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Letter from Athens: Let's Clear the Air About What Papastratos Really Does
By Andy Dabilis
Papastratos
It was such a gracious gesture by Greece's major tobacco company Papastratos – in 2020 again named the country's Top Employer – to donate 50 ventilators to public hospitals during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Especially since the death sticks it makes puts more people in Intensive Care Units (ICU's) and kills more in one year than the coronavirus would in four years at the current sad rate of the tragic death toll.
In the first year of COVID-19, there were more than 6,500 people who perished, ICU's often pushed to near 100 percent capacity to help people desperately breathe and cling to life, much like those who smoke while lugging around oxygen tanks.
Warning signs on packages of Assos cigarettes, one of the company's top brands, advise Smoking Damages Your Lungs, Smoking Seriously Harms You and Others Around You, and, ominously and also ignored: το κάπνισμα μπορεί να σε σκοτώσει.
It means: Smoking Can Kill You but it might as well say "Smoke 'em If You Got 'Em" because the addicted don't care what it says, they're going to light up and inhale until they get Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) or wind up on a ventilator.
If it's one that Papastratos donated it should come with an advisory label: If You Didn't Smoke Our Products You Wouldn't Be Here.
Tobacco companies typically will say that there's no proof that smoking kills, a long-destroyed argument accepted by courts in class action suits and legal action in the United States, but not brought before courts in Greece, one of the heaviest-smoking countries in the world, though the numbers are finally beginning to fall.
The site Tobacco Atlas said tobacco-related diseases in Greece kill some 22,700 people yearly, while noting that, "Greece has made progress on tobacco control in recent years. However, people continue to die and become sick needlessly, and the costs to society from tobacco use continue to mount."
Those deaths and costs are overshadowed now because all anyone can think about every day for more than a year is COVID-19's imperceptible particles of death lingering in expelled breaths, but you can see tobacco, a constant killer for generations.
"Complacency in the face of the tobacco epidemic insulates the tobacco industry in Greece and ensures that tobacco's death toll will grow every year," the site said, companies pumping out more than 28.72 BILLION cigarettes a day.
Every day in Greece, it added, more than 12,000 children 10-14 and 2,225,900 adults continue to use tobacco despite the valiant efforts of anti-smoking campaigns that are beginning to work, and No Smoking Laws finally enforced after a decade.
But Papastratos wants to you believe it's benevolent and has your best interests and health in mind, which is why it carefully follows the law about putting the warning signs on packages when it would really like them to read: Smoke, Smoke, Smoke.
As part of its munificence and caring, it's working with the country's tax collection agency AADE – happy to rake in death taxes from products killing 62 people a day –
In a scheme to slow illicit tobacco trade.
That's really a partnership for the Papastratos-AADE cartel to get rid of competition in the form of smuggled cigarettes that are often sold on the streets, sometimes one at a time to people who need a tobacco fix, with nicotine as addictive as heroin, cocaine, and crack.
Papastratos is the El Chapo of Greece, killing people faster and more effectively than COVID-19 and, for the company, here's the best part: except for a few anti-smoking groups and the Hellenic Cancer Society, nobody cares! How great is that for business!
AADE head Giorgos Pitsilis and Papastratos Chairman and CEO Christos Harpantidis signed the agreement in which the tobacco company will donate equipment to the agency to fight unlawful competition, said Kathimerini.
"This agreement is viewed as an opportunity to develop action and change our way of thinking in the field of smuggling and protection of consumers. I hope it will be another step in cooperation that, on the one hand, will lead us to work at the same table to face common challenges and, on the other hand, will translate into concrete actions with visible results," Pitsilis said. Where's the barf bag when you need it?
Nine of the Papastratos ventilators went to the Sotiria General Hospital of Thoracic Diseases in Athens, drawing praise from Health Minister Vasilis Kikilias, tasked with trying to slow health hazards, including widespread tobacco use.
Seems only fair the company provides ventilators for people who wind up in Sotiria for using their products, which Greeks spend as much as 30 million euros ($36 million) on each year, not counting the illicit trade Papastratos wants to cash in on too.
Greece has the highest lung cancer mortality rate in Europe, which tobacco companies would like to think is an inconvenient coincidence for them, but with their products you can say: where there's smoke there's lung cancer.
The Hellenic Cancer Society said the disease annually kills a population "equal to the inhabitants of an island, such as Ikaria or Leros. If we take into account other types of cancer and illnesses caused by smoking, in a few years the number of deaths would wipe out as many of our fellow citizens as the population of the Cyclades islands."
Thank you for smoking.
The Moscow Patriachate's Unorthodox Warfare and the Odious Role of Domestic Ephialteses
The new year brings new challenges for Orthodoxy due to the latest round of aggressive policies enacted by the Moscow Patriarchate, which literally 'invaded' the ancient Patriarchate of Alexandria, stealing away 102 of its clergymen and establishing its own exarchate in Africa.
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Q: Calling stored procedure with a string to use in query I have a stored procedure where i need to pass a string to use in the query.
Stored procedure example:
BEGIN
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SELECT * FROM test WHERE @query
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How I would like to call it with a string:
CALL proceduretet('activity_id = 1 OR activity_id = 2')

The query can be different each time, sometimes there will be 1 activity_id and sometimes 4 or more.
I have tried to pass it as a varchar and text, but it won't work.
So is there a way to pass a string to stored procedures and use it in the query?
Regards, Andreas

A: The code would look like:
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Genre: Fiction, fractured fairy tale, romance, fantasy, good adult fractured fairy tales are hard to find but I got one right here!
Summary: Rapunzel is the fairest in the land. So much so that the girl with the magically long hair is able to catch the attention of Prince Josef for one amazing night. Unfortunately, he is promised to another in order to soothe his kingdom which is on the brink of war. Disheartened by her lost love, Rapunzel later hears whispers of the King and Queen's beautiful daughter Snow White and how beloved she is by all. When the Queen dies under mysterious circumstances, the King remembers the beautiful Rapunzel and makes her his Queen. Will Snow White become the child she always longed for or will fate choose a more sinister course? Beware, this is not your typical Disney-fied fairy tale.
Fractured fairy tales are a dime a dozen, and I have read my fair share of amazing and terrible takes on the genre, but Fairest of Them All stands far above the offerings I've imbibed. Not only does it combine the original tales of Rapunzel and Snow White, but it also does so in a very original and adult way, fully fleshing out the story in remarkable ways. See Hollywood, you don't need to set things in space to make them original! Sorry Cinder, you know I still love you.
Note: this novel should not be confused with the Snow White retelling Fairest of All: A Tale of the Wicked Queen from comic book turned prose novelist Serena Valentino based on the Disney film. However, if you're looking for something adult and in the same vein, you should definitely check out Neil Gaiman's haunting short story with a similar theme: Snow Glass Apples. Just don't expect a happy ending.
For anyone who doesn't know how the original fairy tales go, here's a brief summary. In the Rapunzel fairy tale, a husband and wife live next to the garden of a witch and for some reason the pregnant wife will not eat anything but the rapunzel plant that grows in her garden. On the third night of thieving the plant, the husband is caught and the witch, Dame Gothel agrees to forgive him if he gives her their then unborn child. Since parents in fairy tales are the worst, he readily agrees.
Gothel raises the girl with the long blonde hair (whom she names Rapunzel) as her own and locks her in a tower when she comes of age just because. After being drawn by her beautiful singing, a Prince happens upon and uses her super long super strong hair to climb into her room in the tower. There they devise a plan to run away and get married. Like you do.
Unfortunately, this is the Brother's Grimm version and Gothel learning of the pair's deceit through a foolish Rapunzel banishes her adopted daughter to the wilderness. But not before she chops off Rapunzel's hair and uses it to trick the Prince into visiting one final time. Once in her clutches, the witch tells the Prince he will never see Rapunzel again and he throws himself off the tower and lands on some thorns which blind him. But somehow doesn't damage any other parts of his body.
He spends his time wanderIng around blind until he once again hears Rapunzel's singing and finds his love who has given birth to their twins (a boy and a girl). Reunited, Rapunzel's tears heal the Prince's sight and he takes them to live happily ever after in his kingdom. Apparently the witch gets off scot-free except in that one version which decided to have a moral about being evil.
In Fairest, Mathena Gothel tells Rapunzel and her magical hair (which can feel other people's secrets) the tale of how she came to be in her care (the same as in the original) and she spends Rapunzel's childhood teaching her how to be a healer. However she never allows her to use the word witch in fear of the kingdom's recently reformed policy against magic and the fear it strikes in the hearts of the citizens. JUST LIKE THIS.
She specifically teaches Rapunzel how to perform various spells of the heart as those same citizens who speak out about witchcraft in the presence of royalty have no qualms about having a witch help them with their man troubles. Rapunzel finds these customers weak and foolish until her heart falls for the handsome Prince Josef. Seeking to protect her adopted daughter from the Prince who is merely lusting after her, and from her past troubles at court, Mathena, knowing he is betrothed to someone from a neighboring kingdom for peace treaty reasons locks her in the tower. But much like life, their hormones find a way.
After their night of pleasure, Josef goes back to his kingdom and marries his intended and they give the kingdom an acceptable female heir: Snow White. Although it would have been preferable if she had been born Steve White.
The Grimm's version of Snow White is much more well known. A Queen gives birth to a daughter with skin as white as snow, hair as black as night (or a picture frame) and lips as red as blood after wishing it so. Too bad she dies soon after. A year later, the King remarries a beautiful yet wicked woman who is so obsessed with her own beauty that every morning she checks with a magic mirror to make sure she's the fairest one of them all.
When Snow White turns seven the mirror changes its tune, telling the Queen that Snow White is a thousand times more fair than her. In jealousy (way to go mirror) the Queen instructs her Hunstman to take Snow White into the woods and kill her, requesting he bring back her liver and lungs to prove he did his job.
Instead of killing her, he releases her into the woods where she is taken in by seven dwarfs. You know, after she breaks into their home and prays upon their sympathy with her sob story. The Queen learning Snow isn't dead goes to finish the job herself, eventually incapacitating her with a poison apple. The piece of fruit lodged in her throat convinces the dwarfs that she's dead and they put her in a glass coffin. Because that would be your first response, right?
As if this isn't bad enough, they then give the coffin to a Prince who falls in love with her beauty. As they're traveling, the men carrying the coffin trip and the apple dislodges from Snow White's throat and she lives once more. Even though the Prince is totally into necrophilia, Snow White marries him. Hearing from her mirror that a Young Queen is more beautiful than her the Wicked Queen goes to check out this women, not knowing it's Snow White. Once at their wedding, Snow White's stepmother is forced to dance in heated iron shoes until she dies. Yay medieval torture, so much for a fair and just trial.
In Turgeon's version, seven years later when Rapunzel arrives in the kingdom after the death of Josef's first wife, she is anything but evil. In fact, Rapunzel truly wants to do what's best for Snow White and tries to help fill the hole left by her deceased mother, even taking her to visit and help heal the woes of the peasants. Albeit through witchcraft. Or in this case herbology. You can't help but feel bad for Rapunzel who is not necessarily a bad person (she's more in a grey area) but due to circumstances and her own upbringing isn't truly and wholly as good as you expect your storyteller to be.
Rapunzel also befriends a Falconer named Gilles who takes the role of the Huntsman. Unable to produce an heir and the hated Queen of the kingdom, Rapunzel becomes jealous and full of hate for everything Snow White represents. Her own failure to produce a viable child, her own beauty that once enraptured her husband and the approval of the people. Again, all a magical mirror's fault for telling her Snow White is way prettier.
At her breaking point, Rapunzel demands Gilles kill Snow White and give her her heart, so she can eat and imbibe her power and beauty. Not that she doesn't feel guilty, she does, and worries about possible punishments which include, yes, iron shoes.
It's after this point that things take a dark and twisted turn in the story. See also: Snow White's story in 1001 Nights of Snowfall. You may see some of it coming, but I guarantee you will not see all of it coming. Carolyn Turgeon took a well known story, added layer upon layer of depth and then turned the whole thing on its head. Mind. Blown.
Now if you need me, I'll be reading Carolyn Turgeon's two other fractured fairy tales, Mermaid: A Twist on the Classic Tale and Godmother: The Secret Cinderella Story.


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Peyton Stearns (nació el 8 de octubre de 2001) es una tenista profesional de los Estados Unidos.

Stearns tiene un ranking de individuales WTA más alto de su carrera, No. 137, logrado el 6 de febrero de 2023. También tiene un ranking WTA más alto de su carrera, No. 265 en dobles, logrado el 30 de enero de 2023.

Referencias

Enlaces externos
 Peyton Stearns en la Asociación de Tenis Femenino
 Peyton Stearns en la Federación Internacional de Tenis

Tenistas femeninas de Estados Unidos

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Natural HIV control may rely on sequence of T cell receptor protein
Protein on the surface of killer T cells appears to confer ability to suppress viral replication
The rare ability of some individuals to control HIV infection with their immune system alone appears to depend – at least partially – on specific qualities of the immune system's killer T cells and not on how many of those cells are produced.
In a Nature Immunology paper that has received advance online publication, researchers at the Ragon Institute of Massachusetts General Hospital, MIT and Harvard report that – even among individuals sharing a protective version of an important immune system molecule – the ability of HIV-specific killer T cells to control viral replication appears to depend on the particular sequence of the protein that recognizes HIV infected cells.
"We've known for the past 25 years that HIV-infected people have the immune killer cells that recognize and should be able to destroy virus-infected cells, but in most individuals those cells cannot control infection," says Bruce Walker, MD, director of the Ragon Institute and senior author of the Nature Immunology paper. "What this study shows is that the presence of these cells, also called CD8 T cells, is not enough. It turns out that people who can control HIV on their own make killer cells with T cell receptors – proteins that recognize viral fragments displayed on infected cells – that are particularly effective at killing HIV-infected cells."
»Aids »Gates Foundation »HIV »HIV infection »HIV-specific »Immunology »Medical Wellness »Nature Immunology »T cell receptors »T cells »Universität Harvard »amino acid »cell function »immune cell »immune system »infected cells »killer T cells »viral replication
It has been known for almost two decades that a small minority – about one in 300 – of individuals infected with HIV are naturally able to suppress viral replication with their immune system, keeping viral loads at extremely low levels. In 2006, Ragon Institute investigator Florencia Pereyra, MD, established the International HIV Controllers Study (http://www.hivcontrollers.org/) to investigate genetic and other differences that may underlie this rare ability. Currently more than 1,500 controllers have enrolled in the study.
Several studies have found that particular versions of a molecule called HLA-B, which helps to flag infected cells for destruction by CD8 T cells, are associated with the ability to naturally control HIV infection. But even among individuals who inherit those versions or alleles of HLA-B, only a few are HIV controllers. A 2010 Ragon Institute study published in Science identified five amino acids within HLA-B that appear to affect the ability to control infection, but that study only explained about 20 percent of the difference in viral load between controllers and individuals in whom the infection progressed.
The current study was designed to search for other factors besides HLA-B that contribute to and possibly determine the ability to control HIV infection. Since many things can affect CD8 T cell response, the investigators enrolled only participants known to express the protective HLA-B27 allele. By selecting persons with HLA B-27 who had extremely high viral loads and comparing them to those with B-27 who were able to control virus, the investigators were able to address whether differences in CD8 T cell function were involved. Although this restricted the study population to five HIV controllers and five progressors, the small sample size allowed comprehensive characterization of a broad range of immune cell functions in study participants.
The experiments first confirmed there was no significant difference in the number of HIV-specific CD8 T cells between controllers and progressors but also found significant variability in the protein sequence of all participants' T cell receptors. Tests of particular functional aspects of the CD8 T cell response found that a subset of cells from controllers were quite efficient at killing infected cells and able to respond to HIV mutations that can allow the virus to escape immune control. No such effective cells were found in samples from progressors. Detailed sequencing of HIV-specific CD8 cells from three controllers and two progressors found that the specific protein sequence of T cell receptors – which affects their structure and ability to recognize infected cells – appears to make the difference.
"A big remaining question is why these particularly effective killer cells are generated in some people but not in others. At this point we don't know why, but now we know what we are looking for," says Walker, a professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School. "We also need to investigate whether a vaccine can induce production of these effective killer cells. HIV is slowly revealing its secrets, and each revelation helps us focus the search for the next secret, bringing us closer and closer to our goal of conquering HIV." Walker is also a Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) investigator
Co-lead authors of the Nature Immunology paper are Huabiao Chen, PhD, and Zaza Ndhlovu, PhD, Ragon Institute and HHMI. Additional co-authors include Todd Allen, PhD, Florencia Pereyra, MD, and Xu Yu, MD, Ragon Institute; Mark Brockman, PhD, Ragon Institute and Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, Canada; and Daniel Douek, MD, PhD, National Institute for Allergy and Infectious Diseases. Support for the study includes grants from the Harvard Center for AIDS Research, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation, the National Institutes of Health and the Mark and Lisa Schwartz Foundation.
The Ragon Institute of MGH, MIT and Harvard was established in 2009 with a gift from the Philip T. and Susan M. Ragon Foundation, creating a collaborative scientific mission among these institutions to harness the immune system to combat and cure human diseases. The primary initial focus of the institute is to contribute to the development of an effective AIDS vaccine. The Ragon Institute draws scientists and engineers from diverse backgrounds and areas of expertise across the Harvard and MIT communities and throughout the world, in order to apply the full arsenal of scientific knowledge to understanding mechanisms of immune control and immune failure and to apply these advances to directly benefit patients.
Sarah Dionne | EurekAlert!
http://www.ragoninstitute.org
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More than half the world's cars were nearly identical Model T's during the mid 1920s.
The car was introduced with a price tag of $850. The Model T later sold for as little as $260, because Ford passed along the savings from his production innovations.
The car that established a mass market for automobiles, the Model T, was introduced on Oct. 1, 1908. The first Model T had a 20-horsepower, four-cylinder engine, reached a top speed of about 45 miles per hour, got about 13 to 21 miles per gallon of gasoline and weighed 1, 200 pounds. It was the ninth of Henry Ford's production cars.
More than 15, 000, 000 Model T's were built and sold. The Model T was the first low-priced, mass- produced car with standard interchangeable parts. The Model T popularized the left-side steering column. The engine design, a single block with a removable cylinder head, became the industry standard.
Henry Ford called the Model T "the universal car, " a low-cost, reliable vehicle that could be maintained easily. It successfully traveled the poor roads of the era, thanks to its three-point suspension. The Model T came in nine body styles, all on the same chassis. "Lizzie" was one of the most popular of the dozens of nicknames for the Model T.
In 1914, Ford with 13, 000 employees produced about 300, 000 cars, while 299 other companies with 66, 350 employees produced about 280, 000 vehicles. A modest ceremony on May 26, 1927, marked the formal end of Model T production.
For its 100th anniversary, Ford Motor Company built six Model T's, called T 100, based on the original 1914 model. There are no original Model T parts on these cars, but each is interchangeable with the original, including the hand crank located under the radiator. Top end speed of the T 100 is about 55 mph, and they get about 18 miles to the gallon in their nine-gallon tank, about the same as an original 1914 Model T.


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The Girl Guides Association of Kiribati
Bairiki
Email: ratite_t@yahoo.com.au
Tel: +68621287 | Fax: +686214161
I promise that I will do my best; To do my duty to God, To serve my country and help other people, and To keep the Guide Law.
Guide Promise
Kiribati Guide Law
A Guide is loyal and can be trusted.
A Guide is helpful.
A Guide is polite and considerate.
A Guide is friendly and a sister to all Guides.
A Guide is kind to animals and respects all living things.
A Guide is obedient.
A Guide has courage and is cheerful in all difficulties.
A Guide makes good use of her time.
A Guide takes care of her own possessions and those of other people.
A Guide is self-controlled in all she thinks, says and does.
In 1926 a member of the London Missionary Society introduced Guiding to Kiribati, then known as the Gilbert Islands. The first Guide and Ranger companies were opened at the Training College for London Missionary Pastors in Rongorongo on the island of Beru. A few years later the Catholic Church also started units around the country.
Guiding activities were interrupted during the Second World War when the islands were occupied by foreign troops and the missionaries who had supported the Movement left the area.
In 1957 Guiding was restarted in the three main centres of Tarawa: Bairiki, Betio and Bikenibeu, supported by both local and expatriate women. The Association grew and reached schools in the outer islands. Cadet troops were also started at the training college and in secondary schools.
The Department of Education gave the Association its full support in developing Guiding, and seconded two teachers to the Association to travel to the outer islands to train leaders and assist in the recruitment of girls. The Association was also allowed to use the postal service free of charge.
In 1979 the Gilbert Islands became an independent republic under the name of Kiribati. In 1989 the Guide Association (UK) signed a Deed of Transfer giving the Girl Guides Association of Kiribati self-government in all areas of work.
In 1989 the Association devised a five-year plan to extend the Movement to the outer islands, a development hampered by lack of funds.


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The industry professionals questioned felt that lack of training within financial services organisations was the biggest factor preventing some employees from developing their digital and FinTech skills, with 69% making this claim. Meanwhile, 22% say financial services professionals are putting off developing their digital skills out of fear that it's too late to catch up with existing FinTech experts.
This is despite the vast majority of financial services professionals believing that promotions should favour the most tech-savvy employees, meaning traditional financial services experts could be at risk of falling behind their digital-friendly colleagues. Of the 1,400 people questioned, 84% claimed that colleagues with advanced digital and FinTech skills, but half the years of experience, are more deserving of promotion than a colleague who has been in the industry for at least ten years.
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In this tour, you can feel the everyday life of the Tehtaanmäki housing area designed by Alvar Aalto.
The tour starts off from the grounds of the Anjala Manor House, from the Makasiinikahvila café, and runs via the manor house milieu across the Ankkapurha rapids over to the Tehtaanmäki area presenting design by Alvar Aalto.
The Anjala Manor was built on the estate of the Wrede family. Finland was then a part of Sweden, and the family received the estate as a donation from King Charles IX of Sweden. Henrik Wrede from Livonia saved the life of the king, dying himself in the battle of Kircholm in 1605.
The history of the manor goes back to the 17th and 18th centuries. The present main building representing neoclassicism dates from the turn of the 18th and 19th centuries.
From the Anjala Manor House, we will move on in time and across the river to the Tehtaanmäki area with buildings designed by Alvar Aalto. The manor is associated with the history of Finland, with the era of manor houses and the first notions of Finnish independence. The Tehtaanmäki area emerged as a result of the period of rapid growth in the Finnish wood-processing industry in the 1870s. The area has expanded and transformed subsequently. In the 1930s the paper industry gained a more prominent position, and the everyday life and housing conditions of the workers gained new kind of attention.
Alvar Aalto was hired in the 1930s to design the Anjala Paper Mill and homes for the mill workers. A new type of working-class world was created: verdant and communal area built near the river, providing a setting for housing, school, interests and work. The houses designed by Aalto and the entire area are still used for their original purpose. These stages of life are the venue for living, playing tennis and working.
The tour participants can get to know buildings designed by Alvar Aalto, and the tour also includes an indoor attraction.
The tour will finish by lunch in the manor house milieu at restaurant Ankkapurhan Helmi.
Sense the industrial history and the everyday life of the bygone ages. The tour takes you from the grounds of the historical manor to the modern Tehtaanmäki housing area.
The tour starts at the Ankkapurha Culture Park, in front of the cafe Makasiinikahvila on the manor grounds. The cafe operates in a former granary building. A bridge by the dam leads to the other side of Kymijoki river, to Tehtaanmäki housing area.
During the guided tour there is a short staircase to the bridge by the dam. Those with limited mobility can still participate in the tour by joining it on the other bank of the river in Inkeroinen. The length of the transfer from Anjala to Inkeroinen by car is about 4 kilometres, more information from the guide.
Ankkapurha Culture Park is located in the middle of the Kymenlaakso region, in the city of Kouvola, stretching over Anjala and Inkeroinen. The River Kymijoki runs through the park, and a bridge over the harnessed rapids connects the two neighbourhoods into the culture park. The dam can be crossed on foot or by bike, cars can be parked nearby on both banks. The Tehtaanmäki residential area and school designed by Aalto are located in Inkeroinen. The historical Anjala Manor House and its garden, Youth Centre Anjala with the accommodation and restaurant Helmi, and the summer cafe Makasiinikahvila are located in Anjala. All the sights of the Ankkapurha Culture Park are within walking distance.
The programme can be adjusted: instead of lunch you can have coffee in the cafe Makasiinikahvila during summer, from mid-May to the end of August, or in Helmi during other seasons.
Special diets to be informed in advance.
There are stairs along the tour.
The walking distance is approximately 2.5 km in total.
Ankkapurha Culture Park address: Ankkapurhantie 15, FI-46910 Anjala.
Distance from Helsinki 133 km, from Kotka 33 km, from Kouvola railway station 23 km.
The train stop closest to the destination is Inkeroinen, which is 3.3 km away from Anjala and 2.2 km from the eastern entrance of the Culture Park. By taxi it takes only 10 minutes to get from the Inkeroinen train stop to the park.
The programme can be combined with the other Aalto tours in Kymenlaakso.
Instead of lunch you can have coffee in the cafe Makasiinikahvila during summer, from mid-May to the end of August, or in Helmi during other seasons.
27 € per person, in a group of 15-24 persons. VAT is included in the price.
Available all-year-round, excluding Midsummer Day and 24-26 December.


Dr David Fleming led his eighteenth-century politics class' annual visit to the House of Lords in College Green, Dublin, on 22 March. The fieldtrip has become a regular feature of his HI4107 module. The House of Lords' chamber remains one of the most unique spaces in the country, practically unchanged since it was built in the 1720s, and provides an evocative setting for a class devoted to the study of Irish eighteenth-century politics.


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Sarah Palin will pry your Klondike bar from your cold dead fingers.
Monday - May 28, 2012
Well, peiper, I promised not to post anything like my Valentine's Day post. This one is serious.
I remember well all the controversy when the Vietnam Memorial was designed and built. It was called an insult to our vets. A black gash in the ground, I remember reading.
Actually, it's turned out to be brilliant. The Vietnam Memorial has become the American version of the Wailing Wall in Jerusalem. So this Memorial Day, I'd like to present Reviewing the Troops by Jack E. Dawson.
And now, allow me to quote from Jack E. Dawson's explanation:
At first glance, you see George Washington saluting the troops of past and present wars. Every man and woman who has served our country to preserve freedom is to be honored. A few are pictured to represent them all. From left to right the soldiers represent a Vietnam Veteran, a Korean War Nurse, a soldier in Iraq/Afghanistan, a Persian Gulf Veteran, a living Vietnam Veteran, a Continental soldier, a Union Civil War soldier, a World War I Veteran, a Confederate Civil War soldier, a Vietnamese woman and baby, a World War II Veteran. As a court would review the evidence and reach a verdict, these troops are being honored for their service to our country. (Notice the word HONOR in the sidewalk.) On further inspection we find the real key to this painting. It is the Lord (in the upper right corner) who is truly "reviewing the troops". We are to be counted as good soldiers of Jesus Christ. He is reviewing our lives. The ultimate question is do I recognize and trust him? The little girl is leaving a note at the Vietnam Veteran's Memorial Wall. What do you think she is writing?
I've no idea what the little girl is writing. I hope she hasn't recently lost a father, mother, or older brother or sister. I hope she's leaving a note for the great-grandfather who died in Korea, or an uncle who fell in 'Nam. Or maybe she's not had to face such losses. Maybe she's just doing what I hope we all do today–remember and give thanks for those who've died for us.
Posted by Christopher on 05/28/2012 at 04:30 AM
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Sunday - May 27, 2012
Nap, or not to nap?
I recently met up with a young lady who turns out to be a sister, via adoption. Yes, it was on Facebook. Anyway, her question was 'To nap, or not to nap?'
Well, any vets here on BMEWS will tell you: nap. Here's my reply;
As a Navy vet: Nap. You never know how long you'll have to work/stay awake. I remember one time a piece of gear was 'out of spec'. Guess who got the job? Me. That particular piece of gear had to be working for the ship to get underway. I kept telling the Chief Engineer: "This needs to be replaced." He told me: "We can't replace anything until we get back to San Diego. Make it work." Those were my orders. After 48 hours straight of 'tweaking', 'retesting', 're-tweaking', 're-testing', I finally had a documented result that was (barely) in 'spec'. I sent that off to the Chief Engineer, he forwarded it to the Captain. Captain's orders came back: 'Commence reactor start-up. We will be underway in two hours.' Could I then take a break and get some sleep? NO! It was my turn on watch. I was the start-up Reactor Operator in #2 engine room. So, Rebekah, nap every chance you get. You never know when an emergency might keep you awake. Any vets will know what I mean.
Posted by Christopher on 05/27/2012 at 07:19 PM
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WOW, A HOME TO DIE FOR? A MUST SEE!
That works out to 18 million some 700 thousand DOLLARS. I would LOVE to have this place. I read here that these pix are older and it's been updated. What the heck was wrong with what these photos show? Perfection. Awesome.
OK, everyone empty your bank accounts and forward to me so I can buy it and no you can't visit. I like privacy. LOL
Seriously. If I were a zillionaire or even a billionaire, I wouldn't think 2wice. Take a look at the all the photos at the link.
It's in our county, and we have a Beaulieu house not far away with a large auto museum. I wonder how far this place is.
If you showed any interest in buying this place, most likely and with good reason, it would not be shown until your financial health and credit was established. I see ads all the time for houses in the range of 500 to 800 hundred thousand and the wording that says shown on approved credit.
Extraordinary Hampshire roundhouse with its own lake and a ramp to its first floor garage can be yours… for just £12m
1960s property designed by architect Seymour Harris was given the nickname Hollywood on the Beaulieu
By KERRY MCQUEENEY
It was designed so that its owner could drive his Aston Martin up a ramp and straight into his own first-floor parking bay and turning circle.
Now this bizarre roundhouse - which comes complete with its own lake, 10-acre garden and private 18-metre pontoon on the Bealieu river in Hampshire - can be yours… for just £12million.
Bearing more than a passing resemblance to the lair of a James Bond villain, the property was the home of architect Seymour Harris who, after designing it, lived there for six years.
When the roundhouse was unveiled in 1962, its appearance stunned surrounding neighbours who were used to a more conventional architecture. It was given the nickname of Hollywood on the Beaulieu.
Harris's widow Joan told the Guardian in 2009: 'I am afraid most of the neighbours thought it dreadful, since they were accustomed to a more prosaic style.
HOUSE SOURCE AND INSIDE VIEWS
Posted by peiper on 05/27/2012 at 09:47 AM
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I love living in the US – I just don't love its legal system…
Was not my plan to be here today. Hands more then full but darn it, couldn't let this bit of dumb go by without sharing it.
What a schmuck.
Just what I like to read, not. Some foreigner living in the USA, breaks the law and bitches about how unfair it is over there and how lucky people are here in the UK and friendly Bobbies. Wonder what she'd make of the KGB officials at LAX.
The dumb ass ignores a court summons and is outraged by the injustice of it all. Not, mind you, that there is always justice even in the states. Screw ups happen too often to be comfortable with. She says she didn't so much ignore as, she forgot about it. Which to my way of thinking says she just didn't take the law as applied in the USA, too seriously. She will now.
She happens to be the niece (for whatever advantage that is) of the wife of Prince Charles. So maybe she mistakenly believed that UK justice supersedes that of the country she is now living in. Which might make her doubly dumb. And take note please of the story headline. I don't know if she wrote it or it was done by someone at the paper. But it's wrong! Her ordeal was one of her own stupid making and was about ignoring a court order.
I went from the Royal Wedding to a prison cell in Los Angeles: Camilla's neice tells of terrifying ordeal at the hands of US justice - over minor driving offence
Emma Parker Bowles was 'outraged' she had to spend a night in a U.S. jail
Police locked her up for a minor driving violation she had failed to attend court for
By EMMA PARKER BOWLES
I am lying on a hard bunk in a prison cell. There is a sinister wailing sound coming from the cell to my left.
Despite wrapping myself in the measly blanket like the Turin Shroud, I am freezing. Apparently, they keep it icy cold in jail so that germs don't spread and I am wearing only a T-shirt, jeans and my Converse trainers – minus the laces, which they confiscated when they 'processed me'.
What is a nice girl like me doing in a place like this? I went to the Royal Wedding for goodness' sake.
'Facebook is like jail. You sit around a lot and waste time, write on walls and get poked by people you don't know,' someone has scrawled on the wall. I hoped that was written by a man.
At the moment, I am in my 'house' alone but I could get a 'cellie' or cellmate in the morning. Oh yes, I am now down with the jailhouse slang.
So how did I get here? Let's rewind a few hours. I am happily chuffing along Santa Monica Boulevard, singing along to my iPod, when I hear the dreaded sound of a police siren.
I had been travelling at 20mph, so I was not worried. The policeman (cute) appears at my window. Licence and registration: the usual drill. He saunters off back to his car to run my driver's licence through his computer. I am in a rush, so I am feeling irritated. Eventually, he strolls back to my window.
Officer Handsome invites me to sit in the back of his police cruiser. Clearly, he has me confused with someone else. He then wanders off, muttering into his shoulder walkie-talkie thing.
One of his cop buddies arrives and they chat for a while, staring at me. He saunters back. 'Step out the car, Madam.' Finally, I am on my way.
Umm, perhaps not. 'Turn round and face the car. You have the right to remain silent. Anything you say can and will be used against you in a court of law . . . ' he says as he snaps handcuffs around my wrists.
I'm outraged. What am I being taken into custody for? Apparently, there is a $40,000 (about £26,000) warrant out for my arrest. I was pulled over because my registration had expired and the warrant was issued because I forgot to go to court for a traffic violation.
It seems excessive for a traffic violation. During the ride to the police station, I go from furious ('I want your badge number. I am going to sue everyone') to panicked ('Am I going to have a criminal record?') to crying because I am frightened they are going to make me bend over and cough.
The cop says I will be in front of the judge tomorrow and then I'll be able to go home.
We drive into the back area of the jail, where I am marched in and 'processed'. This includes an extremely intimate pat-down by a cross female officer.
I don't know how Lindsay Lohan and Paris Hilton look pretty in their mugshots; I look like serial killer Aileen Wuornos. Whereas they can afford to bail themselves out immediately, I don't have a spare $5,000 (about £3,200).
It is then I am told that there is no court the next day because of budget cuts. So I will be held until Friday morning, 48 hours away.
I have one phone call but it can only be to a landline number. How many landline numbers do you know? I can call my mum, but waking her in the middle of the night from the Los Angeles Sheriff's Department would not look good.
I spend one long, lonely, soul-cold night curled up on a thin mattress with no pillow. I cry myself to sleep and at some point am woken by a scary-looking man in an orange jumpsuit (on 'work release' from jail) who brings me a plastic bag with some bread, peanut butter and an apple.
Hours later, a very nice female officer tells me there is court after all, handcuffs me again and escorts me to the big yellow jailhouse bus, which is stuffed with people from county jail (real criminals).
It is just like you see in films. There is even rap music playing, and there is a cage situation at the back with all of the male prisoners, who shout lewd remarks.
The next eight hours are spent in a shared cell underneath the courthouse. Even worse than people using the loo – plonked in the corner in a tiny, windowless cell – (I daren't gag in case I get beaten up) is feeling so cold.
Remembering that you lose a high percentage of body heat from your head, I am so desperate I wrap mine up in loo roll, like a mummy, with a small slit for my eyes. Another prisoner I've become friendly with does the same, except for some reason she only leaves a slit for her mouth. We both laugh our heads off for the next five minutes, rolling around on the concrete bench. A moment of light relief.
Finally, eight hours later, I get to speak to the public defender. When she looks at my charge sheet, she seems surprised that I have been locked up. And, after another hour handcuffed in the corner of the courtroom, so does the judge. He dismisses the charges and I don't even have to pay court costs because of 'time served'.
I am escorted back into a cell in the basement and endure another long wait until I am 'processed out' and given a plastic bag with my personal items. My new friend is going back to the county jail because she really is a criminal.
'I am going to laugh if I see you back here again,' is a female officer's parting shot before I am released from the bowels of the courthouse into the evening sunshine. Charming.
Next time you are pulled over for a minor traffic violation, thank your lucky stars you live in Britain.
Don't get me wrong, I love living in the US – I just don't love its legal system.
Even though I can now look back on the experience and laugh, I have definitely been traumatised by it. Nowadays, if I even see a police car, I feel as if I am going to have a panic attack. It makes me long for British bobbies.
"It makes me long for British bobbies."
Well sweet cakes, there's a remedy for that. Move back here.
See how easy that is?
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Saturday - May 26, 2012
saturday eye candy
Not certain about tomorrow posting yet. Much to do here and not enough time.
So ... I'll say good evening all and hope your long weekend will be a safe one.
Will leave with an eye candy favorite and of course for you art lovers, something below the fold.
See More Below The Fold
GET ME OUT OF HERE ...
Posted by peiper on 05/26/2012 at 02:16 PM
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Barack Obama is facing his Jimmy Carter moment
This will be of interest to some of us, and I am posting with no comments on the subject.
That's because I can not think of anything to say or add to this.
As Mitt Romney closes the gap, it is 1980 all over again for the man in the Oval Office.
By Tim Stanley
Saturday Telegraph
Until recently, Barack Obama's re-election was regarded as inevitable – in the same way that summer follows spring, or a monsoon follows a hosepipe ban. The president's poll lead over Mitt Romney was strong, while the Republican's character was assassinated by a primary fight that permanently spoiled the reputation of his party. To court the GOP's conservative base, Romney was forced to adopt positions on abortion, contraception, health care and welfare that are thought to be unpopular among moderate swing voters. Obama, by contrast, is the man who killed bin Laden and toppled Gaddafi. A choice between Obama the moderate statesman and Romney the craven conservative is surely no contest at all.
But in the last two weeks, things have changed. Obama's re-election is no longer guaranteed; some pollsters think it is unlikely. Day by day, the odds are improving that Mitt Romney will be the next President of the United States.
What changed? For a start, voters are getting gloomier about the economy. Joblessness remains high and debt is out of control. According to one poll released this week, only 33 per cent of Americans expect the economy to improve in the coming months and only 43 per cent approve of the way that the president has handled it. Voters think Obama has made the debt situation and health care worse. The man who conducted the poll – Democrat Peter Hart – concluded that "Obama's chances for re-election… are no better than 50-50."
The president has tried to distract from America's economic misery by playing up the so-called culture war. Earlier in the year he decided that he would force Catholic employers to provide contraception to their employees through their insurance plans, and he followed that swipe at social traditionalism by endorsing gay marriage.
This embrace of Sixties liberalism has backfired.
While contraception and gay marriage often receive popular support in national polls, Americans are far more conservative in the voting booth. Thirty-two states have voted on gay marriage and all 32 have voted to outlaw it – even liberal California. Nor has the culture war rallied his party's base. In presidential primaries held on Tuesday, 39 per cent of Arkansas Democrats and 42 per cent of Kentuckian Democrats rejected Obama's re-nomination. In West Virginia, 41 per cent of the state's Democrats voted for an imprisoned criminal rather than the president.
The result is that pollsters find Obama and Romney edging towards one another. Rasmussen puts Obama only one point ahead; Gallup calls it a tie. With Romney doing better than the president in key swing states North Carolina and Florida, Gallup has publicly stated that Obama now has a higher chance of losing rather than winning.
But it isn't just Obama's flaws that are making this race interesting. Mitt Romney might not be the most charismatic candidate, but that's a hidden strength in an election that's all about competence and getting back to the basics of what once made America work so well. This week, the pro-Obama journalist Andrew Sullivan wrote that with his wealth, good looks and apple-pie conservatism, Romney is like "a focus-group tested model president from 1965". Sullivan obviously doesn't realise how popular the TV show Mad Men is. Who wouldn't warm to a candidate that represents an age marked by low unemployment, stable families and a laissez-faire attitude towards drinking at work?
In fact, the grey Mr Romney is repeating the same formula that won him the governorship of Massachusetts, an ordinarily Democrat state, in 2002. He pulled that off by motivating large numbers of Republicans to vote for him, breaking into the working-class vote and keeping turnout among Democrats fairly low. The unique genius of Romney was his ability to say very conservative things but in a manner that convinced many centrists that he didn't really mean them. That's happening again in 2012, as polls indicate that far more Americans think Obama is too Left-wing than believe Romney is too Right-wing.
Of course, Romney has his weaknesses. But they are fewer than Obama's, whose charisma disguises a multitude of problems so great that it's hard to imagine him overcoming them. Gallup makes the following observation: "Comparing today's economic and political ratings with those from previous years when presidents sought re-election reveals that today's climate is more similar to years when incumbents lost than when they won." I would go one step further: Obama's situation is actually worse than that of some of the incumbents who have lost in the past.
In 1980, Democratic president Jimmy Carter faced an uphill struggle for re-election. Yet, despite an index of inflation and unemployment far higher than Obama's, he was actually doing slightly better in the polls. In March of that year, Carter led his Republican opponent, Ronald Reagan, by around 25 per cent. By May, Gallup gave him a lead of 49 to 41 per cent – higher than Obama's today. Carter's advantage evaporated in the months that followed, but he regained ground in October and by the last week he was running even.
None the less, Carter eventually suffered a landslide defeat. The scale of his humiliation was hidden by the fact that people were unwilling to commit themselves to the conservative Ronald Reagan until the very last minute. It was only when they went into the polling booth and weighed up all the hurt and humiliation of the past four years that they cast their vote against the president. It looks like Barack Obama will be the Jimmy Carter of 2012.
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crime and no punishment that means anything
Well, looks like there really is only one side to this coin and it's called soft justice.
Awhile ago I ranted on about the lack of justice and black girl gangs getting away scott free. Yadda,yadda,
Then I ran across two stories one of which is sickening. Both are pretty damn bad but I just can't get my head around an adult who batters a baby, breaks bones, doesn't do squat for two days before taking babe to hosp., and a judge that says since it was a first offense ..... lets be kind to the perps.
Who btw happen to be white folks. Scummy, bottom of the barrel trailer trash honky types. I really wish there was an 'N' word for white ppl.
What kind of mother breaks a child's arm and legs? What kind of judge lets them off just cos it's the first time? What kind of looney tune system allows that?
Not posting the whole story in either of these. See the links for that.
Mother and partner who broke toddler's leg, arms and foot are spared jail because horrific beating was their first offence
·	Child had a broken leg for at least two days before it was taken to hospital
·	Emma Cartwright, 27, also slapped a baby while her partner Neil Gleaves, also 27, violently shook it
·	Couple convicted of child cruelty but spared jail by Recorder Simon Ward
By SUZANNAH HILLS
A couple who beat a toddler so severely it was left with two broken arms, a broken right leg and a broken left foot have been spared jail because it was their first offence.
Emma Cartwright and partner Neil Gleaves, both 27, then left the child's broken leg untreated for 'at least two days' before taking the toddler to hospital.
Cartwright was also convicted of slapping a baby in the face before Gleaves violently shook it.
The couple were convicted of child cruelty and neglect at Stoke Crown Court on Thursday but walked free after a judge heard it was their first offence and Gleaves was 'hardworking'.
Instead, the couple from Wolstanton, Staffordshire, were given a 36 week prison sentence suspended for two years with a supervision order.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2149935/Mother-partner-broke-toddlers-leg-arms-foot-spared-jail-horrific-beating-offence.html
Main article: Recorder (judge)
A Recorder is a part-time circuit judge, usually a practising barrister or solicitor. Recorders are addressed in court in the same way as circuit judges (as 'Your Honour'). There is no formal abbreviation for the position and recorders are referred to as 'Mr/Mrs Recorder Smith' (as opposed to circuit judges, who can be referred to as 'HHJ Smith' in judgments, law reports or other legal documents).
Formerly, Recorders could only be drawn from barristers of at least 10 years' standing.[9] However, in 2004, calls for increased diversity among the judiciary were recognised and the qualification period was changed[5][6] so that, as of 21 July 2008, a potential Circuit Judge must satisfy the judicial-appointment eligibility condition on a 7-year basis.[7]
The senior circuit judge in a metropolitan area will often be given the honorary title of the Recorder of the city – e.g. the Recorder of Manchester. Despite still being circuit judges, these recorders are addressed in court as 'Your Lordship/Ladyship' as if they were High Court judges.
From ... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judiciary_of_England_and_Wales
I would hardly describe this bit of female yob as pretty but I guess that a matter of taste. Judging by these pix I'd say more evil looking then pretty looking. But that just me. What she did could have cause a death. Her victim will not be the very same woman she was before Blondezilla's attack.
Accounts manager who left woman fighting for her life after nightclub glass attack walks free as judge describes her as a 'decent young woman'
By CHRIS HANLON
An accounts manager who left a student fighting for her life after smashing a wine glass into her neck walked free after a judge described her as a 'decent young woman'.
Pretty blonde Claire Stephens, 23, attacked Rachel Spikula after the pair knocked into each other on the dance floor at Club 49 in London's West End.
The American national was rushed to hospital in a passing ambulance after suffering a severed artery in the assault in the early hours of June 11, 2011.
Prosecutor Gavin Ludlow-Thompson said the victim would have been in serious danger had she not been treated so quickly.
'Suggestions have been made that if the ambulance had not been there and the immediate treatment not been available this victim might very well have lost her life,' he said.
But Judge Nicholas Loraine-Smith spared Stephens from a jail term after hearing she was a 'decent, hardworking, young woman.'
Handing her a ten-month prison sentence, suspended for two years, he said: 'Nothing suggests that you have ever been violent before - indeed it would appear to be the very opposite, this was completely out of character.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2149452/Claire-Stephens-walks-free-nightclub-glass-attack-left-woman-fighting-life.html
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Already full of everything he knows!
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same movie, same plot, same species with different cast.
Well here we are again. Same story but another cast and coincidentally members of the same sub species. Verminous scum.
You can bet your boots that had the attack been against the overprotected minority insects, the ladies who in this case are the victims, would have landed in jail.
But just as bad, what we have here is yet another idiot judge. Some of you may recall another case some months ago when a girl gang (same low life species) were allowed to go free because the poor dears were drunk when they beat up someone.
Well here we are again. I believe it's a different judge but the result is the same. So I take it that provided you're a member of a favored racial group, getting drunk and beating the crap out of someone is ok cos being blotto is a mitigating factor. Unless of course you're white in which case it's the crime of the century and racially motivated. Not that there aren't too many drunken white yobs about these days. Sadly, there are.
Woman attacked by girls who 'rained fists' and wiped pizza in her face slams court for letting thugs go free
Kalee Powell and Precious Gordon attacked their victims 'like a pack'
By ANTHONY BOND
A legal secretary savagely assaulted by a girl gang during the Royal Wedding celebrations today slammed a decision to let her attackers walk free from court.
Daniela Holischeck, 41, was left with a bloodied face after being battered by 'raining fists' following a street party to mark Prince William and Kate Middleton's marriage in April last year.
Kalee Powell, 18, and Precious Gordon, 19, along with a 17-year-old who cannot be named, attacked her and fellow legal secretary Birgit Habersetzer 'like a pack' after spending the day boozing.
Gordon admitted affray and assaulting Ms Holischeck and Ms Harbersetzer, while Powell was convicted of affray for her part in the attack on Ms Holischeck after a trial at the Old Bailey.
Both were given community orders and told to pay a total of £300 compensation to their victims.
After the sentencing, Ms Holischeck, who worked for a City law firm, said she had been denied justice and was still haunted by the attack near her home in Kensal Rise.
Ms Holischeck said: 'It'll probably be a bit of street cleaning for a year and won't hurt them. But I will remember this for the rest of my life.
'I've decided to move away from the area to the home counties. I'm trying to forget. I haven't been allowed to do that until now.'
Ms Holischeck, who worked for City law firm Paul, Hastings, Janofsky & Walker, was left a bloodied mess and had pizza smeared in her hair during the beating.
She spent the night in A&E after the attack and had to take a fortnight off from work.
Judge Stephen Kramer QC said Ms Holischeck and her flatmate had been caught up in 'an ugly incident in which mindless, drunken and unlawful violence was used'.
'It must have been a shock and thoroughly frightening for the two women who were victims,' he added.
This part just has to have a space all its own. The judge continued with:
'I am satisfied what you both did you did that night because you were fuelled by alcohol, having gone to a street party and drunk alcohol celebrating the Royal Wedding.
Oh heck. That's okay then. See, when it's explained properly, it all becomes clear as **** mud.
Now then, as for celebrating a royal wedding. Take a good look at these two beauties. Do they look like anyone who'd care about the monarchy or their weddings? They were simply doing something that's second nature to them. It's in the DNA ya know. And thanks to their birthrate, the times-a-comin when they'll be fully in charge along with muzzies-gypos-travellers and all the other, friends of the liberals.
MORE TO READ HERE. PLEASE DO.
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Friday - May 25, 2012
I'm not worthy
I feel the need to respond to some emails and Facebook posts I've been getting.
Monday is Memorial Day. I've been getting thanks for being a veteran. From friends and family.
But being a veteran is not what Memorial Day is about. Memorial Day is the day set aside to honor those who died in service. I also include those who survived, but lost arms, legs, etc. I bet all of us know someone that fits either description.
Yes, I'm a veteran. I served six years in the Navy. We practiced daily. The worst things I remember was getting relieved of the mid-watch, crashing in my bunk, and 45 minutes later the Captain runs a drill: "Battle-stations. All hands man their battle-stations." And that was about as close to combat as I ever got. Oh sure, my cruiser used to chase Soviet subs around… just for practice. This was especially fun if I were on Throttles: "Ahead Flank", "Ahead 2/3rds", "All Stop", "Got 'im! Ahead Full". Yes, a Throttleman's job could be fun.
So, this Memorial Day, please don't dilute the meaning by thanking vets like me. Remember those who gave limb, or life.
(If you do want to thank vets like me, who may be heroes if only because we were there and deterred our enemies: Veteran's Day is Sunday, November 11th this year.)
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On The Edge Of A Milestone African-American Achievement
Dragons In Space
the dragon capsule, photographed from the International Space Station
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — The privately bankrolled Dragon capsule approached the International Space Station for a historic docking Friday after sailing through a practice rendezvous the day before.
The unmanned SpaceX Dragon was on track most of the morning to deliver a half-ton of supplies and become the first commercial vessel to visit the space station. But as the capsule drew within 100 feet, flight controllers commanded it to retreat.
The capsule backed off to 230 feet as the SpaceX company worked to resolve a problem with the on-board tracking sensors. Stray reflections from the Japanese part of the space station were interfering with the Dragon's laser-based sensors, officials said. SpaceX mission controllers quickly fixed the trouble and resumed the docking operation.
On Thursday, the capsule came within 1½ miles of the space station in a practice fly-by. It returned to the neighborhood early Friday so Kuipers and U.S. astronaut Donald Pettit could capture it with a robot arm. First, the capsule went through a series of stop-and-go demonstrations to prove it was under good operating control.
NASA ordered extra checks of the Dragon's imagers as the capsule drew ever closer to the space station, putting the entire operation slightly behind schedule. Given that the Dragon is a brand new type of vehicle and this is a test flight, the space agency said it wanted to proceed cautiously.
This is the first time a private company has launched a vessel to the space station, an achievement previously reserved for a small, elite group of government agencies.
The California-based SpaceX — officially known as Space Exploration Technologies Corp. — is one of several companies vying for the chance to launch Americans from their homeland. That ability ended with NASA's final shuttle flight last summer. To get to the space station, NASA astronauts must go through Russia, an expensive and embarrassing situation for the U.S. after a half-century of orbital self-sufficiency.
SpaceX's billionaire maestro, Elon Musk, who helped create PayPal, said he can have astronauts riding his Dragon capsules to orbit in three or four years. His Falcon 9 rockets lift off from Cape Canaveral, Fla.
right back atcha! The International Space Station, photographed by the dragon capsule
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FRIDAY MORNING - Final Approach, Dragon Grapple
Around 2:00 AM Pacific/5:00 AM Eastern NASA will decide if Dragon is GO to move into the approach ellipsoid 1.4 kilometers around the space station. If Dragon is GO, after approximately one hour Dragon will move to a location 250 meters directly below the station. Dragon will then perform a series of maneuvers to show systems are operating as expected. If NASA is satisfied with the results of these many tests, Dragon will be allowed to perform the final approach to the space station.
Sometime around 6:00 AM Pacific/9:00 AM Eastern, astronauts on the space station will grapple Dragon with the space station's robotic arm and the spacecraft will attach to the station.
Bayou Rocketry Blog has been following the Falcon 9/Dragon story since the beginning, and has some of the story of uber-geek Elon Musk:
It was bad SA television that gave Elon Musk part of his mysterious edge. As a 10-year-old he read whole volumes of the Encyclopaedia Britannica after emptying the family bookshelves — anything to avoid another episode of ChiPs or Die Man van Intersek.
Avoiding sports and bullies just as keenly, he sat alone in his boy cave at home in Pretoria, reading Jules Verne and playing Space Invaders. Now, 29 years later, Musk is still playing video games alone into the late hours of the night.
These days it is in a basement man cave in a leased mansion in Bel Air, California, where Musk, who sold his online payment system PayPal for R11bn in 2002, is plotting the future of the human race.
Sixteen months ago, the SA expat accomplished something only ever achieved by the governments of the US, Russia and China. He sent a spacecraft into orbit and then recovered it.
This Monday, he plans to change space flight forever, becoming the first entrepreneur to dock his own orbiter, Dragon, with the International Space Station.
And it literally is his spacecraft. Beyond founding his private SpaceX company in 2002, Musk likes to remind people that he is also the self-taught "chief designer" of the Falcon launch rockets and their Dragon capsules.
CrunchBase provides more info about Musk:
Elon Musk (born June 28,1971) is an entrepreneur and a co-founder of PayPal, Tesla Motors and Space Exploration Technologies. He is chairman/CEO of Tesla Motors and SpaceX, and chairman of SolarCity.
Musk was born and grew up in South Africa, the son of a South African engineer and a Canadian-born mother who has worked as a New York City dietitian and modeled for fun. His father inspired his love of technology and Musk bought his first computer at age 10 and taught himself how to program; by the age of 12 he sold his first commercial software, a space game called Blaster.
He immigrated to Canada in June 1989 at age 17. He left Canada in 1992 after getting a scholarship to study business and physics at the University of Pennsylvania. He earned an undergraduate degree in economics and stayed on another year to finish a second bachelor's degree in physics. Musk then considered three areas he wanted to get into that were "important problems," as he said later. "One was the Internet, one was clean energy, and one was space.
In 1995, Musk moved to California to enroll in a graduate program in high energy physics at Stanford, in which he stayed exactly two days before dropping out to start Zip2, which provided online content publishing software for news organizations. In 1999, Compaq's AltaVista division acquired Zip2 for US$307 million in cash and US$34 million in stock options.
Genius, entrepreneur, billionaire, super geek, Silicon Valley legend, and maybe even the real Iron Man. Perhaps the greatest success story to come out of Africa in the 21st century, if not the 20th as well. A genuine African-American success story, one of almost literally stellar magnitude. You would think he'd be an inspiration to everyone, everywhere, and a real hero within the community.
Elon Musk and one of his privately owned rocket ships
Oh. OH. Um, never mind.
UPDATE: GOTCHA!
Earlier this morning, the SpaceX Dragon capsule was successfully captured by the International Space Station Expedition 31 crew, making SpaceX the first commercial company to send a spacecraft to the ISS. The station's robotic arm captured the Dragon at 9:56 a.m. ET after a journey that took three days, six hours, 11 minutes, and 23 seconds.
Dragon was later securely bolted to the Harmony module of the ISS at 12:02 p.m. ET.
Michael Suffredini, manager of the ISS program office, said he has talked many times about historic events and "this rates right at the top."
"Having a contractor, relatively independent of NASA, design on its own a spacecraft that [they] tested and flew ... has been remarkable," Suffredini said. "The spacecraft performed nearly flawlessly."
Holly Ridings, NASA's lead flight director for the SpaceX demo flight, added that it was a "really great day in space."
Posted by Drew458 on 05/25/2012 at 08:52 AM
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Thursday - May 24, 2012
An Almost Pefect Picture
Flames erupt into the sky from a skiff floating adrift in the Indian Ocean, a powerful demonstration of the Royal Navy's might as it fights the scourge of Somali piracy.
The boat was blown out of the water by a Merlin helicopter, flown from HMS Westminster, which strafed the vessel, setting fire to fuel tanks.
The pirate crew fled to another vessel before the attack, but were among 12 arrested without a fight by boarding teams from the frigate shortly after.
Like I said, almost pefect.
Don't Mess With Texas
May 23 (Reuters) - The Maersk Texas, a multi-purpose dry cargo ship, was attacked by pirates in the Gulf of Oman but guards repelled the attack, Maersk Line Ltd, a unit of Danish shipping and oil group A.P. Moller-Maersk , said on Wednesday.
The Maersk Texas, a U.S.-flagged 19,592 deadweight tonnes (dwt) vessel, 148 metres (486 feet) long, came under attacked by pirates in skiffs at noon on Wednesday while transiting the Gulf of Oman, northeast of Fujairah, Maersk Line Ltd said.
Despite warnings, the pirates continued to approach the vessel and then fired upon it, after which a security team returned fire in accordance with U.S. Coast Guard rules of engagement, Maersk Line Ltd said.
"All hands onboard are safe and unharmed, and the vessel is proceeding on its voyage," Maersk Line Ltd said.
Latest News: Somali Pirates 0 for 4 this last 2 weeks
23.05.2012: 1300 UTC: Posn: 12:45N – 043:18E, Bab El Mandeb Straits, Red Sea.
Pirates in three skiffs approached a bulk carrier underway. Master raised alarm, informed UKMTO and alerted the armed security team onboard. Weapons sighted on the skiffs when they closed to 300 metres from the ship. The armed security team fired warning shots resulting in the pirates aborted the attempted attack and moved away.
23.05.2012: 0900 UTC: Posn: 25:29.6N – 057:16.8E Around 28nm WSW of Bandar-e-Jask, Iran, (Off Somalia).
D/O onboard a general cargo ship underway noticed a group of 10 skiffs at a distance of 2nm from the ship on the stbd side. The forward skiff broke off from the group and approached the ship at a speed of 20-25 knots. Master and security team informed. Alarm raised, fire hoses and SSAS activated. UKMTO and navies informed. The ship increased speed and commenced manoeuvring away from the skiffs. As the skiffs closed to 500meters the armed security team fired warning shots. The skiffs ignored the warning shots and continued to approach aggressively and weapons were sighted on the skiffs. As the skiffs closed to 300meters the security team once again fired at the skiffs and it was noticed that the skiffs returned fire towards the ship. Eleven additional skiffs were sighted on the port side advancing towards the ship. As the security team fired warning shots these skiffs stopped and moved away. The skiffs on the stbd side continued to chase the ship and then after around 12 minutes from the initial approach the skiffs moved away towards a large dhow in the vicinity. No damages and no injuries to crew.
18.05.2012: 2000 LT: Posn: 25:20.9N – 057:34.6E (Around 25nm South of Ra's-e Jask, Iran), Off Somalia.
Three skiffs chased a crude tanker underway and approached close to the stern. Alarm sounded, authorities and nearby warship contacted. Later the skiffs aborted the boarding and moved away.
12.05.2012: 1140 UTC: Posn: 13:52N-042:52E, Red Sea.
About 12 pirates chased and closed in to 0.2nm from a LPG Tanker underway. Master enforced anti piracy measures and increased speed. The onboard security team displayed their weapons and the boats then moved away. All crew and vessel are safe.
You saw that second report? 21 skiffs acting as a wolf pack to attack a merchant vessel. I can't see how this is "off Somalia" since it's 6 feet from Persia. And I didn't notice a word in there about the vaunted Iranian Navy rescuing anyone or fighting off the pirates. But you can see in these reports that ship security has progressed from the barbed wire and fire hoses of a couple years back to teams of armed mercenaries aboard, and they start shooting when the skiffs close to half a kilometer. Pity they don't hit more often ... or perhaps that bit doesn't get reported.
Posted by Drew458 on 05/24/2012 at 09:05 PM
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He ain't Austin Powers, M'kay?
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The truth will out, though it take 100 years. Well, it was out 4 years ago if you wanted to see it, and nearly 4 years later it's even easier to see. If you take the blinders off that is, which is very hard for many people to do.
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Oh Nikki You're So Fine
An Ode To My Hero
The Oatmeal pens a paean to Nikola Tesla, as only The Oatmeal can. And along the way gives little Thomas Alva E. several righteous smacks for the scuzzmeister that he was. Liar, thief, animal torturer, perhaps even guilty of murder by indifferent negligence. New Jersey's finest!
Read, enjoy, and realize that historical revisionism is nothing new. Don't miss the fine green print that's hard to see.
Why Nikola Tesla Was The Greatest Geek Who Ever Lived
Ever heard of RADAR?
AKA that awesome technology that lets us detect objects like cruise missiles and latte-sipping SUV-driving imbeciles who do 85 in a 45
An English Scientist by the the name of Robert A. Watson-Watt was credited with the invention of radar in 1935.
Can you guess who came up with the idea in 1917?
18 years before Watson-Watt
He pitched it to the US Navy at the beginning of World War I when the world was getting its butthole forcibly imploded by German U-boats.
Unfortunately,
Thomas Edison was head of R&D for the Navy at the time and he managed to convince them that it had no practical application in war.
NICE JOB, EDISON! You bloated, misguided ass.
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Fish heads, fish heads: The bizarre cult hit song co-written by a TV star
1980s, 1990s, Featured stories, Oldies & vintage music, Vintage celebrities & famous people, Vintage television shows
The '80s song "Fish Heads" by Barnes & Barnes wasn't notable only for its oddly catchy chorus, but also for its bizarre lyrics, and the two unusual "singing" voices.
Then, if you watched the video — which you can check out below — the images therein pretty much doubled the weird factor.
And there's one more thing. One of the two guys in the group was Bill(y) Mumy, who was already known to millions as Will Robinson on the '60s TV show "Lost in Space."
Though his television character was left stranded with his family in the outer reaches of the galaxy, the space kid's alter ego was one of the few people to have found success (or, at least, a place on the pop culture map) here on earth in two entirely different creative fields.
Find out more about "Fish heads" below, and enjoy the roly-poly earworm. You might find that you're hooked.
'Lost in Space' actor found in a cult band (1988)
Excerpted from The Herald-News (Passaic, New Jersey) Feb 5, 1988
The Robinson family is still Lost in Space, but Bill Mumy, alias Will Robinson, has been found.
Mumy, 34, is half of the bizarre cult band Barnes and Barnes. Robert Haimer is the other half.
If the Barnes name doesn't ring a bell, maybe their music video "Fish Heads" will.
"Fish heads, fish heads, roly poly fish heads; fish heads, fish heads, eat them up, yum!"
The video aired on "Saturday Night Live" and became an early MTV favorite.
"We want to make people laugh," says Mumy from his home in Los Angeles. "If that keeps us a little cult band, that's OK."
Mumy lives with two cats and his wife, Ilene Davis, a Jane Fonda Workout instructor, who he says keeps him from getting a beer belly.
Mumy makes his living writing comic books, acting, writing music and performing as half of Barnes and Barnes. Rhino Records has just released "Zabagabee," a collection of Barnes and Barnes' best work.
Mumy began acting when he was 4, but not as some pitiful child actor forced into the business. "I had a blast," says Mumy.
He was cute and confident and won a lot of parts. He worked for Disney. He made three "Twilight Zone" episodes, including the classic "It's a Good Life," and three "Alfred Hitchcock Presents" episodes.
Mumy remembers "The Twilight Zone's" Rod Serling as a friendly and fun person.
Hitchcock was another matter. Once Mumy was fidgeting between takes, and Hitchcock walked over and bent down by him.
"Here he is this huge guy, and I'm like 3-feet-5. He bends down and whispers to me: 'If you don't stand still, I will take nails and drive them through your feet, and your blood will come pouring out like milk!'"
"I was terrified." For 10 years, Mumy took the long way around Universal Studios to avoid Hitchcock.
In 1965, he was cast as Will Robinson for the Lost in Space television series. After the third season, the cast was told that the show had been picked up for a fourth.
Two months later, Mumy heard the show was canceled. "I was devastated," says Mumy. "I loved doing it."
Mumy says it left him with an incomplete feeling. The cast members never got to tell each other goodbye.
Mumy and Haimer became friends that same year. The two 14-year-olds shared an interest in comic books and music.
Later, they began making tapes that made their friends laugh. Much later, they made novelty disc jockey Dr. Demento laugh, too.
Then-fledgling Rhino Records heard "Fish Heads" on the show, and signed them to a record contract.
The video starred a friend of theirs — young Bill Paxton (Apollo 13, Big Love, Twister) — who did this mini-film before his acting career took off.
ANOTHER ODD OLD SONG: Say, Say, Oh Playmate: We traced the story of this old song and hand clapping game, and have the lyrics
The Barnes & Barnes video with Bill Paxton
ALSO SEE: MTV music television started a rock revolution in the '80s by playing non-stop music videos
Fish Heads lyrics
Fish heads, fish heads
Roly-poly fish heads
Eat them up, yum
laughing, happy fish heads
floating in the soup
Ask a fish head
anything you want to
They won't answer
They can't talk
I took a fish head
out to see a movie
Didn't have to pay to
get it in…
They can't play baseball
they don't wear sweaters
They're not good dancers
they don't play drums
are never seen drinking cappuccino
in Italian restaurants
with Oriental women
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