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Learning About Black History Month with Our Student-Led DEI Club
Our Seniors-in-Charge (SICs) of LCS's student-led Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) Club, Sarah '22 and Clea '22 are acting as guides for their fellow peers and club members as they plan activities and initiatives to acknowledge and celebrate Black History Month.
Motivated to drive exploration and conversations about Black History Month, the DEI Club is working with other student clubs on plans to educate the wider school community through a variety of resources. "Exploring the culture behind this month of recognition and celebration is a foundational principle that is guiding our efforts," says Clea '22 and Sarah '22.
Members of the DEI Club have been provided with the space to explore aspects of Black culture that pique their curiosity, ranging from music, art, literature, films, businesses, and more. The students are currently in the process of creating a document full of resources and information designed to address concepts such as pluralism in identity, code-switching, hybridity, double consciousness, cancel culture, and more. It will be shared with the entire school next week and is meant to "live" as a dynamic resource that will grow over time through the contributions of their peers and it will continue to grow and expand as they learn more about Black History Month.
Through each of the student clubs, our SICs have devised creative ways in which they can uniquely address Black History Month with their peers. For example, the DEI Club is in the process of connecting the Business Club with the Entrepreneurship Club to help educate students enrolled in Economics and Business courses about the impact of race and culture in a marketplace setting. Students involved in the Terrapin Times (our student-run newspaper) are considering how they can use their writing and research skills to address Black History Month through articles in the next issue of the school paper, which is digitally distributed to their peers and the broader LCS community.
Our students have also explored different mediums, such as films and books, that they can examine throughout the month to learn more about Black culture and the lived experiences of Black people.
Today, we are sharing the films they recommend watching to celebrate and honour Black figures of influence.
Feature-length films:
13th - Netflix
Hidden Figures - Amazon Prime
Maya Angelou: And I Still Rise - Amazon Prime
King in the Wilderness - Crave
Freedom Riders - Amazon Prime
Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom - Amazon Prime
Malcolm X - Amazon Prime
The Black Power Mixtape 1967-1975 - Amazon Prime
The Death and Life of Marsha P.Johnson - Netflix
Homecoming: A Film by Beyoncé - Netflix
Skate Kitchen - Apple Tv
Queen of Katwe - Disney +
Judas and the Black Messiah - Crave
Hoop Dreams - Amazon Prime
Becoming Michelle Obama - Netflix
Miss Juneteenth - Crave
Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse - Disney +
Black Panther - Disney+
Moonlight - Amazon Prime
The Pursuit of Happyness - Netflix
Creed - Amazon Prime
Soul - Disney+
Sorry to Bother You - Netflix
Dope - Netflix
The Last Black Man in San Francisco - Netflix
Short Films:
Talks to Celebrate Black History Month
Kids Explain Black History Month
Kobe Doin' Work - Amazon Prime
Stay tuned next week for our students' book recommendations.
Want to learn more from our DEI Club? Read and watch our interview with them about performative activism.


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CAM-Schiffe (englisch: CAM ship = "Catapult Aircraft Merchantman" – zu deutsch etwa: "Katapult-Flugzeug-Handelsschiff") waren modifizierte britische Handelsschiffe aus dem Zweiten Weltkrieg, die mit einem Jagdflugzeug auf einem Katapult ausgestattet waren, das bei Gefahr eines Luftangriffs gestartet werden konnte. CAM-Schiffe fuhren wegen des Mangels an Geleitflugzeugträgern zur Luftverteidigung in Konvois mit, transportierten jedoch auch selbst regulär Fracht. Sie waren nur von August 1941 bis Mai 1943 als einigermaßen erfolgreiche Notlösung im Einsatz. Von den 35 umgerüsteten Schiffen wurden 12 durch Feindeinwirkung versenkt. Auf deutscher Seite gab es ähnliche Schiffe, so genannte Katapultschiffe und Schleuderschiffe, die allerdings zum Starten und Versorgen von Fernaufklärern und Seenotrettungsfliegern und nicht von Jagdflugzeugen dienten.

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Die Bezeichnung CAM war ein Akronym für "Catapult Aircraft Merchantman", zu deutsch etwa "Katapult-Flugzeug-Handelsschiff". Ein CAM-Schiff war ein umgerüstetes britisches Handelsschiff, das mit einem raketengetriebenen Katapult – meist auf dem vorderen Deck – ausgestattet war, um damit im Falle eines gegnerischen Luftangriffs auf offener See ein einzelnes Marine-Jagdflugzeug vom Typ Hawker Sea Hurricane – in dieser Ausführung auch "Hurricat" oder "Catafighter" genannt – zum Schutz des Geleitzugs starten zu können. Diese Schiffe fuhren wegen des Mangels an Geleitflugzeugträgern nach Umrüstung ab Sommer 1941 zur Luftverteidigung in Konvois mit, wobei sie daneben allesamt weiterhin regulär Fracht beförderten.

Das mitgeführte Jagdflugzeug war dabei mangels Landemöglichkeit ein Verlustgerät, da es nicht wieder auf dem Handelsschiff landen konnte bzw. kein Wasserflugzeug war, das nach dem Einsatz wieder an Bord geholt und wiederverwendet hätte werden können. Der Pilot musste daher nach dem Flug bzw. dem Verbrauchen des Kraftstoffs entweder mit dem Fallschirm abspringen oder mit der Maschine wassern (um anschließend selbst aus dem Wasser gefischt zu werden), während die Sea Hurricane danach im Meer versank. Daher empfahl es sich, die mitgeführten Flugzeuge mit Bedacht einzusetzen bzw. sie nur bei akuter Gefahr zu starten.

Aufgrund der Einsätze über dem offenen Meer und dem begrenzten Kraftstoffvorrat der spezialisierten Bordflugzeuge war die Landung auf weit entfernten Landbasen meist keine Alternative bzw. ohnehin fast immer unrealistisch.

Der Hauptzweck der CAM-Schiffe war, während der Atlantikschlacht als Bedrohung bzw. Antwort auf die von der deutschen Luftwaffe geflogenen Focke-Wulf Fw 200 Condor-Langstrecken-Aufklärungsflugzeuge zu fungieren, welche die Geleitzüge beschatteten und ihre Position per Funk an U-Boote oder andere Fliegerkräfte weitermeldeten – nicht selten aber auch selbst mit Bomben bzw. Bordwaffen angriffen. CAM-Schiffe kamen vorwiegend auf Geleitzug-Routen im Nordatlantik zum Einsatz, etwas später aber auch im Mittelmeer auf der Gibraltar-Strecke sowie im Nordpolarmeer bzw. in arktischen Gewässern gegen Nordmeergeleitzüge.

Insgesamt wurden 35 Handelsschiffe zu CAM ships umgerüstet, angefangen von der Michael E. Ein Teil der Schiffe wurde von zivilen Reedereien requiriert, andere wurden von der britischen Admiralität als Empire-Schiffe in Auftrag gegeben. Dennoch müssen sie aufgrund ihres Einsatzcharakters als Militärschiffe angesehen werden und sie wurden auch als solche geführt. Die CAM-Schiffe hatten – obwohl sie ihre Jagdflugzeuge nur selten starteten – eine gewisse Abschreckwirkung auf Angreifer, wenn auch keine mit einem MAC-Schiff oder gar vollwertigen Flugzeugträger vergleichbare.

Die ersten vier dieser Schiffe wurden in den Dienst der Royal Navy genommen als "Hilfs-Jagdflugzeug-Katapultschiffe" (Auxiliary Fighter Catapult Ships). Später umgerüstete Einheiten waren mit regulären Besatzungen der Handelsmarine besetzt. Die Flugzeuge wurden von Piloten der speziell gebildeten Handelsschiff-Jagdeinheit (Merchant Ship Fighter Unit) geflogen, die auf dem Flugplatz RAF Speke bei Liverpool stationiert war.

Am Ende einer jeder Reise wurden die Piloten mit ihren Maschinen in die Luft katapultiert, um auf einem nahen Flugplatz zu landen und in Übung zu bleiben. In den zwei Einsatzjahren wurden insgesamt nur neun Katapultstarts zu Kampfeinsätzen durchgeführt, wobei acht feindliche Flugzeuge bei dem Verlust eines RAF-Piloten abgeschossen wurden und acht eigene Flugzeuge verloren gingen. Von den insgesamt 35 eingesetzten CAM-Schiffen wurden 12 durch Feindeinwirkung versenkt, meist durch Fliegerbomben und/oder U-Boot-Angriffe.

Die CAM-Schiffe waren lediglich eine am Ende einigermaßen erfolgreiche Notlösung in den frühen Kriegsjahren Großbritanniens, sie wurden ab dem Spätjahr 1942 von neuen und wesentlich kampfstärkeren Geleitflugzeugträgern ersetzt.

Siehe auch
 Atlantikschlacht
 Seeflugzeugträger
 MAC-Schiff (Merchant aircraft carrier)
 Hilfskreuzer
 Liste historischer Flugzeugträger

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Warcraft III: Reforged – Before You Play: Everything You Need to Know About the Universe
Warcraft III: Reforged will soon be released. A remake of one of the best strategies of all time. We believe many of you know well who is fighting whom and why people are cutting orcs.
But for those who have forgotten all this, we have shaken off the dust with our announcements and now we will not only tell about the events of the first two parts but also go deeper into the universe's ENT and explain. Who are Ner'zhul and Mediv, how groups and alliances were formed and what happened to Azeroth
Dark time is coming. Already two wars with orcs, but people are quickly forgetting the lessons of the past. The disturbing news came to me that the defeated Horde was uniting its forces, and the Lordaeron was disbanded. A new, third war will begin soon. Before his flames are completely ignited, I compile this data – so that the events in previous battles are briefly recalled. And before our world is destroyed.
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I will omit much of what I can tell, otherwise, my story will grow into a lengthy treatise. Do not blame me if certain subtleties are left untouched by me – I am only a modest chronicler to whom everything cannot be known. But what should be told should be enough for you to understand the origins of the conflict between orcs and people, as well as the motives of the noble King Terenas and his son, the sun-faced Prince Arthas.
The fall of titanium sargeras
At the beginning of time, there was an ancient light and a dark Abyss opponent. Their collision created the universe and many other worlds arose – including ours, called Azeroth. The Abyss gave birth to the malicious entities that we are known as the Lord of Abyss, and the terrifying ancient gods, who have been seeking to enslave and inflict slavery all their lives. The Netherlands occupied the space between the universes.
The first bright intellectuals of the universe were powerful titans. God-like creatures who resurrected the lives of those few planets that, for reasons unknown to us, were given to souls. Titans could roam freely around the world, which they did for centuries. They followed the order of the universe and reshaped the land suitable for life so that civilizations could grow on them and grow faster. They searched for their companions who had not yet been awakened by a dream and rode to the ends of the planets to keep an eye on them.
The most skilled warrior among the titans was Sargeras. For thousands of years, he waged war against demons, longing to take over the universe. Many demons were imprisoned by the efforts of Sargeras that he erected for them in the Twisting Nether.
Alas, in one of the endless battles, Sargeras saw what troubled his mind. In his wanderings, he discovered a world in the centre of which the yet awakened titan slept. But the Lords of the Abyss and the Ancient Gods desecrated the planet and its soul. This titan was destined to wake up not as the keeper of the universe, like Sargeras and his brothers, but as a monster who serves darkness and allows it to absorb all life. Moreover, he would be so strong that no one could stop him.
Sargeras destroyed both the planet
In desperation, Sargeras destroyed both the planet and the dark forces that possess it and the unborn titan. But from now on, fear arose in him that such a thing could happen to other worlds, to any of them. He told the brothers and sisters what he saw, and shared his concerns. Having decided that the victory of the Lords of the Abyss is inevitable, and the desecrated by them is unworthy to exist, Sargeras found only one way out: to destroy all life, until it fell to the forces of darkness. The remaining titans were horrified by this idea, and here their paths diverged.
Saddened that his associates did not share his plan, Sargeras considered himself a devotee. He broke away from his former allies to find new ones. Deciding that in the name of a noble goal all means are good, the titan teamed up with his worst enemies – demons. He freed all the creatures that he had previously captured and offered them a choice: death at his hands – or a war against the whole world under his command. The demons chose the latter. Sargeras called his new army the Burning Legion, and so the fallen titan began his wicked campaign through the universe.
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First war
In our world, meanwhile, more than seven centuries have passed since Sargeras fell at the hands of Aegwynn. We omit what happened in these centuries — this is not so important for our annals — and we will move right away during the first war with the orcs.
Then in the kingdom that is now known as Stormwind, the wise king Adamant Wrynn the Third ruled. The country flourished under him, strife and contention bypassed his domain of ownership.
In his castle stood a clock, presented by the great magician Medivh: he predicted that until the sand runs out in the clock, nothing threatens the rule of Wrynn. Magic grains of sand regularly poured from the upper-division into the lower, but they did not become smaller, and Wrynn and his subjects lived in peace and prosperity for a long time.
However, nothing lasts forever. After years of prosperity, the kingdom seemed to be struck by an unknown ailment. She was exhausted by the diseases of children, destroying the harvest with unusual cold and incinerating heat. One rainy morning, King Wrynn glanced at his watch and saw with horror that the sand in them was rapidly drying up. And as soon as the last grain of sand fell, he heard screams – the royal guard was trying to repel the attack of the terrible monsters previously unseen in Azeroth
Wrynn immediately sent his wife and heir, the young prince Llane, to a safe place. The king promised that they would return to their native castle as soon as the orcs were finished. Alas, he did not keep his promise: Wrynn died before he managed to drive the monsters from his lands.
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Second war
Boarding the ships, the inhabitants of the destroyed Stormwind by sea went north. They were sheltered by the kingdom of Lordaeron, where the now-living king Terenas ruled, and elves and dwarves lived in the vicinity of people. However, the orcs were not going to be content with what they had already conquered. Led by a new leader, the formidable Orgrim of the Rockhammer, they followed the fugitives. Understanding that stopping monsters is possible only by uniting, elves, dwarves and people decided to fight shoulder to shoulder.
So the famous Alliance came about, under the banners of which people still fight to this day. Orcs drew ogres, trolls and goblins to their side, forming the Horde. Thus, in the Second War, not two nations fought, but two powerful coalitions, each of which was not going to retreat.
At first, the Second War seemed to end in the same way as the First. Despite the valor of Alliance warriors, the Horde crowded out opponents. She invaded the elven kingdom of Kael'thalas, recaptured most of the dwarven cloister, Kaz Modan, and advanced to the capital of Lordaeron.
However, the military genius of Lothar and his closest associates, Admiral Daelin Proudmoore and the paladin Uther the Lightbringer, allowed people to throw the orcs back to the south. Lothar himself fell at the hands of Orgrim at the Battle of Black Mountain, but his death only brought people together. Alliance forces defeated the orcs and triumphantly reached the portal between the worlds, from where monsters had once come to Azeroth. The noble wizard Khadgar destroyed the door through which monsters penetrated our lands, and so ended the Second War.
Dark portal
Although Khadgar destroyed the portal, the crack in the fabric of the universe that gaped in its place did not disappear. And even if the Alliance defeated the Horde on Azeroth, the orc forces remaining on Draenor were not ready to surrender so easily.
Ner'zhul, the mentor of Gul'dan, took advantage of this. Refusing to cooperate with the demons, the shaman did not stop cherishing the ambitious plans. Leading the orcs after the death of Gul'dan, Ner'zhul offered them an even bolder plan: to enslave not only Azeroth but many other worlds. To do this, it was only necessary to open portals in them. And Ner'zhul knew how to do this.
Having penetrated Azeroth through the crack between the worlds, Ner'zhul obtained all the artefacts necessary for the ritual. The first was the skull of Gul'dan, with the help of which the shaman managed to open a new reliable portal to Azeroth. Next, Ner'zhul obtained the sceptre of Sargeras. A few more magical items – and the shaman was able to open a network of portals through which the Horde was ready to flood into other planets.
Khadgar, the greatest student of the mage Medivh, who treacherously let the orcs into our world, tried to upset his plans. Together with the paladin Turalyon and a small part of the Alliance forces, he went on an expedition to Draenor to prevent future invasions.
Their squad destroyed more than one clan of the enemy. When the daredevils discovered that the orcs were ready to flood many worlds with blood, they tried to get to Ner'zhul. Alas, they did not succeed in stopping the shaman, and the unexpected happened: the ritual got out of control, and the colossal power of the portals began to tear apart the orc planet.
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On March 3 2016, I awoke to the news of a brutal reality: the assassination of Berta Cáceres. Berta was a courageous campaigner for indigenous, environmental and gender rights. She led this battle from the small mountain town of La Esperanza ('the hope' in English) in Honduras.
Bertita — as we called her — was my aunt. We were only two years apart in age, and I always thought of her as my sister.
Berta Cáceres holds up the Goldman Environmental Prize, April 2015. (Courtesy Goldman Environmental Prize)
A childhood exposed to poverty and inequality
Growing up, I would visit my family in Honduras almost every year. My parents fled to Washington DC in the early '70s, forced to leave Central America due to threats to their lives by the US-supported military government.
Seeing us in my grandmother's garden playing soccer or hide and seek, you would never have known that violence and repression existed. But, there was plenty of evidence of poverty and inequality around us.
Security forces in downtown Tegucigalpa, Honduras.
Each morning of every day of the week, I would wake up to the smell of wood burning in the 1950s-era wood stove, the faint hint of coffee, and the sterile smell of packaged medicine. I'd hear the quiet murmur of indigenous languages, the cry of unknown children and my grandmother shouting above the din: "No se preocupe niño, no va doler" ("Don't worry child, it won't hurt") as she stuck a vaccination needle recently sterilized in a metal container on the stove, into a malnourished indigenous Lenca child's dark brown arm. The line of women, men, children and elderly was waiting here every morning.
Austra Bertha Flores López (Berta's mother) with Agustina Flores López (Berta's grandmother) and Bertha Isabel Zúniga Cáceres (Berta's daughter).
Berta was not deterred, but our concern for her safety grew. She knew she was dealing with violent people to whom life matters little.
Bertita's mother, my grandmother, was a midwife, mayor and — at one point — governor of the state of Intibucá. She provided medical care for thousands of underserved indigenous people who had nowhere else to turn for care. Bertita assisted her mother every day, whether it was by fetching medication from the armoire in my grandmother's bedroom or by lighting candles for a child dying from dehydration caused by untreated diarrhea.
From civic engagement to political activism
When Bertita was 19, she co-founded the National Council of Popular and Indigenous Organizations of Honduras, known by its acronym in Spanish as COPINH. The organization united the Lenca peoples from all over Honduras and helped by providing education, inspiring leadership, and offering a badly needed platform for expression.
Berta speaking at an event.
COPINH soon became influential and an important support for local and national political candidates, mostly shoring up left-leaning parties. On the other side of the political spectrum was the rightist Partido Nacional, primarily made up of lighter-skinned, middle to upper class Hondurans. In 2006, COPINH helped elect Mel Zelaya, a wealthy rancher from the left-leaning Partido Liberal. Zelaya sought out Berta's help on policy issues for the indigenous populations of Honduras. Even though she realized that Zelaya was deeply flawed and more interested in power and attention, Berta continued to pressure him. She successfully advocated for policies to improve the lives of rural poor, such as a raise in the minimum wage.
Zelaya tacked further left, creating closer ties with U.S. enemy number one in the region: Venezuela's Hugo Chavez. Three years later, angered by a potential loss of profits and with support from the US, the Honduran business elite ousted Zelaya in a coup. They claimed that he was attempting to change the Honduran constitution when he called for a non-binding vote as to whether or not to create an assembly tasked with updating the 1982 constitution drafted in the waning days of military rule. The Obama administration's Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton, signed off on the illegal transfer of power from a democratically-elected president to the National Party oligarchy.
Berta at a forum.
Soon thereafter, the government declared 'Honduras Open for Business'. President Porfirio Lobo, along with the head of Congress at the time, Juan Orlando Hernández, passed 'a raft of business-friendly laws favouring multinational investments in energy, mining and tourism'. These investments included the selling of a concession to build a dam on Lenca indigenous territory near a village called Rio Blanco. The government had never approached the Lenca about it nor about any of the other concession they sold, although Lobo had signed a treaty with Berta herself on July 28, 2011 which reiterated the fact that Honduras is a UN International Labor Organization 169 Treaty signatory, and has been since 1995.
A fight against government corruption
The skirmishes began in 2013, the year current illegally re-elected president Juan Orlando Hernández became president. Bulldozers cleared fields, and large swaths of earth were scraped from the sides of the surrounding valley where the Gualcarque river flows. The indigenous community of Rio Blanco protested, to no avail. They reached out to COPINH for help. Berta quickly supported the community to organize and the struggle began in earnest.
The company building the dam — Desarollos Energeticos S.A., or DESA — is owned by one of the wealthiest families in Central America, the Atala Zablah. They are a cornerstone of the business elite in Honduras and closely allied with the National Party and Juan Orlando Hernández. Soon the villagers organized blockades to block more construction equipment from entering. Close ties to the state secured the presence of the Honduran military to protect the dam even though the protests had always been non-violent.
Berta at the COPINH radio station hosting a program. (Courtesy Goldman Environmental Prize)
I asked her how she was doing: "Ya sabes, aquí, en la lucha contra estos jodidos" ("You know, here fighting against these fuckers"), she replied nonchalantly.
An investigation by Sierra Club from June 2017 connects some of the dots: "The close cooperation between the dam builders and the military was part of a larger relationship. DESA's executives and board of directors come from the Honduran military and banking elite. DESA's secretary, Roberto Pacheco Reyes, is a former justice minister. The company president, Roberto David Castillo Mejia, is a former military intelligence officer accused of corruption by the Honduran government's public auditor's office. The vice president, Jacobo Nicolas Atala Zablah, is a bank owner and a member of one of Honduras's wealthiest families."
"En la lucha contra estos jodidos"
The campaign to stop the dam would soon take a deadly turn. Smear campaigns against COPINH and death threats against Berta were already underway. Then, in July of 2013 a Rio Blanco community leader who was peacefully protesting was killed by the military protecting the dam. The police tried to frame Berta on a trumped up gun charge. The chaos was making investors uncomfortable and some pulled out as the project continued at an increasingly slow rate.
During the next two years, Berta and other members of COPINH were increasingly harassed, shot at, and intimidated by Honduran members of the military protecting the dam, members of DESA's leadership, and state actors who had something to gain from the dam being built.
Berta was not deterred, but our concern for her safety grew. She knew she was dealing with violent people to whom life matters little. Berta sent her children abroad to study on scholarships in Argentina and Mexico so they couldn't be used as pawns to get to her. It pained her to drive them to the airport, and they became increasingly aware that each time they said goodbye could be the last.
In April 2015, Berta and COPINH were awarded the Goldman Prize for their work in defending land rights and the environment. I had my last conversation with her days after she received the award. I was living in Hong Kong at the time and hadn't seen her for a year. I asked her how she was doing: "Ya sabes, aquí, en la lucha contra estos jodidos" ("You know, here fighting against these fuckers"), she replied nonchalantly.
A stream of obfuscation & chaos
The Goldman Prize brought her notoriety and a worldwide stage for the struggle. It also made her a bigger target. On February 5 and 6, 2016, an attack on Berta had been planned but was subsequently aborted "due to the lack of a vehicle and the presence of other people with Berta," reported one of the alleged hitmen now on trial, according to a reported conducted by an independent team of lawyers, known in Spanish by the acronym GAIPE. The group of lawyers, all of them specialists in human rights, was brought together by the family and COPINH after the government of Honduras refused to allow an independent international investigation.
Just before midnight on March 2, 2016 at least two gunmen broke into her house. Berta was shot at least three times. Her friend and fellow Mexican rights defender Gustavo Castro was also shot in the house that night. He survived by playing dead. After the gunmen left, Gustavo got up and went over to Bertita. He held her, begging her, "Quedate con migo, quedate con migo Bertita" ("Stay with me, stay with me Bertita").
A minute or two later, she died in his arms.
The next hours and days were just a stream of obfuscation and chaos.
When the local police arrived, they did not close off the crime scene, Berta's newly purchased house. Dozens of people trampled throughout. Family members were brought in to identify the body. The complete autopsy report and video of the autopsy were never given to the family despite numerous legal requests. Lists of evidence demonstrate several pieces of equipment were taken from the house and never returned to the family. Among them were a mobile phone and a computer.
US-trained investigators showed up at the scene and finally secured it. The Honduran police investigating the crime interrogated Gustavo Castro, a Mexican national, who spent the next 30 hours in blood-stained clothes. He was being asked the same questions over and over again, without any legal representation from the Mexican consulate. At the same time, members of COPINH were also being questioned about their whereabouts. It was becoming increasingly apparent that US-trained police investigators were attempting to confirm a narrative that state-owned media were already reporting: "Cáceres Murder Was a Crime of Passion," or "COPINH Leadership Fight Led to Killing."
Berta's killing was a message: "If you speak out, you will pay with your life." It's a message that has been delivered dozens if not hundreds of times in Honduras, a country of only 8 million that is one of the most dangerous places in the world to live where a whopping 99% of murders go unpunished.
Berta speaking to a Rio Blanco community members in 2015. (Courtesy Goldman Environmental Prize)
The fight for justice
The photos from the crime scene photos as well as the preliminary autopsy results appeared in state-run media before anyone from our family was provided any information about the investigation. My family requested an international investigation which was denied. We then requested an autopsy by a forensics team from Guatemala that had worked on several high-profile genocide investigations. It was denied. I personally asked the US ambassador at the time, James Nealon, to support our call for an international investigation. He repeatedly deflected and stated how much great work the US-trained police investigators from the Honduran public prosecutor's office were doing conjuring up CSI-type investigative techniques.
GAIPE examined the minuscule amount of evidence the public prosecutor handed over to the prosecutors of the 8 men charged in Berta's assassination. They learned three things: the public prosecutor seemed to be in possession of over a terabyte of evidence, yet he was only handing over about 50 gigabytes; most of the evidence had not been properly examined in the 20 months since Berta's assassination; and there is mounting speculation that the rest of the evidence is being systematically destroyed. One of the phones handed to the prosecution had a hole going through it from spearing. The phone belonged to one of the detained men who had ties to military intelligence, making it impossible to extract data from it. The final discovery was that not only was the evidence leading high into the dam company DESA's leadership, but there appeared to be more connections into Honduran Army Intelligence as well as government officials.
2015 Goldman Environmental Prize Winners. (Courtesy Goldman Environmental Prize)
The trial for those responsible for Berta's murder finally began after being delayed several times due to writs filed against the court itself requesting the recusal of the three-judge panel for bias and incompetence. A curious Tweet went out from the highest-ranking official, Ms. Heide Fulton, in the US embassy in Honduras: "…@USEmbassyHN continues to call for free, fair and transparent legal processes grounded in due process and respect for the rule of law."
It was curious because Ms. Fulton — the highest ranking U.S. official — knew that up until that moment on the morning of October 15 2018, not one part of the process had been transparent, fair, and it completely lacked any "due process and respect for the rule of law."
It wasn't a call so much as it was a directive to an illusion, a magic trick, "this is what your eyes will see."
Subsequently, the three-judge panel dismissed Berta's family's request for the judges' removal, then removed the family's lawyers from the case leaving the public prosecutor to defend the family. The same public prosecutors who have repeatedly refused to hand over more evidence to prosecute the assassins, find the masterminds and get to the truth.
The thousands of people fleeing Honduras in caravans and otherwise come from all walks of life. They aren't fleeing because they are being used as political pawns to discredit the Honduran president as Ms. Fulton — the highest ranking US embassy official in Tegucigalpa — claims. Berta was fighting for their right to live in Honduras, empowering those who are underrepresented because it is their last hope.
The same reason my parents left over 40 years ago.
Berta Cáceres and her mother, Austra Bertha Flores López. (Courtesy Goldman Environmental Prize)
Editor's note: On November 29, 2018, a Honduran court found seven men guilty of the murder in the assassination of Berta Cáceres after a six-week trial. Among those convicted are two former executives of Desarrollos Energéticos (or DESA), the company with concession to build the 21-megawatt dam Ms Cáceres was fighting against,as well as DESA's director of social and environmental development and five others in connection with the assassination, and one acquittal. According to Global Witness, in 2016, 14 environmental activists were killed for their work in Honduras.
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The World Wildlife Fund (WWF) just released it's Living Planet Index reflecting the overall health of our planet's biodiversity. Since 1970, the global Living Planet Index has fallen by 30%.
Before I left my Corporate job in mid 2008 to actively start my environmental work, I researched the climate and environmental data and took vacation time to attend several scientific conferences, including UCLA's 2007 Evolutionary Change in Human Altered Environments, and these Scientists from around the world were already talking about significant species loss.
The WWF 30% decline means that on average, species population sizes were 30% smaller in 2007 than in 1970.
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The Report also details the Actions we should take, and one of them is to eat less meat.
I started Gratitude Gourmet in May 2008 to help evangelize the United Nations data that animal agriculture causes 18% of worldwide greenhouse gas emissions which is more than overall transportation, and the importance of eating less meat. I was the only one that I knew of in my circles and in the media actively talking about this issue at the time in the United States. Eating less meat is the low-hanging fruit of helping people reduce their GHG - more than buying a Prius or solar panels.
Most people can't afford a Prius and solar panels, but most people can adjust their diets. I also speak on Green IT, and IT emits 2% of worldwide greenhouse gas emissions. 18% Animal Agriculture vs 2% IT...huge difference in impact.
Initially in 2008, when I spoke with people about the animal agriculture and greenhouse gas emission link, most people did not know this data. I spoke at many technology, branding, and entrepreneurial events evangelizing this concept. At a UC Berkeley Energy event, I asked Mary Nichols, the California Chair of the California Air Resources Board (CARB) during her speech Q&A if California was going to address the serious impact of Animal Agriculture emissions. After that question, I had a few Press people talk with me because it was the first time they heard of this data. As a result, the Press started writing articles about this topic. At the Fortune Brainstorm Green Conference where President Bill Clinton spoke on Earth Day 2009, I asked a senior McDonalds official questions during an Agriculture Panel about what his company was doing about the meat-carbon issue. I mentioned the UN data, Bon Appetit Management Company's meat and cheese reduction to reduce GHG emissions, and that UK hospitals are cutting meat to cut carbon. Because of my persistence on the issue, I was asked to speak at this year's 2010 Fortune Brainstorm Green on the Sustainable Agriculture subject but already committed to speaking in the UK about Green IT and Entrepreneurship. The Agriculture Session was held, and the issue of meat and carbon was finally on the radar of more people. I did speak at the Net Impact Conference at Cornell University last Fall '09 on Organic Agriculture and Sustainability, and I co-founded the Green Software Unconference Silicon Valley where I ensured there was only delicious vegetarian and vegan served (probably the 1st of it's kind in the world where a technology conference purposely served low carbon food).
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Juan Castañeda (born 18 October 1980) is a Spanish épée fencer.

Castañeda won the silver medal in the épée team event at the 2006 World Fencing Championships after losing to France in the final. He accomplished this with his team mates Ignacio Canto, José Luis Abajo and Eduardo Sepulveda Puerto.

Achievements
 2006 World Fencing Championships, team épée

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Gan Focal
by Mark Wilkins
Life during the lockdown and one finds oneself turning to the online world for community, support, and solace. The pandemic is a global phenomenon after all, and it would seem by the swell of blogs and posts on social media that millions of people the world over are doing the same. Social media explodes with information, disinformation, misinformation, distraction, and instruction.
One of the most shared posts by the online artistic community tells me 'use the pandemic and the new reality to write that song, that novel, that screenplay you've always wanted to' but this merely serves to impose a feeling of guilt -after all learning to adapt to the restrictions is difficult enough without the added pressure of trying to summon the muse and create new music.
What if I have no new ideas at my immediate disposal to inspire new tunes or fresh ideas to share with other musicians, let alone an audience?
Listen to the album while reading the text.
A post by the Irish poet Thomas McCarthy appears on Facebook and catches my eye:
As a poet you have absolutely no public duty to write Covid-19 poems. If you've been writing good poems set in Ancient Rome or in the Italy of your honeymoon, by all means continue. Poems are more likely to come from the places you've hoarded rather than the place you're in.
Digging in the Archive
I'm no poet, I rarely read the stuff, but its sentiment can be applied to music or any other art form. I re-read it and no longer feel pressure to start composing fresh material. What's more, his quote serves to remind me that there is a lot of recorded material in my own archive, hoarded in boxes of cassettes, CDs, and MP3s on old memory sticks. Finished and half-finished songs and instrumentals written and recorded long before the pandemic and lockdown, before the rise of social media and online platforms for independent artists.
I decide to listen back to some of these tunes with a certain air of dread, like looking through old photo albums and wincing at the embarrassing haircuts and fashion disasters or friends I've lost touch with. But to my surprise, some of these tunes sound surprisingly fresh, and the memories they evoke of the writing, recording, and performing of this music are vivid and strong.
"Blues for Kali" was written late one night in Calcutta, during a bout of insomnia when I worked there as a volunteer for an Irish charity in 2000. "Haunted" was written in a half-renovated cottage in Connemara during a power cut on Halloween night not long after. "Vandeville" written in a terraced house of the same name during the Cork Jazz Festival in 2010 and so on. The music is a crucible of styles I've been drawn to at different stages, roots, Irish, ambient, jazz, rock, contemporary, Middle Eastern, and folk.
Remixed, Remastered, and Released
I decide this material needs to be remixed, remastered, and released using technology, not at my disposal when originally composed. I toy with the idea of re-recording, but social restrictions imposed as a response to the pandemic nips that idea in the bud. Instead, I contact an engineer and producer I've worked successfully with over the last few years who lives nearby. I drive to his studio and leave a batch of CD's, MP3s and WAVs along with handwritten instructions regarding mixing and mastering. I feel like a painter asking a trusted frame maker to re-frame unseen paintings for a fresh upcoming exhibition.
I call the collection of instrumentals "Gan Focal", which is Irish Gaelic for "wordless". I realize this re-representing of older largely unheard tunes is a form of creativity every bit as important as writing new material. It had never occurred to me to use the confines of lockdown to revise and refurbish older tunes and that this was simply a further stage in the creative process. From finger to string, to cassette, to CD and now to Bandcamp, iTunes, Spotify, and eventually to be written about for a blog.
Never Really Finished
I realize creativity needs not stop when the venues are forced to close, audiences forced to stay at home, and new ideas are put on temporary hold. The possibilities opened up by online music platforms for independent artists can be daunting to embrace but are vast and to be explored.
I once heard Sting say in a radio interview about songwriting that a song or piece of music is never really finished, it is abandoned, and for once, I agree with him. Once the feel and mood of the music or message in the lyrics are achieved, you cut the cord and send your music out into the world. Remixing and remastering these tunes have led to their being sent out into the digital world to be listened to, streamed and downloaded and hopefully make a few bobs along the way.
And as lockdown is slowly lifted, some new ideas are starting to appear hopefully to be recorded in the coming months. In the meantime, I hope you like the tunes on "Gan Focal". Stay safe and well.
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Nice work. I felt that these were sorely missing in the rulebook. I have a few minor comments, having thought a bit about these myself… First, shouldn't the aphid and whisper death have higher defence (because of their armour)? Second, shouldn't the rogue gun be a bit better than the heavies? Third, shouldn't the HRC have a rate of fire of automatic? I'd be happy to share my musings on how to calculate the ship ratings if you're interested (I have them as a pdf at present).
I'll do you one better. If you'd like to do a guest column and present your take on ship ratings, I will gladly host it.
That sounds great. I'd be happy to do so! How shall I send them to you?
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A significant impact on healthcare is at the core of the Radboudumc. It is, of course, far from the only institution seeking to achieve this. What sets Radboudumc apart is its level of commitment to selecting the best people and supporting them in order to achieve its vision. To demonstrate this, the medical center awards the prestigious one million Euros Hypatia Tenure Track Grant, to attract the most talented scientists.
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Hi Crackberry citizens, I flashed a leaked OS on my Q10 which was got from Amazon as unlocked UK version but now I want to return to actual version instead of these leaked ones. Is there any way I can find the original OS to flash it using sachesi or as autoloader? The box says RFN81UW as code and the other things have a big label on them so I cant read them.
RFN81UW means Q10 SQN100-3, so your official OS is most likely 10.2.1.3442.
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Turn it off, plug it to Link and you should get the latest for that OS.
Do it quickly though, 10.3.1 may just be the OS you get if you take too long.
OS 10.3.1 with 10.2.1 calendar?


Sir please send me key also.
Nabeel your free gift is on it's way.
May I get a key please?
Dear friend, do you still have a key?One for me if you can thanks!
Yes we have lots of keys in stock.
Hey , can i have a key too? Thank you very much !!!
Спасибо, но не один ключ не пошел….
please send key to me thanks !


Brushing my 7 year old daughter's long curly hair was pretty much the worst part of our day. It involved screaming and hitting from my daughter because she was so sensitive to having her hair brushed. We have had the Happy Hair Brush for not quite a week and the screaming stopped instantly the first time we used it. She even brushed and tied back her own hair to go to school for the first time ever. It is so great having one less stress in the day!
I was pleasantly surprised that my daughter actually liked this brush as she has very knotty hair so I was very sceptical but it worked perfectly and she even tried brushing her own hair!
What type of hair are you needing to brush? Hair you brush once a week cause its just to hard with every other brush you've got!
I was at my wits end with my 3 year olds long amazing hair.. very close to cutting it off but the a friend suggested your product. I had nothing to lose! It works a treat!
What type of hair are you needing to brush? Long thin tangles every 5 minutesCurly and hard to brush hairHair you brush once a week cause its just to hard with every other brush you've got!
It has been an absolute pleasure and relief for all my daughters to finally not be traumatised whilst their hair was being brushed.
Wish i found it years ago!
Fantastic my 9yo daughter loves it and has brushed her own hair everyday. I can even put her hair up in a high ponytail and get rid of all the bumps with this brush where i couldn't before it was such a mission and she used to hate the struggle of knots!!