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Three Students Arrested During Hunger Games Premiere
Natcha Kong-udom, a first year student at Bangkok University, was arrested by police after she began flashing the three-finger salute in Siam Paragon's cinema, 20 Nov 2014.
BANGKOK — Three university students were arrested by police in Bangkok today for organising a mass viewing of the latest "Hunger Games" movie, which has become associated with dissent against Thailand's military regime.
The students originally planned to watch the film at Scala theatre in Bangkok, but the cinema removed the movie from its program altogether after students bought every ticket in the house. Today, two student activists arrived at Scala theater to tell the press they planned to watch the movie somewhere else.
"We organised this event as movie-lovers," said Rattapon Supsopon, a fourth-year economics student at Thammasat University. "We are not political humans who are only obsessed with politics."
When reporters asked one of several dozen police officers stationed at the theatre if they planned to make an arrest, Pol.Col. Kittikorn Boonsom replied, "We have to see their action, then we will interpret what their intention is."
Minutes later, Rattapon was escorted off the premises by plain-clothed officers and taken to the police station. Soon after that, a second student was arrested for taking out a copy of George Orwell's dystopian novel 1984, another symbol of anti-coup sentiment banned by the military junta that seized power on 22 May.
In an effort to promote "national reconciliation" between Thailand's divided political camps, the junta has outlawed all political activities, including academic seminars. Violators have been sent to face trials in military court, where appeals are not permitted.
A third student was arrested today at a nearby cinema in Siam Paragon mall, which students chose as the location for the mass-viewing of "The Hunger Games: Mockinjay – Part 1" after Scala theatre canceled its screening.
Natcha Kong-udom, a first-year student at Bangkok University who was not associated with the other activists, was arrested by police after she began flashing the three-finger salute in the theatre's lobby.
The gesture, inspired by its use as an act of rebellion in "The Hunger Games," became a symbol of anti-coup resistance shortly after the military takeover.
"I think this film has many things that resemble the situation in Thailand right now," Natcha told reporters at the police station. "I knew that the salute would have me arrested, but I think it's a thing that a person should be able to do."
She was later taken by soldiers to the 2nd Cavalry Division headquarters in Sanam Pao district for detention.
Yesterday, five law students were taken to an army camp for flashing the salute while coup-leader turned Prime Minister Gen. Prayuth Chan-ocha was giving a speech in Khon Kaen province.
"These arrests reflect the abnormality of post-coup Thailand," said Sunai Pasuk from Human Rights Watch.
"The security forces should exercise judgment and separate peaceful expression from violent protests," he continued. "They have to listen to people's opinions about the direction of the reforms."
(Reporting by Sally Mairs)
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Timeless—a show about a stolen time machine and the historian, soldier, and pilot chosen to travel through American history to stop history as they know it from being destroyed. It sounded like something I'd really like, and so I was extremely disappointed when its pilot episode was, well, not great. However, I decided to review the first two episodes instead of only the pilot, and I'm glad I waited. Even though it doesn't handle all of its issues well, Timeless has the potential to be a compelling, thought-provoking sci-fi show if it succeeds at building on its current mythology.
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I didn't think I'd be so into the 2016 Rio Olympics, but as it was, I ended up watching it for literal hours every day, enchanted by the gymnastics and the diving and the soccer and everything in between. That's why I ended up seeing a commercial for a new fall show of NBC's called Timeless countless times per hour. Since I like science fiction, I finally went and looked up some information on the show and found out that it's co-created by Eric Kripke, who created Supernatural but left before it jumped the shark several times over, and it has a cast including Sakina Jaffrey from Sleepy Hollow. That all means that the show should be good, right? Well… not so much.


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Director: Roberto Minervini
Cast: Judy Hill, Dorothy Hill, Michael Nelson
Black Gold: WHAT YOU GONNA DO WHEN THE WORLD'S ON FIRE + Q&A w/ Judy Hill
Join BLACK GOLD Sunday, January 26th for a special screening of Roberto Minervini's WHAT YOU GONNA DO WHEN THE WORLD'S ON FIRE, featuring a Skype Q&A with Judy Hill!
This will be the first theatrical screening of Minervini's film in Toronto and our intention with this screening is to centre black healing. We hope to foster a space where members of the black community can actively engage in a generative discussion and critique of the film, an irrevocably important element to sharing this film that was strikingly absent from much festival programming.
Please note, this event is free to attend for members of the black community – message Black Gold for details.
"Italian-born, American South–based filmmaker Roberto Minervini's follow-up to his Texas Trilogy is a portrait of African-Americans in New Orleans struggling to maintain their unique cultural identity and to find social justice. Shot in very sharp black and white, the film is focused on Judy, trying to keep her family afloat and save her bar before it's snapped up by speculators; Ronaldo and Titus, two brothers growing up surrounded by violence and with a father in jail; Kevin, trying to keep the glorious local traditions of the Mardi Gras Indians alive; and the local Black Panthers, trying to stand up against a new, deadly wave of racism. This is a passionately urgent and strangely lyrical film experience."
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OFT tells Asda to sell 47 stores in the UK
The Office of Fair Trading is demanding that Asda sell 47 Netto stores to appease competition concerns, a higher level of disposals than the UK arm of Walmart had expected when it struck the £778m deal to buy the discount food retailer.
The OFT said the disposals were necessary because competition could be "substantially reduced" in some local areas where the two chains overlapped.
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Asda said the number of stores to be sold was "at the high end of its expectations". The grocer must also find suitable buyers before the OFT will clear the sale of the stores. The consumer affairs watchdog will take into account local competition before approving the deals.
Asda said it had begun discussions with possible buyers and was "confident we can meet the [OFT's] obligations". It expected to complete the conversion of the Netto stores by late summer 2011 as planned.
Because the OFT's decision had been delivered three weeks later than expected, there would not be sufficient time to open its first pilot Netto store before Christmas. Instead, it would be ready in the first quarter of next year.
Asda agreed in May to buy the Netto stores from Denmark's Dansk Supermarket, in an effort to cement its position as Britain's second-biggest supermarket and stem a slow-down in sales.
Clive Black, an analyst at Shore Capital, said he had expected the OFT to require that Asda sold 25-30 stores.
"Asda will be a bit disappointed that they have got to sell more stores than they wanted," he said. "Having said that, food retail shops are a much sought-after asset at the moment. In that respect, I would have thought there would be quite a degree of interest in the stores that Asda has to sell."
Justin Scarborough, an analyst at Royal Bank of Scotland, said the 47 stores could be worth about £180m. The level of disposals raises questions about whether the benefits of the deal will be reduced. But the grocer said it was confident of lifting sales from the Netto stores.
Source : Andrea Felsted - FT.com
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Teatro Buendía, formed in 1986 by graduates from the Higher Institute of Arts, Havana, and directed by Flora Lauten, is Cuba's most celebrated theater company. Since its foundation, they have developed two parallel lines of work: the production of theater spectacles, and a permanent research center investigating Latin American and Caribbean cultural traditions, the expressive possibilities of the actor, and the renewal of scenic languages. The study of the possible relations between music, dance, and interpretation, as well as the formulation of new forms of scenic writing and dramaturgy of the spectacle, have consolidated Teatro Buendía's international prestige as a company that has presented their repertoire in the most demanding festivals and venues of Latin America, Europe, North America, Asia, Africa and Australia, all to critical acclaim. They also tour internationally giving workshops, seminars and conferences on their cultural investigations and creative methods.


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Mount Dora police hunt down Leesburg man in theft at Target
Jonathon Tunstall
Robert B. Beck III
Mount Dora police tracked down a Leesburg man and his accomplice suspected of stealing merchandise at Target.
Officers were contacted by the store's loss prevention officer who showed them a security video in which two men, later identified as 33-year-old Robert B. Beck III of Yahala and 38-year-old Jonathon B. Tunstall of Leesburg, in the store on Oct. 21. The video showed them loading into their cart a Jetson hover board valued at $249.99, a Lego Mustang set valued at $169.99 and a Mint cell phone valued at $249.99. The total value of the items was $669.97. The video captured Beck cutting a security cord on the phone and handing it to Tunstall.
In addition, the surveillance showed Tunstall pretending to run a credit card in the self-checkout station and the exiting the store without paying for any of the items. Both men got into the same car and left the area.
Tunstall was known to the detective who was assigned to the case. The detective showed the video to a Mount Dora police crime analyst who recognized Beck. A photo lineup was shown to the loss prevention employee who was able to pick the two men out of the line up.
Tunstall was arrested on Nov. 23 and Beck was caught on Tuesday. Tunstall's bond was set at $10,000, which he posted. Beck posted $1,000 bond and was released. Both men have previous criminal records.
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Quantifying the economic benefits of gauge changes on the South African core railway network
University of Pretoria: Research Output
Theses and Dissertations (University of Pretoria)
Demmerez de Charmoy, Christian Pierre
In its white paper, the Department of Transport proposes a future South African core railway network which requires the conversion and construction of over 8,500 km of standard gauge railway track by 2050. The scale of the project would undeniably have a large cost attached to it which needs to be well understood before any of the construction takes place. Numerous studies regarding railway gauge have been conducted in South Africa, however, no single paper has addressed the issue of which specific railway corridors could economically benefit from a standard gauge intervention. The purpose of the study was to identify which corridors in the South African core network could potentially benefit from a gauge change intervention. These identified corridors were then economically evaluated to determine which of the corridors would outperform the base case which was set as the Market Demand Strategy (MDS) plan. The three main gauge interventions which evaluated includes the direct conversion from narrow to standard gauge, the addition of a third rail to a narrow gauge line and the construction of a ring-fenced standard gauge line adjacent to a narrow gauge corridor. Lastly, simulations were carried out on the corridors which outperformed the base case, to establish how the operations of the corridor would be affected. Agent based simulation was conducted to understand the effects of the gauge changes performed on corridors which met the described criteria. The conclusions of the study indicated that all of the corridors in the South African core network should follow the plans proposed in the MDS to achieve the maximum return for the analysis period, except for the Natal corridor. It was identified that the Natal corridor would benefit most from a standard gauge single line which would run concurrently with the narrow gauge corridor transporting containers and other general freight. The results of the study did not directly correlate with Department of Transport's white paper gauge change proposals. Many of the gauge conversions proposed by the white paper could be highly uneconomical and may require large government subsidies should they be undertaken. A thorough understanding of the financial implications of performing large scale gauge changes is required before any construction should take place. This study should be seen as a steppingstone towards this understanding.
Dissertation (MEng (Transportation Engineering))--University of Pretoria, 2019.
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Pope Francis asked the young people of West Africa to pray for peace in the world, "particularly in the region of Casamance." The message of the Holy Father to the 2014 Inter-Territorial World Youth Days in Senegal was read out by the Apostolic Nuncio to Senegal, Archbishop Loius Mariano Montemayor.
The event was attended by around 25,000 young people from Senegal, Gambia, Mauritania, Guinea Bissau, Cape Verde, Guinea Conakry, Mali, Togo, Burkina Faso, Ivory Coast, Benin, and Ghana. Remember to keep praying for peace in this region!


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Published April 30th, 2019 in Alternative Therapies, HN4U Blog, Traditional Cookery, What's in the News
By Tammera J. Karr, PhD
It is difficult to appreciate in today's world the value of honey and bees. Honey is a by-product of flower nectar and the upper aerodigestive tract of the honey bee, which is concentrated through a dehydration process inside the beehive. Honey has a very complex chemical composition that varies depending on the botanical source. Honey is as old as history is itself. One of the earliest evidence of honey harvesting is on a rock painting dating back 8000 years that shows a honey seeker robbing a wild bee colony, in Valencia, Spain.[1], [2]
Humans have eaten honey, bathed in it, healed wounds and traded with honey since history was recorded. Archaeologists discovered honeycomb in Egypt buried with the pharaohs, the honey was preserved and still eatable. In Niuserre's sun temple bee-keepers are depicted blowing smoke into hives as they are removing the honey-combs. After extracting the honey from the comb, it was strained and poured into earthen jars. Images in Old Eygypt tombs show cylindrical hives dating from the 7th century B.C.[3]
The old testament refers to the land of Israel as the "land flowing of milk and honey." The book of Sirach refers to the honey bee – "The bee is small among flying creatures, but what it produces is the best of sweet things." [4] Honey is mentioned in the scrolls of the Orient, the Talmud, and Koran. [5] The Romans used honey for treating wounds after battles.[6], [7] Hannibal, fed his army honey and vinegar as they crossed the Alps on elephants. In medieval Europe, bees were highly prized for their honey and wax. Honey was used as food, and to make mead—possibly the world's oldest fermented beverage. The history of mead dates back 20,000 to 40,000 years and originates on the African continent. In Africa during the dry season, wild bees would nest in tree hollows, and during the wet season, the hollows would fill with water. Water, honey, osmotolerant yeast, time and voila—mead is born.
By the 10th century, the Kings and Queens of England, as well as the Vikings consumed fermented honey wine (Mead). [8], [9] In medieval times, honey was used as medicine to treat burns, cough, indigestion and other ailments. The lady of the manor would combine spices and herbs with mead to improve digestion. Candles made from beeswax burned brighter, longer and cleaner than other wax candles. Bees were often kept at monasteries and manor houses, where they were tended with the highest respect and considered part of the family or community. It was considered rude, to quarrel in front of bees. [10] Honey was often available only to royalty, and with time the tradition of mead was only sustained in the monasteries of Europe.
Most of man's history has writings and art documenting our love and uses of honey. Which is not surprising, honey is a source of natural sugar, easy on the stomach and if stored correctly it will last almost indefinite. Honey can be easily adapted to use in the kitchen, the internet hosts over 148 million search results for recipes and blogs on honey. [11] Modern research has now traced the story of honey more. Honey and Beeswax leave unique chemical signatures – these signatures have been found on thousands of pottery shards dating back through Neolithic time. The researchers found traces of beeswax on more than 6,400 pottery pieces used by Neolithic farmers. The oldest evidence found dates to 7,000 B.C. in Anatolia or Asia Minor. One Stone Age site in southeastern Turkey called Çayönü Tepesi yielded exceptionally well-preserved beeswax residue.[12]
The tradition of "Telling the Bees'" dates back to the Ancient Celts; it was believed if you didn't keep the bees in the know about long journeys, passing of a member of the household or birth of a child, the bees would pack up and leave or die. There were even special prayers to say when seeing a bee flying over a field in the middle ages to present in Great Britain. The Orthodox Church has recognized the importance of bees for centuries and has prayers for both bees and beehives.[13]
O God, the Creator of all, who blesses seed and makes it to increase and makes it profitable for our use: Through the intercession of the Forerunner and Baptist John, mercifully hearing our prayers, be pleased to bless and sanctify the bees by Your own deep compassion, that they may abundantly bear fruit for the beauty and adornment of Your temple and Your holy altars, and they may be useful for us, in Christ Jesus our Lord, to Whom be honor and glory unto ages of ages.
Celtic mythology held that bees were the link between our world and the spirit world. So if you had any message for a deceased family member or friend, all you had to do was tell the bees, and they would pass it along. Telling the bees was widely observed in England and Europe. Eventually, the tradition made it's a way across the Atlantic to North America. The typical way to "tell the bees" was for the head of the household, or "goodwife of the house" to go out to the hives, knock gently to get the attention of the bees, and then softly murmur in a doleful tune the solemn news.
Our Dependence on Pollinators
I was deeply saddened to see Bumble Bees placed on the endangered species list recently. [14] Our dependence on bees and the many other pollinators for food is no less in modern times than in the past. Bees help humans survive, 70 of the top 100 crop species that feed 90% of the human population rely on bees for pollination. Without bees, these plants would cease to exist, and with them, animals that depend on those plants become jeopardized also. The loss of bees and fellow pollinators will have a cascading effect that will ripple catastrophically up the food chain. Losing a beehive is much more than losing a supply of honey, it is a bell tolling a final warning for us all.
The modern world's reliance on man-made chemicals for agriculture has been proven to be devastating to bees and other beneficial bugs. We no longer value the bee as we once did, sitting and chatting with them about members of the family. The act of telling the bees emphasizes this deep connection humans share with the insect and their importance.
Fake Honey in your Tea
Fake honey on market shelves in Australia in 2018 became news. Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR) testing at a leading international scientific lab that specializes in honey fraud detection found almost half the honey samples selected from supermarket shelves in Australia and New Zealand were "adulterated," meaning it had been mixed with something other than nectar from bees. Phil McCabe, the president of the International Federation of Beekeepers' Association (Apimondia), believes the NMR test is the most accurate available and thinks consumers are not getting what they paid for. [15]
In the USA the news of adulterated honey started circulating in 2011. This prompted the FDA to post a statement in 2015: "A growing demand for honey, dwindling production due, in large part, to the collapse of domestic bee colonies, and rising prices have given rise to a practice industry experts call "honey laundering." What's labeled as pure honey, in fact, may be a honey blend or honey syrup — honey adulterated with cane sugar or corn syrup — or product that contains antibiotic residue", the Food and Drug Administration said.[16]
What about the medicinal properties of Honey?
First, a reminder – do not give Raw Honey to children under 12 months – Honey can contain spores of a bacterium called Clostridium botulinum, which can germinate in a baby's immature digestive system and cause infant botulism, a rare but potentially fatal illness.
Honey has antibacterial properties for wound-healing.
Research reviews on honey show raw honey decreases the severity and duration of diarrhea. Honey promotes increased potassium and water intake, helpful when experiencing diarrhea.
Research on honey showed a reduction in the upward flow of stomach acid and undigested food by lining the esophagus and stomach. This reduces the risk of gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD).
A study in the European Journal of Clinical Microbiology & Infectious Diseases reported Manuka honey, can help prevent the bacteria Clostridium difficile. C. difficile causes severe diarrhea and sickness.
Studies have shown Manuka honey may be valid for the treatment of MRSA.
A 2007 study by Penn State College of Medicine suggested honey can reduce night-time coughing and improved sleep quality in children over 1 year of age, with upper respiratory infection better than the cough medicine dextromethorphan. [17], [18]
So a spoonfull of Honey really does help – and Don't forget to Thank bees when you see them in your yard or garden for all they do for us.
The Adorable Custom of 'Telling The Bees' by Kaushik: https://www.amusingplanet.com/2019/04/the-adorable-custom-of-telling-bees.html?m=1&fbclid=IwAR0k6QtdZZXDqJ82sNqZvQLZuBiTKaNAnBcFoVie3ppdq917AIMMLDTDFOs
Bees Bee Keeping and Honey: http://www.heathmonthoney.com.au/bees/HoneyHistory.htm
Ancient Cave Painting: http://www.mdbee.com/articles/cavepainting.html
[1] http://www.heathmonthoney.com.au/bees/HoneyHistory.htm
[2] Estimates of age place the rock painting depicted above at approximately 15,000 years old. Discovered in the early 1900's in Valencia , Spain in the Cave of the Spider (Cueve de la Arana) situated on the river Cazunta, the painting speaks of man's long fascination with honey. Before our ancestors could write, they recorded this honey hunting event in bold red paint.
[3] Beekeeping in Ancient Egypt, February 23, 2008 by beelore: https://beelore.com/2008/02/23/beekeeping-in-ancient-egypt/
[4] Sirach 11:3
[5] https://s3.amazonaws.com/alternativedaily/honey/Honey_natures_miracle.pdf
[6] Traditional and Modern Uses of Natural Honey in Human Diseases: A Review: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3758027/
[7] Avoiding Death Like the Plague: Wound Care inthe Roman Army by Gwendolyn E. Dougherty: https://digitalcommons.brockport.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1014&context=hashtaghistory
[8] Our Ancient Ancestors Probably Loved Honey Too By Marissa Fessenden November 11, 2015: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/relationship-between-humans-and-honeybees-goes-back-9000-years-180957245/
[9] Beer and mead in the Viking period: https://en.natmus.dk/historical-knowledge/denmark/prehistoric-period-until-1050-ad/the-viking-age/food/beer-and-mead/
[10] https://www.amusingplanet.com/2019/04/the-adorable-custom-of-telling-bees.html
[11] National Honey Board: https://www.honey.com/recipes
[12] https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/relationship-between-humans-and-honeyb…
[13] First Prayer for Bees: https://frted.wordpress.com/2013/07/08/the-blessing-of-the-bees/
[14] First U.S. Bumblebee Officially Listed as Endangered: https://news.nationalgeographic.com/2017/03/bumblebees-endangered-extinction-united-states/
[15] https://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-09-03/capilano-and-supermarkets-accused-of-selling-fake-honey/10187628
[16] Bee Culture, March 2015: https://www.beeculture.com/catch-the-buzz-illegal-honey-again/
[17] Everything you need to know about honey By Joseph Nordqvist: 14 February 2018,: https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/264667.php
[18] Honey Benefits and medicinial Uses: https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/264667.php
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I started my journey along railroad tracks a while back, as a way to discover and understand, and sometimes connect. Over the years, I painted railroad tracks, up North along the Hudson River, and South on the High Line; I even painted along the JR Line in Tokyo. My most recent Hudson Yards paintings came as a natural extension of the Grand Central Station and High Line projects.
At the beginning of the 19th Century, the first school of American landscape painters explored the dramatic wilderness of the Hudson River Valley. They lived in New York City, and traveled up North by train. I decided to follow in their footsteps and, in the summer of 2007, boarded a train at Grand Central Station on the Hudson River Line. I got off at every single stop, working my way up North, and painted every station along the way. I made a point of keeping train station and river in sight whenever possible. It took me two summers to complete the 30 stations.
In 2009, I travelled to Japan for work, and spent three months there. The Tokyo JR line became my next track project. Based on watercolors I painted on site, I executed 17 oil paint kakemonos featuring 17 views of the JR line.
Back in New York, a new development provided the inspiration for another systematic track exploration: the High Line. Dating back to the early 20th Century, this elevated railroad track snaked from warehouses and industrial buildings, through the meatpacking district and cheap housing for the waterfront workers, to the undeveloped railroad yards of Pennsylvania Station. The tracks eventually shut down. In the beginning of the 21st Century, the abandoned tracks were landscaped and turned into a park. For this series, I focused on the Steps to the High Line, painting all staircase accesses to the park.
In the past two or three years, the scale of the Hudson Yards development reminded me of the excavation work that was done a century earlier to build Pennsylvania Station. I then decided to set up my easel in the same area from where George Bellows executed a series of four oil paintings: Pennsylvania Station Excavation (1907-1909). Like Bellows, I wanted to celebrate this project. The Vessel, Heatherwicks' centerpiece, is the focus of several paintings.
I discovered that fort on Route A1A, on my way from Miami Beach to New York, on January 01, 2013. Built on the Matanzas River between 1740 and 1742 by the Spanish, it defended the south approach of St Augustine. Only 5 minutes to paint that watercolor. A Rotring "Artpen" came very handy to rush in sunset and closing time by the National Park Service.
I played Hide and Seek with hurricane Sandy, arriving in Santo Domingo one day after Sandy hit the island and back in Manhattan one week later. I discovered that the 2 islands share, thanks to Sandy, the same fragility. The watercolor was painted on Halloween Day in the Museum of the Dominican Man. Carnival masks and costumes to fight the Kingdom of Evil!
Yuka Imata paints every morning in Bryant Park. From August 13 to August 24, she works on a tiny painting, the subject of which is a model sitting under an umbrella. Model and painter are eerily still and silent, in the mist of noisy and busy Bryant Park.
On my way to Bard College, to a Saint-Saëns opera, Henry VIII, in the Sosnoff Theater, I found this pavilion which recalls Frank Gehry's building with its aerial lightness.
L. and N. had their wedding ceremony in a former Presbyterian church converted to a painting studio. Opera singers and musicians gave a concert.
After their wedding ceremony in an artist studio, L. and N. had a celebration in this historic house. Behind the large tent, a smaller one sheltered a jazz band.


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Estill & Patterson Appointed to College of Education Board of Visitors – Athens State University
Estill & Patterson Appointed to College of Education Board of Visitors
Posted on:	 June 11, 2018	 Last updated on:	 June 11, 2018	 Written by:	russell.frye@athens.edu	Categorized in:	Athens State News, Board of Trustees, College of Education
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Athens State University is pleased to announce the appointment of Dr. Donna Estill and Mr. Patrick Patterson to the College of Education Board of Visitors.
Dr. Donna Estill serves as the Dean of Humanities & Social Sciences at Calhoun Community College. She holds a B.A. in Journalism with a minor in French from the University of Alabama, an M.A. in English from the University of Alabama in Huntsville, and an Ed.D. from The University of Alabama.
After working as a budget analyst at the University of Alabama in Huntsville while earning her master's degree, Estill taught English at South Arkansas Community College. While working on her doctorate, she worked as an administrator and middle school/high school English, history and PE teacher at The Capitol School in Tuscaloosa and was managing editor for Crystal Growth and Design, an American Chemical Society journal. She then taught English at Alabama Southern Community College (now Coastal Alabama Community College) in Monroeville, also serving as Assistant Director of the Alabama Center for Literary Arts and Humanities Division Chair. She moved to Fort Scott, Kansas to serve as Dean of Instruction/Chief Academic Officer at Fort Scott Community College before returning to Calhoun Community College. In addition to being an administrator, she teaches as often as possible, has served as the Humanities Advisor for the Alabama Writers Symposium, and is an active member of the Alabama Association for Developmental Education. She was chosen as Outstanding Administrator at Calhoun for the 2017-18 academic year and was awarded a NISOD Excellence Medal.[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text] Mr. Patrick Patterson is currently the Director of Secondary Education for the Morgan County Board of Education. He holds an associate's degree in Science from Northwest Alabama State Community College, a B.S. Ed. in Secondary Education with a double major in English and History from Athens State College, an M.A. Ed. in Educational Leadership from the University of North Alabama, and an Ed. S. in Educational Leadership from Samford University.
Patterson began his career at Austin High School where he taught social studies for grades 9-12 and was the Head Coach of the boys' soccer team. During this time, he also served as an assistant football coach at Cedar Ridge Middle School. Patterson went on to become the 10th and 12th grade English teacher at Brewer High School where he also took on the duties of head boys' soccer coach and assistant football coach. A few years later, Patterson assumed the roles of assistant principal and athletic director of Brewer High School. In 2007, he was named the principal of Eva School and served in that position for seven years.
Patterson was the first Morgan County Schools Educator to receive the Alabama Department of Education Marbury Award for Technology Innovation as a School Administrator in 2010. He met his wife Jenny at Athens State, and together they have two children: Kyle (19) and Olivia (15). He credits the success of his career to the immeasurable love and support of his wife and the foundation of character, leadership, and boldness he learned as an Athens State student.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]
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What day was my birthday Apr 18, 1958?
April 18, 1958 was a Friday and it was the 108th day of the year 1958. It was the 16th Friday of that year. The next time you can reuse your old 1958 calendar will be in 2025. Both calendars will be exactly the same! This is assuming you are not interested in the dates for Easter and other irregular holidays that are based on a lunisolar calendar.
What day was April 18 this year?
There are 362 days left before your next birthday. You will be 62 years old when that day comes. There have been 22,284 days from the day you were born up to today. If you've been sleeping 8 hours daily since birth, then you have slept a total of 7,428 days or 20.34 years. You spent 33% of your life sleeping. Since night and day always follow each other, there were precisely 755 full moons after you were born up to this day. How many of them did you see? The next full moon that you can see will be on May 18 at 21:13:00 GMT – Saturday.
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If a dog named Chikibaby - a Anatolian Shepherd Dog breed, was born on the same date as you then it will be 329 dog years old today. A dog's first human year is equal to 15 dog years. Dogs age differently depending on breed and size. When you reach the age of 6 Chikibaby will be 45 dog years old. From that point forward a large-sized dog like Chikibaby will age 5-6 dog years for every human year.
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King Æthelred I of Northumbria is murdered in Corbridge by a group led by his ealdormen, Ealdred and Wada. The patrician Osbald is placed on the throne, but is within 27 days abdicated.
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Twenty-nine nations meet at Bandung, Indonesia, for the first Asian-African Conference.
In Lebanon, at least 106 civilians are killed when the Israel Defense Forces shell the United Nations compound at Quana where more than 800 civilians had taken refuge.
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What does my birthday April 18, 1958 mean?
Your birthday numbers 4, 18, and 1958 reveal that your Life Path number is 9. It represents selflessness, forgiveness and creativity. You are the philanthropist, humanitarian, socially conscious, and are deeply concerned about the state of the world.
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The Western zodiac or sun sign of a person born on April 18 is Aries ♈ (The Ram) – a cardinal sign with Fire as Western element. The ruling planet is Mars – the planet of war and ambition. According to the ancient art of Chinese astrology (or Eastern zodiac), Dog is the mythical animal and Earth is the Eastern element of a person born on April 18, 1958.
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Fun fact: The birth flower for 18th April 1958 is Sweet Pea for love.
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When it comes to love and relationship, you are most compatible with a person born on February 15, 1988. You have a Love Match compatibility score of +185. Imagine being in love with your soul mate. On the negative side, you are most incompatible with a person born on January 19, 1967. Your incompatibility score is -167. You'll be like a cat and a dog on a love-hate relationship. Arf-arf, I want to bite you. Meow-meow, stay away from me!
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I do not know how you feel about this, but you were a female ♀ in your last earthly incarnation. You were born somewhere around the territory of Western Australia approximately on 1575. Your profession was sailor, shoemaker.
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Base on the data published by the United Nations Population Division, an estimated 103,731,629 babies were born throughout the world in the year 1958. The estimated number of babies born on 18th April 1958 is 284,196. That's equivalent to 197 babies every minute. Try to imagine if all of them are crying at the same time.
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A  japán anime, amit Vatanabe Sinicsiró rendezett, zenéjét Kanno Jóko szerezte. 2071-ben, a Bebop űrhajón négy balszerencsés fejvadász néhol vicces, néhol drámai kalandjait követhetjük nyomon. Magyarországon eredetileg az RTL Klub rendelte be, de 16-os korhatár miatt átadta az A+ adónak. Az A+ 2005. tavasztól néhány éven át folyamatosan vetítette. Később a Klub Publishing kiadó adta ki DVD-n magyar szinkronnal és felirattal, ami egyébként az RTL-hez tartozott.

Történet
A történet valamikor a távoli jövőben játszódik, amikor az emberiség már elhagyta a katasztrófa sújtotta Földet, és benépesítette a Naprendszert. A bolygóközi társadalomban elharapódzó bűnözéssel szemben az Intergalaktikus Rendőrség már kevésnek bizonyul, a korrupciótól tehetetlen rendőrség bevezeti az akár milliós végösszegű vérdíjakat, és megkezdődik a fejvadászok, vagy ahogy ők magukat hívják a cowboyok kora. A főszereplők is ilyen fejvadászok, akik akarva-akaratlanul egymásra lesznek utalva, miközben bolygóról bolygóra repülnek a "nagy fogás" reményében, a galaxis legfurább figuráival akadnak össze, de lassacskán fény derül a múltjuk sötétebb titkaira is, amikkel szembe kell nézniük.

Szereplők

Spike Spiegel
Spike az örök bunkó, akinek mindig cigi lóg ki a szájából. Hármuk közül az ő múltja a leghomályosabb, és igyekszik is, hogy ez mindig így maradjon. Spike szinte a legjobb fejvadász, a történetben, de szerencsétlen módon eddig egyetlen akciója sem sikerült. Spike a Marson született, közel 27 éve. Fiatalon csatlakozott a Szindikátushoz (ill. Vörös Sárkány), majd rejtélyes módon eltűnt. Később a Bebop fedélzetén kötött ki. Jettel, aki szintén nem egy úriember, jóban vannak, és Jet mindig aggódik miatta, hiszen Spike-ot nem érdekli a veszély, számára egyre megy, hogy épp él vagy hal. A legjobban a kutyák, a gyerekek és a nők zavarják, ami elég ironikus, tekintve, hogy kikkel él együtt.

Spike összetett személyiség, általában a megérzéseire hallgat. Eddel és Einnel semmi különös baja sincs, bár létezésükről próbál tudomást sem venni. Faye Spike-ot direkt idegesíti, de ettől függetlenül mindig segítséget kér, amit viszont általában nem kap. Viselkedése ellenére Spike mégsem érzéketlen, mert a kalandok során megkedveli ezt a "családos" életmódot, és talán egy kicsit megszereti Faye-t.

A történet során sok különféle emberrel találkozik (kamionsofőr, pszichopata bohóc, szájharmonikás kisfiú és ANDY), régi szindikátusosokkal, legfőbb ellenségével, Kőszívűvel (Vicious) és régi szerelmével, Juliával. Végén minden szál összefut, Spikey újból találkozik a múltjával.

 Japán szinkronhang: Jamadera Kóicsi
 Angol szinkronhang: Steven Jay Blum
 Magyar szinkronhang: Juhász Zoltán, Fazekas István (a mozifilmben)

Faye Valentine
Faye magabiztos és mindig számító. Szépsége és szexuális kisugárzása mögött egy olyan ember rejlik, aki bárkit képes átverni, ha a saját érdekei úgy diktálják. "Ugyanolyan lelki nyugalommal robbant fel egy épületet, mint ahogyan rúzst ken a szájára." Mint a többiekét, az ő múltját is homály fedi, annyi különbséggel, hogy ő nem is emlékszik a múltjára. Faye ugyanis még csak 23 éves, ellenben hetvenhárom évvel ezelőtt született, még a Földön, majd egy balesetben halálos sérülést kapott, és mivel az orvosok nem tudták a gyógymódot, lefagyasztották őt, hogy majd a távoli jövőben segítséget kap. Ötven évig aludt így, és amikor felébresztették, meggyógyították ugyan, de se pénze, se emlékezete nem maradt a múltból. Így aztán menekülőre fogta kénytelen-kelletlen, hogy az állandóan sarkában lévő hitelezőket és behajtókat lerázza. Tengernyi adóssága miatt számkivetettnek számított, és a sors furcsa fintora a Bebopra vezette őt, ahol végül a fiúk között ragadt, fejvadász lett belőle.

Faye intrikus, önző, egyfolytában dohányzik és folyton piszkálja Eint, a kutyát, de mindettől függetlenül valahol belül érző lélek, és még ha nem is vallja be, megszereti a Bebop szedett-vedett legénységét, és mélyen meghatja, amikor a két srác kihúzza a bajból, még ha nem is konkrétan őmiatta teszik, hanem egyéb célból. Spike és őközte ki is alakul egyfajta vonzalom, nem szerelem – a sorozatból kiderül, hogy a szerelmet Spike életében más tölti be –, hanem inkább csak egyfajta kimondatlan vonzódás a másik iránt. Faye jellemét tekintve igazi emancipált nő.

 Japán szinkronhang: Hajasibara Megumi
 Angol szinkronhang: Wendee Lee
 Magyar szinkronhang: Szitás Barbara, Németh Kriszta (a mozifilmben)

Jet Black
Jet Black harminchat éves férfi, 188 cm magas, szeme színe kék, vércsoportja A, a Bebop űrhajó "édesapja". Megfontolt, magabiztos "vén róka". Ő felügyeli Spike, Faye, Ed és Ein munkáját/sorsát, ő a kapocs közöttük, az összetartó erő. A múltja igen rejtélyes, legalább olyan sok titok övezi, mint a többi szereplőét, idővel derül csak ki az is, hogy miféle párharcban veszítette el a fél karját. Annyi bizonyos, hogy Jet a rendőrségnél, az ISSP-nél dolgozott régen, sok ismerőse van, és némi befolyása még ma is akad azért a volt kollégái körében, ha arról van szó, hogy a Bebop akcióit segítse.

Mint mindenki a sorozatban, ő is teljesen különálló, jól elemezhető jellem. Aprólékos nyomozói stílusával le sem tudná tagadni a múltját. A kemény külső mögött egy érző apai szív rejlik, ami úton-útfélen meg is szólal benne, általában szigorral, néhol azonban elnéző mosollyal a többiek iránt, akik nem is nagyon mernek szembefordulni vele, hiszen ő a rangidős a Bebopon. Ő szokott főzni a hajón, ő tartja rendben a pénzügyeket is.

 Japán szinkronhang: Isizuka Unshó
 Angol szinkronhang: John Billingslea
 Magyar szinkronhang: Rosta Sándor, Kristóf Tibor (a mozifilmben)

Edward Wong Hau Pepelu Tivrusky IV
Edward egy kisgyerek, hacker és számítógépzseni. Úgy néz ki, mint egy fiú, de valójában lány. Apja térképész és egyszer egy árvaházba adta pár hétig, de ottfelejtette. A lány az árvaházban nevelkedett, majd felszökött a Bebopra, és a fiúkkal és Faye-jel ragadt, megszerette őket. Ő és Ein mindig becsempészik a vidámságot a feszült felek közé.

 Japán szinkronhang: Tada Aoi
 Angol szinkronhang: Melissa Charles
 Magyar szinkronhang: Jelinek Márk, Bálint Sugárka (a mozifilmben)

Ein
Ein egy szuperintelligens kutya, fajtája welsh corgi.

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Anime Island
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Rajongói oldal
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Q: XML / SQLITE DB for use on a CD I've read a couple of similar questions on SO about this, which is how I've narrowed it down to XML / SqlLite as the best solutions. I need a database for storing data on a CD, doesn't need to be written to or edited and performance isn't a huge issue. There will be less than 100k records.
So, question is, assuming XML is the solution (and from my reading it appears to suit), what do I use for a front-end to query the DB? I need a form-type solution where the user can query and get results, most likely from an EXE or something similar.
I'm familiar with C# asp.net but am I right in thinking that if I code a solution in .net then the user will need the framework for it to work? I need a solution that requires no installation and can be run directly from the CD.
Any ideas?

A: do you want the app to run always from CD or you want a way to install the package as one...
if thats so you can package it with .net framework and do a silent installation o user's machine

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The ad, placed by a socially conservative group in Minnesota, was meant to snap attention to a proposal to allow transgender students to play on teams based on their preferred gender rather than the sex assigned to them at birth.
It appears to have worked. More than 100 community members flooded a meeting this week near Minneapolis, and thousands more sent e-mails. In response, the quasi-public body governing high school sports in Minnesota decided to delay a vote on a new policy covering sports participation by transgender students. Members of the board of directors said they needed more time to study the issue.
The policy, which they now plan to vote on in December, was an attempt to grapple with a question that has bedeviled many states: How do you deal with the growing number of children identifying as transgender who want to participate in the highly gender-specific worlds of high school sports and extracurricular activities?
School systems have scrambled to adopt policies to deal with these students while also being sensitive to concerns over locker-room privacy and any advantages a more physically imposing transgender female might have on the field against other girls.
"Generally, our society is becoming more accepting in its understanding of gender identity and what that means, and we've been very lucky that in the last few years this cadre of young kids has started identifying themselves as trans from a young age," said Helen Carroll, sports project director at the National Center for Lesbian Rights, who helped write a model policy for school systems. "It's really pushing folks to really grapple with and understand what it means."
But activists like Carroll have run into opposition, including from groups that say gender is a biological fact rather than a social choice and that schools should not cater to a small subset of the student body.
The number of students asking for such accommodations nationally is indeed very low, Carroll said, estimating that, nationally, fewer than 10 students a year make such requests. Advocates and students say that is because transgender students are typically afraid of bullying or very self-conscious about their bodies and therefore choose not to participate in sports.
"I just didn't feel like I was accepted anywhere in athletics," said Jae Bates, 18, a student at the University of Puget Sound in Washington who graduated from a Minnesota high school. Bates had been active in soccer, swimming and track but dropped the first two after coming out as male just prior to his junior year. He remained on the girls' track team, in part because the coach was an adviser to his school's gay-straight alliance.
Thirty-two states have adopted policies in recent years regarding transgender athletes, according to the National Federation of State High School Associations, with several states placing restrictions on their ability to compete with teammates of their preferred gender. For example, Virginia, Georgia and North Carolina require students to play on teams based on the gender listed on their birth certificate, according to Trans*Athlete, an online clearinghouse for information about transgender athletes.
At least 10 states and the District allow transgender athletes to play on their preferred teams, according to Trans*Athlete. New York is expected to consider such a policy this month. The one considered this week by the Minnesota State High School Sports League would have left discretion up to individual schools, with the caveat that students and their parents could appeal the school's decision to the league.
The decision to delay the vote pleased opponents of the policy. Both sides said they plan to muster support for their views before the vote in December.
Autumn Leva, director of policy and communication for the Minnesota Family Council, said her group will be "more than happy to bring in another viewpoint" as discussions continue. She said one problem is the policy is silent about how religiously affiliated private schools that are part of the state league will have to accommodate transgender students if they are visiting from other schools.
"What if the Christian schools can't accommodate, or do not allow their girls to compete with a team that has a boy on it for safety reasons?" she said. "Does the private school have to forfeit?"
The ad in the Minneapolis Star-Tribune was placed by the Minnesota Child Protection League, which on its Web site opposed the policy in part because there are no "accommodations made for those who believe that gender is a biological and genetic reality, not a social choice."
The group suggested that girls could be at risk of greater injury on the field if they are playing alongside "biological boys." And it warned that the policy could mean a transgender girl, with intact male anatomy, could shower next to other girls or bunk with them on overnight trips, putting them at risk of sexual assault.
The accusations galled advocates for gay and transgender youth, who say transgender kids are much more likely to use private stalls to change or shower rather than risk someone seeing their bodies. They say transgender girls who have been permitted to play on girls' teams have not outstripped their teammates in ability. And they say it is unfair to characterize these children, who are often more vulnerable than their classmates, as predators.
"It absolutely misrepresents the reality of what it means to be transgender," said Alison Yocom, a Minneapolis mother of a transgender 11-year-old boy who is undergoing hormone therapy.
"You're not a boy showering next to a girl," she said. "A transgender girl is a girl. There's a difference between your parts and your gender, and I know it's hard to understand and there is a lot of controversy around this, but to be misgendered as a boy when you are actually a trans girl is incredibly offensive."
Correction: An earlier version of this story used an incorrect pronoun in the caption for the person in the photograph, Zeam Porter. Porter's preferred pronouns are "they" and "them."
Sandhya Somashekhar is a health reporter for the Washington Post.


Building Excellent Schools (BES) serves as a national model for supporting excellence in public education through the national charter school movement. BES focuses on improving urban education by providing support for designing, launching and sustaining urban charter schools (independently-managed public schools). RISE Prep's Founder, Rosalind DaCruz, was a Fellow with BES in 2013-14 and continues to work closely with the BES team.


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Suitable for staff in any sector, providing essential knowledge to ensure a safer working environment.
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This second installment in the Harry Potter backstory series relies on our fondness for J.K. Rowling's Wizarding World, but replaces character depth with a fan-geekery plot and lots of whizzy special effects. You leave it not moved, but tired. Rating: 2 stars out of 4.
A five-movie series is a lot, if you're not quite in love with the characters. J.K. Rowling's "Harry Potter" book series, translated to film, worked beautifully because we were invested in Harry, Ron and Hermione — and in the teachers, friends, adversaries and miscellaneous creatures that surrounded them. The Potter backstory series "Fantastic Beasts," for which the new "The Crimes of Grindelwald" is installment number two, relies on our fondness for that world, but replaces character depth with a fan-geekery plot and lots of whizzy special effects. You leave it not moved, but tired. There's going to be three more of these? Can't Rowling, who wrote the screenplay, Apparate a better plotline from somewhere?
Set mostly in Paris in 1927, "The Crimes of Grindelwald" looks glorious; production designer Stuart Craig and costume designer Colleen Atwood do beautiful, whimsically detailed work. (I was bedazzled by a particular hat, worn by a minor, malevolent female character — a perfect blend of witches' pointy hat and slouchy up-to-the-minute 1920s high fashion.) A few of the performances register — Law shows us the quiet majesty that Dumbledore will acquire; Zoe Kravitz is touching as the enigmatic Leta Lestrange — while others fizzle, such as Katherine Waterston's bland Tina Goldstein. And the action too often grinds to a halt while we look at magical beasts, or have some elaborate backstory related.
While it's often great fun to look at, "Crimes of Grindelwald" fails at what should be Rowling's great strength: storytelling. Three more to go, and an infusion of magic is desperately needed.
★★ "Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald," with Johnny Depp, Eddie Redmayne, Jude Law, Katherine Waterston, Dan Fogler, Alison Sudol, Ezra Miller, Zoe Kravitz, Callum Turner, Claudia Kim. Directed by David Yates, from a screenplay by J.K. Rowling. 133 minutes. Rated PG-13 for some sequences of fantasy action. Opens Nov. 16 at multiple theaters.


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People will no longer be able to play the digital version of The New York Times daily crossword puzzle in third-party apps, according to an announcement made by the Times on Monday. Starting August 10th, the crossword will be available digitally only via the NYT site or on its own crossword app. Downloadable PDFs, in addition to the physical newspaper, will still be available for people who want to print and play.
Until now, crosswords were available in the Across Lite .puz file format, so anyone with a Times games subscription could download a puzzle and open it in the desktop or mobile app of their choice. The change applies not just to future puzzles but to the archive of puzzles that are currently in the .puz format.
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Luibhéid, Eithne, Cantú, Lionel Jr. "Queer Migrations: Sexuality, U.S. Citizenship, And Border Crossings"
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As Ernesto 'Che' Guevara was one of the most influential figure in Latin America. His journey through Latin America brought him to becoming an advocate in several countries for the people who suffered oppression by their governments. He strongly believed in the idea of a "new man" who represented the morals of the human race rather than the material aspects of the world. With the phenomena of gay rights, and queer migration in particular, I believe that Che Guevara would have advocated for their rights as human beings, and wanted the world to treat them as equals. This picture perfectly depicts the unity Latin America should have as a people.
Every aspect of the United States' social, political, economic, and cultural life has been affected by the international migration process. Furthermore, the reasons behind immigration have been questioned among scholars but the correlation between sexuality and migration has been severely overlooked. Luibhéid and Cantú address the important historical issues regarding the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) community as well as the current issues happening today. Perhaps the most significant aspect of this book is the impact that queer migration has on migrant lives and sets the pathway for "a movement from repression to freedom" (p. xxv). Although there are current legal and state policies that present challenges to migrants, there has been significant progress from the United States banning of queer migrants in 1917 and 1990. There are two main concerns regarding this idea of queer migration. First being the question of how sexuality shapes the migration process. And secondly, how U.S. immigration and citizenship control strategies are affected by concerns about sexuality. In answering this question, Cantú and Luibhéid acknowledge that the reason these questions are being raised is due to the LGBT community looking to escape their discriminatory regions in search for a more tolerant one, thus making their way to the United States. Protected by the right of asylum, the U.S. has become that sovereign nation that has taken in several members of the LGBT community from Latin America, as their nations have been discriminatory against them. Queer Migrations: Sexuality, U.S. Citizenship, And Border Crossings is a book that addresses the concept of migration that continues to be one of the most controversial issues to date, but goes even further in researching what factors sexuality plays in that very issue. Luibhéid and Cantú present a well constructed narrative of the historical role of sexuality and the relatively modern idea of queer migration.
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The word fairy means 'those who control death (and life);" in otherwords "the controllers of fate." Fairies often gave humans their fate from birth. In ancient times fate wasn't an abstract concept, the fate which controlled all humans was what the fairies made it to be.
Originally Fairies were not prancey dancey little creatures beloved by little girls and derided by everyone else as too surgery. They can be fearsome and dangerous beings.
Because Fairy was originally a term to describe belief types just as deity is one can see many related "fairy traditions" from around the world, including the Kami of Japan, the Rusalka of Russia, and more.
Ancient peoples moved around and so their stories and beliefs spread. Even the Altaic People's of Japan and the Indo-Europeans on India have ancient connections with European Fairy Beliefs.
The word "temple" originally meant wood (forest, trees, etc). People in Northern Europe once thought that deities lived in natural objects and it was offensive to build temples to them. Even in Rome they didn't build temples for centuries but prayed instead to trees.
Rather than simply worship fairies people could and would also threaten them in order to get what they wanted.
Fairies and deities could grow up in a year, or might even be born old from the very beginning. Even fairies who had a childhood could be thousands of years old and so would want it back.
A lack of childhood could explain why fairies love to be around children and why they act childish.
Humans are born from Nymps in Greek Mythology (Who are Zues's Aunts). In Celtic Mythology Humans are the children of the Deity of the Underworld. Humans can have children with fairies and fairies often have children with humans.


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Performance Planner now live in Google Ads: Shows predicted impact of campaign changes on conversions, clicks, more
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Google Ads performance planner is available under the Tools menu.
A new Performance Planner is available in Google Ads. The tool is designed to help advertisers understand how to allocate a set monthly budget across all of their campaigns based on Google's projections for maximizing incremental conversions — or other advertising goal. It can also be used to understand how changes could potentially impact conversions, clicks and other performance metrics.
It was among the new products highlighted at Google Marketing Live on Tuesday.
How to use it. Advertisers can also play with other inputs, such as CPA and spend and new keywords to see Google's projected impact on results. When we first covered this in March, it was called Budget Planner, so it's got a new name now that it's officially announced, but the functionality is pretty much the same.
You can create a budget plan with either clicks or conversions as the key metric. There is also the option to choose a target: clicks, spend or average CPC if you select clicks as the primary metric, or conversions, spend or average CPA when conversions is your key metric.
On the Compare tab, you can see how your current settings and your planned settings are predicted to stack up against past performance. You can change the time range of the past performance period.
This is strictly a planning tool. Unlike Keyword Planner, for example, you can't implement changes from the Performance Planner. Instead, you'll need to download the changes and upload the file into Google Ads Editor.
Requirements for campaigns to be eligible. Campaigns must meet the following criteria to be eligible for forecasting. The tool will notify you when campaigns are not eligible.
Have been running for at least 72 hours
Have received at least 3 clicks in the last 7 days
Have received at least one conversion in the last 7 days (if the campaigns focus on conversions)
Are Search campaigns that use a manual cost-per-click (CPC), enhanced CPC, target cost-per-action (CPA), maximize clicks, or maximize conversions bidding strategy.
How forecasts are calculated. Google uses both campaign history and auction data to in its forecasting. Additionally:
Forecasts are directional and are updated every 24-48 hours.
It takes holidays and other seasonal traffic into account depending on business type and location.
Forecasts are more accurate the closer they're generated to the start date
Google notes on the help page that if your campaigns don't have enough conversion data to create a forecast, but have enough clicks, you can manually enter a conversion rate to see conversion forecasts.
Why we should care. As we wrote in March, this tool won't tell you how much budget you should start off with, but it can provide some directional (key word here) insights into how changes in spend could impact performance of campaigns that already have enough historical data.
Ginny Marvin is Third Door Media's Editor-in-Chief, managing day-to-day editorial operations across all of our publications. Ginny writes about paid online marketing topics including paid search, paid social, display and retargeting for Search Engine Land, Marketing Land and MarTech Today. With more than 15 years of marketing experience, she has held both in-house and agency management positions. She can be found on Twitter as @ginnymarvin.
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Google Search Console unparsable structured data report data issue
Google has informed us that you may see a spike in errors in the unparsable structured data report within Google Search Console. This is a bug in the reporting system and you do not need to worry. The issue happened between January 13, 2020 and January 16, 2020.
The bug. Google wrote on the data anomalies page "Some users may see a spike in unparsable structured data errors. This was due to an internal misconfiguration that will be fixed soon, and can be ignored." This was dated January 13, 2020 through January 16, 2020.
To be fixed. Google said they will fix the issue with the internal misconfiguration. It is, however, unclear if the data will be fixed or if you will see a spike in those errors between those date ranges.
Unparsable structured data report. The unparsable structured data report is accessible within Google Search Console by clicking here. The report aggregates structured data syntax errors. It puts all the parsing issues, including structured data syntax errors, that specifically prevented Google from identifying the feature type.
Why we care. The main thing here is that if you see a spike in errors in that report between January 13th and 16th, do not worry. It is a bug with the report and not an issue with your web site. Go back to the report in a few days and make sure that you do not see errors occurring after the 17th of January to be sure you have no technical issues.
Barry Schwartz a Contributing Editor to Search Engine Land and a member of the programming team for SMX events. He owns RustyBrick, a NY based web consulting firm. He also runs Search Engine Roundtable, a popular search blog on very advanced SEM topics. Barry's personal blog is named Cartoon Barry and he can be followed on Twitter here.
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Google rolls out organic 'Popular Products' listings in mobile search results
Several years ago now, Google made the significant move to turn product search listings into an entirely paid product. Shopping campaigns, as they're now called, have accounted for an increasing share of retail search budgets ever since. More recently, however, Google has been augmenting organic search results with product listings. It's in a product search battle with Amazon, after all. On Thursday, the company announced the official rollout of "Popular Products" for apparel, shoe and similar searches in mobile results.
Organic product listings. Google has been experimenting with ways to surface product listings in organic search results, including Popular Products, which has been spotted for several months now. The section is powered by those organic feeds. Google says it identifies popular products from merchants to show them in a single spot, allowing users to filter by style, department and size type. The listings link to the retailers' websites.
Popular Products is now live in Google mobile search results.
Why we care. This is part of a broader effort by Google to enhance product search experiences as it faces increasing competition from Amazon and other marketplaces as well as social platforms. Earlier this week, Google announced it has acquired Pointy, a hardware solution for capturing product and inventory data from small local merchants that can then be used in search results (and ads).
In the past few years, Google has also prompted retailers to adopt product schema markup on their sites by adding support for it in Search and Image search results. Then last spring, Google opened up Merchant Center to all retailers, regardless if they were running Shopping campaigns. Any retailer can submit their feed in real-time to Google to make their products eligible in search results.
Ad revenue was certainly at the heart of the shift to paid product listings, but prior to the move, product search on Google was often a terrible user experience with search listings often not matching what was on the landing page, from availability to pricing to even the very product. The move to a paid solution imposed quality standards that forced merchants to clean up their product data and provide it to Google in a structured manner in the form of product feeds through Google Merchant Center.
Ginny Marvin is Third Door Media's Editor-in-Chief, running the day to day editorial operations across all publications and overseeing paid media coverage. Ginny Marvin writes about paid digital advertising and analytics news and trends for Search Engine Land, Marketing Land and MarTech Today. With more than 15 years of marketing experience, Ginny has held both in-house and agency management positions. She can be found on Twitter as @ginnymarvin.
Google buys Pointy to bring SMB store inventory online
Google is acquiring Irish startup Pointy, the companies announced Tuesday. Pointy has solved a problem that vexed startups for more than a decade: how to bring small, independent retailer inventory online.
The terms of the deal were not disclosed, but Pointy had raised less than $20 million so it probably wasn't an expensive buy for Google. But it could have a significant impact for the future of product search.
Complements local inventory feeds. This acquisition will help Google offer more local inventory data in Google My Business (GMB) listings, knowledge panels and ads especially. It complements Google Shopping Campaigns' local inventory ads, which are largely utilized by enterprise merchants and first launched in 2013.
Numerous companies over the last decade tried to solve the challenge of how to bring small business product inventory online. However, most failed because the majority of SMB retailers lack sophisticated inventory management systems that can generate product feeds and integrate with APIs.
Pointy POS hardware
Source: Pointy
How Pointy works. The company created a simple way to get local store inventory online and then showcase that inventory in organic search results or paid search ads. It utilizes a low-cost hardware device that attaches to a point-of-sale barcode scanner (see image above). It's compatible with multiple other POS systems, including Square.
Once the device is installed, it captures every product sold by the merchant and then creates a digital record of products, which can be pushed out in paid or organic results. (The company also helps small retailers set up local inventory ads using the data.) Pointy also creates local inventory pages for each store and product, which are optimized and can rank for product searches.
Pointy doesn't actually understand real-time inventory. Cleverly, however, it uses machine learning algorithms to estimate this by measuring product purchase frequency. The system assumes local retailers are going to stock frequently purchased items. That's an oversimplification, but is essentially how it works.
Pointy said it a blog post that it "serve[s] local retailers in almost every city and every town in the U.S. and throughout Ireland."
Why we care. The Pointy acquisition will likely help Google in at least three ways:
Provide more structured, local inventory data for consumers to find in Search.
Generate more advertising revenue over time from independent retailers.
Help Google more effectively compete with Amazon in product search.
Notwithstanding the fact that e-commerce outperformed traditional retail over the holidays, most people spend the bulk of their shopping budgets offline and prefer to shop locally. Indeed, Generation Z prefers to shop in stores, according to an A.T. Kearney survey.
One of the reasons that people shop at Amazon is because they can find products they're looking for. They often don't know where to find a particular product locally. But if more inventory data becomes available, the more people may opt to buy from local stores instead.
Greg Sterling is a Contributing Editor at Search Engine Land. He writes about the connections between digital and offline commerce. He previously held leadership roles at LSA, The Kelsey Group and TechTV. Follow him Twitter or find him on LinkedIn.
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It should not, at this point in United States history, surprise anyone to hear that there are drastic racial disparities in enforcement of laws, judiciary proceedings and treatment within and beyond the criminal justice system. The resources in this section document when and where many of these inequities originate. Several resources also provide concrete strategies for affecting change (an examination of best practices aimed at interrupting the so-called "school to prison pipeline", for example). In thinking about this topic for racial equity work, please also look at the sections in this site on the history of racism and on cultural racism. These sections include information about ways in which the criminal justice system continues to mirror a long-standing set of policies and laws that reflect bias; i.e., they are based on a viewpoint that some racial/ethnic groups are "of a criminal nature" and need to be left to civilize themselves, and that others are "redeemable" and worthy of investment, in terms of education, housing, health, etc. A deep understanding of the roots of the United States' current highly racialized and inequitable criminal justice system can clarify new ways of imagining a more equitable one, and thus, goals and opportunities for change.
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Herman Ssewanyana is a Ugandan musician and percussionist. He is the current Band Leader, Musical Director and Percussionist with the musical group Percussion Discussion Africa. He is a member and percussionist with the musical band Afrigo Band, the longest-lasting musical band in Uganda, which was founded in 1975.

Background and education
He was born on in the Central Region of Uganda circa 1955.

Music career
Ssewanyana was a member of the Afrigo Band, since circa 1980. In 1997, while still with Afrigo, he founded Percussion Discussion Africa, focusing on cultural music, with emphasis on African percussion instruments. Since 2011, he has collaborated with other Ugandan music artists to produce the annual music festival known as Zivuge. In 2012, he was part of The Percussion Gurus, Qwela Junction, a two-hour performance by leading Ugandan percussionists, held at Emin Pasha Hotel in Kampala on 30 March 2012.

See also
 Afrigo Band
 Moses Matovu
 Joanita Kawalya

References

External links
 The Aaron Thurston Trio Set Kampala On Fire
  The Finest 50 Musicians And Music Groups Since Independence

1955 births
Living people
Kampala District
Ugandan musicians
Ganda people
Members of Afrigo Band


Strong demand among business and leisure passengers saw Norwegian carry 2.6 million passengers in May.
A new video outlines how Norwegian brings competition, lower fares and more jobs to the U.S. and Europe.
Norwegian today reported its first quarter results for 2016 with an underlying improvement of more than 400 MNOK (£34m), compared to the same quarter previous year.
Norwegian carried almost 2.2 million passengers this month, an increase of 27 per cent compared to March last year.


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