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New Christian Presence in Tarrytown & Sleepy Hollow Communities
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The familiar English Gothic Church on Broadway in Sleepy Hollow just north of Patriots Park may look the same as always, but exciting things are happening there and it is in no way the same. On August 29 of this year the title to the entire property, including the church, parish hall and rectory, was transferred from the Archdiocese of New York to the Maronite Eparchy under the jurisdiction of Bishop Mansour. The church is now officially designated "The Saint Paul II Maronite Catholic Community at Immaculate Conception."
At right, Father Dany Abi Akar
This new church will bring together Catholics from both Latin and Eastern rites into one parish. Weekend masses will now be celebrated in both the Latin and Eastern Maronite rite. The new pastor will be celebrating Catholic liturgies in English, Latin and Arabic. What does this all mean? Who are the Maronites, what is the Maronite rite and who is Bishop Mansour?
Most American Catholics celebrate their liturgy in the Roman rite using English. However, in the universal church in communion with Rome there are many other rites, liturgies and liturgical languages used such as the Byzantine, Syro-Malabar and Greek Catholic rites. They are all of historical importance.
The Maronite rite has a membership 3.29 million people. It is one of the Eastern Catholic churches in full communion with Rome. It traces its heritage back to Maron, a 4th-century Syriac-Aramean monk venerated as a saint. The first Maronite Patriarch, Saint John Maron, was elected in the late 7th century. Maronites are a major religious group in Lebanon. Most members of the Maronite community in America are of Lebanese and Syrian heritage.
The new pastor of the Immaculate Conception community, Father Dany Abi Akar, will be celebrating masses in English for the Italian-American community and other English-speaking congregants, as well as in Latin for others. The Maronite liturgy at 11:30 each Sunday is celebrated in Arabic, English and Aramaic (the ancient language of Christ himself.)
Eparchy, a Latinized Greek word, means a territorial jurisdiction, somewhat like a diocese. The Sleepy Hollow parish belongs to the Eparchy of Saint Maron in Brookyn, where the Maronite cathedral is located. Its leader is the impressive and gracious bishop Gregory John Mansour who has visited the new local parish of John Paul often and mixes freely with his congregation in a warm and gentle manner.
It should be noted that a number of Latin rite Catholics also enjoy participating in the Maronite liturgy and befriending members of the local Maronite community.
Cardinal Dolan has stated about this new parish:
"There are four marks that distinguish our faith community: One, Holy, Catholic, and Apostolic. The Saint John Paul II Maronite Catholic Community at Immaculate Conception in Sleepy Hollow is a living embodiment of these four identifying characteristics. Alleluia."
Catherine T. Hopkins, a parishioner, commented:
"I was raised as a Roman Catholic and knew of other rites, but never had a chance to explore them in detail. Having the Maronite church down the road makes it very accessible and easy for me to go to. So I registered as a parishioner at the Maronite Catholic church.
"They have been very welcoming and the music is beautifully done. Father Dany is a very low key, down-to-earth pastor and the other parishioners have been very friendly. There are minor differences as to how the Maronite Mass is said, compared to the Roman Catholic Mass, most notably the fact that it is said in Arabic, Aramaic and English languages."
Frances Jane Mourani, another parishioner, said:
"My husband's family has always maintained a very strong faith commitment to their Maronite identity. Their late brother, Antoine-Hameed Mourani, (after whom my oldest son is named) was a retired bishop and the former Maronite Archbishop in Damascus, Syria.
"As a Roman Catholic, I have never felt like a stranger at all in the Maronite church because the liturgies essentially follow the same outline, and the key prayers in the Mass are all there. What I love about the Maronite liturgy is its spirituality and the beautiful music, which is sung in Arabic. The chants and the hymns just lift you to a different place, a beautiful, peaceful place. I don't have to know exactly what the words mean, although they do have a bilingual prayer book and the Liturgy pretty much alternates between Arabic and English.
"The Maronite priests are wonderful. They get really involved and care about their parishioners. In Arabic, the priest is called "Abouna" which means "Father" and Abouna Dany, our parish priest, is so young and energetic. He's perfect for Saint John Paul II because it is such a diverse parish to take care of.
"Our Maronite community is very warm and sociable. They love getting together after Liturgy for the coffee hour. I never have a problem getting my boys to go to church because they love to see their friends in the hall afterwards. Having all that delicious food helps too!"
Medhat Credi noted:
"Back home, I have been exposed all my life to the Universal Church represented by the Latin Church, called Roman Catholic in the U.S. and to the Eastern churches, Maronite, Byzantine, Armenian, Syriac and Chaldean. Having established a Maronite church for the first time in Westchester is an expression of what the Universal Church is all about."
Janine Wakim said:
"The church has become our home, filled with friends who have become our family. A very large, extended and loud family."
Fadia Nassar summed up the new experience by saying:
"Being Maronite we are Catholic as well, and I have always enjoyed attending a Roman Catholic Service and appreciated the beauty of these celebrations. But having our own Maronite Church fulfills a long time dream of being able to raise our children and eventual grandchildren in our rich Maronite heritage and traditions. To me in many ways we are getting the best of both worlds with Saint John Paul II at the Immaculate Conception."


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About 348,260 shares traded. It has underperformed by 36.49% the S&P500. Insiders own 2.10% of the company's stock. PNC Financial Services Group Inc. now owns 2,131 shares of the company's stock valued at $100,000 after buying an additional 273 shares in the last quarter. Stryker Corporation now has $54.99 billion valuation. It is down 19.79% since July 14, 2016 and is downtrending. Spot Trading Limited Co accumulated 21,494 shares. Costco Wholesale Corporation (NASDAQ:COST) has risen 25.14% since July 17, 2016 and is uptrending. It has outperformed by 8.25% the S&P500.
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Since January 30, 2017, it had 1 insider buy, and 6 insider sales for $6.24 million activity. During the same quarter in the previous year, the business posted $0.68 EPS.
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Turning to The Bank of New York Mellon Corporation (NYSE:BK), its shares were trading at $52.06 a gain of $0.61, on the trading floor. The stock increased 3.15% or $1.63 during the last trading session, reaching $53.41. Out of 3 Wall Street analysts rating Dow Chemical, 3 give it "Buy", 0 "Sell" rating, while 0 recommend "Hold". Therefore 6% are positive. Two analysts have rated the stock with a sell recommendation, twelve have issued a hold recommendation, one has given a buy recommendation and one has assigned a strong buy recommendation to the company. As per Monday, September 28, the company rating was downgraded by Needham. On Friday, December 11 the stock rating was maintained by Stifel Nicolaus with "Buy". Oppenheimer has "Buy" rating and $18500 target. The return on equity (ROE), also known as return on investment (ROI), is the best measure of the return, since it is the product of the operating performance, asset turnover, and debt-equity management of the firm. Topeka Capital began coverage of the stock with a rating of "Hold" and setting a price target of $61.00. The rating was downgraded by UBS on Friday, February 10 to "Sell". The rating was maintained by Stifel Nicolaus with "Buy" on Friday, July 29. The firm earned "Underperform" rating on Monday, January 30 by Raymond James. Perhaps, that suggests something about why 93.89% of the outstanding share supply is held by institutional investors. It also upped Kansas City Southern (NYSE:KSU) stake by 27,300 shares and now owns 32,200 shares. Franklin Finl Network Inc was raised too. 10,000 shares were bought by NEU RICHARD W, worth $486,380 on Thursday, May 11. $1.07M worth of stock was sold by Floyd David on Friday, June 2.
Since May 8, 2017, it had 10 buys, and 1 insider sale for $143.27 million activity.
In related news, Director Usman Nabi bought 150,000 shares of the business's stock in a transaction on Thursday, May 18th. If the share price is now hovering near the 52 week low and the value is achieved in the current past then it can suggest that the price of the shares is likely to go up. Another trade for 2,750 shares valued at $133,242 was bought by LUTHER JON L. On Monday, May 8 TRUSSELL ROBERT B JR sold $574,200 worth of Tempur Sealy International Inc (NYSE:TPX) or 12,000 shares. The target implies a 1.09% spike from where the shares are now trading.
It tells an investor how quickly a company is increasing its revenues. Its down 0.30, from 1.25 in 2016Q3. Neuberger Berman Group LLC acquired a new stake in shares of Tempur Sealy International during the first quarter valued at approximately $14,268,000. 35 funds opened positions while 57 raised stakes. 18,120 are owned by Victory Management. First City Capital stated it has 12,225 shares. Capstone Asset Management Co. increased its position in shares of Tempur Sealy International by 4.1% in the first quarter. Robertson Opportunity Ltd Liability Corp owns 179,200 shares or 8.08% of their USA portfolio. Bokf Na owns 4,426 shares.


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Johnson prepares to leave key K-12 post at Education Dept.
Henry L. Johnson, a major addition to the Department of Education during a spate of leadership changes last year, has resigned his position, effective Dec. 31.
The assistant secretary for elementary and secondary education, Mr. Johnson said last week that he intends to return to his native North Carolina, but will consult with the federal department for up to six months after his departure. He outlined his plans in a speech at a conference sponsored by the National Association of State Boards of Education in Alexandria, Va.
The former Mississippi state schools chief was one of two high-profile assistant secretaries appointed to their jobs last year at the beginning of President Bush's second term and the start of Secretary of Education Margaret Spellings' tenure at the department.
Thomas W. Luce III, who joined the department at the same time as Mr. Johnson, as the assistant secretary for planning, evaluation, and policy development, left the agency earlier this year. Like Mr. Johnson, he left to return to his home state—in his case, Texas—to be closer to family. ("Education Department Is Losing Two High-Ranking Officials," July 26, 2006.)
Mr. Johnson has served at the Education Department during a period of major changes in the implementation of the No Child Left Behind Act, the nearly 5-year-old law designed to spur increased student achievement.
Shortly before his arrival, Secretary Spellings announced that she would offer states flexibility in carrying out the law's testing mandate for students in special education and in determining how schools can achieve adequate yearly progress.
Mr. Johnson leaves at a time when the department is preparing proposals to reauthorize the law, which Congress is scheduled to take up next year.
In his Dec. 7 speech, he said he hopes that one of his ideas will be part of that debate. Mr. Johnson has pushed for the law to have lesser penalties for schools and districts that fail to meet achievement targets in one or two demographic categories, saving major interventions for those that are falling short for all students.
Over time, he said, department officials' attitude "has gone from 'no way, Jose,' to … 'maybe we ought to do this.' "
By David J. Hoff
Vol. 26, Issue 15, Page 19
Published in Print: December 13, 2006, as Revolving Door
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The Zhodzina human rights defender Aliaksei Lapitski, as a continuation of correspondence on the collective claims from the residents of the 'Chernobyl House' registered today, 05.01.2010, his appeal to local authorities in the executive committee of Zhodzina.
In his successive collective appeals in 2008 and 2009 the residents voiced their legitimate rights and asked the local public utilities, when replacing the old signs with the street name for a new one, to leave the Belarusian-language inscription on it, as well as large, to make visible from a distance inscriptions on the walls of the house in two languages, including Belarusian.
The residents recall that the construction work on the thermal rehabilitation of the left end of the residential 'Chernobyl House' at 3 F. Skaryny Avenue, at the time were begun only under pressure from the public before the elections of 2008, after a collective appeal to the housing department.
The last two collective appeals (in 2008 and 2009) to the housing department containing the legitimate demands of the building's residents were replied by negative responses, both from Acting Director Belavusau (response № 284/01-08 of 14.10.2008), and from the Director of Zhodzina Housing Department Huminski (reply № 205/01-08of 04.11.2009).
Their responses referred to the fact that "the inscriptions on the houses and buildings passports in Zhodzina are given in Russian, with the knowledge and the decision of the Executive Committee of Zhodzina, which supposedly fully complies with Art. 17 of the Constitution of Belarus (!?).
Supposing it is true, one might think that the Basic Law of Belarus indeed contains such a strange Article 17 (!?), reference to which can allegedly legitimately deny the citizens of Belarus their right to see the inscriptions on their own homes with street names in their native language! !?
So, maybe for the officials with relevant thought it is enough to completely exclude the Belarusian language, both from the visual environment, and from the system of quality high school education in Zhodzina!? The recent case with Decision № 928 by the executive committee of Zhodzina is another proof to the fact. Since early 2009, this decision eliminated the last high school Belarusian-language course in gymnasium № 1 in Zhodzina, which had been attended by the Belarusian-language son of Aliaksei Lapitski, Yanka.
It turns out that the discrimination of Belarusian-speaking citizens and citizens with legitimate language and Belarusian national interests in Belarus is carried out with mere reference to the fact that in Belarus along with the Belarusian language the status of additional state language is given to the Russian language as well? However, the latter in no way indicates that the state status of the Belarusian language may be somehow undervalued or even eliminated! The priority of the national Belarusian element in the nationally unitary country of Belarus has obviously been and remains Belarusian-oriented.
To explain this, and to demand the implementation the legitimate national interests of the claimants in his address to the officials of the executive committee Aliaksei Lapitski refers to a number of Articles of the Constitution of Belarus (Art. 50, Art. 52, Art. 53, Art. 54, Art. 58 and Art. 59), which suggest the true meaning of Art. 17 of the Constitution, and the respective responsibilities of local government officials to "take necessary measures to implement and protect human rights and freedoms" (Article 59) without any compulsion to "give up one's rights" (art.58) with preservation of "historic, cultural and spiritual heritage and other national values "(Article 54) and respect for "the dignity, rights, freedoms and legitimate interests of others " (Art.53) and "the national traditions" of Belarus (Article 52).
And now, as it indeed follows from the Constitution and its (of current power) "public functions", the authorities should really help in respecting the rights and freedoms of citizens, or "bear responsibility for actions that violate individual rights and freedoms" (Article 59).
Obviously, the responsibility for such unlawful actions by officials in today's Belarus is not sufficient.
What would become of such an absurd interpretation of the Articles of the Constitution and other laws (not in favor of the inalienable rights and freedoms of citizens), as well as the discriminatory wrongful decisions of the executive committee (such as Decision #928 on the Elimination of the last high school Belarusian-language class in Zhodzina), if these "responsible persons" were really responsible for the actions before the law?!


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I remember the cuddly character, Paddington, from when I was a kid. Well, guess what? Yesterday was his birthday and in celebration of his birthday, I have some exciting news to share with you! First off, Paddington will have his very own Balloon in the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade! Plus, "Paddington" is coming to the big screen in theaters on Christmas Day! The movie is based on the beloved children's book by Michael Bond and we can't wait to see it!
This Christmas, a small bear will make a big splash. From the beloved novels by Michael Bond and producer David Heyman (HARRY POTTER), PADDINGTON tells the story of the comic misadventures of a young Peruvian bear who travels to the city in search of a home. Finding himself lost and alone, he begins to realize that city life is not all he had imagined – until he meets the kindly Brown family who read the label around his neck that says "Please look after this bear. Thank you," and offer him a temporary haven. It looks as though his luck has changed until this rarest of bears catches the eye of a museum taxidermist.
Director: Paul King
Written by: Paul King
Screenplay by: Henry Paul King
Cast: Hugh Bonneville, Sally Hawkins, Julie Walters, Jim Broadbent, Peter Capaldi and Nicole Kidman
Happy Birthday Paddington, Welcome to the Parade!
What a birthday gift! In celebration of Paddington's birthday today, June 25, and in anticipation of his feature film debut this Christmas, Macy's and The Weinstein Company are proud to announce that Paddington, the world-famous Peruvian bear will trade his London digs for a place in the sky above the Big Apple marking a return to the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade®!
With a Thanksgiving Day adventure and a new star-studded big screen debut that is set to become the must-see family film of the Christmas season, at 56-years old today (according to one of the Brown family's birthday edicts that marked Paddington's birthdate as the day that he came to live with them), Paddington is sure to delight a new generation of children with his comic misadventures.
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Federal Support for U of G Researchers, Including Canada Research Chairs
Collaboration and experimentation across disciplines underscore two University of Guelph Canada Research Chairs (CRC)—one new, the other renewed—recently funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC).
MP François-Philippe Champagne
The CRC funding is part of a more than $1-billion federal investment announced by François-Philippe Champagne, minister of innovation, science and industry. The announcement also included SSHRC Insight Development grants; scholarships for graduate students and post-doctoral researchers; Canada Foundation for Innovation's (CFI) Biosciences Research Infrastructure and John R. Evans Leaders funds; and reinvestment in the Canadian Research Data Centre Network and the Research Support Fund.
Eleven researchers in the College of Social and Applied Human Sciences (CSAHS), the Gordon S. Lang School of Business and Economics, and the Ontario Agricultural College will receive a total of $674,972 in Insight Development grants, which support the early development of new research projects.
More than $275-million worth of funding will support tri-agency scholarships and fellowships across Canada, including more than $4 million for almost 100 U of G graduate students
Renewed investment in the Canadian Research Data Centre Network, including the Guelph Branch Research Data Centre site, will benefit researchers across Canada with unique access to Statistics Canada census, survey and administrative data.
The Research Support Fund helps post-secondary institutions, including the University of Guelph, to cover the administrative, maintenance and regulatory costs of research.
Lloyd Longfield, MP for Guelph, added, "I am very pleased to be part of the ongoing investments at the University of Guelph, building on our local capacity to contribute to our understanding of democracy and global challenges. This is good for Guelph, Canada and the world as we enable discovery that leads to collaborative problem solving."
Dr. Leah Levac, Department of Political Science in CSAHS, will hold a new Tier 2 chair in Critical Community Engagement and Public Policy. An existing Tier 1 chair in Collaborative Digital Scholarship was renewed for Dr. Susan Brown, School of English and Theatre Studies within the College of Arts.
The CRC program attracts and retains outstanding researchers in various fields, assisting Canadian post-secondary institutions to foster excellence in research and training.
Tier 1 chairs are international leaders in their fields and receive $200,000 a year for seven years. Tier 2 chairs award $120,000 annually to exceptional emerging researchers for five years. Most of this funding is allocated to support the chair and chairholder's research.
Brown will also receive $15,427 from CFI's John R. Evans Leaders Fund to update equipment for The Humanities Interdisciplinary Collaboration Lab (THINC Lab).
"This vital investment from the federal government will enable University of Guelph researchers, including these two new and renewed Canada Research Chairs, to lead innovative interdisciplinary collaborations that engage with pressing social, political and ethical issues, while also mentoring the next generation of researchers," said Dr. Malcolm Campbell, vice-president (research).
"Taken altogether, today's generous funding will help the University build a community of forward-thinking and accomplished researchers whose research improves life for communities in Canada and beyond."
Dr. Leah Levac
Levac aims to reimagine government and institutional policy-making processes in ways that ensure just and democratic decisions for all the people those decisions affect.
"In many respects, our lives are governed by public policy," she said. "Too often, policies and the ideas and ideals that shape them mark certain communities as undeserving or invisible, and so they perpetuate cycles of exclusion and inequity. This CRC is about imagining a more inclusive and equitable policy-making process."
The project considers how a critical community-engaged scholarship (CES) approach, in which researchers and community members collaborate in addressing community-identified concerns to advance social justice, might transform contemporary policy making.
Levac and her team will adapt critical CES to further reflect the knowledge and experience of historically marginalized communities. They will then apply what they've learned to collaborations with government and community partners to evaluate and reimagine existing policy-making processes.
The CRC will also support the creation of the Critical Community-Engaged Policy Institute, a resource and training hub that will bring together researchers and community practitioners to advance policy justice.
"The funding the CRC provides will allow me to focus explicitly on some key barriers to political participation," Levac said, "but it also gives a name, a presence, to this interdisciplinary work that invites researchers, students and community together into new and productive conversations."
Dr. Susan Brown
Brown is a trailblazer in digital humanities, a field that brings together cultural research and new technologies. For more than 25 years, she has investigated and developed modes of online knowledge production to work with an ever-increasing volume of cultural data. That data is scattered in disparate locations online, where it is stored in varied and sometimes obsolete formats.
"Most scholars interact with cultural data as consumers," she said. "However, we can now enable scholars to contribute crucial context and understanding to data sets on cultural identities and heritage, use algorithmic processes to deepen our research with more of the knowledge that's out there and—the holy grail—put that knowledge together to enable new and unexpected insights."
With her renewed CRC, Brown and her collaborators will continue to experiment with converting and interlinking cultural resources into data sets that can be understood by both humans and machines. The research will benefit universities and other cultural institutions such as public libraries, museums and galleries.
They will also continue to question the values embedded in seemingly neutral technologies and cyberinfrastructures. For example, how might classification structures reflect, rather than erase, cultural complexity, diversity and difference?
"This work matters because it is about helping people create digital knowledge in ways that are ethically responsible. It's about trying to make the web better and smarter," she said.
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Yuanyang Terraced Fields
Situated in beautiful Yunnan province, is the breathtaking Yuanyang Terraced Fields. Also known as "Yuanyang Rice Terraces", and "Honghe Hani Rice Terraces", these spectacular terraces cascade down the slopes of the majestic Ailao Mountains. An incredible example of the ingenuity of the Hani people, the terraced fields have a history spanning over a thousand years. In 2013, they were deemed a UNESCO World Heritage Site. With such cultural and historical significance, coupled with incredible natural beauty, Yuanyang Terraced Fields are an attraction that cannot be missed.
- Yuanyang Terraced Fields cover over a thousand square kilometres (16,603 hectares) in southern Yunnan.
- The terraced fields are distributed through a four counties: Yuanyang, Honghe, Luchen, and Jinpin.
- The core area is located in Yuangyang county, and is regarded as a marvel of ingenuity by the Hani people, who have lived in the region for 2,500 years.
- The Hani reside in 82 villages situated between the dense mountaintop forests and the rice terraces.
- Over the past 1,300 years, the Hani people carved out an ingenious system of channels to bring water down from the forested mountaintops to the terraced rice fields.
History Of Yuanyang Terraced Fields
Ancestors of the Hani people first settled in the Ailao Mountains in southern Yunnan province prior to the 3rd century CE. According to Hani oral traditions, they are believed to have migrated from the Qinghai-Tibetan plateau. Since the 8th century CE, the Hani developed a complex system of channels that brought water down from the densely forested mountaintops. A feat of ingenuity and engineering, the terrain is not only rugged, but is sub-tropical receiving extremely high rainfall (about 1400 mm annually).
Not only did the Hani create irrigated terraces to grow rice, they likewise developed an integrated farming system that involved cattle, buffalo, fish, and ducks among other animals. The incredible ingenuity of the Hani people in successfully creating the Yuanyang Terraced Fields goes without saying. Especially, considering that the technology of developing irrigated, fertile land on rugged mountain slopes didn't spread throughout the rest of China until the 14th century CE.
In addition to creating the Yuanyang Terraced Fields, over the past thousand years or so, the Hani also established some 82 villages. Located between the lush mountaintop forests and the rice fields, the small villages are now home to between 50 and 100 households.
In 2008, the Yuangyang County People's government designated the rice terraces as a protected historic site. Likewise it is now a State Priority Protected Site by the Sate Council of China. In 2013, UNESCO inscribed Yuanyang Terraced Fields as a World Heritage Site, deemed "Honghe Hani Rice Terraces".
Culture Of Yuanyang Terraced Fields
Yuanyang Terraced Fields form three main scenic areas including Bada, Duoyishu and Laohuzui. Covering over 1,000 square kilometers, these scenic areas incorporate a large variety of geological components.
Bada Scenic Area: This section of Yuanyang Terraced Fields comprises the largest area, at 9.3 square kilometers. The terraces here are situated on a gentle gradient, and are named Malizhai, Qingkou, Zhulu, and Qingkou. Bada Scenic Area is considered the best place in Yuanyang Terraced Fields to view extraordinary sunsets. There are 17 Hani villages dotted throughout the scenic area.
Duoyishu Scenic Area: This scenic area covers a total area of 6.7 square kilometers. The terraces incorporating Duoyishu include Aichun, Dawazhe, and Duoyishu. They are located on steeper than those at Bada. Duoyishu Scenic Area is considered to have the most beautiful natural scenery in all of Yuanyang Terraced Fields, and the best place to photograph stunning sunrises.
Laohuzui Scenic Area: Also known as "The Tiger Mouth", the terraces in this area are located on the steepest slopes. This scenic area covers about 8.5 square kilometers, and is regarded as the core area of Yuanyang Terraced Fields. This wonderfully rugged section is about a 40-minute drive from Bada Scenic Area. The best time to see the terraced fields in Laohuzui is at sunset.
- The best time to visit Yuanyang Terraced Fields is from November through to April.
- The terraced fields are located in a sub-tropical climate, which is neither too hot, nor too cold. Visitors will be comfortable in t-shirts and shorts year-round, but it is advised to bring a jacket. Mornings and evenings are often cooler.
- Yuanyang Terraced Fields are open year-round.
- There is an entrance fee of 100 yuan, which gives visitors access to Bada, Duoyishu, and Laohuzui Scenic Area. Said fee also permits entrance to Jingkou Folk Village.
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Start Archive Comparisons, n°6/2009 East-West Studies in the Context of Contemporary Comparative Studies
East-West Studies in the Context of Contemporary Comparative Studies
Zelenkova, Anna; Kola, Adam F. (Tłum. )
The paper is focused on comparative and interliterary research designated as East-West Studies. Such research mainly consists in the typological study of similarities and differences between regions (areas) with remote culture and poetology as well as geography. One of the major figures in the field of East-West Studies, apart from R. Etiemble and C. Guillén, is E. Miner, the American comparative scholar who devised its terminology and methodology. He regards intercultural comparative studies as an alternative project of the "world" aspect of literature, as a cultural dialogue between the West and the East (e.g. Europe and America and their communication with the Orient). In the Czech-Slovak tradition, East-West Studies have represented the relationship of the West towards the Slavonic world. Czech Slavonic scholar K. Krejčí concluded that the dialogue between the European West and the Slavonic East had been maintained through myths which, however, may have become a historical fact. The West discovered Eastern Europe (Russia) rather late, in the 18th century, while Slavonic intellectuals got acquainted with the West in person, through visits and reading books in the original. It was namely Czechs and Poles who manifested the cultural "split" between the West and the East.
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Thank you Prince George's County for banning fracking! The movement against fracking in Maryland is growing.
By CCAN
This is a guest blog post from Darien Pusey, Maryland fracking fellow. You can reach him at DarienP@chesapeakeclimate.org.
Today, I had the pleasure of watching the Prince George's County Council vote UNANIMOUSLY to ban fracking in my home county.
Councilwoman Mary Lehman introduced Council Bill 3-2016 on February 2nd. The bill amends the Prince George's County zoning ordinance to prohibit fracking. The County Council's Planning, Zoning and Economic Development Committee voted unanimously to pass the bill February 17th, and the full County Council followed suit today.
This was a historic moment in the fight against fracking in Maryland – a sign that the movement against fracking in Maryland is growing. Today's unanimous vote makes Prince George's the first county to adopt a ban on fracking since CCAN and our allies won a two-year legislative moratorium on the practice last year. (Remember that?! A hard won, true grassroots victory.) Before the moratorium was in place, one other county, Montgomery County, quietly adopted a change to their zoning laws that basically prohibits fracking in the county.
I could not have felt more thankful sitting in that room this morning – thank you to Councilwoman Mary Lehman for her vision and leadership in introducing this bill, thank you to the PZED committee for voting unanimously to pass it, thank you to Council members Turner, Glaros, Patterson, Franklin and Tavares for sponsoring it, and thank you to Chairman Davis and the whole council for holding this hearing and vote today.
And I could not have felt more proud – proud of CCAN and our allies at Food & Water Watch, the Sierra Club and the Greenbelt Climate Action Network for quickly spreading the word about this previously unknown threat to Prince George's County's air, water, and property values, not to mention the global climate, and proud of the more than one thousand concerned residents like you who stood up to say no to fracking in our county.
Like the hard won victory that was the moratorium, this ban in Prince George's wouldn't have happened without the citizen movement behind it. Dozens of you turned out for community meetings to learn more about what fracking would mean to our county. You called, you emailed, you met with your county council members. You met with business owners and church leaders. You testified at county council hearings. You petitioned on college campuses and in your communities. All of that work culminated in this morning's victory. Congratulations!
As Councilwoman Lehman said in voting for the bill this morning, "Our action here today will lay the groundwork for a statewide ban in Maryland."
Now that Maryland's two most populous counties, who combined represent more than a third of the state's population, have said no to fracking, it's time for the General Assembly to follow suit.
I'm confident that in the coming year, the growing citizen movement that secured today's victory will push our leaders in Annapolis to follow the lead of these two forward thinking counties and pass a permanent statewide ban on fracking before the moratorium expires in October 2017.
And I think I speak for everyone here at CCAN when I say that we can't wait to work alongside you to win that final grassroots victory against fracking in Maryland!


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title: It's Hot and Printers Suck
author: Jeff
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  author: Gordon R. Vaughan
  author_email: grvaughan@flightdev.com
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  content: "So Jeff, I noticed you haven't been twittering much. Have you been moving?\r\n\r\nYeah,
    it's awful how printers, at least ink jet, are set up to insist they need new
    ink, even when they don't. I ended up buying a device to reset the Epson cartridges
    for my son's printer.\r\n\r\nIt worked for a while, but it's like a war where
    the other side is always making the next countermeasure. My son didn't print that
    much, and only in black, so it was ridiculous to be buying a bunch of new cartridges.
    He ended up just buying a laser printer (NOT Epson, of course).\r\n\r\nIt's like
    being held hostage, so I've been reluctant to even consider a color laser printer,
    lest I fall right into the trap!"
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It's hot in the office at home. Very hot. We're packing so I guess I'm required to be in it. But it's hot and the leather chair isn't making that much more enjoyable. To make it even sweeter, I attempted to print some documents today and my damn printer wouldn't work. Know why? Because the Ligth Magenta cartridge is out of ink. To answer your question, no, I'm not trying to print color. I'm trying to print black and white. But Epson themselves have admitted to the printer not functioning if ANY of the print cartridges are expanded.

That's what the printer looks like. Stay away from it if encountered in the store. It makes great prints, but considering it's got 6 different colors at almost $15 bucks a pop, it's just not worth it. And even if you only print black and white, turns out a little bit of color is used in every print.  Again, by Epson's admission. Good reasons to stay away or go broke with ink.

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Uphill Drive for Lordstown Motors
Of the several electric vehicle (EV) companies promising a powerful long-range truck, Lordstown Motors Corp. (RIDE) hopes to be the first to bring one to market. However, the Ohio-based company is not without its obstacles. Securing capital, customers, beating competitors, and overcoming supply chain challenges are critical for RIDE's success. (See RIDE stock analysis on TipRanks)
In a May 28 report published by Emmanuel Rosner of Deutsche Bank, the analyst outlined these issues with a cautious outlook. Rosner rated the stock a Hold and assigned a price target of $8 per share, which reflects downside potential of 19.19%.
Rosner is optimistic about Lordstown's niche in the nascent market, recognizing the opportunity for the company to take advantage of the shift in demand for traditional American pickup trucks to the growing need for EVs. This need will come from businesses with fleets of trucks that will need to abide by governments' increasingly strict emission standards, and individual customers attracted by EV tax credits.
The Biden administration intends to commit $174 billion towards stimulating the EV market, accelerating its growth, and scaling up production. RIDE will need this capital injection, as overhead production costs and its need for vertical integration remain its biggest challenges. Rosner explains that raising near-term capital is imperative for the future of the company.
Furthermore, time is very much against Lordstown Motors, as it must bring its "Endurance" electric pickup truck to market before any of its competitors beat it to the punch. Once available, the company needs to sell as many units as possible, as the Ford Motor Company (F) has already announced that its Lightning F-150, a direct rival with a lower retail cost, is expected to be launched next year. Unfortunately for Lordstown, Ford already has a better service network and greater production capabilities.
RIDE plans to begin delivering its sole product in Q4FY21, but has no committed customers as yet and has already slashed its initially estimated sales in half to just 1,100 units. Rosner mentions that the truck is scalable and modular and that its design could be used in future Lordstown products. The Endurance is said to be capable of traveling up to 250 miles on a single charge.
Rosner elaborated that he expects the stock to trade at a discount due to the company's "operational, financial and strategic uncertainty," and the fact that it "has no ready factory and has produced no production-ready vehicles." Rosner went on to state that he finds it "difficult to acquire much conviction about the company's ability to execute and ultimately succeed in the pickup fleet market."
According to Rosner, the ride may be soon going downhill for Lordstown Motors if funding cannot be secured, and soon.
Consensus among analysts on TipRanks is a Hold based on 1 Buy, 4 Hold, and 2 Sell ratings. The stock has an average analyst price target of $9.57, representing downside potential of 3.33% from current levels.
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Violett Beane (ur. 18 maja 1996 w St. Petersburgu na Florydzie) – amerykańska aktorka, która wystąpiła m.in. w serialach Flash, Pozostawieni i God Friended Me.

Filmografia

Filmy

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Bibliografia

Amerykańskie aktorki filmowe
Amerykańskie aktorki telewizyjne
Ludzie związani z St. Petersburgiem (Floryda)
Urodzeni w 1996

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My Sindur was removed: Forced conversions reported from Hindu Rohingya refugee camps.
Proved: A fanatic section of ruling party is attacking minority Hindus in Islamic Bangladesh.
WB violence: BJP Central team stopped by police from entering in Dhulagarh.
Attacks on Hindus in B'desh by Awami League conspirators vehemently condemned by NYT.
Jihadi Mayhem in Brahmanbaria during Diwali. 15 Hindu temples destroyed, over 100 injured in Bangladesh by Radical Muslims.
Bengal on Communal boil. Now Chanchal under Jihadi attack on rumour.
Swami Chidanandapuri on How to Reclaim our Hindu Temples.


Mastro De Paja: This is an estate straight grain panel. The grain coupled with the panel and shape flows extremely well together. The nomenclature on this pipe is very hard to read, but it is definitely a Masttro De Paja 3A. There is the tiniest pit on the top of the shank and on the bottom next to the 3A. I didn't notice them until I looked at the shank under a high magnification lense. These do not take away from the beauty of this pipe one bit. The stem has a beautiful mother of pearl inlay dot. There is some tooth scratching on the bottom of the stem.