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Rafael Marques de Morais: I will always be free
By Greg Nicolson
Rafael Marques de Morais is famous for his journalism and activism in Angola, standing up to the ruling Movement for the Liberation of Angola despite intimidation and imprisonment. Recently, he spoke to the Daily Maverick Show on CliffCentral's Kingsley Kipury about his fight for freedom of expression, corruption investigations, and the stories he'll tell his grandchildren. By GREG NICOLSON.
This is an edited extract of the Daily Maverick Show on CliffCentral's extended interview with Rafael Marques de Morais. Listen to the full interview here (trust us, it's worth it):
You've been writing a lot about freedom of speech, freedom of expression and corruption in Angola. You've been quite a thorn in the state's side for years and if I'm not wrong you were in prison as recently as last week.
I was briefly held. The police have developed a new language for arrests, which it uses nowadays when it involves politically sensitive individuals. The police say they have "gathered" the individuals. Not arrested them, but "gathered". So I was "gathered" briefly by the police, to use the official term, which is not imprisonment, or arrest, or detention, but "gathering".
What is your current status with the state because if I'm not mistaken you had a two-year suspended sentence. Are you a free man?
My answer is that I am a free man and I will always be a free man because it depends on my conscience to be free. The body is a shackle and the government can imprison that body and we can have limitations with our bodies due to health issues or others, but we cannot have limitations with the ideals we espouse and how we defend them. That's why I'm a free man. Whether the government wants to contain my body, wants to punish me or not, it's the business of the government. My business is to remain free because I believe in the work I do. I believe in the importance of being a good citizen and upholding the values enshrined in the constitution, such as the rights to freedom of expression, human rights, freedom of the press, and that's what I do. So I'm a free man for that. No government, no political expression, no police officer can gather my thoughts and my resolve to do what I think is right and constitutionally binding.
Your confidence in what is right and what is just is powerful and has inspired a lot of people to stand with you.
I grew up as a very shy young boy, a boy and a young man. To a certain extent I'm still a very shy person. But I also believe that if I'm entitled to speak out by law, by my profession, then that's all I need to do, then go home and be quiet with my family.
Quite often we have an issue here, across Africa, not just Angola, in which you see very intelligent people, very good people, very creative people, and you ask yourself why do we always get very bad governments, very incompetent governments, thieves in power when we have such wonderful people? Because quite often those who have the integrity to be honest shy away from pushing the boundaries to ensure that evil does not prevail over what we believe should be common sense in terms of running a society, in terms of coexisting.
You try to look up to other countries and for years Angolans tried to look up to South Africa to say this is how we must run our country, but then you look across and you just see bad examples of bad governments. How do we change that? We're citizens and we have to ask this question ourselves on a daily basis. How do we change bad governance? How do we, with our knowledge as citizens, contribute to good governance? That is not idealistic.
I dare say that one of the reasons that perhaps the issues in Angola are not widely discussed is, at least from an external perspective, that Angola's economy was doing very well for a long time. So there's often an assumption that if economies are doing well the people must be doing well.
The economy was doing wonderfully, but for foreigners and the ruling elite, not for the majority of the people. Just to give you an example, the Portuguese: over 200,000 flocked to Angola in the post-war reconstruction period from 2002 to 2014. They were remitting over 200-million euros a year back to Portugal, the second largest remittance Portugal received from abroad.
Essentially what happened was the government came up with a policy of national reconstruction that excluded ordinary Angolans, brought in over 250,000 Chinese workers for the rebuilding of the country on the political discourse that Angolans were too lazy, that Angolans do not have the skills. Therefore the Chinese would build things faster and the government would provide for the people. There was an incentive there if people believed "okay we do not have to work and just wait for the housing and the goods these national reconstruction will bring we'll just sit and wait".
So when you look now at this staggering amount of money and you look at what has been rebuilt and how society now is at a crisis because once the oil prices fell to below $50 suddenly there was no money in Angola. The question is where are the half a trillion dollars, how did the government spend it and on what that we did not make provisions, that we did not diversify the economy? It's an important critical element. That's why in my work I do not distance or detract from the issue of corruption and human rights and social and economic justice because they go hand in hand. It's also because of the institutionalisation of corruption in our country that government officials feel nowadays to repress more.
Why? Because what always worked in Angola is the parallel system of stick and carrot. Corruption, to entice people that they could fend for themselves without the need for the state to regulate the economy and provide adequate salaries and people could just use their positions in the public sector as private stalls to sell extra services to the public. And then the stick which is the political violence to mete out justice to those who dare to challenge the status quo.
Do you get scared when you get threats and you live under surveillance? There are threats of being imprisoned and threats of violence? Do you ever consider not doing this any more?
It actually just heightens my resolve because that proves that I'm doing the right work, I'm doing the right thing and a government that cannot tolerate criticism is a government that does not deserve to be in power – period – is a government that is not prepared to serve its own people. Because if it's prepared to serve its own people it should expect, and it should be able to respond to and address, the criticisms that come from society. Contrary to that, it's a government that must be booted.
What's the end game? What are we going for? I suppose one option is to reform the ruling party? Another is to vote them out. But you sound like you're striving for something different.
For me, yes President (José Eduardo) dos Santos must go, yes MPLA (Popular Movement for the Liberation of Angola) has been in power for 40 years and it's time also to go. Yes Unita (National Union for the Total Independence of Angola) was a movement that took so many years in the bush waging a civil war against the government and a new generation also has to rise within Unita to make it a meaningful opposition party or even a ruling party, but if we don't change our mind-set …
I will give you an example: in 2012 after the elections the MPLA government delivered 570 Lexus to each member of parliament as gifts, and it's quite regular. Each one of those cars costs over $130,000 in Angola and over 250 of those cars were bought for the national assembly, besides other perks and BMWs as well and I wrote about that. No member of the opposition refused to receive the cars.
The MPLA has its electoral process coming up. Do you see President dos Santos staying on or perhaps a succession plan?
This is my personal opinion: I believe President dos Santos has lost the opportunity to leave power nicely and retire quietly. The way President dos Santos has captured the state resources and divided them between his family and his cronies and the current wave of crimes that are being committed – we had a massacre of pilgrims just last April in the central highlands province of Huambo and it's reckoned that at least 1,000 pilgrims were massacred by police – these issues will come back to haunt him once he leaves the presidency.
The president has no ability to negotiate with his own critics for a way out of power. So his major problem won't be the opposition. It will be people within his own party who have felt estranged by this absolutism of power by the president and the fact also that the president has sidelined many of the MPLA veterans and intellectuals and critics and individuals, the critical mass of the MPLA has been sidelined and what has emerged now is the party of apparatchiks. Some are just street thugs, especially one named Bento Kangamba, who actually married the president's niece, who happens to also to be the deputy director of the president's office.
In the past few years the president has been surrounding himself with his relatives and his wife's relatives and that does not bode well for him because he has no way out of power. My sense is that the president will want to stay in power until he dies and he will do anything so that once that happens (he leaves power) it will no longer be his problem and he will not have to worry about where to live in exile and that if he remains in Angola he will be arrested or what will happen to him.
I recently wrote an open letter to the president asking him to free the political prisoners, the young people who are being used as scapegoats of the economic situation, for the Mount Sumi massacre and other issues, but also pointing out to the president that he must start engaging with his critics if he is to salvage even his family's assets in the country or just a portion of them.
Maka Angola, the organisation that you run, works a lot on exposing corruption in the country. Where do you get the information from in a country where the stakes are very high to be seen as anti-MPLA, anti-government? What is the network that feeds this information?
In '99 when I was in jail, the first time I spent time in jail, after 11 days in solitary confinement I was transferred to a normal prison. In the normal prison someone came, a normal prisoner, with a file and said this is all the documents pertaining to corruption in the ministry of foreign affairs. So I had a file and when I left jail, I not only left with those documents, I left with important records from the jail itself.
Next to me, sleeping next to me, was a member of a police death squad who was hiding in jail and he would spend his day out of jail and he would just come and sleep in jail to hide because someone higher up wanted to get rid of that particular death squad who had been instructed to execute a number of individuals involved in some funny business and this included a nephew of a senior police officer. This individual told me all the stories about how the death squads operate in Angola and who runs them and everything. When I left jail, one member of parliament said, "We've given the gold to the bandit."
That social consciousness, you can actually by leading by example, even within the most corrupt echelons of the power, you will find people who will come to you and say: "I have a conscience and this is my contribution to the cause."
I'm curious as to how widely known is what's going on in the country. You mentioned the Mount Sumi massacre. Is that known to people in Angola, in Luanda and around the country?
It is very well known and the government has cordoned off the area where the massacre took place so the journalists cannot interact. As soon as the massacre happened I was able to interview members of the military, members of the police who were involved in the massacre, as well as witnesses and survivors.
Also what I had was someone who was actually at Mount Sumi come to me in the capital to speak to me directly. As I was speaking on the phone, some people would say: "But your phone is tapped." I said: "Let them listen and know how carefully researched this is because how many more of you will they kill to prevent sources coming to me. Do not be afraid, let them listen." And it's good that they listen because it affects them as well. Some of these people listening as well are human beings, are individuals, they have feelings. And they're learning. One day it will affect their judgment and the way they are loyal to the system.
Sometimes I have fun encounters with my friends at the police and the state security apparatus. In my own history of being harassed by the police all the time I also find the time to collect good stories of interactions with police officers.
In '99 when I was in jail, at some point I got sick and had to be taken to a private clinic because the prison services did not want to provide me with medical services. They said: "We'll give you a guard and a nurse to accompany you to a private clinic." Off we went. Then as we finished they nurse said: "We must go to your house and you must rest a little bit. We know your house is close." I went and I slept.
When I woke up the police officer was completely drunk and asleep and the gun was on the other side. Now the problem was for me to take the police officer to the car and then take his gun (to the car). While I was sleeping they had basically raided my fridge and all the alcohol that was there. Finally I managed to hide the gun so that the neighbours would not see me, the prisoner, carrying the gun and the police officer completely wasted. I managed to get him in the car and put him on the side and thought, "Is this some kind of devious plot in which then he uses the gun and says I got him drunk? Do I keep the gun next to him? Do I keep the gun next to me? Oh boy."
Then the nurse who was still half conscious said: "I did you a favour now you need to do me a favour. We need to go and visit my girlfriend." We drove off to visit the girlfriend. Then he, as I was waiting in the car with the police gun and the wasted policeman, he comes with the whole family and the neighbours to introduce the famous prisoner. The girlfriend was six or seven months pregnant and he asked me to be the godfather of his child.
I just looked at him. I said: "Look, can we go back to jail? I need to go back to jail." I was getting very nervous. People then started coming out to see me. The police officer is wasted, is gone, and how were we going to get to jail with a police officer who cannot hold his gun?
In the end you get to a point where you just think, one day when I tell my grandchildren these stories, they will not believe me. They will say: "Oh grandfather exaggerates. You're such a raconteur. You make up stories and you're a funny man." That's when you think society has normalised, that my grandchildren cannot believe the things I had to go through.
And, then, when they take things for granted you think, "I have done my bidding so that this story is just anecdotal." DM
Photo: Rafael Marques de Morais at a recent event in Johannesburg. (Siboniso Mncube)
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Good defeats wicked, tapping its ruby slippers and singing great songs along the way.
A large production team from CCFTA made everyone look, sing and act appropriately—even that little dog, too. The all-ages chorus sang robustly in multiple smaller ensembles, and believably acted out various munchkins, guards and citizens of Oz. A harmonizing intro to "If I Only Had a Heart" by a quintet of jazzy young singers was startlingly fresh, and even the munchkin kids had a cold entrance with the orchestra—impressively timed. "Jitterbug"—cut from the original film—was hot.
But the songs. Arlen (lyrics by Yip Harburg) wrote some musical-theater classics for this tale—not dense or virtuosic, but memorably melodic. The tunes underneath "Over the Rainbow," "If I Only Had" and "We're Off to See the Wizard" never get tired.
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This image was originally posted on Encore Food with Elegance blog and it was used to illustrate the egg poaching technique.
I'm not a food blogger but I love photographing food, the funny part about me and this genre is that it kind of happened to me, I was not actively pursuing it. I work in food marketing, so at work they always require food shots for many different purposes, somehow the company's camera ended up in my hands and I suddenly became the go to company photographer.
I have to admit, my first set of pictures are less than appetizing. Off white balance, clutter in the background, lack of colour accuracy and I always ended up wondering, what am I doing wrong? Why can't I make the food look as good as it tastes?
Light is absolutely crucial when it comes to food photography. Always try to shoot in natural light but if not available, use your preferred source of artificial light (strobe, speedlites,etc) and diffuse until it looks like soft morning light.
Always mind the white balance you are shooting in, it can really alter the colour of the ingredients and when photographing proteins it can make them look completely dull. Something that completely changed my life is custom white balance, it gives you maximum color accuracy.
When dealing with food try as many different angles as possible, the idea is to transmit the whole dish and showcase the ingredients. Get close, get far, angle it to the left, shoot i from the top; try as many different compositions until you find the most appealing shot.
I think this is the biggest secret of the trade, taking a great food photo takes more than 5 seconds. If you want to take magazine like pictures you have to plan for the shoot. Wether you are shooting in natural or artificial light you have to prep your light set up, arrange your props, style the food and then take a series of pictures until you find "the one".
Understanding these four things totally made my food photos go from "is that even edible?" to "that makes me hungry!" and in the end these whole process help me become a better photographer.


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Spend the morning cruising through the limestone cliffs and emerald waters of Ha Long Bay before returning to the wharf. Return to Hanoi with a stop en route at a ceramic factory.
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Take a morning boat cruise on the peaceful Perfume River to visit the Thien Mu Pagoda and then take a car to the poetic mausoleum of Emperor Tu Duc. Drive along the coast and via mountain passes to Hoi An with a stop en route at the photogenic village of Lang Co. The rest of the day is at your leisure to explore the town.
Pay a visit to one of Hoi An�s famous lantern workshops and learn how to make one yourself before setting out on a walking tour to explore this World Heritage Site. Highlights include an ancient merchant house, the Phuc Kien Assembly Hall, the 400-year-old Japanese Covered Bridge and the vibrant riverside market. Take a peaceful boat trip on the Thu Bon River to Thanh Ha pottery village and afterwards enjoy free time to further explore the old town.
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Enjoy Nha Trang�s turquoise waters and white sandy beaches with a morning boat cruise to offshore islands in Nha Trang Bay. In the afternoon, visit the Po Nagar Cham Towers, the Dam Market, the Nha Trang Stone Cathedral or the Long Son Pagoda where the giant Sakyamuni Buddha statue sits on the top of the hill.
Transfer to the airport for your flight to Ho Chi Minh City. Upon arrival, transfer to a hotel and the rest of the day is at your leisure to explore the city.
A sightseeing tour of Ho Chi Minh City, formerly known as Saigon, includes a photo stop at the Reunification Palace and visits to the Notre Dame Cathedral, the Central Post Office, Chinatown, the Binh Tay Market and the Thien Hau Temple. Observe Cao Dai mass at noon. The rest of the day is at your leisure.
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Facing the truth can be difficult. Especially when it makes you question your past decisions. And this is about to happen in research.
Meet passive observation, the new research methodology that's bringing insight professionals face to face with the (sometimes uncomfortable) truth. Passive observation projects have been a core part of our offer here at Decidedly in 2018. And the results have been nothing short of mind-blowing.
Sure, passive observation will provide you with some welcome relief that many of the things you've heard in focus groups do play out behind closed doors. But the most exciting thing about passive observation is that it unveils a whole host of insights that, up until now, have gone undiscovered.
Passive observation uncovers real consumer behaviours in real environments.
An upgrade on ethnography, it uses technology to observe people in home and see how they really live. As you might guess from the name, this all happens passively – without the need for an ethnographer in the room.
So why all the excitement about passive observation?
It's when you remove the ethnographer, and go passive, that things get exciting. Set up properly, with no one but themselves in the room, people forget they're being observed and behave as usual. Cue midnight biscuit binges in their PJs, unusual eating habits, Netflix marathons, family arguments. No one's overthinking what they're doing or modifying their behaviour because there's someone else there. For the first time, you see real behaviour in real time.
You see the habits that people would never admit to in focus groups or diary tasks. The things they'd forget to mention in a survey. The subconscious behaviours they don't even know they do and could never tell you about – even if you asked.
And for the first time, you get to the truth. And the truth might just blow your previous research out of the water.
From understanding leisure time to observing snacking behaviour, the use cases for passive observation are vast! It's a great methodology when you're looking to understand influences on behaviour as you don't just see what one person is doing – you can see the context too. It's also a winner if you're looking to uncover the unmet needs that people can't articulate. But it's not an easy methodology to get right. From set up to analysis, you need experts on board. Interested in seeing how passive observation could get you face to face with the truth? Get in touch or find out more.


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Russians hack away: US candidates targeted along with Ukrainians
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By FRANK BAJAK AP Technology Writer
A U.S. cybersecurity company says Russian military agents successfully hacked the Ukrainian gas company at the center of the scandal that led to President Donald Trump's impeachment.
Russian agents launched a phishing campaign in early November aimed at stealing the login credentials for employees of Burisma Holdings, the gas company, according to Area 1 Security, a Silicon Valley company that specializes in e-mail security.
Hunter Biden, son of former U.S. vice president and Democratic presidential hopeful Joe Biden, previously served on Burisma's board.
It was not clear from an eight-page report posted online by Area 1 what the hackers were looking for or may have obtained. The timing of the operation suggests, however, that the Russian agents could be searching for material that could damage the Bidens.
The House of Representatives impeached Trump in December for abusing the power of his office by enlisting the Ukrainian government to investigate Biden, a political rival, ahead of the 2020 election. A second charge accused Trump of obstructing a congressional investigation into the matter.
Area 1 CEO Oren Falkowitz is a former National Security Agency employee. His company offers e-mail security to U.S. politicians. In an interview Friday, he told The Associated Press that top candidates for the U.S. presidency and House and Senate races in 2020 have in the past few months each been targeted by about one thousand phishing emails.
Falkowitz did not name the candidates. Nor would he name any clients.
Russian hackers from the same military intelligence unit that Area 1 said was behind the operation targeting Burisma have been indicted for hacking emails from the Democratic National Committee and the chairman of Hillary Clinton's campaign during the 2016 presidential race.
Stolen emails were released online at the time by Russian agents and WikiLeaks in an effort to favor Trump, special counsel Robert Mueller determined in his investigation.
Area 1 discovered the phishing campaign by the Russian military intelligence unit, known as the GRU, on New Year's Eve, Falkowitz said via e-mail.
In the report, he said the GRU agents used fake, lookalike domains in the phishing campaign designed to mimic real Burisma subsidiaries.
The cybersecurity researchers said the operation targeting Burisma used tactics, techniques and procedures that GRU agents had used repeatedly in other phishing operations. Area 1 says it has been tracking the Russian agents for several years.
Phished credentials allow attackers both to rifle through a victim's stored email and masquerade as that person.
Area 1 said its researchers connected the phishing campaign targeting Burisma to another that targeted a media organization founded by Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy.
In phishing, an attacker uses a targeted email to lure a target to a fake site that resembles a familiar one. There, unwitting victims enter their usernames and passwords, which the hackers then harvest.
In this case, the Russian military agents, from a group security researchers call "Fancy Bear," peppered Burisma employees with emails designed to look like internal messages.
In order to detect phishing attacks, Area 1 maintains a global network of sensors designed to sniff out and block them before they reach their targets.
Dramatic video shows lightning as Philippines volcano erupts
Philippine authorities have urged a "total evacuation" of nearly half a million people after a volcano spewed ash up to nine miles into the air.
Thunderstorms bring some relief in wildfire-ravaged Australia
Thunderstorms are pelting some regions of Australia, even sparking new blazes. Forecasters say it's not clear if the rain will fall where it's needed most.
Under pressure, Iran admits it shot down Ukrainian jetliner by mistake
Iranian Gen. Amir Ali Hajizadeh, the head of the Revolutionary Guard's aerospace division, said his unit accepts "full responsibility" for the shootdown.
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A Charter Sector Godfather Steps Back
Richard Whitmire
After spending 25 years traveling the country as an education writer I've met so many memorable educators it would be hard to come up with a top-five list. Wait, on second thought it's not that hard. Linda Brown, who this week announced she was stepping down as CEO of Boston-based Building Excellent Schools, would top any imaginable list.
The odd thing about my coming across Linda Brown was the coming-across was ass-backwards. At the time I was focusing on charter schools, seeking out the most innovative, the most daring, the most successful. And when I would sit down with the founder a name kept popping up, Linda Brown. Turns out the best of the best, regardless of where in the U.S. they settled, often got their training and startup financing through BES, with Brown very much in charge.
Who is this Linda Brown? I asked myself?
I asked to meet with her in Boston at a time when many of her "alums" – the BES Network, the best of the BES startups – were visiting for a conference. After some hesitation, she agreed, but she was clearly wary and our conversation started out more as an interrogation. Not of her, of me.
Now anyone who knows Linda will only laugh that off. That's just standard operating procedure with her. For years, what Linda and BES have offered is a chance to get charter school startup training by studying the high performers, and to win that spot (about 1 in 50 applicants get the nod) you have to expect a withering, no-prisoners interrogation, often sprung when you least expect it.
I recall Shantelle Wright, founder of D.C.'s Achievement Prep, telling me her Linda Brown story. Wright had never heard of BES before being handed a brochure about the organization. Her reaction: "You mean they pay you to do what I desperately want to do?" She crashed on the application, pushed the send button on her computer at 5 p.m., and at 7 a.m. the next morning Brown was on the phone.
Brown: When can you be there?
Wright, sleepily: When do you want me?
Brown: Can you make the next shuttle?
Wright made the 9 a.m. shuttle to Boston, endured a lengthy interrogation and at the end of the talk was offered a fellowship. Who operates like that? Other than Linda Brown, that is.
Wright's application essay – 13 pages, and single-spaced – explaining why she saw a desperate need for a good school in Washington's impoverished 8th Ward, was "on fire," Brown later told me. "She talked about how the vast black/white school achievement gap is not only a black person's problem; this is also a white person's problem: Why can't we have decent schools east of the Anacostia [the poorest neighborhoods in the district]?"
Not all of Brown's picks turn into winners, but at times it seems like it. One reason: From her home base she has Boston charters, arguably the best in the country, to choose from as mentors for her fellows. And if you win a fellowship with BES, you study not only the Boston charters but the best around the country, ranging from Newark's North Star Academy to Equitas Academy Charter schools in Los Angeles. And you have access to funders who want to back future winners.
Brown's emailed announcement about stepping down as CEO (she will remain involved in recruiting and selecting BES fellows) candidly described the joy anyone could see on her face as she ruthlessly pushed to create more high performing schools for the children who most needed them:
I love coming to work. I love this job.
I love getting out of bed and knowing I am coming to Building Excellent Schools.
I love seeing the difference this work makes.
Have to tell you, after visiting schools such as Achievement Prep in Washington, University Prep in Denver and Equitas in L.A., she definitely made a difference.
The article I ended up writing about Brown drew the headline, Meet the Grandmother of America's Best Charter Schools. She hated the headline, and didn't hesitate to express her disgust. She's no grandmother, Brown told me. She's a godfather of charters.
Explaining that writers don't write headlines was pointless. Besides, she was right. She is a godfather to many of America's best charter schools.
— Richard Whitmire
Education writer Richard Whitmire is the author of several books, including The Founders: Inside the Revolution to Invent and Reinvent America's Best Charter Schools.
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Reid Drescher was born in New York City, USA and is a businessman, best known to the world as the CEO of Spencer & Clarke LLC, an investment banking firm that focuses on financial advisory and brokerage services. Also, he is known to the world for being the husband of TV reality star and author Aviva Drescher.
Have you ever wondered how rich Reid Drescher is, as of mid- 2017? According to authoritative sources, it has been estimated that Drescher's net worth is as high as $20 million, an amount earned through his successful career as a businessman.
Reid Drescher Net Worth $20 Million
Reid went to Great Neck North High School, from which he matriculated in 1985, after which matriculation, Reid enrolled at the University of Miami, from which he obtained a Bachelor of Business Administration in management/marketing in 1989
Soon after college graduation, Reid found his first job at the Wells Fargo, now known as Prudential Securities, and eventually reached Senior Vice President of Investments. He left the firm in 1994, and then joined the Paine Webber brokerage company, also to serve as its Senior Vice President of Investments. He held the position for the next three years, gaining highly needed experience to start a financial company of his own, and that happened in 1997 when he founded Spencer & Clarke LLC, and ever since then he has been serving as its CEO and President. Slowly his firm grew in size, which certainly increased his net worth to a large degree. Nowadays, his firm employs over 200 people, and is specialized in merger and acquisition, debt placement, corporate and financial advisory, private equity and brokerage services.
Also, Reid has been the General Managing Partner of Cape One Advisors since 2008, which has also contributed to his wealth.
Regarding his personal life, Reid has been married to Aviva Drescher and the couple has two children together. Reid was married before, and has a daughter from the failed marriage. Alongside his second wife, Reid has appeared in several reality TV shows, including "The Real Housewives of New York City" (2012-2014), and "Marriage Boot Camp: Reality Stars" in 2015, which have also added to his wealth, and increased his public exposure so no doubt also adding to his business activities.
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I am only 2 pounds away from -30lbs! I can't believe it. My goal for this game was to get away from 260 and never go back and I achieved that. My goal for my next game is to get under 250 (the lowest I've been in 5 uears) and never go back!!
Keeping the diet strong and enjoying my workouts. This is for life.
Next week I'm going to stick to the diet which is working for me and I'm going to exercise more.
I have so much more energy! And I don't crave junk food anymore. In fact, I'm sometimes repelled by the taste of sugar.
I could have exercised more but, to be honest, it was a crazy stressful week for me and I'm going to a work out festival at the weekend so I'm not killing myself over it.
I saw an old friend I hadn't seen in a year and she said I looked AMAZING and healthy and happy.
I've been sticking really well to my diet but I could have exercised more.
I have little dimples on my elbows and knees! I can actually see my body changing shape. It's strange and wonderful and people have been so supportive of me.
This week went really well actually. I was motivated and I stayed on course.
I was in a plateau for the last week or so, going up and down the same two pounds but today I left the 260s for the first time in the last 4 years and that's thrilling!
Nothing. I did a great job this week!
I have gone up a little bit but I'm not giving up. This is the first time I've not fallen off the bandwagon after hitting a rough patch and that makes me so proud.
I gave into temptation and I emotionally ate 2 brownies. But I successfully squashed the voice telling me to also eat ice cream.
I did really well this week. If every week was like this week losing weight would be so simple.
I want to be back on track next week and seeing that scales go down.
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Hearts fans plan Hampden tribute for Jambo dad, 39, who died after stroke
FANS will pay a Scottish Cup Final tribute to a dad-of-three who died aged 39 after suffering a stroke while watching his son playing football.
Thursday, 23rd May 2019, 10:29 am
Alex Currie was a lifelong Hearts supporter and plans have been made to honour him during the season's finale against Celtic on Saturday.
Fans will applaud on the 39th minute of the game at Hampden Stadium in memory of Alex, who was known to pals as Skippy.
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Alex, from Liberton, was watching his 12-year-old son Max playing football for youth side North Merchiston Blacks on April 30 when he suffered a massive stroke.
Alex Currie and his family and some of those planning to take part in the 39th minute tribute at Hampden on Saturday. Pictures: contributed
He was rushed to the Western General Hospital but he died two days later after doctors were unable to save him.
Following Alex's passing, brave Max took to the field again for his club, scoring a goal and taking his strip off to reveal a T-shirt dedicating the strike to his father. Max's t-shirt read 'This one is for you Dad'.
A well known football coach at local amateur and youth levels, Alex also married hundreds of Edinburgh couples as an assistant registrar in the city for 24 years.
Now friends will pay tribute to Alex by asking fans to take part in a minute's applause on the 39th minute on Saturday.
Hearts fan Alex Currie who died from a stroke
His wife Gail, 38, son Max and daughters Neve , 16, and Hana , 11, have also thrown their support behind the cup final tribute to Alex.
Max is going to the game, and his dad's friends have made a flag in his honour to wave at Hampden.
Pal Ian Liddle said: "We hope this will be a fitting tribute to Alex, who was a true gentleman and known to so many people through football and his work as a registrar.
"His passing at just 39 has come as a real shock to all of us who knew him, His son Max will be a the final and we want to ask all fans at the game to show their respect with a minute's applause on the 39th minute."
Hearts fans tribute to Alex Currie
His devastated wife Gail paid tribute to her late husband online in the hours following his death.
She wrote: "Our children, Alex's family and I are devastated to share that he passed away this evening.
"We will never understand why he has been taken from us but will always be grateful for the times we've shared and the wonderful memories we have.
"I know that Alex would be incredibly proud of Neve, Max and Hana for the bravery and strength they've shown tonight and will in the days ahead.
"Alex was a one-off and I feel privileged to have been his wife."
Tributes were paid on social media to Alex who was described as a "lovely guy".
Paul Greenslade wrote: "Alex you are a true gentleman. I'd like to thank you for the years our family knew you.
"You were a football coach to our son and a positive influence on his life and to everyone who knew you. You will be missed by us all."
Another pal said: "He lived for his family and football."
Alex was a season ticket holder at Tynecastle for many years and had coached amateur and youth teams across Edinburgh.
His funeral took place last Tuesday at Mortonhall Crematorium, where hundreds showed up to pay their respects.
Wife Gail has donated an award in Alex's name to Max's North Merchiston youth team called the 'Alex Currie Shield for Commitment to Football'. The first recipient will be awarded at their upcoming presentation night on Saturday 1 June.
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Jumanji 4 Release Date, Cast, And Plot - What We Know So Far
By Melissa Lemieux/June 7, 2021 9:38 pm EST
The "Jumanji" series – which spun off of the beloved 1995 Robin Williams vehicle into a series of successful films – features Jack Black, Dwayne Johnson, Kevin Hart, and Karen Gillan as the physical video game avatars of four teenagers, victims of their own curiosity who are forced to leap into the world of an enchanted game when they test it out while they are stuck together during detention at school.
The teens learn to understand each other in spite of their differences thanks to their shared adventures. In the sequel "Jumanji: The Next Level," they are drawn back into an even higher-stakes battle with the game's main villain, Jurgen the Brutal (Rory McCann), and must share the adventure with the cantankerous Edward "Eddie" Gilpin (Danny DeVito) and Milo Walker (Danny Glover). Thanks to the events of "The Next Level"'s ending, the door was left wide open for a whole new adventure, and now fans will finally be given a chance to watch that adventure unfold.
Who will star in the fourth "Jumanji" film, what will it be about, and when will it come out? Here's what we know so far.
When will Jumanji 4 be released?
According to Screen Rant, "Jumanji 4" was in the earliest stages of development in April 2020, which means that it will likely take at least a couple of years to get the movie up and running. While vague storyline ideas have been floated by the movie's producers, to get from the writing stage to the final production stage for "Jumanji: The Next Level" (the film franchise's third edition) took about two years.
It's likely, therefore, that we might not see a fourth Jumanji film until 2024 at the earliest if pre and post-production go smoothly and there are no further delays caused by the Covid-19 pandemic. It will also depend on the availability of the film's stars. Dwayne Johnson, for example, is as of press time filming "Black Adam" for Warner Brothers, a shoot that began in April. He will also likely make appearances in the second season of "Young Rock," an NBC sitcom based on his life in which he stars as himself. It's likely a fourth Jumanji film's shooting schedule would have to take into account any other projects launched by the film's stars.
Who will star in Jumanji 4?
No negotiations have taken place thus far, so it's hard to say who would show up in the fourth Jumanji movie as a new character or guest star.
However, for plot reasons alone, it's likely that Hart, Johnson, Black, and Gillan would all return to continue their roles as the video game avatars Professor Sheldon "Shelly" Oberon, Dr. Xander "Smolder" Bravestone, Franklin "Mouse" Finbar, and Ruby Roundhouse, respectively. Awkwafina would also likely return as Ming Fleetfoot. Nick Jonas could be back as Seaplane McDonough (and Colin Hanks as Alex, the game avatar's player). As for the kids who jump into those avatar's bodies, Alex Wolff (Spencer Gilpin), Ser'Darius Blain (Anthony "Fridge" Johnson), Morgan Turner (Martha Kaply), and Madison Iseman (Bethany Walker) have all played their roles across the two previous movies, and it's likely the characters would reappear in a fourth film.
Rory McCann might also return as Jurgen the Brutal for reasons that will be addressed later. As for other characters – and cameo appearances from people who appeared in the original Jumanji – their participation has not been settled.
"You know, we're always having conversations, and that's a family, that entire group if there's ever been. It's hard to imagine or remember a time I've been on a set where it's just a beloved group of cast and crew and actors and that's just one of those things where we know we have a really big idea that we want to do with it. We've been discussing it," co-producer Hiram Garcia, President of Production at Seven Bucks Productions, told ComicBooks.com in March in regard to conversations with the cast in regard to a fourth "Jumanji" film.
What will Jumanji 4 be about?
Hiram Garcia, one of the film's co-producers, said during a ComicBook.com interview that progress is being made toward the creation of a story for "Jumanji 4," but the plotline is still under wraps as of press time.
"There's conversations have been going we're in the process of moving that along," Garcia told the outlet. "I can't tell you anything, but we do have big plans for it and that's one of our favorite projects to work on and that's cooking away."
Perhaps that idea will somehow relate to the conclusion of "Jumanji: The Next Level" – which features creatures from the video game following our protagonists back into the real world, just like they did in the original "Jumanji" film. Does that mean we'll be seeing more of Jurgen the Brutal? Even if it doesn't, the blockbuster franchise is certain to draw excited eyes to it the moment its fourth edition springs forth.


In latest celebrity news, singer Iggy Azalea showed up to the iHeartRadio Music Awards flashing her engagement ring. According to UsMagazine.com, this is her first public appearance since reports of fiancé Nick Young cheating surfaced. The celebrity couple has endured a great deal of drama and gossip, but with Iggy still sporting her engagement ring, we're believing there is more to the story.
This celebrity news has us curious as to the real story. What are some ways to keep gossip and drama from affecting your relationship?
1. Communication: If you and your partner are constantly communicating openly with each other, you won't be worried about the gossip you hear because you'll know the truth. Honest communication is the key to keeping your relationship out of the world of rumors.
2. Laugh it off: Some of the gossip people will spread about your relationship is so ridiculous, it's laughable! Don't take everything you hear so seriously. You know the truth, and that's what's important.
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3. Keep your business personal: When you keep personal details of your relationship private, the gossip won't bother you one bit. You and your partner are loyal and know that. Anything anyone else says is moot.
Maintaining a relationship without letting drama affect you can be difficult, but it is possible. Share your own advice with us below!


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Which Terrier has made it into the EFL Team of the Week this time?
Huddersfield Town have had a representative in the EFL Team of the Week for three out of the four rounds of matches so far and this time it's the turn of Chris Lowe.
The left-back struck first in the Yorkshire derby against Barnsley with a wonderful finish into the top corner.
A solid defensive display was also put in by the German, signed from Kaiserslautern this summer.
Lowe is selected alongside MK Dons' Scott Wootton, Notts County's Louis Laing and Tony McMahon from Bradford City in the back four for this week's team, with the defence shielding Leyton Orient Alex Cisak.
Preston's John Welsh is picked as the deep-lying midfielder, with two ex-Town men, Plymouth Argyle's Graham Carey and Portsmouth's Gary Roberts, either side.
John Morris from Scunthorpe and Nottingham Forest's Oliver Burke are chosen on the flanks.
Charlton front-man Nicky Ajose is picked as the lone striker after his brace helped the Addicks beat Walsall.


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McMillan: Jimmy gonna win it!
Well, we called it again, goslings!
Last week we were pushing the Rent is Too Damn High gubernatorial candidate Jimmy McMillan (enamored as we were after the debate like half of the people who tuned in), and then what happens, he gets his own Saturday Night Live parody, and we all know what that means, right?
"Election over. Jimmy gonna win it," McMillan said. "That put me over the top. It's over. This election is over."
Jimmy gonna win it! We told you so.
Actually, taking off our McMillan rose-colored glasses and black gloves just for one minute, we're not so sure that a parody on SNL is the most politically advantageous thing in the world. Remember those parodies of David Paterson SNL's been getting a few laughs from? Yeah, we're not so sure those didn't contribute just a little bit to Paterson's decision to leave the governor's mansion and not seek reelection.
Although, Paterson was a sitting member of office, and McMillan is, well, a long-shot candidate with a killer karate kick, or so we're told, and as they say in the business, no publicity is bad publicity. Working against McMillan, however, is that we're not sure anybody watches SNL anymore, so hopefully for him the video goes viral. We'll help speed that along – watch the segment for yourself and then email it to a friend.


A study prepared by IHQAQ law firm showed that there are many of legislations, international collective agreements and bilateral international agreements that control and regulate the execution of judicial judgments issued by non-Jordanian courts in Jordan. Also control and regulate the execution of judicial judgments issued by Jordanian courts in the foreign countries.
Every ruling issued by a court outside the Hashemite kingdom of Jordan (including the Religious courts) in respect of juristic proceedings, requires the payment of certain sum of money or adjudge transfer of title of a movable thing or the settlement of account , which includes the arbitrators' decision in the arbitration proceedings if that decision has become as the applicable law in the country where the arbitration was enforceable as a decision issued by the court in the mentioned state).
In accordance with this law, its permissive to execute a foreign judgment in the Hashemite kingdom of Jordan by brining of a lawsuit at the First Instance Courts, where bringing the suit to execute the foreign judgment by submitting a summon to a court in the judgment debtor's domicile is territorially competent, and if he has no domicile in Jordan, the action may be brought where his property can be levied upon.
In accordance with this law, the prevailing party must bring out two authorized copies of the foreign judgment, these copies must be annexed to the statement of claim: One to be kept in the official file of the court, and the other to be sent to the judgment debtor. If the judgment was rendered in a foreign language, an Arabic translation copy should also be annexed thereto.
In accordance with this law, the execution of the judgments issued by execution act of foreign judgments treated similarly to the execution of judgments issued by the courts of the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan.
A) If the court which issued that judgment not incumbent.
B) If the judgment debtor had not dealt with business in the area in which the court had jurisdiction and he had not his domicile therein, and he had not admitted the jurisdiction of the court and he had not appeared before it by his choice.
C) If the judgment debtor has not served with a notice for appearing from the court which issued the judgment and he had not appear before it although he has his domicile therein or he dealt with business in the area which the court had jurisdiction .
D) If the foreign judgment rendered as a result of fraud .
E) If the judgment debtor persuaded the court that the judgment didn't acquire the segmental form .
F) If the judgment was due to lawsuit not acceptable at the courts of Hashemite kingdom of Jordan because it against public orders or morals .
In accordance with this law, the Jordanian courts may reject any submitted request for execute the judgment issued by any court in a country doesn't allow execute the judgments issued by the Jordan courts according to its law.
Approved by the Arab Justice Ministers Council in its decision No.1 on the 4th of June 1983 in their first ordinary session course .
The agreement was signed on the 4thof June 1983 "Riyadh" by all member states except ( The Arab Republic of Egypt , The Federal Islamic Republic of Comoros ) .
In accordance with article 72 the present agreement shall replace in respect of states which have ratified it, the three agreements concluded in 1952 within the framework of the League of Arab States in force at present and pertaining to judicial notification and procuration , execution of penalties and extradition of criminals.
Article 69 of Riyadh Arab agreement for judicial cooperation has been amended .
Signed in 1983 under its decision (No.258) on the 26thof November 1997 in its thirteenth ordinary session course .
This convention shall not prejudice the specific agreements between some member states and in a case of conflict between provisions of this agreement and provisions of any special agreement shall applied the agreement which is the most achievement of extradition of accused and sentenced and achieving security and judicial cooperation in other sectors .
Execution date : this amendment shall enter into force after thirty days from the date of deposit the ratification documents on it or accepted or approval from one-third of the Arab League member states .
Jordan has ratified this convention and its amendments by the virtue of (the ratification law of the Riyadh Arab agreement for judicial cooperation and its amendments (No. 2) of 2001).
A Royal Decree was issued approving the Council of Ministers decision (No.1196) on the 17thof May 1972 containing the approval of the accession of Jordan to the settlement of investment disputes between states and nationals of other states agreement , authorizing the Jordanian ambassador in Washington to sign it on behalf of the government .
Published in the Official Gazette (No.5337) on the 16thof April 2015.


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Mary Immaculate College launches new scholarship scheme
By Sean Ryan - 18 February, 2017
Scholarships valued at €2,000 each will be offered on the basis of results obtained in the Leaving Certificate Examinations.
Photographed above at the announcement are Vice-President Academic Affairs, Prof. Eugene Wall with BEd 2nd year student Celine O'Meara, Caherconlish, Co. Limerick and Lee Dillon, Vice President, MIC Student Union.
Ireland's largest Catholic third level college recently launched a new scholarship scheme for incoming students for the academic year 2017/2018.
Mary Immaculate College (MIC) in Limerick recently announced details of a scholarship scheme for incoming students with a total value of €100,000 per annum.
Commencing in September 2017, MIC will offer a total of fifty entrance scholarships to incoming undergraduate first year students across all nine undergraduate programmes currently on offer by the college. These scholarships, valued at €2,000 each, will be offered on the basis of results obtained in the Leaving Certificate Examinations.
Speaking on the announcement, Prof. Eugene Wall, Vice President and Registrar of MIC, said: "We are delighted to launch these scholarships and we can be confident that the financial supports provided by this scheme will make Mary Immaculate College an even more attractive choice for students".
Welcoming the announcement, James Deegan, President of the Students' Union at MIC said: "MISU welcomes the announcement by MIC of the undergraduate scholarships which will be offered across the nine programmes to incoming first year students. We look forward to working with the college to extend these scholarships beyond academic merit to include areas such as sporting achievements, talent and excellence in the creative arts and highly able students facing financial hardship".
The 50 scholarships are tenable only for the first year of a full-time primary degree programme to be undertaken at the college and will be allocated as follows: Bachelor of Education (Primary Teaching), 20 scholarships; Liberal Arts programme, 15 scholarships; BA in Early Childhood Care and Education, 5 scholarships; MIC, St Patrick's Campus, Thurles programmes, 5 scholarships; Bachelor of Education and Psychology, 3 scholarships; and BA in Contemporary and Applied Theatre, 2 scholarships.
Mary Immaculate College was established as a dedicated primary teacher training college in 1898 by Bishop Edward Thomas O'Dwyer, Roman Catholic Bishop of Limerick, and the Sisters of Mercy. Its foundation stone was laid on 8 December 1898 and the college officially opened in 1902, accepting female students from Munster.
In 1969 the college accepted male students for the first time. From 1974 to 1991, Mary Immaculate College was a recognised college of the National University of Ireland. 1974 saw the commencement of the BEd degree with the first graduates in 1977 (the course was previously a two-year National Teachers' Diploma). Since 1991, degrees have been accredited by the University of Limerick.
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The priory, being alien, was frequently taken into the king's hands in the fourteenth century, and generally let to the priors at farm, the amount paid by them being only £4 yearly. (fn. 16) In the year 31 Edward I it was testified before the treasurer and barons of the Exchequer (fn. 17) that the priory was so poor that its issues and goods scarcely sufficed for the prior and monks, and so the king pardoned to the prior the arrears, amounting to £20. In an account (fn. 18) rendered by the keeper of the priory for the period from 8 October to 10 December, 1324, when it was in the king's hands, an allowance of 3s. weekly was made to the prior and 1s. 6d. weekly to each of three monks. The live stock consisted of a palfrey of the prior valued at 20s., six stots worth 30s., three oxen worth 30s. and a boar, two sows, eight pigs and ten piglets, worth together 22s. 6d. The list of goods included such articles as two chalices, two copes, four sets of vestments, two missals, etc., and also two cups of 'maser,' four silver spoons, three brazen pots, etc. In May, 1373, the priory was made denizen, (fn. 19) and thenceforward was freed from Cluni and subject only to Lewes.
Stanesgate was dissolved (fn. 20) by William Burbank, an agent of Wolsey, on 9 February, 1525, and granted by Wolsey first to Cardinal's College, Oxford, (fn. 21) and later to his shortlived college at Ipswich. (fn. 22) In a release (fn. 23) by Lewes it is stated that it owned the manors of Stanesgate, Tillingham and Great Totham, the advowsons of the churches of Stanesgate and Steeple, a watermill in Stanesgate and other possessions in Stanesgate, Tillingham, Great and Little Totham, Steeple, Ramsey, Woodham Mortimer, Tiptree, Messing, Tolleshunt D'Arcy, Tolleshunt Magna and Maldon. Its spiritualities were valued at £5 0s. 3d. and its temporalities at £38 8s. 3d. yearly. (fn. 24) By an inquisition (fn. 25) taken on 8 August, 1525, it was found that there were at the priory at the time of the suppression a prior and two monks, and these had been transferred to other places. The cattle, grain and utensils were valued (fn. 26) at £39 10s. 0½d.
After Wolsey's fall Stanesgate was granted (fn. 27) on 19 December, 1531, to the Hospital of St. John of Jerusalem; and on the dissolution of the Hospital it was sold (fn. 28) on 10 March, 1544, to Edmund Mordaunt, who had licence (fn. 29) on 1 June to alienate it to Sir Richard Rich.
Alexander, (fn. 30) occurs 1176.
Gilbert, (fn. 31) occurs circa 1210.
Alan, (fn. 32) occurs 1254.
William de Petresfeld, (fn. 33) occurs circa 1260.
John Darcy, (fn. 37) occurs 1332.
1. Dugdale, Mon. v, 36.
2. In the parish of Steeple.
3. V.C.H. Essex, i, 530.
4. Cal. Doc. France, 509.
5. Anct. Chart. (Pipe R. Soc.), No. 41.
6. Anct. D, A. 728.
7. Bodl. Chart. (ed. Turner and Coxe), 75-6.
8. Newcourt, Repertorium, ii, 557.
9. B.M. Add. MS. 6,164. Printed in Mon. v, 37.
11. Bodl. Chart. (ed. Turner and Coxe), 75-6.
12. Duckett, Visitations of Cluni, p. 218.
15. Ibid. Records of Cluni, ii, 212.
16. dose, 11 Edw. III, pt. 2, m. 36.
17. Exch. K.R. Alien Priories, 4. 18.
18. Mins. Accts. bdle. 1,125, No. 11.
19. Pat. 47 Edw. III, pt. 1, m. 10.
20. L. and P. Hen. VIII, iv. 1137.
24. L. and P. Hen. VIII, iv, 3538.
25. Esch. Inq. (Ser. ii), 309, No. 7.
26. Exch. T. R. Misc. Bks. 154, f. 41. Printed in Mon.
27. L. and P. Hen. VIII, v, 627 (18).
28. Ibid. xix (1), 278 (42).
30. Dugdale, Mon. v, 36, 37. Land and tithes were granted by the priory to the nuns of Clerkenwell for 10s. yearly.
32. Feet of F. 39 Hen. III.
33. Bodl. Chart. (ed. Turner and Coxe).
34. Anct. D, A. 828.
35. Prynne, Records, iii, 707.
36. Exch. K.R. Alien Priories, 4. 18.
37. Pat. 6 Edw. III, pt. 2, m. no. He was one of the commissioners appointed to the custody of the Cluniac priory of Bermondsey during its sequestration.
38. Bodl. Chart. (ed. Turner and Coxe).
39. Close, 12 Hen. IV, m. 11d.
40. De Banco, Hil. 16 Hen. VI, 445.
41. Bodl. Chart. Geoffrey occurs 1446 (De Banco Mich. 25 Hen. VI, 140d.).
42. L. and P. Hen. VIII, iv, 1137.


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Francisco Montalvo developed his pedagogic work from the Class of Violin and improvisation at the Conservatory "Rafael Orozco" in Córdoba from 2002, and previously it has been responsible for the Classes of Violin at the Royal Conservatory of Music "Victoria Eugenia" (Granada) and the Conservatory Superior of Music (Seville).
He is member consultant of the Association Musical Liceo de Córdoba. Member of the Artistic Advisor Board " of "World String Masters Lisbon– Young Talent" of the School of Music of Lisbon in Portugal, as well as of the educational team of Meadowmount School of Music of New York 2008–. He studied and graduated in violin and chamber Music from the conservatories of Córdoba, Seville and Liceo of Barcelona; His professors were Gonçal Comellas, Yuri Petrossian and Francisco Fernandez.
He performed a lot as soloist, Improvisation, and in Chamber music.
As composer he produced more than 30 works for violin and piano, published in 2002 in format VHS, (the National Library of Spain) and interpreted by the own author with the accompaniment of the pianist Andrés Carlos Manchado (available in the Public Archive of BNE). In 2008 it is published in DVD their last music work titled "Diverse" published by the University of Córdoba with D.P.L. CO 1722-2008.
As a pedagogue he hold master classes, conferences and monographic sessions on topics related with the interaction between "the sound of the violin and image" and their application in education and audiovisual new technologies and of communication, especially on the relationships "music and audiovisual language and their influence in the pedagogy of the Violin".
He is an external assessor at the Education (University of Córdoba) he is also invited as adjudicator by international centers such as the Conservatory Tchaikovsky of Moscow. It has directed and participated in interdisciplinary educational projects between institutions of Spain and different countries, as those carried out between The Stradivari Society of Chicago and the Office for Cultural European "Capitalidad Córdoba 2016" in U.S in 2006, or between the Foundation Prince of Asturias and the Philharmonic National from Cuba in Havana in 2007.
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In DC Comics' Rebirth event, what dies must become reborn. So is the case with Green Arrow, who died at the hands of someone he cared about in Green Arrow #1.
Please note that the following contains a few spoilers from Green Arrow #2.
But can Green Arrow really die in his own comic book? Of course, that's not the case, but the man known as Oliver Queen does experience a kind of death at the end of Green Arrow #2.
The idea behind Rebirth is to start some of the most beloved comic book characters from scratch and that's exactly what's going on in Green Arrow #2. Oliver gets left for dead, his body dumped in the ocean. The second issue, though, explains that he isn't really dead, but that everything he knows and loves is now gone. So, figuratively, he really is dead.
Oliver is left penniless, without a home, without any friends and without a name or reputation. And so begins his new journey as the Green Arrow, the only thing that Oliver has left.
The writing by Benjamin Percy shows Oliver at his most desolate, but this is a good place for the superhero to end up, especially with the build-up of Green Arrow: Rebirth and Green Arrow #1. It's interesting that those first two issues saw Black Canary constantly hounding Oliver about how he can't use money to solve every problem in Seattle, and now, he's going to have to figure out how to keep helping the city without any resources. This is the end of that particular story line and the beginning of a new one: the rebirth of Green Arrow.
It's kind of interesting that of all the Rebirth titles from DC, this is the one that literally has a character dying (sort of) and becoming a new creation. This is a complete reset of who and what Oliver Queen is, and offers a good example of what TV's Arrow should take a note from.
The artwork by Otto Schmidt is also really good, particularly in showing Oliver's despair when something dear to him gets blown to bits. There's a lot of emotion in the artwork that makes the reader sympathize with just how much Oliver has lost. The last few pages also do a good job of illustrating an Oliver who is alone in the world, and that loneliness is palpable in the final panel, although it also offers a glimmer of hope.
Green Arrow #2 is available now everywhere comic books are sold and online.


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