Carrie Underwood, Chris Stapleton, Florida Georgia Line, Luke Bryan and Thomas Rhett have been selected by CMT as the premiere country artists of 2016 and will be celebrated at the seventh annual CMT Artists of the Year special.
Additionally, Kelsea Ballerini is set to receive the second-annual Breakout Artist of the Year honor.
The 2016 CMT Artists of the Year special premieres from Nashville’s Schermerhorn Symphony Center on Oct. 20 at 8 p.m. ET/PT. Each artist will be honored with never-before-seen performances alongside lighthearted and emotional moments fueled by plenty of champagne during the 90-minute special on CMT.
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SOUTH KOREA: Temps keep Hyundai line idle for 22nd day
The assembly line at Hyundai Motor’s Ulsan plant occupied by striking temporary workers remained idle for the 22nd day on Monday despite the company’s attempts to resume operations.
On Monday the company attempted to bring the facility back online by bypassing areas occupied by the striking workers but the efforts were soon called off due to interference from the temps, Hyundai officials told the Korea Herald.
Hyundai had modified the assembly line to allow part of the production process to be carried out manually in order to bypass areas under the control of striking workers ? the automated storage facility, and the conveyor that connects the paint shop to the general assembly section of the line, the report said.
Temporary employees of Hyundai’s subcontractors working at the Ulsan plant have been striking since 15 November, demanding that they be employed on regular contracts directly by the carmaker.
The temporary workers had occupied three assembly lines early on in the strike but withdrew from other facilities maintaining control only over the line that produces the Accent, Click and Verna subcompacts.
Hyundai told the Korea Herald the strike has so far cost it about 24,000 units in lost production and KRW270.4bn (US$238.1m) in lost revenues.
The automaker has held three-way talks between the temp workers’ union and Hyundai’s union and management but failed to find common ground.
Members of the temporary workers’ union not taking part in the sit-in strike began a six-day tour of facilities of Hyundai and other companies with temporary workers to shore up support for their cause on Sunday.


CARLSBAD -- A suspected burglar escaped Friday night from aVillage Fair business, but not before a witness punched him andrecovered stolen items, police said. Two employees at SkinSensational Day Spa, 300 Carlsbad Village Drive, who returned tothe closed business to retrieve something discovered the burglaryin progress around 8 p.m., Lt. Howard Carpenter said.
The two saw a pile of spa computer items and other things, then"they heard this screaming from the back room, this guy screaming,'Let me out of here, let me out of here,’ ” Carpenter said.
A man with a sheet over his head ran past the startledemployees. The burglar grabbed the stacked items on his way out andran into the parking lot.
Several women in the parking lot began screaming, Carpentersaid. The burglar -- his head still covered by the sheet -- bumpedinto a sport utility vehicle.
The thief kept going, Carpenter said. He said the SUV driver ranafter the burglar, hitting him in the head and knocking him down.The driver grabbed the stolen items from the business and returnedthem, police said. The recovered property included a tool kit thatdidn’t belong to the spa.
Carpenter said police suspect the burglar may have hidden in thespa during the day so he could steal items at night.


Commercial organisations face very similar challenges, no matter what their business model
Think of a large organisation, and corporates often spring to mind. In the UK, however, public sector organisations rival their private counterparts in size and in the scope of their work. The NHS, for example, is famously the biggest employer in the UK, and has the fifth largest workforce in the world…
When it comes to revitalising an organisation for the digital age, emphasis is usually placed on the efforts of private sector businesses. But public institutions – traditionally perceived as sprawling, inefficient, and stuck in the past – also have to change and adapt. In fact, their large workforces, organisational structures, and legacy systems provide challenges that map directly on to those faced by incumbent businesses in the private sector.
With these similarities in mind, there are clearly important cross-sector conversations to be had. It may often be overlooked, but we’ve got to ask the question: what can large businesses learn from the public sector?
A relic of the past
One person ideally placed to comment on the private-public discussion is Foundry4's very own Matt Jukes. With a background in the Civil Service, Jukes has extensive experience in digital transformation in the public sector, and all the frustrations that entailed…
“The big issue was that most government digital or IT space was in the hands of a small amount of big systems integrators that all had huge, long term contracts, and actually weren’t incentivised to make change,” he says.
“There’s stories about laptops taking 15 minutes to boot up in the morning, you couldn’t upgrade browsers, generally everything was locked in an earlier time frame. The rest of the world had moved on, and because of that big parts of the public sector didn’t even know what good looked like. They couldn’t actually see it. The world was changing but it wasn’t happening for them.”
In 2011, however, things changed dramatically with the formation of Government Digital Service, which broke up the power of the traditional systems integrators, moved contracts to much shorter time frames, and put a heavier focus on user needs and modern technologies. With a vision of modernisation coupled with the spending controls to back this up, real progress began to be made.
Don’t want to talk about my bad reputation
This action notwithstanding, the public sector still retains a bad reputation for cumbersome processes and poor customer service. As Vimla Appadoo, Lead Service Designer at DigitalBridge, who previously worked at the Department for Work and Pensions and in public sector transformation, states:
“The general consensus around public services is that they are untrustworthy and unreliable. That’s based on how long it takes to get things done but also the lack of a seamless experience for people. It might be having to bounce around lots of different services just to get one outcome, or having to repeat a story constantly throughout a single journey.”
For Appadoo, the real challenges in the public sector lie in understanding how to serve true local community needs, and then taking those learnings and scaling them up to the levels required. This is no easy feat for anyone in business, but in the public sector there is an added dimension to contend with.
“The thing that’s different with the public sector,” says Jukes, “is every time there’s a big IT disaster or some other problem it is going to be newsworthy. There’ll be some sort of parliamentary investigation, it’s public money that’s being wasted, and it’s going to end up in the news. Whereas if that happens at a bank, for example, unless you can’t actually get your money out at an ATM or you can’t pay for something at a shop, no one knows.”
“So actually the perception still remains that the public sector is making a mess of things. Don’t get me wrong, there’s still consistently really stupid decisions that get made, but actually there’s enormous amounts of really good practice that people in the know are aware of.”
“If you look at really high profile startups like Monzo, for example, an incredibly high percentage of their staff were working for the Government Digital Service or the Civil Service a few months ago. That’s where people are learning modern skills, making things happen, and doing it at scale.”
“People in the startup world and in digital now have a very different perception of the public sector. But it is the nature of working there that if you do mess things up it is going to be a bigger story.”
Starting the conversation
One of the biggest issues with digital transformation in the public sector is the need to keep services running as they are updated. This, of course, is not unique to public institutions, but if NHS services were to fail, for example, it would be far more serious than problems with most commercial applications…
To avoid large scale service failures, the public sector has to approach digital transformation in a very cautious way. This is in direct contrast to the recent efforts of companies such as TSB, which in April 2018 underwent a disastrous IT migration which saw millions of its customers locked out of their accounts, and cost the business a cool £330m.
For Jukes, such poor approaches to digital transformation in the private sector are a mandate for the public sector to showcase its talents.
“With TSB and then the recent lawsuit between Accenture and Hertz cars, every bad approach around digital transformation you could think of had been implemented,”
“I just thought – actually, they’ve done everything we would not allow to happen in any part of government digital transformation any more.” says Jukes.
“It’s time we started to point out that we are a centre of excellence on some of these specific problems.”


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As the new year begins, its a time for various coaches, players and teams to draft plans to be fulfilled on the football pitch across the year.
For Kenya Premier League (KPL) side Western Stima’s Head Coach Salim Babu, their plan is to maintain the momentum they had towards the end of last year.
“The plan is to try our best and remain up the table. We are not through with the first leg of the season, our plan is to maintain our performance so that come the second leg, we look for points that can enable us to be within the top five teams bracket,” Salim said in an interview on Thursday.
The former Sony Sugar tactician is in his first full season at Stima, after being appointed towards the end of last season to replace Paul ‘Yago’ Ogai.
KPL teams remain with between three to five matches to end the first leg.Western Stima is third on the KPL log with 27 points after 14 matches; two points behind league leaders and defending Champions Gor Mahia. Tusker is second with 28 points.
Kisumu based Western Stima is undefeated in the last five matches, after beating KCB, Nzoia Sugar, Zoo Kericho and Chemelil Sugar coupled with a draw against Sofapaka.
Salim Babu’s team next KPL assignment is against Mathare United on January 8, 2020.

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The percentage of smokers over the age of 15 has dropped from 19.5 percent in 2011 to 16.9 percent last year, according to the National Adult Tobacco Survey which was released yesterday by the National Institute of Statistics.
Taking population growth into account, this means that fewer than two million Cambodians smoked frequently in 2014. The survey was conducted based on the studies of 19 cities around the country.
“It showcases the effort of the Ministry of Health and relevant institutions and is especially important because Cambodia has a tobacco control law and…health warnings on cigarette packs. We hope and expect that the rate of smokers will decrease much more,” said Yel Daravuth, technical officer for the World Health Organization’s Tobacco Free Initiative in Cambodia.
Hard to Quit
Second-hand smoke still remains high in public places, with most people coming in contact with it in restaurants, state buildings, and public places.
The study found that only four percent of current smokers were willing to give up smoking in the next 12 months. Low price and wide availability were cited as an encouragement for young people and poor citizens to buy cigarettes.
Thirty-four-year-old garment worker Narra Khun, who has been smoking for almost 10 years, told Khmer Times:
“I smoke every day. In one day, I smoke two to three packs and one pack costs me 1,800 riel. The price is affordable. When I smoke, my stress is reduced and I do not feel sleepy at night because I have to work extra hours.”
Mr. Daravuth said government efforts were effectively contributing to the reduction of smoking prevalence. An increase in the Value-Added Tax (VAT) on both domestic and imported tobacco deterred many from smoking.
“The current VAT on cigarettes is still low among the ASEAN countries, with 22 percent on domestic cigarettes and 28 percent on imported cigarettes. “To be successful, we have to impose a 75 percent VAT,” he said.
The study also showed that the text health warnings that took effect in July 2010 on cigarette packs have lost their effectiveness in dissuading people from smoking. Only 44 percent of smokers were found to be deterred from smoking by the warnings, down from 82 percent in 2011.
Bungon Ritthiphakdee, director of Southeast Asian Tobacco Control Alliance (SEATCA), warned the tobacco industry would find loopholes to evade the bans and laws and he urged the government to enact more laws to deal with the industry’s new tactics.
“The tobacco industry always finds or looks for a way to target the neo-customers or neo-smokers, especially the young Cambodians. So we need to closely monitor and make sure that they follow strong laws because in other countries, we find that they will look for loopholes.”
According to the WHO, tobacco kills six million people across the world each year and second-hand smoke kills 600,000. If no action is taken, they expect the number to rise to eight million a year by 2030, among which women might account for 2.5 million. For Cambodia, 10,000 people die from tobacco-related illnesses every year.
When asked whether he supported the new measures to cut down smoking in the Kingdom, smoker Mr. Khun had a surprising answer: “Although I am a heavy smoker, I support the government’s initiative to ban smoking in public places.”

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Michel Lysight : Tetragramme [score]
for string quartet
One of the greatest quartet of the composer, created on 3rd October 2010 by the famous Quatuor Danel at the Emergence Festival in Berchem-Ste-Agathe (Brussels, Belgium).
The work is divided into four movements: an allegro based on a rhythmic and evolutive ostinato, a very lyrical andante based on a theme exhibited by the cello, a homorhythmic vivo traveling between two themes, and a final meditative adagio based on the series of Fibonacci.
The parts are available as a PDF file.
Composer(s): Michel Lysight
Formation: string quartet
Difficulty: 4 (pretty difficult)
Nb. Pages: 4*10 pdf
Weight: 107 g
Dimensions: 21 * 29,7 cm
Price (VAT incl.): 16.00 EUR

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JEREMIH (US), producer of Kanye West’s tracks live in Roxy
14. 6. 16 @ Club Roxy, Prague
American rapper and r&b singer Jeremih will come to Prague on Tuesday June 14th for the first time. He will bring his new record Late Nights to Roxy club. Czech project VR/NOBODY will perform as a support act. Tickets for 570 CZK are available via fource.cz, GoOut.cz and Ticketpro. Box office price will be 600 CZK.
Jeremih had music in his blood since childhood. He learned how to master multiple instruments such as saxophone, drums or piano at early age by himself. He played in multiple school bands focusing also on latino jazz. Even these early experiences made a huge impact on his music career. He returned to classical instruments and soul feeling in the synthetic sound of r&b thanks to his love to instruments. He has been influenced by his big love – jazz. You can feel this unchained energy, improvisation and intuitive cooperation between musicians especially in the tracks featuring other artists. Jeremih collaborated with numerous remarkable musicians such as 50 Cent, Lil Wayn, Wiz Khalifa, Busta Rhymes, Future, French Montana, J. Cole, Big Sean or Ty Dolla $ign. Jeremih was also writing songs for such artists as Kanye West or Nicky Minaj.
Jeremih’s first two albums Jeremih and All About You were peaking on top of charts, sales and also well received by music critics. The newest record Late Nights was released this year and was highly acclaimed by media and fans thanks to its futuristic approach to the genre. Especially single Pass Dat is one of the best tracks of the new wave of atmospheric and abstract r&b. Jeremih announced new album Later That Night in Billboard interview coming out later this year. And we hope to see the new track being performed live in Roxy on June 14th. This show is something to look for.
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Trinchera Cave Archeological District
Sopris Phase (AD 1000-1250) is a Late Ceramic period hunter-gatherer culture of the Upper Purgatoire, also known as the Upper Purgatoire complex. It was first discovered in the southern Colorado, near the present town of Trinidad, Colorado. Sopris Phase appeared to be greatly influenced by Puebloan people, such as the Taos Pueblo and Pecos Pueblo, and through trade in the Upper Rio Grande area.
Sopris Phase Wikipedia
Two Sopris Plains sites found at the Trinidad reservoir, Leone Bluff (Site 5LA1211) and Site ID 5LA1416, are located in Las Animas County, Colorado, near Segundo. The Trinidad sites were found in 1962 when Herbert Dick of the Trinidad State Junior College led an archaeological investigation of the Trinidad Reservoir. By 1980, more archaeological studies had been completed of a total of 300 sites. Site 5LA1416 contained evidence of occupation through all three Sopris phases. The architecture may have been influenced by the Plains villagers, Panhandle and Rio Grande cultures. The pottery, though, was decidedly like that of the Puebloans of the Rio Grande area.
The Leone Bluff (Site 5LA1211) and Site ID 5LA1416 sites had evidence of four dwellings identified as Sopris Phase occupations from about A.D. 1150 to 1300. The pottery remnants were used to identify the Sopris Phase and three subsequent periods of inhabitation: post-Sopris Phase (about A.D. 1300–1450), historic Spanish-American (about A.D. 1670–1890) and historic Apache (about A.D. 1750–1900). Skeletons were found of people of Apachean, or Athabaskan, heritage.
Trinchera Cave Archeological District is also a Sopris Phase site.
The architecture, pottery and material goods varied greatly during the Sopris Phases.
The initial Sopris Phase occurred between 1000-1100 A.D. People dwelled in pit-houses, jacal structures and campsites. Pottery found at initial Sopris sites included Taos gray and distinctly different Sopris plain pottery. Corner-notched points are the most popular projectile points used. Basin metates were used during this time.
The next period occurred between 1100-1150 A.D. Dwellings were made of adobe or a combination of adobe and jacal construction. Pottery found in early Sopris sites include: Taos gray, Sopris plain pottery, and the appearance of black on white, cordmarked, polished and incised pottery. Material goods included metates, turquoise, beads of stone and shell. Maize was farmed a little during this period.
The last period occurred between 1150-1250 A.D. Houses were made of sandstone slab masonry, with rounded corners and posts for support. There was a predominance of Taos black on white and Taos gray incised pottery during this time. Grooved mauls and slab metates appeared during this period.

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You can read Liam's most recent contributions and speeches in Parliament below:
The Government will today publish the response to the consultation on UK Export Finance’s (UKEF) Foreign Content policy.
Last summer, we launched four 14-week long public consultations providing citizens and businesses across the UK and overseas with the opp
The Prime Minister has today approved two new appointments to the Trade Envoy programme.
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We take a rigorous and robust view in this country, as the court said, and we are very aware of any potential breaches of international h
Over the past three years, the DIT has laid the groundwork for an ambitious free trade agreement with the US once we have left the EU, in
As ever, it is nice to know that the hon. Gentleman is consistently wrong.
The hon. Gentleman may be slightly confusing the Board of Trade with the Department for International Trade.
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Sam 4 Serious Developer Confirms Talos Principle 2 ‘Definitely Happening’
Croteam affirms that The Talos Principle 2 is still in development and will become the focus after Serious Sam 4’s launching arrives.
BY RORY YOUNG4 HOURS AGO
Serious Sam 4’s September 24 launch is quickly approaching. Croteam drops its most recent first-person shooter tomorrow on PC and Stadia, with programs for PlayStation and Xbox aid in 2021. For the first time in years, Croteam now has the chance to contemplate what comes next. Together with Serious Sam 4 completed , the potential for revisiting other Croteam manufacturers grows. And one game in particular, The Talos Principle, seems to be something both Croteam and fans want to see revisited.
Speaking with PC Gamer, Talos Principle co-writer Jonas Kyratzes reconfirmed a sequel is in the works” Talos 2 is definitely occurring,” Kyratzes explained, even going so far as to detail Croteam’s progress thus far. “We definitely have a strategy, we have a pretty great story that I’m very happy about,” is as unique as Kyratzes gets. However he notes that writing Talos Principle two ‘s narrative was challenging since the first game wrapped up its own plot so well. As such, Talos Principle 2’s narrative is”very rough.”
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Beyond this, Kyratzes says that there’s been a”very small amount of pre-production for the sequel. “We have some knowledge, some images, some plans, some whatevers,” but things have been moving gradually as Croteam focused heavily on Serious Sam 4. Regardless of the heavy focus on Serious Sam 4, Kyratzes states Croteam has continued to have”a range of meetings throughout the previous year,” if only for its composing team.
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As for why more hasn’t gone into Talos Principle two yet, Kyratzes elaborated on Croteam’s attempts with Serious Sam 4. He explains just how to”the past couple of months of a match, everybody has steam coming from their ears,” suggesting they’re very focused to complete the project.
Kyratezes expects Talos Principle 2 advancement to move much quicker with Serious Sam 4 development complete. He explains how evolution moves faster with Talos Principle in comparison to Serious Sam, saying,”The moving parts are fewer. It is very challenging in other ways, but the technical part of it.” He blames Serious Sam’s thousands of enemies and having to”deal with guns and god knows what” as why Talos Principle is easier compared.
The first Talos Principle was actually created after the team had started on Serious Sam 4, but decided to change directions. Jonas Kryatzes was introduced on as a writer at Croteam subsequently, with more than 80 percent of the game’s puzzles previously finished. Together with Talos Principle two ‘s narrative already done, development is likely in reverse compared to the first game. However, after 6 years of greatly focusing on Serious Sam 4, Croteam’s probably prepared for something different.
6 years of creating the technically remarkable Serious Sam 4 using its thousands of enemies on-screen and co-op functionality bodes well for a Talos Principle sequel. If Croteam was able to produce the mind-bending mysteries of the original Talos Principle with this kind of outdated tech, it’s certain to ramp up the creativity with a sequel. It can be years before Croteam is prepared or able to talk more about Talos Principle two , but Croteam seems equipped to make it worth the wait.


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German Consul General extends greetings on Sindhi Culture Day
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German Consul General Dr. Rudiger Lotz has extended his heartfelt greetings on Sindhi Culture Day while wearing a Sindhi cap and holding the German flag in his hands, reported 24NewsHD TV channel on Sunday.
In his heartfelt message, the German consul general has vowed to establish strong ties between Pakistan and Germany. He said that Sindh is a land of Sufis and Sufis played a great role in ensuring peace in the region.
سڀني سنڌ واسين کي ثقافت جي ڏينهن جون مبارڪون.#SindhiCultureDay2022#sindhicultureday #Sindhiculture #Sindh @sardarshah1 @GermanyinPAK @panjgur @SindhCMHouse @MinisterSindh @SindhCultureGoS @haleemsomro @f7001185dbae40f @murtazawahab1 pic.twitter.com/T4fFS0K3bc— German Consulate General Karachi (@GermanyinKHI) December 4, 2022


This is super exciting! Smashed is only a few days from premiering at Sundance 2012 and Mary has been getting a bunch of early online buzz for her performance as well as one of the films to check out if you’re attending Sundance. Huge congrats Mary! This is only the beginning of one heck of an amazing career! We’ll keep you posted on all Sundance updates and photos of Mary!
THR for one, named Mary as one of the six faces to watch out for:
Although the 27-year-old actress has done her share of studio work (The Thing, Scott Pilgrim vs. the World, Final Destination 3), her raw performance in the competition film Smashed as a woman struggling to shed her marriage’s dependence on alcohol showcases stripped-down dramatic chops that could open doors.
NextMovie also praises Mary’s acting, saying it’ll show audiences her acting chops. Something we’ve all known she’s always had. 😉
Mary Elizabeth Winstead (“The Thing”) has long been one of our favorite young actresses, but up until now she’s never really been given the chance to show what we knew she had all along — real acting chops. That all looks to change with her reportedly harrowing turn in “Smashed,” an intense drama in which she stars as Kate, a hard partying elementary schoolteacher forced to get her life on track. Winstead is the reason we’re psyched to see this, but the film also boasts a solid supporting cast that includes Aaron Paul (“Breaking Bad”), Octavia Spencer (“The Help”) and “Will and Grace” funny-lady Megan Mullaly.
FilmSchoolRejects also echoes the same feelings…
While many films look at addiction and the downward spiral it can send users into, Smashed looks to focus on the point between rock bottom and recovery as Kate (Mary Elizabeth Winstead) sobers up and realizes that her marriage to Charlie (Aaron Paul) may have been rooted in booze rather than love. Paul has been getting critical acclaim for his work on AMC’s Breaking Bad and it should be interesting to see him playing against Windstead (whose performance was one of the highlights in last year’s The Thing) with TV royalty Nick Offerman and wife Megan Mullally rounding out the cast.


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In the movies, saving the world often involves a comely young agent racing off to an exotic locale to retrieve a computer chip with nuclear codes, or a test tube with a deadly virus. It's a heady dance of danger and drama and the heist is always carried off with precision and panache.
The efforts of the Global Crop Diversity Trust to save 100,000 varieties of food crops from extinction are not nearly as glamorous. The work is slow, steady, painstaking. But, in a very real sense, it is about saving the world.
Preserving genetic diversity is key to ensuring our food supply survives not just extreme shocks like a meteor strike, nuclear calamity or irreversible climate change. It's also what will pull our food supply through the more subtle threats of plant disease, climate change and pesticide-resistant bugs.
Example: When the U.S. corn crop was ravaged by southern corn leaf blight in 1970, farmers turned to a type of African maize, cross-bred with American corn, that was blight-resistant. A loaf of Wonder Bread today may look identical to the one that sat on your grandma's table, but it's made with a very different variety of wheat. Constant, engineered evolution has long been a crucial part of agriculture.
As agriculture became more standardized in the last century, multiple varieties of staple crops were lost. In India, the spread of industrial wheat mills in the 20th Century led to fewer types of wheat being planted; mill owners balked at having to frequently adjust their grinders to deal with wheat of different sizes and hardness.
The same has happened to apples. According to an article by Fred Pearce in Conservation Magazine, "farmers have over the centuries bred about 10,000 distinct varieties" of apples. The number in commercial production today: just 50.
This creates a significant problem. "We don't have a system for keeping the seeds the farmer stops planting," said Cary Fowler, the executive director of the trust. "We're at the end of the line for the creation of meaningful diversity in our agricultural crops."
Two years ago, the trust set upon the most ambitious biological rescue program in history. It identified 100,000 of the most at-risk varieties of seeds for 22 staple crops -- such as barley, wheat, rice, banana, plantain, potato and chickpea -- in 46 countries. Then its staff set out to secure agreements to rescue those seed varieties. They've already negotiated the rescue of 53,000 seed varieties, in places as far-flung as Zimbabwe, Peru, Kiribati and Kazakhstan.
Here's how it works: The trust provides funding for local farmers and scientists to regenerate endangered crops. The seeds that are collected are then split into three portions. One portion is kept by the local seed bank. Another portion is sent to another seed bank, which must be managed at top international standards. The final portion is sent to the Svalbard Global Seed Vault, the so-called "Doomsday Vault," from which it can be retrieved if necessary.
The trust expects to complete the rescue project within the next two years. Its workers will log tens of thousands of miles of travel to get the job done. They'll go into some of the most dangerous places in the world. They'll have to negotiate with warlords, dictators and megalomaniacs. They may not resemble the suave and sexy stars of spy movies, but they'll be working to save the world.

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More than half (57%) of millennial respondents cite reward for effort in the workplace as a top priority, according to research by Edenred.
The Edenred-Ipsos 2016 barometer, which surveyed 14,400 employees across 15 countries, including 3,500 millennials aged between 18 and 30, also found that 28% of millennial respondents view work-life balance as a key concern.
The research also found:
- 62% of respondents over the age of 30 cite reward for effort as a top priority, and 29% name work-life balance as a key concern.
- 26% of millennial respondents believe motivation at work is increasing, compared with 15% of respondents who are aged over 30.
- 19% of UK and German millennial respondents believe motivation at work is increasing over time, compared to 12% in France, 26% in the US, 30% in Brazil, 32% in China, and 58% in India.
- 40% of millennial respondents in Brazil cite good working conditions as a key factor in choosing an organisation to work for, compared to 32% of those over 30.
- 31% of millennial respondents in China value flexibility at work, compared to 19% of Chinese respondents over 30.
Andy Philpott (pictured), sales and marketing director at Edenred UK, said: “The findings of the Edenred-Ipsos 2016 barometer demonstrate yet again how crucial it is for employers to take an evidence-based approach to managing people in the workplace.
“With high expectations for employer support, recognition and reward across all generations, there is no substitute to developing an in-depth understanding of what it takes to motivate and reward your people to ensure they perform at their best for your business. It is therefore imperative that managers have access to the right tools and solutions to continue to develop their leadership skills in this area.”


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I grew up in Southern Italy in a town called Taranto, which is currently coping with the consequences of an environmental disaster caused by the steel industry. The house I live in now is located in a fortunately not so environmentally sensitive area — it’s called “Valle Buia”, the Dark Valley. The sun never shines. While the snow on all the trees had melted, this tree was the only one left, untouched by sunlight.
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Dáil Éireann - Volume 536 - 10 May, 2001
Written Answers - Local Loans Fund.
Ms Shortall Ms Shortall
135. Ms Shortall asked the Minister for the Environment and Local Government if, further to Parliamentary Question No. 56 of 5 April 2001, he will provide his Department's estimate of the cost of reducing the rate on the high fixed interest rate loans issued by local authorities prior to 1988 if the rate were to be reduced to current levels, and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13475/01]
Mr. Molloy Mr. Molloy
Minister of State at the Department of the Environment and Local Government (Mr. Molloy): The total amount outstanding to the local loans fund in fixed interest rate housing loans is approximately £135 million. Also, £70 million in housing loans with a fixed interest rate of 10% is outstanding to the housing finance agency. The estimated cost of reducing these fixed interest rate loans to the current fixed rate of 6% is approximately £10 million this year reducing thereafter as loans are paid off.
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Columbia Records announced Tuesday that it will release in October two Bob Dylan multi-CD collections that will also be available on vinyl—the latest in a long string of new collections of old Dylan recordings. Apart from the pleasures of the music itself, they are important documents in the history of modern musical culture. Together, they trace fundamental changes in the structure and priorities of the music industry in the 1960s. Among those changes was a revolution that Dylan instigated—the demise of what had been the traditional, Tin Pan Alley world of American commercial songwriting and publishing.
With an artist as committed as Dylan is to sounding live and spontaneous in the studio, the mono versions might well come closer to what he was hearing inside his own head.
The Bootleg Series, Volume Nine: The Witmark Demos, 1962-1964, is the newest of Dylan’s so-called official bootlegs of previously unreleased material. Compared to the earlier ones, The Witmark Demos seems odd, a collection of informal tapes that Dylan made for his music publisher (actually, two of them) in the early 1960s, and were never intended for the general public. The two-CD set includes Dylan’s first recordings of some of his classic songs—including “Blowin’ in the Wind” and “Mr. Tambourine Man—as well as some lovely numbers, based on traditional folk themes, that never made it on to Dylan’s studio albums, among them "Seven Curses” and “Farewell.”
The back story makes these spare, compelling performances all the more interesting. Shortly after he’d recorded his first album in 1961, Dylan signed on with the veteran music publisher Lou Levy, whose Leeds Music plugged songs that wound up as hits for singers ranging from Frank Sinatra (“All or Nothing at All,” “Strangers in the Night”) to the Everly Brothers (“Let It Be Me”). That was how Tin Pan Alley worked: Songwriters recorded demos for their publishers, who fed them to specific performers. Dylan duly made his demos, and they made the rounds—only he also released his own records of the songs he wrote.
In 1962, Dylan’s new manager Albert Grossman helped wrangle Dylan out of his contract with Leeds and sign on with M. Witmark & Sons, a subsidiary of Warner Brothers that had originated as an independent publisher in 1885. Guided by the song-spotter Artie Mogull, Dylan’s songs eventually found their way on to recordings by the likes of Elvis Presley as well as Judy Collins—and, of course, on to Dylan’s own albums. But Dylan’s effects proved devastating.
“Bob Dylan almost single-handedly eradicated Tin Pan Alley,” Mogull recalled years later, “because he was the first artist who could record an album of 10 or 12 songs and be the writer and publisher of all the songs. Previous to that, if Nat Cole recorded an album of 12 songs, 12 different writers and 12 different publishers wrote those things. In Bob's case, he wrote these great original songs, and we [and him] owned all the publishing and all the writing. It was the beginning of the end of what used to be known as Tin Pan Alley.”
The 47 demos in the new collection (eight of which were for Leeds, the rest for Witmark) also trace Dylan’s early maturation as an artist. We can hear Dylan hitting the limits of topical song and then, as Colin Escott’s informative and perceptive liner notes observe, merge the wonders of traditional melodies with his own inner visions and vibrations, on songs like “Don’t Think Twice, It’s Alright.” The trick in this new release will be in how the remastering sounds. Dylan, turning out songs at an astonishing clip, sometimes recorded on excellent equipment, but not always. It will be interesting to hear how, in their inevitable variation, the remastered demos actually turn out.
The sound is everything on the second collection, The Original Mono Recordings, which consists of restored monaural renderings of Dylan’s first eight albums, through John Wesley Harding. This is how most of those old enough to buy albums at the time actually heard them, and part of the collection’s charm is its function as a kind of aural time machine for listeners of a certain age. But that’s really the least of it. This music was recorded with mono in mind, even as the recording companies had begun aggressively marketing stereo as something closer to the true listening experience. The music sounds much less diffuse in mono than in stereo, with fewer of those distractions that arise when every bit of accompanying instrumentation comes through distinctly and loudly. For Dylan’s early music, monaural re-release eliminates what can sound like a bizarre fracturing, where Dylan’s voice comes in through one ear and his guitar comes in through another. In mono form, the tone is unified, and the sound is more enclosed and less precision tooled.
How do Dylan’s rock masterpieces, Bringing It All Back Home, Highway 61 Revisited, and Blonde on Blonde, sound in mono? Greil Marcus, in his discerning liner notes, writes that the effect varies from song to song, sometimes sounding ferocious and other times sounding scarily confined, and it’ll be fun to listen. Certainly, though, the mono remastering is no gimmick. It is more like an anti-gimmick, undoing the gimmickry of often clumsy stereo effects. It reintegrates Dylan’s recorded music. With an artist as committed as Dylan is to sounding live and spontaneous in the studio, the mono versions might well come closer to what he was hearing inside his own head.


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Cause for concern
One of the major flaws of the 2016 Chicago Cubs was leaving runners on base. As a team, they lead all of baseball by leaving 1217 runners on. The MLB batting average for runners in scoring position was .258 in 2016. The Cubs hit .252. Not a huge drop, but below average.
Through six games, the Cubs are 13-53 (.245 avg.) with runners in scoring positions. In other words, that go 2-9 per game. Furthermore, they have left 42 runners on base as a team. The trend of 2016 is continuing. If they want to content for another championship, these stats must improve.
Additionally, the team is not walking as much as before. Sure, the regular players have only four or five at-bats, but for a team that lead the Majors in walks, the lack of taking pitches is concerning. Players tend to be more aggressive in Spring Training as they are getting back into the swing of things. Come time for opening day, things should be back to normal.


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Who is Janessa Leoné?
Born in Southern California, Janessa Leoné is a self-taught fashion designer who started her eponymous brand of chic, minimalist, and elevated accessories back in 2013.
Janessa’s innate talent and keen eye for glamourous, timeless details, have enabled her to create products that stand the test of time and look effortlessly stunning, classy, and refined.
A California girl at heart, today Janessa continues to live in the Golden State, while also spending part of the year in one of the world’s fashion capitals, Paris.
What Does Janessa Make?
The focus of Janessa’s work is hats. But not just any hats: hers are the one-of-a-kind creation of skilled craftsmen, made only by using the best and highest-quality materials, and finished to the highest standards.
Felt, straw, and wool are some of her chosen materials, and her preferred colors tend to be nature-inspired, neutral, and ultra-refined.
More About the Janessa Leoné Brand
The Janessa Leoné brand has one mission: to create and sell fashion items that do not blindly follow the most popular trends of today, but are beautifully timeless and ready to last a lifetime.
Janessa also aims to design hat styles that are not only loved by people who normally wear hats, but that can also be styled with ease and confidence by those who don’t usually wear this accessory on a regular basis.
Why Should You Choose Her Items?
If you are a fan of classy, sleek, minimalist accessories that can truly complement and elevate any outfit, and make you stand out with subtle elegance and style, then Janessa’s hats are a must-have in your wardrobe.
Her hats are not just for people who love this type of accessory. Whether or not you are a hat lover, and wearer, her items can help you to add glamour, personality, and individuality to your looks – wherever you go, and whatever you are wearing.
Where Can You Buy Janessa Leoné’s Products?
You can shop all of Janessa’s styles directly from her website, as well as from several other online stores. Janessa also operates many stores both in the United States and internationally.
To find out the closest Janessa Leoné store to you, simply visit the “Locations” page on her website, and enter your city or zip code.
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In the showbiz world, Janessa’s products are loved and worn by many A-listers. Jessica Alba, Chrissy Teigen, and Rosie Huntington-Whiteley, for example, are among her most fervent admirers (and wearers) and were the first few who noticed Janessa’s unique styles right when she launched her label in 2013.
So, if you choose to buy and wear one of Janessa’s products, you should know that you are in very good company.


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Andre Previn Plays Songs By Harold Arlen
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André Previn turned in his most intensely personal jazz performances on the solo songbook albums he recorded for Contemporary Records. One key to the series’ success was the pianist’s choice of subjects. On this third volume, he explores the music of Harold Arlen, the most blues-based of the great popular tunesmiths; but Previn does not settle for merely bringing out the obvious facets of these great songs. His spontaneous interpretations introduce layers of color and detail, extending and expanding the material in improvisations that are deeply felt and rich in surprising ideas. The ten tracks here manage to present pure Previn while retaining the distinctive Arlen magic.
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Pianist and Vocalist Brian Gurl is a creative force, offering provocative arrangements of such Beatles classics as “Eleanor Rigby,” “And I Love Her,” “Can’t Buy Me Love” and others that will turn anyone into a Beatles fan. His expressive renditions of both Barry Manilow hits and Billy Joel favorites make for a gourmet blend of the melodic and pop rock styles. Add Brian’s jazz, classical and theatrical influences and you have a riveting and transformative production.


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Sushma Swaraj passed away unexpectedly from a heart attack, and now the government of New Delhi is observing a two-day state mourning in her honor. Many are coming to pay their last respects. Her body will later be cremated with full state honors. She leaves behind her daughter, her husband, and many who loved and respected her.
A Two-Day Mourning Was Declared & People Could Pay Their Respects at the BJP Headquarters on Wednesday Until 3 PM
The government of Delhi declared a two-day mourning for Sushma Swaraj, who will be cremated with full state honors on Wednesday, Hindustan Times reported. Her body will be at the BJP headquarters on Wednesday until 3 p.m. local time, while people pay their last respects. (Some reports say the last respects will end at 2 or 2:30 p.m., so that her last rites with full state honors can begin at 3 p.m.)
Her last rites will then take place at Delhi’s Lodhi Road crematorium later on Wednesday at 3 p.m., Hindustan Times reported. She will be cremated with full state honors.
Many have come to pay their respects to the beloved politician. She died after suffering a massive heart attack, News 18 reported. Just a few hours before her death, she had posted to Twitter. She thanked Prime Minister Narendra Modi for the government’s stance on Kashmir. She wrote: “Thank you Prime Minister. Thank you very much. I was waiting to see this day in my lifetime.”
Many Leaders Came to Pay Their Respects at Her Residence in Delhi on Wednesday Morning
Swaraj’s body was kept at her home until 11 a.m. on Wednesday. Prime Minister Narendra Modi and President Ram Nath Kovind visited Sushma Swaraj’s home and paid their tributes there, Hindustan Times reported.
Kovind spoke with Swaraj’s husband and other members of her family, NDTV reported.
Mayawati, Bahujan Samaj Party chief, and Mulayam Singh Yadav, Samajwadi Party leader, also paid their respects. Her daughter Bansuri and her husband Swaraj Kaushal were there to speak with them.
Vice President M Venkaiah Naidu paid his last respects in Delhi.
Deputy CM Manish Sisodia and Delhi CM Arvind Kejriwal also paid their last respects at her home in Delhi.
Ram Gopal Yadav became emotional while paying his last tributes at her home.
BJP national working president JP Nadda said goodbye at her home.
Samajwadi Party founder Mulayam Singh Yadav paid tribute.
And former Prime Minister Dr. Manmohan Singh paid his last respects today.
Delhi Israel Ambassador to India, Ron Malka, also said goodbye.
Thousands Have Tweeted & Shared Their Heartache on Social Media
Thousands have tweeted their condolences and heartache over Swaraj’s death.
Alexandre Ziegler, French Ambassador to India, wrote: “My heartfelt condolences to the family & loved ones of former EAM of India, Smt. Sushma Swaraj ji. One of India’s most respected leaders, she showed remarkable dedication to serving her fellow citizens & took the Indo-French relationship to new heights.”
UNGA President Maria Fernanda Espinosa Garces wrote: “Saddened by the news of the passing of @SushmaSwaraj, an extraordinary woman & leader who devoted her life to public service. I had the honor of meeting her in my visits to #India, & will always remember her fondly. My deepest condolences to all of her loved ones @IndiaUNNewYork.”
Gautam Gambhir wrote: “I’m beyond aggrieved at the passing away of Smt. #SushmaSwaraj A veteran politician and a pillar of the BJP, she was loved by everyone. She will be remembered as the most endearing & helpful politicians of recent times. My condolences to her family and friends.”
Akshay Kumar wrote: “Extremely sad to hear about the passing away of #SushmaSwaraj ji…she was such a dynamic leader, someone who was unanimously admired and respected by all. My thoughts and prayers with her family. May her soul rest in peace.”
She will be dearly missed.
These words from Rituparna Chatterjee express the feeling best about the beloved political leader’s death: “The lovely words pouring in for #SushmaSwaraj from citizens across political spectrum only means one thing. If you shape your life with kindness and civility, it will shape others’ memory of you long after you’re gone.”


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HAPPY NEW YEAR!
Believe it or not this is my 100th post – and coincides nicely with the end of my second year writing this blog. Suitably for the time of year its the second one about mistletoe, following on from last week’s discussion about sacred groves, and this time exploring the Druid connection.
Despite images like this, or pagan festivals celebrating summer solstices at Stonehenge, or bards reciting at eisteddfods, the place of Druids in our national history is surprisingly recent.
The link between mistletoe, sacred groves and the Druids actually begins in the 1stc AD with writings of Pliny the Elder, and Tacitus but it doesn’t really begin to affect our national consciousness until the 16thc. After that the boundary between fact, conjecture and invention is blurred. Myth begins to pile upon myth and legend upon legend until eventually in the 18thc the story of the Druids develops a life of its own with the ‘discovery’ of archaeology. From then on the story takes a romantic faux historical twist and becomes even more difficult to distinguish fact from fiction. But read on and I’ll try….
In his Natural History Pliny the Elder wrote: “We should not omit to mention the great admiration that the Gauls have for [mistletoe] as well. The druids – that is what they call their magicians – hold nothing more sacred than the mistletoe and a tree on which it is growing, provided it is a hard-timbered oak. Mistletoe is rare and when found it is gathered with great ceremony, and particularly on the 6th day of the moon…
Hailing the moon in a native word that means ‘healing all things,’they prepare a ritual sacrifice and banquet beneath a tree and bring up two white bulls, whose horns are bound for the first time on this occasion.
A priest arrayed in white vestments climbs the tree and, with a golden sickle, cuts down the mistletoe, which is caught in a white cloak. Then finally they kill the victims, praying to a god to render his gift propitious to those on whom he has bestowed it. They believe that mistletoe given in drink will impart fertility to any animal that is barren and that it is an antidote to all poisons.” You can read Pliny’s full text at:
Pliny’s description inspired many of early Renaissance historians and antiquarians all over northern and western Europe to include the Druids when they began to write their own national histories. It also helped inspire others – notably the famous fraud Annius of Viterbo – to invent more ‘imaginative’ stories to suit their geo-political circumstances. In Britain this led to a trail of manuscripts and books as convoluted and confusing as in France and Germany so while I’m going to attempt to trace this through…do feel free to skip the next few paragraphs [in italics] if this is becoming dull, or jump straight to the link at the end of the section!
It started in Scotland in 1527, when Hector Boece was the first to associate Druids with standing stones with the prehistoric stone circles that survived in many regions, and to declare that they had been temples of the national pagan religion. However Boece too was prone to flights of fancy and invention!
The works of Annius and Boece [and others] were then adapted and reworked by Holinshed in his Chronicles, which is better known as being the source of Shakespeare’s history plays, and so the stories were perpetuated. Its interesting that Shakespeare didn’t put Druids onto the stage, even in his History of Cymbeline which was set in ancient Britain, although they do appear in other plays notably Jasper Fisher’s True Trojans. Performed in 1633 it has an entire cast of them “in long robes, hats like Pyramids, [with] branches of Mistletoe.” who cast spells and swear “By the dreadfull Mistletoe,Which doth on holy Oake grow.”
The plot thickens in ways which we don’t have time to go into here but if you are interested in knowing more then follow the link at the end of this section. What is clear is that this interest in the Druids and Druidism developed gradually during the 17thc.
Michael Drayton in Polyolbion of 1612, for example, cites Pliny verbatim in his discussion about the importance of Druids in Britain’s early history, although he also wrote described them as evil magicians. There are many other references during this period, until….
…finally in 1649, we have the great antiquarian and John Aubrey “discovering” Avebury. Aubrey was to become a founder member of the Royal Society and argue in Monumenta Britannica [c1665-93] that the Druids were the priests of Pre-Roman Britain, and probably organised the construction of Avebury and Stonehenge. His theories were then picked up and developed in a new version of William Camden’s Britannia .
The other important milestone in the creation of the Druid myth was the publication of the first printed image of a Druid in Aylett Sammes Britannia Antiqua Illustrata (1675). Of course it wasn’t a historically accurate depiction – how could it be? – and instead was probably based on a mediaeval German statue of a pilgrim! But no matter – the engraving makes the Druids appear both ‘wild’ and ‘holy’ and set the scene for the way they were represented until the 19thc.
For more detail on all this read the article by Prof. Ronald Hutton of Bristol University at:
By the early 18thc the myth boomed and turned a few isolated local customs into a national fashion. This movement was led notably by William Stukeley,a doctor and later clergyman who in 1717 relaunched the Society of Antiquaries. Having read a copy of Aubrey’s unpublished manuscript Monumenta Britannica Stukeley was enthused to discover more, and together with Thomas Wright, the architect (see post on Stumperies, 2nd May 2015) he surveyed prehistoric monuments such as Stonehenge, Avebury and many standing stones which they thought had Druidic associations.
Indeed Stukeley became the first modern person to identify himself completely with Druids and even called himself one in print, and adopting a Druidical name. As Alison Kelly wittily put it, he and Wright “embodied a Georgian interest in the Druids and their religion in which ignorance was joined with enthusiasm.” (Garden History, vol.16,(2), 1988, p.125)
So what’s all this got to with gardens?
Quite simply that, apart from being a pioneer archaeologist, Stukeley was a very keen gardener and mixed his two passions with interesting results. I have abstracted the following few paragraphs from a fascinating recent article about his Lincolnshire gardens by John Smith FSA in The Antiquaries Journal, Vol.93, September 2013, pp 353-400. The illustrations of Stukeley’s gardens are also taken from there.
Stukeley’s medical practice was at Grantham in Lincolnshire and in his garden there he had a 100 ft diameter circular shaped orchard. There, he wrote to a friend, he was ‘making a temple of the druids’ with ‘pyramidal greens’ representing the stones and surrounding “an ancient apple tree overgrown with sacred mistletoe.” It had an irregular winding approach around the perimeter through the orchard. Elsewhere he had a Hermitage Vineyard which incorporated included ‘a chapel’ and a Roman altar.
In 1730 Stukeley moved to nearby Stamford after being ordained and appointed rector there. The rectory garden was small and in 1734 he acquired The Hermitage, a nearby house and grounds, and in 1736 a further adjacent plot of land so that he could create a much bigger garden. These sloped and so offered views out into the surrounding landscape.
In the new spirit of the evolving English landscape garden it was to be a place for contemplation but also of surprise, with, as in so many landed seats a circuit superimposed upon it which would allow the visitor to discover its secrets, although it was still not really large enough to allow much to be hidden as a surprise. Nevertheless in 1737 he created a rustic Merlin’s Cave, presumably inspired by the Gothic one built for Queen Caroline at Kew begun just a couple of years earlier, and with the same Whig overtones. [More on this in another post shortly!]
Stukeley was a prolific and competent sketcher – luckily for posterity – and his work has cropped up several times in other posts. He was also a prolific collector, especially of any antiquities or mediaeval bits and pieces that he could lay his hand on. This included parts of the demolished Eleanor Cross in the town, and fragments from the ruins of nearby Crowland Abbey – which were put into his garden. It also in turn to his creating a Rosamund’s Bower – named after Henry II’s mistress and which became a fairly common feature of 19th mediaeval garden recreations.
Like most gardeners Stukeley was always keen to expand his growing space, and the Hermitage at about half an acre became too small for his ambitions. In 1741 he bought another house on Barn Hill in Stamford [now No.9] which had two acres of grounds. He began work immediately extending and altering the house. The garden which he started work on in 1744 proved slightly more difficult because much of the land close to the house was covered with buildings. There was “a very great barn adjoining the house, a double dovecote built like a church, and a very large malting office…All these I pull’d down & carried off the premisses, laying the whole yard open to the orchard.” In the process of clearing he “dug away a yard deep into the rock, where I found” what he claimed to be ” a Roman urn.”
The garden immediately behind the house became a bowling green, and “all the rest of the ground I threw into a wild forestiere form, full of walks,trees, fruit, flowers, shrubs of all kinds, annual & evergreen, the whole blended together & intermixed without regularity.”
He constructed a new hermitage and a new Rosamunds Bower, but also built a summer-house, glazed with rescued mediaeval stained glass and a Temple of Flora. More intriguingly there was a ‘Babylonian garden’ although nothing much is known about it. The most obvious things about the garden are, however, the concentric circles which surely must be another reference to his fascination with Druidical antiquity.
He did not enjoy his new garden for very long because in 1747 he was offered the living of the fashionable church of St George the Martyr, Queen’s Square in Bloomsbury. He moved to London and died there in 1765.
At the same time he was creating the Stamford garden, the early 1740s, he finally began to publish his research into ancient monuments. In his two books he argued, like Aubrey, that Stonehenge and Avebury and the other great standing stones were the work of the Ancient Britons, whose priests were the Druids. But as these proposed title pages show, he had not always held this view, but had once considered the ‘Antient Celts’ as the builders.
Stukeley made the Druids sound just the sort of people who, had they lived, would have been patriotic parsons and doctors like himself. In the process he made studying them respectable and created the language we still use to describe their various landscape and architectural features such as cursus, avenue, and trilithon.
Whether Stukeley was responsible in any way for the rehabilitation of mistletoe into ecclesiastical customs is hard to tell, but he reports it being taken to the high altar in York minster on Christmas Eve. He also certainly experimented with growing it from seed and noted in his diary in 1747 that he “put some mistletoe on several kinds of trees in my garden.”
Some have argued that it was Stukeley who ‘revived’ the Order of Druids in 1717, but there is no hard evidence of this. Instead that honour goes to Henry Hurle who set up the the Ancient Order of Druids in 1781, and ran it on masonic lines. By that time Stukely had been dead for 16 years, but he would no doubt have been amused that “having been the only Druid on the planet in 1722, and probably the first ‘serious’ one for fifteen centuries, he had ensured that they were reappearing all over London sixty years later” [Hutton]
If you would like to know more about the history of this romantic revival of Druidism then, apart from the online article by Ronald Hutton mentioned above, two good places to start are his book Blood and Mistletoe: The History of the Druids in Britain (2009), and an article in History Today by Geoffrey Grigson which is available at:
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The High Court of Justice was set to rule Sunday on the Education Ministry's request to implement reforms aimed at helping disadvantaged students and reducing inequality. The budgets allotted for this purpose have been dramatically reduced due to the ministry's division of school hours per student.
The reforms are intended to be implemented over the course of five years starting September 1.
Senior Education Ministry officials recently decided to allocate a budget for only 60,000 hours of affirmative action for disadvantaged elementary school students based on their socio-economic status, out of a budget of 1.1 million elementary school hours. This is a mere 5 percent of all elementary school hours funded by the budget.
The High Court ruled in February 2006 the use of "national priority areas" in determining education budgets - which constitutes 20 percent of the ministry's budget - discriminates against the country's Arab sector. While the Education Ministry has agreed to scrap this system, the cut-backs they have made to affirmative action funding means that the new more egalitarian system will have very little effect.
The High Court ruling forbade the continuation of the system whereby for this past four years elementary school curriculum hours have been budgeted according to the "Shoshani Index," named after the commission on whose recommendations it was based.
The index sets a differential standard for each student, using criteria such as the family's country of origin and date of immigration to Israel (when applicable) and the community's status as a "national priority" location. Each student is classified according to the socioeconomic decile of his or her family, with each decile receiving a different number of classroom hours. The overall number of curriculum hours for each school is the sum of the classroom time allocated for its students.
In place of this system, the ministry's Chief Scientist, Prof. Sidney Strauss, framed a new allocation method. The "Strauss Index," which is being introduced for the first time, consists of four elements: the parents' education level; the family's annual net income; the country of origin of the child and of the parents; and whether the child lives in the geographic periphery of the country.
Under the new plan the use of "national priority areas" in determining elementary school budgets will be scrapped in favor of ensuring an adequate basic funding level with additions for underserved populations.
These reforms would have reduced funding for schools on settlements in the territories, which are currently considered national priority areas, and increase funding for schools in Arab communities. However, the decision to allocate such a low percentage of school hours to the "Straus Index" means that in fact there will not be any dramatic changes.
Hebrew University economics Professor Ruth Klinov said: "The ministry program constitutes a serious retreat from the progressive principles of the Shoshani index. This is in fact a renunciation of the affirmative action policy."
A senior official well acquainted with Education Ministry considerations said "the Straus Index is more just and egalitarian than the Shoshani index, but it will have zero effect. It is impossible to reduce socio-economic gaps with just 5 percent of school hours."
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As part of the multi-million dollar reconstruction of LOVE Park, the iconic and historic Welcome Center building is being completely renovated, including all new exterior glass, roof, interior finishes, lighting, security and mechanical systems. The renovated building will house a new restaurant and provide interior seating for 50-55 patrons, with additional outdoor seating for up to 135 people on the balcony and in an adjoining park level terrace.
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A personal and visual ode to our greatest mother, earth. All types of bodies are designed to fight back what’s causing them harm. The earth is no different. Nature can be fierce and chaotic and I believe she will continue to fight back if we don’t figure out how to live on her.
Heat Rises by Monique Crabb
Monique Crabb is a Mexican American woman, a mother, and a multi-disciplinary artist with a Bachelor of Fine Arts in photography from the Maryland Institute College of Art. Currently pursuing her MFA at UMBC in their Intermedia+Digital Arts program and was co-director at Current Space for close to a decade. Monique’s interest in textiles, quilting and dyeing with plants was born during the early years of having a child. The desire to learn a new process that was meditative, low cost, experimental, and used second hand materials was very appealing. Over the years her practice has evolved into a deeper exploration of acquiring color from plants that she’s foraged for, grown, or made from food waste. All the while continuing to experiment with transferring color from plants to fabric with various techniques and exploring color, form, and text in her work that reference her personal history, identity, the body, and our environment.


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BROTHER FACES MURDER CHARGES
Police say brothers had rocky relationship
Published: Wednesday, January 28, 2004 at 6:01 a.m.
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Tensions between two middle-aged brothers apparently erupted Monday, leading one to shoot and kill the other at their Gainesville home, police said.
Richard Crosby Lyles, 40, a University of Florida senior in the College of Engineering, is charged with first-degree murder in the death of his brother, Jesse Linus Lyles, 47, Gainesville police reported.
The shooting occurred in front of the brothers' 73-year-old mother, Annie, as the family was preparing to have a spaghetti dinner, police said.
Police said there wasn't a clear-cut precursor to the shooting, but alcohol, reports of aggressive behavior and a dispute involving religious beliefs apparently culminated in the deadly shooting.
Richard Lyles, who was being held without bond at the Alachua County jail Tuesday, fired four shots from a .38-caliber revolver at his brother, an arrest report states. Jesse Lyles died from chest injuries.
"I'm sure these issues took a long time to come to a head," Detective Cpl. Michael Douglas said.
Douglas described the men as "pretty clean," saying police did not have a criminal history for either or know of a history of violence at the home at 1506 NE 6th Terrace. The day of the shooting, Jesse Lyles had gone to pick his brother up from school.
But, Douglas said, Jesse Lyles reportedly had been drinking that day. In interviews after the shooting, police were told Jesse Lyles had an alcohol problem and could become aggressive and abusive when he was intoxicated.
Earlier in the evening, police said, Jesse Lyles "became very obnoxious and was mentioning religious beliefs." He believed in what he called "the seven spirits," whom he said govern the universe, Douglas said.
"Richard said he felt manipulated into an argument, and it came to a point where his brother was belittling him and his beliefs," Douglas said.
Police said an angry Richard Lyles went to his bedroom, retrieved the loaded gun, walking into the dining room and shot his unarmed brother who was sitting in a chair in the dining room.
"I'll show you," Richard Lyles told his brother, a police report states.
The gun belonged to Jesse Lyles, Douglas said, but he previously had given it to his brother.
After the shooting, Douglas said Richard Lyles told his mother to call 911. He then got on the phone. "They instructed him to initiate CPR, which he was doing when the police arrived," he said.
Police, citing the ongoing investigation, have not released a copy of the 911 call.
Annie Lyles, reached by phone Tuesday, said she did not want to speak about the incident.
Jesse Lyles was unemployed, police said. Richard Lyles started at UF in the fall of 2000, university records show.
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Texas A&M AgriLife Research and Extension Center’s organic and specialty crop breeding program is moving Texas up in the ranks of organic suppliers and markets. The program expects to release the first organic guar and cowpea varieties in the country. Breeders are focusing on varieties that have good pest and disease resistance, so that they work well for organic producers. The program is also working on winter crops, including lentils and barley.