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Ida de Waldeck-Pyrmont (; Rhoden, 26 de septiembre de 1796 - Menton, 12 de abril de 1869) fue un miembro de la Casa de Waldeck-Pyrmont y a través de su matrimonio con el príncipe Jorge Guillermo de Schaumburg-Lippe también un miembro de la Casa de Lippe.

Primeros años
Ida nació en Rhoden, en el Principado de Waldeck-Pyrmont, y era el segundo vástago y la hija mayor del príncipe Jorge I de Waldeck-Pyrmont y de su primera esposa, la princesa Augusta de Schwarzburgo-Sondershausen.

Matrimonio e hijos
Ida contrajo matrimonio con el príncipe Jorge Guillermo de Schaumburg-Lippe, hijo del conde Felipe II Ernesto de Schaumburg-Lippe y de su segunda esposa, la princesa Juliana de Hesse-Philippsthal, el 23 de junio de 1816 en Arolsen. Ida y Jorge Guillermo tuvieron nueve hijos:

 Adolfo I (1 de agosto de 1817-8 de mayo de 1893), príncipe de Schaumburg-Lippe.
  Matilde (11 de septiembre de 1818-14 de agosto de 1891), casada con el duque Eugenio de Wurtemberg (1820-1875).
 Adelaida (9 de marzo de 1821-30 de julio de 1899), casada con el duque Federico de Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg.
 Ernesto (12 de diciembre de 1822-2 de abril de 1831).
 Ida (26 de mayo de 1824-5 de marzo de 1894).
  Emma (24 de diciembre de 1827-23 de enero de 1828).
 Guillermo (12 de diciembre de 1834-4 de abril de 1906), casado con la princesa Batilde de Anhalt-Dessau.
 Hermann (31 de octubre de 1839-23 de diciembre de 1839).
 Isabel (5 de marzo de 1841-30 de noviembre de 1926), esposa del príncipe Guillermo de Hanau y Horowitz, un hijo morganático del elector Federico Guillermo de Hesse.

Títulos y estilos
26 de septiembre de 1796-23 de junio de 1816: Su Alteza Serenísima la princesa Ida de Waldeck-Pyrmont.
23 de junio de 1816-21 de noviembre de 1860: Su Alteza Serenísima la princesa de Schaumburg-Lippe.
21 de noviembre de 1860-12 de abril de 1869: Su Alteza Serenísima la princesa viuda de Schaumburg-Lippe.

Ancestros

Referencias

Princesas de Waldeck-Pyrmont
Princesas de Schaumburg-Lippe

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Loose Women presenters lift lid on show as it celebrates 20 years on air
EXCLUSIVE: We take a look at some of the TV hit's best moments
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Telly hit Loose Women is celebrating 20 years on the box this week.
Millions of us have tuned in over the years to see its panellists having a gossip.
But when it first aired on September 6, 1999, its presenters had no idea it would last.
Jane Moore, 57, said: "When we did the pilot we didn't appreciate what we were getting into. We thought it wouldn't run for that long.
"But it's now 20 years, which is incredible. I look back at the early years and there are some clips I have no recollection of filming!"
Nadia Sawalha, 54, said: "If you look at the first episode you'll see someone just left a bicycle in the background. That's how cranky it was in the beginning."
Loose Women will be celebrating its 20th anniversary
Jane added: "We didn't have a wardrobe department then. We just wore our own clothes and some of the outfits were just frightful."
There have been more than 80 panellists over the years with its best-loved regulars including Coleen Nolan, Jane McDonald and the late Lynda Bellingham.
And there have even been A List names like Sharon Osbourne, Eva Longoria, Goldie Hawn, Caitlyn Jenner and Mel B.
Loose Women is famous for its chat where nothing is off limits and the stars often discuss deeply personal issues.
Nadia said: "People are surprised we say some stuff. But they don't realise that we get an awful lot back from viewers. People tell us they've been in the same situations. Our life experience can be very comforting to people.
"I remember when I talked about my miscarriage. It was incredibly powerful to me how many people came back and said, 'Oh my God I went through exactly the same thing'.
Loose Women's Denise Welch in tears as unusual proposal takes racy turn
Sharon Osbourne on the show (Image: ITV)
"Because of social media we're so much closer to our audiences than we ever were. Often the conversation will carry on after the show finishes."
Andrea McLean, 49, said: "The thing that separates Loose Women from other shows is that we don't turn up as presenters and host something. We literally sit down and bare our souls and lives, whether it's dark times, light times. There's no other show that does something like that."
Loose Women is also known for its celebrity interviews which have included Britney Spears, Bette Midler, Whoopi Goldberg and Donny Osmond.
Coleen, 54, said: "Our dream guest would be Adele. She's so much fun, so she'd be perfect."
LOOSE WOMEN TOP MOMENTS
Bette Midler pops in - 2009 Entertainment icon Bette joined the panel for a special interview. And she wowed viewers with a number on her ukulele.
Bette Milder popped in to see the ladies in 2009
John Barrowman falls off his chair - 2016 TV actor John decided to wear heels when he was a guest. But it backfired when he put his feet up on the desk and ended up going backwards.
John Barrowman falls off his chair
First episode — 1999 Jane Moore, Kaye Adams, Nadia Sawalha and Karren Brady were on the panel for the show's first outing. Since then more than 3,000 episodes have aired.
The first ever episode of Loose Women
Kim Woodburn row — 2018 Things turned nasty when Coleen Nolan's CBB rival Kim came on as a guest. The row sparked claims of bullying and more than 8,000 viewers complained to media watchdog Ofcom.
Kim Woodburn had a fiery argument with rival Coleen Nolan (Image: Ken McKay/ITV/REX/Shutterstock)
Here come the boys - 2016 Craig Revel Horwood and Peter Andre were the first male panellists. Since then spin-off show Loose Women & Men has seen Martin Kemp, Eamonn Holmes and Joe Swash join in.
Peter Andre and Craig Revel-Horwood
Body stories campaign - 2017 Nine of the panellists stripped to their swimwear to promote body confidence. A host of famous men later followed suit and posed in their underwear.
The Body Stories campaign (Image: PA)
Nanas Aloud - 2010 Five of the Loose ladies formed a Girls Aloud tribute act. Sherrie Hewson, Carol McGiffin, Andrea McLean, Denise Welch and Zoe Tyler performed The Promise.
Nanas Aloud
A win at the National Television Awards - 2010 Viewers voted the show as telly's most popular factual programme. It beat Top Gear, The Apprentice and Come Dine With Me.
The Women won at the 2010 NTAs
Lynda Bellingham's final show - 2014 Telly favourite Lynda was a regular on the panel before she was diagnosed with colorectal cancer. She bravely spoke about her condition on the show knowing she had just months to live.
Lynda Bellingham's final appearance on Loose Women (Image: Ken McKay /ITV/Rex Features)
The ChaseThe Chase's 'missing' Darragh Ennis reacts to sacking speculation as fans worryThe Menace only joined the show in November but has only been on screen a number of times – and concerned fans have started to ask if ITV bosses have ditched the popular newcomer
Phillip Schofield offers to pay struggling 73-year-old caller's £700 gas bill
This MorningThe pensioner called This Morning to ask Money Saving Expert Martin Lewis his advice about a worrying bill and there was plenty of help at hand for the woman from Norfolk.
Inside Coronation Street cast's luxurious homes – Pools, man caves and huge gardens
Coronation StreetCoronation Street stars such as Samia Longchambon and Alan Halsall may spend a lot of time on the cobbles, but their actual homes are a far cry from Weatherfield
Dancing on Ice's Holly Willoughby flaunts cleavage in open-front 'princess' gown
Holly WilloughbyThe ITV series' presenter Holly Willoughby wows in a truly spectacular ball gown for tonight's Dancing on Ice launch, though her Instagram preview failed to reveal the booby nature of it
Inside Rebekah Vardy's love life from Peter Andre manhood dig to feud with footballer ex
Rebekah VardyDancing On Ice's Rebekah Vardy may be happily married with children now to Jamie Vardy, but the Leicester City ace isn't the only famous face she's been linked to over the years – even hooking up with Peter Andre before he met Katie Price
Dancing On IceDancing on Ice fans question why Torvill and Dean aren't allowed to sit togetherDancing on Ice fans have taken to Twitter to question why Torvill and Dean are being socially-distanced while sitting next to each other as they were seen dancing together on the episode
Dancing on Ice's raciest outfits from Jorgie Porter bra to Samia's bum-flashing dress
Dancing On IceOver the years, Dancing on Ice's sensational and often skimpy costumes have either been praised or branded controversial for flashing the flesh. Here are the most daring looks
Bianca Gascoigne flaunts 'smaller boobs' in racy lingerie after old implant 'burst'
Paul GascoigneBianca Gascoigne, 34-year-old adopted daughter of football star Paul Gascoigne, showed off her brand new breasts after she was forced to go back under the knife when one of her implants split
Dancing On IceDenise Van Outen winces and clutches shoulder in pain in Dancing on Ice debutDancing on Ice contestant Denise Van Outen appeared to be in intense pain following her debut ice skating performance on Sunday night as she winced and clutched her shoulder on the rink
London cops rush to massive brawl of 40 people fighting with 'swords and bottles'
MET PoliceLondon Metropolitan's Ealing Police reported on Sunday afternoon that officers had broken up a huge brawl involving 40 men armed with swords and bottles earlier the same day
Dancing on Ice fans question why Torvill and Dean aren't allowed to sit together
Dancing On IceDancing on Ice fans have taken to Twitter to question why Torvill and Dean are being socially-distanced while sitting next to each other as they were seen dancing together on the episode
Liverpool 0-0 Man Utd player ratings: Bruno Fernandes flops and Thiago shines for Reds
Manchester United FCNeither Liverpool or Man Utd could find the back of the net in the top of the table showdown at Anfield on Sunday evening

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Eric Sprott Fights PM Manipulation Fire With Fire: Calls Silver Producers To Retain Silver Produced As "Cash"
In what is likely the most logical follow up to our post of the day, namely the news of the lawsuit between HSBC and MF Global over double-counted gold, or physical - not paper - that was "commingled" via rehypothecating or otherwise, we present readers with the monthly note by Eric Sprott titled "Silver Producers: A Call to Action" in which the Canadian commodities asset manager has had enough of what he perceives as subtle and/or not so subtle manipulation of the precious metal market, and in not so many words calls the silver miners of the world "to spring to action" and effectively establish supply controls to silver extraction to counteract paper market manipulation in the paper realm by treating their product as a currency and retaining it as "cash". To wit: "instead of selling all their silver for cash and depositing that cash in a levered bank, silver miners should seriously consider storing a portion of their reserves in physical silver OUTSIDE OF THE BANKING SYSTEM. Why take on all the risks of the bank when you can hold hard cash through the very metal that you mine? Given the current environment, we see much greater risk holding cash in a bank than we do in holding precious metals. And it serves to remember that thanks to 0% interest rates, banks don't pay their customers to take on those risks today." And the math: "If silver miners were therefore to reinvest 25% of their 2011 earnings back into physical silver, they could potentially account for 21% of the approximate 300 million ounces (~$9 billion) available for investment in 2011. If they were to reinvest all their earnings back into silver, it would shrink available 2011 investment supply by 82%. This is a purely hypothetical exercise of course, but can you imagine the impact this practice would have on silver prices?" And there you go: Sprott 'reputable' entity to propose to fight manipulation with what is effectively collusion, which in the grand scheme of things is perfectly normal - after all, all is fair in love and war over a dying monetary model. Who could have thought that the jump from "proletariats" to "silver miners" would be so short.
As we approach the end of 2011, the silver spot price has admittedly endured a tougher road than we would have expected. And let's be honest – what investment firm on earth has pounded the table on silver harder than we have? After the orchestrated silver sell-off in May 2011 (please see June 2011 MAAG article entitled, "Caveat Venditor"), silver promptly rose back to US$40/oz where it consolidated nicely, only to drop back below US$30 within a two week span in late September. The September sell-off was partly due to the market's disappointment over Bernanke's Operation Twist, which sounded interesting but didn't involve any real money printing. Like the May sell-off before it, however, it was also exacerbated by a seemingly needless 21% margin rate hike by the CME on September 23rd, followed by a 20% margin hike by the Shanghai Gold Exchange – the CME's counterpart in China, three days later.
The paper markets still dictate the spot market for physical gold and silver. When we talk about the "paper market", we're referring to any paper contract that claims to have an underlying link to the price of gold or silver, and we're referring to contracts that are almost always levered. It's highly questionable today whether the paper market has any true link to the physical market for gold and silver, and the futures market is the most obvious and influential "paper market" offender. When the futures exchanges like the CME hike margin rates unexpectedly, it's usually under the pretense of protecting the "integrity of the exchange" by increasing the collateral (money) required to hold a position, both for the long (future buyer) and the short (future seller). When they unexpectedly raise margin requirements two days after silver has already declined by 22%, however, who do you think that margin increase hurts the most? The long buyer, or the short seller? By raising the margin requirement at the very moment the long contracts have already received an initial margin call (because the price of silver has dropped), they end up doubling the longs' pain – essentially forcing them to sell their contracts. This in turn creates even more downward price pressure, and ends up exacerbating the very risks the margin hikes were allegedly designed to address.
When reviewing the performance of silver this year, it's important to acknowledge that nothing fundamentally changed in the physical silver market during the sell-offs in May or mid-September. In both instances, the sell-offs were intensified by unexpected margin rate hikes on the heels of an initial price decline. It should also come as no surprise to readers that the "shorts" took advantage of the September sell-off by significantly reducing their silver short positions. Should physical silver be priced off these futures contracts? Absolutely not. That they have any relationship at all is somewhat laughable at this point. But futures contracts continue to heavily influence spot prices all the same, and as long as the "longs" settle futures contracts in cash, which they almost always do, the futures market-induced whipsawing will likely continue. It also serves to note that the class action lawsuits launched against two major banks for silver manipulation remain unresolved today, as does the ongoing CFTC investigation into silver manipulation which has yet to bear any discernible results.
Meanwhile, despite the needless volatility triggered by the paper market, the physical market for silver has never been stronger. If the September sell-off proved anything, it's the simple fact that PHYSICAL buyers of silver are not frightened by volatility. They view dips as buying opportunities, and they buy in size. During the month of September, the US Mint reported the second highest sales of physical silver coins in its history, with the majority of sales made in the last two weeks of the month. Reports from India in early October indicated that physical silver demand had created short-term supply issues for physical delivery due to problems with airline capacity. In China, which reportedly imported 264.69 tons (7.7 million oz) of silver in September alone, the volume of silver forward contracts on the Shanghai Gold Exchange was more than six times higher than the same period in 2010. It was clear to anyone following the silver market that the physical demand for the metal actually increased during the paper price decline. And why shouldn't it? Have you been following Europe lately? Do the politicians and bureaucrats there give you confidence? Gold and silver are the most rational financial assets to own in this type of environment because they are no one's liability. They are perfectly designed to protect us during these periods of extreme financial turmoil.
And wouldn't you know it, despite the volatility, gold and silver have continued to do their job in 2011. As we write this, in Canadian dollars, gold is up 23.4% on the year and silver's up 6.8%. Meanwhile, the S&P/TSX is down -12.3%, the S&P 500 is down -5.1% and the DJIA is up a mere +0.26%.
So here's the question: we think we understand the value and great potential in silver today, and we know that the buyers who bought in late September most definitely understand it,… but do silver mining companies appreciate how exciting the prospects for silver are? Do the companies that actually mine the metal out of the ground understand the demand fundamentals driving the price of their underlying product? Perhaps even more importantly, do the miners understand the significant influence they could potentially have on that demand equation if they embraced their product as a currency?
According to the CPM Group, the total silver supply in 2011, including mine supply and secondary supply (scrap, recycling, etc.), will total 1.03 billion ounces. Of that, mine supply is expected to represent approximately 767 million ounces. Multiplied against the current spot price of US$31/oz, we're talking about a total silver supply of roughly US$32 billion in value today. To put this number in perspective, it's less than the cost of JP Morgan's WaMu mortgage write downs in 2008.
According to the Silver Institute, 777.4 million ounces of silver were used up in industrial applications, photography, jewelry and silverware in 2010.12 If we assume, given a weaker global economy, that this number drops to a flat 700 million ounces in 2011, it implies a surplus of roughly 300 million ounces of silver available for investment demand this year. At today's silver spot price – we're talking about roughly US$9 billion in value. This is where the miners can make an impact. If the largest pure play silver producers simply adopted the practice of holding 25% of their 2011 cash reserves in physical silver, they would account for almost 10% of that US$9 billion. If this practice we're applied to the expected 2012 free cash flow of the same companies, the proportion of investable silver taken out of circulation could potentially be enormous.
Expressed another way, consider that the majority of silver miners today can mine silver for less than US$15 per ounce in operating costs. At US$30 silver, most companies will earn a pre-tax profit of at least US$15 per ounce this year. If we broadly assume an average tax rate of 33%, we're looking at roughly US$10 of after-tax profit per ounce across the industry. If GFMS's mining supply forecast proves accurate, it will mean that silver mine production will account for roughly 74% of the total silver supply this year. If silver miners were therefore to reinvest 25% of their 2011 earnings back into physical silver, they could potentially account for 21% of the approximate 300 million ounces (~$9 billion) available for investment in 2011. If they were to reinvest all their earnings back into silver, it would shrink available 2011 investment supply by 82%. This is a purely hypothetical exercise of course, but can you imagine the impact this practice would have on silver prices? Silver miners need to acknowledge that investors buy their shares because they believe the price of silver is going higher. We certainly do, and we are extremely active in the silver equity space. We would never buy these stocks if we didn't. Nothing would please us more than to see these companies begin to hold a portion of their cash reserves in the very metal they produce. Silver is just another form of currency today, after all, and a superior one at that.
To take this idea further, instead of selling all their silver for cash and depositing that cash in a levered bank, silver miners should seriously consider storing a portion of their reserves in physical silver OUTSIDE OF THE BANKING SYSTEM. Why take on all the risks of the bank when you can hold hard cash through the very metal that you mine? Given the current environment, we see much greater risk holding cash in a bank than we do in holding precious metals. And it serves to remember that thanks to 0% interest rates, banks don't pay their customers to take on those risks today.
None of this should seem far-fetched. One of the key reasons investors have purchased physical gold and silver is to store some of their wealth outside of a financial system that looks increasingly broken. The European banking system is a living model of that breakdown. Recent reports have revealed that more than €80-billion was pulled out of Italian banks in August and September alone. In Greece, depositors have taken almost €50-billion out their banks since the beginning of 2010. Greek banks are now completely reliant on ECB funding to stay afloat. The situation has deteriorated to the point where over two thirds of the roughly 500 billion euros that banks have borrowed from the ECB are now being deposited back at the central bank. Why? Because they don't trust other banks to stay afloat long enough to get their money back.
Silver miners shouldn't feel any safer banking in the United States. Fitch Ratings recently warned that the US banks may face severe losses from their exposures to European debt if the contagion escalates. There's very little at this point to suggest that it won't. The roots of the 2008 meltdown live on in today's crisis. We are still facing the same problems imposed by over-leverage in the financial system, and by postponing the proper solutions we've only increased those risks. We don't expect the silver miners to corner the physical silver market, and we know the paper games will probably continue, but the silver miners must make a better effort to understand the inherent value of their product. Gold and silver are not traditional commodities, they are money. Their value lies in their ability to retain wealth in environments marked by negative real interest rates (), government intervention (3), severe economic uncertainty (3) and vulnerable banking institutions (33). Silver's demand profile is heightened by its use in industrial applications, but it is the metal's investment demand that will drive its future performance. The risk of keeping all of one's excess cash in a bank is, in our opinion, considerably more than holding it in the more enduring form of money that silver represents. It's time for silver producers to embrace their product in the same manner their shareholders already have.


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Thread: Advertising Goju Ryu Club?
I'm one of the officers for my school's Goju Ryu club and, while we've been around for over 20 years, in the few years I've been at the school, our club's membership has somewhat flagged. We have about 4 to 8 regular members, and I'm the only member who is able to attend every class. Other martial arts clubs have flagging membership as well (our boxing club closed its doors this last semester), but there are a few classes which have maintained or even thrived. BJJ, Aikido and Kendo have been doing well on campus, as have a few others.
I'd like to encourage people to join our dojo, partially to keep it alive after our veteran members graduate this year, partially to have a chance to keep training and learning to teach myself, and partially because I love the dojo, our Sensei and Goju Ryu. One of our senior members pointed out to me that we're one of the few "rounded" martial arts clubs on campus, since the rest predominantly focus on sport aspects, whereas we explicitly cover both sports and self defense techniques. Does anyone have some recommendations for ways we could encourage more people to check us out? I think the barrier to entry is really the first two or three classes, since once people show up to the dojo we have a mix of useful practice and personable members to encourage people to keep coming.
The problem is that there are only a very limited number of people that are interested in martial arts, and karate (and boxing) are not tops on the flavor of the month list. That being said, your best bet (in my opinion) would be to expand the number of people that are familiar with you in order to make yourselves known to those few that are interested. Here are some ways to do this ... 1) Demonstrations! If you can, arrange several demonstrations over time in a high traffic and conspicuous are. Include, a brief (5 minutes or so) talk on the history of Goju ryu and why people would want to learn it. 2) Make a splashy web site! There are a number of web site builder softwares available for free, and a good web site is a good way to put yourselves out there. 3) print off and make available flyers. You can post them in common areas (where adverts are allowed) with tear offs that list your web site and a phone number.
Good luck. Let us know how it turns out!
Not sure what the relationship might be--meaning I don't know if you are "fighting" for members--so to speak.
But if Aikido and Kendo are doing well, they might be willing to work with you to put on larger/more frequent demo's that showcase all 3 styles.
You might even recruit from the other 2 styles and vice-versa. Maybe some of "your" people might have an interest in the "other" arts.
Yes, I'm aware that the hunter that chases 2 rabbits generally catches neither---but lots of people study more than one art.
You also might highlight some of the non-sport advantages of classical training.
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After 2000 years walking the earth, Judas Iscariot, has seen more horror than he had ever hoped to see.
Punished by God for the betrayal of his son Jesus Christ, he is forced to live out the existence of a broken man for eternity, unable to die. Although immortal, he has been bound by rules; never allowed to find love, raise a family, or make use of the items of wealth that he has acquired over the two millennia.
Throughout time, God has given him tasks that he could not refuse where his skill with a sword has proved to be invaluable in smiting wayward demons and, at the end of 2012, an angel, the messenger of God presents him with his greatest and most important mission. For three days, he is to protect six-year-old Charlotte Hope as she approaches her seventh birthday. She is 'The Light', whose purpose it is to shepherd humankind out from its hedonistic ways. However, the forces of Hell also wish to acquire the child for their master, Lucifer, so that he may drain her light and become unchallenged in his crusade to dominate the kingdom of man.
With the aid of the unlikely pairing of police detective Gary Cross and prostitute Abi Colter, can Judas protect Charlotte so that she may save all humankind and in turn release him from the curse allowing his entry into the White Kingdom, or will Lucifer succeed and bring forth the Apocalypse?
Judas is a dark fantasy, supernatural science fiction page-turner to engross fans of James Herbert, Shaun Hutson and Dean Koontz. A sword and sorcery, action-adventure epic that will leave you yearning for more as you follow our gruff and uncompromising antihero in his quest for redemption and salvation.
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Judas: The Relic
A child brought to womanhood within an alternative reality in order to become a devastating weapon.
A demon sword of immense power that must be controlled by an angelic warrior to have any hope of winning an impending war.
Together, they face the biggest challenge to mankind's existence, within a universe soaked in the blood of battle, where epic tales of the struggle between good and evil play out at a breath-taking pace.
Prepare to open the gates of Hell.
Judas: Revelation
In a decisive move, Judas and Charlotte travel to the one place he vowed he would never enter under any circumstances: the bowels of Hell itself. To end the war that rages above them, they must battle their way through terrifying creatures of titanic proportions to use the holy relics contained within Charlotte against Lucifer to put the Lord of Hell down for good.
Meanwhile, on the surface a weary band of survivors lead by Gary Cross and Colonel Nathan Taylor mount an expedition to gather vital data in the hope that it will provide a scientific solution to a supernatural problem.
And above them all, the forces of Heaven wait with bated breath, eager to receive the command to enter the conflict and prevent humanity from annihilation at the hands of the forces of Hell.
In a gore-filled, apocalyptic finale to the trilogy, can Judas and Charlotte triumph or will Lucifer finally reign supreme?
The ultimate battle for our souls has just begun…
And He Came A-Smilin'
Detective Sergeant Rosie Hendricks and her S.W.A.T. team attempt to arrest a dangerous man suspected of murdering three people in a brutal ritual. Under strange, possibly paranormal, circumstances, the bust goes horribly wrong, resulting in everyone's death but hers.
Waking from a coma two weeks later, Rosie begins to experience strange phenomena: objects moving on their own, shadows in the periphery of her vision. Is a supernatural force stalking her? Or is it simply the manifestation of guilt within her own mind?
Rosie is forced to pair with F.B.I. Special Agent Scott Denver, who has taken over the case and who has twelve victims matching the same M.O. Together, they start to unravel the terrifying and inexplicable events and begin to understand the ramifications for all humankind.
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In this comparison article for Acana vs Nature's Logic, we'll highlight the key differences between these two pet food brands. To properly compare Acana and Nature's Logic, we'll use up-to-date nutritional and price information.
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James Calvin Summers (14 February 1838 – 9 May 1927) was a private in the United States Army who was awarded the Presidential Medal of Honor for gallantry during the American Civil War. Summers was awarded the medal on 25 February 1895 for actions performed at the Siege of Vicksburg in Mississippi on 22 May 1863.

Personal life
Summers was born on the Elk River approximately 6 miles upriver from Charleston, West Virginia. He married Laverna C. Stump and fathered 5 children. After the war, he worked as a farmer and a wagon driver. He died on 9 May 1927 in Elkview, West Virginia and was buried in Summers Cemetery in Elkview. He was reinterred in the Donel C. Kinnard Memorial State Veterans Cemetery in Dunbar, West Virginia on 31 October 2019.

Military service
Summers enlisted in the Army on 18 August 1861 at Point Pleasant, West Virginia. He was assigned to Company H of the 4th West Virginia Infantry. On 22 May 1863, at the Siege of Vicksburg, he volunteered to join a storming party of 150 men whose mission it was to build a temporary bridge over a Confederate moat east of Vicksburg, Mississippi in anticipation of a Union offensive later that day. Approximately 85 percent of the men were killed or wounded during the charge.

Summers' Medal of Honor citation reads:

Summers was mustered out of the Army on 26 August 1864.

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may i ask why the video resolution is 1600×900?
After analyzing the video, I determined the source resolution to be 900p. We want to provide releases in as close to the original form as possible. The 900p was significantly sharper, especially with backgrounds, than 720p. For reference, JC Staff tends to animate their recent shows at either 900p or 1080p.
Yes. The source video is good. After futher analysis, it appears the resolution is actually 958.5p. Given the strangeness of that resolution, I have elected to stick with 900p for this release.
Thanks for your hard work, TLC!
Thanks for your work on this series!
My most anticipated series of the season….
We won't be doing those. They're mostly pointless fluff and not really adding to the experience.
I didn't expect this show to be so comfy, such a nice surprise.


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Q: Javascript widget implementation I have a question  about Javascript widgets.  The widget I am working on simply embeds content on a page instead of using iframes.  So far it looks good. But there are cases where some users layouts are messing up the widget.  For example, the widget might require a width of 300px to appear.  But the parent div is set to 250px and hence the right part of the widget is cut off.
I was wondering what sort of precautions should be taken to prevent this? I was talking to the product manager who mentioned he wanted me to check the parent div elements and get the size and then show an alternate message if their size is not accurate.  But again, since this is Javascript and the widget is supported in many diff browsers(including IE6), I am wondering how fail-safe this method would be?  What if I need to iterate the DOM all the way up before getting a valid size?  I am also worried about performance here.  This extra checks would slow down the delivery of my widget content to "good users" since I am adding a layer of complexity to all users.  I don't want to penalize good users just because of the few errant ones.
I am not using any sort of JS library here, so any solution should not suggest the use of one.  Also, the reason for not using a library was simply not to add extra weight to the page load to deliver a widget.  I understand that "jquery" for example is small, but in my case, even 24k compressed seems like an overkill for a widget delivery that contains no core code for the widget.
Has anyone dealt with such issues before? What are your solutions to these?

A: There are reliable ways of determining the size of an element using JavaScript. You're quite right that you may need to iterate up the tree in some cases, but the answer you get will ultimately be quite valid.
Although you don't want to directly include any library code in this project, you may consider looking at how the major libraries implement their "what's the width of this element" functions to drive your own implementation.

A: Beware of quirks mode too.
I'd check to see of the page has Jquery, if not load it into the page using no-conflict mode. Then use jQuery to examine the page.
See: How to embed Javascript widget that depends on jQuery into an unknown environment

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Today I saw a book which is haunting and perplexing me. An older lady, a longtime collector, brought in an 1850 edition of Jane Eyre. Its original brown cloth embossed covers were faded, worn, and detached, held on by transparent tape; the spine was illegible; the endpapers, a cheap, waxy yellow paper, were blackened; the pages were foxed and wavy; the text block was warped; a 1928 owner inscription in India ink ("this book belonged to my aunt and I inherited it") had bled through to the subsequent page. The title page read: Jane Eyre/ an autobiography/ edited by/ Currer Bell.
Of all these particulars, the most wonderful is that title page– there is Charlotte Bronte before we knew her name, in the wake of the first and greatest Bronte novel's sensational popularity after its 1847 British publication and 1848 American first edition. The poor condition of the copy I saw was because it was a hasty, cheap trade publication (or pirate) with inferior paper and barely adequate cloth; and it was probably read many times. This could be rebound, but having that done properly would be fabulously expensive, and would entail painstaking disassembly and reassembly that the mediocre paper would not withstand without, at best, becoming harder to open and difficult to read, while losing the authenticity of its original covers. So would that be a further insult, or a necesssay evil? The book is at risk of being thrown away because at a glance it looks like junk. These very early editions are so uncommon because most of them did get used up and thrown away.
The owner's speculation about its dollar value and mine varied so greatly that I didn't make an offer for it, and advised her to keep it. It's the worst part of my job, those mercurial dollar values. That title page– bliss. How much that's worth and how much it costs, I don't even enjoy putting in the same sentence.
Visit, if you can, the enchanting exhibit at the DAAP gallery ('til Feb. 16) of the work of Cincinnati artist Charley Harper (1922-2007). It introduced me to the little "Ford Times" magazine I'd somehow never seen before. Harper's charming illustrations were in many issues in the 1950s. One of our favorite customers brought us a couple of copies.
Maybe one day the January 1951 Look magazine with his weather map will turn up. The serendipities in my work are a neverending delight. Books and pictures are more important to me than the dollars they're "worth." I wouldn't be in this business otherwise. Dollars are the dullest part of value. I hope that isn't the epitaph of the used book trade!
Chromolithography was state of the art color printing in the late 1800s. It made fine art prints available to the middle class. The inks are still rich and bright a hundred years later.
These unexpectedly vivid illustrations show up in otherwise unremarkable children's books. They are a delightful surprise inside dingy covers, the color pictures on better paper interleaved with acid-tanned text pages.
Beware the book club dust jacket placed on a collectible 20th century book. The book club edition jackets had the same cover art. You can spot one by noticing there is no original price printed on the upper corner of the front flap. If that part has been clipped off, it may have been to remove a price, or to obscure the absence of one.
Old djs have the charm of their times. Once they've survived a few decades, they deserve some respect.
See "Shelf Life" by James Wood in the Nov 7 New Yorker for a glimpse of one thing that's true in this day: it's hard to find a new home for thousands of intelligent old books; and one thing that's been true always, hard to take though some find it: a collection is not necessarily greater than the sum of its parts.
Wood tried to dispose of his deceased father-in-law's good history books with the respect they were due. He found a university uninterested, a library that only wanted newer books, a bookstore that had no money, a bookstore that had no space, and eventually a couple of buyers who chose to acquire only some of the volumes.
Many people with a collection to sell want it to stay together, and believe it is more valuable and attractive together. But the pleasure is in the collecting. A book collection's owner is its glue. Owner gone, collection over, books dispersed to other fates– am I the only one who doesn't think that's sad? All ownership is temporary.
One of the first bestsellers of the industrial age, The Last Days of Pompeii (Edward Bulwer Lytton, 1834) had avid readers for more than a century, from the early years of mass literacy to the advent of tv. I have been paging through a Heritage Press edition (1957).
'I feel humbled when I look at his limbs,' replied, at the left of Sosia, a slighter and younger figure, with his arms folded on his breast.


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Perino And Friends Urge Hillary Not To Fire Bill As Surrogate
Not at the cost of his legacy will he denigrate his own administration, even though Hillary has disavowed much of the 1994 Crime Bill.
By LeftOfCenter
Yesterday was a tumultuous day for our Democratic Presidential hopefuls. The Bernie Sanders campaign had campaign right-hand-man, Jeff Weaver, who inferred that Hillary Clinton's policies were largely responsible for the creation of ISIS, one of the more cringe-worthy moments. But the most embarrassing soundbite to win the day came from the same person who is supposed to be Hillary's best surrogate: her husband, President Bill Clinton. The speech turned out to be anything but constructive to her campaign. In case you haven't seen the footage from Philadelphia, click here.
The giggly bunch on the curvy couch brought on ex-Bush Press Secretary, Dana Perino to weigh in on what she thought of Bill Clinton's surrogacy efforts for Hillary. She, of course, thought it was great, because who needs to hear Black-on-Black crime is the same as Black Lives Matter more than these far left 'Marxists?' She thinks Bill's honesty is refreshing and she did the little both-siderist thing and compared his candidness to the Trump Campaign's similar 'appeal.'
Slate posted an article late yesterday urging Hillary to fire her husband as a surrogate, as he seems to only bring harm to her campaign(s).
At a time when Hillary Clinton is dependent on black voters and campaigning with mothers who've lost sons to police violence, Bill Clinton yoked her to his own discredited policies. He reminded everyone that, in defense of his bill, she'd once spoken about underage "superpredators," language she has since apologized for. Then, Bill Clinton aped the maddening right-wing tendency to derail conversations about criminal justice abuses by invoking black-on-black crime. He might as well have said, "All lives matter!"
Any time the folks at Fox 'News' can get in a dig against those silly BLM protesters, they take the opportunity. Steve Doocy was incredulous at the fact that a site from the 'left' is excoriating Bill for his devotion to the 1994 Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act, which even Hillary agrees, has devasted many Black communities. Perino thinks he should keep on keeping on.
The group digresses into the favorability of the candidates, Trump and Cruz being slightly more unfavorable (69% and 59% respectively) than Hillary (55%), and if all the candidates are equally unlikable, people will likely vote along party lines. No mention of Sanders' favorability, which was rather remiss, as he's in better shape than Ted Cruz.
If Hillary receives a thumbs up from Dana Perino, odds are that her husband should warrant at least a timeout, and let things cool off for a bit. Perhaps the much more liberal positions Hillary has favored are making Bill a little nervous that her administration could equal or surpass the accomplishments of his years in the White House? Or, could it be that Bill may harbor a subconscious element of sabotage when it comes to his wife? Either way, someone needs to pull him back before he 'helps' her, just like he did during the 2008 campaign.
2016 Democratic Presidential Campaign, Ainsley Earhardt, Bill Clinton, Black Lives Matter, Hillary Clinton, Pete Hegseth, philadelphia, Steve Doocy, stump speech, Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act
Bill Clinton's Verbal Scuffle With Black Lives Matter Protesters
Might be time for the Big Dog to take a break from campaigning.
Sheriff David Clarke Gushes Over Trump's 'Brilliant' Tweet About Dwyane Wade's Cousin's Death
Sheriff David Clarke, did his part to help Fox News pretend that Donald Trump had done the black community a solid when he exploited an African American's woman death to boast about his own (sure to come) popularity with blacks.
By NewsHound Ellen
Jennifer Rubin: Obama 'Not A Good Person' For Talking About Racism
Washington Post columnist Jennifer Rubin and NewsMax radio host Steve Malzberg attacked President Obama for daring to speak out about racism and claimed all of that ended with the repeal of Jim Crow laws.
Donald Trump's Double Standard On Infidelity
A woman scorned does not have to make nice--few women do, and it should not be expected of Hillary!
By walterrhett
Gohmert: 'It's A Real Shame' That People Want To End Mass Incarceration Of Non-Violent Offenders
Rep. Louie Gohmert (R-TX) over the weekend lashed out at Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton for calling to end mass incarceration in the United States.
Trump Whines To Fox About Clinton 'Playing The Woman Card'
Poor Donald. That mean old Hillary is picking on him for daring to point out that he's a hate-filled, raging sexist.


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Devara Gudi| 1975
Devara Gudi
Devara Gudi is a 1975 Indian Kannada language drama film starring Vishnuvardhan and Bharathi in the lead roles along with Leelavathi, Manjula and Rajesh. Music of the film was composed by Rajan-Nagendra. more»
R. Rama Murthy
Vishnuvardhan, Bharathi ...
Devara Kannu| 1975
Devara Kannu
Devara Kannu is a 1975 Indian Kannada film, directed by Y. R. Swamy and Produced by Sri Bhagavathi Productions. The film stars Lokesh, Aarathi, Anant Nag and Ambarish in lead roles. The music of the film was composed by T. G. Lingappa. more»
Y. R. Swamy
Lokesh, Aarathi ...
Devaraya| 2012
Devaraya
Devaraya is a 2012 Indian Telugu film, directed by Rajulapati Venkata and Krishna Rao and produced by Kiran Jakkam Shetty. The film Stars Srikanth, Meenakshi Dixit, M S Narayana and Vidisha in lead roles. The music of the film was composed by Chakri. more»
Rajulapati Venkata Krishna Rao
Srikanth, Meenakshi Dixit ...
Mudramothiram| 1978
Mudramothiram
Mudramothiram is a 1978 Indian Malayalam film, directed by J. Sasikumar and produced by EK Thyagarajan. The film stars Prem Nazir, Jayabharathi, Jagathy Sreekumar and Sankaradi in lead roles. The film had musical score by G. Devarajan. more»
J. Sasikumar
Prem Nazir, Jayabharathi ...
Ponni| 1976
Ponni
Ponni is a 1976 Indian Malayalam Flim, directed by Thoppil Bhasi & produced by M.O.Joseph.The flim star Kamal Haasan,Lakshmi,Soman,Adoor Bhasi,Sankaradi & Bahadoor in lead roles.The music of the film was composed by G.Devarajan. more»
Thoppil Bhasi
Kamal Haasan, Lakshmi ...
Ulsavapittennu| 1988
Ulsavapittennu
Kuttan's family is heavily indebted by the wayward lifestyle of his elder brother, Ravi. However, Ravi's untimely death forces Kuttan to take the responsibility of the family. more»
Bharath Gopi
Mohanlal, Parvathy ...
Kaaval Dheivam| 1969
Kaaval Dheivam
Kaaval Dheivam 1969 Indian Tamil Movie directed by K. Vijayan.Produce by. Star Cast Sivaji Ganesan,Sowcar Janaki,S. V. Subbaiah,Nagesh,Lakshmi,Sivakumar.in lead roles. The film had music by G. Devarajan. more»
K. Vijayan
Sivaji Ganesan, Sowcar Janaki ...
Hettavaru| 1995
Hettavaru
Hettavaru 1995 Indian Kannada film, directed by S Mahendar and produced by P Devaraja. The film stars Lakshmi, Kalyankumar, Abhijith and Shwetha in lead roles. The music of the film was composed by Hamsalekha. more»
S Mahendar
Lakshmi, Kalyankumar ...
Pancha Thanthram| 1974
Pancha Thanthram
The story pivots around the mysterious death of Raja Vamana Varma, the king of a small city-state in Kerala. A huge bronze statue of the king murders several people with a sword. It is believed that the ghost of the king enters the statue and commits the murders. The statue attempts to murder the queen, Gayathri Devi, and her five-year-old son. The queen escapes and the prince runs away from the palace.She shifts to the annex of the palace. Years roll by. The government appoints anthropologist Dr. Menon (K.P. Ummer) to investigate the murders in and around the palace. Menon comes to the palace with his daughter Sindhu (Jayabharathi) and his assistant Krishnankutty (Adoor Bhasi) to investigate the mystery. The ghost murders Menon. Sindhu decides to stay back in the palace to solve the mystery behind the murders by the king s ghost . The ghost also murders a police officer appointed for the investigation. Detective officers Rajendran (Prem Nazir) and Gupta (Bahadur) are sent by the Central Government for the investigation. Rajendran centres his investigation on Hotel Ding Mona, owned by a Chinese woman Kochang Farooka (Meena). Hotel dancer Julie (Sadhana), receptionist Charlie (Kaduvakkulam Antony), a regular visitor at to the hotel Sardar Garnayal Singh (Jose Prakash) is the prime suspects in the mystery behind the murders. Rajendran falls in love with Sindhu. Rajendran s lookalike and brother, Shekhar, comes to the hotel and joins the suspects in the murder case. And several twists and turns in the investigation unravel the facts behind the mysteries around the palace.It turns out that the palace manager Kurup (Sankaradi) and the queen s faithful servant Kochu Paru (Meena) are the real culprits. Their aim is to unearth treasures gold, gems and diamonds hidden in the palace by the king s faithful servant Dinesh Chandran (Muthiah). Kochu Paru disguised as Kochang Farooka and Kurup disguised as an Arab were implementing their plan to find the hidden treasure. Dinesh Chandran, held captive by them does not reveal where the treasure is hidden.Rajendran succeeds in solving the mystery and it turns out that he is none other than the prince who ran away from the palace years ago. The queen identifies him by the scar on his chest. It is revealed that Shekhar, Rajendran s lookalike brother, was in fact Rajendran himself. It was all a part of his plan to crack the mystery murders. Kurup and his men murdered the king and the ghost was Kurup himself. Kurup committed the murders by getting into a bronze mould identical to the statue.The dancer Julie is none other than Vimala Gupta, Rajendran s assistant Gupta s wife. She took up the job at the hotel, which was the culprits hangout, in order to uncover their plans. The culprits get arrested and Rajendran marries Sindhu. more»
Saaphalyam| 1999
Saaphalyam
Shankaran, a retired barrister, lives a peaceful life with his wife, Subadra. He struggles as his son takes Subadra to the US to look after his daughter-in-law, who is pregnant. more»
G. S. Vijayan
Suresh Gopi, Kalabhavan Mani ...
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Very's premium plot starts with G-Star
Very, the young fashion etailer owned by Shop Direct Group, is to introduce premium denim brand G-Star in line with a strategy to stock more brands at higher price points.
Very.co.uk said securing G-Star was a "marker" in its move upmarket. Retail director Gareth Jones told Drapers: "We want to bring premium product to a broad audience and make it affordable [with its flexible payment terms]. We did a lot of research about what Very customers want and G-Star came consistently high, so we went after it aggressively. This is a marker of just how far we've come."
Very will sell G-Star's men's and women's autumn 10 collections, including jeans, knitwear, jackets and accessories, at prices between £25 and £285.
The tie-up is seen as a good strategic fit for G-Star, which set out plans in February 2008 to grow its womenswear sales from 35% to 50% of the total business.
G-Star UK sales manager Tom Duncan said: "Very is young and focused on women, which is an area we are trying to build."
Studio sets off in a trend-led new direction
12 April 2019Katie Imms
Findel-owned and recently rebranded Studio.co.uk – formerly known as Express Gifts – hopes to establish itself as a trend-led fashion etailer.
Is Amazon the saviour of the high street?
12 June 2019Kirsty McGregor, Anne Cassidy
Online giant Amazon has thrown its considerable weight behind a series of pop-ups across the UK. Drapers analyses the impact
Trade buyer could revive Karen Millen, say insiders
A trade sale to another retailer would be "the best fit" for Karen Millen, industry experts have told Drapers.
What MissPap tells us about the fast fashion game
2 April 2019Tim Clark
Following the buyout of fading fast fashion etailer MissPap by larger rival Boohoo Group last week, Drapers examines the implications for the wider sector
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Binge-watching Hotel
Binge-watching is a cultural phenomenon without comparison. In fact, almost two thirds of Britons today proudly identify as binge-watchers, worshipping the gods of streaming and devouring entire Netflix series in a single sitting.
This summer, paradise awaited for the nation's binge-watchers in the form of the world's first ever binge-watching hotel: a luxury getaway we created for Three, in association with Samsung, where everything was dedicated solely to the art of binge watching.
On arrival guests of the Bed N Binge Retreat were given a Samsung Galaxy S8 to binge on, before spending their one-night bingeing getaway in immersive rooms inspired by Netflix shows, including the Stranger Things Suite (complete with alphabet lights, a warping wall to the Upside Down and countless 80s pop culture references); the Orange Is The New Black Suite (a faithful recreation of a Litchfield penitentiary prison room) and the House of Cards Suite (mixing White House splendour with election paraphernalia and the show's dark symbol: the inverted American flag).
As well as adjustable bingeing docks by the beds, each suite came complete with hands-free docks in both toilets and showers for guest's devices – ensuring there were absolutely no restrictions to bingeing at any point in a guest's stay, even in the bathroom. Guests could order Netflix-themed food and drink from the room service menu and were even given the option to dress up like some of their favourite characters. What's more, to make sure they were in peak bingeing condition, we offered 'Binge Body Ready' workouts: exercises that could be completed while binge-watching.
Unlike traditional hotels the Bed N Binge Retreat shunned cash tills and card machines for the only form of currency that matters: binge-watching. Indeed, the only way to pay for a stay at the Bed n Binge Retreat was by bingeing – be that for a few hours or with an all-night Netflix marathon.
We created the Bed N Binge Retreat to coincide with the announcement of 'Go Binge': a new service from Three which lets new and existing customers stream services such as Netflix on their devices without this coming from their data allowance.
The resulting media coverage for the Bed N Binge Retreat has been enough to binge on, with over 120 pieces of coverage landing across nationals, trend sites, consumer lifestyle, tech, listings, regional and even international titles. Highlights to date include Digital Spy, MTV, BBC Newsbeat, The i, Daily Star, Evening Standard, Independent, Metro, Cosmo, Grazia, BuzzFeed, Comedy Central, MSN, Good Housekeeping and Lonely Planet.
Eager binge-watchers were quick to check-in to the retreat with guests including journalists from Daily Mirror, Vice, Grazia, Cosmo, Evening Standard, Comedy Central, Closer, Digital Spy, Chat, Pick Me Up and OK! Magazine to name just a few, as well as members of the public who were keen to get in on the action.


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'We can't allow events in Birmingham to turn LGBTQ people and Muslims against each other'
Building bridges - not walls - is the only way to fight bigotry, writes Mobeen Azhar.
This article first appeared in Attitude issue 309, June 2019
What do the Sultan of Brunei and the parents who pulled their children out of school in Birmingham have in common? Bigotry.
Hundreds of students missed classes at Parkfield Community School after their parents said lessons about LGBTQ inclusion were "confusing" for children.
Meanwhile, Sultan Hassanal Bolkiah introduced an ultra-conservative penal code in his Southeast Asian nation, which could see people found guilty of engaging in anal sex being stoned to death.
As a Muslim who happens to be gay, I am pissed off by what is going on in Birmingham.The "we are not homophobic, we just don't want our children to be confused" argument is bullshit. And we should all speak out against archaic laws. Gay sex is not criminal. Intolerance must not be tolerated.
In Birmingham and Brunei, conservative values attributed to religion generally, and Islam specifically, are the justification. And in both instances, the English Defence League, Britain First and, more broadly, the Far Right, have jumped on the chance to push their agenda: that these examples are further proof that Muslim life is not compatible with the modern world.
The Right seems to have developed an ability to home in on any story that features Muslims being intolerant while tuning out stories that exemplify bigotry inspired by those who profess to be Christian, Jewish, Hindu or of no faith at all. They ask: "How can we be racist when Islam isn't a race?"
Muslims in Europe, America, Australia and New Zealand are overwhelmingly non-white, so of course Muslim-bashing has a racial element. In the Trumpian, Britain First/ Tommy Robinson dystopia we see online, everything is divided into camps of "good" and "bad" and "our values" and "their values", "black" and "white."
But life doesn't work that way. Humans are complicated and that includes people who profess to follow a faith.
The American Values Atlas, published by the Public Religion Research Institute in April 2018, shows more American Muslims now back same-sex marriage than their white, evangelical Christian counterparts.
Fifty-one per cent of American Muslims support same-sex couples getting married, while 58 per cent of white evangelical Christians oppose that.
The New York Times collated data identifying nearly 350 white extremist terrorism attacks in Europe, North America and Australia between 2011 and 2017. Earlier this year, 50 Muslims were murdered in Christchurch, New Zealand.
The killer championed the idea that Muslims were taking over "white" spaces. He said he was inspired by Anders Breivik, the Norwegian who killed 77 people in 2011 as part of a "Christian war to defend Europe against the threat of Muslim domination."
The point is: no one community has a monopoly on righteousness or fucked up ideas. The more we talk to each other and have conversations about commonalities, the more we will grow together.
Focus on building bridges and don't allow those with a nasty agenda to build walls between us.
No Outsiders


Art is a wonderful way to foster and fast-track the development of your child. Art helps children develop confidence, social skills, reading and writing and motor skills and well as their imagination. As you may observe that reading and writing improves with age, so does art. The use of teachers and parents is to expose kids to many different substances so they can produce artwork is very important. When the variety is supplied, kids will then have an option as to if they would like to utilise the materials or not. Art is also about performing arts and learning musical abilities and instruments as well as creating hard copy art. Children need encouragement to participate in art and can improve their health and well-being in the long term.
Families can make a harmonious equilibrium in their own children's lives if they make efforts to the fostering the arts. Following are suggestions to integrate them into your everyday life.
If you read to your kids, be striking. Act out stories with props and outfits. Invite them to make their own stories to act out to you. Verbalising and reading out loud is great for children's confidence and healthy development of verbal skills.
Save Halloween costumes for dress-up fun. Increase the collection with clothes you no longer desire: hats, hats, purses, shoes, and items which you may find inexpensively at garage sales. Play dress ups and act out different fun characters, even put on your own little show for the family.
Gather an "art studio" at your home. Stock it with many different tools and materials: crayons, markers, finger paints, scissors, pastels, watercolours, brushes, glues, newspapers of various sizes and textures, interesting found items, leftovers from your home improvement, containers and boxes of all sizes.
Expand your musical variety in your home and in the car. Venture into unknown musical territory in the order you and the kids can hear something from your regular fare. This may be readily enlarged by turning to various radio channels and by checking out cassettes and CDs from the public library — free of charge!
While the audio is playing in your home, dance together. Educate your kid's traditional dances you understand or improvise together. Body motion is fun and decent exercise.
Sing together. Educate the children your favourite tunes. A number allow for verses which may be composed, for example, "Down by the Bay," which may have an unlimited and humorous amount of rhymes added to it.
Start looking for arts programs after school, on weekends, and during holidays. Many neighbourhood parks and recreation departments offer you these.Summer camps to do with the arts and performing are great ways to spend time and socialise that is different from playing a sport or regular holiday program.
Visit galleries and museums together to see the fabulous artworks and displays. Most museums have interactive museum display areas tailored for children with fun activities and things to see. Book tickets for a special exhibition showcase opening and go together as a family.
Create a record together. Put photographs, memorabilia, drawings, and captions together visually. In doing this you won't just have a shared experience but also a memory that will last for many decades (if you utilise acid-free paper).
The most crucial ingredient in this recipe is the interest. Be there to appreciate and encourage throughout each step of the creative procedure.


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Nonprofit Co-op Approved To Sell Health Insurance In Connecticut
MATTHEW STURDEVANT
The state Insurance Department approved an insurance license for HealthyCT, allowing the new nonprofit to sell health plans in Connecticut, the nonprofit and department said Tuesday.
HealthyCT is a federally recognized Consumer-Operated and Oriented Plan, or CO-OP, and its board of directors will be comprised of health-plan members. As a nonprofit, profits from the business will be used to stabilize or reduce premiums to consumers and businesses or to enhance benefits in its health plans, the nonprofit said.
HealthyCT will compete with private insurers, such as Aetna or UnitedHealthcare, in selling health plans to individuals and small businesses, including those who shop later this year on a health exchange. An exchange is an online marketplace for people who shop individually for health insurance, and states have created health exchanges as a part of federal health care reform.
The federal Affordable Care Act brought in sweeping changes to health insurance markets, and among those changes are federal loans for Consumer-Operated and Oriented Plan. HealthyCT acquired a contract from the federal government to operate as a CO-OP and received $76 million in start-up and solvency loans in June 2012 after a review process by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.
"We have said all along that we wanted to offer an alternative to for-profit health insurance plans, but to do that, we had to satisfy regulatory standards and provide evidence that our business plan is sound and that we can deliver," HealthyCT CEO Ken Lalime said in a prepared statement. "We did, and we will."
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Utah Ranks No.1 as State With Lowest Student Debt Levels [Report]
By Staff Writer	 Last updated Oct 4, 2018
Students at a Utah State University commencement ceremony. Photo: Utah State University
The state of Utah has been ranked No.1 across the United States when it comes the lowest level of debt among students, according to the latest annual report by The Institute for College Access & Success (TICAS).
The report, which was released on September 19, has revealed that Utah student graduates have an average debt of $18,838 – much less than the national average of $28,650.
The Student Debt and the Class of 2017 report points out wide variations in debt levels across different states and colleges. The low-debt states are mainly concentrated in the West, and high student debt-ridden states remain concentrated in the Northeast.
Pool of Student Loan Borrowers Continues to Rise [Report]
Utah is followed by New Mexico, which ranked second with the average debt of $21,237. Nevada ranked third with $22,064, Wyoming fourth with $22,254 and California fifth with $22,785.
At the same time, Connecticut – with $38,510 – ranked at the top when it comes to students with the highest debt burden, followed by Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, New Hemisphere, and Delaware.
"State and national averages mask important differences in who carries debt and whether they can repay it," said Diane Cheng, research director at TICAS and a coauthor of the report. "It's clear we need to do far more to protect the most vulnerable students. A college degree is a powerful tool for social mobility, but unaffordable student debt can hold borrowers back."
The report also found that students of color and low-income students struggle to repay the loans.
"While student loans can be an excellent investment, there is a crisis among the millions of students who struggle to repay their loans, and they are disproportionately students of color or from low-income families," James Kvaal, TICAS president said. "We need to invest more in student aid and in colleges to reduce students' need to borrow, and make their loans easier to repay."
The report has attributed high debt levels to less spending by the government on providing aid to the students, which remains below pre-recession levels and has sought an increase in federal grants and the strengthening of Pell Grants.
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The New Atlantis, a Place Where Science and Nature Merged for the Benefit of All
Francis Bacon conceived a place in which ideal social organization came from the knowledge derived from science, understanding and the advantageous use of nature.
New Atlantis, by Francis Bacon, proposes an ideal society where all inhabitants share a type of functional and harmonious happiness. His is overall a pragmatic fantasy, a utopian land that, in accordance with his brilliant and scientific principles, is based on nature and knowledge as the primary compass of human development.
This realm, located in the fictional island of Bensalem, was governed by a select institution called the "Salomon's House", whose philosophical purpose was to study nature in order to understand it and use it wisely. The best and brightest minds on the island belonged to this college where, additionally, scientific experiments were constantly taking place.
For Bacon, harmony between human beings could be reached by an understanding of nature, which uses science as a mediator (at the end of the day we are one and the same). In this sense, understanding the natural rhythms through culture, embracing its patterns and guidelines, results in a society that is guided towards evolution, self-awareness and respect.
New Atlantis invites us to do more than simply trust our ideas; we must also channel them in favor of a tangible and greater common good. It is also a reminder of how, by understanding our natural environment, we can imitate its virtues and insert ourselves in its wisdom's inertia.
Imagining a desirable scenario, aimed at our shared evolution, is a must and can eventually be materialized —hence the crucial importance of combining praxis and fantasy and making them converge in utopian models. And it is precisely this realm of knowledge imagined by the English empiricist, which occupies an exemplary place within the historical archive of this archetypal exercise.
Believe, Enchant
When ancient rituals became religion
The emergence of religions irreversibly changed the history of humanity. It's therefore essential to ask when and how did ancient peoples' rituals become organized systems of thought, each with their
Larung Gar, the valley that is home to thousands of Buddhist monks
If we think about the monastic life it is very probable that we think about solitude, seclusion, silence and a few other qualities whose common denominator is the appropriate isolation for mediation
Believe, Evolve, Inspire
Dialogue with the Dalai Lama on science and spirituality
The Dalai Lama has been interested in science since he was a child. Over the years he's visited many laboratories and has attended conferences that discuss consciousness from the scientific point of
A New Year's resolution for the earth
Worrisome quantities of waste are generated by human populations. Especially in cities, these have reached unprecedented and alarming levels. A largely uncontrolled practice, it affects everything on
The Dark Mountain Project: or how literature can confront ecocide
One impulse from a vernal wood May teach you more of man, Of moral evil and of good, Than all the sages can. Wordsworth, "The Tables Turned" (fragment) Words are elementary. The only reason we can
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Are there no women in the history of philosophy?
Do only men philosophize? This could sound like a silly question, but if we quickly review the names of philosophers, from Aristotle to Slavoj Žižek, it would appear to be an exercise that is
Things that are about to disappear: photography as environmental conservation
Cristina Mittermeier is the founder of the International League of Conservationist Photography (iLCP), and is at the front of a modern movement to use photography with environmental purposes. Her work
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Architecture And Music; An Affair That Acts On The Matter
A composition is like a house you can walk around in. — John Cage Perhaps music, more than the art of sound, is the art of time. That's why its communion with space, and architecture, is so often so
Psycho-geography (On The Ritual Casting of a City)
Mrs. Dalloway walked down the streets of London guided by an "internal tide" that made her stop somewhere, enter a store, turn at the corner and continue her journey, as if she were adrift. La dérive
A Theme Park Inspired by Hayao Miyazaki is About to Open …
One of animation's most spectacular exponents, Hayao Miyazaki, is the artist who transformed the direction of traditional animation forever.


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By VALERIE LOPEZ
The pop music industry is saturated with female artists, twerking and dirty sexual connotations. It gets exhausting to listen to lyrics that only say, "shake that ass baby," repeatedly or ''or give it to me mama.'' And, even though it's insulting, we still jam to their beat and play their songs over and over again.
To our benefit, Pharrell Williams, the 40-year-old American songwriter / producer came along and revolutionized pop culture with his happy beats, "uplifting" lyrics and sexy rhythms.
The 10 tracks on his new album, G I R L, released March 3, is the artist's first solo since his "In My Mind" album in 2006.
Pharrell has been in the music scene for the past two decades and, although he is not known as a solo artist, all of his collaborations have been a hit. I mean who can forget "Get Lucky" with Daft Punk or last year's "Blurred Lines"? Every time he is part of a song it becomes an anthem no one can resist to.
So when G I R L was announced last month, I think more than a few had already preordered it on iTunes or was listening to it for free on Spotify preview.
The artist stated that G I R L is an ode to women in a society with a gender imbalance where he wants to share the love for them instead of downsizing women as a sexual object. In a way it is contradicting his summer hit next to Robin Thicke in "Blurred Lines," but at least he is trying and we have to give it to him.
G I R L is a mix of rhythms. He takes us for a ride into funk, futuristic sounds to lush, groove with a touch of hip-hop background. He also features artists like Justin Timberlake, Alicia Keys, Daft Punk and even Miley Cyrus, big downside but sells because pop culture is about making stupid people famous, so why not right?
The lyrics intend to be uplifting and there is a charm to them. I mean Pharrell itself is charming but what meaning can there be in lyrics like in his song "Happy" ("Clap along if you feel like a room without a roof / Because I'm happy / Clap along if you feel like happiness is the truth / Because I'm happy") I can't find much but Pharrell's music ability relies on the beat and his lyrics have never been his strongest side.
So the only thing that rests is to sit back, enjoy and feel the rhythms he is delighting us with. At the end of the day, we are going to be listening to his songs on the radio over and over again.
Album title: G I R L
Name of artist: Pharrell Williams
Special features: Justin Timberlake, Alicia Keys, Daft Punk and Miley Cyrus.
Price for CD: $10.99 on ITunes, or listen to it free on Spotify
Rating: ****