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The Day of the Locust
Genre: Prose
Novel by Nathanael West about the savagery lurking beneath the Hollywood dream. Published in 1939, it is one of the most striking examples of the " Hollywood novel" in American fiction. Tod Hackett, a set designer, becomes involved in the lives of several individuals who have been warped by their proximity to the artificial world of Hollywood. Hackett's completion of his painting "The Burning of Los Angeles" coincides with the explosion of the other characters' unfulfilled dreams in a conflagration of riot and murder.
Fforde Jasper
This inventive fantasy from bestseller Fforde (The Eyre Affair) imagines a screwball future in which social castes and protocols are rigidly defined by acuteness of personal color perception. Centuries after the cryptically cataclysmic Something That Happened, a Colortocracy, founded on the inflexible absolutes of the chromatic scale, rules the world. Amiable Eddie Russett, a young Red, is looking forward to marrying a notch up on the palette and settling down to a complacent bourgeois life. But after meeting Jane G-23, a rebellious working-class Grey, and a discredited, invisible historian known as the Apocryphal man, Eddie finds himself questioning the hitherto sacred foundations of the status quo. En route to finding out what turned things topsy-turvy, Eddie navigates a vividly imagined landscape whose every facet is steeped in the author's remarkably detailed color scheme. Sometimes, though, it's hard to see the story for the chromotechnics.
Butler Robert Olen
The new novel from one of American literature's brightest stars, author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning , Robert Olen Butler's uproarious new novel is set in the underworld. Its main character, Hatcher McCord, is an evening news presenter who has found himself in Hell and is struggling to explain his bad fortune. He's not the only one to suffer this fate—in fact, he's surrounded by an outrageous cast of characters, including Humphrey Bogart, William Shakespeare, and almost all of the popes and most of the U.S. presidents. The question may be not who is in Hell but who isn't. McCord is living with Anne Boleyn in the afterlife but their happiness is, of course, constantly derailed by her obsession with Henry VIII (and the removal of her head at rather inopportune moments). Butler's Hell isn't as much a boiling lake of fire—although there is that—as it is a Sisyphean trial tailored to each inhabitant, whether it's the average Joes who die and are reconstituted many times a day to do it all again, or the legendary newspaperman William Randolph Hearst, doomed to obscurity as a blogger mocked by his fellows because he can't figure out Caps Lock. One day McCord meets Dante's Beatrice, who believes there is a way out of Hell, and the next morning, during an exclusive on-camera interview with Satan, McCord realizes that Satan's omniscience, which he has always credited for the perfection of Hell's torments, may be a mirage—and Butler is off on a madcap romp about good, evil, free will, and the possibility of escape. Butler's depiction of Hell is original, intelligent, and fiercely comic, a book Dante might have celebrated.
The Teleportation Accident
Beauman Ned
In the declining Weimar Republic, Egon Loeser works as a stage designer for New Expressionist theatre. His hero is the greatest set designer of the 17th century, Adriano Lavicini, who devised the so-called Teleportation Device for the whisking of actors from one scene to another — a miracle, until the thing malfunctioned, causing numerous deaths and perhaps summoning the devil himself.
Apolitical in a dangerous time, sex-driven in a dry spell, Loeser leaves the tired scene in Berlin in pursuit of the lubricious Adele Hitler (no relation), who couldn't care less about him, heading first to Paris and then to Los Angeles, where he finds his entire tired Berlin social circle reconstituted in exile, under the patronage of a hack writer and his possibly philandering wife. He also finds himself uncomfortably close to a string of murders at CalTech, where a physicist, assisted by Adele herself, is trying to develop a device for honest-to-God teleportation.
Following his breathtaking debut, , Ned Beauman raises the stakes, creating in a marvelous mash-up of historical fiction, LA noir, science fiction, and satire. Here are sluts and scam artists, ghosts and ancient dinosaur-men, all wrapped up in one page-turning plot. Beauman is a writer of audacity and style; his second novel proves him a star on the rise.
Self Will
When artist Simon Dykes wakes after a late night of routine debauchery, he discovers that his world has changed beyond recognition. His girlfriend, Sarah, has turned into a chimpanzee. And, to Simon's appalled surprise, so has the rest of humanity. Simon, under the bizarre delusion that he is 'human', is confined to an emergency psychiatric ward. There he becomes of considerable interest to eminent psychologist and chimp, Dr Zack Busner. For with this fascinating case, Busner thinks may finally make his reputation as a truly great ape.
King of the Perverts
Lowe Steve
Poor Dennis. He's a regular sort of guy who's recently been dealt a shitty hand by life: he lost his job, his wife hates him and wants a divorce, and it turns out she was also cheating on him as well. Now he's living on his brother's couch. Holy fuck, that sucks. Dennis can't imagine things could get much worse, and that's why he jumped at the opportunity to take part in a new reality game show: a "sexcathlon" where the first person to achieve 10 increasingly difficult and perverted sexual challenges wins a million dollars and is crowned King of the Perverts. Dennis doesn't care about the title, he just wants the money, but now he's not sure he can make it to the end. Enduring a golden shower and following through with an Abe Lincoln are hard enough, but he's losing his nerve and fears what act of perversion will come next. He'd like to drop out, but his Russian bear of a cameraman, Mongo, has other plans for him and that million dollar prize, and Dennis has to decide which is worse: winning the King of the Perverts, or losing it.
Look Who's Back
Vermes Timur
Berlin, Summer 2011. Adolf Hitler wakes up on a patch of open ground, alive and well. Things have changed — no Eva Braun, no Nazi party, no war. Hitler barely recognises his beloved Fatherland, filled with immigrants and run by a woman.
People certainly recognise him, albeit as a flawless impersonator who refuses to break character. The unthinkable, the inevitable happens, and the ranting Hitler goes viral, becomes a YouTube star, gets his own T.V. show, and people begin to listen. But the Führer has another programme with even greater ambition — to set the country he finds a shambles back to rights.
How to Fight Islamist Terror from the Missionary Position
Khair Tabish
Funny and sad, satirical and humane, this novel tells the interlinked stories of three unforgettable men whose trajectories cross in Denmark: the flamboyant Ravi, the fundamentalist Karim, and the unnamed and pragmatic Pakistani narrator.
As the unnamed narrator copes with his divorce, and Ravi—despite his exterior of skeptical flamboyance—falls deeply in love with a beautiful woman who is incapable of responding in kind, Karim, their landlord, goes on with his job as a taxi driver and his regular Friday Qur'an sessions. But is he going on with something else? Who is Karim? And why does he disappear suddenly at times or receive mysterious phone calls? When a "terrorist attack" takes place in town, all three men find themselves embroiled in doubt, suspicion, and, perhaps, danger.
An acerbic commentary on the times, is also a bitter-sweet, spell-binding novel about love and life today.
Napalm and Silly Putty
Carlin George
Whether it involves musing on the inevitable and annoying ironies of everyday life, spouting off about anything and everything that gets his goat, or just plain figuring out new and improved ways to be difficult, George Carlin's comedy is incorrigible and unmistakable. Following the runaway success of , Carlin now delivers all-new rants, what-ifs, observations, and out-and-out damnations in his cantankerous new collection, .
Carlin is at his best taking on the whole world and telling it like it is—or at least how he sees it. From the "Airline Announcements" section ("…here's a phrase that apparently the airlines simply made up: . Bull****, my friend. It's a near hit! A is a near miss.") to "Cars and Driving" ("One of the first things they teach you in Driver's Ed is where to put your hands on the steering wheel. They tell you to put 'em at ten o'clock and two o'clock. Never mind that. I put mine at 9:45 and 2:17. Gives me an extra half hour to get where I'm goin'."), Carlin takes you on a wild ride through a life you'll never look at the same way again. He identifies the experience of "vuja de"—"the distinct sense that, somehow, something that just happened has never happened before"—and posits existential questions including, "If there really are multiple universes, what do they call the thing they're all a part of?" and "If the reason for climbing Mt. Everest is that it's hard to do, why does everyone go up the easy side?" Of course, it wouldn't be George Carlin if he didn't say a whole lot more that we just print here!
Including more lists of things he's had just about enough of, and hilarious short takes that will put you in stitches, is Carlin's comic opus on life at the dawn of the 21st century. In it, he asks, "Have you ever started a path? No one seems willing to do this. We don't mind using existing paths, but we rarely start new ones. Do it today. Start a path. Even if it doesn't lead anywhere." Carlin has certainly started his own path—read and decide for yourself where he's going.
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Major Karnage
Zajac Gord
DON'T TALK TO HIM ABOUT THE WAR!!!!
It has been 20 years since The War, and Major John Karnage has finally settled into retirement: locked up in an insane asylum, with an explosive device embedded in the back of his neck to curb his violent tendencies.
Karnage and his troopers have been deemed unfit to live in normal society. Like a bit of old chewing gum stuck under a coffee table, the world has left The War and its scarred, unstable veterans behind. The military has been disbanded and World Peace has descended upon the Earth. Its inhabitants live happy, profitable lives under the global rule of the benevolent Dabney Corporation. All is tea and roses in this new, sanitized world…
Until a terrifying threat from beyond the stars rears its squiggly head! An invading armada of aliens threatens to destroy the Earth, and it's up to Major Karnage to stop them—as long as he doesn't accidentally blow his own head off first.
Numero Zero
A newspaper committed to blackmail and mud slinging, rather than reporting the news.
A paranoid editor, walking through the streets of Milan, reconstructing fifty years of history against the backdrop of a plot involving the cadaver of Mussolini's double.
The murder of Pope John Paul I, the CIA, red terrorists handled by secret services, twenty years of bloodshed, and events that seem outlandish until the BBC proves them true.
A fragile love story between two born losers, a failed ghost writer, and a vulnerable girl, who specializes in celebrity gossip yet cries over the second movement of Beethoven's Seventh. And then a dead body that suddenly appears in a back alley in Milan.
Set in 1992 and foreshadowing the mysteries and follies of the following twenty years, is a scintillating take on our times from the best-selling author of and
Kerr Philip
The rolling strip across the bottom of the screen shouts the news:
BESTSELLING NOVELIST JOHN HOUSTON'S WIFE FOUND MURDERED AT THEIR LUXURY APARTMENT IN MONACO.
Houston is the richest writer in the world, a book factory publishing many bestsellers a year — so many that he can't possibly write them himself. He has a team that feeds off his talent; ghost writers, agents, publishers. So when he decides to take a year out to write something of quality, a novel that will win prizes and critical acclaim, a lot of people stand to lose their livelihoods.
Now Houston, the prime suspect in his wife's murder, has disappeared. He owns a boat and has a pilot's licence — he could be anywhere and there are many who'd like to find him.
First there's the police. If he's innocent, why did he flee? Then again, maybe he was set up by one of his enemies. The scenario reads like the plot of one of Houston's million-copy-selling thrillers...
The Senility of Vladimir P.
Honig Michael
A vodka-soaked tragicomedy of bribes, backhanders and a certain ex-president of Russia going catastrophically awry.
Former Russian president, Vladimir P, is going senile, marooned in a world of memories from his years in power. To get him out of the way, he has been exiled to his luxury dacha, where he is served by a coterie of bickering house staff. Only Sheremetev, the guileless nurse charged with Vladimir's round-the-clock care, is unaware that everyone else is busily using every means at their disposal to skim money from their employer's inexhaustible riches. But when the nurse suddenly needs to find cash for a bribe or see his nephew rot in jail, the dacha's chef lets him in on the secret world of 'commissions' going on all around him. Yet surely Sheremetev wouldn't think to steal from his ailing patient? And surely, in the upstanding modern Russia that Vladimir P created, no one would actually let him…
Zomcats!
Strange Jack
President Doughnut has built a wall to keep the Mexicans out of America. But can he keep the zombies out too?
Desperate for help with his "zombie problem," Doughnut flies out to see the British Prime Minister.
But Britain faces a problem that's far worse than plain old zombies.
Thanks to Henderson, the original zomcat, Doughnut's visit becomes more eventful than he could ever imagine.
Will 'The Doughnut' leave Britain in Air Force One or in a body-bag?
ZOMCATS! Is a satirically dark humour littered with blood, horror and gore.
Zomcats! When their nine lives are up they claw their way back from the dead!
People's Republic
Schlichter Kurt
America's growing political and cultural divisions have finally split the United States apart. Now, as the former blue states begin to collapse under the dead weight of their politically correct tyranny, a lethal operative haunted by his violent past undertakes one last mission to infiltrate and take out his target in the nightmarish city of Los Angeles, deep in the heart of the People's Republic of North America.
National Review's Jim Geraghty calls Kurt Schlichter's "People's Republic" "a surreal, fast-paced journey through a dramatically different America but less than a generation away.…Violent, imaginative, full of mordant humor and dark, gritty details, you won't want to live in this People's Republic… but you'll feel a chill as you wonder how different our real future will be." Author and television host Cam Edwards says "Kurt Schlichter's 'People's Republic' is a roller coaster ride through a post-election Hellscape that will leave you wanting more." Radio host Hugh Hewitt say "Schlichter puts a whole flight of Black Swans in the air—each of them plausible—and the result is a riveting, page-turner, and a demand from Schlichter for… more."
"People's Republic" is the first novel by Kurt Schlichter, a retired Army infantry colonel, a conservative radio and television commentator on the Fox networks and elsewhere, a Senior Columnist at Townhall.com, and a popular and hilarious Twitter raconteur. He's also a trial lawyer, so he has an intimate understanding of evil and deception.
Radio host and commentator Ben Shapiro calls "People's Republic "chilling," and author and columnist David Limbaugh calls it "a thought-provoking action thriller set against the backdrop of a shattered America."
Fox News contributor and author Katie Pavlich says, "They say conservatives are terrible story tellers, but Kurt Schlichter destroys that stereotype in his new novel and issues a dire warning about the future of America."
As with his prior book "Conservative Insurgency: The Struggle to Take America Back 2013-2041," "People's Republic" takes today's news and projects the trends out into the future. Funny, frightening and action-packed, "People's Republic" is a thriller that will make you think as well as keep you turning the pages.
Conservative Insurgency
Jacobson Howard
Kompromat
Johnson Stanley
Stanley Johnson's is a brilliant satirical thriller that tells the story of 2016's seismic and unexpected political events on both sides of the Atlantic.
The UK referendum on Britain's membership of the EU was a political showdown the British PM, Jeremy Hartley, thought he couldn't lose. But the next morning both he and the whole of the rest of the country woke in a state of shock.
America meanwhile has its own unlikely Presidential candidate, the brash showman Ronald Craig, a man that nobody thought could possibly gain office. Throw into the mix the cunning Russian President Igor Popov, with his plans to destabilise the west, and you have a brilliant alternative account of the events that end with Britain's new PM attempting to seek her own mandate to deal with the Brexit related crisis and America welcoming its own new leader.
Now in development for a major new TV series, is a fast-paced thriller from a true political insider, and who knows, it just might all be true!
It's all-out war for ruthless red state special operator Kelly Turnbull when he returns in this blockbuster prequel to "People's Republic," Kurt Schlichter's top selling novel of America after the polarized politics of blue versus red have split our country apart.
"Indian Country" finds Turnbull sent back into the blue states to help those trapped inside resist a politically correct police state. As the progressive government ratchets up the violence, Turnbull must mold regular Americans into a fighting force capable of resisting the People's Republic Army, led by his former US Army Special Forces mentor.
Longer, bigger and bolder than the original, "Indian Country" is filled with Kurt Schlichter's trademark snarky humor and even more non-stop action, drawing on his work as a television commentator and Senior Columnist for Townhall.com, and his experience as a retired Army infantry colonel.
Monday Starts on Saturday
Strugatskie Bratyya
Sasha, a young computer programmer from Leningrad, is driving north to meet some friends for a nature vacation. He picks up a couple of hitchhikers, who persuade him to take a job at the National Institute for the Technology of Witchcraft and Thaumaturgy. The adventures Sasha has in the largely dysfunctional institute involve all sorts of magical beings—a wish-granting fish, a tree mermaid, a cat who can remember only the beginnings of stories, a dream-interpreting sofa, a motorcycle that can zoom into the imagined future, a lazy dog-size mosquito—along with a variety of wizards (including Merlin), vampires, and officers. First published in Russia in 1965, Monday Starts on Saturday has become the most popular Strugatsky novel in their homeland. Like the works of Gogol and Kafka, it tackles the nature of institutions—here focusing on one devoted to discovering and perfecting human happiness. By turns wildly imaginative, hilarious, and disturbing, Monday Starts on Saturday is a comic masterpiece by two of the world's greatest science-fiction writers.
Schuyler George Samuel
The landmark comic satire that asks, "What would happen if all black people in America turned white?" It's New Year's Day 1933 in New York City, and Max Disher, a young black man, has just found out that a certain Dr. Junius Crookman has discovered a mysterious process that allows people to bleach their skin white—a new way to "solve the American race problem." Max leaps at the opportunity, and after a brief stay at the Crookman Sanitarium, he becomes Matthew Fisher, a white man who is able to attain everything he has ever wanted: money, power, good liquor, and the white woman who rejected him when he was black. Lampooning myths of white supremacy and racial purity and caricaturing prominent African American leaders like W. E. B. Du Bois, Madam C. J. Walker, and Marcus Garvey, Black No More is a masterwork of speculative fiction and a hilarious satire of America's obsession with race. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,800 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.
Baby, Would I Lie?
Uestleyk Donalyd
Branson, Missouri, is the home of Country Music, USA. Its main drag is lined with theaters housing such luminaries as Roy Clark, Loretta Lynn, and Merle Haggard — but you'd better get there early because the late show's at eight. Branson is one big long traffic jam of R.V.'s, station wagons, pick-up trucks, NRA decals, tour buses and blue-haired grandmothers. Now Branson just got a little bit more crowded Because the murder trial of country and western star Ray Jones is about to begin, and the media has come loaded for bear. The press presence ranges from the Weekly Galaxy, the most unethical news rag in the universe, to New York City's Trend: The Magazine for the Way We Live This Instant. In the middle of the melee stands Ray Jones himself, an inscrutable good ol' boy who croons like an angel but just may be as guilty as sin — of the rape and murder of a 31-year-old theater cashier. Sara Jaslyn, of Trend, isn't sure about Ray. The sardonic Jack Ingersoll, her editor and lover, is sure of this much: this time he's going to do an- exposé that will nail the Weekly Galaxy to the wall. A phalanx of reporters and editors from the Galaxy are breaking every rule, and a few laws, to get the inside story on Ray Jones's trial. Meanwhile, the IRS is there, too. They want all of Ray Jones's money, no matter what the jury decides. Set to the beat of America's down-home music, as raucous as a smoke-filled hanky-tonk, as funny as grown men in snakeskin boots, BABY, WOULD I LIE? is a murder mystery, a courtroom thriller, a caper novel, and a classic Westlake gem.
The Churchill Memorandum
Gabb Sean
"Thursday the 16th March 1939. The Fuhrer had spent twenty two hours in Prague to inspect his latest conquest. During this time, the people of that city had barely been aware of his presence in the Castle. But as the Mercedes accelerated to carry him back to the railway station, one of the armoured cars forming his guard got stuck in the tramlines that lay just beyond the Wenzelsplatz. The Fuhrer's car swerved to avoid this. On the frozen cobblestones…."
The Break
The Break is an adventure story in which the Byzantine Empire and the Catholic Church take on the British State. Which side wins? No one knows what caused The Break eleven months ago, but there's no sign of its end. England is settling into its new future as a reindustrialising concentration camp. The rest of the world is watching… waiting… curious… It's Wednesday the 7th March 2018—in the mainland UK. Everywhere else, it's some time in June 1065. Jennifer thinks her family survived The Hunger because of their smuggling business—tampons and paracetamol to France, silver back to England. Little does she know what game her father was really playing, as she recrosses the Channel from an impromptu mission of her own. Little can she know how her life has already been torn apart. Who has taken Jennifer's parents? Where are they? What is the Home Secretary up to with the Americans? Why is she so desperate to lay hands on Michael? Will Jesus Christ return to Earth above Oxford Circus? When will the "Doomsday Project" go live? Can the Byzantine Empire and the Catholic Church take on the British State, and win? All will be answered—if Jennifer can stay alive in a post-apocalyptic London terrorised by cannibals, by thugs in uniform, and by motorbike gangs of Islamic suicide bombers.


Words from the CrossStuart Jones Criticisms about the popular social media site Twitter center on its limiting users to a small number of characters per post--140 characters. Critics seem to think a deeper meaning will come from a greater volume of words. Jesus teaches us so much in just a few words. As He hung on the cross He taught us about forgiveness, "Father, forgive them, for they know not what they do." He offered a view of the future, "I tell you the truth, today you will be with me in paradise." And, Jesus proclaimed, "Father, into your hands I commit my spirit." Great meaning is in the words, not the number of words.
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BNU: Rising to the challenges
By Filipa Queiroz
For over a hundred years, Macao's Banco Nacional Ultramarino (BNU) has nurtured the Portuguese pataca (Macao´s legal tender), keeping pace with economic growth and meeting the challenges of a highly competitive environment. The bank's new chief executive officer Pedro Cardoso told us all about it.
We meet the new chief executive officer at BNU's head office, a piece of history in itself, its distinctive pink and white exterior adorning Avenida Almeida Ribeiro, and now considered one of Macao's noteworthy landmarks.
"BNU has contributed hugely to the pataca fulfilling its role in Macao," says Cardoso. He goes on to say that he firmly believes that both the currency and the issuing bank itself are pretty well established in the territory.
BNU's beginnings
BNU was set up in Lisbon, Portugal, in 1864. Its initial goal was to act as an issuing bank in the Portuguese overseas territories, and to contribute to their economic development. The branch in Macao was opened in 1902, along with that of Guinea Bissau. They followed the establishment of branches in Angola, Cape Verde, São Tomé, Goa and Mozambique.
A hundred and ten years later, however, things looked a little different. The bank was nationalised, and in 2001 became a wholly owned subsidiary of the Portuguese Caixa Geral de Depósitos. The bank remained only in the Special Administrative Region of Macao.
"Throughout the life of Macao, BNU's support to the Macao government has been vital. Through good times and bad – especially during the Sino-Japanese War and World War II – the support has been invaluable," Cardoso recalls.
BNU was the first bank to launch a credit card denominated in pataca (MOP) – the BNU MOP VISA card. As well as promoting the pataca, Cardoso highlights the support given by BNU to the development of the manufacturing industry, "whether it be textiles, toys or other areas". Cardoso says this was particularly evident in the '70s and '80s. The bank has also played an important role in funding local entrepreneurs, financing major infrastructure projects, and – particularly since the liberalisation process – developing the gaming industry.
"In the past, BNU was the financier of many major projects. Nowadays, its relationship with these concerns is more specialised, focusing on various types of service, from Automated Teller Machines (ATMs), points of sale (POS) terminals and cash management, to other areas," explains Pedro Cardoso.
A career of challenges
"I've been lucky enough to work for several different banks, doing a wide variety of roles, and spanning four different countries so far. I must say that this has been the most rewarding experience to date – at least in these first 12 months," BNU's chief executive officer confesses.
He began his career in Portugal, working for Banco Pinto & Sotto Mayor, where he worked in the international department. He then used his expertise in international capital markets to join a start-up project, which became the Banco Comercial Português (BCP). Here he gained additional experience in planning and marketing, as well as in international affairs. In 1996, he was invited to become the deputy general manager of Banco Comercial Português at their New York branch – his first professional posting outside of Portugal.
After three years, Cardoso returned to Portugal and continued his work at BCP, holding various positions. In 2004 he accepted the role of managing the online bank, Banco Best – a multi-ownership organisation comprising one of the largest Portuguese economic groups, Grupo Banco Espírito Santo. A year later he joined another bank, Caixa Geral de Depósitos (CGD). His first posting for CGD was in Spain, where he worked for several years, as an executive board member, in a range of roles. Then he moved back to Portugal to become a CGD board member. "I was invited by the Finance minister at the time, to become involved in several different aspects of the bank's work," he tells us.
In August of last year Pedro Cardoso was appointed as the new chief executive officer of Banco Nacional Ultramarino (BNU) in Macao. He says he finds the challenge particularly rewarding because Macao is not only "in a phase of very strong economic growth, but it is also particularly multicultural". Despite being "very well established" in Macao, and "accepted wholeheartedly by the general public and the authorities", Cardoso believed that the bank needed a change. He says it needed to modernise and aim for a level of growth that was at a compatible pace with the growth of the economy, as well as with the banking sector.
"It's simple," says Pedro Cardoso. "The idea is to differentiate BNU from the competition through the quality of our service delivery." The executive says the bank's sole focus of attention is now the customer, and therefore they must present an impeccable service and approach. In Avenida Almeida Ribeiro you can already see the difference. There's a new automatic queuing system in the waiting area, and new account manager offices are in place.
Recently BNU has posted an increase in its customer numbers. In December, it had around 180,000 clients, up by 8 percent from the previous year. As Pedro Cardoso puts it, BNU has around 30 percent of Macao's population as private customers. Most of these are Chinese, with the second-largest group being Portuguese. Increasing numbers of Westerners are arriving, however, from the United States, Australia, New Zealand and other countries in Asia such as Vietnam and the Philippines.
The bank has 14 branches in Macao, employing 440 people. According to the chief executive officer, the emphasis is on training the staff to pass on the strengths of their products and services to the customers. The sense of a wider social responsibility is going to be maintained, by continuing to support institutions such as Tung Sin Tong and individuals such as students from the University of Macau, by funding scholarships. They will also get involved in other sectors, like sports and culture.
BNU approaches the market in a segmented manner, through four business areas. The first one focuses on large companies, including the main gaming operators and major utility companies in Macao. The second segment is a new one, which is being developed at an incredible pace – focused on small and medium-sized enterprises. Retail banking occupies the third segment. This year the bank launched the new service BNU Advantage, designed to provide support and services to customers who need a dedicated account manager. The final business area is for institutional clients of high net worth, in the private banking sector.
Macao is not the only place in Asia where the CGD group is present. Its management includes offices of the CGD group in Shanghai and Zhuhai, as well as in India. Pedro Cardoso says the bank has good prospects for long-term stability that can build on past tradition but move forward from that to future endeavours. According to him, the global economic crisis is not currently a major threat. "The CGD Group is present in 23 countries, and the vast majority of its operations are currently in areas of strong economic growth. This applies not just to BNU but also to other organisations that operate across multiple countries," he says. He adds: "Obviously BNU has a very important role at this stage, due to the different indicators of the CGD group, both in terms of results and in terms of turnover."
The chief executive officer's appointment is for a three-year term, and he believes that "the transformation process for BNU will be ongoing throughout this period". He refuses to give long-term prognoses, however. "My career and my business and personal life have always been filled with challenges, and I'm expecting my position here to be no different."
Last year the bank posted a profit of MOP 325.3 million – a year-on-year drop of 13 percent. The bank's results were negatively influenced by an increase in credit provisions and a drop in profit margins due to increasing competition in the market. Even so, it recorded a growth in turnover of 13 percent. "It's a very balanced form of growth," says Pedro Cardoso. "It is rare to achieve balanced growth between loans to customers and customer deposits, yet we managed to achieve this. It's so unlike previous years in Macao's banking sector, where the growth of credits has been three times higher than deposit growth. The contrast with the last two years is particularly apparent," he explained.
The competitive market has had a damaging effect on short-term results. . But the chief executive officer believes competition is a positive thing, pushing companies to deliver a better service to customers and better prices for consumers, whilst always improving on staff skills development. "Competition always acts as an incentive to prove we can overcome any challenges."
The unusual history of Macao's local currency
The pataca is the official currency of the Macao Special Administrative Region – a fact that nobody disputes. This wasn't always the case, however – as seen in the difficulties the territory encountered on creating its own stable monetary system, even after the pataca had gone into circulation in 1906.
At the end of the 19th century, the Macao economy was based on the value of silver and on the circulation of a number of local and regional currencies calculated in terms of their equivalent in silver. The variety of denominations and values led to some confusion in day-to-day Macao economics, as people dealt in a mixture of Hong Kong dollars, the payment certificates of British territories in the strait of Malacca (later to become Singapore dollars), a number of different curren-cies from China's Guangdong province, and the currency known to the Portuguese as the "Mexican pataca". This latter coin, minted by the Spanish empire and known as the famous "piece of eight", was immortalised in pirate tales because it was part of the cargo of a good many galleons that crossed the Atlantic. It was, in fact, in general use across the Far East. It explains the origin of the name for Macao's official currency today.
Pataca's past
The name pataca, however, had been common since the end of the 17th century, to identify the currencies of other Portuguese overseas territories.
In Brazil, the pataca was a silver coin in a variety of denominations that circulated between 1695 and 1834, initially coined in Portugal and sent to the South American colony, but which was later coined in Brazil itself, at the mints at Pernambuco, Bahia, Rio de Janeiro and Minas Gerais.
In Timor (now Timor Leste or East Timor), the pataca was the Portuguese colony's currency between 1894 and 1959, except for between 1942 and 1945, during the Japanese occupation in the Second World War.
In 1901, the Lisbon government, in an attempt to streamline the monetary system in Macao, decided to create a specific currency for the territory and gave Banco Nacional Ultramarino (BNU) exclusive rights to issue banknotes with the official name Patacas. BNU is now part of state banking group Caixa Geral de Depósitos and only retains its original name in Macao.
Given the responsibility of being the issuing bank for Macao, BNU – created in 1864 as the issuing bank for the Portuguese colonies at the time – opened its doors in 1902 on Avenida Almeida Ribeiro – the city's main street at the time. It followed the establishment of subsidiaries in Angola and Cape Verde in 1865, in Sao Tome and Principe and India in 1868, and Mozambique in 1877.
After Macao, BNU also opened branches in Guinea-Bissau, in 1903, and in Timor, in 1912.
In 1917, after opening branches in the then Portuguese colonies in Africa and the East, BNU started to set up a network of branches in mainland Portugal, Madeira and the Azores.
The first banknotes issued by BNU in Macao – with denominations of one, five, ten, 20, 25, 50 and 100 patacas – were put into circulation on 27 January 1906, and the new currency was declared to be the only legal tender in Macao, with an official exchange rate of one pataca to 450 réis (unit of currency of the Portuguese monarchy).
Banknotes from this first issue – which became known in the BNU archives as the "Old Simple issue" (emissão Antiga-Simples) – were printed in London at Barclay & Fry Ltd, and included printed signatures of the Governor and Deputy Governor of BNU and the handwritten signature of the manager of the Bank's Macao subsidiary. The paper used was of poor quality and only the 100 pataca notes had a watermark.
Changing people's minds
Making the pataca the only legal tender in Macao and issuing banknotes were far from enough to change the local monetary system. It would take a lot more than this to encourage the Macao population to accept the new currency in shops, factories, warehouses, taverns, exchange houses, and on the streets. Macao people were used to using coins rather than paper money, which they viewed with suspicion and were quickly exchanged for silver coins at very low exchange rates.
Everyday transactions continued as they always had done, using a variety of traditional currencies still in circulation despite the official decrees. The new currency was only used for paying official taxes and expenses such as electricity bills.
A 1914 report from the manager of BNU in Macao outlined the difficulties the pataca was having in being accepted as a currency for general use, noting that even civil servants were quick to exchange the salaries they were paid in patacas for silver coins.
In its first few decades, the pataca also faced competition from traditional Chinese deposit certificates – pangtan – denominated in silver coins. Issued by local private banks and exchanged on demand for silver, they were accepted like banknotes, and were transferable and convertible into their corresponding silver value.
Pangtan remained in circulation as the de facto currency until 1944, when they were banned. Local legislation was passed to prohibit the circulation of any other currency but the pataca.
The "certificates" – a currency for wartime
One of the most unusual chapters in Macao's monetary history involved the local issue of "certificates" to replace the usual banknotes. It occurred in response to the exceptional situation the territory faced in the Second World War and to the Japanese occupation of China as well as much of Asia.
Portugal's neutral status during the war meant that Macao escaped an actual Japanese occupation although the commander of the Japanese garrison that occupied a neighbouring Chinese island set himself up in Macao. The island was left practically isolated as a place of neutrality in an occupied Asia.
The effects of the Japanese invasion of China, which began in 1931 in Manchuria, started to be felt in Macao in 1937 when a large number of refugees moved onto the island. Meanwhile, there was a significant drop in the circulation of foreign currencies, which the local government collected and used to pay for imports.
The war also made it impossible to send banknotes from Portugal to the territory. One of those shipments of patacas was retained in Mozambique and would only be put into circulation in Macao in November 1945, some months after the end of the war.
In an attempt to solve the situation, the authorities at the time decided to set up a money reserve by ordering official treasuries to keep all silver and foreign currencies that made it into the official coffers.
In 1944, after repeated requests from Macao's governor at the time, Gabriel Maurício Teixeira, the then Portuguese Colonies Minister authorised the Macao subsidiary of BNU to issue "certificates" as "the colony's private currency, of a nominal value to be set by the Macao governor."
The Certificates were a provi-sional solution from the start, and plans were made for them to go out of circulation as soon as communications were re-established and it was possible to supply the territory with banknotes.
Private currency
The "private currency" was printed on locally made paper and, as it was impossible to use the metal plates normally used to print banknotes, two 35-kilogramme blocks of limestone were employed as lithographic stones by local printing company Litografia Sin Chon & Cia.
A currency issue in Macao required exceptional security measures to be put into place to prevent fraud and falsification. This turned into a physical endurance test for the authorities of the time.
The official stipulation was that the certificates had to have a handwritten original signature by the financial services director and manager of the local BNU, Carlos Eugénio de Vasconcelos. In a report addressed to Lisbon headquarters, Vasconcelos said that for several months he had had to sign between 1500 and 2000 certificates a day, and that there were days on which the number of signatures reached 5000.
The exceptional security measures also applied to printing staff, who had to eat and sleep at their place of work whilst being watched by government soldiers while the certificates were being printed.
During breaks in the printing work, the lithographic stones were locked in a room guarded by a Portuguese soldier.
Despite all of these precautions, false certificates quickly appeared in circulation. Most of these forgeries were of poor quality and could be easily identified, but others were only discovered because they were missing inscriptions that were invisible to the naked eye that had been included in the genuine certificates.
The security inscriptions were inspired by a Luís de Camões poem called "On Never Navigated Seas" (Por Mares Nunca Antes Navegados), a popular and traditional verse from Póvoa de Varzim "go with God" (vai com Deus) and the Greek letter Omega.
The certificates, which were issued in denominations of five, ten, 25, 50, 100 and 500 patacas, had an issue date of 5 February 1944 and remained in circulation until 1947.
An unusual footnote in the history of the pataca is that coins only went into circulation alongside banknotes as of 1952, when five, ten and 50 avos (cent), and five pataca coins went into circulation, after being minted in Lisbon at Casa da Moeda.
The five pataca silver coin minted that year was named by the International Numismatic Society as one of the "Great Historic Silver Coins of the World".
Issuing banks
The history of the pataca cannot be separated from that of BNU. When the Macao Issuance Institute was created in 1980, gaining exclusive responsibility for issuing Macao's coins, BNU became the agent bank for the Macao government and continued to issue banknotes.
On 16 October 1995, via an agreement between Portugal and China to prepare for the sovereignty handover of Macao in 1999, the Macao branch of the Bank of China became the second issuing bank, whilst the official body responsible for currency issuance became the Macao Monetary Authority.
The banknotes that are currently in circulation in Macao are the 10, 20, 50, 100, 500 and 1000 pataca notes, and the latest banknote issues were carried out by BNU dated 2005 and by the Bank of China dated 2003.
As well as banknotes that are currently in circulation, the two banks have also recently issued commemorative notes. In 2008 the Bank of China issued four million 20 pataca notes to commemorate the Beijing Olympic Games, and this year it launched a 100 pataca note, to commemorate the bank's centenary.
This year BNU and the Bank of China have both issued 10 pataca notes celebrating the Year of the Dragon.
Competition from other currencies
However, despite the undisputed status of the pataca as Macao's official currency, even now the Hong Kong dollar is in general circulation, and in some cases – such as in the casinos, which drive the local economy – it is preferred because it is an established inter-national currency.
A law passed in 1995 bans Macao retailers from refusing payment in patacas, but cases in which the Hong Kong dollar is explicitly preferred are still frequent.
Due to the predominance of the neighbouring territory's currency, Macao's government departments also accept pay-ments in Hong Kong dollars.
The small geographical size and population of Macao and the comparatively small international profile of its economy make the pataca an essentially local currency, which is difficult to use and exchange outside the confines of the Special Administrative Region.
For exchange purposes the pataca is pegged to the Hong Kong dollar (at a rate of around 103 patacas to 100 Hong Kong dollars).
As well as the Hong Kong dollar, the currency of the People's Republic of China, the yuan, is also in general circulation, and in many cases is preferred in Macao.
The pataca tree
Beyond its official role as the currency of the Macao Special Administrative Region, the pataca also has a place in Portugal and Brazil's popular culture through the expression "the pataca tree," (árvore das patacas), as a way of talking about easy money.
But the money tree, or the pataca tree, does actually exist. It is the common name given in Brazil to Dillenia indica, a tree originally from India, which can reach a height of 40 metres.
Its association to the money tree is, according to Brazilian folklore, linked to the Portuguese prince D. Pedro, who declared Brazil's independence.
Dillenia indica – which was introduced to South America in the reign of King D. João VI (1816–1826), who transferred the Portuguese court to Brazil – is singular in that its petals close over the centre of its flowers to make its fruit, which means that any object placed in the tree's flower ends up inside the fruit.
The legend of the pataca tree is that D. Pedro placed coins – Brazilian patacas – inside the tree's flowers and then sent the fruit to Portugal with the message that, "in this land money even grows on trees".
Legends aside, it's fair to say that despite the initial difficulties in asserting its (essentially local) influence, the pataca has become an important part of Macao's institutional structure. It is a part of Macao's own identity and autonomy, at one time as a territory under Portuguese administration and now as a Special Administrative Region of the People's Republic of China.
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A recent Bike League report found that 40 percent of cycling fatalities occur from rear-impact collisions. With help from electronics design firm iKubu, cyclists might soon be able to outsource their fear of being sideswiped to radar Backtracker.
Backtracker's rear-mounted sensor, which has a range of 153 yards, monitors how close cyclists are to cars in their rearview, as well as how quickly those cars are approaching. That information is conveyed wirelessly to a handlebar unit that notifies the rider through light pulses: Slowly blinking lights mean cars are approaching, while frantic pulses mean you might soon see bright lights from inside a dashboard.
The South African team behind iKubu (composed of hobby cyclists with high-tech day jobs) is looking to raise $226,000 through crowdfunding and manufacturing startup Dragon Innovation and hopes to ship Backtrackers as soon as December. The first 92 funders can get their setup for $149, after which point the Backtracker costs $199.
If it works, the Backtracker is well worth being able to keep your eyes on the prize instead of behind you. However, endurance cyclists should take note of Backtracker's eight-hour battery life. Ask if they'll give you a discount for buying three.


My new fanedit is in the making and will be a new "musical" project, like my Conan: Man Of War edit.
This one will have more dialogue, and also sound effects (in Conan the sound was muted during the music parts).
I'll use the movie UNDERWORLD 3, and possibly UNDERWORLD 1 with part of 2.
Music will be by the band WITHIN TEMPTATION.
Silent Star Wars appears in The People vs George Lucas!
Part of my Star Wars 30's serial edition (dusty version) appears in the documentary The People vs George Lucas by Alexandre O. Philippe.


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Again, a female cop is hero at Fort Hood
Journalist Eliott C. McLaughlin
(CNN) -- A soldier has committed a deadly mass shooting at Texas' Fort Hood again. And again, a female police officer was involved in bringing the violent rampage to an end.
The military policewoman has not been identified, but by all accounts, she risked her life to ensure the bedlam wrought by Spc. Ivan Lopez came to a close in the second building he entered.
By then, Lopez, whom the Army chief of staff has described as a "very experienced soldier," had taken three lives and wounded 16 people -- all of them Army personnel. Without the officer's courageous actions, Wednesday's casualty count might have been higher.
"It was clearly heroic what she did in that moment in time," said Lt. Gen. Mark Milley, the post's commander. "She did her job, and she did exactly what we'd expect of a United States Army military police."
Please visit CNN to read the full article.


Do you remember the first book you ever read? I do! It was Mark Twain's "Tom Sawyer." I especially remember the part, when Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Fin set sail as pirates; floating their makeshift raft down the Mississippi looking for fame, fortune and adventure. I had to do the same! So?the Scanlon brothers and I spent days carrying old planks of wood to Van Courtland Park. We were to build a raft, sail down the Bronx River and find the open seas of the Hudson. I remember the day we pushed off. As we left the safe banks of terra firma heading for the south westerly current of the river, I looked back at shore and saw an image of myself that I would never see again.
I remember the first book I ever read. It was Mark Twain?s ?Tom Sawyer.? I remember the part when Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn set sail as pirates, floating their makeshift raft down the Mississippi looking for fame, fortune and adventure. I just had to do the same! So, the Scanlon brothers and I spent days carrying old planks of wood to Van Courtland Park. We were to build a raft, sail down the Bronx River and find the open seas of the Long Island Sound, a mighty bold adventure for a bunch of kids.
Eight-year-old Kathryn Fazzi mimicked panda noises perfectly as she recalled her experiences in China?s renowned Wolong Panda Reserve. ?The 1-year-old pandas played King of the Hill and one had difficulty going back up the hill,? she said. ?We put carrots in the centers of their mouths and they?d take the carrots out and hold them because pandas have a kind of thumb. They didn?t drop any of the food?just crumbs.? Nearly a year ago, La Cañadan resident Diane Fazzi returned home to a strange greeting: ?
Senior Girl Scout Troop 724 surprised 50 younger La Cañada scouts with a day of ?Under the Sea? adventure Nov 1. ?This is part of the secret safari,? said Katie Rayburn, one of the senior troop members. The secret safari is a program that other troops have done in the past. The older girls choose a theme and oversee the activities for younger scouts. ?There are ten girls planning this,? Rayburn said. The day consisted of everything about the sea and how it affects the Earth.
The tide came in at Paradise Canyon Elementary School last week via the Octo-bus from the Cabrillo Marine Aquarium, bringing numerous sea creatures for the students to learn about. Chris Brodie and Crystal Gentle from the Marine Aquarium provided each grade with a presentation, where they learned about a lobster's exoskeleton and how they shed their shell when they grow out of it. The students knew a starfish can grow back another arm if broken off, but learned the location of the eyes and mouth of starfishes and how they expel their stomach outside of their body in order to eat. They knew a mussel clings to the rocks, did not know it had numerous rope-like legs that anchor them to the rocks.
It's a climate puzzle that has vexed scientists for more than a decade and added fuel to the arguments of those who insist man-made global warming is a myth. Since just before the start of the 21st century, the Earth's average global surface temperature has failed to rise despite soaring levels of heat-trapping greenhouse gases and years of dire warnings from environmental advocates, the Los Angeles Times reported. Now, as scientists with the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change gather in Sweden this week to approve portions of the IPCC's fifth assessment report, they are finding themselves pressured to explain this glaring discrepancy.
SAN PEDRO - From top to bottom, there doesn't appear to be an easy out throughout the La Cañada High softball team's lineup. That might spell doom for opponents waiting to face the Spartans over the next week. While the accolades are normally reserved for the top part of the lineup, the Spartans, who are the reigning CIF Southern Section Division V champions, have received major contributions from one through nine. If there's a key situation calling for the No. 9 hitter to get on and then steal a base or notch a clutch two-out hit with the bases loaded, they get it. It's simply a part of the process for the top-seeded Spartans, who rolled to a 7-0 road victory against Mary Star of the Sea on Thursday afternoon at the San Pedro Softball Complex.
SAN PEDRO - Striking out a career-high 23 batters in a Rio Hondo League contest won't soon be forgotten by Lauren Cox. Striking out 20 in a playoff game proved to be more satisfying for the La Cañada High softball pitcher. Cox did just that in leading her team a step closer to repeating as CIF Southern Section Division V champion, striking out 20 as she twirled a one-hit shutout in the Spartans' 7-0 quarterfinal win on Thursday against host Mary Star of the Sea at the San Pedro Softball Complex.
Last year, I wrote thoughts about Christopher Columbus. Through the Internet my thoughts sailed across the country, prompting numerous debates regarding his morality and his significance. Indulge me as I revisit his story. This time I'll delve deeper into the nature of the man. There was a time when the New World did not exist - at least not for Europeans. The sun set in the west at the far edge of an ocean where no man dared to venture, and beyond that, infinity - or so they thought.


Haydn is a project coordinator in one of MSF's emergency teams.
Haydn blogs about the work of the team, and about his most recent posting to the MV Aquarius, a search & rescue vessel MSF operates in the Mediterranean Sea, in partnership with SOS MEDITERRANEE.
I wasn't sure about the boat. I get sea sick. But I'm part of an MSF emergency team, so I go where I'm needed.
The emergency team is a group of medics and coordinators that's ready to go out and respond to the biggest emergencies at the drop of the hat.
We work fast. It's a different way of thinking to other projects. The pace is higher, things need to happen and they need to happen now. If we need to hire a plane we do it, because the need is there and it's huge.
I'm what they call a project coordinator. It means I'm responsible for the entire project. I work with the medical team leader to look at the needs of the people in the area and make sure the resources are in place to meet them. I manage the security situation, the staffing, the negotiations, and I oversee the logistics.
We define an emergency as a massive deviation from what's normal. On my first ever assignment with MSF, way before I joined the emergency team, I was a logistician in South Sudan, and on that project we went from seeing 30-40 people with malaria every week, to seeing around 1,400. That's an emergency. So nurses from the emergency team arrived and they focused only on the malaria, working to bring it under control.
We don't just work in countries where MSF already has projects – the emergency team managers look at global trends, and if they see something they don't like the look of, we go in to explore what's happening. This year we've been in the horn of Africa because of the very high rates of malnutrition there, we're looking at north Nigeria for the same reason.
At the moment our team is supporting projects in Yemen, northern Syria, Libya, and the Mediterranean. Which means the boat.
And actually, the boat was good. It was bloody hard work at times, but everywhere is if you're doing your job properly. I learned a lot. It was a very different environment to work in, but some of the issues are the same: do we have enough blankets, are there enough toilets? On the boat, we're there to hook people out of the water and make them safe. It doesn't matter who they are, why they're there, it doesn't matter.
I did my first ever live interview on the boat. The journalist from the BBC asked me 'are you a pull factor?' They meant – does the fact that we're here make people more likely to attempt the crossing? But we're an ambulance service on the sea, that's how I look at it. Most people attempting the crossing don't even know we're here, but even if they did -do you cross the road without looking because you know ambulances exist?
And that idea – of 'pull factors' – it really undermines the fact that a lot of the people we're rescuing, they've left because they don't have a choice; because of the traffickers some of them don't have the opportunity to say no, even when they can see the boats are dangerous.
They want to flee different forms of persecution. Some of them are trying to make a better life for themselves – maybe they're from West Africa that has been decimated by ebola. Their entire country is slowly trying to rebuild itself but it's going to take ages. Maybe they're from somewhere else – East Africa, Horn of Africa, it doesn't matter – but where they live there's no opportunities, there's abject poverty, there's insecurity. So some people are trying to get a better life for their family away from all of that . And then some people are trying to get their family back together – because some of them are in Europe and some of them aren't and they're separated.
It doesn't matter the reason they're leaving.
But a lot of people haven't thought it all the way through, because there's no way for them to really know what it's going to be like. The next thing they know, they're being held in Libya working off their debts or waiting for their family to pay for passage.
Then they get thrown on a boat with probably no food and water, a crappy little boat with enough fuel to get you 40 miles, when the journey is about 320. There's a point when that decision-making has been completely taken away. There are reports of people being forced onto the boats.
I've finished on the Aquarius now. It was a three-month assignment. I'm waiting to get a visa for South Sudan – things have flared up there, and there's a medical coordinator from the emergency team already there.
Becoming a logistician: How did I get here?


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Les MacHeth étaient une famille gaélique qui a organisé plusieurs rébellions face aux rois écossais-normands qui régnaient sur l'Écosse au  et . On connait mal leurs origines.

Origines
La première controverse qui entoure les MacHeth est leur origine. La question clé concerne la paternité de Máel Coluim MacHeth, le premier membre connu de la famille. On considère généralement que Máel Coluim est le fils de Beth (ou Áed ou Eth), Mormaer de Ross, qui a été témoin de deux chartres au début du règne de David  d'Écosse.

Une autre hypothèse en fait un descendant d'Aedh, mormaer de Moray et arrière-petit-fils putatif de Domnall mac Ruaidraih, cité dans le « Book of Deer » comme co-bienfaiteur de l'Abbaye de Deer vers l'an 1000 et troisième fils de Ruairaidh mac Domnall.

D'autres théories plus anciennes confondent deux personnes qui sont aujourd'hui considérées distinctes : Máel Coluim MacHeth et Máel Coluim mac Alaxandair, fils illégitime d'Alexandre  d'Écosse.

Même si on considère que Máel Coluim MacHeth est le fils d'Áed de Ross, cela conduit à se poser de nouvelles questions concernant l'origine de cette famille et leurs revendications. Un consensus général localise leurs origines à Ross, où ils revendiqueraient le titre de Mormaer. Parfois on fait également l'hypothèse qu'ils descendent de sang royal à travers Donald, fils de Malcolm III, qui meurt en 1085.

Membres célèbres de la famille

Máel Coluim mac Alaxandair
Máel Coluim, fils d'Alexandre et non MacHeth, apparait pour la première fois en 1124, lorsque l'Orderic Vitalis indique :

On n'est pas sûr s'il s'agit de Máel Coluim qui épouse la sœur de Somerled, roi ou seigneur d'Argyll. si c'est lui, c'est avant sa capture et son emprisonnement en 1134. Il est détenu à Roxburgh, et y est encore en 1156 quand son fils est capturé à Whithorn et emprisonné avec lui.

Máel Coluim MacHeth
Si on considère que ce Máel Coluim est distinct du précédent, il apparait en 1157, quand il est dit qu'il se réconcilie avec le roi, Malcolm IV d'Écosse. Il restaure le titre de mormaer de Ross qu'il porte jusqu'à sa mort en 1168.

Donald MacHeth
L'existence de Donald MacHeth dépend si on accepte ou non que Máel Coluim MacHeth est le prisonnier de Roxburgh et le mari de la sœur de Somerled. S'il en est ainsi, Donald est impliqué dans une rébellion très tôt au cours du règne de Malcolm IV, et capturé à Whithorn en 1156, puis peut-être relâché en 1157 quand son père est restauré comme mormaer de Ross.

Adam mac Domnaill
En 1186, un certain Adam, fils de Donald, est tué par Máel Coluim, Mormaer d'Atholl, dans le sanctuaire de l'église de Cupar, et celle-ci brûle avec 58 associés d'Adam à l'intérieur. Cet Adam mac Domnaill est peut-être un fils de Domnall mac Uilleim. Toutefois, son identification n'est pas certain. Certaines sources le nomme Áed mac Domnaill, et il pourrait avoir fait partie de la famille MacHeth.

Article lié
 Donald MacWilliam

Kenneth MacHeth
Comme pour les Meic Uilleim, les MacHeth disparaissent de l'histoire dans les années 1200. Il se pourrait qu'aucun héritier mâle de la famille ne perdure alors pour revendiquer Ross. À cette période, Harald Maddadsson, comte des Orcades, apparait comme la principale menace pour les rois d'Écosse au nord du pays.

Le dernier MacHeth connu est Kenneth (ou Cináed), qui s'allie à Domnall Ban MacWilliam et un prince irlandais pour envahir Ross en 1215, peu après la mort de Guillaume  d'Écosse. Cette invasion ne se montre pas réellement dangereuse pour Alexandre II car elle est défaite par Ferchar mac in tSagairt, futur Mormaer de Ross, qui tue les leaders et envoie leur tête à Alexandre. Avec cela, les revendications des MacHeth sur Ross disparaissent.

Notes

Bibliographie
 Barrow, G.W.S., Kingship and Unity: Scotland, 1000–1306. Reprinted Edinburgh University Press, Edinburgh, 1989.
 Duncan, A.A.M., The Kingship of the Scots 842–1292: Succession and Independence. Edinburgh University Press, Edinburgh, 2002.
 Grant, Alexander, "The Province of Ross and the Kingdom of Alba" in E.J. Cowan and R. Andrew McDonald (eds.) Alba: Celtic Scotland in the Medieval Era. Tuckwell Press, East Linton, 2000; reprinted John Donald, Edinburgh, 2005.
 McDonald, R. Andrew, Outlaws of Medieval Scotland: Challenges to the Canmore Kings, 1058–1266. Tuckwell Press, East Linton, 2003.
 Oram, Richard, David I: The King Who Made Scotland. Tempus, Stroud, 2004.
  W.W. Scott « Macheth family (per. c.1124–1215) » Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004.

Voir aussi
 Clan MacKay, possible descendants des MacHeth

Famille écossaise

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THUNDER BAY — A new waste diversion company in Thunder Bay is looking to be operational by the end of this year.
Eco Depot held an information session Friday afternoon at Whitewater Golf Club to show the city what they are all about, and to encourage businesses to divert their organic waste their way.
They plan to be operational by the end of this year depending on Ministry of Environment and Climate Change approval, and representatives say construction is well on its way.
A public information session was held to share updates, and inform the public about the company's goals.
Lehtinen said there is demand in the city, especially from the younger generation for an organic waste composting site.
She added that both the municipality and the environment would benefit from this facility.
They want to encourage businesses and local municipalities to increase their diversion rates through the diversion of specific organic waste to the Eco Depot facility.
Lehtinen said compost can be useful in not only agricultural operations, but in commercial operations and subdivision construction.


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Q: Coloring shapes in order with extra colors I'm making a program that allows the user to draw multiple shapes on the screen and choose the desired color. At the current moment I have nine preset colors that the user can choose from. I plan on using a JColorChooser to allow the user to select different colors. However, I cannot figure out a way to store extra colors that may be chosen so that when the drawn shapes are repainted they will remain the same color that they were drawn with.
I have come up with a way to redraw the shapes in the order that they were drawn and with the color that they were drawn with, as shown below:
private List<Shape> shapeList = new ArrayList<Shape>();
private List<Integer> opNumList = new ArrayList<Integer>();

@Override
protected void paintComponent(Graphics g) {
    super.paintComponent(g);
    int index = 0;
    Graphics2D g2 = (Graphics2D) g.create();

    if (!opNumList.isEmpty()) {
        for (Shape s : shapeList) {
            switch (opNumList.get(index))
                case  0: g2.setColor(Color.red);    g2.draw(s); break;
                case  1: g2.setColor(Color.red);    g2.fill(s); break;
                case  2: g2.setColor(Color.orange); g2.draw(s); break;
                case  3: g2.setColor(Color.orange); g2.fill(s); break;
                case  4: g2.setColor(Color.yellow); g2.draw(s); break;
                case  5: g2.setColor(Color.yellow); g2.fill(s); break;
                case  6: g2.setColor(Color.green);  g2.draw(s); break;
                case  7: g2.setColor(Color.green);  g2.fill(s); break;
                case  8: g2.setColor(Color.blue);   g2.draw(s); break;
                case  9: g2.setColor(Color.blue);   g2.fill(s); break;
                case 10: g2.setColor(purple);       g2.draw(s); break;
                case 11: g2.setColor(purple);       g2.fill(s); break;
                case 12: g2.setColor(brown);        g2.draw(s); break;
                case 13: g2.setColor(brown);        g2.fill(s); break;
                case 14: g2.setColor(Color.white);  g2.draw(s); break;
                case 15: g2.setColor(Color.white);  g2.fill(s); break;
                case 16: g2.setColor(Color.black);  g2.draw(s); break;
                case 17: g2.setColor(Color.black);  g2.fill(s); break;
                default: return;
            }
            index++;
        }
    }
}

@Override
public void mouseReleased(MouseEvent ev) {
    if (color == Color.red) {
        if (toolNum == LINE || (toolNum == RECTANGLE && !cbFillItem.isSelected()) || (toolNum == OVAL && !cbFillItem.isSelected()))
            opNumList.add(0);
        if ((toolNum == RECTANGLE || toolNum == OVAL) && cbFillItem.isSelected())
            opNumList.add(1);
    }

    if (color == Color.orange) {
        if (toolNum == LINE || (toolNum == RECTANGLE && !cbFillItem.isSelected()) || (toolNum == OVAL && !cbFillItem.isSelected()))
            opNumList.add(2);
        if ((toolNum == RECTANGLE || toolNum == OVAL) && cbFillItem.isSelected())
            opNumList.add(3);
    }

    if (color == Color.yellow) {
        if (toolNum == LINE || (toolNum == RECTANGLE && !cbFillItem.isSelected()) || (toolNum == OVAL && !cbFillItem.isSelected()))
            opNumList.add(4);
        if ((toolNum == RECTANGLE || toolNum == OVAL) && cbFillItem.isSelected())
            opNumList.add(5);
    }

    if (color == Color.green) {
        if (toolNum == LINE || (toolNum == RECTANGLE && !cbFillItem.isSelected()) || (toolNum == OVAL && !cbFillItem.isSelected()))
            opNumList.add(6);
        if ((toolNum == RECTANGLE || toolNum == OVAL) && cbFillItem.isSelected())
            opNumList.add(7);
    }

    if (color == Color.blue) {
        if (toolNum == LINE || (toolNum == RECTANGLE && !cbFillItem.isSelected()) || (toolNum == OVAL && !cbFillItem.isSelected()))
            opNumList.add(8);
        if ((toolNum == RECTANGLE || toolNum == OVAL) && cbFillItem.isSelected())
            opNumList.add(9);
    }

    if (color == purple) {
        if (toolNum == LINE || (toolNum == RECTANGLE && !cbFillItem.isSelected()) || (toolNum == OVAL && !cbFillItem.isSelected()))
            opNumList.add(10);
        if ((toolNum == RECTANGLE || toolNum == OVAL) && cbFillItem.isSelected())
            opNumList.add(11);
    }

    if (color == brown) {
        if (toolNum == LINE || (toolNum == RECTANGLE && !cbFillItem.isSelected()) || (toolNum == OVAL && !cbFillItem.isSelected()))
            opNumList.add(12);
        if ((toolNum == RECTANGLE || toolNum == OVAL) && cbFillItem.isSelected())
            opNumList.add(13);
    }

    if (color == Color.white) {
        if (toolNum == LINE || (toolNum == RECTANGLE && !cbFillItem.isSelected()) || (toolNum == OVAL && !cbFillItem.isSelected()))
            opNumList.add(14);
        if ((toolNum == RECTANGLE || toolNum == OVAL) && cbFillItem.isSelected())
            opNumList.add(15);
    }

    if (color == Color.black) {
        if (toolNum == LINE || (toolNum == RECTANGLE && !cbFillItem.isSelected()) || (toolNum == OVAL && !cbFillItem.isSelected()))
            opNumList.add(16);
        if ((toolNum == RECTANGLE || toolNum == OVAL) && cbFillItem.isSelected())
            opNumList.add(17);
    }
    repaint();
}

So what happens is that when the user draws a shape, it is stored in an ArrayList of Shape objects. An integer is stored in a separate list based on what kind of shape was drawn and its color. Then when the program redraws all the shapes, it will go through each shape in the list, and it will give the shapes the color that they were drawn with and fill them in if necessary.
Now, what I'm trying to figure out is a way to transfer these colors to their own List or maybe even a Map to avoid having to create a ton of Color objects and adding to the already long list of code so that if the user decides to use other colors, the program will know what color belongs to what shape. So for example, if the user decided to draw a filled-in rectangle with the color 128,128,128; when the program redraws the shape it will know that the rectangle was filled in and was colored that specific shade of gray. But I haven't gone that far quite yet; right now I'm trying to find a solution that will work for just the nine colors that I have at the moment.
Does anyone have any ideas of how this can be done?

A: It took a bit of research and looking around, but I finally found a solution to the problem.
Initially I thought about using a Map so I could add a key-value pair, and as long as I could access all the map's keys (objects that implement the Shape interface), I would be able to pair them with their values (Color objects) easily. So I came up with this:
Map<Shape,Color> map = new HashMap<Shape,Color>();

And this allowed me to store any shape drawn by the user as well as the corresponding color used. But now I had to find a way to retrieve all the stored shapes using a for loop so that I could repaint them. Doing a little research, I came across this answer, which shows how to iterate through a Map using said loop. So I was able to replace the switch statement with this:
for (Entry<Shape,Color> entry : map.entrySet()) {
    Shape shape = entry.getKey();
    Color color = entry.getValue();

    g2.setColor(color);
    g2.draw(shape);
}

However, I came across another problem: The key-value pairings were not in order, meaning that some shapes would randomly appear on top of others when they were previously behind them, and vice versa. So more research helped me determine that I should instead be using a LinkedHashMap instead, which preserves the order in which the key-value pairings are stored:
Map<Shape,Color> map = new LinkedHashMap<Shape,Color>();

And a bit of trial and error helped me to realize that since the key-value pairings were guaranteed to remain in order, I could always use the opNumList to determine whether the given shape should be drawn open or filled in.
int index = 0;
for (Entry<Shape,Color> entry : map.entrySet()) {
    Shape shape = entry.getKey();
    Color color = entry.getValue();

    g2.setColor(color);
    if (!opNumList.isEmpty()) {
        if (opNumList.get(index) == 0)
            g2.draw(shape);
        if (opNumList.get(index) == 1)
            g2.fill(shape);
    }
    index++;
}

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Q: Protocol adoption by extension causing "Abort trap: 6" on Xcode 8.3.2/Swift 3.1 The following code causes the Swift compiler to crash with Command failed due to signal: Abort trap 6:
import UIKit

protocol ZeroProtocol {
    static var zero: Self { get }
}

// CGPoint already has CGPoint.zero so we attempt to adopt ZeroProtocol.
// This causes "Abort trap: 6" on compilation.
extension CGPoint: ZeroProtocol {}

I'm almost certain that this code compiled a few months ago without trouble. Strangely, adopting the protocol with my own struct doesn't produce any error:
import UIKit

protocol ZeroProtocol {
    static var zero: Self { get }
}

struct TestStruct {
    static var zero = TestStruct()
}

// Works fine.
extension TestStruct: ZeroProtocol {}

I have submitted a bug report to Apple, but any workaround would be appreciated.


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Two Suspects of the '7 Deadly Sins' Club Murdered 7 People, Including Other Members
By Ed Forster Jun 25, 2020 01:23 PM EDT
(Photo : Pixabay/Seukyong Lim) The club, Seven Deadly Sins, caused the death of its member after two members gunned them down in their clubhouse.
According to the records, a club called the "7 Deadly Sins" was responsible for the deaths of 7 people.
Morgan County Investigators said that two suspects charged 'capital murder', weren't happy about the actions of other club members. The others they said went to a Valhermoso residence and executed seven individuals for yet to be known reasons, reported AL.
Two of the club members in custody, John Michael Legg, aged-19, of Danville, and Frederic "Rick" Allen Rogers, aged-22, of Hartselle got mad at the others for not following them. One of the witnesses told that firearms owned by Legg and Rogers were stolen. This was in the affidavit submitted by Jordan Byrd of the sheriff's criminal investigative division.
Both Rogers and Leg were in an Oregon jail for capital murder charges in Morgan County, related to the 4-gun related deaths at 522 Talucah road. According to the authorities, they are members of a local club called "Seven Deadly Sins," confirmed in Mercury News.
Another affidavit was presented to the Morgan County Circuit Judge Charles Elliott, a female witness testified that more cases happened before the murders. It was mentioned that the female is a case witness, not to any crime committed by the suspects.
An SMS allegedly sent by Rogers mentioned the problem was solved and suggested that if there were any inquiries, he can say that he is on vacation. It was sent two hours later, when the shooting was reported, based on what the witness said.
Perpetrators Legg and Rogers were subject to a 14-day manhunt all over the US with 25 law enforcement agencies involved. The pair got nabbed on Sunday afternoon in Oregon, Marion County, apparently there because of Roger's relatives.
Also read: Grisly Remains of a Missing Oregon Woman Found Hidden in Brush as Big as a House
The seven people they murdered were James Wayne Benford, 22, William Zane Hodgin, 18, Roger Lee Jones Jr., 20, Tammy England Muzzey, 45, Emily Brooke Payne, 21; Jeramy Wade Roberts, 31, and a female, 17, all identified by Morgan County Coroner Jeff Chunn. Since the 17-year old female is a minor, her name is kept private.
The witness's affidavit
According to reports, the FBI violent crimes task force was reached on Thursday for more information related to the case.
During the investigation, the female witness revealed that she stayed at the Seven Deadly Sins clubhouse. Members were Rogers, Legg, and the victims Jones, Roberts and Benford. A sixth male is also part of the group based on the records, cited Crimeonline.
Both Legg and Rogers were not happy with some of the members. It was Legg whose guns were stolen by some members. It was decided by the two+ to correct the behavior of erring members. This is what happened on the evening of June 4. The reference to wiping the slate clean and going by force foretold the murders. Also, the suspects said that the club will be dismantled at night's end.
The witness got an SMS at 1:35 am on June 5th, asking her to take care of "Ducky', owned by Rogers.
A 911 call at 11:32 sent the authorities to a house at Valhermoso Springs when shots were heard on June 4. What was found were seven victims shot several times, with a dead dog and a small fire, noted on USA Today.
Deputies saw smoke from the house and the dead bodies. Investigators did not find any smartphones on the victims. It seems they two went in without any problem and started killing everyone.
The affidavit noted that Legg's mobile was shut at 10 pm on June 4, but was active on June 5 shortly in Kansas.
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