only achieved the firm UNDERSTANDING that the game of chess is actually a series of 'mini-games' (ie opening, middlegame, endgame) , each with its own very distinct characteristics, but has also achieved the ABILITY to construct his own chess game from these very same elements.

Put in another manner, the chess master can not just 'take apart' a game of chess and reduce it to its most basic elements, but he can use these very same elements and 'put them together' to make a whole game.

In other words, a master has a very high level of technical skill, coupled with a one to one correspondence between his understanding and his playing level.

BOARD CONTROL AND MASTERY

It has always surprised me how little time books spend explaining the importance of theour chess friends explaining to us why they lost such and such a game...they had it all 'figured out', and then at the last moment (too late to help them) they noticed that the piece they wanted to move to such and such a square just couldn't do it. (it being an illegal move)

There are many such stories. And they come down to the same thing.

In the '80's appeared a new generation of chess stars from the Soviet Union who created quite a splash, not so much because they were such fantastic players, but because of what they did at the chess board: they spent more time looking at the cieling ( or the spectators) than they did at the chessboard.

I remember the first time I played Shirov.


studying Kasparov's games is a good lesson in the importance of counterplay. It would not be far from the truth if I were to argue that the only good reason he wrestled away Karpov's crown was because Karpov underestimated the importance of every position having an element of counterplay. In the long matches that they held together for the world title the same story would appear on the board time and again: Karpov trying his ''boa constrictor-give me a slight edge and then I will squeeze them to death'' approach to chess versus Kasparov's ''I am happier in an inferior position with some 'poison' in it''. Who won is now history.

Stay away from passive but solid positions. Think dynamically! Be prepared to play positionally inferior positions that offerBerkeley flocked to a brand new Whole Foods Market today, the city’s second, while other local grocery stores took note.

By Gill South

Today at 9:30 a.m. a new Whole Foods Market broke bread rather than cut a ribbon, and opened for business in the rapidly transforming Gilman shopping district in West Berkeley. The store, and the competition it represents, has been a catalyst for at least one other local grocery chain to sharpen up its act. Early reports suggest the market will be a welcome addition to the neighborhood for local residents.

An estimated 600 people took tours of the new Whole Foods store last week in the lead-up to today’s opening at its location on 10th and Gilman streets. This is the second Whole Foods store for Berkeley (the


first one opened at Ashby and Telegraph in 1990), the 41st Whole Foods in Northern California, and the 401st nationwide. It will be open 8 a.m. until 10 p.m. daily while the Whole Foods-owned Allegro Coffee roastery in-store, its first outlet on the West Coast, will be open from 6 a.m. every day.

The 47,000-square-foot market, with 85 car parking spaces, including electric charging spots, and 12 bike spaces, is employing 200 staff, two-thirds of them from other Whole Food stores while the rest are new staff members, said outreach team leader Kristen Tantarelli.

Whole Foods is testing some new concepts at the new Berkeley location, including a designated space and table in the specialty food section where certified cheese professionals will be on hand to cut cheese fresh fromPokémon Alpha and Omega Versions follow the trends set up by previous games in the Pokémon franchise. Two player characters (one male and one female) travel throughout a new region, Deltéo, on their respective Pokémon journeys. The Deltéo region is inhabited by various Pokémon, and as in Pokémon Black and White Versions, none of those available prior to Generation VII can be obtained before defeating the Elite Four.

The games' names were revealed on December 6, 2007.

A third Generation VII game, Pokémon Infinity Version, was revealed on December 12, 2012 to be a technical remake of and sequel to both Pokémon Alpha Version and Pokémon Omega Version.

Contents

Plot

Blurb

Game box blurb

Pokémon Alpha Version

"A new world filled with never-before-seen Pokémon! What are the true motives of the mysterious Team Vita? What is


do not overlap with sites of ribosome assembly, suggesting that the nucleolus contains previously unrecognized domains devoted to novel functions.

Christoph Cremer (University of Heidelberg) first described that small, gene-dense chromosomal territories are located near the center of the nucleus, whereas small, gene-poor chromosomal territories are located near the periphery. He also found that larger chromosomes tend to be located closer to the periphery of the nucleus. He explained that current modeling techniques cannot account for all of these observations. In an overview of new and forthcoming approaches in the nuclear structure field, he then discussed new microscopic technologies that are being developed in his group that will allow structural analysis to a precision level of 10 nm. Cremer stressed that beyond the development of new microscopy methods, quantitativeA court ordered Friday that items left by a member of France’s defunct royal family to a public foundation in the 1970s must be handed back to his heirs, but properties including two châteaux and a chapel will be left under the foundation’s control.

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A French court ordered Friday that a collection of items once owned by a member of France’s defunct royal family must be handed back to his heirs.

However, the heirs of Henri d’Orleans, who styled himself as the Count of Paris, failed in their bid to win control of his former estates, including two châteax and a chapel, donated by the Count to a public foundation in the 1970s.

Olivier Baratelli, the heirs’ lawyer, told the AFP news agency, that the items to be returned


are valued in the order of “tens of millions of euros” and consisted mostly of artworks.

Henri d’Orleans, a descendant of King Louis-Philippe and the former head of the Orleanist royal line, left a vast amount of his estate to the Saint-Louis Foundation in 1976. He died in 1999.

As well as significant paintings and antique furniture, the foundation’s properties, which are managed by the French Interior Ministry, include the Château d’Amboise (pictured) and the Château Bourbon-L'Archambault, as well as the Royal Chapel at Dreux, the traditional burial place of the French royal house of Orléans.

The count also gave the foundation jewellery estimated to be worth 50 million euros.

But the late Count’s nine children and one grandchild had claimed that contrary to French law, under which children cannot be completelyhe returned to his roots in the home industry.

Jay's broad experience with home systems led him to become licensed by the state of Vermont as a Property Inspector. He is also a member of the American Society of Home Inspectors (ASHI).

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People who regularly eat nuts, including peanuts, walnuts and tree nuts, have a lower risk of developing cardiovascular disease or coronary heart disease compared to people who never or almost never eat nuts, according to a study published today in the Journal of the American College of Cardiology. The study is the largest to date looking at frequency of nut consumption in relation to incident cardiovascular disease.

Recently, dietary recommendations have shifted toward diets including higher quantities of plant-based foods over animal-based foods, with most dietary patterns including nuts because of their association with reduced cardiovascular risk factors and unique nutritional composition.

While many past studies focused on nut consumption as a whole, researchers in this study also looked at the association between specific types of nuts -- peanut butter,peanuts, walnuts and tree nuts -- with major cardiovascular events. Peanuts were included even though they are actually a legume because they have a similar fatty acid and nutrient profile as other nuts.

The study looked at over 210,000 people, including women from the Nurses' Health Study and Nurses' Health Study II and men from the Health Professionals Follow-up Study, with up to 32 years of follow up. In all three groups, information about medical history, lifestyle and health conditions were collected via self-administered questionnaires every two years.

The primary endpoint of the study was major cardiovascular disease, defined as a combined endpoint of myocardial infarction, stroke or fatal cardiovascular disease. Secondary endpoints were total coronary heart disease, defined as fatal or non-fatal myocardial infarction, and total stroke, which included


coverage of the SASS and HEF schemes, which target nearly 26.5% of the Lao population, achieved approximately 85% of target, the coverage of the HEF and CBHI schemes showed little progress, with only 6.4% of the targeted group enrolled. In particular, the CBHI scheme, which targets approximately two-thirds of the Lao population, achieved only 3.7% of the target by 2014. In other words, the CBHI scheme has the largest target but the lowest achievement. This study chooses to evaluate the CBHI scheme for three main reasons: 1. the scheme is voluntary, 2. the targeted population is mainly the poor in rural areas with limited infrastructure and geographic constraints, and 3. the scheme has made extremely slow progress towards its given target.

In 2002, the Ministry of Health introduced theCBHI scheme as a pilot project in two districts, with technical assistance from the WHO and financial support from the United Nations Human Security Fund. As of September 2015, the scheme was available in 50 of the 148 districts in 17 of the 18 provinces, which is equivalent to 2,271 of the 8,507 villages. The total number of beneficiaries is reported to be 33,795 households (179,534 people). Currently, the benefit package of the CBHI scheme covers outpatient and inpatient services, including primary health care, specialist services, diagnostic tests, and prescribed pharmaceuticals that are available in hospitals. The household is the unit of enrollment, and the premiums vary depending on urban or rural residence and the number of household members. The premium rates have not been updated since 2005


representing the status quo CBHI scheme.

To minimize bias as a result of the communication process, the survey is carried out in two parts: a household survey and an experiment. First, five investigators conduct questionnaire-based interviews to collect households' demographic information and self-reported reasons for not enrolling. Second, respondents who complete the first session proceed to the experimental session with a different investigator. Before progressing to the second session, three investigators meet face-to-face with the respondents to explain the scenario and the rules of the experiment and to show them the pictures used in the experiment.

Each respondent encounters five randomly formed choice tasks. In each choice task, the participants compare three policy alternatives, two hypothetical policies and the CBHI status quo scheme and rank the policies based on whichthe targets of the CBHI scheme, are eligible for this study. However, in practice, we purposely omit monks because interviews with them are implausible. Members of the eligible population are stratified into three groups: CBHI active members, non-members, and ex-members. Member respondents are randomly drawn from a list of currently active CBHI members in each village, whereas ex-members are randomly selected from a list of those who dropped out before September 2016. Non-members are randomly selected from a list of households in each village excluding those that work in formal sectors and those identified as members or dropouts. Ultimately, there are 580 stratified random samples, representing 46% of the eligible population. Our samples comprise 210 (36%), 72 (13%), and 298 (51%) active members, ex-members, and non-members, respectively.

We exclusively


identify the household head or spouse as the representative of the household in the experiment. In the local context, the household head or spouse is the key decision-maker over the allocation of economic resources within the household, and exploring their preferences might result in acceptable and successful health insurance interventions in the future. However, only 88.45% of respondents are household heads or spouses.

The survey was conducted by the research team, Sydavong and Goto. For the household survey, eight local interviewers were employed (three interviewers were staff members of the Provincial Statistics Center who have experience with national surveys, and the other five were recent university graduates with experience conducting household surveys from their own social science studies).

The interviewers were divided into two teams and trained for two days.On the first day, the first team was trained as questionnaire-based interactive interviewers to collect demographic and socioeconomic information about the households. First, the trainer (Sydavong) explained the motivation, objectives and significance of this study in detail to engage the interest of the interviewers in the survey and motivate them. Second, the trainer gave detailed explanations of the survey procedure, informed consent, each question and the method of coding the respondents' answers. Third, the interviewers were trained in survey techniques, such as how to provide the necessary information, how to ensure the receipt of oral informed consent, how to ask sensitive questions and how to smoothly present questions in a sequence to retain the respondent's concentration. Any queries and potential confusion were freely shared among the team and


the trainer.

On the second day, the second team (who understood DCEs and the CVM as scientific methods) was trained as field experimenters. Similar to the members of the first team, the members of the second team were first informed about the motivation, significance, and objectives of this study. Then, they were introduced to the randomized conjoint experimental techniques. They were informed of the status quo of the CBHI scheme in Lao PDR and the aim of this study: to investigate the stated preferences of respondents towards hypothetical CBHI schemes defined by seven selected attributes. The team was thoroughly informed of the attributes and attribute levels used in this experiment---especially the attribute of the premium, which is rather complicated. They also received an explanation of the scenario for thisStarlin

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Polling for Vellore in Tamil Nadu was cancelled following cash seizure by income tax officials

The ruling AIADMK and main opposition DMK Saturday re-nominated their respective candidates for the elections to the Vellore Lok Sabha constituency on August 5.

The candidates were originally scheduled to contest in the polls that were cancelled by the election commission.

While AIADMK said its ally Puthiya Neethi Katchi chief AC Shanmugam would be fighting polls on its two leaves symbol, the DMK said DM Kathir Anand would be its candidate.

The Lok Sabha polls in Vellore constituency originally scheduled to be held along with 38 other seats in Tamil Nadu on April 18 was cancelled by the Election Commission.

The polls for the lone seat in Tamil Nadu was cancelled following cash seizure by income tax officialsin Vellore district and allegations of bid to influence voters by bribing them.

In April, police had filed a complaint against Kathir Anand, son of senior DMK leader Durai Murugan and two others in connection with the income tax raids and related cash seizure.

On March 30, tax officials had conducted searches on premises of Durai Murugan in Vellore district over suspected use of unaccounted money for electioneering and seized Rs 10.50 lakh of alleged ''excess'' cash.

Two days later, tax officials had said they seized Rs 11.53 crore from a cement godown belonging to a DMK leader's associate in the same district.

During searches at Durai Murugan's residence, some printouts with ward numbers written over them were found, but the "main person", indicating the assessee, had dismissed them as "junk", tax


officials had said.

While a sum of Rs 19 lakh was found during the raid on premises belonging to Durai Murugan, Rs 10.50 lakh was seized as ''excess'' after allowing the cash declared in the election affidavit of Anand, they had said.

Durai Murugan had then said, "We did not conceal anything," adding that all his family members were income tax assessees.

The DMK leader had alleged the raids were a ''conspiracy'' by some political leaders who could not face them in the electoral arena and also questioned the timing of the searches in the midst of a full-fledged election campaign.Today's Paper
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It's toon time in Tamil

Cartoon Network brings a special treat to the young audience around Tamil Nadu with the premiere of top rating local acquisitions, "The Legend of Buddha," which was premiered in Tamil on November 5 and the forthcoming "Pandavas: The Five Warriors" to be premiered in Tamil on November 19 at 11 a.m. Chennai-based Pentamedia Graphics Limited has produced these two feature-length animations.Besides these two, the other popular series such as "Baby Looney Tunes," "Robotboy," "Franklin," Harry and His Bucket Full of Dinosaurs," "Dragon Tales," "Bob the Builder - Project Build It," "Richie Rich," "Popeye show" and many more will be also be shown in Tamil. The classic 2D animation feature titled "The Legend of Buddha," is an inspirational story that details


the journey of Prince Siddhartha of the Kingdom of Kapilavastu, who is prophesied to abandon his opulent life for asceticism and spirituality. "Pandavas - The Five Warriors" is an adaptation of one of India's greatest epic, the "Mahabharata." With its exotic backgrounds, intricate sets and action-filled battle scenes, the film is broad in scope and grand in conception.Bill 47 Changes to Ontario Labour and Employment Legislation Have Now Passed

November 30, 2018

Summary and Overview

On October 23, 2018, the Ontario government tabled Bill 47, Making Ontario Open for Business Act, for first reading in the legislature. On November 21, 2018, Bill 47 passed third reading, and received Royal Assent the same day.

Bill 47 has made many important changes to various pieces of legislation governing employment and labour relations in Ontario, principally the Employment Standards Act, 2000 (“ESA”) and the Labour Relations Act, 1995 (“LRA”). Bill 47 has reversed many of the changes to the ESA and LRA that were enacted by the previous government in Bill 148 in late 2017, but does not constitute a straight repeal of Bill 148.

Most of the ESA and LRA changes Bill


housing lance system is a technology according to which an elastic engagement arm integral with the housing projects toward the inner space of the terminal container, and the engagement arm is engaged with an aperture or an abutment of an electric contact portion of the terminal so as to prevent the terminal from slipping out. In the course of inserting the terminal into the housing, the engagement arm comes in contact with the terminal and is elastically transformed. When the terminal is perfectly inserted, the engagement arm restores its original shape and engages with an aperture or an abutment of the terminal. Thus, perfectly inserting the terminal in the housing, the engagement of the terminal is automatically attained.
However, the engagement arm cannot be formed so large, and hence,MartinPatrick3 Expands — Yet Again

by Jahna Peloquin

Published: November 2015

MartinPatrick3's new shoe salon

Jahna Peloquin

A year and a half since its last expansion, MartinPatrick3 is at it again. The menswear, home, and interior design store has added another 600 square feet of space to its North Loop storefront in the Colonial Warehouse building—on top of its already-ample 12,00 square feet—making it its fourth expansion to date. The new space includes various lounges, a large dressing room area, and retail space, all designed by MP3's in-house interior design firm. Space previously occupied by offices has been remodeled into the store's first true shoe salon—a welcome addition indeed—while another room has been transformed into a showroom for Filigree Jewelers, a husband-and-wife-owned estate and fine jewelry business that operates a showroom on the


was done on the reserve
perimeter walk in November including on Greenhill Way, Farleigh Border
including the West Gorse corner, Noakes Way south, The Wend, the Courtwood Lane
entrance and Vale Border. In Linden
Glade where last year's part woodchip repair was failing, all three paths of
the triangle were relaid with adequate gravel.
Additional gravel was laid at two points in Middle Gorse, in part again
due to last year's woodchip repair proving inadequate, and minor repairs were
carried out on the path under a yew tree in Beech Grove and at the Great Field
entrance to Smith Grove. Finally the
damage done by the pickup's repeated runs through the Jubilee crossroads at the
junction of Vincent Avenue and Steven's Walk was made good, leaving all routes
there dry for walkers. 18 tonnes of
gravel were used in the month,bringing the phase 2 total to an end with the
full 50 tonnes budgeted for spread.

The photo shows the completed work in Linden Glade

The map below shows all points repaired to date over both phases of he project

Muddy Puddles Project - Update September & October 2017

During these two months
extensive repair work was carried out using 16 tonnes of gravel, the bulk of it
in October. Path areas repaired in
September were sections of Leafy Grove and Linden Grove using three tonnes of
gravel. Areas extensively repaired in
October included all three Gorses together with the Smith Grove junction with
West Gorse, the junction of Vincent Avenue and Stevens Walk on the crossroads at the link between Field 2 and Davids Crook (see photo),
the junction of The Wend, Leafy Grove and East Gorse, the Y


residual water. We are
currently considering how we might address this – any suggestions would be most
welcome.

Muddy Puddles Project -
Update July & August 2017

No work was done in July
since it was too dry. The wet spell in
early August exposed all the worst puddle areas, enabling 6 gravel work days
during the 3rd to the 11th period when 10 one tonne loads of gravel were
used. The two major puddles in Greenhill
Way, the three in Farleigh Border and the second dip in East Gorse were filled,
together with some mud covering on that route. That means the entire western and southern border path route from Field
1 through to the junction of Noakes Way with East Gorse has had all major
repairs completed. Additionally Middle
Gorse, Linden Glade and Pool Grove had additional gravel added toexisting
repair areas. The major puddle in Leafy
Grove and the puddle in the grass on the southern flank of Great Field have
been filled.

Special attention has been
paid to the extensive damage the contractors caused at the West Gorse - Smith
Grove junction. The huge ridges of earth
have been broken down to fill the deep ruts, with raking plus rolling using the
pickup tyres to level the ground. Then
some two and a half tonnes of gravel has been used to surface the extensive mud
over a large area. Since there is a
persistent puddle there, a reservoir has been left at the rear to take up
surpluses of rain, but this has been disguised by a log pile constructed over
it. Finally on an additional work day
the log pile has been landscaped with grasses and woodland plants


taken from
the area and planted around it to enhance the appearance and establish root
systems to take up water surpluses.Photos below show the puddle before and after.

Muddy Puddles Project - Update May & June 2017

A Mitsubishi L200 pickup truck is now used to bring in a
tonne of loose gravel at a time, with the gravel rake off and spread in one
operation. In May two one tonne loads
were used to improve the previous repairs in Middle Gorse, Avis Grove, The
Wend, the Great Field exit to Courtwood Grove and fill a hollow the contractors had caused at
the Leafy Grove/Stevens Walk junction. In June a third tonne load was used to complete The Wend repairs with a
major stretch of the section between
Bluebell Grove and Leafy Grove given adequate cover to cope withdistribute that first load. Ted was present to direct where the loads were going and walking between the locations, and he was joined by John Zareba for a while.

While Paul was away delivering the first load Tony turned up and loaded 10 bags into his car, being ready just as they returned to go off the the next point that Ted had advised while they reloaded. From then on Paul and Tony worked with both loaded vehicles together as directed by Ted. Tony did three full trips and Paul four full trips plus a fifth trip with just the remaining eight bags. The 5 people doing the loading handled an average of 30 bags each, a little less for unloading since Ted assisted with that at each point.

The


entire job was done well within two and a half hours and in one or two places bags were opened and gravel distributed where it was already muddy enough. As a trial a couple of bins of wood chippings were also distributed over a couple of potential puddles. We were delighted with how smoothly both days went, delivery and distribution.

Paul and his family were an invaluable help while enjoying themselves too.Paul also kindly cleared the empty plastic bags and the three large wooden pallets for us, saving us a disposal problem and has said that he'll be pleased to help again. He has also offered more gravel and wood chippings through his company as a donation.

While others were dealing with loads, Ted showed Paul's little daughter a numberof the woodland fungi which she clearly enjoyed. She was also thrilled to find a small ground beetle and though she was too nervous to pick it up she was delighted to see it running about on Tony's hands.The photo above right shows the gravel in Linden Glade and the photos below show Paul's vehicle and team, the gravel by the puddles in Avis Grove and the laid gravel in Middle Gorse.

5/10/16 - Neale reported that Paul had more gravel waiting for us in his yard and was making plans for delivery and disrtibution.

8/10/16 - Repairing the Wend 1 - Tony laid one bag of the gravel by the old Beech tree in The Wend to make a dry single-file path in preparation for the Fungi walk on


batch of Gravel - In addition to the two one ton bags of wood chips and 100 bags of grave delivered on 23rd, Paul arrived with two one ton bags of wood chips on his trailer. Tony had already loaded up his car with 12 bags of gravel. They went to Middle Gorse first, where they dropped and spread one and half tons of wood chips, followed by 12 bags of gravel on top on the centre line, making it all comfortable to walk through now. Paul had kindly brought rakes and shovels with him which helped a lot.

They then went on to The Wend and spread the remaining half ton of wood chips to complete Tony's work and delivered the other two one ton bags of woodchips plus the usual one-third ton of gravel bags to Linden Grove, which now had the two one ton containers of wood chips and about 30 bags of gravel stored ready for when the mud there gets bad.

Next a batch of gravel bags was delivered to the Avis Grove point close to Beech Grove where the small yew tree intrudes over Avis Grove and the path gets very muddy there. Then Paul delivered a large batch of gravel bags to the low point of East Gorse near the border to add to the batch already there, while Tony delivered a dozen gravel bags to The Wend just beyond and below the junction with Noakes Way which David had indicated gets bad.

Finally Paul and co. took the last few


bags of gravel to the junction of West Gorse and Farleigh Border while Tony stored away the orange mesh and unlocked the gate ready for departure.

There were many helpers. Paul brought a strong younger male relative as well as his female helpers from last time. FSW Tony, Neale, Linda and John worked to load/unload, while Ted directed to delivery points. The work was completed by just gone 1pm.

Above - Laying woodchip in Middle Gorse

Below and left - Job done!!!

24/10/16 - In The Wend the gravel alone in the puddle hollow (see photo by 20/10/16) felt like walking on an air bed, very unstable. Wood chips were added on top and had soaked up the moisture by the following day leaving even the worst puddle hollow stable and dryto cover the muddy lead-in. While working up there I've noticed many walkers regularly divert into the pool area to look at it, and in doing so have created a deep puddle by the left of the bench. Therefore I've filled that puddle and added a gravel diversion link for them (photo3). Where I'd been short of gravel at Pool Grove end I've completed the link (photo 4).

Junction of West Gorse and East Gorse at the border: Woodchip and gravel capping added to complete area, and also woodchip to fill in the worst of the contractor's tractor ruts across West Gorse entrance. Photo 2.

The Wend deep mud hole: Filled with woodchip to stabilise the mud and then thickly capped with gravel. Two photos attached, Before showing the ankle


deep mud, and After the treatment. Photos 3 and 4.

The bag of woodchip that was stuck out on the field is now completely cleared away. The remaining bag is neatly in store against the wood by Greenhill Way entrance and four polythene bags of woodchip behind it ready for loading into my car when required. Photo 8.

9/12/16 - (Report by Tony Flecchia)

I repaired a muddy patch at at the north end of the first Wend repair with woodchip and gravel and I spread the remaining 8 bags at the Pool Grove/David's Crook junction onto the path route alongside the original repair as this was getting wetter. This makes a twelfth location completed. This is the lighter coloured gravel from Seccombe, but it does darken after spreading. Photo 9.

Thisused the last of the stored woodchip to fill the large muddy hollow and stabilise the mud, then thickly capped it with gravel to give some degree of permanence. The remainder of the 24 bags of gravel I used on the muddy lead in and out path. Photo right. The woodchip bag is behind the wooden pallet at the rear of the store building, both ready for Paul to collect.

18/1/17 - Report by Tony Flecchia

To assist in completing David's photos for the display I picked up 5 bags of gravel from Seccombe yesterday, and then as arranged by David met up with him and helpers this morning. We laid a small strip at the Langfords Way end of Courtwood Grove while David took the photos below.

Beneath is the


boundary with taller ones to represent gateways to the pond
area and house the explanatory plaques. The overgrown tangle around the pond was
tidied and at least one species (bugle) seems to have taken advantage of the
extra light and thrown up new shoots.

Photos below show the cleaned pond with cracks showing

8/5/16 – Filling the Cracks

Karen, Linda
and Sharon concentrated on removing some of the vegetation around the edge of
the dry pond. Neale, Jim and Mark took turns at digging holes for two
large logs to represent an entrance to the pond area. David and Ted
removed much of the rotted fence and stacked it out of the way until we can burn
it at a later date. By the time we left the two gate posts had been
erected and a large amount of vegetationhad been removed.

Neale and Jim also investigated some of the cracks in the
pond’s concrete liner and they later revisited the pond to complete the clean and fill some of the worst cracks. The rainy
spring meant that it was not possible to complete the repairs and sealing at
this time.

Photos below show the filled cracks and the rain water beginning to fill the pond

15/5/16 - Creating the Henge

While
Neale & Simon began working on the positions for two further
"gate" posts, Ted used a mattock to make shallow holes for the four
short posts. David started helping Karen with gardening then moved over to make
the shallow holes deeper. In little more than two hours all six of the posts
were in their correct positions. David took the opportunity to move an
information board from the


old fence to the top of one of the gateposts. Karen
disturbed a frog in the vegetation and as usual the work was accompanied by an
avian chorus.

Photos below show the henge being installed

22/5/16 - The old fence around the pond
was removed by Ted apart from a few posts which were set in concrete, though
two had rotted at the base and broke off as the fence panels were removed.
Simon was eager to get started and began digging near the Holly where he was
joined by Neale. David’s group arrived, as did Angus and John, and digging moved
over beside the old fence to prepare to place four more logs, with Simon, Geoff
and Angus involved. John & Ted started three more holes to continue the
“henge” behind the Holly and were soon joined bythe ever-active Simon who used
the post-hole digger to smash through the buried flints. Geoff & Jim helped
to complete the work. At some point Neale & Jim re-mortared a few more
cracks in the pond liner. While all this activity was going on Karen did some
magnificent work in tidying up the vegetation around the pond.

15/6/15 – Enriching
the Flora

Karen
and Linda took several native plants to place around the pond, including
Night-flowering Catchfly, Cowslip, Comfrey and Selfheal.Neale investigated the water supply to the pond and confirmed
that water is still available. We planned to make enquiries with the water
company and Council about the prospect of getting the supply restored.

Photos below show the team of workers and water flowing into the cairn

7/8/16 - Neale, Karen and Jim went to
Linden Glade where they removed several overhanging


branches before attempting
to remove mud and water from the pond in preparation for later sealing of the
concrete surface.

14/8/16 - Sealing the Surface

Tony, Ted, Karen and
Neale took a trolley up to Linden Glade loaded with materials to seal the concrete
surface of the empty pool. Earlier John Zareba had swept out the last remnants
of the soil still present on the surface.
By 10.30am Neale had started sloshing sealant on to the semi-porous dry
surface, and for a short while was joined by Karen and Tony. The first coat was
completed and left to dry until about 12.30pm when Neale began work on the
second coat, making much more rapid progress as the surface was now much less
porous. Another wait for drying to take place and the third coat started at
2.00pm and was completed inHERE' and 'DONATED IN 2015 BY FRIENDS OF SELSDON WOOD' were
fitted by Tim Lloyd.

David Malins April 2015.

The gallery below shows all 5 new benches in place. Can you identify the location of each one?

Most
of the notice boards at the 6 entrances had been subject to vandalism or attempts to set them alight and
graffitti removal had made the polycarbonate opaque. Some information was out
of date and some wooden frames had rot and were coming apart. During 2013 the
FSW had attempted to interest Croydon Council in renovating the boards but
realised that this was impossible in the current financial climate.

In
early
August 2013, a meeting in the wood between Heather Govier (FSW Chair)
and
Meike Weiser (Croydon Community Partnership Officer) suggested that the
FSW should take a board apart to see what was involved in renovating
them.


David Malins,
John Zareba and Sid Potter dismantled a board. It was concluded that it
was not
possible to separate the poster and the clear polycarbonate layer
without
damaging them. Replacement was the only option.

David
took on the job of designing a new poster and coordinating the project. The
first step was to produce a draft design and cost the renovation process.After considering several options it
was decided that a new poster should be designed around an updated map that had
been produced for a Council Selsdon Wood leaflet (the copyright was owned by
the artist). The FSW would then see if they could afford to pay for it.

By
February 2014 David had produced a draft design for the 1145mm x 850mm poster
and during subsequent months the FSW Committee and Meike helped to detail the
copy and pictures.

Croydon
Council had obtainedJim Dunning's assistance.
Sid Potter volunteered the use of his garage for renovating the 3 boards from
the north end of the reserve, the other 3 being renovated in the FSW store.

Quotations
for the rest of the work:

Origination
of artwork by the artist Madeleine Smith £520

Printing
6 posters by Positive Images £339.60

Printing
6 'YOU ARE HERE >'s by Positive Images £70

8
gate name boards from Able Engraving £166.80 (5 for Info boards and 3 for other
gates.)

FSW
estimate for the renovation: £1,500

FSW
presented the proposed design, action plan and cost esimates to Croydon
Council who agreed to allow the FSW to negotiate with the suppliers direct,
subject to Council approval. The Council thanked FSW for funding the project.

David
submitted his brief to the artist and ordered the gate name boards.

At
the beginning of October 2014 the artist completed her first artwork proof.
After


amendments this was cleared to the printer and printed by the end of
November.

Sandra
Crapper had made submissions for grants to Selsdon Residents' Association and
Croydon Council. The FSW was very grateful for the donations - SRA £520, LBC
£500, Totaling £1,020.

Neale
& Jim with David, John and Karen's assistance continued the long job of
dismantling, repairing and treating the wooden frames. A blowlamp was required
to burn off rot and D/S tape used to attach posters to the back plate and to
free screws. The bottom bar of one frame was replaced. Most of the frames had
some rot and this was stabilised with Ronseal Wood Hardener and then painted
with Sadolin preservative. We were grateful to John Bickerstaff for the use of
his Brother P-Touch label machine to produce 'YOU ARE HERE >' labels. The new
poster andpolycarbonate sheets were sealed together with metallised tape before being mounted back in the frames with silicone sealant. The completed
frames were then bolted back onto their legs and their backs repainted.

By
the end of February 2015, the first complete Info board was put up by the car
park. Theproject had taken 18
months.


Dart Kitten

The Dart Kitten was a British-built ultra-light aircraft of the 1930s.

Design and development

The Dart Kitten was designed by A.R. Weyl in 1936 and built by Dart Aircraft Ltd at Dunstable, Bedfordshire.  It is an ultra-light single-seat low-wing aircraft with a fixed tailskid undercarriage. The four examples built were powered by a variety of engines of between 27 h.p. and 40 h.p.

Operational history

The Dart Kitten I G-AERP first flew in January 1937 and was sold to a private owner at Tollerton airport near Nottingham. It was stored during the Second World War. It was re-engined with a 40 h.p. J.A.P. J-99 postwar and flew with a private owner at Broxbourne airfield Hertfordshire before crashing there in November 1952.

The Dart Kitten II G-AEXT received its authorisation to flyA Closer Look At 10 Celebs Who Used DNA For Ancestry

Due to advancements in technology, it is now possible for you to trace your ancestry using DNA testing. All you have to do is swab your saliva and send it to the lab so that it can be tested. Check out the Best DNA test kits for ancestry. Below are 10 celebs who used DNA for ancestry:

1. Jessica Williams

She is a talented comedian who is popularly known for her role in Just For Laughs which was aired on Nickelodeon. When her DNA was analyzed, it was found that her lineage goes all the way to Cameroon in a tribe known as the Bamileke tribe. Discovering her roots gave her a new perspective about life and she also got


to learn about a tribe she never knew existed before.

2. Black Thought

Black Thought is an experienced rapper who is also co-frontman of the roots, which was a popular hiphop group. After having his DNA analyzed, it was found that the ancestors of her mother come from the Mende tribe which is mainly found in Sierra Leone.

The roots of his tribe actually extend to the Madinka tribe which is found in Senegal. This revelation proved vital because he could now understand his origins and also his ancestry.

3. Isaiah Washington

He is a popular actor who found a new purpose in life after his DNA was tested. After having his DNA tested back in 2005, he found out that he hailed from the Mende tribe which is found in Sierra Leone.He is popularly known for his role in the series Grey Anatomy, and this revelation gave him a new purpose in life which is to help the people of his tribe.

He started a foundation to help in rebuilding Sierra Leone.

4. Oprah Winfrey

She is well known for her popular talk show and she is one of the most popular celebrities who had their DNA tested. After having her DNA tested she found out that her ancestors are the Kpelle tribe mainly located in West Africa.

Oprah says that being able to trace her roots made her feel empowered after knowing the journey which her family had gone through.

5. Questlove

He was the co-frontman of the roots, which was a popular hiphop group. After having his DNA tested, he found out that


he originated from the Mende tribe which is mainly found in Sierra Leone.

After finding out about his origin, Questlove became determined to know more about Africa, which is his homeland.

6. Sheryl Lee Ralph

This popular singer and actress did a DNA testing which revealed that the roots of her family extended past the Caribbean and stretched all the way to Africa. It was also revealed that her ancestors hailed from the Tikar tribe mainly found in Cameroon.

Tracing her roots was a transformative experience in her life and she even travelled with her husband to Cameroon.

7. Whoopi Goldberg

This talented Actress after having her DNA analyzed, discovered that she descented from sub-saharan Africa. Her ancestors hailed from the Bayote and Papel tribes.

Discovering her trace gave her a new goal, which isto receiving her citizenship from Guinea-Bissau where her ancestors came from.

8. Wyatt Cenac

He is a comedian and after doing a DNA test found out that his ancestors come from the Yoruba tribe in Nigeria. This revelation transformed his life completely and gave her a new mission in life.

9. Q-Tip

This talented hiphop artist did a DNA test which revealed that his ancestors hailed from the Jola tribe, which is found in Guinea-Bissau. His ancestry played a key role in his career because his tribe is known for creating the lute, which is a musical instrument that resembles a banjo.

This instrument led to the creation of the blues and Q-Tip is well known for incorporating blues and Jazz in his music.

10. Michael K. Williams

He is a popular actor that was


discovered by the actor and rapper popularly known as Tupac Shakur. He found out that his ancestors came from the Mende tribe found in Sierra Leone, after his DNA was analyzed.

This was very important because he was very curious in finding out where his ancestors originated from.

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The most emblematic civil building in the town is the tower, built with a conglomeration of stone and lime that binds the regular stone block shapes. It is popularly known as the Mill Tower, and to it is attributed the original function of being a surveillance tower, to warn against thieves during the conquest of Sagunto by Aníbal.


This article is part one in a series. Read part two: "The People's Chief: How a life of activism led Stewart Phillip to stand before Kinder Morgan".

A crowd of hundreds had come together in downtown Vancouver very quickly.

Late in the afternoon of June 17, 2014, politicians in Ottawa gave conditional approval for the construction of the Enbridge Northern Gateway Pipelines project, which was planned to traverse the Great Bear Rainforest from north of Edmonton, Alberta, to Kitimat, B.C.

The former Conservative government hadn’t signalled that its decision would come that day, so there was no demonstration planned in advance. But in just a few hours, hundreds of Vancouver residents gathered downtown in a spontaneous protest against the approval.

The crowd was boisterous and energized by the momentum of an eventcoming together so quickly. At the intersection of Georgia and Hamilton streets, it grew to more than one thousand strong.

Grand Chief Stewart Phillip was driving home to Penticton when he heard the news. He pulled over to an orchard at Spirit Ridge, near Osoyoos, and took a moment to think. Then he turned his trusted Chevy Tahoe around and began the drive back to Vancouver.

Four hours later, he stood before the crowd at Georgia and Hamilton.

“I could sense the energy, and it was way up at the top of the Richter scale,” Phillip tells the Georgia Straight almost four years later.

“It’s official: the war is on!” he cried, to which the crowd responded with a thunderous roar.

Interviewed at his office in Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside, the long-time president of


But he didn’t stay in the Okanagan Valley for long. Less than a year after his birth, Phillip’s parents fell victim to a wave of tuberculosis that was sweeping through B.C. Both of them, members of the Penticton Indian Band, were sent to the Coqualeetza Indian Hospital, a sanatorium in Sardis, B.C., that operated until 1969. For a short time, one of Phillip’s older sisters tried to care for him. But she was only nine years old. As soon as authorities became aware that the children were alone, Phillip was sent to live with a white woman who lived an hour’s drive west, in Hedley.

Phillip had a relatively uneventful upbringing there. His foster mother was single when she took Phillip in but met a man a few yearslater. They married and Phillip remembers they took care of him well. He was never beaten, never went hungry, and always had a warm bed to sleep in.

“It was a small little bungalow,” he says of their home in Hedley. “We had a lawn….We had the white picket fence and little trellises for roses. She grew raspberries.”

When Phillip was five or six, the Hedley mill shut down and his new father lost his job. The family relocated six hours north, to Quesnel, and that’s where Phillip attended school.

In Grade 8, Phillip looked across the classroom and caught the eyes of a girl. As soon as they were old enough, there was a wedding. “I was 19, but emotionally I was 12,” Phillip says. They had two baby girls,


Indian within the child.”

A radical woman

Today Phillip wears his hair short, perfectly combed with an off-centre part. His shoes are clean, his pants are pleated, and he wears button-up shirts and beautiful ties that often incorporate Indigenous artwork. In the 1970s, Phillip had hair down to his shoulders, wore a red headband and sunglasses, and often sported military fatigues and combat boots. He was still finding himself as an activist, and was growing increasingly militant.

“I was very angry,” he remembers. “Without realizing it, the origin of that anger was that I had been apprehended. And the more I learned about our people, the more I resented the fact that I had missed out on that part of my life.”

Living with his birth family in Penticton, Phillip immersed himselfin the Indigenous culture from which the government had taken him when he was just 10 months old. He went to work in one of B.C.’s new band offices there and was active in the community. But Phillip didn’t become the man he is today until he met the woman with whom he would spend the rest of his life.

Without Joan Phillip, there is no Stewart. That comes through in every story the grand chief shares over hours of interviews that cover events spanning more than half a century.

“She’s my kindred spirit,” Phillip says. “She’s the most incredible person you will ever want to meet.”

In the mid-1970s, Joan Carter, as she was known then, was a radical.

She was a member of the Native Alliance for Red Power, a


militant group of Indigenous people that was established in Western Canada in the late 1960s. She was also an ally of the Black Panthers and the Palestine Liberation Organization. In 1975, Joan led a delegation of 18 Indigenous people from western B.C. to the People’s Republic of China. “Before the doors were opened to the West,” Joan remarks today.

“I’d been involved in politics since I was about 16 years old,” she adds.

Joan had never heard of Phillip, but Phillip knew of Joan.

“At that time in my life, there were certain books that any red-blooded activist was expected to read,” Phillip says. “Prison of Grass by Howard Adams, The Unjust Society by Harold Cardinal, Custer Died for Your Sins by Vine Deloria Jr.” And a book by Joan’s sister,our time, which provides a fertile terrain for every form of extremism,” he said, mentioning the attack in London this week by a British-born convert to Islam, who killed four people. [nL5N1H05C9]

The pope has repeatedly criticised Europe over the past five years for its perceived lack of vision, drawing the ire of German Chancellor Angela Merkel in 2014 when he described the EU as an elderly woman who was “no longer fertile and vibrant”.

He adopted a less hostile tone on Friday, but urged the continent not to close in on itself and resurrect walls -- a message aimed as much at U.S. President Donald Trump as at EU leaders struggling to deal with mass immigration.

Some 1.6 million refugees and migrants reached the European Union between 2014 and 2016


KLM flies Amsterdam-Rio biofuel flight; launches biofuel program

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We use cookies to improve your website experience. To learn aboutStoke-on-Trent bride has dad's ashes put into wedding nails Published duration 5 October 2019

image copyright Kirsty Meakin image caption Nail artist Kirsty Meakin put Mick Barber's ashes in clear acrylic on his daughter's nails

A bride whose dad died four months before her wedding still had him with her on the day after his ashes were incorporated into her acrylic nails.

Charlotte Watson and her husband Nick brought their wedding forward when Mick Barber's cancer spread.

When he died shortly before the big day, Charlotte's cousin, who works as a nail artist, had the idea to use his ashes in her design.

"It really felt like he was there," said Charlotte, from Stoke-on-Trent.

image copyright Cara Green image caption Charlotte was walked down the aisle by her mum Joanne on her wedding day

Charlotte's


cousin Kirsty Meakin, a nail artist and YouTuber, said: "The ashes were in a little glass pot and we looked through them and picked the pieces we thought would work."

Kirsty, who has more than a million subscribers on YouTube , said she wanted the ashes to be "suspended in clear acrylic" on Charlotte's nails.

"It was a bit surreal - these were the ashes of my uncle Mick. I felt slightly detached from it at certain points because otherwise I'd have been a blubbering wreck," she said.

"It was only when it was completed it sank in what it was. That her dad would be holding her hand on her wedding day."

image copyright Charlotte Watson image caption Mick Barber had been looking forward to his daughter's wedding

Charlotte said she "couldn'tbelieve" the finished result, which was a pink, grey and white design finished off with gems.

She had been planning to walk down the aisle alone but the night before the wedding in Congleton in August, she asked her mum to accompany her.

Her dad was included in the day in many other ways, including in pictures on the back of her shoes, in a pendant attached to her flowers and a teddy made from one of his jumpers and a pair of jeans.

image copyright Cara Green image caption Charlotte said it felt like her dad was by her side as she married Nick Watson


billion per year above the original NASA 5-year budget plan are completely wrong.

Asked what the reaction from Congress has been so far, he acknowledged that many members were not in town today so he was not able to speak with many of them, including Rep. Jose Serrano, chair of the House Appropriations Commerce-Justice-Science subcommittee that funds NASA. As for those he did speak with, he said only that one could expect to hear various reactions from them.

Bridenstine will have three chances tomorrow to expound on his remarks. At 9:00 am ET he is scheduled to speak to the Humans to Mars Summit. At 12:30 pm ET, he will hold an employee Town Hall meeting at NASA HQ in Washington, DC. At 3:00 pm ET he is scheduled toShelley Long on playing an 'ornery' grandma her new film 'Different Flowers'

Shelley Long is one of true comedic greats. From her star-making turn as Diane Chambers in Cheers to leading roles in 80s favorites The Money Pit and Troop Beverly Hills, to an awkwardly funny appearance in Dr. T & the Women, Long has been making people laugh for the better part of four decades. Now, with her new film Different Flowers, she hopes to continue the trend.


four-speed manual transmission with the top three gears synchronized was standard, with a three-speed manual fitted to 1900 versions. Diesel engines were supplied by newly acquired Minsei Diesel Industries, Ltd, which was renamed Nissan Diesel Motor Co., Ltd in 1960. The Cedric replaced the Austin A50 Nissan was building under license from Austin Motor Company of England, which was called the Nissan Austin. The six-seater Cedric introduced Nissan's first monocoque body and a wrap-around windshield. The first Cedric featured two stacked headlights on either side of a large grille (inspired by a late 1950s commuter train from Japan, the Tobu JNR 151). The taillights were the same as the Datsun Bluebird 312. and was considered a six-seater. April 1962 saw the introduction of a station wagon–van, able toseat eight people. The twin-stacked headlight approach, which first appeared on large North American and European vehicles in the late 1950s, was a novel approach to suggest size and luxurious accommodations, and was also used on the 1961 Isuzu Bellel and the earlier Mercedes-Benz S-Class of the late 1950s.


Is Mark Zuckerberg gearing up for a future presidential run?The king of Facebook has left a series of hints that may suggest he is ready to enter the political arena.

As Nick Bilton wrote for Vanity Fair, Zuckerberg has been described as someone who "wants to be emperor" by those that have known him well.

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Zuckerberg recently started his "personal challenge for 2017," which is focused on meeting individuals in every state. Just last week Zuckerberg visited a Ford factory in Michigan and made an unexpected visit to Ohio where he was hosted by a family of Democrats that voted for Donald Trump, according to the Guardian. A few days later Zuckerberg was on the move to Indiana where he met with members of a fire department in Elkhart, andthen he finished his trip in Wisconsin. He said he needs to visit about 30 states to complete the challenge by the end of the year.

David Plouffe, who served as campaign manager for Barack Obama, "joined the philanthropic Chan-Zuckerberg Initiative, to lead policy and advocacy. Other politicians from both parties have also joined the organization," according to Vanity Fair.

Zuckerberg also recently backtracked on his stance as an atheist. “I was raised Jewish and then I went through a period where I questioned things, but now I believe religion is very important," Zuckerberg said. Of course, it's quite difficult for someone to run for president and not believe in a God.

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Others say this certainly is a political campaign – just not for elected office. From fake


Serving the joyful cultivation of the theological craft for the life of the church: inquiring honestly, deliberating wisely, acting faithfully

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(Saving Power, Ch. 12) How does atonement theology influence the forms of the Church?

Peter Schmiechen makes a straight-forward claim in his final chapter of Saving Power: “theories of the atonement do in fact inspire particular forms of the church” (354). In other words, what a particular church believes about the nature of the atonement, and which language it uses to witness to it, influences the way that church does life together and lives for the world around her.

The connection between the two, atonement theology and church life, is formed by the way in which one understands “what God in Christ does and how the benefits of this event arethe grand province of the Lord, with whom Beck frequently reminds folks that he is in close communication. Never mind that Beck’s interpretation of the divine is in stark contrast to that of most theologians. Take, for instance, how he inexplicably juxtaposes the mission of the NRA with that of the Prince of Peace by saying “Our right to keep and bear arms will not be infringed. We will follow the footsteps of Jesus Christ.” And while Beck never reveals where in scripture he learned that Jesus’ footsteps were fortified with firearms, he returned to the theme several times with pronouncements like this:

“Jesus was a man of God. He was a man of peace. He was a man of forgiveness. But make no mistake, Jesus Christ was also


I don't view conservatism as a form of psychosis, and would like conservatives to harbor the same attitude toward progressivism. Happy warriors are better than grim antagonists.

In the weeks since the election, my hopes have been buttressed by conservatives willing to say that since Republican candidates have lost the popular vote in five of the last six presidential elections, new thinking might be in order. Democrats went through the same dismal cycle between 1968 and 1988, producing a reformation on the center-left. Conservatives are surely capable of the same.

For three decades, liberals were continually reacting to conservative criticisms. They regularly proclaim their love for markets, and Bill Clinton went so far as to declare that "the era of big government is over." Now, finally, conservatives are responding toright that rejects adjusting to a new electorate and to circumstances very different from the ones that Ronald Reagan inherited in 1980. Strategies for future victories are based on a naked use of government power to alter the political playing field in a way that diminishes the political influence of groups likely to be hostile to the conservative agenda.

The tea party movement cast itself as an authentic grass-roots expression of democracy, and in some ways it was. But the conservative legislatures it swept into office in so many states in 2010 took decidedly anti-democratic actions aimed at reducing the size of the electorate through a variety of voter suppression measures — hard-to-obtain voter IDs, shorter early voting periods, new barriers to voter registration drives, and long ballots that


anti-union crowd waited until after the election to pass it. Snyder had avoided taking a stand on right-to-work until just last week when he miraculously discovered it would be a first-rate economic development measure. The law was included as part of an appropriations bill to make it much harder for voters to challenge it in a referendum.

The political motivation here is obvious. Union families are the premier cross-racial Democratic constituency. Nationwide, President Obama carried union households by 18 points, but non-union households by only one — a "union gap" of 17 points. In Michigan, the union gap was an astonishing 32 points: Obama won union households 66-33 percent, the rest of the electorate by 50-49 percent.

But the most disturbing aspect of the Michigan power grab is what itAustralia native beat out 93 contestants on Sunday night to take the title. She took the crown held by the

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Even since the beginning of 2014, Atlanta rapper Young Thug has been riding a wave of buzz. He made his mark last year with his mixtape, 1017 Thug, which had a slow burn but got extra attention when it landed on a number of end of the the year Best Albums lists (including ours). Since then, Drake and Kanye West have both been seen dancing to his menacing song "Danny Glover." Meanwhile, his other song "Stoner" already has remixes from the likes of Wale, Jim Jones, and Jadakiss.

We've written about Thug and his rise recently, but actually speaking with him is a different story. He's just as outspoken and blunt as his own songs suggest, an attitude that he shares with the artist he says he shares theMissouri Arts Awards 2017

Since 1983, the Missouri Arts Council and the State of Missouri have been honoring our state’s arts heroes—the people who make the arts happen. The annual Missouri Arts Awards celebrate people, organizations, and communities that have made profound and lasting contributions to the cultural and artistic climate of the state. Honorees are selected by an independent panel in six categories: Arts Education, Arts Organization, Creative Community, Individual Artist, Leadership in the Arts, and Philanthropy.

The 2017 Missouri Arts Awards were presented in a ceremony in the Capitol Rotunda in Jefferson City on February 8, 2017. Enjoy the remarks by the honorees as well as by Department of Economic Development Director Mike Downing in this edited video.

Arts Education | Barbara Berner, St. LouisArtistic director since 1999 of


the six ensembles comprising The St. Louis Children’s Choirs and conductor of the Choirs’ premier touring group—providing in-depth performance opportunities and character education for 450 young singers ages 6-18 from 85 zip codes

Arts Organization | Shakespeare Festival St. Louis
Year-round program of theatrical performances, education outreach, and community involvement stoked by the works of Shakespeare—“in the Schools” locally and on tour, “in the Streets” making grassroots connections, “in the Park” every summer under the stars

Creative Community | Village of Arrow Rock
A living time capsule in the Missouri heartland that plays host to 100,000 visitors each year to enjoy its 19th-century buildings, intimate ties with painter George Caleb Bingham, and myriad artistic events such as the Heritage Festival and performances at the Lyceum Theatre

Individual Artist | Jerry Ford, Cape Girardeau
Jazztrumpeter and band leader whose music with his Jerry Ford Orchestra, its spinoff ensembles, and the Cape Girardeau Municipal Band has been a mainstay of the region since 1957 at innumerable concerts, dances, parties, festivals, fundraisers, and special events

Leadership in the Arts | Gary R. Gaydos, Florissant
Dynamo of the cultural life of his north St. Louis community through four decades as manager of the Florissant Civic Center Theatre, advisor to the Florissant Fine Arts Council, board member of the Missouri Association of Community Arts Agencies, and more

Philanthropy | C. Richard “Dick” Belger and Evelyn Craft Belger, Kansas City
Leaders of a century-old multi-state crane and hauling company who have a passion for building arts infrastructure: the Belger Arts Center spotlighting contemporary American art and the Belger Crane Yard Studios


furnishing galleries and working spaces for 56 artists

Friends in the Garden by Annie Helmericks-Louder

Signature Image and Awards Artwork

Signature Image |Friends in the Garden, a pastel drawing on paper by Annie Helmericks-Louder of Warrensburg, is featured on the 2017 Missouri Arts Awards poster, the invitation to the awards ceremony, and the program for the ceremony.

Awards Artwork | Recipients of the Missouri Arts Awards (other than Creative Community, which receives special signage) receive a handcrafted artwork created by a Missouri artist working in glass. The artists of Astral Glass Studio in New Haven—Gary Rice, Judy Rice, and Lance Stroheker—made the awards artwork for the 2017 honorees.

Awards artwork by Astral Glass Studio

Honorees

Arts Education | Barbara Berner, St. Louis

As artistic director and CEO of The St. Louis Children’s Choirs, Barbara Berner leadsa multi-pronged program recognized not only as one of the largest in the U.S. but one of the finest in the world. “They are among the best children’s choirs I have found in my travels around the globe,” says David Robertson, music director of the St. Louis Symphony, for which the Choirs’ top ensembles are the official children’s singers.

Founded in 1978 with one ensemble and 14 singers, the Choirs now encompass six ensembles with 450 singers ages 6-18 from 200 schools and 85 zip codes. The Choirs’ faculty teaches music and imparts character education, from a beginning experience for first-graders to advanced ensembles that tour internationally. The repertory includes classical, contemporary, jazz, gospel, and folk music.

The Choirs reach more than 20,000 people through their seasonal concerts, tours, community


outreach, and performances with partners as varied as the Ambassadors of Harmony and African Musical Arts. They offer an Audition Workshop and Master Class, Music Careers Workshop, Summer Music Camp, Vocal Jazz Camp, a four-day Music Teacher & Choral Conductors Workshop, and the Music Made Together and other programs for educators and students in under-resourced school districts.

Barbara Berner joined the Choirs’ artistic staff in 1996 and became artistic director in 1999. She directs the Concert Choir, the top treble-voiced touring ensemble. She exemplifies the last line of Choirs’ theme song, We Gather Here Together: “that music made together may one day heal mankind.”

Arts Organization | Shakespeare Festival St. Louis

Throughout the year Shakespeare Festival St. Louis brings the community the timeless delights of Shakespeare and the transformative power oflive theatre. The Festival produces Shakespeare “in the Schools, in the Streets, in the Park” in a raft of education programs and more than 250 public performances. In 2016, the Festival reached a milestone: the number of people who have benefited from its programs since it began in 2001 now total more than one million.

The Festival’s cornerstone is a month-long production every summer on an outdoor stage in the heart of the city’s Forest Park. The performances are accessible and inclusive—no gates, no tickets, no cost.

Beyond the park’s mainstage, the Festival produces the annual Shakespeare in the Streets. Every year a creative team works with residents of one neighborhood to tell their stories through reimagining a Shakespearean play. Another pathbreaker is SHAKE 38. During this free five-day event,


artists from around the region perform and riff on Shakespeare’s 38 canonical plays. Performances take place in parks, coffeehouses, YMCAs, hookah bars and more. Partnerships with organizations and businesses from bookstores to breweries further inspire collaboration and conversations.

In schools in St. Louis and on tour, the Festival provides education and outreach including shows, workshops, summer camps, and intensive acting training.

“Our work is not just theatrical in scope—it’s civic in scope,” says Artistic and Executive Director Rick Dildine. “And Shakespeare is our partner in the shaping of our community.”

Creative Community | Village of Arrow Rock

The Village of Arrow Rock in the Boonslick region of central Missouri flourishes as a unique fusion of history and the arts.

Though the village has only about 50 residents, “Arrow Rock has not only survived,it has thrived because of the integral role the arts play in the day-to-day life of the community,” says Kathy Borgman of the Friends of Arrow Rock.

The village was founded in 1829 atop a flint-bearing bluff that had been a landmark on the Missouri River for 12,000 years. Now Arrow Rock draws 100,000 visitors each year for an authentic experience of Midwestern life in the 19th century.

Renowned painter and politician George Caleb Bingham spent his youth and the formative years of his career in Arrow Rock. The house he built for his family is now part of the Arrow Rock State Historic Site.

In 1963 the entire village was named a National Historic Landmark for its ties to Bingham and the Santa Fe Trail, and for its scrupulously restored


buildings. These include the Lyceum Theatre, which plays annually to 25,000 people.

Individual Artist | Jerry Ford, Cape Girardeau

Since 1957, trumpeter and band leader Jerry Ford has played a swinging soundtrack for the community life of southeast Missouri. “No matter what event, fundraiser, celebration, or altruistic activity the people of the region attend,” said Arts Council of Southeast Missouri members Wendy and Gary Rust, “they will find the live music of Jerry Ford filling the air.”

Mr. Ford first shared his talents in public when he was a high school sophomore and joined the Cape Girardeau Municipal Band. He still plays with the band and has also been its unofficial business manager for many years. In 1960, he started his big band Jerry Ford Orchestra. The orchestra not only playsas a full group but splits into a Jazz Combo, Patriotic Brass Band, German Band, and Dixieland Band. Mr. Ford leads his musicians from greeting steamboat passengers at dockside to playing for inaugural balls at the State Capitol.

Mr. Ford’s generosity is also exceptional. He and his groups often donate their musical services. He has volunteered with many organizations including, for more than 25 years, the Cape River Heritage Museum. He is a board member with the museum, the Arts Council of Southeast Missouri, and the Music Academy at Southeast Missouri State University. He served for 16 years on the Board of Managers for the university’s River Campus.

Mr. Ford was honored in 2007 with the Arts Council’s Jeff McGuire Friend of the Arts Award and in 2015 with the


Southeast Missourian Spirit of America Award.

Leadership in the Arts | Gary R. Gaydos, Florissant

Through four decades as a leader in both his profession and his volunteer activities, Gary R. Gaydos enriched the lives of countless people in his home town of Florissant, North St. Louis County, the St. Louis region, and beyond.

Mr. Gaydos became the manager of the Florissant Civic Center Theatre in 1978, six years after the theatre was built along with the J. Eagen Civic Center in Florissant, one of Missouri’s oldest settlements and its 12th largest city. Until he retired in 2016, he was the driving force of the theatre’s programming, long-range planning, and day-to-day operations. In his final year, more than 120,000 people attended performances by local community theatre companies, concert bands, dance studios,and schools as well as by national touring groups.

Moreover, for more than 30 years Mr. Gaydos was board advisor to the Florissant Fine Arts Council. For 28 years he directed the Junior League’s St. Louis Family Series for area schools. He spearheaded the Children’s Celebration of Performing Arts at the city’s annual Valley of the Flowers Festival. He served four terms on the board of the Missouri Association of Community Arts Agencies including three years as president. He did other volunteer work on behalf of the St. Louis Symphony, Touhill Performing Arts Center, Webster University, and the Missouri Arts Council.

“Gary is a visionary,” said Larry March, president of the Hawthorne Players and director of the Northwinds Concert Band, “who has sought to bring the very best to his


president and CEO. She is the director of the Belger Arts Center and Belger Crane Yard Studios.

Through docent-led tours, programming for children, and themed exhibitions, the Belger Arts Center showcases the family’s in-depth collection of mid- and late-century American art. The Belgers also buy work by students and emerging artists for their “encouragement collection.” The Center sends artworks on tour to museums around the country.

The Crane Yard Studios provide studios and kilns for more than 50 artists plus six artists-in-residence, as well as a ceramics supply business, lithography workshop, metal studio, classrooms, and galleries.

Furthermore, the Belgers focus substantial financial support and personal involvement on Kansas City Ballet, the National World War I Museum and Memorial, and the ceramics program of Kansas City Art Institute.

Artists of the Signature ImageGlass is a vital player in the city’s growing artistic community.

Before moving to Missouri in 2003, Gary and Judy Rice lived in their native California, where they ran the glass studio he had started in 1974. In 2009, they brought Astral Glass to New Haven, and Illinois native Lance Stroheker joined the team.

Astral Glass makes art both for sale in the studio and for custom commissions. The artists use a variety of techniques: glass may be hand blown, fused, kiln formed, slumped, etched, or stained. They make jewelry, goblets, bowls, vases, ornaments, flowers, chess sets, perfume bottles, paperweights, light fixtures and much more.

The studio features not only the retail shop and glass-working areas, but a viewing area with rows of seating so visitors can watch the artists at


work.

“Nearly every piece of our artwork is at some level a collaboration between the artists and the physical characteristics of the medium,” says Gary Rice. “Whether we are working in the warm studio with kiln formed glass, or the hot studio with off hand blowing, we make every effort to let the glass describe itself.”

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Quilters from beginners to veterans gather every May in Arrow Rock, the 2017 Missouri Arts Awards Creative Community, for a week of classes, projects, and fun with nationally recognized quilt teachers at the Arrow Rock Quilt Camp.

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Millions of fasting Iranians have participated in the nationwide rallies this morning to express solidarity with the Palestinian people, who have been suffering from Israel's atrocities for decades.

The huge demonstrations saw Iranians venting their anger on the Tel Aviv regime and its allies and calling for an end to the Israeli attacks on the besieged Gaza Strip.

Carrying placards and chanting slogans against Israel and the US, the demonstrators voiced their support for the people of Gaza, and reiterated their opposition to the occupation of the Palestinian territories by the Zionist regime of Israel.

Each year, the International Quds Day is celebrated on the last Friday of the holy Muslim month of Ramadan.

The event's overarching theme is support for the Palestinians and fierce denunciation of Israel.

The day is also seenSuicide attacks, bombings, and random stabbings – that was how four Melbourne men allegedly planned to inflict mass casualties in a series of coordinated terror strikes on Christmas Day, investigators believe.

New details from the weeks-long investigation into the terror plot are emerging as three men - Abdullah Chaarani, 26, Hamza Abbas, 21, and Ahmed Mohamed, 24 - faced charges in Melbourne Magistrates Court on Friday afternoon.

A fourth terror suspect, identified only as a 22-year-old man from Broadmeadows, was charged later on Friday evening and is due to appear in court on Saturday, ABC reported.

Three others, including a 20-year-old woman, were also arrested but later released without charges. Among them was a young IT worker, Zakaria Dabboussi, who was briefly detained and but released without being charged, according to


police and media reports.

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Abdullah Chaarani, 26, appearing in the Melbourne Magistrates Court on Friday. Artist's sketch

Hamza Abbas, 21, left, and Ahmed Mohamed, 24 are depicted in this court sketch

Family members of one of five men charged over an alleged terror plot leave the Magistrates Court in Melbourne on Friday

A family member of one of the five terror suspects is pictured leaving court in Melbourne on Friday

Mr Mohamed gestured at some veiled women, who were later observed allegedly attacking a photographer outside court, according to the Herald Sun

Ahmed Mohamed, 24, is seen leaving Melbourne Magistrates Court on Friday after he was charged with preparing and planning a terror attack

The four suspects were rounded up by heavily armed officers in a series of raids across Melbourne's northor planning, a terrorist act.' None of the three applied for bail as the court heard it would take weeks for police to process evidence collected in the raids.

Mr Charaani, upon being charged, 'stretched his neck and nodded to two completely veiled women sitting in the public gallery,' the Herald Sun reported.

Mr Mohamed gestured at the same women, who were later observed allegedly attacking a photographer outside court, according to the Herald Sun.

An attorney representing Mr Abbas said he required a nurses attention for face, hip, back and shoulder injuries sustained during his arrest, according to the Herald Sun.

This map shows where police raided several homes on Thursday night and Friday morning in order to thwart what investigators believe would have been a series of terror attacks in


police' were heavy handed during the raid which struck fear into the hearts of his three young cousins who became inadvertently caught up in the search.

Mr Dabboussi's father, Youssef, said his son was at the gym when armed officers beat down the door and pointed their weapons at two eight-year-old children inside, the Age reported.

He has also claimed his son Mohamed was assaulted by officers carrying out the search warrant, which resulted in a laptop being seized.

Mr Dabboussi's 12-year-old nephew Mahmoud Taleb said he jumped up off his bed and laid on the floor face down when he heard the officers enter the house.

Police have foiled an alleged terror plot to attack iconic Melbourne locations including Melbourne's Flinders Street Station (pictured) on Christmas Day

Federation Square (right) and StPaul's Cathedral (left) were also to be targeted

But despite cooperating with their demands, Mr Taleb told The Age he was knocked over the head with a gun as officers kicked and demanded he tell them where the 'bombs' were.

Mahmoud Taleb was pictured on the Age website standing over a pool of blood that stained the carpet.

Mr Dabboussi later arrived at the home and was pushed face first against the driveway before he was taken into custody, the Age reported.

His father said Mr Dabboussi had been outspoken about his position on the Syrian conflict but is not an extremist, while his sister said he is 'all talk' and was planning to spend Christmas Day with loved ones in Geelong.

The Australian Federal Police, Victorian Police and ASIO were involved in


a home in Meadow Heights (pictured) on Friday

Police Chief Graham Ashton and Premier Daniel Andrews said there had been seven arrests. Four of those detained were charged, and three were let go without charges

A forensic investigation is still underway at a property in Meadow Heights where police are believed to have found 'the makings of an improvised explosive device'

TERROR RAID ARRESTS Counter terrorism officers arrested six men and one woman during raids across Melbourne on Thursday night and Friday morning. A 20-year-old woman and a 26-year-old man, both from Meadow Heights, were released without charge. A second man was also released without charge. Four Australian men remain in custody. Police said charges relating to preparing a terror attack were laid on: A 24-year-old man from Meadow Heights

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Purmort, Aaron Joseph age 35, died peacefully at home on November 25 after complications from a radioactive spider bite that led to years of crime-fighting and a years long battle with a nefarious criminal named Cancer, who has plagued our society for far too long. Civilians will recognize him best as Spider-Man, and thank him for his many years of service protecting our city. His family knew him only as a kind and mild-mannered Art Director, a designer of websites and t-shirts, and concert posters who always had the right cardigan and the right thing to say (even if it was wildly inappropriate). Aaron was known for his long, entertaining stories, which he loved to repeat often.

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The January 2013 mineral resource estimate for the Los Azules Copper Project was prepared under the direction of Robert Sim, P.Geo. of SIM Geological Inc. The mineral resource estimate uses drill hole sample assay results and the interpretation of a geologic model that relates to the spatial distribution of copper in the deposit. Interpolation characteristics were defined based on the geology, drill hole spacing and geostatistical analysis of the data. Block grade estimates were done using Ordinary Kriging (OK) with a nominal block size measuring 20 meters long, 20 meters wide andadvance a foreign policy based solely on Wilsonian ideals. We will have to continually play various parts of the world off China, just as Richard Nixon played less than morally perfect states off the Soviet Union. This may well lead to a fundamentally new NATO alliance, which could become a global armada that roams the Seven Seas. Indeed, the Dutch, the Norwegians, the Germans, and the Spanish are making significant investments in fast missile-bearing ships and in landing-platform docks for beach assaults, and the British and the French are investing in new aircraft carriers. Since Europe increasingly seeks to avoid conflict and to reduce geopolitics to a series of negotiations and regulatory disputes, an emphasis on sea power would suit it well. Sea power is intrinsically less threatening


of international law, Hugo Grotius, was a seventeenth-century Dutchman who lived at the height of Dutch naval power worldwide. Because of globalization, the twenty-first century will see unprecedented sea traffic, requiring unprecedented regulation by diplomats and naval officers alike. And as the economic influence of the European Union expands around the globe, Europe may find, like the United States in the nineteenth century and China today, that it has to go to sea to protect its interests.

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The Baltics are knocking at NATO's door. Don't let them in. By Jeffrey Tayler "The Next Threat to NATO" (February 2002)The Baltics are knocking at NATO's door. Don't let them in. By Jeffrey Tayler

The ships and other naval equipment being built now by the Europeans are designed to slotThe reason for the calls: Their businesses in the Centre Shops of Longboat Key had been burglarized.

According to Longboat Key Police Capt. Steve Mislyan, patrol officer Dean Greathouse pulled into the Centre Shops, located at 5370 Gulf of Mexico Drive, just before 1 a.m. Monday for a routine patrol of the plaza. As Greathouse pulled into the shopping center, he saw two men take off running toward the back of the complex, and he called the other Longboat officer on duty for backup. Upon exiting the vehicle, he noticed a broken window at Ciao, Italia! and made a radio call to dispatch. He approached the plaza and saw that more windows were broken.

Greathouse put out a call for assistance, to which Bradenton Police Department officers and a Manatee


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Murray, who joined Brighton from Bournemouth in 2016, scored his sixth goal of the season

Bournemouth came from behind twice to edge three points clear of the Premier League relegation zone by drawing with Brighton at the Amex.

Callum Wilson netted the Cherries' second equaliser 11 minutes from time, instinctively stabbing home after a goalmouth scramble.

Anthony Knockaert had broken the deadlock with his second goal of the season, expertly converting Jose Izquierdo's unselfish pass, but Steve Cook's header levelled matters before half-time.

Glenn Murray re-established Brighton's lead by smashing home from Izquierdo's pass after a lovely ball from Pascal Gross.

Both sides missed chances - Jordon Ibe hitting the post for Bournemouth and Marc Pugh forcing a save from Mat Ryan, while Izquierdo was deniedby Asmir Begovic.

But Wilson's goal ensured Bournemouth moved up a place into 13th, one spot below their hosts, who have won only twice at home since September.

Brighton lacking goals but showing promise

Brighton have won just once since 4 November, but they could take plenty of encouragement from their performance against Bournemouth.

They were on top in the early stages and deserved to go in front through Knockaert, who scored the Premier League's first goal of 2018.

Izquierdo went close more than once, and Murray also had opportunities, but Gross was the standout player - enjoying the free role he was given by Chris Hughton and playing a key part in both goals.

For all their creativity, Brighton have struggled to score goals this season.

Only two teams have scored fewer top-flight goals


than them in 2017-18, and this was just the fourth time this campaign that they have netted more than once in a game.

They could have had three against Bournemouth had Izquierdo squared to Davy Propper when through on goal in the second half.

But, despite being held to a draw, there were plenty of signs they can up their rate of goalscoring this year.

Steve Cook's only other goal this season was a late injury-time winner against Newcastle in November

Persistence pays off for Bournemouth

Bournemouth have struggled to string together runs of good results this season, and went eight league games without a win before their 2-1 victory over Everton on 30 December.

Defeat at the Amex would have been their fifth in seven games, but Wilson's goal makes things look morepositive - they have taken five points from a possible nine.

And the strength of character manager Eddie Howe has often spoken of was in evidence here.

Knockaert's early goal looked to have rattled them, and Brighton could easily have added to their lead inside the first 20 minutes, when Murray and Izquierdo were denied.

But Bournemouth rallied and began to make chances of their own before Cook's timely equaliser.

Ibe would have given them the lead had he found the net rather than the post, and they even pushed for a winner after Wilson's late leveller.

But they finished with a much-needed point, with matches against Arsenal and Chelsea to come later in the month.

What the managers say

Draw feels like two points lost - Hughton

Brighton manager Chris Hughton: "It's hugely disappointing. We


to work so hard, and it's been a feature of our recent games.

"It's good to see us scoring again, but we needed to defend better to win."

New records for Brighton - the best of the stats

Brighton scored as many goals against Bournemouth as they did in their previous nine Premier League games.

Bournemouth have now scored 50 away goals in the Premier League.

Wilson has scored 16 Premier League goals without providing an assist - the most a player has scored in the competition without assisting.

Murray has six Premier League goals this season, just one off his best tally in a single top-flight campaign (seven goals in 2014-15).

Only Scott Dann (nine) has scored more Premier League goals than Cook (eight) of all central defenders in the competition since August 2015.

Brighton'sopener was their quickest Premier League goal (four minutes 32 seconds) and just their sixth in the first half of a match in the competition this season.

Izquierdo became the first Brighton player to register two assists in a single Premier League game.

Man of the match - Pascal Gross (Brighton)

Gross had five key passes in the game - beaten only by Ibe (six) and was involved in both Brighton goals

What's next?

Both teams turn their attention to the FA Cup for third-round weekend. Bournemouth host Wigan (15:00 GMT) on Saturday, before Brighton welcome Crystal Palace on Monday (19:45).


and all-electric vehicles in California topped 42,000, up 500 percent from 2011.

Sales of new, standard hybrid vehicles, another segment where California leads the nation, totalled 89,486 through September this year. That represents 6.4 percent all new cars sold state-wide in the January-September period.nearly indistinguishable from one another, hurrying as much as we could without running outright.

The Knot was a riot of activity when we stumbled in from one of the upper halls, the Sinister Physician having organized what looked like an impressive field infirmary from Arsenal supplies. Half the cots were filled with soldiers, only the most lightly wounded of them kept awake instead of placed under a sleeping spell. Priests and mages were swarming all around but the Sinister Physician himself was seeing to a pair of cots set apart from the rest and from each other. In more ways than one, I thought, since one of the people on the cots was bound by leather straps and had half a tenth of crossbowmen trained on her at all


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Saghmosavank monastery was built at the edge of Kasagh river's gorge, atop its right side. The monastery was mentioned in written sources from the Middle Ages and its entire complex was completed in the first half of the XIIIth century by Vache and Qurd Vachutyan. The complex includes the churches of St.Zion (1215) and St.Astvatsatsin (1235), a gavit (1215-1235) and a library.
Noteworthy is a rare library-church built by prince Qurd Vachutyan in 1255. Qurd Vachutyan and his wife Khorishah built it in memory of their daughter Mamakhatun who passed away at a young age. The altar is located in the eastern part of the church and a two-story vestry is in the south-eastern corner. There are two entrances that lead from the library to the gavit and


St.Astvatsatsin church where one can enter only through this door. A bas-relief sculpture of a rising sun can be found on the library's wall. A sculpture of an angel and Vachutyan family's coat of arms, an eagle with a lamb in its claws, are on the adjacent arch.
For a certain period of time Grigor Tatevatsi taught at a school established at Saghmosavank. The monastery was also a writing center, and some of the manuscripts written and copied here have reached our days. Notable are the 'Collection of sermons' copied by scribes Markos and Mkhitar, 'Mashtots' copied by archimandrite Karapet, and the 'Gospel Book' copied by friar Hovhannes.
Old tombstones – some of them decorated with carved cross-stones – are scattered around Saghmosavank and its adjacent cemetery. The cross-stones withKerry In Philippines To Propel Troop Deal As China Row Simmers

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Manila (AFP) – Secretary of State John Kerry arrived in the Philippines Tuesday for a two-day trip that could fast-track a deal on expanding the U.S. military presence as a territorial dispute simmers with China.

Kerry flew to Manila as the two allies are in the final stages of hammering out a deal allowing more U.S. troops, aircraft and ships to temporarily pass through the Philippines, where the last U.S. bases closed in 1992.

He will also visit areas devastated by Super Typhoon Haiyan last month, highlighting a massive U.S. humanitarian response to the disaster which contrasted with a modest contribution from regional power China.

“Kerry’s visit can be expected to act as a catalyst for change,” John Blaxland, a security