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January 20, 2019:
Russo and his crew take hostages to steal from an armored van right as Amaterasu is passing by with a burger.
New York
The streets of Queens
NPCs: None.
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Fade In…
Another not so quiet day in New York City, or not so quiet day. New York is never quiet, and it has only gotten louder and more colourful since metahumans and masked vigilantes have become more and more common. It is the middle of the day, the street is busy and full of life many regular citizens grabbing a quick lunch before heading back to work or a leisurely coffee on their day off. Traffic flows by slowly but steadily, motorcycles being the only ones to make decent speeds as they split through the lanes. Trapped in the middle of all of that traffic chaos and buildup is an armoured car trapped within the slow moving lines of traffic.
Within moments the whole attitude of the street changes. Thirteen men breaking from an alleyway in full tactical gear, all of them carrying some form of assault rifle. All of them except the lead man carrying a S&W500 who leaps on to the hood of the armoured car, a .50calibre round punching through the bullet resistant glass. "Open the doors." Another shot to punctuate his sentence. "Now." The guards inside of the armoured car just aren't paid enough for this shit. They hurry to comply. Given the opportunity they may try to be heroes. But for now they are hopelessly outmanned and outgunned.
New York was a multi-cultural melting pot, but it was very different from Japan. Certainly, it was extremely different from the 'Nippon' she'd left behind many centuries ago. Her initial reason for leaving the Amatsu-Kami was over, but Ami had stuck around for now. Warriors were different, champions were different, but these 'heroes' and her time here had shown the woman that simply watching from afar was not good enough. Besides, there was so much more to experience these times; not least of all was cheeseburgers! With one soda down and half a burger remaining in her hands she was currently devouring, the Japanese girl was currently lamenting the fact that this nation itself hadn't existed back in the days when she'd first walked the Earth.
The sound of the gunshot makes even her jump, a thunderclap-like noise of heavy calibre making her drop the snack and look around wildly, but the second shot gives her direction. She knew what a gun was, and she doubted there was a peaceful reason for such a loud weapon to be being used. Already she was running, an unarmed Japanese girl in street clothing, rounding the corner and running towards the street standoff.
The guards move quickly to head around to the back, opening up the rear doors. A team of four men moving to the back with reinforced looking black duffle bags, it is clear that the men know what they are doing as two of them began to stuff bags while the others cover them trading bags when the first two are full. The other teams of four split off with roughly five metre spacing between them each team covering a side of the truck until combined they roughly form a circle of heavily armed and armoured men around the truck. The lead man remains seated on the hood of the truck facing outwards now, his hand hanging limply off one of his knees still holding the hand cannon.
While it is weird seeing someone run towards gunfire like that it is not entirely unheard of, maybe she is a medic or something similar. Besides she is a smaller unarmed girl, something that most men even hardened military men hesitate to shoot at without active provocation. But she can only get so close running like that until she is going to get lit up. Already the two men completing the circle on her side fingers are slowly tightening on their triggers.
In the world of Metas and Mutants, 'unexpected threats' being more than they appear might be something that some may legitimately be fearful of. Of course, some are a little more subtle than others! A sudden flash of blinding light an wreathing flame wrapping around the 'non-combatant' made the danger pretty obvious. None of the fire seems to leap towards the men yet, but it does twist and wrap around the girl in unnatural ways both burning away the clothing she was wearing and seeming to form the black and red attire that looked far more out of place than the jeans and terrible band T-shirt had moments ago. The flames die down, but seem to smoulder behind her eyes as she begins to walk towards the men.
"<Lay down your weapons,>" she speaks, first in Japanese before repeating the words in heavily accented English she continues with. "And let these men go."
"We have a meta!" The call goes out over the radio but loud enough to be heard by just about the whole team anyway. Two of the men the furthest from her split away from the circle and make a run for the alley. The rest begin to fan out their weapons lighting her up with everything they have. These men are all ex-special forces. It takes a lot to make them miss, and a lot more to survive them if they decide they want you dead. Of course if you are basically impervious to bullets? Well that makes it all just a little bit slated in thier favour."
The lead man now leaps from the truck firing a couple of rounds in the direction of the pissed off god before he sweeps up one of the security guards in his arms and holds his oversized pistol to the side of his head. "Sieze fire, sieze fire!" Slowly the gunfire drizzles off as the order is heard and carried out, more at the very least their current magazines are emptied. He calls out towards the woman and her now rather impressive silhouette "Now, we can make a deal. All this money is insured, no one here loses anything if I take it. You let us go on our merry way, and you get to keep these men alive. Or you continue forward and I paint their truck red."
Really, opening fire at the flaming deity walking towards you was perfectly reasonable. Especially if they were taking the time to do some showey and almost 'magical-girl' like transformation of their outfit. It was probably an intimidation tactic, since a clothing change didn't really make her -less- bulletproof after all. Besides, gods were nothing if not showoffs! The bullets do impact, soft jacketed rounds making solid sounds against her flesh and yet seeming not to falter her steps in the slightest. A flash of steel and one of the men's rifles is simply cut down to just before the trigger-guard before Amaterasu brings both her hands to the grip of the sword that seemingly appeared out of nowhere and prepares to bring it downwards. Most 'superheroes' don't kill, but this one seemed awfully close to doing so until the solid impact of the massive handgun actually staggers her back a step.
The shot should probably have practically apple-cored her, certainly the second one added would have been enough to destroy an engine block. It had saved the man's life when the force of it had knocked her back a step off-balance, but aside from a pair of holes in the front of that deep red material of her clearly 'kunoichi-like' attire, the skin beneath looked barely marked. She lifts the weapon again, the other bullets pinging off her skin and ventilating some parts of her clothing before the leader calls the order to cease and her eyes narrow. She could cut each and every one of these men down, burn them alive where they stood, but she was nowhere near fast enough to outpace a point-blank gunshot.
"A coward's action," she speaks, gripping her weapon with a distain clear in her voice despite what is clearly a second language. "To shield yourselves with the bodies of the helpless." Even so, Amaterasu wasn't advancing on the men anymore.
"Or a survivors in this case. No more cowardly than attacking those who have no help of defending themselves against you." He speaks before turning slightly to face his men giving them a nod to start taking the bags towards the alleyway they had originally emerged from. Sirens can already be heard in the distance. His men reload remarkably calmy or at least it seems that way, it really could just be the benifit of muscle memory and intense training. The one a mere moment away from being killed pulling his sidearm. It won't do anything here other than make him feel better. But hell he doesn't have a better option. It is hard to tell with their faces shielded by their masks. And then almost as one they step back forming a rough firing line keeping their weapons trained on her as they slowly back towards the alley.
The two men who appeared to run screaming from the metahuman (God) appear back in the entrance to the alleyway now, LAW tubes lifted to their shoulders fingers already over the activation grip. Always have to have a plan. Wouldn't help them against something like superman, but there aren't many around that are that invulnerable. The leader slowly steps back just a step or two before his men, his weapon unwavering away from the head of his hostage. "Just take it easy right now and no one has to die, you still get to play hero. We all get what we want here."
"Seems you have indulged in both," she counters, turning her gaze back towards the running men who returned with weapons she didn't recognize. They looked closer to the primative guns of her time, albeit with far larger barrels. Some sort of cannon, no doubt. Could it hurt her? She truely didn't know, but she wouldn't let that concern show on her face when the guards were still in danger. Bandits in this century were a long way ahead of simply attacking travelling villagers it seemed, although the concept hadn't changed all that much.
"Release these men," she repeats now, watching the men retreating and tensing once more. The sword in her hand, even the sheath it had been pulled from, looked decidedly unremarkable apart from a seemingly flawless mirror-sheen on the blade, but it had sliced through the rifle before without so much as a spark of metal on metal. "You may take your prize, but if you take their lives I will burn you each to death as painfully as possible. This I promise you."
The sun goddess was known for being benevolent, kind and protective to her people, but the sun itself? Well…most people tended to associate it with more than a little heat.
"Well I don't see you packing a flamethrower but after that sound and light show before I don't doubt you would at least try." They continue to back towards the alleyway, before they file in in reverse order those in the front dropping back between the others while they cover before repeating the process. Known in some military circles as the tunnel of love. "I'll give them back to you in just a moment, as soon as I think you aren't going to turn me crispy and delicious the moment I do."
The men with the LAW tubes stay the longest before even they slip into the alleyway leaving Billy standing along at the entrance. Deep inside the shadded alleyway the ear splitting roar of multiple high powered engines in a confined space rips through the air. "Alright then. Best if you keep your word. See you around sunshine." He raises his knee upwards towards the hostages beack before giving him a strong pushing kick forwards forcing the hostage to struggle to maintain his feet as he stumbles forward. He turns and sprints for the alleyway, knowing that even if his gun slows her down it sure as hell isn't going to stop her.
There was temptation, certainly. Once the hostages are clear it would be practical enough to go after the cars and deal with the armed men. Perhaps she could indeed burn them down to ashes inside their cars like she had hinted…but it was the middle of the city, too easy for some random bystander to be caught by stray violence or made another hostage. Just because she was the goddess of the Sun itself didn't mean she could go releasing all the power of it on some thugs seeking money. 'God' or not, having power was not the same as being able to use it.
Instead she simply sheathes the sword at her hip once more, fire glowing in her eyes fading down to a fainter simmering while she walks towards the stumbling hostage and places a hand on his shoulder. "Go home to your families," she says simply, casting her eyes towards the direction of the sounds of hasty escape. In a way she had been bested, but it had been by lucky guess or assumption; Amaterasu simply favoured mortal lives over material wealth. She didn't care about the money so much as the violence of its theft.
A sigh, she closes her eyes and looks back towards the now freed and probably fleeing hostages.
She was going to need another burger.


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Japanese teens in striped shirt, pleather skirt, unicorn socks, suede blazer, animal print shirt, black creepers and a pink glitter satchel bag while out and about in Harajuku.
It's difficult to miss this group of 7 girls with their kawaii pastel styles as they were out and about on the Harajuku street…
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Japanese fashion designer dressed in a pink sweater, collared blouse, red skirt, lace-up boots and a glitter bag in Harajuku.
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Orphans Baseball
Information updated October 2019
The tradition of success for the Howard Lake Orphans amateur baseball team continued in 2019. For the past 25 seasons, the Orphans have a winning season as they reache
d the Class C State Tournament once again in 2019. With their appearance this past seas
on, the Orphans have now reached the state tournament in 12 of the past 14 seasons.
The Orphans had a new look in 2019 as Mike Dockendorf took over the role of manager, Last
season was Mike Gagnon's last year as manager for Howard Lake, and the Orphans didn't miss a beat under Dockendorf in 2019.
Howard Lake finished with a 13-7 record in the North Star League this past season, helping them earn a spot in the Region 12C Tournament. With wins over Maple Lake and Buffalo at the Region 12C Tournament, the Orphans clinched a spot at the Class C State Tournament once again.
Throughout the season, the Orphans had several young players fill and step up. Those players gained valuable experience this season, and will be key pieces to the success of the organization going forward.
Town team baseball in Howard Lake goes back a long way, starting in 1905, when the team was named the Blue Sox.
Throughout the early 1900s, Howard Lake eventually lost the name, but gained a new one in 1947.
Playing their home games in Cokato that year, as their field was being refurbished and couldn't be played on, they started getting called the Orphans, and the name stuck.
The Orphans made their first state tournament appearance in 1951.
Town team baseball in Howard Lake ceased from 1942 to 1946 due to World War II, but the Orphans took back to the field after the war and thrived until 1967, when the team folded.
The 1970s and 1980s were a dark period for town team baseball in Howard Lake, as they had no team, with many players playing in neighboring towns.
The team did try to come back in 1991, and also fielded a team in 1992, but then folded again.
That is when a group led by current manager Mike Gagnon, and Kevin Gruenhagen started the Orphans back up, and it has been a success ever since.
Howard Lake has advanced to 14 state tournaments, with its first one coming in 1951, followed by 1995, 1998, 2001, and finally 2006 through 2010, 2012, 2013, and 2014, and 2017 and 2018.
The Orphans play their home games at Memorial Park in Howard Lake, which is located on the shores of Howard Lake.
Over the past decade, the park has seen a number of improvements, including added seating behind home plate, a batters' eye, and a grass infield, among other improvements. In 2018, Memorial Park saw new bleachers added once again as they were dedicated to Mike Mitchell and his family. Mitchell was a big part of the Orphans in many ways. Throughout Mike's time with the Orphans, he was a bat boy, worked the scoreboard, a ball shagger, a player from 1957 to 1969 and then again from 1963 to 1968. Once his playing days were done, Mike became the team's president and held that position from 1995 to 2018. During that time, Mike was
also the Memorial Park grounds keeper, and was a member of the Howard Lake City Council from 2013 to 2018.
A new plaque was unveiled in Mike's honor before a game against the Delano Athletics, and will be proudly displayed at Memorial Park for years to come.
Don and Dorthy Mitchell's family also donated new bleachers in front of the press box at Memorial Park. Those new bleachers were also dedicated Friday night as the Mitchell family were the first ones to take in a ball game in them.
All of those improvements, along with more to come, have made Memorial Park one of the best baseball fields in the area.
Prior to the 2009 season, new dugouts and a new backstop were added at Memorial Park.
In 2011, due to high water conditions on Howard Lake, Memorial Park's outfield was flooded, which forced the Orphans to move their playoff games to Loretto. Work has since been done to fix the flood damage to outfield.
Orphans & Fox 9 Town Ball Tour
The tradition of amateur baseball is special across the state of Minnesota. In Howard Lake, that's no different.
Memorial Park, home of the Howard Lake Orphans, was on full display as the Orphans shared their field
and story with the rest of the state as part of Fox 9's 2019 Town Ball Tour this past June.
After starting their tour last summer, Fox 9 hit the road once again this summer to feature some of the top town ball parks in the state. Memorial Park in Howard Lake was the third of seven stops for Fox 9 this summer.
As part of the tour, Fox 9 broadcasted live from Memorial Park as part of their normal broadcast. Following the game, Fox 9 broadcasted live once again.
The Howard Lake Orphans hosted the Cokato Kernels that night. In a extra inning affair, it was the Kernels who outlasted the Orphans 7-4 in 15 innings.
Although the game didn't start until 7 p.m., fans were invited to come out to Memorial Park early to take in the atmosphere. Admission to the game was free for everyone.
During Fox 9's live broadcast, several people involved with the Orphans organization were featured as part of the telecast.
Back in 2018, Orphans' outfielder Steve Boger was named Fox 9's Top Teacher. Boger's kindergarden class was one of the highlights featured by Fox 9 during their broadcast. Each summer, Boger invites his students and their families to the ballpark for a special day in which they get to run the bases. Many of Boger's students from the past few years were in attendance for the game.
Also being highlighted by Fox 9 was Mike and Wanda Gagnon. The duo have helped lead the Orphans' organization to where it is today, and the Orphans took the chance to thank and express their appreciation for their time and commitment to the team over the past years. Mike and Wanda both retired last year, but will always be a big part of the Orphans' organization.
Other topics that Fox 9 dove into are long-time Orphans fans, Howard Lake Mayor Peter Zimmerman, and the history of the Orphans.
The Orphans boast one of the most unusual nicknames in amateur baseball, and there's certainly a story behind it. In the 1920s, Howard Lake had a team called the Blue Sox that lasted until the 1930s. Town ball was discontinued during the World War II era, ending the Blue Sox's organization.
Under the leadership of Don Mitchell in 1947, baseball returned to Howard Lake. Although they didn't have a home field, there was baseball once again. One player mentioned that "we're just a bunch of orphans," since they didn't have a home field and played every game on the road. The name stuck, and the Howard Lake amateur baseball team has been called the Orphans since.
Baseball was back in Howard Lake until the team disbanded once again in the late 1960s. Flash forward to 1995, and the Orphans came together once again. With a handful of players from Howard Lake and Waverly, the Orphans were not only back, but also tough to beat.
They made the state tournament in their first year back, which is very rare for first-year teams. If that's not enough, the Orphans haven't had a losing season since 1995, and have
qualified for 11 of the last 13 state tournaments. They reached the Final Four in the Class C State Tournament twice in that stretch.
In 2002, the Orphans became orphans once again as having their field located next to a lake can be tough sledding sometimes. The field was unplayable from June of 2002 until May of 2003, following 16 inches of rain over a seven-day span. The entire field of Memorial Park became part of Howard Lake, forcing the Orphans to play their games elsewhere.
When the field dried up the following spring, fish carcases were everywhere and cattails were growing in the outfield.
Over the years, several improvements have been made to Memorial Park. Just last year, the Orphans added new bleachers behind home plate in honor of Mike Mitchell and his family. Mitchell was one of the pioneers of Orphans' baseball.


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This year, Honda got into the April Fool's Day spirit. The Japanese carmaker pulled the wool over everyone's eyes by announcing on April 1st that it will be adding a new trim to the 2019 Honda Passport lineup – the Pastport.
The fictional 2019 Honda Pastport is a step back in time, offering a taste of nostalgia for older millennials thanks to its '90s-inspired interior. This crossover has a similar exterior to the regular Passport but, according to Honda, would offer a range of popular '90s features. This includes automatic power windows, a cassette player, and plush micro-fiber seats – it even has a mount for a beeper!
"From TV reboots to fashion, the '90s are making a huge comeback, and we saw an opportunity at Honda for consumers who want uniqueness and simplicity, so we decided to reach back and bring the Pastport to market this spring," said Zack Tanner, historical innovations manager for Honda. "We think the new Pastport is all that and a bag of chips."
Though you sadly won't be able to get the Pastport trim level in real life, the actual Passport still offers a slew of features to make your day-to-day 21st century life easier. From an available all-wheel-drive system to standard safety technologies like a Collision Mitigation Braking System™, along with an abundance of interior space, the 2019 Passport is a solid option in its segment.
You can contact us at Love Honda to see one in person and take it for a test drive.


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Recently I decided it was time to refurbish my old beat-up and dusty rims with a new paint job that is sure to last for years to come. The previous paint job simply did not withstand the harsh east coast weather, not to mention I chose a cheaper route by using spray cans, primer, and clear coat all purchased at a local automotive store. Fifty bucks wasn't a bad idea at the time as it was a sound decision based on budget, unfortunately, you get what you pay for — which subsequently brings me to my current situation where I am forced to make good on a project that should always be executed right the first time.
I began this project first by ensuring I had the proper equipment such as: Air compressor, HLVP Spray Guns, Electric Sander, Sand Paper, and all professional grade Paint, Primer, and Clear Coat. I must say, the second time around this project was much easier, and with a completion time of only 72 hours, I was able to bring life back into busted set of wheels. Check out the video below for the full tutorial.


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Be with someone who refuses to play part in your self-sabotage. Someone unimpressed by your antics, and refuses to entertain anything other than your whole truth. Not performative truisms or clichés designed to get a specific outcome, meaning their approval, but your unedited, unpropped, raw truth that runs through you like blood. Someone who refuses to settle for anything less than your true self, no matter how flattering all your facade is.
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Genetic mapping and marker assisted selection (MAS) is considered as one of the major tools in genetic improvement of crop plants in this genomics era. This book describes basics in linkage mapping, step-by-step procedure to perform MAS, achievements made so far in different crops, and limitations and prospects of MAS in plant breeding. It summarizes all this in a simple but comprehensive mode using suitable examples so as to explain the concept and its historical developments. To summarize, this book describes technologies for identification of genes of interest through genetic mapping, recaps the major applications of MAS to plant breeding; lists examples in which MAS is being applied to various breeding programs, and emphasizes the various difficulties that limit the application of MAS in plant breeding, providing possible solutions to overcome these difficulties, and finally tries to illustrate the future prospects. This book would be a valuable guide to the under-graduates and post-graduates of agricultural universities and institutes that are interested and/or involved in genetic improvement of crop plants using modern tools. Bibliography listed in this book constitutes two parts: literature cited and further reading. Literature cited contains references cited in the text and further information on the given concept/technique can be obtained from these references. Further reading provides a list of suggested readings for in-depth coverage of the topics.
Boopathi, N. M. (2013). Genetic mapping and marker assisted election: Basics, practice and benefits. Genetic Mapping and Marker Assisted Selection: Basics, Practice and Benefits (pp. 1–293). Springer India. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-81-322-0958-4
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Pose fair is now a quarterly event and is going to be open today at noon SLT. The pose that I am using in this pic is from K&S and is just so beautiful emotional and fits the mood of this setting perfectly. I used the old wooden boat from Nutmeg which is currently for sale at Shiny Shabby.
I love the tattoo that I wear from Letis but I didn't do it justice in this pic so I am adding a no edit pic too. I will for sure take another pic wearing it.
Happy shopping ❤
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Hair: little bones. Theory @ Uber.
Head: Catwa, Catya.
Skin: [theSkinnery] Paige.
Shades: Glamistry: Sunglasses PU2002.
Tattoo: Letis Tattoo :: Dakini ::
Top: ~Nerido~ Marta Shirt @ Shiny Shabby.
Shorts: Addams // Trisha Denim Ripped Short.
Pose: K&S – // I fear my life without you @ Pose Fair. Opens at noon SLT.
Boat: Nutmeg. Old Wooden Boat v3 @ Shiny Shabby.
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The museums, exhibitions and institutions of the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin are open to the public. Visits to any of these venues require a time-slot ticket. You can purchase these online or at the ticket counters in the museums. Read more
Erwerbungsakten: Erwerbungsakten der Gemäldegalerie, Historischer Aktenbestand © Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Zentralarchiv
Erwerbungsakte: Auszug aus einer Erwerbungsakte der Gemäldegalerie von 1930 © Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Zentralarchiv
Verso Klee: verso of Paul Klee's "Lebkuchenbild" (The Gingerbread House), 1925, with stickers and markings © Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Nationalgalerie
Rückseite Nolde: Detail auf dem Rahmen von Emil Noldes "Sünderin", 1926 mit Namen des Künstlers © Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Nationalgalerie
Researching the origins of artefacts in our collections is one of the key responsibilities of all curatorial and research staff at the museums. However, the stipulations that require museums to systematically investigate their holdings for cultural assets acquired through Nazi persecution, in particular Jewish property, have become more complex and extensive since the Washington Principles were agreed in 1998 as well as the resolution passed by the board of the Stiftung Preussischer Kulturbesitz in 1999.
To meet these demands, a full-time position for provenance research at the SMB was established in 2008. The primary goal was to bring together, in one location, the various strands of often highly specialised and exacting historical research undertaken by the museums in response to ongoing restitution claims for works from the SMB's collections. In this way, the necessary and thorough investigation of all museum objects acquired since 1933 can be better coordinated and advanced. The office is situated at the Zentralarchiv, where all existing records on the history of the museums are preserved for posterity. This location was an obvious choice as the archive's comprehensive and manifold historical resources form the starting point for all research into the provenance of objects from the collections.
At the heart of provenance research at the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin is the question of ownership which, considering the breadth and diversity of the Berlin collections and their more than 180-year history, not only covers the period of National Socialism but also the changes in ownership that occurred in the 1920s, e.g., the expropriation of royal assets in 1926, and during the periods of the Soviet occupation in the eastern zone of Berlin and the wider GDR. Further responsibilities of provenance research are to identify objects that belong to third parties and to reconstruct how these objects came to the museums, as well as to establish proof of the origins of works that were assumed to have been lost during the war but have since reappeared on the art market. The provenance research office can also provide invaluable assistance when acquisitions are planned by any of the collections at the SMB, and when details of objects that were given or accepted on permanent loan in the past need to be clarified.
The systematic research of the collections with regard to cultural assets that were looted or acquired through Nazi persecution, in particular Jewish property, was first carried out for acquisitions made by the museums between 1933 and 1945. This research resulted in numerous objects, primarily from the Nationalgalerie, the Kupferstichkabinett, the Kunstgewerbemuseum and the Gemäldegalerie, being returned to their rightful owners. Parallel to this endeavour, work began on the investigation of acquisitions from the post-war period, with emphasis on modernist works from the Nationalgalerie and the Kupferstichkabinett. Several research projects undertaken by the individual collections support these investigations.
In addition, the custodians of the collections continually undertake provenance research as part of their day-to-day work, the results of which can be seen in catalogues of the collections and exhibitions, and are also documented in databases and online catalogues.
The Galerie des 20. Jahrhunderts was a joint research project held by the Stiftung Preussischer Kulturbesitz and the State of Berlin. The project systematically studied around 500 works of art (paintings, sculptures, works on paper) that were created up until 1945, owned by the state of Berlin, and kept as permanent loans in the Nationalgalerie and Kupferstichkabinett. The results of this successfully completed project are presented in a book and in an online databbase. While the published book focuses on the historical context of this forgotten chapter in the history of Berlin's museums, the website presents the provenances of the works studied.
Lead researchers: Dr. Christina Thomson, Dr. Hanna Strzoda
Duration: 2010 to 2016 (completed)
Since 1992, the holdings of the Kupferstichkabinett of the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin have included the 'Drawing Collection', made up of predominantly nineteenth-century oil sketches, watercolours and drawings. During the Nazi era, around 1,200 works were acquired for this collection, which was established in 1878 as a separate division of the Nationalgalerie through a transfer from the former Königliche Kupferstichkabinett. The works in question were taken from artist's studios and from private collections and galleries, and from 1938 onwards, an increasing number were sourced from auctions. With the support of the German Lost Art Foundation, this collection has been systematically analysed in an effort to identify items that were divested as a result of Nazi persecution.
Lead researcher: Dr. Hanna Strzoda
Duration: 2013 to 2016
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This three-year research project is centred around the investigation and documentation of the external holdings of the Antikensammlung. As well as this, the antiquities from Carinhall (Hermann Göring's collection) from the holdings of the Federal Republic of Germany will be investigated. A publication in the external property catalogue series of the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, which will be produced upon completion of the project, will document the results.
Lead researcher: Dr. Laura Puritani
Duration: 2013 to 2016 (completed)
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The scholarly basis of the exhibition The Lives of Images. Provenances at Museum Berggruen was generated through a research project supported by the Deutsches Zentrum Kulturgutverluste (German Lost Art Foundation). This project, carried out from 2015 to 2018, investigated the provenances of 135 pre-1945 art objects which previously formed part of the private collection of Heinz Berggruen, and are presently the property of the Stiftung Preussischer Kulturbesitz (Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation). The project looked at paintings, works on paper and sculptures by Pablo Picasso, Paul Klee, Henri Matisse, Georges Braque and Henri Laurens. Over three years, the provenances of these works were systematically investigated in order to identify cultural property acquired as a result of Nazi persecution, particularly of Jewish owners.
Lead researchers: Dr. Sven Haase, Doris Kachel
Duration: 2015 to 2018 (completed)
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For the current status of provenance research on the Guelph Treasure: SPK Dossier "The Guelph Treasure"
Networks of Art Dealers and Provenance Research
In a three-month project supported by the German Lost Art Foundation, the diaries of Prof Friedrich Winkler – art historian and Director of the Berlin Kupferstichkabinett from 1933 to 1950 – will be analysed in terms of their research value for broader efforts at provenance research and for understanding historical connections between art dealers. To this end, a sample of four diaries from the period of 1933–1945 will be examined. The diaries are currently in the private collection of the Winkler family.
Lead researcher: Doris Kachel
Duration: April to June 2019


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National Day Rally: PM Lee announces estate rejuvenation plans
The government will expand its Home Improvement Programme (HIP) to upgrade 230,000 additional flats built between 1987 and 1997. This will happen when the flats are about 30 years old, which will happen soon.
This was one of three housing-related announcements that Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong made at the National Day Rally speech on Sunday. Previously, only flats built up to 1986 would be offered the HIP.
Mr Lee said: "It has been a decade since we launched the programme, so the flats which missed qualifying for HIP are also now starting to show their age." These include estates such as Yishun, Tampines and Jurong.
He also unveiled HIP II - a programme to upgrade flats a second time when the flats reach 60 to 70 years old. HIP II will start in about 10 years' time.
Explaining this decision, Mr Lee said: "After (the first) upgrading, these flats should be good for another 30 to 40 years. By that time, the flats will be 60 to 70 years old, and showing their age again.
"We are determined not to let our public housing degenerate into ragged slums, which has happened in many other cities. So we should do a second round of upgrading, at about the 60 to 70 year mark...
"HIP II will keep the flats safe and liveable, and also help them retain their value as their leases run down. It should see the flats through to the end of their leases."
He added that HIP II is a "huge financial commitment" for the government. The first HIP will cost the government more than S$4 billion; HIP II will probably cost even more because the flats will be twice as old by then.
"But it is well justified, and we will do it so long as (the Ministry of Finance) has the money."
Mr Lee also announced the Voluntary Early Redevelopment Scheme (VERS) to progressively redevelop precincts. This will happen from about the 70th year of a building's lifespan onwards, and will start 20 years from now.
This is compared to the Selective En bloc Redevelopment Scheme (SERS), which also renews older housing estates, but which is also a "very limited scheme" meant for selected HDB blocks or precincts which have high development value which can be unlocked.
HDB estimates that only around 5 per cent of flats are suitable for SERS. There will be a few more SERS projects to come, but many projects with high redevelopment potential have already been done.
HDB has thus decided on a new scheme, VERS, that will benefit more households through redevelopment before their leases expire.
There is a strategic reason for this: in the early years, because of the housing shortage, HDB often built in a rush. Several older estates were built within short periods, especially in the 1970s and 1980s.
"Therefore, if we do not plan ahead, 99 years later, all the leases in such towns will expire around the same time, and all the flats will be returned to the state within a few years. We will have to find new homes for a lot of people at once. HDB will have to tear down and rebuild the old flats in a hurry, just like when we first built Marine Parade, Ang Mo Kio and Bedok. These towns will become construction sites all over again, with
cranes all over the place. I don't think this is a good idea," he said.
That said, the terms will be less generous than SERS, because there will less financial upside, and therefore the scheme will be voluntary.
"This is a long term plan. We will not start doing VERS for another 20 years. We need time to work out how to select the precincts, how to pace the redevelopments out, the specific terms of the government's offer and so on. We also need to study how to afford VERS for the long term. But I think such a scheme is necessary, so we will start planning for VERS now."


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I didn't watch Spurs beat Man United on Monday night but as a sports nerd I was following events on my phone. The score-line of 3-0 to Spurs (playing away from home) was one to get the eyebrows twitching. The sports journalists at the game will have eagerly awaited the post-match press conference sensing blood.
The Man United manager, Jose Mourinho is known for drama and he didn't disappoint. The brief press conference descended into him barking respect repeatedly at the journalists as he walked out. Nobody got the sense that this was a belated tribute to the recently departed Aretha Franklin.
It's not unusual for football managers to lose the plot given the massive pressure and intense scrutiny they face. Memories of Kevin Keegan and Rafa Benitez ranting incoherently whilst thinking they're occupying the moral ground high ground come to mind.
In Mourinho's case the subject of his ire was that the journos only wanted to talk about the game they had just watched, a big game, in which his team (unfortunately in his view) had lost heavily to a rival. Jose wanted them to remember his previous triumphs and show a bit more respect for his achievements. Rather than talking about the three goals his side had conceded, what about talking about the three Premiership titles he'd won. Nice try but never in with a chance. At that moment, fairly or unfairly those three titles were utterly irrelevant to the night's action and its shock result.
Somehow it felt that Mourinho wanted the press to forget about the present version of himself – the manager of a losing team and instead pay homage to the legendary version of himself with the glittering résumé.
It's a feature of celebrity today that a huge amount of effort goes into famous people and the people that serve them creating the right image. People want to present the best version of themselves – what they look like, what they're quoted as saying and seen to be doing. Celebrity magazines are full of staged photo shoots, casting people in the best light possible. Ultimately these versions of people are two dimensional, they can't capture all people are or create a wholly new version of them. At times celebrities can have some control of the image of themselves that's projected but at some point it will be more interesting for the press to uncover the real, warts and all version.
However much Jose Mourinho wanted the press to bow in respect to his collective achievements all they wanted was a new story. At that moment, it seems to me that he had to get over whatever he thought his career represented and deal with the hole he was standing in. Whether or not he wanted to do that in that moment with the press was up to him but his future success will depend on dealing with now not harking back to past glories.
The old saying is that pride comes before a fall. Our human nature is to build ourselves up to make us feel good about ourselves. In his early days, Mourinho enjoyed building up his own myth, declaring himself to be the 'special one'. Sooner or later when we build ourselves up and rely on our own abilities we will come up against our deficiencies.
We instinctively try and play the role of God in our lives to get things the way we want. The problem is we're not God so we're not up to the job.
The Bible says that God opposes the proud but gives grace to the humble. He opposes the proud because they're on the wrong track. He alone is God and our attempts to boss life end badly.
Humility is the way forward – not putting ourselves down but seeing ourselves as we are – able but fallible and in need of help. Where we humble ourselves, God offers his grace, his resources – his power, guidance, wisdom and character – more than anything his faithful patience to bring out the best in us.
When the tough questions get asked, the answer is humility, which to have a healthy life should lead to accountability within community – to having people who can impart wisdom and kick us up the backside when required. I hope Jose has someone he can trust who can have a word, who can tell them that it's not all about him and that when like the rest of us his inability smacks him in the face that is often just what is needed.
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WEEK 4 – 29th January 2019
The ability to code computer programs is an important part of literacy in today's society. When children learn to code, they learn important strategies for solving problems, designing projects, and communicating ideas.
In class, we used Scratch Junior to make up a literacy story on the iPad. Scratch Junior is an introductory programming language that enables children aged 5 and up to create their own story. "As young people create Scratch projects, they are not just learning how to write computer programs. They are learning to think creatively, reason systematically and work collaboratively – essential skills for success and happiness in today's world." (The Lead Project, 2014) Within the classroom, Scratch can be used to aid teachers in a wide range of subjects from maths and literacy to music and art. Scratch helps children develop creative thinking skills, logical reasoning, problem solving skills and collaboration skills. As it was designed for exploring and experimenting it supports any different learning style.
Using Scratch, I created a literacy based story. The story begins with the main character Tom the cat in space. He tells the children he is going on an adventure around the world but is going to need their help to spell what he sees.
From space, he travels to the beach, the letters making up the word 'beach' are presented at the top of the screen and jump up for the children to spell out the word to the cat.
After congratulating the children on their spelling, the cat then travels to the desert. I included an image of a giraffe, which added additional learning out with literacy. The cat asks the children if they know where giraffes live, and the children are then required to spell out the word desert.
The cat then travels to the park and repeats the same pattern of asking the children to spell it out.
I really enjoyed using the Scratch app, due to only having some brief knowledge of coding from academy, I enjoyed having the opportunity to play around with the app to produce something of value. Now that I have some experience using the app, I am excited to broaden my knowledge by getting myself used to working with it. I look forward to using Scratch within the classroom and observing how the children interact with it.
As I am aware that a lot of pupils aren't keen on standing up infront of the class to present, I think I would take the advantage of scratch for presenting. For example, if we are doing topic work, the children could use scratch to present what they've learned rather than creating posters etc.
When it comes to using Scratch in the class, I think it would work well with early level pupils as they will engage more with it and gain more whilst using it. From the Curriculum for Excellence, some experiences and outcomes I liked with this activity were:
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"I enjoy exploring events and characters in stories and other texts and I use what I learned to invent my own, sharing these with others in imaginative ways."
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"I understand that sequences of instructions are used to control computing technology."
As far as writing this blog is going, I am enjoying having somewhere to express my ideas and feelings about digital technology. I was nervous at first as I wasnt sure I would be able to think of things to write or that I would be writing the right thing. However, as the weeks are progressing I am really enjoying having this space to express myself.
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Friday, April 1st
9:00 – 11:00 am
Location: Green Collage, Coach House
Translation Theory Workshop with Lawrence Venuti
"Translation Theory and Practice: Instrumental vs. Hermeneutic Models"
Although the history of translation theory and practice has been distinguished by a range of concepts and strategies, two approaches have recurred so frequently as to be considered dominant models. The first can be called instrumental, treating translation as the reproduction or transfer of an invariant contained in or caused by the source text, whether its form, its meaning, or its effect. The second can be called hermeneutic, treating translation as the inscription of an interpretation, one among varying and even conflicting possibilities, so that the source text is seen as variable in form, meaning, and effect. This seminar will explore the continuing pertinence of these models for the study and practice of translation by examining the work of various theorists and commentators, including Jerome, Friedrich Schleiermacher, Eugene Nida, Gideon Toury, Antoine Berman, and Jacques Derrida. The discussions will be grounded in analyses of translations into and out of English from a variety of humanistic genres and text types, including the lyric poem, prose fiction, the screenplay, and philosophy. Attention will be given to various theoretical concepts, including equivalence, norms, and ethics, as well as the fundamental relationship between theory and practice.
Theoretical Texts:
Jerome, "Letter to Pammachius" (395CE), trans. Kathleen Davis
Friedrich Schleiermacher, "On the Different Methods of Translating" (1813), trans. Susan Bernofsky
Eugene Nida, "Principles of Correspondence" (1964)
Gideon Toury, "The Nature and Role of Norms in Translation" (1978/1995)
Antoine Berman, "Translation and the Trials of the Foreign" (1985), trans. L. Venuti
All these texts are available in The Translation Studies Reader, Ed. Lawrence Venuti
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OTTAWA - Canadian forecasts are dramatically paring back expectations for the economy and jobs in the face of growing uncertainty about whether the global financial system is headed toward a new crisis.
The Toronto-Dominion Bank is the latest to downgrade its forecast, trimming its Canadian growth estimate by half a point to 2.2 per cent this year and 1.9 per cent in 2012, according to TD's chief economist.
TD's new estimate, to be released Tuesday, is even more pessimistic than Royal Bank's latest revision.
RBC said Monday it now estimates Canada's economy will advance only 2.4 per cent this year and 2.5 per cent this year. The new 2011 estimate is 0.8 percentage points off its previous projection.
And neither bank is ruling out a double-dip recession, especially after Canada suffered through an unexpected reversal in the second quarter, when national output contracted by 0.4 per cent.
"The recovery we see is uneven, uncertain and underwhelming. Any further shock to the system is enough to turn a small positive to a small negative," warned RBC chief economist Craig Wright.
TD Bank's chief economist, Craig Alexander, says any forecast now must be taken with a grain of salt, and the reality could turn out to be worse than even the new projections.
"The crystal balls are cracked and cloudy at the moment," Alexander said. "There's an unbelievable amount of uncertainty because the biggest risks all lie in the political arena. It's not clear whether the European political leaders can get the fiscal crisis under control."
Equally, it's impossible to predict whether the Democratic White House and Republic Congress in Washington can agree on economic policy, Alexander said.
In remarks to the Chamber of Commerce for Whitby, Ont., Finance Minister Jim Flaherty acknowledged Canada will at best realize modest growth in the upcoming months, but added the situation had not yet deteriorated to the point where he would consider a new round of stimulus.
"On the basis of where we are now, we will maintain our fiscal plan," he told reporters after his speech.
"Of course, we live in the real world," he added. "If there were to be an external shock that shook the Canadian economy, of course we would act in a pragmatic, flexible way."
According to the Liberal finance critic, however, the situation already warrants a reversal in the Flaherty's plan to cut $4 billion from government operations, much of it through staff reductions.
Liberal MP John McCallum urged Ottawa to put the plan on the back burner for up to 18 months.
"It's almost impossible to overstate the gravity of the situation in Europe," McCallum said. "Now is not the time to make cuts. You look around the world, you look in the U.S. as well and particularly in Europe, the situation is far, far worse than it was just a few weeks ago."
Many believe Greece will have little choice but default on its ballooning debt, which could trigger a second global banking crisis.
Alexander said if the crisis worsens in Europe, the ensuing loss of confidence in the financial system is likely to dampen consumer and business spending as well.
"There's enormous risks here and there's not much evidence how it will play out," Alexander said.
In terms of jobs, both RBC and TD see Canada's unemployment rate edging up toward 7.5 per cent by year's end after dropping as low as 7.2 per cent this summer. Last week, Statistics Canada reported the economy shed jobs in August for only the second month this year, pushing the unemployment rate to 7.3 per cent.
The slower growth profile also has the potential to throw off Ottawa's plans to eliminate the deficit in four years, although Flaherty insisted the budget is on track at the moment.
The wild card in trying to predict with confidence what will happen in Canada is that all the problems — and possible policy responses — originate beyond Canada's borders, specifically Europe and the U.S.
TD says the European economy is on its knees and may only grow by 0.9 per cent next year. The U.S. won't do much better with a 1.7 per cent gain, following this year's snail-paced 1.5 per cent advance.
Europe's crisis is affecting financial markets, but the U.S. is taking its toll on the real economy in Canada, particularly on exporters who ship about 70 per cent of goods south.
After being hopeful that this year would see a big turnaround in the export performance, Export Development Canada says it too will likely to tamper down its enthusiasm when it issues its next forecast in November.
In May, the EDC thought exports would jump 12 per cent this year, but that looks unattainable now, says the Crown company's Peter Hall, due to both temporary shocks in the Middle East and Japan, as well as the current emerging crises.
The one hope, Hall said, is that as Japan recovers and oil prices moderate, exports will see a temporary surge in the latter half of this year.
RBC's Wright also stressed that it is too early to panic. While another recession cannot be ruled out, the most likely scenario remains no worse than modest growth.
Wright sees potential in the large sums of cash corporations both in Canada and the U.S. have on reserve ready to invest.
Flaherty is thinking along the same lines. He urged firms "to step up to the plate" and make investments and create jobs, just as governments did in wake of the recession.


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Look, Dave Matthews seems like a great guy. I even like him as an actor. But the guy's music bores the living hell out of me. Maybe it's because he's basically a younger version of Jimmy Buffet just playing to a crowd partying with a different substance. Maybe it's because he jams too damn much and caters to the same self-indulgence that infests Phish and Wide Spread Panic. Maybe it's because his audience is made up of folks who mistake Matthews' earnest pop rock for something really transcendent. Either way, when one of Matthews' songs comes on the radio, it's usually an immediate punch out. The lone exception is "Crash," a song that could just about end every romantic comedy in the history of film.
I understand why people like the guy. His band has chops and people find a certain safety in music, a certain womb-like quality that makes them feel all warm and comforted. Much like Neil Diamond did in the '70s, Matthews strains when he steps away from what he does "best." In honor of Matthews performing this Saturday at Gexa Energy Pavilion, this list is the five Dave Matthews songs that really make my skin crawl, tunes that I truly wish were never written.1. What Would You Say
I know, an easy target, the guy's first commercial hit, but from the first annoying moments, this song sucks. Catchy as a case of mononucleosis, the song runs circles around itself as Matthews spews forth lyrics that wouldn't impress my 4th grade teacher.2. Rapunzel
Overly complicated jazz pop that reminds me of what Rush would sound like if they were a folk band. In a word: abysmal.3. So Right
No, so wrong. There's an odd Pearl Jam vibe going on here that's disconcerting. And what's up with the constipated Peter Gabriel style vocals? When Matthews turns away from what he does best - folky, easy to digest pop - the results can be excruciating.4. Hunger for the Great Light
In pop, shooting for some cosmic significance is never a good thing and this over-emotive mess strains under the weight of its own pretentions. Again, the vocals sound like Matthews is taking a class in English conversation and his teacher is demanding that his pupil over-enunciate each word.
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That's a ranch house you see on the valley floor below. Cattle graze down there, unaware of the danger above. People go about their daily work, oblivious to North America's largest cat. There are more than 40 names in English for this cat. Cougar, Puma, Painter, Mountain Lion...
A big male like this one can weigh 200 lbs, and stand 2.5' high at the shoulder. It's likely that he's bigger than you.
Its scream, reverbrating across the valley in the night air, will send a chill down the spine of the most seasoned outdoorsman.
I was hiking in the Sierrita Mountains southwest of Tucson, scaling a cliff face, when I found the opening you see in the photo below. Looking down, I could see light, and I followed it to this beautiful opening framing the valley floor 300' below. It's not as big as it seems; I took the photo laying on my back with the camera on my chest, and had some difficulty getting my big feet out of the photo. :) Once through the opening, I could stand on the ledge beyond, where you see the saguaro standing guard.
The closest most of us come to the natural world and its inhabitants is the Discovery Channel. Come visit Tucson! With four major mountain ranges, and thousands of miles of hiking trails, you'll find more adventure in a week than many folks experience in a lifetime.
Oh, and my photo of that Mountain Lion? I took that at the Arizona Sonora Desert Museum, just down the road from my home in the little community of Tucson Estates II. It's one of the world's 10 best zoos! Their motto is "Close to home; far from ordinary!" Come to think of it, that's what my Darlin' says about me!
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P.1.1 This Statement of Work (SOW) describes the Work to be furnished or performed by the Contractor to define and develop a detailed design of a _________________ meeting the requirements and objectives of the Project Requirements as described in Annex "A," and to deliver an Implementation Proposal for the Project.
P.1.2 The SOW also mentions (text in italics and boxed) other activities in each discipline that are planned to be carried out by the Branch or by other contractors during the Project Definition Phase. From such other activities, the Project Authority shall provide all relevant data and information to the Contractor as it becomes available. (The numbering system used in describing these activities is coming from the Project Work Breakdown Structure).
P.1.3 The Contractor shall carry out all the necessary Work in accordance with the Articles of the Agreement, the Project Requirements, the SOW and the Project Definition Plans delivered by the Contractor and accepted by the Contracting Authority.
P.2.1 The Contractor shall deliver the data specified in this SOW and listed in the CONTRACT DATA REQUIREMENTS LIST (CDRL) and described in the DATA ITEMS DESCRIPTION (DIDs), attached hereto respectively as Annexes "C" and "D." CDRLs and DIDs are prepared in accordance with the documents entitled respectively "Contract Data Requirements List – Instructions" and "Data Item Description – Instructions" in Appendix "B" and "C" of Section 300 to the Project Request for Proposal dated__________.
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They say in Russia all trains lead to Moscow, but in Moscow all roads lead to Red Square. The huge cobblestoned square is the heart of the city to which all surrounds, and with it's history and beauty it's not hard to see why. This vast and ancient capital city of Russia was all that I has expected and more, with the elaborate metro stations, iconic St. Basils Cathedral, and the unforgettable Kremlin armory.
Nowhere epitomizes Moscow quite like Red Square. The enormous Red Square lies in the heart of Moscow and on its four sides stand the Kremlin, GUM Department Store, State Historical Museum and St. Basil's Cathedral and not to mention it centres of government, commerce, history and religion. Red Square was established in the 15th Century, under the rule of Ivan III, and was originally called Trinity Square after the Trinity Cathedral, which used to stand on the site where St. Basil's stands now. Sometime later the name "Krasnaya Ploschad" became popular, meaning beautiful square in old Russian. Common assumptions are that the Red in Red Square referred to Communism, blood spilt, or even the color of the monuments, all which are in fact not true. The square served as a meeting place for celebrating religious festivals, public gatherings, and speeches. The most notable display that took place in the square was in 1941 when lines of Russian tanks rolled through on their way to a front line confrontation with the Germans.
Inside the square you will find St. Basil's Cathedral. The Candyland-fantasy exterior, is quite possibly Russia's most iconic symbol. The cathedral was built by Ivan the Terrible to commemorate the capture of the Tartar stronghold of Kazan in 1552. The design displays nine colorful onion domes to represent the nine different chapels inside. It is believed that after the construction of St. Basil's was complete Ivan blinded the architect to prevent him from contracting a more splindid building for anyone else. Hopefully this horrible fact is not true, because this cathedral was by far my favorite part of Moscow, and maybe one of my favorite Cathedrals ever. The fantasy like structure could capture your attention forever, and is so unique to anything we had ever seen.
The famous GUM Department Store, the largest in Russia, lines the east side of Red Square. This now luxury department store used to be a place where necessities such as pen and paper were bought and shelves were often more empty than full. If you seen the splendor of it now it's hard to imagine it was ever any different, with it now being more of a museum of clothes than a mall.
At the northern end of the square sits the State History Museum with its huge collection of artefacts charting Russia's past right back to the stone age.
The square is also home to Lenin's tomb, a gleaming granite mausoleum to the revered founder of Socialism, a system that, like Lenin himself, is dead but not forgotten. After Lenin died in 1924 Stalin ordered that his body be perserved and put on display as a tribute to the man responsible for Russia's revolution.
The Kremlin, seat of the Russian government and home to some of the world's most infamous leaders, ranks alongside Red Square as one of Russia's top tourist attractions. Ivan the Great, Ivan the Terrible, Lenin, Stalin, Gorbachev and Yeltsin all cast their individual marks on the pages of history here at one time.
Kremlin is actually the term given for the fortified stronghold of any city, and many other kremlins exist in large towns throughout Russia and acted as seats of power for local rulers. Moscow's Kremlin began in the 1150s, on a much smaller scale than it exists now, and as time went on with each ruler it grew in wealth and power. Constructed from the 15th Century right up to the 20th, you will find a number of bold and grandiose architectural styles in these edifices, which combine to reflect the glory and splendour of Russia through the ages.
You enter the Kremlin through the Trinity Gate Tower. The Trinity is the tallest of the tower fortifications. It was under this gate that Napoleon's troops both entered and fled from the Kremlin. Its basements were used as a prison in the 16th Century. Right inside the gate you will find one of the best parts of the Kremlin, The Armory. Built in 1511 as a weapons and arms store, the Armoury has spent most of it's life as an unofficial museum of royal treasures. Today it holds an impressive collection of gold and silverware, thrones, carriages and Faberge eggs. Some of the most important pieces include the crown of the first Roman Czars, the carriage used at Nicholas II coronation, and Catherine the Great's wedding dress. We couldn't take any pictures! =(
Also inside the Kremlin Gates are three important cathedrals; the Assumption Cathedral, Church of Deposition, and Archangel Cathedral. The Assumption Cathedral is the oldest and most famous of the many Cathedrals that adorn the Kremlin. It was built by the architect Aristotile Fioravanti, and some say that Ivan the Great was so pleased with the Italian's work that when Fioravanti requested to return home he was thrown in prison instead, to prevent him from creating a replica anywhere else. The Church of the Deposition of the Robe is a modest structure, built by Russians in the Russian style. This church was the private chapel of the religious big-wigs and today it houses a fascinating collection of wooden figures and carvings. The Archangel Cathedral is the most Italian of the Kremlin's churches and the last of Ivan the Great's contributions to Cathedral Square. Archangel Cathedral was the official church for all coronations, royal weddings and burials until 1690, when Peter the Great moved the capital to St Petersburg.
The Grand Kremlin Palace is probably the most incredible part of the Kremlin. Sadly we weren't able to take a visit as it had to be booked far far in advance but I've heard it was by far the most impressive place inside the Kremlin walls. The palace was constructed by Konstantin Thon in the Byzantine-Russian style, and was built as an Imperial residence for Nicholas I. It contains a whopping seven hundred rooms. Whoa!
Two more interesting objects inside the walls are the Tsar Cannon and Bell, which just happen to be two cases in point refuting the old adage "bigger is better". The Tsar Cannon and Bell are as impressive as they are useless. The 40 ton cannon, designed to add to the Kremlin's defensive fire-power, never fired shot, and the 202 ton bell never rang on account of an 11 ton chunk falling off during the cooling period of its construction.
You exit the Kremlin through the Saviour Gate Tower, which was another tower favored by the Tsars. They lead their ceremonial processions underneath its gothic spire. The 25 ton clock chimes every 15 minutes.
The Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts, famous for its impressive collections of impressionist and post-impressionistic paintings, housed one of the most famous and my favorite Henri Matisse masterpiece of all time, making this a must visit place during our stay.
Russia's largest church, The Cathedral of Christ the Saviour, has quite the soap opera history. It was originally commissioned by Emperor Alexander I to celebrate the defeat of Napolean it was finally completed in 1881, only to be torn down by secular Communists in 1933. Stalin's idea was to build a mighty Palace of the Soviets on the site, but when this plan was dismissed, due to architectural difficulties, a giant outdoor swimming pool was constructed instead. Finally in 1997, Yuri Lushkov, the Moscow mayor, realised his dream and had the Cathedral reconstructed to its former splendour. Today the golden domes are back by the river, forming once more one of the most recognisable landmarks of the entire city.
The Seven Sisters are the architectural legacy of one of the most ambitious building programmes ever conceived. Built on the orders of Jozef Stalin, the towers were constructed for the glorification of the Soviet State after WWII, and were intended to rival the USA's skyscrapers that had gone up in the 30s. Each Sister was designed according to Stalin's specifications, in a so-called wedding-cake style, that concentrated the eye towards a central tower. Stalin also insisted that all of the Seven Sisters be given a spire, in order to distinguish them from their American counterparts.The Seven Sisters of the city include the Moscow State University, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Ministry of Transport, Hotel Ukraina, Hotel Leningradskaya, Kudrinskaya Square, and the Kotelnicheskaya Embankment.
Moscow is home to some of the most beautiful metro stations in all of the world. While most all of them were elaborate and unique in some way, the Komsomolskaya station was by far the most beautiful station is our opinion.
We took a visit to a very unique grocery store by the name of Yeliseev. This specialty grocery store was a glimpse of prerevolutionary grandeur, as it is set in the former mansion of the successful merchant Yeliseev. The store sells an array Russian delicacies as caviar and such.
For a little shopping we decided to visit the Izmaylovo Bazaar, which is a three story outdoor vintage shopping park with numerous stalls hawking their wares, from military medals and sickle bags to china tea sets and local paintings. We made sure to visit on the weekend when the better booths were out, but first you have to have a little fun passing through all of the Russian souvenir dolls, and faux faberge eggs and fur hats.
Moscow gave us an incredible glimpse into the Russian history, people, and culture, which is far from anywhere we have visited prior to it. Russia is a very special place, and we can't wait to experience a little more of this interesting country at our next stop, St. Petersburg. Until then!
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A journalist friend was once ordered to interview Lou Reed in his hotel room. The meeting was not a success. Reed retreated to the closet bearing a copy of the poems of Delmore Schwartz and refused to come out until his guest had paid cash for it, saying, 'Delmore needs the money.' Reminded that the author of In Dreams Begin Responsibilities had died some years before, Reed observed, 'Well, his family needs the money.' $5.99 changed hands and the conversation continued.
These qualities — deviancy, cantankerousness and, above all, literariness — abound in the posthumously updated edition of I'll Be Your Mirror, together with a fourth characteristic that experienced Reed-fanciers have long detected in their man: sheer portentousness. There are no fewer than five prefaces here: two from Reed, and new ones from Martin Scorsese, the biographer James Atlas (who defines Reed as a nihilist who loved life) and Reed's widow, Laurie Anderson.
A rock 'n' roll Dostoevsky? A literate street punk who got lucky? Reed swings both ways at the outset of this 600-page compendium. 'There are no favorites,' he confesses. 'I'm amazed that I can write them at all.' Then he exalts his lyrics as 'the announcement of transcendence and freedom'. Along the way, there are tributes to his ex-tutor Schwartz, 'who showed me the beauty of the simple phrase', and ex-mentor Andy Warhol, from whom he 'learned a work ethic and the value of repetition'.
Nearly all 'serious' pop music has a buried literary sensibility at its heart. The Beatles' post-1966 output, for instance, is full of half-hidden bookishness: Lennon's misremembering of Lewis Carroll's original as 'I Am the Walrus', the genuine poetry of McCartney's 'Eleanor Rigby', 'Wearing the face that she keeps in a jar by the door'. With Reed this engagement is wholly undisguised. The books are next to the drum-riser, yelling for recognition, and the kid heading 'up three flights of stairs' is an English major from Syracuse.
The first two Velvet Underground albums (issued in 1967 and 1968) are thick with counter-cultural signifying. 'Venus in Furs' ('Shiny, shiny, shiny boots of leather / Whiplash girl-child in the dark') cannibalizes Sacher-Masoch's novel of the same name. Delmore is memorialized in 'European Son' and the cast of Hubert Selby, Jr's Last Exit to Brooklyn furnish lyrical matter for the 17 or so minutes of improvised thrash that is 'Sister Ray'.
Much of the allure of these early sections is, alas, horribly prosaic. The vocals were sometimes well down in the mix and Reed's streetwise drawl was at times barely intelligible. It's a relief to discover that the 'PR shoes' of the drug dealer in 'Waiting for the Man' ('Here he comes, he's all dressed in black') are 'Puerto Rican', not the footwear of a publicist. The eternally puzzling line in 'Sweet Jane' about the poets who 'studied Rousseau verse' now reveals itself as 'rules of verse'. At this late stage in the genre's development, the problems associated with books of rock lyrics scarcely need restating. The words, as Scorsese points out, have two lives: sung and heard, and then read on the printed page. To read even the best of them, 'Heroin', say, is to be aware of absences:
'I wish that I was born a thousand years ago
'I wish that I'd sailed the darkened seas
'On a great big clipper ship
'Going from this land into that
'Ah, in a sailor's suit and cap'
We hear the lack of Reed's worldly-wise but faintly bewildered voice, John Cale's screeching viola, Moe Tucker's rub-a-dub drumming. As for the worst lyrics, even a completist might hesitate to reproduce 'I Can't Stand It', a late Velvets number recycled onto Reed's first solo album, on how hard it is being a man when you're living in a garbage pail along with 13 dead cats and a purple dog that wears spats. Not that Reed ever disdained the throwaway. On a good day, when he wasn't milking the drugs or doing street-corner theatrics (the 'Street Hassle' material verges on hilarious), he could be surprisingly effective.
There certainly exists a space in which literature and rock music can have some kind of relationship — see Radiohead or the California psych-rockers Wand — but printed lyrics must succeed on the page's terms. With Reed, an odd kind of contradistinction seems to apply. The throwaway lines have a vitality that the beetle-browed intentness of The Raven (2003) or Lulu (2011), where 'Nosferatu' naturally has to rhyme with 'Dr Moreau', labors to reproduce:
'Vicious, you hit me with a flower
'You do it every hour
'Oh baby, you're so vicious'
The harder Reed tried, the further he traveled from that tiny hinterland where word and note intersect profitably. Like some of the writers he admired, Reed was at his best when he settled for obliqueness. Some of the best lines here are from the Warhol tribute Songs for Drella (1990).
'I'm no Dali coming from Pittsburgh
'No adorable lisping Capote
'My hero — do you think I could meet him?
'I'll camp out at his front door'
This article is in The Spectator's November 2019 US edition.


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Media Release: Workers' Safety and Compensation Commission Launch Safety Forum for Employers
Media Release: Workers' Safety and Compensation Commission Launch Safety Forum for Employers
Yellowknife, NT (January 25, 2016) – Today, the Workers' Safety and Compensation Commission (WSCC) announce the release of Safety Share, a new online safety forum for employers operating in the Northwest Territories and Nunavut.
In support of the WSCC's strategic priority of Advancing the Safety Culture, and following engagement with our Stakeholder Engagement Committee (SEC) and associations across the Northwest Territories and Nunavut, the WSCC is proud to launch Safety Share. Safety Share is an online forum for employers to share important safety information among themselves, to ask each other questions, and to collaborate. It is a go-to place for employers to support each other and gain easy access to important safety information.
"Safety Share is an excellent tool to help employers advance the Northern safety culture. It is a fun and easy to use online forum that helps employers reach out to each other," says Dave Grundy, WSCC President & CEO. "The Northwest Territories and Nunavut are vast and varied. This tool will help bring employers a little bit closer together. It will help connect people across industries and communities so they can share important safety information and resources with each other. We are excited to see the impact it will have."
The forum, which supports dialogue in both English and French, groups discussions into six categories to help employers easily identify the topics that interest them. The categories are: Important Safety Notices, Safety Resources, Practices Worth Sharing, Looking for Assistance, In the News, and General Discussion.
Safety Share is accessible through the WSCC website (wscc.nt.ca or wscc.nu.ca), or at www.safetyshare.wscc.nt.ca.
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"I'm drinkin' TNT, I'm smokin' dynamite"Eilen käytiin kattomassa Hobo Junctionia: blues, läskibasso & matkalaukkubasari. Eri hyvä!
Yesterday evening I felt like staying at home (after getting myself soaking wet while biking back from work in the rain) but luckily I managed to transfer my lazy bones to see Hobo Junction.
Blues music is, in my opinion, one of the greatest inventions of humankind. And people playing blues should get tax discounts!


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Protesters in Afghanistan stormed the presidential palace in Kabul on Wednesday, carrying the coffins of seven civilians from the Hazara Shiite minority, recently beheaded by Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL)-linked terrorists.
Two women and a 9-year old girl were among the victims.
Angry protesters, reportedly numbering in the thousands, demanded protection from the government of Afghan President Ashraf Ghani.
"Death to the Taliban," "Down with the Government," "Death to the Islamic State," and "Death to Pakistan," chanted the crowd.
"They accused President Ashraf Ghani of incompetence in the face of deteriorating security and called for the resignation of his coalition government," reports the New York Times (NYT).
The Times reports that their throats were cut with "metal wire."
ISIS-linked militants from the ethnic Uzbek minority in Afghanistan have been accused of kidnapping and beheading the victims over the weekend.
The Times reports that the beheadings and a recently released propaganda video showing jihadists invading an army base have prompted fears that terrorists linked to the group are consolidating its power and hold on territory it has conquered in the country.
According to a United Nations report that surfaced in September, ISIS is expanding its presence in Afghanistan as it actively recruits followers in nearly 75 percent (25) of the country's 34 provinces.
A top Russian military official estimated last month that there are up to 3,000 ISIS militants in Afghanistan, noting that their presence continues to grow.
The seven civilians who were recently killed by ISIS-linked militants are from the minority Shiite Hazara sect that has been discriminated against for centuries in Afghanistan.
"Fellow Shiite Muslims have also been massacred by ISIS and other extremist groups in neighboring Pakistan, as well as in Iraq and Syria," notes the NBC News.
"Thousands of mainly Hazaras carried the bodies of the victims through the streets of Kabul on Wednesday and called on the government to halt sectarian violence," adds the article.
Before it was overthrown by U.S.-led forces in 2001, the Taliban massacred and oppressed the Hazaras, according to various reports.
Citing video broadcast in Afghanistan, CNN reports that Afghan security forces fired bullets in the air, seemingly to disband the protesters who were trying to breach the gates of the presidential palace.
Ismail Kawoosi, spokesman for the Afghan Health Ministry revealed that at least seven civilians, including two girls, have been injured.
"The girls were stepped on and are not seriously injured, but men were injured by stray bullets as a result of warning shots," he reportedly indicated.
According to the Times, the "thousands" that marched on the presidential palace included Afghans "from all walks of life, including laborers, university students and retired people."
"We are all here — Hazara, Pashtun, Tajik, Uzbek — to demand justice," protester Kamela, a 22-year-old university student, told NBC News, mentioning the country's main ethnic groups. "We will not go back to those days," she added, referring to the Taliban regime, and the Afghanistan's civil war during which ethnic militias turned their guns on each other.
Provincial officials believe ISIS-linked Uzbek militants kidnapped and killed the Hazaras over the weekend in Afghanistan's southern Zabul province, which shares a border with Pakistan, reports NBC News.
The Uzbek terrorists are reportedly fighting alongside a Taliban splinter group fighting to wrest control of the Taliban away from the group's recently appointed leader Mullah Akhtar Mohammad Mansour, who took over in July.
A spokesman for the breakaway Taliban faction reportedly said that an estimated 400 Uzbeks are fighting with the breakaway group led by Mullah Mohammad Rasool Akhund.
The Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan (IMU) pledged their allegiance to ISIS in a video released July 31.
"Militants linked to ISIS have made some inroads in the regions, luring members of the Taliban who are unhappy with the Afghan group's leadership," reports NBC News.
NBC News notes that the new 17-minute ISIS propaganda video release Monday includes the first footage showing the terrorist group launching a coordinated attack on a military base in Afghanistan.
District chief Haji Ghalib reportedly noted that the military outpost, located in Nangarhar province's Achin District, an estimated 90 miles east of Kabul, was retaken by Afghan Army soldiers later in July.
Alkhouri called the video footage "unprecedented," adding that it showed "an ISIS-style attack" similar to those conducted in Iraq and Syria.
"They are essentially copying from ISIS military manual," he added.
ISIS announced the establishment of its Khorasan province in January. Khorasan is a historic name for a region that covers Afghanistan, Pakistan, Iran, India, and other surrounding countries.