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It is not news that drones are now frequently used in the agricultural space to boost farmers’ productivity through timely data collection for improved crop yields. Beyond aerial data, drones directly provide active operational support to farmers in areas such as pesticide and fertilizer spraying to distribute chemicals equally and accurately.
This is why Tawanda of Zimbabwe Flying Labs and Aboubacar from Cote d’Ivoire Flying Labs organized a knowledge-sharing webinar with a strong focus on crop-spraying drones, their benefits, and their challenges. This event aimed to bring awareness to the use of drones for spraying, and various use cases, with the hope that more people in the Global South accelerate their skills to support farmers in achieving higher crop yields.
Tawanda’s work with drones covers many areas, but in the last two years, his team has focused on bringing education, awareness, and training to Zimbabweans through tailored drone training. They chose this approach because it is a significant gap in the Global South and hinders the adoption of drones as an effective tool in solving social challenges.
Tawanda has been involved in several drone spraying projects, spurred by his involvement in curbing the spread of COVID-19 during the global pandemic. His team used drones for disinfectant spray activities in specific crowded areas to curb the spread of the virus.
Since 2020, Tawanda and his team have supported many farmers through their work. They have also been lobbying for crop spraying drones to be classified as agricultural equipment by the Ministry of Agriculture to increase adoption by local stakeholders and enable the drone ecosystem in Zimbabwe.
“The technology itself is brilliant, amazing, efficient; however, it is important to understand that drones need to be handled professionally by trained individuals taking into account compliance and safety regulations.”
Aboubacar’s presentation focused on the operational needs of using drones to spray large farm fields such as cotton and bananas. On average, trained professionals can use drones to spray seven-to-ten hectares per hour and a maximum of 40 hectares per day per drone. However, the team found that drones perform better and faster when the liquid content is lower.
Beyond cotton spraying, Cote d’Ivoire Flying Labs have also used drones in the aerial mapping of cultivated areas, identification of less fertile areas, and evaluation of the health of the plants. In the last two years, Aboubacar and his team have sprayed and treated over 40,000 hectares of plantations such as banana, sugarcane, and cotton, offered several interventions in research and development, partnering with renowned agricultural organizations and research bodies.
According to the speakers, compared to traditional spraying, some of the benefits they have seen with drones for spraying include time-saving and the ability to carry out work that typically takes 10 hours in less than one. Other benefits include its affordability and easy application of fertilizers, quick deployment, precision spraying, efficient resource management, and health and safety of human resources because the operator is not in direct contact with the plants and chemicals. For example, in cotton spraying, a drone has a daily treatment capacity of 40 hectares per day, while a tractor would only cover 5 hectares per day.
“It is one thing to see drones deployed in South Africa, Nigeria, etc. It is another thing for an individual to understand what it would take to deploy said technology in their local context. We need to have context when looking at innovation with the understanding of what it would take to have an ecosystem that is friendly and conducive for said innovation.”-Tawanda on contextual innovation approach.
While drones have improved work efficiency and accuracy in agriculture, they have their fair share of challenges that public and private can transform into opportunities. Some challenges include a need for more adoption on a broader scale and a change of mindset around using drones. In addition, limited knowledge of drones’ use and applicability makes it particularly difficult to scale to a larger audience. Another challenge local experts face is the high cost of drone hardware and software, partly because the industry is, in many ways, still testing and advancing drone spraying technology.
The speakers highlighted Africa’s need for more experienced and well-established drone maintenance and repair hubs. Notwithstanding, the above challenges listed in many ways can be transformed into opportunities, enhancing the adoption of drones on a broader scale and improving global food security in the long term.

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Footnote to Previous Post
This post is a footnotes to the previous post ... as the title suggests. If you know the whereabouts of the Fat Girl mentioned in the last post please report to us her rough coordinates (doesn't need to be exact, I am sure we can spot her from a distance). You may contact us at 0800-I-SPOTTED-A-BLOB. Here is an artists sketch of the fat girl:
On a descriptive note we would like to draw you attention to the restless eyes, constantly scanning the background for sugar-coated delights. Also please note something our artist hasn't drawn; the area around her mouth in general will have some remains of the cupcake she consumed 2 to 3 minutes ago.
If seen then kindly contact us immediately. Do NOT approach, I repeat, DO NOT APPROACH. If you hold a sugary treat (especially a cupcake) in you hand then slowly place it on the ground and back away. It is advisable that you do not make eye contact. Any sudden movements will make the Fat Girl feel threatened and she may fall ... hard. After receiving your call we will be on the scene in less than ... who am I kidding? We will be on the scene in more than an hour will all our professional Fat Girl capturing gear which consists of a saddle, a fishing rod with a cupcake as bait and other advances pieces of equipment which I will not bother explaining to our 3 readers because you won't understand.

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Specifications, Availability and Pricing
SilverStone's SST-RV03B-W is built mostly of 0.8mm steel panels that are cut, bent and painted inside and out with a matte black color. Externally, the RV03B looks much like the RV02 with its longer than it is tall design, but the overall design and shaping is a close reminder as well; the RV03 was designed with its own personality in mind. On top there is the large, louvered cover for the rear I/O that we are used to. The cover smoothly flows around to the front into the front I/O and down over the optical bays. Since the interior has a new layout, the bottom of the front bezel has a large plastic area with the Raven emblem on it to cover the PSU to be installed there later. The top and front are made of ABS plastic to allow for the unique shapes, but this time there is a pair of gold "racing stripes" that run the full length of the top and continue down the front to the bottom of the chassis.
For those who have owned any of the Raven cases, what's on the inside won't surprise you too much. Most notably, the motherboard tray gets a ninety degree twist the right, orienting the motherboard to allow the graphics card/s and CPU coolers to blow air out the top of the chassis. This tray is marked for the full lineup of motherboards it can hold, and even marks off VGA length so you can see easily if long cards will fit. In the front there are seven 5.25" bays all with tool-free clips. Inside of six of those you will find both fan adapters to add 120mm fans here, along with six hard drive trays if you plan to install hard drives in the front. Where else are you going to install them, you're thinking, right? Believe it or not, there is room for up to five hard drives behind the motherboard tray as well!
Cooling the RV03 is a pair of 180mm Air Penetrator fans on the floor. These fans are slightly offset from each other. The one on the right is set out to add a great flow of air to the GPU area. The right fan is set further back and under the motherboard tray a bit. With the added venting at the bottom of the tray, it allows this fan to add air flow behind the motherboard tray as well. Both of these fans are connected to a fan controller found near the front I/O that have a Hi and Low setting and are pre-wired, just like all the other chassis wiring found in the RV03. There is one other fan installed in the RV03 from the factory and that is the 120mm fan in the top acting to exhaust the chassis. Optional places for fans are the front, and if you wish to remove the 180mm fans in the floor. In the front, you can use the 120mm fan adapter to secure up to four fans in the optical bays. If you remove the 180mm fan, you then have room to use three 120mm fans, or for those who water cool, the RV03 will take on a triple 120mm radiator.
SilverStone just released this concept of the Raven, so I expect availability to be a bit limited at this moment. A quick trip over to Google shopping definitely confirms this. Searching every way I could think of, I was only able to locate five e-tailers showing stock of this chassis. Pricing is all over the place with this chassis! I see pricing going from $139 on the low end, and charging up to $40 to ship it, while others are listing around $209 shipped. In the middle, as usual, I found a listing of $159.99 at Newegg.com. They are asking $28 to ship the RV03B-W, but all said and done, the RV03 rings out at under $180 this route. With the price of the RV01 at $249, dropped to the $179 of the RV02, I'm glad to see change didn't come with a heavy price. Now let's see if it's worth it!
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View Full Version : My ride...what do you think?
06-25-2002, 02:02 AM
Here is my 94 E36 325i now....
06-25-2002, 02:20 AM
Lookin good lookin good, welcome to maXbimmer btw. *wave*
06-25-2002, 02:38 AM
Nice ride! what kind of wheels are those?
06-25-2002, 06:23 AM
They look like mille miglias.
06-25-2002, 06:44 AM
love the wheels *th-up*
06-25-2002, 08:18 AM
Beauty....i love the wheels.....Beautiful car d00d !:D
06-25-2002, 09:07 PM
Ya, they are Mille Miglias II-Special...they are great wheels. It makes a hugh differences on the appearance of the vehicle. I want to keep it not too far off from the stock look. Thanks for all the comments.
It is a 94 325ia, I also painted all side skirts, added the M3 exhaust as you can see from the photo, AC strut bar, Sport package susp., 50% tint all around, front clear corner and rear euro taillights. Everythings are minor upgrades...but it makes a big dfference in terms of appearance and performance....even with just the sport package susp., bigger wheels, wider tires and AC strut bar. The car handles much much better, more solid, better turn-in feels without too far off from stock comfort level...AS you awared this is an auto...I don't want it just a performance machine...I intended to have them both. It's easy to mod everything but they usually come with the extra sounds and harshness so it took me sometime to decide what and how to upgrade. Right now, the car handles better, looks better and rides better. I got the balance of power, comfort and appearance.
06-26-2002, 12:57 AM
Nice n Clean!
Keep it up *th-up*
oh and Welcome to the board :)
06-26-2002, 08:55 AM
So fresh and so clean !*th-up*
06-26-2002, 07:49 PM
Nice wheels man, keepin' it in the Mille Miglia family........
06-26-2002, 09:19 PM
nice car good job *th-up* *th-up* but looks a lil high
droppin it a few inches won't hurt ;) ;) ;)
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The Star-Ledger is reporting that the Senate has approved a bill today by a vote of 28-4 to mandate state, county and municipal governments and authorities to create searchable websites for taxpayers to track how their money is spent.
Ledger reporter Matt Friedman blogs that senators opposing the bill, "including two who double as mayors, said it burdened municipalities with the cost of setting up and maintaining the websites."
One of those who opposed the measure is Sen. Nicholas Sacco, a Democrat who is also mayor of North Bergen.
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Flexible Heater Manufacturers – Quick Guide To Flexible Heaters
When talking about heating, there are countless of options that you have in the market. Industrial heaters are being used for various applications and in many different industries at the same time but, there’s one kind of heater that shines from the rest and this is flexible heaters.
As a matter of fact, these flexible heaters are thin at just around .5 to 1.5mm, formable and can be designed to suit your equipment’s requirements. It is capable of providing rapid heat transfer, even heat distribution and accurate temperature control due to its direct bonding as well as thin section to the work piece. Of course, many flexible heater manufacturers do offer standard sizes and even complex shapes are feasible even without loss of durability or efficiency.
These flexible heaters could be applied for different kinds of applications from industrial, commercial as well as military use. And in all these instances, it is crucial that it has resistance to deterioration and reliability. Many flexible heater manufacturers are actually dependable sources of flexible heater products which is offering cost efficient solutions without having to compromise on manufacturing quality.
They offer flexible heaters for food service equipment, laboratory equipment, curing of laminates, vessels, tanks or pipes and to almost any industry that is in need of their product.
The heater gets its dimensional stability without having to compromise its flexibility thanks to its fiberglass reinforced silicon rubber. These flexible heater manufacturers have found a way to manufacture flexible heaters with a wire wound element or etched foil element. The heater construction is creating a thin heater which allows it to fit applications wherever space is very limited.
Whether you believe it or not, there are numerous benefits of such construction similar to allowing lighter and thin heater of just .5 to 1.5 millimeter, provide endurance and flexibility, offers easy repeatable distributed watt density and its moisture as well as chemical resistant silicon rubber material insures longer life.
As for the mounting methods, a lot of flexible heater manufacturers offer 3 types of mechanical as well as adhesive fasteners to guarantee effective and fast installation. There has to be a smooth clean surface to be prepared, simple peel off protective backing as well as roll the heater in place to be able to create an even bond. The pressure sensitive adhesive surface or PSAS on the other hand isn’t recommended for curved surfaces and/or for other heaters that are rated above 1.5 W/cm2.
Not only that, flexible heater manufacturers offer different styles of sensors that can be used with flexible heaters which could be made available as thermocouples, preset or adjustable thermostats, RTDs, thermal fuses and thermistors.


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Shikha Sharma gets 3 yr extension at Axis Bank
Axis Bank Ltd on Tuesday said its board has cleared the appointment of Shikha Sharma as managing director and chief executive officer (MD and CEO) for a third term. The board reappointed Sharma as MD and CEO for a third three-year term starting in June this year, the bank said in a filing to the stock exchanges. Sharma had joined the bank in 2009 and is set to complete a second three year term in May. “The reappointment is subject to approval of the Reserve Bank of India and the shareholders of the bank,” Axis Bank said in a notice to the stock exchanges.
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Rohan Kalyan, Ph.D., is a political theorist and filmmaker who teaches in the School of World Studies at VCU. This lecture builds on his current research on the theory of eventocracy, or rule by event in a time of ubiquitous media. Through close readings of two violent events enabled by social media platforms in disparate locations (WhatsApp in India and YouTube in the U.S.), he argues the virtual events of digital media have real effects in the collective subjectivities that form a broader community of sense and sense-making. How can media events and collective subjectivities be re-worked to not only oppose fascistic ways of making sense of the present, but make space for alternative communities of sense-making that interpret events in radically different ways?
Death by Media: The Politics of The Politics of Eventocracy in the Late Eurocene
Door time: 3:00 p.m.
Start date: Sept. 5, 2019
End date: Sept. 5, 2019
Location: VCU Cabell Library, 3rd floor lecture hall
Audience: Free and open to all

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Industry-Compliant, Cloud-Based Social Business Process Modeling and Analysis
Software developer Colosa announced release of ProcessMapper, a ‘Social BPMA’, business process modeling and analysis software accessible via popular social networks including Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn. ProcessMapper is a cloud-based, collaborative tool that enables import and expert of process objects while remaining fully-compliant with industry standards including BPMN 2.0.
Business managers, process designers IT and technical communications professionals who support BPMA modeling efforts can create, maintain, analyse and share process maps, diagrams and other documentation using ProcessMapper’s web-based, drag-and-drop interface. It supports single-entity process diagrams as well as cross-process diagrams displaying communication and messages and identifying the process participants.
ProcessMapper users can work with the internal validation engine to ensure that any process map they are working on is semantically correct according to the OMG BPMN 2.0 specification. The tool uses XML to import and export validated process maps for use with major business process management suites, simulation engines, and other analytic tools.
Processes can also be easily captured, documented and shared with other business groups using ProcessMapper can generate process documentation (maps and descriptions) as PDF. It supports project management efforts via KPI dashboards and analysis tools.
“We strive to bring innovative software to market that enables new ways of working and feel we’ve definitely achieved that with ProcessMapper, the first in a new genre of Social BPMA tools. Users can collaborate, create, and analyze advanced process maps that comply with the new BPMN 2.0 standard including the ability to correctly draw pools, swim lanes, activities, events, gateways, messages, objects and even collaborations between BPMN 2.0 processes,” said Brian Reale, CEO, Colosa.
ProcessMaker is a registered trademark of Colosa, Inc. and ProcessMapper is a trademark of Colosa, Inc. Other brand and product names are or may be trademarks of their respective owners. Colosa is an ISO-9001 certified company. Visit the corporate website or the ProcessMapper website for additional information.


Amentum has been awarded a $48 million contract extension from the U.S. Navy to continue providing aircraft maintenance and contractor logistic support services to Naval Test Wing Atlantic.
The company will extend the provision of full organization, selected intermediate and limited depot-level maintenance and logistic support for the aircraft and related equipment that support test and evaluation initiatives for NTWL’s four T&E squadrons and the Navy Test Pilot School, Amentum said Thursday.
NTWL’s fleet consists of 130 planes including more than 33 distinct model aircraft.
Contract work will occur at Patuxent River Naval Air Station in Maryland through September 2022.
DynCorp, the Navy contractor that Amentum acquired in 2020, also provides maintenance and sustainment services for the Air Force’s rotary-wing aircraft platforms under an $835M indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract awarded in 2020.


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The Harker Heights Police Department in Texas is investigating the suspected murder of a Fort Hood soldier. Pfc. Brandon Rosecrans, 27, was found when law enforcement was called to investigate a vehicle fire. Rosecrans was found inside the vehicle with a fatal gunshot wound to the head.
The vehicle has been identified as Rosecrans's 2016 Jeep. The Harker Heights Fire and Police Departments are conducting the ongoing investigation together -- investigating both suspected arson and suspected murder. U.S. Army Criminal Investigation Command is also now involved.
Rosecrans was discovered miles away from Fort Hood, where he was assigned to the 3rd Armored Brigade Combat Team, 1st Cavalry Division. After joining the Army in May of 2018, Rosecrans joined 3ABCT in November of 2018. His home of record is listed as Kimberling City, Missouri.
"Command Sgt. Maj. Ryan McLane and I would like to express our deepest regrets to the family and loved ones of Pfc. Brandon Rosecrans, commander of 3ABCT Col. Kevin Capra said in a statement. "The thoughts and prayers of the Soldiers of 215th Brigade Support Battalion and the Greywolf Brigade are with them during this difficult time."
The Harker Heights Police Department is asking anyone with pertinent information to come forward with the promise that all information disclosed is confidential and anonymous. Anyone with information that leads to an arrest could be eligible to receive up to $1,000 in a cash reward.

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The House Benghazi Select Committee Chairman Trey Gowdy (R-SC) was pleasantly surprised by the Obama administration on Thursday. After months of...
It’s legacy-polishing season for the Obama administration, with the president making himself available for “articles that will allow [him] to showcase his major achievements,” the New York Times reports. Over at Time.com, I have a piece...Show More Summary
A couple of weeks ago I wrote a short piece for the Diplomat on the dustup between PACOM and the Obama administration: Over the past week, the apparent conflict between PACOM and the Obama administration has generated a pool of digital ink big enough to build a Chinese island in. The apparent disinterest of […]
The Obama administration may not want to admit it, but our troops serving in an advisory capacity in Iraq and Syria may be doing more than just...
The Obama administration has made it clear that the President won't (officially) endorse a candidate until the Democratic nomination is settled, but former Obama speechwriter Jon Favreau gave what might have been a preview of the eventual narrative that President Obama and other administration figures may use on the stump for Hillary Clinton.
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President Barack Obama's deputy national security advisor, Ben Rhodes, gave a surprisingly blunt and honest interview to The New York Times Magazine about how the administration has sought to shape and sell its foreign policy to theShow More Summary
Canadian wildfire increases in size. Looks like NC is telling Obama Administration to pound sand for the time being Nanny State strikes again. Uncle Sam picks winners and losers. This is a 'winner'. Not famous, but a hero. Thank...
The move comes after the Panama Papers detailed the breadth of international tax avoidance through offshore, secret accounts
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text: Fleeing a turbulent life in Los Angeles, twenty-four-year-old writer John Rechy accepts an invitation to a private island from an admirer of his work. There, he joins Paul, his imposing host in his late thirties, his beautiful mistress, and his precocious teenage son. Browsing Paul's library and conversing together on the deck about literature and film during the spell of evening's "blue hour," John feels surcease, until, with unabashed candor, Paul shares intimate details of his life. Through cunning seductive charm, he married and divorced an ambassador's daughter and the heiress to a vast fortune. Avoiding identifying his son's mother, he reveals an affinity for erotic "dangerous games." With intimations of past decadence and menace, an abandoned island nearby arouses tense fascination over the group. As "games" veer toward violence, secrets surface in startling twists and turns. Explosive confrontation becomes inevitable.

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Back to School: Keeping Chicago School Kids Safe
Sep 27, 2013, 2:59 PM
For some kids, getting ready to head back to school takes more than a new backpack and a sharpened pencil. In an effort to reduce the deaths and harassment that some Chicago kids faced on their way to and from school, the city has enhanced a program called “Safe Passage,” which trains city workers to help children get to school safely. Last year there were 600 workers in the program, and this year that number has been doubled.
“The whole city is with you, shoulder to shoulder, doing our part to make sure every child in every neighborhood is safe on the way to and from school and has academic success once they get there,” said Mayor Rahm Emanuel in a meeting with Safe Passage workers late last month.
The program currently serves 91 schools. Over the last two years crime on Safe Passage routes was down 20 percent and incidents among students were down 27 percent the schools.
Training for Safe Passage workers includes work on how to build relationships, anticipate issues before they occur and strategies for de-escalating situations. Training continues throughout the school year.
Stationing workers is actually part of a much larger strategy in Chicago for improving school safety, which has included trimming trees and removing weeds to make areas easier to see and safer; installing safe passage signs; removing graffiti; and repairing broken sidewalks and street lights. The city has also conducted community education training about the Safe Passage program. Parents along the Safe Passage routes got school specific information before the term began.
This commentary originally appeared on the RWJF New Public Health blog.


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Royal icing traditionally is used for decorative designs, covering cookies and cakes (covering cake is an European tradition). It can be piped into an infinite types of decorations such as: borders, flowers,butterflies, shapes, jewelry, and so much more. It also is used for brush embroidery, creating…

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KUSA’s Matt Renoux came to Operation Rocky Slope, a plane crash simulation at the Loveland Ski Area in Clear Creek County, to cover the regional full scale exercise, a plane crash. Matt diligently spoke with exercise planners and agency representatives and filmed select segments of the exercise. Below is the content of his report, which you can also see on the KUSA site at http://archive.9news.com/rss/story.aspx?storyid=346130.
Loveland Ski Area-It’s only a training exercise but organizers hope it will make rescue personnel faster and safer in a real emergency.
On Saturday emergency responders trained at the Loveland Ski Area. They hiked up to a simulated plane crash scene and helped a number of volunteers who played the part of victims.
While plane crashes are rare Simulation Organizer Max Khaytsus says the hope is to prepare for a worst case scenario with a full scale exercise aimed at keeping rescue personal safe and speedy.
“It would be a very bad thing to have happen pretty much anywhere but over the past couple of years we have had a number of incidents where planes have crashed, some where people walked away some, where it wasn’t as good and Clear Creek Emergency Management asked us to run a simulation for them with a plane crash in the mountains just so they are ready and their resources are ready to respond to an incident such as this,” said Khaytsus.
Saturday’s exercise brought in volunteers with the Community Emergency Response Team, (CERT), Medical Reserve Corps (MRC), the Civil Air Patrol (CAP) Amateur Radio Emergency Service (ARES) and the Salvation Army.
We appreciate the time given us by KUSA and the positive report supporting volunteer driven rescue services.
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Russian President Vladimir Putin has officially opened a rail route linking Russia’s two biggest cities to Crimea, which rejoined the Russian Federation in 2014.
On Monday, the Russian leader stood in the driver’s cabin of a shortened three-carriage train for the unveiling ceremony of a 19-kilometer railway bridge that links the Black Sea peninsula to southern parts of the country and from there to the capital Moscow and St Petersburg.
Putin praised as “magnificent” the 227-billion-ruble ($3.6-billion) project during his ride from Kerch in Crimea.
“With your work, talent, determination and single-mindedness, you’ve shown that Russia is able to do such world-scale infrastructure projects. This is after all the longest bridge not only in Russia but also in Europe,” Putin told a crowd of construction workers.
“You’ve shown that we can do such large-scale projects using our own technological abilities. This, without exaggeration, gives us all confidence that we can and definitely will do similar projects in the future,” the Russian president added.
In the morning, the first passenger train transporting 530 people departed from St Petersburg as Putin was watching it via video link from a location near the bridge in Russia’s Krasnodar region.
The total rail route from the major city to the Crimean port city of Sevastopol is some 2,500 kilometers.
As for Moscow, the passenger service is scheduled to commence on Tuesday. Freight and passenger services from other Russian cities are due to start next year.
Separately on Monday, the European Union in a statement denounced the opening, branding it “another violation of Ukraine’s sovereignty.”
It stressed that the rail route on the Kerch bridge was constructed “without Ukraine’s consent” and that it was “yet another step towards a forced integration of the illegally annexed peninsula.”
Relations between Moscow and the rest of Europe have deteriorated since 2014, when Crimea rejoined Russia following a referendum where more than 90 percent of participants voted in favor of separating from Ukraine. The West brands the reunification as annexation of Ukrainian land by Russia, which strongly rejects the allegation.
In siding with Ukraine, the European Union has followed Washington's lead in leveling several rounds of sanctions against Moscow.


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I’m irked again. No surprise, I know.
This time it’s those stupid ‘chocolate milk for recovery’ ads that Google keeps throwing at me. If you’ve done any searches on sports nutrition topics, you’ve probably been bombarded with them as well. You may have also seen them in magazines lately. The dairy industry is going to great length and expense to convince us that chocolate milk is ideal for post-workout recovery.
Do you know what chocolate milk is compared to in order to come out ahead as a “recovery" food? It’s usually water and Gatorade, or the equivalent. Really. As if anyone with the slightest nutritional knowledge would reach for either for post-exercise tissue repair and refueling.
I’m not really anti-milk, although I don’t drink it myself. It tends to stimulate mucus production in me, and I already have more than enough. If you don’t experience this or any other issues when drinking it, keep at it.
Just don’t delude yourself into thinking chocolate syrup, most of which is high fructose corn syrup and doesn’t even include real chocolate, and milk is the secret to better recovery. Unless you’re already down to your desired body fat level (race weight) AND are training/competing multiple times per day or doing a stage race, you’re likely better served in the long run by avoiding refined sugars and the resulting insulin spikes.
Besides, one of the latest sports nutrition studies points to post-workout consumption of brown rice protein being as effective as dairy protein (whey) when it comes to body composition and exercise performance. This research has the sports nutrition industry spinning since whey protein had long been considered the gold standard for athletic recovery, while plant-based proteins have been viewed as inferior.
Don’t get me wrong, I’m not saying that you should never drink chocolate milk. If it’s your indulgence, have it as such, but don’t go chugging expecting it to help you get leaner and faster.
Personally, If I’m going to have dairy, I’d rather have the occasional scoop (or two) of ice cream. Rocky Road, please.


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View Two Gallery: Tony Booth, Beatles Posters
Venue: View Two Gallery
Dates: 24/08/2016 - 21/09/2016
Times: 12:00 - 17:00
Tony Booth, Beatles Posters
View Two Gallery, 23 Mathew Street, Liverpool
TONY BOOTH PRESENTS…An exhibition of BEATLES POSTERS ……A rare collection of early Beatles gig posters, by the original Beatles poster artist Tony Booth
24th – 30th August 2016 Open every day from 12-5pm during International Beatle Week Festival. The Exhibition continues until 21st September at View Two’s usual opening times Fridays & Saturdays 12-5pm and at other times by appointment.

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The previous and current incarnation of the Defiant-class.
Outside the Type 6 - like material that is a texture it seems to be about the same model.
The fact the navigation lights are STILL borked shows that the Defiant was not given that much attention, it got the type 6 material but that is texture work and the model still have navigation lights being WRONG, something that extends to Fleet Ships were someone thinks that ALL BLUE LIGHTS are acceptable (they arent).


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JASPER, Mo. —
Martha Louise Teeter Bullard, 87, passed away Feb. 25, 2013, in Lamar, Mo.
Martha was born in Jasper, Mo., to the late Charles J. and Harriet L. Teeter. She graduated from Jasper High School and attended Drury College and Park College before marriage to Darryl B. Patterson of Jasper in 1947. She briefly taught in the Lamar public schools before the birth of her son Gregory A. Patterson in 1950. Martha lived her entire life in the Jasper community except for residencies during her marriage to Darryl and his career in business.
Martha and Greg returned to Jasper in 1963, where they lived her mother, Hattie. She renewed her career working for Stewards in Carthage, Dr. Barlett in his original dental office in Jasper, and Dr. Langford in Jasper, before joining Ward Publishing where she eventually became editor of the Jasper County News. Martha will be remembered by the Jasper community for her work at the newspaper as a writer and photographer chronicalizing the life of Jasper and it's families, businesses, school and nearby communities. Her passion for family and community history led her to be known informally as the historian of Jasper. For years people on a search or with a question about family or town history would find their way to the phone or open door of Martha. She also assisted many other historical researchers and did much of the research for Marvin Van Gilder in the 1976 publication of "Jasper City Hometown U.S.A.", a centennial history of Jasper. She wrote countless stories and articles related to Jasper history and collected photographs and written works, many of which have been or will be placed in the archives of Barton and Jasper counties.
In 1972, she married Howard U. Bullard and moved to a farm four miles north of Jasper. Red as he was known died in 1988. With her marriage to Red she gained a second child, stepdaughter, Marlyn Blair and two grandchildren, Sean Blair and Elaine Lindsay.
As an accomplished vocalist and amateur music director, Martha sang and played piano all of her life, though her fear of performance held her back, music was a central part of her life. Martha had many interests and with her marriage to Red, that came to include helping manage the farm. Upon Red's retirement and death, the Tidball family both purchased and rented parts of the farm. Red and Martha traveled extensively, especially to Western Oklahoma, Red's original home area. Besides historical artifacts, Martha had many collections of sentimental items of family and community and a substantial collection of early postcards.
She was a lifelong member of the Jasper United Methodist Church and a member of the Jasper Chamber of Commerce, Jasper Business and Professional Women and the Jasper All School Reunion.
In 1988, her son, Greg, married Beth Burnett and they blessed her with two grandchildren, Benton Warner and Katherine Patterson.
The product of mid 19th century families who settled Jasper and Dade counties, Martha was preceded in death by her brothers, Harold L. and Marvin Teeter.
She is survived by her son, Greg and wife, Beth and their children, Ben and Katie, of Kansas City, Mo. Her stepdaughter, Marlyn and her daughter, Elaine Lindsay and husband, Keith, of Harriman, Tenn., and son, Sean Blair, of Sutton, Alaska.
Funeral services will be held at 11 a.m., Monday, March 4, at the Jasper United Methodist Church. Burial will follow in Paradise Cemetery, south of Jasper. The body may be viewed at the church from 9:30 a.m. until service time.
Memorial contributions can be made to the Jasper United Methodist Church or the Jasper All School Reunion in care of the funeral home.
Arrangements are under the care and direction of Weng Funeral Chapel Jasper.
Online condolences may be sent to www.wengfuneralchapel.com
JASPER, Mo. —
Burgis Maynard Taber, 94, born March 14, 1920, entered Glory on July 27, 2014.
Elizabeth Ann Ford
Elizabeth Ann Ford, age 59, of Joplin, passed away on Sunday, July 27, 2014, at her home, following an illness.
Donald Ray Pargen, 76, of Joplin, Mo., died at the Spring River Christian Village, Saturday morning, July 26, 2014.
Joe A. Turney
Joe A Turney passed away July 27, 2014, following a short illness.
Darrell L. "Doc" Carnagey
Doc Carnagey, age 47, of Carl Junction, Mo., passed away Tuesday, July 22, 2014.
Charles Fredrick Brand Jr.
Charles Fredrick Brand Jr., age 82, passed away at 5:30 a.m., Thursday, July 23, 2014 at Landmark Hospital, Joplin, Mo., following an illness.
Nancy Mae McCrillis
Nancy Mae McCrillis, age 80, of Joplin, Mo., passed away July 24, 2014, following a short illness.
John W. Clenney
John W. Clenney, 58, Goodman, Mo., passed away July 19, 2014, at his home surrounded by his family after a year long battle with cancer.
Brian R. Giebler
Brian Richard Giebler was born July 21, 1950, in St. Louis, Mo., to Gordon and Alice Giebler.
Richard Dean Ebert
Richard Dean Ebert, age 81, Joplin, passed away at 7:35 p.m. Thursday, July 24, 2014.
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How to Find Jail Records Online
In Arizona, you will need to find Arizona jail records if you are looking for someone’s court records. These records are public and can be found by anyone who has a legal right of access. However, to get these records, you need to know where to look.
The best place to look for Arizona jail records is online. There are many different online databases that will let you search for the jail record that you want with just a few clicks of your mouse. In addition, some of these databases will offer you more detailed information about the person in jail, including aliases, past addresses, inmate numbers, mug shots, and more. However, it is important to note that you should only use an online database if you have researched the information beforehand and can trust it.
If you do not know much about searching for Arizona jail records, you can start out by using Google to do some searches. On the search engine results page, type in the person’s name that you are wanting to search and hit search. You can then view the results that come up in order from most current to oldest.
Another option is to go to the site for the county in which the person lives. In some cases, this will be a county website or the booking office. However, in other cases, it will be a separate website. In any case, you should be able to find what you need online. However, you may need to contact the jail in order to get the information. They may not give it to you right away, so be patient.
Once you have jail records from the county, you may need to contact the jail in which the person was arrested. Again, you should be prepared to wait a while for them to answer your request. This process varies from state to state, so you should check with each state in order to see how long it will take before you find what you need. If you don’t want to wait, you may need to hire a private company that specializes in jail records to get the information you need. However, you must be prepared to pay for this because it will cost money to get all of the information.
The last way to get jail records is to do it yourself. If you feel comfortable doing so, you may want to look online to do a jail records lookup. There are several databases online that you can access to learn all about jail records. Doing a jail records lookup is very easy to do, and there are many companies that offer these services online for a small fee.


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In this episode, Alexis Ford discusses the anatomy of the thyroid gland. After listening to this episode, learners should be able to:
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If you read my previous posts about it, you know I was floored by space rockers Broken Bells’ new single Holding On For Life. It’s such a familiar, well matched combo of Danger Mouse and James Mercer (after their debut album blew everyone away). New album After The Disco comes out next month, and I can’t wait for it. Watch the official video for the brilliant track below.


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Recent and Ongoing Stormwater Projects
The stormwater projects below help control stormwater and are an important part of the City’s
stormwater drainage system. Once completed, they will project people, properties, and the environment from a range of stormwater impacts, such as flooding, erosions, pollution, and groundwater depletion.
Stormwater projects that use low impact development (LID) technologies help extend the life of Brampton’s stormwater drainage system and also help protect and enhance the City’s
Natural Heritage System. LID technologies provide valuable services, such as cleaning and cycling water, supporting biodiversity, and forming ecological linages between natural heritage features, like woodlands, wetlands, and valleys.

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Balkan jazz is jazz from the Balkans Region of southern Europe. Duško Gojković (English spelling Dushko Goykovich) is considered one of the pioneers of Balkan Jazz, a fusion of Balkan music which welcomes improvisation and originality, much like American Jazz.
Ivo Papazov Clarinet is the one of the important instruments in Balkan Jazz.
There are many fields of Balkan Jazz. Mainly, those are weddings, and big celebrations.
The characteristic of Balkan Jazz is really fast and odd meter.
Archodian, drum, bass and electric guitar are also included in the field of Balkan Jazz.
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"Richard has spent his entire career in public service," Klarides said. "Whether as a brave member of the United States Air Force, serving in our local government or policing the streets to make our community a safer place, Richard has put the public interest above his personal gain. His selfless disposition makes him a perfect fit on the Board of Trustees for the Department of Veterans’ Affairs.”
The board is comprised of 18 voting members and shall include two residents of the Veterans’ Home and 16 members appointed by the Governor and other top ranking congressional members.
The board shall advise and assist the commissioner in the operation of the Veterans' Home, the veterans' advocacy and assistance unit, the administration, expansion or modification of existing programs and services of the department and the development of new programs and services.“I am honored that I was nominated and appointed for this position which allows me to continue my advocacy for veterans’ issues.” Dziekan said. “As a veteran myself, I am now able to take my advocacy from the local level to the state level. Helping more veterans in need is a privilege and something I am very proud of.”
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Mind : A Brief Introduction Paperback
Part of the Fundamentals of Philosophy Series series
"The philosophy of mind is unique among contemporary philosophical subjects," writes John Searle, "in that all of the most famous and influential theories are false." One of the world's most eminent thinkers, Searle dismantles these theories as he presents a vividly written, comprehensive introduction to the mind.
He begins with a look at the twelve problems of philosophy of mind-which he calls "Descartes and Other Disasters"-problems which he returns to throughout the volume, as he illuminates such topics as materialism, consciousness, the mind-body problem, intentionality, mental causation, free will, and the self.
The book offers a refreshingly direct and engaging introduction to one of the most intriguing areas of philosophy.
- Format: Paperback
- Pages: 240 pages, 3 line illus.
- Publisher: Oxford University Press Inc
- Publication Date: 28/07/2005
- Category: History of Western philosophy
- ISBN: 9780195157345
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Review by neurodrew
The formal specification of the properties of conscious thought is a difficult subject, made more so by the dualism inherited from Descartes. How can a non-physical entity, as a mind is under dualism, effect physical change, and how does this mind ensure that the physical world exists? This book tries to explain these matters, with mind conceived of as a state of the physical brain. Searle believes that thought is not complietely determined by predictable physics, and thinks there are some quantum interactions that inject freedom into thought. This was difficult to understand, requiring re-reading in parts.
Review by Jewsbury
In a well-written book Searle brings a glimmer of sanity to the fractious debate about the mind as he shows how the most popular positions (such as material monism and Cartesian dualism) are untenable. Reliable arguments require reliable terms. Searle discusses how all traditional arguments are doomed from the start because they can be shown to use unsuitable terms. Then Searle attempts to find some middle ground which is consistent with current scientific knowledge. He hypothesizes mentality must be causally reducible to biological processes but ontological irreducibility. In this way he discusses the generalities of consciousness, the structure of intentionality, free will, mental causation, the makeup of the unconscious, and the operation of perception and self. As with all the common positions, his suggestions rest on good deal of hope. Thus he is prepared to admit he does not have answers to more basic questions about the origins of free will and thinking. Indeed like others he poses his questions in a presumptive way eg how does a cosmos made only of matter and fields exhibit consciousness. I enjoyed reading the book. However, time will tell how tenable his position is.


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By Georgie Watts | Posted: Wednesday June 14, 2017
A cold and wintry Wednesday morning saw bright smiles and warm spirit in the Dunedin Town Hall as the Kavanagh College choir (KavCantanti) took to the stage.
The choir, led by Molly Devine, have been hard at work for weeks in preparation, including the Saturday and Sunday before The Big Sing.
They sang Purea Nei, The Road Home and a medley from La La Land. Ms Watts is extremely proud of everyone involved and thankful for everyone who put in work behind the scenes to get the choir here.
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Roll out the red carpet leading to your family room couch, the 69th Annual Academy Awards are finally upon us! This year’s Oscar celebration looks to be the most kid friendly yet, with nominees like Puss in Boots, Kung Fu Panda 2 and Hugo. It’s logical to assume that if films made for kids are considered the best of the year by the industry, then these are the films kids will most enjoy, right? Maybe not so much.
wow - that WIMPY kid sure gets around - amazing how many fans he has! who kneW he'd be bigger than HARRY POTTER?
"Welcome to the party, pal."
"I am serious... and don't call me Shirley."
"When am I gonna learn how to punch?"
"These go to eleven."
"Benjamin, have you ever been severely beaten about the face & neck?"
"Just keep swimming, swimming, swimming."
"You're gonna need a bigger boat."
"Jessica's got cable."
Fandango, the ultimate movie ticketing destination, is your source for movie tickets and movie times. Know before you go to the theater, watch HD movie trailers and videos in the highest quality available. Find movie reviews, theater listings, and detailed information about new and upcoming films. If you're interested in DVDs, visit our DVD section for reviews, movie photos, trailers, and more.
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The final result of the autopsy on Susana Cáceres, the woman whose body was found yesterday in Ituzaingó after being missing for 10 days, revealed that she was sexually abused and suffocated after suffering multiple stab wounds and blows to the body and head with a blunt object. In addition, the date of death was established between 3 and 10 days prior to the discovery, as the preliminary report known last night had advanced.
The autopsy indicates that the woman’s body presents injuries typical of having suffered sexual abuse, she was not burned -as was revealed at first given the advanced state of decomposition-, she had multiple sharp puncture wounds, bruises on the body, a blow to the head with a blunt object and signs of suffocation.
After the study, the body of Cáceres was handed over to the family to complete the procedures for his burial.
Prosecutor Luisa Pontecorvo, head of the Functional Instruction Unit (UFI) 3 of the Moreno-General Rodríguez Judicial Department, once again requested other images from security cameras in the area of the discovery and awaits the results of new expertise.
“You have to investigate from scratch because there are still no suspects in the murder. We have to follow what the forensic report indicates to move forward,” said a judicial spokesperson.
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RIGA, Oct 25 (Reuters) - A member of the Latvian prime minister’s political bloc has called for a nationalist party to be dropped from the ruling coalition, only days after agreement was reached on a new government, an official said on Monday.
A fresh decision on the government line-up was due later on Monday, said the senior party official, Solvita Aboltina.
Prime Minister Valdis Dombrovskis, whose Unity bloc won 33 seats in the 100-seat parliament in an election on Oct. 2, said on Friday his new government would be formed with current partners the Union of Greens and Farmers and a nationalist bloc.
Including the nationalist Everything for Latvia/For Fatherland and Freedom party, the current coalition commands 63 seats. This would drop to 55 if the nationalists were out, meaning they are not needed for a simple majority.
But Dombrovskis has wanted as broad a coalition as possible to better implement further austerity measures as the first important task for the new government will be drawing up a 2011 budget with steps to reduce the budget deficit.
But some of the nationalists’ policies, for instance promoting the repatriation of Russian speakers to Russia to boost the presence of ethnic Latvians, have caused unease among some of Dombrovskis’s allies.
“The Unity board has received an application from the Society for Different Politics (a member of the Unity bloc) with a draft resolution calling for the coalition to be formed only by Unity and the Union of Greens and Farmers,” said Aboltina.
Aboltina, a co-leader of Unity, told state radio that the Unity board would take a decision on whether the government will be formed from two or three parties on Monday.
Dombrovskis has to had to grapple with both sides of the ethnic question in Latvia, which has a large Russian-speaking minority but where resentment against Russia and Russians after 50 years of Soviet rule remains strong among some Latvians.
Dombrovskis earlier failed to agree on the participation in the government of a party largely backed by Russian-speakers, Harmony Centre, which came second in the election. Sensitive issues from the Soviet past also overshadowed those talks. (Reporting by Aija Braslina; editing by Mark Heinrich)


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Critical Choices: The United Nations, Networks, And The Future Of Global Governance
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The new global environment requires new approaches, new ideas and innovative tools to address new challenges in areas as different as weapons control, climate change, genetic engineering, and labor standards. Critical Choices looks at one such tool: global public policy networks. In these networks, governments, international organizations, the corporate sector and civil society join together to achieve what none can accomplish on its own. The authors explore both the promises and the limitations of this new form of global cooperation. They discuss how such networks might contribute to better manage the risks and make use of the opportunities that globalization presents. Finally, they offer provocative advice and solid recommendations on how the United Nations can foster such networks in the years ahead.
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Thinly sliced and seasoned eggplant that delivered a light crunch before a meal.
Original recipe makes 36 chips
3 eggplants, sliced into 1/4-inch rounds
1 1/2 teaspoons Diamond Crystal® Kosher Salt
1 tablespoon dried oregano
3 tablespoons olive oil
4 ounces cream cheese, softened
2 tablespoons sun-dried tomatoes packed in oil, drained and chopped
1 tablespoon olive oil
2 cloves garlic, minced
1 roma tomato, chopped
4 leaves basil, chopped
Diamond Crystal® Kosher Salt, to taste
Ground black pepper, to taste
- Preheat an oven to 475 degrees F (245 degrees C). Line a baking sheet with aluminum foil.
- Place sliced eggplant between paper towels and lightly press out the excess moisture. Arrange eggplant slices on prepared baking sheet. Sprinkle slices with Diamond Crystal® Kosher Salt and oregano, and drizzle with olive oil.
- Bake until slices are browned and crisp, 13 to 15 minutes.
- Mix cream cheese, sundried tomatoes, olive oil, garlic, chopped roma tomato, and basil together in a bowl. Season with Diamond Crystal® Kosher Salt and ground black pepper. Add more olive for a thinner spread, if necessary.
- Top the eggplant slices with some of the spread. Serve immediately to maintain the eggplant crispiness.
Calories: 222 kcal
Carbohydrates: 18 g
Cholesterol: 21 mg
Fat: 16.5 g
Fiber: 9.9 g
Protein: 4.6 g
Sodium: 615 mg


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This is an excerpt from Translating Blackness: Latinx Colonialities in Global Perspective. Copyright Duke University Press, 2022.
After the execution of dictator Rafael Leónidas Trujillo in 1961, a revolutionary energy manifested in every demographic of the population. Farmers began to organize to reclaim land ownership, migration to the city and to the United States increased as a form of economic mobility for the poor, and the youth—both working and middle class—began to organize politically through community-based organizations and formal political parties. The youth struggle, as Efraín Sánchez, leader of the Movimiento Popular Dominicano (MPD, Dominican Popular Movement), explains, took place in two arenas: poor and working-class neighborhoods and universities.
“We were concerned with access to basic human dignity, which had been denied to us for so long,” Sánchez tells me of 1960s working-class youth organizing. “With workers’ rights and the participation of working people in the political processes.”
For young, middle-class Dominicans, the fight was both political and ideological. Organizing within The Universidad Autónoma de Santo Domingo (La UASD), young Dominicans read Marxist theory together while envisioning a national project very much inspired by the triumph of the Cuban Revolution. A student activist I will call Mariam Almonte, from Villa Altagracia, remembers those early days as a sort of political awakening for the youth in her barrio.
“I went into the student meetings with my eyes shut and came out with them open,” she says. “We were reading Marx and seeing our country as a battleground and his work as a manual…No one was in school just to study—we were there to fight for the future of a country we were all hoping to create post-Trujillo. We felt the country was a canvas and we had the brushes in our hands.”
In 1962, thanks in great part to the work of young activists and students like Almonte and Sánchez, the revolutionary energy of the moment led to the election of social democratic leader, politician, and writer Juan Bosch as president of the Dominican Republic. Bosch had been in exile since 1942 due to his opposition to the Trujillo dictatorship. During his two decades in exile, Bosch created the Partido Revolucionario Dominicano (PRD, Dominican Revolutionary Party) and orchestrated strong political resistance against the regime. Bosch’s social democratic agenda garnered immense popular support, and he won the election with an overwhelming majority.
The military and the Catholic Church, however, opposed Bosch’s agenda, which included labor unions and socialist reforms in education, health care, and other services. On September 25, 1963, after only seven months in office, a U.S.-supported coup led by Colonel Elías Wessin y Wessin overthrew Bosch. A three-man military junta then replaced the Dominican Republic’s first democratically elected government of the 20th century. The coup prompted a lot of anger and frustration among the general population and activated unprecedented participation in political activism, culminating in a civil war in 1965.
“They tore away our democracy,” Sánchez recalls.
Known as La Guerra de Abril, the civil war that took place between April 24 and September 3, 1965, began when a group of deserted soldiers, along with civilian PRD supporters, seized the Radio Santo Domingo building, issuing calls of sedition and branding themselves “constitucionalistas” (supporters of the constitution). Their goal was to restore Bosch. During the first days of the conflict, constitucionalistas distributed weapons and Molotov cocktails to their civilian comrades who poured into the city from all over the country to join the effort. After only four days of battle, and what looked like a clear victory for Bosch, on April 29, U.S. president Lyndon Johnson authorized a large-scale military intervention aimed at preventing the development of what he saw as a potential second Cuban Revolution.
Perhaps because of the overwhelming support it sustained among the peasantry and leftist intellectuals alike, or perhaps because it opens the wound of the democratic republic that could have been and never was, La Guerra de Abril is one of the most studied Dominican events of the 20th century. In 2015 a transnational commemoration of the 50th anniversary of the war was organized by the Dominican state. It included photographic exhibits, publications, public events, and the formal recognition of multiple people in a ceremony held at the national palace. Aside from a handful of mostly middle-class women, all published photographs, books, and public consecrations of the heroes of the 1965 war are of and about men. Yet feminist scholarship, feminist testimonies, collective memory, and the testimonies of revolutionary women gathered by journalist Margarita Cordero in the late 1970s all demonstrate that the 1965 war would not have been possible had it not been for the women who risked their lives transporting weapons, serving as messengers, tricking U.S. Marines, and engaging in combat.
“We women were the ones who sustained the constitutional areas of the revolution in every sense of the word,” Cordero explained to me. “We were the ones who took care of the wounded, the ones who prepared the food, and the ones who made love with the combatants....Many of us did not fight in active combat, we were not exceptional, but what we did was valuable for the War.”
Cordero was a member of the Juventud Estudiantil del Catorce de Junio, 14J, or “Jecajú,” the student arm of the communist Catorce de Junio party. She was at La UASD in a meeting with fellow students on April 24 when the news of the revolution first reached her. Over the course of a few hours, as the revolution gained force, the different political sectors united. The predominantly middle-class communist party, Catorce de Junio, joined the revolution by the evening of April 25 under the direction of General Rafael “Fafa” Taveras.
The participation of middle-class women in the days that followed was significant for the organization of the movement and for the coordination of military actions. Women communicated with the different commandos through messengers and took over the quotidian tasks of care for wounded soldiers. “Women were the backbone of this revolution,” Taveras told me in an interview. “Without them, there is no Guerra de Abril.”
However, middle-class women did not, contrary to what some historians have argued, participate in active combat. Rather, the women who fought and died on the front lines were working-class and poor women from the neighborhoods on the outskirts, better known as La Parte Alta. In early May, many of these women—most of them Black and Brown—were killed during the U.S. Marine-supported “Operación Limpieza” (Operation Cleanup).
Yolanda, a 76-year-old Afro-Dominicana who now resides in Italy, lived in 1965 in La Parte Alta’s iconic Ensanche Luperón, one of the main battle sites of the U.S. military intervention. Yolanda participated in La Batalla del Puente Duarte on April 27, in which the constitucionalistas overthrew the military and essentially won the war prior to the intervention. She continued to serve the constitucionalistas, working as a messenger and spy in the weeks that followed the intervention. Yolanda recalls the day Operación Limpieza reached her neighborhood as a “brute” massacre that destroyed the bodies and morale of many working people.
“I was with the people, you know. With the revolution….I would go to the American military and wash their clothes and I would collect food and cigarettes and steal bullets from them and bring them down there to the boys who were hiding,” she explains.
“But then the ‘cleansing’ happened, and it was a massacre, a brutality....The persecution did not end with the revolution, no sir. I never felt at peace again in the country. They were always after us. Then came Balaguer and all that nonsense continued. It wasn’t until I left for Italy that I had peace from that.”
Despite their contributions, the majority of working-class Afro-Dominicanas like Yolanda have been relegated to obscurity by a male-dominated archive that is more comfortable with the mythification of a handful of light-skinned middle-class women than with acknowledging the tangible and essential roles of many Black and Brown working-class Dominicanas.
“The War birthed many myths…about women,” Cordero argues. “But these pictures you see with women holding weapons on their shoulders, riding tanks...are selfies….The women who participated in combat were not the militant Left....It was the women from La Parte Alta...Those women actually fought in battle.”
One of these “selfies” is the iconic image of Tina Bazuca. The famous photo depicts a smiling, light-skinned teenage girl holding a rifle in her right hand and a pair of sunglasses in her left. The caption for the photo, as well as the narrative around its subject, describes her as an “exceptional 16-year-old girl, who one day joined the revolution.” The photo, which has also become the logo for the highly profitable Tina Bazuca beer made by the artisanal República Brewery, shows the teenager wearing a skirt and sandals, seemingly not at all preoccupied with the war she was supposedly fighting.
The image, which has become emblematic of La Guerra de Abril, is a misrepresentation. The girl in the photo is, in fact, Julia Cabral Carezzano, a light-skinned upper-middle-class Dominicana whose brother fought in the revolution. Cabral Carezzano posed with her brother’s rifle but was not actually involved in the revolution.
But Tina Bazuca did exist. The real “Tina” was 28-year-old Augustina Rivas, a rayana from Dajabón. Rivas was born on May 13, 1937, a few days after Trujillo ordered the Parsley Massacre that killed more than 20,000 people in her hometown. In 1954 she moved with her family to the city in search of work. They lived first in Santiago and later in the Villa Consuelo barrio in Santo Domingo, most likely to work on the many construction projects of Ciudad Trujillo. Those who knew her describe Rivas as a “mari-macha” (tomboy/butch) with a hot temper and a real preoccupation with justice. She was a fighter for workers’ rights and an active member of the Sindicato de Trabajadores Portuarios de Arrimo (POASI) dockworkers’ union. She worked all kinds of jobs not traditionally considered feminine, including security guard and dockworker. During her free time, she volunteered as a boxing coach for children and teenagers and was an active member of her neighborhood workers’ organization.
When the revolution began, Rivas joined the constitucionalistas, immediately standing out among the women due to her superb combat abilities. Sánchez, who served in the same military commando as Rivas, remembers her as the most skilled of the guerrilla fighters: “She was so good they had her training men.” It was because of her uncanny abilities as a sniper that Rivas earned the nickname “Tina Bazuca.”
Stories about Tina Bazuca spread like wildfire among the women of the revolution. Yolanda, who never met her, remembers, “We all knew her even though we didn’t know her....She was a legend.”
After the revolution, Rivas continued to work for workers’ rights with POASI. However, facing persecution during Balaguer’s Terrible Twelve Years, she migrated by raft to Puerto Rico in 1976. Unlike Yolanda and other Dominican women veterans who found refuge in the social democratic environment of 1980s Italy, Rivas was quickly deported from Puerto Rico back to Santo Domingo. After multiple subsequent attempts to migrate and establish herself in the U.S. diaspora, in 1991 Rivas was forced to return to Santo Domingo, where she struggled to find work and support herself and her daughter. Five years later, she died of a massive heart attack at age 59.
Of the multiple testimonies and stories about La Guerra de Abril that have been entrusted to me over the years, Tina Bazuca’s is the most remarkable. She lived an extraordinary life against death from birth, yet her extraordinary life has been obscured by a fictionalized image that mimics and reproduces Dominican colonial desire for whiteness. What does it mean for Dominicans to remember “Tina Bazuca” but not know who she actually was? How do we grapple with the fact that the extraordinary life and contributions of an Afro-Dominicana are only remembered through an invented story about a posed photo of a young light-skinned girl? That the Cabral Carezzano photo has been celebrated and commercialized while the real Tina Bazuca experienced persecution, migration, deportation, hunger, and violence tells us a lot about the Dominican state valuation—or lack thereof—of Black women’s lives. It exemplifies the gender-based violence through which Black Dominicanas’ deeds and bodies are appropriated and performed through whitewashed representations that are more acceptable to the public. It illuminates Dominican colonial desire for whiteness at the expense of Black lives.
Since the foundation of the Dominican nation, myths about white Dominican women have fueled patriotism and a nationalist agenda at the expense of Black and Brown Dominican women. In the 19th century, the image of the white Dominican virgin in need of protection fueled anti-Haitianism and plagued national rhetoric. After the fall of Trujillo in 1961, Patria, Minerva, and María Teresa Mirabal, who were brutally murdered in 1960 as a result of their political work against the regime, became symbols of a new patria in which women could become political actors—through men’s protection. The death of the Mirabal sisters, three light-skinned upper-class women from the Cibao region, is often invoked as the single most traumatic event of the Trujillo regime, even when compared to the genocide of more than 20,000 ethnic Haitians and Afro-Dominicans in Dajabón, the execution of dozens of political dissidents, and the rape and torture of hundreds of women and girls.
I do not want to diminish the significance of the Mirabal sisters, either in their political work against the Trujillo regime or as symbols of the struggle to end violence against women. Rather, I want to call attention to the “other women” who are erased from the history of the very nation they helped build: women like Yolanda, who have taken their fight against death to the diaspora precisely because, as she put it, “if I did not leave, I would be dead.” We must unsilence these women—poor, Black, Brown, rayana, migrant, trans, queer—in the archives. We need to say their names.
This excerpt has been lightly edited for length and style. For figures, endnotes, and quotes in Spanish, see the original: Chapter 3 “Against Death: Black Latina Rebellion in Diasporic Community,” pp. 121-131, in Translating Blackness: Latinx Colonialities in Global Perspective (Duke University Press, 2022). Excerpt reprinted with permission.
Lorgia García Peña is a scholar of Latinx Studies in the Department of Studies in Race, Colonialism and Diaspora at Tufts University and the co-founder of Freedom University. She is the author of Community as Rebellion and the internationally acclaimed The Borders of Dominicanidad: Race, Nation and Archives of Contradictions.


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Maki mi soup is one of my favorite Chinese food and I remember when I was still in highschool this is always served in a small fastfood (Ha Yuan) near our school. I think this is one of the most tastiest soup served in some panciterias in Binondo. Ha Yuan had a branch in Megamall years ago but it disappeared so I was very disappointed because it was kind of a comfort food to me. But they have other branches in Makati and Quezon city.
Maki mi is composed of fluffy tender slices of pork cooked in a very thick brown broth and mixed with beaten eggs. Then poured over on cooked egg noodles or mami. And about that thick gooey soup, I think there is no substitute for using sweet potato starch because I’ve tried cornstarch and cassava starch and the result is not satisfying. Always remember this ratio when making the soup, 1:1:1 which is 1 tablespoon starch, 1 tablespoon water for making the slurry and 1 cup of soup stock or broth for a very thick soup and for making it a little thinner, add 1 to 2 cups broth or adjust the amount of starch. For example instead using 6 tablespoons of starch, use only 4 tablespoons.
How to Cook Authentic Maki Mi Soup
Ingredients for the pork mixture:
- 1/2 kilo lean pork kasim or pork shoulder will be fine pound till flat then slice into bite sizes
- 2 Tbsp. soy sauce
- 2 cloves garlic finely minced
- 2 drops KNORR Seasoning liquid
- few drops of sesame oil optional
- 1 beaten egg plus 2 more beaten eggs to be used later
- 2 Tbsp sweet potato starch
Ingredients for the broth:
- 6 to 7 cups broth 6 cups water and 2 Tbsp. chicken powder or 1 piece pork/chicken broth cube
- 3 Tbsp soy sauce
Ingredients for the slurry or thickening agent:
- 4 to 6 Tbsp. sweet potato starch
- 6 Tbsp. water
Ingredients for the mami:
- mami noodles egg noodles, dried or fresh
How to cook Maki Mi Soup:
- Combine all the ingredients of the pork mixture; pork slices, soy sauce, garlic, seasoning liquid, sesame oil, 1 beaten egg, sweet potato starch. Mix until all the pork slices are coated with the mixture. Set aside.
- Then on a separate bowl, mix together 6 tablespoon sweet potato starch and 6 tablespoon water to make a slurry. You can can add more tablespoon of sweet potato starch to make the soup thicker.
- In a medium size pot, boil the broth mixture (broth and soy sauce) then add the pork slices one by one in the pot. Let the broth boil till the pork cooks. The cooking time wonâ€™t take long because the pounded meat is already tenderized and will cook fast.
- While the soup is boiling after the pork is cooked, add the thickening mixture (the slurry) slowly and mix the soup vigorously. Let it boil till it becomes glossy and bubbly.
- Then add salt and pepper to taste and a little bit of sugar, about 1/4 teaspoon or more.
- Turn off the heat and while the soup is hot add the beaten egg slowly while whisking the soup.
- To prepare the mami, if you bought dried mami noodles, cook according the package directions. Usually you only need to boil it. Fresh mami on the other hand only need to be soaked in boiling water for a few minutes then drain.
- To prepare the maki mi soup, get a medium serving bowl and put some cooked mami. Then pour it with the thick maki soup. Garnish it by sprinkling chopped scallion or green onions. Serve hot and enjoy!


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blackberries, molecular markers, PF2 performance, plant breeding
Typical blackberries (Rubus subgenus Rubus) have perennial crowns and roots and biennial canes. The first-year canes (primocanes) are usually vegetative, while second-year canes (floricanes) produce fruit. Primocane-fruiting blackberries produce fruit on first-year canes and are desirable to growers because they potentially allow for a longer harvest season in temperate regions and enable production in tropical areas where no natural chill hours are accumulated. The development of molecular markers for desirable traits can potentially increase efficiency in blackberry breeding. However, to date, there are no diagnostic molecular markers for economically important traits in blackberries. Primocane-fruiting is recessively inherited, and tetraploid blackberries must have four copies of the primocane allele for the trait to be expressed. A single locus strongly associated with primocane fruiting was recently identified on chromosome Ra03, and a new KASP marker (PF2) was developed within this locus. In this study, we validated the performance of the new PF2 marker in a seedling population (Population 1937) segregating for primocane-fruiting at the University of Arkansas System Division of Agriculture's Fruit Breeding Program. In 2022, 170 seedlings in the population were evaluated for primocane-fruiting. Of these seedlings, 68 were floricane-fruiting, 86 were primocane-fruiting, and 16 could not be phenotyped due to poor plant growth. The PF2 marker correctly predicted the phenotype for 146 of 154 progeny that were scored in the 1937 population. Some of the inconsistencies between the marker prediction and the observed phenotypes could have been due to weak plants shaded out by neighbors or human error.
Vaughn, I., Silva, A., Johns, C., Nelson, L., & Worthington, M. (2023). Validation of a Diagnostic Marker for Primocane-Fruiting in Blackberry. Discovery, The Student Journal of Dale Bumpers College of Agricultural, Food and Life Sciences, 24(1). Retrieved from https://scholarworks.uark.edu/discoverymag/vol24/iss1/13
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Today is the day of my joint link up with Laura from Our Reflection! I'm so excited to share my home and visit yours. Remember when I shared pics of my home a few weeks ago? Well a lot has changed since then. We got final approval to continue living off base (I'm thrilled about it) and we celebrated by switching from a bachelor pad to a family home. We both love the changes. Except in our bedroom. It's the most BORING room in the house and the amazing Kirsten from Through the Front Door is helping me decorate it without being allowed to paint! If you have a design problem go visit her because she is awesome and she'll help you out (an amazing designer for free? yes please). For now I'll share our new favorite area in the house- our living/dining/everything room!
|This is my lovely desk where I spend my time writing, designing, blogging, and reading. There's also a stock of Twink treats. Just in case.|
|We cleaned off our desks, took down the game posters, and bought a new rug.|
|We bought pillows, a side table, a lamp, and Japanese paintings. Don't worry though, the KC Chiefs blanket is still on the couch!|
|You can see my star garland in the window and Aaron's easel on the table. He's been drawing a lot lately and I love it.|
|We organized our movies and books and got rid of so much clutter. Our kitchen table is still just a card table, but one thing at a time! We moved our other rug here to tie it into the room a little better.|
|Aaron is an even bigger nerd than I am. So I surprised him one day after work with what I affectionately call his "nerd cave" to display his favorite toys.|
|A close up of our new paintings. We picked them out together and my sweet husband helped me hang them.|
I hope you all enjoyed this tour of our little home! We want to see yours too so be sure to grab a button and link up below!


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Tyson signs 'Scary Movie 5'
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He was spotted on set in Atlanta, Georgia Thursday, with co-star Heather Locklear.
Charlie Sheen and Lindsay Lohan play lovers in the film, while Ashley Tisdale and Molly Shannon also have key roles to essay.
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text: Dr. Kieran is serving humanity from a higher calling; clearly in his purpose. Within a short few visits I am already experiencing a great empowerment in the acceleration of my healing, total self & body re-fortification, and a drastic increase in my energy – which was almost completely depleted. (I was sick, in bed, exhausted continually for almost 3 months!) He is a healing magician/wizard, masterfully communicating through the many layers of the physical, emotional, practical, and spiritual aspects of the Self that are essential for restoring balanced wholeness. All of this contributed to my ability to be on my A game in a way like never before ~ fully prepared to co-create & grow in expressing my full potential with my maximum potency. Energy is pulsing inspiration through me once again. Thank you so much for your deep caring and dedication to support people toward experiencing wholeness and the pursuit of their true meaning and potential!


Sunday, December 20, 2020
11 a.m. – 2 p.m.
Celebrate the Winter Solstice and get out in nature with a peaceful, self-guided walk through the McDonald Woods. Stop by the McDonald Woods Shelter from 11 a.m. – 2 p.m. to learn about winter woodland flora and fauna, then set off on a self-guided trail walk through the woods. Before or after your walk, warm up by the fire at the McDonald Woods Shelter. Dress for the weather. If the weather is bitterly cold or if the winds exceed 20 MPH, the program will be cancelled, so please check the web site for any updates.
Free; regular parking fees apply
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Monday, March 26, 2012
I'm still working on my Easter eggs for my husband. I have only done two to date, but I'm determined to do several before it is time to give it to him. This one is a paper mache egg I found at our local craft store and I painted it that pretty shade of blue. I started with a pretty piece of trim and glued it all around the middle of the egg and then I took lots of flowers and leaves and some curled wire and just filled it full of these little things. It's sort of pale, almost Victorian looking and I think I like it very much! Everything has been sprayed and sprayed some more with shimmer sprays and then glued to the top of the egg.
Do you have any Easter traditions? When I was growing up we always had a new outfit for church; frilly dresses and little socks with lace around the top and patent leather shoes. Mother could never quite bring herself to put us in hats or gloves. We always attended the Easter Egg Hunt at the church and then home to take off our best clothes and then outside to play. We hunted those eggs several times on Easter Sunday; until my poor Dad tired of hiding them!
Well that is about it for me this morning. I hope you are ready to face the new week and that you find some time to create. As always, remember to "Breathe"!