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Archive: Meghan Markle Tone-deaf Racism
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Meghan Markle is white?
Meghan Markle does not care about Black Lives Matter (BLM). That's because she is tone-deaf on racism and blinded by her 'whiteness'. Firstly, Markle existed as a 'white' woman in Hollywood. Just look at her filmography. Secondly, even her Hallmark movie, 'Dater's Handbook' depicted two 'white' men vying for her affection. Markle's character even had a 'white' sister and a 'white' mother. You get the picture.
In real life, Markle dated mostly 'white' men. Both her marriages were with 'white' men. Her 'best friend', BFF Jessica Mulroney (until recently) and Markus Anderson are both 'white'. Markle joined a mostly 'white' sorority at Uni, not the black sorority.
Atlanta Black Star | 13-August-13
Markle does not have the perspective to understand what it means to be black or brown. She never supported black or brown causes, unless it was for publicity. Just look at her "fake" George Floyd speech. Yet the media including Vogue, ET Canada and Newsweek, act like 'fangirls', fawning over her every move.
TRUE humanitarians work behind the scenes when there are no cameras to 'capture' the moment.' Therefore, we are calling Markle out as a fake.
Immac' – Immaculate Heart High School Instagram
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Meghan Markle and Prince Harry tone-deaf racism
Meghan Markle played 'white' in Hollywood. Meanwhile, her husband, Prince "Nazi" Harry danced with 'KKK' and 'blackface'. He was caught on tape using a racial slur as a soldier for the UK. Now, they want to preach about "anti-racism". Talk about hypocrisy!
The Daily Mail | 12-February-2009
Associated Press | 11-January-2009
Meghan Markle and Wallis Simpson comparison
Prince Edward, Wallis Simpson and Hitler
Many monarchists are strongly opposed to Meghan Markle. Often times, she is compared to Wallis Simpson. We also made similar comparisons. Here's why. Firstly, Markle and Simpson are both divorcees. They arrived from America and married Royalty. One was a scandal (Wallis) and the other was a 'social climber' (Markle). Secondly, both Princes, Edward and Harry were not prepared for duty and service in the Royal household. They both met women who aided them in their "escape". Finally, both Markle and Simpson had to earn money to keep up with their expenses. They were both cut off from the Royal family purse.
Whilst Wallis was vilified by the UK media and public, Markle was accepted and welcomed. These accounts are not stuff of fantasy but well documented. Wallis was a Nazi sympathiser. Just look at her associations. Markle is an actress who will never retire from the 'limelight'. Even when she is the 'mastermind' behind them. In this report, we expose her motivation behind the 'CRASHED' graduation speech.
BLM Coverage and 'Systemic' racism at private institutions
Editors Note (21-July-2020) – Gabrielle Bourne Media (GBM) ceased all coverage of black lives matter. Our investigations concluded that the Marxist BLM Inc is a corrupt organisation. They raised MILLIONS but never distributed any of the funds into black communities where it would have been helpful. They supported the looting, rioting and violence of communities across the world.
Editors Note (23-July-2020) – Gabrielle Bourne Media (GBM) believes that traces of 'systemic' racism still exist in private institutions. Private tuition schools are not held up to the same scrutiny as public institutions. Instances of micro aggression and racial bias experienced by BAME students is not fantasy. Even though the system as a whole have improved in the last 20 years, there is room for more expansion. All voices should be welcomed. An environment where students can feel safe, comfortable and included should be standard. (Condensed)
Meghan Markle's BIG FAT LIE
Meghan Markle's 'crashed' graduation speech to her alma mater, Immaculate Heart High School, was picked up by the 'unreliable' media. The systemic 'racism' claims made by students at Immaculate Heart High School, however, was ignored. Students posted comments on the school's Instagram page expressing concern. Yet, Meghan Markle ignored it. So did the 'fangirl' media outlets. Ironically, it was a conservative media outlet that pointed out the obvious and exposed the 'fake news' that Markle NEVER addressed the graduating class.
The media, including 'Finding Freedom' authors were asleep at the wheel when the rest of us SCREAMED OUT — "Meghan Markle is a phoney who never supported black causes!" Wearing a t-shirt that said, 'I won't stand for racism,' doesn't count since it was part of a coordinated 'publicity campaign' about anti-racism. Markle is an expert in publicity, but not so much when it comes to 'boots on the ground,' unless there is a camera present for the photo-op.
World Vision Rwanda PR 'Photo-op'
Meghan Markle ONLY served herself, as a 'white' privileged working class actress who climbed up the social ladder (with the help from her 'white' privileged friends). She took pictures with poor black kids in Africa for publicity. Markle served ONE YEAR (2016-2017) as the Global Ambassador for World Vision. Markle doesn't have extensive "charity" history or long term for that matter. Now, she is using her 'black' privilege for a Marxist movement all the whilst preaching, again. She is the worse representative as a 'privileged' former royal who kept her style, titles and status.
Meghan Markle Word Vision Rawanda trip early 2016
Markle wants to support Black Lives Matter? Where was Markle when the students and parents were raging against the systemic racism they saw and experienced at Immaculate Heart High School? Crickets!
Tom Bower's 'Revenge' Revelation: "Rwanda"
Editors Note (21-July-2022): Meghan Markle Tone-deaf Racism. In Tom Bower's book 'Revenge' he claimed that Meghan Markle arrived in Rwanda with "suitcases of outfits", a photographer, and hair and make-up team. She also demanded and received first-class airfare.
Meghan Markle 'CRASHED' graduation speech
Meghan Markle is completely tone-deaf when it comes to racism. Markle was not 'invited' to give the commencement address to the graduating class of Immaculate Heart High School. Her video about "George Floyd" was not posted by the school. There is ZERO record of her existence and participation on the school's website or programme. That should give everyone a clue.
Meghan Markle used the Black Lives Matter (BLM) Movement and timed it to Immaculate Heart High School graduation a week after Mr. Floyd's murder. That is the REAL REASON for her 'DELAY' in SPEAKING OUT. Mr. Floyd was murdered on 25th May 2020. Markle waited 10 days before releasing her video, but it was released to the media in a carefully crafted publicity move. It was never part of the commencement address at Immaculate Heart High school on 3rd June.
The Federalist | 17-June-20
In regards to her friend, Jessica Mulroney, Markle continues to use her 'mysterious spokesperson' to do her bidding for full media effect. Is Markle really 'disappointed' with 'BFF' Jessica Mulroney? Is she 'considering' severing the friendship? Markle is excellent at the three-card monte, because she tries to convince us all to look 'over there,' so we don't see what she is really doing or even hiding.
When your commencement speech is accepted and appreciated, the recipients publicise it.
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Meghan Markle 'Tone-deaf' Racism
Has President Dickmann ever considered the aftermath of posting such a letter? No.
Meghan Markle BLM, Immaculate Heart High, Prince Harry, Racism, Rawanda, Tom Bower, Wallis Simpson, World Vision
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Aglomeracja policentryczna – rodzaj aglomeracji, tworzącej zespół wzajemnie powiązanych jednostek osadniczych, którego główną cechą jest brak jednego ośrodka centralnego. Wyróżnia się ponadto podtypy aglomeracji policentrycznej: aglomeracja bicentryczna i konurbacja.

W aglomeracjach policentrycznych sensu stricto w istotny sposób zaznacza się rywalizacja między miastami, są też one zlokalizowane w większej odległości od siebie, niż to ma miejsce w przypadku konurbacji. Aglomeracja bicentryczna posiada 2 ośrodki centralne położone w pewnej odległości od siebie.

Przykładem aglomeracji policentrycznej jest aglomeracja rybnicka powstała z dawnej, słabo zaawansowanej konurbacji czy aglomeracja bydgosko-toruńska powstała w efekcie zbliżenia pól oddziaływań dwóch większych miast.

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Istotną kwestią jest stosowanie nazwy "aglomeracja" w odniesieniu do układów policentrycznych. Zgodnie z zasadami przyjętymi w naukach geograficznych, aby użyć w odniesieniu do układu wieloogniskowego określenia "aglomeracja", trzeba zaznaczyć jednocześnie, że ma się na myśli aglomerację policentryczną. W przypadku gdy mowa o formie, która jest konurbacją de facto, najlepiej ją tak po prostu nazwać, np. policentryczna aglomeracja bydgosko-toruńska, konurbacja katowicka.

Pojęcie aglomeracja, z następującym za nim określeniem geograficznym jest zarezerwowane dla aglomeracji monocentrycznych, np. aglomeracja warszawska, aglomeracja londyńska itp.

Zobacz też
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Russian President Vladimir Putin strides the world as the master tactician. In Crimea, eastern Ukraine and Syria, he seized the initiative and left his adversaries flatfooted and guessing as to his ultimate intentions.
Putin displays similar decisiveness against his domestic opponents, as the recent dismantling of the editorial staff at the independent newspaper RBC attests. Yet, blinkered decision-making processes can lead to bad policy choices. Having gutted the domestic media and created a puppet legislature, Putin is no exception to this rule.
The Kremlin is transfixed by the implementation of a series of decrees that Putin issued in May 2012, in the first flush of his successful return to the presidency. He remains focused on these executive orders -- and their assigned metrics -- as signs of his domestic success.
The decrees, which cover foreign, social, economic, housing and health-care policy, set out a road map for Putin's third term. His 200-plus bureaucratic instructions included bold declarations: Life expectancy would increase from age 70 in 2012 to age 74 by 2018 (though the average Russian male still only lives to 65); the cost of housing a square meter would decrease by 20 percent; 25 million high-productivity jobs would be created by 2020, more than doubling the estimated number in 2012, and Russia would move from 120th to 20th place in the World Banks's "Doing Business" rankings by 2018.
Putin's resolute adherence to now questionable priorities, especially in regard to social policy, is emblematic of what has gone wrong with his national agenda.
Because the facts on the ground -- and the state of the Russian economy and the lives of everyday Russians -- have changed dramatically since the 2012 decrees. Putin just met with his Presidential Economic Council for the first time in three years to discuss alternative plans, which range from a targeted stimulus to major structural reforms, to spur economic growth. Meanwhile, spending on his proclamations continues unabated.
When first issued, no price tag accompanied this agenda. Current estimates range from $10.8 billion to $43 billion. The head of Russia's audit chamber recently announced that before evaluating the effectiveness of Putin's orders, the agency needed to know their cost.
Putin is not the first candidate to make lofty promises while campaigning. Yet he raised the political stakes by elevating these promises to official government directives, and has single-mindedly been following their progress.
He has, for example, criticized proposed federal budgets, and fired ministers and government officials for not fulfilling the demands set forth in his decrees.
Fast-forward four years, and the debate over implementation of the decrees has only intensified. Significant government and academic resources have been expended to analyze their progress. The government proudly proclaims it has fulfilled 82 percent of the demands in the decrees. Outside monitors put the rate far lower.
No matter what the overall percentage, however, the optimism that inspired these decisions -- oil was selling at $113 a barrel in 2012; it is now $49 -- has long since been overtaken by events, including the introduction of economic sanctions against Moscow, the collapse of oil prices, high inflation and a weakened ruble.
Despite the hoopla surrounding the implementation rate, the underlying reality is far less encouraging. The decrees, for example, call for significant salary increases. Yet, the purchasing power of many professions, including doctors and teachers, remains at 2012 levels.
Moreover, regional governments have accumulated significant debts while striving to meet the increased social spending requirements. The regions, according to one source, still lack 15 percent of the revenues needed to implement the decrees.
Meanwhile, the big-ticket items -- increased productivity, cheaper housing -- now seem far beyond the reach of the government.
What does this continued preoccupation with the decrees say about Russia today? First, it illuminates why the Russian government has not been able to implement a sound anti-crisis plan for the past two years. Money and attention urgently needed to stimulate economic growth are regularly diverted to pad the success rate of fulfilling the orders rather than tackling fresh problems.
Second, Putin remains obsessed with meeting certain prestige goals instead of reforming institutions and addressing the underlying problems of ordinary Russians. He appealed to popular opinion, for example, when he promised to lower housing costs and provide better jobs. Today, however, fewer Russians than ever can dream of purchasing a home. Indeed, by not defending the ruble, the Kremlin ensured that Russian people would have to bear the brunt of the current recession.
Such realities, however, are unlikely to impinge on Putin's world. As he contemplates his re-election campaign in 2018, the Russian president will likely just declare his policies a success by pointing to the final percentage of decrees implemented. Such a strategy would allow him to avoid running on his actual economic record.
All these references to rates of performance have a Soviet ring to them. Russia would have fulfilled the plan even though the nation's standard of living and global competitiveness have declined precipitously.
Moreover, Putin would be continuing a Russian pattern set centuries ago. Russia has been governed by decree -- meaning personal rule -- since Peter the Great. This does not mean Putin is totally inflexible. He has, for example, let market forces determine the ruble's value, and watched the currency tumble as a result.
Nonetheless, Putin is demanding that priorities he set in 2012 must be realized -- even though the positive economic conditions at that time have long since disappeared. The Russian political class feels compelled to follow Putin's orders because that is how an autocratic system works.
The Russian leader's policy decisions are unlikely to lead to immediate collapse. The price of oil has crept up and stabilized. In addition, Putin now has his own personal national guard that would respond without question to any political challenge from Putin's opponents.
Yet, instead of pursuing a true modernization effort, Putin has fallen back on the May 2012 decrees as an alternative measurement of success. One that he can make look good on paper. The price of complacency, however, is blindness to constructive feedback.
Russia will wake up one day and discover that its public institutions and economy have yet again fallen behind parts of the developing world. The fixation on the May 2012 decrees helps explain why.
Almost all Western commentators fail to recognise any public beyond the one they know best - the chattering classes, the literate "media-savvy" (in the superficial sense) bourgeois ideological slaves of consumerism and fashion. This is why they fail to grasp Russia, where this deemographic is weak and small. It's ALSO why they fail to understand their OWN countries, where the sea of grumbling discontent beneath the thin crust of iPod users may eventually be the death of them.


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Do I Like Being a Section 8 Landlord?
When it comes to being a Section 8 landlord, I definitely have mixed feelings. While the rent is eventually paid up, 8 out of 10 times it will be late.
Some Section 8 tenants do not listen to your views on how you want the rental property to be taken care of.
My real life experience with Section 8: I have seen 5 cars parked at my one-bedroom rental apartment. I have a Section 8 tenant who owes me $11 every month which he has not paid up in 5 months straight.
Another tenant signed a lease agreement with a no-dog policy (in front of the case worker) and I found one in the rental property the next day. Another time the lock to my rental property was stuck and I had to kick down the door.
Comments for Do I Like Being a Section 8 Landlord?
I have had Section 8 tenants through the years because most of the rent is paid by Housing and is ALWAYS on time. The tenant portions are mostly not paid promptly.
Inspections are made by Housing but landlord is not notified of the date or time of inspection so that they can be there to fix anything that needs fixing. I also find that they do not do thorough inspections and yet are very nit-picky on items that need repair and bypass really important things.
I currently have 3 long-term Section 8 tenants, but I will not be renting to Section 8 in the future since in the Bay Area, the housing market pays more than Section 8 allows.
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I have had many Section 8 tenants over the past 30 years....the secret to renting, period, is screening. My Section 8 tenants are great, but occasionally there is a really bad one that hurts the program but I try to judge each tenant separately....just because one tenant is a poor tenant, does not mean they all are.
I feel good renting to families who are having difficulty finding a home because of the bad things that are said about Section 8. Section 8 is a good thing...we, as landlords, just need to be extra careful when doing our screening.
What you should know up front is that the program pays a "portion" of the rent and it is always on time. The tenant's portion is due and payable and if they don't pay, then you treat them as you would other tenants. It is good to note that if they are ever evicted, then they may lose their Section 8, which they don't want to risk doing.
It IS time consuming to rent thru the program as they do not have the personnel to do things "quickly". If the unit is not ready when they schedule the inspection, then it takes another week or two to schedule a re-inspection. What I do is have a handyman there at the time of inspection so that he can quickly fix anything I missed and the unit will pass on that day, which will be the day of approval. Note: There is an inspection sheet you can download and follow from their website. That way there are no surprises and you know exactly what items are being inspected.
Just be very selective when choosing a tenant and make sure the tenants have had a good rental history and have sufficient income to cover their portion. There are no guarantees when renting to anyone, but you can rest assured that the County will pay their portion on time, every time, and that once you have a good tenant, they will most likely stay for a long time.
Leases are yearly and then go to month-to-month.
There are ALWAYS bad renters even within the section 8 pool. The inspections are NOT that hard to pass, unless you as a landlord are not taking proper care of your own property. Working toilets, smoke detectors that work, windows that shut, etc. are simple things that every landlord should provide their tenants. Screen your tenants.. good credit, income source, length at previous rental, etc. are all good ways to screen out the bad section 8 renters.
I rent a Thermax system and shampoo the rug to keep everything nice every 3 months. However- I have had neighbors in the past 6 yrs. that are also on Sec. 8 and one for medical marajuana disability and the other has 3-4 kids and a couple boyfriend daddies who visit her. This has been a Jerry Springer episode daily complete with Heavy drama of fighting and drug sales. Both of them also have had many people living with them and one had a motor home hooked up to our Duplex for over 2 months with freeloaders in it.
Finally after 4 yrs. of being in close proximity they have been evicted-one by the landlord and the other by the Sherriff. So...if you rent to Sec. 8 -PLEASE be careful and see the red flags. Background checks and intuition are good to go on.
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Life has become far more comfortable for local fire spotter Peter Skilbeck since the brand new observation cabin was craned into place atop the historic Mount Tarrengower fire spotter's tower.
As Mr Skilbeck celebrates the Maldon tower's 95th anniversary this weekend he will be doing so in comparative luxury from 20 metres up – with a view of about 100 km in all directions.
His vantage point is one of 74 towers strategically sited across the state, enabling spotters to detect the first signs of fire.
Firefighting crews at the scene of a grassfire off the Midland Highway at Harcourt on Monday. Photo: Kerri-Anne Schnoor.


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Remainder of 2021 Fixtures Postponed
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Following consultations with Public Health England and the National League, Grimsby Town Football Club can confirm that due to a continuation of COVID19 cases within the first-team squad, our fixtures vs. Halifax Town on 26th December and King's Lynn Town on 28th December have now been postponed.
These are in addition to the recent postponement of this evening's fixture vs. Boreham Wood due to a number of positive COVID19 cases within the First Team squad, despite our prevention measures and daily lateral flow testing.
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"I am really looking forward to returning to the UK for this very special performance in Leeds. It is amazing that Show Me Love is still going strong after 25 years and I am so excited to be able to perform this live for the audience alongside Opera North's 50-piece symphony orchestra – it is going to be a very special moment!"
"We have always been immensely proud of our home city, Leeds, and to be performing in as part of Symphonic Sounds in Millennium Square is a real honour.
"This will be a one-off for us, we will be performing a couple of our hits in a completely new way, and we aim to make it very special. When we started, Dave Beer was a big part of our early live set-up, so to be reunited at this gig is a big deal! We cannot wait! Leeds!"
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Chicago house royalty Robert Owens is also back for 2018, another stellar David Morales/Frankie Knuckles associate (Tears; I'll be Your Friend) and a direct link to the early days of the sound through his work with Larry Heard in Fingers Inc. British gospel and house singer, Rachel McFarlane will be performing Let The Music Lift you Up which she recorded with Loveland, reaching number 16 in the UK and her self-penned LOVER, which was mashed up with Paul Van Dyk's, 'For an Angel', that remains a club classic.
"After being totally blown away by last year's event, which still seems like a surreal dream and probably the highlight of my life so far, we can't wait to come back with another knock-out live show that the city can be proud of. It was a humbling experience to get such a great response from the citizens of Leeds and further afield, smack bang in the centre of Leeds under the watchful eyes of Millennium Square's golden owls.
"I am really honoured once again to be working alongside Leeds City Council and the brilliant Orchestra of Opera North and I am so excited to collaborate closely once again with my good friends Jez and Tim from Utah Saints. It's also going be amazing to be performing a rendition of my own track that I wrote for Robert Owens, dedicated to beloved friends both past and present."


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Cape Winemakers Guild Protégés create their own unique wines
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Excitement is mounting amongst second year Cape Winemakers Guild Protégés as the dream of making their first wines becomes a reality with their creations safely in barrel after the 2016 harvest.
Making their own wines is a vital part of the Guild's Protégé programme and has been made possible through the generous sponsorship of French oak barrels by the Cape Cooperage Group for the past 6 years.
In addition to the barrel donation, the Paarl based Cape Cooperage Group assists the Protégés by guiding them through their choice of barrels, helping them achieve the particular style of wine they wish to make. Other annual sponsors supporting this initiative are Consol Glass and Amorim Cork who donate the bottles and the corks for the Protégé wines.
"I am truly honoured to be part of this successful programme. Nothing is more satisfying than seeing our contribution towards the wine industry being appreciated and used positively to shape its future. It gives me great pleasure to witness these hard working, humble and confident Protégés become our future winemakers," says André Kotze, Managing Director of Cape Cooperage Group.
This year, three second-year interns, Clayton Christians, Kiara Scott and Mahalia Kotjane have been able to fulfil their dreams of crafting their own unique wines. This is an essential part of the three-year Protégé programme in addition to learning how to prepare budgets, production plans and marketing proposals. The Protégés are taken on the whole winemaking journey – from the vineyard to the end product in the bottle.
With the guidance of Rianie Strydom at Haskell Vineyards, Clayton Christians is making a Chardonnay for which he has developed a great love.
"My palate favours Chardonnay above any other white grape variety. I am grateful that Cape Cooperage has given me the opportunity to experiment with a barrel which has not often been used in the industry and that it will underline the characteristics of my own wine," says Clayton.
Fellow second year Protégés, Kiara Scott and Mahalia Kotjane, will showcase their skills with Shiraz. The two young winemakers are excited to work with this diverse grape to create wines that represent their own individuality.
Kiara, who is based at De Grendel under the watchful eye of Charles Hopkins, has chosen Shiraz for its versatility. She strives to create a pure wine that expresses terroir and honest winemaking.
"Working at Cederberg last year and having experienced a harvest in Rhone, I feel confident about producing a good, terroir-driven wine. In the last two years my eyes have truly opened to the diversity of this grape variety," says Kiara.
Mahalia Kotjane, with the guidance and knowledge of her mentor Carl Schultz at Hartenberg Estate, hopes that her wine will serve as a milestone for a successful future in the wine industry.
"This is my freedom of expression in a bottle of wine. Much like people, different styles of wine embody certain personalities. I have taken pride in ensuring that my personality, views and ideas are best expressed through this wine," says Mahalia, who loves the complexity and elegance of a meticulously crafted Shiraz.
The thought of making their own wines that people can enjoy excites and motivates all three Protégés. Their wines will be auctioned during their final internship year at Gala Dinners in Johannesburg and Cape Town and at the Silent Auction that takes place at the annual Nedbank Cape Winemakers Guild Auction.
The funds raised at these events are ploughed back into the Protégé Programme to support the development of future winemakers.
Established in 2006 under the auspices of the Nedbank Cape Winemakers Guild Development Trust, the CWG Protégé Programme gives aspirant winemakers and viticulturists the rare opportunity of working side by side with members of the Guild. By cultivating, nurturing and empowering promising individuals to become winemakers and viticulturists of excellence, the Cape Winemakers Guild Protégé Programme plays an active role in the long term health and sustainability of the industry.
For more information on the Guild, contact Tel: 021 852 0408 or send an email to info@capewinemakersguild.com. Students interested in applying for the Protégé Programme can visit the Guild's website at www.capewinemakersguild.com.
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"Three Women" by Lisa Taddeo (Avid Reader Press)
Why the sex lives of "Three Women" are so fascinating: "We're used to listening to men's stories"
Salon talks to Lisa Taddeo about her stunning new reported nonfiction book about women, desire and power
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Erin Keane
Muriel Rukeyser's mic-drop line, "What would happen if one woman told the truth about her life? / The world would split open," invoked for decades as a feminist call-to-arms, has always read as irony to me. There's no denying that women have been telling the truth about their lives, to great literary success even, since the late '60s when Rukeyser's poem was published, and before. And yet despite the many deep cracks made, the world remains stubbornly intact in many ways, glued by the status quo that designates women's lives as merely near-adjacent to human, to be afforded only as much as the momentary generosity of the patriarchy deigns to allow.
Rukeyser called it, at least in my reading: often for the woman telling the truth about her life, her world splits open. The wound formed is heralded as a spectacle — a major achievement, maybe, or a sign of rot. In some cases both. For everyone else the world spins on.
This is one reason why telling the truth about women's lives remains more urgent a goal than ever, and why Lisa Taddeo's stunning new book "Three Women" is garnering such well-deserved acclaim. The culmination of nearly a decade of reporting on the state of sexual desire across America, in its final form "Three Women" focuses tightly on the true stories of its eponymous triad: a young North Dakota woman dealing with the aftermath of a sexual relationship with her high school teacher that culminates in a devastating trial; a stay-at-home mother in rural Indiana who breaks up her passionless marriage to pursue a lover from her past; and a refined New England restaurant owner whose chef husband likes to watch her have sex with other people, and leaves the emotional fall-out for her to manage.
Taddeo set out to create something like Gay Talese's immersive, decade-long reporting project which became "Thy Neighbor's Wife," but from a female perspective. "While I think sex is titillating and I like reading about it," Taddeo tells me, "[that book] was missing, for me, the emotional aspects . . . I wanted to get behind the act to figure out the emotion behind it."
There are of course many other excellent books by women about women and sex. Many are memoirs, self-narrated by self-selecting subjects; some are about famous women, whose lives are already expected to be of interest. Or they are fiction, with the creative license it allows. Or specialized nonfiction, fitted within the neat framework of a marketplace niche.
But to read Taddeo's intimate, unruly, complex and conflicted portraits of these unconnected women is to be reminded what a gift it is to read about women and sex from a third party writing with empathy and seriousness — not to pathologize them, fetishize them, or place them within some passing trend, but in an attempt to treat women as full, ordinary humans in such a way that just might split the world open a bit more for the reader.
I spoke with Taddeo by phone recently about how she researched and wrote the book, and what sex writing is missing today. Our conversation has been edited for length and clarity.
How did you find these women? How much time did you spend with them?
I drove across the country six times. It was over the course of eight and a half, nine years. I was looking for men, women, all genders, all races.
I was looking for compelling stories, but mostly for people who were going to be super honest with me about desire and really let me get embedded in it.
At first I was trying to talk to many people for an hour at a time, to get a sort of cross-section of desire in America. It just wasn't working.
I started to decided that I needed to go in-depth, and so I drove across the country. I posted these signs all over the country looking for compelling stories of desire.
The main thing that's difficult about that is you don't know what to tell somebody. If you're interviewing somebody about, I don't know, their rubber company, it's like, OK, then how do you make the rubber? It's very straightforward. It's matter of fact. You can talk about their lives around the rubber factory, but at the end of the day you know you're talking about rubber.
I spoke to a number of people; hundreds of people. I would just kind of say something like, "I don't know how much you're going to be a part of this book and I don't know what the book's really about. It's about desire, but I don't know how. I don't know if you're going to be a section or a paragraph or a whole book." It was difficult. I think the first real thing that I did for the book besides the cross-country trips was moving to Indiana.
What took you to Indiana in the first place, and how long were you there?
I had gone to this specific place in Indiana, to the Kinsey Institute, since they studied sex. I was trying to figure out a scientific way to begin something that utterly lacked a nucleus. I met this doctor who was working with some Kinsey researchers and he was conducting these hormone treatments on women who were losing weight and feeling sexy. I was really interested in the women and in how they felt.
The doctor was telling me that he was going to ask them if any of them wanted to talk to me. I spoke to one of them on the phone. It ended up being Lina. When I heard her on the phone, I was just like, oh my gosh, this woman is so interesting. She hadn't told me anything yet. She was just so honest, and it was the first real honest person I had spoken to. Everyone [else] had a horse in the race, kind of.
I moved to Indiana for this. I started this discussion group, which is where I met Lina face to face the first time. The first time she walked in, I [thought] oh my God, this is going to be the first person.
I didn't know what it was going to be, but I knew that she was going to be it. That was the beginning, so I lived there for about two years.
That's going in deep. Two out of the three women live in places that are very rarely written about in this kind of way. North Dakota and rural Indiana are places where maybe, at best, there are stories written about why people voted for Donald Trump, and then the reporter leaves.
Among the many things that made your book feel so different is that two-thirds of it is set outside of coastal affluence. Do you think that that made a difference?
I wanted a wide ranging swath of people. I wanted someone from the rural middle of the country. I wanted someone from an affluent part. I wanted an African American woman. I just wanted it to be as diverse as possible. I'm happy about the socioeconomic diversity. In the end, though, I think the three women who remain are the most compelling of all the people to me. One of the reasons is because they're the ones who gave me as much as they did. Nobody else gave me that much.
I moved to other people's communities, multiple times. I would follow these other people. For example, I moved to this one community for a young queer man who was also a life coach. That was the main reason I moved to this town. He was fine, but he wasn't giving me enough. There's a lot of things that people do when it comes to desire and sex. They're like, "Oh, yeah, this was great and then this was amazing." It's really hard to talk about the parts of that desire that are difficult, which I often think are the parts that are the most passionate.
Whenever somebody started not going as deep . . . I would notice this sort of glimmer of reticence, and that's when I would lose interest. Or it was a mutual losing of interest.
One one hand we're living in an overshare moment right now. There are a lot of people who really want to go on reality TV, or who are sort of performing a version of their lives on social media all the time in a way that 20 years ago was not a thing. And yet at the same time, the willingness to be really honest is maybe not there for a lot of people because we're so attuned to how we might be perceived by an audience.I don't know if you had a conversation with Maggie and Lina and Sloane about this, but why were they willing to give you so much of themselves in these stories?
I think that they each wanted someone to listen. Specifically with Maggie, she wanted to correct the record and also I think help people, young women like herself. She is now a social worker and doing really well. I think she wanted people to have a guidebook for what had happened to her when she was a younger woman. She wanted someone to tell her story. Even though I'm the one who approached her, she definitely wanted that.
With Lina, it was a little bit different but the same basic thing. She just wanted somebody to listen. I wanted somebody who would talk. It was kind of this perfect storm.
With Sloane, it was also similar. Nobody would really listen to Sloane. Sloan I think was, of the three women, the person who probably wanted to be heard the least, but also had no one to really talk to honestly about what was going on in her life, because of the judgment.
There are a few sort of uniting themes that I think say so much about our cultural attitudes toward women and desire, which are the judgment — and frequently, the judgment from other women toward them that they all face in some way — and the fact that all three of these stories carry some element of sexual trauma behind them. It's revealed late in Sloane's story, and it's foregrounded of course in Maggie's, but then was also very much present in Lina's story as well.
Were you surprised to find that thread of sexual trauma throughout these stories? Or did that just confirm the suspicion that it's a unifying theme across so many women's lives?
It was a unifying theme in a lot of women's lives. I don't want to generalize, but I definitely feel like so many of our pasts shape our present and our desire.
When you talk to somebody for two years about just their sex lives, you will hear everything. The things that you'll keep hearing are the things that are the most shaping. That's what I found just from having so much access and having their truths being put on this chopping block every day. Things came out.
Yes, I do think we're very unified by that, but I also think that if you talk to anybody for a certain amount of time, you'll get the things that are the most painful or exciting or trenchant.
You've been working on this book in some form for about a decade. Now it's come out, as we like to say, in the wake of #MeToo.
For a while there we were just inundated with powerful stories of how men have enacted their sexual desires, and desire for control and power over women, over and over and over. Where were you in the process of writing the book when that started, and did that affect or make you think about how you were shaping the book?
It didn't. I was mostly done with the book by the time the #MeToo stuff was happening. I did go back and talk to each of the women. Sloane, I had not finished her story yet, and some things did happen to her that she treated differently post-#MeToo, which I thought was very interesting. Maggie, I think Maggie's case would have gone very differently post-#MeToo.
My whole point for writing the book was to show that women don't talk about their desire enough. #MeToo was like, this is what we don't want. My book was this is what we do want, and this is what these three women want. It wasn't about all women. I just wanted to open up the window into different people's desires. People have been saying "ordinary women." Yeah, they're ordinary in the sense that they're not celebrities, but we're all ordinary, even celebrities. We're all just human beings. That's what I was looking to do.
In terms of #MeToo, I think it's a vital movement. I wasn't trying to make a statement about it in my book mostly because my book came before. I don't think that's the point of the book. There's a zeitgeist going on and that's great, and hopefully it will change the way that we look at what men and people in positions of power can do. I really do think that we're moving in that direction. That said, there's still this hangover of the patriarchy that a lot of women, and people in general, want to pretend that it's not still there. Like, after this many years of feminism, aren't we past that? Honestly, I spoke to hundreds of people and I don't think we're past that.
Beyond that, I spoke to a lot of people in the middle of the country. I think when it comes to the coasts and the big cities, we can sort of look at the world in a certain way. Lina and all of her friends in Indiana did not, when I went back to talk to them, they didn't know about it. They had heard something about a guy named Harvey Weinstein.
One of the reasons I moved to Indiana was because I was like, New York is great, but it's too New York. Too much is happening that has nothing to do with the rest of the country. It both epitomizes the country and is the opposite of it at the same time. That's why I wanted to get out of there.
Did you know that you were going to write in this very close third person point of view? I found it so effective — you are telling their stories almost as if you were recounting exactly how they told them to you, and yet there's always that third-person remove, in which their names are written over and over, as if to remind us, this is not [the author's] story, this is her story.
I wanted it to be their voices. I wanted the whole book to have a unified voice, which was mine, but I also wanted each of their stories to very much speak for themselves and in their voices as much as I could. For example, I texted so much with Maggie. When Sloane emailed, her voice was very much in email. Lina would send me Facebook messages that were verbatim what had just happened with her and [her lover] Aiden. [I was] taking that and using it as much as possible to make it sound like they were telling their own stories in a way that they might not have been able to do, because it's hard to access certain things. I wouldn't have been able to do it for myself.
I was there for a lot of the things that I described, so I removed myself from the narrative because I thought that my presence was distracting.
There's obviously a wealth of reporting and research in this book, but the storytelling doesn't foreground the men's accounts in their words. Is that just woven in into the background of it? Or did you consciously set out to only speak to the women and get their perspective on these stories?
A little bit of both. I tried to contact Aaron Knodel [Maggie's teacher] multiple times because that was an important thing to do because it was a case and a child. He did not respond. I spoke to a lot of the people, some of the men who are mentioned. There were some men, like Aiden for example, who I would not even have considered asking because Lina would have stopped talking to me. It would have ruined her relationship, and it would have affected her trajectory, too. The book wouldn't have happened if I did that. That's one part of of one of the reasons I didn't talk to Aiden for example.
It was about the women. It wasn't like this he said, she said. It's not like I was interested in nailing down everything: OK, when Lina was here, where were you standing, Aiden? This is Lina's version of the story. This is the way Lina experienced this. We're used to listening to men's stories and the way that men experience things. It became very clearly and quickly about focusing it on the women.
I am curious about all of the other conversations that didn't make it into the book. What were some of the memorable takeaways that you had from that?
There were tons. There were multiple people that were super-interesting to me.
The largest section that I lost was this woman who — I still struggle to even talk about her now because I know how intensely freaked out she got toward the end of my research. She started seeing somebody that she fell in love with and was concerned about him finding out about her past.
There was one guy that I talked to for a long time who was a young man in a tourist spot and in the summers he would sleep with like three different new girls a night.
Yeah, no, it was insane. He was the baseball star of the town. He was very charming and sweet. I went into this kind of anthropological detail, like I was a scientist studying the women. "OK, what did this one look like? How did that make you feel?" He'd be like, "It was great." It was a lot of that. I wrote it all down and I was just like, this is not enough.
How good are Americans, in general and in your experience, at talking about sex and desire?
Not really good at all. We still live in a very puritanical country. I always think about the senators who say that men should not have gay sex and then they go home and they have gay sex. It's just really striking to me that we're still like that, that we say these hypocritical things every single day.
I think that there's an element of people talking about sex when it's just honest as far as what I did last night. In terms of how what I did last night made me feel? That is hard.
That's why these three women, oh my God, when I found each of them, including the fourth woman who was also similarly amazing . . . and the fifth man who would have I think been a cool addition — he just became less interesting. The end of his narrative, I thought, it paled in comparison. As almost every story I had, to these [three] stories.
This book is not memoir, so therefore we're getting the points of view of women who are not themselves writers and plumbing their own depths for their own artistic goals and ends. Also, there's a difference in these stories and stories of the exciting and titillating and bizarre. What are we missing overall that makes a book like this feel like such a gigantic breath of fresh air, especially when it's about such serious, deep emotional stuff?
Not doing it in a kind of puerile way, and having these people open themselves up to me to tell the story of human desire in such a very in-depth and granular way. I was looking for that for a decade, but I can't believe that these people gave it to me. I'm endlessly grateful and shocked and awed and surprised.
Erin Keane is Salon's deputy editor in chief.
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Thirty-Seven (37) people have been reported to be injured after two buses collided head on in the Thalgasmote area in Veyangoda.
According to the police, the accident had taken place at around 12 noon Friday and the injured have been admitted to the Wathupitiwaia Hospital. Among the injured are two monks and two minors.
Three of the injured are in critical condition. The accident was result of a collision between a SLTB bus and a private bus.


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Das Bild von 'Africa' in der augusteischen Dichtung. Poetische Konstruktionen eines geographischen Raumes
Ingrid Hesekamp, Das Bild von 'Africa' in der augusteischen Dichtung. Poetische Konstruktionen eines geographischen Raumes (Vergil, 'Aeneis' - Horaz - Properz). Göttinger Forum für AltertumswissenschaftBeihefte Neue Folge, 11. Berlin; Boston: De Gruyter, 2021. Pp. x, 263. ISBN 9783110736090 $126.99.
Elena Giusti, University of Warwick. E.Giusti@warwick.ac.uk
In the wake of a renewed interest in questions of race and ethnicity,[1] identity and otherness,[2] in the Greco-Roman world, Hesekamp's monograph focuses on a timely topic from the angle of the (instrumental) 'fictionality' of representations of 'Africa' at the hands of Augustan poets. Yet, unlike most recent work produced on adjacent topics, her interest unabashedly lies in these works' literary features, which she mainly surveys via structuralist theories of narratology and symbolism, and the discontinuous input of cognitive approaches.
With the material divided into two main sections—the 'dramatic' epic of Virgil and the (broadly conceived) 'lyric' of Horace and Propertius—the book asks how these literary genres present 'Africa' differently because of their narrative potential (or lack thereof), even though they build upon a commonality of topoi. This approach brings somewhat mixed results: on the one hand, against the historians' tendency to decontextualise specific passages from the literary texts and make them function as mere data in larger cultural narratives, Hesekamp refreshingly reminds us of the need to read literature on its own terms, with a perceptive eye for its specific contexts. Special attention is devoted to issues of internal or external perspective, focalisation, and communication, and how these are intertwined with the original audience's common knowledge around Africa. Recognition, for example, that the 'emptiness' of Africa sheds light on a crisis of identity in both Aeneas and Dido, rather than on Africa per se, makes it more difficult to turn Africa's 'deserts' (deserta) into a constitutive feature of the imagined landscape of north Africa for a Roman audience, even though it may also be true that it is this preconceived cliché about the African landscape that brings about the superimposition between the landscape and the characters' psychology. On the other hand, the book will let down readers interested in finding out more about the origins and features of such preconceptions, many of which filter into the early modern and colonial periods and take the form of explicitly racist ideas about Africa, which persist in different forms to the current day. Overall, the book's disregard of distinctions between ancient and modern forms of prejudice, racialisation, exploitation, and colonialism is rather disappointing for a volume published in 2021.[3]
The book's introduction sets out a defence of its purely literary methodology. Hesekamp posits that the poets' 'fictive representations' of Africa bear 'normative effects' in the imagination of readers unfamiliar with Africa's geographic-historic features, allegedly creating a 'reality of Africa' in their consciousness. If this literature 'shows no interest in Africa' per se, neither does this book, which zooms in on strategies of representation without interpreting them against historical or material realities; nor does it reflect on the pernicious consequences of such strategies for contemporary Africa as they get reproduced in scholarship. From the book's first pages, 'Africa' is presented as a 'mysterious', 'strange' and 'enigmatic' 'continent' whose contours (and distinction from the modern 'continent') are never clearly spelled out. As this book also demonstrates, 'Africa' is by no means a single entity, even in the Latin literary representations, and important distinctions can be drawn between its different areas and populations: is this tendency to collapse it into a unicum a feature of the ancient Roman or of the later European mind? And to what extent are the 'mysterious' features of the continent in the ancient literature a blueprint for how colonial Europe will instrumentally turn it into a realm of the irrational, the underdeveloped, and the primitive, to justify its colonial rule and exploitation? Sadly, as the review of scholarship also highlights (where the focus is on theories of narratology, symbolism, formalism), Hesekamp does not grapple with such questions, even though her findings will be important for anyone who may approach the topic from different viewpoints. Moreover, it is only towards the book's close that she attempts to draw the line on what is specific about the Augustan poets—rather than Latin literature as a whole—for thinking about African space as a space of empire and conquest.
A chapter on the original audiences' ideas of Africa includes important historical and ethnographic background, lending credence to the idea that African toponyms function in poetry as 'cognitive triggers', bearing specific associations in the readers' minds. Yet there are problems in attempting to reconstruct allegedly preconceived ideas about Africa in an audience that must have necessarily been quite diverse and which, as Hesekamp writes, may not only have been in Africa, but also—a possibility that she does not fathom—may have also been African. Additionally, her use of Sallust's African digression as a 'historical' rather than 'literary' source that readers may have taken as a 'realistic description' of Africa strikes an odd note given her admission that such excursus is 'embedded in the topoi of the ethnographic tradition' and 'shaped by the narrative function that it holds in [Sallust's] monograph'.[4] This section on Sallust contains lapses that will recur frequently in the book: specifically, readers would have benefited from a clarification of the anachronisms inherent in talking about 'civilisation' or lack thereof. Sallust's inculti (BJ 18.1; cf. 89.7 incultius) refers to Nomadic populations refraining from cultivating the soil; it doesn't necessarily indicate a 'downgrading' of the people. If it does, then Sallust's 'moral' judgment over the Numidians may be interpreted against Sallust's own thought, not necessarily as a mirror for ingrained preconceptions of the Roman audience. There is also a problem with identifying the Ethiopians (here and elsewhere in the book) as 'people with dark skin colour', giving the wrong impression (against Herodotus among others) that Ethiopians were the only people whose skin was black in Africa and elsewhere (especially puzzling given the supposed etymology of the Mauri from μαυρός 'dark', cf. Luc. 4.678–679; Manil. 4.729–730).
The largest section of the book covers Virgil's Aeneid. There is much to commend here, especially at the level of close reading, and much that will need serious consideration from Virgilians. Hesekamp opens with a (slightly dated) presentation of her narratological methodology, which pays special attention to focalisation and spatial design in the close reading of specific scenes. Specifically, she shows how Hans-Dieter Reeker's concept of a 'progressive sketching of the landscape' can be applied to the way in which the Libyan space is constructed in the Aeneid by the successive allocation of pieces of information. Her close reading of the topothesia of the Libyan harbour is particularly effective: by following the horizontal and vertical axes of this constructed space, she highlights the perspective of the Trojans approaching the inlet and admirably shows how the ambiguity of the landscape mirrors the uncertainty of the narrative, with its symbolism triggering a range of overwhelming emotions. Other portions of the chapter also deal with the relationship between the land and the characters' psychology, successfully showing how certain features of the landscape and its fauna are a direct result of the tribulations of both protagonists (Aeneas and Dido) and secondary characters (Ascanius and Anna). The only aspect that I find unconvincing is the characterisation of the local Africans. It is surprising that, despite being so attuned to the characters' perspectives, Hesekamp doesn't notice the irony with which Anna characterises the local African kings with the same lack of (sexual) restraint that will become the damning trait of her sister. I find it difficult to agree with the views (also displayed in e.g. R.G. Austin's commentary on Aeneid 4) that the Numidians and Gaetulian Iarbas are characterised by 'savagery', 'primitiveness', and by their lack of respect towards women (which Hesekamp evinces from Sallust BJ 80, on the practice of polygamy), and that Dido and Anna prefer Aeneas on the grounds that he comes from 'a civilised people'. I suspect that Virgil may be presenting a Carthaginian (proto-colonial and/or proto-racial) viewpoint on the local populations (just like Sallust's excursus was explicitly said to derive from 'Punic books'), but such strategy of 'othering' different populations at different points in the epic is built upon more layers of complexity than Hesekamp allows for. Some of her observations don't work by her own admission: the word tyranni (4.320) to characterise the Numidian kings was also applied to Phoenician Pygmalion (1.361); the phrase captam ducere (4.326), which would point to Iarbas' violence towards women, reminds us of what the Romans did to Cleopatra, and of Aeneas' own capture and then desertion of Dido in her own words shortly later (capta ac deserta, 4.330); Iarbas' supposed reduction of Dido to the 'feminine' (4.211 femina … errans) is nothing in comparison to Mercury's further reduction of the 'feminine' to the 'volatile' and 'changeable' (4.569–470). It is already questionable to take Iarbas' characterisation as 'exemplary' for 'all African leaders', but such reduction of one to the many is further hindered by the fact that there are serious counterarguments to Hesekamp's damning portrait of this leader and of the African populations as a whole, sometimes aided by her own analysis: she points out, for instance, how Iarbas makes a joke on litus arare (4.212) to describe a 'vain effort', something at odds with someone coming from a population that does not practice cultivation and would therefore be 'uncivilised' from a Latin perspective.
The chapter on Horace and Propertius displays similar problems despite excellent observations on particular details. Here, interest lies in the poetic features of 'lyric' in comparison to 'epic' and shows how these compositions rely on a few common topoi on Africa, which are used to 'trigger' chains of associations for readers. There are here interesting observations on how Africa functions at times as an 'anti-space' for Rome, a foil against which the Roman self is asserted, but it seems to me that the chapter overall misses opportunities for contributing to discourses of otherness, as well as racial or xenophobic traits, and it is also limiting in choosing not to engage with the topic of the Punic Wars. I was struck by the lack of interest in the continuation between Horace's moral outlook on the richness of the land and the greed of the merchants with stereotypes of greed as applied to Phoenicians and Carthaginians, as well as in how local Africans become objectified by continuity with their land in terms of stereotypes. Hesekamp points to what she sees as a paradox of Africa as being characterised as 'barbaric, uncivilised and uncultivated' (what she calls 'the horrors of Africa'), while at the same time producing 'a wealth of vital and luxurious products,' exploited by the Romans. Interaction with modern discourses of colonial exploitation would have helped in thinking around the question of whether this dualism emerges in her analysis as a by-product of modern distortions reflected in these texts' modern and contemporary scholarship, or else as an important anticipation of the early modern European representations of its colonies. This remains a crucial point to raise when arguing (with regard to the shield of Aeneid 8 and Ode 2.20) that the projects of princeps and poets coincide in spreading 'norms', i.e. 'civilisation' and 'education' to 'uncivilised Africans' in order to construct a 'new, pacified and civilised Africa' that Hesekamp sees as contrasted with 'the barbaric Africa of the early days'. This strikes me as one of many unsettlingly anachronistic readings of these texts' representations of proto-colonial empire that are unwittingly put forward in an otherwise very stimulating book.
[1] McCoskey, Denise (ed.) (2021) A Cultural History of Race in Antiquity, London; Derbew, Sarah F. (2022) Untangling Blackness in Greek Antiquity, Cambridge.
[2] Fabre-Serris, Jacqueline, Keith, Alison and Klein, Florence (2021) Identities, Ethnicities and Gender in Antiquity, Berlin and Boston; Gruen, Erich S. (2020) Ethnicity in the ancient world – did it Matter?, Berlin and Boston.
[3] Hesekamp directs readers interested in the continuity between antiquity and modernity to Mambwini Kivuila-Kiaku, José and Nsuka Nkoko, Jean-Baptiste (2017) L'Afrique vue par les Romains: les écrits de Salluste et de Lucain, Paris.
[4] The book has serious bibliographical gaps. Here, the studies of Roberto Oniga and Robert Morstein-Marx would have been helpful.


Datsun Z car door related parts. We have a couple of options for door panels, either stock replacement or a metal race type door panel for 1970-78. Our stock look door panels for 240Z and late 280Z are very nice quality and almost identical to the originals.


A Toledo woman was arrested and charged in federal court after she purchased black powder and screws that she believed were going to be used to make a bomb as part of a terrorist attack.
Elizabeth Lecron, 23, was charged with one count of transportation of explosives and explosive material for the purposes of harming others and property.
FBI Acting Special Agent in Charge Jeff Fortunato said: "Removing Elizabeth Lecron from the ranks of civilized society by virtue of arrest and prosecution thwarts her explicitly stated desire to engage in acts of death and destruction. This case is a testament to the value of an ever vigilant public, which had the courage to alert law enforcement as to the evil goals and intentions of this suspect."
Lecron came to the attention of law enforcement earlier this year after one of her associates expressed a desire to conduct a violent attack. Further investigation revealed Lecron frequently posted voluminous photographs and comments on social media glorifying mass murderers, including the Columbine shooters and Dylann Roof.
After her Tumblr account was shut down because of offensive content, Lecron started a new profile -- "CharlestonChurchMiracle," -- where she continued to post photos and comments about mass casualty attacks.
Lecron and an associate flew to Denver in order to visit Columbine High School. Around this time, she also began corresponding with Roof and attempted to send him Nazis literature.
Earlier in August, undercover FBI agents and confidential sources communicated with Lecron. In August, she stated she and an associate 1 had devised a plan to commit an "upscale mass murder" at a Toledo bar. She stated she knew the bar only had two ways in or out, which could be a tactical advantage when police arrived.
Later that month, Lecron stated she wanted to meet other anarchists in order to form a team. She stated she wanted to damage a livestock farm to set livestock free. She later confirmed she was willing to sabotage anything that harms the environment.
A week later, on August 28, she reiterated she wanted to attack a farm that raises pigs or cows. The next day, Lecron stated she could not locate such a farm and was going to focus on something else.
In September, Lecron met with undercover FBI agents and stated she and an associate started to make a pipe bomb. She stated she "definitely want(ed) to make a statement up here" and thought the place where she worked could be a good target because she believed they were polluting the river behind the plant.
On December 4, Lecron has discussions with an undercover agent regarding a pipeline bombing. Lecron agreed to buy black powder needed to make a bomb.
On December 8, Lecron met with a source at a retail sporting good stores, where she entered the store by herself and purchased two pounds of Hodgson Triple Seven Muzzleloading Propellant. She then went to a larger retailer in Perrysburg, where she purchased 665 screws of various sizes, some as large as three inches.
The Federal Bureau of Investigation's Joint Terrorism Task Force, which is comprised of members of the FBI, Homeland Security and Investigations, U.S. Customs and Border Protection, Ohio State Highway Patrol and Toledo Police Department, is leading the ongoing investigation. They were assisted by the FBI's office in Denver. The case is being prosecuted by Assistant U.S. Attorney Michael Freeman.
If convicted, the defendant's sentence will be determined by the Court after review of factors unique to this case, including the defendant's prior criminal record, if any, the defendant's role in the offense and the characteristics of the violation. In all cases, the sentence will not exceed the statutory maximum and in most cases it will be less than the maximum.


Galahs have used our Rosella box on many occasions. In fact, after chewing a large enough entrance for themselves, several have even bred in the smaller Lorikeet box. They seem to be able to regulate their clutch size to suit the dimensions of the hollow.
Galahs are hugely entertaining birds, and they are delightful to observe when breeding. They are not nearly as noisy and disruptive as when they are being fed, and hence providing a nestbox is an unobtrusive way to attract them and keep them around (although if multiple pairs of galahs are breeding in the same area, the creches that they form for the young are far from unobtrusive).
That said, there are some negative aspects to attracting galahs. For a start, there is no shortage of them; in fact, galahs are extending their range at a considerable rate, and are probably competing successfully with other native hollow-users.
One of the most disturbing aspects of having galahs breed in a box is that they can cause extensive damage to the box. On one occasion a box was totally destroyed within two weeks of installation.
• a galvanised metal plate on the floor.
The sketch shows the dimensions of our rosella box.
These are probably the best, general-purpose dimensions for a nestbox, having been used by rosellas, galahs, cockatiels, lorikeets, boobook owls, dollar birds and brushtail and ringtail possums.


As always, start with a transparent layer.
Draw a circle using the circular marquee tool. Tip: Hold the alt/option key to draw from the center and hold the shift key to draw a perfect circle.
Now we want to create a circular gradient, from bark to light blue. Use the settings here, then drag from the middle of the circle. Don't deselect.
Create a new layer and change the gradient setting to this: Linear, Foreground to transparent and change your foreground color to white.
Drag the gradient tool from the top to the bottom, with the top white.
Bring the bottom to almost 1/2 way. Bring the top and sides in a little bit until it looks similar to the picture.
For added realism add a slight gaussian blur to the highlight and drop the opacity a little.
You may also add text. Put the text layer behind the highlight and lower the opacity.
Add the buttons to your interface – Merge Visiable and drag the buttons to your interface.
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Aquaman: War of the Water Worlds
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Inverse Ink
Macintosh, Windows, Windows 3.x
Aquaman: War of the Water Worlds is an interactive comic based on the animated TV series Aquaman (1968). In fact, most of the content is directly taken from the episode War of the Water Worlds in which Mera, Aquaman's wife, is kidnapped by a war lord who has the power to bewitch people. This game retells the story how Aquaman rescues her.
Gameplay is non-existent: the player is presented with comic panels. Depending on where the player clicks on, the dialogue is voice acted or a short video from the episode is played. There is an auto-play feature and a page selection.
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Aquaman: War of the Water Worlds (official website)
Contributed to by Adam Baratz (1483), Scaryfun (17977) and Wizo (29536)
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Silent Flights: How Owls Could Help Make Wind Turbines Planes Quieter
Photo: townnews.com
A newly-designed material, which mimics the wing structure of owls, could help make wind turbines, computer fans and even planes much quieter.
Early wind tunnel tests of the coating have shown a substantial reduction in noise without any noticeable effect on aerodynamics.
An investigation into how owls fly and hunt in silence has enabled researchers to develop a prototype coating for wind turbine blades that could significantly reduce the amount of noise they make.
Early tests of the material, which mimics the intricate structure of an owl's wing, have demonstrated that it could significantly reduce the amount of noise produced by wind turbines and other types of fan blades, such as those in computers or planes.
Since wind turbines are heavily braked in order to minimise noise, the addition of this new surface would mean that they could be run at much higher speeds,producing more energy while making less noise. For an average-sized wind farm, this could mean several additional megawatts worth of electricity.
The surface has been developed by researchers at the University of Cambridge, in collaboration with researchers at three institutions in the USA.
Collaborators at Virginia Tech, Lehigh and Florida Atlantic Universities used high resolution microscopy to examine owl feathers in fine detail. They observed that the flight feathers on an owl's wing have a downy covering, which resembles a forest canopy when viewed from above. In addition to this fluffy canopy, owl wings also have a flexible comb of evenly-spaced bristles along their leading edge, and a porous and elastic fringe on the trailing edge.
In order to replicate the structure, the researchers looked to design a covering that would scatter the sound generated by a turbine blade in the same way.
Early experiments included covering a blade with material similar to that used for wedding veils, which despite its open structure, reduced the roughness of the underlying surface, lowering surface noise by as much as 30dB.
While the wedding veil' worked remarkably well, it is not suitable to apply to a wind turbine or aeroplane.
Using a similar design, the researchers then developed a prototype material made of 3D-printed plastic and tested it on a full-sized segment of a wind turbine blade. In wind tunnel tests, the treatment reduced the noise generated by a wind turbine blade by 10dB, without any appreciable impact on aerodynamics.
According to the researchers, a significant reduction in the noise generated by a wind turbine could allow them to be spun faster without any additional noise, which for an average-sized wind farm, could mean several additional megawatts worth of electricity.
Source: plenglish.com
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using System;
using Autofac;
using FileStore.Persistance.FileSystem;

namespace FileStore.Samples
{
  class Program
  {
    static void Main(string[] args)
    {
      var containerBuilder = new ContainerBuilder();

      //var fileStoreBuilder = FileStoreBuilder.Config(cfg =>
      //{
      //  cfg.UseEntityFramework("some.connection.string.name");
      //  cfg.InitializeDatabase();
      //});

      var fileStoreBuilder = FileStoreBuilder.Config(cfg => cfg.UseFileSystem("C:\\fileStore"));

      containerBuilder.Register(c => fileStoreBuilder.BuildUnversioned());
      var container = containerBuilder.Build();

      var id = Guid.NewGuid();
      var store = container.Resolve<IFileStore>();
      store.StoreFile(id, new StoreFile { Data = new byte[] { 1, 2, 3 }, Extension = "txt" });
      store.StoreFile(id, new StoreFile { Data = new byte[] { 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 }, Extension = "txt" });

      var newest = store.OpenFile(id);
      var old = store.OpenFile(id);
    }
  }
}

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Mr.S.Ezhilan, the Vavuniya district political leader of the LTTE, is addressing the event.
"Though MGR was a movie star, he did several good deeds for the people of Tamil Nadu when he was the Chief Minister. When our movement needed money, he gave us money out of his private funds. He fully recognized the need for our armed struggle. He never sought political gain through his support to our cause," said Mr. Ezhilan.
Mr. S. Gnanapragasam, the head of the organizing committee for the commemoration, presided over the event. "Sivaneri Puravalar" S. A. Ramaswamy, the head of the Vavuniya Hindu Association and a businessman, lit the traditional lamp. Businessman Mr. S. Kulendran unveiled a picture of MGR.
Mr. K.A. Senthilnathan, the Vavuniya district head of the All Ceylon Tamil Congress (ACTC), Mr. Sivasakthi Anandan, MP, and many others present paid homage to the late leader by scattering flowers in front of his picture.
Mr.N.Sivasathi Anandan, the TNA MP for Vanni district, addressing the meeting.
In memory of MGR, Mr. Ramaswamy handed over a thousand exercise books to Mr. Ezhilan for distributing to poor students in the district.
Continuing his speech, Mr. Ezhilan said, "It is common for liberation organizations to get financial support from a country or other external organizations. But our situation is different. We carry on our struggle with only the support of our people.
"When our movement needed emergency funds in Mr.Ramachandran's time, he understood it and provided the funds. Even when he was seriously ill, he would inquire about the struggle of the Tamils of Eelam. For the Tamils of Eelam, his death was an irreparable loss. At that time, the current CM of Tamil Nadu, Ms. Jayalalitha Jayaram, who was with MGR, also supported his policies. But her policies toward us have changed now.
Mr. Anandan, the TNA MP, said in his speech, "India rendered immense help to Tamils of Eelam after the July 1983 pogroms in Sri Lanka until the Operation Liberation of the Sri Lanka Army in Vadamaradchi in 1987. Similarly, the late MGR helped the struggle immensely whenever the struggle needed his assistance.


There is no stopping Olamide when he's in the mood to put out new music. Just a few days after "Puna Freestyle" was premiered on Naijaloaded, the YBNL head honcho decided to follow that up with an official single.
Titled "Motigbana" and produced by the sought after Killertunes, visual was directed by Unlimited L.A, Olamide is basically saying he has elevated and unlocked a new level on this tune.
Na o, na o, na o, babe, na o, na o, na o, na o babe ye!
Shey powder niyen ni'mu e ni abi cocaine eh!
Motigbana o, moti elevate Ye!
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