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PHC Giza (Photo taken by Stephanie Adams)
How neglected PHCs leave many in Nasarawa without healthcare
byStephanie Adams
The Federal Government flagged off the Primary Healthcare Centres (PHC) revitalisation programme January last year. Several months later, PREMIUM TIMES visited 12 of the facilities across Nasarawa State and found only two of them under renovation. In the others, it was mostly the same case of a few ill-trained staff marking time in unequipped, dilapidated facilities, with a few local people paying them any attention.
The state's Commissioner of Health, Daniel Iya, referred all enquiries about the revitalization scheme in the state to the Executive Chairman of the Nasarawa State Primary Health Care Development Agency (NAPHDA), Muhammed Usman Adis. But the chairman was not prepared "to speak to the press." So it was left to the reporter to make her own judgement.
Below is the account of what she found in seven of the PHCs in the state that she visited over the course of weeks.
PHC Giza
Giza is in Keana Local Government Area of the North-central Nigerian state. The mixed community of Alago, Gwandara and Tiv ethnic groups is about 30 kilometres drive from Kadarko, the headquarters of the LGA, through a dusty road. Apparently, someone once nursed a plan to tar the road but the project was long abandoned.
The poor state of the PHC in the community is typical of rural PHCs around Nigeria and the struggle of their staff to deliver medical care to patients. The centre, which was built 28 years earlier, is the only one in the community and is virtually unequipped and lacks basic amenities.
The centre is run on fund provided quarterly through the state's Decentralized Facility Financing (DFF). "I was transferred here a month ago, but we have a lot of issues," Micheal Ogaja, the medical doctor and head of the centre told PREMIUM TIMES almost unnecessarily.
Water supply was one of these "issues". The attendants fetch water from neighbouring houses for use at the PHC. Although there is a borehole, it packed up a long time ago, and the doctor was not aware of any plan to fix it.
Giza has not had public electricity for over seven years, so an inverter was installed at the PHC for power supply.
"We put on the inverter at night for a maximum of three hours daily or when there is need for it, like when a woman is in labour," Mr. Ogaja said.
The doctor said the facility attends to about seven patients daily, because "patients prefer private clinic".
Aishatu Sani Okaku, the deputy chief attendant had been working at the centre since 1995. Speaking in Hausa, she said: "We don't have enough qualified medical personnel, the facility is understaffed and we are overworked. As an attendant, I also work as a midwife, cleaner, errand person etc. And my salary is being paid in bits despite the whole stress, which is a problem for me and my family.
"There is only one security personnel in the facility who resumes at 5pm and leaves very early. I have been working here for the past 23yrs but I have not been properly promoted. My promotion stopped while I was in Grade Level o6, then I was demoted to Grade Level o4 before we were asked to go back to school."
There was no patient in sight at the time of the visit by a Premium Times' reporter. It seemed like the people of Giza were not too impressed with services being offered at the PHC.
In fact, the wife of the traditional ruler, called the Sangari of Giza, Umaru Elegu Abu, put to bed on the day of the visit, but in a PHC in another community. Even Mr. Abu could not trust the facility in his own community with the health of his family.
"I am not satisfied with the healthcare centre," Yusuf Adamu Giza, popularly known as Okocha and an indigene of Giza said. "Each time I am ill, the medical personnel administer the same medication, irrespective of the situation. The last time I was here, there was no anti-malaria drugs at all; I had to go to the neighbouring village to buy some."
A passer-by who would not disclose his identity interjected: "This primary healthcare centre is a disgrace to this community and Nasarawa State."
He urged the government to renovate and equip the facility, and employ qualified medical personnel. "The staff should also be trained at least quarterly and be informed of new discoveries and research," the interloper said before the reporter took her leave.
PHC Akwanga East
This Centre looked like an abandoned facility for a while. It was 7:54 p.m and the centre was in darkness and appeared to have no human inside it, until a coarse voice came through the broken gate: "Come inside now, why you stand for there?" The man who owned the voice appeared to be in his early 60s and had on a semi-white Lab coat.
Mr. Daniel, a community health extension worker (CHEW), was the only medical personnel on duty. He was waiting for 9 p.m to hand over to the next person. He had been working at the facility as a CHEW since 2014, when it was then a small structure before it was renovated as a Millennium Development Goals, MDGs project.
The facility is connected to public power supply but there was no electricity.
"When there is no light, this is what we use," Mr. Daniel said, pointing at an old blue plastic lantern sitting beside him.
But there were other things to worry about, he would soon explain. "Water is also one of our major challenges here. We have a borehole but the pumping machine was stolen by some hoodlums and ever since we have been buying water from Mai ruwa (local water vendors)".
A community health extension worker, Mr. Daniel at the PHC in Akwanga (Photo taken by Stephanie Adams)
He said the local government used to supply drugs to the facility until the Performance Based Financing (PBF) system was introduced in the state. He said the PBF sometimes sends money to officer in charge of to maintain the facility and pay the staff.
At the time of the visit by Premium Times, the drug store was empty. "It's because there will be (a) series of transfer in two weeks, so the store was not restocked," Mr. Daniel said.
At 8:18 p.m., a woman in her mid-20s was rushed in on an 'Okada' motorcycle taxi by her husband and sister. The patient was groaning and chanting a prayer in Arabic as Mr. Daniel laid her on a broken bench that served as a makeshift bed by the entrance of the facility.
The CHEW then left to search for the patient's file from 2016 with the dim blue plastic lantern. In the 10 minutes before he returned, the patient kept groaning and praying in the eerie darkness.
Mr. Daniel later administered an injection on her under the dim light of the lantern.
PHC Koroduma Karu
The centre is located in the heart of Koroduma (One man village) in Karu local government area. As the reporter arrived the facility, she was greeted by a stench oozing from a detached structure of rusted zinc. To confirm her suspicion that it was part of the facility, the reporter asked to use its toilet. A young patient pointed towards the structure: "Na him be that, Aunty".
The patient, Ladi Yohanna, who was lying on a wooden bench in front of the facility, said it was the only facility she could afford, though she lived several kilometres away. She was there for malaria treatment but had also been advised to take an HIV test.
Another patient, Rosemary Ambrose, was clinging to her one-year old child she said she had brought for malaria treatment. Mrs. Ambrose said patients were treated fairly at the centre, although the drugs were expensive and sometimes beyond what she could afford.
Jetuthan Dako, a Junior JCHEW, complained about the facility being regularly burgled because it is an open building with no security arrangement. "You can see traces of feet and hand prints on the wall," he said, pointing at the main building. "That is what happens all the time."
A pit latrine in PHC Koroduma Karu (Photo taken by Stephanie Adams)
The facility claimed to have 11 workers on the staff but the record indicated six medical staff and two non-medical staff. There were no qualified medical staff, only community health and extension workers.
"We resume at 8 a.m. and close at 6 p.m. because of the security challenges and depending on how busy work gets," Mr. Dako said.
"Water is also one of the major constraints we have in this facility. We do not have water supply, we buy from 'Mai ruwa'. "
Mr. Dako said government stopped sending fund long ago, so the centre uses whatever it earned from daily treatment of patients to procure drugs and other basic medical needs.
Taking a tour round the facility, PREMIUM TIMES spotted an attendant serving as a nurse to a patient. Asked if it was part of her duty, she replied: "I sabi do am, na him make."
PHC Gudi
The centre in Gudi was being renovated at the time Premium Times visited. It barely looked like an health centre.
Afinki Tanko, a Community Health worker, said the renovation had been going on for five months, so the centre relocated to the nearby building where the reporter met her.
The centre had only one ward and no bed, so patients laid on paper-like mattresses placed on wooden benches. The same room was being used for delivery and other activities.
The facility was said to have 36 workers but no documentation of the staff was available.
According to Mrs. Afiniki, the major challenge was lack of space as a result of the ongoing renovation. There was also no power supply, so lanterns and candles were being used by staff and patients.
A patient laying on a bed placed on a wooden bench in PHC Gudi
At the centre, a patient paid N150 for registration card, much higher than at other facilities visited where it cost as low as N50.
PHC Kofar Fada
This dilapidated facility, surprisingly, is located directly opposite the palace of the Emir of Keffi. Although there were two wards, the over 20 patients in the centre at the time of the visit were crowded in the female ward. The Officer in Charge, Hadiza Adamu, said they were all out-patients, or visiting as she put it, although she said the facility runs 24-hour services.
The major challenge, she said, was power supply to preserve drugs and treat patients. The officer said the centre had power supply for a maximum of five hours a day. But there was regular water supply.
At the time of visit, the labour room was bare, because the delivery bed was broken. Yet some pregnant women were waiting for delivery.
The front of the PHC in Kofar Fada Keffi with a generator used to power the PHC (Photo taken by Stephanie Adams)
The facility had no qualified medical personnel, doctors or nurses. Mrs. Adamu said there were two CHEWs, two junior CHEWs and six volunteers at the center.
PHC Wamba Kurmi
Abbas Sani, the Chairman of the Primary Health Care, said the facility was established in 1992 when Nasarawa State was part of Plateau State. Although it looked better than most of the others visited by Premium Times in the state, the centre also lacked basic amenities like the others.
A CHEW, Grace Magi, who was transferred to the facility two years ago, ran the place with three other employed staff and six volunteers. An old man of about 70 years was the sole security official.
The facility opens for 12 hours daily, because of lack of manpower. There were five beds in its two wards. At the time of visit, there were no syringe or drugs.
Mrs. Magi said the centre had of late not been receiving any form of grant or support from government, which made it difficult to run it efficiently.
A PHC in Wamba Kurmi (Photo taken by Stephanie Adams)
Maryam Saidu, a 19 year-old woman, who was eight months pregnant, was around for treatment at the time of the visit by Premium Times. "I am being given proper medical attention and the medical personnel treat me like their daughter," she told the reporter. "This has been my registered health centre since I found out I am pregnant. As soon as I put to bed, I intend to go back to school."
PHC Agwatashi
This is one of the three primary health care centres in Nasarawa State selected by the Federal Government for renovation under the PHCs revitalization scheme.
A plaque announced to the visitor that the centre was commissioned on November 9, 1988 by Aliyu A. Umar Kama, a Nigerian Army Lt. Col. Who at the time was the Military Governor of Plateau State. This means the facility was established nine years before Nasarawa State was created.
The Officer in Charge, Ayuba Adole, was reluctant to speak with our reporter. "I will not entertain any form of interview from you except I am given an order to do so by the Director," he said brusquely.
When a call was put through by PREMIUM TIMES to the Director, Adamu Ladan, for permission to speak with the officer in charge, he gave the go ahead but warned him to be mindful of what he said.
The facility is not much better than the others visited, aside the fact that it is spacious, with a large number of patients from different locations.
Mr. Adole said: "the facility does not lack basic amenities, it is fully-equipped because this facility is supported by the Decentralised Facility Financing (DFF). Most of the funding sent to this facility is by the DFF and we make judicious use of it, as you can see".
A plaque showing when the PHC in Agwatashi was commissioned (Photo taken by Stephanie Adams)
There was a functional borehole supplying water round the clock and a generator to supply electricity mostly at night whenever the Inverter was out of service.
There were two security men, six medical staff, six voluntary staff and one NYSC Corps member. Though Mr. Adole said the lack of trained medical personnel and vehicles for transportation of transferred patients were the major challenges of the centre.
A tour round the facility showed that it is functioning and well-equipped. It boasts of equipment such as a cold room, staff quarters and a well-stocked drug store. The situation of this centre is way different from those at other centres visited in Nasarawa State, indicating the world of difference that a speedy and faithful implementation of the PHCs rehabilitation scheme can make to primary health care delivery in Nigeria.
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Lower court's rulings. The trial court affirmed Aetna's denial of LTD benefits, finding that Aetna's claim decision fell within the "abuse of discretion" standard because no genuine issue of material fact existed that could render its decision arbitrary and capricious. The court also determined that ERISA imposed no requirement that discretionary standard of review be disclosed to participants, but, however, denied the claim for recoupment of benefits which the court saw as a legal rather than equitable remedy and thus not available under ERISA.
Second Circuit decision. The Second Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals affirmed the lower court's ruling as to the claim and disclosure decision, but reversed its finding on the equitable restitution claim, finding that because Aetna had the right to reduce the insured's short-term disability benefits at the time she received them, Aetna retained the right under its subrogation provision to compel return of the overpayments. The court also explained that the language in the plan put the insured on notice that any overpayments she received belonged to Aetna by virtue of an equitable lien by agreement. That she took immediate possession of the overpayments had no bearing on Aetna's right to the property or on its ability to seek return of the overpayments. Thus, that court found that Aetna's plan established an equitable lien by agreement, and its claim was for "appropriate equitable relief" under ERISA over which the trial court had jurisdiction. The court agreed with the lower court's decision concerning disclosure, reasoning that a disclosure of the discretionary review standard was of no consequence to a plan participant.
Arguments for granting the petition. The insured's petition for certiorari to the U.S Supreme Court was based on the questions of: (1) whether an ERISA plan could enforce an equitable lien where the plan had not identified a fund that was in the possession and control of the plan participant/beneficiary at the time the plan asserted its lien; and (2) whether a discretionary clause in a plan mandating an abuse of discretion standard could be enforceable when the presence of that standard was never disclosed in plan documents to plan beneficiaries.
In promoting her argument of not permitting restitution, the insured first observed that some federal circuits found such a remedy not available where the funds, as here, were dissipated, whereas other circuits ruled the remedy was available regardless of whether or not the funds were dissipated. Thus, with such a split of authority, adverse consequences were a likely result to national plans such as Aetna's where results would depend on where the case was litigated.
As to the disclosure issue, the insured argued that such a ruling was at odds with ERISA's general objective of full and meaningful disclosure of plan features and benefits and importantly, because a deferential standard of review effectively changed the substantive nature of the benefits to which an employee/participant was entitled, ERISA required plans to disclose such a change.


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Jimmer Fredette had one of his best shooting nights of the season as the Shanghai Sharks knocked off the Jiangsu Tongxi Monkey Kings 118-105 on Thursday night.
The former BYU guard totaled 48 points on 19-for-30 shooting from the floor, including 6-for-11 from beyond the arc and 4-for-4 from the foul line. He added eight assists, a pair of steals and a rebound in 44 minutes on the floor.
Fredette got thing working early as he scored 15 first-quarter points to give the Sharks a six-point lead after one. That including a stretch where he scored from inside and out as Shanghai went on a 7-0 run to take the lead.
He first came off a screen to drill a three from the top of the key. He then added a one-handed scoop in the lane over the outstretched hand of J.J. Hickson.
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Fredette added 10 more points in the second quarter, including a deep three in transition that put the Sharks up 10.
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Fredette followed that up with a floater in the lane in the close minute of the quarter to cap off a 25-point first half.
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The former NCAA national player of the year continued his scoring barrage in the second half as he added 23 more points.
Most of that damage came in the fourth quarter as he continually got to the basket for layups in transition and also in the halfcourt offensive. He also connected on a couple of runners in the lane and drilled a left-wing three.
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Nick Minnerath and Dong Hanlin also made important contributions as the Sharks improved to 18-16 on the season. Minnerath finished with 27 points and five rebounds while Hanlin came away with 19 points, 15 rebounds, three assists and two steals off the bench.
Hickson carried the load for the Monkey Kings in the loss as he totaled 40 points on 17-for-32 shooting from the floor to go along with 25 rebounds (12 on the offensive end).
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The day Oprah's half-sister, Patricia Lee, was interviewed for "Oprah: Where Are They Now?" was also the day of her milestone 50th birthday party. Cameras went behind the scenes on the big day, as Patricia celebrated with her friends and family, including big sister Oprah.
As someone who met her biological family just a few years ago, Patricia admits that she never thought she would be surrounded by these loved ones for her 50th birthday. "I never had any expectations that I would be sharing anything with my family," she says in the above video. "It's more than a dream come true. It's a blessing."
While hugging Patricia outside the party, Oprah takes a moment to share what she loves about her sister. "I think she's the perfect sister because, first of all, when she came into my life, she was already a grown-up… I didn't have to do all of that sharing my clothes, coming into my closet and all that stuff you go through with baby sisters," Oprah jokes.
On a serious note, Oprah points to Patricia's integrity and character as something she admires about her sibling. "I think she's been just a remarkable human being," Oprah says. "That was a new experience for me, to be in a relationship with somebody who actually didn't want anything but was just there to be supportive of me. So, it's been really great. Really great."
Also in the video, Oprah stands to deliver a touching birthday speech in honor of her sister, expressing her personal thoughts on having Patricia come into her life. "I love that you are the perfect sister," Oprah says at the end of her speech. "Thank you for your love. Thank you for your kindness. Thank you for your grace. And happy birthday, dear sister."


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Sundsvallsbron WAF finalist
The Bridge of Sundsvall was a finalist in this year's World Architecture Festival (WAF) Awards in the category "Transport – Completed Buildings". Henrik Rundquist and Peter Leuchsenring were in Singapore on November 6th and presented the project in front of an international jury.
The World Architecture Festival is the world's largest international architectural event. It includes the biggest architectural awards programme in the world, dedicated to celebrating excellence via live presentations to delegates and international juries.
The Bridge of Sundsvall is also featured in the new number of Detail structure 2/2015. The article puts on focus the construction process and is illustrated with technical details.
The Bridge of Sundsvall furthermore received the European Steel Design Award 2015, awarded in Istanbul on the 15th of September.
The European Steel Design Awards are given by ECCS every two years to encourage the creative and outstanding use of steel in architecture and construction in Europe.
Link to the project
Read more about the WAF Awards here.
Read more about Detail structure 2/2015 here.
Read more about Sundsvallsbron in Detail inspiration here.
Read more about the European Steel Design Award here.
SUNDSVALLSBRON GOT THE ECCS AWARD 2015
The Bridge of Sundsvall received the ECCS European Steel Design Award 2015, awarded in Istanbul on the 15th of September.
The Bridge of Sundsvall has also been shortlisted in this year's World Architecture Festival (WAF) Awards in the category "Transport – Completed Buildings".
All finalist projects will be showcased at WAF London on 24th-27th of June, in conjunction with the London Festival of Architecture. The World Architecture Festival is the world's largest international architectural event. It includes the biggest architectural awards programme in the world, dedicated to celebrating excellence via live presentations to delegates and international juries.
The winning project will be announced on November 6th at the WAF Gala Dinner in Singapore.
To the ECCS European Steel Design Award webpage
To the WAF webpage
&R competes for bridges in Denmark
Frederiksholmsløbet
Together with Ramboll we take part in the design competition for a new road, pedestrian and bicycle bridge between 'Enghave Brygge' and 'Teglholmen', over 'Frederiksholmsløbet'. This connection will become an artery of traffic flow through the new development area in the South Harbour of Copenhagen, Denmark.
Masnedsund Railway Bridge
Together with Cowi and Aarsleff we are participating in the design, planning and execution competition for civil and construction works concerning the E3005 New Railway Bridge Masnedsund. This work is in connection with the upgrading of the railway line between Ringsted and Holeby in the geographic area of southern Zealand and Lolland – Falster, Denmark.
HENRIK RUNDQUIST IS PART OF THIS YEAR'S KASPER SALIN JURY
In April 2015 started the assessment process for the Kasper Salin Award. Henrik Rundquist is part of this year's Kasper Salin Jury.
The Kasper Salin Award is granted annually by the Swedish Association of Architects to a Swedish construction or group of buildings of high architectural class. It is considered the most prestigious of its kind in Sweden. The winner will be announced on November 19, during the Architecture Awards in Stockholm.
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By night homebrewed beer, Pathfinder, and tiny engineering projects.
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39 Would we notice ridiculously healthy birds?
35 What is a Giant's Diet?
34 Are Non-Muslims from the banned countries allowed?
19 What is the point of teaching variance?
17 My DM insists on rolling a single save for groups affected by AoE save spells. How does this affect my odds of successfully affecting the enemy?


I began on the violin at age 4, then started playing viola at age 11 while continuing to study violin.
Truthfully, when I first played the viola, I instantly fell in love with the instrument just as much as the violin. I kept hearing from other musicians at the Stanford University Suzuki Institute that people are always looking for a violist, and that it helps with my violin technique to practice violin material on the viola.
My goal is to be the principal viola player in a large professional orchestra such as the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra. Additionally, I want to perform and record in chamber music settings with the incredible friends and musicians that I've met through NYO Canada. My dream is to Master the great concertos on the violin, while mastering the viola. If I can participate in a Jazz ensemble/big band as well that would be sensational!
I love dogs! I've lived with a dog my whole life. In sports, I used to play baseball very competitively and even wanted to play professionally in the MLB. Throughout high school I was very involved in volleyball as well When I have free time I frequently play Super Smash Bros. Melee and am very passionate about its competitive scene. I also love exploring the outdoors, taking photographs, and cooking up fun dishes!
Yes - when I have the time!
Both James Ehnes and Andrew Dawes.
Maybe Britten's second String Quartet in C Major or Mahler's first Symphony...so many more as well!
No matter where I am in the world, and no matter what languages people speak on other continents, I will be able to connect with foreign people through the language of music. I also get immeasurable joy and happiness from enjoying and playing music with my friends and colleagues, and sharing my passion with other people both within and outside the music community.
Being able to rehearse and perform with countless other musicians who totally love music will be an incredible experience. I also think that this intensive of an orchestral program will undoubtedly hone my skills as an ensemble player.
Yes - the Scotia Festival of Music in Halifax, NS.
Lot's of practicing, along with relaxing and spending time with my family and friends.
Being accepted for the first time into NYO Canada back in 2014!


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With a little intervention from Scott, the TNG crew were pretty active. Were they mingling? Planning a mission? Planning a holodeck adventure?
Nope. As it turns out, they were just getting ready for the holidays. They spent today celebrating, reminiscing, and enjoying each other's company.
Worf and Data discussed Geordi's Christmas present when they thought wasn't around.
Some sort of Christmas Space Cotillion?
Data got himself into trouble on an ingredient gathering away mission.
They ate like... a ton of food.
And a couple of them got a extra cozy.
I hope that, whether you celebrate Christmas, Secular Christmas, Festivus, Winter Solstice, Doctor Who Day, or nothing at all, you had a good day. The TNG PEZ and I are wiped out. Time for some (totally not weird) cuddling.
My TOS Pez guys are jealous- they remain boxed. TNG has all the fun!
You should take them out! Let them get some fresh air and go on some adventures!
This was great! I had no idea such things exist!
HA! Thank you! It was great fun!
This was so cute! Glad your TNG Pez had a great Christmas!


Burciaga. SB - Scruggs; Johnson, Ca.; Berryman.
Win - Day (2-1).  Loss - Hale (0-3).  Save - None.
WP - Renteria. HBP - by Renteria (Garrison); by McMackin (Covey).
field (2-2 KBBK); Covey advanced to third. Richter flied out to cf (2-0 BB).
out looking (2-2 BKBKK). 0 runs, 2 hits, 0 errors, 2 LOB.
Hardin-Simmons 3rd - Johnson, Ca. walked (3-2 BBBFFB). Johnson, Ca.
FBSB). 0 runs, 1 hit, 0 errors, 1 LOB.
Covey advanced to second; Mikusek scored, unearned. Evans to 2b for Dominguez.
advanced to second; Casey scored, unearned. McMackin to p for Engelhardt.
Corbin grounded out to 3b (0-0). 4 runs, 3 hits, 2 errors, 2 LOB.
second p to 2b. Perez struck out swinging (1-2 BSSS). Berryman stole second.
Bradshaw grounded out to ss (1-0 B). 0 runs, 0 hits, 0 errors, 1 LOB.
K). 0 runs, 0 hits, 0 errors, 2 LOB.
Hardin-Simmons 7th - Johnson, Ca. grounded out to 1b unassisted (0-0).
struck out swinging (0-2 SSS). 2 runs, 2 hits, 0 errors, 0 LOB.
scored. 2 runs, 3 hits, 0 errors, 2 LOB.


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Review: We've had less than two years to recover from the unearthing of Hidden Stash by Athens Of The North when along comes Family Groove with the promise of another lost album from the debauched Chicago funk crew Rasputin's Stash. Entitled Stash it's due in April and the hype starts here with these two beautiful soul funk adventures. "Make Up Your Mind" rides on a sleazy fuzzy groove and peppy horns while "You Are My Everything" hits more of a classic triumphant horn and harmony led vibe not dissimilar to "I See Your Face" on their second album. April can't come soon enough.


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In 2006, FUSION Office Automation partnered with a brand with a long history in South Africa since Ricoh used to be Gestetner and had been in South Africa since 1923. Jason Van Der Walt and Andrew Gardner are both directors and the two founding partners of Fusion Office Automation.
FUSION has taken on the established players in the Eastern Cape Province, and have beaten them with better customer service and a quality product. They have now extended that model through the franchise opportunity.
Fusion Office Automation is a value added reseller (VAR) of Ricoh's copiers, printers, multifunction printers (MFP), production printing presses, document management software, and document and imaging software solutions and the business has subsequently grown over 10 years to where it currently generates around R50m in annual revenues and retains over 3 500 customers.
Fusion Office Automation, a home grown East London business based on being a Ricoh SA Premium Business Partner for the entire Eastern Cape Province, has moved to larger premises that have become the headquarters of its expanding operation grown by acquisition and franchise. The company's new, custom designed headquarters are located at 6 Pine Park, Vincent, East London.
David Hallas, director of Indirect Channel Operations at Ricoh SA, says: "Fusion was a small partner of ours 10 years ago and has grown into a significant force in the Border-Kei region. Their competitors, derogatory about their initial attempts, have since realised their potential as they have employed more people, expanded their product portfolio to include our full range, and achieved our highest levels of certification while continually expanding their customer base. Our recognition of their achievements is exemplified by giving them greater responsibility in the full Eastern Cape region through the Port Elizabeth branch."
Fusion Office Automation began developing its franchise model two years ago when it established the Transkei franchise in Umtata. Dylan Cloete was a long-standing employee who wanted to further his career so he bought the first franchise, which has paid off handsomely due to his commitment and experience.
The second franchise resulted in the Eastern Cape's very first 100% black owned and Level 1 B-BBEE office automation company, Fusion Eastern Cape.
Fusion Office Automation also recently acquired Ricoh SA's Port Elizabeth branch and has franchised it to Wimpie van der Nest. All branch employees remain and transfer to the new business and will continue to service customers, who collectively operate about 700 imaging devices, without disruption.
Van Der Nests's experience in the Port Elizabeth market is essential since the PE market differs markedly from that around East London in the Border-Kei region. The market in and around East London tends toward smaller, directly owned companies, many of them family businesses, while many in Port Elizabeth are branch operations of national and international corporations and manufacturers.
Fusion Office Automation intends in the near future expanding its franchise model to additional South African provinces and discussions are already underway with potential franchisees in Johannesburg and Cape Town.
Ricoh is a global technology company specialising in office imaging equipment, production print solutions, document management systems and IT services. Headquartered in Tokyo, Ricoh Group operates in about 200 countries and regions. In the financial year ending March 2015, Ricoh Group had worldwide sales of 2,231 billion yen (approx. 18.5 billion USD).
The majority of the company's revenue comes from products, solutions and services that improve the interaction between people and information. Ricoh also produces award-winning digital cameras and specialised industrial products. It is known for the quality of its technology, the exceptional standard of its customer service and sustainability initiatives.
Under its corporate tagline, imagine. change. Ricoh helps companies transform the way they work and harness the collective imagination of their employees.
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Cardiovascular disease and metabolic disorders, like diabetes, may follow.
An amazing 80 percent of children today beat cancer. However, for these survivors, an overwhelming number must take up another battle later in life-against cardiovascular disease and metabolic disorders. The same radiation and chemotherapy treatments that defeat childhood cancers are creating a myriad of cardiovascular problems later in life, which have been outlined in a number of large studies. Childhood cancer survivors have been shown to be 5 to 10 times more likely to develop heart disease. One result, cardiopulmonary disease, is the third leading cause of death in this survivor group. The common chemotherapy drug anthracycline can induce congestive heart failure-killing as many as 50 percent. All in all, two-thirds of these survivors face at least one effect of the treatment later in life-and as many as 40 percent may develop a severe or life-threatening condition 30 years after their cancer diagnosis.
Metabolic conditions like obesity, insulin resistance-which can lead to diabetes-and hypertension are also results of treatment. Certain cancer treatments have been directly linked to a higher occurrence of type 2 diabetes in adulthood.
Researchers say that to combat negative cardiovascular effects, survivors should receive regular screenings that vary based on their cancer treatment regimen, and should pay special attention to maintaining optimal cardiovascular and metabolic health through diet and exercise.


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Detailed Description Beautiful brand new unit with great sunset views, full wrap around corner balcony. Featuring 2 bedrooms and 2 bathrooms, a lift parking space able to park 2 cars, cable and internet included, free membership for a year at Equinox (located in the building). The location speaks for itself, in the heart of the vibrant Brickell neighborhood with great restaurants near by, Publix is just across the street and last but not least the Brickell City Center Shopping mall is a block away! 24/7 concierge, 2 pools, massage room, kids room, theater room, additional gym in the building and men's and women's spa rooms. If you're looking for a city living experience in Downtown Miami this condo is a phenomenal choice!
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Q: Random background gifs doesn't work I have code that when the body loads, it chooses a random gif from a folder and uses that as the background.  When a new page loads, or the same page, it chooses another random gif as the background.  I've looked online, and even though the code is relatively the same, it doesn't load the new gif as the background.  Here's the HTML code.
<html lang="en">
<head>

    <!-- Random Background Image -->
    <script>
    function newBackground()
    {
        // Set up the image files to be used.
        var theBackgrounds = new Array() // do not change this

        // To add more image files, continue with the pattern below, adding to the array.
        theBackgrounds[0] = 'images/EXTRA/Backgrounds/equalizer.gif'
        theBackgrounds[1] = 'images/EXTRA/Backgrounds/equalizer2.gif'
        theBackgrounds[2] = 'images/EXTRA/Backgrounds/recordSpinning.gif'

        var p = theBackgrounds.length;

        var whichBackground = Math.round(Math.random()*(p-1));

        document.body.style.background = theBackgrounds[whichBackground];
    }
    </script>

  </head>
  <body onLoad="newBackground();">
      *some code*
  </body>
</html>

And here's the body's CSS code that's in styles.css.
body{
        background-size:cover;
        background-repeat: repeat-y;
        background-attachment: fixed;
        background-color:#000000;
        color:#FFF;
        font-size:13px;
        font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;
        text-align:left;
    }

Why is the code not working?

A: because that is not how you set a background image with CSS. You are missing the url() portion.
It should be
document.body.style.backgroundImage = "url(" + theBackgrounds[whichBackground] + ")";

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Evangelion Creator Talks the Future of the Franchise
This article originally appeared in Anime Now! on December 3, 2016.
This past week, Khara, the studio behind the Rebuild of Evangelion films, celebrated its ten-year anniversary with a special exhibition in Tokyo. Visitors to the exhibit received a special gift an 88-page booklet filled with interviews–including one by Evangelion creator Hideaki Anno himself where he talks about his studio, philosophy, and the future of his most famous series.
In the booklet, Anno describes in more detail his outlook on each of these three pillars of Khara and how it relates to his overall view of the Japanese animation industry on the global stage.
The establishment of Khara was the result of his feeling that he "had run out of things to do" at Gainax. So when he set up the company, he originally did so just as an office for planning projects rather than an actual production studio. This soon changed as the first project—Evangelion: You Are (Not) Alone—ballooned in size in terms of manpower and budget due to various reasons, so it ended up becoming a real studio and a lot of the work was done in-house.
Anno sees production companies as "containers." They house people, and works; sometimes new people come in and out, sometimes works do the same. But the container has to be maintained. Once this management is set up, you have a stable, working system. Using the metaphor of a plantation, Annos say that he feels he can often just concentrate on managing and let others plant the seeds–a feeling that even includes his seminal work, Neon Genesis Evangelion.
According to Anno, Evangelion will continue to be a mainstay of Khara's output, and even identity. Anno's overall attitude appears to be that his involvement in the animation industry is simply one of love of the craft–whether it be from the perspective of creator, archived materials curator, or businessman. As he himself states, it is his way of "giving back." However, because he himself is an animation fan, he admits he can agree with the sentiment of fans who feel that he keeps going back to Eva for the money. And the way he justifies it is very blunt: making money is important, otherwise you cannot reinvest in something else to continue to create.
For the future, he wishes Evangelion will become a cultural icon, one of the cornerstones of anime, much like Gundam, which has become an institution in and of itself. Like Gundam, where many creators can play around with the elements and create their own worlds, it is Anno's hope that Evangelion can also be set free, to be reconstructed and reinterpreted in many ways by many other artists.
Of course, there is more to Anno and Khara than just Evangelion. These past two years, Khara has also been producing the numerous animated short films of the Japan Anima(tor) Expo. While Evangelion and Godzilla are household names that guarantee sales, overall Anno describes a growing worry when looking at sales data for anime content: disc sales are going down, as we all know, which leaves the studios with the option of either movie screenings or online streams. However, he feels confident about the future outlook. The Japan Anima(tor) Expo has been a brilliant success in the effort to expand not just people's understanding of Japanese animation, but also promote Khara's name to the world along with it.
The factor that Anno believed was of utmost importance when planning the expo was that he wanted a global audience, so simultaneous streaming around the world, with English subtitles, was a must. He explains how "it was a project for people to reaffirm how fun Japanese animation could be, so the greatest goal was to disseminate it throughout the world. And if that meant that people would remember the name Khara, then even better."
In the interview, he describes proactively promoting the company and the project at events abroad, and how he wanted to build more recognition amongst fans that "this is the company that makes Evangelion." In particular, he notes how the data showed that the ME! ME! ME! short was a surprise hit, especially in North America and Europe where the view numbers were a different order of magnitude. It allowed him to think that there is still potential in this type of content and still markets left to tap.
That Khara has accomplished so much in just ten years–just take one look at Shin Godzilla–is a testament to Anno's desire to try different things and thus attract a wide variety of people and constantly help the studio gain knowledge and expertise. Evangelion may be the flagship title, but Khara is so much more than Evangelion.
At this stage, it looks like Anno's philosophy for Khara and its impeccable track record will continue to propel it to further success, even around the world. Right now, Khara is one of those companies that represents, perhaps even embodies, the past (through its archiving and restoration projects), the present (Shin Godzilla and the forthcoming Evangelion 3.0 + 1.0), and the future of anime.
Renato Rivera Rusca
Renato Rivera Rusca is a graduate of Japanese Studies at Stirling University in Scotland and has conducted postgrad research on Japanese popular culture in Osaka University and Kyoto University. He has lectured at the Manga Faculty at Kyoto Seika University and has participated in many projects involving the Kyoto International Manga Museum since its inception. He is a lecturer at Meiji University, Yokohama National University, Okayama University, and is Assistant Producer of animation at Studio Machiken.
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Attack on Titan Season 3 Episode 1: Why Not Add Another Faction
Posted on July 25, 2018 July 23, 2018 by Karandi
As if we didn't have enough mysteries and intrigue piled up from the past two seasons, we're now adding yet more complications. Though, truth be told, this one actually looks like it could be kind of fun.
While I really loved the first episode of season 1 and most of the first half of season 1, by the end of it I was finding this story becoming a little too drawn out. Season 2 firmly enhanced that impression by meandering about adding in additional complications without actually touching on anything set up from the previous season and I'm going into season 3 very firmly of the opinion that if it doesn't get back to some of the previous mysteries this will be my last season of this show.
This line would work better if I hadn't had to go back to season 1 and rewatch it midway through season 2 just to remind myself she existed as a character.
That said, the first episode was pretty entertaining and I couldn't help but get a little excited about learning more about Levi, watching Eren and the others interacting now that they are a little older and a little less idealistic and naive, and just generally seeing how messed up things have gotten. While there is no introduction for people new to the franchise, this just jumps straight into the story from where we left off only it seems like things are even more tense than they were.
However, despite the many positives this episode brings, including some very cool action sequences and enough squeamish body horror to remind us of what this show was built on way back when, I couldn't help but wonder if I cared about all the intrigue within the military. Is it really necessary or do I genuinely just want to find out what's in Eren's basement and then be done? I'm sure people who have read the source material would have a bunch of reasons why this is relevant, but I know at this point I feel like the story is moving further and further away from the parts that initially intrigued me and those moments of jaw dropping coolness can only distract me from that for so long.
All things considered, I'm happy this is back and I'd really like it to be great, but I am fairly prepared to walk away from this franchise at this point so it wouldn't really take much for me to decide I've invested more than enough time already for minimal payoff.
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MIB says:
If we learned anything from season 2 it is that patience is required! 😛 People complain when an anime adaptation is rushed then they complain when its too slow. It is clear AOT is not a single cour story so I'm willing to give it the benefit of the doubt. 😉
That said, it was a bit of a shock to go from the usual bucolic AOT setting to something that resembles prohibition era America! 😮
While some stories I'd happily watch through multiple seasons, AOT isn't one I'm invested enough in. For me, if this stretches much longer I'm going to cut my losses and move on. While I might 'miss out' on something, to be honest I think when I first saw the first season I really expected it to just be a one season and done kind of story so this long and winding ongoing saga isn't what I was really up for in the first place.
KingDylbag13 says:
I still haven't seen the anime!
I definitely agree that the series struggles with pacing, particularly when it comes to actual advancement of the conflict, and answering of questions.
The first half of season 1 provided some good questions, and a measure of answers, but season 2 in particular really didn't answer much. We end it no closer to understanding the revelation at the end of season 1, or gaining any further information about the mysterious "basement".
I do like how season 3 seems to be engaging Levi a bit more. Up to this point he's been powerful but distant. Now the story seems to be engaging Levi's personal issues a little more, and I like that.
In some ways I think this third faction may be necessary, since it's clear the main opposition have no intention of answering any of the questions raised by their actions, or their presence in the region. But this third faction also clearly knows things, and may be forced to reveal them in the coming conflict.
It's interesting how, much like the Walking Dead, in the beginning Titans were the big threat, but now they're more like a background environmental hazard, a backdrop for the "real threats".
I will say I greatly enjoyed the fight in season 2 between Eren and one of the "others", and hope we see a rematch soon.
I kind of feel like this has gotten overly complicated. That first sequence with the titan peering over the wall and the intense feeling of claustrophobia of being inside the walls as the titans surged in was fantastic and the show has never given us quite that same thrill or impact since. Certainly there has been some cool moments, fights and a few interesting ideas, but it all just seems to dilute what initially attracted me to the show.
I can see that.
I think, as with Walking Dead, there's a way in which, as the show progresses, it moves further away from what it was in the beginning.
I think if it had been a short story, or a film, i.e. something like Hitchcock's The Birds, it could have been a simple "here's a world with strange giant monsters", but because of the choices they made, both in regards to length, and the choice to make it so "mystery" and "question" focused, it inevitably became all about the intrigue, politics, and "science/magic" behind the current state of affairs.
It seems like most of the characters are learning to recognize that the titans are not the real issue, they're just a "tool" or "opportunity" that others use to manipulate circumstances. I forget where I read it, but there's a theory that talks about how one method of maintaining order is to maintain an enemy that is powerful, intimidating, and unbeatable. They can be kept in check, but never overcome, and that ongoing struggle serves as a unifying factor, keeping people from turning to "other problems", or turning on each other.
raistlin0903 says:
As you know I am still a big fan of the show, and I really enjoyed this first episode. I like the fact that this episode felt a bit different than before, but was still very entertaining. I agree though that I also want some answers now 😀 Keeping my fingers crossed 😉
I definitely appreciated the characters in this episode more. Eren didn't shout even once. That was kind of nice. But more than that, the interactions between the kids showed that while they are the same people they have definitely grown up a lot since they first started training.
Totally agree. They really have matured indeed, and at times it even felt we were looking at other characters (only just though). Really looking forward to seeing how this is going to progress…and that cliffhanger…😱😱
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The author has come out and said he wants to tighten up the pacing this season because the manga was slower than he had wanted. I won't say anything, but yes, you can expect some things to be resolved soon.
Well, here's hoping.


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Maxime Colin's 47th-minute own goal and a second from Ryan Tunnicliffe gave Millwall the points.
Now you have the chance to rate the Millwall players involved in the win over Steve Cotterill's side.


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There's a bittersweet pleasure in watching the Three Stooges these days, knowing about them, their careers, their lives. What seems like zany comedy on screen was, like so many celebrity stories, much more complex, contentious, and even tragic at times. But there's also an insuppressible joy in their work that keeps drawing me back to watch more. Moe, Larry, and Curly (and Shemp) will always bring a smile to my face. The subsequent replacements for Curly sometimes will, too, although not as often.
And with more than 200 film credits to their names, running from 1930 to 1970 in both shorts and feature films, there's a lot to watch. One hundred and ninety of those short films were for Columbia Pictures alone (1934-59). These can be seen today online or in DVD collections from Sony (released as multi-year sets from 1934 to '59, and as 17- or 20-disc collections; yes, of course, I have them). There are 51 other films or shorts in which they collectively starred or have a role, 17 of which were newsreels or bio-shorts.
And that doesn't include all the films several of them made solo (Shemp Howard in particular was prolific) nor their 156-episode cartoon series, The New Three Stooges, that included live-action segments, and ran from 1965-66. And even this doesn't show off their impressive careers that began in the 1920s in vaudeville. Moe Howard was performing on stage with his friend Ted Healy in 1923, joined by his brother Shemp in 1924. Louis Feinberg — aka Larry Fine — joined them in 1928. The three would appear with Healy in their first film, Soup to Nuts (1930), but parted ways with Healy over a contractual dispute. For a couple of years, the trio performed onstage as "The Three Lost Soles" and "Howard, Fine, and Howard."
Eventually, they made up and the trio again joined Healy's act in mid-1932. Shemp, however, left less than a month later to pursue his solo career and was replaced by his younger brother, Jerry (aka Curly) Howard. Less than a year later, Healy was offered a contract by MGM, and took his act, with his friends to Hollywood. In the spring of 1934, the trio of Larry, Curly, and Moe parted from Ted Healy for good, and began working on their own at Columbia Studios, calling themselves "The Three Stooges" professionally for the first time. (Healy continued to work in film solo and with other sidekicks, but died in 1937)
The most well-loved of their works are still the earliest, those made from 1934 to '47 for Columbia. That's because Jerome Lester Horwitz — Jerry, aka Curly — was in them and provide the signature sounds and looks that are still known today. Curly had a stroke while shooting their 97th film for Columbia — Half-Wits Holiday — in May, 1946 (released in 1947). He was replaced in the trio by his older brother, Samuel — Shemp — who had already had a good career as a solo comic star. Curly suffered more strokes in 1949, and died in 1952 at age 49.
Shemp, who had starred with Moe and Larry in their earliest years in vaudeville and film, was a good replacement for Curly and provided his own signature identity in the trio. He starred in 77 Stooges' shorts and one feature film. But in 1955, after he had filmed the 166th short for Columbia — Blunder Boys — he had a heart attack and died in a taxi on his way home from a boxing match. Because of contractual obligations, the remaining duo of Moe and Larry had to complete four films without Shemp, although his presence was patched in from previous films to make it appear he was still there.
Shemp was replaced by Joe Besser from 1956-58 (Columbia shorts 175-190; the last two released in 1959, then by Joseph Wardell — Joe DeRita aka Curly Joe. In 1959, Columbia ended their long-running contract with the Stooges, but with Curly Joe the trio went on to make seven feature films, had some cameo appearances in others, and finally ended their careers with a documentary of sorts, Kook's Tour, in 1970.
My parents hated the Three Stooges, but did little to stop us children from watching them on TV. I remember sitting close to the small B&W screen in our living room, laughing at the madcap antics of Curly, Larry, and Moe, and sometimes Shemp or Curly Joe. Our parents fretted these manic slapstick comedians would encourage us to violence, much the same way modern parents think video games will do to their children (spoiler alert: they don't). And here I am, more than 60 years since I first saw them, still watching them and laughing at them.
The Stooges were all older than my parents; only a little younger than my grandparents, in fact (the oldest, Moses Harry Horwitz — Moe Howard — was born in 1897). But the magic of film is that we see them as they were when they were young. Forever immortalized, frozen in their youth on celluloid. I see them in their prime, not their dotage.
Susan thinks they're puerile, but I get a delight at every woop-woop-woop and nyuck-nyuck-nyuck. And because the majority of their work was in shorts — most running 15-20 minutes — I can watch several in a row in one sitting (on my computer, headphones on so I don't disturb Susan, although my guffaws may annoy her still…). I will admit that seeing too many can get stale at times, so I try to mix eras so I can see the trio in its different incarnations, with their act honed to suit the varying mixtures of performers.
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Thursday morning we woke up early, had breakfast on the patio, and set out to stroll. Our planned route was about six miles long and took us through the Condesa neighborhood and then to the Zócalo in the historic center of town.
Like all large cities, Mexico City has a matrix of large through streets that are filled with cars honking and pumping toxic amounts of exhaust into the air. I prefer to avoid these streets when walking as much as possible and Nik is drawn to them. They often provide the most direct route between A and B, but the smaller side streets filled with smaller cars, smaller shops and smaller homes are more appealing to me even if it does add a mile to the route. So, our day was filled with a balance of the two.
The Condesa is a neighborhood west of Insurgentes Avenue and south of Avenida Chapultepec. It was first developed as the home to the city's elite in the 1930s and 1940s, but declined to a state of abandon after the 1985 earthquake. In the past fifteen years, the area has become popular again as the city's creatives have flocked to the old buildings. They have also infilled any empty lots with modern minimalist architecture creating street scapes that span the century. The small one way streets are lined with trees and are often boulevards with parks filled with benches and walking paths running through the middle.
Who lives in that window? I kind of wish I did.
A surprising number of small parks dot every neighborhood we have wandered through. They range from a single lot with grass and a few benches to the central section of a roundabout surrounding a large monument to intricately landscaped parks with water features that span multiple city blocks. The crowd at each is also distinctly different. Upon entering Mexico Park, it seemed like everyone we passed was walking their pup. Then we turned down a path towards the center and found over thirty dogs of every breed and size lying down in a row on a long plastic sheet facing a large open space. Each dog had a leach stretched out in front of their front paws, and I expected to see their owners beside them. Instead there was one man in the center playing fetch with a doberman pincher, one teenager incrementally sweeping the plastic mat by moving two or three dogs at a time, and one more man tending to the troubled dogs that had to be tied to a pole or tree. We stood and watched the doggie daycare for fifteen or twenty minutes and came to the conclusion that no one would take on the responsibility of so many dogs in a public park in America.
After the dog park, we walked through the streets a bit more, and ultimately found the Nevería Roxy at Tamaulipas 161. It is an old fashioned ice cream parlor that has been in the Condesa for over one hundred years. When we first arrived at 11 o'clock, they weren't open, so we lingered in the boulevard and watched cars and people go by. They still appeared to be closed at 11:30, but we walked over anyways and found that they were open…they just hadn't taken the chairs off the tables yet. We took our seat and ordered one scoop of pistachio ice cream and one scoop of mamey sorbet. Both were so delicious, that we had to have more. To the owners amusement, we ordered a banana split with chocolate, rice, and banana ice cream. Heaven!
Now we were off for the longest leg of our journey to the Zócola in the center of town. Nik and I were both tired by this point, but continued anyways. We stopped at a small market to have seafood tacos, passed by the home of the Lucha Libre (freestyle wrestling), Arena Mexico, and walked through the shopping crowds on the pedestrian street, Francisco I. Madero. By the time we made it to the Zócalo, we looked at the Cathedral for about five minutes, and then descended into the Metro station to go home.
Only seeing the diverse pictures you've posted I can sense that your trip to Mexico was awesome.
Mexico never stops surprising you…I said that for the "Dog Dayvare" !! amazing !!


Fred Armisen To Appear At Red Onion Records In D.C.
Last month, Portlandia co-creator Fred Armisen reportedly sang the praises of D.C. label Dischord Records during a taping of NPR's Pop Culture Happy Hour. A few years back, he dropped references to D.C.'s punk scene on Portlandia.
Now the ex-Saturday Night Live cast member is showing once more that his love for the nation's capital is true: The actor is scheduled to appear Friday at Red Onion Records in D.C.
Drag City Records, which organized the event, doesn't know exactly what Armisen has in mind, either. But label rep Kathryn Wilson says the actor's D.C. appearance might resemble what he did in October at Santa Cruz shop Streetlight Records: songs from his fake soft-rock band The Blue Jean Committee (from Documentary Now) as well as other phony ensembles he's invented in the past.
Wilson says Armisen will probably wind up doing a "super-minimal" set with either an acoustic or electric guitar at the U Street shop.
Red Onion owner Josh Harkavy says Drag City pitched him the Armisen in-store show last week. "I responded 'heck yeah' as quickly as possible," he says.


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At least 29 people killed in tourist bus crash in Madeira, Portugal
At least 15 people killed as coach crashes in Bulgaria
Nine British teenagers injuried in double decker bus crash in Germany
Two killed and six critical after tour bus hits tree branches in Malta
Canada mourns dead in Humboldt Broncos ice hockey team bus crash
Tributes have been paid to the 15 killed in Friday's collision in Saskatchewan that decimated the Humboldt Broncos junior ice hockey team.
Canada hockey bus crash kills 14
More than a dozen injured in a late afternoon collision with a lorry in Saskatchewan
Dozens dead after Peru bus plunges into ravine
At least 44 people have died after a bus veered off a highway and over cliff in Peru on Wednesday, just weeks after 52 were killed in another bus crash in the country on January 2.
Road troubles in the USA
A shootout is captured on dashcam while the winter weather gets the better of a school bus...
At least 30 dead in Kenya horror crash
At least 30 people have been killed and others injured in a head-on collision between a bus and lorry in Kenya.
Moscow bus crash kills five
Bus veers down underpass killing five injuring at least 15
Inquiry into French school bus crash under way
Authorities are trying to ascertain whether the barriers that prevent traffic crossing the railway line where open or closed at the time of the collision.
19 dead in Russian train-bus collision near Pakrov
More than a dozen dead in Russian bus crash
The victims were workers abord a bus that plunged into the Black Sea
German coach inferno: 18 feared dead
Eighteen people are believed to have died in a coach crash in the German state of Bavaria, police say.
Mexico: More than 20 killed in fuel tanker-bus crash
At least 24 people were killed on Thursday in a crash involving a bus and a fuel tanker in southwest Mexico.
Bus driver ploughs into parade in Haiti
At least 38 people have been killed and a dozen more injured in northern Haiti when a bus drove into pedestrians while fleeing from a separate accident.
Taiwan bus crash leaves 32 dead
At least 32 people were killed when a tour bus flipped over on a highway in Taiwan on Monday night.
California bus crash kills 13
A tour bus has crashed near Palm Springs in California killing 13 people and injuring 31 others.
Nepal bus slips off mountain road killing at least 33
A bus in Nepal has slipped off a narrow mountain road killing at least 33 people and injuring 28 others.
Two dozen Chinese tourists killed in Taiwan coach crash
A tour bus carrying people from China has crashed on a highway in Taiwan, killing all 26 people on board according to local media reports.


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The Holocaust, the Church, and the Law of Unintended Consequences: How Christian Anti-Judaism Spawned Nazi Anti-Semitism
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Shaken by Germany's military defeat in War World I, the humiliating terms of the Versailles Treaty, and the social and economic turbulence of the 1920's and '30's, most Germans yearned for better days, including restoration of their nation's dignity and power. In this context Adolf Hitler's National Socialist Party, with its promise of strong central leadership, a better way of life, and Germany's reascendance to its rightful place of prominence on the world stage, attracted many supporters. Among the most zealous were Catholic clergymen.
According to Kevin P. Spicer, author of "Hitler's Priests, Catholic Clergy and National Socialism" there were, at least, 138 priests — 109 diocesan priests from Germany, nineteen ordained members of religious orders and ten priests from dioceses outside Germany —who actively promoted National Socialism. Known as "brown priests" (brown being the color of the Nazi movement) some of them joined the Nazi party and fully embraced Hitler's policies. Many of them saw no contradiction between Jesus' Gospel of Love and their devotion to Hitler. Fr. Richard Kleine, one of the brown priests, for example, wrote:
"Since I was a child a burning love for my German Volk ("People") and fatherland has been part of me… the relationship between the Church and Germany has been especially important to me. I am one of those who firmly believed that the National Socialist movement stood for the national and social future of my Volk and was altogether the superior alternative to the Communist-Bolshevist ideology. I trusted… that Christian presence and cooperation in this movement could enhance Christian thought."
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Spicer cites another cleric, Abbot Albanus Schachleiter, who, to the end of life, continued to regard himself as both a pious Catholic and as a devoted supporter of National Socialism, including its virulent brand of anti-Semitism. Schachleiter, the author relates, felt a genuine spiritual distress when his bishop temporarily withdrew his priestly faculties and denied him Holy Communion. This contrasts with Fr. Josef Roth, who abandoned the priesthood, joined the Nazi bureaucracy, and vehemently attacked his former Church as effeminate and Jewish. To him, Christian good works were "weakness," and his Christ was a "heroic strongman."
While most German clerics were not enthusiastic supporters of Hitler's regime and some heroically opposed it, the vast majority fell somewhere along the continuum between the two positions.
Daniel Jonah Goldhagen, author of "A Moral Awakening, The Role of the Catholic Church in the Holocaust and its Unfulfilled Duty of Repair," speculates about what role Catholic clergy could have played in Nazi Germany:
"If Pius XI and Pius XII, church leaders and lower clergy had used their pulpits and their enormous number of newspapers and diocesan publications with their huge, faithful readerships in Germany and around Europe to declare anti-Semitism a vicious delusion and to denounce the persecution of the Jews as a grievous crime and sin, then the political history of Europe would have been different, and the fate of the Jews much better."
Anti-Semitism among Catholic clergy, however, was by no mean exclusive to Germany, as a 1939 editorial in the Hungarian fascist party newspaper "Arrow Cross" demonstrates. In the editorial, an unnamed Hungarian priest wrote:
"In places where priests are murdered, the educated are slaughtered, and churches are burnt; that is where the Jew is to be found. Even if no Jew is actually there in a physical sense, his presence is represented there by his venomous literary works. Like naked spirits they drift all over the world, and by means of their filthy moral concepts, their distorted philosophy, and their base artistic schools, they spread their revolting ideas. Their sullied views corrupt the world."
In June, 1944 as Hungarian Jews were being rounded up and deported to Auschwitz-Birkenau death camp, an article appeared in the Arrow Cross newspaper in the town of Veszprem announcing an upcoming thanksgiving prayer service. It read:
"With the help of Divine Providence our ancient city and province have been liberated from that Judaism which sullied our nation. In our thousand years, this is not the first time we have been freed from some scourge which had befallen us. However no previous event can compare in its importance to this event, for no previous foe threatening us, whether by force or by a political takeover, had ever succeeded in overcoming us to the extent that the Jews have succeeded, with the aid of their poisoned roots which penetrated our national body and took hold of it. We are following in the footsteps of our fathers in coming to express our thanks to our God who saves us whenever we are in distress. Come and gather for the thanksgiving service which will take place on June 25 at 11:30 AM at the Franciscan Church."
Another unnamed Hungarian priest, at the height of the 1944 killing frenzy in Hungary, wrote: "Ever since the Jews crucified Jesus, they have been the foes of Christianity. May the Jews be expelled from Hungary, and then the Church, too, will be able to breathe more freely"
In May, 1941, an article written by a Croatian priest entitled "Why Are the Jews Persecuted?" appeared in the diocesan newspaper of his bishop Ivan Saric. It stated:
"The descendants of those who hated Jesus, persecuted him to death, crucified him and persecuted his disciples, are guilty of sins greater than (those of) their forebears. Jewish greed increases. The Jews have led Europe and the world towards disaster—moral and economic disaster. Their appetite grows till only domination of the world will satisfy it…Satan aided them in the invention of Socialism and Communism. There is a limit to love. The movement of liberation of the world from the Jews is a movement for the renewal of human dignity. Omniscient and omnipotent God stands behind this movement." (Emphasis mine)
A priest in Kowel (Ukraine), preached a homily in May, 1942, in which he excused Catholics from performing Corporal Works of Mercy for Jews. He stated:"Dear merciful people, I beg you and warn you, do not give a piece of bread to a Jew…No trace of a Jew is to remain. We should erase them from the face of the earth. When the last Jew disappears from the face of the earth, we shall win the war."
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This new series questions more deeply the relationship between man and his mechanical extensions, in its analogy of forms and functions. The sides of the painting are also painted, to add a 3D effect, and give to the artwork a deeper space.
The basis of the painting is a self portrait.
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VOTING WAS IMPORTANT AND STILL IS
The current turmoil in our country made me think about elections in my past. My first experience with politics outside of public school was stuffing envelopes for Ted Weiss' city council campaign at the Reform Independent Democratic Club on Broadway near 72nd Street.
Later, when I was 19 and Nixon and Humphrey ran for President of the United States, I couldn't vote yet. But I could vote in 1972 when McGovern ran again Nixon. Both elections took place in a dark time in America, particularly in the lives of young men.
I lived most of those years still on West 83rd Street although a brief period was spent on West 78th Street. I was in college, CCNY, until June of 1971 and had passed one draft physical but never served (a story perhaps for another time).
It was I believe the 1968 election when I was ringing doorbells in 222. Remember this was a typical West Side pre-war building with many people who had lived in the building since the war and many who had survived the war and the horrors of Nazi concentration camps.
Our next door neighbor and his wife had both fought in and survived the uprising in the Warsaw Ghetto and multiple camps. They had given their son to a non-Jewish family and in a miracle were reunited at the war's end. Both bore the tatoo'd number on their arms and neither ever talked to me about their experiences.
I read my neighbor's memoir, The Holocaust Kingdom, as an adult and cherish the copy autographed by Alex Donat to his "good neighbors and friends Edith and Ira Marion" in 1965.
On that 1968 election night I was ringing doorbells to remind people to vote, I was not canvassing for my candidate, HHH, just trying to make sure that people exercised their right to vote as my father had taught me it was critical to our way of life.
One door was opened and an older man stood before me. I told him what I was doing and he responded, "Did I vote, of course I voted, you have never lived in a country where you didn't have the right to vote!" and firmly closed the door.
That was almost 50 years ago. I have never missed an election and have encouraged my children to fully participate as well.
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Well-written and interesting, as usual!!
Thanks friend. Pass it on.
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Just like most of us remember our first real kiss, we remember our first participation in a political campaign. Mine was with Congressman Benjamin Rosenthal in 72. And like you we taught our kids to vote.
Thank you dear friend for your thoughtful comment.


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