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This article is about the geographic region in Eurasia. For other uses, see Caucasus (disambiguation) and Caucasia (disambiguation).
The Caucasus or Caucasia is an area situated between the Black Sea and the Caspian Sea and mainly occupied by Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia, and Russia. It is home to the Caucasus Mountains, including the Greater Caucasus mountain range, which has historically been considered a natural barrier between Eastern Europe and Western Asia.[3]
Europe's highest mountain, Mount Elbrus, at 5,642 metres (18,510 ft) is located in the west part of the Greater Caucasus mountain range. On the southern side, the Lesser Caucasus includes the Javakheti Plateau and grows into the Armenian highlands, part of which is located in Turkey.[4]
The Caucasus region is separated into northern and southern parts – the North Caucasus (Ciscaucasus) and Transcaucasus (South Caucasus), respectively. The Greater Caucasus mountain range in the north is mostly shared by Russia and Georgia, as well as the northernmost parts of Azerbaijan. The Lesser Caucasus mountain range in the south is occupied by several independent states, namely, mostly by Armenia, Azerbaijan, and Georgia, but also extending to parts of northwestern Turkey, northern Iran and the partially recognised Artsakh Republic.
The region is known for its linguistic diversity: aside from Indo-European and Turkic languages, the Kartvelian, Northwest Caucasian, and Northeast Caucasian language families are indigenous to the area.
The term Caucasus is derived from Caucas the forefather of Nakh peoples. According to Leonti Mroveli, the XI century Georgian chronicler, the word Caucasian is derived from the Vainakh ancestor Kavkas.[5] "The Vainakhs are the ancient natives of the . It is noteworthy, that according to the genealogical table drawn up by Leonti Mroveli, the legendary forefather of the Vainakhs was "Kavkas", hence the name Kavkasians, one of the ethnicons met in the ancient Georgian written sources, signifying the ancestors of the Chechens and Ingush. As appears from the above, the Vainakhs, at least by name, are presented as the most "Caucasian" people of all the Caucasians (Caucasus - Kavkas - Kavkasians) in the Georgian historical tradition."[6][7]
The term Caucasus is not only used for the mountains themselves but also includes Ciscaucasia (which is part of the Russian Federation) and Transcaucasia.[8] According to Alexander Mikaberidze, Transcaucasia is a "Russo-centric" term.[9]
Pliny the Elder's Natural History (77–79 AD) derives the name of the Caucasus from Scythian kroy-khasis ("ice-shining, white with snow").[10] German linguist Paul Kretschmer notes that the Latvian word Kruvesis also means "ice".[11][12]
In the Tale of Past Years (1113 AD), it is stated that Old East Slavic Кавкасийскыѣ горы (Kavkasijskyě gory) came from Ancient Greek Καύκασος (Kaukasos; later Greek pronunciation Kafkasos)),[13] which, according to M. A. Yuyukin, is a compound word that can be interpreted as the "Seagull's Mountain" (καύ-: καύαξ, καύηξ, ηκος ο, κήξ, κηϋξ "a kind of seagull" + the reconstructed *κάσος η "mountain" or "rock" richly attested both in place and personal names.)[14]
According to German philologists Otto Schrader and Alfons A. Nehring, the Ancient Greek word Καύκασος (Kaukasos) is connected to Gothic Hauhs ("high") as well as Lithuanian Kaũkas ("hillock") and Kaukarà ("hill, top").[13][15] British linguist Adrian Room points out that Kau- also means "mountain" in Pelasgian.[16]
The Transcaucasus region and Dagestan were the furthest points of Parthian and later Sasanian expansions, with areas to the north of the Greater Caucasus range practically impregnable. The mythological Mount Qaf, the world's highest mountain that ancient Iranian lore shrouded in mystery, was said to be situated in this region. In Middle Persian sources of the Sasanian era, the Caucasus range was referred to as Kaf Kof.[17] The term resurfaced in Iranian tradition later on in a variant form when Ferdowsi, in his Shahnameh, referred to the Caucasus mountains as Kōh-i Kāf.[17] "Most of the modern names of the Caucasus originate from the Greek Kaukasos (Lat., Caucasus) and the Middle Persian Kaf Kof".[17]
"The earliest etymon" of the name Caucasus comes from Kaz-kaz, the Hittite designation of the "inhabitants of the southern coast of the Black Sea".[17]
It was also noted that in Nakh Ков гас (Kov gas) means "gateway to steppe"[18]
The modern name for the region is usually similar in the many languages, and is generally between Kavkaz and Kawkaz.
The North Caucasus region is known as the Ciscaucasus, whereas the South Caucasus region is commonly known as the Transcaucasus.
The Ciscaucasus contains most of the Greater Caucasus mountain range. It consists of Southern Russia, mainly the North Caucasian Federal District's autonomous republics, and the northernmost parts of Georgia and Azerbaijan. The Ciscaucasus lies between the Black Sea to its west, the Caspian Sea to its east, and borders the Southern Federal District to its north. The two Federal Districts are collectively referred to as "Southern Russia."
The Transcaucasus borders the Greater Caucasus range and Southern Russia to its north, the Black Sea and Turkey to its west, the Caspian Sea to its east, and Iran to its south. It contains the Lesser Caucasus mountain range and surrounding lowlands. All of Armenia, Azerbaijan (excluding the northernmost parts) and Georgia (excluding the northernmost parts) are in the South Caucasus.
The watershed along the Greater Caucasus range is generally perceived to be the dividing line between Europe and Southwest Asia. The highest peak in the Caucasus is Mount Elbrus (5,642 meters) located in western Ciscaucasus, and is considered as the highest point in Europe.
The Caucasus is one of the most linguistically and culturally diverse regions on Earth.[citation needed] The nation states that comprise the Caucasus today are the post-Soviet states Georgia (including Adjara and Abkhazia), Azerbaijan (including Nakhchivan), Armenia, and the Russian Federation. The Russian divisions include Dagestan, Chechnya, Ingushetia, North Ossetia–Alania, Kabardino–Balkaria, Karachay–Cherkessia, Adygea, Krasnodar Krai and Stavropol Krai, in clockwise order.
Three territories in the region claim independence but are recognized as such by only a handful of entities: Artsakh, Abkhazia and South Ossetia. Abkhazia and South Ossetia are recognized by the world community as part of Georgia, and Artsakh as part of Azerbaijan.
The region has many different languages and language families. There are more than 50 ethnic groups living in the region.[20] No fewer than three language families are unique to the area. In addition, Indo-European languages, such as Armenian and Ossetian, and Turkic languages, such as Azerbaijani, Kumyk language and Karachay–Balkar, are spoken in the area. Russian is used as a lingua franca most notably in the North Caucasus.
The peoples of the northern and southern Caucasus tend to be either Sunni Muslims, Eastern Orthodox Christians and Armenian Christians. Twelver Shi'ism has many adherents in the southeastern part of the region, in Azerbaijan which extends into Iran.
Located on the peripheries of Turkey, Iran, and Russia, the region has been an arena for political, military, religious, and cultural rivalries and expansionism for centuries. Throughout its history, the Caucasus was usually incorporated into the Iranian world.[21] At the beginning of the 19th century, the Russian Empire conquered the territory from Qajar Iran.[21]
The territory of the Caucasus region was inhabited by Homo erectus since the Paleolithic Era. In 1991, early human (that is, hominin) fossils dating back 1.8 million years were found at the Dmanisi archaeological site in Georgia. Scientists now classify the assemblage of fossil skeletons as the subspecies Homo erectus georgicus.[22]
The site yields the earliest unequivocal evidence for presence of early humans outside the African continent;[23] and the Dmanisi skulls are the five oldest hominins ever found outside Africa.
Kura–Araxes culture from about 4000 BC until about 2000 BC enveloped a vast area approximately 1,000 km by 500 km, and mostly encompassed, on modern-day territories, the Southern Caucasus (except western Georgia), northwestern Iran, the northeastern Caucasus, eastern Turkey, and as far as Syria.
Under Ashurbanipal (669–627 BC), the boundaries of the Assyrian Empire reached as far as the Caucasus Mountains. Later ancient kingdoms of the region included Armenia, Albania, Colchis and Iberia, among others. These kingdoms were later incorporated into various Iranian empires, including Media, the Achaemenid Empire, Parthia, and the Sassanid Empire, who would altogether rule the Caucasus for many hundreds of years. In 95–55 BC, under the reign of Armenian king Tigranes the Great, the Kingdom of Armenia included Kingdom of Armenia, vassals Iberia, Albania, Parthia, Atropatene, Mesopotamia, Cappadocia, Cilicia, Syria, Nabataean kingdom, and Judea. By the time of the first century BC, Zoroastrianism had become the dominant religion of the region; however, the region would go through two other religious transformations. Owing to the strong rivalry between Persia and Rome, and later Byzantium, the latter would invade the region several times, although it was never able to hold the region.
As the Arsacid dynasty of Armenia (an eponymous branch of the Arsacid dynasty of Parthia) was the first nation to adopt Christianity as state religion (in 301 AD), and Caucasian Albania and Georgia had become Christian entities, Christianity began to overtake Zoroastrianism and pagan beliefs. With the Muslim conquest of Persia, large parts of the region came under the rule of the Arabs, and Islam penetrated into the region.[24]
In the 10th century, the Alans (proto-Ossetians)[25] founded the Kingdom of Alania, that flourished in the Northern Caucasus, roughly in the location of latter-day Circassia and modern North Ossetia–Alania, until its destruction by the Mongol invasion in 1238–39.
During the Middle Ages Bagratid Armenia, Kingdom of Tashir-Dzoraget, Kingdom of Syunik and Principality of Khachen organized local Armenian population facing multiple threats after the fall of antique Kingdom of Armenia. Caucasian Albania maintained close ties with Armenia and the Church of Caucasian Albania shared same Christian dogmas with the Armenian Apostolic Church and had a tradition of their Catholicos being ordained through the Patriarch of Armenia.[26]
In the 12th century, the Georgian king David the Builder drove the Muslims out from Caucasus and made the Kingdom of Georgia a strong regional power. In 1194–1204 Georgian Queen Tamar's armies crushed new Seljuk Turkish invasions from the south-east and south and launched several successful campaigns into Seljuk Turkish-controlled Southern Armenia. The Georgian Kingdom continued military campaigns in the Caucasus region. As a result of her military campaigns and the temporary fall of the Byzantine Empire in 1204, Georgia became the strongest Christian state in the whole Near East area, encompassing most of the Caucasus stretching from Northern Iran and Northeastern Turkey to the North Caucasus.
The Caucasus region was conquered by the Ottomans, Mongols, local kingdoms and khanates, as well as, once again, Iran.
Up to and including the early 19th century, the Southern Caucasus and southern Dagestan all formed part of the Persian Empire. In 1813 and 1828 by the Treaty of Gulistan and the Treaty of Turkmenchay respectively, the Persians were forced to irrevocably cede the Southern Caucasus and Dagestan to Imperial Russia.[27] In the ensuing years after these gains, the Russians took the remaining part of the Southern Caucasus, comprising western Georgia, through several wars from the Ottoman Empire.[28][29]
In the second half of the 19th century, the Russian Empire also conquered the Northern Caucasus. In the aftermath of the Caucasian Wars, an ethnic cleansing of Circassians was performed by Russia in which the indigenous peoples of this region, mostly Circassians, were expelled from their homeland and forced to move primarily to the Ottoman Empire.[30][31]
In the 1940s, around 480,000 Chechens and Ingush, 120,000 Karachay–Balkars and Meskhetian Turks, thousands of Kalmyks, and 200,000 Kurds in Nakchivan and Caucasus Germans were deported en masse to Central Asia and Siberia. About a quarter of them died.[32]
The Southern Caucasus region was unified as a single political entity twice – during the Russian Civil War (Transcaucasian Democratic Federative Republic) from 9 April 1918 to 26 May 1918, and under the Soviet rule (Transcaucasian SFSR) from 12 March 1922 to 5 December 1936. Following the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991, Georgia, Azerbaijan and Armenia became independent nations.
The region has been subject to various territorial disputes since the collapse of the Soviet Union, leading to the Nagorno-Karabakh War (1988–1994), the East Prigorodny Conflict (1989–1991), the War in Abkhazia (1992–93), the First Chechen War (1994–1996), the Second Chechen War (1999–2009), and the 2008 South Ossetia War.
In Greek mythology, the Caucasus, or Kaukasos, was one of the pillars supporting the world. After presenting man with the gift of fire, Prometheus (or Amirani in the Georgian version) was chained there by Zeus, to have his liver eaten daily by an eagle as punishment for defying Zeus' wish to keep the "secret of fire" from humans.
In Persian mythology, the Caucasus might be associated with the mythic Mount Qaf which is believed to surround the known world. It is the battlefield of Saoshyant and the nest of the Simurgh.
The Roman poet Ovid placed the Caucasus in Scythia and depicted it as a cold and stony mountain which was the abode of personified hunger. The Greek hero Jason sailed to the west coast of the Caucasus in pursuit of the Golden Fleece, and there met Medea, a daughter of King Aeëtes of Colchis.
The Caucasus is an area of great ecological importance. The region is included in the list of 34 world biodiversity hotspots.[33][34] It harbors some 6400 species of higher plants, 1600 of which are endemic to the region.[35] Its wildlife includes Persian leopards, brown bears, wolves, bison, marals, golden eagles and hooded crows. Among invertebrates, some 1000 spider species are recorded in the Caucasus.[36][37] Most of arthropod biodiversity is concentrated on Great and Lesser Caucasus ranges.[37]
The region has a high level of endemism and a number of relict animals and plants, the fact reflecting presence of refugial forests, which survived the Ice Age in the Caucasus Mountains. The Caucasus forest refugium is the largest throughout the Western Asian (near Eastern) region.[38][39] The area has multiple representatives of disjunct relict groups of plants with the closest relatives in Eastern Asia, southern Europe, and even North America.[40][41][42] Over 70 species of forest snails of the region are endemic.[43] Some relict species of vertebrates are Caucasian parsley frog, Caucasian salamander, Robert's snow vole, and Caucasian grouse, and there are almost entirely endemic groups of animals such as lizards of genus Darevskia. In general, species composition of this refugium is quite distinct and differs from that of the other Western Eurasian refugia.[39]
The natural landscape is one of mixed forest, with substantial areas of rocky ground above the treeline. The Caucasus Mountains are also noted for a dog breed, the Caucasian Shepherd Dog (Rus. Kavkazskaya Ovcharka, Geo. Nagazi). Vincent Evans noted that minke whales have been recorded from the Black Sea.[44][45][46]
Caucasus has many economically important minerals and energy resources, such as alunite, gold, chromium, copper, iron ore, mercury, manganese, molybdenum, lead, tungsten, uranium, zinc, oil, natural gas, and coal (both hard and brown).
2014 Winter Olympics venue, Sochi, Russia. Krasnaya Polyana — a popular centre of mountain skiing and a snowboard venue. The 2015 European Games is the first in the history of the European Games to be held in Azerbaijan.
The Azerbaijan Grand Prix (motor racing) venue was the first in the history of Formula One to be held in Azerbaijan The Rugby World Cup U20 (rugby) was in Georgia (country) 2017 In 2017 U-19 Europe Championship (Football) was held in Georgia.


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Lake Shore Elementary School in Pasadena Maryland
Address and phone number for Lake Shore Elementary School, a Public School, at Mountain Road, Pasadena MD.
Lake Shore Elementary School
4531 Mountain Road, Pasadena, Maryland, 21122
About the Lake Shore Elementary School
The Lake Shore Elementary School, located in Pasadena, MD, is a publicly funded school district that educates children in Anne Arundel County. Public Schools offer K-12 education at elementary schools, middle schools, and high schools located in Anne Arundel County. The Public School system follows Maryland state public education policies, accepting all children living within the district boundaries for a tuition-free education.
You may contact Public Schools for questions about:
Pasadena Public School calendars
Admissions policies and enrollment
Anne Arundel County school districts
Academic and school curriculum
School buses and transportation
Pasadena Public School Enrollment
Residents living within the school district boundaries can enroll in Public Schools. The school district sets policies for enrollment, which include age verification, address verification, and other information about the student. Kindergarten enrollment typically occurs during the spring before beginning school, using the state-mandated cutoff date for enrollment. Pasadena Public Schools also enroll new students throughout the school year.
Public School Policies
The Lake Shore Elementary School provides information about school policies, activities, and procedures. These include homework policies, school hours, attendance policies, and academic policies. Public Schools within the district set policies and procedures in coordination with the school district and Maryland State Department of Education guidelines. In addition, the Public School system sets the academic calendar for schools within the district.
Pasadena School District
In Pasadena, public schools operate as part of the local school district, which administers multiple k-12 schools within the district. The Pasadena board of education oversees the school district, setting policies for public schools and appointing a Superintendent of Schools. The school district also implements Maryland state policies on teacher qualifications, curriculum, assessment, and the school calendar.
Educational Programs and Events
The Lake Shore Elementary School hosts multiple programs and events throughout the year, including events at Pasadena elementary schools, middle schools, and high schools. These include educational programs designed for a variety of different learners, such as gifted learners or special needs students. The Public School system also participates in community improvement projects and hosts graduation events.
Contact the Lake Shore Elementary School
You may contact the Lake Shore Elementary School by calling 410-222-6465, or by addressing inquiries to the office mailing address: Lake Shore Elementary School, 4531 Mountain Road, Pasadena, Maryland, 21122.
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If charged and convicted under the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals Act or the Criminal Code, individuals could receive a maximum fine of $75,000 or two years in jail for animal cruelty or up to $5,000 and 18 months in jail under the Criminal Code.
"The Heat Is On" reminds people that this summer often the best place for your pets is a cool shady place like your family home. "Each year many well meaning Canadians take advantage of the summer by bringing their pets with them everywhere they go. We're asking people to stop and think for a moment," says O'Sullivan.
Dogs and cats, and other animals, have a body temperature which is already several degrees higher than our own, and with their coats of fur cannot sweat and cool off as efficiently as we do. "If you think we're exaggerating, try wear wearing even a light sweater on a hot summer's day and then go jogging. Within five minutes, you'll know exactly what we're talking about," says The HSC Chairman & CEO Michael O'Sullivan whose family has a houseful of dogs and cats.
The message which can be found here is simple and straight to the point: "You wouldn't lock yourself in a sauna. Don't lock your dog in a car."
Temperatures in a car, even with the windows rolled down can turn the inside of a car into an oven, putting your animal's life at risk.
The animal charity recommends that the best place on a hot day for your animal is inside your family home, where they have access to plenty of fresh water and a cool place to sleep.
The Humane Society of Canada is asking people to take the time to educate others when they see a pet being put in a potentially dangerous situation and, when necessary, contact the appropriate authorities right away. Also ask your local shopping malls to post signs and make regular public announcements asking people not to leave their dogs locked in a hot car. People requiring assistance can also contact The Humane Society of Canada, toll-free, at 1-800-641-KIND (5463).


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Talking Points: Man City v Real Madrid
Neil Leigh
Manchester City face Real Madrid at the LA Memorial Coliseum this week. It's the Blues' glamour pre-season friendly and we've taken a look at the pre-match talking points.
1Case for the defence
After a busy couple of days in the summer transfer market, manager Pep Guardiola now has much more armoury at his disposal in terms of the make-up of his City back-line.
Earlier summer signings Kyle Walker and Ederson both made their City bows in last week's historic first-ever overseas derby with Manchester United in Houston.
And with Danilo and Benjamin Mendy having since also sealed their moves to the Club and joined up with the tour party in Los Angeles, there could be more debuts in store for the testing assignment with European champions Real Madrid in the early hours of Thursday.
The latest arrivals mean the City boss now has options aplenty at the back as he looks to get City battle-hardened ahead of the new Premier League campaign and it will be fascinating to see how he deploys his troops against Zinedine Zidane's squad.
WATCH: Benjamin Mendy: First interview
2Teen spirit
Stockport teenager Phil Foden garnered headlines aplenty following a superb first-team debut against Manchester United in Houston.
Guardiola was glowing in his praise for the 17-year-old and the Stockport-born attacking midfielder, who caused United all end of problems last week, could be given another high-profile opportunity to impress at the LA Coliseum.
However, Foden wasn't the only youngster to shine bright in City's tour opener.
Patrick Roberts, back after an impressive 18-month loan spell at Celtic, also caught the eye with a fine individual performance while defender Tosin Adarabioyo was another to earn plaudits from Guardiola afterwards.
And for all the publicity and headlines surrounding the summer signings, who transformed the make-up of the City squad, the trip to the States also offers the young brigade the perfect showcase to press their own claims on Guardiola.
WATCH: Spotlight: Phil Foden
3Fighting fit
Given it was their first pre-season outing, City were understandably not quite at full throttle during the Houston derby.
But with the best part of another week's fitness work now under their belts, Guardiola will be looking to see his players take another key step forward in the build-up to the Premier League opener at Brighton next month.
And they couldn't have a better yardstick than in the formidable shape of the reigning European champions.
Of course, results are of secondary importance in pre-season friendlies, but a match-up with Real Madrid is probably just what City need in terms of getting them ship-shape for when the real business starts in earnest.
WATCH: Inside City: Danilo's first day
4Real quality
Indeed, the depth of quality in the Real squad underlines just how big a test this is for City.
Their midfield trio of Isco, Toni Kroos and Luka Modric is packed full of vision and guile and can unlock the tightest of defences.
And with Karim Benzema and Gareth Bale ahead of them, goals are never far away.
As pre-season tests go, this is about as difficult as it gets.
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Chennai: In one of the most unexpected turn of events for the upcoming Lok Sabha elections, MGR Amma Deepa Peravai founder and niece of former Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa, J Deepa extended her support to AIADMK.
She said the party functionaries unanimously decided to lend their support to AIADMK in the upcoming Lok Sabha elections. "All our cadres will be working for the AIADMK victory in all the 40 constituencies," she said.
It may be noted that Deepa had earlier said that her party will contest solo in the Lok Sabha election. In another twist, Deepa also revealed that talks were held with AIADMK to merge her party with it.
She added that the talks have been interrupted due to the elections and will continue once the polls are over. "Our party is keen on merging with the AIADMK. If the merger happens, I don't expect any party positions," she said.


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Australians urged to evacuate homes as high winds fan fires
Fires on the border of Victoria and New South Wales are poised to merge and create a blaze almost 600,000ha in size
10 January 2020 - 10:35 Colin Packham and Wayne Cole
The Sydney Opera House is shrouded in haze in Sydney, Australia, on January 8 2020. Picture: BLOOMBERG/BRENT LEWIN
Sydney — Australian authorities urged nearly a quarter of a million people to evacuate their homes on Friday and prepared military backup as soaring temperatures and erratic winds fanned bushfires across the east coast.
Temperatures were expected to shoot well above 40ºC in several parts of the country, accompanied by high winds, threatening to fuel fires that have already left thousands of people homeless.
In the country's alpine region on the border of Victoria and New South Wales states, two fires were poised to merge and create a blaze almost 600,000ha in size.
"If you can get out, you should get out, you shouldn't be in the remote and forested parts of our state," Andrew Crisp, emergency management commissioner for the state of Victoria, told the Australian Broadcasting Corporation.
Emergency alert text messages were sent to 240,000 people in Victoria state alone, telling them to leave, Crisp said. People in high-risk regions in New South Wales and South Australia states were also urged to think about leaving, but authorities had not provided numbers.
Prime Minister Scott Morrison said he had given instructions to the military so "that they are to stand ready to move and support immediately."
John White, mayor of East Gippsland, an area that was ravaged by fires on New Year's Eve, told Reuters that residents were on the move: "People aren't taking any chances."
Authorities said that conditions would continue to deteriorate across Victoria into the evening as heavy winds whip across the state. Those winds grounded military helicopters that had been assisting with evacuations and supply drops.
Twenty-seven people have been killed and thousands subjected to repeat evacuations as monster — and unpredictable — fires have scorched through more than 10.3-million hectares of land, an area the size of South Korea, since the start of October.
Campaigners have planned protests in several world cities, kicking off in Sydney and Melbourne later on Friday, to highlight their concerns about Australia's climate change policies.
Bushfires flare in southern Australia as heatwave returns
Residents of Kangaroo Island have been advised to leave their homes
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As his country burns, prime minister insists there is no need to cut carbon emissions more aggressively
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Bear Branch Elementary School has instituted an absurd policy that does not allow walkers to leave the school until the car line has finished. It also ripped out the bike rack last fall to discourage cycling.
An elementary school in Texas has infuriated parents by enforcing strange rules surrounding pickup at the end of the day. Holly Ray, the principal at Bear Branch Elementary School in Magnolia, insists that children must either take the bus or be picked up by car, unless their parents come on foot after the car line has finished. Nor can parents drive to the school, park their car, and walk inside to retrieve their child early.
The school issued a statement on April 6, saying that the car line takes only 30 minutes and would allow walkers to be dismissed for pickup by 3:50 p.m., but parents say that the line takes at least an hour, obviously taking a significant chunk out of their day. Video footage of the line shows how it stretches down several nearby roads, inching forward like a depressing funeral cortège. I counted 51 cars, with more lined up in the distance.
Principal Ray, who also tore out the school's bike rack last September as part of her mission to streamline the pickup procedure, defends the new policy as protecting the children's safety and ensuring their wellbeing. "The goal is a safe dismissal process." She is backed by the school board and the local police force, which was called to intervene when an angry parent threatened school staff last fall. Other parents have been issued warnings by the police.
Young says that hundreds of signatures on a petition did nothing to sway the principal or school board to change the policy. As a result, Young has pulled his kids out of school, despite living close by.
Another parent, Wendy Jarman, lives in the neighborhood directly behind the school. It makes far more sense to walk, but when she was forced to get in her vehicle and join the car line, she also chose to withdraw her kids and enroll them elsewhere.
It is ridiculous that such a policy exists in a country where parents and educators lament the chronic unhealthiness and overweight of countless children, when scientists are trying to change the tide of opinion surrounding global warming and environmental activists are encouraging people to find alternative modes of transportation that do not rely on fossil fuels.
Most disturbing, however, is the way in which the 'state' (in this case, the school board, principal, and police) is allowed to enforce its skewed version of control-obsessed safety onto parents and children. The fact that the first-ever 'free-range parenting' legislature was signed into existence just a few months ago does not seem to matter in this case, as it cannot override municipal and state restrictions.
The principal is either not aware or does not care that car accidents are the leading cause of death for children between ages one and 19 in North America. She refuses even to adjust the policy to allow walkers to leave prior to the start of the car line, which would be a logical solution and provide encouragement for many parents to leave their cars at home in order to have a speedier, more efficient end to the school day.


This issue is already the ninth 'heathen yearbook' and the fifth that I review. The A5 size booklet again looks better than before with glossy paper and a colour cover, well bound and well printed. Most of the texts are from the hand of Boppo Grimmsma who wrote the introduction, tells the reader why to visit the Externsteine (also on the cover, but the photo is 'photoshopped' a bit of course), he interviewed the Dutch author Aat van Gilst and the Frisian novellist Willem Schoorstra. A lengthy article of Grimmsma is about the Balder myths. The author gives some information about the different interpretations that scholars in the course of the years gave to the myth and comes to his own less black-and-white conclusions in which one explanation does not exclude every other. Michiel de Nijs contributed an article about working with land-spirits and similar beings. At the end the reader will find the five stories that were read at the 2011 Midsummer weekend, this time with as theme a fairytale with a mythological foundation. The result is a nice 104 page booklet (written in Dutch of course) that you can get by clicking on the cover and following the instructions.
Thank you for your fine book report; again.
Your blog has an amazing array of articles. Bravo. A joy to read. Also amazing is the amount of books you read, and on varying subjects. From hard history to esoterical classics.
The front cover shows the Externsteine in the Lippe district in Germany. A natural and historical marvel. It's almost a proven fact that the site was a pagan shrine for sun worship. On top of the rock formation I erected the Irminsul,; symbolic for the heathen revival in the Saxon lands.
Aat van Gilst is an author that treats, in length, Germanic myth, history and folklore. Because he is not a part of the scientific in-crowd, and did not have to fear for his career, he was able to publish freely on subject matters that were taboo for quite some time (aka continuation of pagan Germanic practices an thought into christian times).
Willem Schoorstra wrote a novel about the life of the greatest Netherlander ever: King Rêdbâd. The heathen Frisian king (known in Dutch as Radboud) that refused to be baptized an saved Friesland from the perilous and abject Christian doctrine. Alas with the death of the great king, Friesland did succumb to this disease of the mind: cosmopolitical monotheism.


Makes you feel like home. Nice people, nice team, everyone tries to create a positive environment. Tech stack is updated, and people try to be aware of new stuff appearing.
The structure is flat. This isn't bad, but it might not be the right place for everyone. Self-management is a must.
Keep relying on tech people to drive decisions - this got us this far. Keep focusing on people and processes. You are doing great.


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The Finder: Cancelled; No Season Two
by Trevor Kimball, May 9, 2012
Bones has been a quiet hit for FOX but the same can't be said for its spin-off, The Finder. FOX has now cancelled the low-rated series after one season.
The Finder is a procedural series that revolves around a man (Geoff Stults) with the extraordinary ability to help people find the unfindable. Other castmembers include Maddie Hasson, Mercedes Masohn, and Michael Clarke Duncan.
The spin-off debuted on January 12th to a disappointing 1.7 rating in the 18-49 demographic with 5.50 million total viewers. It was fourth in its Thursday night timeslot right out of the gate and lost nearly 30% of the all-important demo from its compatible lead-in, Bones. This was not a good start.
Should The Finder have been cancelled?
No! Are you kidding?
Things picked up a bit in the following weeks, thanks in large part to the show having FOX's blockbuster American Idol as a lead-in. Still, the numbers weren't as high as they should have been.
After seven weeks on the air, FOX put Finder on hiatus and then moved it to Friday nights, giving its Thursday timeslot to Touch. If The Finder could maintain a healthy percentage of its viewers after the switch, it would likely garner a renewal.
But that didn't happen and Finder's numbers dropped like a rock. In its first Friday airing, the freshman series attracted a 1.1 demo rating — an episode-to-episode loss of 53% — with just 4.03 million viewers. The numbers for future episodes fluctuated a bit but didn't really get any more encouraging. The network could do just as well or better by running cheaper reality programming.
The season finale of The Finder is set to air this Friday night and there won't be any episodes after that. Hopefully the producers saw the writing on the wall early enough and won't leave viewers hanging with any major unresolved storylines.
What do you think? What went wrong with this show? Why do you think The Finder failed to attract a bigger audience? Was cancelling the series the right decision? How would you have fixed it?
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DesChime
Sadly, Michael Duncan's passing was a major blow to any fan attempts to revive this show. He was a subtle yet vital part of the show, playing the pathos, the ground and heart to Walter's quirkiness and pathology. I just don't see how the show could continue with the same feel without Michael Duncan as Leo.
I agree with Dwight, too much quirky.
One of its problems was too many quirky characters that was hard to get a bead on. The Finder was complicated, the heavy lingoed Australian girl was distracting and Michael Duncan didn't do anything except offer legal advice, which even Booth from Bones didn't need to have around. The actors were good, but their characters were too much and it seemed as though the Finder almost found things too quickly in succession, almost like watching a DaVinci Code series.
Skylar Mcmillan
Bring the show back it was so good
Ser Moomba
I heard that Michael Duncan got very sick. He would have been hard to replace, but not impossible. The federal agent sucked, she was two-dimensional, not well written and not well played. But Willa Monday was just great and so was Walter. I would have liked to know what happened to her after she walked away at the end of episode 12, how she defied the ******* uncle and got the Romani "family" to get off her back. Also, Walter demonstrated some killer moves when he saved his mom and ninja-whipped the three cultists, and he gets busted up at… Read more »
Eunice arede
All the shows that get cancelled is because of ratings iam glad that iam in canada at least canadien shows get renewed I never know when they say low ratings where they come from was finder after it takes two salvation wiskey cavalier the enemy within all good shows and some programs coming on the fall 2019 they suck
NanaAbuela
Mercedes Masohn was not a good casting. She just wasn't a convincing federal agent. She was the only thing truly annoying about the show. Otherwise, it was great. And I 'd still like to know what happened to Willa…..
Low rating. Such a lie. Season two would be great enough to have season 3
annechovey
So imagine if people could recognize a good, no great! thing at the early stages and there you have Finder. If I could I would slap those who decided to quit the series. Bring it back! Please
Jeanie Harting
I don't think there was enough advertising about this show or information, especially for people who didn't watch Bones until it was re-runs or watch American Idol. Networks also put shows on hold & make it impossible to find them again until it's too late. But This was Fox who cancelled "The Good Guys" & "Human Target", ruined Sleepy Hollow" So…
Emily Kelley Parker
I loved this show. I never heard about it when it was run in prime time, but I binge-watched it on Netflix and the ending killed me! I wish Netflix would pick it up. Fox did a crappy job of promoting this one and it was first rate.
George Cohen
This was just a real nice warm hearted show with no demons or zombies. So of course Fox cancelled it. Can't have just a nice show, shat brings people joy.
Like Bones & the original Startrek series, The Finder was a higher quality show than most of Fox's pablum. It takes something like Netflix to find us, the heavy duty viewers. The Finder is worth re-watching to catch all the impressive esoteric fact gems hidden in it. Hopefully, Netflix will finish the series.
Saw it on Netflix. Definitely would watch additional seasons if it goes to Netflix. Although one of the key actor died that could be dealt with.
I don't have a solution, but I certainly thought where it ended, with Geoff Stults' character headed off for jail, a wide-open possibility for the writers of this show. It's certainly a show that the actors would not be ashamed to tell their families, friends and children that they acted a role in this show. He's a Vet, putting his life back together without whining about the Life Lessons he got dealt and he and his cohorts are certainly not living in the usual 9-5 box society would have them live in. GO GEOFF STULTS AND COMPANY!!!!!!!
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The record derives from ILDIS which reports it as an accepted name (record 21339).
Full publication details for this name can be found in IPNI: urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:234471-2.


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The Palace's main building was built in 1910 and renovated and restored to its original condition the hotel's reception, restaurants, bars and business center. Every effort was put to source the original pieces of furniture and artwork that belonged to the palace. In addition, a two-wing extension was built to accommodate the hotel's 250 rooms. The extension also includes a health spa, banquet and meeting halls, outdoor swimming pool. "With the introduction of the new Food & Beverage outlets. 10. 08. 250 luxurious rooms beautiful designed to luxury & guest comfort, ranging from standard, business, club rooms, handicapped, presidential and executive suites, all connected to the palace by air-conditioned corridors and indoor gardens. Baidar Restaurant, an all day dining restaurant where guests can enjoy the open international buffet breakfast, lunch and dinner while enjoying magnificent garden view. The beautifully designed Riwaq Courtyard, Al Makan Bar, Zaitouneh Restaurant, Wine Cellar, Abu Nawas Bar and Kheyam Bar complete the array of dining experiences to be enjoyed at InterContinental Bethlehem. This a historical building dominating its surrounding built in the traditional white stones. The lobby kept the Palace style architecture. It is welcoming and beautifully decorated. It is large bright and elegant.


WOONSOCKET — Margaret Dora Cummins, 86, of Woonsocket passed away Monday, February 4, 2019, at the Ava's House Hospice in Sioux Falls.
Funeral service will be 11 a.m., Friday, February 8, at the Resurrection Lutheran Church in Mitchell. Pastor John Hansen will officiate. Burial will be in St. Wilfrid's Catholic Cemetery at Woonsocket. Visitation will be 3 to 6 p.m. Thursday at the church, or one hour prior to service on Friday.
In lieu of flowers the family request donations be given to Ava's House, 1320 West 17th Street, Sioux Falls, SD 57105.
Arrangements by the Basham Funeral Home of Woonsocket.


An important concept within Hinduism is that of avatar – meaning literally, "one who descends." The closest English word is "incarnation." This is technically incorrect since many Hindu sects (especially Vaishnavas) believe that God does not adopt a material (carnal) body, but appears in spiritual form.
Another important notion is that God, or a specific deity, can expand and multiply him or herself into unlimited divine forms. In other words there may be different forms of a deity even if they are not avatars.
Vishnu is most famous for his many avatars of which ten, the Dashavatara, are principal. Of these, Krishna and Rama are the two most popular focuses in the UK today. Avatars feature less prominently in Shaivism. Nonetheless, Shiva has several important forms, such as Nataraj (the Lord of Dance) and the Rudras, representing his angry and frightful aspects.
Shakti, the consort of Shiva, has many forms and incarnations: some are kind and loving, such as Parvati, and others warlike and fearful, such as Durga and Kali.
a particular form or expansion.
a particular activity performed by that deity.
a quality or feature of that deity.
In this list, Narayana is a form of Vishnu in the spiritual realm. Krishna and Rama are also Vishnu forms, often considered his avatars. Govinda is a name of Krishna meaning "one who gives pleasure to the cows."
Mahadeva and Mahesh are epithets of Shiva. Rudra is a particularly angry form (or expansion). Nataraja (the King of Dancers) is a name of Shiva.
Shakti is quite a technical name for "the Goddess." She is most often called Devi and affectionately called "Mataji" (respected mother). Parvati, Durga, and Kali (shown here) are distinct forms of Shakti.