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Description: Bevernbridge House
Date Listed: 17 March 1952
English Heritage Building ID: 292806
OS Grid Reference: TQ3947116286
OS Grid Coordinates: 539471, 116286
Latitude/Longitude: 50.9292, -0.0167
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CHAILEY SOUTH COMMON
TQ 31 NE 5/29 17.5.52.
L-shaped house of 179() circa. Two storeys and attic. Three windows. One
dormer. Faced with red mathematical tiles, the ground floor replaced with
red brick, all headers, to match. Long and short painted wooden quoins.
Wooden dentilled eaves cornice. Slate roof. Glazing bars intact. Doorway
with pilasters, pediment, semi-circular fanlight and door of 6 fielded panels.
The south wall is faced with red brick and weather-tiles. Two windows.
Listing NGR: TQ3947116286
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An exploration of small town sensibilities
Winter, Lucas William
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This thesis will explore the design process of creating a contextually appropriate building by responding to sensibilities gleaned from a series of local narratives. The resulting architectural exploration is a three story elderly housing project in downtown Miles City, Montana.

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First lady presses governors on veterans' jobs
Monday - 2/25/2013, 4:58pm EST
AP White House Correspondent
WASHINGTON (AP) -- First lady Michelle Obama on Monday challenged governors to make it easier for military personnel to transfer their skills to civilian jobs as they return home from Afghanistan and other far-flung posts.
"While this time of war may be ending, the truth is our responsibility to our troops and their families will really just be ramping up," Mrs. Obama told governors during an event at the White House.
Mrs. Obama pressed states to pass legislation or take executive action by 2015 allowing veterans to receive professional credentials or licenses based on their experiences in the military. Administration officials said that would allow veterans to apply for jobs more quickly rather than having to take courses for skills they already have.
The nation's governors are in Washington for their annual meeting.
The veterans' initiatives are part of Mrs. Obama's "Joining Forces" program, which aims to help veterans and their families. The program has focused in particular on assisting military personnel find civilian jobs, an effort that is expected to take on more urgency as the Afghan war comes to a close by the end of next year.
Mrs. Obama said 1 million military personnel will be transitioning back to civilian life over the next few years.
The first lady wants states to focus in particular on making it easier for veterans to obtain credentials and licenses for commercial driving, nursing, and emergency medical services, administration officials said. The White House has outlined suggested legislative language states can use for implementing the changes.
Officials did not have an estimate for how much it would cost states to implement the credentialing programs. But they suggested the programs could eventually be a cost-saver by keeping veterans off unemployment.
Mrs. Obama has previously called on states to help military spouses transfer their state-specific credentials when their families move due to changes in deployment. Seventeen states have passed such legislation over the past year, joining 11 states that already had laws on the books.
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- Days of Blood & Starlight
What an odd and terrible thing to know.
If Rath hadn’t scented the Caprine and followed them, caught up to them, and joined them, then this fraught silence would not exist at all; this same air would be pierced with bleating screams, and Lell would be crying, sweet small bundle, and all the others, too, instead of the aries.
“Aries!” said Hazael, laughing—laughing with relief, it seemed to Akiva—and he saw that in the gully were only aries: shaggy, curling-horned livestock, and no Caprine sheepfolk, no chimaera at all.
“You and you.” Kala pointed out two soldiers. “Kill them. The rest of you…” She turned in a half circle, surveying her team; she hung in the air, wings sweeping wide enough to brush the leaning trees at the gully’s edges and shed sparks. “Find their owners.”
Sveva heard the screams of the aries and pressed her face harder into Rath’s shoulder. Rath had persuaded the sheepfolk to drive off their flock and double back along the creek bed, climb out of that ravine and into another—this one—and take shelter. They were too many, all together, and the aries were too loud, too unruly to trust with their lives; they’d be seen, he’d said, and he’d been right.
Now the aries were dying.
Sveva clutched her sister’s hand; it was limp. The screams of the aries were terrible, even at a distance, but they didn’t last long, and when they finally trailed away she imagined she could feel the angels wheeling in the sky overhead. Angels, hunting. Hunting them. She clutched the hilt of her own stolen knife and it made her feel her smallness all the more, made as it was for an angel’s big brute fist.
Maybe she would stab one with it. What would that feel like? Oh, her hate was hot; she almost hoped she got the chance. She’d always hated angels, of course, but in a faraway, vague kind of way. They’d been monsters from bedtime tales. She’d never even seen one before she was captured. For centuries this land had been safe—the Warlord’s armies had kept it so. What ill luck, then, to live in the time of failed safety! Now, suddenly, seraphim were real: leering tormentors, beautiful in a way that made beauty hideous.
And then there was Rath, dreadful in a way that made dreadful… well, if not beautiful, then regal, at least. Proud. How curious, to take comfort in the bulk of a flesh-eater at her side, but she did. Again, Sveva felt herself scraping at her own shallows; since she was taken slave, her world had fallen open. She had beheld seraphim and revenants; she had seen death and smelled it, and today, just today, she had learned more of folk than in all her fourteen years together. First Rath, then the Caprine: sheepfolk she had called herdbeasts, and would have left to fend for themselves. Nur had made a poultice for Sarazal and given her some spice in water, hoping to break her fever. They had shared their food, and Lell, who smelled of grass, had taken to Sveva and ridden astride her back for a time, her little arms wrapped around Sveva’s waist where just days ago a great black shackle had been.
Sveva’s eyes were closed. Her face was against Rath’s shoulder, and her hip hard against Nur’s, and the silence held them together. It was the worst kind of silence, but a good kind of closeness. These weren’t her folk, but… they were, and maybe that meant that anyone could be anyone’s, which was a sort of nice thing to think, with the world falling apart. Sveva wondered if she would ever get home to her mother and father so she could tell them that.
She tried to pray, but she had only ever prayed at night, and it seemed to her that the moons made poor protectors when angels chose to hunt by day.
In the end, it wasn’t Lell who gave them away, but Sarazal.
She jolted awake, her limp hand suddenly clenching and pulling free of Sveva’s. The fever had come down; Nur’s spice and poultice had worked, and Sarazal’s big dark eyes, when they fluttered open, were much clearer than when Sveva had looked at them last. Only… they fluttered open to see Rath’s fearsome face mere inches from her own.
And Sarazal opened her mouth, and screamed.
THE DEVILS WILL STILL BE THERE IN THE MORNING
“Listen to this one,” said Zuzana. “She-devil sighting in southern Italy—”
“Blue hair?” asked Mik. It came out muffled. He had a pillow over his face and had been trying to sleep.
“Pink, actually. I guess the legions of Satan are exploring their color options.” She was sitting up in bed, reading off her laptop. “So, she scaled the side of this cathedral and hissed, at which point the witness was able to ascertain, at a distance of some hundred feet, that her tongue was forked.”
“Yeah.” She puffed out her cheeks and backpaged to her Google search screen. “What a bunch of morons.”
Mik peered out from beneath the pillow. “It’s bright out there,” he said. “Come into my lair.”
“Lair. That’s some fancy lair you’ve got, mister.”
“It’s exactly the right size for my head.”
“Uh-huh,” Zuzana said vaguely. “Here’s one from yesterday, um, Bakersfield, California. Blue hair, cool coat, floating. Hurray! We’ve found Karou! What she’s doing in Bakersfield, California, stalking schoolchildren is unclear.” She gave a derisive snort and returned to the Google screen.
The world, it would seem, was overrun with blue-haired devils. The same message boards that reported angels among us were keeping abreast of the devil situation, too, and in a quirk of coincidence—ahem—ever since the widely televised showdown on the Charles Bridge, devils tended to have blue hair, black trench coats, and tattoos of eyes on the palms of their hands.
Karou was the face of the Apocalypse, which Zuzana happened to think was a pretty kick-ass brand of infamy. She had even made the cover of Time magazine with the headline “Is This What a Demon Looks Like?” There was this gorgeous picture someone had taken that day as she faced the angels, her hair wild, hamsas outthrust before her, a look on her face of fierce concentration with a hint of… wild delight. Zuzana remembered the wild delight. It had been a little freaky. Time had tried to interview her for the piece, and strangely enough had failed to print her expletive-riddled response. Kaz, of course, had not disappointed them.
“Come sleep,” Mik tried again. “The devils will still be there in the morning.”
“In a minute,” Zuzana said, but it wasn’t a minute. An hour later she had made a cup of tea and moved to the armchair beside the bed. The message boards weren’t getting her anywhere; that was where the crazies went to play. She narrowed her search. She’d already traced the IP address of Karou’s single e-mail to Morocco, which wasn’t a surprise. The last she’d heard from her friend she’d been in Morocco. This wasn’t Marrakesh, though, but a city called Ouarzazate—pronounced War-za-zat—in a region of palm oases, camels, and kasbahs at the fringes of the Sahara desert.
Dust and starlight? Why, yes. One would imagine.
Priestess of a sandcastle? Kasbahs did look extraordinarily like sandcastles. Too bad there were, like, fifty million of them scattered over hundreds of miles. Still, Zuzana was excited. This had to be right. She got that dorky song “Rock the Casbah” stuck in her head and hummed it as she drank tea and paged through dozens of sites that mostly came up as trek outfitters or “authentic nomad experience” kasbah hotels, all of them with these sparkling swimming pools that didn’t look terribly nomad-y to her.
And then she came across a travel blog a French guy had written about his trek in the Atlas Mountains. It was only a couple of days old and mostly it was just landscape pictures and camel shadows and dusty children selling jewelry at the roadside, but then there was this one shot that caused Zuzana to set her teacup aside and sit up. She zoomed in and leaned close. It was the night sky with a perfect half pie of a moon, and—obscure enough that she wouldn’t have noticed them if she weren’t looking—shapes. Six of them, with wings, they were visible mostly for the way they blotted out the stars. Hard to determine scale in a sky photo, it was the subtitle that got her.
Don’t tell the angel chasers, but they have some seriously big night birds down here.
A POOR JUDGE OF MONSTERS
Karou went to the river to bathe—feeling almost absurdly indulgent about shampooing her hair, and more so about the wastrel fifteen minutes she took to let it dry fanned out on a hot rock—and when she got back to the fortress, the crossbar was missing from her door.
“Where is it?” she demanded of Ten.
“How would I know? I was with you.”
Yes, she had been, never mind that Karou hadn’t wanted her. It wasn’t safe for her to go off alone, Thiago had said, even to the shallows of the river that spilled out of the mountains and passed just downhill of the kasbah, in plain sight of the sentry tower—with some large rocks that she valued for the hiding of nudity from keen eyes. The chimaera were as intrigued by her humanity as Issa and Yasri had always been, but were less kind about it.
“What a queer plain thing you are,” Ten had observed today, with an up-and-down look that took in Karou’s tailless, clawless, hoofless, and otherwise less self.
“Thanks,” Karou had said, sinking into the river. “I try.”
She’d had a fleeting impulse to let the current carry her away under the water, just downstream a ways where she could be free of the she-wolf’s presence for, oh, a half hour? Ten had been quite the fixture over the past several days: her assistant and chaperone, overseer and shadow.
“What will you do when I have to go back out for teeth?” Karou had asked Thiago that morning. “Send her with me?”
“Ten? No. Not Ten,” he’d replied, in such a way that Karou had instantly taken his meaning.
“What, you? You’re going to come with me?”
“I admit, I’m curious to see this world. There must be more to it than this desert. You can show me.”
He was serious. Karou’s stomach had seized. She’d been joking about Ten, but him? “You couldn’t. You’re not human—you’d be seen. And you can’t fly.” And you’re vile, and I don’t want you.
“We’ll think of something.”
Will we, Karou had thought, imagining Thiago in Poison Kitchen with his wolf feet kicked up on a coffin, spooning goulash into his cruel, sensual mouth. She wondered if Zuzana would swoon over his beauty as she had Akiva’s, and immediately thought: No. Zuze would see right through him.
But there was a flaw in that. Zuzana hadn’t seen through Akiva, had she? And neither had she. Apparently Karou was a poor judge of monsters, which was most unfortunate considering her current situation.
“Who took it?” she demanded. Her heartbeat was out of whack, coming in little staccato bursts.
“What are you carrying on about? It’s only a piece of wood.”
“It’s only my safety.”
This was to be the cost of clean hair? How was she supposed to sleep when anyone could waltz right in? She slept poorly enough as it was. It struck her then, a swift little thought like the jab of a needle, that she had slept just fine with Akiva only a few feet away, that night in her flat in Prague. What was wrong with her sensors that she had felt safe with him? “This was your idea, wasn’t it? Because I locked you out the other day?” Even the wall brackets had been pried away, so she couldn’t just find another beam and slot it in place. “Do you want someone to kill me in my sleep?’
“Calm down, Karou,” said Ten. “No one wants to kill—”
“Oh, really. No one wants to, or no one will?”
Did she expect Ten to sugarcoat it? “Fine. No one will,” said the she-wolf. “You are under the White Wolf’s protection. That’s better than any piece of wood. Now, come. Let’s get back to work. There’s Emylion to finish, and Hvitha goes to the pit tonight.”
And that was that? She was just supposed to sidle meekly into her room and get back to work on the Wolf’s resurrection wish list? Like hell. Karou turned back toward the stairs, but Ten stood in her way, so she crossed the room to where the window stood open. If Thiago wanted her watched, she thought, he’d do better to assign a shadow who could fly.
Ten realized what she was about to do and said, “Karou…” just as she stepped into the air and, after floating there just long enough to throw a defiant glare Ten’s way, let herself fall. Fast. A great whoosh of air, and she pulled up short at the last second to land in a crouch four stories down.
Ow. Pulled up a little too short. The soles of her feet smarted, but it had surely looked dramatic. Ten’s head was out the window, and Karou fought the impulse to flip her off—the British V version, which was so much cooler than the American single-finger—but it was ridiculous either way. Don’t be such a human, she told herself, and went looking for the Wolf.
He was probably in the guardhouse, the half-razed structure where he held court with his captains, drawing maps in the dirt and then scuffing them away, pacing, ranting, planning. Karou started in that direction and passed Hvitha, who gave her a sharp nod and didn’t slow his steps. I guess I’ll see you later, thought Karou with a twist of pity. Hvitha hadn’t exactly been kind to her, but he hadn’t been unkind, either—he hadn’t been anything—and it couldn’t be very nice walking around knowing he was scheduled to have his throat slit in a few hours. Such a waste, it seemed, of Brimstone’s craftsmanship.
Not my call.
Karou passed clothes draped over a wall to dry in the sun, and it came to her that this place was beginning to feel downright inhabited—thanks to herself. Nine more soldiers in the past few days—her pace was improving with Ten’s help, but holy hell, her arms were a mess—and life seemed everywhere amplified. She could hear Aegir’s hammer and see smoke rising from the forge, smell the almost-but-not-quite-nothing smell of boiling couscous, and also the not-nearly-nothing-enough waft of rankness from the buttress that had become the default piss wall of soldiers who couldn’t bother to walk out of the kasbah—or, hello, fly.

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Auberge Resorts Collection appointed to manage Bowie House, a new luxury urban retreat in Fort Worth, Texas
Auberge Resorts Collection, the award-winning portfolio of one-of-a-kind luxury hotels, resorts and residences, has been selected by Jo Ellard, President of Bowie Place Properties, to manage Bowie House, a new urban retreat in Fort Worth , Texas. Scheduled to open in late 2023, the hotel will be located in the heart of the city’s vibrant cultural district, home to one of America’s finest museum collections. When it debuts, the luxury boutique hotel will be the first of its kind in the area, anchoring a 30-block promenade of museums, restaurants and unique shops.
Located in one of Fort Worth’s most iconic neighborhoods on Camp Bowie Boulevard, a major and historic corridor that runs directly through the city’s cultural district, Bowie House, Auberge Resorts Collection will embody Fort Worth’s western personality with a twist. modern. Close to the cultural district park setting of world-class and architecturally-acclaimed museums, Dickies Arena and the Will Rogers Memorial Center, famous equestrian and event facilities that attract millions of visitors each year, Bowie House will be a jewel in the crown for the community, further anchoring Fort Worth as an exciting urban destination for local Texans and discerning travelers from around the world.
Renowned architectural and interior design firm BOKA Powell has been selected to lead the design of the Fort Worth luxury hotel. With a vision guided by Ellard’s deep connection to the city, the design elements will speak to the city’s signature charm and sophistication. Rich, traditional Texas finishes and traces of Spanish architecture will reflect the premises, while the collected and eccentric furniture and decor, curated by Ellard herself, will feel very personal and embody the vision of a true inhabitant of the city, naturally establishing ownership as a quintessence. Texas getaway.
The four-story, 106-room boutique hotel will feature 88 rooms and 18 suites, including a 2,250-square-foot signature suite. Global in design, yet familiarly local in their finishes and details, the rooms will feel like a sophisticated version of a Texas private home. Local Western flavor will be woven into each room with curated artwork and artifacts from some of Texas’ most notable artists and artisans.
Camp Bowie Boulevard’s roots date back to World War I, when the area was established as a training camp for soldiers and specialists of the 36th Division. Named after Alamo defender James Bowie, Camp Bowie’s military layout was later replaced with homes, churches, and storefronts. Even through the evolution of the area, it has retained much of its history in the local businesses and original monuments that still function today. Previously home to Rick’s On The Bricks, a locals’ and visitor’s favorite restaurant, and later a popular pub, The Ginger Man, the Bowie House Hotel itself is a well-known site – its friendly social space is once again a haunt cherished for all who visit.
On the ground floor, a colonnaded lobby will maintain the building’s traditional classical architecture and welcome guests and locals with an array of places to congregate and socialize. Dining options will include an exclusive restaurant facing an enchanted private garden with terrace, a relaxing lobby bar and lounge, and a terrace bar. Near the restaurant, a billiard room with billiard tables and games will provide a fun place to relax, ideal for private meetings. Additional social spaces will include an intimate rose-lacquered library, a fireplace lounge, and a spectacular grand ballroom that will be one of the most elegant event spaces in Texas.
The hotel will also have a boutique, carefully curated to offer one-of-a-kind treasures, a barn-inspired spa, fitness center, outdoor pool and bar. Inspired by Texans’ love of all things outdoors, the pool deck will soar over a second-story deck completely buried in nature. There you can relax in private cabanas and order drinks and light fare from the poolside bar.
Outside, the hotel’s impressive gardens will feature hedges and flowers that clamber over the walls and pergolas to make the dining and pergola areas feel completely surrounded by nature. Plush seating and event spaces will be accented with fireplaces, fire pits and water features to create a lovely surprise around every corner.
Bowie House, Auberge Resorts Collection will offer unique Texas-inspired experiences both on and off property. Fort Worth itself offers an easily walkable destination where guests can explore the Cultural District on foot, as all five museums, world-class equestrian events at Will Rogers, and special events at Dickies Arena are within walking distance. A day trip to Fort Worth Stockyards, a National Historic District, will welcome you to an authentic Western experience of saloons, cattle drives, unique restaurants, dance halls and the finest retail in the West. Other nearby attractions, like the Fort Worth Botanical Gardens, Fort Worth Zoo, National Cowgirl Museum and Hall of Fame, and Botanical Research Institute of Texas, and outdoor activities, like jogging or biking along the 100 miles of Trinity Trails, offer accessible family activities.
Bowie House, Auberge Resorts Collection will be the brand’s second property in Texas, following Commodore Perry Estate, Auberge Resorts Collection in Austin. The hotel will open at the end of 2023. For more information, please visit hostelresorts.com/bowiehouse or connect with the hotel on instagram at @BowieHouseAuberge.
Camp Bowie Blvd.
Fort Worth, Texas USA

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‘Don’t eat junk food’, ‘Don’t drink carbonated beverages’, ‘Told you do not eat outside, but you’ll never listen, ‘Drink plenty of water and eat green vegetables’.
Do ‘stomach problems’ find your ‘tummy’ to be their safest ‘sanctuary’? If your answer is ‘Yes’, then probably you are used to hearing all the above mentioned preaching from every person who knows and cares about you. And, even after sticking to all the good advice given by your loved ones, nothing seems like actually working. Is it? Well, when it comes to stomach related issues, the advice you get is more or less like a gamble. Sometimes and for some people, the solutions work, while for some, the stomach problems are as stubborn as the stain of ketchup on a white shirt, which goes, but still doesn't go.
For all those people ‘the strugglers’ who like to have tea all throughout the day and also have to fight indigestion and other stomach issues at the same time, reading this blog might help. However, one of the most important pieces of advice is – try to avoid adding milk to your cup, as much as possible and bank upon herbal and organic teas for good reasons. Here are some of the most popular tea blends for you that can help you cure indigestion –
Green Tea – It has become quite popular these days because of the health benefits it brings along. Green Tea it with its huge bundle of antioxidants as well as polyphenols helps in increasing the metabolism, killing cancerous cells and boosting memory.
Peppermint Tea – According to a research conducted at the University of Maryland, it has been found that the oil content in peppermint helps in stimulating the gallbladder to make and flush bile juices. These juices help the body to digest fat easily. Apart from that, peppermint tea also helps with indigestion, stomach upset, bloating and flatulence. This tea is also good for people with Irritable Bowel Syndrome.
Ginger Tea – Ginger is an age old remedy to shoo away bloating. And, needless to mention, the benefits also get poured into your cup, when you have it as a tea.
Fennel tea – Fully grown fennel seeds are good whether you cook food with them or drink as tea. According to many researches, it has been found that fennel seeds can help with not one, but many digestive issues like – loss of appetite, heartburn, colic in babies, bloating, etc,
Not all tea brands advocating themselves as ‘organic’, ‘herbal’ or ‘natural’ are good. Therefore, it becomes very important to select a brand carefully. However, Goodwyn Tea is all about purity and trust. So, you can rely on the products they come with.

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Pawan Kalyan fulfilled his promise and gave a second chance to Dolly with his upcoming film which was supposed to be done by S J Suryah. Latest update now reveals that the shooting of this film will kick start in Hyderabad on the 6th of August.
Sources close to us reveal that Pawan will seen in a simple look in this village drama. Produced by Sharath Marar, this film has Shruthi Haasan as the female lead.
Watch out this space for more updates on this project.
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Leaders of employee groups in the El Paso Independent School District said they would not call for the resignations of school board members.
While several El Paso City Council representatives on Tuesday supported board member resignations and discussed the possibility of taking over the district in the wake of ex-Superintendent Lorenzo García pleading guilty on public corruption charges, some district employee groups, in stark contrast, expressed confidence in school officials.
Lucy Clarke, president of the El Paso Federation of Teachers and Support Personnel, said it would be premature to urge board members to resign now.
"I really think if we want true transparency and true accountability, board members need to stay and see it through," Clarke said. "I have confidence in the board because I think they are truly concerned about the primary job of the district, which is to instruct students and ensure their educational success."
Last Wednesday, García admitted to conspiring with six unnamed people to inflate student test scores so some campuses met state and federal accountability standards, thus securing No Child Left Behind funding. Garcia and several other administrators received bonuses for improving test scores.
He also pleaded guilty to steering a nearly half-million-dollar, no-bid district contract to one of his former mistresses.
At their regular meeting Tuesday, some council members criticized district officials.
But, Clarke said, certain administrators misled trustees.
Board of trustees President Isela Castañon-Williams, who could not be reached for comment Tuesday, also has asserted that García misled and withheld information from trustees.
Board members said in April that they were aware in June 2010 of allegations of wrong-doing at Bowie High School.
Castañon-Williams has said trustees behind closed doors ordered García during his annual performance evaluation in June 2010 to conduct an internal audit in response to improper grade-altering allegations.
However, documents obtained by the El Paso Times show auditors began interviewing employees at Bowie High before the June 22 board meeting when Castañon-Williams claims the board told García to begin the audit.
The audit showed a counselor at the school had reported in May 2010 that 77 student transcripts had been doctored, causing some students to be held back in the ninth grade and others promoted to 11th grade, preventing struggling sophomores from taking exams used for federal and state accountability ratings.
Castañon-Williams said trustees never saw the audit until earlier this year, even though it was finished in May 2011.
Almost a year after receiving the audit findings, interim Superintendent Terri Jordan removed Bowie High Principal Jesus Chavez from his job and temporarily reassigned him to central office. She also removed Myrna Gamboa, a director in the Secondary and Priority Schools Division, for allegedly issuing an order that led to grade changes.
Clarke, who gave Castañon-Williams a $50 contribution in January 2011 according to campaign finance records, said she did not have enough information on the district's issues, but said she is confident in a majority of administrators.
She declined to answer whether she was confident in the job of Jordan, who was García's chief-of-staff, but added "she needs to see this through, as well."
Margaret Cordova, the director of the Texas Classroom Teachers Association's District 19, which covers El Paso County schools, said she trusts EPISD officials, despite "not having all the facts."
"It's hard for me to say 'I want them to resign.'" said Cordova, a second-grade teacher at EPISD's Fannin Elementary School. "Everybody makes mistakes. If they were involved in something, they should admit to it. They should have done some more research into some of the things that were brought up to the board and not just taking Dr. García's word for it."
Norma De La Rosa, president of the El Paso Teachers Association, said she did not have enough information to have an opinion about whether trustees should resign, but added that she had little confidence in the job they have done to oversee the district.
"I don't think they've made the best decisions in the way they've gone about addressing some of the issues regarding the former superintendent, the audit and the cheating scandal," De La Rosa said. "I don't know they've been really forthright in coming out with what the public needs to know."
Patricia Bulos, treasurer and past president of the EPISD chapter of the Association of Texas Professional Educators, said the district is not being transparent with the public, but she also would not ask trustees to resign.
"I'm not one to say resign," said Bulos, an English language arts teacher at MacArthur Elementary and Middle School. "I have no judgment. I'm not in their shoes. Their conscience should be their guide to say what's the right thing to do."
The Association of Texas Professional Educators Political Action Committee made $500 campaign contributions to Trustees David Dodge and Patricia Hughes in May 2011. Both Dodge and Hughes faced contested races that year and won re-election.
After García's admissions of guilt June 13, state Sen. José Rodríguez, D-El Paso, and former state Sen. Eliot Shapleigh called on the community to take a more active role in holding school officials accountable.
Part of the district's problems have happened because few leaders were willing to "stick their neck out" for the common good, city Rep. Steve Ortega said.
Ortega said the current board should not be responsible for choosing the next superintendent, and a change in trustee leadership is needed immediately.
"While the school board is filled with good people, they failed in their duties to diligently manage the district," Ortega said. "This has resulted in tremendous damage, and I think a call for resignation is justified."
Hayley Kappes may be reached at hkappes@ elpasotimes.com; 546-6168. Follow her on Twitter @hayleykappes.

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Slave Play, which recently earned a record 12 Tony Award nominations including Best Play, gave its last performance on January 19, 2020, but has never strayed far from the spotlight; it has inspired vigorous debate, been referenced in marches and protests around the country, and become the sort of artwork that isn't revered only among theatergoers but a wider audience that sees it as an essential piece of contemporary culture—and that's by design.
Around the play's opening night, its writer Jeremy O. Harris told T&C, "The main goal of this play is to make the best centerpiece to a dinner party. Like, someone mentioned Slave Play at dinner and you guys can’t stop talking about it for the rest of the night and it becomes the nucleus from which veins of conversation can branch off."
On February 25, director Robert O'Hara, star Joaquina Kalukano, and Harris—all of whom are Tony-nominated as individuals for their work, in addition to the show’s nods for its scenery, costumes, lighting, and sound—joined Town & Country editor in chief Stellene Volandes for a roundtable discussion about bringing the play to Broadway, the projects that come next, and the Tony nominations that surprised them all.
Here is a video of the conversation, which follows our guests from conception of the play during Harris's time at Yale—where O'Hara was his professor—through to their recent and historic awards sweep, and reminds us that we're all still talking about Slave Play for some very good reasons.


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Hello everyone this is Julie writting from Santa Isabel, our final destination. The last few days have been filled with emotion and uncertanties but we´ve made it. Last night we rode to the outskirts of Sao Paulo and then once the freeways got too hectic we packed up the van and headed across the city with the bikes on top. This part of the trip was always factored into our total kilometers but in actuality there is no way to do it on bike. Travel in South America is always a guessing game. At one point the highway we were on had 27 toll boths going one direction. We got to a hotel and prepared to leave for the final short leg of the trip this morning. We were in good spirits and excited to see everyone waiting for us on the other side.
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Officials reportedly planned to keep Texas camp for unaccompanied migrant children open until the end of the year, despite calling facility ‘temporary’
The Trump administration always intended to keep a migrant camp in Texas open until at least 2019, even as officials called it “temporary,” according to a new report.
The camp, at the Tornillo-Guadalupe Land Port of Entry, was opened in mid-June to house migrant children and teenagers. At the time, officials said the facility would be closed on July 13. Then it was extended for another month. Then for another. Now, the Tornillo camp is scheduled to stay open through December.
But according to a memo acquired by CBS News, that was always the plan.
On June 6, a week before the camp opened, the director of the Office of Refugee Resettlement asked for permission to keep the facility open through the end of the year.
“I am reaching out to request the U.S. General Services Administration (GSA) permit for use of the portion of the Tornillo Land Port of Entry site that was designated by DHS as a temporary influx facility from the date of permit approval through 31 December 2018,” Scott Lloyd wrote.
On June 19, less than two weeks later, the permit was approved.
Two weeks ago, the Department of Health and Human Services announced that it would be adding 2,600 more beds at the Tornillo camp, increasing capacity from 1,200 to 3,800. HHS said a week later that it plans to spend about $367 million at the camp by the end of the year.
At the time, Human Rights First blasted the increased bed count — as well as the entire policy.
“Children should never be held in tent cities. Period. This tragic situation is a result of the Trump Administration’s year-long attack on the asylum system, and their hostility toward those who come to the United States seeking safety. The United States can and must do better than warehousing vulnerable children,” Eleni Bakst said in a statement.
“Many of these children have fled from horrific violence in their home countries, and rather than offer them protection, we are treating them like criminals and detaining them in conditions that experts agree can lead to long-lasting harm. Instead of keeping thousands of children in tents in the harsh Texas desert, the administration should release those who pose no risks to this country. There are many proven and cost-effective alternatives to detention.”
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Chicago Transit Authority 2433 is a stainless steel-bodied ‘L’ car built as part of the 2400-series of “high performance” elevated cars. The 2400s were the only rapid transit cars built by Boeing-Vertol, a division of airplane maker Boeing. Car 2433 is permanently coupled to identical car 2434 to form a “married pair” set.
Chicago Transit Authority 2433 Details
Year Built: 1977
Width: 9ft 4in
Weight: 54300 lbs
Motors: 4 GE 1262A1
Control: GE SCM-2
Description: Single End / Double Truck / Arch Roof / Stainless
Condition: Complete / unrestored / operational
1977-2014 – Chicago Transit Authority
2014-present – Illinois Railway Museum, Union, IL
What was Boeing-Vertol?
CTA cars 2433 and 2434 are the only pieces of equipment at IRM that Boeing-Vertol built. Boeing-Vertol started out in 1940 as the Piasecki Helicopter Corporation, one of the early manufacturers of helicopters in the United States. In 1956, following the ouster of founder Frank Piasecki, the company changed its name to Vertol Corporation (“Vertol” being an abbreviation of “Vertical Takeoff or Landing”). Boeing Aircraft purchased the company in 1960 and renamed it Boeing-Vertol.
In the early 1970s, there was a significant decline in military spending following the end of the Vietnam War and Boeing-Vertol entered the rapid transit car business. The company only ended up building two types of production rapid transit vehicles. One was the LRV, or Light Rail Vehicle, which Boeing-Vertol designed and which was infamous for being highly unreliable and generally a failure. The other type, a series of rapid transit cars built for the CTA, owed its design to the CTA itself. These cars, including 2433 and 2434, were quite successful and remained in service for nearly four decades. Boeing-Vertol exited the rapid transit car business in the late 1970s but it remains in business today as the helicopter manufacturing division of Boeing.


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•Featuring combat from the beginning to the very end of the war, Legends features some of the smaller air forces. The Chinese over Nanking, the Yugoslavs over Belgrade, and the Bulgarian defense of Sofia all appear. The last gasp of the Regia Aeronatica over Sicily and Calabria are captured in a series of exciting scenarios.
•There are new scenarios for China and France. Old favorites, including the Pacific and Eastern Front, also feature, matching Italians against Soviets or recreating the famous Battle of the Bismarck Sea.
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Regarding the Pain of Others
Aug 29, 2010
A very well written account of the impact of images, particularly violent images from war, and the way that such photographs have become part of culture (and the business of newspapers). Throughout the book, I was moved to tears without even seeing these images, simply by reading about them. Sontag clearly understands the subject and explains a lot about the history of war photographs and the multifarious perspectives about such images.
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After the Washington Nationals beat the Pittsburgh Pirates 3-2 on Saturday afternoon, both teams hold 7-6 records. Sunday’s 1:35 p.m. rematch will serve as the tiebreaker for the two teams, so here’s what you should be familiar with going in:
1. Two runs in the eighth inning allowed the Nationals to walk away with a curly W against the Pirates on Saturday afternoon. Because of outfielder Adam Eaton and second baseman Howie Kendrick’s back-to-back home runs, Nats fans were able to leave the ballpark smiling. In fact, Washington Capitals defenseman Brooks Orpik scored a game-winning goal right before Eaton’s at-bat, causing D.C. sports fans to go wild at Capital One Arena and Nats Park, so maybe Orpik’s goal gave Nats fans energy, giving Eaton some extra strength. So, thank you, Orpik.
2. Aside from Eaton and Kendrick’s solo home runs, Kurt Suzuki was the only other National to drive in a run. The catcher has scored two runs and recorded five hits in his first 19 at-bats of the 2019 season.
3. Saturday’s game saw third baseman Anthony Rendon extend a career-high hitting streak to 12 games. This season so far, he has six home runs under his belt, along with 16 RBIs and a .412 batting average.
Download the MyTeams app for Nationals news, plus get up-to-date information on all other D.C. teams. The Sunday Nationals vs. Pirates will be game broadcast on 106.7 the Fan and MASN2.


Word has been circulating that the United States is considering a laptop ban on flights coming from Europe.
It’s a significant new restriction, one that will inconvenience many travelers and business people. However, there is a reason this ban is needed. Jihadists are developing bombs that can be disguised at laptops.
A recent flight was disrupted when a passenger tried break into the cockpit, carrying a laptop. Thankfully in that case, other passengers were quick to respond.
From Allen B. West:
In case you missed it, fighter jets were scrambled on Friday to escort American Airlines flight 31 from Los Angeles to Honolulu after 25-year-old Anil Uskanli of Turkey caused such a disturbance…
The AP continues:
Halfway through the six-hour flight, the Basdens saw the same man again holding his laptop with something over his head that they thought was a towel or a blanket.
“He was very quiet, moving very sluggish. He was trying to approach the cabin, like where the captain is,” said another passenger, Grant Arakelian.
At that point, a flight attendant ran down the aisle with her serving cart and blocked the entrance to first class, said passenger Lee Lorenzen, of Orange County, California.
“She jammed the cart in the doorway and she just said, ‘You’re not coming in here,’” Lorenzen said.
The man pushed the cart, trying to get through but passengers came up behind him and grabbed him. He spent the rest of the flight restrained in a seat with duct tape.
Scary situation. We don’t know for sure what this man was up to. But considering his odd behavior, it wasn’t anything good.
The quick thinking and actions of the flight attendant and passengers might have saved many lives.
The laptop might not have been an explosive device. But he could have used it in a variety of ways to disrupt the flight, especially one going over the Pacific.
He might have just been bluffing to scare the pilots into doing what he demanded. Or he could have had software and technology that would have interfered with the plane’s navigation. Or worse yet, it was in fact a bomb that could have caused the plane to crash.
Whatever the case, it’s a reminder that there are many dangerous people in the world. And although we hate security restrictions, they might be the only thing keeping us safe.
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Risk appetite deteriorated due to fears over global trade and currency wars.
US jobs data was close to expectations with a small pick-up in wages growth. The dollar was unable to sustain slight gains as trade fears dominated and triggered fresh concerns over the US outlook.
Risk appetite deteriorated further on Monday as a slide in the Chinese yuan beyond 7.00 increased fears over global trade and currency wars
US bond yields continued to decline sharply with the 10-year rate below 1.80%. Equity markets declined sharply with Asian equities at 6-month lows.
Demand for defensive assets increased strongly with further gains for the yen and Swiss franc.
Gold also made fresh gains to 6-year highs as risk fears dominated. Bitcoin advanced to 3-week highs as demand for alternative assets remained strong.
US non-farm payrolls increased 164,000 for July which was in line with market expectations while the June increase was revised down to 193,000 from the 224,000 reported previously. The unemployment rate held at 3.7%, also in line with consensus forecasts, although there was a strong reported employment increase according to the household survey.
The UK PMI construction index recovered slightly to 45.3 from 43.1 the previous month, but this was till the third consecutive reading below 50.0 and business confidence declined to the lowest level since November 2012. Brexit uncertainty continued to undermine confidence and delay the awarding of contracts. Sentiment remained weak following recent weak data while Bank of England Governor Carney warned that the economy would face a sudden dip in the event of a ‘no-deal’ Brexit.
CFTC data recorded a further increase in short, non-commercial positions in the latest week to just over 90,000 contracts, the largest net position since April 2017. The data will maintain the potential for a short squeeze, but this will be dependent on some positive UK developments.
Political manoeuvring continued during the weekend with MPs opposed to a ‘no-deal’ outcome looking to bolster their position while Prime Minister Johnson’s special adviser Cummings stated that it could not be stopped. EUR/GBP strengthened to 0.9180 while GBP/USD was blocked above 1.2150 despite dollar weakness.
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The 5 Top Ramen Spots In WashingtonCraving ramen? Here are Washington's top 5 ramen restaurants.
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Tottenham Hotspur fans have defied police warnings not to use the Y-word in chants.
The Metropolitan Police said they would be "on the look out" for football supporters who used the word during today's home game against West Ham at White Hart Lane.
The Spurs supporters chanted "We'll sing what we want" and "Yid Army" at this afternoon's match.
The Met said that as of 5pm, no arrests had yet been made. Officers had been speaking about the issue with fans on their way into the stadium.
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A 24-year-old man has been arrested on suspicion of murder after the body washed up on the Thames shoreline.
Seven people have now been arrested after a man died from serious head injuries
The 38-year-old officer was on his way home from a night shift when he collapsed. His death is not being treated as suspicious.


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Date : 25/01/1995
Headline : High hopes for a honest season
THERE is a good chance soccer will be played honestly in Malaysia in the
The FA of Malaysia, the State FAs and the Police have gone all out to
clean up the game.
The outcome of investigations, which included the arrest of more than 80
players, will be known by the end of the month.
Most of the players who have admitted to accepting bribes to fix matches
would have seen the last of their playing days.
Some of them will undergo rehabilitation programmes and a handful, who
had helped in investigations but did not take bribes, will return to play
While fans would get a proper deal for their money, the overall standard
of the tournaments could suffer a little as some of the better players
will not be playing.
But it will be a price worth paying because it is only a matter of time
before the youngsters mature and standards rise again.
However, we should not tolerate amateurish State FAs.
It is time the FA of Malaysia ensured State FAs acted professionally.
Surprisingly, some State FAs still have the word `amatuer' in their
While players have made soccer their career, we still have many
volunteers or part-time officials running State FAs.
With nothing at stake, many of them take things for granted and just
make up the numbers in the set-up.
Professionals should be running the game at all levels and there should
be accountability from all quarters.
State FAs should start the season right by appointing their coaches as
Managers, especially those with hardly any knowledge of the game, only
get in the way of progress.
There is no need for a council member to be the team manager as is often
A fulltime coach will be fully answerable to the FA. If he does not
produce results or provide satisfactory reasons for his team not doing
well, he gets fired.
That brings us to the next step.
Coaches too should be fulltime.
Most local coaches, who have been handling M-League teams, hold other
This is a `safe' situation as even if the are fired as coaches they can
return to their normal jobs.
To get the best out of a coach it is only logical to have him on a
He must have a full say in the selection of players, training methods,
naming of players for matches and the day to day running of the team.
Sarawak and Negri Sembilan have done so and they should be commended for
If State FAs insist they should have someone on the team, it should be
purely for administration purposes.
State FAs, in signing up players, should keep their end of the bargain.
Some players under Police investigations have cited that one of the
reasons for accepting bribes is because they are not paid on time.
Some State FAs do not work within their budget and sign on expensive
It all boils down to professionalism - or the lack of it. What's the
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Russia indignant with Ukrainian representative at UN statement on Nuremberg Trials
"Russia is indignant with the blasphemous statement of Yuri Sergeev, Ukrainian representative at the UN, who said that "indictments, brought by the USSR against Ukrainian nationalists during the Nuremberg Trials were faked-up"," Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs states.
With these words, Ukrainian representative at the UN offended the memory of fallen Russians, Ukrainians, Jews, Poles and citizens of other nationalities, who felt victims of the atrocities, committed by Ukrainian Nazi-supporters. There are a lot of proofs of their violent crimes. We are ready to acquaint Sergeev with them,” Russian Foreign Ministry says.
Ukraine's Ambassador to the United Nations Yuriy Sergeyev on Monday has publicly justified Ukrainian nationalists, saying the charges brought by the Soviet Union against them at the Nuremberg trial were fabricated.
"The Russian-Soviet side at the time tried to press the Western allies to declare Bandera movement members and others murderers. The Nuremberg trial did not declare it. Why? Because the facts were falsified and the Soviet Union's position at the time was unjust," the diplomat told reporters.
Sergeyev asked not to generalize the picture of present Ukraine and not to suppose all its residents in western regions were nationalists and Bandera followers.
"Millions of Ukrainians in the west are normal European citizens," he stressed, saying the same about the Svoboda (Freedom) party, which is believed to be ultra-right.
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Sherlock Holmes and The Jeweller of Florence
EVERY BOOK YOU BUY BUYS A MEAL - #sharethemeal
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Other formats:It is summer 1895 and a lost play by William Shakespeare is discovered. While being authenticated by scholars in Oxford there is a break-in at a college and the three hundred year old quarto is stolen. Holmes is engaged in the most unusual of circumstances and together with the faithful Dr Watson, they are soon on a trail which takes them from the Epsom Derby to Epping Forest and the great city of Florence itself. But this is not the only case brought to 221b Baker Street during this eventful year. Any number of singular problems demand Holmes' attention including the terrifying schemes of an injured army captain, a spate of strychnine poisonings and a dancing bear suspected of murder in the East End. What bearing do these seemingly unrelated adventures have on the search for the lost play? Who is the woman haunting Dr Watson and what is the mysterious Society of Lucius? With stilt walking chases, a swimming race across the River Thames and an explosion at the former site of Shakespeare's Globe, this is set to become Holmes' most dangerous and memorable adventure yet.
Author: Christopher James ISBN: 9781780929804 Page count: 260


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Mike Marshall and Darol Anger, a duo that has been playing together for over forty years, brought back their mix off bluegrass, jazz, and chamberfolk music to the stage of the Ark. The two continue to push boundaries in the genre of American acoustic music for stringed instruments and erase the barriers that separate bluegrass and traditional American string music from jazz, world music, and the avant garde. They spanned multiple genres over the course of the night, seamlessly taking the audience on a tour of the music world they have experienced.
Before the duo, Westbound Situation, a group that formed at Marshall’s camp: the Savannah Music Festival, played a set of their own. Made up of umich alumni and current students, the Ark was excited to welcome back Westbound to the stage for the second time this season. The group played tunes off their first record titled “pilot,” as well as some new tunes written and arranged by members of the group. Westbound had a really dynamic energy that pulled in the crowd, and was the perfect way to usher in Marshall and Anger.
With Anger on fiddle and Marshall switching back and forth between guitar and mandolin, the two reminisced about old tours and tunes they had shared over the years. The night was filled with fantastic improv and even better dad jokes shared between two very good friends. They played tunes that spanned the past 4 decades, many written by the two themselves. They had a very distinct style of playing with rhythm and tripping up the audience member. I heard lots of twisty tunes that night that made me want to rewind and listen again.
For the second half, Westbound joined the duo to play some of their tunes off of their record ” Chiaroscuro.” It was fun to see this next generation of musicians play with their mentors and and personal inspiration. Mike Marshall commented that “the future of this music is in good hands,” and how excited he was that this group of musicians was able to meet and continue to make music together. Mike Marshall and Darol Anger continue to be some of the most prominent musicians in this mixed genre scene, and I am so glad I got to see them play at the Ark:)
Every time I go to the Ark I am always in awe of how good the acoustics are. The space is inviting and intimate, and the popcorn is really good (fun fact!!!). It is a very student friendly venue and I am sure I will find myself back there within the next month!


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Partner approval and intention to use contraception among women presenting for post-abortion care at mnazi mmoja hospital, zanzibar
Context: Contraceptive use is low in Zanzibar, with only 12.4% of married women reporting current use of a modern method of contraception. Unintended pregnancies are common in a setting of low contraceptive prevalence and while the majority of women carry unintended pregnancies to term, abortion is widespread in Tanzania. The aim of this analysis is to examine factors influencing contraceptive use among women seeking post-abortion care in Zanzibar. Specifically, the analysis focuses on the association between partner approval of contraception and a woman's intention to use contraception in the future. Methods: Data on 194 women from the Zanzibar Contraception and Consequences of Unwanted Pregnancy: Post-abortion Care Survey were analyzed using logistic regression modeling to assess the effect of partner approval of contraception on a woman's intention to use contraception in the future. Results: Among women seeking post-abortion care in Zanzibar, partner's disapproval of contraception reduced the odds of future intention to use contraception by 95% (CI 0.020, 0.118). No other variables, including age, education, relationship type, sexual relationship power, previous use of family planning, current number of children and desired number of additional children were found to have a significant association with a woman's future intention to use contraception. Conclusions: Our study demonstrates that partner approval or disapproval of contraception plays a significant role in a woman's intention to use contraception. Public health and educational efforts to increase contraceptive use should include men and be targeted to both the male and female partners.
Provision of health care to the public
Public health or related public policy
Social and behavioral sciences
Evaluate if partner approval of family planning influences intention to use among women seeking post-abortion care in Zanzibar.
Identify other predictors of contraceptive use.
Keyword(s): Contraception, Family Planning
Presenting author's disclosure statement:
Qualified on the content I am responsible for because: I received my MSPH degree in population, family and reproductive health and gained a background in family planning policies and issues. I also developed this paper under the close supervision of faculty at the Ohio State University with expertise in the field.
Any relevant financial relationships? No
I agree to comply with the American Public Health Association Conflict of Interest and Commercial Support Guidelines,
and to disclose to the participants any off-label or experimental uses of a commercial product or service discussed
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The noodles were deemed safe after testing in Goa but another sample taken by a lab in Lucknow revealed higher than permitted lead levels, according to Indian media reports.
The Food Safety and Standards Authority of India (FSSAI) also quashed rumours that the safe tests from Goa meant the ban on the popular product, in place since June 5, was lifted.
Awaiting Bombay High Court decision
Nestlé India said its information is only through media reports that the FSSAI approved laboratory of Central Food Technological Research Institute (CFTRI) found Maggi noodles in compliance with food safety standards on testing of five samples sent by Goa Food and Drug Administration.
It is still waiting for judgement of the Bombay High Court and as the matter is sub-judice, said it cannot comment further.
Regarding the US FDA tests, the firm said: “We have learnt from our official importer in the US, House of Spices, that the US Food and Drug Administration has tested several shipments of Maggi noodles from India for lead content. Finding no unsafe lead levels, FDA released the noodles for sale in the US.”
The UK Food Standards Agency (FSA) had already said samples were found to have levels of lead within EU permissible levels and the Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) added there were no health risks with the product.
The Singapore Agri-Food and Veterinary Authority (AVA) and the National Measurement Institute in Australia found noodles manufactured in India and imported to be safe.
Nestlé India removed products from shelves on the same day as the FSSAI issued a ban and recall but has repeated they are safe to eat.
The noodles were banned by the FSSAI for exceeding permitted lead levels and containing monosodium glutamate (MSG) not mentioned in the ingredient panel.
FSSAI reaction to Goa results
The Food Safety Department of Goa took five samples as instructed by the FSSAI.
“The reports of first test were received on 1 June. Observing that the Food Analyst of the said lab had wrongly taken the permissible limit of lead as 10 PPM for the ‘Tastemaker’ as against the actual maximum permissible level of 2.5 PPM and the results reported by the lab did not contain specific lead content found in the samples, the FSSAI had sought clarifications from the State Food Authority in this behalf,” said FSSAI.
Further testing found the lead level was within the permissible limit.
FSSAI said the test results of the Goa samples had no bearing on the order banning the noodles as samples tested there were not assumed to be unsafe when the recall order was passed.
Nestle India has been manufacturing Maggi noodles at factories in Village Mauliguem, Bicholim (Goa); Industrial Area, Nanjangud, Mysore; IEE, Pantnagar, SIDCUL, Rudrapur; Tahliwal, Haroli, Una (HP); Moga (Punjab) and one co-packer facility at Birshibpur, Howrah (West Bengal).
All Maggi noodles for exports to eight countries were manufactured only at the Bicholim (Goa) factory. Part of the local domestic supplies, including four of five samples tested, were also from product manufactured at the Bicholim (Goa) factory.
Nestlé India was given the all clear to export Maggi noodles by the Bombay High Court in June.
It exports to Canada, UK, Singapore and Kenya and to third parties in the US, Australia and New Zealand.
Nestlé India’s net sales fell 20.1% in the second quarter largely due to the scare.
The firm made a net loss of 644 million rupees (€9.2, $10m) in the three months ending 30 June.
Nestlé India said it has tested more than 2,700 product samples, including 1,100 at independent accredited labs in India and abroad. These tests represent more than 165 million or 16.5 Crore packets of noodles.
These tests found levels of lead within the food safety limits specified by the Indian authorities, it added.


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Over the weekend, a HUGE annoucement was revealed from The David Crowder Band. After almost 11 years, multiple tours, & 5 CDs, DCB will be putting out their final CD & going on their final tour this fall. Here's a snippet of the letter to all from the Band:
First of all, we can't begin to express how excited we are getting about The 7 Tour this fall. If you haven't heard yet, we're doing a national tour with some of our favorite artists ever...Now, another reason we are sure this will be one of the most meaningful tours we've ever been on is because it will be our last as a band.
You can read more about the tour, the CD & the heart of the Band to every listener here. Through this all, our prayers are with them!


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How the Dante's Inferno and BioShock 2 composer brings tone, terror and tension to some of our favorite games.
We recently sat down with Schyman to find out how his music fits in to the game design process, and how a game's soundtracks can help set the tone for the entire experience. You can check out some of Schyman's music at his official web site.
IGN: Did you pay attention to the reception for the original BioShock?
Garry Schyman: To the reception to the entire game?
IGN: Critically, there was a particular sort of reaction to the first game.
GS: Yeah, you know, I always look and see what the reviews are saying, the general feel of the reception. It seemed to be, obviously, very positive, a great deal of support, a really high [critical average]. It seems to be that that magic number turned out well.
IGN: I think many of us in the press would argue it's not the greatest way to look at the merit of a game, but yeah, as someone who played the original BioShock, I was pretty happy with it, and I did feel that the score in particular was a pretty big part of that.
GS: So yeah, I was aware of it. I mean, look, it's no secret, if you have a great score with a game that tanks, I think to a great extent you go down with the ship. So the best is if you've done a good job and you have a commercially and critically well-received game. That's the best of all worlds for a composer, because your reputation is how you continue to work and make a living. So you hope for a trifecta there.
IGN: Have there been games in the past that you worked on where you were a little less thrilled with the way they were received, or where you felt like it was a missed opportunity?
GS: Yeah... Well, I don't want to whine about stuff, I've been very lucky and have done a lot of great games. Destroy All Humans 3, I don't know if anybody cares about those games, but for me they were a blast, because they were all about re-creating these scores from these different eras, and I thought my best score for the three of them was the third game. But it was absolutely released before it was done, so it was a mess. Nobody cared about the score at all. So there's a perfect example, something where the score completely disappears.
IGN: Throughout the BioShock 2 score, and I think to a lesser extent the original, the solo violin seems to be a sort of recurring character, as it were.
GS: It was the ghost of Ayn Rand! [chuckles] To some extent, it was just an intuitive... "Wow, that just feels right." It just felt like that was cool, that it was really interesting. The audio director, Emily Ridgway, agreed that that was a great sound for the project. Strings in particular evoke a sense of emotion because of their flowing nature and the way strings are typically written. The solo instrument just seemed to have that flowing water quality, but also this sort of intellectual quality. Early 20th century, mid-20th century classical music, it had this intellectual character to it. From the very beginning Rapture was described to as this place where these intellectual giants were invited. There were ordinary people as well, but there was this group of physicians, artists, writers and philosophers at the core.
IGN: The tone of BioShock 2's score seemed more... mournful, I think, than what we hear in BioShock. Why that tone?
GS: As I recall, Jordan Thomas, the creative director, said the direction for this was sort of... a child waiting for her father. It had a real sadness to it. So that was a simple description of what it was, but that also just seemed to be what came through, this sort of mournful, sad longing without fulfillment..
IGN: In that vein, how much of a game are you exposed to prior to beginning work on the score?
GS: Painfully little, unfortunately. I'm almost always hired in the middle of the process, not at the end like a television show where you see the finished product. In BioShock 1 and 2 they were able to show me, to some extent, what the levels would look like. They would make gameplay captures and send them to me as movie files.
I'm excited to play (BioShock 2), because I enjoyed BioShock a lot. I'm always interested in how my music gets implemented and how it feels in the end, because I never know until I play the game. It was intriguing how really different it was, not quite what I expected. (The music) had just changed so much. To some extent I'm in the dark, relying on the descriptions and the lead of the audio director, in this case Michael Kamper and of course Jordan Thomas, the creative director. I mock everything up with samples prior to recording it with live instruments, so I'm sending them stuff and they're approving it, or maybe they're making adjustments, or maybe they're even saying, "No, that's the wrong approach."
IGN: Has there been any piece you were particularly proud of that was eliminated before the game shipped?
GS: If it doesn't end up being used where originally intended, it gets re-used somewhere else in the game. In the BioShock, there was this piece of music I called "The Bathysphere Ride," but the piece was released as a digital, free release called, well, "Rapture." It's one of the signature pieces. Originally, they said, "We want this to be very scary, like you're heading into this really frightening world," so I wrote a pretty scary piece of music for that. They came back and said, "You know, we gave you the wrong direction. This should be more ambivalent, more interesting and more intriguing, with a hint of what's coming, but not necessarily, 'Oh, it's gonna be scary here!'" And I agreed with them, and that piece of music that I had written was re-used elsewhere in the game. I'm glad they made me write it, because it certainly was very well received, and became one of the signature pieces from the game.
I'm very respectful of those decisions. It's rare that I feel I'm working with someone who's doesn't know what they're doing. They're closest to the project and have a good sense of what the project needs. But once I clue in on a project, generally my music is accepted, because I move quickly.
IGN: Were there any particular classical pieces that you found influential, as a jumping-off point for BioShock or Dante's?
GS: Well, for BioShock, there's the whole of early 20th and mid-20th century music. From Stravinsky and Shostakovich, Prokofiev, I could go on. There's a lot of composers. Alban Berg, a lot of the solo violin stuff, his violin concerto, that was in my mind when I was writing the solo lines and things. Not specific notes, but sort of the whole gestalt of that really beautiful composition. And then of course all the mid-20th century aleatoric music from, you know, Penderecki and Xenakis, people like that. I wouldn't say there's a specific piece of music, more the composers of that era. Part of the idea was to use the style of music from the early and mid-20th century, because it felt right for this city. This artistic place would have that the art music of that era.
With Dante's Inferno, Paul Gorman, the audio director, suggested right away that I listen to Penderecki's the Passion of Saint Luke. I was familiar with that piece, I think it was written in the '60s. Because it's a religious work, but it has this eerie (quality), it's a combination of the two. George Crumb as well, I don't know if you're familiar with him, but he's like a mid-, late-20th century composer. He did really interesting stuff. Some of his weird vocal stuff was influential to me, it's really eerie, weird vocals, without playing it for you I can't really... I didn't copy it by any means, but it was like, "Oh, yeah." It was a really good starting place. I listened to a lot of Crumb, Penderecki.
GN: In general, your scores for Dante's or BioShock go a long way in defining them.
GS: Thanks. I work really hard to make that distinctive. I've never said I invented those forms, but I have said in other interviews that I combined them in ways that I'd never heard before.
IGN: Were there any film scores that you feel had an influence on BioShock? Listening to those scores, I there were certain moments that felt evocative of Horner's score in Aliens, or Morricone's work on The Thing. And there was a point that reminded me of some of the moments in Goldenthal's stuff on Interview with the Vampire. Has anything in the film realm been an influence, or are those just sort of happy coincidences?
GS: I think I'm familiar with the music in those projects. And I guess in a way, the whole zeitgeist of music that I've ever heard gets filtered into you when you write something new. If I had to suggest any one composer, that would be Jerry Goldsmith. For combat music, I don't feel like I copied him, but his unexpected turns of music, how it will abruptly change and do something without any expectation, I think he influenced me.
IGN: You mentioned before that BioShock and Dante's weren't necessarily a struggle to compose. Have there been projects in the past that felt particularly difficult to get done, to get through?
GS: I wouldn't say they weren't a struggle. Dante's was a struggle, more than BioShock 2. I felt like I knew what the (BioShock 2) score should sound like. With Dante's Inferno I didn't really know, and I had to work really hard to keep it original and to keep thinking in fresh ways for the different levels of Hell. Plus, there's a lot of combat music in Dante's.
IGN: Yes there is.
GS: It's really complex music, it was a lot of work.
IGN: Having played through all of Dante's, the soundtrack is one of the better parts of the game. That's actually one of the few things that I think people commented on, when they heard me playing it, other than the gore and the disturbing imagery, that the soundtrack was very epic and very heroic and evocative of this sort of descent into hell, in a very classical way. It felt reminiscent of dark orchestral scores in a way that not a lot of games are, or can get away with now.
GS: Thank you, I'm really glad to hear that.
IGN: Going from BioShock to BioShock 2, there are a lot of new elements, like a saxophone, which I don't recall hearing in the original BioShock score...
GS: Yeah, Pauper's Drop. It was called "Ghetto" when I was working on it. It's where the poor people of Rapture hung out, so we wanted to capture a little bit of that element. It had some jazzy, bluesy elements in it, and I used clarinet, because I didn't want to do it on the saxophone. There's also some muted trumpet.
IGN: And there's some jazz singing in there, I believe, some Billie Holiday-esque kind of singing...
GS: Yeah, exactly. We actually hired a singer to do that. There was more of that that, and I pulled some of (it) out. It was a little too much for them. But I thought that was a nice change. And to do that, with the eerie BioShock background, was a really interesting effect.
GS: Well, every now and then I'll hear about a project and I'll make an effort to contact them and see if I can get the gig. I usually don't [chuckles]. I've just been fortunate, I think, because most of the projects that come to me are really interesting. Every now and then something is not appropriate, or they don't have much of a budget, it's not worth my effort, really, to do it. With BioShock, I just sensed that that was going to be an awesome game. Some of the cues that became very prominent in the game, they didn't even ask for them. I told Emily, "You know, I think you're going to need these."
There's this one really beautiful piece I played for them, and she said, "This is really nice, but we're not going to need it." I said, "Oh, let me record it," and she used it all over the place. And "Dr. Steinman" was a piece I wanted to write, something really wild. And she ended up using it, and another piece as well. I do have a good intuitive sense about that, and that's true, also, of one of the cues for BioShock 2. They didn't ask for it, but I said, "Let me do something," and it worked out really nicely.
IGN: Looking back at your work in games, is there any project in particular where you wish you could do it over again, do it differently? Do it better or not do it at all, even?
GS: You mean, even before I was doing games?
IGN: How about one from games, if possible, and then just in general as well?
GS: There are certainly cues that I think I could make them better now. But, I would rather write new music than go back and rewrite something. There's nothing that's screaming at me, like "Oh, man, I wish I'd never done that." I did a project called Full Spectrum Warrior. I'm much better at writing combat music than I've ever been. It's still a lot of work writing combat music, because you have to create a lot of tension, and do it in a way that doesn't feel clichÃ©d, you know what I mean?
IGN: Yeah, it repeats a lot, so you have to try to make it not boring after hearing it for the fourteenth time...
GS: Exactly. I do have an issue with combat, or any kind of music, that repeats over and over again. When I play games, I'm annoyed by music that loops for too long. I know it's a problem for audio directors, so I guess the only way to mitigate that is to write really, really long pieces of music. Or, there are ways to layer it so that you don't always have the layers playing at once, which keeps it fresh.
IGN: Are there composers working in games that you admire or whose work you enjoy?
GS: I really like Jason Graves, I think he's doing some really cool stuff right now. He's a friend of mine, but I say that unreservedly. He sent me some music he just recently recorded for something, which I thought was simply amazing. Whatchamacallit... Dead Space?
IGN: Yeah! His score for Dead Space was excellent.
IGN: I was just curious, because other than BioShock, there are only a few games that have had scores that are so suggestive of the content, something like Jesper Kyd's score in Assassin's Creed, things like that.
GS: Jesper is another friend of mine. He has a very different style from mine.
IGN: He's very fixated on electronic music in particular.
GS: Yeah, I've been over to his studio, and he's got all these old synths from the '70s and '80s. He has his own unique sound. Jesper does really interesting music.
IGN: Are there any questions that you'd like to answer that you don't typically get asked in these interviews?
GS: Oh, gosh... My favorite food, or something? [chuckles]
IGN: Well, I could ask. I know that you get asked similar questions by a lot of people.
GS: Yeah, I do get asked a lot of the same questions. The difference between film music and game music, I get asked a lot. And it is actually a very interesting question, But I have answered it a lot, so it's kind of old from my standpoint. I will say this, I think that Dante's Inferno, at this moment, I'm really excited about that music. Just being asked to score Hell is such an interesting, wonderful assignment for a composer. I have just been super, super lucky with the assignments that I've gotten. And also, I feel good about the fact that I'm sort of turning on people to styles of music that they never would have listened to before. I think my music is intellectual on some levels, but you could also just appreciate it on a gut level.
IGN: The music in Dante's is particularly bombastic in that way.
GS: Yeah, and yet it's pretty complex. But that's what I had to do to create that sort of hellish intensity, you know? It was also a blast recording it, going to London and recording at Abbey Road with the Philharmonic orchestra and the Metro Voices, which is a fantastic choir. My engineer, Dan, just took an enormous amount of time to mix that music. I'm just very lucky.


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The announcement arrives with Lil Yachty's remix of Breathe Deeper
Tame Impala have treated fans today, with the announcement of The Slow Rush Deluxe Box Set. The musical project of Kevin Parker, the new edition of the ARIA #1 record will arrive with new collaborations, b-sides and remixes, the first of which has come to light today with the release of Lil Yachty's remix of Breathe Deeper.
Due out next February, the expanded edition will be available in a number of formats, including a new transparent red 2LP vinly pressing, featuring unique artwork alongside a 40-page booklet and The Slow Rush 2050 calendar. The Slow Rush Deluxe Box Set will feature remixes from Four Tet, NTS, Maurice Fulton and Lil Yachty, as well as two never-before-heard b-sides, extended editions of the tracks and the pre-album single Patience.
"It was so amazing to work with Kevin as I've been a big fan since high school so it was a pleasant surprise and honour to be a part of such an incredible song," Lil Yachty says of the remix, which arrives alongside an official visual.
Released last February, The Slow Rush landed Parker his second #1 album in Australia - the highest selling Australian artist album in 2020 to date. The record also marks the groups highest charting album to date in both the US and UK, and 14 top 10 chart positions around the world, and scored two GRAMMY nominations.
Last month, Tame Impala rescheduled their Australian tour, which was set to take place this December. Kicking off in Brisbane on October 18, the run of shows will continue on to Sydney, Melbourne and Adelaide, before wrapping up in Perth on October 29. The rescheduled date comes with the announcement that Genesis Owusu and Sycco will be joining Tame Impala on their Australian tour.
The Slow Rush Deluxe Box Set is out February 18, 2022. Watch the visual for Breathe Deeper (Lil Yachty Remix) below.
TAME IMPALA AUSTRALIAN TOUR 2022
Tuesday, 18th October 2022 Brisbane Entertainment Centre, Brisbane
Thursday, 20th October 2022 Qudos Bank Arena, Sydney
Saturday, 22nd October 2022 Rod Laver Arena, Melbourne
Sunday, 23rd October 2022 Rod Laver Arena, Melbourne
Wednesday, 26th October 2022 Adelaide Entertainment Centre, Adelaide
Saturday, 29th October 2022 RAC Arena, Perth


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Jukebox Saturday Night at the Sauk Prairie River Arts Center
River Arts on Water Gallery
Oct. 28, 2023, 02:00 pm
Saturday, October 28, 2023 2pm
$30/Adults, $10/Students (ages 4-18)
at the Sauk Prairie River Arts Center (105-9th Street, Prairie du Sac)
JUKEBOX SATURDAY NIGHT is a music review of the great Big Bands during the 1930’s, 40’s and 50’s. A fun filled event for all ages that captures the exciting sounds of great melodies and lyrics performed by an energetic group of instrumentalists and vocalists who will keep you moving in your seats, tapping your toes and clapping your hands.