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Review submitted by Andy from Aberdeen (Submitted: 5 Jul 2012)
Just returned home after two weeks at Villa Orkide, wish we were still there, this Villa is absolutely superb, condition of Villa exellent (all mod cons) and very well equiped, the pool and jacuzzi was terrific and the lovely gardens made the setting perfect, Villa Orkide is everything it says in the website and more.
I cant praise the owners Alison and Paul enough, the organization was great from initial booking to airport transfers.
Also a big thank you goes to Sinan who runs the management team, this guy couldnt do enough for us.
would definitely go back here.
Review submitted by Debbie from Oxford (Submitted: 8 Jun 2012)
It was like walking into a show home, spotless and well equipped. Sinan the local representative made us very welcome, the pool was cleaned daily and the villa was exactly as the photos show, if not better. We would definately rebook this villa and loved Dalyan, perfect for our family of 4 (two boys of 10 & 12). The owners provided us with all the information we needed to make this a perfect relaxing and fun holiday. Thank you.
Review submitted by Mairi from Aberdeen, Scotland (Submitted: 5 Jun 2012)
Villa Orkide is a very well appointed property and equipped with everything you would need. The location is excellent, being less than 10 minutes walk to the centre. In spite of being so close to the centre it is in a very quite and peaceful area with good views of the tombs. The swimming pool was a good size and was maintained daily. A special mention for Sinan, who was responsible for maintaining the villa, and was very helpful at all times even checking that our return flights were on time. We would definitely return to this villa in the future.
Review submitted by walter&mairi from perth (Submitted: 8 Sep 2011)
we can honestly say that this villa is better than it looks on-line,my wife and i had a fantastic time at villa orkide and it was with a big heavy heart that we had to leave at the end of our two week break.this villa is situated on the edge of dalyan,just a five minute stroll to the many fine restaurants and water taxis etc .the villa is spacious.with all mod-cons &utensils that you will need.the pool is a great size for swimming and we both had a lot of laughs and quality time around this area especially enjoying some al-fresco dining whilst using the bbq .the management team available at all times are really nice people and nothing is ever too much bother for them ,thank you sinan..this villa gives you all it states _and more! will we return? hopefully.
Review submitted by Robert from Newcastle (Submitted: 3 Sep 2011)
This is an excellent place to stay. The description and photos are exactly how it is - stylish, clean, modern, well-equipped, spacious, cool (inside). It really is a beautiful house - and garden and pool. The villa is far enough from the town to give peace and tranquility but near enough for the stroll in, the morning walk to the bakers etc. Sinan oversaw our visit and managed things very well. We were in Dalyan for a week and there was more than enough to do (family of five, including two teenage boys). In fact we ran out of time for all the things we had planned. We would really like to go back!
Review submitted by Paul from York (Submitted: 25 Aug 2011)
A really well equipped property, exceptionally clean, and ideal for the three of us on our return trip to Dalyan. Sinan, who looks after the property was excellent and organised a wonderful moonlight trip out on the lake with Captain Osman. We have already booked again for next year!
Review submitted by Ann & Alan from Halesowen (Submitted: 24 Jun 2011)
Perfect. This is the only word I can really use to describe the villa. It was immensely comfortable and furnished to a very high standard. I have never slept so well on holiday and the pale coloured bedrooms, with a pretty Turkish shears were romantic and tranquil. The location is in a quiet part of Dalyan, but only 6-7 minutes walk from the town. The pool was one of the largest we saw attached to a private villa, which was just right for someone like me, who loves to swim. In addition, it was partially shaded in the first part of the morning and late afternoon, which meant that you did not get burnt if you wanted to have a quick dip. The surrounding garden was very pretty and there is a superb view of the rock tombs, lit up at night, from the upper balcony.
Throughout the booking process, the owners were very helpful and prompt in their dealings with us and they provided a book at the villa with lots of local information, which improved our stay. Sinan and the Turkish team were also great.
We will be back!
Review submitted by Parris from Harrogate (Submitted: 22 Jun 2011)
We had a lovely stay at Villa Orkide in Dalyan, Turkey. We had everything there we needed for a relaxing, lovely holiday! The villa was beautiful and Dalyan was a wonderful place to vacation. The location of the villa was great - very easy walking distance to the town. The villa was very clean, had a nice kitchen and big bathrooms. We especially enjoyed the view from the villa each morning while having coffee by the pool. The owners were just great - anytime we had a question they were quick to get an answer back and had great advise for our trip. The management company in Dalyan were very friendly and very helpful too. We had a great time there and the advise to try the bakery around the corner was great - we did go every day!
Review submitted by Regina from Apeldoorn (Submitted: 19 Oct 2010)
Nice property and garden and very peacefull, very good instructions and documentation! Very helpfull owners! Nice location within a short distance to Dalyan. We only find the neighbour house opposite the pool a little close by. Fortunately we had no neighbours at the time of our holidays. What we really missed were sharp kitchen knives, but we understood that the owners have taken care of this already. However what really matters is that we felt at home! everything good enough to come back!
Review submitted by arthur (bill) from sidcup (Submitted: 5 Oct 2010)
We had a wonderful holiday in this lovely villa, our second visit..and definately not our last.
One little whinge, although we arrived on the Saturdey had no gas until the Monday !!!
Thank you Bill and Brenda for your second visit to Villa Orkide, we are sorry to hear that you had no gas supply for the hob on your arrival late afternoon. We hope that you managed with the electric ring and the cooker. You were very unfortunate for it to run out as it usually lasts four months, and the gas bottle provider in Dalyan is closed on a Sunday. Something we can perhaps talk to our management company about.
We will compensate with a little something extra in your welcome pack on your next visit.
Kind regards Alison & Paul
Review submitted by Dan from Market Rasen (Submitted: 27 Sep 2010)
Excellent compact villa in a great location a short walk from the town centre. Lovely pool, well equipped, well maintained by caring and very helpful English owners. Recommended.
Review submitted by Joan from London (Submitted: 20 Sep 2010)
The villa was lovely, just what we wanted and more, like home from home. It was well equipped everything you needed was supplied. The pool was lovely and used regularly to cool down. The location could have been any better, just a short walk to the local supermarket, and town. Full marks to the pool boy, who kept the pool spotless. We had a visiting owl most nights and also frogs and bats. The view of the Rock Tombs was magical in the evening. We would have not hesitation in returning. We love Dalyan it is a wonderful place.
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We spent our honeymoon in Villa Orkide in June this year. It was a perfect hideaway, I couldnt have wished for a nicer place to relax. The pool and jacuzzi were excellent and many a happy hour was spent around them! The villa is beautiful particularly the 1st bedroom , the four poster looks very romantic,
The villa is a 5 minute stroll into town and perfect for being away from the noise of the bars but close enough to walk to the shops, bars and restaurants several times a day.
I can recommend Dalyan whole heartedly and will be visiting again and again.
Many thanks for helping to make our honeymoon so special.
Review submitted by Erkan from Houston (Submitted: 3 Aug 2010)
Excellent Pool and Garden. BBQ is great. Location is perfect, near town and a convenient park. House is beautiful as well. However, you could not operate the A/Cs in bedrooms at the same time. The fuse could not handle the load and kept shutting off. So you have to decide which bedroom will be cool, and who will suffer in the evenings. Minor ant problem overall in the house but with a bit of care, it was easy to manage. Overall we had a great vacation here and would love to come back.
Thank you Erkan for your review and bringing to our attention the problem you experienced with the aircon, we have requested an electrician look into this as a matter of urgency. Hopefully it will easily be rectified as this has not been an issue in the past.
Thank you again for choosing to stay in our villa and we look forward to you and your family returning in the future. Alison & paul
Review submitted by ANN from IRLAM MANCHESTER (Submitted: 5 Jul 2010)
So peaceful and relaxing with every amenity you could wish for or need. Would not hesitate to return to this villa.
Review submitted by David from Wetherby (Submitted: 20 May 2010)
We found the facilities ideal for a self-catering holiday but also with the added bonus of restaurants within easy reach and a level walk to the town.
The staff at ORUC were always helpful and the transfer arrangements well managed.
Review submitted by Karen from Poulton le Fylde (Submitted: 30 Oct 2009)
The property was in excellent condition and was very well equipped and presented. A welcome pack of essentials, (tea, coffee, milk etc.) was much appreciated. The pool and gardens were well maintained. The excellent condition of this delightful villa made for a truly memorable holiday.
Review submitted by Richard from Kidderminster (Submitted: 25 Aug 2009)
The Villa itself was well presented in all aspects, on a residential estate approx 10 minutes walk into Dalyan and the local shops and excellent riverside restaurants.
Pool and gardens super.
Immediate surrounding area still undergoing development... roadway uneven not yet metalled, some vacant plots now overgrown, local concern of rise in burglaries to villas so be security conscious... but dont let this spoil things !!!
We will return !
Review submitted by Peter from York (Submitted: 4 Aug 2009)
Overall had a very good holiday, however we found that the 400 yards description into town to be a bit decieving, as poor road condition and with one member of our party with walking difficulties made the walk impossible.
also the villa lacked information in what there was to do, apart from the sheet of organised trips that oruc offered.
The villa was beautiful, enjoyed many bbqs on the evening by the loverly pool, air conditioning well needed on a night time. enjoyed the supurb views all around dalyan.
Thanks for a wonderful holiday
Thank you Peter for your booking and we are glad that you enjoyed the villa and welcomed your feedback. We are always adding improvements to our villa and services and will make sure that our guests are aware that the tourist guides and booklets are kept in the coffee table draw, featuring things to do in Dalyan and trips much further afield. We are sorry that a member of your party had difficulty walking. The villa is 400 yards level walking to the main street, with parts curently gravelled, which will be surfaced by the local council when the final plot has been built on.
Kind regards Alison & Paul.
Review submitted by Richard from Wigan (Submitted: 10 Jul 2009)
beautiful villa in a warm and caring enviroment.The villa was everything and more.It was very clean and homely,we felt like royalty.We could not fault the villa,just be prepared for the mosquitos at night or when leaving the villa as they can be a pain. The area surrounding is amazing,with breathtaking views day and night with lots of local shops,bars and activities to take part in.We will be seriously considering return to Villa Orkide.The best holiday we have ever had by far.
Review submitted by Nicola from Cambridge (Submitted: 1 May 2009)
Lovely location, reliable management company, well presented - a home away from home with added benefits, though the pool was a bit nippy as it was still April.
Will recommend to family and friends without hesitation.
Review submitted by George from Southport (Submitted: 3 Nov 2008)
Clean, as described, the only item we needed was the instructions for the washing machine as the controls where in Turkish. Apart from that very nice property.
Thank you for your feedback. Washing machine instructions have been down loaded in English and are next to the washer to assist all future users. Alison & Paul
Review submitted by lynda from londonderry northern ireland (Submitted: 19 Oct 2008)
had a wonderful time the villa is everything on its web sight page and more will be back again love it the people are so friendly and helpful in the village wonderful place
Review submitted by Bill (Arthur) from Sidcup (Submitted: 17 Sep 2008)
Lovely well fitted villa and pool. Though the TV
control system should be simplified
Thank you for your feedback, instructions for the use of the TV remote controls and channel selection have been placed in the cabinet. Alison & Paul
Review submitted by Phil & Juliette from Towcester (Submitted: 23 Jun 2008)
Just returned from a wonderful week in the lovely Villa Orkide. A perfect location, secluded yet within easy access to the town of Dalyan. Have spent most of our day time in and around the fantastic pool and jacuzzi.
The Oruc team were very helpful and friendly and we made use of a couple of excursions, the highlight being the 12 island cruise.
Dalyan itself is very nice as are the people and there are plenty of good places to eat (The Seahorse being our favourite).
Thanks very much for a perfect week, we will definitely be back!
Review submitted by Emma jane from Leeds (Submitted: 17 Jun 2008)
Had the most fantastic time there, the villa was amazing, in a lovely setting, the pool especially was gorgeous. The ORUC team were absolutely fanatastic so helpful and accomdating, couldnt be better. thankyou for an amazing time.
Review submitted by Charlotte from Leeds (Submitted: 29 Aug 2007)
The villa is situated in a great area just a short walk from the center of Dalyan a lovely town that retains a traditonal turkish charm. The villa itself was very nice although we thought having 2 double bedrooms could be an issue when renting out to famillies esepcially with older children. We made full use of the pool area and the views all around were very picturesque. The nearby turtle beach was to die for hopefully it will stay that way! The oruc team were very helpful and efficient whenever we had a problem it was sorted out immediately. The accomadation was to a good standard and we had everything we needed and the a/c came in very handy! There are over 50 restaurants in Dalyan but our favourite had to be Metins a wide choice of food and a great atmosphere. In all an excellent holiday a lovely villa, very friendly people and a great town! We hope to come back to Dalyan again.
Review submitted by Hazel from Herefordshire (Submitted: 4 Aug 2007)
We (3 adults and a 9 year old) stayed in Villa Orkide for a week July 07.
The villa has a good location, just a short walk to the main street (at the opposite end from the mosque) and is very quietly situated. The standard of the accommodation was excellent. We all appreciated the air conditioning which was throughout but particularly effective in the bedrooms. The beds were very comfortable. The kitchen is well equipped with a large fridge/ freezer. The pool was a good size and kept clean on a daily basis. The Oruc team were very helpful and had a good choice of excursions. We went with them on the 12 island cruise which was a fabulous day out, spent on a beautiful boat with just a small group of people lots of stops for swimming, snorkelling etc. ( many other boats were extremely crowded and not of the same high standard) Loved Dalyan itself - lots of places to choose from to eat, many options for excursions, friendly people, just don’t forget to go armed with mossie defences!
Review submitted by Karen from Canewdon (Submitted: 30 Jun 2007)
The villa was excellently situated just a short walk from the main street.
The jacuzzi was wonderful especially when sipping cold fizz in the plastic glasses provided(for safety issues)
The management team serving the villa provided an excellent service.
There was nothing that we felt had not been provided and would have no hesitation in recommending to other family/firends a stay in this villa.
Can imagine due to the high standard of accommodation and location that this will be a villa that we be highly sought after, do not delay in booking.
Thank you for your excellent review we are delighted that you found everything to your liking. Hope to hear from you next year.
Alison & Paul
Review submitted by clive from kent England (Submitted: 27 May 2007)
As the first to rent the villa we were very pleased with the accomodation. When we arrived the curtains had not been fitted to the lounge or bedrooms but within a couple of hours of telling ORUC they were put up. The shower screen never arrived and it meant a rather wet floor everytime we showered. we felt that the £50 return was about £10 dearer than the taxi fare available from dalyan, but were meet by two reps from oruc who were very friendly and helpful, especially Nadia from milan. The only thing we would have like was at least some milk and a cold drink in the fridge on our arrival as it was a long day travelling and we thought a welcome pack was supplied on arrival regardless of the discount as their was only two of us. The pool was lovley and was cleaned everyday, it will be nice when the garden is a bit more established and will give a bit more privacy. Needless to say we loved dalyan and we intend to re-visit maybe later in the year. We didnt try out the oven, hob, microwave, toaster etc as we ate out every evening and had cold foods and lovely turkish breads for breakfast and lunch. If there had been maybe four adults and been there for two weeks we would have probabley tried out the bbq, maybe next time.
Many thanks for your last minute booking and feedback from your stay. Your comments are very helpful for the future and will be fed back to our villa management team in Dalyan. Welcome Packs are to be provided for all our guests.
You will be pleased to know that the luxury glass shower screen has now been fitted, so we hope that you will enjoy all the facilities to the full next time.
Alison & Paul

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Last week, the Dow Jones Industrial Average hit a record high. For stocks, this marks a remarkable recovery from what has been termed the Great Recession.
It took less than four years from the bear market low of 6,547, set on March 9, 2009, for the Dow to set a record high. In the Great Depression, it had taken fully 25 years for the Dow to reach a new, post-1929 high.
But while the stock market is rising briskly, unemployment has not done nearly as well. The Bureau of Labor Statistics released its February report Friday morning — and though many cheered its 236,000-new-job headline, it was sobering overall.
Unemployment is at 7.7%, only a tenth of a percent below where it was in September of last year. Unemployment among some subgroups, such as teenagers (25.1%) and blacks (13.8%), is much higher.
The long-term unemployed, those out of work for 27 weeks or longer, number 4.8 million, fully 40.1% of all unemployed. Those working part-time but wanting full-time employment number 8 million.
These are dismal figures.
Worse, the workforce participation rate is only 63.5%. At the start of the recession, it was 66%. In other words, millions of people have dropped out of the labor force. If they had not, the unemployment rate would be over 10%.
So why is Wall Street flourishing while Main Street keeps struggling?
Part of the reason, of course, is that the stock market tends to be a leading economic indicator. It looks forward and tends to start declining before the economy as a whole does, and vice versa.
Also, the Dow, while the most widely followed index of stock performance, is a rather peculiar one. It has only 30 very large companies in it, and Dow Jones changes them regularly to better reflect, in its opinion, the reality of the American economy. In September 2008, the Dow removed the ailing insurance company AIG, substituting Kraft Foods. In June of the next year, it removed General Motors and Citigroup, which both would have been bankrupt except for huge government bailouts, substituting Cisco and Travelers.
In 1939, had the Dow not removed IBM (soon thereafter a Wall Street wonder that rose 22,000% over the next 40 years) and substituted AT&T (a widows-and-orphans stock that merely tripled while paying good dividends), it would have recovered its 1929 high years before it did. The whole of post-war Wall Street history would have been perceived differently.
But there are deeper reasons for why this recovery has been so sluggish in the labor market. One is that managers prefer upping hours and overtime to taking on new workers. Why? Because they fear that the recession might return, so they are reluctant to make new hires whom they might soon have to let go. Even when there is a job opening, the number of days it remains open has increased markedly since the recession ended.
At Apple in 2010, the interview process averaged 13 days. Now it is 22.
Most important, however, is the fact that the economy is in the middle of the most profound technological revolution since the steam engine and the factory system of production kicked off the Industrial Revolution, remaking the world 250 years ago.
The microprocessor, developed in 1969, is still reshaping the world economy — for it has caused a huge decline in the cost of storing, retrieving and manipulating information. Thus, many of the tasks that were once performed by human beings — for example, file clerks and assembly-line workers — are now instead done by computers and robots.
Millions of jobs that were once at the heart of the American economy are disappearing forever. The United States is still one of the world's biggest steel producers, for instance, but we have about one-fifth as many steelworkers as we did 40 years ago.
Of course, new jobs — computer programmers, app developers — are also being created. But as the recession hit, many of the old jobs that were fading away but not yet gone suddenly ended. As the economy began to recover, companies invested in technology rather than rehiring for those old jobs.
There are other reasons, peculiar to this economic climate, causing a low-job recovery. The most important, surely, is the uncertainty being caused by Obamacare.
Companies with more than 50 full-time employees, for instance, will have to offer health insurance to their employees beginning in 2014 or pay a $2,000-per-employee fine to the government. That, needless to say, makes companies very reluctant to hire that 50th employee.
Moreover, rulings by the National Labor Relations Board have been nearly uniformly pro-labor, which inevitably means increased labor costs.
All in all, then, while Wall Street is likely to continue to increase as the economy recovers, the job market is likely to continue to only sluggishly improve.
Gordon is author of "Empire of Wealth: The Epic History of American Economic Power."


AUSTIN (KXAN) – Opening statements started in a federal case on Tuesday against a man accused of kidnapping two sisters from their Round Rock home on New Year's Eve, 2017.
Terry Allen Miles, 45, confronted federal charges after police. says he has taken two girls, aged 7 and 14, to Colorado. Both girls were found unharmed and Miles was charged with kidnapping charges in February 2018 by a federal grand jury.
Opening statements by lawyers representing the federal government and Terry Miles started at 09:00. Prosecutors argued that Miles had regular sexual activities with the then 14-year-old girl, arguing that he had murdered the girl's mother before taking her and her sister to Colorado.


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I followed, from a safe distance of course, the warriors and wizards of the Parlinon Company while they stormed the mountainside fortress of the Dark Sorceress. First, we were met with orcs, foul smelling creatures bearing their rusty blades who streamed out from the great gaping holes in the rock walls. They were killed easily by sword, axe, fireball and lightning bolt, as I witnessed. I will note that in such a volume, some broke through the ranks of the nine and I was forced to defend myself with my iron shot staff and was even cut on the arm by the rusty blade of the foul creatures and my hair and homespun robes singed by the back blast of an errant spell. I still bear the scar.
Then came the goblins, vicious, even with their own kind, howling and sacrificing each other in a living wall of teeth and sharp bladed spears which tested my companions on their press through the dank halls towards our goal: the throne chamber of the Dark Sorceress, the consort of the demon lord Faxxus herself.
As I followed, solid footing became problematic, what with the blood, bones, flesh and severed guts of hundreds of the goblin horde strewn on the marble floor under foot. I wrapped a scarf over my mouth and nose, but that failed to reduce the stench. I made sure to cast into memory every slice of the warrior’s blades, the blast of the mages magic fires. This would be important, I knew, for the tome I would inscribe with their relentless heroism.
Halchon, Lord of Knowledge, but this was just the beginning, for the Dark Sorceress had many more minions to sacrifice though her dark manipulations. The trolls were next, and came upon us even before the goblins had been slaughtered utterly. Great ugly beasts they were, lumbering with their huge stone clubs, each missed blow smashing columns and smashing craters into the marble floors of the fortresses great halls. Nevertheless, true to their convictions the heroes I followed did not waver, even with the remains of the goblin horde grasping their legs, attempting to gnaw through mail and robes.
Their ichor flooded the hall, the green fluid pooling in the very craters the now shattered monstrous clubs had created. Giants spiders followed, then golems of solid granite, and finally even Wyrm from the deepest earth. The heroes defeat all.
We moved further, lastly the very throne room of our enemy.
There she sat, seated on her throne of bones and skulls, her skin bone white, her long hair, black as night, cascading down her shoulders. As beautiful a woman as could be imagined, the Dark Sorceress wore little, the jewels, dragon skin, and gold rainments more drew attention to her immodesty. Her body was truly that of Aretlia, Goddess of Lust and Covetousness. Even I caught my breath, despite the aura of evil she bore.
My companions were better than I, I must say, or so I thought. After all, I stood in the rear, and could not see the faces of my companions. Our leader, Straka the Brave called out to her crimes and promised her punishment would be death and damnation. She finally stirred in her throne, uncrossed her milky white legs.
“Do you think you can come here and offer such threats,” she stated, then stood, flexed her lithe and voluptuous body, and spread out her hands, each finger bearing a bejeweled ring.
I briefly noted all but one of her fingers were extended before a bright light blinded me, and a great thunder and a sizzling sound filled the throne room. When I recovered, I found I was alone. Alone, and against all expectation, still breathing.
My companions for all their magicks, strength, God’s given conviction and anointing were no more, their bodies crushed, turned to stone, burned, liquefied, frozen, shattered, vaporize, transformed into a swarm of flies, and, split from knave to chaps. I stared around me in horror…
Then, I glanced up at the sorceress, dread stopping my breath. She was descending the stone steps from her throne of bones towards me. I found myself paralyzed in terror. Nine rings, nine of the most powerful heroes in the world sent to the underworld in an instant. Her hips swayed as she walked, her dragon skin and jewel swathed breasts hypnotically bobbing as she drew closer. I clutched my tome.
“Tell me monk, what scribing do you hold so tightly?” she asked, effortlessly stepping across the spreading pool of blood that was all remaining of Lord Straka.
“Initiate,” I corrected, then bit my tongue.
“Initiate then,” she offered sweetly with an evil smile on her black lips. “Does that tome of your state the name of who commanded those other fools to attack my fortress?”
I shook my head. I had not been permitted to place that name down in ink.
She drew ever closer, to a point where she stood before me, and held up that single finger she had not stretched earlier, it’s green gem shining under my gaze.
“But you know who it is, don’t you?” she continued.
I could not help but nod, the fear of a horrific death filling my mind, and the horrible knowledge I would never, ever finish my work.
“You will tell me then,” she commanded, then looked up, licked her lips with a tongue also black as pitch. “But first, pour me a goblet of nectar from the flagon hence.”
She pointed a black nailed finger across the throne room to a table bearing a flagon and set of goblets. She turned her gaze back to me, some foul amusement lighting her crimson eyes.
“All this activity has left me with a certain thirst,” she explained raising her eyebrows. “And it would seem I suffer now from a lack of servants. You, I am afraid, will have to do.”

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text: Bartoletti, Susan Campbell They Called Themselves the K.K.K. 168 p. Houghton Mifflin, 2010. $19.00. Violence: PG-13 (descriptions of various klan violence), Language: PG-13 (language of the day). Through Lots of drawings of the day, some photos, lots of documented eyewitness accounts, Bartoletti delivers a powerful book about the rise, the deeds and the history of the Ku Klux Klan. The narrative ends after the trials of the 1870’s – I wonder if Bartoletti will do a follow-up with more detailed information about the modern Klan? It is definitely needed. This is an excellent resource for any classroom that touches on race relations, civil rights, or American history. MS, HS – ESSENTIAL. Cindy, Library-Teacher.

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As the upcoming municipal elections in Miami, Florida approach, the U.S. Supreme Court has ruled that new district lines which were approved by city commissioners will be used for voting eligibility and to determine who can run for seats on the city commission in districts 1, 2, and 4.
This ruling was a major blow to the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), which had filed an application against the map claiming it was an unconstitutional racial gerrymander that divided neighborhoods along racial lines.
In response to this news, Commissioner Alex Diaz de la Portilla expressed his relief saying “Our City Commission-approved maps meet constitutional standards and protect our City of Miami neighborhoods. End of story”.
He also pointed out that “political shenanigans by special interest groups will not be tolerated by an impartial Supreme Court” as they said enough is enough.
The ACLU attorney Carrie McNamara, however, felt disheartened by this decision as she believes it strips residents of their voice and ability to be adequately represented regardless of their race.
In light of this ruling coming at a time when the upcoming presidential election is heating up, a survey conducted by Harvard Harris Poll revealed some concerning findings about President Joe Biden’s mental fitness with only 32 percent believing he is fit enough to serve as commander-in-chief while 68 percent expressed doubts about it.
On the other hand Robert F Kennedy Jr trailed with 16 percent if Biden remains in the race but if he decides to drop out Vice President Kamala Harris takes over with 44 percent followed by RFK’s 22 percent support.
It seems Democrats must address these concerns if they wish to secure another term for Biden as Trump continues to dominate amongst Republican contenders.
According to 54 percent of respondents, they believe Trump he will win nomination come 2024 but should he fail DeSantis is expected take lead with 29 percentage points followed closely behind Vivek Ramaswamy at 19% and Mike Pence trailing at 13%.
Most importantly Trump maintains a 5 point lead over Biden and 9 point gap over Harris while DeSantis ties both candidates in direct match ups according poll results.


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The Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) has published shocking statistics this year in relation to the current prevalence of domestic violence in Australia. Never until now has this issue and its effects on society been so frequent in the media and efforts to try and combat it are in motion by several government bodies.
According to a social policy research paper by the Parliament of Australia published in March this year, the central element of domestic violence is an ‘ongoing pattern of behaviour aimed at controlling a partner through fear’.
Verbal, sexual and physical abuse all falls under this definition. Domestic violence is differentiated from family violence, which is a broader term and may involve ‘a variety of kinship and marital arrangements.’
Domestic violence is becoming more and more common all over Australia, with the number of reported incidents increasing from 58,000 in 2011-12 to over 66,000 in 2013-14 in Queensland alone, according to a report released by the state’s Special Taskforce on Domestic and Family Violence.
The Taskforces’ report, which was released in February this year, has uncovered that 70% of women who are murdered in Australia are killed as a consequence of family domestic violence. Furthermore, it has been found that across Australia every week a woman is killed by her current or ex-partner.
The statistics from the ABS, which are detailed in the report, point to the most common pattern of domestic and family violence being committed by men against women and children; however the repercussions and physical consequences of domestic violence extend to the Australian male population also.
The ABS found that between 2012-13, 1 in 3 victims of current partner violence were male, and almost 30% of sexual harassment victims were male also.
This data is only the bare minimum of what the ABS has published on their website on this issue, and it really only scrapes the surface of the prominence of this issue in the male community.
Further research by the Taskforce has found that minority communities of Queensland such as those of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander lineage have reported violence in their communities as being so prevalent as to have become normalised.
Unbelievably, the people who live in these communities consider violence, in all its forms, to be a part of ‘everyday’ life.
The lack of support services and poor access to the justice system in these communities compound the violence and make it effectively impossible for victims, who are in most cases, women and children, to escape its grasp.
Understanding the needs of these vulnerable groups is critical if the Queensland Taskforce is to be successful in making cultural changes that will lead to safer homes for these minority populations.
Unfortunately, the available data on this issue holistically around Australia is rather limited for several reasons- the most common being the vast differences in the experiences of different victims. Understandably, these can’t be reflected in the figures, as the duration, scale and severity of each domestic violence incident is almost impossible to quantify and accurately record and compare with other episodes.
The issue of domestic violence branches much deeper than the statistics presented here and there is much further research to be done, however its prevalence in society today has set off alarm bells that something more needs to be done to combat this insidious issue. Strategies to mitigate its dominance as a social issue in Australia are currently being formulated, however there are many channels of support available to victims for now.
Helplines available to those affected include, but are not limited to: Kids Help Line (http://www.kidshelpline.com.au), LifeLine (https://www.lifeline.org.au) and Mensline (https://www.mensline.org.au).
These are all national services that specialise in domestic violence counselling. Help can be provided via email, phone, or on their websites and is available to all genders. Anyone who is a victim of domestic violence or is a witness to domestic violence towards another person can call these confidential helplines for assistance.
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Episode 102: Interview with Rob Nixon, Professor in the Humanities and the Environment
In this episode we dive into a discussion with Rob Nixon on climate change denialism, the difficulty of understanding and drawing attention to “slow violence,” and in particular, the power of social media and using story and image to to translate scientific knowledge into powerful currents that catalyze social sentiment and action.
As Rob discusses the dangers of the science denialism permeating a very significant minority in the U.S., he mentions the importance of the upcoming November election in the U.S., with potential fallouts including defunding WHO and defecting from the Paris Accord. However, he also sees that environmental justice is growing in importance within environmentalism. More people are realizing the overlap between public health concerns and environmentalism, such as the unequal climate impact that we are already seeing affect poor parts of the world, and new energy is coming to the movement as a result.
Rob also talks about cultural values, and the idea that over generations people develop a culture and relationship with the environment. Culture and symbolism play a large role in making public statements of cultural values.
On the digital front, we’ve seen the power of social media with George Floyd and the swell of the Black Lives Matter movement. Rob raises the question of how we can translate moments of digital massing into structural change.
Slow violence is a concept to help retain attention in situations in which the damage is continuing but the event has ceased, such as the aftermath of war with toxic chemicals from depleted uranium land mines. This concept also applies with climate change and distributive justice across generations.
If we are to tackle something like COVID or even bigger, climate breakdown, we face some large challenges. We need collaboration and government to invest in precautionary institutions. Daily life lived at the nanosecond with constant interruptions, but we’re also needing to think in vast geological sense.
Rob Nixon is the Currie C. and Thomas A. Barron Family Professor in the Humanities and the Environment. He is affiliated with the Princeton Environmental Institute’s initiative in the environmental humanities. Before joining Princeton in 2015, Nixon held the Rachel Carson Professorship in English at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where he was active in the Center for Culture, History and Environment. He is the author of four books: London Calling: V.S. Naipaul, Postcolonial Mandarin (Oxford); Homelands, Harlem and Hollywood: South African Culture and the World Beyond (Routledge); Dreambirds: The Natural History of a Fantasy (Picador); and Slow Violence and the Environmentalism of the Poor (Harvard). He has published extensively in the fields of environmental studies, postcolonial studies, nonfiction and contemporary literature and has delivered lectures on six continents. Throughout his career, he has sought to engage in both scholarly and public writing on environmental concerns and social movements, particularly as they pertain to the global South. His areas of particular interest include environmental justice, climate change and the interface between the environmental humanities and the public humanities.

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Crime Stoppers and the Nassau County Police Department are looking for a man wanted in connection with the theft of an Apple iPhone at a Uniondale store.
According to police, the suspect was in the Dunkin' Donuts at 976 Hempstead Tpke. at 8:15 a.m. on June 25 and took an iPhone from another individual and fled. The phone is valued at $400.
Anyone with information can call Crime Stoppers at its toll-free and confidential hotline: 800-244-TIPS (8477), Crime Stoppers Unit Case No. 268-13. Crime Stoppers offers up to $5,000 for information leading to an arrest.
Suffolk County Crime Stoppers and Suffolk County Police Second Squad detectives are looking for a man and a female teenager in connection with the theft of merchandise from a Melville store.
According to police, at 8:30 p.m. on Nov. 14, a man and two female teenagers entered Kohl's at 834A Walt Whitman Rd. and took clothing, fragrances, jewelry and computers. Once outside, they were confronted by store security and all three fled but one suspect, a 17-year-old female, was apprehended and charged with fourth-degree grand larceny.
The man, whose name may be James, is described as being 30 to 40 years old, 5-foot-8, thin and bald. The at-large girl, whose name may be Ashley, is described as being 17 years old and 5-foot-5 with brown hair.
Anyone with information about this crime is asked to call anonymously to Crime Stoppers at 800-220-TIPS (8477). All calls will be kept confidential.


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“Hello David, it's me again. The article below on solar power appeared in today's City A.M. paper (London). The author draws a graphic analogy of panels installed to date with the Ford Model-T which was produced from 1908-1927. Look at the sophistication, reliability and affordability of modern cars by comparison and we get some idea of how amazing solar power is likely to become in coming decades. It will transform the world, in my humble opinion.”
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First, grid parity – when electricity generation is competitive with grid-electricity rates without subsidies – is edging closer. In 2012, Bloomberg reported that Germany, Denmark, Italy, Spain, Portugal, Australia, and Brazil could already expect to achieve at least a 6 per cent return on PV investments. Many of these countries still offer indirect subsidies, so the market isn’t competitive quite yet. But the direction is clear. The average US PV market will likely reach proper grid parity around 2020, and states like California should reach that point sooner. Within a few years, arguments about feed-in tariffs will become irrelevant in many countries, because the solar industry won’t need subsidies.
Second, large companies are flocking to solar. Thanks in part to cheap PV modules, non-energy businesses are becoming mini power generators. The retail giant Walmart already has a solar-energy capacity of almost 90 megawatts (MW) in the US. If the retailer installed panels on every US store, it could generate 1.5 to 2 gigawatts – or about twice the output of my local nuclear power station. If other big-box retailers follow – and many are already doing so – we could see collective generation capacity skyrocket, making solar increasingly viable as part of the energy mix.
Its potential goes beyond retail. Solar is well-suited to industrial and processing applications: in Saudi Arabia, the Al-Khafji solar-powered seawater desalination plant is set to produce 30,000 cubic metres of salt-free water per day. And entrepreneurs are honing new applications. The US startup WaterFX, for example, is developing solar “troughs” that remove salt from water by distillation to deal with drought.
But these innovations are only possible because solar technology is developing rapidly. Today’s domestic PV modules are the Ford Model-Ts of solar: cheap, mass-produced, commercial pioneers. But they are poor at converting sunlight into electricity (efficiencies of around 10 to 15 per cent are common). These figures, however, could easily double.
Scientists from the California Institute of Technology and partners are developing a new multi-junction cell with a target efficiency of over 50 per cent. Building-integrated PV – glazing that generates power – could further popularise solar power. And PV is not the only form of solar energy. Improvements in other approaches, such as concentrated solar power (CSP), are possible. CSP uses mirrors to concentrate a large amount of sunlight onto a small area, driving a turbine. Just look at Spain’s 50MW Solnova Solar power station.
Many thanks for the article, as informative emails are most welcome, not least in the field of technology. Solar farms can be understandably contentious if they are anywhere near recreational areas and sights of natural beauty, although they are considerably less menacing than noisy windmills.
Today, virtually every business can now lower its long-term energy costs by utilising solar power on its buildings, as we read with Walmart above. Similarly, many homes will also benefit from the addition of solar panels, ideally when the target efficiency is above 50% with the help of graphene and other rapidly developing technological advancements. Additionally, I do not see why California and other cities prone to drought cannot benefit from solar-powered seawater desalination plants as Saudi Arabia is doing. My thanks to Eoin for pointing out this Carlsbad desalination plant, near the San Diego region of California. The state will need more of these plants.Back to top


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This week’s Campaign Stops column tries to reckon with an important part of the Trump surprise, which is the willingness of Republican primary voters — who are plugged-in, high-information, politically-savvy voters by the standards of the country as a whole — to support a candidate who is neither ideologically reliable nor obviously electable. The ideological part is fairly easy to understand: Trump represents (among other things) a revolt of ideologically-heterodox Republicans against the party’s litmus tests, which lots of people saw coming even if we didn’t imagine would take this form or rope in quite this much support. But the electability issue is trickier to parse: No Republican (or Democratic) primary in generations has produced a nominee with anything like Trump’s unfavorable ratings or long general-election odds, and you would think the combination of eight years of Obama and the hated Hillary waiting in the wings would have concentrated voters’ minds on that, ah, problematic aspect of Trump’s candidacy.
Not so, not so … but then neither have Republican voters simply cast the electability issue aside. Instead, on the evidence of polls, even many not-Trump voters have convinced themselves that Trump is the most electable candidate available, that he’s better positioned than his rivals to beat Hillary, and that given the alternatives supporting him is actually the pragmatic thing to do.
I don’t have a complete theory for how this self-deception has been accomplished: My column threw out several possibilities but hardly exhausted the list. But the possibilities I cited were mostly sub-rational — a reaction to Trump’s media dominance, a reaction to his winning streak, a reaction to his demagogue’s charisma, a tribal wishful thinking — plus the logical fallacy that having once proved pundits wrong Trump can always do so.
For the most rational case for Trump’s electability, though, and one that some Republicans have probably internalized, I recommend reading this Will Rahn piece touting Trump’s chances against Hillary, and particularly these passages:
Hillary’s weak points aside, Trump also has one main advantage, which is that he’d be probably the most moderate nominee in decades. Now, Trump is not normally what we think of when we think of moderates – “reactionary moderate” is perhaps the best term to describe him. But border walls and Muslim bans aside, Trump really most closely resembles an old-school northeastern centrist Republican.
Trump likes the welfare state. He’s made protecting entitlements central to his pitch. It’s safe to say that he’s likely, at heart, socially liberal — the story of how he became anti-abortion, for example, doesn’t make a great deal of sense. … And given the milieu he’s always existed in, it’s hard to believe he really opposes gay marriage, either.
Trump has had the benefit of never really fleshing out what he believes about specific policies; nearly a year into his campaign, we still don’t know what he’d replace Obamacare with. He is, as his longtime advisor Roger Stone says, a “big picture” guy: pro-business, pro-military, pro-America. The rest is all open to negotiation, to making the best deal.
And, as Jim Antle notes over at The Washington Examiner, that puts him pretty squarely into the vast middle of the American electorate … Now, there are still plenty of reasons why someone who agrees with Trump on a whole mess of issues might still be unwilling to vote for him. But it’s a mistake to assume that the man doesn’t have a natural constituency outside the GOP.
It’s true: If you just take Trump’s mixture of positions, quasi-positions and non-positions and apply them to our current partisan divides, he does seem like he could have a large constituency in the American center. As a blue-state social liberal campaigning as an America First populist, he offers a kind of mash-up of stances taken by Acela corridor Bloombergists and Middle American radicals, and while some of those positions cost you turnout on the Republican side, on paper you could make up for that deficit by winning voters in the center who are turned off by libertarianism or neoconservatism or religious conservatism, but who’d give a tough-talking businessman who doesn’t seem all that ideological a second look.
So this could be what some Republican voters, especially moderate-ish Republican voters, are thinking when they imagine that Trump is more electable than his more ideologically conservative rivals. And if the pundits are all proven wrong one more time and Trump makes a real race of it, this will be the reason why.
But we won’t be, because this logic lacks the cultural imagination required to see that Trump’s positions won’t get a hearing with groups that might find them appealing otherwise, precisely because they’re associated with, well, Donald Trump himself.
Are there Hispanic swing voters who would vote for a Republican who promised to protect entitlements and avoid messy foreign wars? Sure. Are there upper-middle-class white women who would vote for a Republican who seemed to be friendly to gay rights and favorably disposed to Planned Parenthood? No doubt. Are there African-American voters who would support a candidate who wants to renegotiate trade deals, limit low-skilled immigration and spend more money on U.S. infrastructure? I’m certain there are.
But will any of these constituencies vote for Donald Trump? For Trump the rank misogynist, Trump the KKK-flirter, Trump the deport-the-Mexican-rapists candidate? If you read seven of Trump’s positions to the median Hispanic voter, they might agree with five or six of them … but Trump’s favorability/unfavorability ratings with Hispanics are 12/77. If you go back to last August, before the campaign began, Trump had a 20 percent favorable rating with African-Americans; by Republican standards that’s not terrible. Six months of race-baiting later, he’s winning 5 percent of the black vote against Hillary Clinton. And women … well, he’s losing women, let’s put it that way, on a scale that no Republican nominee ever has before.
Hence his essential unelectability, which no centrist positioning is likely to much change. And the fact that so many Republican voters can’t seem to see this, haven’t been able to see this, may be a sign of cultural isolation above all. They can see how Trump might be able to win on the issues if he hadn’t alienated so many millions of Americans on the basis of their race or sex … but they can’t quite grasp how powerful that alienation is for the people who experience it, and how impossible it will be for Trump to overcome.


Since 2010, the number of rhinos that have been poached has reached over 5,000. This figure continues to increase each year and the situation is already alarming. The experts have given warnings that if this does not end, the rhinos will be extinct by year 2026.
The Australian Rhino Project has been formed to act on this issue as soon as possible. The people behind this group have made plans to fly rhinos to Australia in order to save them from poachers. The group's mission is specifically to transport 80 rhinos from South Africa to Australia. This is for the sole purpose of ensuring that the species will survive.
Reports have mentioned that black and white rhinos found in Africa are already almost extinct because of massive poaching. The increasing demand for rhino horns in Asian countries, particularly in China and Vietnam, has made poachers extremely interested in this precious body part of the rhino.
The Australian Rhino Project aims to come up with a breeding herd in Sydney, which the group will make conducive for rhino living and breeding. But in order to make this happen, the group needs funds first to relocate the rhinos.
Despite the effort of the group, there are some sectors that do not think relocating the rhinos is the best solution. Matt Hayward, a researcher at a UK university even said that this project needs a huge amount of money to materialize. The experts suggested that while taking the rhinos to Australia may not cause any harm, there are other ways to prevent their extinction that will not cost as much. They pointed out that stopping poaching can possibly be the best solution to address the issue.


The album has been self produced and recorded in their Ballarat home studio. Restricting themselves to the eight tracks available on the reel to reel recorder and a handful of microphones, SWHAT have taken a minimalist approach with their debut release.
The result stays true to the fine Australian tradition of keeping punk rock fast and to the point. With dirty lo-fi sounds plus a fervent drizzling of harmonies spat on top for good measure. SO WHAT if it’s not pristine, it’s perfectly unspoiled!
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In recent years, K-12 online charter schools have seen increased enrollment as parents and guardians seek alternate options for educating their children. Online schools provide opportunities for flexibility, individualization, and continuous learning when in-person learning is not available. However, research on K-12 online schooling is currently minimal despite enrollment. Further, little to no research explores middle school online students or delves into the stakeholders who support students. Some online schools have employed a Learning coach—an adult assigned to work with a student at home. Learning coaches can be an asset for engaging learning. The researcher asks the following questions: How are learning coaches utilized and supported by middle school ELA teachers in online schools? How do parents of middle school students enact their role as learning coaches in online schools?
This study investigated the role of learning coaches in an online school system to understand better how learning coaches work with students and the school and, second, determine what strategies or tools the school uses to assist learning coach practice. The mixed-methods study evaluates learning coach roles from the school and a middle school parent’s perspective. The researcher collected interviews from five middle school English Language Arts teachers, a learning coach teacher who was an employee responsible for working exclusively with Learning coaches, and five middle school parents who were the assigned learning coach for their child. Moreover, the researcher analyzed ELA courses for curriculum content and communication to determine how teachers interacted with Learning Coaches through the content. The researcher also studied school-produced literature for Learning Coaches to establish the school district’s expectations of Coaches. Finally, the researcher surveyed middle school Learning Coaches as quantitative data to further understand the enactment and utilization of Coaches.
The findings of the study revealed three major themes regarding Learning Coach roles. The first was that learning coaches are monitors and supporters of their students. The second was that Learning Coaches maintain a partnership with the school to create a learning environment that aligns with school expectations. The third theme was the importance of developing effective communication and connections between home and school. The implications of this study show strategies and structures online schools and traditional schools can implement when distance learning.
Connor-Flores, Lillie, "Connecting and Communicating: The Activation of Middle School Parents as Learning Coaches for ELA Classrooms in Online Charter Schools" (2021). LSU Doctoral Dissertations. 5681.


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Retail Design Expo has been carefully crafted by a star-studded steering panel of leading retail designers, marketers, visual merchandisers and architects. It, is taking the industry by storm! Co-located with Retail Business Technology Expo, Europes biggest and fastest growing retail technology solutions show, it is packed with market leading suppliers and thought-leading conference speakers from around the globe in one place, at one time, under one roof. .Hundreds of exhibitors – covering every aspect of the in-store customer journey .Designer Pavilion - housing cutting-edge design consultancies and architects .Scores of conference sessions – agenda-setting speakers including Procter & Gamble, John Lewis, Selfridges, House of Fraser, TUI Travel, JD Sports, Pentland Group, Dalziel and Pow and FITCH revealing new insights, innovations, trends, and tips and no sales pitches! .Live demonstrations – watch and learn as leading VM specialists demonstrate their craft .Unique labs – revealing future trends .Student Awards – discover the winners and stars of tomorrow .Boundless networking and sales opportunities – catch up with thousands of retailers, designers, marketers and visual merchandisers from the UK and overseas.
Here is a small sample of the speakers lined up – please check the website for updates: · Ab Rogers, Interiors Head, Royal College of Art · Adrian Briggs, Creative Director, Briggs Hillier · Andrew Sparrow, Head of Commercial Operations, Wellington Markets (Owner of Spitafields Market et al) · Callum Lumsden, Creative Director, Lumsden · Caroline Pearson, Senior Merchandising Manager, Boots · Chris Aubrey, Global Retail Director, Dyson · Christine Losecaat, UK Trade & Investment Sector Specialist for Design and Creative Industries · Colin Chapman, Commercial Director, CJ Retail Solutions · David Dalziel, Creative Director, Dalziel & Pow · David Martin, Joint Managing Director, M Worldwide · Dilys Maltby, Senior Partner, Circus · Doug Glenwright, Head of Retail Transformation, Thomson (TUI Limited) · Emma Young, Kiwi & Pom · Eva Jiricna, Principal, Eva Jiricna Architects · Ian Taylor, Head of Retail Transformation, SPAR · James Fuller, Group Concept and Design Manager, JD Sports Fashion Plc · James Scutt, Head of Network Cahnge and Customer Coordination, Post Office · Jason Holley, Director, Universal Design Studio · Jo Kenrick, Marketing Director, Homebase · Johnny Tucker, Editor-In Chief, Blueprint · Jon Tollit, Principle, Gensler · Katie Greenyer, Creative Director, Pentland Group · Kevin Gill, Managing Director, StartJG · Lara Barron, Head of Instore, P&G Prestige Products · Mariann Wenckheim, Partner, 20.20 · Martin Raymond, Editor-In Chief, The Future Laboratory · Massimo Acanfora, Conran & Partners · Matt Chambers, Global Head of Marketing, World Duty Free Group · Meredith Smith, Senior Consultant, GDR Creative Intelligence · Michael Sheridan, Chairman & Founder, Sheridan & Co · Mike Bradshaw, Marketing Director, Boots · Paul Naulty, Principle, Paul Nulty Lighting Design · Paul West, Creative Strategy Director, Household Designs · Peter Champion, Co-Founder, i-am Associates · Peter Earle, Business Development OEM, Phillips Lighting · Roderick Buchanan, Director of Buying & Retail, British Museum · Roger Wade, Founder & CEO, Boxpark · Ross Bailey, Founder & Chief Executive, Appear Here · Ross Phillips, Associate Design Director, DigitalDalziel & Pow · Rupert Pick, Planning & Creative Director, Hot Pickle · Simon Bentley, Head of Store Design and Merchandise Telefonica, O2 · Simon Liss, Head of Connected Retail & Co-Founder of Omnify, 20.20 · Stuart Anderson, Head of Retail, Transport For London · Tim Greenhalgh, Chairman and CEO, Fitch London · Tony Holdway, Director of Brand, House of Fraser · Wayne Hemingway, Co-Founder, Hemingway Design

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Amazon.com Product Description (ISBN 0192545191, Hardcover)"American Notes" was the result of the author's five-month trip to America in 1842. Dickens's travelogue includes the glitter of Boston; a Broadway swarming with hogs; a gruesome penitentiary in Philadelphia; Cincinnati, Louisville, and St Louis; railways and steamboats. Its publication was greeted with dismay: what Dickens described as 'honest and true' was regarded in America as 'a compound of egotism, coxcombry and cockneyism', the product of 'the most coarse, vulgar, impudent and superficial' writer ever to visit the country.
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The construction of the Lucera castle was commissioned by Frederick II, Holy Roman Emperor following his decision to lead the Saracens rebels of Sicily in the town of Lucera, thus attempting to pacify the situation.
The castle was built in 1233 on the foundations of a Romanesque cathedral and the walls were added later (between 1269 and 1283) by Charles I of Anjou. This addition was necessary for the difference in use that he wanted to make of the structure: from imperial palace as was intended to fortified castle and permanent military garrison.
The material of construction was mainly acquired from the remains of Roman buildings still present in the area. The castle, in fact, lies in the same place of the acropolis of the ancient Roman city.
The complex was heavily damaged by an earthquake that struck the area in 1456, and was almost completely demolished in the 18th century to use the resulting material for the construction of the court. This ended in the 19th century, when the first restoration works begun.
The square truncated pyramidal base, still visible, comes from following French projects. The Hohenstaufen castle, of which there are only buried fragments, was inside this tower, an outward complex that rose three floors. The castle was built around a central square courtyard. The courtyard at the third floor instead presented an octagonal shape, characteristics that resemble very closely the most famous structure built by Frederick II in the area: Castel del Monte.
The Swabian castle had a normal entry at street level. The surrounding French base has no access to the street level, so was raised the question of how it was possible to access it. It has been assumed that the entry was made possible by the presence of ladders downed from above, while the most evocative hypothesis (supported by the discovery of tunnels near the castle) suggests the access from an underground entrance. The absence of a doorway, however, is significant of the strategic importance of the castle, which in this way was more difficult to conquer.
A circular 14-meter-deep cistern located under the courtyard guaranteed the water to the castle.
The irregular wall that surrounds the entire hill on which stands the castle is 900 meters long, and also consists of 13 square towers, two pentagonal bastions, 7 buttresses and two cylindrical corner towers. The latter - with regular section of great precision - were with certainty part of the Frederick's project for Lucera. Even access to these walls - with the bridge over the big dig - reminds the Swabian castles in the homeland of the Emperor, such as the castle of Wildenstein, which has a similar entry.References:
First record of Kastelholma (or Kastelholm) castle is from the year 1388 in the contract of Queen Margaret I of Denmark, where a large portion of the inheritance of Bo Jonsson Grip was given to the queen. The heyday of the castle was in the 15th and 16th centuries when it was administrated by Danish and Swedish kings and stewards of the realms. Kastelhoma was expanded and enhanced several times.
In the end of 16th century castle was owned by the previous queen Catherine Jagellon (Stenbock), an enemy of the King of Sweden Eric XIV. King Eric conquered Kastelholma in 1599 and all defending officers were taken to Turku and executed. The castle was damaged under the siege and it took 30 years to renovate it.
In 1634 Åland was joined with the County of Åbo and Björneborg and Kastelholma lost its administrative status.

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Not many people gave a shit about Trial Kennedy in the ten years that they were together. This year, people started giving a shit – indirectly, at least. Tim Morrison went on The Voice; and although he didn’t win, he certainly won himself an entirely new fanbase. Funny how things work out like that, isn’t it? Anyway, naturally I was one of the few who gave a resounding shit about TK, particularly around this era; when they’d just dropped one of my favourite albums of 2008 in New Manic Art. This was an email Q&A – admittedly, not ideal at the best of times; but I was fairly happy with the responses given. Worked out alright. Wish I’d properly interviewed them, though. That would have ruled. Ahh well, life goes on.
– DJY, July 2013
You had a massive year in 2008. What were some of the highlights in retrospect?
A definite highlight for last year was getting our record New Manic Art out, that’s got to be a lifelong dream for any young upstart. But all in all, the real memorable thing about 2008 was spending plenty of time on the road meeting heaps of people who got into the record and starting to get our creative caps back on to pump out the second record. Trial Kennedy are a band that like to keep busy.
How did you spend NYE? Was there a celebration for a great year, or were plans already being made for the next tour?
Two of the lads spent it up the Eureka tower looking down on the fireworks from above, our guitar tech and our drummer spent it down a beach having a laugh and I played a little fill in cover gig in town. Nothing for TK, but we did have a festival on the 3rd of Jan that was a bit of fun.
We’ve got a couple of really key tours left and then we’ve really being trying to get our heads into writing for the next record and keep the ball rolling.
How do you feel long-time fans (people who were listening to Pictureframe etc) have responded to New Manic Art’s success and the subsequent newfound support from radio and television?
I hope Trial Kennedy fans are right behind us in all of our pursuits. We are a band that obviously want to make music and this band our career but we’re going to do it with our musical integrity and creativity well intact so I hope that people that get into Trial Kennedy at any certain stage will see that.
A while ago, you posted a MySpace blog talking about every song on the album and their lyrics. The special edition of NMA also comes with a making-of DVD. Relating this to the old saying “A great magician never gives away his tricks,” do you feel a need to be perfectly honest about your music and what it’s about; or are there parts of the behind-the-scenes creation of Trial Kennedy’s music that is best left unspoken?
Some people like to hold their cards close to their chests and that’s cool, but we aren’t afraid of showing people how we create our music, we’re proud of it and we don’t use any secrets or tricks. I think each band is unique because of the members that make up the band and the way that they write, that’s their own formula and recipe that probably wouldn’t work for other bands.
We also personally love seeing how our heroes write the great music they do – check out the Classic Albums series, it’s amazing.
I have to ask about the sample used in Mississippi Burn. I believe it is Anton Newcombe from the Brian Jonestown Massacre talking, but others beg to differ. Where is the sample from and what is its purpose in the song?
The sample in that song isn’t Anton Newcombe, but that’s a good little rumour to put out there. The actual voice that you hear on that song is a guy called Tom Tapley who was an assistant engineer at Southern Tracks studios in Atlanta where we recorded the record and the words he speaks are words from an interview with Jeff Buckley talking about art. That song is a lyrical and musical sort of ‘pay your respects’ to Jeff Buckley and how he inspired us and so many others on so many levels.
The Not So New Manic Art tour is currently underway; what prompted this tour on so shortly after coming off the road with TBE?
Like I said before, Trial Kennedy are a band that like to keep busy and we really wanted to get back to some of the towns that we stopped off with TBE and get our full set to them. You have the luxury of longer sets on your own headliners so you can play some album songs and play with a few other little musical interims and stuff, keep it fresh and interesting for the punters and us.
We’re out with Birds Of Tokyo in March and then we’ll most definitely be writing our arses off and pump out a 2nd record. It’s all about momentum and capitalizing on that momentum so this all involves hard work and as much touring as possible.
Do any of you have a Colour Day Tours story of your own (ie wife, children, family, etc) when it comes to touring?
No one in Trial Kennedy is married or have any kids yet but touring is a time that you spend away from your loved ones and you do miss them but we’re lucky in that they all understand that we’re following something that we’re passionate about and maybe one day we can make a career out of it.
After experiencing so many different places on tour throughout the country, would you say you’ve located a most dedicated fanbase somewhere? I know Melbourne may seem an obvious choice, but perhaps there’s somewhere else?
Yeah, I don’t know what it is, but Newcastle and Adelaide always give us plenty of love. Sydney and Perth are close behind and we’ve got Brissy tonight so we’ll see if that changes anything in our favourites.
I’ll keep you posted
Weirdest gig (ie unfitting support slot, drunk crowd)?
We played a gig this year up at Mt Hotham that was a Rock, Skate and Pole party. Young kids skating and stuff, us playing in the middle and then a beautiful pole dancer. Funny stuff!!!
What’s the next step for the band? More shows, or maybe recording? Perhaps even a well deserved break?
No rest for the wicked. As soon as we finish the Not So New Manic Art tour we’re doing Melbourne Big Day Out and a big show out the front of Parliament House on Australia Day, then writing all Feb, out with Birds Of Tokyo in March then write April and hopefully get in the studio as soon as we can to pump out a killer second album.
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Such an amazing band saw them live once on the central coast of nsw was always a fan “missisippi burn” was always my fav, very raw and
Emotive, stoked you asked about
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I am not Esports player, or does math for playing videogames, this is a feedback from a very casual player who has life responsibilities and plays game to relax and chill.
Visible Hotkey or Displayed Hotkey
Allow users to turn this on or off based on their preference from options. Helps new and returning players a lot. This should be supported officially by AOE DE as there are tons of mods that does the same thing, but with each update they get outdated and are abandoned often, you can just type hotkey and see the amount of mods that does the same thing, but all outdated or abandoned or causes icons to go missing.
Better Pathfinding for resource collecting villagers
Villagers still get stuck while collecting resources, they often spin around or glitch around. Moistly happens near mining nodes and trees on the edges.
Better Pathfinding and Turning for Cavalry
Most time cavalry spins backwards for few seconds then moves forwards, this looks weird and wastes time. I don’t know what is causing it, maybe fix the turning of Cavalry.
Manned Siege Equipment skins
Add operators to the siege equipment, like people who push and trigger the siege equipment. This can be a skin.
More Improvements to AI
Currently AI still cheats a bit because AI can control everything at a time and it is not limited by hands, mouse pointer and other peripherals like humans. Maybe have an AI that makes better counter units based on what player is bringing, instead of buffing up resources and spamming upgrades but still sends crap units to fight.
Add some life preservation mechanic, like withdrawing and playing a bit defensively, also builds walls and closes the gaps between cliffs. Since maps have fixed layout, these conditions can be easily added for each map, Assaults trade caravans, I haven’t seen any of these things done by AI on hard AI skirmish. AI also hardly uses formation and sometimes sends solo monk to fight lol.
Stop Time Gating Event Objectives
I understand MS wants to drive up their engagement metrics by time gating, but I was not expecting these type of cheap tactics from MS. It makes AOE look like a cheap Korean or Chinese game.
No matter what, people are playing, that itself is engagement. Maybe change how engagement is calculated, instead of daily add it based on playtime a player does. why does it matter that when the player plays, the player is playing is what matters.
Working people like me don’t have time to play videogames entire weeks or sometimes several months, if people like us want to chill and play over a weekend, allow that. Stop time gating events and adding a 20hr countdown to next objective of the event. Quality of the game speaks itself, people will play the game as it has high quality and good mechanics, stop forcing people to play.
Thanks and so far you guys have done a great job, keep up the good work.

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It’s common for people to focus so much on China’s growth that they forget about India, but the country is becoming much harder to ignore, especially where e-commerce is concerned. The e-commerce market in India is exploding right now, with foreign companies like Amazon pouring billions into their India operations while local companies like Flipkart have raised billions in funding to expand their operations. The latest such company to do so is Snapdeal, a New Delhi-based startup that just received $500 million in funding from some of the largest tech companies in Asia, bringing its total funding to about $1.6 billion.
Indian e-commerce platform Snapdeal has confirmed that it received $500 million of funding from three of Asia’s largest tech companies: Alibaba, Foxconn, and SoftBank. Returning investors Temasek, BlackRock, Myriad, and Premji Invest also participated in the round. The investment was first reported by the Wall Street Journal and Re/code and brings Snapdeal’s total funding so far to about $1.6 billion. Founded in 2010, Snapdeal is one of India’s largest e-commerce companies and says it now has more than 150,000 sellers on its platforms and is able to deliver to 5,000 towns and cities in India. SoftBank is already Snapdeal’s largest investor after leading a $627 million investment last year. Snapdeal is engaged in an expensive competition with Flipkart and Amazon India. Flipkart has raised $3.2 billion in funding from investors like Naspers, Tiger Global, and DST Global, while Amazon has vowed to put $2 billion in its Indian operations (and may invest another $5 billion soon). All three businesses are spending heavily on their logistics networks. Flipkart and Snapdeal are also growing by acquiring companies in related verticals, like payments.


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On a March 20 appearance on CNN's King Charles, Oprah Winfrey, 70, reflected on her special, An Oprah Special: Shame, Blame and the Weight Loss Revolution, saying that she finally understood that obesity is a disease, which changed her mindset on weight loss.
"I couldn’t work out anymore. I can’t climb any faster or run any faster. I was down to eating one meal a day. There’s nothing else I can do," she said. However, since starting a weight-loss medication and learning about how her body operates, she doesn't blame herself as much anymore.
"There is now a sense of hope, No. 1, and No. 2, you no longer blame yourself," Oprah said. "When I tell you how many times I have blamed myself because you think, ‘I’m smart enough to figure this out,’ and then to hear all along, it’s you fighting your brain.”
In the media mogul's special, she explained how she took on the shame that the world gave to her. She even read out harsh headlines published over the years about her weight and appearance, including a 1990 cover of TV Guide, which called her "bumpy, lumpy and downright dumpy."
This comes amidst Oprah’s own weight loss journey, including her recent admission that regular exercise, nutrition, and weight-loss medications are helping her live a healthier life. Here's everything to know about her health.
How did Oprah lose weight?
Oprah's 2021 knee surgery actually jumpstarted her recent weight loss.
"After [my] knee surgery, I started hiking and setting new distance goals each week. I could eventually hike three to five miles every day and a 10-mile straight-up hike on weekends," Oprah told PEOPLE. "I felt stronger, more fit and more alive than I’d felt in years."
On March 14, in an appearance on Jimmy Kimmel Live! that following her knee surgery, she felt like she had to get in shape and lose weight in her own way and had to "prove that I could do it on my own even though I was hearing all along people talking about the medications," she said.
The Color Purple producer added, "I’ve been in the storm of losing the weight, gaining it back, losing the weight, gaining it back. And what I realized when I listened to what the doctor said, that you are always going to put it back on, and it’s like holding your breath under water and trying not to rise. You are always going to rise."
Working towards these fitness goals also helped Oprah achieve a personal goal. "In Hawaii, I live on a mountain, and there’s this big hill—I used to look out the window every morning and say, 'God, one day I want to walk up that mountain,'" she said in her PEOPLE cover story. "Last year over Christmas I did it... It felt like redemption."
In December, Oprah shared with PEOPLE that she was close to her “goal weight” of 160 pounds, but emphasized that her journey was not about a number but rather about living a more vibrant life.
Does Oprah use weight-loss medications?
In September 2023, the multihyphenate hosted Oprah Daily’s "The State of Weight" panel. At that time, she shared that she wasn't interested in taking weight loss medication. "Shouldn't we all just be more accepting of whatever body you choose to be in? That should be your choice," she said. "Even when I first started hearing about the weight loss drugs, at the same time I was going through knee surgery, and I felt, 'I've got to do this on my own.' Because if I take the drug, that's the easy way out.'"
But in December 2023, Oprah Winfrey opened up to PEOPLE about how her perspective on weight loss medication has changed over time.
"I now use [weight loss medication] as I feel I need it, as a tool to manage not yo-yoing," Oprah told the publication, without naming the specific drug she takes. "The fact that there's a medically-approved prescription for managing weight and staying healthier, in my lifetime, feels like relief, like redemption, like a gift, and not something to hide behind and once again be ridiculed for. I’m absolutely done with the shaming from other people and particularly myself."
Oprah shared that she started the medication before Thanksgiving "because I knew I was going to have two solid weeks of eating." Instead of gaining eight pounds like she did last year, she gained half a pound, per the publication.
But she emphasized that weight loss medication has not been a "magic bullet" in managing her weight. "It’s everything," she said, referencing her health and fitness routine. "I know everybody thought I was on it, but I worked so damn hard. I know that if I’m not also working out and vigilant about all the other things, it doesn’t work for me."
Taking a weight-loss medication silenced Oprah's 'food noise'
During the primetime special, experts claimed that new medications like Ozempic or Wegovy can silence "food noise" and help people lose weight. Food noise refers to "constant and persistent thoughts" about food, "to the point of feeling as if [subjects'] lives revolved around food," according to research published in the academic journal Nutrients.
Oprah shared an anecdote about how taking a weight-loss drug helped quiet her food noise.
"I’m not constantly thinking about what the next meal is going to be," she said. "I can eat a half a bagel and be fine...I just want less of the bagel."
Does Oprah use Ozempic?
The media mogul hasn't shared exactly which weight loss medication she's on—yet.
Oprah also made it clear that everyone’s weight loss journey is different. "Whatever your choice is for your body and your weight health, it should be yours to own and not to be shamed about it," she said." "I'm just sick of it, and I hope this conversation begins the un-shaming of it."
As she's gotten older, Oprah added that she's learned to let go of the shame she's felt about her body over the years. “It was public sport to make fun of me for 25 years,” she said. “I have been blamed and shamed, and I blamed and shamed myself.”
Now, she has a new perspective on her weight loss journey. "I realized I’d been blaming myself all these years for being overweight, and I have a predisposition that no amount of willpower is going to control," she told the publication. "I had an awareness of [weight loss] medications, but felt I had to prove I had the willpower to do it. I now no longer feel that way."
Watch Oprah speak candidly about her relationship with weight and shame below:
How does Oprah exercise?
Weight loss medication isn't the only tool in Oprah's kit: She's also an avid exerciser. During her weight loss special, she told viewers that she hikes three to five miles per day and also does "weight resistance training.”
Back in 2017, she told The Hollywood Reporter that she hits her home gym soon after waking up. “I have a fantastic Octane elliptical machine that is like a power mover—you can increase the length of your stride and your arm movement,” she said. “I’ll do 20 minutes on the elliptical and 30 minutes walking on the treadmill. I start out at the Level 3 incline setting and then every minute I add to the incline until I get to 12 or 15. And then I do sit-ups.”
After getting her heart rate up, Oprah said she’ll often cool down with 10 to 20 minutes of walking or sitting meditation.
Back in 1994, Oprah ran the Marine Corps marathon to celebrate her 40th birthday. (She even wore the bib number 40.) Oprah finished with a time of 4:29:15, which put her 8,210 out of 12,716 finishers. (She later told a fan that she couldn’t run any more marathons due to a knee injury.)
Despite her dedication to fitness, Oprah still doesn't love to work out.
“Here’s the thing about exercise: I still hate it so much,” she said on Today in 2020, per PEOPLE. But, she added, “I still do it.”
“I think everyone’s waiting to love it,” she continued. “You’re not going to love it, but you do the thing you need to do to make yourself feel whole and well.”
She opened up about weight loss medication in an ABC special, Shame, Blame and the Weight Loss Revolution
On March 18, Oprah opened up about weight loss medications and the controversy surrounding them in An Oprah Special: Shame, Blame and the Weight Loss Revolution which aired on ABC.
Oprah's shared her personal weight loss journey and her experience taking a weight loss medication. Her goal for the special is to release the judgement, shame, and stigma around weight while educating viewers on what prescription weight-loss medications are, who they're intended for, and what their side effects look like.
"It is a very personal topic for me and for the hundreds of millions of people impacted around the globe who have for years struggled with weight and obesity,” Oprah said in a statement before the special aired. "This special will bring together medical experts, leaders in the space and people in the day-to-day struggle to talk about health equity and obesity with the intention to ultimately release the shame, judgment and stigma surrounding weight.”
During the special, Oprah reflected on the body shaming she experienced throughout her career. “I took on the shame that the world gave to me," she recalled.
"I come to this conversation with the hope that we can start releasing the stigma and the shame and the judgment, to stop shaming other people for being overweight or how they choose to lose–or not lose–weight and, most importantly, to stop shaming ourselves," she said.
"The number one thing I hope people come away with is knowing that [obesity] is a disease, and it's in the brain," Oprah says in a new clip about the special on Good Morning America.
“It is a very personal topic for me and for the hundreds of millions of people impacted around the globe who have for years struggled with weight and obesity,” she told Oprah Daily in March. “This special will bring together medical experts, leaders in the space and people in the day-to-day struggle to talk about health equity and obesity, with the intention to ultimately release the shame, judgment and stigma surrounding weight.”
Why did Oprah quit WeightWatchers?
Fans were floored in late February when Oprah Winfrey announced that she was moving on from the board of WeightWatchers. The talk show host didn't give a lot of explanation at the time. However, it came just a few months after the she shared that she used weight loss medications as part of maintaining her health.
Essentially, the move was was linked to her upcoming special on weight loss medications, Oprah shared during a recent episode of Jimmy Kimmel Live!
Oprah's decision to leave WeightWatchers was based on her drive to speak freely in her special.
“I decided that because this special was really important to me and I wanted to be able to talk about whatever I wanted to talk about, and Weight Watchers is now in the business of being a weight health company that also administers drug medications for weight,” she said on said on a recent episode of Jimmy Kimmel Live! “I did not want to have the appearance of any conflict of interest.”
During the interview, Oprah quipped that WeightWatchers “almost” cried when she announced her resignation. But, she will still be involved in the company, writing in her original resignation statement, "I look forward to continuing to advise and collaborate with WeightWatchers and CEO Sima Sistani in elevating the conversation around recognizing obesity as a chronic condition, working to reduce stigma, and advocating for health equity."
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