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Handling Loss
In Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan, one of the opening sequences has Adm. Kirk talking Lt. Saavik about a test she had just been through. It was the scenario involving a ship (the Kobayashi Maru) in distress. It was a no-win situation.
Kirk told Saavik that "how we deal with death is at least as important as how we deal with life."
The irony is that Kirk had never faced the scenario.
Unlike characters in a movie, we have to deal with death. I'll leave it to the philosophers to determine if how we deal with death is as important as how we deal with life. Although I think it is.
As a child, I knew all four of my grandparents. And two of my great-grandparents (my mother's mother's parents). I obviously knew more, since I've seen a picture of me sitting on the knee of another great-grandparent (my father's father's father). But I don't remember him, or his passing.
The first death in the family I recall was my great-grandfather (my mother's mother's father). He died in 1967.
My sisters all cried when "Pa" (as we called him) died. I didn't. Because I didn't believe he was dead. I was in denial.
I eventually came to realize that it was true. Pa was gone.
The next family member I remember losing was my grandfather (my father's father), "Granddaddy," who died about six months later, in early 1968.
I didn't like that old man. He was mean. Really mean. Probably because he had a hard life. He had one leg. One eye. One thumb. And a damaged back (broken earlier in life). No, his nickname wasn't "Lucky."
He had it rough. And was rough. I remember wishing he'd just die.
One day, he did.
Not sure if it was from loss, or guilt, or what. But we all got home from school one day and were told Granddaddy was dead. We all cried.
No other close family member died until my great-grandmother (my mother's mother's mother), "Ma," died in 1976. I was nearly grown, and dealt with the loss not as a child, but as an almost grown-up. I didn't cry. But I mourned.
Three years later, I lost another grandfather (my mother's father), "Papa." He had been in poor health for a bit. Heart problems. So it wasn't completely unexpected. But he had been over at the house the weekend prior.
In 1992, I lost another grandparent. My father's mother, "Granny," passed away. She had been in poor health for a bit. Heart problems and diabetes.
It was odd watching her lifestyle change. Granny had been the one who you'd give a wheelbarrow for Mother's Day. Really.
She'd be outside digging stumps, hoeing her garden, killing snakes, and just living the life of a southern woman who grew up in "hard times," as she called it.
Granny's passing left me with one grandparent. My mother's mother, "Grandma," is still living. She's old, and a little bit frail, but still able to get around. Her hearing's not as good as it used to be. Her eyesight's had problems lately. And it hurts a little bit to stand. Or sit. Just part of being 93, I guess.
What brought all this up?
Well, my oldest granddaughter lost her "Granny" last night. Her father's mother took ill suddenly, was admitted to the hospital this past weekend, and died last night.
Two weeks ago, she lost a great-grandparent. Her father's father's father died. And she was really upset at that funeral.
Now, she's seven years old and facing her second funeral in two weeks.
Her mother is concerned about how to deal with it all. And she planned to tell her about her Granny's passing when she got home last night.
How we deal with death is as important as how we deal with life.
It's true. And it's a shame that children must face that fact.
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arthel: is a fox news alert. -- this is a fox news alert. the trump administration threatening to meet north korea's latest provocation with quote massive and overwhelming military response. after the rogue nation claims it successfully tested a hydrogen bomb, it's most dangerous nuclear weapon to date. i'm arthel neville. >> i'm mike emmanuel in for eric shawn. the blast at a nuclear test site in northeastern north korea. the u.s. reporting magnitude 6.3 tremors centered in that area from that south korea calls an artificial earthquake. it reportedly rattled buildings in china and russia. our chief white house correspondent john roberts is live from the north lawn. >> mike, good afternoon to you. a lot going on this afternoon.
the president a short time ago huddling with members of his national security team. secretary james mattis among them. mattis said the president wanted to go through all the various military options for dealing with north korea's nuclear program, made more urgent by the detonation -- detonation of what the u.s. intelligence believes to be a hydrogen bomb. national security advisor hm mcmaster and mattis went through all the options available to the president. here's mattis. >> -- our commitments among the allies are ironclad. any threat to the united states or its territories including guam or our allies will be met with a massive military response, a response both effective and overwhelming. >> early in july, president trump as -- earlier in august,
rather, president trump threatened north korea with fire and fury if kim jong-un attacked guam. today secretary mattis made that threat a little bit clearer, saying if kim jong-un threatens the united states, its territories or its allies with nuclear weapons, the u.s. will destroy north korea. listen here. >> we are not looking to the total annihilation of a country, namely north korea, but as i said, we have many options to do so. >> that really was a particularly remarkable threat and one designed to make kim jong-un think twice about doing anything like that. u.n. ambassador has asked for for an emergency meeting at the u.n. security council tomorrow morning. at the same time, as the president is weighing military options, he is also looking at more economic options, targeting trade with countries that do business with north korea, for instance. the president tweeting quote the united states is considering in addition to other options,
stopping all trade with any country doing business with north korea. the president also considering tougher economic sanctions against north korea and others to cut off the flow of money to the regime. treasury secretary steven mnuchin telling chris wallace this morning on fox news sunday that he has a new package of sanctions ready to go. listen here. >> i think the president made it clear that he will consider everything, but we are not going to broadcast our actions and, you know, we will continue to look at all our options but my focus right now working with the president, with others, to make sure that we put additional economic sanctions. we work with china and others. china has a lot of trade with them. there's a lot we can do to cut them off economically. much more than we have done already. >> now, the last time president trump talked tough back in early august, north korea appeared to get the message, at least for a little while, and was kind of settling down a little bit. and then of course all of this bad behavior that's ensued ever
since. mike, we will see if maybe the message sent by mattis this afternoon sinks in more deeply. >> ron -- john roberts on a very serious and busy day at the white house. thanks. >> that does it for us. we will be back at the top of the hour with more news with the latest on this developing story. >> we now join media buzz already in progress. it's probae consensus of the military establishment. i don't think the military wants a war. this is a war -- it hasn't worked well in the past, but it has saved off the situation up to this point and we haven't had direct diplomacy for many many years. other people would argue it hasn't been tried. howie: you look at the president's tweets, rogue
nation, hostile and dangerous. only understands one thing. is twitter a good vehicle for these kind of threats? erin: i think mollie is right in some respects that this is not just about donald trump. but the media should do a better job of helping the american people understand the threat. i have gone to pentagon briefings where they say the u.s. is three years ahead of north korea's technology. "fox and friends" showed the difference in the technology north korea has and the bombs they are trying to create. we should see more segments like that. howie: we should educate the public about the situation and
not just reduce it to donald trump versus kim jong-un. we'll have much more on the north korea threat. let me turn to the hurricane situation in texas. the media set this up as a major test for donald trump. after his first visit to corpus christi, many in the press accused him of insufficient compassion. >> very little in terms of empathy or emotion or talking directly to the people of texas. >> it was very striking he didn't mention the number of people who died or even sort of try to empathize with the fact that people are genuinely suffering. >> president trump went to texas but he forgot to bring any empathy for him. but he did bring a hat, a hat that is for sale.
>> this is a dangerous thing to be playing when you think feeling are more important than fund. feeling don't save lives. they don't. howie: the press remove the yardstick. >> it was an unbelievable focus on empathy. last august there were deadly floods in louisiana, and president obama stayed in martha's vineyard. the media coverage said it's good not to go down there, it would just cause more problems. every single person was talking about empathy. it was bizarre actually. howie: i think it's fair, it's a comparison to bill clinton and obama.
but to reduce it and put an intense spotlight on did he hug anybody. michael: i think that's fair, and i think obama deserves the criticism. mollie: he didn't get some. michael: i am saying he deserves some. he should have left martha's vineyard. and george bush went way too late and it hurt him in the polls. i think trump -- it's not a question of going. going is good. and he started out on the wrong foot about that thing about how great his crowd was. howie: the effort seems to be going all right so far. this reinforces the media never has anything good to say about
the president. erin: i think the president walked into the media's trap on this. one story saying he didn't need a single victim or floodwaters, but he's trying to say he's working on this problem. but the president often steps into it when he shouldn't. because he later in the week he tweeted saying he saw the devastation firsthand. then andrew base who traveled with the president tweeted he traveled with the president and would not claim to have seen the devastation firsthand. howie: the rescue efforts were taking place and the flooding was out of control. the president went to houston yesterday, he visited a place where a lot of children were and
he had this to say in an impromptu session with reporters. it's being done efficiently. there is a lot of love. it's been well received. even by you guys it's been well received. mike: i was watching the channels, nbc and be i msnbc *. mollie: when we have such a focus on optics, and the obsession with melania trump's stilettos. howie: we want to put up headlines on this subject. she for 5 or 6-inch heels.
"vanity fair," who wears stilettos to a hurricane in. michael: that was heartless but silly. howie: it portrays the first lady -- michael: she is not the first fir lady to get picked on. hillary clinton got picked on when she wore a page pant suit to a press briefing. this thing he said about the media not getting in harm's way and being cowards as you off key. howie: a lot of journalists did go into dangerous conditions there. erin: when the president was focusing on tack reformulater in the week i saw a number of cable news chryons saying the president is pivoting to tax
reform when there is a death toll in can. that's too much to say pause we expect the president to walk and chew gum at the same time. howie: these are on msnbc. trump talks taxes as gulf death toll climbs to 19. erin: i remember seeing that. on cnn as well. that was just irresponsible. when i talked about the media setting a trap for the president, they did that with that. mollie: you talked about how he fell into the media's trap. they meade it all about empathy. then you have the kid running up to the president and the family members talking about how much they love him. howie: the dual traps as you guys would put it. we'll go to houston and check in
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for how much water was everywhere. our initial challenge was getting a few people into the newsroom and deploying from there. we basically told everybody if you can't get in, work from home. start reporting from your community and stand by and we'll send you where you need to go. howie: you say you were emotional unprepared for the sheer magnitude of this hurricane. you reported from afghanistan. and people kept asking you, are you okay? vernon: yeah, all week. it's one thing to go to a war and be embedded with soldiers. and get prepared for such an extraordinary event. it's quite another thing to have an extraordinary event come to your neighborhood. an entire city. i remember thinking as i'm sort of slogging my way into work.
where is all this water going to go? i think the latest count is 27 trillion gallons. i thinker sort of reacted that way. your instinct as a journalist kicks in and you start reporting. howie: we have been showing pictures of your reporting in the "houston chronicle." people working dane night while they have their own flooded homes and their own families to deal with. vernon: this is the first time in my career that i put the entire paper on one story because nothing else mattered at that point. numerous staffers lost their homes. everybody had some sort of flood damage.
i put a narrative in play monday, the second day of the storm. a 6,500 word narrative. two of the writers told me i would love to do this but i'm watching the water creep up to my front door. let me get back to you. one of them actually evacuated his house. he lived in an area that got hit by tornadoes on day one. i had evacuees working on this narrative. howie: it's heartbreaking to hear these details. journalists take a lot of abuse, and some of it is well deserved. something like this happens you see the value of journalism in a crisis. vernon: it was inspiring to me to see everybody step up and be available and say i want to do
more, where can i go. we had a bunch of people who just won't stop working. you do reach physical and perhaps even more important emotional exhaustion at the end of the week. we are starting to tell people to go home and take a day off. but most of of them i can't get to stop. howie: vernon lobe, thanks for joining us from houston. ahead. is the press rooting for president trump to keep obama's dreamers program?
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bomb. james rosen joins us. it seems like kim jong-un has his own media agenda. he was quiet during charlottesville. and he does this test as the hurricane news is starting to fade. james: during 2014 when the united states was preoccupied with the threat of isis and beheading american journalists. kim jong-un laid low during that time. but this speaks to a rationale n rationality that isn't often covered by the western media in our portrayal of him. howie: you are saying he's describes as an erratic madman and that's off the mark? james: his concepts of
rationality differ from our own. one of the people he killed, a relative of his, was destroyed by anti-aircraft fire which is not a typical means for execution. the north korean regime over time has displayed a sort of rationality in its pursuit of nuclear capability. when to seek talks and when to give concessions. they are fond of saying, if the americans, you have the watch, but we have the sun. howie: a lot of journalistic reports are staying we are not speak with one voice. president trump said talking is not the answer. jim mattis said we are never out of diplomatic solutions. rex tillerson, is he a factor here or is foreign policy being
run out of the white house? james: he's a factor. he seize the president weekly. heads of state respect tillerson and say he has genuine influence with the president. but tillerson is frustrated that he's probably going to leave after one year. you hear he's also staying simply because he believes that his time is needed right now. we hear that about other officials surrounding the president. but it's true that the united states has not spoken with one voice on north korea. but that's also true in the middle east the rift between our gulf allies. we didn't speak with one voice on that either. howie: the press does tend to pounce on every little difference. james rosen, thanks for calling in. as the president decides on the
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and adversaries to cut some of north korea's funding. additional sanctions have been passed against north korea. south korea says it will seek the most of powerful u.n. sanctions to completely isolate north korea. that would require china and vush to again sign off on additional sanctions on the security council and that seems unlikely. the russian foreign ministry says sergei lavrov emphasized there is no diplomatic way to overcome the tensions on the korean peninsula. and he said any further strengthening of sanctions on the dprk are counter productive and dangerous.
treasury secretary steve mnuchin said on "fox news sunday" that he's drafting a sanctions proposal to cut off trade to north korea. howie: russia's position is basically do nothing. even as much of houston was first being submerged by the catastrophic flooding, the "washington post" focused on a story about russia. the "new york times" said an email from american businessman telling cohen, our boy can become president of the united states. but the effort went nowhere. >> apparently no one in the
presidential campaign no one thought to mention for five months of the presidential campaign the trump organization was aggressively pursuing the building of a project in russia. that the government was going to finance. >> that's a big, big part of the puzzle. howie: the email that helped elect our boy president. mollie: i thought they would say something what more proof do we need of a secret trump-russia connection. how about any proof. anything that leads us to something substantive. people making claims. but the deal never happened. there is still no evidence of collusion. all these stories make it seem more like we have people who are unwilling to accept a legitimate
election. howie: the trump campaign folks were so non-wired, he sent his email to a general press inbox and got no response. but candidate trump was talking about russia when his people were trying to do a deal in moscow. your take on the story. michael: it's an important story. just flip it. if president hillary clinton fired an fbi director who was conducting a probe into her campaign, i think conservatives on this network and other conservative media outlets would have a hue and cry. it's not as if the media has to wait until it has a smoking gun in its hand to write news.
if news pops up, write it. howie: robert mueller has obtained an early draft firing james comey it was opposed by counsel because it had an angry tone. erin: it changes the white house story a little bit. what we understand from that story is vice president mike pence was in that room and knew of that draft as well. sufficient to look at that timeline and what the white house has been saying. it shows their story isn't completely lining up with the many different stories donald trump has given. mollie: there were many reasons donald trump gave for yes fired comey. among them the mishandling of his job throughout the previous years. we learned that comey decided to exonerate hillary clinton months
before the investigation was actually done. further verifying this was a person who had problems with his job. howie: msnbc and prime time devoted a lot of hours to these stories. cnn went to houston and did a lot of reporting on the hurricane as did fox in prime time. there has been chatter in the press about president obama making a decision in the future about barack obama's dreamers program. that decision expected tuesday. take a look. >> mr. president, a decision on daca? >> sometime today or over the weekend we'll have a decision. we love the dreamers. we love everybody. howie: we love the dreamers. is there any question in your
mind that the press by playing up the dreamers, paul ryan and other republicans saying don't end the program will couple with a fix in congress. that the press feels this is a humanitarian issue. michael * i guess. i don't know if it's fair to say that as a statement about the entire media. but overall i suppose there is a consensus that that is the case. it's driven by completely legitimate factors in a democracy. there are immigrant advocate groups out there feeding media organizations to these kids who are dreamers who went to harvard or whatever. you are not going to do those stories? of course you are going to do those stories. howie: the president seems conflicted about this. he has take and hard stance on immigration but he has sympathy
for the dreamers. i am not seeing much coverage of this program. mollie: there are a lot of failures reporting this program. 10 state attorneys general have given the government until november 5 to rescind this program. they successfully sued the federal government. so this entire thing fails on the rule of law question. and that's what i think is interesting. the media don't care about rule of law or see how rule of law is a way -- enforcing rule of law is a way to be charitable. there is a lot of emphasis on dreamers but not on citizens. howie: it was very controversial when president trump did this in 2012. mostly because he acted
unilaterally. even obama said it was temporary. erin: republicans say they want to act. what i would say is this. the media is covering this in such a way that show there are points stacking up against republicans. another republican orrin hatch and others are coming out against the president. the media is missing a big shift going none the business community, i'm sorry to say, the business community is moving to the left. and republicans are moving with them. you are seeing that on tariffs, you are seeing it on this issue. transgender in the military and what happened after charlottesville. mollie: the important thing is for the media not to just be beholden to corporate issues, but the american people might be at odds with the corporations.
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we have just gotten word that president trump attending church near the white house in what he calls is a day of prayer was asked by a reporter. will you attack north korea. the president's response was "we'll see." joining us is jennifer griffin. the generals have a lot of responsibility in this. reporter: based on the conversations itch had with senior military official and commanders, and those doing the planning for any sort of military strike. i would say these military commanders know the cost of what a military plan -- how the potential for it to go wrong in this case and what the down side is in terms of the realities of
the korean peninsula. you have a situation where across the north korean border to south korea, there are tens of thousands of artillery units with their eyes set 30 miles south on south korea's capital seoul where there are 25 million people living. i'm told within 4 minute 800,000 round of artillery could land on seoul. there are very few clean military options. there are military options but you have to look at what secretary mattis said sitting side by side with his south korean counterpart at the pentagon. he said we are not out of diplomatic options. howie: that was noteworthy. a new tweet from the president today. i told south korea their talk of appeasement with north korea
will not work. they only understand one thing. the seems in the international community that sanctions are better because of the risk of war. but kim jong-un is being so provocative. reporter: that's true. but wednesday the meeting mattis had with his south korean counterpart. the media made a lot out of the fact the president tweeted that moment that the time for talking was over with north korea. the defense secretary mattis said we are not out of diplomatic options. many people in the media took that to mean he was contradicting the president. mattis spoke to us in the pentagon the day after, and he was hot under the collar for being misinterpreted.
he said just base said we are not out of diplomatic options didn't mean we shouldn't talk to kim jong-un or that we don't have military ass. the potential for miscalculation given the unpredictable nature of north korea, the risk is high and mattis knows that. howie: jennifer griffin, thanks so much for calling in. after the break we'll go to houston and talk about the personal challenges of covering a disaster of this magnitude.
howie: what's the personal impact on journalists covering this flooden and devastation in houston. griff jenkins joins us. is it a little intimidating? griff: absolutely. the biggest challenge has been mobility. the magnitude is more than a week, 51 inches of rain. it's gladded out. the road, the highways. so getting from one place to another has been very difficult. we have had to get boats and paddle ourselves. we have had to tuck our way into law enforcement boats. mobility is the biggest challenge. my cameraman david williams and producer a.j. hall. i could not have been with a
better team that was more fearless and willing to go everywhere we went to bring you the story as it unfolded. howie: is it a bit overwhelming? you are in a position where people are dying, tens of thousands of people have lost their homes. the emotional impact on you as you tell these stories. griff: any reporter's job is to harness and this was a story, the nation's fourth largest city. i'll continue telling that story today. in this one area the residents are furious they couldn't be evacuated or told to get out earlier. so while it feels like most of of the area is under recovery. one part is still flooding and they will be under water for weeks.
i want to add one of the differences in covering this, twitter was created a year after hurricane katrina in 2005. when this was unfolding when it was hitting hard. we were seeing people tweeting directly. sheriff gonzalez told me i'm at such and such 12th lane. so social media propelled us to be on the tip of the spear. we were trying to overcome the mobility challenges, but we had a better sense of where this story was hitting the hardest when on social media it just blew up. we realized, it's literally everywhere. howie: it's fascinating the victims reached out to first responders and journalists can use it to get out the story. griff jenkins doing a terrific
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responders. >> we have a boat coming. we have a boat coming. i'm going to flag these guys down. there is now water filling his cab. i'm trying not to break your ear drums as i scream, i can't imagine how terrifying it would be to be stuck right there right now. you are stuck in that place, your car is filling water. help is on the way. he's incredibly lucky. howie: khou was knocked off the air for hours. >> get out, dude. get up out of that water. don't fall backwards. no, ma'am, we have a car in a ditch.
we just pulled a fella out. lord have mercy. are you all right? >> i want to thank these guys for saving my life. >> if no one was here doing a live shot, that fella would be gone. howie: it's an important remind her however divided we are in the political and media world. a federal judge has thrown out the sarah palin lawsuit against the "new york times." on connecting her to the gabby giffords shooting. the judge said she is a public figure. check out our facebook page.
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Europe Hotel Transactions Bulletin - Week Ending 6 August 2021 (August 6, 2021)
Brookfield acquires four Selenta Hotels in Spain from Jordi Mestre
Canadian investment firm Brookfield Asset Management has completed the acquisition of a portfolio of four of Selenta Group's five hotels from Selenta's owner, Jordi Mestre, for €440 million (€196,692 per room). The transaction, which is Spain's largest hotel investment deal for the year to date, sees Brookfield acquire a total of 2,237 rooms in prime destinations. The portfolio includes two hotels in Barcelona—the five-star, 465-room Hotel Sofia, which is operated as part of Hyatt's Unbound Collection under a franchise agreement, and the four-star, 435-room Hotel Expo—as well as the five-star, 299-room Don Carlos Resort & Spa in Marbella and the five-star, 1,037-room Mare Nostrum Resort in Tenerife. Under considerable pressure due to the pandemic, Mestre also sold his Nobu Hotel Barcelona earlier this year, but has retained the Selenta Expo Hotel in Valencia, which was excluded from the deal with Brookfield.
Castlelake to acquire major stake in Spanish hotel investment company Millenium
Castlelake L.P. is set to acquire a stake of up to 49.9% in Millenium Hotel Real Estate, the Spanish-listed real estate investment company that specializes in luxury properties in Spain and Portugal, and currently has a portfolio of ten hotel assets. The listed market capitalization of the company is currently around €250 million, giving Castlelake's stake a value of some €124.75 million. Castlelake's investment will make it Millenium's largest shareholder and will allow the private investment firm three seats on its board of directors. Millenium has stated that its hotel portfolio, which includes properties in Madrid, Alicante, Sevilla, Bilbao, Córdoba, Alcaides and San Sabastian, should be valued at around €500 million once fully redeveloped.
GBI forward-sells IntercityHotel Lübeck, Germany to Commerz Real
German real estate investment fund Commerz Real AG has acquired the IntercityHotel Lübeck development in Germany for an undisclosed amount from developer GBI. The 176-room property was acquired through Commerz Real's Luxembourg-based company CR Fund Management S.a.r.l. Construction on the property is due to complete in 2023, and the hotel will be operated by Deutsche Hospitality under a 20-year lease agreement. The acquisition is part of a continued collaboration between Commerz Real AG and Deutsche Hospitality to invest in European hotel properties through the Commerz Real European Hotel Fund, an open-ended alternative investment fund with a desired fund volume of €250 million. Earlier in the year, Commerz Real AG completed the acquisition of two IntercityHotel developments in the Netherlands, a 115-room property in Leiden and a 174-room property in Breda.
H.I.G. acquires the Swissôtel le Plaza in Basel, Switzerland from Credit Suisse
American private equity investment firm H.I.G. Capital has acquired the Swissôtel le Plaza in Basel, Switzerland from Credit Suisse's Real Estate Fund Hospitality for an undisclosed sum. The 238-room, four-star property is the private equity firm's first hotel transaction in Switzerland. Currently managed by Accor, the property is set to be rebranded as a Marriott following an extensive renovation.
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The NorthWood Panthers host the #1 team in 2A Thursday night in The Panther Pit. The veteran Warrior team is led by senior Elijah Hales and junior Charlie Yoder. Westview is 3-0 with an impressive 41 point winning margin coming off a 2018 Regional Championship.
Last year Westview won a 61-55 contest that snapped a 5 year winning streak for the Panthers. The Panthers completed a stretch of winning 5 Sectional Championships in the last 7 years. Two years ago the Panthers escaped 59-57 on a 37 point performance from Vinny Miranda.
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Q: How to use MERGE for array properties? In my neo4j database, I've nodes containing an array, e.g. an array of names, e.g.:
CREATE (:Group {names: ['Ben', 'James']})

Finally, I can use the following query to find all nodes that contains 'Ben' in the names array:
MATCH (n:Group) WHERE 'Ben' IN n.names RETURN n

So far everything is fine. But now I want to create a new node if there's no node with Ben inside. So what I'm looking for is any function or something like this I can use in the MERGE command to create a new node if there's no node with Ben in the names array. Something like this:
MERGE (:Group {names: contains('Ben')})

The idea is that executing the MERGE, tries to find any node with Ben in the "names" array and if there's no such node, it creates a new one.
Does anyone know if there's something like this available in cypher?

A: Suggest apoc.coll set of functions.
These will allow you to merge, sort collections and also whether a collection contains a specified entity. There latter should address your scenario.
apoc.coll.contains(your collection , 'Ben')

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GWAR: Extended Interview with Mike Bishop, the Man Behind the Blothar
October 10, 2017 Daniel Lake
Exclusive, Featured, Interviews Blothar, Dave Brockie, GWAR, home featured, interview, Metal Blade, Mike Bishop, Oderus Urungus.
Most of the time, when you shout interview questions across the bleak Antarctic waste, the voices that come back are far from comforting. Silly, maybe. Over the top, sure. Aggressive, too. Far from reassuring. Sometimes Beefcake speaks. Sometimes it's Blothar. Sometimes it's one of the other five filthy alien outcasts who shrieks back into your unworthy ears. It's rare you hear the human voice behind all the theater.
Which makes our recent conversation with Mike Bishop, the meaty puppetmaster behind Blothar's mighty frame, all the more special. He willingly broke character for a lengthy transcontinental phone conversation after having just spent hours wrapped up in the Blothar persona (and cumbersome costume) for an in-store comic book signing event in celebration of the release of their new comic, Orgasmageddon. Some people might be grumpy or dismissive in such circumstances, but talking with Bishop was relaxed and extremely enjoyable. His point of view on GWAR is informed equally by his deep history with the band (having played Beefcake long before Blothar sprouted his first penile cluster) and his break from the band to pursue – shall we say – more subtle activities.
Much of our chat can be found in the pages of this month's issue (#157, November 2017, Cannibal Corpse cover), but since people don't speak in word counts, here's what didn't make it to print. Be sure to check out the release of The Blood of Gods on Metal Blade later this month, so you can knowingly bang your head while you dodge questionable fluids at the GWAR show that is undoubtedly headed your way soon.
So, you just finished with an event for Orgasmageddon?
Yeah, we had a comic book signing… The GWAR comic has come out and we've been doing these signing events in big, cool comic book shops in big cities. We've been signing the books and taking pictures with people. We did that today at Meltdown [Comics in Los Angeles].
How long was the event?
Too long! [Laughs] Sitting around in those costumes is a pain in the ass, man. We started at 6pm and I got out of costume at 8:30. It was kind of a lot to do. It was fun. There were a lot of people there. The comic's doing really well, so we're having a good time with it.
What do you think of the comic?
I like it! Mike Derks, who plays the role of Balsac, helped with getting the backstory of it right, and they really did a good job of that. GWAR has this mythos [that came from] playing Dungeons & Dragons and smoking weed and riding down the road in a school bus, telling each other stories. That's how the mythos built up, so "It has a lot of inconsistencies" would be an understatement. We had to sew that into something that looked like it kind of belonged in the Marvel universe. Mike helped with that, Matt [Maguire, Sawborg Destructo] got some really good writers to work on it, and Matt contributes to the writing and we got some good artists working on it.
One thing I'm really excited about, too, is that GWAR has always been about comics. GWAR really owes a tremendous debt to underground comics. I'm talking about S. Clay Wilson and Weirdo and all the old stuff like that. The Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers, Peter Bagge and all that shit. That stuff really shaped what we were doing, especially S. Clay Wilson, the Checkered Demon guy. Early on, my first exposure to the members of GWAR was a comic that would come out that was written by Hunter Jackson [ex-Techno Destructo], one of the founders of the band, and then Brockie would do comics too, and they would have these underground comics, and it was always just really funny.
This is definitely a slicker, more professional look, but we've gotten the older artists to contribute stories to it. So, Chuck Varga, who was the Sexecutioner, has a story and an issue. Hunter Jackson did some stuff for an issue. Don Drakulich did some stuff for an issue.
What was going on when you left GWAR all those years ago?
I was a younger guy, and I had started another band, and I was working on that a lot. For a while, I was doing Kepone and GWAR at the same time. I was having fun in GWAR, [but] it did get to a point where it felt like it was getting hard for me to do both things at the same time. On top of that, I was having some health issues, so I just wound up pulling out of it. In hindsight, I regret it, because I actually think that I could have stayed in… I don't really regret it, I mean, my life would be very different, but I probably could have done both at the same time, is the point I'm making, but I wound up trying to push my band forward and leaving to do that. I did Kepone for a while, we did a few records and traveled around and had some success. It was never paying the bills like GWAR or anything, but we did alright. And then I went back to school and got a PhD and all that shit, but I couldn't leave the music alone. I'm a musicologist, ethnomusicology with a music history/pop music focus.
Have you worked primarily on music, or on art for GWAR too?
I have ideas for stories and for character development and plot lines and things like that, and all the musicians contribute to that and always have, but as far as actually making the stuff that you see on stage, that's a small group of artists that do that. That's a big difference between me and Dave. Dave was a unique person. He drove the visual side of the band and he was the only musician to do that. He was really [one of] the only musicians who made props and costumes. Casey Orr did, when he was in the band, because he was also a visual artist. I never have, and for the most part, the musicians never have. The one way that GWAR's unique, unlike Slipknot or even Kiss, [in those bands] we don't know who's the person that makes the costumes. In GWAR, those people are in the band. It's very different, in that way.
GWAR has had different approaches to music over the years. Where does The Blood of Gods fall in that range?
GWAR has always sort of been in this weird… I might see this different than other people, but when we started the band, GWAR at first was a band that was parodying metal. We had what we thought were really dumb songs with lyrics like "AEIOU – these are Satan's vowels!" We were making fun of the attitude that metal had, which was really all about machismo and the big hair, and we tried to do something that was sort of a parody of metal, but the problem was we were all punk musicians and what we wound up doing was something that was kind of punk, and we found our way to metal over the years, to kind of doing it more seriously. It seemed like that's where the band fit. That's where the storyline and the songs made sense. Over the years, ever since the album Violence Has Arrived, they moved further down that road of being sort of a death metal band.
This record is definitely not that. It's more of a rock and roll record. It has songs that are more like the stuff we were doing on the fourth album, where we were trying to do some different stuff, some stuff that has kind of some roots in punk rock, some roots in rock and roll, but also some stuff that really plays with different styles. GWAR never really made songs that had an Alice Cooper ballad feel to it, but we have a song like that, "Phantom Limb," on this record. It doesn't sound like Alice Cooper, but it's always hard to explain to people how, when you listen to something, how that comes out the other end of that sausage machine. It's its own thing, but what I was listening to when we made it was [Alice Cooper's] "Dwight Fry" and those kinds of songs. Just the idea of doing a ballad that was also kind of sinister and not maudlin.
How long have you been working on this new music?
We had three-and-a-half years to make it, but we didn't spend all that time working on the music. There was some stuff that had been around for a couple years that we sort of refined, but a lot of it was done sort of quickly… We wrote and recorded the record in six months. I had some material, Brent had a lot of songs, and we had to find a way… It was essentially a new band. It was a group of musicians that hadn't played, even though I'd played with Brad [Roberts, Jizmak Da Gusha] and played with Mike [Derks, Balsac the Jaws of Death] for many years, I hadn't played with Jamison [Land, Beefcake the Mighty] or Brent [Purgason, Pustulus Maximus]. Some of the time was spent just figuring out how that was going to work. Once we had an understanding, once we found a way to work, we produced some material pretty quickly.
A lot of people participated in the making of the record. Everybody helped write the lyrics. It was definitely a communal effort. The artists, as always, had some influence on the material and what the songs were about. It was kind of an old-school GWAR record in that way. GWAR used to have records that would come out with a few different singers on the record – Sexecutioner would sing a song, and Granbo and the Morality Squad, songs like that where we would have our enemies sing and stuff like that. There's a little bit of that on the record.
Was recording straightforward or more complicated?
The recording was really straightforward for me. I think it was different than what the other guys had been doing for a while. When I stopped doing Kepone and essentially stopped doing records, I hadn't made a record in the digital age. I never recorded a record that was not recorded to tape. [Laughs] The way people write and record records has change dramatically. The person we got to record this album was the absolute perfect person to do this record. Ronan Murphy is a top notch producer, and it just so happens that he is our friend who had a space in The Dairy, which is the building where GWAR got started. He's a person we've known for a really long time and who understood the band as musicians. He understood all of us as players, in particular me, Mike and Brad. He understood what we could do, and he knew our musical histories. And he knew the musical history of GWAR. He really helped a lot. GWAR had kind of started doing records where they had recorded them themselves and this was a different experience. We had a producer who was a real quality producer who listened to the material and helped us make decisions about the material, set us up to succeed. The first thing he did was pick how many songs we were going to record. We'd been trying to get ready 27 songs, not knowing which ones were going to make it, and he focused our efforts.
The recording part was the easiest. We went to a good studio in Virginia, threw up some microphones, got great drum sounds, and for me it was kind of like old times. It was recorded the way we used to do things. We went back and did the overdubs and all that, but there weren't really any surprises, other than the fact that the material… If I had to say that there were surprises, it would be that the record turned out to be different than what we thought it was going to be. Because we had all those other songs, we thought it was going to have this kind of epic tinge that was a little more dramatic, a little more musical drama mixed with metal, and it wound up taking this left turn into being a rock record. That was a surprise, but we went with it. That's what it wanted to be, so that's what it is.
Have you been playing any of these songs live?
We've been playing one song, "Fuck This Place." It's kind of weird because we did the Warped Tour and we had to do a bunch of old tunes, because the record's not out yet. But it's in the can, so we were like, 'Damn, I want to play new stuff!' But the one song that we did get to play, "Fuck This Place," people really loved it. And it was a song that met with resistance, too. I'll go ahead and confess: Mike Derks was like, "No, you've got these three words: Fuck This Place! I'm telling you, it's gonna work!" And I was like, "Eh, I don't know." But Derks was right all along. You asked about the extra tunes – those are all going to get turned into songs, most of them. I think we'll probably develop those while we're rehearsing for the next tour. Nothing gets thrown away.
How much of Blothar's creation was related to replacing Oderus?
There was nothing about Oderus, except maybe the shape, the profile onstage, that went into making Blothar. That wasn't really a part of it, as far as the character goes. Even the visual look… Dave had always made his costume, but what we were doing… Part of my thinking was going back to the idea of Beowulf, because it seemed to fit. There's the later story, where Beowulf is an old man and literary scholars say that probably what that means is that he was forty. He had managed to not die in his twenties. So they call on him one more time to pick up the sword. The hero's call. That had something to do with the direction that we took the character.
Has the current cultural/political climate impacted your show?
It's weird. It's like, 'Man, what are we going to do?' The world has gotten so fucking sick and so crazy, that what are we going to do that surprises people? Especially this particular cultural moment in the United States, with President Trump and all that stuff. We're trying to work it into the show, it's definitely on the album. You want to give the people what they want, and what it seems like the people want is just to be slaves to money and be reckless and have no regard for human life. It's weird… The whole Trump thing. We started killing Trump onstage, of course. That's one of the things that happened. The person who was playing Trump, he started holding onto the handshake a little too long, like Trump would always do. Then it grew into this bit, like, 'Don't shake his hand! Oh, no! He's got you!' Like, once you shake his hand, you're doomed, he's just going to shake it to death. And we gutted him like a fish. It works. GWAR can get away with that kind of stuff. But this isn't Propagandhi. GWAR is a big group of people and we have diverse political opinions.
In Dave's absence, what role have you taken on?
On one level, me coming back gave the audience, who had been GWAR fans for a long time, a sense that here's a person who has a connection… I mean, I'm the only musician in the band that was on the first record. It's getting somebody back who has a connection to the origins of GWAR, and in some ways I think I have credibility that would be hard to come by for other people. I think that helps. The other thing is, these guys have been living this life, but I've been living another life. It's kind of hard to work in a university environment and not witness political struggles. Learning to survive in that environment and learning what people expect from one another in a professional environment. In some ways, maybe I've been able to make suggestions that come from somebody who's been following a career path that's different than music. It's easy to get your blinders on when you're doing something like this.
GWAR has developed a sort of cultural capital that is surprising to me. In other words, there's a lot of people from a lot of quarters who you might consider the art establishment, or even the business establishment in Richmond, where we're from, who have been accepting of GWAR, looking at GWAR as kind of a treasure. It's weird. When I was working as an academic, I was always waiting for the hammer to drop. I'm taking classes with leading feminist theorists like Adrienne Rich, and I'm like, "When are these people going to see GWAR and say, wait a minute, you did this horrible thing," and it never happened. The complaints never came. When I did talk to them about it, by and large, GWAR is so other, we go out there and we're so weird and so alienated, so uncool, that these people look at it and they're not threatened by it at all. I'm talking about people who build a career out of taking down the Rolling Stones for "Under My Thumb." The difference in the negativity in "Under My Thumb" and the way that's a sexist song and what GWAR does onstage is bananas. You would think that they would have serious objections to this, but they don't. Because we're also not acting like a bunch of cool guys like the fucking Rolling Stones. These academics who are otherwise super politically motivated, they look at it and they don't feel alienated by it. They understand that what we're doing is trying to offer a critique of those kinds of attitudes, and they get that. They understand that.
Does the band function differently now that Dave's not around?
A thousand percent, as our tour manager likes to say. It works very differently. Dave was a super creative guy with a lot of creative energy. Unparalleled. The band sounds different, musically. Even the choices that we made on the album… Dave tended to sing a lot. He had a lot of lyrics because he had a lot to say, and they were always very funny, but it didn't leave a lot of room for the music. I think that's one thing that's a very different thing about this record. There is room in the songs. With Dave not there, all of a sudden all of those creative people now have a little more room. Their voices are able to be heard. Mike Derks is able to write lyrics.
I'm conscious of saying something like that because it might sound like I'm being critical of Dave, but I'm really not. He did what he did, and he did it great, and there's not one single person in this band who doesn't wish that guy was still alive, not anybody, and still doing this. In a perfect world, I'd still be a college professor. But that's not what happened. Change happens, and it's the one constant thing, is that things always change. Without that, we never would have known what a great lyricist Mike Derks is. He was pressed into service. This is a guy who knows the world of GWAR, he knows that universe, he knows the imagination, and he has the voice to write GWAR songs, and he and I together, with help from Jamison and from Brent, wrote lyrics that reflect that voice. I'm super proud of this record mainly because, as diverse as it is, it is GWAR.
The main thing that GWAR has done since Dave died is survive. It survived his death, and what that means, the reason that's able to happen, is because it was always something different than what people imagined. It was always a group effort, and now by necessity, with him not there, things are different, but we're still able to put the show on and be the band that we've always been and make art and go out and ride tour buses and pretend like we're rock stars. GWAR is always pretending to be rock stars. We're never going to really be rock stars. It's always just summer camp rock stars. Like, we're not rock stars, but we play them on TV.
As we get out there, what we're finding… It freaks me out. There were so many kids there today, and there have been at all of these shows. Little kids go bananas over GWAR. Oh my god! If I had seen GWAR when I was a 10- or 11-year-old kid, it would have just fucked my whole life up. I would have done nothing but lived to be in that band. You can see that it has that affect on some people. We do see generations. I don't know how many times we get, 'Will you sign my kid's shirt? This is his first show, I brought him to see GWAR.' That happens again and again. That's really cool, too. It has become a cultural force.
The Blood of Gods sees release on Metal Blade on Friday, October 20th.
Shallow North Dakota's Tony Jacome Diagnosed with Inoperable Pancreatic Cancer. GoFundMe Organized to Help His Family
Some tragic news has come down the pipeline this week with the revelation that former Shallow North Dakota drummer/vocalist Tony Jacome has been diagnosed with Stage 4 pancreatic cancer.
Video Premiere: Without Mercy's "I Break the Chain" Showcases Blast Beats, Breakdowns, Beer Guts and Brogues
Check out the new video by BC death thrashers Without Mercy.
The heavier we became, the more people around us denied us any support. There wasn't an extreme metal scene.
- Tom Gabriel Fischer, Hellhammer (Issue #147)


Hatcher came to Kentucky from Sonora, Mexico, as a young child. She had been known as Ogarita Honrodez, but her name was changed sometime after she was orphaned and raised by an African American woman in Louisville, KY. In 1887, as a teenager, she made her stage debut as a reader. Hatcher went on to appear in a number of plays, including her own play, Lizette. An article in the New York Age newspaper predicted that she would go far in her acting career, but her name soon disappeared from the records. For more see A History of African American Theatre, by E. Hill.
"Hatcher, Emma," Notable Kentucky African Americans Database, accessed April 19, 2019, http://nkaa.uky.edu/nkaa/items/show/44.


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Der Explorer Belt bzw. die Explorer-Belt-Expedition (EB, EBE oder EBX) ist eine 1958 entwickelte, international verbreitete Arbeitsform der Ranger- und Roverstufe in der europäischen Pfadfinderbewegung.

Ziel ist es, durch eine selbst organisierte Expedition im Ausland in Kleingruppen eine fremde Kultur aus ihrer eigenen Sicht kennenzulernen und dabei die eigenen Grenzen auszuloten. In ihrer Form erinnert die Explorer-Belt-Expedition stark an die aus der Jugendbewegung kommende Fahrt, allerdings wird ein besonderes Gewicht auf Begegnungen mit der einheimischen Bevölkerung und die Erkundung der kulturellen Zusammenhänge gelegt.

Vor der Expedition legen die Teilnehmer in der Regel auf mehreren Vorbereitungswochenenden ihre Route und den Fokus ihre Erkundung fest. An den eigentlichen Expeditionsteil, der im Normalfall mindestens zehn Tage Fußwanderung umfasst, schließt sich eine Auswertung der EBE an, meist in einem gemeinsamen Abschlusszeltlager.

Nach der Teilnahme an einer Explorer-Belt-Expedition wird an die Teilnehmer der "Explorer Belt", ein Ledergürtel mit einem einheitlichen Koppelschloss, verliehen.

Im deutschsprachigen Raum veranstalten unter anderem die Deutsche Pfadfinderschaft Sankt Georg (DPSG, seit 2004), der Verband Christlicher Pfadfinderinnen und Pfadfinder (VCP, seit 1982), die Pfadibewegung Schweiz (PBS, seit 1995) und die Pfadfinder und Pfadfinderinnen Österreichs (PPÖ, seit 2014) Explorer-Belt-Expeditionen. Weitere Pfadfinderverbände, die sich an dem Programm beteiligen, kommen unter anderem aus Finnland, Großbritannien, Irland, Norwegen, Polen und Schweden.

Weblinks
 Explorer Belt in der DPSG
 Explorer Belt im VCP
 Explorer Belt in der PBS

Kultur der Pfadfinderbewegung
Europäische Auszeichnung
Gürtel
Jugendförderpreis

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Q: Rollup minify classnames Is there any rollup.js plugins which allow to obfuscate / mangle CSS class names? I haven't found anything, except this one for webpack: https://github.com/sndyuk/mangle-css-class-webpack-plugin

A: This can be achieved with rollup-plugin-postcss. As per the readme, configuration options for the modules property are passed through to postcss-modules.
Using the generateScopedName property you're able to set the format of the class name:
generateScopedName: "[hash:base64:8]",

There are more examples in the postcss-modules readme including how to generate the name dynamically. Note that you are responsible for ensuring that the names are unique enough to not clash.
The full rollup config would look something like:
import postcss from "rollup-plugin-postcss";
... // other imports

export default {
  ... // rest of config
  plugins: [
    ... // other plugins
    postcss({
      ...
      modules: {
        generateScopedName: "[hash:base64:8]",
      },
      autoModules: true,
    }),
    ...
  ],
};

Then something like:
.parent {
  display: grid;
  grid-template-rows: auto 1fr auto;
}
/* styles.module.css */

import STYLES from './styles.module.css';

...

// Use the style however

  ...

Ends up looking like:
.xSgFDOB2 {
  display: grid;
  grid-template-rows: auto 1fr auto;
}

  ...


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Compile LESS into CSS with ease.

## LESS features support

I do this project *for myself*.
That means that I didn't implement features that I don't use (and there is a bunch of them).
If you're interested in my work and want to contribute - you're welcome!

### What is NOT supported

- extending
- mixin and CSS guards
- loops
- merging
- some (many) features related to mixins

### What is supported

- variables (scopes, interpolation) [x]
- mixins (very restricted support) [x]
- nested rules [x]
- importing [x]
- parent selector (&) [x]
- comments [x]

## License

The MIT license (MIT).

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Italy Serie A 2021-2022	| Matchweek 19
| Stadio Diego Armando Maradona	| 22 Dec 2021 - 10:45 pm
w	d	l	l	w
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Juan Jesus
| Referee: Luca Massimi | Half Time: 0-1
21 Dec - 10:45 pm
G. Maggiore
37' 0:1 Goal (own)
Yellow Card 45' +1'
Mário Rui
In:A. Petagna
Out:D. Mertens
J. Kiwior
Rey Manaj
In:A. Ounas
Out:P. Zieliński
A. Petagna
In:E. Elmas
Out:Stanislav Lobotka
In:D. Demme
Out:M. Politano
In:F. Ghoulam
Out:Mário Rui
90' +4' Substitute
In:E. Colley
Out:K. Agudelo
D. Ospina
A. Rrahmani
G. Di Lorenzo
A. Zambo Anguissa
Stanislav Lobotka
H. Lozano
P. Zieliński
M. Politano
D. Mertens
I. Provedel
D. Nikolaou
M. Erlić
K. Amian
A. Reca
S. Bastoni
E. Gyasi
K. Agudelo
D. Marfella
A. Meret
F. Ghoulam
K. Malcuit
Alessandro Zanoli
E. Elmas
D. Demme
A. Ounas
J. Zoet
Petar Zovko
Nicolò Bertola
P. Hristov
Salvador Ferrer
V. Kovalenko
A. Sher
A. Nguiamba
E. Colley
J. Antiste
90' +4
Off Target 17
11 Shots off Goal 2
14 Shots insidebox 2
D. Ospina 0	 0	 0	 25	 24	 0	 0	 0	 0	 0	 0	 0	 0	 6.2
Juan Jesus 1	 0	 61	 57	 0	 4	 0	 0	 0	 0	 0	 1	 7.2
Mário Rui 0	 0	 40	 32	 2	 1	 0	 0	 2	 1	 0	 2	 7.2
A. Rrahmani 2	 0	 77	 71	 1	 1	 3	 0	 1	 1	 1	 1	 7.6
G. Di Lorenzo 1	 1	 79	 75	 1	 1	 0	 0	 1	 0	 4	 0	 6.9
F. Ghoulam 0	 0	 2	 2	 0	 0	 0	 0	 0	 0	 0	 0	 0
D. Demme 0	 0	 4	 4	 0	 0	 0	 0	 0	 0	 0	 0	 0
E. Elmas 1	 0	 4	 3	 0	 1	 0	 0	 0	 0	 0	 0	 6.9
P. Zieliński 2	 1	 48	 42	 5	 2	 1	 0	 1	 0	 2	 1	 7.2
A. Ounas 2	 0	 13	 9	 1	 0	 0	 0	 2	 1	 0	 0	 6.3
Stanislav Lobotka 0	 0	 60	 56	 1	 3	 1	 0	 4	 3	 0	 4	 6.9
A. Zambo Anguissa 2	 1	 67	 59	 2	 2	 0	 1	 2	 2	 2	 1	 7.7
H. Lozano 3	 2	 36	 29	 0	 1	 0	 0	 2	 1	 3	 0	 6.9
D. Mertens 3	 2	 15	 13	 0	 0	 0	 0	 5	 4	 0	 0	 7.3
M. Politano 1	 0	 40	 32	 2	 1	 1	 0	 2	 1	 0	 0	 6.9
A. Petagna 0	 0	 3	 1	 2	 0	 0	 0	 1	 0	 0	 2	 6.3
I. Provedel 6	 0	 0	 35	 19	 0	 0	 0	 0	 0	 0	 0	 0	 8.3
S. Bastoni 0	 0	 27	 18	 3	 2	 1	 0	 4	 3	 0	 0	 7.7
K. Amian 1	 0	 16	 15	 0	 0	 1	 0	 0	 0	 0	 2	 6.7
D. Nikolaou 0	 0	 36	 28	 0	 2	 0	 1	 1	 1	 0	 0	 7.3
M. Erlić 0	 0	 37	 30	 0	 1	 4	 2	 0	 0	 1	 1	 7.9
J. Kiwior 0	 0	 22	 18	 0	 3	 0	 2	 1	 1	 2	 2	 6.6
G. Maggiore 0	 0	 45	 35	 1	 2	 0	 2	 2	 1	 3	 1	 7.2
K. Agudelo 0	 0	 22	 15	 0	 2	 0	 0	 2	 1	 2	 3	 6.7
A. Reca 0	 0	 30	 23	 0	 2	 0	 1	 1	 0	 1	 0	 6.7
E. Gyasi 0	 0	 27	 24	 1	 2	 0	 0	 0	 0	 2	 0	 6.6
Rey Manaj 1	 0	 13	 12	 0	 1	 0	 0	 4	 1	 2	 3	 6.0
Goal (own)
Referee: Luca Massimi
December 22, 2021 at the tournament Italy Serie A 2021-2022 was the match Napoli - Spezia 0 : 1. On our website, you can see detailed statistics of teams and players, find out the events of the match, scorers, assistants, who received the cards, what substitutions were in the match and who was the main referee. To see the statistics of a team, its schedule of matches, lineups, you can click on the logo of the Napoli or Spezia team, to view the statistics of players and referees, you need to click on the name (clickable links are available in the "Lineups" tab).


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Шеховцов Александр Александрович (, ) — современный украинский художник, живописец, дизайнер. Участник областных, республиканских, всеукраинских и международных выставок. Один из основателей творческого объединения «Буриме».
Работы художника хранятся в музейных и частных собраниях Украины и зарубежья.

Биография
Родился 21 апреля 1939 года в городе Харьков. В 1970 году окончил Харьковский художественно-промышленный институт ныне Харьковская государственная академия дизайна и искусств. Своими учителями считает М. Шапошникова, В. Ермилова, О. Евтушенка, А. Хмельницкого, В. Ландкофа.

Работал дизайнером (с 1967) и заместителем директора (1980—1987) в Харьковском филиале Всесоюзного научно-исследовательского института технической эстетики. Член оргкомитета учредительного съезда Союза дизайнеров СССР (1983). Член правления Союза дизайнеров УССР (1987).

Занимал должность директора Харьковского художественного музея (1987—1989).

Лауреат творческой премии в области дизайна им. В. Ермилова (Харьков, 1997). Лауреат Третьей Международной Артиады (Москва, 1997).

Работает в творческой мастерской (с 1989). Является членом и одним из основателей украинского творческого объединения «Буриме».

Руководитель и участник творческих проектов: «Шаг за шагом» (антология выставок группы «Буриме»: «Дизайн — форум 2003»; «Святые горы: пленэры 2003—2004»; «Слобожанщина — край вдохновения» и др.); «Круг Буриме» (ХХМ, 2005).

Участник выставочно-издательских проектов: «Дорогами Васильковского: взгляд через века» (2004—2008); «Украинские твердыни» (2007); «Сирия: путями первых христиан» (2008); «Утопия Ван Гога. Цивилизация любви» (2008).

Один из организаторов и участник культурно-художественных акций, среди них — посвящённые юбилеям Г. С. Сковороды (Музей Г. Сковороды в с. Сковородиновка, 2002); Ф.Нансена (Дом учёных, Харьков, 2002).

Инициатор проведения семинаров — пленэров на Слобожанщине и в Крыму.

Является мастером лирического пейзажа и абстрактного экспрессионизма.

Персональные выставки
В 1983 году выставка в Музыкально — театральной библиотеке им. К. Станиславского, Харьков.

В 1987 году выставка в Доме Союза художников, Харьков.

В 1989 году выставка в Картинной галерее лауреатов премии им. И. Ю. Репина, Чугуев.

В 1995 году выставки в Центральном доме художника (Москва); издательстве «Наследие» (Москва); Здании посольства Украины (Москва);

Российской музыкальной академии им. Гнесиных (Москва); Доме творчества Союза композиторов СССР (Старая Руза, Московская обл.).

В 1997 году выставка в Мемориальном музее А.Грина, Феодосия.

В 1998 году выставки в Выставочном центре «Красные палаты» (Москва); Харьковском художественном музее (Харьков).

В 1999 году выставка в галерее «Маэстро», Харьков.

В 2001 году выставка в Харьковском национальном академическом театре оперы и балета. Международный бизнес-форум. Харьков.

В 2003 году выставки в Доме ученых (Харьков); Галерее АВЭК (Харьков).

В 2005 году выставка в Доме Нюрнберга, Харьков.

В 2007 году выставка в галерее «Маэстро», Харьков.

В 2009 году выставка в Харьковском художественном музее, Харьков.

В 2011 году выставка в Центре современного искусства и культуры им. Куинджи, Мариуполь.

В 2014 году выставка пейзажной лирики в Доме ученых, Харьков.

В 2016 году выставка в рамках проекта «Цивилизация любви» в Художественной галерее им. Г. Семирадского, Харьков.

В 2018 году выставка в Художественной галерее И. Е. Репина, Чугуев.

В 2019 году выставка в Художественной галерее им. Г. Семирадского, Харьков.

Литература
 Яновский В. Н. «Буриме»: Утопия Ван Гога. Монография / сост., тексты, предисл. проф. Л.Стародубцевой; под общей редакцией проф. Н.Колосовой. Харьков. Изд. «Фактор», 2008 С.293-296
 Анучина Л., Грицаненко В. Слово о художнике // Александр Александрович Шеховцов. Каталог выставки. — Харьков, Проспект, 1995
 Грицаненко В. "Мандрагоры из садов Суламита … / Выставка произведений Александра Шеховцова. Буклет.- Харьков, 1998
 Грицаненко В. Без названия … // Александр Шеховцов. Живопись. Графика. — Харьков, 2003. — С.4
 Денисенко O. Слово о художнике // Александр Шеховцов. Живопись. Графика. — Харьков, 2003. С. 8-9
 Денисенко О. «Александр Шеховцов — один из ведущих мастеров современной художественной жизни Харькова …» // Круг Буриме. Творческое объединение «Буриме» в контексте культурологическо — искусствоведческого анализа.-Харьков, 2005
 Денисенко O. Рassinato. Kаталог выставки произведений из коллекции Б.В. и Т. В. Гриневых // Харьков, ХГАДИ, 2006
 Немцова В. Художник и его параллельные миры / Александр Шеховцов. Живопись. Графика.-Харьков. 2003. С. 10-11
 Павлова Т. Сан Саныч // Александр Александрович Шеховцов. Живопись. Лирический пейзаж. — Харьков.2003.-С.2
 Прокатова Т. «На выставках всегда с радостью узнаешь работы Александра Шеховцова ..» // Круг Буриме. Творческое объединение «Буриме» в контексте культурологическо-искусствоведческого анализа.- Харьков, 2005
 Пузанов В. Послание в цвете из будущего // Александр Шеховцов. Живопись. Графика. — Харьков. 2003. — С.12-13
 Пузанов В. «Самое загадочное в живописи Александра Шеховцова…» // Круг Буриме. Творческое объединение «Буриме» в контексте культурологическо — искусствоведческого анализа. — Харьков, 2005
 Стародубцева Л. Тело-стратегии соблазна // Арабески. Стратегии искушения. Каталог выставки Александра Шеховцова. -Харьков, 2007- С. 41-44
 Титаренко Н. Арабески. // Арабески. Стратегии искушения. Каталог выставки Александра Шеховцова. — Харьков, 2007
 Каталог живописи. Александр Шеховцов. — Х.: НТМТ, 2009. — 144 с.
 Альбом-каталог «Благодарность». — Х.: 2019. — 82 c.

Избранные работы
 серия работ «Графика: стратегии соблазна»
 серия работ «Лики»
 серия работ «Стихии»
 серия работ «Эклоги»
 серия работ «Элегии»
 серия работ «Лирический пейзаж — Натальевка, Святогорск»
 серия пейзажей по христианским местам мира (Сирия, Турция, Россия, Израиль, Украина)

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FATA Disaster Management Chief Dismissed
Jul 15 2014 By Aamir Iqbal
Soldiers check documentation of IDPs in Bannu. A. Majeed—AFP
Arshad Khan removed from office, as military prepares to expand operation into Bajaur Agency.
The governor of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa province on Monday ordered the dismissal of the FATA Disaster Management Authority chief, as Pakistan's armed forces prepared to expand an ongoing military operation into another tribal district.
According to FDMA spokesman Shahid Khan, the director general of the organization was removed after Governor Mehtab Ahmed Khan received a large number of written complaints alleging inefficient distribution of aid and mismanagement. He said the internally displaced persons of North Waziristan, who have sought refuge in Bannu and its surrounding areas since the Pakistan Army launched Operation Zarb-e-Azb on June 15, had claimed that mobile SIMs issued to them had not yet been activated, preventing them from obtaining government aid. They also alleged unnecessary delays in registration of IDPs.
"The governor ordered the removal of Arshad Khan due to those complaints," confirmed Taslim Sajjad, a government official in the FATA Secretariat. According to the FDMA, there are currently 955,996 registered IDPs, with nearly 75 percent of those living in Bannu.
Meanwhile, the government has decided to expand Operation Zarb-e-Azb to Bajaur Agency after a recent spate of cross-border attacks on security checkposts and military personnel.
"Terrorists have been attacking military checkposts in Bajaur Agency since 2012, and then fleeing across the border and seeking refuge in Afghanistan," said Syed Jabbar Shah, the political administrator of Bajaur Agency. "The government has decided to launch a military operation in the border areas to combat the threat," he added.
According to Shah, five towns of Tehsil Mamoon have been directed to vacate their houses and move to safer places ahead of the operation. "The military will initially launch the operation in the Katkot, Gagh, and Mullah Kalley areas of Tehsil Mamoon," he added. The administrator said a majority of the civilian population has already fled the region.
Last week, around two-dozen terrorists attacked a military checkpost in Bajaur, killing three soldiers including a senior officer, before fleeing across the border into Afghanistan's Kunar province. The Government of Pakistan has protested the attack, and urged the Afghan government to help rid the region of terrorist activity.
Pakistan Hopes to 'Refresh' U.S. Ties With Khan Visit
Taliban Bombing in Kandahar


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By SGTreport
Art Market Bubble Bursting – Gauguin Collapses 74% To $22 Million
Thursday, March 2, 2017 13:18
by Mark O'Byrne, GoldCore:
– Art Market Bubble Bursting?
– Russian Billionaire Takes 74% Loss On "Investment"
– $85 Million Gauguin Bought By Dmitry Rybolovlev in 2008
– Christie's auctioned the work at its evening sale in London
– Global art sales plummet, but China rises as 'art superpower'
– China soon to dominates global art and gold market
– Art price volumes doubled since 2009
– As currencies debase super rich seek out stores of value
– Gold remains accessible store of value for all
– Stocks, bonds and many assets at record prices
– Gold half it's real price in 1980
Russian billionaire Dmitry Rybolovlev paid €54 million or $85 million for a landscape by Paul Gauguin in a private transaction in June 2008. Yesterday, he incurred a whopping 74% loss on his store of value "investment" as reported by Bloomberg:
Gauguin's 1892 landscape "Te Fare (La Maison)" fetched 20.3 million pounds ($25 million), including commission, at Tuesday evening's sale of Impressionist and modern art at Christie's in London. Rybolovlev will net about $22 million based on the hammer price. The auction house had estimated the value at $15 million to $22.4 million. The buyer was a client of Rebecca Wei, president of Christie's Asia.
The Gauguin was one of four Rybolovlev pieces offered for sale on Tuesday. Another work, a Mark Rothko painting, will be auctioned March 7.
Rybolovlev — with a fortune of about $9.8 billion according to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index — invested about $2 billion in 38 works, from Leonardo da Vinci to Pablo Picasso. They were procured privately by Swiss art dealer Yves Bouvier, known for creating a network of tax-free art storage warehouses in Singapore and Luxembourg.
Two years ago, Rybolovlev sued Bouvier, alleging he was overcharged by as much as $1 billion, Bloomberg reported. Since then the Russian fertilizer magnate has been unloading works he acquired, some at record prices. He has already sold three for a loss totaling an estimated $100 million. The five works at Christie's, all estimated below their purchase prices, were expected to deepen the loss.
The art industry is closely watching the London auctions running this week and next as the year's first test of the global market following a significant contraction in 2016. Christie's sales fell 17 percent to $4 billion pounds ($5.4 billion) last year, while Sotheby's reported a 27 percent decline to $4.9 billion. Both houses saw steep declines in their two biggest categories: Impressionist and modern art, and postwar and contemporary art.
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ART THEFT
An artist who can buy back his own stolen paintings for ransom. A theft from an archive that remains undiscovered for years. A thief who wants to expose lack of security. A brutal robbery on an old lady in which seven masterpieces are captured. A silver sugar bowl that reappears 35 years after the theft. These and many other art and antique objects that were once stolen form the core of the exhibition Art Theft.
2018 Production, direction, camera, edit
The victims receive special attention and their own voice at this exhibition in a video presentation. Like the artist Henk Helmantel who lost 37 paintings during a burglary and could buy them back for ransom. The exhibition shows his painting Arjan's first booties, the painting with the booties of his oldest son that the blackmailers left behind in a parking lot in Apeldoorn. The son of sculptor Jits Bakker, the most life-stolen artist in the Netherlands, talks about the great suffering his father has suffered.


"What matters is the center inside yourself and how you treat people, and what you can contribute as you pass through life on this earth, and how honestly you love, and how carefully you make choices. These are the things that really matter!"
"Whether it's sports, business or politics, whenever we divorce issues of competence from issues of character, we create a class of amoral professionals who think they're exempt from common standards of honor and decency. This discredits and demeans the moral standing of everyone involved."
"The leader of the future has the humility to accept principles and the courage to align with them, which takes great personal sacrifice. Out of this humility, courage, and sacrifice comes the person of integrity."
"Direction determines destination. So here is a question you must ask yourself, 'Are all the disciplines that I'm currently engaged in taking me where I want to go?' What an important question to ask yourself at the beginning of the month, the beginning of the week, the beginning of the day. Because here is what you don't ever want to do—kid yourself. Kid your neighbor, kid me and kid the marketplace, but don't kid yourself—fingers crossed—hoping you will arrive at a good destination when you're not even headed that way."
"Never forget that the purpose for which a man lives is the improvement of the man himself, so that he may go out of this world having, in his great sphere or his small one, done some little good for his fellow creatures and labored a little to diminish the sins and sorrow that are in the world."
"How I wish that there was some wonderful place called the Land of Beginning Again, where all our mistakes and all our heartaches, and all our poor selfish grief, could be dropped like a shabby old coat at the door, and never put on again."
"Perfection is being, not doing, it is not to effect an act but to achieve a character."
"Look sharply after your thoughts. They come unlooked for, like a new bird seen on your trees, and, if you turn to your usual task, disappear; and you shall never find that perception again; never, I say—but perhaps years, ages, and I know not what events and worlds may lie between you and its return."
Forgiveness is total or is it nothing. It is a risk and risk is seldom easy. Overcoming the fear of being hurt again is the price of love.
We are paralyzed until we accept—really accept—the fact that God forgives us. Once we do, we are freed to love, forgive and accept ourselves. Then healing begins.
But He has also forgiven those who have injured us. We know we have accepted God's forgiving love only when we can forgive others. The release of the full power of His forgiveness is up to us."
"Celtic spirituality was a practice in which ordinary people in their daily lives took the tasks that lay to hand but treated them sacramentally, as pointing to a greater reality which lay beyond them. It is an approach to life which we have been in danger of losing, this sense of allowing the extraordinary to break in on the ordinary. Perhaps it is something which we can rediscover, something which Celtic spirituality can give to us if we would let it renew our vision by teaching our eyes to see again, our ears to hear, our hands to handle."
"# 47–Don't waste time learning the 'tricks of the trade.' Instead, learn the trade.
# 55–Stop blaming others. Take responsibility for every area of your life."
"Success is started by the battery of ambition and the spark plugs of purpose. It is powered by the full of persistence, lubricated by the elbow grease of effort, guided by the steering wheel of common sense, and smoothed by the shock absorbers of faith and forgiveness."
"Fix your thoughts upon the faultless performance of your duty, no matter how insignificant your task may appear. Only in this way can the thought be gathered and focused, and resolution and energy be developed, which being done, there is nothing which may not be accomplished."
"Trust the past to God's mercy, the present to His love, and the future to His providence."
When opportunity [comes], it [appears] in a different form and from a different direction than…expected. That is one of the tricks of opportunity. It has a sly habit of slipping in by the back door, and often it comes disguised in the form of misfortune, or temporary defeat. Perhaps this is why so many fail to recognize opportunity."
Even when we're overwhelmed by conditions we need not lose control, it's important to not lose heart and keep trying. We need to keep an open mind and sometimes make major changes or take risks.
The Irish Potato Famine (1846-51) resulted in a 30% drop in the population of the west of Ireland. The prolonged suffering of the Irish peasantry had broken the survivors in body and spirit.
John Bloomfield, the owner of the Castle Caldwell in County Fermanagh, was working on the recovery of his estate when he noticed that the exteriors of his tenant farmers' small cottages had a vivid white finish. After inquiring, he was informed that there was a clay deposit on his property of unusual fine quality.
To generate revenue and provide employment on his estate, Bloomfield built a pottery factory at the village of Belleek in 1857. The unusually fine clay produced a porcelain china that was translucent with a glass-like finish. It was worked into traditional Irish designs and was an immediate success.
Today, Belleek's delicate strength and it's iridescent pearlized glaze is enthusiastically purchased the world over. This multi-million dollar industry arose from innovative thinking during times of crisis and adversity.
Each of us probably walk past similar opportunities each day.
In a book called When I Relax I Feel Guilty, a foolish man says, "I would like to buy three dollars worth of God, please, not enough to explode my soul or disturb my sleep, but just enough to equal a cup of warm milk or a snooze in the sunshine.
I want comfort not challenge; I want ecstasy, not transformation, not a new birth. I want a pound of the eternal in a paper sack. Please, I would like to buy just three dollars worth of God."
A good question to consider: Just how much of God do you want to buy?


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Kochie's $4 million China venture in danger
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David Koch has a problem.
THE AFL has put Gold Coast's Metricon Stadium on standby if the decision is made not to play an historic match in China.
Rising international tensions have raised some doubts about playing the May 14 Port Adelaide-Gold Coast game in Shanghai.
The match at Jiangwan Sports Stadium would be the first AFL clash for premiership points outside Australia or New Zealand.
But Power chief executive Keith Thomas says they will rely on Australian government advice, given the worsening relations between the United States and North Korea.
"Clearly you can't ignore the circumstances that prevail in the world today and they're in a region that's sensitive to China and where we will be," Thomas told reporters on Tuesday.
"Right now, we have had no advice to suggest that the game is at risk or we shouldn't be going.
"We'll just keep bowling along until we're told otherwise.
Fresh fears.Source:Getty Images
"The AFL have said if the game doesn't happen in Shanghai, they said this 12 months ago, it will happen at Metricon," Thomas said.
It is just another serious issue Port Adelaide has had to face after having to already work through a number of embarrassing public problems to do with the historic match, including the Suns' decision to play a home-game red and yellow playing strip — the national colours of China.
Port has paid Gold Coast $500,000 to move the game to the 25,000-capacity 25,000 Jiangwan Sports Centre.
Koch is scheduled to host a business forum the day before the game as part of a corporate component of the game which will involve Australian producers hold a convention outside the stadium before the game in a bid to boost Aussie food produce in China.
Port Adelaide's budget to host the game with assistance from government and the AFL is over $4 million, including a $250,000 investment from the South Australian State Government.
Now it may all amount to nothing.
SOURCE: newsnow sport
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