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LOS ANGELES TIMES CARTOON: We'll Miss Those California FlowersJanuary 30, 2014
I draw cartoons for The Los Angeles Times about issues related to California and the Southland (metro Los Angeles).
This week:
It looks to be the end of the plastic grocery bag as we know it.
The state assembly appears to have struck a deal in which Californians would pay at least a dime for each recycled paper or reusable plastic bag they get at the grocery store. The currently-ubiquitous single-use plastic bags that have bedeviled litter-control types and environmentalists would be prohibited. That's a lot of bags. Californians use an estimated 12 billion single-use plastic bags each year.
Plants that manufacture single-use bags would be retooled into recycling facilities, preventing job losses.
Given how hard opponents of a ban have fought over the years, it seemed wrong to this perverse cartoonist not to consider that something (aside from growing the massive plastic trash island in the Pacific Ocean) may be lost. But what?
Following the lead of dark surrealism master director David Lynch, I drank lots and lots of coffee to get my idea juices flowing. This is what I came up with: the plastic bag as weapon.
In self-defense class, they taught me that a folded newspaper can be a surprisingly potent tool for fending off an assailant. (No word yet on whether an iPad can knock a ruffian unconscious.) So can a trash can. What appeals about these strategies is the fact that they're ubiquitous. Like — you remember the previous use of that word in this little essay — plastic bags. They're everywhere, hanging from trees! In Africa, people ironically nickname them "African flowers." What if a "California flower" could be called into service by law-abiding citizens?
Yep. That's all I got.
Lynch must have drunk more coffee than me.
SYNDICATED COLUMN: "Captain Phillips" is a Beautiful LieNovember 19, 2013
"Cinéma Vérité" as Political Propaganda
Paul Greengrass is a gifted director who specializes in historical reenactments, a once marginal genre that in recent years hits the sweet spot, earning critical plaudits as well as bringing in bank (Greengrass' "United 93," Stephen Frears' "The Queen," Oliver Hirschbiegel's "Downfall," about Hitler's final days in his bunker). Greengrass' latest entry in this field is "Captain Phillips," a retelling of the 2009 hijacking of a container ship by Somali pirates. Tom Hanks stars in the title role.
Watching this film left me with an uneasy feeling, like I'd digested a delicious meal devoid of nutrition. It was a fun drama. But I didn't learn anything. Why not?
This is solid Hollywood filmmaking. Tight scripting, sharp editing and unpretentious cinematography deliver a story that keeps you in your seat long after you began having to pee. Hanks delivers one of his finest performances, driving a stake into his rep as an always-playing-himself actor; Barkhad Abdi is a sensational revelation as pirate leader Abduwali Muse.
But what does this film mean? What message does Greengrass convey to his audience?
In random order, here are the takeaways: leadership is tough. Bravery exacts a high cost. In an interconnected world — we watch Phillips email his wife after the pirates' first attempt to board the Maersk Alabama — it's nevertheless possible to be alone, isolated and vulnerable. Intermodal transport, an industry in which vast ships carrying thousands of tons of goods are piloted by an unarmed skeleton crew, is surreal. If nothing else, "Capitain Phillips" is worth watching because it opens a window into the lonely lives of the men and women responsible for keeping our store shelves stocked.
Pull out of the multiplex parking lot, however, and you quickly realize the real revelation: "Phillips" is pro-government propaganda.
Greengrass has created the most frightening kind of propaganda — so effective that for most people it will become the definitive historical account of an event. Unlike the hilariously shrill propaganda flicks of the past, from "Triumph of the Will" to Cold War-era artifacts like "Rambo" and "Red Dawn," the new breed pretends not to editorialize. Affecting a quiet, Zoloft-inflected tone and economical, apparently straightforward scriptwriting, this movie plays it close to the vest, coming off as deadly fair and serious. Which makes it easy to miss what is left out.
This new cinéma non-vérité uses high art to sanitize history in order to elevate the imperialist, militarist geopolitical agenda of the U.S. government in its post-9/11 war on terror.
Kathryn Bigelow never scratches the surface of Osama bin Laden's motivations in "Zero Dark Thirty." He's just a target, a cipher in a beard, so we don't care when he dies. Her film is thrilling yet vacuous.
It is far from settled history that United Flight 93 was brought down by the passenger revolt — the 9/11 Commission Report leaves open the possibility that it was shot down. But that would prompt uncomfortable questions. Greengrass' film, which unquestioningly accepts the "let's roll" scenario, all but sets it in stone for posterity.
Ben Affleck's "Argo" is devoid of political context, especially the historical basis for the Iranian revolutionaries' contempt for the United States. Best not to mention the coup, the shah, corruption or torture.
American movies are about choices. Will the protagonist choose right or wrong (and which is which)? In "Captain Phillips," however, the ethical quandaries rest not on Hanks' character, who handles his ordeal as courageously and competently as you could expect, but on Abdi's shoulders. It's more than a little odd.
"We are just fisherman," Abdi explains after seizing control of the vessel. Fortunes reverse after crewmen hidden in the engine room capture him and trade him for their captain, who offers them $30,000 in cash and a lifeboat to leave the ship. Disgusted that the Somalis won't settle for less than "millions" and physically brutalized, Hanks spits "you are not a fisherman!" at Abdi an hour later into the movie.
It's a puzzling narrative choice. Not only is Abdi's a supporting role, we don't see much deliberation. Muse is in it for the big bucks all along. So are his colleagues.
Passing up the obvious chance to use this mother of all culture clashes as a means to discuss race and class, Greengrass has nevertheless succumbed to the hoary colonial instinct to ask, almost out loud, why $30,000 isn't enough to sate a gang of starvation-thin guys from one of the world's poorest countries. The closest we get to an answer is a tossed-off aside by Abdi that the fish "left" Somali waters.
The background, mentioned only obliquely in this movie about Somali piracy, is that Somalia's fishing industry had been decimated. After Somalia collapsed into the sectarian civil conflict in the early 1990s, the absence of a strong central government — coupled with the indifference of the international community — opened a vacuum for opportunists. Foreign trawlers and other vessels dump industrial waste, toxins and even nuclear waste — including uranium — off the Somali coast. Foreign fishing ships use drift nets to steal the fish that survive.
Time magazine reported in 2009 that Somalis turned to piracy after Western ships made it impossible to fish: "A United Nations report in 2006 said that, in the absence of the country's at one time serviceable coastguard, Somali waters have become the site of an international 'free for all,' with fishing fleets from around the world illegally plundering Somali stocks and freezing out the country's own rudimentarily-equipped fishermen. According to another U.N. report, an estimated $300 million worth of seafood is stolen from the country's coastline each year."
Desperate Somali fishermen formed vigilante flotillas to go after foreign fishing vessels. Some robbed the poachers at gunpoint. This turned out to be much more lucrative than fishing. Piracy became a $50 million a year industry.
If Abduwali Muse isn't really a fisherman, he didn't have that option to begin with.
Postscript: Somalis who still try to fish are harassed, questioned and detained by American warships assigned to the Horn of Africa to deter pirates. (In "Captain Phillips," this Navy practice is whitewashed.)
Two or three additional lines of dialogue would have enlightened American movie audiences about the complexity of the piracy issue. Exposing the antagonists' motivations would have made "Captain Phillips" a smarter movie, a tragedy in which opposing forces, neither side evil, are forced into a clash in which at least one side must die. Greengrass gives us all the moral nuance of cowboy-versus-Injun movie.
"Capitain Phillips" is the triumph of suburban schlubs and high-tech military hardware over hollow-eyed black men in rags, horribly unfamiliar with basic oral hygiene.
By the way, if some of the Maersk Alabama's crewmen are to be believed, Phillips was a lousy captain who imperiled them by skirting too close to the Somali coast. Deborah Waters, an attorney representing 11 crewmen who are suing Maersk, said: "He told them he wouldn't let pirates scare him or force him to sail away from the coast."
Maybe, maybe not. Only those who were there know for sure.
Making films is also about choice.
When you make a film based on history, it's impossible to include every detail. Nor should you try.
Still, basic background facts are crucial to understanding the event being depicted. Omitting or spinning issues (why Somalis resorted to piracy) strips them of context. Deploying a matter-of-fact tone makes these cinematic lies (because the Somalis are poor and greedy) credible.
It is unforgivable to promote America's we're-the-good-guys party line at the expense of the victims of the system. (Muse, politically voiceless in this film, is serving 33 years in federal prison.) Dressing up a perversion of truth in pretty lighting, and stuffing tainted dialogue into the mouths of great actors, results in an affront to art as well as history.
(Ted Rall's website is tedrall.com. Go there to join the Ted Rall Subscription Service and receive all of Ted's cartoons and columns by email.)
SYNDICATED COLUMN: Occupy Main StreetSeptember 26, 2011
For America's New Radicals, a Coming-Out Party—and Brutal Cops
"First they ignore you, then they ridicule you, then they fight you, then you win." —Gandhi
Gandhi lost, but never mind.
#OccupyWallStreet, in its second week as of this writing, is and was important. It is the first major street protest inspired by the economic collapse that began in 2008. It is also the first notable public repudiation of Obama by the American Left. Inspired by the Arab Spring, the Canadian "culture jammer" magazine Adbusters asked people to converge on lower Manhattan's financial district in order to protest corporate greed in general and—in a reflection of the influence of social networking culture—to develop one specific major demand after they gathered.
Several thousand people arrived 10 days ago but were turned away from Wall Street by a phalanx of NYPD officers manning metal barricades. A few hundred demonstrators, dominated by the scruffy white twentysomething college grads known as "hipsters," wound up at Zuccotti Park, whose private owners granted them permission to camp there.
There they remain, noshing on donated pizza, talking, hanging out, hoping to replicate the magic of Cairo's Tahrir Square while remaining committed to "absolute nonviolence in the Gandhian tradition," as Adbusters commanded.
Occupy Wall Street now seems to be fizzling out.
For me and other older, jaded veterans of leftist struggle, failure was a foregone conclusion. From the opening words of the magazine's updates to the participants, which it referred to as "dreamers, jammers, rabble-rousers and revolutionaries," it was evident that yet another opportunity to agitate for real change was being wasted by well-meant wankers.
Michael Moore complained about insufficient media coverage, but this non-movement movement was doomed before it began by its refusal to coalesce around a powerful message, its failure to organize and involve the actual victims of Wall Street's perfidy (people of color, the poor, the evicted, the unemployed, those sick from pollution, etc.), and its refusal to argue and appeal on behalf of a beleaguered working class against an arrogant, violent and unaccountable ruling elite—in other words, to settle for nothing less than the eradication of capitalism.
Don't just occupy Wall Street.
Occupy Main Street. Get ordinary people interested and involved. After all, college kid, it's not just your struggle.
While a lack of political education should not preclude a person from participating in politics, organizers of a movement seeking radical change should make sure they don't waste the whole time strumming a guitar and flirting. Zuccotti Park should have offered daily classes and study groups to reduce the odds that an attendee will sound like a moron when she gets questioned by a journalist.
"I'm not for interference [with wealthy people]," The New York Times quoted protester Anna Sluka. "I hope this all gets people who have a lot to think: I'm not going to go to Barcelona for three weeks. I'm going to sponsor a small town in need." Earth to Anna: Rich people know poor people are suffering. They don't care.
Also, lose the clown clothes. It's not the early 1960s; you don't have to wear a suit like the civil rights marchers did. But how about showing up on national TV looking decent, like it's Casual Friday?
Revolutionaries should not expect fair coverage by media outlets owned by the transnational corporations they hope to overthrow. They also shouldn't make themselves so easy to mock. Press accounts reveled in photos of topless women and the dudes on stilts who always show up at these things. So much bad hair, so many colors that don't occur in nature.
A protest is a stage. All over New York City and around the country, people are watching on TV. Ideally, you want viewers to drop what they're doing, to come join you. At bare minimum, you want them to approve of you. To identify with you. Maybe even send a check.
You say you represent the "99 percent" of Americans getting screwed by the top one percent. So act like the 99 percent. Dress like them.
Be normal, inclusive and welcoming.
Reporters quoted demonstrators who sounded as ignorant about current affairs as members of the Tea Party, albeit nicer. It was a perfect set-up for hit pieces by the likes of Ginia Bellafante, who called the downtown gathering an "opportunity to air societal grievances as carnival" and slammed the "group's lack of cohesion and its apparent wish to pantomime progressivism rather than practice it knowledgably."
History has proven that an absolute commitment to nonviolence can never effect radical change. This was shown again on Saturday September 23rd, when police used orange plastic nets to "kettle" and arrest about 80 Occupy Wall Streeters who had been marching peacefully through Greenwich Village. According to numerous witnesses and media accounts, none resisted. Cops went wild, beating several men bloody and macing at least one woman after she had been cuffed.
Sadly, too many people angry at gangster capitalists will look at the YouTube videos of bloodied young faces and say to themselves: I'm willing to suffer for a cause, not a scene.
Back in July, Adbusters wanted the "one simple demand" expressed by Occupy Wall Street to be "that Barack Obama ordain a Presidential Commission tasked with ending the influence money has over our representatives in Washington."
What do we want?
A bipartisan blue-ribbon commission to study the extension of campaign finance reform!
When do we want it?
As soon as the committee completes its work!
Unsurprisingly and rightly, that uninspiring (and easily satisfied) demand has been set aside in favor of something better but hardly worth taking a rubber bullet for: "a vague but certain notion that the richest percentile of the country remains fat and happy as the going-on-five-year-old recession continues to batter the middle and working class," as The New York Observer put it.
Occupy Wall Street should have demanded something majestic, reasonable and unobtainable, in order to expose the brutal nature of the system. Something like the nationalization of all corporations, equal wages for all workers, or the abolition of securities exchanges.
Some organizers also called Occupy Wall Street "Days of Rage"; along with organization and focus, rage is what is lacking.
The aggregated wealth of the superrich has been stolen from the rest of us. We should not ask them to give some of it back. We should take it all, then jail them.
Which isn't going to happen nonviolently.
Rich people are bad people. Someone has to say it out loud.
I have no problems with the organizers of a protest deciding that its marchers will remain nonviolent. I am speaking at such an event on October 6th. However, I think it's unwise to broadcast those intentions to the authorities.
Few people think about it now, but street demonstrations have always relied on a sense of menace. Sure, people marching through the streets of a medieval city might begin by expressing their demands peacefully. But they drank beer instead of water. On a hot day, things might escalate into a riot. The local lord was wise to give in earlier rather than later.
The rich and powerful never relinquish their prerogatives voluntarily. Only violence or the credible threat of violence can force them to give up what they stole through violence and corruption.
Despite the protesters' many missteps, which were inevitable due to their lack of experience and political seasoning, the Occupy Wall Streeters should be commended. Sure, they did some stupid things. But they have taken a first (tentative) step into history. They have learned lessons. Hopefully they will be smarter next time.
See you in Washington on October 6th, when the October 2011 Coalition will begin the occupation of Freedom Square near the White House. Our demand is simple: We will not leave until the last occupation soldier and mercenary is withdrawn from U.S.-occupied Afghanistan.
(Ted Rall is the author of "The Anti-American Manifesto." His website is tedrall.com.)


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EMS Consulting Services is overseeing the Delran Emergency Squad after its license was suspended and its former chief sentenced to jail
By George Woolston
Burlington County Times, Willingboro, N.J.
DELRAN, N.J. — After having its license suspended for the last six months of 2018, and seeing its former chief sentenced to 30 days in jail, the Delran Emergency Squad is back serving the Delran and Riverside communities — under a few conditions.
The combined paid and volunteer emergency squad began operations again this January under a corrective action plan established by agreements with both the township and the New Jersey Department of Health.
While the corrective action plan has allowed the squad to keep its license as a basic life support agency, the squad won't be able to operate on its own until 2020 at the earliest.
According to an out-of-court settlement reached with DOH in November, it must first operate for 12 months under the basic life support agency license held by EMS Consulting Services, who will also have direct operational control over the squad for that same time.
EMS Consulting Services is an EMS, police and fire department consulting firm based in Hammonton. According to the settlement, the firm has not only been overseeing the emergency squad's day-to-day operations but has also been working with the squad's board of directors and township officials to develop policies and procedures that meet both state and national EMS standards.
"Things are better than they were," said Chuck McSweeney, principle of EMS Consulting Services, earlier this week.
The Delran Emergency Squad's license was suspended in July 2018 by the DOH due to multiple violations, including operating vehicles with uncertified staff, altering patient care reports and hindering an audit investigation.
An investigation revealed that the squad's then-chief Donald Horner had altered reports on 27 different occasions when he served as a crew member to conceal the fact that he was an uncertified EMT, which would have disallowed the squad from billing for those services.
Horner resigned shortly after the squad's license was suspended last year, and has since been been arrested. In May, he pleaded guilty to third-degree insurance fraud and third-degree tampering with public records, and on June 18, he was sentenced to 30 days in Burlington County Jail.
According to the settlement with the DOH, after 12 months the squad will begin operations under its license but must retain EMS Consulting Services for consulting services for no less than 12 more months.
"I would say that they're (Delran Emergency Squad) heading in the right direction," Delran Mayor Ken Paris said Tuesday. Paris added that there are still some issues that need to be ironed out, such as the squad's response time, which he believed could be because of a shortage of staff.
McSweeney said that it has been looking to find more of both volunteers and paid staff.
"EMS is a revolving door," McSweeney said. "There's a shortage of EMTs in my opinion ... we're always looking."
The squad, independent from both Delran and Riverside, will have both its worker's compensation and general liability insurance covered by Delran through the Burlington County Joint Insurance Fund for the 12 months of its service agreement with the township.
Delran also loaned the squad $26,000 as seed money to help get its operations back up and running, Business Administrator Jeffrey Hatcher said. Hatcher added that the squad has a similar agreement with Riverside.
Hatcher said that after its six-month suspension the squad, which relies on billing reimbursements from insurance companies, didn't have the funds necessary to begin operations.
The squad must repay the loans by the end of the year.
As part of the service agreement with Delran, the township has the right to inspect the ambulances the emergency squad uses, as well as perform periodic audits of all services provided and all financial information, billing, records, call logs, accounts payable and accounts receivable.
The service agreement also stipulates that its members must have all appropriate licenses and certifications and that all ambulances must be staffed by personnel who are EMT-certified.
Paris said that he expects that a formal review of the emergency squad will be conducted later this year.
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The Pushmataha County Election Board, after gaining approval from the State, has officially closed three Pushmataha County polling locations. The locations that have been closed are the Miller Community Center, Honobia Community Center and Tuskahoma Schools.
Pushmataha County registered votes turned out in large numbers for this midterm election. A lot of straight party voting took place and a wave of red washed over the county.
Along with voting on state, congressional and local candidates in this midterm election; along with state questions, residents of Antlers will also be voting on a Proposition set forth by the City of Antlers to allow or deny PSO from keeping the franchise of the City of Antlers for an additiona
The much anticipated midterm election is less than a week away and you can see things heating up throughout the country.
Marching season for any band is long and involves extensive work.
"The Pride of Antlers" Bearcat Band has been putting in many hours of practice in order to compete at a few school-sponsored competitions as well as the OSSAA Regional contest.
It has become part of the Deer Festival tradition that the Glow On and Run Family Fun Event takes place the Thursday before the opening day of the festival. Well this year is no different.
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On Tuesday, May 14th, Niger soldiers running a routine military patrol were ambushed, with search operations beginning directly afterwards for missing soldiers who were involved.
The initial attack involved 52 soldiers who were in the patrol, and when they came across a group of heavily armed soldiers, were forced into a 2 hour fight. Initially, only 22 soldiers returned to base, and 17 were declared dead within the first few hours. Some troops were severely injured, and therefore evacuated to the capital for medical care. Eleven soldiers went missing after the attack, but security confirmed on Wednesday that these bodies had been found, bringing the total death toll to 28. After these final soldiers were found, ISIS/ISIL came out to take responsibility for the attacks.
The area that this attack happened, in Tongo Tongo, has been a site for many attacks in the past, against other military teams. On May 17th, ISIS/ISIL claimed responsibility for these attacks, without any direct evidence. They posted on their propaganda media outlet, as part of the increased violence and and armed attacks that are becoming more and more common in the area, including one in October, and another the following December. Both of these previous attacks resulted in the deaths of 9 and 15 people, respectively.
Other attacks have happened against other soldiers, as well as against churches in neighbouring suburbs. The violence from operators of ISIS/ISIL on individuals of Niger, including military personnel, and members of the public. The organisation have had many various conflicts with the people of Niger, but the violence has become less frequent in the last few years. These recent attacks seem unprecedented after this brief period of peace. It is thought that Niger has become a target from this group as this specific branch initially split from a Nigeria based group called Boko Haram. The fight between them has carried on and off for over a decade, resulting in the death of near 30,000 people. These latest attacks may be yet another attack in this ongoing violence.
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About us
Welcome to Brooklyn Northern United AFC!
We're a community football club in Wellington's central and southern suburbs. We're passionate about football and we're strong on club spirit. Our members are from all
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We celebrated our centenary in 2016. Follow this link to view a brief history of Brooklyn Northern United.


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THE rehabilitated Boracay circumferential road is 95% complete as of April 26, according to Environment Secretary Roy A. Cimatu. — DWPH
By Emme Rose S. Santiagudo, Correspondent
ILOILO CITY — The six-month temporary closure of Boracay Island last year contributed significantly to the slowdown of Western Visayas Region's economic growth, but a recovery is expected despite the regulated entry for tourists and stricter rules now being implemented on the island resort.
National Economic and Development Authority (NEDA) Regional Director Ro-Ann A. Bacal said the number of tourists in the region dropped by 15% to 4.9 million in 2018 from 5.8 million the previous year.
"The decrease of visitors amounted to almost 900,000 people coming to Region 6, particularly for Boracay. As a result, tourist receipts went down by 18.4%. It also meant 900,000 less passengers for buses, and cars, less customers for hotels, groceries, and less orders for meat, fish, vegetables, foods, spices, and pasalubong items," she said last week during the 2018 gross regional domestic product (GRDP) presentation held simultaneously nationwide.
Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA) data shows the Western Visayas 2018 GRDP growth rate dropped to 6.1% from 8.6% in 2017.
Boracay's temporary closure, implemented April to October for a major rehabilitation program due to environmental degradation, also meant lesser cargo services, labor requirements, jobs, and money in the pockets that would have been circulating in the economy, Ms. Bacal said.
"The loss of income were more critically felt by individuals whose employment were curtailed because of the closure, which had a direct impact to their families, although tempered by the support given by the national government. Families had to hold back on their spending," she said.
Further, the popular island resort's closure translated to foregone revenues for local government units (LGUs).
"Basing only on collection on terminal and environmental fees at an average tourist arrival of 5,941, they lost about P57.9 million per month or estimated P347 million for the six-month closure," she said.
Officials, however, are optimistic of seeing a recovery in the GRDP growth this year given the return of visitors since the reopening as well as continuing investor interest in other parts of the region.
Data from the Department of Tourism-Region 6 office show more than 170,000 monthly visitors came to Boracay in January and February, with foreign tourists comprising more than 60% of the total.
A limit of 19,000 visitors per day is currently imposed on the island, but Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) Secretary Roy A. Cimatu, who heads the task force on Boracay's rehabilitation, earlier said this could be increased this year as more improvements are undertaken with the continuing rehabilitation program.
Last April 26, Mr. Cimatu said one of the many "visible changes" on the island is improved public infrastructure, which has cut travel time for visitors from the Aklan Jetty Port to their hotels.
Mayor Abram L. Sualog of Malay, the municipality that covers Boracay, said the "most visible change" he considers is the stricter implementation of local ordinances.
Boracay Tourism Regulatory Enforcement Unit Chief Wilson Enriquez said this year alone, more than 1,000 tourists have been apprehended and fined for violating rules against smoking in undesignated areas, eating and drinking at the beach, and littering.
Chinese and Korean tourists, who comprise about 80% of the foreign visitors, were the top violators, according to Mr. Enriquez.
Ms. Bacal said they are confident that the region's economy will grow faster this year with the continuing roll out of infrastructure projects and investment promotion.
"We see a continuing investor interest in Western Visayas because the region is one of the more ideal investment locations in the country," she said.


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Chapter 23 - Conspiracy
The Fire Crow Clan's Ancestral Ceremony had come to a conclusion.
Only one thing was bothering the clan's Maguspriests - during the ceremony, none of their people had received a 'gift' from the ancestors. Normally, if a clan lost their ancestors' blessing and protection, bad things would soon start to happen.
In Ji Shu's campsite, tens of people were cheerfully sitting around a bonfire and holding jorums[1], gobbling grilled meats and drinking liquor.
Jiang Bo was sitting in the middle, while holding a jorum with a triumphant grin on his face. The man sitting next to him was the middle-aged man Ji Hao had seen through the spying-crow's eyes that other night. Jiang Bo and the middle-aged man clinked their jorums then drained off the liquor.
After that the middle-aged man took a deep breath. He wiped his face with his hand and said: "I had lost the fight against Ji Xiong, Ji Xia's father, decades ago...He ended up breaking tens of my ribs at the ceremony...I had never gotten...the position of the leader."
"But now," he shrugged his shoulders and continued satisfyingly, "Ji Xiong is long gone...But I, Ji Huan, am alive and living so well! My son, Ji Shu, beat his son and has become the leader; finally!"
A sexy young woman, who was wearing only a leather skirt, came and filled Ji Huan's jorum with liquor. Ji Huan narrowed his eyes, and eased his hand up her inner thigh.
Jiang Bo then said slowly: "Now Ji Shu has become the leader of the Fire Crow Clan's warriors. There are...some things that we couldn't do before. But now, everything gets more convenient. Ha, I suddenly feel that there will be a great future for Ji Shu...and us."
Ji Shu was sitting next to Ji Huan, holding a blood-jade[2] axe and remained silent.
That axe was three-feet-long, embossed with patterns of a few three-legged gold crows surrounding the sun, and seemed nothing special. There weren't any spell-symbols on its surface; it was not even a Magic tool.
That axe was the 'Fire Crow Axe Cane', the symbol of the highest authority of the Fire Crow Clan. With this 'Fire Crow Axe Cane', Ji Shu could mobilize the warriors from thousands of branch clans and subsidiary clans to attack any enemy.
The fighting force of the Fire Crow Clan was tremendous. Not to mention those great warriors, only the thousands of senior level gigantic Fire Crows were able to destroy any small clan.
Ji Shu gazed at the 'Fire Crow Axe Cane', opened his mouth slowly and said in a gloomy voice: "I sacrificed my own son for this."
He kept seeing Ji Wu in his mind. He saw how Ji Wu's head had exploded, the blood and brain mixed together had soaked his boots. He felt a great heartache. That was his son who had his blood in his veins. He had killed his son for this axe, for this power.
Ji Huan let out a great sniff, and grabbed the axe from Ji Shu's hands. He carefully stroke the axe with a greedy yet cold expression on his face. "It's just a son. Ji Shu, I have seven sons, you and your brothers. You just need to get yourself a few more," said Ji Huan coldly.
"That's right, Shu." Jiang Bo gazed at the axe out of the corners of his eyes and agreed. "I will send you a few beautiful Bi Fang Clan's women once I get back. Shu, you're young and strong, you will have as many sons as you want!"
Ji Shu stayed silent, and continued with staring at the bonfire with a sullen face.
Jiang Bo narrowed his eyes and continued: "As for Jiang Yao...I know she is always jealous, never letting you touch other women. I will talk to her about this, she'll understand…"
Jang Yao got inside the tent without making any sound. Her face was as pale as a ghost. She gazed at Jiang Bo in the eyes and said word by a word: "I'm ok with this. But...Ji Xia, Qing Fu, and their damned son, Ji Hao, they have to die! For my son!"
Ji Huan and Ji Shu both threw a glance at her then looked away, without saying anything. Jiang Bo frowned and said with a sneer: "We've talked about this, we can't kill them right now. As you've seen, those few old men are still holding a negative attitude towards Ji Shu. Now we..."
"If you don't let me get revenge for my son, I'm telling everybody what you're planning to do!" yelled Jiang Yao.
"You won't dare!" Jiang Bo jerked up his body and pointed at Jiang Yao angrily.
"Try me!" Jiang Yao held her head high, stared at her father and said also with a sneer.
"If it wasn't for you...triggering the Bi Fang Clan's bloodline power inside Ji Wu..." Jiang Bo furiously yelled at his daughter.
"Bi Fang Clan's bloodline is way powerful than that of the Fire Crow Clan; I wanted to make my son stronger, was I wrong? I wanted my son to win that bitch Qing Fu's son, what was wrong with that?" Jiang Yao interrupted her father and yelled back.
Jiang Bo glared at Jiang Yao and growled: "You shouldn't have done that before the worship ceremony! You shouldn't have let those old men know about it! Any...Any clan in the Southern Wasteland won't accept a kid who has triggered another bloodline! You...you almost had ruined our plan!"
Jiang Yao stared Jiang Bo, gnashed her teeth and said viciously: "But now...Ji Shu has already become the leader...Even Ji Kui and the other old men aren't able to change that...no matter what. I, I want them to die now! All three of them! Especially that damned Ji Hao!"
Ji Shu held his jorum, poured a mouthful of the liquor into his mouth and swallowed slowly. He looked at Jiang Yao and said in a low voice: "I will handle this. Soon...Jiang Yao, you should save your little tricks."
"Little tricks? Don't you dare to look down on me!" Jiang Yao's pale face almost went blue, she glared at Ji Shu with a creepy smile on her face and said.
Jiang Bo dashed up to Jiang Yao and slapped her on her face. Jiang Yao fell on the ground, coughed up blood and cried in pain.
Jiang Bo looked down at her and growled: "How smart do you think you are? You send Jiang Xue, that little bitch to Ji Xia's home… Do you have any idea what would have happened if Jiang Xue had killed Ji Hao? He is the son of the former leader who just has left his position yesterday!"
Jiang Yao sniffed with her head still held high. She said: "Does the Fire Crow Clan even dare to turn against the Bi Fang Clan? If so, we can just wipe the entire Fire Crow Clan out!"
Ji Shu covered his eyes with his hand when he heard what Jiang Yao said. Ji Huan opened his mouth but couldn't let a word out. They just discovered that this woman could really be unreasonable.
Other Fire Crow Clan's people in the tent had all started to twitch their faces. If Jiang Bo hadn't been there, some of them might already have this stupid woman chopped.
Ji Shu looked at Jiang Yao for a while, then let out a heavy sigh.
"Allow me a few days. I will send Ji Xia out of the Gold Black Mountain to guard someplace. This is well within my power."
"Once Ji Xia has left the Gold Black Mountain, we will find a way to do what you want to do."
[1]Jorum: A large drinking bowl.
[2]Blood-jade: Red jade.


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Future-distant future
He was all up in your grill you may want to hold on about planning where to send your future twins to! Jokes aside as mentioned if he's your man nothing wrong talking about the near future or even distant but it comes back to the relationship you have. The last thing your friends with benefits or no strings attached person wants to talk about is the future unless it's a relatively long agreement.


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In recent years, interest-rate modeling has developed rapidly in terms of both practice and theory. The academic and practitioners' communities, however, have not always communicated as productively as would have been desirable. As a result, their research programs have often developed with little constructive interference. In this book, Riccardo Rebonato draws on his academic and professional experience, straddling both sides of the divide to bring together and build on what theory and trading have to offer.
Rebonato begins by presenting the conceptual foundations for the application of the LIBOR market model to the pricing of interest-rate derivatives. Next he treats in great detail the calibration of this model to market prices, asking how possible and advisable it is to enforce a simultaneous fitting to several market observables. He does so with an eye not only to mathematical feasibility but also to financial justification, while devoting special scrutiny to the implications of market incompleteness.
Much of the book concerns an original extension of the LIBOR market model, devised to account for implied volatility smiles. This is done by introducing a stochastic-volatility, displaced-diffusion version of the model. The emphasis again is on the financial justification and on the computational feasibility of the proposed solution to the smile problem. This book is must reading for quantitative researchers in financial houses, sophisticated practitioners in the derivatives area, and students of finance.
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Part I. The Structure of the LIBOR Market Model
1. Putting the Modern Pricing Approach in Perspective
2. The Mathematical and Financial Set-up
3. Describing the Dynamics of Forward Rates
4. Characterizing and Valuing Complex LIBOR Products
5. Determining the No-Arbitrage Drifts of Forward Rates
Part II. The Inputs to the General Framework
6. Instantaneous Volatilities
7. Specifying the Instantaneous Correlation Function
Part III. Calibration of the LIBOR Market Model
8. Fitting the Instantaneous Volatility Functions
9. Simultaneous Calibration to Market Caplet Prices and to an Exogenous Correlation Matrix
10. Calibrating a Forward-Rate-Based LIBOR Market Model to Swaption Prices
Part IV. Beyond the Standard Approach: Accounting for Smiles
11. Extending the Standard Approach - I: CEV and Displaced Diffusion
12. Extending the Standard Approach - II: Stochastic Instantaneous Volatilities
13. A Joint Empirical and Theoretical Analysis of the Stochastic-Volatility LIBOR Market Model…read more


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Old Family Home Custom Pen & Ink Drawing
December 29, 2010
I always get excited to draw an old family home. This one's located on Savannah's East Side. Mini-prints were made for the entire family and given as little gifts over the holidays. A nice way to remember your youth, no?
Even though we moved a lot during my childhood, I still feel a connection to each of the places we occupied. Our time there may have been short-lived, but we worked hard to make each house a home.
A few weeks ago, my brother took a trip to Richmond, VA, and snapped this pic of our old place. Oh the memories it uprooted! I've often pondered sketching all of our old homes (I've had several clients do this, and it makes for quite the collection), but finding all those old photos from the pre-digital camera days, would be quite the challenge.
*New* Savannah Hand Watercolored Prints & Mini Prints are Finally Here!
February 26, 2010
My original Savannah sketches have been given a little *punch* of color! (Sorry for the delay, but things had to be "just so" you know) Each 8×10 print has been delicately hand watercolored by yours truly, making each one unique. Of course, if you haven't the space for an 8×10 and you must have a little something "Savannah," then the Mini-Prints are for you! They come matted ready to fit a 5×7 inch frame…(perfect for the tabletop frame) or a collection of little Savannah memories…take your pick! You can find these little gems locally at ShopSCAD or purchase them online via TheInkLab. Enjoy!
P.S…if you wish to subscribe to this bloggity blog, there's a new email subscription thingy in the right hand column. How about that! FLYoung Studio right in your inbox! have a lovely weekend peeps!
All Artwork © 2010 Heather L. Young


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Things you should know about Australian coffee culture
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Australia has developed a reputation as the land of vast deserts, deadly wildlife, temperature extremes, and more recently, coffee. People Down Under love their coffee in all of its many forms, and this devotion has become the foundation of a unique coffee culture heralded as one of the best in the world. That being said, there are a few things every self-respecting Aussie caffeine addict should know:
- Coffee is everywhere. It's not unusual for small suburbs to boast ten or more cafes serving a standard coffee menu, and even then, other businesses in the neighbourhood are likely to put coffee on their menu so that they don't miss out. This isn't great for baristas or established cafes, but the competition does ensure that only the strong survive, which solidifies Australia's reputation for producing great caffeinated beverages.
- Most Australian cafes start every cup of coffee with freshly-ground, quality beans. That might sound like standard practice, but cafes around the world don't necessarily hold themselves to the same standard, and Aussie tastebuds can tell - according to Traveller: "Australia has become a land of coffee obsessives, a country free of a caffeinated cultural cringe, a nation of people unafraid to declare that our coffee is better than yours." Grinding just enough beans for each order takes extra time and attention, but any coffee connoisseur worth their weight in beans will tell you the taste makes up for the wait.
- Our baristas know their stuff. Not only do most Australian baristas go through a day-long training course just to grasp the basics and a bit of latte art, but the ones working in busy cafes can also be expected to work through kilograms of beans every morning. Generally speaking, every order is made from scratch - a far cry from the drip coffee found in America - and some cafes even promise a delivery time of one minute or less, so there's no messing around.
- Said baristas are also well accustomed to fussy coffee orders. We've all heard stories of the menu-defying requests baristas are faced with every day at work; half-strength, decaf, caramel lattes on almond milk with a shot of angel dust are all in a day's work. What's more, the barista usually has to offer to make the coffee again if it isn't *quite right*, or else the cafe two streets away will be happy to take on their dissatisfied clientele. Aussies like their coffee made a certain way, and once they find a barista who can nail their order (and remember their name), it could be the beginning of a beautiful, addiction-fueled friendship.
- Latte art is a staple, and for good reason. According to Paulig Barista Institute, the barista's ability to create latte art depends on a perfectly-frothed jug of milk, and if it isn't perfectly frothed, not only is latte art impossible, but the taste probably misses the mark. Australia takes latte art very seriously - we post it on Instagram, take classes exclusively to perfect the craft, and even hold latte art competitions to celebrate the best in the country. If that doesn't encapsulate the spirit of true devotion to our coffee culture, nothing will.
- Coffee is a staple meeting option for almost every situation, hence the popularity of The Coffee Club and their slogan, "Where Will I Meet You?" Aussies have no qualms about suggesting coffee as the focal point of a business meeting, a catch up with friends, or a first date with someone they found on an app, and chances are that if the coffee is sub-par, it will most likely offer the participants a talking point, should there be a lull in the conversation.


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2. Agreed prices include service and applicable applicable value added tax. If the period between the closing and the execution of the contract exceeds 4 months and the hotel charges generally charged for such services, the hotel may reasonably increase the contractually agreed price by a maximum of 5%. 3. Prices may change when the guest additionally wishes to change the number of rooms booked, hotel services, or length of stay, and the hotel agrees.
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4. If the number of participants is deviated by more than 10%, the hotel is entitled to redraw and fix the agreed price, as well as to exchange confirmed rooms, except that this would be an inappropriate requirement for the event organizer.
5. For events lasting longer than 22:00, the hotel may to charge servicing fee on the basis of individual confirmations, unless the agreed remuneration no longer takes longer than 22.00.
6. The organizer of the event is not in principle entitled to bring meals or drinks to events. Exceptions require prior written agreement with the hotel. In such cases, a service charge or service charge is charged. Debit charge.
7. The organizer of the event and the customer are responsible for the payment of the additional ordered meals and drinks by the participants of the event.
8. The organizer of the event / client is obligated to inform the hotel without any request that a service or event based on its content or character is capable of raising the public interest and limiting or jeopardizing the hotel's interests.
9. Advertising in newspapers as well as other measures or disclosures, in particular invitations to interviews, political or religious events and sales events that show the relationship to the hotel, require the prior written consent of the hotel.
10. If the hotel organizes, for the organizer of the event at its initiative, technical and other facilities from third parties, it acts in the name, on behalf of and on behalf of the organizer of the event. The organizer of the event frees the hotel from all claims of third parties to leave this facility.
11. The use of the hotel's own electrical facilities at the hotel's electrical network requires its written consent. Using these devices, the resulting malfunctions or damage to the hotel's technical facilities go to the account of the event organizer if the hotel did not do so. 12. The decorative material obtained must comply with legal fire requirements. The hotel is entitled to require an official confirmation. Due to possible damage, the installation and location of items must be agreed with the hotel in advance.
13. The exhibited and other items must be removed at the end of the event. If this event organizer fails and objects remain in the event room, the hotel may charge the room for the duration of the stay. The organizer of the event remains reserved for the lesser, the more damaging hotel. The hotel is also authorized to remove and store on the account of the organizer of the event without a custodial or custody contract. The organizer of the event is obliged to pay for the damage caused by the accumulation of abandoned items.
VI. Payment of hotel invoices
1. The hotel is entitled to a reasonable advance payment or a cash guarantee when entering into the contract or, subject to legal provisions. The amount of the advance payment and the payment terms can be agreed in writing in the contract.
2. Hotel invoices without a due date shall be payable within ten days of receipt of the invoice without deduction. The hotel is entitled to accrue debts at any time as due and require immediate payment. If payment is delayed, the hotel is entitled to claim valid statutory interest on late payments of 8% pa or more.
3. A guest can only count or cancel a claim against the claim of the hotel.
VII. Withdrawal, cancellation of order, cancellation of guests
1. Upon booking of one hotel room, guests can check in before 16.00. On the day of arrival, cancel the hotel room free of charge, unless otherwise agreed. In addition to the individual reservation, all hotel services are required to leave the customer's written consent. If this is not followed, the price agreed in the contract must also be paid when the guest does not use the contract services. This does not apply to a violation of the hotel's duty to take into account the rights, legitimate interests and interests of the guest, if the duration of the contract is disproportionate or other legal or contractual right to resign.
2. If a contract cancellation period has been agreed in writing between the hotel and the guest, the guest may withdraw from the contract until then, without incurring claims or claims for damages incurred by the hotel. The guest's right to resign is canceled unless, after the agreed date, his right of withdrawal has been made in writing to the hotel, unless there is a case of the guest's resignation according to the number 1 sentence 2.
3. The guest has to pay the cancellation fee for the technical equipment ordered to perform the event, if at the time of cancellation, the costs have already been incurred and this can not be covered by another application.
VIII. Hotel resignation
1. If the guest has a free cancellation fee in writing for a certain period of time, the hotel is entitled to withdraw from the contract at this time, if there are requests from other guests from the contract rooms and the guest does not renounce his right of withdrawal.
2. If the agreed or requested payment is not made in advance even after a reasonable additional period has been determined by the hotel, the hotel is also entitled to withdraw from the contract.
3. Further, the hotel is entitled to withdraw from the contract due to substantive reasons, for example, if: – force majeure or other circumstances for which the hotel does not comply, make the contract impossible – the rooms were reserved for misleading or incorrect data of essential facts, In a customer or purpose – the hotel has reasonable grounds to believe that the use of hotel services could jeopardize the smooth operation of the hotel, the safety or the seriousness of the hotel in the public, without the possibility of being attributed to the owner or, The organization of the hotel – there is a violation against the number II. 3
4. There is no claim for damages at the right of the hotel.
1. Pets are allowed only upon prior agreement of the hotel and for the addition of a surcharge. Animals may not be brought to a room with food and beverages. The things found are only sent on request. Stored in the hotel for six months. After this time, items that have a clear value are handed over to local losses and finds.
X. Final Provisions
1. Changes or additions to a contract, receipt of a request or business conditions require a written form for their effectiveness and will not be effective until the hotel has confirmed them in writing. Unilateral changes or additions to customers are ineffective.
2. Place of payment and payment is the seat of the hotel.
3. The exclusive seat of the court – even in disputes for checks and bills – is in the business premises of the hotel.
4. Slovak law applies. Implementation of the Vienna Agreement on the UN's Unlawful Purchase Right is out of the question.
5. Should the individual provisions of these General Terms and Conditions become or become ineffective or invalid, this shall not affect the effectiveness of the other provisions.


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Why did I find the Grant auction so enthralling? The reclamation of historical chaff. Our need to place value on the lost and the discarded.
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Nostalgia, reevaluated.
I've been coming to the Alley Belle mine for many years, and every time I do, I find new facets to photograph. In fact, many times the place frustrates me as I try to simplify the place into a meaningful image; this image is one successful attempt. A print of it hangs in our house, three feet wide, reminding us of an early July morning, surrounded by the ghosts of a time long past.
My assistant, Liz, is exceptionally talented, and these new photos at her blog Cue In Form show why I'm not alone in my thinking.
A bumpy drive south of St. Elmo, Colorado, is the Alley Belle Mine, one of a very few remaining vestiges of the town of Romley. There sits a miner's cabin, abandoned, with only the brief summer flowers and morning light to warm its decaying existence, and one late June morning at 7 a.m., I joined those companions in the cabin, celebrating the past and present through this photo.
In an earlier post, I showed an image depicting the passage of time over the Montrose Catholic Church, and its small cemetery, which details another set of passages for the ranching families in the area. Today's image is from inside the church, where a sparse interior, lack of running water, and no heat accompany parishioners beyond their greeting by the figures of the Virgin and Jesus Christ. The photo seems to exhibit barrel distortion from a wide angle lens, but this is an illusion: over its more than one hundred years, the floor of the building has sagged toward the outside walls, adding one more testament of years to which the building has borne silent witness.


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A U.S. Air Force deserter from 1983 was found living under an alias in California at the end of last week.
Capt. William Howard Hughes Jr. admitted to living under the assumed name of Barry O'Beirne after being questioned by the U.S. Department of State's Diplomatic Security Service.
"Capt. Hughes deserted the Air Force in July 1983 after returning from temporary duty in Western Europe," the Air Force said in a statement. "Hughes was last seen in the Albuquerque, N.M., area withdrawing $28,500 from his bank account at 19 different branch locations."
"At the time of his disappearance, Capt. Hughes had a Top Secret/Single Scope Background Investigation clearance, but only had access to U.S. Secret and North Atlantic Treaty Organization Secret information," it continued.
He was sent to the Netherlands in 1983 to work with NATO officers. Hughes was expected to return to New Mexico at the end of that summer but was never seen again. On December 9 that year, the Air Force officially declared him a deserter.


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Wisma MM UGM, Yogyakarta | 24 – 26 Oct 2011 | Rp. 7.500.000 per Peserta
This course covers real-world bearing lubrication in a dynamic, skills-based learning approach. Upon course completion, students will have learned the skills needed to choose, apply and maintain lubricants in bearing applications plant wide.
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- The participant will be to evaluate filter effectiveness, and to select and apply appropriate filter(s).
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Lubrication fundamentals
- Functions of lubrication
- Basic expressions
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- Avoiding surface damage in bearings
Grease lubrication
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- Grease delivery and metering systems
- Selection of grease type: choosing the right grade, base, and oil for you application
Oil lubrication
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- Effects of cleanliness and contamination
- Using bearings new life theory to predict effects of contamination
- Effects of water ingress
- Effective use of filtration, choosing the right filter
- Change out intervals
- Bearing housing design concepts
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- Hands-on lubrication and lubrication procedures for pillow blocks, ball bearings, roller bearings, sealed and shielded bearings
- Electric Motor lubrication
Common error
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Presentation, discussion, case study, and evaluation
Maintenance personnel and engineers responsible for bearing lubrication, lubricant specification and lubrication system planning and design.
- Ir. Rini Dharmastiti, MSc. PhD.& TEAM
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Why are there still Chimpanzees? - Richard Dawkins
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Why are there still Chimpanzees? - Richard Dawkins Brian SW Kim People often ask me if we're descended from Chimpanzees, how come there are still Chimpanzees? Well, we're not descended from Chimpanzees, where both are decended from the common ancestor, who lived there about 6 million years ago. that common ancestor then produced two branches. One of which went to us, humans, and one of which went to Chimpanzees, branching further to produce Banovos and common Chimpanzees. we are all cousins, we are not descended from Chimpanzees. More distant related are Gorillas. they share common ancestor with both us and Chimpanzees. that's the common ancester between Gorillas and Humans and Chimps. So, humans and Chimps are natural group which are related to Gorillas, cousins of Gorillas, and all of those animals, which are African apes. The African apes are Gorillas, humans, Banovas and Chimpanzees. All the African apes have a common anscestor with Orangutans. that's the common anscestor with Orangutans. Those are all the Great Apes. So, the Great Apes are all cousins within the Great Apes. the African Apes are close cousins within the African Apes. Humans, Banovas and Chimps are close cousins still, and whithin them, the Banovas and Chimpanzees are the closest cousins of all. Brian Kim
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Richard Dawkins clears up the misunderstanding of Evolution that is all too common: If we descended from Chimpanzees, then why are there still Chimpanzees? Dawkins explains that we DID NOT descend from Chimpanzees—we both share a common ancestor.
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