Many news agencies around Europe announced on August 20th 1995 that one of the greatest creators of the ninth art, Hugo Pratt, died of cancer at the age of sixty-eight. Did you know that Corto knew Hemingway, Hessel, and Joyce, that he was on friendly terms with Jack London, Butch Cassidy, and the Sundance Kid, that he witnessed the death of baron Manfred von Richthofen, who went under the name of the Red Baron? He had spent a moment with the young German pilot Herman Goering, and neither one of them was aware that their encounter had happened. Throughout his turbulent life Corto had been meeting, in various ways, the leaders of the Irish revolution, Stalin, the generals of the Russian White Guard, Pancho Villa, Lawrence of Arabia, Tamara de Lempicka, Parazelsus, and many others. "I'd better not try to understand at all. I could find out that you are the same stuff that dreams are made of..." said Corto once. That is what Pratt's universe is like: wonderful and like a fairy tale on one hand, and amazingly real on the other.
Pratt has mastered building parallel histories and breathing life into the paper myths - it would be utterly senseless to use the past tense here, since his skill has made his characters and works keep on living an independent life, adding to their own history. If we take a look at any episode of Corto, it is likely to appear to us unbelievably real and probable. Moreover, the very same dose of verisimilitude will persuade us that all these irrational matters are absolutely real. Corto moves through an authentic age (the beginning and the first half of the twentieth century); he is drawn into the whirlwind of history (the war between Russia and Japan, the Great War, the conquests of Lawrence of Arabia, the Mexican revolution, the October revolution, the dissolution of the Ottoman Empire, the Spanish civil war...), wherein he comes across many a famous historical character. The words uttered by another wizard of narrative, Umberto Eco, may best confirm Pratt's odd mixture of detachment and historical relevance: "Whenever I want to learn something about life and reality, I read Corto Maltese. Repeatedly..." That is where we fall into Pratt's trap which Corto himself is never caught in. Never really involved in the action, Corto observes everything from a certain distance, incessantly smiling ironically like a person superior to all that. Even when things happen to himself, he behaves as an observer. No wonder that, at the end of an episode, he says: "The only thing I am sure about is that my neck turned stiff because of all that looking at the skies. In all this mess that is what I have been doing!"
Pratt was a great connoisseur of "the geography of magic and legends" and ardently commited to the exploration of occult sciences. We could well compare him to Borges or, better still, to Umberto Eco. However, not for a moment must we forget that Pratt's work is a product of pop culture. It looked up to the American syndicated comics from the thirties and forties and was influenced by adventure movies from the same period, as well as adventure novels by Jack London and Joseph Conrad. Pratt's brilliant mind, his capacity to sublimate acquired knowledge, and his unusually rich experience elevated this offspring of pop culture to the level of the so called elite culture.
It is not a secret that Pratt's comics have become fashionable in intellectual circles of Western Europe, or that seventy doctoral dissertations have been written so far about the myth of Corto Maltese. Corto influenced literature no less. In Yugoslavia, Vasa Pavković and Zoran Đukanović did research on Corto, while Zoran Stefanović based his play, Island Story (Ostrvska priča, 1987) , upon Corto's adventures. In the novel, The Destiny and the Comments by Radoslav Petković, Corto is one of the protagonists, while he appears as a leading character in Vladimir Pištalo's novelette, Corto Maltese.
Corto's charisma was also an imposition upon both his creator and his other works. That is why I shall not use this occasion to discuss Sergeant Coinsky or Joe the Jesuit. Still, I cannot help mentioning Rasputin, probably the only character from popular culture who is as remarkable as Corto and capable of following him, although his aura is of a different kind. Much has been written about Pratt's interesting biography, but it seems more pertinent - at a time when continued translation of the late work is crucial - to deal with events related to his leaving life's pageant.
Immediately before his death he finished, together with Umberto Eco, his last work called The Last Flight of the Little Prince. That is the story about the last six minutes of Antoine de Saint Exupery's life; the legendary French writer meets his own hero, at the height of 6,500 meters, somewhere above the Mediterranean Sea. This work belongs to the best, especially when it comes to drawing. Pratt finally achieved a highly expressive and relaxed, almost childlike drawing that he had been striving for all his life. What comes up as especially interesting is that Pratt was another artist who passed away shortly after having dealt with the Little Prince. Let us mention just one very popular Belgrade actor for children, Milenko Jovanović, aka Šumenko, and Exupery himself, of course.


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The flag of the short-lived Republic of Benin in Nigeria consists of the colours black, and green, with black taking up two-thirds of the flag. It was inspired by the flag of the now-defunct Republic of Biafra. The main difference was that Biafran flag was a tricolour of red, black, and green. As with the Biafran flag, it was charged in the centre with a golden rising sun but it did not have a golden bar below it.

See also
Flag of Biafra
Flag of the Kingdom of Benin

References

Biafra
Benin, Republic
Flags of Nigeria
Benin
Flags introduced in 1967

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As you set up your workout program, one question that you may find yourself asking is which type of exercise you should do first. Cardio or weight training?
You know that both components will help make a balanced workout program, but just aren't quite sure how to structure the program itself.
In 90% of cases, it's superior to do weight lifting before cardio training. Let's talk about why this is.
Weight lifting should be completed at the start of the session for a few different reasons. First, it's going to be the exercise that relies most heavily on glucose as a fuel source, so if you were to do your cardio training first, you may deplete this necessary glucose, making it harder to perform weight lifting at the proper intensity level. That would then lead to lack of results. Most forms of cardio training can utilize fat as a fuel source, so performing it second will actually enhance your rate of fat burning (since there will be no glucose available by that point).
Second, weight lifting is also going to require more balance and agility. Therefore, it's important to do it at the start when you are feeling mentally fresh and focused. Do it later on in the workout and you could be putting yourself at a higher risk of injury.
Finally, weight lifting should come first simply because it's the most beneficial form of exercise that you can do. If you only have time to do one or the other – weight lifting should be it.
Couldn't You Just Do Cardio?
Which brings us to the next point – why can't you just do cardio? The reason no workout routine should only include cardio training is because while cardio certainly will help make your heart stronger, it's going to do very little to boost the strength of your muscles.
And, as you get older, if you are not strengthening your muscles, you will begin to lose strength and soon, everyday activities that you used to enjoy will feel that much more challenging.
By adding strength training, you will not only be improving the look of your body faster (as you'll be adding more muscle definition and athletic curves), but you'll also be increasing your quality of life well into your golden years as well.
Now, as mentioned, 90% of the time you should do weights first. What 10% of situations would require cardio is performed first?
If you were training for some sort of cardio focused event – such as a half or full marathon for instance, you would likely put cardio first in the session. Since your main goal is to improve your cardio performance, by doing it first, you will have your best chances of seeing performance improvement.
If you were already tired from weight lifting, this could mean a lower performance, thus progress would suffer.
So in this case, cardio first is the smarter plan.
So there you have the key facts to know about which type of exercise to do first. Another great way to get around this is to make use of a fitness class that combines both cardio and strength training in one. This way you get the best of both worlds in a single, time efficient workout session.
Do that and you'll be seeing great results in no time.
Want a complet workout program that includes both strength and cardio work? Check out www.OpenFitness.com for more info.


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Laura Redniss's Latest Depicts a Clash Over Sacred Land
MacArthur fellow Lauren Redniss's latest work of visual nonfiction explores the conflict surrounding 'Oak Flat', Ariz.; the Apache people; and copper mining
By Heidi MacDonald |
Over the course of a highly unusual career, Lauren Redniss, a much-lauded author and visual artist, has followed her instincts, never really planning exactly where she's going—but so far her approach has led to an astonishing amount of acclaim. Her new book, Oak Flat: A Fight for Sacred Land in the American West (due in April from Random House) is the latest example of what she calls her "visual nonfiction," a career path that has thus far included a 2016 MacArthur "genius grant," a spot as a finalist for the 2011 National Book Award for nonfiction, and a Guggenheim fellowship, among other honors.
Not too bad for someone who started out not knowing what she wanted to do.
"I try and trust the feeling," she says of her process for picking her subjects—which thus far have included an early-20th-century showgirl, Nobel laureate physicist Marie Curie, and the weather. "If I have a hunch about something, there's a reason for it, and I try to dig for that reason. I trust that if I think about it and explore it, I will eventually be able to articulate that motivation, even if it starts out amorphous and impressionistic."
The result of this process is books that meld prose, science, journalism, and illustration to tell stories with an evocative depth. She doesn't consider herself a cartoonist, or her books graphic novels (though Oak Flat is listed on PW's graphic novels announcements list). However, though they may not fit into any easy category, her books get much of their power from the same strength of visual storytelling found in graphic novels.
It's a blend of storytelling processes that she's taken further than ever in Oak Flat, the riveting story of a contested piece of Arizona land—a rocky mesa that's been sacred to the San Carlos Apache tribe for hundreds of years. Oak Flat is home to a rich vein of copper, and, while mining had long been banned there, in 2014, President Obama signed a controversial and long-disputed piece of land exchange legislation allowing mining interests to acquire 2,400 acres of sacred land. However, the fate of the ecologically and religiously vital site is still being fought over, even as the Resolution Copper mining company is preparing to dig, inevitably destroying Oak Flat in the process. In November 2019, a coalition of 20 Arizona tribal, mining-reform, and religious organizations petitioned the U.S. Forest Service in a challenge to the environmental review of the copper mine site, claiming it was rushed and flawed.
Arrayed against the mining concerns is the Nosie family, led by Wendsler Nosie, former chairman and councilman of the San Carlos Apache tribe, and his teen activist granddaughter Naelyn Pike, who has spoken before Congress about the traditional importance of Oak Flat to the Apache people.
In precise, descriptive prose based on hours of interviews both with Apache leaders and white locals, and bolstered with pages of haunting colored-pencil drawings, Redniss paints a picture of two peoples locked in an inevitable conflict. She depicts both the oppression of indigenous people throughout American history, and the experiences of mining families who are willing to risk their lives and the well-being of their families to provide for them.
It's a story that Redniss spent years researching, returning to Arizona many times, she says over coffee at a local café near her Brooklyn home, where she lives with her husband and two children. Redniss calls herself shy—and she is soft-spoken—but she is also passionate about the stories she tells, and grows increasingly animated as she talks of the people she writes about.
Redniss explains that she didn't really start out intending to be an illustrator, a journalist, an author, or anything in particular. In fact, the more you talk to Redniss, the more it becomes clear that her creative process is as intuitive and undefinable as the finished works it produces.
Redniss loved to draw as a child, she says, but initially she'd pursued a postgraduate career in botany—until a lab job drawing seed specimens made her realize how much she missed making art. All the while, she also kept a journal, and worked to compile an oral history of her grandparents—and, somehow, all this led to the realization that "there was a way to bring these things together," she says. "It just sort of evolved organically out of different interests."
Redniss began to put it all together in 2001 when a friend of hers, an art director at the New York Times, saw her journals and thought she might be able to produce something like it for the Times's op-ed page. The result was a series of profiles of centenarians, all based on interviews and accompanied by Redniss's impressionistic but accurate drawings.
One of the subjects for the series was Doris Eaton, a 102-year-old former Ziegfeld Follies showgirl whose home was practically a museum of burlesque. Meeting Eaton led to 2006's Century Girl: 100 Years in the Life of Doris Eaton Travis, Last Living Star of the Ziegfeld Follies, a collage-heavy biography of Eaton and her times, marking the first time that Redniss was able to put all her interests together as a book.
Next came Radioactive: Marie & Pierre Curie, a Tale of Love and Fallout, an acclaimed 2010 biographical account of the relationship between the two pioneering scientists that used a similar collage approach. The book was a National Book Award finalist in 2011, and in 2019 a film adaptation of the book was released, directed by another noted visual storyteller, Marjane Satrapi, creator of the pioneering graphic novel Persepolis. "We just totally hit it off," Redniss says about her first encounters with Satrapi.
Redniss followed the publication of Radioactive with Thunder & Lightning: Weather Past, Present, Future in 2015, a book that required her to travel from the Arctic to rainy Madagascar to explore how extremes of weather affect civilization and the biosphere. The book won the PEN/E.O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award, and soon after, in 2016, she was awarded a MacArthur "genius grant."
All of these subjects were ideas that spoke to her, on an intuitive level, Redniss explains, and Oak Flat, perhaps her most dramatic book, is no exception. Her interest in the place started simply enough: by reading about the contested area in an article in the New York Times.
Inspired, she traveled to Arizona and started talking to the people involved. "I just felt compelled by the people and the stakes," she says. "It was the history of the American West, the myths that are told about it."
Redniss would spend the next three years traveling back to Oak Flat and the mining ghost towns of Arizona, meeting the Nosie family and the Gorhams of Superior, Ariz., whose history is intertwined with the history of mining. But as with her other books, various aspects of the tale grew organically. "The questions that arose were things I hadn't thought about," she says. "Such as where does copper come from—and how do we mine it?"
But the most significant part of this story is the people. While Oak Flat is immensely sympathetic to the indigenous experience—especially in its account of Naelyn's "Sunrise Dance," a traditional San Carlos Apache ceremony celebrating entry to womanhood held at Oak Flat—Redniss also examines the hardscrabble lives of white residents who support opening the copper mine.
Redniss tried to avoid the obvious traps and tropes in writing about indigenous people. "I tried to be as respectful as possible in talking to people," she says. "I'm relating the stories and ideas that are important to them. And I definitely feel like there is a great responsibility as a non-Native person. There's a great history of injustice even by well-meaning people."
The visual elements of the book include full-page colored-pencil sketches of Oak Flat and the surrounding areas, as well as portraits of the main players. Redniss often uses a series of full-page illustrations to slow the tempo of the narrative for the reader and to force a more thoughtful approach to the subject, while her precise verbal descriptions give the work a sense of immediacy.
"I'm hoping to create a kind of visceral connection," Redniss says. "Words can have that power, but images affect us in a way that we don't have language for. It's more of a feeling."
As with most aspects of Redniss's work, her approach to the balance of words and pictures is an intuitive one. "It's not necessarily a struggle in a negative sense," she says. "It's a kind of dynamic push and pull, each exerting a force—and, hopefully, in the end I find the tension between those two dynamics."
Redniss also teaches illustration at the Parsons School of Design. After Century Girl came out, famed cartoonist Ben Katchor, himself a MacArthur winner and an associate professor at Parsons, encouraged her to apply for a full-time position. "I thought, 'Oh, that's a good idea, because I have no idea how I'm gonna pay the bills after this book,' " she says with a laugh.
After completing Oak Flat, Redniss says she's expanding into three-dimensional art with some projects she can't talk about right now. Once again, she's found a new creative direction that interests her a great deal.
"To me, books are a perfect technology, and I hope to continue to make books, but I like the visual component of my work," Redniss says. "I hope that from one project to the next, some new seed will be planted and that I can nurture that without knowing much about it in advance."
Heidi MacDonald writes regularly for PW on comics and graphic books.
A version of this article appeared in the 01/06/2020 issue of Publishers Weekly under the headline: A Clash Over Sacred Land
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Kitzia Danel, With over 10 years of experience working with social groups in Mexico, Brazil, Peru and Ecuador, she combines her love for the people with her knowledge of how to use the Earth Resources intelligently. Co-Founder of Buena Fortuna Gardens (1998-2012) , a 3000 plant species reserve in Mexico, she has doneextensive research on growing and processing organic crops for the tropical andsubtropical regions of the world hosting, facilitating and teaching workshopson Permaculture, organic gardening, food processing, medicine making, naturalart, etc, for over 13 years. Kitzia is also a kitchen alchemist, a painter, apoet and an entrepreneur. Her greatest passion is the Seeds. She is the Founder of Bioflora CSA/ Seed Farmin Ecuador, where she currently grows over 300 varieties of edible crops. Shehas leaded many environmental and health related programs with elders, women, children and International studentsincluding Radio shows and short TV programs. She is currently a leading member ofWomen Association and Women cooperatives in Ecuador, developing products givingtraining and supporting their local andinternational marketing as well as facilitating Human development workshops andseminars.
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Q: Ionic App not working in emulated iOS phone I am currently working on an Ionic application using Angular Framework (ionic 6.13.1 and Angular 11.2.8)
Everything works fine in the browser and on the physical Android phone, even in safari, but when I try to run the application on an emulated iPhone it just shows me an empty screen and I don't know why.
this is my process:

*

*First, I clone my repository to my mac ('couse I'm working in a windows pc)

*Then, I run npm install to download the node_modules

*I installed npm install -g ios-sim and npm install ios-deploy like the ionic docs says Ionic iOS Development

*Then I run ionic cordova prepare ios in the terminal. Here is where I think it fails, becouse for some reason, I have to run the same command three times in a row to make it works.

*When it finally works, I run ionic cordova build ios

*Then, when I run either ionic cordova run ios -l --external or just ionic cordova run ios or I open XCode to run the app on an emulated device

When the process is finally ended, the emulator shows up and launch the app. Splash screen shows up as usual, but after that it just show me a white or black screen (dependening the ios theme), but nothing of my code shows up. After 20 or 30 minutes of waiting, the app looks exactly the same.
Here is a screen capture of my problem, as you can see, there is no error in the console, and the screenshot was taken 20 minutes after I press run.

Here is my package.json
{
  "name": "tracking-app",
  "version": "0.0.1",
  "author": "Ionic Framework",
  "homepage": "https://ionicframework.com/",
  "scripts": {
    "ng": "ng",
    "start": "ng serve",
    "build": "ng build",
    "test": "ng test",
    "lint": "ng lint",
    "e2e": "ng e2e"
  },
  "private": true,
  "dependencies": {
    "@angular/cdk": "^11.2.8",
    "@angular/common": "~11.2.0",
    "@angular/core": "~11.2.0",
    "@angular/flex-layout": "^11.0.0-beta.33",
    "@angular/forms": "~11.2.0",
    "@angular/platform-browser": "~11.2.0",
    "@angular/platform-browser-dynamic": "~11.2.0",
    "@angular/router": "~11.2.0",
    "@ionic-native/app-rate": "^5.32.0",
    "@ionic-native/core": "^5.32.0",
    "@ionic-native/device": "^5.32.0",
    "@ionic-native/in-app-browser": "^5.32.0",
    "@ionic/angular": "^5.5.2",
    "@ionic/storage": "^3.0.4",
    "@ionic/storage-angular": "^3.0.6",
    "@ngrx/effects": "^11.1.0",
    "@ngrx/store": "^11.1.0",
    "@ngrx/store-devtools": "^11.1.0",
    "@ngx-translate/core": "^13.0.0",
    "@ngx-translate/http-loader": "^6.0.0",
    "cordova-android": "9.0.0",
    "cupertino-pane": "^1.2.61",
    "rxjs": "~6.6.0",
    "tslib": "^2.0.0",
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    "@angular/cli": "~11.2.4",
    "@angular/compiler": "~11.2.0",
    "@angular/compiler-cli": "~11.2.0",
    "@angular/language-service": "~11.2.0",
    "@ionic/angular-toolkit": "^3.1.1",
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      "cordova-sqlite-storage": {},
      "cordova-plugin-whitelist": {},
      "cordova-plugin-statusbar": {},
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      "cordova-plugin-ionic-webview": {
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      "cordova-plugin-inappbrowser": {},
      "cordova-plugin-apprate": {
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    "platforms": [
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Is there something that I'm doing wrong?
UPDATE
After Many hours of researching I found that the problem is a mediaMatcher addEventListener in a file that makes possible the theme detection.
So I make this repository https://github.com/Chej0/ionic-theme-detection.git
In the file src/app/core/services/internal/theme.service.ts  in line 57 you'll see that the problem is in addEventListener.
If I remove that line, the app works correctly.
That service is injected in the app.component.ts, that's why all app is not working.
Unfortunately, this listener is very important in the app, so...
Is there another alternative to listen in real time which mode has the iphone? (also that needs to work in android too)

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On either the 10th or 27th February, 1810, Atahoe, daughter of Te Pahi from the Bay of Islands, died of dysentry in Sydney. Her husband was George Bruce (sometimes spelled Druce), a child convict transported to New South Wales and later relocated to the Bay of Islands where he achieved high status with Te Pahi's people.
After her marriage, Atahoe adopted the name Mary Bruce. A month before she died in New South Wales, she had given birth to a daugther who was left in the care of the New South Wales Girl Orphans' home after Atahoe died.
Can anyone please let me know the exact date of the child's birth, her name and what became of her?
Kia ora Ray. I'm a direct descendant of Te Pahi (from the Riwhi line) and have been doing some research on Atahoe. Atahoe's daughter, also called Mary Bruce, appears to have survived to adulthood in the Sydney Female Orphan School, as it came to be known. There is a Mary Bruce of the correct age who is recorded as marrying a James Tucker in Paramatta in 1828 and had a number of children. They seem to have moved out of NSW at some stage. Do you think you might be a descendant? It would be great to make contact with descendants. There are celebrations planned on Te Pahi's land in the Bay of Islands this year as it is the 200th anniversary of the arrival of the first Christian mission to them.
Kia ora D Brown, Your reply is most welcome - I had given up on making progress. My family oral history matches with the story of Atahoe and to know the likelihood of a daughter who married and had a family is excellent news. Recent generations of the family are in South Australia and this seems to gel with the possibility that Atahoe's daughter relocated. Now to see if we can establish the link.
I have only just joined this site and have seen this post from 5 years ago. I am also a decended from Te Pahi and Sarah (Tucker) that you speak of above was my 3rd great-grandmother. I wonder if you know much of Te Pahi or whether you in fact attended the celebrations you speak of above to commemorate the 200th anniversary of the first Christian mission.


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Now that the Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) Act is in effect, it's important that we let our elected representatives know that we welcome the introduction of abortion services in Ireland, and that we want access to abortion care to be expanded in the future. A quick and powerful way to do this is to write a letter to the editor of your local newspaper. Just like the rest of us, our elected officials tend to use the opinion pages to see what issues are currently important in their communities.
Wondering how to go about writing a productive letter? Here are five tips to get you started.
1) Write about something that matters to you. What concerns do you have about the current legislation that you want to share? Are you worried about the mandatory waiting period, or the possibility of doctors turning patients away? Letters to the editor work best when they focus on an issue that you care about. For example, if you live in or are from a rural area, you could write about why it's important that abortion is accessible in the country, not just in big towns and cities. If you need some inspiration, take a look at our submission on the legislation or write a response to an article that the paper has published recently (don't forget to include the title of the article, author and date of publication). Don't worry about fitting too much in; editors are more likely to publish letters which focus on a single issue.
2) Keep it brief and local. Letters to the editor are generally under 250 words, which gives you plenty of space to make your point. The exception to this is the 'personal experience' letter – the 'In Her Shoes'-style letter that illustrates the impact of abortion restrictions on people. If you can, try to connect your letter to something current and/or local. This could be referring to the actions of a local elected official, the experience of your local group during the referendum campaign, or citing the number of people from your county who were forced to travel between 2012-2016. Either way, local papers are drawn to content with a local focus.
3) Don't worry about being an expert. You don't need to know everything about the legislation or abortion policy to submit a letter. This letter is about your experience and/or your opinion. During the referendum, we all learned that we have something to say about abortion rights. You know what you're talking about and this task is far easier than knocking on doors!
A useful guide is the three-part Proposition-Analysis-Conclusion model. For example: 'The Health Act contains a mandatory three-day waiting period' (proposition); 'Waiting periods discriminate against poor, rural, and vulnerable people' (analysis); 'For abortion services to be equally accessible to every citizen of Ireland, the waiting period must be ditched' (conclusion).
4) Include your name, town and phone number at the end. Most papers will not print without these details. Plus, adding a local town adds a local connection. (Your phone number will not be printed – it is just in case the paper wishes to contact you.) If you're writing from abroad (letters editors love having an international dimension), it pays to include the county/city where you grew up or used to live. If you've written a particularly personal letter, some editors will withhold your name and address – the classic 'Name and address with editor' that you will occasionally see. Other papers, such as the Irish Times, won't publish a letter without a name.
5) Submit it to your paper. If you submit to more than one paper, just make sure to BCC the email addresses. Here is a great list of Irish newspaper contacts that you can use to send your letter. Allow a lead time of a couple of days.
Special note: If writing to The Irish Times, you must submit your letter directly to the newspaper in the "to" line of the email.
During the referendum campaign, several regional Together for Yes groups worked in writers' circles, taking turns to write a letter, and going over each other's work. The support of fellow writers can get you over the hump if you're stuck when it's your turn to write a letter, or someone else can step in with a letter if writer's block has done you in. Some groups met up in person; others worked online, using WhatsApp groups, Google Docs, or Facebook. Groups allow people's strengths to come to the fore; some people are good at brainstorming subject matter, others at the act of writing, others at spotting pitfalls or flaws in an argument. Some groups would stockpile letters, and members could just pick one to send. This 'ghost-writing' system allows for a high rate of publication, and a wide variety of letter-senders (as opposed to letter-writers) means the same one or two names don't pop up every week.
Once you've submitted, make sure to keep an eye on the opinion pages (in print or online) to see if you've been published. Letters will often be printed by more than one newspaper, and sometimes a letter will be published weeks after you've submitted it. If your letter makes it in, let us know! Share it with us at [email protected]. And if you're on social media, share it there, too.


This story is an exerpt from Sacred Dying: Creating Rituals for Embracing the End of Life. This text and story cannot be used without written permission of Dr. Megory Anderson.
Katie was only 11 years old and the last three of those years had been spent coping with cancer. There were surgeries and then chemotherapy and radiation. She didn't have much hair left, and just months earlier the doctors had amputated her left leg. Her friends at school and all her relatives were pulling for her. Even her 13-year-old brother, Philip, was on her side. But the cancer had taken its toll, and it was time to face the reality that Katie was going to die.
I arrived in the middle of the afternoon. Katie was in her hospital bed, surrounded by her mother and her father and her big brother. She was conscious but drifting in and out of sleep.
I sat beside Katie's bed, took her hand, and told her I was there to help her. She perked up, clearly wanting to talk.
"Is this going to hurt?" She asked. "I mean anymore than it already does?" I told her that the pain would probably get better not worse.
"Are those things making you hurt inside?" I asked.
"I hit my brother once", she whispered, "but he was being mean to me. And once I got really angry at Daddy for making me come back to the hospital when I wanted to go to Jennifer's house. But…" There was silence. "But… the worst thing I did was to get cancer. It made everything bad. I think everyone is angry with me for getting cancer. I couldn't help it; I didn't do it on purpose. And I tried to get well, I really did. But now it's too late." She turned her head into the pillow and cried.
I went over and took a folded sheet from the shelf and spread it open.
I made a knot in the corner of the sheet.
I made another knot. And another, and another, as the list grew.
"Well, what can we do about that?" She thought for a minute.
I walked out the door and located the rest of the family in the waiting area.
Back in the room, Katie was clutching the white sheet filled with knots, her hands white and tense. Her family circled the bed.
"See all these knots?" I asked the others.
"That is what Katie's insides feel like. She feels pretty bad about some things that she did and wants to tell you about them." Her parents look surprised, but they waited for her to speak.
"Daddy," she whispered, "Remember that time I was so awful when you had to bring me back to the hospital? I really wanted to go to Jennifer's, but you made me come here. I'm sorry, Daddy, I didn't mean to cry so much. You made me angry, and I wanted to make you angry. I'm sorry." Her father opened his mouth, but nothing came out.
"Philip, I was mean to you a lot. I took your favorite airplane once and hid it. I even tore up that picture you drew because I was mad at you. I'm sorry, Philip," she said quietly. "I won't do it again." Philip brushed the tears away from his face.
Her mother gasped and took Katie in her arms. I went to the other side of the room while the family cried and held each other. The noises outside the hospital room seem to grow dimmer while the loving energy inside the room seemed to swell. When everyone was cried out, I walked back to the bed.
"Why don't we undo some of these knots?" I said.
Everyone giggled nervously. With Philip on one end and Katie in the middle, we undid all those knots, big and little. Except the one in the middle.
We turned our hearts and minds to the power of God. As I prayed for Katie to have peace in her body and peace in her soul, Katie was bold enough to offer her own prayer for her sorrow and regret. Her father asked God to help everyone with all the feelings they had, and Philip added a prayer that Katie would never forget them in heaven. Her mother asked that God take care of her little girl and love her as much as they all had loved her.
"How do you feel, Katie?" I asked her.
I took a corner of the sheet, gave it to each member of the family, and pulled mine back so that the sheet was stretched out. I lifted it higher over my head, and the others followed my lead. Katie laughed. We let it float back onto the bed, and pulled it high again. It ballooned up. We could almost feel Katie soaring high on that sheet, high into the air, and back down again. We laughed and laughed. And Katy flew each time, closer to heaven and closer to God's arms.
Sometime during that night, Katie died. There were many tears, but the reconciliation she experienced with her family and most of all, with God, led her peacefully through that journey.


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February 4, 2020 February 4, 2020 By Shane
When Imagineers want to give you a slightly different ride experience, they are chock full of sneaky Disney tricks.
Sometimes it's random, like surprising you with the most hated character in the Star Wars universe (no, not Rian Johnson). Other times, they have to figure out how to merge two branching storylines back together.
But every now and then, we come across some sneaky Disney variations that are so subtle and mundane, we're amazed they even bothered.
As it turns out, all of these have a purpose.
And we bet most people never even thought about it.
You Can Set Your Watch By Millennium Falcon Smuggler's Run
Millennium Falcon Smuggler's Run involves leaving Batuu to help Hondo What's-His-Name obtain a priceless something-or-other.
Millennium Falcon Smuggler's Run is one of those rare attempts by Disney to let the guest control the outcome. The variations are endless:
Some pilots fly smooth. Others get turbulence.
Good gunners can't miss. Bad gunners are stormtroopers.
Top engineers have a crappy view. Crappy engineers have the same view as top engineers.
Depending on your skill at video games, you'll come out as either a "Grandma," a "Jim," or a "Burnt Turkey." (that's a Carousel of Progress joke).
But there's one variation that has absolutely nothing to do with the choices you make while riding.
It depends on a choice you make before you even get in line.
Fly out in the morning, and you'll see Batuu stretching out below you in the full sunlight of its three suns.
If you do your smuggling after dinner, you'll find the planet has turned to the Dark Side, literally speaking.
The Dark Side of Batuu is a pathway to many abilities some would consider to be… unnatural.
It has absolutely no impact on the mission itself. When your main objective is on a completely different planet, daytime smuggling is exactly the same as nighttime smuggling.
But in case you are the sort who is always getting confused by differences between the Western hemisphere and a PlayStation, your aerial vistas during take-off and landing always matches Florida's real time of day.
(no word on whether it factors in Daylight Savings Time).
Sneaky Disney Gets Even Sneakier
As strange as it sounds, Millennium Falcon Smuggler's Run is not the only time you fly in and out of Batuu.
Star Wars Rise of the Resistance does the Exact. Same. Thing.
This video has a nice side-by-side comparison at the 15:45 mark. Spoilers ahead.
Not to be outdone, Star Tours: The Adventures Continue also flies into Batuu, courtesy of a special bonus ending that was added back in 2017 when The Last Jedi was released.
Unfortunately, just like The Last Jedi, Star Tours II didn't care about fan-pleasing Star Wars themes like checking your watch to make sure the fictional planet matched the proper time of day. It was perpetually mid-afternoon in the Star Tours version of Batuu.
We blame Rian Johnson.
(the Batuu ending has since been swapped out for a new bonus ending based on the Rise of Skywalker, in which JJ Abrams tries to undo everything about Star Tours II)
Avatar Flight of Passage Knows Your Right From Your Left
As you exit its queue area jam-packed with insane detail, Avatar Flight of Passage saves one of its most mundane and sneaky Disney tricks for its second pre-show.
It takes place when Dr. Jackie Ogden (who runs the program) is giving you the briefing on how to ride a Banshee.
It's her program. She developed it. She runs it. Pay attention. They will tell you this at least 3 times. We don't know why.
As Dr. Ogden talks, a how-to video will play, showing glowing faceless guests (dare I say, avatars) walking up to a row of 8 seats. She will then tell you how to mount said seat and push your belly all the way forward so that the belly-tickling effect will be, um, effective.
Surely I am not spoiling a sneaky Disney secret when I tell you that there are always more than 8 people riding Avatar Flight of Passage at any one time. In fact, there are 6 rows per theater — and 4 total theaters — in operation.
Depending on which theater you get, you may be walking in from the left side of the screen or the right. And somehow the pre-show knows this, because it shows you a different rendering of the how-to video!
Why is literally everything on Pandora blue and glowing?
They wanted no confusion here. If you are entering from the left of the screen, the ride vehicles are on the left. If you're entering from the right, the ride vehicles are on the right.
Otherwise the videos are exactly the same.
Just before entering the Link Chamber, Dr. Jackie Ogden (who runs the program) shows you an infographic of what it's like to join a human being to an Avatar.
The human always seems to be Driver 14, a precocious tween girl. But for some reason, the picture of the Avatar alternates between a smiling female Na'vi and a rather doltish looking male.
Top: Driver's License. Bottom: Mug Shot.
There does not seem to be any rhyme or reason to this variation. It doesn't have anything to do with the other variation. It's kind of random.
Our best guess is that this feature may have originally intended to show an actual guest's picture as the driver (similar to the rebel spy in Star Tours), and then match it to a male or female. But they were so exhausted from learning the difference between left and right, that gender-matching was just too much.
Last but not least, we stumbled across yet another variation in this pre-show while researching the previous variations. This one is more of a footnote, since the old variation is no longer running.
One part of the how-to video shows the glowing blue ghosts demonstrating the proper way to drop random crap into a storage bin, since you're not allowed to take it with you on your space dragon.
Back when Avatar Flight of Passage first opened, the first item into the bin was a water bottle. Sometime shortly after, they must have realized that cell phones were a bigger issue.
They even had to change the Closed Captioning.
This video shows the before, only a week or two before the ride's official opening. And this is the after, barely a month later.
Finding Nemo Submarine Voyage is Two Rides in One
When you board the sprightly yellow aluminum coffins of the Finding Nemo Submarine Voyage, you'll find yourself facing either to port or to starboard.
For you landlubbers, those are fancy terms for left and right.
This being Disney, everyone needs to get basically the same experience. But since the essential viewing experience of the Submarine Voyage is to hunch over and stare through a glass portal barely a foot wide, Disney has to duplicate the entire attraction — once for port and once for starboard.
Things get even weirder. If you're riding on the port side, the ride takes place from left to right. If you're riding starboard, it goes from right to left.
Any scene you encounter in the ride has to follow these basic mechanics. Sometimes it's easy, like the simple animatronics at the beginning of the ride. These are more or less stationary in the water as you sail past.
But once you enter the show building, the bulk of the story unfolds on a series of cleverly disguised underwater screens showing Nemo and his friends.
Anything involving motion has to be flipped. For instance, when you enter the East Australian Current — which briefly parallels your submarine — the starboard side needs to get a mirror image of the port side.
"Let's name the terms, the terms, the terms. Let's name the terms for left and riiiiiiight."
Scenes of characters interacting with sharks in old shipwrecks, bouncing on jellyfish, or talking to whales all have to be flipped so that the other side gets the same experience.
And not just the screens. There are some actual physical sets constructed in there, all of which also have to be duplicated in mirror image.
The All-Time Best Sneaky Disney Ride Variation
Most of the problems with Finding Nemo Submarine Voyage can be solved precisely because so much of the ride is just a series of screens.
Your basic desktop movie editing software or Photoshop tool already has a menu that lets you "Flip Horizontal."
Voila! Instant mirror image.
Which one is the real Dory?
In the example above, the average guest has no clue which one is the "real" image. And it literally doesn't matter.
But here is something truly delicious — a problem unique not just to the Submarine Voyage, but specifically because they chose Finding Nemo as the source material.
One of the more unique aspects about Nemo is that out of all the fish in the sea — indeed, out of virtually all characters in the Disney pantheon — he's the one fish you can always tell his left from his right.
Nemo has a lucky fin. It's a birth defect of sorts that causes his right fin to be much smaller than his left. It's one of the reasons that Marlin is so overprotective.
If the ride designers simply flipped the image, half the riders of Finding Nemo Submarine Voyage would be getting the wrong lucky fin (a problem which got Captain Hook and Indiana Jones into trouble).
Of course, the alternative is to completely re-animate Nemo and totally re-render his scenes to keep him anatomically correct.
Surely they didn't spend time and money doing that, right?
You bet they did.
Okay, it's impossible to grab decent close-up pictures of the Submarine Voyage, but they totally got Nemo's lucky fin right for both Port and Starboard sides.
That they put this much thought and effort into such a minor variation is absolutely insane.
And that makes it our favorite sneaky Disney ride variation.
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We have lots of talent, both overt and hidden amongst our club members. But many of you may not know that our own CHTC Life Member John Daffy was instrumental in developing the first triathlon wetsuit.
The history of triathlon and the development of the triathlon wetsuit is a very interesting one. Its evolution is a testament to the dedication, fitness and downright hard-core of those involved in triathlon in its early days. Makes us all look so soft with our carbon bikes, high-tech wetsuits and array of running shoes.
See the link below and next time you're floating out there like a cork, warm and comfortable in your wetsuit, save a thank you to our own JD for his contribution.
Jane Hunt is a triathlon historian from Bond University and has produced perhaps the first documented and photographed history of Triathlon in Australia. The club will be organising a bulk order at the special rate of $40.00 per book. See the attached flyer for details of the book.
If you're interested, Michael Dougherty will be coordinating the book order so send him an email at mdoc@citycentre.com.au to get your copy.
Shark attack is something we all fear when we're swimming in open water. Some of us can rationalise it away, others have a morbid fear and avoid open water swimming all together. Most of just try not to think about it.
Well, a clever combination of science and design has come up with a possible solution. Actually two possible solutions. By studying the behaviour of sharks and other underwater life forms, an Australian ocean swimmer Hamish Jolley and a team of scientists have developed two wetsuits designed to prevent shark attacks. And it's not what you would think.
Jolley gave a TED talk in Perth in October 2013 outlining his designs and the science behind it. This is fascinating insight not only into the behaviour of sharks, but also the clever methods involved in devising a solution to minimise shark attacks on humans. This is well worth watching.
As triathletes we are all trying to get the most out of our bodies. And we all know it pays to be careful about what goes into our most important piece of equipment. To paraphrase the old adage, you don't power a performance engine with dirty fuel. Most of us apply the principles of clean eating to our everyday nutrition, but have you ever read the list of ingredients in some of the most commonly used gels and sports drinks?
Making your own sports supplements using everyday, natural ingredients isn't as complicated as you might think. Here are some recipes for electrolyte drinks. The instructions for each is the same – just blend all the ingredients together and enjoy!
The run section of a triathlon race doesn't attract too many rules and regulations, but the ones in place are not to be ignored. Save yourself a DQ by ensuring you know these basic run rules.
A competitor may not crawl.
A competitor may not run with a bare torso or without shoes on any part of the run course of an event.
A competitor must clearly display the race identification number on their front at all times on the run course if provided by the Race Director. Those not complying may incur a Stop-Start penalty. However if the Technical Official considers that the identification number has been unintentionally lost, then the competitor will not be penalised.
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Blessing of Backpacks – Sunday, September 9 we will offer special blessing to students and teachers for the new school year. Bring your backpack, briefcase, knitting bag, purse, diaper bag, or other item that represents the activity of your day-to-day life.
Join us for 4 Tuesday's at 1:00pm as we engage with Richard Rohr's spiritual wisdom: "In the first half of life, we are naturally and rightly preoccupied with establishing our identity – climbing, achieving, and performing. But those concerns will not serve us as we grow older and begin to embark on a further journey, one that involves challenges, mistakes, loss of control, broader horizons, and necessary suffering that actually shocks us out of our prior comfort zone. Eventually, we need to see ourselves in a different and more life-giving way." Book and/or journal orders need to be in by Sept 9.
As of August 29, we are no longer taking ticket order for the Anniversary Dinner.
Are you interested in exploring your faith and deepening your spiritual life? EfM helps equip lay people for their on-going ministry in the church and for their life of faith. It's a 4-year theological training program to which students commit annually. The group here at St. Andrew's will resume on Thursday afternoons in September and there are other groups in the city that meet at different times. For more information, please contact Mryka at mhallbey@ucalgary.ca or speak with any of the current participants.
If you are going to be away this spring or summer, please consider signing up for pre-authorized debit using one of the forms in the narthex. If you are already using pre-authorized debit, remember you can top up your donation at any time by using a blank envelope (also available in the narthex) or by using the donation button on our website. Thanks for your contributions!
Sign up for the Celebration Dinner on Sat. Sept 15 at the Varsity Community Association Centre has proceeded well, and numbers are at 100 attendees. The catered lunch for our parish brunch after the Celebration Service on Sunday has been arranged and folks can look forward to a wonderful Alberta Beef on a bun with coleslaw and baked beans. A special remembrance for all baptisms and parishioners who have passed on in the past 10 years is being assembled by Gordon Wells. Please contact Gordon (gord.a.wells@gmail.com) to provide pictures and remembrances.
Our new bike rack, Little Free Library and park bench have been installed and were blessed on Sun June 17. These are all ready for you to ride your bike, bring a book, take a book, sit and enjoy the sun!
We will not be having an Out on the Town dinner in September. Our first dinner for this season will be in October.
Join Christine and Anna Greenwood-Lee this summer at Sorrento Centre, Aug 5-11, to explore some theology in a beautiful setting. We will start with the premise outlined by Phyllis Tickle in her book The Great Emergence that the Church and society today are undergoing a shift of the size and significance which we have not seen since the Reformation. We will then talk about some of the changes already happening and some that might be coming. We'll look at writings and videos from some of the biggest voices on the religious landscape today. For more information or to register, visit: http://www.sorrento-centre.bc.ca.
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The Church and society today are undergoing a shift of the size and significance which we have not seen since the Reformation (as outlined by PHYLLIS TICKLE in her book The Great Emergence). We will then talk about some of the changes already happening and some that might be coming. We'll look at writings and videos from some of the biggest voices on the religious landscape today.
See www.fcjcentre.ca for more information.
Please plan on joining us for this three day event. Laurel serves as the Priest of Salal and Cedar, a ministry of the Anglican Diocese of New Westminster, which meets regularly for worship outdoors and for education and action. She is also a respected Biblical scholar and is the author of five books. More information on Rev. Laurel can be found at http://wisdomcentre.ca/events/. More details on registration for this event will be coming in the late summer or early fall.
Ambrose University is proud to host two evening lectures with Dr. Sarah Coakley.
Prof. Coakley teaches modern and contemporary Philosophy of Religion in the faculty, and has an interest in combining both analytic and continental traditions in her own research, whilst also charting the connections with feminist philosophy.
The Downey Lectureship is a free and public event. No registration is required.
Would you like to make bread to use for communion? Just let Christine know. You can use any recipe you like, though please try to avoid anything too 'crumbly.' See the adult education section of the website for one simple recipe!
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A new list is on the counter in the kitchen for upcoming weeks, please do consider being a host.


The Super Bowl is more than just the culmination of another NFL season. Unlike the championship round in basketball, baseball, and hockey the one game format lends itself to parties. Instead of being an event for just the legion of NFL fans to see how the season ends it has become something for everyone. Companies spend ridiculous money in an attempt to create entertaining commercials to those not entertained by the game. The always star studded half time show attempts to do the same.
But here's the problem with the Super Bowl. The combination of diehard football fans with non football fans that are more interested in 30 second spots for Budweiser, Snickers, or McDonalds does not mesh perfectly. Here is a quick etiquette guide to those who don't know the Ravens are from Baltimore and the 49ers are from San Francisco.
Commercials. To every person at a Super Bowl party who cares first and foremost about commercials, calm down. The only difference between a commercial on Super Bowl Sunday and one from March is the cost of airing it. Super Bowl commercials are rarely funnier than any other commercial. The amount of forced laughter at these commercials you would normally fast forward through boggles my mind. And I will have a breakdown if I attend another party where someone rewinds so someone else can see a commercial they missed while getting more chips and salsa. I can guarantee that someone in the party will have a smartphone that can connect to YouTube so you can watch the commercial mere minutes later. This really becomes an issue if you are 30 or 60 seconds behind and want to check Twitter.
Questions. I'm opposed to any distractions that occur when I'm trying to watch something. That is unless it makes me laugh. So cool it with the simple questions during gameplay non football watchers. The appropriate time to ask a question would be during commercials, halftime, or between plays. But that does not mean any question can be asked. Sports are fairly exclusive. Essentially fans have a club (all fans of a particular team) where membership is not easily attained. You can't just proclaim that you're a fan of a given team. You need to have some knowledge about that team and sport. How does this relate to the Super Bowl? Because this is the one game when everyone cares about the sport. The majority (at least it seems this way) of Super Bowl watchers are non fans. They are impeding on the most important day of the season. That alone may be frustrating (not for me) but when compounded with general knowledge questions is downright upsetting. Many questions can be answered with a quick Google search. After you're done watching the M&M's commercial you can search for how tall Joe Flacco is. Generally I am in favor of non sports fans watching sports. Perhaps they will become a fan someday which is good. But questions like ,"How much does Haloti Ngata weigh?" makes me question if it's a good thing.
The halftime show. They are not good. Sometimes they are terrible (remember the Black Eyed Peas). They are too long and I can't comprehend why fragments of songs are only played. Instead of pieces of all the allegedly great songs, wouldn't it be better to play only a few of those songs completely? That way we would be able to experience the entirety of one of these allegedly great songs. If you proclaim the halftime show is the best part get ready to feel my disdain. Or at least a dirty look. The game is the best part. It isn't close.
Side conversations. I understand the party aspect of Super Bowl Sunday. It is an opportunity to get together with friends and/or family for an afternoon/evening. There should be a bubble around the television and the devout viewers who care about the game. Inside that bubble talks about celebrity gossip, personal gossip, pet stories, etc are not tolerated. Instead I would like to hear the nothingness coming from Troy Aikman's mouth. Luckily this doesn't happen often for me but there's always a possibility. Plus, wouldn't you rather hear Jim Nantz talking about Ray Lewis' last game or Taylor Swift's latest failed romance? Don't answer that. I'm tired of the Ray Lewis marathon of praise too.
Food. As long as there is a lot of it I'm okay.
The Super Bowl is first and foremost a sports day. Another season comes to an end in a spectacle that tries to include everyone. If something (or all of it) above seems harsh remember this non sports fans: everything you enjoy about Super Bowl Sunday can be recreated the next day, the next week, or whenever. You can always invite people over for a bunch of food and conversation. But there is an aspect of Super Bowl Sunday that can't be recreated, the game. It is very important to the obsessive sports fans even if their favorite team is not involved.


On July 20, 2010, Elana Parraz was injured while working at Diamond Crystal Brands, Inc. She sought treatment the following day and was placed on restricted work duties. On July 27, she filed a worker's compensation claim which was allowed for lower back strain. Diamond Crystal accommodated her restrictions and she returned to light-duty work.
At Diamond Crystal, Parraz was employed under a union contact that contained a point-based attendance policy: an employee accumulated points for each instance of tardiness or absence from work, ranging from one-half to two points. The union contract explained the point system in detail – an employee who receives 14 points is terminated. Parraz acknowledged that she received a copy of the attendance policy.
On the date of her injury, Parraz already had 10.5 attendance points. By September 9, 2010, she had accumulated 12 points – none were attributed to her injury – and, in accordance with the policy, the company issued a final written disciplinary warning. On February 11, 2011, Parraz was terminated when she accumulated her 14th point.
On February 14, 2011, Parraz filed for temporary-total-disability ("TTD") compensation. A hearing officer with the Industrial Commission of Ohio – which handles such matters – determined that Parraz had been terminated for violating a written work rule; thus, she had voluntarily abandoned her employment and was not eligible for TTD compensation.
Based on her statement at the hearing, Parraz's absence on February 3 was due to illness and her tardiness the next day was because of a flat tire. The hearing officer rejected the argument that her injury caused her termination.
After that, Parraz filed a complaint with the court of appeals. She argued that although her employer had the right to terminate her under the attendance policy, her absences were negligent, not intentional, and should not bar TTD compensation.
The magistrate who reviewed her case determined that the evidence demonstrated that Diamond Crystal had satisfied its burden of proof that Parraz was terminated for violating a written work rule. The magistrate cited Parraz's attendance problems before her injury and the lack of contemporaneous medical evidence that subsequent absences were the result of her injury.
Thus, the magistrate concluded that the Industrial Commission did not abuse its discretion when it denied her request for TTD compensation.
In denying her complaint, the court noted that Parraz was aware of the attendance policy, routinely violated it, and had accumulated most of her points before her injury. The court determined that her repeated absences demonstrated an indifference to workplace policies. Therefore, the absences were sufficient to support a finding for voluntary abandonment.
After the court of appeals ruling, Parraz's case came before us – the Ohio Supreme Court – for a final review. To be entitled to the relief that she sought, Parraz had to establish that she has a clear legal right to relief and the Commission has a clear legal duty to provide it. To do so, she had to demonstrate that the Commission abused its discretion, meaning that the Commission's decision was rendered without "some evidence" to support it.
Parraz didn't dispute that she had accumulated 14 points and was subject to termination under the union contract. Instead, she argued that the Commission had no evidence that she intentionally engaged in conduct that she knew would lead to termination; rather, her tardiness and absences were not intentional.
These cases are fact driven and must be determined on a case-by-case basis. In this case, Parraz was aware of the attendance policy in her contract. She had a history of attendance problems prior to her injury. She was warned of the number of points she had accumulated and was aware that she was close to the mandatory number for discharge.
Consequently, we agreed that the Commission did not abuse its discretion when it determined that her termination was the result of a voluntary abandonment that precluded payment of TTD compensation.
In addition, Parraz failed to demonstrate a causal relationship between her injury and the loss of earning she hoped to replace with TTD compensation. Parraz did not provide any contemporaneous medical evidence to establish that her absences or tardiness that resulted in termination had been caused by her injury.
Finally, Parraz argued that the employer had the burden to prove that she voluntarily and intentionally engaged in misconduct that she knew would result in her discharge. She maintained that there was insufficient evidence to support that conclusion; thus, Diamond Crystal failed to meet its burden of proof.
Parraz failed to establish that the Commission abused its discretion when it denied her request for TTD compensation. We therefore affirmed – by a six-to-one vote – the court of appeals' judgment.


Helen Hanson is a Professor in Film History at the University of Exeter as well as Academic Director of the Bill Douglas Cinema Museum. I'm a great admirer of Hollywood Soundscapes: Film Sound Style, Craft & Production in the Classical Era, her new book. Hollywood Soundscapes not only provides us with new knowledge on the craft and production of film sounds styles in the classic era but is also an inspiring example of how to produce methods through which to do so.
Professor Hanson came to Warwick to talk on Lela Simone, the music supervisor of the great Freed Unit at MGM, and thus responsible for the sound of some of the greatest musicals of all time: An American in Paris (1951), Singin' in the Rain (1952), The Band Wagon (1953) and many others. I sought Professor Hanson out to talk at greater length about her superb book.
The discussion touches on how her initial research question, 'who were the most significant people working in sound in the classic era?' changed into an account of how style is framed around structures that develop from group work and the sharing of knowledges. We touch on how the structures surrounding the work and practices of a sound editor in the 1930s might be shaped not only by the technologies that he or she was using but also forms of knowledge, professional networks and the conventions and expectations of the work.
One of the wonderful aspects of Hollywood Soundscapes is how we get detailed accounts of stereophonic sound systems that did not quite succeed. We touch on the Vitasound system which added speakers and amplified sound and also on the Fantasound system Walt Disney developed for Fantasia, two examples on which there is a much more extended and detailed account in the book itself.
The discussion ranges from what constituted 'ear appeal' at any point in time to what she would advise a beginner to look for if he or she wanted to analyse and better understand the ways in which sound is created and deployed in film.
The conversation touches on generic expectations in relation to the crafting of soundscapes. Sound technicians had a sense of how to shape the sound for different genres. When mixing the sound for a drama, for example, they looked for high contrast sound. For comedy, there was a tendency to seek a louder sound mix. But different studios had different practice conventions. Warners, for example, liked to record wild sounds.


Angela F. Storey is a Senior Trial Attorney with The Hartford. She practices civil litigation representing individuals and entities in a wide range of civil matters. She is an avid science fiction fan and has presented on legal topics in the Marvel Universe, Star Trek, and Star Wars at Silicon Valley and San Francisco Comic Con. Her favorite author is Orson Scott Card and her favorite series is Amtrak Wars by Patrick Tilley. Angela currently chairs the Civil Practice Committee of the Santa Clara County Bar Association and is the former President of the Santa Clara County Trial Lawyers Association. She enjoys teaching students about the legal system and often presents at elementary and high school Career Days. For many years she was the tournament administrator for the Santa Clara County High School Mock Trial Program, which brought high school students into the courtroom to present a mock case in front of the local judiciary.
Steve Chu is a California attorney and frequent contributor to the Legal Geeks website and podcasts. Steve has presented at ESI seminars, government attorney working group panels, and will be an instructor at the Department of Justice's National Advocacy Center in Spring of 2019. Steve has also been an eager panelist at comic conventions on topics involving pop culture and the law.
Hi there, You are invited to a Zoom webinar. When: Jan 29, 2019 12:00 PM Pacific Time (US and Canada) Topic: Star Trek: Elimination of Bias (CA CLE Pending) Register in advance for this webinar: https://zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_Fc042l0bQAaChQPUspxKGQ After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the webinar. ---------- Webinar Speakers Angela Storey (Attoreny @The Hartford) Angela F. Storey is a Senior Trial Attorney with The Hartford. She practices civil litigation representing individuals and entities in a wide range of civil matters. She is an avid science fiction fan and has presented on legal topics in the Marvel Universe, Star Trek, and Star Wars at Silicon Valley and San Francisco Comic Con. Her favorite author is Orson Scott Card and her favorite series is Amtrak Wars by Patrick Tilley. Angela currently chairs the Civil Practice Committee of the Santa Clara County Bar Association and is the former President of the Santa Clara County Trial Lawyers Association. She enjoys teaching students about the legal system and often presents at elementary and high school Career Days. For many years she was the tournament administrator for the Santa Clara County High School Mock Trial Program, which brought high school students into the courtroom to present a mock case in front of the local judiciary. Steve Chu (Assistant United States Attorney @US DOJ) Steve Chu is a California attorney and frequent contributor to the Legal Geeks website and podcasts. Steve has presented at ESI seminars, government attorney working group panels, and will be an instructor at the Department of Justice's National Advocacy Center in Spring of 2019. Steve has also been an eager panelist at comic conventions on topics involving pop culture and the law.


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Iker Casillas may still be available at odds of 1/4 with Ladbrokes to remain at Real Madrid next season, but reports from Spain suggest change could soon be afoot at the Bernabeu.
According to El Confidencial, Los Blancos boss Carlo Ancelotti has been set a deadline of August 1st to decide on the future of the Spain international and first-team rival Diego Lopez with Casillas potentially facing the chop after a poor series of displays at the World Cup.
With four different clubs currently in the running to sign the Champions League winner – including two Premier League sides – we analyse the runners and riders in this special Ladbrokes betting market.
The current favourites to land the 33-year-old, Monaco have emerged as the front-runners after opting against a deal for La Roja rival Victor Valdes, after the long-time Barcelona goalkeeper failed a medical with the Principality Club.
Offering Casillas the chance to escape much of the negative media attention that has dogged him since those error-strewn performances against Holland and Chile, it's easy to see why he may favour a spell here with the player's recent income tax woes likely to be a thing of past should he sign.
Monaco's interest in Casillas has got their big-spending rivals PSG keeping a close eye on things with the Parisiens potentially open to the idea of a bid after seeing first-choice goalkeeping target Hugo Lloris sign a new five-year contract with Tottenham Hotspur.
Able to match any financial offer made by the Principality club, the Spaniard would undoubtedly be open to moving to Paris where he could add a series of Ligue 1 titles to his impressive personal trophy haul and continue to compete in the Champions League.
Joe Hart's lacklustre showing for England at the World Cup, coupled with the arrival of Willy Caballero – an old favourite of Manuel Pellegrini – as back-up has led many to believe the Three Lions favourite could be living on borrowed time between the sticks for City.
Casillas previously worked alongside Pellegrini at Madrid and with the Chilean all too aware of his ability, provided the price is right, then the Sky Blues could be surprise contenders for the Spaniard's services, with City able to meet any wage demands the World Cup winner may have.
The current outsiders in the market, Arsenal have been linked with a number of goalkeepers in the wake of the World Cup, including Colombia no.1 David Ospina.
But with some questioning whether Wojciech Szczęsny is the goalkeeper the Gunners need to launch a title challenge, Casillas could yet head to London – a city likely to hold more attraction to the Spaniard than Manchester. The only stumbling blocks could be the fee and wage demands.


Greetings, judges! Our rock star this week is here to share some great stories and important lessons! Say hello to Italy's very own Matteo Callegari!
I play Magic as a way to make new friends and spend time with old ones. Once I got into judging, I found a way to do the same without mana screw! What still motivates to wear the Magic Judge shirt is the challenges that keep arriving that always push me to improve.
Be humble: there will always be someone who does that thing better than you and who will be willing to share his or her secrets with you. Just ask them!
Be proud: recognize what you are doing great and help other judges reach your skill level.
Be serious: you will have to maintain the event's integrity and command the respect of players.
Be happy: wear your best smile out by smiling to all players and judges you interact with at your events. A single smile can do more wonders than a thousand words!
My current goal for travelling is to visit all the 7 Modern Wonders, and right now I got the Coliseum (easy), the Great Wall, Machu Picchu and Petra under the belt. Next year I plan to hit the Cristo Redentor and maybe Chichen Itza as well. Wish me good luck and see you at a Brazilian or a Mexican GP!
George R.R. Martin, and it won't be a very pleasant chat unless he publishes the last 2 books before then!
Always remember that the judge program may be a safe haven where you can pour all the good you keep inside. It will have a deep impact on the people that are around you and they will in turn give you a great bump whenever you feel low. So understand that there may be some ups and downs even in this program, yet you will always have someone that will be willing to share your sadness and to provide you with plenty of reasons to cheer up!
I collect Tolkien's books from the countries I've been judging and I currently own editions from 3 different continents.
I know how to pronounce "beer" in 28 different languages.
The city I have visited most times in the world is Dublin, yet I have never played or judged at an event there.
Brian got Richard Garfield to 1 life before the creator of Magic obliterated him. Brian holds a 0-1 record against Garfield.


Shareablee, the social media audience analysis firm that partners with TV and cable networks CBS, NBC, ESPN, Univision, FOX News and CNN, among others, has released a June ranking of the most socially engaged TV Networks in the US The ranking, which includes all television shows and the main network brand accounts under their respective networks, reflects a total of 483.4 million social actions (364.6 million on Facebook – likes, shares and comments, 25.7 million on Twitter – retweets, favorites, 93.1 million on Instagram – likes, comments) and stayed flat compared to May 2015.
ESPN, led by the programme SportsCenter, ranks number one with 67.7 million total actions across Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Telemundo ranked number one on Facebook with 40 million actions, followed by ABC with 35.4 million actions. Fox News won the news category with 27.1 million actions. FXX grew 467 per cent, the largest growth in the TV Network category during the month of June. ABC captured the most social amplification of any TV network with over 9 million shares and retweets on Facebook and Twitter.


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MKTO es un dúo musical pop estadounidense formado por Malcolm Kelley y Tony Oller. Su álbum debut homónimo fue lanzado el 30 de enero de 2014 por Columbia Records. En julio de 2015, el dúo lanzó su primer EP, titulado Bad Girls EP. A partir de 2014, la banda ha vendido más de 1 millón de discos en todo el mundo.

Carrera musical

2010-2012: Formación
Malcolm Kelley y Tony Oller se conocieron en 2010 mientras filmaban la serie de televisión de Nickelodeon Gigantic, en la que sus personajes interpretaban a mejores amigos. Más tarde se formaron como dúo y se les ocurrió el nombre MKTO, que representa las iniciales combinadas de sus nombres y apellidos, MK para Malcolm Kelley y TO para Tony Oller. Elaboraron sobre la inspiración de su nombre, diciendo: «Nuestro álbum representa como los «Misfit Kids and Total Outcasts» niños inadaptados y marginados totales».

2012-2014: MKTO y álbum homónimo
El dúo firmó con Columbia Records y lanzó su sencillo debut «Thank You» el 12 de noviembre de 2012. El género de la canción es un cruce entre el pop y el hip hop. La canción ha alcanzado el éxito comercial, alcanzando los diez primeros en las listas de sencillos de Australia y Nueva Zelanda. El video musical de la canción se lanzó en YouTube a través de Vevo el 4 de enero de 2013 y obtuvo más de 500.000 visitas dos días después de su lanzamiento. Ahora tiene más de 25 millones de visitas. En el video musical, Harold Perrineau, quien interpretó al padre del personaje de Kelley en Lost, apareció como una referencia al programa. MKTO lanzó su segundo sencillo, «Classic», junto con el video musical el 20 de junio de 2013. «Classic» alcanzó el puesto 14 en el Billboard Hot 100 de Estados Unidos, y desde entonces el video musical ha recopilado más de 180 millones de visitas en YouTube. El video musical de su tercer sencillo, «God Only Knows», fue lanzado el 29 de noviembre de 2013 en YouTube y Vevo. «God Only Knows» alcanzó el puesto 11 en Australia y el 19 en Nueva Zelanda. En 2013, sirvieron como teloneros de la banda Emblem3 en su gira de verano por los Estados Unidos. También sirvieron como teloneros del #bandlife Tour de Emblem3 y del Demi World Tour de la cantante Demi Lovato en 2014. Su álbum debut homónimo MKTO fue lanzado el 30 de enero de 2014 en Australia y Nueva Zelanda y fue lanzado en abril.

En febrero de 2014, su álbum debut llegó al número 1 en Australia y al número 6 en Nueva Zelanda. Durante el verano de 2014, MKTO realizó su primera gira musical, el American Dream Tour. Este contó con los actos de apertura interpretados por Tiffany Houghton y Action Item. El cuarto sencillo de su álbum debut en los Estados Unidos es «American Dream» y alcanzó el puesto 40 en Australia y el 12 en Nueva Zelanda. A pesar de no ser sencillos, «Forever Until Tomorrow» alcanzó el número 23 en iTunes en Australia y «Heartbreak Holiday» alcanzó el número 30 en iTunes en Australia y el número 42 en los Estados Unidos.

2015-2016: EP Bad Girls
El 22 de julio de 2015, MKTO lanzó su primer EP Bad Girls, que fue precedido por el lanzamiento en junio de 2015 de su sencillo principal «Bad Girls». El sencillo alcanzó el puesto 80 en Australia y el puesto 36 en el Billboard Mainstream Top 40. El EP alcanzó el puesto 32 en la lista de iTunes en Australia y el número 50 en la lista de iTunes en los Estados Unidos. El 9 de marzo de 2016 se estrenó exclusivamente en Billboard un sencillo de doble cara A que incluía dos pistas nuevas, «Hands Off My Heart/Places You Go». «Superstitious» es el segundo sencillo lanzado en 2016 por el dúo.

2017-2021: Segundo álbum de estudio cancelado, disolución, regreso y partida de Oller
El 10 de marzo de 2017, Oller anunció en Twitter que la banda se había separado. Sin embargo, según su página de Twitter, planean lanzar nueva música muy pronto. El 12 de junio de 2018, MKTO anunció en Twitter que volvían a estar juntos. Tres días después, el 15 de junio, la banda anunció que había firmado un nuevo contrato discográfico con BMG. Tras el anuncio, el dúo lanzó un nuevo sencillo titulado «How Can I Forget» en septiembre de 2018. En junio de 2019, lanzaron otro sencillo, «Shoulda Known Better». Un tercer sencillo, «Marry That Eyes», fue lanzado el 6 de septiembre de 2019. «Consider Me Yours» fue lanzado el 22 de noviembre de 2019. En abril de 2020, MKTO lanzó un video musical para Just Imagine It. También lanzaron 3 sencillos, «Simple Things», «Party With My Friends» y «How Much». «Party With My Friends» alcanzó el puesto 85 en iTunes mientras que «How Much» alcanzó el puesto 54 en iTunes. El 17 de agosto de 2021, Tony Oller anunció a través de las redes sociales que dejaría la banda.

Discografía

Álbumes

EPs

Sencillos

Como artista principal

Sencillos promocionales

Como artista invitado

Premios y nominaciones

Teen Choice Awards

Radio Disney Music Awards

Referencias

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Grupos de música de los años 2010
Grupos de música formados en 2010
Grupos de música formados en los años 2010