Lovely metropolis of Barcelona, capital of catalonia holidays (a Spain's province), is located on on the shore of the Mediterranean sea and bordered at both end by 2 river deltas. Barcelona is the second largest metropolis in Spain after its capital metropolis Madrid. Barcelona has a inhabitants of 1.5 million, over 4 million including suburbs. The varied, eventful history of the city dates back four,000 years to the primary settlements by historical farmers. Later it turned a Roman colony, the Visigoth's capital city, then it came beneath Moorish rule. It went by way of sieges, destructions and occupations, finally to change into an autonomous democracy 1975. The town has all the time played an essential position in political and cultural lifetime of Spain and it is well reflected within the variety and high quality of historical buildings, museums, many different vacationer attractions. At the moment Barcelona is among the most numerous european cities with distinctive tradition and rich traditions. You will discover here a formidable balance of the traditional things and the avant-garde. A cosmopolitan metropolis, Barcelona affords visitors a warm and honest welcome, being aknowledged worldwide as among the finest vacationer-pleasant cities in Europe.Barcelona's organisation of the 1992 Olympics supplied regeneration of this dynamic metropolis, gave a contemporary start to its infrastructure development.
POINTS OF INTEREST - La Rambla is a tree-lined pedestrian boulevard full of buskers, residing statues, mimes and itinerant salespeople promoting everything from lottery tickets to jewellery. Pavement cafes and stands promoting craftwork, road performers surrounded by curious onlookers, a loud bird market, Palau de la Virreina, a grand 18th-century rococo mansion, the Gran Teatre del Liceu, the well-known nineteenth-century opera house- these are all colourful parts of La Rambla's mosaic. La Rambla ends at the lofty Monument a Colom (Monument to Columbus) and the harbour.
Barri Gotic - also referred to as Acquiredhic Quarter, it is the old a part of the city. Picasso lived and worked in Barri Gotic from 1895 to 1904 and Joan Miro was born and lived right here throughout his youth. Receivedhic Quarter is situated on the appropriate hand side of the La Rambla, it accommodates a focus of medieval tall Obtainedhic buildings (14-fifteenth century) on narrow cobbled streets and now's residence to a lot of the city's nightlife.
La Sagrada Familia - La Sagrada Familia is likely one of the most well-known and magnificent among Barcelona's landmarks. The life's work of Barcelona's famous architect, Antoni Gaudi, the magnificent spires of the unfinished cathedral imprint themselves boldly towards the sky with swelling outlines inspired by the holy mountain Montserrat. Above each facade there are 4 towers, 12 in total, which are dedicated to the Apostles. The tower in the heart, the tallest of all at a hundred and seventy m., is dedicated to Jesus Christ. Round these there are the towers of the 4 Evangelists, and the tower over the apse is dedicated to the Virgin. They are encrusted with a tangle of sculptures that seem to breathe life into the stone. Gaudi died in 1926 earlier than his masterwork was completed, and since then, controversy has frequently dogged the building program. Nevertheless, the southwestern (Passion) facade, is sort of accomplished, and the nave, begun in 1978, is progressing.
La Pedrera - Casa Mila (Mila House) is an condominium building, the final example of Gaudi's civil architecture.It is one among his best and most bold creations, terribly progressive in its useful, constructive, and ornamental aspects. Visitors can tour the building and go as much as the roof, the place they can see spectacular views of Barcelona. One floor below the roof is a modest museum dedicated to Gaudi's work.
Montjuic - the biggest open house within the metropolis, its principal points of interest are the Olympic installations, the Spanish Village and the hilltop fortress. Montjuic, the hill overlooking the town centre from the southwest, is home to some nice artwork galleries, leisure sights, soothing parks and the main group of 1992 Olympic sites. Montjuic is covered in ornamental gardens with water features and is the most popular destination in Barcelona on Sundays.
Tibidabo - is the highest hill within the wooded range that types the backdrop to Barcelona. It has wonderful views of the entire of Barcelona, a shocking cathedral, and a household enjoyable park Parc d'Atraccions with old-style rides offering breathtaking views. A glass lift at the park goes 115m (383 ft) up to a visitors' commentary area at Torre de Collserola telecommunications tower.


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Denver Mother Wants Law Changed After Son Dies Following Treatment By Allegedly High Doctor
Posted 4:08 pm, April 25, 2019, by Tribune Media Wire
DENVER - A Denver woman whose 10-year-old son died minutes after an emergency room visit is making a heartfelt plea to state legislators: make the records of disciplined doctors public.
This mother said that information could have saved her son's life, but medical professionals are fighting back.
Deborah Saeed Gay said the doctor who treated her son was allegedly high on drugs and never should have been practicing in the first place. She said patients should know when their doctors are having problems.
It was Christmas Eve 2016 when Saeed Gay's son Isaiah Bird had what his parents thought was a severe case of croup.
At the advice of his pediatrician, the child was taken to an emergency room. An attorney said he was barely able to breathe. However, he was sent home. But first, he and his father made a stop at a Walgreens.
"He had gone inside to get some medication and some soup for Isaiah and left him in the car. And he went in to find his dad and collapsed in his dad's arms," Saeed Gay said.
The child's family filed a lawsuit claiming negligence.
The family's attorney said he was told by another doctor that the ER physician was known to be using illegal drugs.
"If there had transparency regarding the doctor, then my son would probably still be alive today," Saeed Gay said.
Currently, hospitals' internal disciplinary peer reviews are private. Saeed Gay is fighting to make them public.
"And you'd be able to look to see if, in fact, they have been subject to discipline and the factual basis surrounding the discipline," said Michael Kane, Saeed Gay's attorney.
Not everyone agrees, however. Katie Wagner, a certified midwife who has done reviews herself, said the idea is problematic.
"I think that people would be reluctant to report if they felt that they were discoverable," Wagner said.
Making personnel matters public, Wagner said, would stifle the process, "because I think peer review needs to stay a safe place for physicians, for advanced practice nurses, for nurses, to discuss challenging cases, and in that discussion, come up with the best potential situations to improve patient safety and improve patient outcomes."
A coalition of medical professionals said the existing peer review process improves patient safety and quality by helping evaluate the competency of staff.
The debate over whether changing the law could have saved Isaiah's life will continue.
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Incubator for creative Industries in Rethymno , Θερμοκοιτίδα Επιχειρήσεων , Βιο.Πα Ρεθύμνου Ρέθυμνο | "Intercultural cities - A journey through 23 European cities"
"Intercultural cities - A journey through 23 European cities"
"Intercultural cities - A journey through 23 European cities" presents the results of a one-year programme coordinated by EUROCITIES as part of the Intercultural Cities programme, a joint action of the Council of Europe and the European Commission launched in 2008 at the occasion of the European Year of Intercultural Dialogue.
A unique aspect of the initiative is that it tapped into the knowledge and perspectives of a range of city peers - from local politicians, to teenagers, to practitioners working in the fields of culture and inclusion.
Each city sent a team of ambassadors to another city to exchange experiences on how to foster intercultural dialogue through specific policies and structures. In total 23 city-to-city visits took place during major local events and festivals in 2008.
The publication documents the experiences of those involved in the visits and presents concrete policies, actions and events implemented by cities to foster intercultural dialogue.
It also presents concrete recommendations to the European Commission to make sure that the European Year of Intercultural Dialogue 2008 has a long term impact on cities and 12 practical points for cities for encouraging intercultural dialogue.


The Aviation Cocktail is a gin-based drink that's a great addition to your repertoire. It has a good balance of flavours that should appeal to most of your guests. A variation of the Gin Sour, it was invented at the beginning of the 20th century by a hotel bartender in New York named Hugo Ensslin.
Fill a mixing glass with ice and pour in all of the ingredients. Shake well and strain into a cocktail glass. Garnish with a single cherry (we make our own at FMMS and if you're lucky, soon we'll show you how).
The original recipe also included 2 dashes of crème de violette, which is a liqueur with a violet flower flavour. The addition of violette gives the drink a pale blue sky colour, hence the moniker "aviation". Unfortunately, it's relatively difficult to find, but sites like K & L Wine Merchants have them available if you feel like being truly authentic.
I find the Aviation is best suited as an early evening cocktail – ideally just after dinner as it's relatively light and packs some sweetness like a dessert.
Sit back, fold your tray table up, and enjoy!


According to this article in the Sacramento Bee, major funds are, possibly, finally available for this wonderful project we have been advocating for since 2005.
It was initially designed to be on the historic Indian village location in the North Sacramento area of the Parkway, but other parkway organizations and the city and county shortsightedly fought it, so West Sacramento wisely took it over.
Gov. Jerry Brown's final budget proposal includes an eye-popping surprise for California's Native American tribes.
It sets aside $100 million to begin building a California Indian Heritage Center on a 43-acre riverfront campus in West Sacramento.
Native American and city leaders who've advocated for the project for more than a decade did not know the money was in the budget that Brown released on Friday.
It came as a shock and I went, 'Oh, thank you, Lord,'" said Reba Fuller of the Tuolumne Band of Me-Wuk Indians. She's been on the project's board of directors since 2007.
West Sacramento Mayor Christopher Cabaldon also did not know Brown planned to boost the project. The Legislature must approve the spending for the project to begin, but its inclusion in Brown's proposal is a good sign.
Brown and the state's Native American tribes have been allies in his second run as governor. Tribes have donated to his political campaigns and contributed more than $1 million to charities for which he solicits funds — two charter schools in Oakland, according to state records.
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Once again we had to get up early... Breakfast at 8 am, taxi at 9:20 am to get to the Hotel Kohly to pick up our rental car. It took about 1,5 hours before we could finally leave. But we didn't go very far and the car was showing an engine error. We drove back to Hotel Kohly and, after the men "solved" the problem by unplugging the battery we took off again. Nevertheless, what do you thing?, of course after a few kilometres the thing started to beep again! We decided to ignore the problem and drove to the Alejandro Robaina tobacco plantation (2 CUC pax). We got an explanation of the different leaves and how to roll a cigar. Julia got one that she will test sometime. Drive to our Hotel Los Jazmines (room 21 and 24) with spectacular views to the shimmering sight of magnificent mogotes, oxen-ploughed red fields and palm-frond-covered tobacco drying houses. Our hotel also has a nice long pool. Dinner at La Vera (70 CUC) where we celebrated our 28th anniversary with good plain Cuban food. And Volker tried rum on the rocks and he liked it! Back at the hotel Volker and Ulrich had a mojito at the pool while Julia and Stella went to bed.
After celebrating Volker's birthday with what we could arrange, we drove to the visitor's center and to the Mural de la Prehistoria (3 CUC pax incl. a delicious piña colada) which is 4 km west of Viñales. Our car is getting "normal" because we filled it up with some more petrol "especial" 94 octans. Lunch at the Finca Roja (46 CUC). After that, Mr. Alfredo Rojas showed us many different plants like coffee, mango, guanabana, and a tobacco leafs' drying barn covered with palm tree leafs (3 CUC tip). Back to the hotel for a siesta. After that drive to Palenque de Cimarrón (3 CUC pax incl. a drink). My sister and I were sitting alone waiting for our husbands and two guajiro (cowboys) started singing "Quizás" and Brazilian songs for us ;). It is a surrealist place: a cave where the tunnel goes through the mountain to the other side. Coming out on the other side and you think you are in a fantasy movie. steep jungle mountains surround you with lots of bird twitching. Back along the mountain where we savoured a gin-laden juice. Drive further to Cueva del Índio, which was actually already closed (10:00 - 17:00, 5 CUC). Walking around a nice man told us he would arrange for us to visit the cave, got the keys and let us in. Apart from many snakes and the river at the end of the path there was nothing more interesting than after the visit! Our guy offered us delicious sugar cane juice that he made on the spot with a press. For dinner we went to "La Cocina de Imicenda" in town of Viñales: You always get the same food since everywhere: chicken, pork, fish and shredded beef with rice mixed with black beans, yucca and sweet potatoes' chips. After lunch we went next door to a Cuban ladies music band where we got salsa lessons.


SINGAPORE - The car population has outpaced the supply of parking spaces to the point that night parking charges are now going up, 21 years after the last increase.
From Nov 1, non-resident motorists and visitors at public housing and Urban Redevelopment Authority (URA) car parks will pay double for overnight parking: From $2 to $4.
In 1989, the increase was from $1.50 to $2.
While the 34-year-old scheme was implemented in car parks where there were sufficient lots to meet season parking needs, "most" of these car parks are so "heavily utilised" that residents with season parking tickets face "difficulties" finding a spot at night, the Housing and Development Board and URA said yesterday.
The higher charge will "better manage the parking demand" and "safeguard the interests" of season parking ticket holders, the two statutory boards added.
The half-hourly night parking charge of 50 cents will remain, though.
The new $4 night parking coupons will be on sale from Oct 15.
Motorists can continue to use the $2 night parking coupons by displaying two such coupons.
Some Members of Parliament wondered if the latest measure is enough.
Ang Mo Kio GRC MP Lee Bee Wah, who receives one complaint a week from residents facing parking difficulties, pointed out that the non-resident group is not sizeable. And while the spike in overnight parking charges "may deter some non-residents from parking", the overall number of cars - and the supply of parking lots - remain unchanged, Ms Lee noted.
Jurong GRC MP Halimah Yacob reiterated that the problem requires "proper planning, a strategy of how to ensure there's enough parking places in Singapore. And that kind of planning is not only confined to just HDB, it has to be planning on the part of the Ministry of Transport as well".
On its part, HDB is planning to add 5,000 more parking spaces in the next three years….
This is actually a really dumb "solution". It did not solve any problem at all.
The problem of shortage of car park will not simply disappear if you increase the cost. If it does, the fare increase in 1989 would have solve this problem.
The only winner out of this fare hike is URA. They has the opportunity to generate more income.
The fact is there is a shortage of car park. The question is why?
How many percent of a car park lots are being issued to season parking holder? Did HDB/URA issued more season parking (to earn more) and therefore causing these season parking holder unable to find a parking lots?
For example out of 100 lots avail. Does HDB keep 50 lots for season holder or 90 lots?
A simple solution is to increase the percentage of lots reserved for season parking holder. This is fair as they are resident of the area and is paying a monthly fee. They should be guaranteed a parking space.
And of cause a long time solution is to build more parking lots.
What they are trying to do now is what I call the ostrich mentality. "There is no problem if you don't see any problem" By burying you head in the ground.


MONROVIA, Ind. - September 13, 2011 - Sarah Aubrey has been accepted as a professional member into the National Speakers Association (NSA) as of August 2011, following the Association's extensive internal review process. Member qualifications include presenting a minimum number of speeches annually and/or generating a minimum amount of revenue from paid speaking engagements. Aubrey is now part of the NSA network which brings professional speakers together to excel in their careers and better serve clients. She is also involved in several NSA sub-groups including the Motivational/Keynote, Seminar/Workshop Leaders, and Writers/Publishers groups. The NSA, established in 1973, is the leading organization for professional speakers. For more information, visit http://www.nsaspeaker.org/.
Aubrey provides speaking services focusing on entrepreneurship and small business development strategies, including assisting audiences in finding and applying for grants.
Aubrey is a member of the Writer's Center of Indiana where she consults fellow members on developing successful book proposals suitable for publishers. A full time entrepreneur since 2004, she created and sold a direct marketing business, Aubrey's Natural Meats, LLC. in 2008. She is the author of two non-fiction books with over 50,000 copies sold worldwide. Starting & Running Your Own Small Business Farm (Storey Publishing, 2008) helps niche farmers position themselves well for the opportunities afforded by today's market. Aubrey's second book, The Profitable Hobby Farm, How to Build a Sustainable Local Foods Business (Wiley Publishing, Inc., 2010) is a down-to-earth guide giving all the information one needs to know to start a local foods business. Aubrey's company, Prosperity Ag and Energy Resources, is a full-service funding opportunities firm which aids entrepreneurs, communities and institutions of higher education in securing grants and loans in the areas of agriculture, energy, environment and food manufacturing. More information can be found at www.prosperityagenergy.com.
Last month, Prosperity was out and about enjoying summer and many agricultural activities. On Farmers Day, August 17, and in honor of Sarah, I attended ISDA's Celebration of Agriculture & Photo Contest Reception in the Normandy Barn at the Indiana State Fair. The highlight of this event was the presentation of the 2011 AgriVision Award presented by L.T. Governor Becky Skillman, which honors a Hoosier who has displayed a deep commitment and vision for Indiana agriculture.
In addition to the award ceremony, I was happy to represent Sarah as she was recognized as a 2011 ISDA Photo Contest winner with her picture, "Hereford Haze." Her photo was on display in the Normandy Barn for the duration of the state fair, and is currently on display in a traveling photo gallery. All winning photos will also be in a 2012 calendar sponsored by Indiana Farm Bureau and designed by Hoosier Ag Today.
Also in the month of August, I attended Indiana Farm Tours in Southern Indiana hosted by the Indiana Soybean Alliance. The tour was a two-day experience, and stops were made at multiple ag production facilities. A tour bus carried participants to facilities consisting of cattle, egg laying pullets, hog, turkey and chicken, and dairy. Thank you Indiana Soybean Alliance for hosting the tour!


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"Shared Values, Shared Goals": Another Data Point Against False Equivalence
Via MoJo's Molly Redden and Dana Liebelson, here's a little taste of the conversation on a conference call held by Bishop E.W. Jackson on which the junior senator from Kentucky was a participant:
During the call, Paul generally gave routine answers to questions on abortion, border security, and the size of the military. One caller did ask Paul if he supported Obama's recent declaration that June was LGBT Pride Month and if he believed homosexuality is an illness. The question was reminiscent of a tweet Jackson wrote in June 2009, when Obama designated June as Pride Month: "Well that just makes me feel ikky all over. Yuk!"
"I don't think that there's really a role for the federal government in deciding what people's behavior at home should be one way or another," Paul said. "It's not something the federal government needs to be involved in."
After Paul left the conference call, Jackson said he suspected the caller who asked about Pride Month was trying to harass them. "Thank god he was respectful," Jackson said. "But I just want to encourage everybody, that they are going to talk about us like [we're] dogs because all they know is hatred, because all they know is anger and bitterness, because there's something wrong with them on the inside…And by the way, they also want to destroy us…We are in a fight for our very lives, for our survival."
Jackson then discussed Obama's announcement of the release of Bowe Bergdahl, an American soldier captured in Afghanistan. He said that the president "could not help but smile" when Bergdahl's father, Robert, said "allahu akbar—or whatever it is they say" at the press conference.
Jackson continued: "I have been roundly criticized for saying the president has Muslim sensibilities. That's not my statement—that's just a statement of fact…In this situation you would think he would have restrained himself. But he could not help but smile when that man said 'Praise be to Allah.'"
None of this, of course, was particularly unusual for Jackson. So what on earth was Rand Paul doing on this conference call? And lest anyone of the False Equivalence tribe dismiss the incident as an example of the craziness that can be found in the "extremes" of both parties, let's remember Jackson was a Republican nominee for statewide office in Virginia just last year. Is there anyone remotely "equivalent" to Jackson among statewide Democratic nominees anywhere? And even if you can scrounge up one, is there anything on the progressive side of the political spectrum remotely like the dozens of Republican pols who sound just like Jackson in their homophobia, Islamophobia, and crazy-talk about Obama every single day? And if there were, would any Democrat running for president do anything other than run away from these people as rapidly as they could, maybe attacking them for good measure?
No, no and no. And the sad thing is that we barely even notice any more that to an alarming extent the GOP is divided between these people and those who curry their favor and hasten to assure them they share their values and goals.
By: Ed Kilgore, Contributing Writer, Washington Monthly Political Animal, June 4, 2014
June 5, 2014 Posted by raemd95 | GOP, Rand Paul, Republicans	| Bowe Bergdahl, Conservatives, E. W. Jackson, False Equivalency, Kentucky, LGBT Pride Month, State-Wide Office | Leave a comment
"Unhinged Insanity": Michele Bachmann's Powerful Legacy
Michele Bachmann's retirement from the House of Representatives is an obvious loss for political journalists and their editors, who could guarantee web traffic by just reprinting anything she said, with minimal comment. That was especially true during the Republican presidential primaries.
In her short time as a candidate, Bachmann blamed natural disasters on America's unwillingness to cut non-defense discretionary spending, accused Texas Governor Rick Perry of spreading autism with mandatory vaccinations, warned that Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad had plans to bomb the United States with a nuclear weapon, and pushed for a full ban on pornography.
The unhinged insanity of all of this is worth noting. But what we should also point out is that none of this disqualified her from consideration as a presidential candidate. Not only did Bachmann win the Iowa straw poll—a symbolic victory, but a victory nonetheless—but at one point, she led her competitors for the nomination. In a July survey from Public Policy Polling, 21 percent of Republican primary voters said she was their top choice for the nomination, compared to 20 percent for the eventual nominee, Mitt Romney, 12 percent for Rick Perry, and 11 percent for Herman Cain.
In other words, Bachmann may embarrass GOP elites, but actual Republicans don't seem to have a huge problem with her or her antics. Indeed, if there's a "Bachmann style" in conservative politics, it's only grown more prominent since her moment in the spotlight. Texas Senator Ted Cruz is building his national brand by appealing to the same right-wing fever swamps. Conservatives describe him as a new "standard-bearer" for "constitutional conservatism"—a term popularized by Bachmann.
The entire Republican Party has taken a page from the Minnesota congresswoman with its obsessive focus on the Benghazi "scandal" and the situation at the Internal Revenue Service, using both to accuse President Obama of outright treason (in the case of Benghazi) and Nixonian tactics of intimidation (in the case of the IRS). The main difference between Bachmann and many of her Republican colleagues was of form, not content. Her view of President Obama—a dangerous left-wing tyrant—is shared by many on the right.
Look, for example, at Kentucky Senator Rand Paul, a contender for the 2016 Republican presidential nomination who has also been known to moonlight as a conspiracy- monger. Earlier this month, he lent his name to a fundraising email that accused Obama of working with "anti-American globalists plot[ing] against the Constitution."
It's of a piece with South Carolina Senator Lindsay Graham's assertion that the Obama administration manipulated talking points to avoid political blame for the attacks in Benghazi during the presidential election. "This is a story of manipulation by the government with the president being complicit of trying to tell a story seven weeks before an election that was politically beneficial for the White House, but did not represent the facts on the ground," Graham said during an interview on Fox News two weeks ago.
And that's just the national Republican Party. In states like Virginia, the party has elevated candidates who take Bachmann's extremism and dial it to 11. E.W. Jackson, the Virginia GOP's nominee for lieutenant governor, has already made national news with his furious denunciations of same-sex marriage, LGBT Americans (they're "sick people psychologically, mentally, and emotionally"), and Planned Parenthood (it's worse than the Ku Klux Klan). Their gubernatorial nominee, Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli, differs only by degree. He won't accuse reproductive rights advocates of engaging in an anti-black genocide, but he will go after groups that attempt to dispense accurate information on sexually transmitted infections, contraceptives, and sexual health.
Observers from across the political spectrum are cheering Michele Bachmann's departure from politics, and for good reason: She was a toxic influence on public life. But it's worth remembering that what she represents—extreme right-wing paranoia—is still present and powerful on the national stage.
By: Jamelle Bouie, The American Prospect, May 29, 2013
May 31, 2013 Posted by raemd95 | Politics	| E. W. Jackson, Ken Cuccinelli, Lindsey Graham, Michele Bachmann, Rand Pail, Republicans, Right Wing, Tea-party, Ted Cruz | Leave a comment
"Let The Excitement Begin": Virginia GOP Continues Its Sprint From The Mainstream
E.W. Jackson, the Republicans' candidate for lieutenant governor in Virginia this year, is on record saying quite a few nutty things. Late last week, however, Jackson effectively said his bizarre rhetorical excesses shouldn't be held against him.
The comments, he said, "were spoken in my role as a minister, not as a candidate."
I don't mean to sound picky, but when someone seeks elected office, the things he or she did before becoming a candidate still count.
Meanwhile, Bob FitzSimmonds, a former aide to gubernatorial nominee Ken Cuccinelli and a top official in the Republican Party of Virginia, said last week, "I'm not a big fan of contraception, frankly. I think there are some issues, we're giving morning-after pills to 12-year-olds, and pretty soon I guess we'll hand them out to babies, I don't know."
Why would anyone give emergency contraception to a baby? I don't know, but apparently this GOP official and close Cuccinelli ally is concerned about it. (FitzSimmonds also made headlines last fall for talking about his belief that President Obama is going "to hell.")
So, let's take stock. Virginia's Republican gubernatorial candidate is a fierce culture warrior; Virginia's Republican candidate for lieutenant governor is an unusually strange right-wing activist; Virginia's Republican candidate for state attorney general once sponsored a bill that would have required women to report their miscarriages to the state; and Virginia's Republican Party is led in part by someone who still opposes contraception.
Oh, and Virginia's current Republican governor is embroiled in a scandal.
All of this is important when considering which party will have greater success reaching out to independents, moderates, and swing voters with no real party allegiance, but there's also the matter of waking up the Democratic base. It's an off-year cycle, and Democratic Party leaders have long wondered how they'll generate sufficient levels of excitement among progressive voters to show up.
It appears GOP activists in the commonwealth are taking care of that problem.
By: Steve Benen, The Madow Blog, May 28, 2013
May 29, 2013 Posted by raemd95 | Politics	| Bob FitzSimmonds, Bob McDonnell, Conservatives, Contraception, E. W. Jackson, GOP, Ken Cuccinelli, Virginia, Virginia Republicans | Leave a comment
"Tied At The Hip": E.W. Jackson Throws A Wrench Into The Ken Cuccinelli Plan
Ken Cuccinelli's plan for winning the Virginia gubernatorial race is straightforward. Avoid outspoken statements on social issues—the same ones that alienate most Virginians but excite his rightwing base—and focus the campaign on jobs and growth.
So far, he's done exactly that. Of his three television advertisements, for example none mention abortion or same-sex marriage. Instead, the first—narrated by his wife—presents Cuccinelli as a defender of the vulnerable, highlighting his time working in homeless shelters and prosecuting human traffickers. The second is a straightforward ad on the economy—where he touts his Ryan-esque tax plan of cuts—and the third is meant to humanize Cuccinelli, and features the widow of a slain Fairfax County police officer, who endorses the attorney general.
E.W. Jackson, the newly-minted GOP nominee for lieutenant governor, throws a huge wrench in this strategy.
Jackson is known for his outspoken social conservatism. He routinely denounces LGBT equality—calling gay Americans "sick people psychologically, mentally, and emotionally"—and has compared Planned Parenthood to the Ku Klux Klan, accusing them of engineering the mass slaughter of black children through their support for abortion rights. Indeed, this rhetoric is the whole reason for his popularity among Virginia conservatives and the reason he was able to win the nomination.
Which means he's unlikely to abandon it on the campaign trail. Cuccinelli is a deft politician, but not so deft that he's able to distance himself from someone who—ostensibly—is his running mate. And so, at a campaign stop in Abdingdon—in the southwest corner of the state—Cuccinelli told supporters that he's "glad" Jackson is on the ticket. Why? Because the lieutenant governor cast the tie-breaking vote in the Virginia Senate, and at the moment, the senate has an even split between Democrats and Republicans. Here's more from the Virginian Pilot:
"I don't need to know what the subject matter that's going to tie up 20–20 that the LG can vote on will be. I'm confident that we're going to get the right vote every single time out of E.W. Jackson," Cuccinelli said of the Chesapeake-based minister. "So I'm glad he's on this ticket, too."
Expect this quote to be circulated around the state by Virginia Democrats. And for good reason. Given their demographic challenges, Democrats—and Terry McAuliffe in particular—have to convince Virginians that the GOP is too extreme to trust. With Cuccinelli now tied to someone further to the right than he is, that task has become much, much easier.
May 24, 2013 Posted by raemd95 | Politics	| Conservatives, E. W. Jackson, GOP, Ken Cuccinelli, LGBT, Planned Parenthood, Republicans, Terry McAuliffe, Virginia | Leave a comment
"The GOP Has Learned Nothing": A Party Letting Its Base Lead Where The Rest Of America Dares Not To Follow
You'd think the conservative base would have learned its lesson in 2010, when, in a fever pitch of epic magnitude, it nominated Christine O'Donnell, Ken Buck, Sharron Angle and Joe Miller to run for the U.S. Senate. Suddenly, what looked like a prime opportunity for Republicans to flip the upper chamber and send Democratic Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., packing turned into an example of a party letting its base lead where the rest of America dared not follow. Or perhaps in 2012, when Indiana Senate nominee Richard Mourdock was sunk by an extremely ill-advised and incorrect rape comment.
However, one look at the gubernatorial ticket in Virginia shows that the tea party's dream is alive and kicking. Not only has the party nominated Ken Cuccinelli for governor – who believes that the entire social safety net is "despicable, dishonest, and worthy of condemnation"– but it has added Rev. E.W. Jackson to run for Lieutenant Governor.
Amongst Jackson's greatest hits are calling gay and lesbian Americans "sick people psychologically, mentally and emotionally"; claiming that the infamous 3/5ths clause of the Constitution was "anti-slavery"; saying that Planned Parenthood is akin to the Ku Klux Klan; and claiming that the agenda of the Democratic party is "worthy of the Antichrist."
This was not supposed to be the plan. Though Cuccinelli is an avowed culture warrior and tea party darling, he has been staying away from those issues on the campaign trail, instead focusing on jobs and the economy. But as Jamelle Bouie explains at the American Prospect, Jackson's inclusion on the ticket is going to make that strategy a lot harder to pull off:
So far, he's done exactly that. Of his three television advertisements, for example none mention abortion or same-sex marriage … E.W. Jackson, the newly-minted GOP nominee for lieutenant governor, throws a huge wrench in this strategy.
As Tim Murphy detailed at Mother Jones, Jackson was able to grab the nomination because Virginia's GOP eschews a traditional primary in favor of "a one-day nominating convention packed with grassroots activists." And those activists, as they have across the country, clearly have little regard for such parochial concerns as electability in a state that voted for President Barack Obama twice and is represented in the Senate by two Democrats. "These kinds of comments are simply not appropriate, especially not from someone who wants to be a standard bearer for our party and hold the second highest elected office in our state," said the current Republican Lt. Gov., Bill Bolling, when asked about Jackson. "They feed the image of extremism, and that's not where the Republican Party needs to be."
Of course, Cuccinelli and Jackson may very well win. (They are running against Terry McAuliffe, after all, who doesn't inspire much in the way of excitement.) Stranger things have certainly happened.
But in the long run, consistently nominating extreme social warriors, when the country is shown to be consistently going the other way on social issues, is only going to hurt the GOP's actual policy goals. For proof of that, go say hello to Majority Leader Reid or google how the repeal of Obamacare is going.
By: Pat Garofalo, U. S. News and World Report, May 22, 2013
May 23, 2013 Posted by raemd95 | Politics	| Conservatives, E. W. Jackson, Ken Cuccinelli, LGBT, Planned Parenthood, Slavery, Tea-party, Terry McAuliffe, Virginia | Leave a comment


Incident investigation is a vital process for understanding and preventing incidents, both large and small, which can cause untold and often irrecoverable damage to individual lives, equipment, organisational safety culture, company reputation and profit.
Incident investigation is carried out by global companies to ensure that all levels of incidents, from slips trips and falls to major incidents, are investigated in a structured and standardised way in order to establish the causes of incidents, and to take the necessary preventative steps to stop the same or similar incidents from recurring.
By using a proven, robust and structured investigation system such as the Kelvin TOP-SET process, investigations are not only planned, managed and completed in a timely fashion, but produce recommendations and reports that are consistent and of a high quality. This is essential for the sustained improvement of corporate memory and of internal working practices.
Effective incident investigation helps all levels of employees to improve their own and their company's safety awareness, understanding of safety, and safety performance. Leading companies are now using the Kelvin TOP-SET process as part of their quality and assurance programmes in order to develop an understanding of how to better their company's overall business performance. Incidents such as management error or operational failure hold valuable information that TOP-SET can unlock. This information can be used to improve future planning and working practices.
Learning from the past helps businesses to evolve and to progress. Kelvin TOP-SET is a straightforward, user-friendly methodology that facilitates this, and helps companies to integrate all that can be learned from investigating incidents throughout an organisation.


Aron Zinshtein was born in Nizhny Tagil in 1947. As a child, the future artist attended drawing classes at a local cultural center. He then entered the famous art school in Nizhny Tagil. Zinshtein didn't want to stop at what he had achieved and moved to Leningrad where he entered the Mukhina Art School. After graduation, Zinshtein worked in the workshop for monumental and decorative art that belonged to one of the city constructing institutions making interiors for public buildings and offices. It was then that Zinshtein started to make sketches that later served as the basis of his artwork.
Aron Zinshtein is known not only as a talented painter but also as a graphic artist: apart from the hundreds of etchings and linocut prints he designed a great number of publications for books by Shakespeare, Dostoyevsky and Bulat Okudzhava. Gouache pictures by Zinshtein as well as his paintings and graphics are often comparable to the children's drawings that he collects by swapping them for something from little genii. They look very harmonious on the walls of his workshop.
Zinshtein works in a pronounced, expressive manner. His works always demonstrate motion, vitality and irony. This cheerful spirit is what distinguishes Zinshtein's style from the German or American expressionism. The artist hardly ever paints from nature. Instead he makes numerous sketches and arranges them into albums. Later, he recreates those drawings in colour on canvas or paper. Zinshtein's subjects are the most diverse and simple — they are prompted by life itself. These are people who hurry along the city streets and are carried by underground trains. One can spot the artist's fondness for city celebrations, sport festivals and spectacular events: parades, fireworks and football. The artist singles out many typical gestures and postures and, at the same time, analyzes the crowd as one plastic whole.
Aron Zinshtein was always a long distance away from all the possible "left" and "right" movements in art. He wasn't recognized by both — Soviet official art and non-conformist artists. He values frankness and freedom in art. Zinshtein confesses, 'I am a naïve artist, I can depict everything'.


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Buhari Approves Committee To Implement Petroleum Industry Act Immediately
President Muhammadu Buhari has approved a committee to immediately commence the implementation of the Petroleum Industry Act (PIA).
The steering committee, which has 12 months duration for the assignment, is headed by the Minister of State for Petroleum Resources, Timipre Sylva.
President Buhari gave the approval on Wednesday while giving a remark on the Act which he assented to two days ago.
He spoke during a meeting with the leadership of the National Assembly led by the President of the Senate, Ahmed Lawan, at the Presidential Villa in Abuja.
The President hinted that relevant ministries, departments, agencies have been tasked to work with Sylva towards the successful completion of the implementation process.
He decried that the lack of political will has hampered the growth of the industry, adding that the country has lost about $50 billion in the last 10 years.
However, President Buhari is hopeful that the new Act will coordinate the activities of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) and reposition it for further progress.
"The primary responsibility of the steering committee shall be to guide the effective and timely implementation of the PIA in the course of transition to the petroleum industry envisaged in the reform programme, and ensure that the new institutions created have the full capability to deliver on their mandate under the new legislation," said a statement by the President's spokesman, Femi Adesina.
The committee has as members Permanent Secretary of the Ministry of Petroleum Resources, Group Managing Director of NNPC, Executive Chairman of Federal Inland Revenue Service (FIRS), as well as representatives of the Ministry of Justice, and the Ministry of Finance, Budget and National Planning.
President Buhari's Senior Special Assistant on Natural Resources, Olufemi Lijadu, is the External Legal Adviser, while the Executive Secretary of Petroleum Technology Development Fund (PTDF) will serve as Head of the Coordinating Secretariat and the Implementation Working Group.
Following the meeting with the lawmakers, the President went on to preside over the Federal Executive Council (FEC) meeting.
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Life on Mars is a science fiction crime drama television series which originally aired on ABC from October 9, 2008 to April 1, 2009. It is an adaptation of the BAFTA-winning original UK series of the same name produced by the BBC. The series was co-produced by Kudos Film & Television, 20th Century Fox Television and ABC Studios. The series tells the story of New York City police detective Sam Tyler, who, after being struck by a car in 2008, regains consciousness in 1973. Fringing between multiple genres, including thriller, science fiction and police procedural, the series remained ambiguous regarding its central plot, with the character himself unsure about his situation. The series also starred Harvey Keitel, Jonathan Murphy, Michael Imperioli, and Gretchen Mol. Life on Mars garnered critical praise for its premise, acting, and depiction of the 1970s but suffered from a declining viewership after its premiere and a two-month hiatus. ABC announced on March 2, 2009 that it would not be ordering a second season. A DVD set of the complete series was released on September 29, 2009.
Genre: Drama , Sci-Fi , Mystery , Crime , Sci-Fi & Fantasy , Action & Adventure
Actor: Jason O'Mara , Harvey Keitel , Jonathan Murphy , Michael Imperioli , John Cenatiempo , Gretchen Mol , Dominick Mancino , Greg D'Agostino , Chris Miskiewicz
Season 1 - Life on Mars
17 "Life is a Rock"
"When Sam Tyler receives a phone call that presents him with three tasks he must perform so he can return to his life in the future, he must weigh his alternatives and decide whether to stay in 1973 or go home."
16 "Everyone Knows It's Windy"
"Crime hits home after Ray and Chris are shot by a gang member. When the shooter is found dead near a bar, Sam becomes the lead suspect since he has been working undercover as part of the gang. With evidence mounting against him, Sam must search for the real killer before it's too late for him"
15 "All the Young Dudes"
"When Sam goes undercover as a gang member, he has to reveal a dark side in order to keep his cover. While undercover, Sam is pushed to the limit when he is ordered to bind and shoot a woman."
14 "Coffee, Tea or Annie"
"When a Pan Atlantic air hostess is found dead, Annie volunteers to go undercover in order to solve a series of homicides. Annie, Sam and Ray, working undercover, are able to find an unlikely suspect."
13 "Revenge of Broken Jaw"
"When the Weather Underground sends the department bomb threats on the anniversary of their leader's death, Lt. Hunt takes the threats personally. As Sam, Annie and Lt. Hunt investigate, they soon find a connection between a student and Pat Olsen, a professor."
12 "The Simple Secret of the Note in Us All"
"The detectives at the 1-2-5 investigate the murder of newspaper journalist Joey Conway. Sam is convinced the killer is the same criminal from a case in 2008. He is motivated by flashbacks to the case, which puts him at odds with his coworkers who think someone else is guilty."
11 "Home is Where You Hang Your Holster"
"NYC Councilman Bobby Prince shares a secret with Sam after Prince is caught with a hooker during a raid on a motel. The secret leaves Sam with even more questions as well as the realization he has more in common with Prince than he had ever thought. Meanwhile, Gene Hunt locks down the precinct after a shooting, Maria and her father confront each other, and Ray's wife, Denise, adds tension to the drama."
10 "Let All the Children Boogie"
"When rock star Sebastian Grace receives a death threat, Sam and Chris are exposed to the rock-and-roll lifestyle that includes one of Grace's groupies called "Rocket Girl." Things really get strange when Chris finds Sebastian and Rocket Girl waiting for UFOs in the swampy area of New Jersey known as the Meadowlands."
9 "The Dark Side of the Mook"
"Ray's shady brother may have played a role in the number of recent decapitations in which the squad is investigating. but other suspects pop up too, such as a biker, a Wall Street executive and badly disfigured man."
8 "Take a Look at the Lawmen"
"Lt. Hunt's squad and Lt. Nunzio's crew renew their long-standing rivalry due to a bank robbery with a connection to the Russian mob. Meanwhile, Sam is attracted to a pretty, young social worker."
7 "The Man Who Sold the World"
"When the baby of a prominent family is kidnapped for ransom, Sam Tyler is shocked to discover that his own father, Vic Tyler, may be involved. Sam's discovery leads him to face some deep dark secrets about his childhood."
6 "Tuesday's Dead"
"With a life-and-death hostage situation paralleling own strange circumstances, Sam Tyler is ordered with the rest of the 1-2-5 to diffuse a potentially deadly face-off at a hospital where a crazed gunman is trying to force a doctor to reverse a dangerous operation on the renegade's brother, and the squad are all targeted in the gunman's cross-hairs."
5 "Things to Do in New York When You Think You're Dead"
"A racial confrontation is triggered between the African Americans and Puerto Ricans in the neighborhood when a young African American girl's body is discovered thrown from a rooftop. Working the case with Sam Tyler and the squad is the cop Sam considers his mentor in 2008 - a much younger Fletcher Bellow - who doesn't recognize his future protege. Tangling with the Black Liberation Army, who is intent on hunting down the Puerto Rican suspect first to levy their own kind of justice, Sam, Bellow and the detectives of the 1-2-5 are in a race against time if Angel Ramirez is to have any chance to answer for the crime. But in the end, Sam must battle the racial attitudes in his own precinct - most notably Lt. Hunt and Detective Carling - and a dramatic standoff on the same rooftop leads to gunshots being fired."
4 "Have You Seen Your Mother, Baby, Standing in the Shadows?"
"Sam is unwillingly but hypnotically pulled back into his childhood when he becomes entangled in local gangster Nick Profaci's assault on a young, beautiful woman. Sam is amazed to discover that the woman, who is oddly familiar to him, is actually his mother back in 1973. While he anxiously attempts to save her, he uncovers two unsolved murders of women that possibly point to the involvement of Profaci and his mob boss, Elliot Casso's. But even more alarming is the discovery that members of the 1-2-5 - including Lt. Hunt - may be mixed up with Casso and his crew and may have prevented justice from being carried out."
3 "My Maharishi is Bigger than Your Maharishi"
"The murder of a returning Vietnam veteran has Lieutenant Hunt outraged, as he demands a quick resolution to what quickly becomes a complicated and controversial case. As Sam and the squad's team of detectives explore the circumstances surrounding the homicide, Tyler is sent down a mysterious path that may provide clues about his own family's past and why he is back in 1973"
2 "The Real Adventures of the Unreal Sam Tyler"
"Is this vintage1973 Sam Tyler real or not? Sam's unbelieving ears clearly hear a radio station announcing that Elvis will perform a concert in memory of his mother, but he's still not sure how or why he landed in these circumstances. Moreover, he doesn't have much time to think about his own predicament. A string of fatal robberies at AAA Money check cashing stores are baffling the 1-2-5, and Sam jumps headlong into the case, which features no forced entries and no witnesses. Even with Lt. Hunt strong-arming the lead suspect, it still takes an unexpected turn of events to make the squad to look within to solve the crime. At the end of the day Sam, in spite of himself, might even experience some true happiness - temporary though it might be."
1 "Out Here in the Fields"
"Modern-day NYPD Detective Sam Tyler finds himself suddenly hurtled back to the tumultuous times of New York City in 1973 when he's hit by a car while chasing down a criminal."
Gabby's Dollhouse
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Florida Man Murders
Trailer: Life on Mars


Metal Rouge is the duo of LA-born Helga Fassonaki and New Zealander Andrew Scott, formed in Auckland, NZ in 2006. After relocating to Los Angeles in 2007 the band switched from earlier Persian instrumentation to pedal and lap steel guitars and the music took on the form of streamlined horizontal psychedelic continuums. Unlike many contemporary musicians coming of out of California, Metal Rouge stand defiantly against meta-new age irony, crafting an intensely personal brand of electrified minimal maximalism at the intersection of New Zealand free noise, NYC loft minimalism and free jazz. Their sets over the last two years have consisted of simple guitar figures strung around drugged minimalist drum pulses interspersed with explosive treble-heavy freeform ragas and fearless outré vocalese. Currently bi-coastal with Andrew in Los Angeles and Helga in New Jersey they continue to throw ideas across the continent, some of which resulted in their new LP 'Soft Erase' out this summer on Emerald Cocoon.
You might know AULOS' SECOND REED better as Part Wild Horses Mane On Both Sides, but, whilst the line-up remains the same, the concept is completely new. Setting aside their much lauded flute w/FX and drums w/throat mic duo, Kelly Jayne Jones and Pascal Nichols have picked-up organic matter and found objects and unlocked their previously unrealised performative potential by amplifying them and applying their deep improvisational technique to slow-burning, ecstatic effect.
Chalaque is, to all intents and purposes, the solo project of guitar player Nick Mitchell, who currently leads the eight-piece free rock unit Desmadrados Soldados De Ventura and was formerly a member of A Wake and Beach Fuzz. Occasionally augmented by a band (drummer Pascal Nichols and bass player Dylan Hughes most frequently), Nick uses synths or tapes or other instrumentation to forge repetitive cycles around which he develops damaged arpeggios, discords and brain-fryingly extended solos on guitar recalling the creamy dorian style of Kimio Mizutani. A new 7″ is out in June on Golden Lab and a cassette on Feathered Coyote is due the same month.


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	/**常量: 创建者用户ID*/
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	/**常量: 创建时间*/
	public static final String FIELD_CREATE_TIME = "createTime";

	/**常量: 更新者登录名*/
	public static final String FIELD_UPDATOR = "updator";
	/** 常量:更新者用户ID*/
	public static final String FIELD_UPDATE_USER_ID = "updateUserId";
	/**常量: 更新时间*/
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Il palazzo Gambara è un edificio antico di Pralboino in provincia di Brescia.

Storia
L'odierno palazzo, ricostruito nel XVIII secolo, sorge sul luogo dove era stato edificato il castello trecentesco dei Gambara. Le prime trasformazioni iniziarono nella seconda metà del XV secolo. I Gambara, nel breve periodo francese (1509-1512) allargarono il loro piccolo dominio con l'aggiunta di Manerbio e Gottolengo. Al ritorno della Serenissima, si dovette restituire il di più e ritornare nei confini precedenti. Restavano tuttavia le alleanze coi Pio, i Pico e i da Correggio e quindi il desiderio di gareggiare con queste illustri signorie. Quando Veronica nel 1508 uscì da qui sposa al marchese Giberto VII da Correggio, il castello doveva essere al suo massimo splendore.

Verso la fine del 1500 probabilmente le molte divisioni della proprietà fra i vari rami diedero inizio ad una certa decadenza delle vecchie strutture del palazzo. Dopo il 1641 il conte Guerriero non denuncia più la proprietà di metà della rocca, ma semplicemente una casa in piazza. Un nuovo impulso allo splendore della casata venne dato da Alemanno Gambara, il quale appena tornato dai 20 anni di bando inflittigli dalla Repubblica di Venezia, quasi per riaffermare l'antica potenza della sua casa, incaricò l'abate Gaspare Turbini di ricostruire completamente il palazzo contemporaneamente alla Chiesa parrocchiale (1782-1790).
Nel corso dei secoli il palazzo passò ai Ceriani (1826) e, nel Novecento, ai Pellegrini mantenendo la denominazione di quando era una rocca o fortezza.

Aspetto esterno
Il palazzo si eleva all'interno della cinta medievale con una regolare pianta quadrata, di circa cinquanta metri di lato, sviluppata su tre piani abitati. Le facciate esterne sono semplici con finestre spesse. Gli spigoli sono bugnati fino al cornicione e sono interrati dalle fasce marcapiani. La facciata verso ponente ha una doppia porta d'ingresso, arricchita da un lungo balcone in pietra e da quattro lesene, da un frontone triangolare e tre obelischi in pietra. Degno di rilievo il grande cortile che si presenta arricchito su tre lati da un porticato, alto e possente con solide colonne toscane. Le campate nel lato d'ingresso fra le colonne sono sette. Trabeata è la campata centrale, più piccola che divide i due portali e spartisce a metà le sei campate. Il lato orientale è rimasto invece senza portico, ma l'intenzione di costruirlo vi era sicuramente, come dimostrano le due colonne voltatesta sormontate da vasi di pietra. Nei lati sud e est rimangono al piano terreno le vecchie scalette anonime che dall'ammezato portano al piano nobile che vennero dal Turbini trasformate in scaloncini abbastanza rozzi.

Aspetto interno
Manca, in un palazzo di questa mole, lo scalone interno, un tempo considerato quasi la parte più importante di un palazzo. Rimangono due modeste scale che conducono al primo piano in cui le sale sono decorate con eleganza e garbo.
Nel lato a Nord si trovano tre sale con curiose volte a spicchi e, sul soffitto e nelle pareti, decorazioni ancora di gusto barocco, in parte cancellate e modesti medaglioni.
Il saloncino centrale porta dipinta sulla volta una finta cupola a cassettoni ed emblemi guerreschi: alle pareti riaffiorano, sotto la calce recente, lesene ioniche e altissimi candelabri dipinti su fondo verde.
La galleria sopra il portico e altre due sale a nord hanno delle decorazioni a foglie palustri, tendaggi e trofei sia sul soffitto che sulle pareti.

Personaggi illustri legati al palazzo

Veronica Gambara
Nacque a Pralboino, feudo della famiglia Gambara tra il 29 e il 30 novembre 1485, dal conte Gianfrancesco e da Alda Pio.

I primi anni della sua vita non sono noti, si sa però che fu precoce nell'esercizio poetico, come testimoniamo la pubblicazione di diversi componimenti giovanili. Si sposò con il conte Giberto VII da Correggio, città dove Veronica si stabilì nel 1508 dando al marito un discendente maschio: Ippolito (1510-1552). Catturata durante un'insurrezione della città, venne librata dai francesi di Gaston de Foix (1512). Dopo la morte di Gilberto, avvenuta nel 1518, respinse l'idea di contrarre un secondo matrimonio e si dedicò alla cura dei figli e del piccolo stato, abbandonando l'atteggiamento filo francese e difendendolo dalle aggressioni armate. Nonostante gli impegni politici, non abbandonò gli studi letterari continuando a produrre rime e curò un'intensa corrispondenza con i più importanti letterati dell'epoca.

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Bibliografia

Voci correlate
 Famiglia Gambara
 Pralboino
 Gambara

Altri progetti

Palazzi della provincia di Brescia
Gambara
Gambara (famiglia)
Bassa Bresciana

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On Sunday, 18 December 2016 our parish family gathered once again for our annual Christmas Luncheon & Program, celebrating the birth of Christ in anticipation of the upcoming Feast.
After that, everyone was invited into the hall where they enjoyed a delicious Lenten luncheon hosted by our youth group (assisted by a group of parents, grandparents and friends). Then, members of our "Grai Românesc" ensemble presented a short program of traditional Romanian carols (colinde) followed by children singing and playing Christmas songs.
As in previous years, we also welcomed our very special guests of the day… Santa & Mrs. Claus! They distributed gifts to the children and stayed around a little while to take pictures too.


US President Donald Trump's bark on trade policy has so far been far worse than his bite. But this may be changing. In January, he raised tariffs on imported washing machines and solar cells. Now, he has ordered steep tariffs on imported steel and aluminium (25% and 10%, respectively), basing the move on a rarely used national-security exception to World Trade Organization rules.
Many commentators have overreacted to the possibility of tariffs, predicting a 'trade war' and worse. One expert called the steel and aluminium tariffs the most significant trade restrictions since 1971, when President Richard M Nixon imposed a 10% import surcharge in response to the US trade deficit, and predicted that, 'It will have huge consequences for the global trading order.' The Wall Street Journal wrote that Trump's tariffs were the 'biggest policy blunder of his Presidency'—a remarkable claim in light of the administration's missteps over Russia, the FBI, North Korea, immigration, taxation, white nationalism and much else.
The reality is that Trump's trade measures to date amount to small potatoes. In particular, they pale in comparison to the scale and scope of the protectionist policies of President Ronald Reagan's administration in the 1980s. Reagan raised tariffs and tightened restrictions on a wide range of industries, including textiles, automobiles, motorcycles, steel, lumber, sugar and electronics. He famously pressured Japan to accept 'voluntary' restraints on car exports. He imposed 100% tariffs on selected Japanese electronics products when Japan allegedly failed to keep exported microchip prices high.
Those warnings proved alarmist. The world economy was not much affected by the temporary reversal during the 1980s of the trend toward trade liberalisation. In fact, it may even have benefitted. Reagan's protectionism acted as a safety valve that let off political steam, thereby preventing greater disruptions.
And once the US macro economy improved, the pace of globalisation accelerated significantly. The North American Free Trade Agreement, the WTO (which explicitly banned the 'voluntary' export restraints used by Reagan) and China's export boom all followed in the 1990s, as did the removal of remaining restrictions on cross-border finance.
The voluntary export restraints of the 1980s in autos and steel, for example, were administered by the exporting countries. This allowed Japanese and European companies to collude in raising their export prices for the US market. Indeed, these companies may even have become more profitable thanks to US trade restrictions. There is little chance that South Korean exporters of washing machines or Chinese exporters of solar cells will fare as well today. Trump's unilateralism will cause greater anger among trade partners, and thus is more likely to generate retaliation.
Another contrast with the Reagan-era measures is that we are living in a more advanced stage of globalisation, and the problems that have accompanied it are greater. The push for hyper-globalisation in the 1990s has created a deep division between those who prosper in the global economy and share its values, and those who do not. As a result, the forces of nationalism and nativism are probably more powerful than at any time since the end of World War II.
But it is in the domestic arena that the bulk of the work needs to be done. Repairing the domestic social contract requires a range of social, taxation, and innovation policies to lay the groundwork for a 21st-century version of the New Deal. But with his corporate tax cuts and deregulation, Trump is moving in the opposite direction. Sooner or later, the disastrous nature of Trump's domestic agenda will become evident even to his voters. At that point, an old-fashioned trade war may seem irresistible, to provide distraction and political cover.
Dani Rodrik professor of international political economy at Harvard University's John F. Kennedy School of Government and the author of Straight talk on trade: ideas for a sane world economy. This article is presented in partnership with Project Syndicate © 2018. Image courtesy the White House.


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Stream: Beach House, "Lazuli"
By Duncan Cooper
Beach House have posted "Lazuli," a new, hammock-makeout-ready track from their forthcoming fourth album, Bloom, to their YouTube channel. The song title comes from an unbelievably blue semi-precious stone mined around Afghanistan, whose color has been replicated in the limited edition "Lazuli" 7-inch Sub Pop will be releasing for Record Store Day, April 21st. Bloom comes out less than a month after that, on May 15th.
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Whether we know it know it or not, having persistent health issues has been what most of the people are suffering right now.
These are the common list of problems with the given solutions on preventing such diseases.
Ingrown hairs are usually the kind of hairs that usually grow back into the skin that most people get annoyed with because of its roughness. People with coarse hairs are the ones who are very annoyed with this kind of problem.
When experiencing this kind of health issue, it is best to remove the hair. Waxing of the hair is better and safer to do to avoid scars. It is better to make use of the hair removal cream. Regular exfoliation can help peel off the dead skin cells that are the ones who block the pores of your skin.
You may try to use a clean needle and tweezers in removing the hair, but don't just poke it to avoid any scar.
Irritable Bowel Syndrome has been one of the most common health issue that mostly people are suffering. This peeves your large intestines that will lead to some cases such as bloating, gas, diarrhea, abdominal pain, constipation, and cramping. Going to the bathroom repeatedly makes the person suffering from IBS not comfortable and very conscious as well.
Irritable Bowel Syndrome has no way to be prevented. There is no cure for an Irritable Bowel Syndrome but it is something that each of us must be in control of everything we take into our body. Even if there is no cure for this problem, keep in mind that there are various effects in minimizing the health issue on Irritable Bowel Syndrome.
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Catholic School vs. Homeschool: A Visual Contrast
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A Close Encounter of the Mayor Sophie Kind
By Bill Steigerwald On August 18, 2014 · In Celebrity, Personal, Politics · Add Comment
In 2003 I visited recently departed ex-Pittsburgh Mayor Sophie Masloff at her apartment in Squirrel Hill and wrote this column for the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review:
Sophie is still something special
She's 85 now, so she's lost a step or two.
She no longer drives at night. And it's been a while since she's been invited to the White House, a place she first visited during FDR's final term and last saw during Bill Clinton's time.
But as I found out Wednesday when I visited her at her Squirrel Hill apartment, Sophie Masloff is still up to speed on city politics and still a very recognizable institution about town.
In case you've forgotten, Sophie Masloff — the funny old lady in those TV spots for Gateway Clipper Fleet and Appliance Warehouse — was once mayor of Pittsburgh.
She ruled during what now seems like Pittsburgh's good-old days, 1988 to 1994, when the city wasn't openly bankrupt and begging for state funding.
"Mayor Sophie," as everyone naturally called her, was a major civic hoot, an editorial cartoonist's dream, a TV sitcom mayor come to life. But today, with her native city $60 million in the red, her relatively responsible, competent and uneventful reign looks better every day.
It's been eight grim years since Sophie the Accidental Mayor turned the keys of City Hall over to Mayor Murphy and his wrecking crew of amateur economic developers.
The former county courts clerk and stalwart party worker bee would be the last to toot her own horn or criticize the Democrats now in charge of her sickly city — for the record, anyway. And she reminds that as mayor she had plenty of help from administrative sharpies like Joe Mistick (now a regular Sunday Trib columnist) and Jim Turner.
But Sophie is not shy about praising what her administration did and didn't do well. In her first week in office, she said, she had street signs put up throughout the city. She ordered four new street sweepers and put them on a regular cleaning schedule. She cut the city wage tax by half a percentage point.
Asked what her major accomplishments were, she listed the Crawford-Roberts housing plan on the Lower Hill. Also, she said, her administration privatized four city-owned assets that were costing the city money — the zoo, the aviary, Phipps Conservatory and the Schenley Park golf course.
It's easy to criticize what's going on now, Sophie said, declining to do so. But, she noted, "I left office with a balanced budget and a triple-A bond rating. I don't know what happened. It all fell apart."
Sophie is worried about Pittsburgh's chronic ailments — its continuing population decline, shriveling tax base and need for more new jobs. She knows the city has too many fire houses and is being robbed by the firefighters' union, whose greed and political power she admits she could not tame.
Still, she's optimistic about the city's future. She's not against using gambling proceeds to bail it out. And, ever the good big-city Democrat, she thinks higher taxes could save the day. If the state lets the city raise its $10 occupational tax to $52, she said, "We'll be able to pull it off."
Several times on Wednesday, as she showed me photos of herself with everyone from the Pope and Pavarotti to Bill Clinton, a man she "loved dearly," Sophie fretted that it seemed egotistical to be talking about her life, which she insists is nothing special.
She's wrong, of course. She's had a truly amazing career in Democrat politics. It was launched at 17 when she saw Eleanor Roosevelt dedicate the Bedford Dwellings housing project and ended with her becoming mayor at age 70.
The scariest thing is, if Sophie Friedman Masloff ran again, she'd probably get elected. Half the people she meets on the street still think she's their mayor. In some ways, she will always be.
Sophie sent me this nice note — the nicest one I ever received from a Democrat mayor.
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Dave Barry Knows the Secrets to Humanity and Freedom: Hookers and Elvis
By Lucy Steigerwald On August 29, 2013 · In Celebrity, Personal, Pop culture/Reviews · 7 Comments
When I was younger I read Dave Barry's weekly Miami Herald column every week. I remember it resting somewhere in the entertainment section — I think the Sunday section? Maybe Saturday? I don't know, but I read first, and then comics and the stupid advice columns, then the front page, then the back page of the paper. (Never Sports or Business.)
Regardless of where and when it was, somewhere in those pages of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette and the Pittsburgh Tribune Review for many years was Barry's humor column. In it, for 600-odd words, he waxed poetic on the words "booger" or "weasel" and mused about the horrors of toilet snakes, exploding pop tarts, and other things completely up the ally of anyone either 11 or with a particular ease of access to the 11-ness in their souls.
And at some point, once my second generation libertarian brain-washing kicked in and I became one as well (that's the short version. There were lots of conservative Christian fellow-homeschoolers, then a lot of liberal college professors who helped in the "oh God, not them!" way, as well as a score of different pundits, authors, and thinkers who pointed me in the right direction). And at some point I realized, holy shit, this Barry guy was a libertarian, too! Besides my dad, John Stossel, and my friend Bob who voted for John Kerry the God damned traitor (Bob, not Kerry) in 2004 anyway, who the hell was a libertarian anywhere?
Later still — either online, or more likely in Reason magazine's compilation Choice — I found the 1994 interview Barry did with Reason. And it was, and remains, fucking amazing.
Within it, Barry talks about minor, but infuriating government money-sucks like the strategic helium reserve. He again mentions the IRS. He describes his generation being "the problem", thanks to Medicare and Social Security. He has a delightful comment on the absurdity of so-called job creators, and the press who dutifully record that exactly 47 million jobs were created in December. Barry says, "Of all the wonderful things government says, that's always been just about my favorite. As opposed to if you get to keep the money. Because what you'll do is go out and bury it in your yard, anything to prevent that money from creating jobs." And by saying that he — a humorist — demonstrated a better understanding of economics than half the "economists" alive and making money from their dismal grasp of the dismal science.
Most daring and subversive when combined with that economic good sense, he says this:
After a while, the way this country deals with drugs is just not funny. What a waste of everyone' s time and effort. What a waste of a lot of people's lives. The way we deal with drugs and sex. I saw one of these real-life cop drama shows, and they mounted a camera in this undercover agent's pick-up truck, right under the gear shift, and they sent him out to pick up prostitutes.
So the whole show consisted of this guy, who's quite a good actor, driving to this one street, and young prostitutes come up to him and solicit him. He says OK. They get in. They're trying real hard to be nice. He's going to pay $23, that's all he's got and they said that's OK. Meanwhile, behind him the other cops, these fat men with walkie-talkies, are laughing and chuckling because here they are about to enforce the law and protect society. They take her to some street and then of course they come up and arrest her. This poor woman–I don't know whether she's feeding her drug habit or feeding her kids or whatever. And the cops are so proud of themselves, these big strapping guys.
It just made me sick to see this. To treat these people who are trying to make a living, one way or another, this way, and to be proud of it. It's on television and we're all supposed to watch this and feel good about it. It's just disgusting.
The anti-drug war stuff is a libertarian favorite for good reason. But the prostitution part is what gets me me here. Barry watched this show — COPS, or whatever — and he didn't root for the the "good guy." He didn't cheer them on as they tackled some poor, shirtless buffoon or invited the audience to gawk at some pathetic, screaming loony. He didn't laugh and cringe at some dumb crackwhore, the way most people would in private and in media. Barry's sympathies were in the right place, and so was his condemnation.
The woman was trying to make money — maybe not in a good way, maybe not for good reasons, we don't know. And we don't need to know. We just need to know the real question: Why the hell is someone getting paid to hurt this woman? To jail her and definitely to shame her? Why are the people paid for by tax dollars, imbued with the use of legal, lethal force, and given great respect in society spending that time and respect and money on fucking over this woman who is trying to make a little money and nothing else?
And that humanity brings us to the other Dave Barry secret of humanity. We see that Barry knows freedom. He knows the stupidity and waste of government bureaucracy. He even knows the cruelty of which police officers are capable. But with his essay on crazy Elvis fans, Barry also demonstrates that even without the "coercion or not" question, he is smart enough to rise above the obvious knocking down of people who seem to be "asking for it" when they dare to not confirm to cool. Like Jon Ronson with his sympathetic, but not endorsing wild ride through the world of weirdos, Them: Adventures with Extremists, Barry didn't want to sit back and crack wise and broad about the crazy Elvis fans. He doesn't want to shoot polyester-clad fish swimming in a lard barrel. Those fish never hurt anyone.
So he wrote "Hearts that are True." (To be found in Dave Barry is Not Making This Up).
The way he tells it in the italics before the essay, he really was all set to write some obvious jokes about fat Southern housewives who can't untwist their Granny panties over Elvis long enough to realize he's dead and buried. (And before that he was bloated, drug-addled, and seeping talent from every sequined pore.) But Barry looked closer and he saw the people who cared so much that it hurt, about this dead musician. Intrigued and puzzled, he set out to find the why.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VTRzrdkvCr4
And — spoiler alert — he doesn't really discover anything, except maybe a little reminder that there are a lot of good Elvis tunes. But God is it a killer journey — to Graceland, and to Elvis's boyhood home, and to lots of friendly, kind folks, to find that unanswer. Barry is subtle and sad and sweet in his writing and it's just the loveliest thing, this essay. I've read it three or four times, but I try to save it up so it doesn't lose its punch.
That's what it is. It's like a really great song you can't waste. And you can't say that about a whole lot of simple, on the page writing, especially not the personal-essay-ish stuff.*
Barry is a humorist. I will always fancy his investigations into UFOs and lawnmower races. Hell, his description of Florida could be why I have never been there or wanted to go. But the Barry of "Hearts That are True" is one I want to spend a little more time with, one I wish we had a few more essays by. I'm envious of that piece. If I had made it, I could be satisfied for at least a little while as a writer.
Do you see what I mean? Why I tie that Reason interview — especially the excerpt above — together with the crazy Elvis fans essay? Why no matter what else Barry wrote, before or since, even if it didn't strike the same note in my guts, he will always get me on this one? That I will always feel like he understands something that most people never will?
There's plenty of room for mocking. Even mocking of people who haven't performed the sort of life-ruining an IRS agent or a cop has done. Mock reality show stars, or members of Nickelback and I am not necessarily going to be outraged on their behalf. It's fun to scoff and play High Fidelity-snob or culture warrior about things you think are childish, or stupid, or lacking talent. And it's easy. It's so fucking easy.
Yet Barry, the humorist who knows economics better than economists, didn't take the asked-for punch line. He looked at sad, moaning, obsessive people in the South and said hey, why the hell do they care so much about sad, dead Elvis?
And the end result breaks my damn heart every time.
Dave Barry knows how we should treat each other. He knows whose backs we should have: the drug users, the hookers, and the guys crankily doing their taxes each April — and the people who just fell in love with a Tennessean and never would let death get in the way of a relationship like that.
And, since he's not soft or meek, Barry also knows who deserve to be ashamed: the politicians, the taxman, and the police with nothing better to do.
Can't they just listen to a fucking Elvis song or something?
*(Mike Riggs' Awl essay about suicide is up there, the bastard.)
An Anti-Kal Penn Addendum: He Also Sucks on Marijuana
By Lucy Steigerwald On August 15, 2013 · In Celebrity, Hatelist, Law and order, Politics · 3 Comments
As my esteemed older brother noted below, moderately famous actor and political wannabe Kal Penn — who should have stuck with being boring on House — recently tweeted his support of the New York City Police Department's now-unconstitutional stop and frisk policy that disproportionately affects minorities. (People responding to Penn's tweet seemed incredulous, at least. One suggested that Penn forgot the #snark hashtag. Penn responded with a slur against "activist judges" so clearly that's a thing for Democrats to be mad about now.)
Joe forgot another important reason to loathe Penn — besides his inability to realize that brown people who aren't famous actor friends of Obama may be getting the short end of the authority stick — his bullshit on the drug war. A man made famous for being the Cheech for a new generation also acted the sniveling weasel apologist for Obama the drug war war hypocrite.
As Mike Riggs wrote at Reason.com last September:
Actor Kal Penn and President Barack Obama were both raked over the coals yesterday for their collaboration on a campaign video teasing Penn's upcoming appearance at the Democratic National Convention. In that video, Penn reprised his role as Kumar from the Harold and Kumar movies, and takes a phone call from Obama while stoned, watching cartoons, and eating junkfood. The subtle implication is that marijuana users are easily swayed, lazy idiots.
Reason, the Marijuana Policy Project, LEAP, and several others criticized Penn and Obama for the video, as Obama has utterly failed to live up to his promise to deprioritze federal prosections of medical marijuana.
In an interview with Chris Moody of Yahoo! News, Penn said
"I think that the president's been pretty consistent with that. He's not in favor of legalization, we should be open about something like that. But what the president has done is take a really smart look at the Department of Justice and said, given the fact that the federal government has limited resources, we should be allocating them toward violent criminals and not towards non-violent criminals. We can see that not just in things like marijuana but in things like immigration reform where he's going after and deporting violent criminals and making sure that if you're a Dream Act eligible student that you know that you can apply for your deferred status. Wherever the federal government has an appropriate role, I think the president's been very consistent in that. That's something that I think folks should know."
Penn should have stuck to the world of fiction, because his political views lie entirely in that realm as well.
Kal Penn in Harold and Kumar Circumvent the Fourth Amendment
By Joe Steigerwald On August 15, 2013 · In Celebrity, Hatelist · Add Comment
This is Kal Penn.
Notice the dark hair, eyes, and complexion. Born Kalpen Suresh Modi, he changed his name once he became an actor because he thought his birth name inhibited his ability to get call-backs on auditions.
Penn rose to movie notoriety through the "Harold and Kumar" series. In Harold and Kumar Go to White Castle, Kal's character Kumar and his best friend Harold (John Cho) suffered a series of misadventures punctuated by racist cops and racist "extreme" punks, while interacting with stereotype-busting Asians and put-upon African-Americans who were thrown in jail for no reason (other than being black). In the sequel Harold and Kumar: Escape from Guantanamo Bay, Harold and Kumar are sent to Guantanamo Bay because Kumar is mistaken for a terrorist.
Why is this important? Because of irony (and not just the Alanis Morissette kind).
On Monday, a federal judge ruled the NYPD's controversial stop-and-frisk policy "violated the constitutional rights of minorities in the city" and could not continue in its current form.
Naturally New York city Mayor Michael Bloomberg was upset that his pet project was put on the skids.
More surprising was the support the law received from Mr. Penn.
Great op/ed by @MikeBloomberg on the merits of "stop-question-frisk". http://t.co/QVeGVqlNDF
— Kal Penn (@kalpenn) August 13, 2013
Irony: the star of a franchise whose central theme revolves around the fallibility of stereotypes — and the problems that arise from it, decides to come out in favor of a law that stereotypes African-Americans (and Hispanics) as criminals that don't deserve protection under the Fourth Amendment.
Kal, a fervent Democrat and who worked as associate director for the White House's Office of Public Engagement until 2011 (read: he was a hype man for Obama,) fancies himself a future political star. Unfortunately it looks like he's also a racist.
@kalpenn Why do you think it is a sound policy? The statistical data shows that the policy disproportionately targets blacks and latinos.
— Chris Williams (@CWmsWrites) August 13, 2013
You'd think that an actor who rose to fame in a movie franchise that revolves around breaking stereotypes would be a little more sensitive to the plight of minorities.
Unfortunately Kal didn't soak up any of the information gleaned from these movies. Hopefully he'll learn something from the upcoming sequels to the Harold and Kumar series: Harold: Because Kumar got Renditioned and Harold and Kumar Don't Get to Go to White Castle Because Kumar gets Killed by Racists Who Think He's Muslim in the Post 9/11 Fervor.
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