The section Armiñón - La Puebla de Arganzón is part of the high speed line MADRID-PAÍS VASCO/FRENCH BORDER. It's an electrified double-track high speed line (300-350 Km/h), with international gauge, for passengers and freights transportation. It has a total length of 7.5 Km, 3.4 Km out of them running in tunnel.
The section Armiñón – La Puebla de Arganzón runs through an undulating terrain that requires the construction of a 3,412 meters long tunnel to save the San Formerio's Mountain. The presence of an aquifer at the same level of the projected tunnel, entails the construction of a singular section for the tunnel with a reinforced coating and circular in shape, in order to achieve the sealing of the section. On the other hand, the construction of three viaducts of 31, 65 and 320 meters long is also necessary, as well as three underpasses and two overpasses for the rural roads replacement.


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Winter weather advisory in effect until 4 a.m. Sunday
ByKrystal Knapp February 17, 2018 February 17, 2018 Updated February 17, 2018
The National Weather Service in Mt. Holly has issued a winter weather advisory for Central New Jersey and Bucks County. The advisory is in effect from 4 p.m. today until 4 a.m. Sunday.
Four to six inches of snow is possible for the Princeton area. The snow is expected to become moderate to heavy in the evening. Reduced visibility is possible. The snow could fall at
a rate of up to an inch per hour at times in parts of the region, causing very poor road conditions.
A Winter Weather Advisory for snow means periods of snow likely will cause travel difficulties. Be prepared for snow-covered roads and limited visibility, and use caution while driving.
Krystal Knapp
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Santa Barbara dei Librai is a small Roman Catholic church in Rome, Italy. It was once known as Santa Barbara alla Regola after the rione in which it was located. Today it now considered within the rione of Parione, near the Campo de' Fiori.

History
Giuseppe Vasi dates the consecration of the church by 1306, although it is probable that a church existed at the site since the 10-11th century. Inscriptions inside claim that the church was established by Giovanni di Crescenzio de Roizo and his wife Rogata, who was a senator of Rome in the second century.
In 1600, it was granted to the confraternity of the Bookmakers (bookbinders, publishers, and scribes) or Librari, who titled the church after St Thomas Acquinas and St John of God as patrons.

During the papacy of Innocent XI,  the church was restored. In 1634, after a fire, the confraternity of book makers bought out adjacent properties. The baroque façade was remade by Giuseppe Passeri. The statue of St Barbara over the door was sculpted by Ambrogio Parisi, and the angel painted on a wall is attributed to Guido Reni. The church has paintings by  Luigi Garzi; a fresco of St Saba by Giovanni Battista Brughi, pupil of Baciccio, in the chapel of Specchi; and frescoes by Francesco Ragusa and Domenico Monacelli.

The church was used by the confraternity till 1878, but fell into abandon and was deconsecrated. In 1982, it was restored.

The adjacent oratory is sited in the ruins of the Theater of Pompey.

Among the works of art inside the church are:
Triptych of Madonna and child with John the Baptist and Archangel Michael (1453) by Leonardo da Roma.
Crucifixion by Garzi

Gallery

Sources

 Morelli Gonippo, la chiesa di sants Barbara dei librai, Roma 1927
 C. Rendina, Le Chiese di Roma, Newton & Compton Editori, Milano 2000
 C. Cerchiai, Rione V Ponte, in AA.VV, I rioni di Roma, Newton & Compton Editori, Milano 2000, Vol. I, pp. 335–382
Mariano Armellini,Le chiese di Roma dal secolo IV al XIX, Roma 1891
C. Hulsen, Le chiese di Roma nel Medio Evo, Firenze 1927
F. Titi, Descrizione delle Pitture, Sculture e Architetture esposte in Roma, Roma 1763

17th-century Roman Catholic church buildings in Italy
Roman Catholic churches in Rome
Churches of Rome (rione Parione)

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When people think of Georgia, they assume Atlanta. There is nothing wrong with that… Atlanta is the state capital, home to the busiest airport in the world (you've probably had a connection there at some point), and it's an all-around awesome city. However, there is SO much more to this Deep South state. There is tons of agriculture and farmland. It isn't known as the Peach State for nothin'! There are also beautiful coastal areas with quaint little towns and sandy beaches.
Drew and I went to Sea Island and we can't get this adorable Southern island off our minds. We stayed at the luxury 5-star Cloister and it was lovely.
The Cloister opened in 1928 and has a Spanish-Mediterranean influential style. The resort is situated with the ocean on one side and the Atlantic Intracoastal Waterway on the other. The architecture is so beautiful, just see for yourself.
The Cloister says the height of their season is from March-October. The weather can be a bit unpredictable the other months of the year. We must of lucked out because it was sunny and 75 every single day we were there (we stayed 4 nights). It was so perfect because since it was their off-season, we felt like we were on a secluded private beach during our entire stay.
If you've been to the coastal region of the Deep South (including Savannah, Amelia Island and Jekyll Island) you know what Spanish Moss is. It looks like green soft strands hanging from big trees. We went bike riding through some residential areas on the island and it was Spanish Moss on Spanish Moss on Spanish Moss.
Then we took the beach cruisers to where they belong…the beach!
leaving thoughts… the grass may not always be greener on the other side. But the sweet tea sure is sweeter in the south.
Every restaurant on Cloister property is amazing.


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As lifestyles becomes increasingly urban and suburban, many are seeking a break from concrete and screen time by exploring the great outdoors. From a simple walk, to hiking, or camping, it's never been a better time to escape the urban jungle and feel the grass beneath your feet! What better way to prepare the concept of camping to little ones than a read aloud before you go?
The Not-So Great Outdoors
By Madeline Kloepper
40 Page | Ages 3-7 | Tundra Books
What's so great about the "great outdoors"? A grumpy urban kid begrudgingly accompanies her family on a summer camping trip, missing all the sublime sights right under her nose as she longs for the lights and stimulation of the city. But as she explores forests, lakes and mountains, and encounters bears, beavers and caribou, she slowly comes to realize that the simpler things are just as sparkly, that the sky is its own majestic light show, and the symphony is all around. The Not-So Great Outdoors is a humorous and richly imagined reminder of the beauty and magic that can be found away from the city and our screens.
Now? Not Yet!
By Gina Perry
Peanut and Moe are back, this time on a camping trip. Peanut wants to swim NOW, Moe says NOT YET! A sweet and cheerful book about overcoming differences.
Peanut says let's swim
Moe says time to hike
Peanut says let's swim now
Moe says time to eat a snack
Peanut says now!
Moe says time to put up the tent
Moe says NOT YET!
Can these two friends come together in time to save their camping trip?
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Red Sky at Night
By Elly Mackay
Red sky at night, sailor's delight. And, the next morning, when the dew is on the grass, no rain will come to pass. These are the perfect conditions for a grandfather to take his grandchildren out on a fishing trip. Especially since, as the saying goes, when the wind is from the West, then the fishes bite the best. The family takes a boat out on the lake, fishing and swimming and eventually camping out on a nearby island, taking full advantage of the gorgeous weather. But the next day . . . red sky in the morning, sailors take warning! The family ventures back home just in time to avoid a rainstorm. But not to worry — the more rain, the more rest. Fair weather's not always best.
Illustrated by Kenard Pak
Warble is a small yellow warbler who lives on the beautiful island of Icyland, where he pursues his hobby of human watching. But on a warm day, a deep fog rolls in and obscures his view. The rest of the birds don't seem to notice the fog or the other changes Warble observes on the island. The more the fog is ignored, the more it spreads. When a Red-hooded Spectacled Female (Juvenile) appears, Warble discovers that he's not the only one who notices the fog. Will they be able to find others who can see it too? And is the fog here to stay?
The Golden Glow
By Benjamin Flouw
Fox loves nature. There's nothing he enjoys more than reading about and picking flowers. One evening, he comes across a rare specimen in his old botany book — the golden glow, a plant from the Wellhidden family, found only in the mountains . . . a plant that has yet to be described. Fascinated, Fox decides to set off on a quest in search of the mysterious golden glow. He packs his knapsack, a map, a compass, a flashlight, a sleeping bag and other items for his hike. Along the way, Fox observes many different kinds of trees and plants. He also encounters woodland friends who help him make it to the summit of the mountain. But when Fox eventually stumbles upon the object of his quest, he makes a surprising decision.
We also have a fun activity for kids to participate in. Click on the BINGO card image below to download and print. Throughout the summer, they can mark off everything they managed to do on the BINGO card. As for prizes when completing a row, column, or diagonal? We hear ice cream is pretty good. 🍦
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We asked camp counselor Chris Rylander and Claudia Dávila today to tell us 2 Truths and 1 Lie. Use our drop-down menu to guess the false statement!
Chris Rylander(required) I recently discovered I've been pronouncing my last name incorrectly my whole life. I once woke a sleeping monkey and then it attached me which led to one of my best bits of life advice - never wake a sleeping monkey. I used to be an award-winning chef before I became an author.
Claudia Dávila(required) When I was a kid my favourite colour was brown. My right foot is bigger than my left foot. I was born in a taxi on the way to the hospital.
On the first night of camp, everyone is sitting around the camp fire playing Would You Rather? Here's how our camp counselors responded:
Chris: Definitely Where's Waldo. They're relatively a lot safer, but still incredibly interesting. You'd never run out of stuff to see or do and the explosions would be kept to a minimum.
Claudia: I hate big, busy, noisy crowds so I'll take a comic book any day … especially if there are no zombies.
Chris: Underwater! In fact, I already wish this was true. I'd agree to a Reverse Little Mermaid in a heartbeat!
Claudia: I hate getting wet so I'm 100% a land lover!
Chris: Definitely predict the future. Talking axes come with curses. And violence. Whereas predicting the future allows you to do almost anything you want in this world.
Claudia: I think if I had a talking ax it would just complain about a headache every time I used it! I'd rather predict the future — who wouldn't want to know the winning lottery numbers?
Chris: I've grown pretty fond of my bookshelves and video games, and so I'd have to choose the costume. But do I get to choose which one? I already sort of look like Hagrid from Harry Potter, so then there'd really be no change for me, anyway.
Claudia: I've made many cardboard houses in my life and they're always fun to decorate, but I think I'd be pretty squished having to sleep curled up all the time, so I'll say wearing a costume, especially if it could be something super comfortable like a Jedi costume (Rey is pretty cool)!
Chris: Though this world is easier for smaller things, a lifelong dream (I've long given up on) to play professional sports could finally be made possible as a giant. It'd sort of be cheating, I suppose, but hey, that hasn't stopped the New England Patriots!
Claudia: I'd love to be as big as a giant, so I could walk around the country side and get amazing views of mountains and forests.
The Legend of Greg
By Chris Rylander
Risk-averse Greg Belmont is content with being ordinary. He's got a friend–that's right, just one–at his fancy prep school, and a pretty cool dad. The problem is, Greg isn't ordinary . . . he's actually an honest-to-goodness, fantastical Dwarf!
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Zbójnickie Okna lub Zbójeckie Okna – dwie jaskinie w wapiennych ścianach po wschodniej stronie Doliny Kościeliskiej w Tatrach Zachodnich. Znajdują się blisko siebie w turniach Organów, w pobliżu Jaskini Balkonowej. Są to: Okno Zbójnickie Niżnie o długości korytarzy 160 m, położone na wysokości 1227 m n.p.m. i Okno Zbójnickie Wyżnie o długości korytarzy 14,5 m, położone na wysokości 1274 m n.p.m.

Jaskinie znane były od dawna, według górali ukrywali się w nich w dawnych czasach zbójnicy i stąd ich nazwa. Jaskinie były penetrowane przez poszukiwaczy skarbów. Po raz pierwszy opisał je Jan Gwalbert Pawlikowski. Dawniej były one zwiedzane turystycznie.  W 1900 przy znakowaniu szlaku turystycznego do nich uczestniczył Jan Kasprowicz. Były też one inspiracją dla Stefana Żeromskiego, który umieścił w nich akcję rozdziału Skalne Okno powieści Popioły.

Otwory wylotowe jaskiń widoczne są w skałach z drogi prowadzącej Doliną Kościeliską. Obecnie jednak jaskinie te są niedostępne turystycznie.

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Mark Cuban to Host Live TV Concert Series in Deep Ellum
The Mavericks owner's AXS TV network will broadcast live from Dallas this summer.
By Alex Macon Published in Arts & Entertainment June 29, 2016 1:40 pm
Mark Cuban's AXS TV Network will broadcast live from Deep Ellum this summer, as the outspoken Mavericks owner launches a five-concert series featuring performances by the likes of Bad Company and the Village People.
Per a press release, the concerts kick off Aug. 11 with a broadcast of a performance by The Monkees. The series continues every Thursday through Sept. 8, with — in order — the Village People, Bret Michaels, KC and the Sunshine Band, and Bad Company. Each show will be at the Bomb Factory, and Cuban will act as your host and master of ceremonies.
"With this exclusive series, I wanted to craft a fun live concert event, giving viewers the best seat in the house to experience these legendary acts," Cuban said in a statement. "From disco and funk, to classics and metal, there's truly something here for everyone to enjoy, as we send summer out on a high note with some of the most beloved anthems of all-time."
AXS TV, if you were wondering, specializes in these kinds of live broadcasts, billing itself as "a television network providing the best in music programming and festivals, comedy performances, and mixed martial arts promotions." Tonight, the channel is showing the New York City Drone Festival, and — for the night owls — Rounders.
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Description: With the knockout one-two punch of 1992's Reservoir Dogs and 1994's Pulp Fiction writer-director Quentin Tarantino stunned the filmmaking world, exploding into prominence as a cinematic heavyweight contender. But Pulp Fiction was more than just the follow-up to an impressive first feature, or the winner of the Palme d'Or at Cannes Film Festival, or a script stuffed with the sort of juicy bubblegum dialogue actors just love to chew, or the vehicle that reestablished John Travolta on the A-list, or the relatively low-budget ($8 million) independent showcase for an ultrahip mixture of established marquee names and rising stars from With the knockout one-two punch of 1992's Reservoir Dogs and 1994's Pulp Fiction writer-director Quentin Tarantino stunned the filmmaking world, exploding into prominence as a cinematic heavyweight contender. But Pulp Fiction was more than just the follow-up to an impressive first feature, or the winner of the Palme d'Or at Cannes Film Festival, or a script stuffed with the sort of juicy bubblegum dialogue actors just love to chew, or the vehicle that reestablished John Travolta on the A-list, or the relatively low-budget ($8 million) independent showcase for an ultrahip mixture of established marquee names and rising stars from the indie scene (among them Samuel L. Jackson, Uma Thurman, Bruce Willis, Ving Rhames, Harvey Keitel, Christopher Walken, Tim Roth, Amanda Plummer, Julia Sweeney, Kathy Griffin, and Phil Lamar). It was more, even, than an unprecedented $100-million-plus hit for indie distributor Miramax. Pulp Fiction was a sensation. No, it was not the Second Coming (I actually think Reservoir Dogs is a more substantial film; and P.T. Anderson outdid Tarantino in 1997 by making his directorial debut with two even more mature and accomplished pictures, Hard Eight and Boogie Nights). But Pulp Fiction packs so much energy and invention into telling its nonchronologically interwoven short stories (all about temptation, corruption, and redemption amongst modern criminals, large and small) it leaves viewers both exhilarated and exhausted--hearts racing and knuckles white from the ride. (Oh, and the infectious, surf-guitar-based soundtrack is tastier than a Royale with Cheese.) --Jim Emerson ... (more) (less)
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| Cultural Effects Essay
The French culture remains as one of the cultures across the globe with a rich history especially in regard to its foods or rather cuisine. As a result, for many decades, the French food has featured in many different places such as hotels and restaurants across the world. This has been supported by the fact that the French love their cultural food and whenever they go they have always carried with them or rather promoted their culture foods. In spite of the fact that the French foods have deep roots among the French people, recent observations prove otherwise. The introduction of genetically engineered food has had some effects on the French food culture.
The French people have always considered their cultural foods or rather meals as a way of showing patriotism to their own culture and to their nation. In reference to Lusk, Roosen & Fox (2001), the research that was carried in some parts of Europe showed that the French people preferred beef that had not been administered with growth hormones as compared to people from Great Britain, Germany and the United States (p.16-21). In this regard, the native French preferred foods that were natural rather than depending on genetically modified foods. In line with this, whereas the younger generations in France have been facing challenges in the recent times, the policies that have been put in place in regard to genetically modified foods reveal a strong resistance to these types of foods by the French community.
Following this point, there are various actions that have been taken by the French people to show how much they value their own cultural foods and abhor genetically modified foods. According to Meunier (2000), one of the most celebrated persons in France in 1999 was a French farmer Jose Bove, whose passion for French food stirred a desire in him to bring down a McDonald's restaurant, an American fast food restaurant and succeeded in protest against the US sanctions (p.104-109). The arguments by this farmer lie in the fact that whereas France is a civilized nation, it does not need to follow the path followed by the United States in its globalization endeavors. His arguments are resonated by the French leadership which has chosen to work on controlling what comes from outside its borders in order to protect its people. In this regard, genetically modified food is perceived as a foreign entry that needs to be resisted rather than a boost to French economy in terms of food production.
Following these arguments, there has been resistance whether knowingly or unknowingly by the French community to genetically modified food. This has further been aggravated by the fact that the French medical field and research have argued that genetically modified foods have drastic effects on human health. It is argued that the acceptance of genetically modified foods depended heavily on the psychosocial perception and values that were attached on these foods. Therefore, the French communities, who have valued and preserved their culture and cultural foods, have strongly resisted the introduction of genetically modified foods within their systems (Finucane, 2002, p.31-34).
In summation, it can be argued that the French culture has been inclined more towards preserving what they already have rather than adopting new types of cultures especially in regard to their diet. As a result of this, the French culture has strongly resisted the introduction of genetically modified foods into their communities and instead chosen to retain their traditional meals. It is also important to note that this resistance has not been propagated by the government alone with its dirigiste political and economic traditions but with the French people as a whole. However, one cannot fail to say that in spite of this resistance, there is a high risk that the younger generations would be overcome by the fast food culture as compared to the older generations who are stooped to preserving their food culture.


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A former member and assistant coach of the University of the Incarnate Word's nationally ranked synchronized swimming team is now heading the program.
On July 14, John Williams, director of athletics, named Elizabeth Gerdin, who has served as an assistant coach the past two years, as the team's interim coach for the 2016-17 season.
While serving as an assistant to former head coach Megan Deatherage, Gerdin played a big role in the program, earning a pair of top four national finishes and two regional titles, Williams pointed out.
Deatherage had to leave the program due to family reasons, but Williams said the program is in good hands.
Gerdin last swam for the team in 2011, graduating in 2012 with bachelor's degrees in athletic training and rehabilitative sciences.
A native of St. Paul, Minn., Gerdin competed at the FINA World Trophy Cup in 2009. During her time competing as a Cardinal she helped the team to a national third-place finish and numerous regional championships. She was Rookie of the Year, earned the Dwyer Award for encompassing the team values, and was a two-time team captain for the squad.
After her collegiate swimming eligibility was used up, Gerdin stayed on at UIW for a year as a volunteer assistant coach under former head coach Kim Wurzel-LoPorto, who had competed in the Olympics. During that season under Wurzel-LoPorto and Gerdin, the Cardinals won the team and duet events and placed second overall at the U.S. Collegiate nationals and won the high point award at U.S. Nationals.
Before coming back as an assistant coach at UIW, Gerdin, a certified athletic trainer, worked from 2012-14 at a physical therapy clinic and at different high schools in Wisconsin and Minnesota. She also helped coach the University of Minnesota synchro team in 2012-13. Over the past two years, she has served as a choreographer and provided private lessons for clubs and high schools in Minnesota.
After moving back to Texas in May 2014, Gerdin started performing as a synchronized swimmer at the "Azul" show at SeaWorld.


Investing in the financial market remains to be one of the lucrative business ideas for many investors over the years.
Are you looking for an investment idea that can make your money work for you? Are you too busy that you cannot venture into business, and you still want to invest in high –yield returns projects?
Then, look no further since investing in shares is the way to go. This is a passive form of investment with less commitment and high returns.
This article will help you understand the step to step guide on how to invest in shares of listed companies in financial markets.
Shares are units of ownership that grant shareholder a right to own a fraction of company's capital. They are also known as equities, and they enable the shareholders to have an equal claim on the company's earnings as well as an equal obligation for the firm's debts and losses.
• Common shares-where shareholders are entitled to share profits made by the company and they also have a right to vote at the company's annual general meetings.
• Preference shares– where shareholders have a right to fixed periodic income but they don't have voting rights.
Shares can be owned by an individual (single shareholder) or in the form of collective investment fund (through pooling your resources together and buying shares as a group).
The fund is managed by fund managers who are experts in financial markets, and they guide the group in making the right investment decisions by selecting shares of companies that have high growth potential.
The stock exchange market provides a platform where shares of listed companies are bought and sold. In Kenya, the buying and selling of shares take place at the Nairobi Stock Exchange (NSE).
All firms that list their shares on the NSE are regulated by the Capital Market Authority (CMA) to ensure investors are protected from fraud.
How can I make money by buying shares?
This is the major question that most newbie in financial markets always asks. Are you wondering how your passive investment in shares can earn you cash? The fact is there is no "rocket science" here.
The trick of making money through shares involves buying shares and holding them for a while so that they gain value. You can, therefore, sell them at higher prices than what you bought and make money.
This applies when you buy shares of companies that have high growth potential, and as the company grows, your share gains more value as well. The other method of getting returns from shares is through dividends.
This is where you receive part of companies' end of year profits according to the agreed percentage multiplied by the number of your shares.
When venturing into share investment, you should always bear in mind that shares trading are risky and do not necessarily guarantee a return.
There are certain market factors that influence the prices of shares of a particular company. Thus, it's always advisable that every investor should conduct due diligence to determine the best companies to invest with either in short-term or long-term preferences.
The other form of reducing losses when trading with shares is through diversification. It involves buying shares of different companies operating in different economic sectors.
Diversification will save you from incurring losses because when one industry fails and share prices lose value, you can still make some profit from other shares investment in companies operating in different economic sectors. This is popularly known as creating a portfolio.
How can one buy shares?
Once you have made up your mind to invest in shares, the next step involves buying shares from a reputable company.
How is it done? Unlike any other market where a willing buyer and a willing seller negotiate and trade independently, stock exchange market has stock brokers who link buyers to the sellers of shares.
They are licensed trading firms and investment banks that facilitate the trade of financial assets. They were established to eliminate fraud, and they are highly regulated to ensure investors' money is safe.
They help the investors' trade in the stock exchange market by providing the necessary market information.
Investing in shares remains an attractive venture that every individual can venture into. The initial capital is affordable, and it will guarantee you better returns in medium or long-term aspects.
In case you have idle money in your bank account, this venture is the best option. Take a step and invest in shares today and let your money work for you!!!


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Carter at Fazenda Esperança, his Brazilian ranch
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Expat conservationist John Cain Carter, a former elite Army soldier who did a tour in Iraq, is anything but typical. Same goes for his plan, which calls on ranchers to preserve Brazil's wild west. Can he have it both ways and still save—and survive—the Amazon?
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João Carlos and Marina Lutz at Fazenda Santo Antonio
A squatter fire on Carter's land
THE SAND UNDER the towering mango trees in front of the yellow ranch house has been raked into symmetrical lines. The cooks in the kitchen are searing filet mignon, fresh off a slaughtered 30-month-old grass-fed heifer. And the weary pantaneiros, mounted on Creole horses since 4:30 a.m., are herding their cows home. Life at Fazenda Santo Antonio do Paraíso on this lazy April evening is sauntering along at the same pace it has since 1944. That was the year the famous Brazilian general Marinho Lutz bought this wild kingdom from the first son of Colonel Henrique Paes de Barros, a man with enough sex drive to acquire 11 wives and sire 82 children.
Even with wild curassows squawking out front, the old sede, or ranch house, full of African buffalo heads, feels like a museum. For the first time since he took over the ranch from his father, in the sixties, and inherited the role of patrão, João Carlos Marinho Lutz is not home to entertain his guests. He is at the doctor in São Paulo. At 64, the rancher is worn out from running this massive operation and is convinced that he'll soon drop dead of a heart attack if a white knight doesn't surface to buy and save his exquisitely preserved $74 million, 255,000-acre property in Mato Grosso, the state bordering the southern edge of the Amazonian frontier.
"If João Carlos were with us, he'd be drinking whiskey," says John Cain Carter, the honorary patrão for the evening and the man Lutz has tapped to help broker the sale of the ranch. The two met through Carter's Brazilian wife, Kika, 12 years ago, and their mutual love of wildlife and conservation cemented a lasting friendship.
Carter, a dark-haired, sharp-featured 42-year-old expat rancher from Texas, is wearing Wranglers and a 2006 Longhorns Rose Bowl Championship cap. Since flying down from the U.S. in his own plane in 1996, the former elite Army soldier has logged more than 500,000 nautical miles, slowly building, with his wife, a small empire of conservation-oriented enterprises, including their own 11,650-acre sustainable ranch; Brazilian Adventure Travel, an ecotourism company that empowers locals; and Aliança da Terra, a nonprofit that offers market-based incentives to ranchers and farmers. But Carter's most pressing project right now is to match Lutz's high-profile property with a wealthy American buyer who will prove that ranching and conservation really can coexist.
At the moment, he's sitting on the tile veranda, his boots in the sand, drinking a Skol beer, dipping Copenhagen, and speaking in a deep, clear twang perfected in San Antonio, where he grew up. The man who is possibly the future of Amazonian conservation could almost be mistaken for a redneck.
David Johnson, 55, tall, blond, and mustached, is on the couch with his wife, Suzie, 64, a petite former tennis instructor turned ranch hand and expert horsewoman. The couple live in Bozeman, Montana, where Johnson works as a broker for Hall & Hall, the U.S.'s largest resource-management firm dealing with high-end rural real estate. Its clients have put more private property under conservation easement than almost any other brokerage firm in the U.S. Johnson is here to size up Fazenda Santo Antonio so that he can market it to a database of 25,000 potential buyers moguls like Ted Turner, who bought most of his western holdings from Hall & Hall. Turner's not interested, but for months Carter and Hall & Hall have been courting billionaire CEOs and iconic celebrities.
"We've seen less than a hundredth of this place," says Johnson, taking a sip of beer. "But you just breathe the air here and it's overwhelming."
An hour ago, Carter fired up his Cessna to take us on a sunset cruise, showing us what would be lost if the ranch were sold off for more intensive agriculture.
"All that, that, that, and that would be cleared," Carter shouted over the engine, pointing to a ridgetop still lush with native canopy forest.
The ranch balances precariously between the world's largest wetlands the 68,000-square-mile Pantanal and the world's largest soybean farm. While the property supports a herd of 23,000 grass-fed cattle and 7,500 acres of tilled soybean fields, 89 percent of it has been meticulously maintained in its original state, making it an island oasis for more than 420 bird species, two recently discovered insect species, and some of the most diverse wildlife in Brazil. On a Carter-led high-speed jeep safari, we found a poisonous jararaca snake, a giant anteater vacuuming out a termite mound, and a hard-charging herd of white-lipped peccaries. Beyond the lazing caimans, jabiru storks, roseate spoonbills, buff-necked ibises, jacana birds, and great egrets, Carter spotted a 400-pound tapir grazing a football field away.
"How did you see that?" I asked.
"Ah, you know," he said. "I'm always looking out for the enemy."
AS AN EXPAT LANDOWNER in one of the world's last frontiers, Carter has had plenty of opportunity to make enemies. But he's not just another gringo swooping in to save South America. Carter's got an approach that's very different from those of deep-pocketed predecessors like American entrepreneur Doug Tompkins. The founder of the Esprit clothing company and the North Face, and an avid conservationist, Tompkins bought up massive tracts of near-pristine wilderness in Chile and Argentina. Some locals have accused Tompkins of creating an environmental fiefdom a playground for those who can afford the luxury of not having to make a living off the land. Carter, on the other hand, has been hip-deep in cow manure for 12 years, ranching on the edge of the Amazon in northern Mato Grosso, fending off squatters trying to burn down his trees, Indians trying to steal his cows, and corrupt local officials who don't like his foreign accent.
He represents a new breed of environmentalist: a no-bullshit, consensus-building capitalist who insists that the only way to save trees on productive land is to provide financial incentives for keeping them in the ground.
"Americans come down here with their hippie uniforms and say, You've got to save the Amazon,'" Carter said our first morning in Brazil as he zipped Dave, Suzie, and me in his Toyota pickup truck toward an airplane hangar in Goiânia, where he and Kika, 40, and their two young daughters, Maria and Catarina, live part-time. "Well, the road to hell is paved with good intentions, and hugging a tree isn't going to save the Amazon. You need a special-operations unit to save it."
He may be right. Fifteen years ago, when most of Mato Grosso was still intact Amazonian transition forest, you could hardly give land away. Today, ranchers and farmers will pay up to $737 per acre for cleared land. There are still 1.6 million square miles of Brazilian Amazon forest, but it is being razed at a rate of more than 3,000 square miles per year.
Ranchers get the worst rap, for burning down trees to clear pasture. Since the sixties, worldwide beef consumption has increased by 127 percent. To keep up with demand, beef production has grown 711,000 tons per year. In 2003, Brazil surpassed the U.S. and Australia to become the world's largest beef exporter. Countrywide production already extends over 168 million acres and, according to an executive of Frigorífico Minerva, one of Brazil's largest beef exporters, there's potential to expand to 806 million more acres. Most of that land lies in the Amazon basin.
But Carter believes that cattle ranchers can help slow down Amazonian deforestation. The trick, he argues, is to build a market that favors conservation. Four years ago he founded his own "special-ops unit," the nonprofit Aliança da Terra, with this mission: to provide ranchers and farmers who agree to preserve and rehabilitate their land a network of buyers willing to pay premium prices for their products.
Before we flew off in Carter's four-seat Cessna for a weeklong, 1,300-mile tour of his many projects in Mato Grosso, we stopped at Aliança headquarters. In 2004, Carter started the nonprofit with $30,000 of his own money and $270,000 in startup grants from U.S.-based Blue Moon Fund and the David and Lucile Packard Foundation. Now it has 18 employees and an annual budget of $200,000, which will triple next year.
Here's how Aliança works: Carter partnered with Daniel Nepstad, a former senior scientist at Massachusetts-based Woods Hole Research Center and one of the world's foremost experts on the Amazon, and IPAM, the Amazonian Environmental Research Institute, to form a registry of Brazilian ranchers and farmers who are committed to good land stewardship. Scientists and Aliança employees geo-reference a property, gathering stats and information on wildlife, fire hazards, erosion, riparian zones, and deforestation. Then the landowner signs a Recuperation Management Plan, which is put into an auditing system that tracks the landowner's compliance on a yearly basis.
"Aliança is a group of producers who understand what producers' problems are," says Ana Luisa Da Riva, a São Paulo based operations officer for the International Finance Corporation (a member of the World Bank Group). "Its work is recognized by all sectors: government, the private sector, producers, and NGOs."
Currently, Aliança has more than 160 properties in its system, totaling 700,000 head of cattle and nearly five million acres. Within months, ABCZ, the world's largest cattle organization, with 16,000 members, and the Xavante Indian reservation, a 412,500-acre sprawl of degraded forest that's home to 700 Indians, will come on board. But the crown jewel in the system is Fazenda Santo Antonio do Paraíso.
"Lutz's property is the psychological rallying flag," says Carter. "He's maintained it intact for 70 years. He's the Brazilian symbol of a good land steward."
The big unknown for Aliança is whether the market rewards stewardship. The largest importers of Brazilian beef Russia, Hong Kong, Egypt, and Venezuela are hardly countries that have made sustainability a top priority. In markets where it is, like the European Union, Brazilian beef exports are highly restricted. In the U.S., fresh Brazilian beef imports aren't allowed because of concerns over foot-and-mouth disease.
"If the European Union is demanding higher social and environmental performance, then that is probably the way the rest of the market will be going," says Nepstad. "There are signs that even China will begin imposing environmental standards."
But can the market change quickly enough? According to Adrian Forsyth, the vice president for programs at Blue Moon Fund, the U.S. nonprofit that gave Carter his seed money, "The combined pressure of agriculture, biofuels, and rapid climate change is going to ultimately overwhelm the region."
Maybe that's why Carter is in such a hurry.
A BLACK CLOUD hovers over Fazenda Esperança as we descend in the Cessna through spackles of rain. We're buzzing Carter's own ranch so he can point out the squatter trails and burned-out plots of manioc and rice that infiltrate the forest like lice.
"Squatters are like a bad date," he says, spitting Copenhagen into an empty water bottle. "Always out there looking for opportunity."
A year ago, thanks to a fire started by squatters on a neighbor's property, Carter's ranch lit up like a gas tank, and more than 90 percent of his land burned, diminishing his 2,100-head herd of cattle to 1,400.
"Out here it's all land wars; it's just a state of anarchy," Carter says as we drop onto the gravel runway. "The guy with the biggest gun wins."
"Out here" is northern Mato Grosso, a few hundred miles north of Fazenda Santo Antonio do Paraíso, just east of the vast Xingu Indian reservation, and the region on the front lines of Amazonian deforestation.
Carter's ranch manager greets him with the news that his recently hired tractor driver has killed an endangered alligator. Carter's mood goes as dark as the sky, but he can't face off with the offender right now because one of his neighbors, a young agronomist from São Paulo, has been waiting for Carter to buy some cows.
"This place has tripled in worth," says Carter, exasperated, as we walk over to the house, a comfortable, well-manicured oasis. From the veranda you can see forever toward a charred horizon as flat and empty as the ocean. "For all the sweat equity we've put into it, it should have appreciated a million times."
"When you think of ranch life, you think of the Marlboro Man," Carter's wife, Kika, told me when I first arrived in Goiânia. "But ranching is hard. This is not Texas. We do things differently in Brazil."
It's been tough to get the Texas out of Carter. His grandfather Walter Wilson Carter was such a good stalker that he'd sneak up on a deer and smack it on the rump. Carter's geologist father, Walter Jr., who taught him marksmanship and animal-tracking skills, would break up road trips across Texas to teach his son about fossils. By age six, Carter owned his first .22. By the time he was eight, he'd upgraded to a .222 rifle and a .410 shotgun. In high school, he'd wake up before dawn to check his raccoon-trap lines. And by the time Carter graduated from the University of Texas, in 1989, he had climbed every notable peak in the Rockies.
"John was a very easy child," says his mother, Emma Roy, a real estate agent in Nashville. "He could motivate people that was his gift. And he feels very, very passionate about things."
After college, to Emma's horror, Carter joined the Army. At Airborne school, on his second jump, his right ankle cracked as he hit the ground. Carter left his boot on all night to reduce the swelling, ran five miles back to the airfield the next morning, then jumped out of the plane again.
His intensity eventually earned him a spot as the senior scout of an Airborne Ranger unit, the long-range surveillance detachment team assigned to the 101st Airborne Division, which pulled off dangerous missions in the Persian Gulf War from August 1990 to March 1991.
"Infantry quotes still rattle through my head on a daily basis," says Carter. " You gotta live hard to be hard' and Hard times don't last, but hard men do.' "
In 1991 in Iraq, Carter's six-man team was assigned a recon mission 93 miles into enemy territory. As the helicopter took off, Carter remembers, the pilot told the crew, "You are the craziest motherfuckers I've ever met."
Carter earned a Bronze Star for his efforts. "The military taught me how to be a warrior, how to fight, how to turn adversity into a weapon," he says.
After leaving the Army in 1992, Carter was accepted into Texas Christian University's Ranch Management Program, where he meta dark-haired beauty from Londrina, Brazil. Anna Francesca Carvalho Garcia Cid Kika for short was the granddaughter of Brazil's two most famous cattle breeders, Celso Garcia Cid and Rubens de Andrade Carvalho. In 1993 Carter asked Kika to marry him.
Beginning the day after the couple's honeymoon, Kika's father called Carter every Sunday for two years to try to convince him to take over his ranch in northern Mato Grosso. Carter finally caved and the couple moved to Fazenda Esperança in 1996.
Turns out, the Army was an ideal training ground for the Amazon. Carter has accidentally snorkeled into a nest of baby anacondas while clearing tree stumps in a swamp, survived a dog attack while hauling hunters in his Cessna (which ended with a bite on the back of his neck), and had an armed face-off with the chief of the Xavante tribe, who authorized his people to steal and kill 12 of Carter's cows. (Since then, Carter and the chief have become friends.)
"Psychologically, all this stuff scares the shit out of you, because ain't nobody going to pull you out," says Carter, comparing his Ranger days to life on the frontier. "But what's important is the mission. You may be terrified, but you still do it and complete it and it makes you feel stronger almost invincible."
Carter's optimism scares his brother back in Texas. "He's a lighting rod. He's not from that culture and he never will be," says Will Carter, 52, who lives in San Antonio and runs his own oil-and-gas-exploration company. "You stand in front of a hot stove long enough and eventually you don't realize it's hot."
Shortly after Carter and Kika arrived at Fazenda Esperança, a cattle thief made off with their cows. Mad as hell, Carter grabbed his rifle and hopped on his four-wheeler. Kika jumped in front of Carter to stop him. He wouldn't budge. So Kika hopped on back.
"I remember thinking, How on earth am I going to send John's casket back to his mother?" Kika told me. "I thought, If he's going to die, I want to die, too. I don't want to deal with shipping his body home in a wood box."
By 2002, with a one-year-old daughter, Catarina, Kika had had enough of full-time frontier. The couple kept the ranch but moved to Goiânia, forcing Carter to get his fix of desperado life via Cessna commute.
The day after we arrive at Carter's ranch, we're scheduled to fly out after lunch, but he has to finish firing his tractor driver. Dave, Suzie, and I anxiously sit on the veranda and try to follow the heated conversation going on out back in Portuguese.
"What do you think of all this?" I ask Dave.
"I think it's the most original operation I've ever seen," he says.
"Would you ever sell a ranch in a place like this to an American?" I ask.
"The title's solid, and the potential for appreciation is strong," he says, looking around, "but it still has a few too many vestiges of lawlessness."
"This sucks!"
"I hate it! It's a pain in the ass!"
Carter's trying and failing to dodge potholes on a rain-soaked dirt runway. We've just dropped in on yet another Carter partnership, with the Kamayurá tribe, which he befriended in 1996. The remote village is now a regular stop on Brazilian Adventure Travel's itinerary, the ecotourism business Carter established in 1997 with Kika and an old college buddy, Dwayne House, 42.
A swarm of naked children and a few men wearing nothing but beaded waistbands, digital wristwatches, and a red dye that makes their bodies look like they've been dipped in cherry Kool-Aid tentatively approach the plane.
The men and children lead us to a hut on the shores of massive Lake Ipazu, where the four of us devour the smoked peacock bass one of the men has served on a bed of manioc flatbread. The Johnsons and I don't speak Tupi or Portuguese, and the villagers don't speak English, so we mostly smile.
"Have you ever heard of global warming?" I ask Cotia, our thirty-something tribal guide, who has curly hair and zero body fat and is in training to become a shaman.
"The chief knows," Cotia tells me, with Carter translating. But then he adds, "The rains started two months late and now it's not supposed to be raining, but it is."
"Yeah, they know what global warming is," says Carter.
The Kamayurá live in the southern part of the seven-million-acre Xingu reservation, home to 6,000 Indians from 15 ethnic groups. From the air, the village is a two-hour flight midway between Fazenda Santo Antonio and Fazenda Esperança. By land, it takes 12 hours via river and jeep to get here from the nearest town. Ninety-five percent of the 500 or so locals have never left the village, but today chief Kotok Kamayurá attended a festival at a neighboring village and hasn't yet returned.
About a dozen thatched huts housing three to six families each circle the sacred men's hut in the center of the village. On the periphery are a school, a clinic, tiled bathrooms with showers and toilets that Carter built to accommodate tourists, and an open-air hut on the lakeshore, where we string our hammocks to camp out for the night.
Carter first visited here 12 years ago. He decided to stay a month. "I wanted to figure out how to help them put value in their culture," he says.
The tribe, best known for its beautiful jewelry, didn't know how to count, so Carter helped them itemize their arts and crafts and came up with a price list. Then he started flying in small groups of high-dollar tourists to buy the jewelry. The program has been so successful the tourist fees ($450 per person), plus the income the Indians generate by selling their crafts, covers close to 30 percent of the tribe's total annual operating costs that now nearby villages want a similar system.
"This is one of the best-preserved tribes in the Amazon," says Carter. "They live in the middle of all these ranchers and farmers and haven't been beaten into submission. Ask any villager and they'll tell you that they don't want to leave."
Just when I start getting used to the idea that this may be a culture that can live without Facebook, the chief pulls up in a massive flatbed truck. Kotok is about 50, has a Beatles-style bowl cut, and is wearing flip-flops, khaki shorts, and a T-shirt. He's smoking a cigarette and looks like a surfer.
About five minutes after Kotok arrives, he strips naked, but keeps the cigarette. Four members of a Brazilian documentary film crew came with the chief in the truck. The little kids pull up an assortment of chairs near the tailgate to watch them unload their gear. The crew is here for two weeks to tape video for a piece that will ultimately become an art installation in a museum in Brasília.
When the director, Álvaro Andrade Garcia, finds out that the gringo in the Wranglers is John Carter, a man he's been tracking for months because he's a rancher sympathetic to the plight of the Indians and a passionate conservationist, he sits Carter down for an interview.
In Portuguese with the camera rolling, Carter spreads his sound bite to the world: "Ranchers aren't devils!" he says. "The real responsibility lies on the backs of the government, a task they fail to shoulder. But along with white landowners, Indians have an important role to play in Amazonian conservation. Twenty-five percent of it is in their control. But they, like whites, need financial incentives!"
Tacumã, the village shaman, who's sitting under a tree next to the film crew, slowly nods in agreement.
OUR LAST STOP in Mato Grosso is Rancho Jatobá, Carter's fishing camp on the River of the Dead, about a 20-minute flight east of Fazenda Esperança. With guest cabins, an open-air dining area, and a deck strung with hammocks and cantilevered over the wide and lazy river, the jungle camp is set up for guests of Brazilian Adventure Travel. But this is also Carter's favorite spot in Brazil, the place he goes to get away from it all.
"The rancho is almost mystical to me," he says. "The smells of the cerrado, the sounds of the dolphin blowing at night, the river otter screaming, the jaguar calling on the island . . . The wildness is overwhelming."
After a morning spent casting for footlong corvina, a silvery and quick-as-lightning fish, the Johnsons, Carter, and I drive the camp car into town so Carter can negotiate buying a piece of property adjacent to Rancho Jatobá. Then we stop off at a house with a satellite Internet connection to catch a story on Aliança da Terra scheduled to appear in London's Financial Times. Carter does a quick read before we hustle back to the fishing boats to drop our lines during the witching hour.
We roar downriver, then turn into a tiny inlet to snake through dense thickets of floodplain foliage, where we find the ultimate fishing spot and crack a Skol. While Suzie's busy catching a boatload of piranha, the conversation turns back to the sale of Fazenda Santo Antonio and the Lutz family.
"I don't even want to think about it, I want it to happen so bad," Carter says as he baits my hook after I've casted, yet again, into the trees.
Before leaving Brazil, I have a chance to meet with João Carlos Lutz and his wife, Marina Moraes Barros, who keep an apartment in São Paulo's tranquil Jardín district.
João Carlos has perfectly manicured white hair swept straight back off his forehead and a small mustache. Marina, 46, is fit and tanned and wears a gold necklace with a tiny bird charm. João Carlos doesn't speak much English, so Marina translates as she serves shots of strong Brazilian coffee in porcelain cups.
"The real problem is that we are naturalists, lovers of nature," Marina says. "Our dream is to continue like that, but with the pressure of the whole world begging for soybeans, it's difficult for us to continue."
"It's so rare and so special, what we have cerrado, Pantanal, high land that it needs to be preserved!" João Carlos says. "In wars, governments don't destroy museums, but in our country it's difficult to find anyone concerned with conservation."
"Conservation is in his blood," Marina explains. "His family, his grandfather, his aunts, his uncles they were all naturalists, all lovers of nature."
"My whole life is this country," João Carlos says. "I'm 64, I have a small future. I want to start other things."
"Who would be your perfect buyer?" I ask Marina and João Carlos, who have already had five solid offers on the ranch, all at full asking price, from encroaching soybean, rubber, and sugar conglomerates.
"First, the buyer must be a real conservationist," Marina tells me.
"Then he would need to create a scientific foundation," João Carlos adds.
Their dream is turning out to be a tall order for Carter. It's tough to dam ten million holes with only ten human fingers.
"João Carlos was a spark of sanity in all this madness," Carter said, addressing the monstrous task at hand while casting for corvina back at his camp. "I was neck-deep in mud here, and he was a shining light for me. If we can't get this done, there's something really wrong with the world."
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SIOUX FALLS (AP) -- Seven people are facing federal charges after law enforcement authorities on South Dakota's Pine Ridge Indian Reservation discovered two children so severely malnourished that a pediatrician later compared them to prisoners of...
SIOUX FALLS (AP) - Seven people are facing federal charges after law enforcement authorities on South Dakota's Pine Ridge Indian Reservation discovered two children so severely malnourished that a pediatrician later compared them to prisoners of World War II concentration camps.
The 2- and 3-year-old girls weighing 13 pounds each were discovered on Nov. 11, when officers responded to a reported assault at a home on the reservation on the South Dakota-Nebraska border, according to court records. The officers found the children lying on the floor, hidden under blankets, and only wearing diapers.
Authorities are accusing three of the seven people of assaulting the girls. The five others are accused of not seeking medical intervention for or reporting the condition of the children to authorities.
An affidavit shows that the children were taken to a Rapid City hospital after they were found at the home. The 3-year-old girl was found to be suffering from a deep bed sore on her left hip that "was all the way to the bone and would likely require surgical repair," according to the affidavit.
A pediatrician dealing with the girls told an FBI agent that the children would have died had they not been discovered. Court records show the pediatrician told the agent that the children's "extreme level of starvation" could be described as how "persons from World War II Concentration Camps" looked.
The home where the girls were found has several residents, including Roberta Featherman and Harold Red Owl Sr., both of whom authorities say were the victims' primary care givers. Records show that about three months before the seven arrests, the girls' mother "dropped off" the 3-year-old child with her mother, Roberta Featherman, and the 2-year-old child with her sister, Darshan Featherman.
A 10-year-old girl who lived at the home told the FBI agent that Roberta Featherman and Red Owl "did not like to feed the girls too much and that many other people saw the victims and 'don't like it' but did nothing to help," according to the affidavit. The 10-year-old girl and the 17-year-old sister of the victims were later removed from the home.
A week after the girls were discovered, federal agents searched the home and found plenty of food in bedrooms. Red Owl told the FBI agent that the food was hidden in the bedrooms because the victims would "steal" it.
Darshan Featherman, Roberta Featherman and Red Owl are charged with assault resulting in serious bodily injury. Terry Featherman, Rainbow Spoonhunter, Tressa Means Featherman and Jeff Shoulders are charged with concealing a felony. All pleaded not guilty on Nov. 22.
Red Owl's attorney declined to comment on the case. Shoulders's attorney, George Grassby, said he has requested copies of all police reports involved in the case. Attorneys for the other five did not immediately respond to requests for comment Tuesday.
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Cork County Council in Ireland has provided an excellent opportunity for second year architecture students to get some hands on practice and expand their design thinking. In Kevin Busby and Jim Harrison's paper, Universal Design in Architectural Education – Community Liaison on 'Live Projects', they report on imaginative examples of student responses to the challenges of integrating age-friendly features in housing. They also report on the learning gained from observing students and finding out the main design difficulties they found in the process. Illustrations demonstrate some of the ideas. Good to see students operating in the real world and making a difference.


Noxii gladiators are again, not really true gladiators in the same sense as a murmillo or retarius gladiator. However these fighters were often criminals or prisoners of war, who offered little opportunity to become a skilled gladiator in another class. They were typically used in battle where they were not expected to win, almost cannon fodder for the more refined and skillful gladiators of ancient Rome.
The noxii would have been used in various types of fights, or exhibitions in the amphitheatre.
The noxii would fight in Sagittarius battles on foot, while the saggitarius would have the goal of trying to pick them off with a bow and arrow.
Against an essadarius gladiator the noxii would be faced with a horse and chariot speeding towards them. The essadairus would try to run over, spear or trample the noxii.
One of the worst cases for the noxii gladiators, here they would be pitted against animals of all species. Chances in these battles were very slim for the noxii.
A group of noxii gladiators, a mix of criminals or war prisoners in the amphitheatre with some big cats.
This was another bad situation for the noxii would would fight in andabatae battles. These were were multiple men were put into the arena, with limited or no visibility, leading to flailing weapons and one would think some rather comedic things going on, while still being incredibly violent and brutal!
It's very hard to accurately state what the noxii gladiators were armed with. At the least a weapon of some sort would have been provided to them, likely a gladius sword or a pugio of some sort. With either of these weapons the noxii would have been able to mount some sort of offence on their more skilled or famed foes.
It's likely the noxii fought in many battles with very little or no armour, their low status as criminals would not provide them with much favour. In some battles the noxii were given helmets like in the andabatae battles but often as a way to hinder them more than help.
Survival was the primary motivation for the noxii gladiator, but their fighting style would have depended on what unfortunate situation they were placed.
In a sagittarius battle the goal would be to find cover and close the distance. Against the essadarius speed and agility might help them avoid the chariot tumbling towards them. In the bestarii battles i think courage and blind hope would be their greatest assets.
A noxii gladiator being attacked by a wild cat in the arena.
To be cast as a noxii gladiator was not a situation one would hope for. These fighters, unlikely considered true gladiators were not really expected to survive, but were more to satisfy the blood lust of the Roman empire and to keep the amphitheatre and its patrons happy.


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2. Application of 1st and 2nd coats.
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Final coat has to be applied on to small area (0,5-1,0 m²) by short multidirectional creative pressing movements holding trowel at acute angle to surface. To obtain more variegated pattern it is also possible to use special polishing triangle spatula with rounded corners in criss-cross manner. It is advisable to provide complete coverage of surface by very thin layer of stucco. Right away while material is still wet polishing procedure has to be commenced.
Polishing procedure has to be accomplished while final coat is still wet. Trowel has to be kept at acute angle to the surface. Pressing force should increase after each stroke. As a result of repeating multidirectional "pressing movements" gloss level is gradually increasing after each stroke.
5. Application and polishing of VENETO CERA wax.
Finishing wax VENETO CERA has to be evenly distributed all over the surface by multidirectional movements of INOX trowel. Trowel has to be kept at acute angle to surface. After wax is dried surface has to be polished by soft cloth or woollen glove by circular movements.
6. The surface is done.
Please bear in mind that primary role of stucco (even despite it protected by wax) is not protective but only decorative. Therefore high mechanical or washing loads on to decorated surface are to be avoided. Cleaning and dedusting of the surface has to be done using dry or just lightly moisturised soft cleaning cloth.


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Trump's 'School Choice' Plan: Religious Fundamentalism At Taxpayer Expense
UPDATED President Donald Trump is being praised for a change in tone in his recent address to Congress, but his belligerent attitude toward public education hasn't changed a bit. While it's true he stopped short of repeating his claims that public schools are "broken" and a "government monopoly," what Trump chose to highlight in his … Continue reading "Trump's 'School Choice' Plan: Religious Fundamentalism At Taxpayer Expense"
President Donald Trump is being praised for a change in tone in his recent address to Congress, but his belligerent attitude toward public education hasn't changed a bit.
While it's true he stopped short of repeating his claims that public schools are "broken" and a "government monopoly," what Trump chose to highlight in his remarks about public schools was a story about a student who left them.
During his education remarks, Trump called out a guest of his in the audience, Denisha Merriweather, who, he says, "struggled in school and failed third grade twice. But then she was able to enroll in a private center for learning, with the help of a tax credit scholarship program. Today, she is the first in her family to graduate, not just from high school, but from college. Later this year she will get her masters degree in social work."
Education writers were quick to jump on Trump's shout-out to speculate that an education tax-credit proposal, like the one Merriweather took advantage of in Florida, would be just the sort of plan Trump would try to push through Congress.
"One of the easiest ways Trump could make good on his promise to expand [school choice]," writes Emma Brown for the Washington Post, "is to create a federal tax credit that incentivizes corporations to donate to state programs such as Florida's. Such a credit could be embedded in a broader tax code overhaul that would need a simple majority in Congress to pass."
Brown's report tells you something about how these tax-credit programs work – they give individuals and corporations tax breaks when they donate to nonprofits which then distribute the money in the form of scholarships to private schools. But she doesn't describe the school Merriweather transferred to and what type of education the public's money ultimately paid for.
Some would ask, "Does it matter what kind of school Merriweather attended?" True, Merriweather's story is admirable, and she should be commended for her accomplishments.
But whenever public money is involved, the interests of the common good, not just the fortunes of a single person, must be considered. And while Merriweather certainly benefited from an education tax-credit program, it would be dangerous to project her success story into a public policy intended for all children nationwide.
Poster Person For Privatization?
First, it should be noted this is hardly the first time Merriweather's story has been used to tout tax-credit scholarship programs.
Merriweather is not simply an industrious student. She's also a frequent contributor and presenter for Step Up For Students, the state-approved nonprofit in Florida that helps administer the education tax-credit program she benefitted from. According to her profile at the Step Up website, she has been featured prominently in this organization's communications outreach since 2008. Although she isn't listed as staff of Step Up, she has been employed as an intern.
Over the past three years, Merriweather has had the opportunity to tell her story in numerous media outlets including the Wall Street Journal, The Hill, the Tampa Bay Times, and The 74 (a pro school choice media site funded by charter school and voucher advocates such as the Walton Family Foundation and the Dick & Betsy DeVos Foundation). She's also been the subject of pro school choice profiles in politically conservative news outlets. And after Merriweather was highlighted at Trump's speech, she was interviewed by Fox News.
None of this is to take away from the sincerity of Merriweather's writing or the validity of her lived experience. But it needs to be noted that few public school students have had such prominent venues to repeatedly tell their success stories.
Further, the school Merriweather attended through the school choice program Trump champions is no ordinary school.
Religious Fundamentalism At Taxpayer Expense
The private school Merriweather attended and graduated from is the Esprit De Corps Center for Learning in Jacksonville which she has described in testimony she gave last year to a U.S. House Committee as "a church based school, a church that I actually attended."
According to the Esprit de Corps website, the "vision for the school was birthed from the mind of God in the heart of Dr. Jeannette C. Holmes-Vann, the Pastor and Founder of Hope Chapel Ministries, Inc." The education philosophy guiding the school is based on "a return to a traditional educational model founded on Christian principles and values. In accordance with this vision, each component of the school was purposefully selected and designed."
A significant "component" of the Esprit de Corps school is its adherence to a fundamentalist Christian curriculum. Its official listing in a Jacksonville directory of private schools describes its education program as a "spiritual emphasis and biblical [sic] view, which permeates the A-Beka curriculum."
"A Beka is one of the most widely used K-12 curriculum series for home schooling and private Christian schools," Rachel Tabachnick explains to me in an email. "This includes many private schools receiving public dollars through voucher and tax-credit programs."
Tabachnick has collected textbooks used by voucher and corporate tax-credit schools for over ten years, including curriculum from A Beka Book and Bob Jones University Press.
In an investigative article for Alternet in 2011, Tabachnick writes, "Throughout the K-12 curriculum, A Beka consistently presents the Bible as literal history and science. This includes teaching young earth creationism and demeaning other religions and other Christian faiths including Roman Catholicism."
An A Beka history text she reviews teaches that "socialist propaganda" exaggerated the Great Depression "so that Franklin Delano Roosevelt could pass New Deal legislation" and that the Vietnam War "divided the country into the 'hawks who supported the fight against Communism, and doves, who were soft on Communism.'"
Tabachnick quotes a fourth-grade A Beka text that celebrates President Ronald Reagan's presidency under a banner of "A Return to Patriotism and Family Values." In describing President Bill Clinton's administration, an A Beka high school history text calls First Lady Hilary Clinton's effort to overhaul health care a "plan for socialized medicine" and describes Vice President Al Gore as "known for his radical environmentalism."
Christ Is History, Africans Are Inferior
In her emails to me, Tabachnick shares excerpts from a newer edition of A Beka's textbook on "History and Civil Government" that teaches, "The first advent of Jesus Christ to earth – His incarnation, birth, life, death, resurrection, and ascension – is the focal point of history. History began with God and His act of Creation. It climaxed with God's act of redemption." (emphasis original)
In the current edition of A Beka's 10th grade history text "World History and Cultures in Christian Perspective" Tabachnick shares with me, "modern liberalism" is described as "the desire to be free from absolute standards and morals, especially the Scriptures."
From this text, high school students like Denisha Merriweather learn, "The beginning of the 20th century witnessed a cultural breakdown that threatened to destroy the very roots of Western civilization. The cause of this dissolution was the idea or philosophy known as liberalism." (emphasis original)
The curriculum used by Esprit de Corps also taught Merriweather and her African American classmates about the innate inferiority of the African continent and its people.
"The textbooks teach the narrative that the people of African nations descended from Noah's son Ham and that Ham's descendant Nimrod led the rebellion against God by building the Tower of Babel," Tabachnick tells me. This Biblically supported lesson is often referred to as "the curse of Ham," which has historically been a primary justification for slavery among Southern Christians, according to numerous sources.
In the A Beka text "History and Civil Government," Adam and Eve are referred to as "the parents of humanity" and racial variations in human kind are described as the result of "recessive traits" due to "(1) a rapidly changing environment, (2) a small population, (3) and extensive inbreeding."
"Current A Beka texts also falsely claim that only ten percent of the population of Africa is literate and that literacy rates may drop further because of communists shutting down mission schools," Tabachnick tells me.
A Realistic View?
On its company website, A Beka claims its textbooks teach "a realistic view of time, government, geography, and economics based on eternal truths."
Of course, parents can decide for themselves if this is the kind of "realistic view" they want their children to learn. But why should taxpayer money pay for it?
According to a 2015 report in the Orlando Sentinel, Florida's tax-credit school voucher programs, including the one Merriweather took advantage of, have become a cash cow for many of the state's private schools – sending out about $544 million to families of nearly 100,000 students in the state.
Of the roughly 2,300 private schools in Florida, more than 1,500 accept voucher money, and of these voucher-accepting schools, about 45 percent rely on them for at least half of their students. About 70 percent of these schools are religiously affiliated, "including some where religion is a central focus."
Now, Trump wants to roll that out nationwide.
Author Jeff BryantPosted on March 2, 2017 Categories Articles by Jeff Bryant
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To create soldiers for the neomedieval crusade against Islam. "What we're seeing is an alignment where people believe that they have to align the United States and Russia as an axis of Christendom against Islam, in a clash of civilizations that Osama bin Laden dreamed about."
http://www.publicmedievalist.com/russia-love/
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Amendment to Dutch Patents Act (Rijksoctrooiwet) Allows for Extemporaneous Preparation of Medicine in Certain Circumstances
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Patent Prosecution 知识产权和技术
Article 53 (3) Dutch Patents Act
As of Feb. 1, 2019, the Dutch Patents Act 1995 (DPA) was amended to include a limitation of the exclusive right of the holder of a patent on a medicine. The exclusive right now includes an important exception in DPA Article 53(3):
The exclusive right…does not extend to the preparation for immediate use for individuals on the basis of a medical prescription of medicines in pharmacies, nor acts concerning the medicines so prepared.
This GT Alert examines this limitation. Under what conditions is a pharmacist allowed to prepare a patented medicine?
Community Patent Convention
This portion of DPA Article 53(3) enables pharmacists to prepare patented medicines in the above-stated circumstances, for immediate use for individuals on the basis of a medical prescription. The language originates from Europe's Community Patent Convention (CPC) Article 31, which states the rights conferred by a community patent shall extend to neither the extemporaneous preparation of a medicine for individual cases in a pharmacy in accordance with a medical prescription nor acts concerning the medicine so prepared. Although the CPC never entered into force and the DPA was adopted in 1995 without this language, parties to the convention confirmed that they would amend the DPA at a later date to conform with this language in the CPC.
While, as of Feb. 1, 2019, Dutch Parliament is no longer debating the above-quoted text of DPA Article 53(3), the political conversation continues, and the ramifications remain to be seen. The public interest in addressing excessively high medicine prices in the Netherlands motivated the legislature to make this language official. According to the Minister of Medical Care and Sports, Mr. Bruins, removing liability for patent violation in certain instances of extemporaneous preparation of medicines could provide a reasonable alternative for expensive medicines.
In his Explanatory Memorandum on the enforcement of the extemporaneous provision, the Minister of Economics, Mr. Wiebes, stated that to prevent abuse of extemporaneous preparation of medicines, the exception should only apply to:
exceptional cases in which a pharmacist prepares a medicine himself;
cases pursuant to a medical prescription; and
the preparation of medicines for individual patients.
Scholars in the Netherlands agree this language does not allow the preparation of patented medicines on a widespread basis.
The newly adopted exception in the DPA must be interpreted restrictively. Case law in member states where the exception entered into force earlier dictates that extemporaneous preparation of medicine is only allowed in a specific dosage or with excipients other than those making up the medicinal products available over the counter in the country.
Legal Debate
Public sentiment in the Netherlands supports extemporaneous preparation of medicine as an alternative to expensive drugs. Obviously, a broad interpretation of the new law will be opposed by stakeholders such as patent owners and the pharmaceutical industry. Regardless of whether the medicine is available on the Dutch market, it is reasonable to anticipate a legal debate on the scope of the newly effective exception of DPA Article 53(3).
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