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- 10 days/8 nights
- Roundtrip airfare NYC-Kilimanjaro
- 8-nights first-class accommodations
- Airport transfers
- Touring and game drives as per itinerary
- 24 meals: 8 breakfasts, 8 lunches, 8 dinners
10-day Serengeti & Beyond safari
Thanks to the small group size of this tour, you can get to the heart of the destination, visit places that other tours miss, and get to know the locals. Take in Africa’s most revered game parks from the deluxe comforts of intimate tented camps, enjoy a personal game drive experience in safari vehicles that seat no more than seven, savor a glass of wine around a fire in the bush after an evening game drive in the Serengeti, and examine remarkable cave paintings of the Maasai at the Moru kopjes.
The Serengeti described as perhaps the most amazing meeting place for a variety of wildlife animals including the “Big 5”. Throughout your various game drives be enlightened by your driver/guide with their extensive knowledge of the varied nuances of the wildlife. Reside at some of the finest lodges located inside the boundaries of the various Tanzanian National Parks.
Day 1: Depart New York Day 2: Arrive Kilimanjaro Day 3: Ngorongoro Conservation Area Day 4: Serengeti National Park Day 5: Serengeti National Park Day 6: Serengeti National Park Day 7: Evening Game Drive in Lake Manyara Day 8: Tarangire National Park Day 9: Tarangire National Park Day 10: Depart Africa
Depart New York for Tanzania.
Arrive in Kilimanjaro.
Arrive in Kilimanjaro and transfer to your hotel in Arusha. Balance of the day at leisure.
Stay: Arusha Hotel, Arusha
After breakfast depart for the Ngorongoro Conservation Area. Enjoy a picnic lunch in the Ngorongoro Crater. As you approach, the overwhelming beauty will astound and the abundance of wildlife will amaze as you descend the crater walls. The unique geography of the crater forms a natural enclosure for lions, elephants, and hyenas that stay on the basin floor year round. During the summer, the famous wildebeest migration passes through this area filling the plains with well over a million of these breathtaking animals. In the late afternoon, return to your lodge.
Stay: Ngorongoro Wildlife Lodge, Ngorongoro Conservation Area
After an early breakfast, drive to Serengeti National Park with a visit to the Olduvai Gorge Museum en-route. Unequaled in its natural beauty and undoubtedly the most famous wildlife sanctuary in the world, the Serengeti Wildlife Park is host to the highest concentration of game than any other area. Your first game drive will take place in the afternoon, exploring the Seronera Valley which is renowned for its lion and leopard populations as well as a variety of other wildlife attracted by the lush wooded valley. Return to your campsite at dusk and enjoy a glass of wine as you relax by the campfire.
Stay 4 Nights: Lemala Ewanjan, Serengeti National Park
The early morning optional Sunrise Balloon Safari is an incredible way to start the day. Drift over the landscape and watch the wild game roam the vast plains below. At the end of the flight, a sumptuous breakfast with champagne awaits you in the wild African savannah. Then, return to the lodge to depart on the morning exploration of Moru Kopjes in search of lions, elephants, gazelle, and zebras. Enjoy the unique landscape characterized by a large collection of rocky cliffs (Kopjes). During your exploration you will visit caves which house ancient Masai art. Return to the lodge at 5 pm, sit by the fire, and enjoy the magnificent African sunset over the hills.
During morning and afternoon game viewing activities you are able to observe and photograph the wildlife at your leisure. As enduring as the game-viewing, you are sure to be in awe of the liberating sense of space that characterizes the Serengeti Plains.
After an early breakfast, make your way to Lake Manyara National Park, an area known for its tree-climbing lions as well as its elephants and flamingos. There is also an abundance of bird life surrounding the lake making this area a haven for bird watchers. In the afternoon, arrive at your campsite located on the edge of an Acacia woodland overlooking the lake. This is the only tented camp located within the national park and offers superb game viewing opportunities away from the crowds. After lunch, set out for an evening game drive through the park. Return to the camp at dusk and get comfortable by the roaring fire.
Stay: Lemala Manyara, Lake Manyara National Park
Depart at 8 am for Tarangire National Park, en route enjoy game viewing through the Manyara National Park. After lunch you will enjoy an afternoon game drive through Tarangire National Park. Named after the Tarangire River which originates in Tanzania’s highlands, Tarangire National Park is known for huge elephant herds as well as an incredible variety of bird life. The river and its tributaries provide the only permanent water source in the area which attracts many migratory species such as buffalo, oryx, and Grant’s Gazelle. The park’s gigantic baobab trees will provide some incredible photo opportunities.
Stay 2 Nights: Tarangire Sopa Lodge, Tarangire
Set out for an early morning adventure through the park. Return to your lodge for breakfast and enjoy the remainder of the afternoon viewing game from inside the park.
After breakfast, drive to Arusha where you will enjoy a lunch before transferring to Kilimanjaro for your departure flight back to the USA.
Day 1: Depart New York
Day 2: Arrive Kilimanjaro
Day 3: Ngorongoro Conservation Area
Day 4: Serengeti National Park
Day 5: Serengeti National Park
Day 6: Serengeti National Park
Day 7: Evening Game Drive in Lake Manyara
Day 8: Tarangire National Park
Day 9: Tarangire National Park
Day 10: Depart Africa
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Rosendo Mateu is the living image of a self-made man which is reflected in his work. After working for one of the biggest brands Mateu developed time for more ambitieus projects.
Being a “Maitre Parfumeur” after working in the industry for 45 years, (from which only a few in Europe) since 2010 the developed his own brand by creating five fragrances from number one to five under his own label. In all of the fragrances only the best raw materials are used and I do believe you can actually smell the purity of the ingredients.
While being introduced to the brand a few weeks ago I fell in love with nr. #4 and nr. #5 from the range. Number #4. is an Oud fantasy combination of nutmeg, nuts, saffron and hints of wood, sandalwood and guaiac. It starts pretty powerful yet when the Oud takes a turn, something softer and mostly intoxicating takes hold and makes me smile from ear to ear as it bring back all kinds of happy memories.
When it comes to nr. #5 this perfume rends me speechless. It’s spicy but with an oriental floral twist of carnation and lily of the valley. But that is not all. In the base you’ll find vanilla and sensual amber musk (yum). It really is like a sexy dream in a bottle.
The ROSENDOMATEU collection is available at HAARTHEATER thru AAFKES (100 ml | € 175)

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In their much-anticipated encore to last year’s sold out performance, the world-renowned Kanneh-Mason family of Nottingham, England returns to Antigua to showcase their classical take on many popular renditions at the St. John’s Pentecostal House of Restoration at 6pm today.
The seven gifted classical music playing brothers and sisters were described recently by Britain’s Got Talent’s Simon Cowell as the most talented family in the world. This year they will be accompanied by over 27 local musicians and several overseas special performing artists.
Also featured this year, will be a 100-voice youth choir comprising several of the school children on the island who will be led in concert by world-renowned conductor out of the UK, Ruth Whitehead.
As well as kick-starting the orchestra, Whitehead’s two-week trip involves giving masterclasses to Antigua’s choral conductors and then bringing them altogether in a massed rehearsal. With her will be another special guest will be Chi-chi Nwanoku, OBE. Nwanoku, double-bass player and the director of Chineke! – Europe’s first professional black orchestra.
Last year the group played to a capacity crowd at the Spring Gardens Moravian Church with many of the overflow patrons having to view the performance standing.
This year, the organizers have sought to sell-out the Pentecostal Church to the tune of 3,000 persons.
The effort is as a part of the official “revitalization” and relaunch of the the Antigua and Barbuda Youth Symphony Orchestra (ABYSO).
The orchestra will provide an avenue for young people with an interest in music to hone their talents and benefit holistically from the proven virtues of exposure to music education. According ABYSO mission, they to seek give an opportunity, “to the Young people, regardless of their socio-economic background, who demonstrate a passion for and interest in developing as musicians.”
“Play To Inspire 2 comes as the second of an ongoing series of fund-raising productions,” explained one event organizer and orchestra board member Dr. Jillia Bird.
“Proceeds collected from this evening’s event will go towards excellence in music,” she continued.
“As it stands now, the orchestra has no physical home. We have to ask for use of places such as the Public library, The Antigua Girls High School and so on for the children to practice. With this effort, we hope to one day have a permanent home and performance center for the orchestra,” Dr. Bird concluded.
The event will be held under the auspices of with the Governor General Sir Rodney Williams and his wife Lady Sandra Williams; the British High Commissioner Her Excellency Karen Mae-Hill; and the Ministry of Education, Science and Technology.


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Date: March 23, 2015 at 18:21:21 EDT
Subject: [UAFNews-L] Scientists to speak about arctic lakes, climate
Scientists to speak about arctic lakes, climate
Meghan Murphy, 907-474-7541, mmmurphy3
The University of Alaska Fairbanks is hosting three programs about how arctic lakes are windows into the past and possibly the future of climate change.
Researchers from the University of Southampton in England will discuss how a warmer and wetter climate more than 7,500 years ago changed the vegetation in Gates of the Arctic National Park and Preserve, affecting the lake ecosystems. Each program will have a slightly different focus.
“It is well known that the Arctic is warming rapidly, with this warming contributing to an expansion of vegetation zones in a northerly direction,” said Maarten van Hardenbroek, one of the presenters. “What we don’t know very well is how lake ecosystems will respond to this. Our study looks at this interaction between lake and landscape in a period when there were large changes in the environment, similar to what is going on today.”
Van Hardenbroek is a postdoctoral researcher who studies the changing environmental conditions of lakes. The other presenter is graduate student Emma Hopla, who studies pollen grains as a way to look into past vegetation.
Following is a description of each program:
– Hopla will present a brown bag seminar titled “Catching 10,000 Years of Vegetation in Models and Sediments” at noon, Thursday, March 26, at the UA Museum of the North.
– Van Hardenbroek will discuss “Scientists, the Lake, and You” during a public meeting at 7 p.m. Thursday, March 26, in the Morris Thompson Cultural and Visitors Center, 101 Dunkel St. in downtown Fairbanks. Bring your personal experiences of climate change to the meeting. People also can submit stories and memories on the project’s website: https://arcticlakes.wordpress.com/you. This event is sponsored by the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute at UAF.
– Van Hardenbroek and Hopla will present “The Effect of Changing Climate and Landscape on Arctic Lake Ecosystems: A Holocene Perspective” during a Friday Seminar sponsored by the Department of Geosciences, Alaska Quaternary Center and the Water and Environmental Research Center, at 3:30 p.m. Friday, March 27, in 201 Reichardt Bldg., 900 Yukon Drive, on the Fairbanks campus.
Hopla and Van Hardenbroek worked with other researchers to sample sediments from the lake bottoms. They examined microscopic, fossilized remains to find out what plants were growing around the lakes and what plants and animals were in the lakes about 7,500 years ago. Around that time, Interior Alaska was experiencing a climate that was warmer and wetter than today.
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Sainsbury’s has been forced to recall its own-label frozen mussels due to possible contamination with salmonella.
The supermarket has taken a “small quantity” of its By Sainsbury’s cooked mussels (300g) off sale in stores and online over the issue.
Products with the batch code 2653152 and best-before date of 8 September 2021 are impacted by the contamination.
The Food Standards Agency urged any shoppers affected not to eat it and instead return it to a Sainsbury’s branch for a refund.
Sainsbury’s has issued a PoS notice to its stores that sell the SKU to inform customers about the matter, and requested anyone impacted to return the item to one of its branches. It insisted the safety of its products is its “highest priority” and apologised for the necessity of the recall and inconvenience caused to customers.

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As theater returns in New York, one of this season’s must-see shows on many theater-goers lists is Paul Osborne’s Morning’s at Seven, a little play that was first produced in 1939 and has had a surprising long shelf life. It has been revived on Broadway twice and countless—trust me, I’ve tried to count them—regional productions.
In a time, when importance and its ugly relation, self-importance, seem to be in high-demand, Morning’s at Seven doesn’t have an “important” line in it. Its plot is not very complicated: In a quiet, small Midwestern town, Homer an eccentric 40-ish son stirs things up by bringing his longtime girlfriend home to meet his family—for the first time. There aren’t even many memorable lines in the play—one about a telephone stands out—but it has charm to spare and a bunch of meaty roles for actors to sink their teeth into. And this off-Broadway production features a Broadway-level cast.
This cast has nine actors, most of whom have graced New York stage for decades, including stage and screen veterans Lindsay Crouse, who received an Academy Award nomination for Places in the Heart; Tony Award winner Judith Ivey; Dan Lauria, best known for his work on the TV classic The Wonder Years; Patty McCormack, who has been acting for 70 years and is probably best known for playing the title role in Maxwell Anderson’s The Bad Seed on Broadway and in the movies; Tony Award winner John Rubinstein; Forbidden Broadway‘s Keri Safran; and Jonathan Spivey who was last seen on Broadway in The Front Page, which starred Nathan Lane.
Tony Roberts, who plays curmudgeon David Crampton, started his acting career in 1963 and has since worked with some of the biggest names in film and theater, including Neil Simon, Woody Allen and Jerome Robbins. But his debut was inauspicious to say the least. His first part was in Ernest Kinoy’s Something About a Soldier, which closed after 12 performances.
And, Roberts told Newsweek, “I was told by the wise heads at that time that it was the best thing that could have ever happened to me that it closed so early. And I said, ‘Why?!’ And they said, ‘Because now you’ll have to go out and get another job. And you’ll meet other actors and directors. And if things go well, you’ll be in four or five flops right away,’ which is pretty much what happened.”
Things got a lot better, with Roberts’ big break coming when he replaced Robert Redford in Neil Simon’s Barefoot in the Park. “I was in it for 18 months, which made up for a lot of the quick two-week in-and-outs that I did. But that was the first time I had my name above the title.”
Roberts thinks the Morning’s at Seven is a deceptively simple play, one that invites comparisons to Samuel Beckett. The show, which opened a month after Roberts was born, “preceded all the kind of things Beckett got into with Waiting for Godot and everything about not knowing where you are. Not meaning lost on a road somewhere, but lost in terms of what your life was about and what it meant.
“And those ideas are, are, you know, spread throughout [Morning’s at Seven] and sort of, I think, realized through my character, David, who seems to be the authority about everything and the most educated of all the characters, but who is in a way existentially puzzled and bothered by not knowing where he is in life.”
Alma Cuervo, who plays Homer’s mother Ida, started her career playing Holly Kaplan in Uncommon Women and Others, Wendy Wasserstein’s first and, by some estimates, best play. What Cuervo does in a climactic solo scene is memorable and touching, all the more so given that she was not long out of college when she performed it. She has come a long way from that ensemble piece to Morning’s at Seven.
For her, the demographics of the cast are special. The number of actors alone is unusual for plays these days when plays often top out at four or five. But the age of the characters all of whom are all at least 39, with Myrtle being the youngest, is virtually unheard of in 2021.
Cuervo told Newsweek, “We [in the cast] were talking about it. Usually if there’s a part of this age [over 60] in the play, there’s one and maybe the spouse, and that’s it.”
And then, of course, there are the résumés of her fellow cast members: “What a company we have. I mean, every day, I just kind of pinch myself. When I first heard we were gonna do it, I was just like: Oh my god, this is amazing. And I can’t believe I’m gonna get to be part of it. And every day, we just laugh.”
And if there are no jokes per se in the play, there are laughs to be had—plenty of them.
But there are also echoes Anton Chekhov, which might not be readily apparent to American audiences, for whom, Chekhov is often performed with a solemnity usually reserved for a Eugene O’Neill play or a Kyrie Irving press conference.
“Chekhov is very funny if it’s done that way,” Roberts told Newsweek. “He called them comedies. And I think when they were originally done, they were broader, and funnier. The American people who did Chekhov, turned it into something much more solemn and resonant of some kind of existential angst.”
By and large, however, productions Morning’s at Seven have always let the humor shine through. But the humor is counterbalanced with humanity, Cuervo told Newsweek. “It’s human. I know the only important line I say in the whole play is, ‘Do you love her?’ I mean, that’s what it all comes down to.”
In its simple way, in context, that is a very important line.
There is nothing particularly showy about Morning’s at Seven. It’s not a star vehicle; it’s an ensemble piece. Cuervo told Newsweek, “It’s like everybody has their moment and you get to help them play it. And yet you know, you’re gonna get yours and they’ll do it for you when it hits. It’s the best. But this one is, this one is just so fine. I mean from the very first reading we did, we already knew this was just a gift.”
It’s also a welcome relief from the 24-hour news cycle, the shouting heads and the wall-to-wall hysteria that is 2021. “I think people need something like this right now,” she told Newsweek.
Another of Morning’s at Seven charms is that it is play, not a screenplay in waiting or a treatment for a video game. People talk a lot and often with a purpose. Often with older plays, which can seem wordy to the modern ear, cuts are made. But the play is tight. “It’s structured so well that at one point somebody was saying: ‘Do you think they’ll put any cuts in?’ And everybody turned: Like you don’t mess with this; they thought about all that before. Now we don’t have to. We don’t have to cut. All we do have to move along.”
As for attending the theater again, some people—even big theater names—have questioned whether they should come back to shows or even leave their homes. Cuervo said, “I think some of the people are more scared about the transportation to come in, but once you’re there, once you’re in the theater, I think you’re probably one of the safer places.”
With Morning’s at Seven, that could be taken to mean physically and mentally.
Morning’s at Seven runs at the Theatre at St. Clements, 423 West 46th Street in New York from October 20 through January 9, 2022. For tickets and more information go to MorningsAt7.com.
The post ‘Morning’s at Seven,’ a Little Old Play With Staying Power, Returns With a Stellar Cast appeared first on Newsweek.


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February issue 2010
Interview: Waseem Ahmed
“Criminals have entered every political party”
– Waseem Ahmed, Capital City Police Officer, Karachi
Q: What are the causes for the recent surge of violence in Karachi?
A: One of the major security challenges in Karachi is that it is awash with weapons. And there is an urgent need to launch a campaign to seize all illegal weapons in the city. There is a law in place — Surrender of Illicit Weapons Act 1991 — under which offenders will get a 15-day notice to surrender their illicit weapons or face life imprisonment. However, this act is not being implemented. Instead, possessors of illegal weapons are tried under the normal law, which stipulates a maximum punishment of three years for this offence. Judges also take a lenient view of this crime and grant bail to the accused merely on personal surety.
Another factor which has aggravated this problem is the generosity with which the federal and provincial governments dole out arms licenses for both prohibited and unprohibited bore weapons. On the one hand, we allow a free flow of both illegal and licensed weapons; on the other, we expect a decline in violence and crime. It is a huge contradiction. I have already written a letter to the government, requesting a curb in the flow of arms and ammunition.
Q: What was the government’s reaction to your letter?
A: The PPP and the MQM are in a coalition government. Until both these parties agree on the issue, nothing can be done. When Prime Minister Gilani visited Karachi, I raised this issue with him; he promised to look into it.
Q: What efforts are the police making to seize illegal weapons?
A: Their performance has not been very impressive. In 2009, the police seized, on average, 16 weapons a day, bringing the total number of seized weapons to more than 5,000 in a year. In 2008, this average was just 14 weapons a day. I am extremely disturbed by this result and have issued orders to all officers to double their efforts. For 2010, we have set a target of seizing at least 32 illicit weapons a day in Karachi.
We have to look at the problem of policing in Karachi objectively. We are under-staffed. In a mega city like Karachi, with a population of 16 million, the total strength of the police force is just 34,000, which means there is one policeman for around 500 citizens. In the 1950s, this ratio was one to 250. Other Asian countries have a similar ratio of one official per 250 citizens. Even out of this total strength of 34,000, around 5,000 are deployed to guard national and provincial assembly members, ministers, advisors, government officials, religious leaders, politicians and even journalists. Many of them also demand a vehicle for escort purposes. We need to revamp the police department and double the size of the force.
Q: What factors sparked the latest bout of violence in Karachi?
A: The tit-for-tat killings were triggered by the murder of an Urdu-speaking boy, who was apparently in love with a Baloch woman. The murder took place on January 7, and led to more than 32 killings in just four days.
The problem is that there are anti-social elements and criminals present in the rank and files of every political party. The police arrest them, but they influence the neutrality of the police through their political clout. If we really want effective policing, the police should [be allowed to remain] neutral and there should be no political influence [wielded on them]. Unless we have a commitment from political parties [to ensure] the neutrality of the police, the situation will remain challenging.
Q: Lyari is being described as the hub of criminal gangs and mafias. Why have the police failed to take any action against them?
A: It would be highly unjust to say that Lyari is the hub of criminals. Lyari is, no doubt, an under-developed and poverty-ridden neighbourhood — it is flush with drugs, gambling dens and weapons. But it would be wrong to say that the police do not have a writ over there or that they have failed to take any action. The police killed the notorious gangster Rehman Dakait in 2009. This speaks volumes about our commitment.
The recent violence was the result of the enmity between Urdu-speaking and Baloch criminals, in which militants of both parties (MQM and PPP) were also dragged in. There is a lot of political interference, not just when dealing with criminals in Lyari but also in other parts of the city. We are not getting a free hand.
To repeat what I said earlier, the roots of ethnic violence lie in the fact that criminals have entered every political party. Whenever these criminals are arrested, political parties come to their rescue. This practice needs to be denounced.
Q: How do you explain the failure of the police in controlling the violence following the bombing of the Muharram 10 procession?
A: I was standing at Tibet Centre when the explosion occurred at 4:13 p.m. at Light House. The exact location where the bombing occurred and the last building, the Plastic Market that was damaged in the violence, cover a patch of less than half a kilometre. The [Muharram] procession was moving at that time and our men were deployed not just on both sides of the road, but also on the rooftops. When the angry youngsters were setting ablaze shops and buildings, we didn’t use force because the procession was passing through this patch. Had we used force, it could have resulted in a terrifying situation. Imagine the reaction [of the participants of the procession] if an alam had fallen or there was a stampede. I will not forward any conspiracy theory for this violence. It was the reaction of some of the participants of the Muharram procession. The young people were really charged.
The shops and buildings which were set ablaze contained highly inflammable items like perfumes, batteries, plastic goods and cigarette lighters. The problem was the weak fire-fighting response. I made two calls to the chief secretary and the nazim, assuring them of full security for the fire brigade vehicles, but they came late. What’s more, precious time was wasted when the fire-fighting trucks went for refills. The problem is that this city does not have a good fire-fighting capacity.
Q: Have you taken any action against those people who set ablaze public and private property?
A: At least 50 of them have been identified through the camera footage and out of them 32 have been arrested. Twelve of them have already been sent to jail. Most of the weapons looted from the two shops have also been recovered. We wanted to take them to the anti-terrorism court, but the respected judge told us it was a lower court case. So we are pursuing these cases over there. Those who have been arrested have no past criminal record. They were participants of the procession.
Q: So despite all the criticism of the police, you appear to be satisfied with your boys’ performance.
A: I am proud of my men and officers. In the last two years, following the suicide attack on Mohtarama Benazir Bhutto’s procession [on October 18, 2007], there have been no terrorist acts in Karachi. It is not that the terrorists did not plan anything. It was the police that countered them. In 2009, we arrested 67 terrorists and killed six, while 25 police officials laid down their lives. I can promise the people of Karachi that we won’t let them down.
Amir Zia is a senior Pakistani journalist, currently working as the Chief Editor of HUM News. He has worked for leading media organisations, including Reuters, AP, Gulf News, The News, Samaa TV and Newsline.

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From tales of bold undergraduates who siphoned wine from the basement of Mizzou’s original academic hall while curators met above, to exploring the genetic potential of Missouri’s wild grapes, the second annual Grape and Wine Symposium covered the rich history and recently rediscovered potential of the wine industry in Missouri. The College of Agriculture, Food and Natural Resources’ (CAFNR) Grape…
Horticulture and Agroforestry Research Center ⋅ Page 8
Chinese chestnuts show potential as a Missouri orchard crop.
The Horticulture and Agroforestry Research Center (HARC), famous for its Chestnut Festival, will host a Field Day on Saturday, June 30. Two tours will cover more than a dozen topics from raising truffles, nuts and fruits to establishing alley cropping systems and growing biomass in a flood plain.
Research at the Horticulture and Agroforestry Research Center (HARC) could yield new a new crop for Missouri landowners.
From turning today’s tuna salad into tomorrow’s tomatoes, and improving water quality and conservation through advanced irrigation and drainage techniques, CAFNR’s 17 research centers are improving production efficiency, reducing costs and inputs and working to conserve natural resources. Sometimes the solutions involve working with what nature provides, such as capturing ground source air to maintain consistent temperatures for heating and…
Shibu Jose, director of MU’s Center for Agroforestry, envisions a 10-state biomass corridor that could fuel economic growth, power vehicles and jet planes and provide valuable ecosystem services throughout the region.

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I think we need a place to look forward to this. The Heroic Legend of Arslan is a light novel series written by Yoshiki Tanaka. The first book came out in 1986 and as of 2013 it is still ongoing with 13 Volumes released so far. The story will be brought into a manga format by Hiromu Arakawa best known as the mangaka of Fullmetal Alchemist.
Start of serialization is in July 2013 and it will run in the Bessatsu Shounen Magazine
Thanks to Aohige for breaking the news

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Southern Arizona has featured high-profile siblings through the years like the Bates brothers (Marion, Michael and Mario), Dosty sisters (Whitney and Sybil), and most recently, the Berryhill brothers (Stanley, Savaughn and Shamar) and Bourguet clan in football (Trenton, Coben and Treyson) and multi-talented sister Rylen.
The 7-foot Jung brothers (Brian and Mark) from Canyon del Oro played in state championship games in the 1970s and were prolific scorers.
Brian broke the city scoring record with 1,688 points in 1975. Mark averaged 28.3 in 1978 when CDO won the state championship. Brian’s 53 points against Nogales that season broke the city record.
Masai Dean Jr. eclipsing 1,000 points in his career with a season-high 36 points Thursday night in an 80-62 win at Sunnyside means he and his brother Marcel have the distinction of each becoming 1,000-point scorers.
Marcel finished with 1,314 career points from 2014-18 at Cholla High School.
Interviews with @masaidean2 and his dad @mgdean33 after the younger Dean eclipsed 1,000 career points with 36 in Cholla’s 80-62 win over a tough Sunnyside team. Masai Jr. needed 14 entering the game to reach 1,000. pic.twitter.com/qUoPYRkk24
— Javier Morales (@JavierJMorales) December 9, 2022
On top of that, their father Masai Dean Sr. was one of Barry Wilson’s top players at Tucson High School in the early 1990’s. The elder Dean was not sure if he surpassed 1,000 points during his time with the Badgers, up to when he was a senior in 1992-93, but at least he knows he played a significant part in his sons reaching that mark as their head coach.
“It’s an elite (1,000-point) club he’s in,” Masai Sr. said of Masai Jr. “At least he can be compared to his brother. They can sit at home and talk about being in that club.
“I’m just proud of the guy. That guy works hard. He does a good job … He’s self-motivated. I don’t have to sweat him. I think he’s grown into a leader this year. He’s done a good job. A pretty proud dad moment tonight.”
The younger Dean achieved his 1,000th point fittingly on a strong move to the basket and scoring over a Sunnyside defender early in the second quarter.
The game was not stopped, which usually happens when a milestone achievement is accomplished at home. This was at Sunnyside’s gym. The Dean family along with many fans in the stands later displayed a large banner among Cholla fans that signified Masai Jr. achieving 1,000 career points.
“I’m blessed,” Masai Jr. said. “I’ve got teammates that put me in a position to win. I’ve got family, I’ve got friends that push me every single day. I’m nothing without them, so I’ve got to give them all the credit.”
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He can recall the first points he scored as a freshman. It was one of three 3-pointers — “a deep 3,” he said — that he made while scoring 10 points in an 81-66 win over Palo Verde on Nov. 27, 2019.
His scored in double digits in his first five games. Since the second game of his sophomore year, he has scored in double-figures in 40 straight games, including a career-high 42 against Cienega last season.
“(Eclipsing 1,000 points) means it’s one hell of a journey,” the younger Dean said. “I’m happy we’re on a (four-game) winning streak right now. All four years have been a blessing. … Working out every day, working on my craft. This is the result — that’s all it is.”
Cholla has featured prolific scorers over the years, including Sean Elliott (844 points scored as a senior in 1984-85 and 31.3 scoring average both were single-season 5A state records at the time) and Chuck Overton (school-record 2,535 points).
In more recent years, the Chargers have featured the likes Abram Carrasco (1,210), Myles Gantt (1,007) and the Dean brothers.
The younger Dean is now 292 points shy of reaching his older brother’s career mark.
“I might be the only guy in the house without a thousand,” Masai Sr. joked of his sons’ career scoring achievements.
He can look at this way — he played a significant role as a dad and coach to be part of his sons’ combined 2,336 points.
Marcel, who played with Pima College after graduating from Cholla, is now a junior at Kansas Wesleyan.
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Cholla (6-1) outscored Sunnyside 34-26 in the second half to hold off the Blue Devils (2-6), who lost earlier this season to the Chargers in the Dick McConnell Thanksgiving Classic at Pima College.
Adrian Perez contributed 19 points and Fabian Escobedo added 14 points behind four 3-pointers for Cholla.
Sunnyside was led by 12 points each from Julian Matters and Michael Quiroga and 11 points from Xavier Leyva.
Cholla next plays Flowing Wells at home Wednesday while Sunnyside plays at Catalina Foothills on Monday. Games start at 7 p.m.
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ALLSPORTSTUCSON.com publisher, writer and editor Javier Morales is a former Arizona Press Club award winner. He is a former Arizona Daily Star beat reporter for the Arizona basketball team, including when the Wildcats won the 1996-97 NCAA title. He has also written articles for CollegeAD.com, Bleacher Report, Lindy’s Sports, TucsonCitizen.com, The Arizona Republic, Sporting News and Baseball America, among many other publications. He has also authored the book “The Highest Form of Living”, which is available at Amazon. He became an educator five years ago and is presently a special education teacher at Gallego Fine Arts Intermediate in the Sunnyside Unified School District.


In distant planet's fluorescent glow, a new way to look for life
For the first time, astronomers detected the fluorescent signature of an exoplanet's atmosphere. Fluorescence can give scientists clues about processes that might make a planet habitable for life.
For the first time, astronomers have detected gas glowing like a fluorescent bulb in the atmosphere of a planet orbiting a distant star.
Researchers have had glimpses of the atmospheres of so-called exoplanets before, but never in this way. The fluorescent signature of HD 189733b, a Jupiter-size planet in the faint constellation of Vulpecula, could help astronomers explore exoplanets in more detail – including ways that help them in the search for life elsewhere in the galaxy.
HD 189733b is no candidate for life. But the techniques used to study fluorescence in the highest reaches of its atmosphere will help scientists tease out information that, on more Earth-like planets, could be crucial to life. These include the presence and strength of a planet's magnetic field and processes driving changes in the planet's atmosphere, researchers say.
Moreover, the work can be done with modest-size ground-based telescopes, not just mountaintop behemoths. As a result, more telescopes can be employed to try to uncover the processes at work on exoplanets, accelerating the pace of discovery, says Mark Swain, an astronomer who led a team of researchers conducting the measurements.
The team's work "is tremendously exciting," says Seth Redfield, an astronomer at Wesleyan University in Middletown, Conn. So little is known about individual exoplanets that any new window on these distant worlds is important, he continues.


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Anna Hazare: How an army truck driver became Gandhian activist
At the village of Ralegaon Siddhi, I discovered why God saved Baburao Hazare. In the 1970s, Ralegaon Siddhi wasn't very different from hundreds of other villages in this arid part of Maharashtra's Ahmadnagar district. With water available only during the monsoons, its farmers could barely grow one crop a year, and 70 percent of the village's 315 families lived in abject poverty. Indeed, Ralegaon Siddhi's most distinctive feature was its 40 illicit distilleries that made the village a popular haunt for drunks and gamblers. Thefts and brawls were commonplace.
Since he returned to Ralegaon Siddhi in 1975, Hazare has spearheaded a movement that has changed all this for ever. Today, Ralegaon Siddhi is brisk and prosperous. Signs of rural modernity abound. Its fields are heavy with grain; there's a bank, a boarding school, biogas plants; some of its farmers drive around on mopeds. Even more remarkable is the social transformation that Hazare has wrought. No one drinks in Ralegaon Siddhi. Only a handful smoke. There hasn't been a crime here in years. Even the practice of untouchability has weakened. "Thanks to Hazare," said the former Collector of Ahmadnagar, Rajiv Agarwal, "scores of other villages here and in neighbouring districts look to Ralegaon for inspiration."
It's hard to believe that Hazare could be responsible for all this. He's a short, thin, mild-looking fellow; the kind of person you wouldn't look at twice. Nor is his background the stuff from which leaders are supposed to be made. The son of a poor farmer, Hazare never got beyond the seventh class in school. As a young man his fiery temper constantly got him into trouble: once he had the Bombay police after him when he beat up a cop who had been harassing hawkers.
He was known as a troublemaker in the army too. Soon after he enlisted, he discovered that a senior officer was embezzling mess funds. He publicly questioned the officer - and was posted to far-off NEFA as a punishment.
The story of Hazare's transformation began in 1964 at a Delhi railway station bookstall after he bought a book on Swami Vivekananda.
Enthralled by the great sage's life and by his dictum that the noblest thing a man can do is work for the good of others, Hazare avidly began reading religious texts and biographies of social reformers. And after his escape from the Sabre jets at Khemkaran, Hazare became a vegetarian, gave up cigarettes and liquor, and vowed to remain a bachelor devoting himself to public service.
A worthy cause, he realized, lay right in front of him: The upliftment of his own village, Ralegaon Siddhi. During his annual visits home, Hazare had been appalled by its steady deterioration - even the village temple had become badly run down. "If I could re-build the temple," Hazare said to himself, "more people might think of God and lead better lives." But he didn't have the money; nor could he leave the army just yet - to qualify for a pension he had to serve for several years more.
Finally, in August 1975, Hazare returned to Ralegaon after retiring from the army. His service benefits amounted to Rs20,000 and he planned to spend the money rebuilding the village temple. He hired carpenters and masons, and helped them lay bricks and lug wood.
Few people paid him any attention at first. But as the temple neared completion, the villagers began changing. Some offered to donate wood; many volunteered their labour. "This taught me one thing," Hazare says. "If people are convinced that you are not selfish, they're on your side."
Among those who joined Hazare were a few young men. They called him "Anna" - big brother - and listened with fascination to his dream of transforming their village. Gradually, more youths joined the group, and Hazare suggested they form a Tarun Mandal [youth club].
One night, a few Tarun Mandal members rushed to the temple with the news that some drunks from a neighbouring village had beaten up Gulab Bhalekar, a 40-year-old Ralegaon farmer, because he had not saluted them. Anna seized the opportunity to call a village meeting at which he lashed out against drinking, illicit distilling and gambling. "I'm warning all distillers here," he said. "Shut shop!"
Some distillers, fearing Anna and his boys, readily complied. Others had their liquor dens smashed up. But Hazare was not content with simply putting an end to the illegal distilling. "You can drink elsewhere," he told villagers. "But if anyone here is found drunk, he'd better watch out."
He soon proved he meant business. A few days later when three men returned to Ralegaon drunk after a binge in a nearby village, Hazare had them tied to the temple pillars and personally flogged them with his army belt.
Anna Hazare is unfazed by criticism of such behaviour. "Rural India is a harsh society," he says, "if you want change, it's sometimes necessary to be tough." Indeed, no one I met at Ralegaon holds Hazare's harshness against him. "I was a miserable drunk nine years ago," said 44-year-old Haribhau Mapari, a Ralegaon farmer. "But after being thrashed, I've not touched a drop of liquor. Anna saved me."
Though drink had blighted the lives of Ralegaon Siddhi's residents, Hazare soon realized that a far more important reason for the villagers' misery was lack of work. In fact, because many of the villagers had worked for the bootleggers, shutting down the distilleries had, ironically, made several families even poorer. As he wondered what could be done, Hazare chanced upon a newspaper article about a state government scheme that provided manual labour jobs on public works projects. He and the Tarun Mandal boys quickly rounded up about 200 villagers who needed work and got jobs for all of them.
This taught Hazare another important lesson: The government runs a number of rural development schemes, but because they were poorly publicized, illiterate villagers rarely get to hear about them. By finding out what schemes existed and studying them carefully, Hazare could help villagers take advantage of them.
Accordingly, Hazare decided to find out as much as he could about these development projects. He haunted government offices, talked to every bureaucrat he could, read several newspapers and built up files on government development schemes. "He was extraordinarily persistent," recalled M.D. Sukhatme, executive engineer in Ahmadnagar's irrigation department. "I remember him at one meeting, sitting on the floor, listening intently to a technical discussion on water management."
Since Ralegaon suffered from acute water scarcity, Hazare was especially interested in irrigation techniques. Reading about a successful water conservation project near Purandhar, about 100 kilometres away, Anna studied the system and got engineers to draw up plans for a similar facility at Ralegaon. And by persuading villagers to do much of the work themselves, he got the facilities built at the lowest possible cost. "Building the temple had taught villagers the benefits of working together," says Hazare. "Since then shramdan [self-help] has been our way of life."
Today, much of Ralegaon's farmland is irrigated. Agricultural incomes have increased remarkably, and very few villagers live below the poverty line. Not only have living standards risen, dozens of villagers are now free of debt. "I was able to pay back Rs40,000 in debts that I'd accumulated over the years," farmer Nana Auti told me proudly, "Since then I've also built a new house."
Ralegaon's self-help efforts are not always looked upon kindly. Once, after the villagers decided they wanted a high-school and constructed a 10-room building themselves, the government refused to provide money for running it. Anna soon discovered the reason: a powerful local politician, annoyed because he'd received no votes in Ralegaon in a recent election, was taking revenge.
Hazare, however, was undeterred. He hired ten teachers, offering them free food and housing in lieu of wages, and got the school going. Then he systematically began to lobby officials both at district headquarters in Ahmadnagar and at the state secretariat in Bombay, 350 kilometres away.
To keep expenses down during his Bombay trips, Hazare slept on newspapers spread out on bus station floors, and bathed in the sea. But for one year, despite 20 visits to Bombay and innumerable more to Ahmadnagar, nothing happened. "Finally," Hazare says, "I decided I'd had enough." He descended on Ahmadnagar's Zilla Parishad office one morning with 250 villagers and announced that they were all going on a hunger strike. Within hours, officials in Bombay sent an assurance that the money would be made available.
Today the school is run on military lines. "That's where I learnt some discipline," says Hazare. Students have to jog and exercise daily, and take extra courses in English which, insists Hazare who knows very little of the language himself, "is essential to understand modern science."
Hazare has tried to modernize age-old social customs too. The Ralegaon Tarun Mandal organizes group marriages thrice a year. Nobody has to spend more than Rs1000; poor families don't have to pay anything at all. Ralegaon group weddings have become so popular that even girls from neighbouring villages are sometimes married off there.
Untouchability, too, is beginning to lose its force in Ralegaon. Today, the village's Harijans share the community water tanks with caste Hindus and eat with them at the group marriages. At the village's annual cattle festival, it's been a convention to give a Harijan's bullocks pride of place.
All such progress, Hazare believes, must be based on a deep religious faith. Today, as in the very beginning, the village temple is the heart of Hazare's movement. Anna himself lives there, in a small room cluttered with files and documents. All day long, the temple is crowded with people attending prayer sessions, religious discourses, and meetings.
The changes in Ralegaon have stimulated people in neighbouring areas to do something about their villages, too. Raghunath Thange, 29, gave up his headmaster's job at a high school near Ahmadnagar and is now engaged in closing down distilleries in villages. "We're following in Anna's footsteps," he says. "Thanks to him we know what to do."
Anna wants a lot more for Ralegaon including industries that will keep Ralegaon's educated youths from leaving the village. As always, he rarely has a spare moment, especially with people from other villages coming to him constantly to discuss their problems or to invite him to address public functions. While I was with him two Muslims youths from neighbouring Sirur town wanted him to talk at a meeting celebrating the Prophet's birthday. Anna accepted readily. When they left he told me, "I don't know much about the Prophet, but I'll give them my message - that to change our nation we have to change our villages, and to do that we have to change ourselves."
Anna Hazare was a relatively unknown figure when this article was first published in 1986. Since then, Hazare has won innumerable awards and honours including the Padma Bhushan. Today, he is nationally known for his many crusades, especially against corruption. It was largely due to him that Maharashtra's Right to Information Act was passed and then amended in 2006. Meanwhile, Ralegaon Siddhi has become a model for many other villages in the country.


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This report, submitted pursuant to Security Council resolution 1612 (2005) and subsequent resolutions on children and armed conflict, is the seventh report of the Secretary-General on children and armed conflict in the Sudan and covers the period from 1 January 2020 to 31 December 2021.
The report documents the effects of the conflict on children in Sudan, highlights trends and patterns in the six grave violations against children and contains information on perpetrators where available. In addition, it presents information on progress made in addressing grave violations against children, including through dialogue with the parties.
The report includes a series of recommendations addressed to all parties to the conflict aimed at ending and preventing grave violations against children and strengthening the protection of children in Sudan.
This report, prepared pursuant to Security Council resolution 1612 (2005) and subsequent resolutions on children and armed conflict, covers the period from 1 January 2020 to 31 December 2021. This is the seventh report of the Secretary-General on children and armed conflict in Sudan to be submitted to the Security Council and to its working group on children and armed conflict. The report highlights trends and patterns of grave violations against children by parties to the conflict in Sudan and provides details on progress made to end and prevent these violations since the previous report (S/2020/614) and the adoption by the Working Group on Children and Armed Conflict of its conclusions on the situation of children and armed conflict in Sudan (S/AC.51/2020/7). It also contains information on the progress and challenges of dialogue with the parties to the conflict. Where possible, parties to the conflict responsible for grave violations are identified. In the annexes to the Secretary-General’s latest report on children and armed conflict (A/76/871-S/2022/493), on List A of scheduled parties that had not put in place measures during the reporting period to improve the protection of children, five armed groups are listed for the recruitment and use of children, namely the Justice and Equality Movement (JEM), the Sudan Liberation Army-Minni Minawi (SLA-MM), the Abdelaziz al-Hilu faction of the Sudan People’s Liberation Movement-North (SPLM-N), the SPLM-N Malik Agar faction and the Sudan Liberation Army-Abdul Wahid (SLA-AW). Apart from the latter, all the armed groups have in the past signed action plans with the United Nations.
The information in this report has been verified by the United Nations Country Task Force on Monitoring and Reporting in Sudan, co-chaired by the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF), the Resident Coordinator and the African Union-United Nations Hybrid Operation. in Darfur (UNAMID) until its withdrawal in December 2020. As of January 2021, the country task force is chaired by the United Nations Integrated Transition Assistance Mission in Sudan (UNITAMS) and UNICEF. Challenges related to insecurity and access to conflict-affected areas have significantly hampered the documentation and verification of grave violations against children. The outbreak of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic and related response measures in 2020, including movement restrictions, have further exacerbated these challenges. Therefore, the information in the report does not represent the full extent of grave violations committed against children in Sudan during the reporting period, and the actual number of violations is likely higher. Where incidents occurred earlier but were only verified during the reporting period, this information is qualified as relating to an incident that was verified at a later date.


In April, NC DPI tipped their hand to these changes at the monthly State Board of Education meeting. At that meeting, it became clear that the work of the Academic Standards Review Commission’s (ASRC) math group was being utilized in some manner. [Read: ICYMI – NC’s Dept Of Public Instruction Takes ASRC Recommendations As Their Own]
Yesterday, the NC Department of Public Instruction (NC DPI) held a press conference about coming changes to Common Core math at the high school level.
WUNC reports that DPI is going to keep most of the high school math (Integrated math; Math I, II, III) the same and that teachers want this:
Many teachers have struggled with the new sequence, but State Superintendent June Atkinson says teacher feedback shows most support it.
“I wouldn’t say we have 100 percent, but most of our teachers want us to stay on the course of Math I, II and III,” she said.
That is the opposite of what the ASRC found. The ASRC, over the course of 15 months, found that the majority of the math teachers that hey spoke to did not want to keep the Integrated math. [Read: ASRC Math Workgroup Minority Report]
The current Common Core math was cumbersome, confusing and the progression made little sense. These sentiments were echoed by Dr. James Milgram, the only mathematician on the Common Core Validation committee, when he testified to the ASRC last year.
Superintendent Atkinson has been a vigilant Common Core cheerleader. She’s arguably defended these standards as if they were her own children.
Atkinson has also stated in the past that Common Core cannot be altered or changed, but instead only additional content can be incorporated; up to a 15% threshold. Atkinson has said for the past few years that the Common Core standards are ‘clear and concise’.
Yesterday, she changed her tune.
News and Observer reported; emphasis added:
In a news conference, Superintendent of Public Instruction June Atkinson said the State Board faces competing forces: one that wants the pace to pick up and another that wants it slower. A representative from Wake County schools said the district has been anticipating the changes and would be ready by July, when students in year-round schools begin class.
Atkinson said the changes make the standards coherent, make them “flow,” order them from simple to complex, and add clarity.
Add clarity? Make them “flow”? How about make them GO?
Atkinson also made a comment at yesterday’s press conference indicating that DPI had done a ‘comparison with Minnesota math standards’. Download and view this hand out.
This was an amazing statement, given that DPI and various vocal pro-Common Core groups screamed at the top of their lungs about the idea of using Minnesota math standards as suggested by the ASRC math workgroup. In fact, it was the Minnesota standards suggestion that led to the disgusting assault by certain commission members on the leader of the math team at the final commission meeting.
Now DPI wants public comment on their proposals via a survey, which will be open until May 20th. The proposed changes are in the following documents:
- sla1-attachment-1.pdf (Math I)
- sla1-attachment-2.pdf (Math II)
- sla1-attachment-3.pdf (Math III)
- sla1-attachment-4.pdf (Summary)
In an email announcement from DPI, they said these changes could possibly be voted on at the State Board of Education meeting in June.
- NC Common Core Commission Math Group Publishes A Minority Report
- NC Common Core Commission Co-Chair Pens Dissent Opinion
- Common Core Commission Failed their Task
- Common Core Commission Takes A Dive
- North Carolina Panelists Break Ranks with Standards Commission


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Black Skins, White Snow – Report from Black Portraiture[s]: The Black Body in the WestFriday, February 8th, 2013 Categories: Features, Reviews, Updates
What does it feel like to be part of a critical mass, finally? It feels like a swelling in your limbs and mind, pride swelling up in your heart, and your people swelling, swirling with you—there is someone at your back, on lookout, and your posse is circling round ready for whatever. This was the feeling last month in Paris as a critical mass of artists, scholars, curators, writers, thinkers, and doers gathered for Black Portraiture[s]: The Black Body in the West, the fifth in a series of conferences organized by New York University and Harvard University. In three non-stop days of presentations, international attendees traversed Paris’s Left Bank to conference sites at École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts, University Paris Diderot-Paris 7, and the musée du quai Branly. A fourth day at the museum featured film screenings. By all accounts, Black Portraiture[s] was a conference for the history books.
There were many highlights, including a very frank conversation between NYU professor Manthia Diawara and athlete-activist Lilian Thuram on opening day. Born in Guadeloupe, Thuram is a former professional soccer player who has been active in France in the fight against racism. Thuram was a curator of the exhibition “Human Zoos: The Invention of the Savage” for the musée du quai Branly, and he spoke about debunking myths of black inferiority and white superiority, even among his family members. Thuram expressed a sentiment that would be echoed throughout the rest of the sessions: in France, talking about race is often misinterpreted or maligned as being racist. Thus, the fact that hundreds of scholars and artists had gathered in Paris to talk about “the black body in the west” was a major accomplishment. The conference opened up a space for discussions of race and representation that rarely happen in a public forum, much less one supported by major educational and cultural institutions.
Caribbean artists were prominently featured in a joint presentation by Alissandra Cummins and Allison Thompson who discussed works by Joscelyn Gardner, Sheena Rose, and Christopher Cozier among others. Cummins and Thompson are Barbados-based coordinators of the Black Diaspora Visual Arts program which produced the recent collection Curating in the Caribbean. Another session chaired by Joan Morgan explored the spectrum of diasporic visual culture including Caribbean themes, from Renée Cox’s imagined portrait “Queen Nanny of the Maroons” to misreadings of pop icon Rihanna’s carnival queen play.
Panels explored museums and archives, nostalgia, exoticism, black style, dandyism, cinema, stereotypes, and beyond. The inclusion of fashion designers Mimi Plange and Xuly Bët, history-making photographers J.D. Ojeikere and James Barnor, and presentations on topics as diverse as Ota Benga, Herero women, and Blackamoor figures, made for a rich mix of visual and intellectual stimulation. One of the most powerful images shown was during Renée Mussai’s presentation on Autograph ABP, a London-based photographic arts organization with an archive and research center. Autograph will be making their archive accessible to the public through forthcoming campaigns using large-scale, outdoor projections onto buildings and, in one of Mussai’s stunning examples, onto the surface of water. Another gasp-worthy moment at the conference was curator Shantrelle P. Lewis showing a 20 foot “dandy,” an enlargement of a photograph by Russell Frederick from the exhibition Dandy Lion: Articulating a Re(de)fined Black Masculine Identity. (Lesson here: size matters.)
Provocative moments from each day’s panels carried conversations out from the lecture halls into the streets, into dinners, and into evening events across the city. Questions lingered, like Simon Njami asking if “the black body” isn’t a metaphor, or a slogan? “As long as the body is a stage, it is no longer someone’s body (to do what they want with it),” he suggested during his talk. “Whatever the body is staging, it is staging. It is not ‘the body’ anymore,” he continued. You could hear the quiet consideration and a collective “Hmmm” from those listening. A hush was coming over Paris. At the end of this second day, our mass of black and other bodies emerged out of sessions onto sidewalks blanketed with a January snow, still falling. More ideas piled up with the snow. A blustery whiteness slowed the city’s pace, but not the purpose of this gathering, and not the critical mass of bodies swirling in from far and near to speak for themselves on this world stage.


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text: Entertainment Movies 'Deadpool 2' Is Dedicated to the Stuntwoman Who Died on Set Filming a Motorcycle Stunt Stuntowman Joi "SJ" Harris died while filming a motorcycle stunt on the Vancouver set in August By Dana Rose Falcone Published on May 18, 2018 04:45 PM Share Tweet Pin Email Viewers who stick around for the Deadpool 2 credits may notice that the movie is dedicated to Joi “SJ” Harris, the stuntwoman who died while filming a motorcycle stunt on the Vancouver set in August. The Hollywood Reporter points out that the credits include a dedication that says, “In memory of Sequana Harris.” Harris — noted as the first African-American female professional road racer — served as a stunt double for Zazie Beetz, who joined the Deadpool sequel as lucky superhero Domino. Deadpool 2 marked Harris’ first time doing stuntwork in a movie. She died after losing control of her motorcycle and crashing into a building. A WorkSafeBC report obtained by PEOPLE at the time detailed the circumstances surrounding Harris’ death: “During the first shooting of the scene the stunt driver continued driving beyond the planned stopping spot on the stairway landing, and continued to drive down a second ramp built over the bottom stairs and across the roadway. The motorcycle struck the concrete sidewalk curb, the worker was thrown off the motorcycle and propelled through a plate glass window of a building.” RELATED VIDEO: Ryan Reynolds Heartbroken Over Death of ‘Deadpool 2’ Stuntwoman Beetz, 26, expressed her sadness on social media over the summer. “My heart has been breaking the past two days and I have been searching what to say or do,” the actress posted on Instagram on August 17. “I know that that what I feel is nothing compared to what her loved ones, friends + family, are feeling. MY heart and my love goes out to her and them all. The cast and crew send peace, healing, and their deepest condolences.” Star Ryan Reynolds, 41, also spoke out on behalf of the cast and crew that day. Want to keep up on the latest from PEOPLE? Sign up for our daily newsletter to get our best stories of the day delivered straight to your inbox. “Today, we tragically lost a member of our crew while filming Deadpool,” he shared on social media. “We’re heartbroken, devastated… but recognize nothing can come close to the grief and inexplicable pain her family and loved ones must feel in this moment. My heart pours out to them — along with each and every person she touched in this world,” Reynolds wrote last year. Harris’ friend and manager Porsche Taylor spoke with PEOPLE shortly after the accident, saying “SJ’s a remarkable woman, it’s hard to talk about her in the past tense” “She just was fearless, and whatever she put her mind to she was going to achieve it,” she added. “She loved motorcycles, she loved racing and she loved making an impact in the sport.” Deadpool 2 is in theaters now.


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In 2018, the Winter Olympics were held in Pyeongchang, South-Korea. For this event a 500-year old primitive forest had to be destroyed to make place for a ski slope that would be used for 3 days during the olympics. The only reason for this was that the Ski federation’s requirement was that the course had a vertical drop of at least 800 meters and none of the other resorts in the area met that requirement.
Mount Gariwangsan has been described as an 'ecological Ark of Ancient Forest’, is not just important for its flora and fauna. It is also one of the most important mountain areas on the Korean Peninsula, culturally, historically and ecologically. Its upper slopes survived Japanese occupation, the Korean War and industrialization, and are one of the few remaining old-growth forests where rare 300-year-old yew trees can be found. In addition the mountain is home to tens of thousands of large size climate change vulnerable coniferous trees. In august 2013 the forest service of Korea lifted the protected area designation, an area of 78.8ha, in order to allow the mountain’s use for the Olympics.
Under pressure from green groups, and after deciding it was economically unviable to turn the area into a permanent ski resort, Gangwon province - the local government host of the Olympics - is set to tear down the gondola and replant trees. All that is an effort to return the 1,560-meter mountain to its original state. However, this all comes at a cost of 47.7 billion KRW (44 Million $). The problem is that the province is only prepared to pay a fraction of what is needed and this has sparked the fear that the Pyeongchang Games will leave a sordid environmental legacy.
July 2021: The area is in decay. A luxury resort still remains open for visitors. During my visit, the staff of the resort out numbered the amount of people actually staying there.
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The Little Book of Hygge: The Danish Way to Live Well
The Danish word hygge is one of those beautiful words that doesn’t directly translate into English, but it more or less means comfort, warmth or togetherness. Hygge is the feeling you get when you are cuddled up on a sofa with a loved one, in warm knitted socks, in front of the fire, when it is... show more
The Danish word hygge is one of those beautiful words that doesn’t directly translate into English, but it more or less means comfort, warmth or togetherness.
Hygge is the feeling you get when you are cuddled up on a sofa with a loved one, in warm knitted socks, in front of the fire, when it is dark, cold and stormy outside. It that feeling when you are sharing good, comfort food with your closest friends, by candle light and exchanging easy conversation. It is those cold, crisp blue sky mornings when the light through your window is just right.
Denmark is the happiest nation in the world and Meik puts this largely down to them living the hygge way. They focus on the small things that really matter, spend more quality time with friends and family and enjoy the good things in life. The Little Book of Hygge will give you practical steps and tips to become more hygge: how to pick the right lighting, organise a dinner party and even how to dress hygge, all backed up by Meik’s years’ of research at the Happiness Research Institute in Copenhagen.
Publish date: 2016-11-08
Publisher: Penguin Books
Pages no: 288
Edition language: English
I don't remember much about this book other than liking the illustrations and wishing (just the tiniest bit) that I still lived somewhere where it snows in the winter. My first introduction to hygge (other than an episode of QI possibly?), and I don't think it was a bad one.
For more reviews, check out my blog: Craft-CycleI will start by saying this is a very pretty book. I liked the cover and the various illustrations throughout. Very hygge. The colors and font used were very comforting.However, what I think my dislike of this book all boils down to is that it didn't n...
I needed a palate/brain cleaner between disaster books (plus the disaster podcasts I listen to regularly), so I picked this from my NOOK. I expected a lot more than what I got from this book. I think MbD and TA did a better job explaining hygge in their 16 Tasks for the Festive Season challenge. At ...
This is about a way of living that leads to happiness. Everything seems small and makes sense. I'm going to try to take some of this to heart and make some changes.
Audiobook Great narration Hygge the way of zen like living for the Danish. This little book is filled with sensible easy t follow techniques to give your moments more meaning. Light a candle, cuddle under a blanket, play board game with friends, and much more. It's about living life in the moment,...


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Sunday afternoon in bed:
Your Sacagawea teaches my Clark
how to explore unknown lands.
Speaking not in whispers, but softly,
you tell me of your childhood:
The games you played in the fields,
the gods you worshipped each day.
I hear the pinks and purples
of sunrise at a new river bank.


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To navigate the complex story in FX on Hulu’s limited series Devs, creator-director Alex Garland (Ex Machina) enlisted Oscar-nominated editor Jake Roberts (Hell or High Water) to cut all eight episodes. Roberts says Garland “insisted” on working with one editor because he wanted “an authored consistency to the whole show.” This required Roberts to bend time in the cutting room, allowing viewers to follow software developer Lily (Sonoya Mizuno) when she’s pulled into a plot involving her company’s mysterious CEO, tech developer Forest (Nick Offerman), and a program that could allow access to the past and the future.
The story required you to weave timelines in the edit. How did you approach that?
The places in the narrative where we jump around in time are always seen through the device of the Devs computer, which is a kind of virtual time machine. As a result, what we see and how see it evolve through the episodes. Early on, the images are very hazy and the sound is rough and full of static, but as the technology progresses it becomes increasingly perfect, until we have an entire episode that is essentially flashbacks — but being watched by a character within the narrative. In the final episode, we have our lead character watch something she’s about to do, and then a few minutes later, we play the same scene happening in “real” time. In that case, we were striving to show different beats and give an alternate emphasis the second time around. We were also careful that any time we showed the character watching the Devs screen, the image on the screen had to be a wide shot, as in a “computer’s-eye view.” We felt the Devs computer wouldn’t edit images together but essentially play things in a master.
To what extent did the final cut deviate from the script?
To a greater extent than with most of the films I’ve worked on, this stayed pretty close to the scripts. The opening montages that begin every episode were total fabrications in the edit, which helped establish the vibe of the show and acted as a kind of palate cleanser before the narrative starts.
One thing that we came up with was the fact that the character Katie [Alison Pill] is watching the scenes on the computer. In the script we just see the scenes full-screen, and the only thing that told us we were seeing through the machine were the transitions to static. Because it felt more dramatically interesting to give this voyeurism to a character rather than to the viewer, we took footage of the actress, which had been intended for somewhere else, and cut it in between some of the scenes — creating the sense that she’s the person watching this history unfold. The only pickup shots in the entire series are the close-ups of her hands operating the iPad.
Were you cutting all the episodes at once, given that one change could impact storylines in other episodes?
Initially, I assembled throughout the six months of the shoot, and then Alex and I edited together for roughly eight months during post — so effectively one month per episode, although it was much less structured than that. It was very important to keep the process as fluid and open as possible right up until the very end of post. In effect, we were treating each episode exactly as one would a reel in a movie — the main difference being that they were much longer. As in films, you’re always fighting not to get too bogged down in any one area; ideally, you want the whole piece to have a similar degree of polish at any one time, so we were always jumping between episodes.
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text: W. Va. \u2014 When it comes to combating the problem of human trafficking in West Virginia, officials say there are challenges to face statewide.\r\n\r\nAssistant US Attorney General Andy Cogar, co-chair of the West Virginia Human Trafficking Taskforce, said one of the challenges,\u00a0not unique to West Virginia, is the learning curve for law enforcement in dealing with sex trafficking.\r\n\r\n\u201cThis is the learning curve we have with law enforcement, not just with law enforcement,\u201d he said. \u201cIt\u2019s important with law enforcement because they are on the front lines, but it\u2019s also a cultural learning curve that we have to go through when it comes to sex trafficking when it comes to our perceptions and our paradigms."\r\n\r\n\u201cWhen it comes to sex trafficking, they have that understanding of sex trafficking. They blur those lines between sex trafficking and prostitution, and so there is a tendency\u2014 because culturally, it\u2019s not just a law enforcement thing, but culturally, prostitutes are written off as almost subhuman at times.There\u2019s a lack of concern or credibility that\u2019s ascribed to sex trafficking victims because they are written off often times as just lowly prostitutes."\r\n\r\n\u201cWe have to break through that and have a much more nuanced understanding of what prostitution is frankly. But also, and more importantly, the various ways that sex trafficking can manifest itself or that it is manifested.\u201d\r\n\r\nCogar said part of the learning curve is because human trafficking is a relatively new crime in the codes.\r\n\r\n\u201cAnother thing with law enforcement \u2014 another learning curve we have to get over \u2014 is the fact that human trafficking has only been codified as law for about two decades,\u201d he said. \u201cSo, it\u2019s not common nature, or it\u2019s not second nature I should say, for police officers to look at a situation, like they would with assault or domestic violence, certain white collar crimes and so on\u2014it\u2019s not second nature for them to say, \u2018Oh, that looks like human trafficking."\r\n\r\n\u201cInstead, they might say it looks like child abuse. It looks like prostitution. That looks like a labor violation. It looks like anything else but human trafficking. What I want to do, as part of the task force, is to sensitize law enforcement to pause and see that, to have the screening tool internally to recognize the possibility of human trafficking as such.\u201d\r\n\r\nPolice Officer Troy Ball of the Morgantown Police Department said he agreed education is important for law enforcement on this issue.\r\n\r\n\u201cSometimes police are not the best resource for survivors. Sometimes advocates are the best resource,\u201d Ball said. \u201cIt\u2019s really situational. I\u2019d like for them to contact the police and seek help from the police, but we are limited as to laws, and not every police officer has a really good grasp, a tremendous understanding of the nature of domestic violence. And that can make it difficult and that can make the response difficult and not necessarily favorable.\u201d\r\n\r\nBall said there was a lot of information to learn about human trafficking as a crime.\r\n\r\n\u201cWe just have a lot of work to do in that area,\u201d he said. \u201c[Education] is important for everyone in the community. Law enforcement for sure. I know we receive a lot\u00a0 now, and some may argue with me that we\u2019ve received enough, but I don\u2019t think that\u2019s true. I think there\u2019s still more\u2026Because there\u2019s a lot of information. There\u2019s a ton.\u201d\r\n\r\nCogar said another challenge in West Virginia, can be the relationship of local law enforcement and small communities.\r\n\r\n\u201cBecause of that culture and that very close relationship, which is good in many ways, between law enforcement and local communities, there will be, and I think there has been in some areas, a propensity to rationalize or overlook certain signs of trafficking and saying in response, \u2018That\u2019s just the Smith family being the Smith family\u2019 or \u2018They\u2019ve always done that,\u2019\u201d he said.\r\nCogar said this relationship can unintentionally correspond with a significant familial trafficking problem in West Virginia.\r\n\u201cI think many law enforcement, myself included, see familial-based sex trafficking as maybe the most prominent form of sex trafficking in the state based on antidotal evidence and trends we have seen,\u201d he said. \u201cSo, that\u2019s a deeply concerning issue for us in the law enforcement community and the task force because there\u2019s very little opportunities for intervention. There\u2019s very few opportunities for accountability because, and we\u2019ve seen this nationally in these egregious examples of parents imprisoning their children."\r\n\r\n\u201cWe\u2019ve heard about this in California and elsewhere in recent months, and some of that has gone on for years before it\u2019s ever detected. It really makes it that much more imperative for law enforcement to be that much more attuned to the possibility of human trafficking in these family situations, and taking advantage of these opportunities to say, \u2018Hi, I was in the neighborhood. How are your kids doing? I haven\u2019t seen Joey in a long time. How\u2019s he doing today?\u2019\u201d\r\n\r\nCogar said these types of conversations are \u201cpart of common sense policing that could go a long way toward preventing, discouraging and then intervening in these kind of familial-based human trafficking situations.\u201d\r\n\r\nCogar said it\u2019s a lot to ask of local law enforcement to deal with human trafficking on top of their other duties.\r\n\r\n\u201cThe local enforcement, sheriff\u2019s deputies, they are on the front line, and we ask a lot of them to identify things in the early stages or to alert the state or federal law enforcement about burgeoning issues in their communities,\u201d he said. \u201cHuman trafficking is just one other thing. And it\u2019s tough, and frankly it\u2019s tough for them because human trafficking is a different kind of crime and because it\u2019s not necessarily as intuitive or straight-forward to identify, and it requires a bit of nuanced training, frankly. I think it\u2019s tough for them to keep that straight. To have that kind of screening that\u2019s built in internally, so they can say, \u2018oh that\u2019s human trafficking.\u2019\u201d\r\n\r\nCogar said as part of the West Virginia Human Trafficking Taskforce, he hopes to educate law enforcement officials and help them develop the screening they need to recognize human trafficking.