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June 2, 2009 Howard University Receives In-Kind Software Grant Valued at $150 Million from Siemens PLM Software; Largest-Ever for the University
PLANO, Texas & WASHINGTON, June 2, 2009 — Siemens PLM Software, a business unit of the Siemens Industry Automation Division and a leading global provider of product lifecycle management (PLM) software and services, today announced a series of in-kind software grants valued at more than $150 million to Howard University. Taken together, the grants represent the largest in the history of Howard University.
May 29, 2009 TripAdvisor Honored With Cause Marketing Forum's Halo Award
NEWTON, Mass., May 29, 2009 — TripAdvisor(R), the world's most popular and largest travel community, has won a gold Halo Award, American cause marketing's highest honor. TripAdvisor won the "Best Use of Social Media" category for their fall 2008 "More than Footprints(TM)" campaign which distributed $1 million dollars between five travel-related non-profit organizations, including: Conservation International; Doctors without Borders; National Geographic Society; Save the Children; and The Nature Conservancy. Run by the Cause Marketing Forum, Halos recognize work that advances the interests of both nonprofit partners and a business, and are judged on conceptual strength, execution, business results, and cause results. The honors were announced in a May 28 ceremony at the Cause Marketing Forum's annual conference in Chicago.
April 7, 2009 Matale Line Reveals 5 Ways Nonprofits Can Recession-Proof Their Brands
SEATTLE, April 7, 2009 — The Matale Line, a branding and communications agency for nonprofits, announced today the publication of Times Change, Values Don't: 5 Ways to Recession-Proof Your Brand, the latest in a series of white papers penned by executive director Bill Toliver.
March 23, 2009 Houston Couple Gives $6 Million to Engineering, Football
As an alumnus of Lamar University and a member of the LU College of Engineering advisory council, Dan F. Smith has helped guide the college into a new era of growth, administrators said.
March 19, 2009 In Lean Times, New Ways to Reach Out
Some 150 yoga fanatics, mats in hand, gathered in the second-floor atrium of the Museum of Modern Art one recent Saturday morning. They were there to "Put the oM in MoMA," as the invitation read.
March 11, 2009 Social Networks & Blogs Now 4th Most Popular Online Activity, Ahead of Personal Email, Nielsen Reports
Now visited by over two-thirds (67 percent) of the global* online population, "Member Communities," which includes both social networks and blogs, has become the fourth most popular online category – ahead of personal email. It is growing twice as fast as any of the other four largest sectors (search, portals, PC software and email), according to The Nielsen Company's "Global Faces and Networked Places," a comprehensive report published today revealing the new global footprint of social networking.
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We've published the 59th issue of ChangeThis for your reading pleasure. Excerpts and links below. Enjoy!
"As the financial institutions we have come to rely on appear to topple under their own weight, it's only natural that we rush to support them. These are the banks, investment groups, and insurance firms to which we have outsourced our savings, financing, and investing. They fund our businesses and lend most of our currency into existence.
"[T]he antidote to fear? […] Pull people out of their panic and self-protective impulses by first acknowledging the difficulties, then raising their eyes and hearts to a possibility of success. At that point you can take advantage of their newly available and hopeful energy to make that possibility a reality.
"Business as usual is unrealistic in our current economic climate. Leaders must accept the fact that success is likely to become a moving target and their organizations must become faster, leaner and better equipped to compete and change quickly. To embrace speed as a strategic asset requires higher levels of clarity about the real needs and goals of the organization. Clarity means that the value and purpose of every effort must be evaluated and put to the test." Click here to visit the site. Click here to download the PDF.


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This is the story of an angel in disguise.
I was participating in the Spoon River Drive. I stopped to purchase some shutters at a garage sale in Hanna City. While I was loading the truck, my billfold fell out of my pocket. It contained my engagement ring, wedding band, cash and my cherished mother's ring.
Of everything that was lost, my mother's ring meant the most to me. It was given to me by my three children, and shortly after they gave it to me my oldest son passed away.
Thank God for Mary Englebrecht. She found my billfold, and she tracked me down all the way to Benton, Mo. She called me on Monday and by Thursday I had everything back.
Mary has reaffirmed my faith in people and that God does answer prayers. There are good, trustworthy people walking among us. They are angels in disguise and they come in every shape and form. When you see them, you don't know they are an angel but when they touch your life you are very blessed. Mary Englebrecht is my angel. God bless you, Mary.


To hear James's story read by Martin Rhodes; please press play on the audio file.
James Drysdale Meikle was born in Crossford, near Dunfermline on 11th July 1888 to John and Jane Meikle. They lived at Strathearn Villa, Grantsbank Street, Dunfermline. He was educated at Dunfermline High School and then worked as a clerk in the council offices. James enlisted into the Royal Scots as a private in February 1916. He was wounded twice and gassed three times. Private James Meikle was Gazetted as 2nd Lieutenant in the 13th Kings Royal Rifle Corps in August 1917. He was awarded a certificate for Distinguished Conduct in the Field and was "Mentioned in Dispatches" by Sir Douglas Haig. 2nd Lieutenant James Drysdale Meikle was killed in action on 4th November 1918 during the Battle of Cambria. He was 30 years old. He was buried in Beaurain British Cemetery on 7th November 1918.
James was a cousin of my great grandfather Andrew Robert Kelt who also fought in the Great War. Andrew returned to his family in New Zealand, sadly James never had the same opportunity to return to his loved ones.


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Shekhar Suman on 'Sahir Ludhianvi'
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'EK MULAQAT' A story of a cold winters night when Amrita is on the terrace of her house in New Delhi. She gets a call from Mumbai and is surprised as she does not know anyone in that city, anyone except Sahir Ludhianvi. When Sahir reappears in her life inexplicably she feels that he has changed. He is speaking more than ever and is much more communicative than he was. What follows is a soul-sharing conversation between the two poets and lovers. They both bare their souls and have a unique conversation about love, life and literature. Get your tickets…
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Loading... If you want to WIN TICKETS to the play 'Ek Mulaqat' Click to hear Shekhar Suman ask you a very simple question ..! Jawab do & tickets le jao..! A little about the play: Not much has been written about the relationship between Sahir Ludhianvi, the celebrated Urdu poet and the legendary Punjabi author Amrita Pritam. 'Ek Mulaqaat' talks about their intense relationship and is steeped in literary references, nazams and poetry of the legendary duo. It is a story of a cold winters night when Amrita is on the terrace of her house in New Delhi. She gets…
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Not much has been written about the relationship between Sahir Ludhianvi, the celebrated Urdu poet and the legendary Punjabi author Amrita Pritam. 'Ek Mulaqaat' talks about their intense relationship and is steeped in literary references, nazams and poetry of the legendary duo. It is a story of a cold winters night when Amrita is on the terrace of her house in New Delhi. She gets a call from Mumbai and is surprised as she does not know anyone in that city, anyone except Sahir Ludhianvi. When Sahir reappears in her life inexplicably she feels that he has changed. He is…
Actor Shekhar Suman Thinks Aloud..!
Shekhar Suman is an Indian actor and television personality. He was born on 7 December 1962 in a Kayastha family in Bihar. He started his career as a television actor in a serial Wah Janab. He made his film debut with Shashi Kapoor's Utsav. Shekhar Suman has started his television career with a serial Wah Janab. After that he has appeared in the shows like Dekh Bhai Dekh, Reporter, Kabhi Idhar Kabhi Udhar, Chote Babu, Andaz, Amar Prem 'Aaha', Vilayati Babu, Movers n Shakers, Simply Shekhar and Carry On Shekhar. The last three were primarily modelled on and adapted from…
Actor Shekhar Suman Invites you for 'Ek Mulaqat'
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Harry Parkes (4 January 1920 – 4 March 2009) was an English footballer of the 1940s and 1950s. Parkes was a one club man having only played for Aston Villa. He is widely regarded as one of Aston Villa's most popular players of all time.

Early life
Parkes was born in Erdington, Birmingham on 4 January 1920.

Football career
Parkes played in several positions including centre-forward, right-half, and winger, but he played his best football at full-back. He joined Aston Villa in April 1939 as an amateur from Sutton Coldfield club Boldmere St. Michaels. He turned professional in August 1939. He appeared for the club 345 times scoring 4 goals; plus another 144 wartime games. He missed only 12 League games in seven seasons from 1947 to 1954. He also sat on Aston Villa's board of directors in the 1970s.

He was in line for an England call-up in 1946, but an injury meant he could not play, and he never got another chance to play for his country. His only honour with Villa was winning the League War Cup in 1944.

Post-football career

He retired from playing football in 1955 to concentrate on his sports shop in Corporation Street, Birmingham. At one time it supplied all the boots to the Villa team. The shop closed when Parkes retired in the mid-1990s.

Harry died surrounded by his family members at his home in Solihull on 4 March 2009. Parkes was survived by his wife Marjorie and daughter Valerie and son Derek

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External links
 Obituary in The Independent

1920 births
2009 deaths
English footballers
Boldmere St. Michaels F.C. players
Aston Villa F.C. players
Footballers from Birmingham, West Midlands
Association football defenders

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Zefir Kurtisi Nov. 21, 2016, 4:16 p.m.
>>> and only analysing the PHY errors for DFS if radar detection is enabled.
>> 81          * scanning and radar detection can not be used concurrently.
>> it seems that spectral can't ever be activated while operating on a DFS channel.
>> hw->conf.radar_enabled. A patch like the attached one should be enough.
Updated patch attached as proposal.
> effect if there are no radar operated interfaces in the first place?
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British Council unveils first exhibition on North Korea
Above the Line: People and Places in the DPRK (North Korea) was unveiled todayat the British Council's headquarters in London and will run until 25 July. Comprising 80 large-scale colour photographs by the acclaimed photojournalist Nick Danziger, the exhibition sets out to provide a view of the people and the country with the aim of informing future discussion about this isolated state.
The exhibition shows people doing ordinary things – women bathing in the sea, a man waiting at a tram stop, students walking down the street – as well as less ordinary sights such as a much-decorated hero of the Korean War on his way to the Victorious Fatherland Liberation War Museum in his Mercedes; dancers practising in the car park before a performance at the Arirang Games; and a glimpse into the routines of workers on a collective farm. Debate about North Korea often centres around the idea of it as an abstract, geopolitical entity – a land of incomprehensible systems and beliefs. Danziger's photos show another side to the story. Visiting the cities of Pyongyang, Wonsan, Nampo and Sariwon, he focuses on individuals, so that a picture emerges of people whose pleasures are not all that different from people elsewhere, however bizarre and limiting their circumstances appear to us.
The exhibition is accompanied by a full-colour catalogue with an expanded selection of photographs, and profiles of 12 individuals by the writer Rory Maclean. Notes on the 150 photographs provide commentary on life and culture in North Korea, and include translations of all the Korean text seen in the images.
The exhibition was commissioned by the British Council as part of a programme to increase people-to-people dialogue between the UK and North Korea. Nick Danziger, Rory MacLean, and Andrea Rose, Director of Visual Arts at the British Council, travelled to North Korea at the invitation of the DPRK authorities in August 2013 and, while accompanied by officials, were given exceptional access to individuals and places.
Andrea Rose says: 'North Korea invariably arouses strong reactions. Few foreigners can visit the country, and few North Koreans can travel abroad. Gaining greater knowledge on either side can only be of value in beginning the dialogue between people.'
Guided tours of the exhibition will take place on Fridays at 1pm.
For more information about the exhibition please visit www.britishcouncil.org/visualarts
The UN Report of the Commission of Inquiry on Human Rights in the Democratic People's Republic of Korea states:
'The commission of inquiry recommends that States and civil society organizations foster opportunities for people-to-people dialogue and contact in such areas as culture, science, sports, good governance and economic development that provide citizens of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea with opportunities to exchange information and be exposed to experiences outside their home country. The Democratic People's Republic of Korea and other States should remove applicable obstacles to people-to-people contact, including measures that criminalize travel and contact to the extent that these are not in accordance with relevant obligations under international human rights law.'
For the full text of the report, visit: http://bit.ly/M6b37J
Above the Line: People and Places in the DPRK
13 May - 25 July
10 Spring Gardens
London SW1A 2BN
For press information, interview opportunities and images please contact:
Mary Doherty, Arts Press Officer
T. +44 (0) 207 389 3144
E. mary.doherty@britishcouncil.org
The British Council creates international opportunities for the people of the UK and other countries and builds trust between them worldwide. We are a Royal Charter charity, established as the UK's international organisation for educational opportunities and cultural relations. Our 7000 staff in over 100 countries work with thousands of professionals and policy makers and millions of young people every year through English, arts, education and society programmes. We earn over 75% of our annual turnover of nearly £700 million from services which customers pay for, education and development contracts we bid for and from partnerships. A UK Government grant provides the remaining 25%. We match every £1 of core public funding with over £3 earned in pursuit of our charitable purpose.


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French Philosophy – Deleuze, Postmodernism & Truth As Repetition
Gilles Deleuze (1925 – 1995), pronounced "duh-LUZE", wrote his first books on Hume and Nietzsche, and then several with Felix Guattari, pronounced "ga-ta-REE", including Capitalism and Schizophrenia: Anti-Oedipus (1972) and A Thousand Plateaus (1980). Between these periods of early work and later collaborations, Deleuze wrote his central work, Difference and Repetition (1968) a year before he was recommended for a professorship by Foucault. In the book, Deleuze argues that identity has always been considered in contrast to difference, much like Hegel's opposition of self and other. Recall that Lacan, who attended Kojeve's lectures on Hegel, said that we cling to a stable self image and develop paranoid narcissistic obsessions. Deleuze argues that there is no identity apart from or prior to difference, a point he shares very much with his friend Derrida. The self is only itself in terms of its difference from the other, as it is never entirely self-consistent. Just as there are no absolute gaps between things, there are no pure identities, each identity itself a gathering of differentiation. Identity and difference are absolute ideals that are only relatively present.
Deleuze argues that all claims to objectivity requires repetition, which gives the appearance of coherent concepts and practice. Consider the example of tribal narratives chanted in song, religious rituals and Positivists continuously using the terms 'reason' and 'science'. The Dada manifesto writer Tristan Tzara wrote, "If I cry out: Ideal, ideal, ideal, Knowledge, knowledge, knowledge, Boomboom, boomboom, boomboom, I have given a pretty faithful version of progress, law, morality, and all other fine qualities that various highly intelligent men have discussed in so many books, only to conclude that after all everyone dances to his own personal boomboom, and that the writer is entitled to his boomboom".
Following Nietzsche, also a favorite of Tzara, Deleuze says that all great thinking is a dangerous rupture of repetition and consistent coherent categories, a painful birth of the formerly impossible into the world of possibility. Philosophy is not the discovery of universal truth that Plato, Descartes and Kant sought, but the creation of new concepts. This is much like late Wittgenstein, who said that description must take the place of explanation. Reason is not entirely consistent with itself, universal or objective, and it need not be to create useful ideas. Philosophy, science and art are different cultures of the creation of concepts and meaning. Deleuze discusses the speed of light and absolute zero, useful in science but also conceived as practically unattainable ideals.
Deleuze's works with Guattari attempt to free French thought from its obsessions with Marx and Freud, two of the loves of Levi-Strauss and Structuralism. Marx and Freud are useful, Deleuze argues, but as lenses and useful conceptions, not as an orthodox underlying system. As a Post-Marxist, Deleuze argues that capitalism is useful in that it destroyed many old hierarchies, but now everything is dominated by the market, society becoming a vast, desire manufacturing machine. Alternatives must be offered, but a final revolution is in fact undesirable.


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Anthony (Gaspipe) Casso, Luchese Underboss Who Professed Involvement In 37 Murders, Bites The Dust
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After spending a month on a ventilator, Anthony (Gaspipe) Casso died of complications from COVID-19 on Tuesday, December 15, at age 78. The former Luchese underboss was first diagnosed with coronavirus on November 5 at the United States Penitentiary in Tucson.
Anthony (Gaspipe) Casso
Casso was one of two inmates at Tuscon USP who died of COVID-19 yesterday. (The other was a 73-year-old convict serving a 25-year sentence for sex trafficking and weapons charges.)
On Thursday, November 5, Casso tested positive for COVID-19 and was placed in medical isolation at the United States Penitentiary Tucson. Institution medical staff provided treatment and monitored his condition.
On Monday, November 9, he was transported to a local hospital due to respiratory distress.
On Tuesday, November 17, his condition declined and he was placed on a ventilator.
On Tuesday, December 15, Casso, who officials say had long-term, pre-existing medical conditions, which the CDC lists as risk factors for developing more severe COVID-19 disease, was pronounced deceased by hospital medical staff.
BELOW is video from the 1998 60 Minutes episode that features Gaspipe discussing his life and crimes and (some) murders. If you watch it, you will probably understand why the Feds called him "Lucifer"—which was their private nickname for the ex-Luchese underboss--and by extension, why they let him die in prison... You will hear Gaspipe discuss what happened to James Hydell... Hydell was a Gambino associate Casso suspected of involvement in a plot to kill him.
Casso brings Hydell to "a place I had prearranged." (And the very idea of such a place would scare the shit out of Hydell and anyone else.) Gaspipe had had the Mafia Cops kidnap Hydell because "I wanted to know why I was shot" and "who else was involved and who gave you the order to shoot me." (Casso, who was wounded during the attempt, suspected some major Gambino wiseguys had passed the order to Hydell.)
"I didn't shoot him in the head," Gaspipe explains. "I was in somebody's house, you'd make a mess (shooting a guy in the head in someone's house). I shot him a couple a times..." Though a couple, he admits a few beats later, was "maybe 10, 12 times.... could've been 15.... (He frigging smiles during the dreadful confession!) I wanted to beat him with the gun when it was empty. He tried to kill me... that was the law of the Mafia....."
Gaspipe weeps like a baby later in the video, but only when he's discussing how painful it was telling his daughter he was a rat...Textbook sociopathic behavior. And the Hydell story is nothing compared to some of the other murders Gaspipe discussed in the company of Federal prosecutors.....
Casso was sentenced in the Eastern District of New York to a life sentence for Racketeering, Conspiracy to Commit Murder, Murder, Conspiracy to Bribe Union Leaders, Conspiracy to Commit Extortion, and Conspiracy to Commit Income Tax Evasion.
He had been in custody at USP Tucson since March 25, 2020.
On Nov. 25, Casso's defense lawyers filed a compassionate release motion in which they noted that the wheelchair-bound Casso was sick with coronavirus and also suffered from various preexisting health conditions, including prostate cancer, coronary artery disease, kidney disease, and bladder disease.
Brooklyn Federal Judge Frederic Block rejected the lawyer's bid, noting that "the nature and extent of defendant's criminal history (means) that he remains a danger to the community."
Federal prosecutors previously also had opposed the request for release, noting "all defendants sentenced to life in prison will, at some point, begin to succumb to one disease or another, or suffer from failing health due to old age."
Screenshot of BOP inmate locator site.
We recently wrote an in-depth profile about Casso in a story about the pending television show about the Mafia Cops case. Former Gambino underboss Sammy (The Bull) Gravano will be a consultant for the now-in-development series, which will be based on Friends of the Family: The Inside Story of the Mafia Cops Case, the 2003 book coauthored by former NYPD detective Tommy Dades. Emmy Award-winning Boardwalk Empire creator/Sopranos executive producer Terence Winter has "committed" to writing and developing the series, which will tell the story of Stephen Caracappa and Louis Eppolito, the former NYPD detectives who worked primarily for the underboss of the Luchese crime family, in the 1980s and early 1990s.
The two retired detectives were finally indicted in 2005 and then convicted in 2006 of eight counts of murder and conspiracy to commit murder, plus labor racketeering, extortion, narcotics, gambling, and obstruction of justice. In 2009, Caracappa was sentenced to life plus 80 years and Eppolito to life plus 100 years. Caracappa died on April 8, 2017 at age 75 of cancer while reportedly at the federal prison medical facility in Butner, North Carolina. Eppolito died at age 71 on November 3, 2019 while in federal custody at a Tucson hospital. His cause of death has not been disclosed.
Casso, paid the Mafia Cops a $4,000 a month stipend to provide information and help set up murders. Gaspipe also paid the two detectives extra in order to get them to assume a more hands-on role in murder contracts.
In 1987, Vittorio Amuso and Casso inherited from Anthony (Tony Ducks) Corallo one of the nation's most affluent borgatas, the Luchese crime family, which fell under their command.
Five years later, the Luchese family was in ruins, with more than 60 wiseguys—about half of its membership—imprisoned, slain, or cooperating with the government.
The downhill slide only accelerated when Casso and Amuso went on the lam after they were tipped off about a May 1990 indictment charging them and others (including wiseguys in the Gambino and Colombo crime families) with bid rigging and making labor payoffs to control New York City's window-installation industry, aka "the Windows Case."
Amuso was nabbed first (along with a bodyguard) in July 1991 when FBI agents seized him moments after he hung up a payphone at the Fairview Mall in Scranton, PA. (He was decked out in suburban dad shorts and a t-shirt.) Federal law enforcement officers made the arrest after an anonymous caller tipped off the FBI's New York City office. Law enforcement was never able to locate Amuso's last safe house, the one he lived in at the time of his Pennsylvania arrest, which could highlight that whoever dropped the dime on him didn't know much other than a date, time, and location where Amuso could be grabbed.
Underboss Casso then became de facto boss (according to sources other than Casso apologist Philip Carlo). It was only after Amuso was convicted and sent away for life that FBI agents and prosecutors started to understand the power and homicidal tendencies of Anthony Casso, who exerted influence both inside and outside the Luchese family. Informing them about Casso were Luchese turncoat capos Al D'Arco, Anthony (Tumac) Accetturo, and Pete Savino.
Fear of Gaspipe's murderous reputation stopped Sammy the Bull Gravano, who testified against his own boss, Gambino boss Gotti, from testifying against the Luchese underboss. Gravano knew Casso (at the very least) from construction rackets once shared by Gambino and Luchese wiseguys, and Sammy asked to be excused from testifying against Casso, should the major Luchese family power be nabbed and dragged into court.
Sammy feared that Casso would target his relatives, as the-then Luchese underboss had done to Pete Chiodo, a 500-pound Luchese capo who had formerly been a Casso confidant/shooter. In 1992, while Casso was still ducking law enforcement by laying low in safe houses and growing a mustache, Chiodo was considered by the Feds to be a valuable turncoat who helped them convict at least some of the defendants in the complex six-month Windows trial in Federal District Court in Brooklyn. In addition to ordering a hit on Fat Pete himself (he was shot 12 times but was protected by his blubber), Gaspipe went after his beloved. In March 1992, Chiodo sister Patricia Capazzalo, a married mother of three, was shot in the back and neck and seriously wounded. A year later, the body of Chiodo uncle Frank Signorino was found by police stuffed in the trunk of a car parked in East New York, Brooklyn. He had been shot in the head multiple times.
To notch up the heat on the lamming Gaspipe Casso, FBI agents and NYPD detectives followed Casso associates and tapped their phones. After D'Arco told them about the intricate telephone-booth message system Casso used to stay in touch with loyal lieutenants on the street, investigators in the Brooklyn district attorney's office intercepted and traced suspicious calls made to the cellphone of newly elevated consiglieri Frank Lastorino from a home in Mount Olive, New Jersey, which was owned by a Casso girlfriend, as investigators learned. The house, located in a woodsy, sparsely populated section, was then put under surveillance.
On the morning of January 19, 1993, after the woman left, an FBI SWAT team crashed through the front door with a battering ram and nabbed Gaspipe as he emerged from a shower wearing only a towel. The Mount Olive split-level residence was one of several "safe houses" in the New York Metropolitan region that Casso supposedly had been using.
In addition to the charges in the Windows Case that had spurred him and Amuso to go on the lam, Casso was now facing a superseding RICO indictment built largely on information provided by Luchese defectors including Chiodo, D'Arco, and Accetturo. It included 25 murder and attempted murder accusations, plus extortion and labor-racketeering counts.
Casso systematically planned various strategies to thwart trial and escape from the Metropolitan Correctional Center in Lower Manhattan. Then a sudden development stopped him cold in his tracks: Amuso, who was still official Luchese boss (and remains boss today), issued an edict stripping him of the underboss title. Amuso also declared Casso persona non grata. According to investigators and prosecutors, Amuso had eventually concluded that Casso had double-crossed him and was the FBI tipster who gave him up. Amuso believed Casso had been working toward launching a hostile takeover to seize the title of boss and gain absolute control of the Luchese family for himself—which was a complete repudiation of everything that Cosa Nostra was supposed to be about.
Stephen Caracappa, Louis Eppolito who worked for the Luchese underboss.
An "unmade" man, Casso faced lifelong prison for several murders and was headed for a trial that would've featured testimony from Luchese capos who had flipped primarily to avoid getting caught in Casso's killing fields.
Bereft of the embrace of the New York Mafia, Casso was depressed and about two weeks before his trial was to begin, he finally made a move. He enlisted a relative to deliver a message to the lead FBI agent in his case. The arrangement was formalized on March 1, 1994, at a closed hearing presided over by Eugene Nickerson (the judge who Casso had conspired to kill). Casso pleaded guilty to 14 murders and a litany of RICO racketeering and extortion charges.
Charles Rose and Gregory O'Donnell, two of the lead prosecutors on the case, later noted that they were relieved when Casso copped out. Both admitted there was a chance Casso could have escaped their noose via acquittal or hung jury had the former underboss rolled the dice at trial: the prosecutors didn't have a single incriminating recorded conversation by way of evidence. But then Gaspipe plead out and they had him all tied up. Before his capture, prosecutors implicated him in 14 murders; he then told of additional murders when he was debriefed. In the end, he confessed to carrying out or having a hand in 23 additional murders for a grand total of 37 murder victims.
After he flipped in 1993 and while still on good terms with his captors, Casso revealed that he'd had two cops on his payroll. He identified Eppolito and Caracappa and said they had done work (including "work") for him. Shadowy allegations about the two detectives had swirled around New York City for years, but would have to continue to swirl for about 15 more years because prosecutors had no idea what to believe about Casso's information.
A regular Mutt and Jeff, Eppolito and Caracappa made it to retirement, though both left the force under a dark cloud. They moved westward to Las Vegas and became neighbors. They seemed to enjoy life among the casinos in the sunny climes of Nevada. At least until a Jewish racketeer from Brooklyn flipped.
Burton Kaplan, a former New York garment dealer/longtime mob associate, was nailed for masterminding a $10 million marijuana ring.In 2004, Kaplan decided to flip after serving eight of his 27-year prison sentence. (In his 70s and suffering from multiple health ailments, Kaplan didn't relish prison life and realized he'd rather see his granddaughter than die alone in the can.)
So in 2004, he sat down with DEA agents and told them about the two detectives, noting that from 1986 to 1993, he had met with them many times to deliver the $4,000 monthly payoff money from Casso in exchange for confidential information on police informants and investigations. Casso also had paid Eppolito and Caracappa premiums to assist in eight murders. The cops allegedly received about $375,000 in all. Casso took their information and plotted to have the impending threat (which was usually posed from within the mob) wiped out. Once, the info from the cops lead to the shooting of an innocent man (who unluckily shared the same name as the true intended target). Kaplan also noted that at least three times, the short, fat Eppolito and tall rail-thin Caracappa had actively participated in murders, including in the case of Eddie Lino, the Gambino wiseguy killed in Brooklyn on the Belt Parkway.
As for Casso, from the moment he defected, the FBI advertised the Luchese underboss as a prized catch equal to Sammy the Bull Gravano. But years passed and prosecutors never used him a single time--not as a witness before a grand jury to obtain an indictment nor at trial to help win convictions. Gradually, the cooperation deal unraveled.
And in August 1997, prosecutors revoked their agreement with him and removed him from the Witness Protection Program. Anthony Casso remains the only major Mafia defector who was ever tossed out of the program. According to prosecutors, this was because of Casso's duplicity, lies, and crimes committed after he signed the cooperation agreement. Also fueling the decision to expel Casso from the program was his attempt to discredit both Gravano and D'Arco.
Shortly before Casso was booted out of the program, he sent prosecutors a letter challenging testimony offered by Gravano and D'Arco. Casso claimed Sammy the Bull lied about never having trafficked in narcotics. In the 1970s, Casso said, he sold large amounts of marijuana to Gravano, and Gravano offered to sell him heroin from China for $160,000. Casso also accused Gravano of ordering the stabbing of the Reverend Al Sharpton in January 1991 while leading a protest march through Bensonhurst, Brooklyn. (Prosecutors noted that on the day of the assault and for months afterward, Sammy the Bull was in a cell awaiting trial as a codefendant in Gotti's RICO trial.)
As for D'Arco, Casso ripped his testimony as rife with lies.
Prosecutors dismissed Casso's claims as "a litany of false accusations." They also said Casso had been withholding information and misleading them and, based on two lie-detector tests, he had been deceptive about a range of things during debriefings.
He seemed to be partly vindicated, however, when the two Mafia Cops were finally arrested after Kaplan decided to cooperate. While prosecutors had no intention of ever calling Gaspipe to the stand during the trial, Casso still was able to make his mark on the case by (of all things) writing letters and sending them to the New York Post.
Sammy the Bull also seemed to support some of Casso's assertions about drug dealing when he was arrested while in Arizona for running a large Ecstasy drug ring.
Nevertheless, in the end, Casso was sentenced to 13 consecutive life sentences.
Gaspipe had previously been a guest of the "Alcatraz of the Rockies," or the federal Supermax prison in Florence, Colorado, which also has housed Unabomber Theodore J. Kaczynski, Oklahoma City bomber Terry Nichols, and former fellow wiseguys Gregory Scarpa Jr. and Salvatore Gravano. In 2009, Casso had been allowed to "escape" the oppressive fortress in Colorado when he was diagnosed with cancer and sent to a medical facility for a while.
In later years, Mafia investigators attributed the fall of the Luchese crime family to Casso's endless machinations to absorb as much power and riches as humanly possible for himself. They say that while Amuso was the official boss, it was Casso, the true power behind the throne, who rained down the chaos that tore the family apart.
Based on trial testimony, FBI reports and intel, and Mafia turncoats, Casso was the master manipulator behind a years-long string of deadly violence. Five Family author Selwyn Raab dubbed him the "lago" who steered a "malleable Amuso."
"Gaspipe was more dangerous than Amuso and more responsible for the mayhem that fortunately for us ruined the family," said O'Connell, who worked with Charlie Rose to prosecute Casso, Amuso, and other Luchese gangsters.
They learned, mostly while debriefing Casso himself, about his diabolical history, which later inspired them to dub him "Lucifer" in their own private code.
"He had boundless enthusiasm for conspiracies and for murder," O'Connell remarked. "I prosecuted drug dealers, organized-crime bosses, and terrorists, and the only one I feared who was clever and vindictive enough to reach out from prison and come after me was Gaspipe."
Casso also has talked about an FBI mole on his payroll, an assertion supported by his defense lawyers, who confirmed that he had told them about a corrupt FBI agent in New York. As late as 2003, Casso said he had identified the FBI traitor to bureau agents who debriefed him. He claimed he was warned not to reveal the reputed agent's identity or existence when questioned by prosecutors. Casso claims he kept quiet for years because of this.
Anthony Gaspipe Casso COVID-19 Luchese crime family Vittorio "Little Vic" Amuso
When asked why Gambino wiseguys were unhappy with Paul Castellano , Salvatore (Sammy the Bull) Gravano said, "There was a number of reasons that Paul was eventually having a lot of problems with a lot of different people." THE TARGETS: Tommy Bilotti, left, and Paul Castellano. One of the lesser-known reasons had to do with Castellano's decision to allow the Genovese family to murder Connecticut-based Gambino capo Frank (The Attorney) Piccolo (aka Frankie Lanza), who was once considered one of the top wiseguys in Connecticut. Specifically, in the 1950s, as per state and local law enforcement, Piccolo was one of the two reigning mob powers in the state. The other was Genovese wiseguy Ralph (Whitey) Tropiano. Then, in September 1981, when Piccolo was 58 and awaiting trial for plotting to extort high-profile Las Vegas entertainers Wayne Newton and Lola Falana, his reign reached an abrupt end after he was gunned down outside a Bridgeport telephone booth. Piccolo had been


Looking back over the last eight months I can see that I have learnt quite a lot about the use of technology to desig and build websites. I have also learnt quite a lot about the use of some well known social media tools. My learning and development has been partly planned in the sense that decisions were made and a strategy was developed - like the design of my website and the planning for five twitter exchanges. But it has also been partly reactive to the situations as they arose - like NB's invitation to get involved in Twitter and seeing an example of an organisational facebook page and thinking that this would be a good thing to do.
1) creating my own website using weebly tools - then applying my learning to develop five other websites for different purposes using the same tools.
6) setting up a lifewide education organisational page and promoting discussions on linked in.
What I have learnt through this process of participation?
I realise I can make effective use of these technologies - I am not scared of making postings and I can see how they work in terms of attracting an audience or following. I'm also beginning to understand how I have to behave in order to attract a social network. These things have been learnt through 1) trial and error - just trying them out 2) being guided by people who were already experienced in using them 3) observing how other users use them and copying them 4) trying to involve other people.
After years of resisting Facebook I fnally succumbed and decided that we 'Lifewide Education' had to have a presence. It was infact triggered by a long discussion with the team on the merits of twitter for engaging people in conversations. It didn't seem to be working for many people.So with the help of my daughter we set up a page and posted our first discussion item on the Olympics. Only time will tell whether it will be useful or not but it is all about learning how to do it. The interesting thing though was how it has stimulated discussion with my children about the use of social media and facebook and twitter in particular. Because I have experience of both of these technologies I feel I have more understanding about what they are saying.


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On This Day: Rosa Parks Was Born
The woman who sparked the Montgomery bus boycotts was born in Tuskegee.
On February 4, 1913, a little girl named Rosa Louise McCauley was born. She suffered from chronic tonsillitis as a child, leaving her bedridden and in pain. Yet she would grow to become one of the most iconic figures of the Civil Rights Movement.
Rosa became aware of the reality of her environment quickly—and she was not afraid to push back. Although her bus protest has often been framed as a coincidence (she was tired, she didn't want to get up, the bus driver happened to be one who would pitch a fit over a black woman sitting in the wrong seat), the seeds of her activism were planted young.
Related: 15 Important Women in History You May Not Have Heard of
Until Rosa was 11, she walked to her small, old rural school in Pine Level, Alabama. Each day, as she walked, she would watch white students pass her on way to their new school, on their bus. Rosa often cited this and a local Ku Klux Klan rally as the beginnings of her realization that the world was different for her as a young black girl.
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At 19, Rosa married Raymond Parks. He was a barber and member of the local branch of the NAACP. During the early years of her marriage, Raymond encouraged Rosa to return to school. She received her high school diploma in 1933. By 1943, Rosa was a member of the Montgomery NAACP in her own right and had been elected as secretary of the branch.
She was secretary for over 10 years, during which time she investigated the rape of Recy Taylor, recently mentioned in Oprah Winfrey's Golden Globes speech. She held a number of jobs during these years, including a position at the Maxwell Airforce Base, where she was able to ride on an integrated trolley to work. Rosa often cited this experience as the impetus for her eventual protest.
Related: 15 Biographies of Remarkable Women That You Need to Read
December 1, 1955 is known as the beginning of the Montgomery bus boycott, but even that day was not the first time Rosa had been affected by the bus seating system. Rosa had also donated to the legal funds for two other, younger black women who had also been thrown off buses for refusing to give up their seats. She had long known that when (not if) she was told to get up for a white person, she would not do so.
The bus on which Rosa Parks began the Montgomery bus boycott
When that day came for Rosa, the NAACP took advantage. Rosa was older, had a steady job, was married, and seemed "respectable", even to white people. She was also a light-skinned black woman, unlike the two younger women who had been removed from buses earlier in 1955.
These factors all combined to make Rosa the perfect candidate to become the face of the Montgomery bus boycott. Although the boycott engendered action, and eventually a federal court ruling that bus segregation was unconstitutional, Rosa's incredible visibility harmed her personally.
Related: On This Day: Walt Disney Testifies Before the House of Un-American Activities Committee
Before the protests began, Rosa had been working at a local department store. The store quickly fired her. Meanwhile, her husband was told he could not speak about Rosa or the boycott at work: In solidarity, he quit. The two moved to Hampton, Virginia, where Rosa was able to find work at the HCBU.
After the protests ended, Rosa continued her activism behind the scenes. She worked for John Conyers, supported the Selma march, worked with political prisoners, founded a scholarship fund, and much, much more. Rosa passed away at 92 in October 2005. Her impact will continue to be felt for generations.
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Q: Load RDD of sparse vectors from text file I am working in the Scala Spark Shell and have the following RDD:
scala> docsWithFeatures
res10: org.apache.spark.rdd.RDD[(Long, org.apache.spark.mllib.linalg.Vector)] = MapPartitionsRDD[162] at repartition at <console>:9

I previously saved this to text using:
docsWithFeatures.saveAsTextFile("path/to/file")

Here's an example line from the text file (which I've shortened here for readability):
(22246418,(112312,[4,11,14,15,19,...],[109.0,37.0,1.0,3.0,600.0,...]))

Now, I know I could have saved this as object file to simplify things, but the raw text format is better for my purposes.
My question is, what is the proper way to get this text file back into an RDD of the same format as above (i.e. RDD of (integer, sparse vector) tuples)? I'm assuming I jut need to load with sc.textFile and then apply a couple mapping functions, but I'm very new to Scala and not sure how to go about it.

A: A simple regular expression and built-in vector utilities should do the trick:
import org.apache.spark.mllib.linalg.{Vector, Vectors}
import org.apache.spark.rdd.RDD

def parse(rdd: RDD[String]): RDD[(Long, Vector)] = {
  val pattern: scala.util.matching.Regex = "\\(([0-9]+),(.*)\\)".r
  rdd .map{
    case pattern(k, v) => (k.toLong, Vectors.parse(v))
  }
}

Example usage:
val docsWithFeatures = sc.parallelize(Seq(
  "(22246418,(4,[1],[2.0]))", "(312332123,(3,[0,2],[-1.0,1.0]))"))\

parse(docsWithFeatures).collect
// Array[(Long, org.apache.spark.mllib.linalg.Vector)] =
//   Array((22246418,(4,[1],[2.0])), (312332123,(3,[0,2],[-1.0,1.0])))

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A terror attack in the UK killed some children, a day later a terror attack in Syria killed some Syrian Children. The UK children got 24h news coverage for a week, the Syrians, a 12 second report on the International News.
Also, President Trump's visit to Israel – Was it a success?
Phantom Nation – The Bloody Score Card [audio] ?


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Progressive Primary Challengers to Incumbent Dems May Sink Party in 2018 Midterms
Republicans are the least of their worries.
Posted by Mike LaChance Tuesday, March 21, 2017 at 08:30am 8 Comments
Democrats are still feeling the sting of defeat over the presidential election and many of them are hopeful for some form of victory in the 2018 midterms.
They're going to face a tougher opponent than the Republicans however, and it's coming from inside their own party.
The Progressive movement, which makes up a significant portion of the party's base, wants candidates who reflect their values and that doesn't bode well for victory.
Alex Seitz-Wald writes at NBC News:
Democrats Beware: Sanders 'Movement' Turns to Midterms
With Democrats facing tough prospects in the midterm elections, will they also have to worry about primary challenges from their left flank?
During his presidential campaign, Sen. Bernie Sanders never quite decided whether his "political revolution" could coexist with the Democratic Party or needed to overthrow it. Now, Sanders is one of the most popular political figures in the country and the activists he galvanized have gone on to start new groups, join old ones, or run electoral campaigns.
The path of Sanders' former staffers reflects the split in his movement, and the some are already galvanizing for the 2018 elections — and setting their sights on their own.
Rep. Keith Ellison, one of Sanders' most prominent allies, preached unity during his bid for the chairmanship of the Democratic National Committee and is now the party's deputy chairman.
But the more radical strain, which led hundreds of Sanders delegates to walk out of the Democratic National Convention in protest last summer, is still present on the left and emboldened by the loss of Hillary Clinton and their belief that "Bernie would have won."
This faction of Democrats thinks that the solution to their problem is going further to the left. It is the exact wrong prescription for a party already on life support.
Dominic Lynch of The Federalist suggests that the Progressive movement could ultimately lead to the destruction of the Democrats as a party:
Is The Democratic Party Going Extinct?
November 8 revealed that the Democratic base is retreating to urban areas (mostly along the coasts). Their decision to cut bait with working class whites was a mistake. And the Obama coalition disintegrated as soon as Obama was off the ballot. Unless Democrats address these issues, they can expect to see even more losses over the next four years…
Progressivism Has Coopted The Democratic Party
Secondly, the policies of the Democratic party increasingly serve as an ideological purity test that lies outside the political mainstream. Internal dissent is often not tolerated. The party position on divisive issues like transgender bathrooms, wedding cake mandates, sanctuary cities, unlimited and unrestricted abortion access, and illegal immigration is mismatched with public opinion. Moderate Blue Dog Democrats, once a large part of the Democratic coalition, are all but extinct. This leaves a party consumed by progressive policies but without a counterbalancing ideology to keep the party apparatus in check.
Finally, the decision to excise the white working class from the Democratic coalition proved to be a fatal mistake. The Clinton team assumed it would win the "Blue Wall" states on the backs of reliable white working class voters who have voted Democratic since 1992 (and in some states, like Wisconsin, since 1984). But her rhetoric on coal, globalism, social issues and Trump's temperament—combined with the fact that she campaigned around those states—doomed her campaign from the start.
If Democrats suffer even a minor loss in the 2018 midterms, expect to hear a gnashing of teeth almost as loud as the one heard on November 9th of 2016.
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2018 Elections, Democrats, Progressives
casualobserver | March 21, 2017 at 8:42 am
The Bernie base only compounds their problems. The entire party has a fantasy that they will win on a platform of racial and gender politics and nothing else. Well, maybe throw in the "Trump is an illegitimate president" effort. Not sure if that survives all the way to the elections, but the media is doing their best keep it alive on their behalf.
rinardman | March 21, 2017 at 9:15 am
Sometimes I wish conservative writers would stop pointing out how the Dimocrat party is killing itself by going too far left, and let them commit suicide. But then I remember that the progressive fundamentalists just ignore any ideas that are outside of their own religion, so it won't have any effect on them.
Dana | March 21, 2017 at 10:10 am
Uhhh, didn't we hear the same thing in 2010, about how the TEA Party right was going to shrink the GOP to irrelevance, and how the Democrats would be the majority party for the foreseeable future?
The GOP was dead, following the 1992 elections, right up until it wasn't. The Democrats were toast following 2000, 2002 and 2004, remember?
Our system of single-member geographical districts creates a heavy bias for a two-party system, and thinking that the Democrats are dead (now) is just as relevant as all of the articles telling us how they were dead in the past.
Tom Servo in reply to Dana. | March 21, 2017 at 11:58 am
I think I agree with you – although we won't find out for sure until 2018, I suspect that this hard-core left wing faction is a group that has a very vocal presence on social media and the net in general, but I doubt that they will make much of a mark on electoral politics.
100,000 angry noisy people make a huge splash on the net, but spread around the country on election day they really aren't that significant.
buckeyeminuteman | March 21, 2017 at 12:40 pm
All of those to the slight left of center have started to move over to the Republican side, as evidenced in November and as you seem to be counting on in 2018. The problem with that, Republicans are going to have to appease these working Democrats of old to keep them on the GOP side. By Democrats shifting to the Left, it's going to pull Republicans further left as well. Sadly, the Tea Party values of old are giving way to repeal-in-name-only, don't-worry-about-the-federal-debt, and other ideas which should not be tolerated by Republicans.
dmi60ex | March 21, 2017 at 12:53 pm
Never believe a party is dead . nature adhors a vacuum and if there are disaffected voters, they will seek the outsider, if that is a Dem , so be it .
The GOP needs to worry about itself .
showtime8 | March 21, 2017 at 1:06 pm
Dems rely too heavily on vote purchasing using taxpayer funds. Those paying the taxes are getting tired of all of it. In addition, the dems favor replacing the citizens with the foreign born. Not one places the best interest of the country or the people first.
Romey | March 21, 2017 at 7:58 pm
The Dems need to figure out how to win a rigged election!


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SIBY JEYYA April 15, 2019 18:30 IST Aamir compensated the Loss!
The emperor of Bollywood box office and Indian box office at the moment happens to be none other than Bollywood perfectionist Aamir Khan, who has been scoring success with every release of him since Taare Zameen Par, with Ghajini, 3 Idiots, PK, and the last being Dangal.
But, Aamir failed miserably with his multicrore budget biggie Thugs of Hindostan directed by Vijay Krishna Acharya which released as a Diwali treat. The actor was criticized and he accepted the failure too.
Now, the actor has came forward to accept the loss for the distributors and he revealed that he will compensate the loss with his next venture and he will make a formal announcement on that sooner. Earlier, Rajini compensated in a similar fashion.


Artemis Technologies' Belfast-based bid for a carbon-free yacht-building project is in line for major seed funding, according to Sail World.
As previously reported on Afloat.ie, the company spun off from America's Cup team Artemis Racing and led by double Olympic gold medalist Iain Percy announced plans last October to bring shipbuilding back to Belfast Harbour.
The company is developing an Autonomous Sailing Vessel or ASV, a 45-metre catamaran with a top speed of 50 knots, powered by renewables which will offer it unlimited range.
Artemis Technologies has now secured early-stage funding to pursue a full bid for UK Research and Innovation's Strength in Places Fund.
Successful projects will receive anywhere from £10 million (€11.65 million) to £50 million (€58.3 million) to see their concepts through to fruition.
Percy described the new funding as "a major endorsement of our plans to make Belfast the advanced maritime manufacturing capital of the world.


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According to our team at Pure Chiropractic in Staines, you put 40% more pressure on your spine when you sit than stand. And you probably don't think about your posture when you're working away on your PC or laptop towards a deadline either!
Feeling under stress can have a negative impact on your physical health. Long term or acute stress can cause the muscles in your neck to tense up and tighten. And muscles that are frequently tight can cause neck and back pain.
If you can't remember the last time you replaced your mattress or pillows, then it's probably time to head to the nearest bed store! To help protect your back and neck, you should try to buy a new mattress every 5 – 7 years.
Your neck is one of the most important parts of your body. Treat it kindly and it will do the same for you.
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Estate planning goes beyond just having a will. It includes organizing your assets to pass to the next generation (or two) with the least family disputes, minimizing the amount of federal and state taxes an estate must pay, and naming individuals to make financial decisions for you when you no longer can. Comprehensive planning can be complex including numerous legal documents and insurance strategies. We can refer you to professionals to help with your unique circumstances and individual needs.


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Комалкалко је древно археолошко налазиште Маја у држави Табаско у Мексику. Граничи се са модерним градом Комалкалко. То је једини велики град Маја изграђен од цигле уместо кречњака, а био је уједно и најзападнији од свих у цивилизацији Маја. Покрива површину од 7 km².

Етимологија
Име је повезано са суседним модерним градом Комалкалко.

Локација
Смештен је у региону Чонталпа на широкој алувијалној равни западно од данашњег града Комалкалко, на малом узвишењу окруженом равницама. Удаљен је 51 км од града Виљахермоса, а око 160 км северно од Паленкве.

Привреда
Положај града на реци Мезакалпа значи да је Комалкалко контролисао важну трговачку везу између Јукатана и пацифичког приобаља, као и висоравни Чипарпаса и Гватемале. Археолог Џорџ Ф. Ендрјуз са Универзитета Орегон сматра да је Комалкалко био смештен у подручји узгоја какаоа, па се стога може закључити да је значајно учествовао у производњи и трговини ове, у то време, веома важне културе.

Историја
Место је достигло свој врхунац током класичног периода око 500. године, иако је подручје било насељено и пре тога. Једини познати владар Комалкалка био је Окс Балам, који се појављује на једном натпису са археолошког локалитета Тортугверо. Према том тексту, њега је поразио владар Тортугвера — Балам Ахау.

Гробница пронађена у Храму II указује на бројне верске обреде за позивање кише. Град је вероватно био погођен тешком сушом до које је можда дошло у целом региону и која је бар делимично одговорна за пропаст цивилизације Маја.

Архитектура
Најнеобичнија карактеристика древног града је његова употреба печене опеке за изградњу, за разлику од тесаног кречњака, заједничког за већину мајанских локалитета. Цигле су различитих величина, а на њима се налазе бројни дезени, украси, који су исцртани или урезани. Цигле су биле везане малтером направљеним од калцификованих шкољки и острига. Археолози су идентификовали две различите фазе изградње до сада.

Локалитет
До данас, идентификоване су 432 структуре на самом локалитету, укључујући храмове, управне зграде, елитне станове и функционалне објекте. Окружене стамбеним комплексима, које се могу састојати од појединачних насипа, групе хумки окружују централну "плазу" или комплекс од два до пет тргова. Ове хумке су направљене од спљоштене земље и покривене са штуком.

Три велика комплекса формирају свечано место: Северна Плаза, Источни Акропољ и Велики Акропољ. Свечани центар приказује кључне одлике мајанске архитектуре: терасе са храмовима, палатама, платформама и трговима. Неколико храмова имају просторије са сводовима, које им је омогућавало да буду у исто време и гробнице.

Велики Акропољ
Јужно од Северне Плазе је велика платформа 35 метара висине са различитим објектима на врху. То је именовано Великим Акропољем.

Источни Акропољ
Зграде без цигле су одмах видљиве у овом комплексу, који је мања верзија Великог Акропоља.

Сахрањивање
Крајем 2010. године, истраживање једног места 2,8 км северно од Великог Акропоља довело је до открића највећег гробља у региону до данас. Три хумке садрже 116 комплета посмртних остатака, са 66 појединаца који се налазе у урни показују знаке припадности мајанској елити кроз карактеристике као што су деформације лобање. Још 50 људи је сахрањено око ове урне. Прелиминарна истраживања довела су археологе до закључка да су остаци стари око 1.200 година када су откривени, временски смештајући сахране у касно класично време.

Сценарио Судњег дана 2012. године
У новембру 2011. године, Марко Стивенсон, аутор у Сијетл тајмсу, тврдио је да се у Мексичком Националном институту за антропологију и историју налази могући доказ за тврдњу о "судњем дану", који потиче управо са локалитета Комалкалко. Тај натпис налази се на једној опеки, која је названа "Цигла Комалкалко".

Види још
 Чичен Ица
 Мексико Сити
 Јукатан

Референе

Археолошка налазишта у Северној Америци
Маје


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Dulwich failed to chase down a target of 174 in their Travelbag Surrey Championship Division 2 match against Worcester Park, and had to settle for a losing draw.
Dulwich chose to field on winning the toss, and opened the bowling with Jon Lodwick and Tom Savill, who was having his first bowl of the season. Lodwick was first to strike in his fourth over with the score on 15, while Savill bowled an accurate spell of nine overs which conceded just 19 runs. Lodwick gave way to Sam Ellison, who took a wicket in each of his first two overs to reduce Worcester Park to 46-3 in the fifteenth over. Levi Olver also struck in his second over to take the fourth wicket with the score on 66. This brought together identical twins Joe and Rob Hill, who added 32 in 9.2 overs for the fifth wicket until Joe was caught behind for 32 off skipper Alex Gledhill. Skipper Rob was now joined by Waqas Sagar, brother of former Kent and Surrey all-rounder Azhar Mahmood. Sagar dominated a stand of 71 in 14.2 overs for the sixth wicket, scoring 48 off 47 balls before being caught behind off Olver with the score on 169. Mike Arundell fell in the same manner first ball, giving Olver two wickets in his last permitted over for the second week running. Gledhill and Richard King then mopped up the tail, with Rob Hill last man out for 37. Keeper Will Bancroft picked up his fourth catch, while Olver finished with 3-51 off his 14 overs and Gledhill 3-25 off 7.4. The last five wickets had fallen for five runs in 4.4 overs as Worcester Park were dismissed for 174 in the 50th over.
Dulwich thus had 50 overs to get the runs. This was the first Championship match this season in which Savill and his regular opening partner Ed Stolle had played together, and they launched the Dulwich reply in familiar fashion, adding 34 in 7.5 overs before Stolle was caught off Joe Hill for 13. Kristian Williman went in the next over and King one over later to reduce them to 42-3. Savill was joined by Guy Skinner, and both survived some near misses as they found scoring increasingly difficult against accurate bowling. Savill reached his third consecutive fifty but required 74 balls, six more than he had needed to reach his century in the previous match. The stand had reached 63 in 24.1 overs when Savill fell for 58 (off 87 balls) with the score on 105. Skinner went 11 runs later, having grafted resolutely for 30 off 97 balls, and Bancroft followed two runs later to make it 118-6 after 38.3 overs. Lodwick and Ed Hopkins continued to go for the runs and had added 22 in five overs before Hopkins, Ellison and Lodwick all fell in successive overs for just two runs. Dulwich had lost six wickets for 37, and at 142-9 after 45.2 overs Olver and Gledhill now had no alternative but to bat out time, which they did successfully to secure a losing draw.
Dulwich thus ended a disappointing match with just five points and slip two places to seventh. Next week they travel to Chessington, where they have enjoyed a number of close finishes in recent years. Their opponents are just one place below them in the table.


The email below was sent by Tessa Schmidt. As an FYI, I did send the PSA to our five local stations: WLUK, WBAY, WFRV, CW 14 and NBC26. Be on the look out for it !
The Collaborative Summer Library Program (CSLP) has once again produced several high-quality public service announcements (PSA) for Summer 2016. The English and Spanish PSAs are available for download and customization by your library, or simply as links to cut and paste and use with social media.
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Hanitra Razanamalala es una deportista malgache que compitió en judo. Ganó una medalla de bronce en el Campeonato Africano de Judo de 1997 en la categoría de –66 kg.

Palmarés internacional

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Judokas de Madagascar
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This hearty, filling lentil vegetarian chili features sweet potatoes and black beans! It's the perfect cozy meal to curl up with on cold or rainy days.
If there's one thing I've learned over my years of cooking, baking, and well, eating, it's that you can't always judge a dish by its cover. Sometimes, the not-so-pretty foods are the most delicious. Case in point: this sweet potato, black bean, & lentil vegetarian chili.
Over the weekend, veggie chili sounded like the perfect thing for the cool weather we've been having in North Carolina. I spotted a bag of dried green lentils hanging out in the pantry, which I love using because a) they're really affordable and b) they have a lot of protein.
I also decided to incorporate sweet potatoes, too, because when can you go wrong with sweet potatoes? And black beans were a natural addition since black beans + sweet potatoes are a match made in heaven.
Although I'm not a vegetarian, I love experimenting with meatless recipes, and the resulting chili was the best thing I've eaten in weeks! It was so hearty and filling. Even my meat-loving dad had a bowl of this sweet potato chili the next day for lunch and declared it to be a success.
And check it out: for a huge bowl of vegetarian goodness, you're looking at 360 calories, 22 grams of protein, and 12 grams of fiber. That's pretty awesome! Not to mention, lentils and black beans are both packed with iron and sweet potatoes are loaded with Vitamin A.
I already can't wait to make this lentil vegetarian chili again! Sweet potato chili is healthy comfort food at its finest.
If you try this sweet potato, black bean, & lentil veggie chili, feel free to let me know in a comment or take a picture and tag me @livbane on Instagram– I'd love to see!
In a large pot over medium heat, add the olive oil, chopped onion, and garlic. Sauté for about 5 minutes.
Add the remaining ingredients (vegetable broth, water, marinara or tomato sauce, tomato paste, lentils, and carrots). Then, add the spices (chili powder, paprika, cumin, cayenne, and salt). Turn the heat up to high, bringing the broth to a boil. Once it boils, reduce the heat to medium low, cover and simmer for 10 minutes.
After 10 minutes, add cubed sweet potato and black beans and let chili simmer on medium-low heat for 40-50 more minutes or until the lentils are tender. Add extra water or broth to thin, if needed, toward the end.
Top chili with sour cream, avocado slices, and/or freshly grated cheese, if desired. Enjoy!
Hungry for more? Check out some of my other favorite soups and stews!
I actually prefer vegetarian chillis. I think they are much heartier and therefore more filling.
Hi Liv! Don't think we have ever met, but it is lovely to meet you, and I am SO glad you are joining us today 🙂 This sounds lovely, I love the sweet potato and black bean combo! They go so well together. I look forward to supporting you in your future journey. 🙂 Have a wonderful day, and I hope you join us again next (and every!) week!
Thanks, Tina! Looking forward to linking up again in the future 🙂 Hope you have a great day!
This looks great! I tried to make something like this last week in the crockpot actually and it came out so soupy – I'm going to have to try something like this next. While a sweet potato black bean soup is good all I wanted was chili!
When you want a thick, hearty chili, I agree– a thin soup just doesn't compare!
I was just about to ask Liv if she thinks this recipe would work in a crockpot, and what adjustments one would need to make. So now I'm asking both of you!
Hi Ingrid, I think this recipe would work great in a crockpot! For ease of cooking, I'd toss all of the ingredients in the crockpot except for the black beans and cook on low for 6-7 hours or high for 3-4 hours (depending on your crockpot's settings. I'd add the black beans just before serving so they don't turn into mush, and I'd chop the sweet potatoes into large pieces if adding at the very beginning with the lentils so they don't get overcooked. For your first time experimenting with making it in the crockpot, I'd definitely check it a little before you expect it to be ready and then note the settings it takes with your specific crockpot. Hope that helps!!
This looks SO.GOOD! Sweet potatoes and lentils are two of my favorite foods (sorry black beans 🙂 ) so this is a winner for me!
I don't count calories either but I like having nutritional info to estimate how filling it is by how much protein or fat it has. It helps me plan out my other meals and workouts.
I don't eat ground meat so this chili is perfect for me! It sounds amazing!
Yum! Looks so hearty and PERFECT!
I think this not only looks delicious but the recipe sounds wonderful too! I love black bean/sweet potato combo!
This looks so hearty and delicious. Love lentils anytime!
yum! This looks great. At one of my favorite vegan restaurants, Gracias Madre in LA they make sweet potato flautas that are amazing!!!
Is it terrible that I just had to Google what flatuas are? Haha! But I found recipes and pictures of sweet potato flatuas and they look so good!
I think the best vegetarian meal I've ever had probably would have to be at this random monetary in Hong Kong where monks made all the food. I seriously still dream about it to this day, 6 years later!
Haha that's too funny! Maybe you can try to recreate the meal from the monastery?
Perfect meatless Monday meal when it is cold out! Vegetarian chili is one of my favorite comfort foods.
My favorite vegetarian dish, that would be a hard one, as a former vegan, gone vegetarian, now more "flexitarian" I eat mostly vegetarian/vegan still and I have so many favorites!
that looks great I love sweet potato and black beans together. Thanks for linking up w us today for Meatless Monday!
Oh this looks so delicious!! I'd love to chow down on a bowl of this for lunch right now!
Sweet potatoes are fantastic! MY favorite way to use them lately is as an ice pack for my foot (I have a frozen bag) and it works GREAT!
I just have to say, I am vegan and have never eaten soy nuggets hahaha, there are so many great options you really don't need dead animals to feel satisfied.
Just my opinion. Chili looks great!
I think you're right– lentils are so underrated!
Agreed about the not so pretty dishes being the ones that actually do often taste good!
I'm sorry to hear that it turned out too spicy for you, Shelby! I'll add a note to the recipe to start with less chili powder and taste it before adding more. If you'd like, you can add extra water/broth, marinara sauce, or even a can of chopped or diced tomatoes to help cut the heat now (or top with some Greek yogurt/sour cream). Thanks for your feedback!
It is better to be a day late than a dollar short! I really do not know what that means in its entirety. I mentioned it because of the late part:) You posted this recipe quite a while back and today I finally tried it (I tried the winter veggie recipe late too and loved it…and discovered an intense love of brussel sprouts and have never looked back!). Back to this recipe. I tried this for meatless Monday as my usual meatless meal is a Kashi pizza, which can get dull. This recipe was perfect! The lentils give it that "meat" texture and you don't miss the ground meat at all. The sweet potato gives it a sweet kick that offsets the hot spices. The prep work was also pretty easy. Great work!
Love this!! Converting this to a dog food recipe and linking to your recipe!
This looks DELICIOUS! As a vegetarian I'm always looking to try new recipes so I can't wait to try this. Think it could be made in a crockpot?
Hi Dayna! I think this recipe could definitely be made in a crockpot. I haven't tried it so I'm not sure about exact cooking times, but I bet 5-6 hours on high or 7-8 hours on low would do the trick to cook the lentils and sweet potatoes.
When I'm testing a new slow cooker recipe, I like doing it on a day that I'll be around so I can start checking for doneness on the earlier side of the time range I'm estimating, if that makes sense!
Sounds awesome! Hope you have some great hikes this winter, Sean!
I love this recipe and I've sort of modeled it twice now when making my own chili. Thank you for posting this, but I just have to say (and I hope this does not come across as rude, I apologize if it does!) that in your fear of putting off meat-eaters, you may be putting off vegans and plant-based eaters by writing that you didn't want to include the word vegan because you'd hate to scare people off. You are making an assumption of all things with the word "vegan" as scary. Vegan can also mean healthy (often, not always, of course). I was just a bit put off by that little section. And some of us love soy nuggets! Lol I know plenty of meat eaters who enjoy them. I hope you understand my point about you basically demeaning the word "vegan." There are many of us and veganism is only growing. I am aware people think it has an image problem, but please don't add to the painting of it in a bad light. Thanks for the recipe!
Sounds delish! Are the lentils soaked before-hand or are they canned lentils? Thanks!
Hi Kristen! I use dried lentils and don't soak them beforehand. They actually cook pretty quickly!
Thanks! Could you substitute a can or two of diced tomato (or something else) instead of Marinara Sauce (marinara isn't very common where I'm from)?
Hi Kirsten! You could absolutely use canned tomatoes! I'd recommend using crushed tomatoes rather than diced, as those are most similar to the texture of marinara sauce!
This is in the crockpot right now! Can't wait to try!
Awesome, I hope you love it!!!
Hi, i love this recipe.I only think it is too spicy, even though you give the option of less chili or peper.
I think there is a mistake with table spoons of chili, it should say tea spoon.


Dr. Mongno's practice originates from his own work over the course of his life journey. The synthesis of this life work along with his extensive training in multiple therapeutic modalities allows him to create insightful and emotionally corrective experiences with his clients. This results in greater cognitive understanding and emotional self awareness. It profoundly develops an enhanced ability to live more freely out of a larger and more vital frame of existence—thus a greater quality of life.


Subspecialty training in gynaecological oncology in South Africa is a very young venture in the discipline of gynaecology. In 2008, the first candidate fulfilled the requirements for the College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists of South Africa's subspecialty certificate in Gynaecological Oncology. As a subspecialty, gynaecological oncology adds significant value to the management and care of women who are diagnosed with gynaecological cancer, and enhances survival and treatment outcome. Therefore, there is no doubt that it is judicious to train gynaecological oncologists in South Africa.


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Fellowship Open Celebrating 16 Years, Returns to Silver Spring Country Club Friday, August 19th
Posted: Aug 11, 2016 5:02 PM CST | Updated: Aug 11, 2016 5:03 PM CST
The Fellowship Open was founded in 2001 by a group of business and civic leaders including John W. Daniels, Jr., the late Joe L. Kennedy, and tournament co-director James Allen, to promote and inspire youngsters to pursue careers in business, and to foster support for diversity and inclusion in the business community.
The event's list of honorary chairs features some of Milwaukee's most prominent professionals in business, government, and civic affairs.
Each year, its ranks have grown with individuals that bring outstanding attributes and commitments to the community. Over the years, the Fellowship Open has contributed more than $1.2 million to youth organizations, involving more than 75 organizations throughout Wisconsin.
As in past years, every available slot in the golf tournament has been filled.
The Fellowship Open will host more than 300 golfers, from more than 20 states, including business, civic, and sports officials.
Local and national sports celebrities are also expected to participate.
This year, basketball and business legend Oscar Robertson will be accompanied by the 2016 Hank Aaron Scholar Juwan Banks, who is also a phenomenal golfer.
With a roster of more than 100 business, civic and professional leaders who serve as Honorary Chairs, a host of corporate sponsors, and a team of 75 volunteers, the Fellowship Open features golf, a silent auction, and an awards luncheon to raise tens of thousands of dollars to support education and open paths to successful careers for Milwaukee's children.
Each year, the Fellowship Open identifies several nonprofit organizations as beneficiaries of its fundraising efforts. The 2016 recipients are:
Pathways Milwaukee
• Heart of Milwaukee District-Boy Scouts of America
• The Boys & Girls Club of Greater Milwaukee
• Wisconsin Basketball Academy
A great tradition of the Fellowship Open is its annual recognition of civic and business leaders whose impact demonstrates a strong commitment to investing in the next generation of leaders. This year we salute the achievements of Oscar "Big O" Robertson with the Legends Award, Patty Cadorin with the Civic Leaders Award, and Dr. Joan Prince with the Community Leaders Award.


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Артём Никола́евич Григорья́нц (27 сентября 1916, Темрюк, Кубанская область, Российская империя — 29 апреля 2002, Москва, Российская Федерация) — советский инженер, энергетик; волейболист. Главный инженер Обнинской АЭС со времени её пуска (1956—1958). Лауреат Государственной премии СССР (1970, за создание Белоярской АЭС).

Биография
Артём Григорьянц родился 27 сентября 1916 года в Темрюке Кубанской области.

В 1941 году окончил Московский государственный университет имени М. В. Ломоносова.

В 1951 году был назначен начальником лаборатории Физико-энергетического института в Обнинске. С декабря 1953 года был заместителем главного инженера строящейся Обнинской АЭС. В 1956—1958 годах — главный инженер Обнинской АЭС.

В 1956 году защитил диссертацию на соискание учёной степени кандидата технических наук.

В 1958—1959 годах — главный инженер Главатомэнерго Министерства среднего машиностроения СССР. С 1959 по 1967 год работал в Министерстве среднего машиностроения СССР.

С 1967 по 1978 год работал в Министерстве энергетики и электрификации СССР. В 1970 году в составе группы специалистов был удостоен Государственной премии СССР за создание Белоярской АЭС.

В 1978—1985 годах — руководитель строительства АЭС в Чехословакии.

Волейболист-любитель. Выступал за волейбольный клуб «Локомотив» (Москва); работая в Обнинске — за сборную города.

Умер 29 апреля 2002 года в Москве.

Библиография

Примечания

Выпускники МГУ 1941 года
Сотрудники Физико-энергетического института
Кандидаты технических наук
Игроки ВК «Локомотив» Москва


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