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In Greece, political spat over lockdown turns personal
by: DEREK GATOPOULOS, Associated Press
A Santa Claus stands outside a Christmas decoration shop, in central Athens, on Monday, Dec. 7, 2020. Despite a significant drop in cases over the past week, authorities have extended the countrywide lockdown to Dec. 14, but have allowed certain shops, including those selling Christmas-related merchandise, to open from Monday. (AP Photo/Petros Giannakouris)
ATHENS, Greece (AP) — Holiday goodwill during the coronavirus lockdown? In Greece, it's been in short supply between the nation's two leading politicians.
A spat has erupted over competing claims that the prime minister and his main rival broke the spirit of pandemic restrictions that have renewed financial hardship for many voters.
Conservative Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis was photographed last weekend posing with his mountain bike, without a mask, alongside five motocross riders on a hillside trail outside Athens. Greece's lockdown rules exempt people who've gone outdoors for exercise, including cycling, from the obligation to wear a mask.
Government officials insisted Mitsotakis had not broken the rules, but Syriza, the left-wing main opposition party, urged him to publicly apologize for displaying "arrogance and a lack of empathy" for his fellow Greeks.
Mitsotakis on Monday conceded he'd been wrong to agree to be photographed without a mask when he met the bikers on the trail.
"This gave me the opportunity to reflect on how important the personal example that politicians set is," he said in an interview with private Alpha TV, adding: "I follow the rules religiously and it bothers me that a small moment of relaxation or carelessness was blown up out of proportion."
The government hit back against Syriza Monday, citing articles in pro-conservative newspapers reporting that Alexis Tsipras, the former prime minister and current opposition leader, spent much of his time in a rented upscale seaside home.
"It's political hypocrisy for the leader of the opposition. He wants people to see him as the boy from the (blue-collar) neighborhood and not someone living the high life," government spokesman Stelios Petsas said.
Syriza described the response as a "desperate attempt to change the conversation amid the public outcry over the mishandling of the pandemic and the (prime minister's) efforts to dodge public health restrictions."
Mitsotakis' center-right New Democracy has maintained a strong lead in opinion polls since taking office last year that increased through much of the pandemic, as infection rates remained much lower than many other European countries.
The difference has narrowed slightly in recent weeks following a post-summer surge of cases. Greece's pandemic death toll reached close to 3,100 on Monday, with most deaths occurring after Nov. 1.
The government Monday said it will maintain core lockdown measures through the Christmas holidays, acknowledging that monthlong restrictions have not reduced COVID-19 cases to the extent it had hoped for.
Schools, courts, and restaurants will remain closed through Jan. 7, Petsas said, while non-essential travel between Greece's administrative regions will also be banned.
Stay-at-home orders nationwide will remain in effect until that date, with movement outside only allowed with government permission — which can be granted by SMS text message. And travelers arriving between Dec. 18 and Jan. 7 will be required to go into precautionary quarantine for 10 days. Restrictions for stores, churches, and hair salons will be announced later this week.
The number of daily infections, based on a seven-day rolling average, is currently at 1,609 compared to 2,674 in mid-November, according to figures tallied by the Health Ministry.
On Monday, 1,251 new confirmed infections were reported, bringing the total so far to nearly 117,000.
The current lockdown was launched on Nov. 7 and initially planned to last for three weeks.
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Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov and US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson discussed the Syrian conflict in a telephone call, in particular ways to bring stability to the country's north, the Russian foreign ministry said on Sunday.
They discussed tackling the Syrian crisis under the aegis of the United Nations, as well as a possible agenda for Syrian talks due in the Russian Black sea resort of Sochi, it said in a statement.
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NGC 5808 (ook: NGC 5819) is een balkspiraalstelsel in het sterrenbeeld Kleine Beer. Het hemelobject werd op 16 maart 1785 ontdekt door de Duits-Britse astronoom William Herschel.

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The Gabe Kapler Experience: Day One
Posted on March 30, 2018 March 30, 2018 by Max Brill
Philadelphia Phillies new skipper Gabe Kapler made his debut as a manager yesterday, March 29th, and the reviews were extremely mixed. For starters, it doesn't help his case that the Phillies ended up blowing a 5-0 lead. But I'll get to that in a little bit.
The controversy surrounding the Phillies' first contest started when Kapler released his lineup for Opening Day. Here's the lineup, courtesy of @Phillies on Twitter:
There's one glaring omission here: Odubel Herrera. For those of you who aren't Phillies fans, Herrera was projected to be the everyday centerfielder for this squad entering the season.
Herrera is the owner of a .288/.344/.430 triple-slash (107 wRC+) and has 37 HR and 49 steals in 444 games. Not excellent, but when factoring in his defense (10 outs above average in 2017, t-9th in MLB, and a top-25 rank in OAA in 2016), it more than makes up for his average offense.
Getting the nod in Herrera's place was Aaron Altherr whose career .244/.327/.445 triple-slash is three percent worse than Herrera's. Yes, Altherr was better than Herrera in 2017 (120 wRC+ compared to 100), but Herrera has proven over a larger sample size that he is a better hitter and his defense is streets ahead of Altherr's. Altherr finished with -1 outs above average in 2017, 135th in the big leagues.
Herrera as a lefty also had the platoon advantage over the Braves Opening Day starter, righty Julio Teheran. Altherr is a righty.
Said Herrera of not getting the Opening Day nod, "I don't like the decision. But if they think there are better options, I have to respect that."
Kapler unsurprisingly defended his decision to start Altherr over Herrera: "We thought maybe we really want Odubel running around out there when the fly-ball pitchers come, not that our other guys aren't great, but Odubel is exceptional out there." This is a somewhat defensible decision in that Nola is an extreme groundball pitcher, but this essentially sends the message that defense is not all that important. Herrera was the team's best defensive outfielder last season and it's not as though his offensive output is bad, so fans and writers were right to question Kapler's decision here. This was just the start of things for Kapler, though.
Things went swimmingly for the first five innings of Kapler's managerial debut. The Phillies got on the board with a run in the first and then put up a four-spot in the top of the sixth. Starting pitcher Aaron Nola was rolling with no runs on two hits, one walk, and three strikeouts through five innings. Nola led off the bottom of the sixth innings (the Braves were home) by giving up a double to opposing centerfielder Ender Inciarte, then retired the Braves two-hole hitter Ozzie Albies on a flyout to get the first out of the sixth. Nola had thrown just 68 pitches to that point and with just two more outs would have registered his first quality start of the season.
Nola didn't get the chance to throw another pitch.
Kapler pulled Nola after 68 pitches. Nola's final line: 5.1 innings pitched, three hits, one walk, three strikeouts. He was responsible for the run on second base when he left the game. Kapler replaced his ace with Hoby Milner, the 27-year-old lefty who threw 31.1 innings in 2017 (those have been the only MLB innings of his career so far). Milner wasn't bad in his 31.1 innings last season; he compiled a 1.89 ERA against left-handers, holding them to a .154 batting average against.
On paper, it seemed like the right move. Freddie Freeman was the next hitter up for the Braves and historically, he has owned Nola to the tune of .375/.444/.688 with a home run and two doubles in 18 plate appearances. Despite the fact that Nola had thrown just 68 pitches and likely could have gotten through the end of the order a third time, having Milner on the mound to face Freeman was probably a better matchup on paper (Freeman was 0/5 against Milner in his career prior to his at-bat today). Notice how I keep saying "on paper"?
Yeah. Freeman took Milner yard. 5-2 Phillies.
The more I look at this decision, the more I think Kapler fell victim to a classic case of overmanaging to which rookie managers are prone. Yes, having a lefty in to get the platoon advantage on the Braves' best hitter was a smart idea in theory. But even if Nola did surrender a homer the Phillies would still be up by three runs with their best pitcher on the mound. The on-deck hitter, Nick Markakis, was also a lefty and has also had success against Nola (.294/.368/.647). Worst case scenario: Nola gives up back-to-back bombs. What next?
Then he would have gotten the light-hitting catcher Kurt Suzuki followed by journeyman outfielder Preston Tucker. Suzuki was 1/5 against Nola in his career entering yesterday and Tucker, who owns a career .219 BA, had never faced him. I would have liked Nola's odds.
No matter, because Kapler made the switch. Again, on paper it was defensible; Kapler put a pitcher who has been lights-out against lefties on the mound and the results didn't follow. But with a five-run lead and Nola at just 68 pitches, he probably could have gotten through the rest of the lineup one more time without surrendering the lead.
I know the whole deal about pitchers getting worse the third time they face a lineup but as I said before, back-to-back homers wouldn't have ruined Nola or the Phillies. And if Nola had given up back-to-back homers, at least it would have been far more defensible to have the ace on the mound giving up homers than a 27-year-old with minimal MLB experience.
The Kapler Experience didn't even end there.
The Phillies new skipper went on to use four more pitchers in 3.1 innings after Milner. Kapler has a nine-man bullpen and has been very vocal about going to it early and often, but maybe now he'll be more inclined to let his ace stay out there. The Phillies ended up losing 8-5 on a walk-off homer by Nick Markakis in the bottom of the 9th. Their bullpen was responsible for seven of the eight runs.
I get that Kapler wants to revolutionize managing and that he wants to use all of the pitchers in his nine-man bullpen, but there's no reason to carry nine relievers if they're not going to help the team. Entering the bottom of the 6th inning (up by five runs), the Phillies had a 92% win probability according to Fangraphs. The fact that their bullpen couldn't hold on to a five-run lead with four innings to go should have Kapler re-thinking his nine-man bullpen strategy. Other writers are defending Kapler's decisions today, but I think that sometimes there is more to the game than just what's on paper. Yes, having the platoon advantage is good, but having a more talented pitcher on the bump is usually better.
"I also believe in the long view we have," Kapler said after the loss. "We had an incredible camp with an incredible amount of positive energy. I expect our club to come back tomorrow with that same degree of positive energy. This is going to be one baseball game out of 162 baseball games and I am still extremely confident that we have the pieces in that room to win a ton of them." This quote basically amounts to "trust the process; the results will come." I agree, but if the process is bad, the results are going to be bad. Today was a case of bad process.
Fortunately for Kapler, there are 161 games left in the season for him to prove himself. He just has to hope he keeps his job that long.
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Robert Warja says:
Kapler is in WAY over his head as a manager.
Scott F. says:
By game three he was actually worse. He had better right the ship in a hurry it hope that the Gm loves him


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Nevills and Thomas Bullock had an agreement that Jamestown would be the terminus of the Sierra Railway for at least five years. The agreement was broken by Bullock; litigation was finally resolved in 1901.
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On Sunday, Aug. 22, 1915, three years after the death of William A. Nevills, a fire broke out in the kitchen, probably from a defective kitchen flue. The fire had been burning sometime before flames emerged from the roof and it was discovered. Twenty-five minutes later the Hotel Nevills was virtually leveled.
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I spent a couple of days just making the doors and the screen doors for the house. I think i like the shingles i made out of paper clay, i accidently put to much moss on the shingles, but i like them covered with all the moss. I spent Saturday night with a house full of people for our Saturday dinner party sitting on the couch surrounded by people while we watched movies and laughed, while i worked on the house, surrounded by boxes full of junk and miniatures while i built items and painted and added all the items to the interior.
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I finally got started again on my gnome houses. This one i decided to incoorporate using more balsa wood, since i do love working with it. I dont like the price i have to pay for balsa wood, but this way i can make each window a certain size and get greative. The interior took a couple of weekend just to cut the decorative wood walls and wallpaper. I am planning to use paperclay to cover the front of the house with stones and the roof with shingles. I think i may do a christmas scene inside this one, im in the mood for the holidays. I found the base at the thrift store that is a water fall, which i thought might be cool so i cut it up to work my house onto it. So when its done the water pond will light up the base of the house and the water wheel will turn. My plan is to sit in my living room today watching movies and drinking coffee, and install all the electrical and lights.
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"Etruscan Vase Painters," by Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema, painted in 1871.
A Case For Teaching The Humanities
January 1, 2022 Nicolas Kinosky
"I am Roman because Rome, from the time of the consul Marius and the divine Julius to Theodosius, drafted the first form of my France. I am Roman, because Rome, the Rome of priests and popes, has given eternal solidarity of sentiment, of morals, of language, of worship, to the political work of Roman generals, administrators and judges. By this treasure, which it received from Athens and transmitted that deposit to our Paris, Rome means without question the civilization of humanity. I am Roman, I am human: two identical propositions." These words from the pen of Charles Maurras in Barbares et Romains (Barbarians and Romans) form a vibrant praise not only of Rome, the sweet anaphora, but also of civilization, conveying tradition and transmission and not oblivion and renunciation; perpetuation and not the clean slate; community and not individuality; permanence and not rupture.
For a few days now, the Minister of National Education has seemed inclined to see the teaching of Latin and Greek return to middle and high schools. The Latinist that I am and who used to unveil to students the mysteries of rosa, rosae can only be pleased. However, I am not fooled by these dupes. This kind of announcement is certainly enough to make a whole section of the conservative university and academic intelligentsia of the center-right feel good about the woke and progressive drifts already well underway, with inclusive language, the satanic and non-gendered pronoun "iel" and the convoluted discussions about male domination in language.
We shouldn't imagine that the Macronian renaissance is about to be launched, as other renaissances were in the course of our history. Minister Blanquer is a liberal-conservative, certainly, but does not have the courage to be conservative. Is he the most cynical of the bunch? That is quite possible—he has already sabotaged the BA degree, reduced to a pittance, and is in favor of the digital school and even of the digital kindergarten.
If I were naive, I would believe that this sudden impulse is inspired by the spirit of Lucien Jerphagnon, whose death, ten years ago, we are commemorating and whose birth we are celebrating a hundred years later. Father Jerph was one of those sparkling, light spirits that contrast with the dullness and pomposity of academics. He was inhabited by joy, the kind of joy that delights youth, lifts the heart, sharpens the soul, and makes it rise above all misfortunes, torments, and distresses. The true joy of knowledge. Lucien Jerphagnon was neither of the Left, nor of the Right, nor a Marxist, nor an intellectual at the forefront of research. He was freelance and classical; close to Paul Veyne by originality, Désiré Nisard by taste, Jean Bayet by academic outlook.
His was a strange life: he dressed like a monk and was ordained a priest; then, a passionate lover, turned into a happy husband and ended up as a patriarch. He was in turn a theologian, historian of ideas, translator and philosopher; of high class, of good style, careful to be versatile if he could not manage the modern complexity of reality. Plotinus was his tender companion, with whom one shares a cigarette and a glass of cognac. In love with Augustine, he knew how to render the full measure of this author. A gifted young scholar, who became a professor in Milan in his thirties when others were at the Collège de France in their twilight. Jerpha revived Madauros, a university town in northern Algeria, that supreme and delicate refinement of Romanization, where Augustine, the orator Maximus, Apuleius and Martianus Capella lived. His biography of Julian the Apostate seeks to understand how a philosopher-emperor thought he could return to paganism and make Christianity a footnote in history. An unresolved death by the side of Mosul clinched it—Christianity would triumph.
Jerphagnon was a philosopher of time and banality. Influenced by Vladimir Jankélévitch, he was concerned with understanding the everyday, the alltäglichkeit, as Heidegger politely said, pretext to all the astonishments, typical of the wise. He was a serious discoverer of forgotten authors such as Marcus Varro or Favorinus of Arles; a historian of ideas of high caliber who made us understand, in les Divins Césars (The Divine Caesars), why the emperors of the 2nd century thought they were the sun and who envisaged Rome as the center of a cosmos—all the while writing with amusement and enjoyment a formidable history of Rome.
The young Lucien at the high school in Bordeaux was bored during a mathematics class. On his knees, he flipped through a book containing a few photos of the ruins of Timgad, the Palmyra of Algeria: "That's where I want to live and die," the young lad said to himself. From heaven came down a voice: "Jerphagnon, you will make up two hours!" Then his teacher stuck a future specialist in the Greco-Roman world. "I could never get used to the fact that Rome was dead," confessed the wise old man to José Saramago, "because I loved it since my 6th grade. I lived my life there, faithful to this love of Roman civilization." What a beautiful profession of faith!
If Lucien Jerphagnon is to be made an exemplum, let's not forget that in matters of education, the Left is chopping our legs and causing us many problems. And this is not the end of the story! I hold as proof Vincent Peillon who writes in la Révolution française n'est pas terminée (The French Revolution is not Finished) that it is necessary to reinvent the revolution of the spirit, with the aim of destroying at all costs the Catholic religion and to invent a republican religion. This requires the total conversion of the elites and the young to the sciences and the disappearance of Latin and Greek, languages of the old regime, of Catholicism, of bourgeois domination.
Such is the pinnacle of the freemasons: radical leftists yesterday, social-democrats today; old-fashioned, stuck in the Third Republic, detached from reality and perfectly barbaric, since they claim, shamelessly, not to transmit any more, to cut themselves off from tradition and civilization. They swear only by individualities in the perspective of human rights. Now they promise inclusiveness, flattering the youth, corrupting it with vague ideas about freedom and equality.
In an interview given on TV in 1958, Pagnol felt the problem looming: specialization, the end of the humanities and the science of the technocrat. Specialization, by reducing the fields, reduces the possibilities of linking the fields. To have a rational mind is precisely to see relationships. But if the objects no longer exist, the relationships can no longer be made. It can only result in an impoverishment of thought. National education goes even further, since it has given up training literate people, to preparing only future employees for the labor market. The best will be slug-brain specialists, dumbed down like tabletops, the least good will be cashiers at Franprix, salesmen at Prisunic.
The professors stuff the heads of young people with new ideas, smelling of Pierre Bourdieu, ready-made and passed off as revealed truths, so they themselves can continue to dine at the faculty club during silly seminars on anti-racism in literature, and history colloquiums on North African minorities in the gay Paris of the 1920s. The education of yesteryear has degenerated into a total moron-factory based on the ideological teaching of soft sciences. We are far from the gentleman, far from the humanist, far from the cosmopolitan scholar.
Getting beyond her gavel, Najat Vallaud-Belkacem completed the work, explaining that Latin classes would be for the children of the rich and privileged, that elective classes had to be abolished, and that antiquity had to be made accessible to all by diluting Latin in French courses, thus putting ancient language courses to death in a gentle way; a bit like euthanasia.
Between this caricatured, barbaric Left, in the very sense in which Maurras took it, some have retained the opinion of Raymond Aron in this matter, like Paul Veyne, our dear friend, whose opinion that Latin and Greek should be abolished in secondary school and that a national establishment should be created to train solid scientists and researchers, I do not quite understand. This is a mistake. To dedicate Latin to research is to render it autistic; to leave it in the hands of the colloquium-makers who titillate the coffee-brewers and the editors of scientific articles in obscure journals is to render it mute, invisible, extinct.
It doesn't matter if people are interested in Aristophanes' scholia, or in the placement of an accent on a word in a twelfth-century manuscript in the Vatican library. One does not ask young people to read the Pharsalus in the original, even yours truly would not be able to do so. But to have a good head, made robust by the training in, and knowledge of, Greek tragedy, the functioning of the Athenian city, the Peloponnesian war told by Thucydides, the epic of Alexander the Great, Latin and Greek rhetoric, the work of Cicero, Caesar and Augustus, the personality of Seneca, elegiac poetry, Virgil, the bloody and mannered histories of Tacitus, the orientalism of the emperors, 312 and our world that has become Christian. It is grand to arrive, by love of the rei latinae, to the character of Des Esseintes in À Rebours by Huysmans who, in chapter III, gives us the menu of his likes and dislikes of all literature, criticizing the Chickpea (Cicero), judging the verses of a phony and vain poet, and preferring in the "fin de siècle" Roman authors the rot and the carrion, and at times the supreme refinement of precious stones and topazes.
I do not believe in progressivism and personal development, nor even in the scientific and academic elitism left to the Giscards of thought. I firmly believe in the tradition of inheriting and transmitting, of passing on the work of Hellenic-Christian civilization, from generation to generation. This is achieved through solid and serious learning of civilization, through language and grammar, literature, philosophy and history. It is necessary to go through the pain of declensions and conjugations; to make the effort, as in Pétanque, to have access to the texts, to their style; to reflect on the words and their concepts in order to understand the civilization. Nothing is more precious than to know the feeling of the language, to understand the spirit of an era.
This apparent need for Latin and Greek can take three forms: as a declaration in an electoral context; resistance and head-on opposition to progressivism; or a reconciliation with Wokism. The problem is not so much what Minister Blanquer says or thinks, but what the left-wing ideological machine, the Éducation Nationale, is capable of producing. The teacher conforms to the Houellebecquian image of the tired West. The teachers are mostly mediocre, cowardly and subscribe, under contract, to all the sickness of the modern world: deconstruction, diversity, immigration, inclusion, in the public as well as in the private. If this impulse for antiquity gets mixed up, dare I say it, with this kind of progressive thinking, it would do equally bad things for the mental health of our young people. I can already imagine the titles of the courses: "Migratory Crisis in Roman Gaul;" "the Roman Baths: A Space of Hybridization for Minorities;" "Conspiracy and Fake News: The Catiline Conspiracy;" "Being a Slave and Gay in Ephesus;" "Transidentity in Rome." What a wonderful antiquity!
What we need are professors who are like Hussars in full cavalry at Jena—scholars like Bernard Lugan, like Marc Fumaroli; focused minds concerned with civilization—like Valéry, Thibaudet; intransigent polemicists—like Bloy or Julien Benda. The rest will follow. I began with Maurras, I end with Charles Péguy and Notre Jeunesse (Our Youth): " What this entry was for me, in sixth grade, at Easter— the astonishment, the newness before rosa, rosae, the opening of an entire world, completely different, an altogether new world. That is what needs to be said, but that would get me tangled up in fondness. The grammarian who just the one time, the first, opens the Latin grammar on rosa, rosae will never know on which flowerbed he is opening the child's soul."
Nicolas Kinosky is at the Centres des Analyses des Rhétoriques Religieuses de l'Antiquité. This articles appears through the very kind courtesy La Nef.
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Granville Again (20 June 1986 – August 2003) was an Irish-bred racehorse who competed in National Hunt races and recorded his most important win in the 1993 Champion Hurdle. In his early career he won two of his three National Hunt Flat races and was a successful Novice Hurdler, winning the Dovecote Novices' Hurdle and Top Novices' Hurdle as well as finishing second in the Supreme Novices' Hurdle. In the 1991/1992 season, Granville Again won all five of his completed races including the Champion Hurdle Trial and the Scottish Champion Hurdle but fell when second favourite for the Champion Hurdle. In the following season he was beaten in his first three starts but returned to his best form to defeat a strong field in the Champion Hurdle. He never won again and failed to finish in the first three in his last ten races. He was retired from racing in 1996 and died in 2003 at the age of seventeen.

Background
Granville Again was a chestnut horse with a narrow white blaze, bred in Ireland by Marshall Parkhill. He was sired by Deep Run, an outstanding sire of jumpers whose other progeny included Dawn Run and Golden Cygnet. Granville Again's dam, High Board was not a Thoroughbred, being a descendant of the mare Arab Maid, whose pedigree on her mother's side was uncertain. Arab Maid's other descendants included the dual Cheltenham Gold Cup winner Easter Hero. Two years before Granville Again was foaled, High Board had produced his full brother Morley Street, who won the Champion Hurdle in 1991.

During the early part of his racing career, the gelding was owned by Godfrey Deacon and trained in County Wexford by Henry Cleary.

Racing career

1989/1990 National Hunt season: National Hunt Flat races
Granville Again began his racing career as a four-year-old in early 1990 by competing in National Hunt Flat races (also known as "bumpers"). He made his debut at Leopardstown Racecourse on 19 March when he started at odds of 4/1 and won by six lengths from eight opponents. He followed up at Navan Racecourse on 1 May, starting favourite and winning by eight lengths. Ten days later at Phoenix Park he ended his first season by finishing second to the Dermot Weld-trained favourite General Idea.

1990/1991 National Hunt season: Novice Hurdles
Before the start of the 1990/1991 National Hunt season, Granvile Again was sold to Eric Scarth and sent to be trained in England by Martin Pipe. He competed in Novice Hurdle races, making his debut over obstacles at Chepstow Racecourse on 22 December where he finished second to the five-year-old Upton Park. On 7 January at Wolverhampton Racecourse he recorded his first success over hurdles, winning by twelve lengths in a "canter" at odds of 1/3. He followed up three weeks later at Leicester, starting the 2/9 favourite and winning by eight lengths. The gelding was then moved up in class to contest the Grade II Dovecote Novices' Hurdle at Kempton Park on 23 February and started 11/4 second favourite behind Gaasid, a former flat racer who had won the Kennel Gate Novices' Hurdle at Ascot in November. Ridden by Peter Scudamore, Granville Again overtook Gaasid at the penultimate hurdle and drew away to win by fifteen lengths.

In March 1991, Granville Again made his first appearance at the Cheltenham Festival and started the 2/1 favourite in a field of twenty-one for the Supreme Novices' Hurdle. He was hampered twice during the race, and although he finished strongly, he was unable to catch the Irish-trained Destriero and finished second, beaten four lengths by the winner and three quarters of a length ahead of Gran Alba. On 5 April, Granville Again started the 5/4 favourite for the Grade II Top Novices' Hurdle at the Grand National meeting at Aintree Racecourse. He was restrained by Scudamore in the early stages before moving into contention at half way. He took the lead jumping the final hurdle and won by one and a half lengths from Gran Alba with Young Pokey (later to win the Arkle Challenge Trophy) in third place.

1991/1992 National Hunt season
In the first half of the 1991/1992 season Granville Again contested three legs of the Sport of Kings Challenge, a series of races intended to promote international competition in jump racing. In November he traveled to Ireland and defeated the Paddy Mullins-trained mare Minorettes Girl by twelve lengths at odds of 4/5 before returning to England for the next two races of the series. At Cheltenham on 7 December he beat the Challow Novices' Hurdle winner Tyrone Bridge (also trained by Martin Pipe) by three quarters of a length with the Sun Alliance Novices' Hurdle winner Crystal Spirit twenty lengths back in third. At Chepstow two weeks later he won the final leg of the challenge by beating Tyrone Bridge again, this time by two lengths.

In January, Granville Again was matched against more experienced opponents in the Champion Hurdle Trial at Haydock Park Racecourse. Starting the 1/2 favourite he was restrained by Scudamore in the early stages before overtaking the mare Winnie the Witch on the run-in and won by two lengths. On 10 March 1992, Granville Again started 9/2 second favourite behind his brother Morley Street in the Champion Hurdle at Cheltenham. After being held up towards the rear of the field he made progress towards the lead before falling at the second last hurdle when looking the likely winner. A month after his fall at Cheltenham, Granville Again started 4/7 favourite for the Scottish Champion Hurdle at Ayr Racecourse. Taking the lead at the penultimate hurdle, he accelerated clear in the closing stages to win in "impressive" style from Jinxy Jack and Fidway.

1992/1993 National Hunt season
On 15 November 1992 at Cheltenham, Granville Again and Morley Street met for the second time in the Elite Hurdle in which the other two runners were Tyrone Bridge and the Triumph Hurdle winner Oh So Risky. Granville Again took the lead approaching the final hurdle but was overtaken by his brother on the run in and beaten a length. The Bula Hurdle at the same course attracted an exceptionally strong field for a Grade II race and Granville Again finished second to Halkopous, ahead of Morley Street, Oh So Risky and Kribensis. Granville Again started the 11/10 favourite for the Grade I Christmas Hurdle at Kempton on 26 December. He appeared to have every chance at the second last hurdle, but failed to quicken in the closing stages and finished third to Mighty Mogul and Flown. The other runners included Oh So Risky, Kribensis and Gran Alba in fifth, sixth and seventh places. Following the advice of Michael W. Dickinson, Martin Pipe decided to give the gelding a long break before the Cheltenham Festival.

On 16 March 1993, Granville Again started the 13/2 second favourite for the 64th running of the Champion Hurdle. His opponents included Flown (the 7/2 favourite), Halkopous, Oh So Risky, Morley Street, Jinxy Jack, Vintage Crop, Flakey Dove, Duke of Monmouth (Triumph Hurdle) and Coulton (Mersey Novices' Hurdle). Scudamore settled Granville Again in the middle of the field before beginning to make progress at the third last. He took the lead approaching the final hurdle and was driven out in the closing stages to win by a length from the 50/1 outsider Royal Derbi with Halkopous two and a half lengths away in third. After the race, Pipe said "This horse has plenty of ability but was just a bit off colour earlier in the season. But he battled well today and proved everybody wrong". Scudamore, who had considered switching to ride the stable's other runner Valfinet until Granville Again "sparkled" in a training gallop said "He was going so well that I wondered if anything was there, then I tapped him to make sure and he was immediately on the bridle. Everything kept opening up for me as I was coming down the hill, the way it always seems to when you're going well".

At Aintree in April Granville Again was moved up in distance for the Grade Aintree Hurdle over two and a half miles. He started the 10/11 favourite but was beaten one and a half lengths by Morley Street, with Flown two lengths away in third.

Later career
Granville Again remained in training for another four seasons, but never recovered his best form. In the 1993/1994 season he finished fourth in the Ascot Hurdle before falling in the Bula Hurdle. He finished fourth in the Irish Champion Hurdle and seventh behind Flakey Dove in the 1994 Champion Hurdle before running fifth in the Scottish Champion Hurdle for which he was trained by Len Lungo. In the following season he was trained by Muriel Naughton in Yorkshire and made only two appearances, finishing seventh in the Ascot Hurdle and twelfth behind Alderbrook in the 1995 Champion Hurdle. In early 1996 he was tried over fences and was pulled up in a novice steeplechase at Kempton and was then pulled up again in a handicap hurdle at Aintree. He made his final appearance in the Fighting Fifth Hurdle at Newcastle Racecourse on 30 November 1996 when he started a 100/1 outsider and was pulled up four hurdles from the finish. A veterinary inspection found that he was suffering from an irregular heartbeat.

Retirement
Granville Again was retired from racing after his run at Newcastle in 1996 and spent the remainder of his life at Eric Scarth's property in Northumberland. He died in 2003 at the age of seventeen. Martin Pipe said "Granville was an absolute star... he will be sorely missed and we shall all remember our friend with great affection".

Pedigree

References

1986 racehorse births
2003 racehorse deaths
Cheltenham Festival winners
Racehorses bred in the United Kingdom
Racehorses trained in the United Kingdom
Champion Hurdle winners
Non-Thoroughbred racehorses


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Saul Bass' Advice for Designers: Makes Something Beautiful and Don't Worry About the Money
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It comes as no surprise that the man who created the title sequences for The Man with the Golden Arm, North by Northwest, Psycho, and Vertigo can tell you a thing or two about graphic design. He can even tell his established colleagues a thing or two about graphic design, as seen in the clip above. The man, of course, is Saul Bass, and this footage of him comes from a long-form interview conducted by designer and educator Archie Boston.
In 1986, Boston paid a visit to Bass' studio for a project called 20 Outstanding Los Angeles Designers, shooting a conversation that touched on many subjects, including the eminence's main piece of advice for graphic design students. "Learn to draw," Bass pronounces. "If you don't, you're going to live your life getting around that and trying to compensate for that." Design, as observers of the discipline say, ultimately comes down to communication. According to Bass, aspiring designers fail to master drawing, one of communication's most basic but richest forms, at their peril.
The clip just above goes deeper than giving practical advice, getting down to the very raison d'être of the graphic designer. Bass puts it unambiguously: "Aesthetics are your problem and mine. Nobody else's. The fact of the matter is, I want everything we do — that I do personally, that our office does — to be beautiful. I don't give a damn whether the client understands that that's worth anything, or that the client thinks that it's worth anything, or whether it is worth anything. It's worth it to me. It's the way I want to live my life. I want to make beautiful things, even if nobody cares." Explore our related content section below to get an extensive idea of the fruits of Bass' unbending desire to create beauty. You may or may not find, say, his reimagined American Bell office lady uniforms beautiful, but you can't deny that they come from a mind wholly dedicated to aesthetics — and one that cared not just about the how of creation, but the why as well.
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U.S. Rep. Cindy Axne, D-Iowa, released the first negative ad targeting David Young in Iowa's 3rd Congressional District race.
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DES MOINES, Iowa – U.S. Rep. Cindy Axne, D-Iowa, released the first negative ad in Iowa's 3rd Congressional District race.
The ad, titled "Baggage," is intended to show the difference in voting records between Axne and former U.S. Rep. David Young on protecting health care for Iowans.
"I've never lost sight of what's important to Iowa," Axne tells Iowans in the ad. "I've fought for quality, affordable health care and lower drug prices…I want to lighten the load for all Iowans."
It claims Young voted to end the protection of preexisting conditions.
This ad and her first ad entitled, "Came Through" are running in the Des Moines media market.
Young's campaign manager, Andy Swanson, called the ad misleading.
"Cindy Axne must be feeling desperate about her re-election efforts to proudly start airing her first negative attack ad of the 2020 campaign in August. It is rather unfortunate she's merely rehashing the same falsehoods and misrepresentations she used in 2018 to mislead Iowans on David's record of protecting the health care of Iowans and of those with pre-existing conditions," he said.
"David has fought to protect Iowans with pre-existing conditions and had amendments included in passed legislation to do just that. He will defend the rights of Iowa families to choose the care which is right for them, and not let bureaucrats stand between doctors and patients.
"What Cindy Axne needs to explain is why she supports a public option, which would put 52 of Iowa's 90 rural hospitals at risk of financial ruin and closing, and carries the potential of tax increases on Americans to pay for it. In addition, putting that many more people into the Medicare program designed for seniors could reduce health care access and benefits promised to them," Swanson added.
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Most Christians would agree that the Bible provides a basis for mission. But Christopher Wright boldly maintains that there is a missional basis for the Bible! The entire Bible is generated by and all about God's mission.
"A rich and most impressive work. It is a splendid exposition of a comprehensive biblical theology of mission, and will have to be taken seriously by every student of the subject."
"This marvelous book is all I hoped and expected, and more. It threatens to revolutionize what people usually mean by the missional aspect of the Scriptures. And it also threatens to revolutionize understandings of the Scriptures by its demonstration that they are, through and through, a missional document."
"This comprehensive study by a seasoned missiologist and Old Testament ethicist demonstrates that the entire Scripture is consistent in its message and thrust. I have waited years for a book like this!"
"Wright has truly laid a cornerstone in the edifice of mission, one on which a biblical theology of mission would be wise to build."


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The Television Personalities – Beautiful Despair review
When it comes to London's musical history my manor, Stoke Newington, really merits little more than a footnote. Sure us N16ers can claim Marc Bolan and a quite a few of the original 60s Mods. Also Malcolm McLaren allegedly hatched his great idea for punk in the library and in Animals That Swim we boasted perhaps the most underrated band of the late 90s. But that's fairly slim pickings compared with say Camden or Islington.
Nevertheless in my own parallel pop universe N16 does boast one massive musical landmark, and that is it was the birthplace of an album from one of my favourite bands of the 80s – the Television Personalities.
Never issued at the time, to be honest it was perhaps little more than a series of demos, Beautiful Despair has finally secured a release on CD and lovely white marbled vinyl via Fire Records.
The tracks that comprise the album were recorded in 1990/91just the other (east) side of the High Street in 1990. N16 was a very different place then. Long before the coffee shops, and investor types rocked up, you could still find somewhere to squat. In fact the Glading Terrace flat where the album was recorded was demolished not so long after. I like to think too that the Jowe Head's abode was almost as ramshackle as this music, for this is the TVPs as their most stripped back – just Dan, Jowe and a four track machine.
The album marked a return to the studio after a two year hiatus. The previous TVPs album Privilege, was recorded a couple of years before but only sneaked out in 1990. With that masterpiece (it is their Queen Is Dead) in the bag Dan began to explore some new musical avenues
Clearly in a fragile state of mind Tracey had written a suite of songs that would ultimately comprise the band's 1992 album – and the record some fans claims is their masterpiece – Closer to God. Personally I never quite connected with that album in the way that perhaps I should do and in many ways I prefer the sketchier version of the tunes laid down here.
The shambolic take on what would become a key track on Closer to God, Hard Luck Story Number 39, opens the proceedings in style. It is a much lighter and fluffier version than the 'realised' take that is on Closer to God. The later take has a unwelcome whiff of grunge (the TVPs supported Nirvana and Kurt Cobain was a huge fan of the band) about it which undermines what I think is a classic tune. Conversely track three How Does It Feel To Be Loved is much more sinister and dark take on a song that would be a later release.
Other highlights include Love Is A Four Letter Word, a slice of indie bubblegum that apparently was a live favourite, and the title track, one of those bleak melancholic melodies that Dan has always been amazing at. Flip to side two and you get a version of Goodnight Mr Spaceman that's a lot less cheesy than the version on Closer To God, and a stripped down take of one of that album's finest tunes Honey For The Bears. Its seems a tad slower and to the ears recalls The Pastels or an early incarnation of The BMX Bandits – bands who were very clearly influenced by the TVPs.
My favourite track might just be I Like That In Girl, a short song with comedy vocals that could easily have graced Privilege.
If Closer to God not never been issued and the band had split after these recordings, then I reckon that Beautiful Despair would have been hailed as a minor classic, a last rattly gasp from one of the seminal British post punk bands. Given the lightness of the melodies and the painful lyrics I am not sure an album has ever been more aptly named.
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Two safeguards for communities' rights to resources can help implement the Nagoya Protocol, argues biodiversity specialist Krystyna Swiderska.
As the recent UN Conference on Sustainable Development (Rio+20) showed, intergovernmental negotiations on the environment and development can be slow processes that lack ambition. But that is nothing new.
One of the outcomes of the original Rio Earth Summit in 1992 was the UN Convention on Biological Diversity. It was hailed at the time as a major step in promoting the conservation and wise use of the Earth's living resources.
But it has taken 18 years for governments to establish a system for achieving one of its three goals: the fair and equitable sharing of benefits that arise from genetic resources, such as when companies develop commercial medicines from plants or other life-forms.
The result, agreed in Japan in 2010, was the legally-binding Nagoya Protocol on access to genetic resources and benefit-sharing. The hope is that when it enters into force in a year or so, it will create new incentives for countries to protect their natural capital while enabling businesses to develop useful new products from biological resources in a sustainable way.
Implementing this agreement will be the next challenge. Community protocols and free, prior informed consent can be powerful tools for putting the Nagoya Protocol into practice — linking economic, social and ecological objectives, while supporting marginalised communities as they defend their rights to land and resources.
The Nagoya Protocol is mainly concerned with benefit-sharing between states. But it includes two potential safeguards for protecting the rights of indigenous peoples and local communities. They are often the best custodians of nature in rural areas, and their traditional knowledge can be important in identifying new products.
First, it requires countries to support the development of community protocols. These are charters of rules and responsibilities in which communities can set out their procedures for access and benefit-sharing, and their legally-recognised and customary rights to natural resources and land.
Second, it requires countries to take measures to ensure that communities can control access to their traditional knowledge by giving their free, prior informed consent. This means that communities decide whether to permit use of their knowledge or genetic resources, and on what terms.
For example, biocultural community protocols developed by farmers in Peru's Potato Park have helped to conserve traditional crops and share the benefits from their use equitably among six communities. Healers in Bushbuckbridge, South Africa, have done the same to conserve medicinal plants, gain access to plants in a protected area, and negotiate more effectively with a cosmetics company.
In northern Ghana, a community protocol resulted in mining being postponed to protect religiously significant areas of forest and streams, known as sacred groves. And in India, Kenya and Pakistan, pastoralists are using protocols to help secure their assets and get more recognition for their role in biodiversity conservation.
A dialogue between the Convention on Biological Diversity secretariat and stakeholders, held in Montpellier, France on 24 May 2012, concluded that community protocols have an important role to play in implementing the Nagoya Protocol.
They can protect communities from exploitation, channel benefits to the local level to incentivise conservation, and enhance legal certainty and clarity for both users and providers of genetic resources. But they can also help create equitable partnerships between communities and other groups, such as scientific organisations or companies that seek to develop new products based on natural resources.
The case studies show that community protocols must start from the bottom-up, secure wide participation, and receive flexible support to maximise their potential to defend rights, conserve biodiversity and reduce poverty.
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At this week's meeting of the Inter-governmental Committee of the Nagoya Protocol, negotiators should urge governments to recognise the critical role that community protocols can play at a local level.
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Rio+20 was a reminder that while politicians falter, the real action and leadership comes at a local level. To make a major outcome of the original Earth Summit work in practice, governments need to make these simple changes to allow communities to support and benefit from the conservation objectives their states committed to 20 years ago.


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