text: Rudyard Kipling was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1907, making him the first English-language writer to receive the prize, and its youngest recipient to date. Born in India in 1865, he considered himself an "Anglo-Indian," more comfortable with the dialects of India than with the English of his parents. At the age of five, he was sent to live in England under cruel and neglectful conditions, conditions that he believed shaped his writing. Today, he is remembered for children's stories, The Jungle Book and Kim, yet George Orwell stated Kipling was "a prophet of British imperialism" – a view that would cost Kipling his son's life. Was Kipling an imperialist? A product of his time? Or a misunderstood writer who stated "But there is neither East nor West . . . when strong men stand face to face, though they come from the ends of the earth!"


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Horticultural specialist joins Chemilizer
Todd Macon has been appointed to the newly created position of horticulture retail specialist, an area of rapid growth for Chemilizer Products Inc., according to an announcement by Lawrence (Lou) Pulor, sales manager of the company...
LARGO, FL, Nov. 4, 2005 -- Todd Macon has been appointed to the newly created position of Horticulture Retail Specialist for Chemilizer Products Inc., according to an announcement by Lawrence (Lou) Pulor, sales manager of the company, released Wednesday.
Pulor said Chemilizer is experiencing record breaking sales in the horticultural and irrigation markets. He said a specialist such as Macon with operational knowledge of retail and wholesale distribution is a required asset in building even greater future growth. "Todd will play a valued role of helping us better organize and market our product to end users in these markets," said Pulor.
Macon, 37, spent 16 years of his professional career with a local Pinellas County, Florida wholesaler Earl J. Small as Sales and Shipping Manager. In that position, Macon was instrumental in helping chain store and other retailers to promote and market horticultural and irrigational products.
Chemilizer Products Inc. (www.chemilizer.com) has produced quality injectors for over three decades for global users in agriculture, animal health and water management applications. Research, manufacturing and administrative activities are conducted in the company's modern 20,000 sq. ft. facility located in Largo, Fla.

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In response to the Coronavirus, Wednesday night programming will be postponed until Wednesday, April 15. Click here for more details on our response to the virus.
Dinner to Go
Looking for a night off from cooking? Whisk & Ivy will continue to serve Wednesday night dinners to go! Each Wednesday meal may be picked up between 5:00-6:00pm at Cornerstone.
Dinner donations will be put towards meals for those in need at our Fish & Loaves dinner.
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Terms Used In Kansas Statutes 72-17,132
- State: when applied to the different parts of the United States, includes the District of Columbia and the territories. See Kansas Statutes 77-201
As used in this act, unless the context otherwise requires:
(a) “Board” means the board of education of a school district and the governing authority of any nonpublic school offering any of grades kindergarten to 12 in approved schools.
(b) “State board” means the state board of education.
(c) “Approved school” means any school approved by the state board for the purposes of this act, whether the approval applies to a single school, to all of the schools of a school district or to one or more nonpublic schools.
(d) “Food service programs” means the programs included in the state plan of child nutrition operations under which federal funds and commodities are received pursuant to federal acts relating to child nutrition including the national school lunch act, as amended, and the child nutrition act of 1966, as amended.
(e) “School lunch program” means a food service program under which meals are served by any board on a nonprofit basis to children in attendance, and for which such board receives assistance out of funds appropriated by the congress of the United States.
(f) “School year” means the period from July 1 to June 30.

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Despite the fact that Tom is turning some age in his mid-30’s that didn’t stop him and the crew from partying like it was Season 1 of Pump Rules and he was a mere babe of 28. #Adulting Tom 1, Ariana Madix, Jax Taylor, Brittany Cartwright, Katie Maloney, and Tom 2 headed to Tao where they got crazy and boozed it up, then saw Calvin Harris.
Another week, another roundup of the reality TV stars showing off and sharing snapshots on Instagram.
Below you’ll find pictures of Vanderpump Rules stars Jax Taylor and James Kennedy hanging out, Real Housewives of New York‘s Bethenny Frankel relaxing, Million Dollar Listing LA star Josh Altman enjoying family time, Real Housewives of Orange County‘s Shannon Beador embarrassing her kids, Kaia Biermann looking beyond adorable, and more.
Trouble in SURidise? Not for Katie Maloney and Tom Schwartz. They’re no Scheana Marie and Shay ready for divorce months after tying the knot on Vanderpump Rules. The never-before-happy couple now claims marriage has changed all that.
The cast recently attended a celebration for jewelry designer Kyle Chan where everyone reveled in romantic happiness. Who are these people??? What doppelgangers invaded SUR? Lisa Vanderpump…. are you out there?! Step away from the dogs for a second to save these people!
Kenya Moore stepped out for the first time since her surprise wedding to Marc Daly. She hit up the Bossip on WEtv event and flashed her wedding ring on the red carpet – see the close-up pics in the gallery. Her Real Housewives of Atlanta co-stars, Sheree Whitfield and Cynthia Bailey were also at the event, along with Dr. Heavenly Kimes, Tiny Harris, Rasheeda and more!
The Vanderpump Rules crew headed to the Kyle Chan #LOVECAMPAIGN event at SUR. Ariana Madix, Tom Sandoval, Jax Taylor, Brittany Cartwright, Katie Maloney, Tom Schwartz, and Scheana Marie were joined by their bosslady, Lisa Vanderpump. Looks like Katie and Scheana might be getting along again! Or at least able to stand and pose for a photo together. That’s progress.
Below we’ve also got pics of Karlie Redd, Towanda Braxton and more!
Even though I credit Jax Taylor’s antics for the initial success of Vanderpump Rules, I don’t really feel like anyone was asking for this spin off series with Brittany Cartwright. Obviously everyone loves Brittany, but this show seems like an obvious second coming of the Simple Life, but with romance thrown in. I don’t know how entertaining it will be to watch Jax struggle with farm chores while he tries to find himself in Kentucky.
Nevertheless, I’m still going to watch because I tune into pretty much every show Bravo has to offer. A first look at the series has been released and it’s pretty much exactly what we all expected.
A new roundup of reality TV stars social media pics to kick off your weekend!
Above: Real Housewives of New Jersey star Teresa Giudice shared this picture of herself with Real Housewives of Potomac‘s Ashley Darby and Real Housewives of Atlanta‘s Kenya Moore. The trio performed The Vagina Monologues (with Ashley replacing Brandi Glanville at the last minute) together.
Teresa captioned the photo: “Had a great time with these two ladies tonight.”
Below you will find pictures from Real Housewives of Dallas star Stephanie Hollman, Teen Mom OG‘s Farrah Abraham, Real Housewives of Orange County star Vicki Gunvalson, Big Brother host Julie Chen, Real Housewives of New York star Bethenny Frankel, Real Housewives of Beverly Hills star Lisa Vanderpump, Teen Mom 2‘s Kail Lowry, and more.
Even though the dynamics on Vanderpump Rules are constantly changing and whatever we know about the drama can be outdated at a moment’s notice, it seems pretty clear that there’s a divide in the cast. Opposing cliques aside, the one thing this cast always seems to agree on is their involvement in LA Pride every year.
Everyone came out (well, not exactly) for the festivities, went all out with their looks, and posted all about the Pride 2017 activities on social media.
I get it: it’s so easy to hate on James Kennedy, but he really is entertaining. I don’t know how I would feel if we were a part of the same friend group, but as a viewer who (sadly) doesn’t get to hang out with the cast, I am always laughing whenever he’s on screen. Still, I totally understand why he’s a polarizing figure on Vanderpump Rules. We need that though to keep the show interesting.
I’m sure Kristen Doute would disagree with me on that and I don’t blame her. James has been dragging his ex (and the reason he is even on this show) every single chance he gets. He even admitted at the last reunion that he used Kristen to become a cast member. We all saw that throughout the course of their relationship, but it was just pretty cringe-worthy to watch him say out loud.
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Popeyes: Southern Comfort?
02/18/2015 8:00 am EST
Our favorite name in the fast food niche is an outfit that is changing the brand, shifting the focus of its menu’s bold, regional Louisiana flavors and tapping into the rising profile of Southern food, observes Peter Staas, editor of Capitalist Times.
Formerly called Popeyes Chicken & Biscuits, the rebranded Popeyes Louisiana Kitchen (PLKI) has revitalized the restaurant’s product lineup with popular new offerings in the sandwich and seafood category.
The major strategic changes that the company has implemented in recent years have built a foundation for future success for its franchisees.
The company has also stepped up its marketing efforts, transitioning from primarily local advertising to bringing its brand to the national stage, including sponsoring a college football bowl game.
Popeyes Louisiana Kitchen deserves plaudits for finding a spokeswoman, “Annie,” who embodies the chain’s New Orleans roots and delivers advertising campaigns that center around limited-time offers to pull in new customers and drive more frequent visits from regulars.
Management has also made efforts to improve customers’ experience by installing digital menu boards; a newly created restaurant support center will also help to steer general managers at its franchises toward best practices.
Taken together, these efforts have created a virtuous circle where the profitability of existing locations has improved, current operators have opened new restaurants, and new franchisees have entered the fold.
The company and franchisees last year opened a record 201 Popeyes Louisiana Kitchen locations (121 in the US and 80 in international markets), while the firm’s same-store sales growth has outperformed its peers for 11 consecutive quarters.
Although Popeyes Louisiana Kitchen undoubtedly has benefited from momentum-driven money looking to add exposure to consumer-discretionary names, the business itself continues to build momentum and offers exposure to an impressive growth story that’s still in its early innings.
With only 1,870 domestic locations and about 500 international restaurants, Popeyes Louisiana Kitchen has ample opportunity to expand in the US and in international markets.
Its asset-light model generates a reliable stream of free cash flow that the company can plow into its turnaround efforts and fund opportunistic acquisitions.
Popeyes Louisiana Kitchen rates a buy up to $60 per share. Investors should scale into this position gradually over a longer time frame to take advantage of potential pullbacks related to fears of higher minimum wage and concerns about the rising cost of chicken.
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Former TN deputy charged with aggravated rape
PERRY COUNTY, Tenn. — A former deputy is charged with aggravated rape and official misconduct, according to the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation.
TBI says 31-year-old Jonathan Allen Kelly, a former Perry County Sheriff’s Deputy, was arrested on Monday.
A news release states that in December 2021, agents began investigating a complaint that Kelly sexually assaulted a female during a traffic stop.
According to the TBI, agents developed information that Kelly indicated to the woman she would not be charged in exchange for engaging in sexual contact.
On February 22, TBI says the Perry County Grand Jury returned indictments charging Kelly with one count of aggravated rape and one count of official misconduct.
Monday, Kelly was booked in the Perry County Jail on a $65,000 bond. Records indicate he has since been released on bond.
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Essential Elements Quiz
This online flute lesson will cover lesson 19 from page 6 of Essential Elements For Band Flute Book 1. In this quiz, students will be given the note names and rhythms and asked to draw the notes in on the staff before they play the piece.
This course is taught by Bonnie Schmader, a Flute studio instructor located in Albuquerque, New Mexico.
Click here to schedule a private online lesson with Bonnie in our video conferencing center.
Students will need to purchase their own copy this book to follow along with these lessons.

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Christian music stars Colton Dixon and Matthew West are both independently taking on an essential element of the faith: miracles.
Dixon’s new song — aptly titled “Miracles” — takes listeners into the importance of feeling God’s love in our lives, particularly when it comes to the miracles and God-ordained events we can experience in everyday happenings.
“There’s no doubt when I feel your love," Dixon sings. "Call me crazy and out of touch, but I know it’s from up above.”
Watch Dixon's music video for "Miracles":
And Dixon isn't the only artist tackling miracles through music.
West's new song “Walking Miracles” discusses specific instances of the miraculous, with the lyrics recapping stories surrounding battles with health, healings and persistence.
READ ALSO: 5 Incredible Stories Of Hope, Inspiration & Miracles
“Oh, they're all around us, everywhere we go," West sings. "The proof that we should never give up hope, because we serve a God who turns impossible into living, breathing, walking miracles."
Listen to the song:
We hope this music inspired you! Here are some other great songs to check out. Also, be sure to stream "Hillsong: Let Hope Rise" on PureFlix.com. You can watch this movie and thousands of other films and TV shows with your free trial.


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***In 1968, The Electric Prunes collaborated with classically-trained musician David Axelrod to create Mass in F Minor, a religious-based rock opera. Even though the album is a head-scratcher side by side (BY SIDE!) with their previous records, this has become one of the era’s most bizarre and hypnotic releases. Sung in Latin with the band hanging onto Axelrod’s ambitious arrangements; you’ve never heard anything like it. It created enough of a cultural mark that the lead track ‘Kyrie Eleison’ was even used in the movie that defined the late '60s generation, Easy Rider. Pressed on limited edition transparent highlighter yellow vinyl.

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South American Football Confederation Condemns Violence and Racism in Copa Libertadores Final
The South American football confederation, known as Conmebol, has expressed its strong condemnation of any acts of violence and racism surrounding the upcoming Copa Libertadores final. The incident occurred prior to a match between Brazil’s Fluminense and Argentina’s Boca Juniors – two prominent teams participating in South America’s equivalent of Europe’s Champions League final – where three individuals were arrested in Rio de Janeiro.
The Clash at Copacabana Beach Fan Fest
According to local police reports, two Argentine men along with one Brazilian citizen were detained following a clash that took place at a Copacabana beach fan fest. With tensions running high between passionate fans from both sides, this unfortunate event has raised concerns within the football community just ahead of Saturday’s highly anticipated final.
Conmebol Calls for Peaceful Celebration
In response to this incident, Conmebol issued a statement calling upon supporters of Boca Juniors and Fluminense to come together and share moments of joy and celebration that epitomize the beautiful game they all love. Emphasizing the importance of peaceful behavior inspired by their shared passion for football, Conmebol firmly repudiates any form of violence or racism occurring within the context of this crucial final showdown.
Copa Libertadores History & Ambitions
This year marks an opportunity for Fluminense to make history by winning the prestigious Copa Libertadores for the very first time. Playing on their home ground at the iconic Maracana Stadium, they seek to etch their name alongside previous champions who have lifted this coveted trophy.
On the other hand, Boca Juniors, a club with rich footballing heritage and experience in this competition, has already claimed victory in the Copa Libertadores on six occasions. As fans eagerly anticipate Saturday’s match, both teams will undoubtedly give their all as they vie for ultimate glory.
The Bigger Picture
Conmebol’s strong stand against violence and racism sends a powerful message about ensuring fair play and respect within football. It serves as a reminder that behind the excitement of matches lies an opportunity to embrace unity and demonstrate positive values that sport can inspire.


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The DEA hasn't made a stink about the announcement but I highly doubt they're happy about it. Yesterday, however, the agency removed that particular bulletpoint from its list of reasons why pot should remain illegal.
What made them take down the bulletpoint? I doubt they were worried about misinformation since the rest of the website is full of it. I think it was Law Enforcement Against Prohibition (LEAP), a group of police officers, judges, lawyers, and many other law-enforcement officials who oppose drug prohibition. LEAP organized a letter-writing campaign to Attorney General Eric Holder requesting the site be updated and bam! it was taken down a week later.
I guess I'm left to wonder, if the DEA were truly transparent, as it claims to be, wouldn’t it not only remove the previous AMA position but replace it with the association’s new stance?


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Choking back tears, it’s clear the impact the late Peterhead GP Dr Iain Small had on Callum Anderson, a junior doctor also from the Blue Toon who is set to star in a new BBC Scotland documentary filmed at Aberdeen Royal Infirmary.
Three months on from losing his family friend, fellow panto performer and the person who inspired him into medicine, Callum says it’s still very raw but finds comfort knowing that Dr Small would be proud of him as he stars in Junior Doctors : Life on the Wards, a new TV series which focusses on six First Year Junior Doctors (FY1s) embarking on their medical careers at the ARI.
Throughout the fly on the wall three-part documentary, which started this week, viewers will watch Callum treat patients and will undoubtedly be moved to tears when he talks movingly about Dr Small who he used to perform alongside with the Peterhead Panto Group.
“One of my biggest inspirations for going into medicine was Dr Small,” says Callum.
“He was an incredible person, our local GP in Peterhead, a local panto star, he just did so much for the community that it’s hard to put into words.
“When he found out I wanted to be a doctor he helped me to get work experience and he and his family also bought me my first stethoscope.
“He was a huge inspiration.”
No stranger to the A&E department
Born and raised in Peterhead to proud parents Kevin and Karen, Callum was no stranger to the accident and emergency department at the ARI.
“I was such an accident-prone child, I sprained my wrist and ankles constantly and I’ve got bald spots from where I split my head open so I’ve been in hospital environments from a young age,” laughs Callum.
Long before he stepped foot inside a medical theatre though, Callum had an affinity with a different style of theatre.
“I started doing panto in Peterhead when I was eight and I’ve now been there for 17 years,” says Callum.
“Dr Iain Small was also in the panto group so it was amazing to perform with him in so many productions over the years.
“So he not only inspired me into medicine but he also encouraged me to keep up theatre.”
Dream role in Kinky Boots
During the programme, the camera follows Callum as he looks after patients on the wards during the day and by night when he performs in Kinky Boots at His Majesty’s Theatre in Aberdeen.
“Kinky Boots was one of my dream roles, it was an incredible experience,” says Callum.
“Growing up where I’m from, it felt like I was one gay in an area so being able to do a show with the angels who were six other gay men was amazing.
“We made such good friends.
“I loved that experience and getting to be on stage with all of those incredible people was amazing.”
It’s not only the theatre audiences who have given Callum a rapturous reception though as the patients who have been under his care appreciate his medical expertise and the fact that he can speak Doric.
“One of the first experiences I had on the wards was with another student from London and the patient we got assigned to was a farmer from the middle of nowhere in Aberdeenshire,” says Callum.
“He spoke broad Doric, he didn’t speak anything else.
“So I spent time translating everything and it helps make the patient more relaxed.”
Now seven years into his training after starting at the University of Aberdeen in 2016, Callum has his sights set on becoming an anaesthetist.
“I enjoy how broad it is as they work across a number of departments including the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) and in emergency care,” says Callum.
“Also I like being in theatre but I don’t want to do the surgery so that’s another aspect of it.
“It’s such an interesting career as it’s so patient centred.
“You’re in charge of the patient and keeping them alive essentially.”
With another eight years of intensive training ahead of him before potentially becoming an anaesthetist, Callum has plans to take a break in between.
“Obviously musical theatre is a big part of my life so I’m planning on taking a year out to do a Masters musical theatre post grad course,” says Callum.
“I just want to try something new for a year and have a bit of fun.”
A constant source of fun and an instant stress reliever, Callum is still very much involved in Peterhead Panto Group.
“I’m doing the Peterhead panto again this year, we’re doing Dick Whittington so I’m the Tom cat, it’s a Doric character” says Callum.
“It’s a very nice year to be involved as we’re all aware that this was the last project Dr Small was involved in.”
Due to the demands of Callum’s job, he’s likely to be working a nightshift when his episode of the series airs.
“Hopefully I’ll get to watch it afterwards,” says Callum.
“I never like to watch myself, I cringe at myself so we’ll see what happens.”
Junior Doctors : Life on the Wards started on BBC Scotland on Wednesday evening. It airs every Wednesday on BBC Scotland at 10pm. All episode are also available on the BBC iPlayer.


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My summer o’ landscaping is off to to dubious start.
Aside from doing loads of weeding and mulching, my plan for the summer is to put in a side patio. Lowe’s had a great Memorial Day sale on pavers, so I ordered everything I needed to be delivered the following week. And then came the rain. I postponed delivery for a week thinking that SURELY this past weekend would be drier than last. Not the case, as it turns out. But I just couldn’t put it off any longer. This is how it went down.
Lowe’s arrived with pavers and sand (and a cart). 1,200 pavers and 30 bags of sand, to be precise. I have no driveway which meant they had to be left on the city sidewalk. Which meant I had to shift everything down my little hill as quickly as possibly. I’ll tell you right now, this was the absolute worst part of this project.
First to go was the sand. My path leading from the road down to my patio spot was too narrow and hilly to navigate my new fancy cart, but my neighbor was kind enough to let me go through her yard. As was the theme this weekend, the sand was saturated. So my 40 lb bags weighed over 50 pounds each. I felt every bit of those extra pounds and was pooped after I got them all shifted.
After a break, I started to move the pavers down using the cart one small load at a time – just enough to get a full course (35 pavers). I had just gotten the perpendicular courses down before it started to rain.
Day two started off nicely. The forecast wasn’t as ominous, but I didn’t want to push my luck and got back to work at 6am. I started by shifting more pavers down the hill, and drinking a lot of coffee.
I actually enjoyed laying the pavers. It’s a bit fiddly, but it isn’t laborious. And it’s such a reward to see it come together.
In order to combat a bit of a pitch, I’ve divided the patio into two tiers. The lower section (12′ x 12′) will be a sitting area. The upper section (9′ x 12′) is where I’ll build my kiln shed. At the end of day two, I’d installed just over 1/2 of the lower (larger) tier.
Then came the rain. Again.
I waited out the storm on my neighbor’s porch with her family. Her granddaughter’s boyfriend took pity on my and insisted that he help me move more of the pavers down the hill. My other neighbor’s drive was blocked by this time so I couldn’t use the cart. It was all by hand at this point. Between the two of us, we were able to move over 1/2 of the second pallet when the rains started up again. DONE! End of Day 2.
I woke up this morning before dawn to work on the last of the pallet. I can’t tell you how many trips I made, but I can only handle 8 bricks at a time, if that gives you an idea. After a few trips, I was ready to do anything just to get the pavers off the city sidewalk. I filled my cart to the rim, lined the side path, and left the few remaining bits in piles around the stoop. Stacking those last pavers and clearing the sidewalk was the most rewarding moment of the weekend, I assure you.
Even though I set only a fraction of pavers in place, I am relieved that the worst is behind me. It’s still raining, and there will be hit-and-miss showers around for the foreseeable future. But it’s all good. Those pavers aren’t going anywhere, and my stubby digits need a little time to heal.

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19 Jun Exhibition: Sound Pictures – Basel Music Supplies of the 16th Century
In the 16th century, Basel experienced a period of prosperity: Printing was of nationwide significance, important figures, such as Erasmus of Rotterdam, Bonifacius Amerbach, and Felix Platter, left lasting impressions on the city, and the Reformation set its mark. Music was always important in cultural life. But what did it sound like in Basel at that time? What was played at home? Which music treatises were printed and what kind of music was sung in the church? Some answers can be found in the rare and impressive “Sound Pictures” in the new Music Museum exhibition. More than 80 objects – music supplies, musical instruments, paintings, copperplate prints – bring us closer to the music of 500 years ago.
Many of the music supplies tell their own story. The “Musica getutscht” by Sebastian Virdung (1511) or Heinrich Glarean’s “Dodekachordon” (1547) attest to the fact that music treatises were published in Basel at a very early stage. These were noticed throughout Europe. The drinking song “Paule Paule” (ca.1565), composed in scherzo notation with sausages and wine goblets, illustrates the convivial rounds in which music was played. Particularly precious are a number of prints (so-called Unica) that have only been preserved in Basel, such as part books with German songs printed in Cologne (1514/15), or masses printed in Basel by the Flemish composer Jacob Obrecht (ca.1507). A highlight of the exhibition is the large-format painting “The Castalian Fountain” from the early 16th century. In the style of a wimmelpicture, it depicts a painted musical encyclopaedia with a multitude of musicians and music myths.
In the exhibition, selected music, some of which was newly recorded for the exhibition by students of the Schola Cantorum Basiliensis / FHNW, can be listened to at several media stations or browsed in digital copies of the music supplies on display.
Various events (including the international “47th Medieval and Renaissance Music Conference”, 3-6 July 2019) complement the exhibition.
The exhibition was created in cooperation with the University Library of Basel, the Schola Cantorum Basiliensis / FHNW and the Musicological Seminar of the University of Basel.
If you are further interested in Erasmus of Rotterdam and his time in Basel, read more here.


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On Thurs., Thailand became the first Asian country to decriminalize the cultivation and possession of cannabis.
Though decriminalized, the law only allows the use of cannabis for medicinal purposes, not recreational.
There are acknowledged contradictions in Thailand's marijuana experiment. Bangkok is looking to cautiously move into the lucrative cannabis market without expanding too far to include recreational users. This is a delicate balancing act that's confusing to law enforcement and government officials, and legislation is trying to play catch-up to shifting attitudes in the Southeast Asian nation.
While it's great that Thailand has legalized cannabis within the country for medical use, it's time to expand to recreational use also. As laws in Thailand continue to change and evolve, the government should look to legalize the plant for all consumers - this would be a boon to both citizens and businesses.

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NCQA produces videos to inform and illuminate the quality story. A few are just for fun.
PCMH Transformation Story: Samaritan Family Health Network Posted 12.20.2018
See how one practice from Watertown, NY used the PCMH model to help them achieve the Triple Aim: better health, lower costs and better patient experience.
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Extra seats on “state-of-the-art” trains will ease the squeeze on commuters from Cambridge to London, it has been claimed.
The new Class 700 electric train, part of the Government’s £6.5 billion Thameslink program, will go into service in 2016.
As testing continues in Germany, a mock-up of the carriages was unveiled in London by Rail Minister Stephen Hammond.
It is claimed the new trains will increase seating capacity from Cambridge to London during peak hours by 15 per cent.
First Capital Connect, who run the Thameslink franchise, have also pledged to at least double the number of 12-carriage trains they run from 7 to 10am.
Peter Wakefield, Chairman of Railfuture campaign group in East Anglia, welcomed the new trains.
He said: “They will be a much better travelling environment, especially in the peak hours because there’s much more room.
“Each coach will be joined without a sliding door so you can just walk through and find a seat. It’s one long tube.”
He said they would be air conditioned and carry about 1,700 people.
He added: “These trains will really step up capacity and we should be able to survive for several years after they’re introduced.
“It will be a step change in the travelling environment for commuters.”
First Capital Connect Managing Director David Statham said: “This new fleet will give passengers more trains, more carriages and more capacity which our passengers desperately need.
“There will also be exciting new journey opportunities along the route – from Cambridge and Peterborough across the Thames to Blackfriars and beyond.”
By 2018 it is hoped the Thameslink service will allow passengers to ride the Class 700 trains from Cambridge, through central London, all the way to Gatwick Airport.
Speaking at the unveiling of a full-scale mock-up of the train at the Excel Centre in London Rail Minister Stephen Hammond said the “exciting” new trains would provide, “fast, reliable and more frequent services.”
They also have an innovative “lightweight” design meaning less wear and tear on tracks.
1,140 of the new carriages will be built by German Engineering giant Siemens, creating up to 2,000 jobs across the UK.
Mr Hammond said: “We are transforming our railways through the biggest programme of rail investment ever.
“These exciting new trains, combined with the wider Thameslink Programme are a real boost to UK Plc, creating thousands of jobs in construction and across the supply chain, which is driving forward our economy.”


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The Alabama Bureau of Pardon and paroles unanimously denied parole to Jimmy O’Neal Spencer on Tuesday after hearing protests against his parole.
Gov. Kay Ivey urged the parole board to deny his parole in a letter on monday and Attorney General Steve Marshall spoke in person at the meeting to make his opposition clear.
Spencer is accused of killing two women and a 7-year-old child in 2018 eight months after being granted parole for a previous conviction.
“There are three people who could not be present: Colton Lee, Martha Reliford and Marie Martin,” Marshall said. “Three individuals whose lives were taken as as result of inexcusable errors that took place on behalf of the state of Alabama and allowed for Jimmy O’Neal Spencer to travel to Marshall County and commit the robbery and murder of three innocent victims.”
Spencer was granted parole in 2017 from two life sentences he was serving for eight different convictions including three for burglary, three for escape, one for assault and one for breaking and entering a motor vehicle. He is expected to go on trial for the 2018 murders in October.
“If there is ever an example of someone who does not need to be released again, it is Jimmy O’Neal Spencer,” Marshall said.
Marshall noted that none of the three people currently serving on the board — chair Leigh Gwathney and associate members Dwayne Spurlock and Darryl Littleton — were there when Spencer was granted parole in 2017.
Nobody spoke on behalf of Spencer at the hearing.
Marshall said Spencer’s case set an important precedent for the state.
“What I am grateful about is the fact that, as a result of this case, we highlighted the fact that the decisions that you make should be based on what is appropriate for community safety,” Marshall said. “For what is appropriate for releasing individuals in our society that can live there as productive citizens.”
The board also unanimously voted to delay the next parole hearing for Spencer for the maximum amount of five years.
Gwathney commended Marshall and state leaders for their actions following Spencer’s case.
“2019 was a pivotal year for this state and for crime victims in the wake of Jimmy O’Neal Spencer,” Gwathney said. “We heard from all elected leadership in this state. You (Marshall) and Gov. Ivey took a tremendous stand in 2019 in the work you did to try to right a terrible wrong on behalf of crime victims … This is a hearing that we should not have.”


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On May 31, the Illinois legislature passed Senate Bill 1, which changes the way in which the State funds education. It adopts what is called “evidence-based funding.” Under the proposed model, the Illinois State Board of Education (ISBE) would compute an “Adequacy Target” for each school district in the State. The Adequacy Target is theoretically the amount needed to properly educate every student. ISBE would also compute a “Local Resources Target” which theoretically is the amount each school district has available to fund education through property taxes and Base Funding Minimum from the State. A school district whose Local Resource Target is less than its Adequacy Target would be eligible to receive a share of the increase in funding that the State allocates toward education.
Under the bill, each school district would, as a minimum, receive the same amount of State funding as it did during the 2016-2017 school year (called the Base Funding Minimum, or the hold-harmless provision). Thus, School Districts 65 and 202 would receive the same amount as they received in fiscal year ending June 30, 2017.
A motion to reconsider SB1 was filed in the Senate to hold the bill in the legislature and delay sending it to Governor Rauner for action. After two months of badgering by the Governor, the motion to reconsider was withdrawn on July 31, and SB1 was sent to the Governor.
As promised, Gov. Rauner issued an amendatory veto on Aug. 1. It makes some significant changes to SB 1, such as significant cuts to the funds that SB 1 allocated to the Chicago Public School system, a change to the hold-harmless provision, and a change in how property tax caps and TIF Districts figure into the calculation of a school district’s Local Resource Target.
The legislature now has three options: 1) it can accept Gov. Rauner’s amendments by a 60% vote in both the Senate and the House; 2) it can override his veto by a 60% vote in both the Senate and the House; or 3) it can fail to act, in which case the bill dies. If the legislature intends to act, it must do so within 15 days of the date Gov. Rauner’s veto was read in the legislature.
While there is some debate on the issue, there is a general feeling that a provision in the legislation that passed a State budget on July 5 may prohibit the State from distributing State funds for education unless either SB 1 is passed or another evidence-based funding model is adopted.
Absent approving a research-based funding model, perhaps the legislature could adopt legislation voiding that provision and continuing on with the current education funding scheme. At this point, that too would require a 60% vote.
There is some talk about whether a court could step in and order the State to make payments to fund education, but there is uncertainty about that too.
The leadership in Springfield has succeeded in creating another crisis that must be solved in two or three weeks, or else many schools throughout the State will not open. They have succeeded in creating a pressure point where many children will suffer if the Senate, the House, and the Governor cannot come together. The bargaining chip is children throughout the State.
We think that the State needs to distribute more funds to school districts that lack adequate funding, and that SB 1 is a better approach than prior models. There are some things, though, that give us concern.
For example, we do not think the “regionalization factor” settled on, in recognition that there are cost differences in different areas of the State, is realistic. It assumes that the cost to hire and retain teachers in Districts 65 and 202 is only about 5.7% higher than the State average.
Second, we are concerned that in calculating the amount of the Local Resources Target, that the impact of property tax caps is not fully recognized in the formula. Gov. Rauner’s amendatory veto raises additional concerns on this point, and also on how the EAV in TIF Districts is handled
Third, under SB1, the Base Funding Minimum payment to be made to school districts is the amount “distributed” to a school district in the school year 2016-17. In 2016-2017, the State failed to make two categorical payments to Districts 65 and 202. Since those two payments were not made – or distributed – to the Districts, we are concerned whether they will be counted in determining their Base Funding Minimum. We believe they should be considered in setting the Base Funding Minimum.
Fourth, we have little confidence in Springfield. For years the legislature has not allocated what it was supposed to toward funding education, and as a result payments to school districts have been prorated. The State has gone for two years without a budget, and the budget adopted on July 5 falls short of bringing up all school districts to their adequate funding targets. The leadership in Springfield has created a crisis, and turned school children into pawns.
We are fortunate to live in a community where we do not depend primarily on State funding for education and where our schools will open. The folks in Springfield need to get their act together.


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Anti-Bullying Rallies Held In Minnesota On Monday
Supporters of a stronger anti-bullying bill took their message across Minnesota Monday.
Rallies were held at schools in three Minnesota cities, including in Minneapolis, St. Paul, and Duluth, in an effort to gain online support for the Safe and Supportive Minnesota Schools Act.
The Associated Press reports the bill was passed in the House last session, but it was pulled in the Senate because some Republicans said they would filibuster the bill for up to 10 hours, right when time in the session was running out.
The next legislative session starts in a couple of months, and supporters want to get the message to lawmakers.
OutFront Minnesota, Education Minnesota and other members of the coalition, hosted the rallies, including one at Myers-Wilkens Elementary in Duluth.
Supporters tell the AP that the bill strengthens Minnesota’s bullying prevention laws. They argue that at 37 words long, the current law is one of the weakest in the country.


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Skyline Releases Women's Basketball Report #11
- Nikita Green named to Honor Roll -
Clifton Park, N.Y. - The Skyline Conference released the eleventh Women's Basketball report for the 2010-11 season this afternoon, including Player of the Week, Rookie of the Week, Honor Roll and Conference statistics.
Sophomore guard Nikita Green (Roosevelt, N.Y./Roosevelt) was named to the Skyline Conference Player of the Week Honor Roll. Green averaged 12.3 points, 5.7 steals and 4.3 assists in three games this week for Farmingdale State. She scored 20 points, had nine steals and six assists in the Skyline win at Mount Saint Vincent.
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The Saint Who Would Be Santa Claus: Read An Excerpt
The history of Nicholas presents a tantalizing riddle. There is no early documentation of the man—no writings, disciples, or major acts. Then, curiously, story fragments and rumors begin to surface like driftwood in the water. A church is built in his honor at Constantinople, and suddenly he becomes an international symbol of holiday cheer and goodwill, an absolutely essential part of the Christmas tradition. It will take extra care and caution to reconstruct the most plausible account of his life.
The Image of an Icon
The most pervasive cultural image of Santa Claus today has nothing to do with the digital reconstruction of the bones in the Bari tomb but originated with a landmark ad campaign from Coca-Cola. In an effort to boost winter sales, attract younger consumers, and improve its image after attacks from the Women's Christian Temperance Union, the Coca-Cola Company in the early twentieth century hired artist Haddon Sundblom to paint the big man into its advertisements. From 1931 to 1964, Sundblom produced warm and richly colored Christmas scenes featuring a larger-than-life Santa posing cheerfully in various locations, always with a bottle of Coke. Thirty years of nostalgic, Norman Rockwellesque paintings plastered on billboards and in magazines fixed the modern image of the saint.6 The wide beard of white, the knobby nose, the wind-chapped cheeks, the bright eyes and grandfatherly smile, and of course, the red fur suit with white trim and black belt—this is Sundblom's Santa. Every movie or television or commercial depiction since is based in some degree on Sundblom's vision.
There is little connection between Sundblom's artwork and the oldest visual image available of St. Nicholas of Myra, which can be dated to between the mid-600s and the mid-700s.7 That image is included on a panel painting divided into four rectangular boxes (fig. 1). In the top two boxes stand St. Paul and St. Peter; in the bottom two are St. Nicholas and St. John Chrysostom. It is noteworthy that Nicholas shares space with such highly honored men and testifies to the status accorded him when the panel was created. Painted by monastic artists in either Egypt or Palestine, the icon presents a full-length view of Nicholas. His beard is long and white, complementing his full head of white hair. Unlike those of Paul and John Chrysostom, Nicholas' beard is not neatly trimmed but slightly unkempt and bushy; unlike St. Peter's curly beard, Nicholas' is straight. Circling Nicholas' head is a bright and prominent halo. His eyes are wide and fixed on the viewer, and he wears Byzantine-style priestly robes of crimson and gold. Lobate crosses can be seen on his omophorion, the traditional vestment draped around his shoulders and neck that symbolizes the lost sheep carried by the good shepherd in Jesus' parable (Luke 15:3-7). His right hand is raised in blessing, and a sacred book is positioned in his left.
This icon resides in the historic Monastery of St. Catherine at Mount Sinai, present-day Egypt.8 Its very existence is of special importance because Byzantine icons and religious art of antiquity suffered two cruel fates: first, the iconoclast movement of the eighth and ninth century eliminated most of the artwork, statues, and decorative pieces in churches, homes, and monasteries; and then, Western crusaders savagely laid waste to Constantinople and destroyed many of the remaining pieces in the Fourth Crusade of 1204.9 Fortunately, the Monastery of St. Catherine, situated in the wastelands of Egypt, stood out of reach of both fates. And, by a special donation of protection, it was spared from mistreatment and plunder by Arabs, whose armies seized the area in the seventh century. In this uniquely preserved image of St. Nicholas, we catch a very early glimpse of the man. His strong eyes speak of fearless resolve and confident authority. His long white beard shows wisdom, maturity, and gentleness. His hand of blessing represents his pastoral concern, and the Gospel book signifies his Christian orthodoxy. His priestly garb reminds us that he was a man of ministry, devoted to the worship of God and the care of God's flock.

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A senior government minister is coming to Brighton to launch the EU referendum Leave campaign today (Saturday 30 April).
Chris Grayling the Conservative Leader of the House of Commons, will be joined by Labour, Green and Liberal Democrat supporters who also want Britain to leave the European Union (EU).
After the launch event, which will include a photo call outside the Royal Pavilion, dozens of campaigners are expected to go leafleting.
The honorary president of the campaign in Brighton and Hove is Sir Andrew Bowden, the former Conservative MP for Brighton Kemptown. He held the seat from 1970 to 1997.
Councillor Tom Bewick, the Labour member for Westbourne Ward on Brighton and Hove City Council, is the campaign chairman and lead spokesman for the Vote Leave campaign locally.
Mr Grayling said: “I am delighted to be launching this cross-party campaign in Brighton and Hove.
“As home to a multitude of party political conferences over the decades, representative democracy is in the lifeblood of this city.
“I hope that residents will take note of this leading group of local leaders, who know from first-hand experience what a stultifying effect the EU has on the city’s ability to promote jobs and growth.
“If we ‘vote leave’ on 23 June, we can take back control of the £350 million we send to Brussels each week and spend it on our priorities.”
Sir Andrew said: “If we do not leave the EU in the next two years, it is only a matter of time before Britain is dragged into the United States of Europe.
“That means our country will lose control of its economy, taxation and expenditure – as well as foreign and security policy.
“Are we seriously contemplating that the British Parliament, with over 1,000 years of history, is to become no more than a glorified county council?”
Councillor Bewick said: “This is an extraordinary and historic moment for our city and our country.
“Do we want to continue to surrender more of our political sovereignty to an unelected unaccountable elite in Brussels or do we want to take back control of our destiny so that we can invest in the priorities of the British people?
“Rather than send £350 million sent to the EU each and every week, we could be spending that money on our own priorities: saving our National Health Service, securing enough school places for our children, getting young people on to the housing ladder.
“The truth is that, for most of the residents of Brighton and Hove, our membership of the EU has driven down wages, inflated house prices out of reach for far too many people and resulted in unsustainable mass migration that places a huge burden on our local public services.
“It’s time to take back control so we can elect people that are directly accountable to us for the decisions they make.”
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The index of mineral production of mining and quarrying sector for the month of January, 2022 (Base: 2011-12=100) at 124.7, was 2.8% higher as compared to the level during the same period 2021. As per the latest statistics of Indian Bureau of Mines (IBM), the cumulative growth for the period April- January, 2021-22 over the corresponding period of the previous year has increased by 14.2 per cent.
Production level of important minerals in January, 2022 were: Coal 796 lakh tonnes, Lignite 46 lakh tonnes, Natural gas (utilized) 2767 million cu. m., Petroleum (crude) 25 lakh tonnes, Bauxite 2157 thousand tonnes, Chromite 398 thousand tonnes, Copper conc. 10 thousand tonnes , Gold 107 kg, Iron ore 215 lakh tonnes, Lead conc. 29 thousand tonnes, Manganese ore 264 thousand tonnes, Zinc conc. 145 thousand tonnes, Limestone 341 lakh tonnes, Phosphorite 118 thousand tonnes, Magnesite 10 thousand tonnes and Diamond 1 carat.
The production of important minerals showing positive growth during January, 2022 over January, 2021 include: Magnesite (36.6%), Lignite (25.2%), Bauxite (13.4%), Gold (13.3%), Natural Gas (U) (11.7%) and Coal (8.2%). The production of other important minerals showing negative growth include: Limestone (-1.2%), Petroleum (crude) (-2.4%), Zinc conc (-2.9%), Iron Ore (-4.9%), Manganese ore (-10.0%), Phosphorite (-11.2%), Copper conc (-15.4%), Chromite (-17.6%), Lead conc (-19.3%)


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Florida Georgia Line, Little Big Town, Sam Hunt and Mac McAnally are in the running for this year's awards from the Country Music Association.
Hunt, a former quarterback for the UAB Blazers, earned five nominations in country and general categories. Winners will be announced May 20 at a ceremony in Las Vegas, televised live on NBC.
Hunt, a former Birmingham resident, took home the trophy for "Body Like a Back Road," a song inspired by his wife, Alabama native Hannah Lee Fowler.
Winners for the 2018 Academy of Country Music Awards will be announced during a ceremony on April 15, televised live from the MGM Grand in Las Vegas.
The full list of nominees includes Bruno Mars, The Chainsmokers, Drake, Kendrick Lamar, Ed Sheeran, The Weeknd, Keith Urban and Florida Georgia Line.
The country star, a former quarterback at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, will discuss UAB football and the return of the Blazers team. The show airs at 8:30 p.m. CT on ESPN2.
The Country Music Association today announced nominees for the 51st Annual CMA Awards, and six acts with Alabama ties were on the list.
The country-pop star, a former UAB quarterback, performed a free concert Friday night in Birmingham's Uptown entertainment district.
The country star will perform at a free "House Party" event in Birmingham's Uptown entertainment district, celebrating the return of UAB football.
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TMZ reports that the country singer will marry Alabama native Hannah Lee Fowler on Saturday, April 15, in Hunt's hometown of Cedartown, Ga.
The country star tells us how his wife-to-be, Hannah Lee Fowler, is adjusting to the celebrity life, especially after her appearance at the 2017 ACM Awards. Also, Hunt gives a shout-out to the UAB Blazers, his former college team.
During Sunday's ceremony at the T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas, Hunt made his sweetie's face turn red as he performed "Body Like a Back Road."
The concert brought thousands of fans to the stadium and served as the first official date of Chesney's 2016 stadium tour. Old Dominion as well as former UAB quarterback Sam Hunt were also on the superfest's line-up.
Winners in major categories will be announced on Sunday, April 3, during a ceremony at the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas.
Musicians with Alabama ties -- including Alabama Shakes, Jason Isbell, Little Big Town, Sam Hunt and Emmylou Harris -- made a major showing today as nominees were announced for the 58th Annual Grammy Awards.
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What can be better than making music together and sharing your music with others?
Several months ago, we started thinking about organizing a students’ concert. Our Connect by Music students have been working hard at learning to play the guitar, and they will be giving their first concerts on 18, 19 and 20 June. Joined by our ambassadors Jeroen de Groot and Nawras Altaky they will be playing a mix of songs from different countries. In addition to our students, bands of musicians living in the Moria camp are brought together by our music therapist Lore Smits will be taking the stage.
Students’ concert on Lesbos
Some months ago, our Connect by Music students, led by our Greek music teachers, began practising eight different songs that they have mastered very nicely by now. Their repertoire includes various Bob Marley songs, Beethoven’s Humn to Joy, a Greek song, and songs from their home countries. Our ambassadors Jeroen de Groot and Nawras Altaky will perform together with our students. Jeroen has meanwhile visited Lesbos and has practiced together with the students. Next week, they will perform a great concert, featuring the sound of guitar, vocals, violin and oud.
Also performing will be a band of professional musicians from Moria. In total, no less than 55 musicians will be performing in our hour-long concert, among them starting musicians as well as professional artists with many different nationalities. Music connects!
One of the concerts will be held at the KaraTepe Hospitality Centre on Wednesday 20 June, World Refugee Day. We will be playing in Mytilini on Tuesday 19 June; all local residents have been invited. Monday 18 June is concert day for all inhabitants and volunteers of Moria camp. As the camp currently has more than 6.000 inhabitants, the concert will be held in a central, easily accessible location.
The impact of music is being felt strongly on all locations in Lesvos where we are active every day. We aim to bring as much music as possible to these locations and have several concerts planned where our students can play together with professional musicians and bands that travel to Lesvos especially for the occasion in the next few months.
We are very grateful to the Greek authorities for their trust and support in our projects.
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Canada is a nation of firsts. Torontonian Don Munroe built the first table hockey game here in the early 1930s. Other parts of the country can lay claim to the Jolly Jumper, the celebration of Labour Day, artificial hearts, the Robertson square-head screwdriver, and it was a Canadian who mixed the world’s first Bloody Caesar. The country has broken ground in many fields, including film. Florence Lawrence, the first performer to be identified by name on screen, was born in Hamilton, Ontario, while the first aboriginal actor to portray a Native American on television, Jay Silverheels, hailed from the Six Nations Indian Reserve in Brantford, Ontario.
In a more macabre vein, without a groundbreaking 1974 Canadian horror film there might never have been a Jason Voorhees, Freddy Krueger or Michael Myers. Between them the gruesome threesome have sliced and diced their way through at least two dozen movies, but the mayhem they imposed on promiscuous college girls and studly teens owes much to one film made in Toronto, a movie Film Threat magazine calls “the first modern slasher movie.”
Director Bob Clark didn’t invent the slasher film with Black Christmas — arguably Psycho, Peeping Tom or Bay of Blood (Reazione a catena) were the granddaddies of gore — but he did establish the format. Mix and match the fear of an unwelcome visitor to a sorority house brimming with randy college girls, a holiday-turned-violent theme, the anonymous phone call used to terrorize girls, a motiveless killer, a mysterious male stalking young women, and a female lead who must conquer her own fear in order to stay alive and you have the plot of dozens of films that were to follow.
Shot in Toronto between February and May 1974 on a budget of roughly $600,000, Black Christmas is about an unseen psychotic killer named Billy who makes disturbing, obscenity laced phone calls to a group of sorority girls. Soon he escalates from one-sided phone sex to dispatching the girls one by one in brutal fashion.
“It was originally called Stop Me,” says Clark, who was killed in an April 2007 car accident, “I don’t think I’m taking unfair credit, but Black Christmas was my title, my idea. I love the contrast of the idea of Christmas, the jolliest of all seasons with this dark kind of imagery. Both a horror film and Christmas have tremendous trappings that make a nice juxtaposition.”
Apparently others agreed with him. In the next two decades a tsunami of holiday themed horrors — Christmas and otherwise — drifted into theaters; My Bloody Valentine, New Year’s Evil, April Fools Day and a Santa’s sack of movies featuring death by Christmas tree light.
What sets Black Christmas apart from the rest of the Christmas horror pack are the memorable characters. The standout is a pre-Lois Lane Margot Kidder as the sharp-featured brunette Barb, whose alcoholic tendencies foreshadowed the actress’s troubled real life. “One of my favorite memories is Margot coming to the set for her famous turtles-screwing-for-three-days scene,” says Clark. “She was supposed to be imbibing, and she was, to get in character. She was definitely there.”
As Barb she thumbs her nose at any form of authority — be it the thick as a brick Sgt. Nash or the threatening caller — and steals every scene she’s in with her reckless energy. When she slurs, “This is a sorority house, not a convent,” it is lewd, raunchy and sexy-funny.
Argentine-born Olivia Hussey as Jess is not the typical sorority slasher movie heroine. Hussey brings a quiet strength to Jess that hints at a fountain of inner resolve. It has often been said that slasher films are the most Republican of genres because of the punishment meted out on people who go against conservative middle-American values. In other words smoking pot and jumping from bed to bed is bound to earn you a one way ticket to hell courtesy of some masked madman, while the virgin of the group usually makes it through bloodied but unbowed. In Black Christmas Jess rebels against her boyfriend, and is planning to have an abortion. Clearly she is no virgin, and yet she is the sole survivor of Billy’s rampage.
The boyfriends of Claire and Jess — Chris Hayden (Art Hindle) and Peter Smythe (Keir Dullea) — are studies in opposites. The Halifax-born Hindle plays Chris as earnest and loving (although he does wear a raccoon coat), a stand-up guy who loves his girlfriend even if their relationship is chaste.
Keir Dullea as Peter is a different story. Peter is an eccentric musician who realizes too late that he has traded one passion for another. His love of music overshadowed his feelings for Jess and now she is backing away from him. He is prone to fits of anger, and this hot-headed behavior is the perfect red herring (or McGuffin as Hitchcock used to call them) to make us think he is the killer. It is interesting to imagine how the character might have differed if Clark’s first choice for Peter, Malcolm McDowell, had accepted the part.
During shooting Dullea was only available for a week as he had other commitments in Europe. In his short time on the film, he never met Margot Kidder and worked with John Saxon only briefly. “My total experience with working with anybody was Olivia Hussey,” he says. Clark shot all of Dullea’s scenes first and in editing made it appear as though he was there for the whole time.
Like Black Christmas’s other imported movie star, Olivia Hussey, Keir Dullea’s early career showed great promise, but didn’t mature into full-blown movie stardom. Two films hinted at his star potential — 1963’s Lisa and David and Bunny Lake is Missing in 1965 — but it wasn’t until he played astronaut Dave Bowman in Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey in 1968 that his full promise was reached. He failed to really capitalize on the notoriety that movie earned him, leading Noel Coward to famously quip, “Keir Dullea, gone tomorrow.”
Uncredited but very effective are the actors who voiced the obscene phone calls. The disembodied voices of unseen evil were supplied by a number of people including Bob Clark, actor Nick Mancuso and several female actors. “[The phone calls are] a compilation of about five actor’s voices,” says Clark. “I remember what Nick brought it to was an intensity that certainly I had never seen before,” said sound designer and composer Carl Zitrer who engineered the calls, mixing in reverb and an array of spooky sounds.
Was Black Christmas the inspiration for John Carpenter’s seminal slasher flick Halloween? It’s a question that has sparked a fair amount of debate, so let’s break it down. There are similarities that cannot be denied between the two films.
Most obviously both films open with a point of view shot of the killer creeping around the outside of a house at night. Clark uses this shot, and many POV angles to great effect in Black Christmas, but he wasn’t the first to use the subjective camera to create fear. Clark simply took an old idea and put a new spin on it. He would later say that he hoped to break new ground by “employing some, if not new, certainly reworked and rethought cinematic ideas.” Mario Bava used distorted POV in Blood and Black Lace, and Hitchcock used it in the shower scene in Psycho, just to name a couple famous examples. Clark’s innovation in Black Christmas was to make the point of view shot his centerpiece, using it create a mood of terror rather than a secondary complement to the horror already on screen.
Clark’s film is unique in that we never see the killer, he moves in the shadows, a subliminal figure of terror unlike the very visible Michael Myers in Halloween. What they share, however, is motive – neither of them has one. They are striking out at these victims for no reason. Carpenter says he modelled Michael Myers’ relentless passion for killing on a film by Michael Crichton. “I must tell you that I cribbed from Westworld – Yul Brynner as a robot gunfighter who malfunctions and keeps coming after them. I just took it a step further, but I gave you no explanation.” Pre-Black Christmas movie homicidal maniacs always had a motive, but we never know why Billy targeted the Pi Kappa Sig house or its inhabitants.
There is one major difference between the two – Billy is literally a raving lunatic, screaming and grunting his way through the film, whereas Michael Myers (and later, Jason Voorhees) is unnaturally silent.
It may have just been weird synchronicity that two films about homicidal maniacs open with unusual POV shots, and share an ideological bent, but there is no question that Black Christmas and Halloween are similar.
“I absolve John Carpenter every time,” says Clark. “The facts are that I was going to direct a film John wrote a couple of years after Black Christmas. He was a big fan of Black Christmas… and he asked me if I was ever going to do a sequel.
“I said, ‘I would make it the following fall and somehow in the interim the killer had been caught and had been institutionalized. I would have him escape one night, and now he is free in the community… and he starts staking them again at the Black Christmas sorority house, and I was going to call it Halloween.’
“I think he was influenced by it, as were a few others. When you think about what John Carpenter did, [however], wrote a script — really quite different from that idea —directed it, edited it and did the music. It was a terrific piece of work. Maybe the title Halloween he should have given me a little of, but I didn’t own that either.”
Despite the rave reviews, and the prediction of Olivia Hussey’s personal psychic that the film would make a bundle, Black Christmas didn’t fare well at the box-office in the USA. To boost admissions, in some markets the movie’s name was changed to A Stranger in the House to avoid confusion with the flurry of blaxploitation films that were appearing at the time. It was also released as Silent Night, Evil Night.
Viewed through today’s eyes the movie holds up. It is very stylish, although slower in sections, and with a lower body count than modern horror fans are used to, but it is still capable, more than three decades after its conception, to raise goose bumps. A testament to the film’s enduring ability to scare came when NBC cancelled an airing of the film because they felt it was too intense for television audiences. It has also earned the seal of approval from Quentin Tarantino, who cites it as one of his favorite movies.
“It’s an interesting film.” says Clark, “I thought it was a good, scary, classic horror story, and those have a way of surviving.”


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On a fall night in 1914, Theodore Roosevelt summoned the young editors of a yet-unpublished magazine to the seat of his ex-presidency, his estate on the north shore of Long Island. The old Bull Moose had caught wind of the new project and wanted to make sure that the editors had the full benefit of his extensive wisdom. In T.R.’s social set—Harvard and Yale men with an intellectual proclivity and a progressive bent—the impending debut of The Republic, as it was called in its nascent days, was much anticipated. It was grist for gossipy letters and dinnertime chatter.
The magazine’s proposed title would have appealed to Roosevelt because it conjured both Plato and Rome. And the classic reference was merited, since America was in the thick of a Renaissance of sorts. A new artistic fervor occupied the narrow streets of Greenwich Village, thanks to the early arrival of European modernism and bootleg editions of Freud. Even more importantly, there was a proliferation of political reform movements, budding seemingly everywhere and pushing a mélange of causes—temperance, suffrage, antitrust, trade unionism. The presidential campaign two years earlier, which Roosevelt lost, had amounted to a competition to capture the hearts and minds of these reformers.
All this energy needed a home and deeper thinking. That might have been the primary point that Roosevelt had hoped to impress upon his protégés over dinner. But he could never quite contain his conversational agendas, and he piled argument upon argument, so persistently and so deep into the night that the editor of the magazine, Herbert Croly, closed his eyes and drifted into an embarrassingly deep sleep.
The Republic, however, was doomed—or at least its name was. A partisan organ with the very same title already existed, owned by John F. Kennedy’s gregarious grandfather John F. “Honey Fitz” Fitzgerald. When the genteel editors politely inquired about the possibility of sharing the moniker, the old Boston pol refused. In truth, he probably hadn’t intended to turn them away, only to get a little compensation for his troubles. But the editors missed the hint and renamed their magazine.
It would be The New Republic, which better represented the spirit of the enterprise anyway. The magazine was born wearing an idealistic face. It soon gathered all the enthusiasm for reform and gave it coherence and intellectual heft. The editors would help craft a new notion of American government, one that now goes by a very familiar name: liberalism.


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BY JOHN BULUS
There seems to be no ending to the series of allegations of bribery in the National Assembly. The latest 3 million USD bribery scandal involving Farouk Lawan of the House of Representatives who hitherto was dubbed “Mr. Integrity” has thrown up questions of integrity and maturity of the members even as aspersions are being cast on the House. Saturday Vanguard’s JOHN BULUS in this special report chronicles major corruption cases that have unfortunately come to define the parliament.
There appears to be this persistent stench oozing from the House of Representatives in every given legislative year. In fact, it is such that since the return of democratic rule in 1999, no dispensation has successfully ended without an awful event breaking out from the green chambers. Worst is that the events are not palatable. If it does not bother on issues of certificate forgery, it is a bribery scandal or outright embezzlement of public funds which never got investigated beyond news breaks.
Undoubtedly, those issues have continued to raise questions about the integrity and or maturity of those elected as lawmakers. Consequently, this calls to mind some unfortunate incidences which have dotted the Parliament since the dawn of democracy.
In 1999, hardly had the House been formally inaugurated that the case of certificate forgery by the then Speaker, Alhaji Salisu Buhari erupted. For some time, the issue dragged on until the Speaker was pushed out. From then henceforth, Buhari grew cold and lost his voice. To some extent, it was not only his constituency that was brutally assaulted and embarrassed.
The integrity of the House was also affected. For one, there came questions on the moral standing of the lawmaker to continue to enact laws “in hallowed” chambers of the House. Till date, that question has continued to be the dilemma the House.
Not too long afterwards in 2007, the House boiled again, this time, featuring a woman protagonist. Despite making history as the first female Nigerian Speaker of the House of Representatives, Mrs. Patricia Olubumi Etteh was enmeshed in a high profile fund embezzlement scandal to the tune of N68 million Naira which later caused her and her deputy, Alhaji Babangida Ngurije their respective portfolios in the House. Like, Buhari the two personalities went cold that throughout the life of that Assembly, much was not heard from them in terms of contributing to debates in the House. It was not until the twilight of that administration that Etteh briefly made headlines. She was purportedly cleared of the albatross on her neck. But then, that did not stamp any appreciable impact.
Having been impeached, Alhajis Oladimeji Bankole and Usman Bayero Nafada reigned as both Speaker and Deputy Speaker in their stead. Almost in quick succession, another corruption saga broke out.
A member of the House then, Dino Melaye accused Speaker Bankole of siphoning the funds of the House. To the chagrin of all, the allegation generated a heavy dust that there were exchange of physical blows and verbal fisticuffs in the House amongst the members. Notedly, the end of that tenure however saw Bankole and
Nafada behind bars as they were arrested by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC and prosecuted later. Though Bankole and Nafada issue appeared controversial in the face of the ensued discrepancy between the EFCC and the court over their discharge and acquittal, most Nigerians still think that the duo will have to do more to erase the feelings of guilt and shame from the subconscious.
Similarly, Nigerians are yet to forget the circle of bribery scandal that rocked the House of Representatives in 2009 when the House set up a Committee to probe the nation’s Power sector. The Committee, headed by Ndudi Godwin Elumelu returned a damning verdict that about $16 billion spent on the sector by the federal government actually went down the drain and called for a cleansing of the sector. The Report was about to be debated when Elumelu was caught in the web of a N6 billion supplementary budget padding scam.
Elumelu and Senator Nicholas Ugba, Chairman of the Senate Committee on Power were eventually dragged to court after a brief detention by the EFCC. Again, the public odium that emanated from the scandal virtually sealed the lips of Elumelu who appears not to be in any haste to discuss public issues. Just very recently, another member of the House of Representatives, Herman Hembe set out in their usual over-sight function to investigate the “death” of stock exchange. But surprisingly, a well intended and fact-finding probe ended up boomeranging on the lawmaker who was accused of being part of the rot in the system for allegedly demanding a bribe of N5 million from the now suspended Director-General of the Security Exchange Commission, SEC, Ms. Aruma Oteh.
The Committee quickly wound up while Hembe, a lawyer and “honourble” member of the Parliament from Benue State was taken by EFCC which is now prosecuting him in court.
Hembe’s scandal had hardly died down when what seems to be the mother of all bribery scandals in the National Assembly came hitting the House . Like other dubious national Lawmakers, the news that the latest bribery scam involves Mr. Farouk Lawan, who is otherwise called “Mr. Integrity”, was one development that was extremely difficult for many people to believe. Farouk Lawan , a man whose tiny voice smacks innocence and honesty was allegedly discovered to be the supreme “tax collector” in the House.
Indeed, sitting glued to one’s television set, watching or reading the accounts of the subsidy probes by the House Ad-hoc Committee chaired by Farouk Lawan last month left no one in doubt that Mr. Integrity did a marvelous job especially with the gory revelations of how some Nigerians ripped the country off. For one, most Nigerians were happy that Lawan was bold to name most dubious characters in the system who were milking the oil sector of the economy dry.
There were applauses. There were commendations. By noonday, he sat before the television cameras reading figures and accusing both individual and cooperate bodies of financial irregularities but in the night, he allegedly sneaked out for his banana split. However , Femi Otedola, one of the oil magnates and owner of Zenon Petroleum & Gas Ltd decided to let the lid open over what transpired between him and Lawan’s committee.
Initially, his company was amongst those black-listed to have illicitly dealt with the NNPC. But within a split of seconds, the company’s name got deleted from “the Black Book” and was cleared of all allegations by the Probes Panel. It was later to be known that a bribe of 3 million USD did the magic.
Hear Otedola: “When this happened, I was very angry and reminded him that Zenon has never participated in the subsidy scheme and that it would be criminal to rope in the company for something it did not do.
But Lawan responded, stating that several other marketers were playing ball and had offered the members of the Committee large sums of money to ensure that their companies’ names were not published in the report.
“A day before the Report was to be submitted, Lawan called again, informing me that Zenon’s name had been included in the report. I, of course, was very angry and asked him to desist from his course of action, but Lawan insisted that I must pay up as other oil marketers had done before me. I reminded him that the amount ascribed to Zenon was wrong as what the company bought was over $400 million for importation of products through the banks – Zenith, UBA and GTB and that under Sanusi (CBN governor), there was no way anyone could have bought that quantity of foreign exchange and not import the products having filled the Form M.
“I screamed at him, demanding to know why he was doing this to me. All he said was that other marketers were paying up to keep their names out of the Report, so I should do likewise.
“As a law-abiding citizen, I decided to involve the security agencies and they advised me to play along, which prompted me to offer to pay part of the money with the promise that I would pay the balance when my company’s name had been removed from the report. On Tuesday, at 9am, just before the House commenced sitting, Boniface came and collected another $120,000.He (Lawan) now asked for the balance of $2.5 million, but when I told him that I had no money now that the money was in Lagos, he suggested that I should charter a plane to fly the money from Lagos to Abuja.
“If you have information that an armed robber has come to raid your home, won’t you notify the police? So, that was the purpose of the sting operation.
“Besides, my integrity is paramount to me. I started selling petroleum products 14 years ago in drums and somebody who has never run a petrol station is trying to blackmail and extort money from me.If others (marketers) have paid money, maybe they are guilty. But I did not do anything wrong, so why should they extort money from me? As a law-abiding citizen, I had to involve the security agencies. Indeed, I’m very disappointed because I have worked hard to build my business”.
But Farouk Lawan denied these allegations. He was later to agree that he received 620million USD from Otedola, insisting he was bribed against his wish when the pressure came in torrents. Almost unbearable.
Meanwhile, it could be recalled that the week before the incident, ex-President Olusegun had stirred the honest’s net when he said that the National Assembly and the Judiciary were populated by rogues and criminals. The utterance was one development that startled the members of both chambers of the national assembly. While the Senate through its spokesman, Senator Enyinnaya Abaribe dismissed the claims as mere insinuation and urged Obasanjo to name names, the House of Representatives got infuriated and later decided to summon Obasanjo to the floor of the House for making such a statement. As a matter of fact, Obasanjo was due to honour the invitation on June 28 when his prediction came into fulfillment.
Hear Obasanjo: “Integrity is necessary for systems and institutions to be strong. Today, rogues and armed robbers are in the state Houses ofAssembly and the National Assembly. What sort of laws will they make? The judiciary is also corrupt. During my tenure, many of the corrupt judges were removed, some are still there”.
Speaking with Saturday Vanguard on the issue, the former National Chairman of All Progressive Grand Alliance, APGA, Chief Chekwas Okorie said, “Definitely, the integrity of the National Assembly has been very seriously dented although it is more pronounced in the House of Reps than in the senate. The Farouk’s scandal is one scandal too many and therefore, I suggest that more serious attention be paid on that House and its members in fighting against corruption”
Undoubtedly, the financial web which caught Lawan has exposed and put him more on the public gallery. Lawan has been a member of the House of Representatives since 1999. He was instrumental to the pulling down of former Speaker, Patricia Etteh down with his Integrity Group.
and replaced him with Dimeji Bankole. He was also the arrow head of the group of whistle blower that exposed the certificate scandal of Salisu Buhari, the first Speaker of the House. The lawmaker who was born in 1962 has been representing Bagwai/Shanono Federal Constituency of Kano State. Lawan is a graduate of Bayero University in Kano. He is married with four children. The better part of his legislative duties in House of Representative has seen him chairing many committees which included Finance, Education, Appropriation and Subsidy Probes. Some say, those were compensatory measures to the roles he played on the installation of any given Speaker since the time of Speaker Bello Masari. To say that he has his eyes on the governorship seat of his home state, Kano in 2015 will is an understatement. In fact, some sources say he is one of those who may want to throw in their hat in the ring for a presidential contest in 2015.
Meanwhile, unless the House of Representatives rises to launder itself of the avalanche of stench and live above aboard, the faroukgate will continue to cast aspersions on the reputation of the members of House of Representatives, nay every political leader which will definitely affect the corruption fight. Moreso, when next, former President Obasanjo makes a statement about those within the corridors of power, not a few Nigerians will regard him as an informed mind Vanguard Nigeria

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