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Distortions in the New Aesthetic: A studio visit with Cassandra Zook
Written by Kristopher Wright | info@odessadenver.com
Cassandra Zook is an emerging painter, photographer, and social justice advocate. Born in a small town in Kansas, Cassie now lives and works in Denver, Colorado where she recently received her BFA from the Rocky Mountain College of Art and Design.
Cassie first fell in love with the process of making art and its unique ability to address social issues in high school. After exhibiting her work locally and at Kansas University, the scope of her practice began to shift.
"…for me, it became so much less about the heavy social-political kind of activism, and more about how art can foster an ongoing dialogue…"
Zook's current body of work investigates the physicality of painting as well as the representation of the human body throughout art history. A self-proclaimed artist of "The New Aesthetic", she utilizes glitch programming to dismantle the once idealized human figures of Neo-Classical and Greco-Roman sculpture.
"This is a conversation about 'where did this imagery come from?', 'what have we been trained to see?', and what does it mean now?…"
Cassie's paintings, many of which are larger than life, are beginning to ignite this dialogue. Bodies are censored, rearranged, recolored, and diffused. Where fluid drapery of Neo-Classic sculpture once demanded the viewer's admiration and attention, pixelated stripes of foreign color now take center stage. Faces are broken, arms have lost their hands, twisting torsos have been denied their aesthetic romanticism.
One could argue that, in this digital age, the human body is more free than ever of the confines of tradition and the ideal, but it could also be said that this digital age of filtration is helping to accelerate this phenomenon.
One thing is certain. In contemporary life, a time when we have so much ability to cut, copy, clip, and paste ourselves as we see fit, Cassie's work wrestles with one of the great questions known to humanity: "does the idealism of the human body empower or imprison?" Perhaps it's simply a matter of who's doing the editing.
Cassie's studio is currently located at 40 W studios, in Lakewood, Co. Learn more about Cassie here , and follow her work on Instagram here.
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I decided that I'm going to learn the Shakespearean plays.
We have an enormous quantity of good productions, relative to anybody ever. This may be quibbled vis-a-vis his contemporaries, but it's a quibble.
We have more productions more available than at any time in history.
Some call Shakespeare the greatest writer — and I can hear it, partly. But it's 400 years old. I'd have to learn the language.
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The following criminal complaints have been filed in the Tucker County Magistrate office:
Jeanie Long, of Parsons, was charged with one count of Truancy. According to the complaint the defendant did fail to cause her child to regularly attend Tucker Valley Elementary Middle School. The student has accumulated 15 full unexcused days. Records were obtained from the West Virginia Educational Information System and administrators at Tucker Valley Elementary Middle School.
Kenan Hatem Hossino, was charged with one count of DUI First Offense. The complaint states that on Friday, Dec. 9 at approximately 4:56 p.m. Trooper C.A. Hawkins was dispatched via Tucker County 911 to a one vehicle MVC located at the intersection of Tuscan Ridge Rd. and Appalachian Highway.
At the time of arrival the officer made contact with the driver, identified as the defendant, and observed the smell of alcohol on his breath.
The defendant submitted to field sobriety tests of which he failed. At this time the officer conducted a preliminary breath test on the defendant but was unable to obtain a reading.
The defendant was arrested for driving under the influence of alcohol and transported to the Parsons Police Detachment for further breath testing.
Hossino was read the West Virginia Implied Consent and signed it. The 20 minute waiting period was observed before beginning the breath test. At this time Trooper Hawkins conducted a breath test and the results were a BAC of .080. At this time he was transported to the West Virginia State Police Parsons Detachment to be processed via Live Scan.
Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, Thomas, 120×120 Lot 657 Brown St. to Clayton P. Gremillion, $0.
Janet E. Barrett, Dry Fork, Unit E3 Week 35 to Land of Canaan Home Owners Association Inc., $495.
Alice Malone Scott, Davis District, Tract 6 Canaan Loop to Mitchell Zemel and Tammy Seiler, $175,000.
Lisette Popish and David Patrick Popish, Davis Corporation, Lots 572 and 573 to David Patrick Popish, $0.
Helena Mock Administrator of The Estate of Anita White, Dry Fork, Unit C5 Week 51 to Land of Canaan Home Owners Association, Inc., $0.
Helena Mock Administrator of The Estate of Anita White, Dry Fork, Unit E3 Week 51 to Land of Canaan Home Owners Association, Inc., $0.
Shavers Fork Properties LLC, Parsons, All of Lots 14 and 15 Davis Addition to Phillip D. Claxton and Jenny E. Claxton, $259,900.
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byQurat-ul-anne Sikander
With Years & Years' sophomore studio album, Palo Santo, releasing in just a few months on July 6, the band have been lavishing their fans with teasers of the eventual release. This isn't just limited to singles and music videos, as Years & Years have been posting cryptic hints detailing the inner world of the album on Instagram.
It creates a certain kind of illusion that's only been emulated by a few artists previously. One such band was My Chemical Romance, who constantly created different worlds for their albums to reside inside, with their last album, Danger Days, featuring a psychedelic post-apocalyptic world.
The lead single off of Palo Santo, "Sanctify", clearly illustrated a dystopian society inhabited by androids. This journey continues in their new single, "If You're Over Me," which premiered only a few days ago.
Watch the music video below:
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Tillie Cole needs to write ordinary book soon or we're going to run out of accolades to bestow on this phenomenally talented author however if Reap is anything to go by, we can't see that happening any time soon because Reap delivered everything we had hoped for in this series. What a powerfully moving story this was.
"Love?" he asked. His green eyes searched mine as if he could find the answer in their depths.
We constantly find ourselves asking…'is there nothing this woman can't do?' There are times when it's difficult to reconcile Tillie Cole to the author we first discovered when we read, laughed and loved Eternally North, but it seems no matter how different her story, how much she evolves as an author or how many times she steps out of her comfort zone, Tillie always manages to stamp her unique flair and extraordinary talent on her stories….her 'Tillie'isms ' leave us in no doubt that we're completely captivated by her exceptional ability to tell a bloody remarkable story.
No matter if she's making us laugh, cringe, gasp, sob, wince or swoon…..Tillie Cole utterly bewitches us with her words and in Reap, Tillie has once again delivered a thought provoking and heartbreaking story, told with raw passion and unrestrained emotions that left us reeling at times as two people, desperately in love, are caught in the crossfire of the Kostava and Tostaia grudge that threatens to tear them apart. It's a story that reached into our hearts and never let go.
The tenderness, kindness and love Talia bestowed on our beautiful broken Zaal, a man who had known nothing but cruelty, pain and darkness will tear at your soul and like us, leave you desperately wanting the next book as Kisa, Luka, Talia and Zaal's story continues. Don't miss this one guys!
Raised as a prototype for the Georgian Bratva's obedience drug, 221 fails to think, act or live for himself; his master's perfectly-crafted killing puppet. Standing at six foot six, weighing two-hundred and fifty pounds, and unrivaled in to-the-death combat, 221 successfully secures business for the Georgian Mafiya Boss of NYC, in the dark world of the criminal underground.
Talia Tolstaia dreams to break from the heavy clutches of Bratva life. She dreams of another life—away from the stifling leash of her Russian Bratva Boss father and from the brutality of her work at The Dungeon—her criminal family's underground death match enterprise. But when she stumbles upon her family's captive, who is more monster than man, she starts to see the man underneath. A powerful, beautiful, damaged man whose heart calls to hers.


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Hello all! For the fun of it, I decided to join in on this year's Knitting and Crochet Blog Week. You can find the details (as well as some really cute patterns) at Eskimimi Makes!
A couple years ago when the first Despicable Me came out, I fell madly in love with the minions. They are so cute! I've told my family on several occasions that I would watch a whole movie, 2 hours or longer, of just minion antics. Obsessive? Probably. Then a couple months ago, I was so excited to find out they're releasing a sequel! I can't wait to see it!
Ugly, wonky swatch. Can you tell which end mom started?
As most people around me know, I hesitate at the word "crochet". All I picture are granny-square afghans for miles. Recently, though, I visited my mom and spotted her working on a baby blanket. There was nothing "granny square" about this blanket. It was soft, elegant, and enchanting looking. Dare I say, it almost looked like Emma's blanket from the ABC show Once Upon a Time.


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Crabtree Barn
Spacious converted barn in peaceful countryside in Scammonden. Open-plan. Off-road parking. Private garden. Woodburner. Table tennis room. 2 double...
Spacious converted barn in peaceful countryside in Scammonden. Open-plan. Off-road parking. Private garden. Woodburner. Table tennis room. 2 double ensuite rooms, sleeps 4+infant. Ripponden 3 miles, Sowerby Bridge 5 miles. Sorry no pets.
Oatsroyd Mill sits high above the Calder Valley, with spectacular views of the beautiful Pennine countryside. Located close to the Pennine Towns of...
Oatsroyd Mill sits high above the Calder Valley, with spectacular views of the beautiful Pennine countryside. Located close to the Pennine Towns of Hebden Bridge and Haworth, the Mill is ideally situated to explore and enjoy these popular tourist areas. Halifax, with the famous Piece Hall and Eureka! The National Children's Museum is also only 15 minutes away by car. The Pennine Way passes close by the site and the beautiful Hardcastle Crags in Hebden Bridge makes the Mill an ideal base for walkers.
The Lodge at Hardcastle Crags
This cosy Victorian cottage, at the entrance to the Hardcastle Crags estate, has wooded valley views. Nestle in your own little patch of harmony...
This cosy Victorian cottage, at the entrance to the Hardcastle Crags estate, has wooded valley views. Nestle in your own little patch of harmony in this quaint two-bedroom Victorian cottage, encompassed by its own garden. You'll be at the pillared entrance to the Hardcastle Crags estate with its wooded valley unfolding before you. From here you'll have a network of walking trails that pass tumbling waterfalls, rocky streams and otherworldly rock formations that rise from the dense woodlands. There's also a former mill at its heart which is now a visitor centre. And if you have dogs, there's no need to leave them behind as The Lodge can cater for two pups. I'm sure they'll love a snuggle by the log-burner after a long day of walking. The superb50 mile walking route The Calderdale Way, which circles the borough, runs closely past the Lodge. From here, the market town of Hebden Bridge is only two miles away and the city of Halifax is just 10 miles to the east. You're also about an hours' drive from the Yorkshire Dales which is to the north. We are pet friendly - 2 dogs are welcome to stay at The Lodge. We have an Electric Vehicle (EV) Charging Point: 1 x 7kW 32A Type 2 Mennekes, ZeroNet.
Lee Royd
Lee Royd is a traditional Yorkshire stone house situated on the new Hebden Bridge Loop on the Pennine Way: Perfect for walkers and cyclists. Slee...
Lee Royd is a traditional Yorkshire stone house situated on the new Hebden Bridge Loop on the Pennine Way: Perfect for walkers and cyclists. Sleeps 6 (1 double, 2 twins). Stunning south-facing views with veranda; also wooden floors and a wood-burning stove. Free wifi, lockable bicycle cellar, washing machine, dishwasher, TV, DVD player and small garden with sitting out area and furniture. Real ale pub, restaurant and supermarket 200 yards. We are Walker and Cyclist friendly. Sorry, no pets allowed.
Delf Nook
Delf Nook is a newly renovated property, set in woodland in the beautiful Yorkshire countryside, sleeping up to 4. We also welcome up to two well b...
Delf Nook is a newly renovated property, set in woodland in the beautiful Yorkshire countryside, sleeping up to 4. We also welcome up to two well behaved dogs. Delf Nook has its own outdoor seating area with gas BBQ. Inside is a well equipped kitchen with a dishwasher, shower room with large walk-in shower, bedroom with king size bed and flat screen tv and lounge area with dining table and large flat screen tv. Wi fi is available throughout and Netflix on both televisions free of charge. Delf Nook has its own private parking area and seating area. Access to the main garden and our private woodland is also available. We are happy to offer a laundry service if required. We are present on site for most of the time but can always be reached via mobile phone. We like to offer our guests a welcome gift on arrival. Basics, such as tea, coffee, sugar and cooking oil are also provided.
Hebden Bridge Hostel
"A very special place… wonderful hosts... a jewel in the Pennines" Hebden Bridge Hostel (aka Mama Weirdigans) is located in a former concert hal...
"A very special place… wonderful hosts... a jewel in the Pennines" Hebden Bridge Hostel (aka Mama Weirdigans) is located in a former concert hall adjacent to a Grade II listed Baptist Chapel. The hostel provides friendly, comfortable accommodation in four-bed dorms, a 6 -bed bunk room and in private rooms for 2 to 4 people. Every room has its own toilet, shower and wash basin and a light breakfast is provided. Nestled into woodland and yet only a short walk from the town centre, river and canal; the hostel makes a good base for hiking, sight-seeing, shopping or experiencing Hebden's vibrant music and arts scene. Handy for the Pennine way, Calderdale Way and Hebden - Haworth walks.
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Robin Hood Cottage
Robin Hood cottage is a small 18th century farmer's cottage with mullion windows, beams and a cosy real fire. It provides the perfect place for a r...
Robin Hood cottage is a small 18th century farmer's cottage with mullion windows, beams and a cosy real fire. It provides the perfect place for a relaxing break in the picturesque countryside of West Yorkshire. Close to the Pennine Way footpath and stunning moorland scenery, the cottage is a great place for walkers, cyclists or wildlife enthusiasts. It is a short drive from Hebden Bridge, 'Bronte Country' and the area where 'Last Of The Summer Wine' is filmed. It is also a good centre from which to visit the Yorkshire Dales and North Yorkshire Moors. Available all year round - for three-day winter warmers or week-long holiday lets. All duvets, bed linen and towels are provided. The cottage is centrally heated by the solid fuel burning stove. Wood and coal are included in the price. Roadside parking is close at hand. Sorry, the cottage is non-smoking and does not allow pets.
Widdop Gate Barn
A carefully-restored retreat with original features with views of rolling hills and the Hardcastle Crags valley. A few years ago this Grade II l...
A carefully-restored retreat with original features with views of rolling hills and the Hardcastle Crags valley. A few years ago this Grade II listed barn was nothing but a romantic ruin. Now, after a careful restoration, it's been converted into a two-bedroom rural retreat that oozes rustic charm. Inside you'll find intriguing original features from its agricultural past. Timber cow stalls form the kitchen area and original high stone walls are met by the timber frame ceiling. There's a cosy sitting room complete with wooden floors and a log-burner and a spacious galleried bedroom upstairs. Upon arriving at Widdop Gate Barn you'll be greeted with sweeping views of rolling hills and the wooded valley of Hardcastle Crags. From here 15 miles of footpaths unfold through unspoilt woodland, where waterfalls tumble into rocky steams. The market town of Hebden Bridge is only two miles away and the city of Halifax is 10 miles to the east. You're also about an hours' drive from the Yorkshire Dales which is to the north. We have an Electric Vehicle (EV) Charging Point: 1 x 7kW 32A Type 2 Mennekes, ZeroNet
Garnett B&B
Garnett Bed & Breakfast is situated in the heart of Hebden Bridge, an historic market town in the foothills of the Pennines. The property is a c...
Garnett Bed & Breakfast is situated in the heart of Hebden Bridge, an historic market town in the foothills of the Pennines. The property is a characterful and spacious grade II listed building; one of the originals on Market Street, which is the main road through Hebden Bridge. Garnett B&B has 2 beautiful bedrooms each with a double bed and one has a double bed settee; ideal for twin bedded accommodation. Each room has TV/DVD, tea & coffee making facilities, toiletries, towels, hair dryer, dressing gowns and free WiFi. The luxury bathroom is for the sole use of the Calder Room; the Pennine Room is en-suite. Permit car parking is available and there's secure storage available for bikes etc.
Cherry Tree Farm
Cherry Tree Farm is a quiet, family friendly site with fabulous views only two minutes away from the local village. We are situated 5 minutes fr...
Cherry Tree Farm is a quiet, family friendly site with fabulous views only two minutes away from the local village. We are situated 5 minutes from Junction 24 of the M62 motorway. Our village (2mins away) has butchers, bakers, takeaways, launderette, calor gas, etc. There is free fishing nearby (trout)and many beautiful walks. There are good quality pubs and restaurants locally and we have a bus stop at the farm entrance with buses direct to Huddersfield and Halifax. Touring & Camping: 20 pitches, 40 bedspaces
Little Nook Farm
Little Nook Caravan Club site is located just a few hundred metres from The Calderdale Way walking route, offering spectacular views over the Calde...
Little Nook Caravan Club site is located just a few hundred metres from The Calderdale Way walking route, offering spectacular views over the Calder Valley. We offer 5 pitches, with electrical hook up, shower & toilet facilities. Caravan Club members only.
The Crossroads Inn
Set high on the Pennine moors between Halifax and Hebden Bridge, the Cross Roads is an ideal base for exploring the magnificent surrounding country...
Set high on the Pennine moors between Halifax and Hebden Bridge, the Cross Roads is an ideal base for exploring the magnificent surrounding countryside. Each of our six room has an en-suite bathroom, with bath, toilet and shower. The standard coffee making facilities are all included in the rooms with Flat screen TV's and Free Wifi. What we don't charge for is the amazing views from the rooms.
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The Calderdale Way
A superb way to go walking in Calderdale - The Calderdale Way is a 50 mile (80 km) walk exploring the...
A superb way to go walking in Calderdale - The Calderdale Way is a 50 mile (80 km) walk exploring the hills, moors and valleys of Calderdale that recently celebrated its 40th anniversary.
It is an 'up and down' journey with few level sections. However, the higher levels provide some exceptionally fine panoramic views. The main and link routes to the valley bottom are designed so that they can be completed in short stages.
The Calderdale Way encircles Halifax, Hebden Bridge and Todmorden, following old packhorse ways across the open gritstone hillsides with sections of traditional stone causeway, passing through hillside villages and old mill towns on the banks of the River Calder.
There are numerous link paths which connect the Calderdale Way to the valley floor. There are medieval settlements at Lumbutts and Mankinholes, and Withens Gate, where the Pennine Way crosses. A short diversion along the Pennine Way takes in the popular walk to the 100ft monument, Stoodley Pike.
The full length of the route is 51.39 miles, with a total climb of 22 metres at a climb rate of 43 metres per mile. This makes a flat equivalent distance of 57.49 miles.
The long period of hot weather has meant there is an increased risk of moorland fires in Calderdale. Please take care when out and about in moorlands around Calderdale and West Yorkshire. You can find more advice here. The burning of moorland is not a victimless crime. If you see anything suspicious report it to crimestoppers 0800 555111. #moorlandfires @WestYorksPolice @West_Yorks_FRS
Twenty Seven Steps
Twenty Seven Steps is a delightful two bedroomed, south-facing house, situated in the very heart of Hebden Bridge. We are in the middle of a cha...
Twenty Seven Steps is a delightful two bedroomed, south-facing house, situated in the very heart of Hebden Bridge. We are in the middle of a charming cul-de-sac which is literally twenty seven steps away from the hubbub of Hebden's lively cosmopolitan atmosphere. Enjoying a slightly elevated and secluded position so it's very peaceful too, it's the best of both worlds. Our recently fully refurbished underdwelling (or upstairs/downstairs house) has a small patio to the front, enabling you to enjoy the stunning panoramic views of both the town and The Calder Valley. Perfect for a glass of wine at the end of an eventful day. We can offer you private on-street parking.
Hare and Hounds Inn
The Hare and Hounds, known locally as the Lane Ends, has five bedrooms, all with en suite facilities, and complementary toiletries. All rooms have ...
The Hare and Hounds, known locally as the Lane Ends, has five bedrooms, all with en suite facilities, and complementary toiletries. All rooms have remote control television, tea and coffee making facilities. The Inn sits 900 feet above sea level on the edge of the Calderdale Way, with panoramic views from every window. We are in the ideal location for your stay within the Pennines.
Old Town Hall Cottage
Old Town Hall Cottage is a comfortably appointed early 17th Century cottage in the historic hamlet of Old Town which was mentioned in the Doomsday ...
Old Town Hall Cottage is a comfortably appointed early 17th Century cottage in the historic hamlet of Old Town which was mentioned in the Doomsday Book. The cottage is only one mile from the tourist township of Hebden Bridge. The cottage was built around 1610 and was originally part of Old Town Hall - the principal dwelling house in Old Town. The cottage has been recently renovated by the current owners, which has revealed many original features such as the original stone fireplace, mullion windows and lovely oak beams. The accommodation comprises: Entrance porch with original stonework, leading into: Lounge of generous proportions (16ft square), which is comfortably furnished and includes TV, DVD player, music system, including tape, CD and radio. A selection of books, CD's and DVD's are available within the cottage for guest use. The original stone fireplace now houses a wood burning stove (gas fuelled). There are also exposed stone mullion windows and original oak beams. The lounge is fully carpeted, has fully co-ordinated soft furnishings and is tastefully decorated. Dining kitchen - fully fitted with electric cooker, microwave, fridge freezer and washing machine. Ample cupboard and storage space, dining table and chairs with terracotta tiled floor. Feature open staircase leading from the lounge to a small landing area. Bathroom with three piece suite, shower over the bath, large airing cupboard, tiled floor, pleasant and secluded outlook over the surrounding countryside. Double bedroom - with double divan bed, dressing table and mirror ample fitted wardrobes and drawer space. Hairdryer also provided. Tastefully decorated with co-ordinated bedding and soft furnishings. Mullion window with countryside views, exposed stonework and original oak beam. Bedroom 2 - with adult bunk beds and chest of drawers. All services, linen and towels are included in the hire charge. Fresh fruit, flowers and a welcome pack provided (tea, coffee, sugar, milk, bread, butter, fruit juice and locally produced biscuits). High chair and travel cot available on request. Private parking for two cars alongside the cottage garden and small patio area with garden furniture and BBQ. The village of Old Town has two public houses selling traditional beers and providing home cooked pub food; both are within 0.5 miles of the cottage. Set in spectacular scenery, the cottage is an excellent base for walking, cycling and is only a 15 minute drive away from historic Haworth, the home of the Brontes, and the Keighley and Worth Valley Steam Railway.
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NEW LIGHT, SOURCES OF
(Investigator 89, 2003 March)
The Jehovah's Witness (JW) Leaders teach that:
Christians turn to Jehovah and his Word while rejecting as foolishness "the wisdom of this world".
(w1996 2/1 22-23)
However, Bible dictionaries and encyclopedias may be used with care by accepting only material that conforms to "Theocratic Bible helps":
Non-Theocratic references…are not to be given the weight or consideration or confidence as are the Theocratic Bible helps published by the Society…
This means that the first reference works that the Theocratic minister will consult will be Theocratic ones, the Watchtower publications.
(Theocratic Aid to Kingdom Publishers 1945, 220, 223)
The Society's publications have gleaned from these other sources the best they have to offer, and in this compiling work Jehovah's spirit has directed those of his "faithful and wise servant" body. Hence, the Watchtower Bible helps are the best available today. (Ibid 227)
Besides declaring their own publications "the best" the JW Leaders have also, since the 1870s, heaped thousands of criticisms upon "apostate Christendom" for its alleged "false teachings".
It is strange, therefore, that JW leaders often use "apostate" works to support, or give credibility to, their own doctrines! It is even stranger that "apostates of Christendom" often had correct understanding long before the "best Bible helps", those of the Watchtower Society, were available and got things wrong!
For example, when the Governing Body changed the interpretation of "this generation" (w1995 11/1) they cited four scholars for support – Bauer, Vine, Thayer and Kittle.
Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament, Walter Bauer (1877-1960).
Bauer was a German lexicographer. Taught at Gottingen 1916 to l945.
Vine's Expository Dictionary of New Testament Words, W E Vine.
William E Vine (1873-1949) opposed Jehovah's Witnesses and called their doctrine of conditional salvation and the denial of the Trinity "heresies". Yet Insight On The Scriptures Volumes 1 & 2 (1988) refer to Vine for support some 52 times!
Vine was a Greek scholar, educator, editor, pastor and author, educated at University College of Wales. He obtained a BA and MA in "Ancient Classics" from University of London and was pastor at Manvers Hall Church in Bath for 40 years. He celebrated Christmas, believed in Hell and believed that Christ is God and that all believers should partake of the Lord's Supper – beliefs that JWs reject.
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament (1889).
Joseph Henry Thayer (1828-1901) was an American New Testament lexicographer, ordained pastor in the Congregational Church, professor of sacred literature in Andover Theological Seminary (1864-1882 and lecturer at Harvard Divinity School (1883-1901).
The Theological Dictionary of the New Testament (1964). Edited by Gerhard Kittle.
Gerhard Kittle (1888-1948) was a German Biblical scholar and university professor of New Testament.
Furthermore Insight On The Scriptures Volume 1, p. 440, cites Strong and Robinson for support:
Strong's Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890).
James Strong (1822-1894) was a Methodist biblical scholar, educator and a member of the Anglo-American Bible Revision Committee.
B Edward Robinson's Greek and English Lexicon.
B E Robinson (1794-1863) was an American biblical scholar.
The above authorities are all dead, were college educated in theology including Greek and Hebrew by "apostate Christendom", and knew nothing of numerous later doctrines JWs called "Bible truth" in books that were supposedly "the best available" compiled with direction of "Jehovah's spirit".
Yet, these men who were schooled by "apostate Christendom" in the "wisdom of this world" are authorities for "new light"!
[The above is based on: New Light From Old Books And Dead Opposers, 1996, Busselman, G]


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Mark J. Amirault and Thaddeus M. Pajak CSP, ALCM,
The surveying profession has always held an inherent risk of injury. Whether a project involves cutting a line, moving a manhole cover or traversing a ridge, there are countless ways to get hurt. While some firms might consider accident avoidance to be mainly a matter of luck, history and research show that relying on luck is not a good strategy for protecting surveyors in the field. Instead, avoiding work-related injuries requires an understanding of the inherent risks and a proactive approach that stresses safety.
The concept is simple: Injuries lead to less available work hours from experienced employees, which decreases a firm's overall productivity and increases the cost of workers' compensation insurance. Conversely, organizations with an established safety culture will ultimately outperform their more "reckless" counterparts, especially as the marketplace becomes more competitive. By understanding accident trends, causes and strategies for avoidance, all surveying firms--regardless of size--can incorporate improved safety procedures in their day-to-day activities.
Figure 1. Land surveyors workers' compensation claims by cause of accident (percent of costs by claim amount). Data courtesy of Fireman's Fund Insurance Co.
Accident Trends
According to the Fireman's Fund Insurance Co., 800 workers' compensation claims were filed by large and small surveying firms between 2005 and 2008. A careful review of these claims reveals few surprises. As shown in Figure 1, most of the reported incidents involved slip, trip and fall accidents; injuries from falling or flying objects; and vehicle-related accidents. Figure 2 shows the number of accidents by cause; some of these accidents could have been much worse. These claims represent millions of dollars in total costs, and many of them could have been avoided by following recommended safety guidelines.Consider the following claims:
• Two employees are walking in the field and carrying on an in-depth conversation. One employee is focused on the conversation, loses his balance and falls into a crevice. His injuries take a year to heal and cost nearly $125,000 in workers' compensation benefits.
• Another field crew is out in the forest pushing back low-lying tree branches as they move through the site. The leader is quick enough to duck a swinging branch, but it strikes the man behind him in the eye. This accident results in the loss of the employee's eye and $150,000 in workers' compensation benefits.
Both of these accidents illustrate the importance of conducting pre-work site inspections to understand potential hazards before beginning a surveying project and then emphasizing safe practices in the field. Surveyors should be aware of any potential hazards in the terrain, and any site with a substantial amount of trees and brush should be designated as a mandatory safety-glasses site.
Table 1. Average claim costs based on the reporting turnaround time.
Putting Safety into Practice
Creating a safety-oriented corporate culture requires leadership from the top of an organization. Owners and managers should be proactive in providing safety training for employees--both before they start on the job and at regular intervals--and they should routinely review the safety guidelines with all employees. A comprehensive safety manual should be developed and strictly enforced. Additionally, all crew chiefs should understand accident trends and safety guidelines since they are responsible for ensuring that proper safety procedures are implemented in the field. Following are some questions to consider:
• Do the crew chiefs know how to make safety observations and inspect the site for potential hazards? Are they held accountable for making these inspections?
• Do they understand what the hazards are?
• Are the employees comfortable discussing injuries with the crew chiefs?
• Are the crew chiefs capable of performing accident investigations?
• Do crew chiefs understand the implications of unsafe behavior and near-miss incidents?
• Are the chiefs accountable for the actions of the employees who report to them?
• Does the firm use a system that rewards crews for being safety-conscious and avoiding injuries? (Such systems have proven beneficial to augment safety programs by raising awareness and promoting the company's safety results.)
• Is safety a component of crew chiefs' annual performance appraisal criteria?
Figure 2. Land surveyors workers' compensation claims by accident cause (total number of accidents).
Even the most safety-conscious firm cannot eliminate all accidents. But a firm with heightened awareness and a sound plan will be able to respond appropriately when accidents do occur. Additionally, when employees know that the crew chiefs and firm owners properly maintain the firm's vehicles, conduct site inspections with an eye for potential hazards, keep hand tools and equipment in good condition, and are genuinely concerned about employee health and safety, they are more likely to take personal responsibility for safety initiatives and thereby help improve the firm's safety record.
A safety-conscious firm will be aware of the most common surveying injuries and know how to prevent these injuries by implementing a clearly defined safety program. This approach will lessen the claims frequency and the total dollar amount of workers' compensation benefits paid--which, in turn, will reduce insurance costs and improve productivity.
Sidebar: Claims Management
Whoever coined the phrase "better late than never" was certainly not a workers' compensation claims adjuster. Research shows that the average cost of a claim increases 24 percent for injuries that are reported four days or later from the occurrence (Table 1). Two key issues contribute to this increase: The injuries do not get prompt medical attention, and the facts and details of the accidents are likely to become distorted as time elapses. For the claim to be handled properly, employers should emphasize to all employees that workers' compensation claims must be reported the same day as the injury.
One way to ensure same-day claims reporting is to make the crew chief responsible for inquiring at the end of each workday whether any work injuries occurred. Often, employees are embarrassed by an injury and hesitant to report it to a crew chief or human resources representative. Some of the claims represented in Figures 1 and 2 were reported more than 100 days after the incident occurred because the employees involved did not initially think the injuries warranted reporting. The result was a much more expensive claim. A sound safety program should reiterate that even a seemingly minor injury such as a small cut or scrape can lead to an infection and should be reported immediately.
Of course, prompt claims reporting is only one element of a claims management program. Other integral components can include doctors' panels, modified-duty reviews and claims reviews. Additional information on claims management can be obtained from your insurance claims department or insurance broker.
Sidebar: Driving Safety
A large percentage of workers' compensation claims can be attributed to motor vehicle related injuries. A responsible auto insurance carrier will require firms to provide a motor vehicle report (MVR) on any employees allowed to drive. A safety-conscious company will be diligent in allowing only those employees with an acceptable MVR to operate vehicles and any other mobile equipment. Keep in mind that MVRs are excellent predictors of future behavior, and employees who have a high number of driving violations also have a greater tendency to sustain a work-related injury either in a vehicle or in the field.
Mark J. Amirault is an account executive at the Klein Agency LLC, a Maryland-based agency that focuses on insuring land surveyors, civil engineers and other design professionals. He can be reached at 888/284-2574.
Thaddeus M. Pajak, CSP, ALCM, MS, is a commercial risk services consultant in the Risk Services and Solutions Department at Fireman's Fund Insurance Co. and also serves as president of the Western Pennsylvania Chapter of the American Society of Safety Engineers. He has 25 years of experience in the safety and health profession. He can be reached at 412/263-4467.
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'''Human rights''' are the rights that everyone has simply because they are human beings. The U.S. [[Declaration of Independence]] says that people are "endowed by their [[Creator]] with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are [[Life]], [[Liberty]] and the pursuit of [[Happiness]]." <ref>http://www.law.indiana.edu/uslawdocs/declaration.html]</ref> This is based on the statement that every man is entitled to "life, liberty and the pursuit of [[property]]", but was altered to "happiness" to avoid conflicts with [[slavery]] (slaves could not own property). The [[United Nations]] and [[Amnesty International]] have developed a list of some thirty human rights they deem inherent and inviolable.<ref>http://www.un.org/Overview/rights.html</ref> However, these lists are at odds with Christian and democratic principles on several points, and even where they are in accord with them are used as a [[double standard]] to whitewash human rights violations. ==References== <references/>
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import logging
import time

from opensfm import dataset
from opensfm import io
from opensfm import reconstruction

logger = logging.getLogger(__name__)

class Command:
    name = 'reconstruct'
    help = "Compute the reconstruction"

    def add_arguments(self, parser):
        parser.add_argument('dataset', help='dataset to process')

    def run(self, args):
        start = time.time()
        data = dataset.DataSet(args.dataset)
        report = reconstruction.incremental_reconstruction(data)
        end = time.time()
        with open(data.profile_log(), 'a') as fout:
            fout.write('reconstruct: {0}\n'.format(end - start))
        data.save_report(io.json_dumps(report), 'reconstruction.json')

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What is… a Woman for $1000?
December 2, 2021 BFH Uncategorized 30
Yahoo-ha
Amy Schneider makes Jeopardy history as first out transgender contestant to qualify for Tournament of Champions
A new kind of history was just made on Jeopardy.
On Tuesday night's show, contestant Amy Schneider became the first openly transgender contestant to qualify for the show's special "Tournament of Champions." The history-making moment came after Schneider won five consecutive games and claimed the title of 10-day champion with a total of $380,200.
While Schneider is not the first trans contestant to become a champion on the show, she's the first contestant to make it to the highest level of the competition. While speaking to Jeopardy's Jimmy McGuire in a Winner's Circle interview following the show, she revealed that as a child growing up in the Midwest in a conservative family, a trans comedian named Natasha Muse — who she became aware of when she moved to San Fransisco — inspired her to embrace her trans identity and pursue competing in the show she's been a lifelong fan of.
30 Comments on What is… a Woman for $1000?
TheMule December 2, 2021 at 9:56 am
"I'll take reality for $500."
"The answer is, 'I was born with a vagina.'"
"RHHHEEEEEEEE!!!"
Thirdtwin December 2, 2021 at 10:01 am
A woman for a $1000…What is an "escort", Alex?
1harpazo December 2, 2021 at 10:10 am
It "revealed that as a child growing up in the Midwest in a conservative family…". A slap to "Mom and apple pie". Then it moved to S. F. No liberalism there.
God said, "Train up a child in the way he should go and when he is old, he will not depart there from." (Proverbs 22:6) That is why the prevs want access to Kindergarteners-to train them to be prevs.
Jeopardy sucks! it's become the politically correct Q and A. Done watching.
Chuckie December 2, 2021 at 10:23 am
"I'll take Life Mysteries for 600.00"
"Something you'll never buy in a lifetime."
"What is Summer's Eve?"
"Sorry, we were looking for tofu sausage."
2A4ever December 2, 2021 at 10:24 am
Newsflash… he ain't no she. To call him a her is to enable this lunacy.
geoff the aardvark December 2, 2021 at 10:28 am
Chuckie, how do you make sausage out of tofu? I'd rather eat Vienna sausages or Spam instead.
geoff – hell if I know, but I have seen the brand Tofurky and they make tofu link sausages.
I'm with you, I'd rather eat Spam…cut up in small chunks, burnt edges, tastes really good. I use that when I'm craving quick fried rice.
Curly Bill December 2, 2021 at 10:39 am
What is "Won't watch for #1,000,000″….
What is "Won't watch for $1,000,000″….
Damn fat fingers!
MJA December 2, 2021 at 10:41 am
Really? I've seen some contestants that were clearly women posing as men on that show before. Why are they mentioning it NOW? lolol
Chuckie – the fried rice thing. Yup!
Al Bebak December 2, 2021 at 10:45 am
Let Jeopardy bring James Hofhouser on board to kick Amy's ass back to San Franfreako – back to where he once belonged.
PHenry December 2, 2021 at 10:56 am
In this Tournament of Champions, will she be playing middle linebacker?
🤡🌎 December 2, 2021 at 10:59 am
That is one ugly-ass troon.
Captain Obvious December 2, 2021 at 11:13 am
Love the show but turned it off when HE started winning….don't need to see or hear the freakshow each night….HE was also propped up during Tranny freak week too which makes me think they stuck some dumasses with HIM so HE could win.
CC December 2, 2021 at 11:17 am
She's really upset with me again
I didn't give her what she likes
I don't know what to tell her
Don't know what to say
Everything got funky last night
She was really bombed
And I was really blown away
Until I asked her what she wanted
And this is what she had to say
A pearl necklace
She wanna pearl necklace
She gets a charge out of bein' so weird
President Elect Toxic Deplorable Racist SAH Neanderthal B Woodman Domestic Violent Extremist SuperStraight December 2, 2021 at 11:24 am
For some reason my wife pointed that out to me last night. Meh. So what? "He's" not pushing an agenda & spouting Libtard nonsense.
Carlos December 2, 2021 at 11:39 am
"Not pushing an agenda?"
His appearance and acceptance on national TV is nothing but agenda-fueled.
Normalization of deviancy is the agenda, and it appears to be working well.
LocoBlancoSaltine December 2, 2021 at 12:00 pm
I never watch the Q&A segments but I knew I didn't like the dude for some reason.
this explains why.
I am certain they stack the deck with dummies to further the fraud.
He may be intelligent, and batshit crazy at the same time though…
Indimex December 2, 2021 at 12:58 pm
I'll take a Progesterone refill for $100, or Laser hair removal for $5,000. That shadow beard isn't helping his cause.
Dan Ryan Galt December 2, 2021 at 1:05 pm
Yeah right. The whole Country is in Jeopardy.
I'm goin with the Science, you know, the xx xy thing. Homely man, ugly woman regardless of the chromosomes.
Racer X December 2, 2021 at 1:13 pm
Proving once more that the best woman for the job is a man.
Agatha Kakalogical December 2, 2021 at 1:50 pm
He, him, his-please use the proper pronouns.
And WTH is with the pearl necklaces on these freaks?
TOM December 2, 2021 at 1:52 pm
Still true after all these years "if it hasn't had a dick it ain't no chick."
If it has or had a dick…
Stupid spell check.
mansfield lovell FJB December 2, 2021 at 2:05 pm
Alex is in Heaven, throwing up at the travesty that Jeopardy has become.
Answer: Guys with tits
Question: What are "chicks with dicks"?
Burner December 2, 2021 at 3:14 pm
Boys with boobs, not chicks with dicks.
Udogu December 2, 2021 at 5:07 pm
A doe a deer a shemale deer
99th Squad Leader December 3, 2021 at 4:52 am
Treating the mentally ill like they're not sick, is sick. The left want to normalize every perversion that exists to destabilize society for power. Not going to support it.
No, I'm not watch a man pretending to be a woman play Jeopardy. He's not well and he's abnormal.


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Energy Adviser to the Honorable Prime Minister, People's Republic of Bangladesh
Dr. Tawfiq-e Elahi Chowdhury was appointed adviser to the Honorable Prime Minister of the Government of Bangladesh in January 2009. He holds the rank and status of a Minister and advises on matters related to energy, power, and mineral resources. Prior to his appointment as Energy Adviser, he served nearly a decade as Secretary to the Government of Bangladesh in the Ministries of Food, Statistics, Power, Energy, and Mineral Resources, and Planning. He was previously CEO and managing director of the Industrial Bank of Bangladesh. In addition to his time in the government and private sector, he also lectured in economics at the University of Dhaka and served as a visiting fellow at Yale University's Economic Growth Center.
Dr. Chowdhury earned his bachelor's degree in economics from Dhaka University, master's from Punjab University, and PhD from Harvard University. He joined the Civil Service of Pakistan (CSP) in 1968 after a two-year stint as lecturer in economics in the University of Dhaka.
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A few moons ago, I found myself filming for two days in a creepy westside mall that seemed to include only a Baby Gap, a pretzel place a store that sold only dream catchers, and memories of walking by Abercrombie and Fitch just to smell it and be smelled. Smelt? Naturally, I spent my lunch breaks losing my mind in said Baby Gap, and spent basically my wages for the week on sweaters for my niblings. Just yesterday, I happened to receive status reports of said sweaters from their said parents and just — HERE.


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Valeant cuts 2016 forecast on the costs of salvaging its battered rep
Valeant ($VRX) is working to gain investor confidence as it tries to find its footing in the wake of allegations about its business practices and drug-pricing scrutiny from politicians. But it'll take time for sales and earnings to recover from the turmoil.
The company cut its financial guidance for Q4 and for 2015 on Wednesday--no surprise, considering the warning issued when Valeant jettisoned its controversial specialty pharmacy partner Philidor. But it also took its 2016 predictions down a notch: The company now expects EBITDA to ring in between $6.9 billion and $7.1 billion, compared with the $7.5 billion it previously forecast.
The reasons? First off, it will spend $225 million to ramp up access for its dermatology products. That business was hardest-hit by the Philidor split, and it's the focus of a new pricing and distribution pact with Walgreens ($WBA) announced Tuesday.
Valeant CEO J. Michael Pearson
The Canadian drugmaker is also nixing "virtually all of our planned price increases" for 2016, CEO J. Michael Pearson said Wednesday on a call with investors, which will sink earnings by $125 million. Valeant hopes the move will help stem the tide of pushback from politicians, who took aim at Valeant's price-hike strategy after learning of hefty mark-ups on a pair of heart drugs. Just Wednesday, Rep. Elijah Cummings (D-MD) sent a letter to Pearson--his third since August--demanding documents and interviews about the moves, and others regarding Valeant's compliance with federal securities laws.
Employee retention bonuses--put in place to encourage Valeant's workers to stick it out through the tumult--and legal fees will each take a $75 million bite out of earnings next year. Thanks to that retention program, "we've lost no one," Pearson said. "We lost two reps in dermatology. That's it. … We've ignored the external factors. We should be measured on that."
Pearson insists that investors have a lot to look forward to. He touted the Walgreens agreement--which will cut prices of its branded skincare and eyecare by 10%, and match prices of generic competitors for 30 brands--as a "huge" opportunity for volume growth.
"This is going to be much better than Philidor," he said.
For now, Pearson will have to hope shareholders feel similarly. Valeant's stock, battered by the events of the past few months, sank in early trading Wednesday before rallying to nearly 9% above its opening price at press time.
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Keith Vincent Smith
http://dictionaryofsydney.org/entry/pemulwuy
Vincent Smith, Keith, Pemulwuy, Dictionary of Sydney, 2010, http://dictionaryofsydney.org/entry/pemulwuy, viewed 15 Jan 2021
cite web | url= http://dictionaryofsydney.org/entry/pemulwuy | title = Pemulwuy | author = Vincent Smith, Keith | date = 2010 | work = Dictionary of Sydney | publisher = Dictionary of Sydney Trust | accessdate = 15 Jan 2021
cite web | url = http://dictionaryofsydney.org/entry/pemulwuy | title = Pemulwuy | accessdate = 2010 | author = Vincent Smith, Keith | date = 2010 | work = Dictionary of Sydney | publisher = Dictionary of Sydney Trust
Pemulwuy [media]was a powerful Aboriginal resistance leader against the British settlers who occupied his land. He took the fight to the government farm at Toongabbie and stormed into the town of Parramatta at the head of 100 warriors. His exploits and bravery made Pemulwuy the stuff of myth and legend. Governor Philip Gidley King considered Pemulwuy 'an active, daring leader of his people' and wrote that 'Altho' a terrible pest to the colony, he was a brave and independent character'. [1] In Pemulwuy, the rainbow warrior, a brilliant work of fiction, Eric Willmot constructed a black hero for Australia's Aboriginal community.
The colonists first heard about Pemulwuy in October 1790 when Woollarawarre Bennelong asked a marine sergeant and his troops searching for a missing convict to join a war party to kill Pemulwuy. This was just 10 days after the peaceful 'coming in' of the Eora (coastal Aborigines) to the Sydney settlement, negotiated between Bennelong and Governor Arthur Phillip.
Bennelong said Pemulwuy, then aged about 30, was 'well known for having lost an eye' and was the leader of a clan at Botany Bay. [2] Captain Watkin Tench described him as a 'young man, with a speck, or blemish on his left eye'. [3] Pemulwuy's name was derived from Pemall (bimul), meaning earth or clay.
Through the final decade of the eighteenth century, Pemulwuy led guerrilla attacks against settlers' farms, burning their huts, maize crops and livestock, and plundering their possessions. He operated mainly in his own Bidjigal or Bediagal territory, which stretched from Botany Bay south of the Cooks River and west along the Georges River to Salt Pan Creek, south of Bankstown. (There was another clan called the Bidjigal in the present Castle Hill area, but according to Colebee and Ballooderry (1791) they had been wiped out by smallpox). Georges River was regarded as the 'head' of Botany Bay while Cooks River was its north arm. Bidjigal literally means 'River Flat Clan'.
Bennelong told Phillip that
the tribes which reside about Botany-Bay and the inland parts near the head of that harbour always killed the white men.
There is evidence that Pemulwuy was a carradhy, a clever man or doctor, who could heal wounds. Colebee, the Cadigal headman, told Governor Phillip that Pemulwuy could easily be recognised because a club had bruised the toes of his left foot. Anthropologists have noted that kadaicha men of Central Australia dislocate their small toes to travel swiftly and quietly in shoes of blood and emu feathers to take vengeance on an enemy. In Willmot's version, Pemulwuy transforms himself into a bird to escape.
Although Bennelong called Pemulwuy his enemy, it can be seen in hindsight that Bennelong and Colebee collaborated with Pemulwuy in the killing of Governor Phillip's game shooter, the convict John McEntire or McIntyre. In November 1790 Pemulwuy came to Sydney and stayed for two weeks in Bennelong's brick hut at Tubowgulle (Bennelong Point). Phillip noted that
a man belonging to the Botany-bay tribe had for more than a fortnight slept at his hut, though [Bennelong] said the man was bad, and spoke of him as his enemy.
On Friday 10 December 1790 McEntire was resting in a hide with a hunting party near Cooks River when they heard a noise in the bush and saw four Aboriginal men crawling towards them. 'Don't be afraid, I know them,' said McEntire, who spoke to the men in their own language, asking them to stop and offering them bread. McEntire believed Pemulwuy had been in Sydney because he was clean-shaven and had short hair. As the game shooter put down his gun, Pemulwuy stood on a log, fixed a spear in his womera (spear thrower) and threw it. 'I am a dead man', cried McEntire.
The jagged spearhead penetrated deep into McEntire's body, perforating his lung. When he extracted the spearhead, Surgeon John White found that it was barbed with 'small pieces of red stone' (silcrete flakes).
To show they were not at Cooks River during the attack on McEntire, Colebee and Bennelong separately travelled to Rose Hill (Parramatta) to visit Phillip that day. [4] Three months earlier they had called in Willemering, a carradhy from Broken Bay, who speared and wounded Phillip at a whale feast at Kayeemy (Manly Cove).
Colebee told the surgeons that McEntire would die and other 'natives' in the settlement said 'Pemullaway, of the tribe of Bejigal' had speared him.
McEntire lingered but died of his wounds on 20 January 1791. Bennelong had long feared and hated McEntire, who carried a musket and competed for food with the Indigenous people. He was trespassing on Bidjigal land and shooting totem animals revered as spirit ancestors, including possum, kangaroo, emu and dingo. 'This man', wrote Judge Advocate David Collins, 'had been suspected of having wantonly killed or wounded several of the natives in the course of his excursions after game.' McEntire admitted shooting one Aboriginal man.
Convinced that the attack on McEntire was unprovoked as he had not been armed, Phillip ordered a punitive expedition of 50 marines, led by Tench and carrying hatchets and head bags, to kill six Indigenous men at Botany Bay and capture two for execution. On the second day they met Colebee at Botany Bay, who told them Pemulwuy had fled to the south and was by that time a long way off. The expedition was a failure, and a second one was a farce.
David Collins noted that in January 1795 'Pe-mul-wy, a wood native' came in as sponsor of a youth being initiated in the Erah ba-diahang ceremony at Woccanmagully (Farm Cove), but no attempt was made to detain or arrest him. In May Pemulwuy's followers wounded a convict near the Brickfields (Chippendale). In December a report circulated that John Caesar, a giant African convict, had killed Pemulwuy, but this turned out to be false. Runaway convicts joined Pemulwuy and a proclamation was issued calling on them to surrender.
The Battle of Parramatta
In March 1797 Pemulwuy led a raid against the government farm at Toongabbie. After a series of robberies at the Northern Farms (near Burnside Homes, Parramatta), a vigilante group of armed settlers and soldiers encountered more than 100 hostile Aborigines at sunrise and chased them to the outskirts of Parramatta. Tiring of the chase, the punitive party entered the town, but an hour later Pemulwuy and 'a large body of natives' followed them and Pemulwuy, in a rage, speared a soldier. Many spears were thrown and the settlers opened fire, killing at least five Aboriginal warriors with the first volley. Pemulwuy was severely wounded, with seven buckshot lodged in his head and body, and was taken to hospital. A later historian and journalist, John Henniker Heaton (1873), claimed that half the Aborigines – 50 people – were shot in the fighting. [5]
Pemulwuy recovered and escaped from Parramatta hospital in irons. He was seen soon after at a point on the Georges River near Botany Bay. In 1800 John Washington Price, newly arrived on the Minerva, said 'Pummil-woy' had
lodged in him, in shot, slugs and bullets about eight or ten ounces of lead, it is supposed he has killed over 30 of our people. [6]
The legend grew that Pemulwuy could not be killed by firearms, but in the end he proved mortal.
On 1 [media]May 1801 Governor King gave orders to drive back 'hordes of natives' around Parramatta, the Georges River and Prospect Hill by gunfire. He outlawed convicts William Knight and Thomas Thrush who had joined the Aboriginal resistance. In November, troops were sent to Mill Creek on the Georges River and King offered rewards including free pardons for convicts and 20 gallons of spirits for their capture and that of Pemulwuy who was wanted 'dead or alive'.
On 2 June 1802, Pemulwuy was shot dead and decapitated.
In October 1802, Governor King advised Lord Hobart at the Home Office in London that
two settlers, not having the means of securing the person of Pemulwuye and another native, shot them.
The governor alleged that other Aborigines had asked for Pemulwuy's head to be cut off and sent to him. The notion of a single killer was suggested by David Dickinson Mann, the governor's clerk, who wrote in 1811 that King had offered a reward
to any person who should kill him and bring in his head. This was soon accomplished by artifice, the man received the reward, and the head was sent to England in spirits by the Speedy.
Suspicion falls on Henry Hacking, first mate of the sloop Lady Nelson, then lying in Sydney Cove. Samuel Smith, a seaman on HMS Investigator, wrote in his journal for 20 July 1802 that
Bumbleway … a Severe Enemy to White people, as he had kill'd several … was shot by the Master of the Nelson Brig, that was shooting in the Woods, his head being brought Tranquility was again restor'd.
Samuel Enderby wrote to Sir Joseph Banks from Paul's Wharf in London on 24 November 1802:
Mesrs Enderbys present their most respectful compliments to Sir Joseph Banks and take the liberty of acquainting him that their Ship Speedy, Geo. Quested, Master is arrived from Port Jackson with 179 Tuns Sperma Ceti Oil – The Master says he has a Black Swan, a Native's Head in Spirits and a number of other things for Sir Joseph Banks – [7]
Banks advised King in April 1803 that
the head of one of your subjects, which is said to have caused some Comical consequences when opened at the Customs house … makes a figure in the Museum of the Late Mr Hunter.
The Scots surgeon and anatomist John Hunter was not related to Captain John Hunter, later governor of New South Wales.
In the nineteenth century Pemulwuy's head was known to be in the Hunterian Museum at the Royal College of Surgeons in London. Its location is now unknown.
Eric Willmot, Pemulwuy, the rainbow warrior, Weldon, McMahons Point NSW, 1987
JL Kohen, 'Pemulwuy (c1750–1802)', Australian Dictionary of Biography, supplementary vol, Melbourne University Press, Melbourne, 2005, pp 318–19
KV Smith, 'Australia's oldest murder mystery', Sydney Morning Herald, 1 November 2003
[1] PG King to Lord Hobart, 30 October 1802, Public Record Office, London , CO 201/22/6-7; King to Sir Joseph Banks, 5 June 1802, Historical Records of New South Wales, vol V, p 784
[2] Phillip in John Hunter, An Historical Journal of the Transactions at Port Jackson, John Stockdale, London, 1793, pp 473–74
[3] Watkin Tench, A complete account of the expedition to Botany Bay, J Debrett, London, 1793, p 89
[5] J Henneker Heaton, Australian Dictionary of Dates and Men of the Time: containing the history of Australasia from 1542 to date, George Robertson, Sydney, 1879
[6] JW Price, Journal on Minerva, State Library of New South Wales, Mitchell Library, BL Add MS 13880, AJCP reel 1574
[7] Samuel Enderby, 'Paul's Wharf', to Sir Joseph Banks, 24 November 1802, State Library of New South Wales, Mitchell Library, Banks Papers, Series 23.19, CY Reel 3008185
Vincent Smith, Keith
Keith Vincent Smith is a historian and curator and the author of MARI NAWI: Aboriginal Odysseys (Rosenberg, 2010)
Pemulwuy c1801
Samuel John Neele
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(from 'The narrative of a voyage of discovery, performed in His Majesty's vessel the Lady Nelson, of sixty tons burthen, with sliding keels, in the years 1800, 1801 and 1802, to New South Wales' by James Grant, 1803)
Residential suburb west of Parramatta, built on Burramattagal country. It was the site of one of the colony's earliest successful farms worked with convict labour. As the area that grew up around the railway station from 1880, it is distinguished from Old Toongabbie alongside the creeks.
Western suburb built on the land of the Burramattagal people. Sydney's second European settlement, it began as a government farm in 1788 and has many heritage listed sites. It is now the commercial hub of Greater Western Sydney.
King, Philip Gidley 1758-1808
Naval officer, able administrator and lieutenant-governor of Norfolk Island who was Governor of the colony of New South Wales from 1800 to 1806.
Pemulwuy, the rainbow warrior
Novel by Eric Willmot written in 1987.
Willmot, Eric
Aboriginal scholar, engineer, administrator and author.
Bennelong
Eora man who had an important role in relations between the colonists and the local people. With Colebee, Bennelong was abducted by Governor Phillip at Manly on 25 November 1789 and held at Government House. He escaped in May 1790, but started visiting the colony voluntarily later in the year. In December 1792, he travelled to England with Phillip, returning in 1795.
Phillip, Arthur
British naval officer who became first Governor of New South Wales, leading the colony for five difficult years.
Large bay south of the city of Sydney, into which the Cooks and Georges rivers run.
Tench, Watkin
Marine officer and writer whose accounts of the early colony were among the first published.
River that flows through south-west Sydney, starting at Graf Park, Yagoona, through to Botany Bay at Kyeemagh. The river was extensively polluted by industry and its course was changed to accommodate the runways of Sydney Airport.
River that rises at Appin in the upland swamps of the O'Hares Creek catchment, and flows 80 kilometres north and east to meet Botany Bay at Taren Point, in Sydney's southern suburbs. The total catchment is over 930 square kilometres managed by a large number of local government authorities and is the main tributary of Botany Bay.
Salt Pan Creek
Small creek between Padstow and Riverwood which drains into the Georges River.
South-western suburb named for colonial botanist Joseph Banks, now home to an ethnically diverse population. During the Second World War the presence of the US Army Air Force at Bankstown Aerodrome led to the area becoming known as 'Yankstown'.
Colebee c1760-1806
Cadigal man captured with Bennelong, who became familiar with the Europeans but disappeared after 1806.
Ballooderry
Aboriginal man of the Burramattagal clan.
McIntyre, John
Convict gamekeeper to Governor Arthur Phillip. Feared and hated by the Eora people he was speared by Pemulwuy and died soon after of his injuries, sparking a retaliatory expedition around Botany Bay.
Bennelong Point
Rocky outcrop to the east of Sydney Cove, which was a tidal island when Europeans arrived, but was joined to the mainland with rocky rubble in 1818 to provide a basis for Fort Macquarie to be built there. The point is named for Bennelong, who lived in a house on the point in the 1790s.
Naval surgeon and naturalist who arrived in Sydney with the First Fleet.
Willemering
Aboriginal warrior and clever-man from the Garagal clan.
Manly Cove
Bay inside the north head of Port Jackson.
Collins, David
Deputy judge advocate and secretary to the governor, who arrived on the First Fleet, was responsible for the legal establishment of the colony, and wrote the most complete account of the colony's first years.
Yoo-long Erah-ba-diahng 1795
An Aboriginal rite of passage in February 1795 at Woccanmagully (Farm Cove), involving Colebee and Nanbarry, in which boys were made men after ordeals that concluded when their upper right front tooth was knocked out.
Shallow bay on the southern shore of Sydney Harbour, east of Sydney Cove. The flat land nearby was used by Aboriginal people as an initiation ground, and later became the first farm for the European colony.
Inner-city suburb on the land of the Gadigal people which was developed for farming and industry with dense, working-class housing during the nineteenth century, now undergoing gentrification.
Caesar, John
West Indian who fled to England to escape plantation slavery only to be transported. As a convict his hunger drove him to regularly escape from custody and he was to become Australia's first bushranger.
Burnside Children's Homes
Children's home founded and endowed by Sir James Burns, founder of Burns Philp, that operated until the late 1980s, at North Parramatta.
Heaton, John Henniker
Jackaroo and journalist who travelled widely and published a pioneer reference work, Australian Dictionary of Dates and Men of the Time in 1879.
Price, John Washington
Surgeon on the convict ship Minerva which arrived in 1800.
Convict transport of 578 tons which arrived with 162 male convicts and 26 female convicts on 11 January 1800.
General orders issued by Governor King concerning Pemulwuy, November 22, 1801
[a341098 / Safe 1/17a, p68]
(From 'New South Wales general standing orders (...), 1802, and New South Wales continuation of general standing orders (...), 1806', Mitchell Library)
Knight, William
Convict who escaped very soon after his arrival and became a bushranger.
Thrush, Thomas
Convict transported for highway robbery who escaped to resume his career around Sydney. He joined the Aboriginal resistance led by Pemulwuy.
Mann, David Dickinson
Emancipist who entered government service as a clerk before returning to England in 1809.
Hacking, Henry
Sailor and ship's pilot who explored extensively before he was convicted of theft and transported to Van Diemen's Land. Port Hacking is named for him.
Brig designed in 1798 especially for inshore exploration and the first known vessel to sail eastward through Bass Strait. It was also involved in the founding of Hobart, Launceston, Melbourne and Brisbane.
Smith, Samuel
Sailor who accompanied and recorded the journey of discovery with Matthew Flinders on the HMS Investigator between 1801 and 1803.
22-gun armed ship renamed in 1801 and used as a survey ship. Broken up in 1810.
Enderby, Samuel
Trading merchant and whaler whose early success in the American colonies lead to his highly profitable expansion into southern oceans.
Banks, Joseph
Botanist on the Endeavour who recommended Botany Bay for penal settlement.
Aboriginal warrior who led a campaign of resistance against European settlers.


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Samoa Considers Health Agencies Merger In Face Of Management Challenges
Submitted by PIR Editor on Tue, 05/09/2017 - 15:57
Combining Ministry of Health, National Health Services, National Kidney Foundation 'appropriate'
By Joyetter Feagaimaali'i-Luamanu
APIA, Samoa (Samoa Observer, May 10, 2017) – Poor quality of healthcare; $10million NZD spent on sending patients off island for treatment; too much money spent on hiring top officials rather than funding going to clinical services; triplicating of work and lack of working relationship between the sectors are among the many reasons "the merge is appropriate" between the Ministry of Health (M.O.H.), National Health Services (N.H.S.) and National Kidney Foundation (N.K.F.S.).
This is according to Minister of Health, Tuitama Dr Leao Talalelei Tuitama in response to Samoa Observer questions regarding the merge.
In his office, Tuitama explained that it's been 10 years since N.H.S. and the M.O.H. were separated.
Over the years, the problems of offices not working together and the services not being up to par, have continued.
"It's apparent that the Ministry does its own thing, they are not working together, yet each Ministry cannot work without the other."
"They need the cooperation of one another, this is the reason behind the problems that have occurred." He said another reason is the lack of appropriate health care services as the Ministry's priority is not the right place.
$10 MILLION SPENT TO SEND PATIENTS OVERSEAS
He pointed out there is a lack of appropriate equipment for better health care, the lack of experts and specialists and also the government is spending more than $10million NZD sending patients for treatment off island.
"And this is every year. Yet because we have a new hospital, the service should be up to par."
The Minister said the question had been asked as to why the services were not up to par despite the new hospital.
It is expected the health care should be somewhat at the top level.
"It's unclear why the hospital hasn't hired experts and specialists to conduct heart surgery, Ear Nose and Throat (E.N.T.) specialists and eye doctors."
"We have a good hospital and we should be able to bring in the latest equipment to better the services but that's not happening."
HIRING AT TOP LEVEL, MONEY NOT GOING TO SERVICES
The Minister is especially concerned with the increasing numbers of people utilizing the dialysis clinic and it raises the questions as to why. "Yet there are managers, assistant managers, officials with their assistants, the management has increased and depriving the clinical services, funds should go to these services, another reason which has prompted the move for a better change for the Ministry."
Tuitama pointed out that 100+ people are employed with the corporate service at MOH, almost the same number of people are working for N.H.S. and N.K.F.S "yet these three agencies have the same goals."
"Do we need all these corporate services, the increasing numbers of management personnel and yet the clinical services are starving.
TRIPLICATING OF SERVICES
The top management is quite heavy creating all the new positions and in doing so they are there is duplication of services.
According to Tuitama, N.H.S. is mandated by M.O.H. in terms of Human Resources and quality assurance but it appears, they have hired their own people do to the same job and this means not only duplication of work, but also triplicating of services.
Aside from the management level each of the agencies has their own boards.
"This is service provider not a revenue earner and the government is not looking for money using our hospital."
"The government is paying to take members of public off island, if the operation cannot be done locally, it's the responsibility of the government to send the people off island to get treatment."
"Because it is the responsibility of the government.... $10million that is... yet the hospital is not prioritizing the public.
These are some of the most difficult predicaments behind the move to merge these ministries."
RECOMMENDATIONS FROM EXPERTS
According to Tuitama there were recommendations by experts who visited Samoa and have given the advice and suggested to "merge the services to minimize the excess."
The Minister said merging is nothing new to the government, and Samoa is not the only country that's done this.
He pointed out that in the government there are ministries which have been created and established, yet in not even 10 years, they are back under the umbrella in which were once separated from.
"If we see the problem we have to fix it right away. We don't wait; we act immediately. Prevention is better than cure," said the Minister.
SPECIALISTS FROM OFF ISLAND
The Minister also indicated that currently there are a mission, group of heart surgeons in Samoa and they are conducting valve replacements. "It costs the government $50,000 [US$19,000] for one operation and we had 14 operations conducted by this group.
The government has saved a lot of money, but this guided mission is kind of a goodwill mission. Our main core is to cater to the needs of these people, but we can't just rely on the goodwill of others.
"We need to stand on our own two feet, it is up to these people to help us or not."
The Minister pointed out the need to "increase our own capacity to extend our own ability to deal with our own problems.
"So based on those reasons and many others I cannot discuss with you fully, not because I don't want to, but simply because we don't have enough time, there a lot things involved that have an impact on the management issues.
"The government feels that it is appropriate time and it is the right move at this time to merge in order to minimize the impact at the management level."
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The Tampa Opioid Epidemic: A Growing Crisis
Updated on : September 10, 2021
Since 2020, Florida — and especially Tampa Bay — has been suffering "the epidemic inside the pandemic." The use of opioids has exploded.
Opioid Epidemic Facing Tampa Bay
In Tampa Bay, according to Project Opioid, someone is taken to the ER with an opioid overdose every two hours. And someone dies of an opioid overdose every eight hours.
The opioid epidemic in Florida began in the 1990s, and experts with the Florida Blue Foundation, the Tampa Bay Partnership, and Project Opioid say it has come in three waves.
In the 90s, the Tampa area was ground zero for pill mills in Florida, and Florida supplied most of the illegal opioids sold up and down the Atlantic Coast.
Then the State of Florida made it a lot harder to get a prescription for opioid pain-relieving drugs. This did reduce the use of opioids, but it triggered an epidemic of heroin use.
Finally, around 2015, synthetic opioids like Fentanyl and U-47700 became widely available and once again opioid addiction became Florida's major public health problem.
How The Pandemic Has Impacted The Opioid Epidemic
Four times as many people died from an overdose in 2021 than in 2001. Fatal overdoses in Florida have had an actual increase of 43% and a projected increase of 59% since the COVID-19 Pandemic began.
In Florida, 77% of all deaths from opioid overdoses occur in the Tampa area. Opioid addiction has become widespread and deadly, especially since pandemic restrictions in 2020. Governor DeSantis suspended COVID restrictions in May 2021, but people who became dependent on opioids during the pandemic don't magically lose their addictions now that they can get around more freely again.
According to the CDC, deaths from opioid abuse are completely preventable.
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Offer patients alternatives to opioids.
Reduce the ease of getting opioid drugs without a prescription.
Treat opioid abuse disorder.
So, Why Isn't This Happening?
Twenty years into the opioid abuse epidemic, certain facts about opioid abuse still aren't widely understood. Here are five of them.
People who are addicted to opioids aren't necessarily abusing opioids.
It's easy to blame the victim. To be sure, people who experiment with opioids no doctor has ever told them they need are a lot more likely to get addicted, but 75% of people who get addicted started with a prescription.
Getting Tough on Opioids Didn't Really Help
In 2018, the State of Florida implemented House Bill 21. This law limited the supply of opioids for acute pain, like the pain after a sprained back or the pain after a severe cut, to three days. The State of Florida decided that the way it would know the law was working was that fewer people were getting opioid treatment for pain.
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In 2019, the death toll from opioid overdoses in Florida was 4,042 and 1,024 in the Tampa Bay area.
The number of people who survived an opioid overdose was 9,571 in Tampa Bay and 35,927 in Florida.
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Posted in Horror Review with tags Balthazar Getty, Barry Gifford, Bill Pullman, Davidy Lynch, Horror, Lost Highway, Patricia Arquette, Review, Rober Blake, Robert Loggia on January 24, 2010 by Pass the Popcorn!
Director: David Lynch
Writer: David Lynch
Barry Gifford
Plot: After a bizarre encounter at a party, a jazz saxophonist is framed for the murder of his wife and sent to prison, where he inexplicably morphs into a young mechanic and begins leading a new life.
Cast: Bill Pullman – Fred Madison
Patricia Arquette – Renee Madison / Alice Wakefield
Balthazar Getty – Pete Dayton
Robert Loggia – Mr.Eddy / Dick Laurent
Robert Blake – Mystery Man
I decided to give David Lynch another chance after Eraserhead and it was a right thing to do. I found Lost Highway to be completely different from Eraserhead and it just blown me away. It has an interesting plot in which we follow Fred Madison, a sax player, who is found guilty for the murder of his wife. In his cell, while awaiting death penalty, he is being transformed into a young car mechanic named Pete Dayton. As you can see, this summary doesn't make any sense at all neither it is explained during the movie but no matter. David Lynch has made a nice suspenseful atmosphere consisting of creepy images, weird colors and excellent soundtracks. And all that makes Lost Highway really worth watching! It is a strange experience you should definitely see.
The transformation scene is not the only scene that makes no (or little) sense. There are even some "intellectual" moments in it like in Eraserhead but I didn't mind them very much. Besides that, Lost Highway has a really complex synopsis full of duel personalities, strange characters and weird twists. As a movie it is very unique. However, I still felt that David Lynch pushes himself a little too hard. He wants everything to be so abstract and "different" from the mainstream. Don't get me wrong, this isn't a bad thing although I think Lost Highway would be even better if he kept that "intellectual" feeling in moderate amounts. Even though Lost Highway seems so strange and weird it still has a decent atmosphere that is really worth experiencing.
Anyways, Lost Highway features some good actors playing very interesting characters. The best role would surely go to Robert Blake who plays the Mystery Man. We don't know almost nothing about his character except that his appearance is very strange and creepy and that he has a big part in the movie's synopsis. The movie soundtrack also has a big part in the atmosphere. The songs were carefully picked to fit the character's inner feelings in such a strange way so they make a really great impression on the watcher. The soundtrack features songs from some great artists like Marilyn Manson (Mr. Manson even has a short cameo in it with his bass player, Twiggy Ramirez), Rammstein, David Bowie and Nine Inch Nails. All in all, I found Lost Highway to be really good, it surely is different but it's still excellent.
My Rating: 8/10 … Lost Highway is a weird experience you should see if you haven't already.