeping Tesla going. What it has done taking on car manufacturing was outrageous in scope but so far so good. I must confess I thought the whole approach was too risky and unlikely to succeed. However, as long as investors keep the faith, anything is possible.
Being a car manufacturer isn't easy. You have to watch for trends that may lead to where you need to be several years away. Jump into something that doesn't take off and that's costly. So is missing a trend or being very late to the party. Tesla has created something that is different and working. Will it ultimately succeed? Time will tell.
For now production hasn't been as large numerically as hoped but from nothing to now is a huge leap for the company. As they move into more volume and lower priced cars, maintaining quality and ensuring reliability will be so important.
I have put together some figures which I think are about right. If anyone can add clarification, please do so. It starts with the roadster model from Lotus, a steep learning curve. When that finished it was on to its own cars. The company doesn't release data so what is below is gleaned as best I can.
Year USA Netherl UK/US Total
2008 - - 200 200
2012 3,100 - - 3,100
2013 24,300 - - 24,300
2014 35,100 4,300 - 39,400
Total 113,200 10,600 2,350 126,150
Picture source: Tesla.
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Drone surfing is a thing now.
What's that even mean? Well, watch the video below to see a person riding the waves while tethered to a high-powered drone from Washington-based drone manufacturer Freefly Studios. It has made an $18,000 drone that can tow people across an ocean. The company claimed its new ALTA 8 model is capable of doing up to four tows per battery pack, and each tow lasts about 30 seconds.
Freefly, which has a decade of experience in the professional cinematography industry, recently started developing innovative aerial products to meet the needs of cinema professionals, and the ALTA 8 is its latest offering. During development, the drone went through a tonne of component and system-level tests designed to make sure it passed strict quality control levels.
The ALTA 8 is water-resistant, Freefly said, as it features a lightweight molded-plastic enclosure that covers and protects the flight control and power distribution board from outdoor elements. And with impressive 18-inch props and an optimised propulsion system, the drone's lightweight carbon fiber frame is sturdy enough to carry heavy payloads (see the chart below).
Freefly's site has more details on the drone. If you have plenty of cash to spare, like to dabble in drone videography, and consider yourself a skilled surfer or water skier, then this is the machine for you.


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Here is why Sunworks Inc. (SUNW) stock volatility recorded over the last month was 12.80%
Let's start up with the current stock price of Sunworks Inc. (SUNW), which is $5.45 to be very precise. The Stock rose vividly during the last session to $6.44 after opening rate of $4.82 while the lowest price it went was recorded $4.64 before closing at $4.52.
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Sunworks Inc. had a pretty favorable run when it comes to the market performance. The 1-year high price for the company's stock is recorded $8.50 on 09/24/20, with the lowest value was $0.29 for the same time period, recorded on 04/06/20.
Sunworks Inc. (SUNW) full year performance was 346.72%
Price records that include history of low and high prices in the period of 52 weeks can tell a lot about the stock's existing status and the future performance. Presently, Sunworks Inc. shares are logging -35.88% during the 52-week period from high price, and 1779.31% higher than the lowest price point for the same timeframe. The stock's price range for the 52-week period managed to maintain the performance between $0.29 and $8.50.
The company's shares, operating in the sector of Technology managed to top a trading volume set approximately around 36770157 for the day, which was evidently higher, when compared to the average daily volumes of the shares.
When it comes to the year-to-date metrics, the Sunworks Inc. (SUNW) recorded performance in the market was 336.00%, having the revenues showcasing 684.17% on a quarterly basis in comparison with the same period year before. At the time of this writing, the total market value of the company is set at 75.21M, as it employees total of 178 workers.
Analysts verdict on Sunworks Inc. (SUNW)
During the last month, 0 analysts gave the Sunworks Inc. a BUY rating, 0 of the polled analysts branded the stock as an OVERWEIGHT, 0 analysts were recommending to HOLD this stock, 0 of them gave the stock UNDERWEIGHT rating, and 0 of the polled analysts provided SELL rating.
According to the data provided on Barchart.com, the moving average of the company in the 100-day period was set at 1.85, with a change in the price was noted +4.40. In a similar fashion, Sunworks Inc. posted a movement of +419.05% for the period of last 100 days, recording 10,941,179 in trading volumes.
Total Debt to Equity Ratio (D/E) can also provide valuable insight into the company's financial health and market status. The debt to equity ratio can be calculated by dividing the present total liabilities of a company by shareholders' equity. Debt to Equity thus makes a valuable metrics that describes the debt, company is using in order to support assets, correlating with the value of shareholders' equity The total Debt to Equity ratio for SUNW is recording 0.94 at the time of this writing. In addition, long term Debt to Equity ratio is set at 0.47.
Sunworks Inc. (SUNW): Technical Analysis
Raw Stochastic average of Sunworks Inc. in the period of last 50 days is set at 61.06%. The result represents downgrade in oppose to Raw Stochastic average for the period of the last 20 days, recording 74.08%. In the last 20 days, the company's Stochastic %K was 83.68% and its Stochastic %D was recorded 85.78%.
Let's take a glance in the erstwhile performances of Sunworks Inc., multiple moving trends are noted. Year-to-date Price performance of the company's stock appears to be pessimistic, given the fact the metric is recording 336.00%. Additionally, trading for the stock in the period of the last six months notably improved by 959.49%, alongside a boost of 346.72% for the period of the last 12 months. The shares increased approximately by 67.69% in the 7-day charts and went down by 89.90% in the period of the last 30 days. Common stock shares were driven by 684.17% during last recorded quarter.
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Singer and actor Reba McEntire has been in the country music industry for decades, and she worked hard to make her career what it is today.
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1Etymology
3Geography
4Governance
5Economy
6Landmarks
7Transport
8Education
10Notable people
11Twin town
Wendover
Market town in England
For other places with the same name, see Wendover (disambiguation).
Human settlement in England
The Clock Tower, Wendover
Location within Buckinghamshire
9.1125 sq mi (23.601 km2)
7,399 (2011 Census)[1]
812/sq mi (314/km2)
OS grid reference
SP864085
Ceremonial county
Sovereign state
Post town
Postcode district
Wendover Parish Council
51°46′03″N 00°44′42″W / 51.76750°N 0.74500°W / 51.76750; -0.74500Coordinates: 51°46′03″N 00°44′42″W / 51.76750°N 0.74500°W / 51.76750; -0.74500
Wendover is a market town and civil parish at the foot of the Chiltern Hills in Buckinghamshire, England. It is situated at the point where the main road across the Chilterns between London and Aylesbury intersects with the once important road along the foot of the Chilterns. The town is some 35 miles (56 km) north west of London and 5 miles (8 km) south east of Aylesbury, and is very popular with commuters working in London.[2][3]
The parish has an area of 5,832 acres (2,360 ha) and had, at the time of the 2011 census, a population of 7,399.[1] Outside the town of Wendover, the parish is mainly arable and also contains many hamlets that nestle amongst the woodlands on the surrounding hills. Although Wendover has a weekly market, and has had a market charter since medieval times, many of its inhabitants identify it as a village, and the parish council does not describe itself as a town council.[2]
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The name is of Brythonic Celtic origin. The first element, wen can mean "blessed" or "white" (wyn or gwyn in Modern Welsh). The second element, duẞr or dwfr simply means water (dŵr in Modern Welsh, a common element in English place names such as Dover).
As such, the meaning of Wendover is often given as "White-water", and likely refers to the chalky stream that flows through the middle of the town. This stream rises in the adjacent hills, bringing white chalk deposits with it.[4] Despite circumstantial evidence (such as the abundance of spring water), the alternative interpretation of "Blessed-water" is not accepted.
The first known documentary reference to Wendover, then known as Wændofron, is in the will of Ælfheah, the ealdorman of Hampshire, and dates from between 965 and 971. Prior to the Norman Conquest, the manor, which at the time measured 24 hides in area, was held by Edward the Confessor. The settlement appears to have been centred some 600 metres (2,000 ft) to the south of the present-day focus of the town, near the current location of the parish church of St Mary. By 1086, the manor of Wendovre was in the hundred of Aylesbury, with William the Conqueror as its tenant in chief.[2][5][6]
The manor remained in royal ownership until 1154, and then passed back and forth between royal and private ownership several times. Wendover was granted a market charter in 1214, and had become a borough by 1228, although it does not appear to have achieved any degree of self-government. It is likely that around this time the focus moved north to its current location, allowing the market to cater to traffic on the road running along the Chilterns between Chinnor and Tring, as well as that crossing the Chilterns between London and Aylesbury. The current layout of the older parts of the town show clear signs of medieval town planning, especially the presence of long, narrow and rectilinear burgage plots.[2][5]
Both parliamentary and royalist forces visited the town during the Civil War, with looting reported by both sides. Many of the buildings in the town centre, and especially on High Street, Pound Street, and Aylesbury Road, date from the 17th century. It is not known whether this is because they needed rebuilding after civil war damage, or is an indication of the prosperity of the town at the time.[2][5]
The Red Lion, one of Wendover's old coaching inns on the High Street
In 1721, the Wendover to Buckingham Turnpike Trust was established, and Wendover became a stop for coach routes to and from London. It is likely that at this time a number of new inns and hostelries were built along the High Street. The Wendover Arm of the Grand Union Canal was built between 1793 and 1797 and served local industries whilst also providing a water supply for the parent canal. In September 1892, the railway reached the town with the opening of Wendover Railway Station on the Metropolitan Railway's line to Aylesbury. Responsibility for the station was transferred from London Transport, who had inherited it from the Metropolitan Railway, to British Railways, in 1961.[2][7]
The 1841 census reveal the population that year was 1,877.[8]
Robert Louis Stevenson, the writer of famous works such as Treasure Island and the Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, stayed a night at The Red Lion, in October 1874, which he wrote about in an essay called "An Autumn Effect".
In 1913, Alfred de Rothschild, invited the Royal Flying Corps to conduct manoeuvres on his land in the adjacent manor of Halton, and the land continued to be used by the British Army throughout the First World War. In 1916 the Royal Flying Corps moved its air mechanics school from Farnborough, Hampshire to Halton, and in 1917, the school was permanently accommodated there, in what was to become the current RAF Halton. Whilst the base is not in the parish of Wendover, its close proximity impacted on the town, and the surrounding landscape, due to the associated population increases and deforestation to provide wood for construction work.[2][9][10]
In the latter part of the twentieth century, a number of large scale residential developments appeared, particularly to the north of the town. In 1998, the Wendover bypass was built, moving the A413 road west of the town centre, paralleling the railway line. Property values rose significantly in the years after the completion of the bypass, which removed a lot of traffic from the town's narrow streets. In 2010, the proposed route the High Speed 2 rail line (HS2) from London to the Midlands was published, showing it taking a route in tunnel to the west of the bypass and town centre. As part of a wider campaign against the route, a Wendover lobby group was formed, with a 300 strong protest filmed by the BBC in December 2010. However, despite the opposition, the HS2 bill was passed in 2016. In 2017, construction contracts were signed.[2][11][12][13][14][15]
In 2019, the Wendover community launched WRAP (Wendover Resettlement Assistance Project),[16] a project in partnership with CitizensUK that is helping a family of Syrian refugees find a home within the town and also help them integrate into said community. Numerous events were held to help raise funds for the project, such as a cycle ride in the high street where the town's residents would donate money to ride the total distance between Aleppo and Wendover. Due to the Coronavirus, the family's arrival in the UK was delayed until February 2021.
The market place in Wendover, with the Chiltern escarpment and Wendover Woods beyond
Wendover lies at approximately 130 metres (430 ft) above sea level. It occupies a prime position at the northern end of a natural crossing point through the Chiltern Hills, which wrap around the west, south and east of the town. To the north the land slopes gently downwards towards the flat, agricultural land of the Aylesbury Vale. To the west the town is overlooked by Coombe Hill (260 metres or 850 feet) and to the east by Wendover Woods (267 metres or 876 feet).[2][17]
The bypass and railway station to the west of the town and looking north; the new High Speed 2 rail link will be in a tunnel further to the left
The gap through the Chilterns that Wendover sits astride has long been an important communications route. It is used by the A413 road between London and Aylesbury, the London to Aylesbury railway line, and the new high speed rail link between London and the North that is now under construction. At Wendover this route is crossed by the route of the ancient Icknield Way, running along the line of the Chilterns, that has connected Wiltshire to Norfolk since prehistoric times.[2][5][17]
Besides the town itself, the civil parish includes the hamlets of:
Dean, located south of Wendover on Smalldean Lane between the hamlets of Smalldean and Little London.[17]
Kings Ash or Kingsash, located south-south east of Wendover on the Chesham Lane between the A413 road and the hamlet of Lee Gate.[17]
Little London, located south of Wendover on Smalldean Lane between the hamlet of Dean and the village of Dunsmore.[17]
Lower Bacombe, located south of Wendover on the lane between the main town and Upper Bacombe.[17]
Smalldean, located south of Wendover on Smalldean Lane, between the southernmost roundabout of the Wendover bypass and the hamlet of Dean.[17]
The Hale, located east of Wendover along Hale Lane.[17]
Upper Bacombe, located south-south west of Wendover on Bacombe Hill, close of the parish boundary.[17]
Wendover Dean, located south of Wendover on the A413 road, between Cobblershill Lane and Bowood Lane.[17]
World's End, located north west of Wendover where the B4009 road meets the A413 road.[17]
Governance[edit]
Wendover was represented by its own parliamentary constituency, intermittently from 1300 and continuously from 1660, until the seat was abolished by the Reform Act of 1832. The town and parish now form part of the Aylesbury parliamentary constituency.[18] This has elected a Conservative Member of Parliament (currently Rob Butler) since 1924.
For the purposes of local government, Wendover has its own parish council, but also lies within the district of Aylesbury Vale and the county of Buckinghamshire.[19][20] Local elections, as in May 2011, often feature only Conservative, Liberal Democrat and independent candidates.
The Wendover Parish Council, re-elected in May 2015, has a small office in the town and operates a block grant from Aylesbury Vale District Council.
Economy[edit]
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The Shoulder of Mutton public house
Facilities in the village centre include a post office, several hairdressers, a community library (run by volunteers), multiple delis and cafés, a pharmacy and a charity shop. There is a weekly open market on Thursdays.
Wendover's pubs include The Red Lion, The George & Dragon, The White Swan, The King and Queen, The Pack Horse, and The Shoulder of Mutton. The Red Lion pub was home to 'Britain's Oldest Barmaid', 100-year-old Dolly Saville, who worked at the pub for 76 years.[when?]
Landmarks[edit]
View of Wendover Clock Tower from Aylesbury Rd
There are 113 listed buildings in Wendover, of which five are listed at the higher grade II* and the remainder are all listed at grade II. The five grade II* buildings are the parish church, the lychgate of that church, Bank Farmhouse, the Hale and the Red House.[21]
There is a distinctive red brick, spired clock tower at the crossroads in the centre of the town, built in 1842. To the north of this cross-roads, the tree-lined Aylesbury Street includes the 16th-century timber framed Chiltern House and 18th-century Red House.
To the north of the town centre is the terminus of the Wendover Arm of the Grand Union Canal, which joins Tring summit level of the Grand Union main line beside Marsworth top lock. Disused for over a century, the arm is in the course of being restored by the Wendover Arm Trust.[22] Remote and rural for almost all its length, the canal attracts much local wildlife, including a colony of mandarin ducks. It is possible to walk along the canal for about 5 miles (8.0 km) from the centre of Wendover, to Tring.
Heron Stream and Witchell Meadow
To the south of town centre lie the open spaces of Witchell Meadow, Hampden Meadow and Rope Walk Meadow, the latter hosting the new Wendover Community Orchard in memory of the First World War. These are bounded to the east by the Heron Stream and to the south by Hampden Pond, both feeders to the canal. On the southern side of the pond lies Wendover's parish church, which is dedicated to St Mary, and which marks the site of the original settlement.[2]
Wendover Woods
The town is sited in a gap in the Chiltern Hills and a designated Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty. The ancient Ridgeway National Trail, an 85-mile walking route from Avebury to Ivinghoe, passes along Wendover High Street. Apart from the Ridgeway Trail there are 33 miles of public rights of way and bridleways criss-crossing the parish and leading to the open chalk downland of Coombe Hill, Buckinghamshire, home to Britain's longest surviving geocache[citation needed], and a monument to the Buckinghamshire men who died in the Boer War. Wendover Woods on Haddington Hill and Boddington Hill belong to Forest Enterprise England. There are routes for mountain bikers, and walking trails for walkers of various abilities as well as barbecue sites and play areas for children. Close to Boddington Hill are the remains of an Iron Age hill fort.[23]
Wendover and the surrounding villages including Aston Clinton, Ellesborough and Weston Turville, are widely regarded as exceptionally desirable places to reside and the town was named one of the best places to live in Britain by The Sunday Times in 2018.[24][25]
Transport[edit]
The town has easy access to London by rail, with Wendover station hosting Chiltern Railways services to and from London Marylebone on the London to Aylesbury Line.[3]
Wendover has two bus routes passing through it: the 8 travels between Aylesbury and RAF Halton and the 55 travels between Aylesbury and Chesham. The 8 is run by Arriva,[26] and the 55 is run by Red Rose Travel.[27]
Education[edit]
There are four schools in the town:
The John Hampden School, named after politician and English Civil War participant John Hampden, a community infant school with about 275 pupils aged 4–7,
Wendover Church of England Junior School, a voluntary controlled junior school with about 360 pupils aged 7–11,
The John Colet School, named after the Renaissance humanist John Colet, a community secondary school with about 1100 pupils aged 11–18,
The Wendover campus of the Chiltern Way Academy, a special school for pupils aged 11–18.
Sport[edit]
Wendover Football Club currently shares the school fields of the John Colet School and a clubhouse is open each Saturday afternoon for either a first or a reserve team fixture.
Wendover hosts the 'Coombe Hill Run', usually held on the first Sunday in June. It begins and ends in the village and includes two very steep climbs up the hill to the monument along with a very steep decline.[citation needed]
Wendover Cricket Club played at Ellesborough Road Ground, however, this site lay in the path of High Speed 2. The club will move to a new premises, funded by HS2 Ltd, soon in the future.[28]
Notable people[edit]
Thomas Barlow (1845–1945), physician[29]
Edmund Burke (1729–1797), member of parliament
Gordon Onslow Ford (1912–2003), artist[30]
David Jason (1940–), actor[31]
John Junkin (1930–2006), actor and scriptwriter[32]
Geoffrey Palmer (1927–2020), actor[citation needed]
Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin (1900–1979), astronomer and astrophysicist[33]
Margaret Rawlings (1906–1996), actress[34]
Michael Shrimpton (1957–), barrister[35]
Roger of Wendover (?–1236), chronicler[36]
Twin town[edit]
Liffré, Brittany, France.[37]
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^ "Wendover, Buckinghamshire-best places to live in the UK 2018". The Sunday Times. 18 March 2018. Retrieved 18 March 2018.
^ "Wendover shortlisted as one of the best places to live in Britain by newspaper survey". Bucks Herald. 16 March 2018. Retrieved 16 March 2018.
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^ "Wendover's Sir David Jason opens up about his life". The Bucks Herald. 3 November 2013. Retrieved 28 August 2018.
^ "Tribute: John Junkin". Wendover News. 28 August 2006. Retrieved 28 August 2018.
^ Gingerich, O. (1982). "Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin". Quarterly Journal of the Royal Astronomical Society. 23: 450. Bibcode:1982QJRAS..23..450G.
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We the democracy
Nearly every day, Donald Trump does something that further exposes the hollowness of democracy in the supposed "world's greatest democracy." In this excerpt from his new book, Why Bad Governments Happen to Good People, SocialistWorker.org writer Danny Katch puts forward a vision for an alternative: a democracy that works for the people.
THE SHOCK of Trump's election win unleashed a legion of Internet threads about how our universe must have taken a detour into some alternate reality (the Cubs winning the World Series a week earlier didn't help). Here's my version: maybe we're all subjects in a cosmic psychology study, like the Milgram experiment, which tested if people would obey orders to administer horrible electric shocks just because an authority figure in a white coat told them to. What if this is all a hoax to find out what happens when the greatest authority figure in the world is a jackass that most people wouldn't trust to pay back ten bucks? What will Americans do when he says he's barring people from seven predominantly Muslim countries, based on classified information we don't get to see? Would they be good loyal citizens and follow along if he started a war just to boost his ego when he's feeling hurt by negative cable news coverage?
If Trump's presidency actually were a test to measure blind obedience, I'm sorry to say that in the initial days after his election, many leaders of our so-called opposition party would have passed that test with flying colors. From Clinton and Obama to even Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, the talking points in November 2016 were that Democrats would "seek common ground" with the new groper-in-chief and "root for the success" of someone they had just campaigned against as a fascist who needed to be stopped.
Thankfully, most of their voters had precisely the opposite reaction, and their immediate resistance has been a defining feature of the beginning of the Trump era. From the tens of thousands who took to the streets on the day after his election to the three million who came out to the Women's March in Washington, D.C., and around the country on the day after his inauguration, people made it clear from the jump that they were not going to give Trump the respect he doesn't deserve.
AND THEN came a critical showdown: the spontaneous protests in dozens of airports demanding that stranded travelers from seven predominantly Muslim countries be allowed to enter the country. Possibly the largest and most important protest against Islamophobia in American history, the "uprising at the airports," drastically shifted the political terrain and almost certainly played a role in giving judges the confidence to strike down Trump's travel ban. We can only hope that these early resistance actions will ultimately turn out to be as fateful for Trump's reign as the secret meeting with bank leaders was for Obama's, but it's already clear that things would look far worse if ordinary people had followed the pathetically placid lead of their elected officials.
If you're in or around New York City, you can hear Danny Katch speak on his new book Why Bad Governments Happen to Good People. Friday, September 22, at 7 p.m., at Verso Books, 20 Jay St. in Brooklyn.
Trump responded to this widespread opposition with the same denunciations of #FakeNews and #PaidProtesters he tossed around during the campaign. But once he was president, he had a new argument: "Watched protests yesterday but was under the impression that we just had an election! Why didn't these people vote? Celebs hurt cause badly."
That was @realDonaldTrump's Sunday morning tweet after the Women's March, and beyond the random shot at celebrities (coming from the biggest starfucker in the world), his message was clear: he somehow won this democracy thing, so protesting him is therefore anti-democratic. This kind of reasoning is ominous coming from a president who makes no secret of his fondness for authoritarian leaders. As far back as 1990, he expressed creepy admiration for the Chinese government's notorious repression of the Tiananmen Square protests the year before:
When the students poured into Tiananmen Square, the Chinese government almost blew it. Then they were vicious, they were horrible, but they put it down with strength. It shows you the power of strength. Our country is right now perceived as weak...as being spat on by the rest of the world.
But as I've argued, Trump's limited view of democracy is in many ways simply a blunter expression of conventional wisdom that's usually more delicately put: Go out and protest if you want, but you'll have to wait for the next election to make real change. Trump's presidency poses a challenge to this logic. A majority of the country hasn't supported him from the first day, and a significant section of that majority doesn't want to wait four years while their immigrant neighbors are deported, doesn't think we can afford to wait four years as the planet gets hotter, and isn't completely sure if we wait four years that Trump won't have somehow declared himself president for life. That last one may sound a little far out, but remember, the Cubs won the World Series.
And so there are now millions of people who, until recently, understood their involvement in politics to be voting every two to four years (if that) who now see themselves as part of "the resistance" to a president under whose reign the normal rules can't apply. This is an important development that can represent so much more than a bunch of bodies to knock on doors in 2018 and 2020 to "take back" Congress and the White House for a bunch of politicians who want to "go back" to a status quo that none of us liked. Mass participation in politics can instead lead to building the unions and protest organizations that have potential not only to stop Trump but also to lay the basis for a democracy more worthy of the name.
DEMOCRACY IS a Greek word that literally means rule by the people, or demos. In ancient Athens, where democracy was most fully developed, most important government positions were rotating posts filled by random selection among the population, most of whom were not rich philosophers like Plato (who absolutely hated this system, by the way). In fact, the word demos means both the people in general and, more specifically, the majority class of peasants. Non-Athenian slaves were excluded, which is a very large asterisk, but the important fact remains that in the original form of democracy, poor citizens led society on more equal footing with rich citizens than we in the modern world can fully imagine.
That's probably why ruling classes considered democracy to be a terrible idea for most of the next two thousand years, until the demos rose up in revolutions across Europe and the Americas in the 18th and 19th centuries, and, in the United States and France, elites were forced to reconcile themselves to some form of popular participation in government. As the word democracy started to come back into popular usage in the 1800s, it had a revealingly wider set of meanings than today's limited definition of a form of government with elections. Democracy meant that, but it could also mean the popular will, egalitarianism, mass protest movements or, simply, the people. The Chartists in England--the first large-scale working-class movement in history, which emerged in the 1830s and '40s--often referred to themselves simply as "the democracy." You can hear an echo of this idea in the popular protest chant " This is what democracy looks like!"
But for the most part, that wider meaning of the word was lost, as the democracy that emerged in the modern world was not defined, as per the ancient Greeks, as the political rule by the majority class. Instead, modern democracy came to be primarily defined in terms of individual rights and liberties--a tradition that, as the brilliant socialist historian Ellen Meiksins Wood explains in Democracy Against Capitalism, evolved from the right of medieval lords, codified in documents like the Magna Carta, to protect against kings' infringing on their hereditary privileges over their land and peasants. Over the past two hundred years, the struggles to win the right to vote and to free speech have transformed these once elite privileges into our modern conception of democratic rights, and this is one of the great advances in modern history. But we need to revive the Chartists' class definition of democracy, because the strength of our individual rights has always depended on our collective strength as workers, as women, as African Americans, and so on.
WITH TRUMP in the White House, all of us now find ourselves facing the situation that has been true in many statehouses for years: a government of hard right-wingers who don't represent majority of their population, but derive their authority from voter suppression, gerrymandering, and vast popular disillusionment with politics. For young people in particular, this government isn't just unrepresentative, it seems to come from a different planet. Members of the so-called millennial generation overwhelmingly support immigrant rights, the Black Lives Matter movement, and transgender people's right to use the bathroom they prefer. But they're stuck in a country held hostage by an aging white Republican minority that genuinely believes Barack Obama is an undercover Muslim, immigration is a plot to make America less white, and two people with similar genitalia can't really love each other.
Throughout history, the combination of politically frustrated youth and an out-of-touch and unresponsive government has been a potentially explosive situation, and Trump and the Republicans know they need to clamp down on dissent. They'll spread fake news about immigrant voter fraud to strip more people of the right to vote, empower police to crack down harder on demonstrations, and pressure campus administrators to suspend and expel student activists. Critical aspects of whatever freedoms and liberties we have in this country will be up for grabs in the coming years.
But in order to defend democracy from Trump we'll have to create more of it. We'll need to assert our right to vote--and work to give ourselves choices beyond Donald versus Hillary, Trumpcare versus Obamacare, deporting millions of immigrants versus de- porting even more millions of immigrants. We'll have to challenge the legitimacy of Trump's authority--and of police officers who break the law every day and lie about it afterward as brazenly as their hero president. And as we fight his attempts to consolidate power, we can't rely on Democrats to stand with us--even when it seems to be in their obvious self-interest, like fighting to stop an election from being stolen from them.
In the midst of the electoral chaos in 2000, Al Gore's campaign actively discouraged its supporters in the labor and civil rights movements from fighting back. Union organizer Jane McAlevey recalls, in her book Raising Expectations (and Raising Hell), that activists were on the ground in Florida waiting for the call to mobilize, only to be told that leading Democratic Party officials "don't want to protest. They don't want to rock the boat. They don't want to seem like they don't have faith in the legal system." They kept proclaiming that faith even after the legal system gave them the infamous Bush v. Gore ruling that stopped the Florida recount. "The state was Gore's to lose," concludes McAlevey, "and the absolute determination with which the labor elite and the Democratic Party leadership crushed their own constituents' desire to express their political passions cost us the election."
Democrats preferred to sacrifice their own presidential victory rather than unleash potentially explosive protests that might have (rightfully) led millions to question the legitimacy of their elections. And they did the same on a smaller scale in 2016 when they downplayed reports of fraud and voter suppression in order to find that "common ground." When people whose entire careers are devoted to political campaigns think it's better to forfeit the biggest race of them all for the sake of preserving the façade of free and fair elections, our goal should be to tear down that façade and set our sights on a fuller democracy that can only be fulfilled in a society actually run by We the Demos.
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Laurent Bricault, né le  à Saint-Germain-en-Laye, est un égyptologue et historien français, spécialiste de l'histoire des religions du monde antique, épigraphiste et numismate.

Biographie
Docteur en égyptologie et habilité en histoire des religions de l'université Paris-Sorbonne, Laurent Bricault est professeur d'histoire ancienne à l'université Toulouse-Jean-Jaurès.

Il a publié une quarantaine d'ouvrages et plus de cent-vingt articles consacrés notamment aux cultes isiaques, c'est-à-dire aux cultes d'origine égyptienne (Isis, Sarapis, Harpocrate, etc.) qui se sont diffusés dans le monde gréco-romain entre le  avant notre ère et le  de notre ère, ce qui en fait aujourd'hui le spécialiste incontournable de ce domaine de recherches.

Il est le fondateur, l'organisateur et le responsable scientifique, depuis 1999, des colloques internationaux sur les études isiaques : Poitiers 1999, Lyon 2002, Leyde 2005, Liège 2008, Boulogne-sur-Mer 2011 et Toulouse 2016, en collaboration avec la maison d'éditions Brill (série des « Religions in the Graeco-Roman World », qui a succédé aux Études Préliminaires aux Religions Orientales dans l'Empire Romain) et l'Académie des inscriptions et belles-lettres.

Il est le directeur, avec Richard Veymiers, de la série scientifique Bibliotheca Isiaca, qu'il a fondée en 2008 et est publiée par les éditions Ausonius.

Il est nommé en 2015 membre senior de l'Institut universitaire de France et, l'année suivante, est Guest scholar au Getty Research Institute de Los Angeles.

Depuis 2016, ses recherches se sont également portées sur le culte du dieu oriental Mithra dans l'Empire romain.

Dans ce cadre, il a initié l'exposition internationale « Le Mystère Mithra : plongée au cœur d'un culte romain », dont il est l'un des commissaires.

L'exposition, qui bénéficie du soutien de la Commission européenne, présente au grand public l'actualité du culte de Mithra, au musée royal de Mariemont, puis au musée Saint-Raymond de Toulouse, enfin au musée archéologique de Francfort-sur-le-Main, en 2021-2023.

Il est l'un des auteurs du projet international Roman Provincial Coinage (RPC), catalogue des monnaies émises dans les provinces de l'Empire romain, entre 44 av. J.-C. et 298 ap. J.-C.

Publications

Ouvrages
 Myrionymi. Les épiclèses grecques et latines d'Isis, de Sarapis et d'Anubis, Beiträge zur Altertumskunde, 82, Teubner, Stuttgart 1996.
 Atlas de la diffusion des cultes isiaques, Mémoires de l'Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres, , Paris 2001.
 Recueil des Inscriptions concernant les Cultes Isiaques - Tomes 1, 2 et 3, (RICIS), Mémoires de l'Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres, , Paris 2005.
 Isis, Dame des flots, Aegyptiaca Leodiensia, 7, Liège 2006.
 Isis, la dame du Nil, avec Paul-Jean Franceschini, Larousse, Paris 2008.
 Les Cultes isiaques dans le monde gréco-romain, Les Belles Lettres, coll. « La Roue à livres/Documents », Paris 2013.
 avec Fabrice Delrieux, Gangra-Germanicopolis de Paphlagonie, le « foyer des dieux ». Étude de numismatique et d'histoire (Numismatica Anatolica, 6), Ausonius,  Bordeaux 2014.
 avec Corinne Bonnet, Quand les dieux voyagent. Cultes et mythes en mouvement dans l'espace méditerranéen antique, Labor et Fides, Genève 2016
 avec Jean-Pierre Laporte, Le Serapeum de Carthage (Supplément à la Bibliotheca Isiaca, I), Ausonius, Bordeaux 2020.
  Isis Pelagia: Images, Names and Cults of a Goddess of the Seas (Religions in the Graeco-Roman World, 190), E. J. Brill, Leiden-Boston 2020.
 avec Philippe Roy, Les cultes de Mithra dans l'Empire romain, PUM, Toulouse 2021.

Direction d'ouvrages
 De Memphis à Rome. 40 ans d'études isiaques. Actes du  international sur les études isiaques, Poitiers-Futuroscope 8-10 avril 1999, Religions in the Graeco-Roman World, 140, E. J. Brill, Leyde 2000.
 Isis en Occident. Actes du  international sur les études isiaques, Univ. Lyon , 16-17 mai 2002, Religions in the Graeco-Roman World, 151, E. J. Brill, Leyde 2004.
 avec M.J. Versluys et P.G.P. Meyboom, Nile into Tiber. Egypt  in the Roman World. Proceedings of the IIIrd International Conference of Isis Studies, Faculty of Archaeology, Leiden University, May 11-14 2005, Religions in the Graeco-Roman World, 159, E. J. Brill, Leyde 2007.
 Bibliotheca Isiaca -, Ausonius, Bordeaux 2008-2020.
 Sylloge Nummorum Religionis Isiacae et Sarapiacae, Mémoires de l'Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres, , Paris 2008.
 avec M. J. Versluys, Isis on the Nile. Egyptian Gods in Hellenistic and Roman Egypt, Proceedings of the IVth International Conference of Isis Studies, Université de Liège, 26-28 novembre 2008, Religions in the Graeco-Roman World, 171, E. J. Brill, Leyde 2010.
 avec M. J. Versluys, Egyptian gods in the Hellenistic and Roman Mediterranean: image and reality between local and global, Mythos Suppl. 3, Palerme 2012.
 avec C. Bonnet, Panthée. Religious Transformations in the Graeco-Roman Empire / Les mutations religieuses dans l'Empire gréco-romain, Religions in the Graeco-Roman World, 177, E. J. Brill, Leyde 2013.
 avec M. J. Versluys, Power, politics and the cults of Isis, Proceedings of the Vth International Conference of Isis Studies, Boulogne-sur-Mer, October 13-15 2011, Religions in the Graeco-Roman World, 180, E. J. Brill, Leyde 2014.
 avec A. Burnett, V. Drost et A. Suspène, Rome et les provinces. Monnayage et histoire. Mélanges offerts à Michel Amandry, Numismatica Antiqua 7, Ausonius, Bordeaux 2017.
 avec  C. Bonnet et C. Gomez, Les mille et une vies d'Isis. La réception des divinités du cercle isiaque de la fin de l'Antiquité à nos jours, PUM, Toulouse 2020.
 avec V. Atanassova, Египетските култове в Сердика / Les cultes isiaques à Serdica, Paradigma, Sofia 2020.
 avec R. Veymiers et N. Amoroso, Le mystère Mithra : plongée au cœur d'un culte romain, Catalogue de l'exposition 2021-2023, Musée royal de Mariemont, Morlanwelz 2021.
 avec M. A. Stadler, Hymnen und Aretalogien im antiken Mittelmeerraum: Von Inana bis Isis, Philippika 154, Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden 2021.

Articles
 « Les « religions orientales » dans les provinces occidentales sous le Principat », dans Y. Le Bohec (dir.), Rome et les provinces occidentales de 197 av. J.-C. à 192 apr. J.-C., Nantes, 2009, .
 « Sarapis au banquet : lectisternes d'Alexandrie et d'Égypte », Revue Numismatique 170, 2013, .
 « Isis, Sarapis, Cyrus and John: Between Healing Gods and Thaumaturgical Saints », dans L. A. Guichard, J. L. García Alonso & M. P. de Hoz (éd.), The Alexandrian Tradition : Interactions between Science, Religion, and Literature, IRIS 28, Berne - Berlin 2014, .
 « Les Sarapiastes », dans G. Tallet & Chr. Zivie-Coche (éd.), Le Myrte et la rose. Mélanges offerts à Françoise Dunand par ses élèves, collègues et amis, Collection CENIM, Montpellier 2014, .
 « Cultes orientaux, égyptiens, alexandrins, osiriens, isiaques…: identités plurielles et interpretationes variae », dans S. Müskens & A. Nikolovska (éd.), Romanising Oriental Gods? Religious transformations in the Balkan provinces in the Roman period. New finds and novel perspectives, Skopje 2015, .
 « The Gens Isiaca in Graeco-Roman Coinage », The Numismatic Chronicle, 175, 2015, .
 « A Statuette of Hermanubis in the J. Paul Getty Museum », Getty Research Journal, 10, 2018, .
 « Traveling Gods: The Cults of Isis in the Roman Empire », dans J. Spier, T. Potts & S.E. Cole (éd.), Beyond the Nile: Egypt and the Classical World, Los Angeles 2018, .
 « Isis, Sarapis et Rome : jeux d'échelles et de pouvoirs », dans Religion et pouvoir. Monde romain 218 av. J.-C. – 235 ap. J.-C., Paris 2019, .
 avec R. Veymiers, « Les portraits théomorphes des isiaques. De l'image à l'identité », dans D. Boschung, F. Queyrel (éd.), Porträt und soziale Distinktion, Morphomata 48, München 2020, .
 « Images civiques de Mithra », dans A. Meadows, U. Wartenberg (éd.), Presbeus. Studies in Ancient Coinage Presented to Richard Ashton, New-York 2021, .
 avec J. Alvar, « The Myth of Mithras: A Reconstructed Story », dans L. Bricault et al. (éd.), The Mystery of Mithras, Mariemont 2021, .
 avec I. Vilogorac Brčić, « Mithras in Teutoburgium », dans Prilozi. Instituta za arheologiju u Zagrebu, 38.2, 2021, .
 « Un polythéisme ouvert : le succès des religions étrangères », dans C. Giroire, M. Szewczyk (éd.), Rome. La cité et l'empire, Catalogue de l'exposition au Louvre-Lens du 6 avril au 25 juillet 2022, Lens - Gand 2022, .

Notes et références

Liens externes

 « La molteplice identità degli dèi d'Egitto nel mondo greco-romano », Chaos e Kosmos, , 2014 sur http://www.chaosekosmos.it/gliarticoli.php

Égyptologue français
Historien français du XXe siècle
Historien des religions
Professeur à l'université Toulouse-Jean-Jaurès
Index égyptologique
Naissance en juillet 1963
Membre honoraire de l'Institut universitaire de France
Numismate français
Naissance à Saint-Germain-en-Laye
Docteur en histoire de l'université Paris-Sorbonne
Étudiant de l'université de Poitiers

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GE free activists in New Caledonia have been very successful in stopping the importation of GM seeds into New Caledonia and they are looking to find places where they can access knowledge and seed for seed saving.
As the Pacific is being hit by climate disasters regularly it has been found that the indigenous small farmers are being hit hard. Aid donors are giving them hybrid, often GMO seeds to plant for the next season. When they are given these seeds they expect that these will be able to be saved and replanted, not realising that they are for one season only. Local farmers have no concept of hybrid one- season seed growth and do not have the money to buy the seeds annually.
Unfortunately there is no regulation in these countries relating to the importation of GM seeds and they often follow the US and FSANZ approval recommendation for GM foods. The conference decided that to combat this we would like to set up a support package that provides heirloom, open pollinate seeds to the islands in such disasters, as well as information on the differences between the various seeds. The islanders are mostly subsistence farmers who grow with the seasons and without chemicals.
If you or your organisation can help with know-how for seed saving and are willing to be be part of a New Zealand aid and response package for New Caledonia please contact Claire Bleakley on claire@gefree.org.nz to discuss. Thank you!
Why cigarette butts are a huge problem- and why we must do something about it.


Belize Leaders for Social Justice held a demonstration against the continued increase in the cost of living. Member Moses Sulph announced the event last week but, on Saturday morning, the group did not receive the support it had hoped for. The turnout was very poor. Besides the police officers who oversaw the demonstration, about ten protesters or less showed up. But, while the event was not well attended, the group proceeded as planned. Today Moses Sulph did not seem fazed and told us that he is aware of possible reasons Belizeans do not join his protests.
Hipolito Novelo: Some say they are hesitant to what they describe as your illegitimate leadership; they don't want to protest under you.
During the event, the group also presented a document it plans to prepare and present to government on recommendations that are aimed to reduce the financial strain on low income families.


Oi, pessoal! Percebi que muitos têm dúvidas em relação ao posicionamento dos advérbios, especialmente no caso de tempos compostos. Essa tabela é perfeita para esclarecer esse assunto de uma vez por todas. Bons estudos a todos!
Usually we see him at church.
Last night we went dancing.
Where did you eat yesterday?
All the bedrooms are upstairs.
Have you taken the TOEFL yet?
Have you eaten dinner already?
She sang that aria very well.
They are definitely suited for each other.
He has apparently passed the class.
They obviously forgot to read the directions.
We have never eaten Moroccan food.
He always takes flowers to his girlfriend.
She quite often invites people for Thanksgiving.
They almost never go to the theater.
He is only five years old.
We don't even know his name.
He is still planning to go tonight.
We just finished painting the house.
She is slowly finishing her PhD.
He has carefully gathered the evidence.
We methodically checked all the bags.
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