Thank you to everyone, and remember, if you're a lady writer and would like to get published, come along to one of our Loose Muse events. That way, you'll be eligible to submit and you too could be gracing the stage like some of the lovely ladies below.
Kirsty Brook, who wowed us all as she performed her work 'Life test,' her first published poem.
A panoramic shot which came out er…smaller than anticipated.
This is the last of this year's funding from the Arts Council, we've really tried to help women writers develop and hope we've succeeded in promoting the work of all you marvellous ladies out there!
Where are all you short fiction writers?
It's wonderful that we always have so many great poets coming to the Loose Muse events. Every month, lots of women step up to the mic to blow our minds with their lyrical verse. Having said that, we really don't want anyone to think that we exist for poetry alone. At Loose Muse we encourage ALL women writers (including playwrights, script writers, flash fictioners as well as short fiction and novel writers) to come and perform. We would love to have even more great short stories submitted, for example, to the anthology.
Here is a great short fiction competition which you still have time to enter if you hurry. You can win up to £1000. Anthony Howcroft, the director of InkTears, is looking for writers who have, 'enough quality short stories' to publish a collection. Alternatively, they are looking for writers whose work may go into an anthology. So you could enter a competition and find yourself publishing a collection at the end of it!
Elsewhere, Cinnamon Press has some great poetry collection, novella or short story competitions that are still open. Go to http://www.cinnamonpress.com/competitions/ to take a look.
Book trust is a great website for listing competitions, so do take a look at that as well, although I've often found it slightly annoying that they don't organise the competitions by date relevancy. No one likes clicking for ages to find out that a competition happened back in January!
So all you short story writers, before you send our your brilliant prose to these great competitions, why not come along to Loose Muse and try them out on an audience?
Just about recovered from leading workshops at the Winchester Writers Conference at the end of last month. It's a terrific conference, and I'm very lucky to have been invited again this year to be one of the workshop leaders, so that's in no way a complaint. But OMG it really did knacker me – for me, read everyone who attended and/or took workshops. Everyone who attends comes away totally inspired, but also needing a week on a beach with the brain in a darkened room in recover position afterwards.
There's always an amazing mix of writers across the spread of genres, so whatever kind of writing a wannabe wants help with, they'll be able to find it there, from crime novels to stories for children, writing scripts for film/radio, to my own poetry workshops. And there are also useful sessions with publishers and agents, experts in harnessing new technology like e-books, to how to bring your work to a wider audience. Naturally some of the sessions were packed because so many people believe writing a novel is the pathway to enormous financial success, which makes all the novelists I know hoot with laughter. Certainly there's little likelihood of any poet getting rich through writing collections of poetry; I still need a day job despite my 5 collections, but poetry has allowed me to travel all over the world and visit some places I would not have otherwise have visited. Most writers have to keep plugging away for years to make a living and achieve any kind of recognition, even if they have an agent.
Julian Fellowes was a key-note speaker at the Winchester Conference and had some very interesting things to say about this. He advised by all means take advice from 'how to' books; they will give you advice on how to do it based on what has already been successful and what has gone before. But at the same time, he said, you must remain true to your vision, that special unique thing that makes what you do special, and that you should retain your belief in your own talent, which is very sound advice to any aspiring writer.
Luck is an enormous element, he added, saying there are many people who have great talent but have never had a break. And TENACITY is essential, advising that writers should do something every day to move themselves forward – write a letter, make a phone call, or write something. He did this for 10 years before it started to bear fruit, so be tenacious…original talent by itself is not enough.
He said you must write books that you want to read, write scripts for TV shows or films that you want to see – there is no catch-all. People asking you for advice are asking you to take responsibility for their lives, but it's unrealistic to think that someone else will do all the work for you. The person for whom your career is of paramount importance is you. You have to be thinking how you can move things forward, even if you have a brilliant agent. And sometimes even if you a publisher/agent, the advice they give you will be just plain wrong. For example, when Julian had written 'Snobs', his agent advised him to 'put it in the dustbin and write something for grown-ups'. So he has enormous gleeful pride at reporting the novel is now a best-seller in 47 countries, and emphasizes that sometimes you're right and the agent's just plain wrong.
Share the passion, share the joy.
If you've been watching tv over the past few weeks, you've probably seen the ad by a leading Scandi furniture store featuring the destruction of rampaging garden gnomes. When it was first screened, it made me laugh, as I thought it was quite witty. So imagine my surprise when I read there had been 50 complaints about this ad to the Advertising Standard Board saying it was over violent and offensive, and that some people had found it distressing.
Now, call me old-fashioned (I know my place!), but I find the idea that people were actually distressed at an ad where plaster gnomes (not real, live gnomes, but gaudy figurines made up of plaster-of-paris and painted in garish colours) were shattered by a woman wielding a garden sprinkler jet, is just plain bonkers.
Clearly, the complainers haven't been watching the news or reading the papers. The situation in Syria, where hundreds of people are being killed or made homeless every day is distressing. A tornado leaving a swathe of death and destruction in the US is distressing. Cuts in crucial services that leave the poor even poorer and thousands reliant on banks or the kindness of strangers is distressing. Female genital mutilation in girl children is very distressing indeed. And a newborn flushed down the toilet and stuck in a sewerage pipe is inexpressibly distressing. Gnome attack in a spoof ad just ISN'T, and if you think it is, you've not got enough to worry about. Get a life and get a sense of humour!
Having said all that, I also love the fact that there are gnomes in the Chelsea Flower Show for the first time ever. And even more, there's a place in Western Australia called Gnomesville, in the Ferguson Valley, about a 2-hour drive south east of Perth, where there are thousands of gnomes from all over the world are on display dotted around the forest landscape. I love the quirky eccentricity of that. But I still wouldn't any of the plaster variety in my garden if I had one…give me a real life fairy or elf any day of the week. I've always been a sucker for Otherworld Creatures.
Our next Loose Muse is on Wednesday 10 July and, as ever, we'll have some cracking features. Remember to come early to sign up for the open mic session at the end of the evening (gnome caps are optional).
Thanks go to Write Out Loud and Greg, for featuring us!
I read an article in The Independent the other week that really made my jaw drop in exasperation and fury. Written by young journalist Alice Jones, and headlined 'In Hollywood its Silence of the Ma'ams', it referred to a recent report saying that across the 100 highest grossing films at the US box office in 2012, only 28.4% of speaking characters were female, and that only 6% of the films featured a cast where the split of speaking roles was roughly 50/50 men to women. Whaaaaaaaaaat!!! I hear you gasp! Yes, that was my reaction too.
As Alice wittily (and perceptively) commented, "extra-terrestrials, trolls and cartoon jungle animals probably have more chance of getting a line than a living, breathing actress." This is surely a shameful state of affairs, especially when women easily buy as many cinema tickets as men.
And when you look at the roles women are actually given in those films it gets even more depressing… arm/eye candy for Neanderthal petrol-head leading men, the helpless/pea-brained girlfriend desperate to take her clothes off and pleasure her hero/man in bed or out of it, or the sidelines PA/Assistant who secretly obsesses about having that big white wedding all of us girls are supposed to yearn for, and not a lot else, unless you're the likes of Judy Dench or Maggie Smith.
With 31.6% of actresses appearing on screen in 'sexually revealing clothes', and half teenage girls on screen wearing provocative outfits (as opposed to 7% of teen boys), what kind of messages does that send out to today's young women…that our worth is only measured by the amount of flesh we flash, or the degree to which we agree to put up and shut up. No wonder 60% of teenage girls aspire to becoming glamour models. What else are we told we're good for?
But then the bosses of the big Hollywood studios aren't known for their imagination. They fancy us girls will be happy as long as we have a few films about Bridesmaids or some unutterably dull 'singleton' (God I HATE that word) still fixated with diets, diapers and dodgy relationships. Booooooo!
A colleague in the film business told me not long ago that Hollywood rarely gets good ideas for films, which is doubtless why they produce such a lot of unmitigated rubbish. In her article, Alice Jones continues that only 4% of the directors, and 12.2% of the writers of the Top 100 Films are female. What does this say? That men write about men, for men, produce films about men for men to relate to, and that women don't have anything worth writing about or portraying on the silver screen. Odd really when almost all the books currently in the best-selling paperback fiction lists are written by women. And the stories they're telling aren't all cosy romances, or diaries where the heroine is still boring us with the size of her bum, or lack of a boyfriend (without which her life clearly has no meaning).
It's up to us women writers to make sure we don't take Hollywood's disgraceful creative incapacity and blindness laying down. There are 1001 stories by women of real courage, adventure and power that are being lived and written about every day, and we should make sure those stories are told, loud and bold.
Come share the passion, share the joy.
Be quick though! There are only six more days to listen to it!


THIMPHU, BHUTAN -NOV 7, 2008: Crowds cheer watchng the cultural program during the Coronation celebration at the Chang-Lime-Thang stadium November 7, 2008 in Thimphu, Bhutan. The young Bhutanese king, an Oxford-educated bachelor became the youngest reigning monarch on the planet when he was crowned yesterday. The tiny Himalayan kingdom, a Buddhist nation of 635,000 people is wedged between China and India.


Governor: 6 tanks leaking radioactive waste at Washington nuclear site The Hanford site in southeast Washington state once played a major part in U.S. plutonium production. Last week, Washington's governor said 1 tank at the Hanford nuclear site was leakingHe now says 6 tanks are leaking radioactive waste, calling the news "disturbing"The leaks pose "no immediate health risks," but do pose concerns, the governor saysHanford site is home to one of the world's largest nuclear cleanup efforts (CNN) -- Six tanks at the Hanford Nuclear Reservation in southeast Washington state are leaking radioactive waste, the governor said Friday, calling the news "disturbing" even as he insisted there are "no immediate health risks." "News of six leaking tanks at Hanford raises serious questions about integrity of all single tanks," Gov. Inslee said that he got the latest information about the site during a meeting in Washington with U.S. On Friday, Inslee said there is "still no current health risk" tied to the leaks. CNN's Carma Hassan contributed to this report.
The Atomic Bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki The Atomic Bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki : Chapter 10 - Total Casualties There has been great difficulty in estimating the total casualties in the Japanese cities as a result of the atomic bombing. The extensive destruction of civil installations (hospitals, fire and police department, and government agencies) the state of utter confusion immediately following the explosion, as well as the uncertainty regarding the actual population before the bombing, contribute to the difficulty of making estimates of casualties. The Japanese periodic censuses are not complete. Finally, the great fires that raged in each city totally consumed many bodies. The number of total casualties has been estimated at various times since the bombings with wide discrepancies. The relation of total casualties to distance from X, the center of damage and point directly under the air-burst explosion of the bomb, is of great importance in evaluating the casualty-producing effect of the bombs.
Destructive Effects Counting the Dead Chaotic conditions made accurate accounts most difficult. Some victims were vaporized instantly, many survivors were horribly disfigured, and death from radiation was uncertain—it might not claim its victims for days, weeks, months, or even years. The initial death count in Hiroshima, set at 42,000–93,000, was based solely on the disposal of bodies, and was thus much too low. Additional counts indicated high levels of short-term mortality in both cities: —Over 90% of persons within 500 meters (1,600 ft.) of ground zero in both cities died. Most persons close to ground zero who received high radiation dosages died immediately or during the first day. While casualty rates exceeded death rates, they both were highest near ground zero and declined at similar rates by increasing distance from ground zero. *Figure 11. *Figure 12. Injury Phases Stages of A-bomb illness 1. —primary (flash burns) * Marked thermal burns on soldier exposed within 1 km of ground zero. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6.
Who holds the world's nuclear warheads? Get the full list by country | News The news that North Korea has successfully launched a satellite heightened fears that the same know-how could be used to launch ballistic missiles. Which countries already have the capability to launch a nuclear missile, and how many warheads do they have? Data on the number of nuclear weapons is notoriously difficult to find - not least because commitments on disarmament and dismantlement are linked to the number of weapons each state has claimed to have. Among the few reliable statistical sources is the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists. Their latest report shows that Russia and the United States remain far ahead of the rest of the P5 (the five permanent members of the UN Security Council: the US, Russia, China, France and the UK). Russia currently has around 4,650 active warheads in its stockpile and approximately 7,350 in reserve or awaiting dismantlement. Estimates suggest that the United States now has 2,150 active warheads compared to 31,255 in 1967. Download the data NEW!
Chernobyl: Capping a Catastrophe The Chernobyl accident can be likened to a huge dirty bomb, an explosion that spewed radioactive material in all directions. The blast was followed by a fire that sent even more contaminants into the atmosphere that were then carried by winds across the region and into Western Europe. In this way the disaster differs from nuclear power's two other major accidents, at Three Mile Island in Pennsylvania in 1979 and Fukushima in 2011. At both of those plants, reactor cores melted down, but the core material — the nuclear fuel — remained within protective containment structures. The four reactors at the Chernobyl plant had no such containment. That is what happened in the early hours of April 26, 1986, at Chernobyl's Unit 4, during an ill-advised test of some of the reactor's safety systems. Officially, several dozen people were killed, and many others became sick. Inside the Reactor That was nearly three decades ago. From time to time, new evidence of the disaster emerges.


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NZNO celebrates World Smokefree Day by lodging our smokefree services petition
Today, the 31st of May is World Smokefree Day. Every year the Health Promotion Agency puts out great resources for people want to quit smoking and stay off tobacco for good. They have infographics to download and motivational facts like the one below. Not many people know that smoking makes you deaf!
Researchers have identified though that without further big changes, New Zealand will not reach our smokefree 2025 goal, particularly for Māori and Pacific communities. That's why NZNO was distressed when we heard last year that funding for some iwi and community smoking cessation providers was being cut, as well as for advocacy services like the Smokefree Coalition. NZNO Kaiwhakahaere Kerri Nuku said ""It doesn't make any sense that on the one hand the Government supports the goal of Smokefree Aotearoa 2025, but on the other is pulling funding out of Smokefree advocacy services including the Smokefree Coalition, ASH and Smokefree Nurses. Every day we see the effects of smoking on our patients' physical and mental health, and the social, economic and cultural wellbeing of their whanau. It's heartbreaking."
Nurses working to stop smoking in the community say they need advocacy and specialist services to refer patients to and reinforce their stop smoking message. Porirua Community Union's Litia Gibson talked about the need for these services to NZNO last year in this video. "Any cut will affect all our services. Because it's not just the services we provide, it's the patients and the populations that we are caring for who are already in vulnerable positions."
NZNO decided to run a petition with Together, the digital campaigning arm of the Council of Trade Unions, to ask for more funding for these services. Today, we delivered 1823 signed names of nurses, caregivers, midwives, kaimahi hauora and their supporters to Marama Fox MP, in recognition of the longstanding work that she and her predecessors in parliament have done on ending smoking in New Zealand.
Litia and Marama had a little chat afterwards where Litia broke down the issues around referral services and increasing workload for nurses. "Without specialist services, we don't have the time. You need to pack so much into an appointment, because with health funding where it is, community need is so great."
Marama agreed on the need appropriate smokefree services and the future benefit this can bring to our country. "Being smokefree puts real money back in the hands of whānau. It protects our future generations, and ensures they don't have to make the same decision to quit because they never start. It's all about whānau."
Marama had brought along a beautiful kete to put our petition in and present it to parliament. Litia in return swapped her red flower to put in the MP's hair for the afternoon- 'There, now your outfit is complete!'
We are proud that a little bit of NZNO is being delivered to parliament on World Smokefree day to support our Smokefree 2025 goal. Kia kaha koutou, thank you for supporting this mahi. Your names are now part of history.
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Nurses go to Fiji
When Cyclone Winston hit Fiji earlier this year, emergency services were on high alert all across the pacific. Those services included a number of NZNO nurses who also volunteered for the New Zealand Medical Assistance Team (NZMAT). Emma Brooks who normally works at the Kenepuru Operating Theatre and Megann Deveraux from the Wellington Regional Hospital Operating Theatre both deployed to Suva with the NZMAT on 1 March. We had a chat to Emma about what happened on the deployment and what it means to be part of NZMAT.
What is NZMAT and who is involved with it?
It's basically a team of medical professionals that are trained to deploy to disaster areas to support the local health service. There are doctors, nurses, paramedics, allied health staff and even some non-medical members that work in areas like logistics. We all go through training to be able to be deployed. It's a civilian based group so we aren't part of the defence forces in any way but we do help with their disaster relief efforts.
What happened while you were deployed?
We left New Zealand on 1 March and flew directly into Suva with the help of the NZ Air force. We were a part of four teams, two of which were surgical, one general, and one orthopaedic and two were primary health. Because I'm a theatre nurse, I was in one of the surgical teams which was based at the Colonial War Memorial Hospital. We were there as support. We had to be flexible in what we did and had to take on the extra work that had been created due to the Cyclone. Our arrival was almost perfect timing as one of the Fijian Orthopaedic surgeons ended up in ICU the day before we arrived.
Over the two weeks we were there, we did 102 surgical cases over 12 days of surgery. These were cyclone and non-cyclone trauma cases and elective surgeries. The othropaedic team even did an emergency inter-island trip to Labasa Hospital on the northern island of Fiji. We were flown there by the French Airforce, however, they didn't serve croissants or coffee on the flight.
What was most memorable about the deployment?
Working on the victims was by far the hardest thing we did. We did lose a couple people due to the trauma they had endured. Because of the cyclone, the Fijian health services were stretched, any countries would be, and we tried our best to help where we could. The cyclone had caused such destruction, we had to work with very limited supplies. Having said that, it was a privilege to be there. The people we helped, they all were all incredible
There are various requirements to be able to join NZMAT. Go to the Ministry of Health website to find more information.
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Working in partnership for health
Yesterday NZNO president Grant Brookes, CTU economist Bill Rosenberg and others made submissions to the Greater Wellington Regional Council on a motion brought by Cr Paul Bruce.
Cr Bruce realised that, if ratified, the Trans Pacific Partnership Agreement (TPPA) would constrain the Council from reaching its goals, in many ways. The Council has recorded its opposition to the TPPA.
Grant made the links between people and health, and the environments they live in. Achieving health requires wrap-around thinking and intersecting actions. We all need to be on the same page if we are to realise a healthy Aotearoa New Zealand.
Here's Grant's submission:
Kia ora koutou. Good morning. My name is Grant Brookes. I am a registered nurse, and the president of the New Zealand Nurses Organisation.
NZNO is the leading professional association and union for nurses in Aotearoa New Zealand, representing 46,000 nurses, midwives, students, kaimahi hauora and health workers – including four and a half thousand in the Greater Wellington Region.
NZNO embraces Te Tiriti o Waitangi and works to improve the health status of all peoples of Aotearoa New Zealand through participation in health and social policy development.
At present, a major policy focus for the sector is the update of the New Zealand Health Strategy, being led by the Ministry of Health. The relevance of this to Councillor Paul Bruce's motion will soon become clear.
The previous New Zealand Health Strategy, introduced in 2000, has occasionally been referenced in this Council's planning.
The updated Strategy, which proposes a clear view of the future for the health system over the next 10 years, is likely to have greater bearing on your decision-making.
This is because an eighth guiding principle for the health system has been added to the existing seven, in recognition of the way the wider environment contributes to people's health. It is: Thinking beyond narrow definitions of health and collaborating with others to achieve wellbeing.
Particular examples of collaboration between health services and other agencies are mentioned in the Strategy. They include Healthy Auckland Together and Healthy Christchurch.
Healthy Auckland Together revolves around a Regional Action Plan, developed by 21 organisations, including District Health Boards, Primary Health Organisations and the Auckland Council. It views local government domains like transport and regional parks (and indeed local government employment conditions) as part of the health infrastructure.
Healthy Christchurch is a similar, DHB-led collaboration involving local government, based on the World Health Organisation's Healthy Cities model.
Meanwhile, World Health Organisation Director-General Dr Margaret Chan has spoken of the TPPA as part of a "particularly disturbing trend [involving]… the use of foreign investment agreements to handcuff governments and restrict their policy space."
And as we've just heard from New Zealand Council of Trade Unions economist Bill Rosenberg, the TPPA's restrictions apply to local government as well – even as your role in creating healthy environments is receiving greater recognition.
As a nurse, I am very concerned that the TPPA will restrict your ability to fully contribute under the updated New Zealand Health Strategy.
So I applaud you for being one of the councils, covering 60 percent of New Zealanders, who have previously voted to express opposition to the TPPA, as it stood.
I now ask you to support the recommendations in Cr Paul Bruce's notice of motion, especially these parts:
"That the Chief Executive… deliver a report… on the impact that the TPP will have on Greater Wellington Regional Council's ability to make decisions in the interests of our region, the people and their environment", and
"That the Council asks that central government carry out… health impact assessments of the potential effects of the TPP."
Thank you for the opportunity to address you today.
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The greatest threat to human health
New campaigns adviser, Jenn Lawless and I were talking about NZNO's recent submission on climate change and some of the many ways climate change will affect health in New Zealand/Aotearoa and the world. Jenn then went and wrote this scenario – she calls it a best case scenario; some of us are more hopeful. I hope you'll love it as much as I do.
You have woken up in the future. The year is 2115, and you are getting ready to go to your nursing job at Auckland Central Island hospital.
5:00am Rise out of your sleeping pod you share with 25 other Critical Core Workers (CCW) so that you can catch the circular ferry as it stops in at the Southern Auckland Islands that used to be known as Mangere before the great Greenland Ice sheet collapse. You're lucky you're a CCW so you can stay in on the Southern Auckland Island so close to Central Island; if you were an unskilled worker or climate refugee you'd be stuck on the far Western Islands where there's no daily ferry if there's energy shortages.
7:00am Arrive at work and receive your morning food portion. Because of all the salt water getting into the soil and the summer cyclones there is never enough food for everyone. CCW's get a basic nutrition package as part of their job. A regular part of your day is treating a variety of difficult health problems because of malnutrition, especially in children.
7:15am You are sent down to Refugee Arrivals for your first shift and jump on the medical barge. There isn't space to dock all of the rickety ships from climate refugees or unload the undocumented families without land-passes or citizenship, so it's a case of providing emergency relief on the water. Dehydration from months of dangerous travel at sea is the most common problem, but you can't get onto the refugee ships- despite your full-body suit, the risk of unknown epidemic diseases to an already fragile population is too great.
12:30pm You recycle your haz-suit and get a few minutes of delicious cool in the air-conditioned Central Island staff lounge. At the same time you take your regular scan for skin cancer and cataracts– a real problem now with depleted ozone.
1:pm You get a call for overload help from General Population Medical. Lots of Land-Pass holders there have been waiting all morning and they are angry that refugees are getting any medical treatment at all when there is such a shortage of medicine and basic supplies. Because of the Oceanic Fresh-Water Wars, getting any medicine we can't produce in New Zealand can take months by boat, to get around the no-sail and heavily pirated areas. You spend the afternoon doing what you can to treat the malaria, dengue fever, heat-stress and other tropical diseases with basic symptom management until the next medical supply ship gets through. Education about mosquito nets and natural repellent is just as important as treatment, but there is not much you can do about the malnutrition transfers from Northland. Expensive treatments like dialysis are out of the question; but patients might be lucky enough to win the 3D printed kidney lottery granted twice a year.
6:pm Passing back through the armed exit to Medical and Nutrition, you feel so lucky to be a CCW, but also sad about what more you could do for your patients if you had the resources that the Global-Pass holders have hoarded. It's true they seem to keep everything running for the Land-Pass holders like yourself but you're sure it didn't used to be this unequal in the past…back in the Democracy. They were so lucky. But nobody saw this coming then. Did they?
The World Health Organisation has described climate change as 'the greatest threat to human health this century' and that 250,000 more people will die every year between 2030 and 2050. This imagined future is based on risks outlined in the recent New Zealand Nurses Organisation submission to 'Setting New Zealand's post-2020 climate change target' run by the Ministry for the Environment.
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Samir Beloufa (; born 27 August 1979) is an Algerian former professional footballer who played as a centre-back.

Club career
Beloufa played in the Italian Serie A he played for AC Milan, and Monza in Serie B. He also played with Mouscron and Germinal Beerschot in Belgium.

Beloufa transferred to Helsingborg from Belgium club Westerlo in March 2007. In November 2008, his contract with Helsingborg was not extended and he was released.

International career
Beloufa made nine appearances for the Algeria national team since 2004. He was part of the Algerian 2004 African Nations Cup team, who finished second in their group in the first round of competition before being defeated by Morocco in the quarter-finals.

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Honours
AC Milan
 Torneo di Viareggio 1999

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Living people
French sportspeople of Algerian descent
Sportspeople from Melun
Algerian footballers
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A.C. Milan players
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Beerschot A.C. players
SC Bastia players
Royal Excel Mouscron players
K.V.C. Westerlo players
Helsingborgs IF players
R. Olympic Charleroi Châtelet Farciennes players
Championnat National 2 players
Serie A players
Serie B players
Belgian Pro League players
Ligue 1 players
Allsvenskan players
Belgian Third Division players
Algeria international footballers
2004 African Cup of Nations players
Algerian expatriate footballers
Algerian expatriate sportspeople in Italy
Algerian expatriate sportspeople in Belgium
Algerian expatriate sportspeople in Sweden
Expatriate footballers in Italy
Expatriate footballers in Belgium
Expatriate footballers in Sweden
Footballers from Seine-et-Marne

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Serica is a genus from the group of May beetles and junebugs in the family Scarabaeidae.  There are at least 100 described species in Serica.

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 List of Serica species

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Home / News / Missouri News / Missouri's new governor to be sworn-in tonight
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Missouri's new governor to be sworn-in tonight
Missouri's 57th governor will be sworn-in Friday evening in a private ceremony at the Statehouse in Jefferson City.
Lieutenant Governor Mike Parson's spokeswoman, Kelli Jones, says Parson will attend a prayer service Friday afternoon at 4 at First Baptist Church, just a few blocks from the Capitol in downtown Jefferson City.
The church's website notes the church is "in the city and for the city" of Jefferson City.
Parson is scheduled to be sworn-in Friday evening at 5:30 in the Governor's office. Missouri Supreme Court Judge Mary Rhodes Russell will administer the oath of office.
Jones says the prayer service and swearing-in ceremony are both private events. While they're not open to the general public, they are open to the news media.
Governor Eric Greitens plans to resign Friday evening at 5.
Parson's spokeswoman, Jones, says details for a public reception will be announced at a later date. Jones says the reception will not take place Friday.
In another development, the Missouri House and Senate are now officially scheduled to convene for a rare joint session on Monday, June 11 at 5 p.m.
Parson is expected to deliver a speech to the joint session that evening.
Top Missouri legislative leaders, including House Speaker Todd Richardson, R-Poplar Bluff, and Senate President Pro Tem Ron Richard, R-Joplin, met with Parson Wednesday morning at the Statehouse, and invited him to address a joint session of the Legislature.
Richardson and Richard said Wednesday that their most important focus is working to make sure they help Parson with a "smooth transition of power."
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June 3, 2017: I walk into a shoe store with my teenage son in tow, intent on buying him a pair of running shoes. He already has a particular shade of blue in mind – and yes, it should have a silver grey toe cap and fluorescent green laces. After great deliberation, we select a couple of pairs that matches my son's preferences, and I shout out to the attendant to get the right size. The guy returns after what seems like ages, only to announce that the size is unavailable. Not the one to lose a customer, he suggests an alternate pair.
After convincing my son to settle for this option, the two of us walk up to the payment counter, where the store clerk tells us that a Rs.3000 bill could fetch me a Rs.500 discount. My Indian buyer mentality kicks in, and I end up spending another 10 minutes choosing two pairs of socks I don't need – just to avail the discount.
May 30, 2021: I decide to buy my son a pair of shoes. As we enter the store, he stands on a shoe pad that discreetly measures his shoe size and the arch of his foot. A host walks up and my son tells him that he wants a black-and-blue pair with great grip, and walks about to check out some other stuff. The store assistant appears 5 minutes later with two options and a couple of matching socks. Incidentally, another shoe on the shelf catches my son's attention. When I enquire about its availability, the assistant simply scans the bar code and tells me it's in stock. We walk out with the products and the store charges my card on file.
While this experience may sound futuristic, truth be told, a lot of this is already happening around you. Imagine a world without digital kiosks, touchscreens or virtual mirrors; yet with technology being core to creating customer experiences. Future experiences will revolve around technology that's invisible yet omnipresent. In this case, the shoe pad automatically connects with an inventory system to check availability. Voice recognition technology helps understand consumer preferences and narrows down to a few choices. Upselling is a part of the experience, as the shoe has been paired with socks that match. Again, there's complicated payment technology involved in making the checkout process frictionless.
Delivering the right customer experience is a key differentiator for any brand in the marketplace. Marketers need to focus on creating meaningful customer journeys that will act as the foundation of long-lasting relationships. Today, customers expect brands to support their journeys from start to finish. Visiting a store is not just about the transaction anymore, it is also about the experience of the store and its products. This implies that marketers need to design and implement end-to-end journeys that minimize customer effort and eliminate frustrating interactions with the brand. They should put themselves in the customer's shoes while devising the entire experience.
In the above shoe-store scenario, the CMO must ask herself, "How can we give customers instant answers to their questions?" or "What can we do to reduce the waiting time for the customer?" Amazon Go, a physical grocery store from the E-commerce giant is doing just this. It has been designed to do away with cumbersome checkout queues and allow customers entry into the store by using a mobile app. While entering the store, a shopper just scans his smartphone. That's enough for the company's 'just walk out' technology to detect when the shopper picks a product off a shelf or keeps it back. It also identifies the contents in the shopper's virtual cart. Shopping over, he walks out of the store, and gets charged on his Amazon.com account.
In an attempt to become more digital, a lot of companies today are investing in digital kiosks, virtual mirrors etc. Humans interact with each other through their senses – speaking, touching, hearing. Why can't our buying experiences be just that? Customers are not hard-wired to interact with mobile devices, digital kiosks and other tech-driven interfaces. A recent study revealed: to solve their customer service issues, 83% of consumers prefer to interact with human beings over digital channels. Marketers would do well to take into account this simple consumer behavior insight.
One way brand marketers can make customer experiences more human yet rich is by eliminating the involvement of visible technology. In the above scenario, when my son expressed his desire to buy a black-and-grey shoe and an attendant walks out a few minutes later with a pair that matches his size, the experience is superlative. At the simplest level, companies have started to embed context of the consumer in experiences. For example, a coffee shop displaying a summer cooler on its digital menu board at the hottest time of the day. As a consumer, it makes me feel that this brand seems to have exactly what I want and when I want it. At another level, advances in Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Natural Language Processing are allowing customers to communicate with computers the same way they communicate with people. We need to look no further than virtual assistants on our phones. The question is, can we start using this in our buying experiences? A number of companies are innovating in this space. For instance, Luminoso, a text analysis company, enables its clients to understand not just the spoken words, but even the underlying customer sentiment and intent.
As the world becomes more digital, companies have the opportunity to collect more and more data about their consumers (with their consent). An average consumer makes a purchase after consulting 4 to 5 different sources. These typically include in-store visits, search engines, and business websites. That is a wealth of data about the consumer. At the center of all this data lie actionable customer insights that enable the marketer to personalize the customer's experiences with the brand and offer real-time solutions to their needs. Let's go back to the shoe-store scenario again. My son has bought the same brand of shoes for the last few years. If the brand were to have captured the data, they would know he is a sports enthusiast, loves playing football, and usually goes for sober colors. This is a great insight for a brand to create a personalized offer.
Marketers must keep in mind that data represents real people in flesh and blood – those who have expectations, desires, and worries. Treating customers like people, and not mere numbers, will allow them to fulfil their expectations by delivering relevant experiences. The end result: higher customer satisfaction and sustained brand loyalty.
While all of this is easy to write in an article, it is not necessarily that easy to implement. It requires companies to build a culture of truly putting customer-centricity and experience at the heart of their business strategy. It requires agility and nimbleness of execution. It also requires that design, experience and technology are seamlessly connected and not operating in silos. Choosing the right partner who can operate across all these areas, who understands that change is constant, and can partner to constantly reimagine the future is key to success.


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Reverse Osmosis & Water Treatment in Chad
Chad is a landlocked nation of nearly fifteen million people in northern-central Africa, south of Libya.
The country stretches from the Sahara Desert in the north, through Selhel in its center, and savanna in the south. Lake Chad, in the west of the country, is the most significant water body in the Sahel.
Chad's major environmental issues include:
• Inadequate supplies of potable water;
• Improper waste disposal in rural areas contributes to soil and water pollution; and,
• Desertification.
It is susceptible to hot, dry, dusty harmattan winds in north; periodic droughts; and locust plagues.
Chad, part of France's African holdings until 1960, endured three decades of civil warfare as well as invasions by Libya before a semblance of peace was finally restored in 1990.
Total Renewable Water Resources: 43 cu km (1987)
Freshwater Withdrawal: total: 0.23 cu km/yr (17% domestic, industrial, 83% agricultural)
Per Capita Freshwater Withdrawal: 24 cu m/yr (2000)
Access to improved sources of drinking water: 50% of population
Access to improved sanitation facilities: 9% of population
Pure Aqua provides wide range of filtration and economical solutions based on the Chad's water resources.
Chad's main water resources are:
Water challenges in Chad
Since it's a landlocked country, Chad suffers from low levels of food production, that is magnified by magnified by recurring droughts and high numbers of refugees. With hundreds of thousands of illegal immigrants from Northern and Central Africa situated in already malnourished communities, almost half of the total population lacks access to sufficient freshwater supplies.
Pure Aqua water treatment solutions
Our selection of pre-engineered and custom water treatment systems incorporate the necessary features to provide Chad with safe pure water in spite of its various hindering factors.
Completed Water Purification Projects for Chad:


Any plans to add BBC iPlayer live channel stream links to the directory?
Currently all of the BBC branded channels and S4C are streamed live through iPlayer.
Bright idea, Martin, thank you.
Just wondering with regards to BBC One and BBC Two for Scotland, Wales and NI which are streamed live if they're worth adding?
In a recent blog post about adding live streams to connected tv, I asked if the English regions of BBC One would be added and they said later in the year. Food for thought.
Yep. We should list those.
I see what you mean as they have at the end of the url "?area=scotland" instead of a different address.
Not as far as I could see. But if they can be accessed in that way, then that's good. Where are they listed on the BBC website?
https://media.info/television/channels/bbc-one/watch now has the regions in there. Technology, eh?
The same also works for BBC Two by adding ?Wales, ?Scotland and ?northern_ireland to the url.


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FEAR FACTORY - Aggression continuum - CD
One can't overstate the size of the FEAR FACTORY boot print on the neck of heavy metal. Unleashing influential albums with devastating anthems for over 30 years, FEAR FACTORY is widely recognized as both crucial and innovative in extreme metal circles. FEAR FACTORY manufactured, demanufactured, and remanufactured a sound that reverberates across several subgenres. They perfected an explosive blend of staccato paint-stripping riffs, industrial-tinged drums, electronic flourishes, and a scream/sing dichotomy, all of which became staples in heavy music, ever since the group first emerged in L.A.
FEAR FACTORY headline major festivals; earned several awards from the international sales charts; toured with legends like Black Sabbath, Slayer, Iron Maiden, and Metallica; performed at three Ozzfests; and influenced generations of bands who achieved multiplatinum success. But it's the group's commitment to unrelenting extremity and creative authenticity which ensured its place in heavy metal history, from the touchstone masterpiece Demanufacture to the similarly dominating Genexus.
FEAR FACTORY records are cinematic in scope; sonic landscapes, echoing the dystopian post-apocalyptic futures found in classic sci-fi literature and films, from Ray Bradbury to Blade Runner. Aggression Continuum, the tenth studio album, is the culmination of three decades of unforgettable songs, performances, and forward-thinking storytelling concepts, while simultaneously rebooting FEAR FACTORY onto a brilliant and excitingly unpredictable new path. Like the liquid metal T-1000 in the Terminator franchise or the Academy-Award winning reboot of Mad Max, Aggression Continuum is a turning point where what "was" transforms into what will be. It's FEAR FACTORY's own Fury Road.
Aggression Continuum features guitarist, songwriter, and cofounder Dino Cazares; drummer Mike Heller; and vocalist, lyricist, and cofounder Burton C. Bell. It was produced and engineered by Damien Rainaud (DragonForce, Once Human), with keyboards by Igor Khoroshev (ex-Yes), and programming on two songs from longtime collaborator Rhys Fulber (Front Line Assembly). Aggression Continuum was mixed by A-list rock and metal producer Andy Sneap (Megadeth, Killswitch Engage, Trivium), who also mixed the album's critically-acclaimed predecessor, Genexus.
The 1992 arrival of Soul of a New Machine introduced FEAR FACTORY to the world. It was the same year as the L.A. Riots; Sinéad O'Connor tearing up a picture of the Catholic Pope on T.V.; an E. coli outbreak; Dr. Dre's The Chronic; and the launch of the first Mortal Kombat video game. Unrest, paranoia, seething contempt for the powerful elite and a rejection of mindless consumerism powered songs that proved both timely and timeless. Cazares, already a young veteran of the local thrash metal scene, combined his love for death metal and grindcore with a precision picking attack. Bell's pioneering blend of death metal howls and soaring melodic singing was similarly revelatory in metal.
Years before computerized drum samples were ubiquitous in metal, Raymond Herrera's powerhouse and authentic performances, combined with Dino's almost mechanical sounding style of riffing, begged the question: "are these men or machines?" FEAR FACTORY intertwined their sound, art, and themes, warning of a potential technocratic apocalypse, creating a soundtrack of impending dread.
The 1993 remix E.P. Fear is the Mindkiller began a career-long partnership with Fulber, the mastermind of industrial icons Front Line Assembly, and mixer Greg Reely. Fear is the Mindkiller's combination of man and machine was the gateway to the futuristic masterpiece which followed.
Demanufacture stunned the scene when it emerged in 1995. During the Demanufacture sessions, Cazares butted heads with Colin Richardson over the album's creative direction, which led to the producer's firing. Reely was reenlisted to mix the album, which cemented Demanufacture as a groundbreaking classic.
"Demanufacture was so far ahead of its time that bands are still failing to rip it off convincingly today," wrote Metal Hammer, before the record arrived on vinyl for the first time in 2020. As Kerrang! declared in an anniversary retrospective on the album, "Demanufacture was so innovative that it sounds as fresh today as it did then; a blistering collision of metal and hardcore that easily rivals any of its peers. In short, a masterpiece." Decibel Magazine inducted the album into their Hall of Fame, alongside massively influential classic releases from Metallica, Slayer, Scorpions, and Judas Priest.
Demanufacture was certified Gold in Australia and Silver in the United Kingdom. It even cracked the Top 10 in Billboard's Heatseekers chart in the United States, a minor miracle for a record so extreme. Producers added "Zero Signal" to the Mortal Kombat film soundtrack (alongside KMFDM, Orbital, and Type O Negative), which was certified platinum by the RIAA for sales in excess of 1 million copies.
Cazares performed both guitar and bass on Demanufacture. The addition of Christian Olde Wolbers in the live setting cemented the "classic" lineup of Dino, Raymond, Burton, and Christian. This version of the band supported Demanufacture on the road, delivering unstoppably energetic performances on several worldwide tours. Among them: treks with Sabbath, Maiden, Megadeth (as part of a package that included a young Korn), and Ozzy Osbourne, including an appearance at the very first Ozzfest in 1996. (FEAR FACTORY would go on to participate in Ozzfest again in 1997 and 1999.)
The groundbreaking remix album Remanufacture – Cloning Technology arrived in 1997, well before modern metal bands normalized doing "reimagined" versions of songs (let alone still new songs). A then-29 year old Thomas Holkenborg aka Junkie XL handled several of the songs, years before his hit remix of "A Little Less Conversation" by Elvis Presley and blockbuster film scores including Deadpool Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice, Zack Snyder's Justice League, and Godzilla vs. Kong.
The continuing evolution of the group's cinematic sound manifested on Obsolete, a full-blown concept album (crafted in part at Vancouver's legendary Armoury Studios) with the lyrics presented in screenplay format in the CD booklet. The presence of Fulber's production and keyboards, together with Reely's mixing, loomed even larger than before. Cazares used 7-string guitars, tuned down to A standard. Wolbers used an upright bass on "Edgecrusher." The Vancouver Symphony Orchestra performed on "Resurrection" and "Timelessness." (The band reached out to Sarah McLachlan to add guest vocals to "Timelessness," but after hearing their music, she respectfully declined.)
The album went gold in America, the UK, and Australia, but was as uncompromising as ever, further perfecting Fear Factory's formula. "Descent" broke into the Mainstream Rock Top 40 in the United States. A cover of the '80s hit "Cars," recorded as a B-side with guest vocals from Gary Numan himself, entered the Top 20.
They toured with Slayer and on the Ozzfest mainstage. They headlined in Europe and North America, where they took System Of A Down and Static-X (featuring future bassist Tony Compos) as support. The band continued making inroads into other media, including video games. Herrera was an innovator there, hand-delivering FEAR FACTORY music to game designers well before it was the norm. They even performed on the MTV/WCW Beach Brawl during Spring Break 1999, which featured Kid Rock.
In 2001, FEAR FACTORY entered the Mainstream Rock Top 40 again, with "Linchpin" (which later became their biggest song in the streaming era), from their fourth album, Digimortal. Fulber produced, with mixing handled by Mike Plotnikoff (P.O.D., Papa Roach, Mudvayne). The record entered the Top 10 in Australia, Top 20 in Canada, and Top 40 in the U.S. on the back of successful tours in Japan, Australia, New Zealand, Europe, and North America.
But despite the success, all was not well within the camp. Digimortal boasts many of the band's signatures – the riffs, the electronic flourishes, the postmodern thematic material, the vocals. It contains monstrous songs but record label pressure to deliver a more commercial album caused turmoil within the band during the writing process.
Bell exited the band for the first time in 2002, causing FEAR FACTORY to disband. (A press release noted the singer's desire to move away from aggressive music into something closer to "indie rock.") The same year, Concrete, a collection of recordings made in 1991 with producer Ross Robinson (Slipknot, Korn, The Cure), was issued by Roadrunner Records.
The breakup of FEAR FACTORY proved to be short-lived, as the band made their live return in January 2004, but without Dino. Wolbers switched to guitar, with Byron Stroud filling the bass position. The reconstituted band toured behind Archetype, FEAR FACTORY's first album without its founding guitarist, with Slipknot and Lamb Of God.
Released the following year, the follow-up to Archetype was panned, including by members of the band. Transgression wandered far into alt-rock territory, but Bell defended the effort. In 2007, Bell teamed with Ministry for several songs and a tour. He seemingly left FEAR FACTORY again in 2008, telling one interviewer he was tired of violent music.
While away from FEAR FACTORY, Dino founded the extreme metal outfit Divine Heresy, releasing two acclaimed albums. Bleed the Fifth (2007) featured a then-unknown Tommy Vext on vocals. Metal Hammer declared that Cazares, described as a pioneer, "has hit the bulls-eye" with the group. Singer Travis Neal replaced Vext for the band's awesomely brutal second album, Bringer of Plagues (2009).
Dino's Spanish-language deathgrind band with future FEAR FACTORY bassist Tony Campos, Asesino, released Corridos de Muerte (2002) and Cristo Satánico (2006).
After Cazares and Bell reconnected at a 2008 Ministry show, the singer suggested Dino rejoin the band. Later, Bell told Dino that the other guys weren't interested in Bell's suggested changes to FEAR FACTORY, which would also include a switch in management and record label. This led to a legal dispute over the name, with Burt and Dino on one side, and Raymond and Christian on the other, ending in a signed settlement agreement which split the trademark between the singer and guitarist.
2010's Mechanize featured Dino, Burton, Stroud (though Cazares tracked the bass), and legendary metal drummer Gene Hoglan (Death, Testament, Dethklok), with Fulber and Reely returning, as producer and mixer, respectively. It was universally hailed as a return to form, with many in the press and on social media calling it the band's best since Demanufacture. Songs like "Powershifter," "Fear Campaign," and "Final Exit" stood confidently alongside the best of their older material. Bonus tracks included re-recorded versions of Soul of a New Machine's "Martyr" and "Crash Test."
"Archetype and Transgression were controversially written and recorded without founding guitarist Dino Cazares, the main victim of 2002's acrimonious split," wrote BBC Music. "The reconstituted Fear Factory may have featured three-quarters of the classic lineup, but without Cazares, they were fatally flawed. With Cazares back, however, the band are back on track, as Mechanize forcefully demonstrates." Other critics agreed. Blabbermouth, in a 9/10 review, said, "One of Fear Factory's most outstanding qualities has always been their ability to create gigantic hooks that penetrate the ears, latch onto the brain and refuse to let go. Mechanize offers a wealth of those moments."
The critical sentiments were echoed tenfold by fans. The revitalized FEAR FACTORY toured the world anew, even supporting the mighty Metallica in Australia, New Zealand, Japan, and parts of Europe. The momentum continued with The Industrialist (2012), FEAR FACTORY's return to the concept album. Cazares again performed all guitars and bass, Bell sang, with Fulber and Reely producing and mixing. In lieu of a fulltime drummer, the band elected to program drums. As Bell put it, the story involved a sentient automaton. "What was meant to help man, will eventually be man's demise." They returned to the music charts, including in Finland and Hungary. The band supported the album on festivals and tours with a live lineup comprised of Dino, Burt, Matt DeVries (bass) of Chimaira, and Mike Heller (drums). Heller's contributions to tech/death metal genre are many, including his role with Malignancy.
Heller made his recorded debut on Genexus (2015), FEAR FACTORY's first album with Nuclear Blast Records, where they were signed by A&R legend Monte Conner, their longtime ally, who gave the band their first record deal at Roadrunner in 1991.
Dino and Burt co-produced the album with Fulber. Sneap handled mixing duties. Genexus marked another high point. "Fear Factory were way ahead of the game when they released their classic Demanufacture album 20 years ago," wrote The Guardian in a four-star review. "Genexus demonstrates how firmly tethered to the cutting edge Fear Factory remain. The best-sounding album of their career by some margin, this is a precise and vicious rush of syncopated kick drums, sci-fi keyboard surges, and eerie but infectious vocal hooks, all underpinned by Dino Cazares' flawless attack. Fear Factory exude real authority, resulting in their finest album in two decades and a timely reminder that when man and machine collide, the outcome can be both joyous and devastating."
The album cycle took FEAR FACTORY to India for the first time. In 2015, Tony Campos became the band's bassist. They joined what turned out to be the last Soundwave Festival tour in Australia (alongside Faith No More, Soundgarden, Slipknot, and The Smashing Pumpkins, among others); the promoter defaulted on payment to several artists, including FEAR FACTORY. The band closed the year with a European tour celebrating the 20th anniversary of Demanufacture. (In an effort to settle ongoing litigation, Herrera and Wolbers were invited to participate, but the parties could not agree on terms.)
By 2017, new material was in the works from Bell and Cazares. In the Spring of that year, Bell told an interviewer that the songs that would eventually become FEAR FACTORY's tenth album were "even stronger than Genexus, because it just seems even tighter. We're on a groove, and it's kicking ass."
However, behind-the-scenes, legal disputes with the ex-band members continued. Back in 2011, Bell filed Chapter 7 bankruptcy, but neglected to declare his 50% ownership in the FEAR FACTORY trademark as an asset in his bankruptcy filings. As a result, Bell lost his rights to the trademark and the courts put it up for auction.
Various third parties (as well as the ex-members) sought to purchase the rights, which Bell could no longer legally possess. Dino sought to obtain it, so they could continue FEAR FACTORY together. In 2016, Cazares filed a bankruptcy of his own. Through that process, he was able to retain his half of the trademark and purchased the remaining 50% owned by the courts at auction.
In 2020, Cazares raised money online to have Heller record live drums to replace the programmed drums originally completed for album number ten in 2017. The funds also went toward employing the A-list mixing services of Sneap, to enlist Fulber to handle programming on two tracks, and toward producer Damien Rainaud. Aggression Continuum, the tenth FEAR FACTORY album, arriving during the band's 30th anniversary, fills Cazares with enormous pride.
Bell moved on from FEAR FACTORY, citing his desire to focus on more melodic projects and frustration with all of the various members, past and present, as his reasons for his final exit. Should Aggression Continuum prove to be his true last performance as the frontman of FEAR FACTORY, it's a more than worthy farewell, demonstrated by the unstoppably definitive and distinctive attack of songs like "Recode," "Disruptor," and "Purity."
With the once-contested legal rights to the FEAR FACTORY name now securely in his possession, Cazares knows how much the group's music means to the fans and is boundlessly optimistic about what's ahead. The riffs, concepts, and passions remain, as FEAR FACTORY celebrates its past, present, and future.
"FEAR FACTORY ushered in an entirely new strand of metal when they emerged from the sweatboxes of L.A. in the early 90s," observed Metal Hammer. "The ongoing soap opera can't detract from this uncompromising band's frequently stellar legacy." Exiting a tumultuous 2020 with the new album and a reinvigorated sense of stewardship, band leader Cazares is determined to persist and persevere.
Whatever may come, FEAR FACTORY will be there, a soundtrack to humankind's uncertain times ahead.
1 - Recode
2 - Disruptor
3 - Aggression Continuum
4 - Purity
5 - Fuel Injected Suicide Machine
6 - Collapse
7 - Manufactured Hope
8 - Cognitive Dissonance
9 - Monolith
10 - End of Line
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Among the many hundreds of painters that comprise the relatively recent, but illustrious history of California art, the career of Theodore Nikolai Lukits stands out as unique in its variety, complexity, breadth and quality. Lukits was a well‑trained and astute draftsman as well as a brilliant colorist and fastidious craftsman. He ground his own paints, made his own pastels, created customized palettes, crafted his own brushes, and carved and gilded his own frames. By teaching for more than 60 years, he made a lasting contribution to the dissemination of the ideals and techniques of 19th century French ateliers and academies.
Theodore N. Lukits was born on November 26, 1897 in Temesvar, Transylvania, which was then a part of the Austro‑Hungarian Empire. When he was two years old, his parents took him and his eleven year old sister, Mary, to the United States where he was raised in St. Louis, Missouri. As a child Lukits was already showing signs of a precocious artistic talent. Before he was twelve, his parents enrolled him in classes at the School of Fine Arts at Washington University where he studied with the renowned tonalist Henry Wuerpel (1866‑1958) and the celebrated American impressionist Richard E. Miller (1875‑1943).
By the time he completed the eighth grade, Lukits was determined that his future would be in art. He left school and moved with his family to Chicago, then the major art center of the Midwest. There, he studied with the Munich and Paris trained painter Victor Higgins (1884‑1949) at the Academy of Fine Arts, followed by attending summer, evening, and weekend classes at the prestigious Art Institute of Chicago. To support his art education, Lukits worked as a jewelry designer and, as his artistic skills improved, as an illustrator for both local magazines and national publications, such as the Saturday Evening Post.
At the Art Institute, Lukits had the good fortune to study with a faculty of exceptional painters who had all studied in the ateliers and academies of Europe. The competitive environment challenged Lukits to excel. He progressed rapidly from drawing from the antique, to life study, and then to composition and portraiture, winning major prizes throughout his tenure. The young artist studied primarily with the Paris and Munich trained portrait painter Wellington J. Reynolds (1866‑1949) and the American Giverny Impressionist Karl Buehr (1866‑1952). Lukits also worked closely with Harry M. Walcott (1877‑1930) and with the American realists Charles W. Hawthorne (1872‑1930) and George Bellows (1882‑1925) who were both guest instructors at the Institute. By the time Lukits graduated from the Art Institute in 1918, he was already developing a reputation as a portrait painter and was exhibiting in Chicago galleries. In 1918 he won the Faculty of Fine Arts Award and the Bryan Lathrop Traveling Scholarship. He returned to the Art Institute in 1919 for post‑graduate work and studied one year later with the leader of the Art Nouveau Movement, Alphonse Mucha (1860‑1939), who was touring with works from his great Slav Epic series.
Lukits completed his studies in anatomical drawing by dissecting cadavers in medical college. While painting a portrait of the silent film star, Theda Bara, Lukits was encouraged by the actress to move to Los Angeles and paint portraits of Hollywood celebrities. Lukits decided to accept Miss Bara's advice and moved from Chicago to southern California, following a similar path that had been trod by other noted painters, including William Wendt (1865‑1946), Joseph Kleitsch (1885‑1931), and George Demont Otis (1879‑1962).
In Los Angeles, Lukits continued creating illustrations and commercial work as he built a following for his portrait and still‑life paintings. Like many other painters who had moved to California, Lukits was fascinated by what he described as "that California light" and embarked on a series of sketching trips that took him throughout California and Arizona. When he worked en plein‑air, Lukits preferred the portability of the pastel medium compared to that of oils favored by most plein air painters used. While many of the American Impressionist painters used pastels out‑of‑doors, none used the medium as proficiently as Lukits. Because pastels were lightweight and required no set‑up time, they were ideal for the high‑altitude locations and ephemeral conditions of light that Lukits favored. He also believed that the unique vibrant quality of the pastel medium was ideally suited in expressing the early morning, late afternoon, and evening moods that captivated him. After less than five years in southern California, Lukits developed a reputation as an exceptional portrait painter. His strength in the decorative portraits he brought with him from Chicago as wells as a number of successful commissions he completed for Hollywood film stars and moguls was evident. In 1926 Lukits garnered great acclaim for his full‑length portrait of the Mexican-born screen beauty Dolores del Rio, which was exhibited extensively and reproduced widely in Los Angeles and Mexico City newspapers.
From the early 1920s, Lukits exhibited with the California Art Club, the Painters and Sculptors Club, and many other Southland art organizations. In addition, he sent his works to East Coast museums, including the Corcoran and Carnegie. From 1926 through the late 1930s, Lukits held a number of solo exhibitions at prominent galleries, including the Sotheby Salon, Montmartre Cafe, Stendhal Gallery, and Ainsle Galleries.
Lukits began teaching in 1924 and devoted most of his time to his students, leaving less opportunity to travel and paint large‑scale works. During the Great Depression, his teaching income was most welcome. After the end of World War II, Lukits expanded his school to accommodate returning servicemen studying on the G. I. Bill. Lukits believed in beauty, and through his students he fought to transmute the artistic ideals of his youth to future generations. A spark of happiness for Lukits came toward the end of his life when he witnessed a resurgence of traditional fine art appreciation, as his last generation of students began experiencing widespread success as fine artists. Through the 1980s, although his memory was fading, Lukits continued teaching. At the age of 90, he began experiencing dizzy spells and decided to retire. In 1992, at the age of 95, Lukits passed away, leaving a legacy of magnificent paintings and a career that belongs to the annals of American art history.
Research Sources: Theodore Nikolai Lukits (1897-1992) by Jeffrey Morseburg, Theodore N. Lukits (1897-1992) – An American Orientalist (Catalogue)
Theodore N. Lukits: An Aesthetic Realist Palos Verdes Art Center
Theodore Nicolai Lukits Featured in Plein Air Magazine Summer 2012 Issue
By incorporating decorative motifs with influences from numerous other artistic traditions, this master artist brought his paintings to an elevated level of beauty. On a recent trip to Los Angeles, …
Theodore N. Lukits in CAC Newsletter (Part II of II) December 1998
Theodore N. Lukits in CAC Newsletter (Part I of II) October 1998 Issue
Theodore N. Lukits (1897-1992) – An American Orientalist (Catalogue)
The Pastel Landscapes of Theodore N. Lukits by Peter Adams, Suzanne Bellah and Tim Solliday


Islamic State insurgents posted a video on Tuesday purportedly showing the beheading of U.S. journalist James Foley and images of another U.S. journalist whose life they said depended on how the United States acts in Iraq.
The video, titled "A Message To America," presented President Barack Obama with bleak options that could define America's next phase of involvement in Iraq and the public reaction to it, potentially deepening his hand in a conflict he built much of his presidency on ending.
Obama held back from making a public statement about the beheading until the video could be formally authenticated.
"If genuine, we are appalled by the brutal murder of an innocent American journalist and we express our deepest condolences to his family and friends," White House National Security Council spokeswoman Caitlin Hayden said in a statement.
The video's grisly message was unambiguous, warning of greater retaliation to come against Americans following nearly two weeks of U.S. air strikes that have pounded militant positions and halted the advance of Islamic State, which until this month had captured a third of Iraq with little resistance.
Posted on social media, the video brought a chilling and highly personal tone to a conflict that for many Americans had started to become all too familiar.
Foley, 40, was kidnapped by armed men on Nov. 22, 2012, in northern Syria while on his way to the Turkish border, according to GlobalPost, a Boston-based online publication where Foley had worked as a freelancer. He had reported in the Middle East for five years and had been kidnapped and released in Libya.
Steven Sotloff, who appeared at the end of the video, went missing in northern Syria while reporting in July 2013. He has written for TIME among other news organizations.
The video injected an unpredictable element into Obama's deliberations on how far to proceed with U.S. air strikes against Islamic State targets in Iraq, though aides said his vow not to put U.S. combat forces on the ground in Iraq still held.
On a Facebook page for Foley, a message from his mother Diane Foley said: "We have never been prouder of our son Jim. He gave his life trying to expose the world to the suffering of the Syrian people.
"We implore the kidnappers to spare the lives of the remaining hostages. Like Jim, they are innocents. They have no control over American government policy in Iraq, Syria or anywhere in the world."
Islamic State had not previously executed American citizens publicly. The video was posted after the United States resumed air strikes in Iraq this month for the first time since the end of the U.S. occupation in 2011.
Hostage crises have plagued U.S. presidents over the years.
Jimmy Carter's presidency sagged under the weight of the Iran hostage crisis when Americans were held captive for 444 days. Ronald Reagan's bid to get American hostages freed from Lebanon led to an arms-for-hostages Iran-Contra scandal that plagued his second term.
University of Virginia political scholar Larry Sabato said the current situation was more akin to the beheading of American journalist Daniel Pearl by al Qaeda leader Khalid Sheikh Mohammed in 2002. He said it could help bolster what appeared to be a growing perception among Americans that the United States will have to be more aggressive in dealing with Islamic State militants.
A USA Today/Pew Research Center poll this week showed Americans by 44 percent to 41 percent saying Washington had a responsibility to "do something" about the violence, a shift from last month when 55 percent to 39 percent saw no U.S. responsibility.
"We are an Islamic army"
The Sunni militant group, which has declared a caliphate in parts of Iraq and Syria in areas it controls, opened the video with a clip of Obama saying he had authorized strikes in Iraq.
The words "Obama authorizes military operations against the Islamic State effectively placing America upon a slippery slope towards a new war front against Muslims" appeared in English and Arabic on the screen.
It showed black and white aerial footage of air strikes with text saying "American aggression against the Islamic State".
A man identified as James Foley, his head shaven and dressed in an orange outfit similar to uniforms worn by prisoners at the U.S. military detention camp in Guantánamo, Cuba, is seen kneeling in the desert next to a man standing, holding a knife and clad head to toe in black.
"I call on my friends, family and loved ones to rise up against my real killers, the U.S. government, for what will happen to me is only a result of their complacency and criminality," the kneeling man says.
The man next to him, in a black mask, speaks in a British accent and says, "This is James Wright Foley, an American citizen, of your country. As a government, you have been at the forefront of the aggression towards the Islamic State."
"Today your military air force is attacking us daily in Iraq. Your strikes have caused casualties amongst Muslims. You are no longer fighting an insurgency. We are an Islamic army, and a state that has been accepted by a large number of Muslims worldwide."
Following his statement he beheads the kneeling man. At the end of the video, words on the side of the screen say, "Steven Joel Sotloff", as another prisoner in an orange jumpsuit is shown on screen. "The life of this American citizen, Obama, depends on your next decision," the masked man says.
Syria has been the most dangerous country for journalists for more than two years. At least 69 other journalists have been killed covering the conflict there, including some who died over the border in Lebanon and Turkey. More than 80 journalists have been kidnapped in Syria; with frequent abductions, some of which go unpublicized, it is difficult to know exactly how many.
The U.S.-based Committee to Protect Journalists estimates that approximately 20 journalists, both local and international, are currently missing in Syria. Many of them are believed to be held by Islamic State.
Islamic State also released a video on Tuesday that gave the strongest indication yet it might try to strike American targets. The video with the theme "breaking of the American cross" boasts Islamic State will emerge victorious over "crusader" America.
It followed a video posted on Monday, warning of attacks on American targets if Washington strikes against its fighters in Iraq and Syria.
Islamic State's sweep through northern Iraq, bringing it close to Baghdad and in control of the second city, Mosul, drew U.S. air strikes that helped Kurdish peshmerga fighters regain some territory captured by the Sunni militants.
Earlier on Tuesday, Iraqi forces halted a short-lived offensive on Tuesday to recapture Tikrit, home town of executed dictator Saddam Hussein, due to fierce resistance from Islamic State fighters.
Buoyed by an operation to recapture a strategic dam from the militants after two months of setbacks, Iraqi army units backed by Shi'ite militias launched their offensive shortly after dawn on Tikrit, a city 130 km (80 miles) north of Baghdad which is a stronghold of the Sunni Muslim minority.
But officers in the Iraqi forces' operations room said by mid-afternoon that the advance had stopped.
Islamic State has concentrated on taking territory for its self-proclaimed caliphate both in Syria, where it is also fighting the forces of President Bashar al-Assad, and in Iraq.
Coinciding with the Kurdish advances, Damascus government forces have stepped up air strikes on Islamic State positions in and around the city of Raqqa - its stronghold in eastern Syria.
Analysts believe Assad - who is firmly in control in the capital more than three years into the civil war - is seizing the moment to show his potential value to Western states that backed the uprising against him but are now increasingly concerned by the Islamic State threat.
Islamic State added new fighters in Syria at a record rate in July, according to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, which monitors the conflict. About 6,300 men - 80 percent of them Syrian and the rest foreigners - joined last month, Rami Abdelrahman, founder of the Observatory, told Reuters.


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May 20, 2019 at 12:01 pm EDT | by Michael K. Lavers
More than 300 attend Victory Institute conference in Colombia
LGBTQ Victory Institute President Annise Parker speaks at the organization's conference in Bogotá, Colombia, on May 17, 2019. (Photo courtesy of LGBTQ Victory Institute)
BOGOTÁ, Colombia — More than 300 activists and elected officials from around Latin America attended an LGBTQ Victory Institute-organized conference that took place in the Colombian capital of Bogotá from May 16-18.
Colombian Congressman Mauricio Toro, Venezuelan National Assemblywoman Tamara Adrián, Belizean Sen. Valerie Woods, Antiguan Sen. Akika Lake, Cuban National Assemblyman Luis Ángel Adán Roble, Arizona state Sen. Tony Navarrete and Colorado state Rep. Brianna Titone are among those who attended. Claire Lucas, a prominent Democratic activist in D.C. who was previously a senior advisor at the U.S. Agency for International Development's Office of Innovation and Development Alliances, and Juan Carlos Archila of Censurados, a group in the Colombian city of Cúcuta that provides assistance to Venezuelans with HIV/AIDS, also participated in the conference.
Caribe Afirmativo, an LGBTI advocacy group that is based in northern Colombia, helped organize the conference.
"There's energy and excitement and frustration because the conditions in so many of these Latin American countries that are represented is so hard," Victory Institute President Annise Parker told the Washington Blade during a May 17 interview. "I am inspired by the bravery of the folks who are standing up in very difficult conditions."
Peruvian Congressman Alberto de Belaunde told the Blade later in the day the conference is "a really important meeting because this is the opportunity to talk to different LGBT politicians from around Latin America." De Belaunde also noted Latin American countries "are in different stages of the LGBT rights fight."
The conference took place against the backdrop of Costa Rica, Ecuador and other countries' struggles with how to implement the Inter-American Court of Human Rights' landmark 2018 ruling that recognizes same-sex marriage and transgender rights in the Western Hemisphere. It also coincides with persistent discrimination and violence based on sexual orientation and gender identity throughout the region.
The conference on May 17 opened with a moment of silence that commemorated the International Day Against Homophobia, Transphobia and Biphobia. The Equality Act, which would add sexual orientation and gender identity to federal nondiscrimination laws, passed in the U.S. House of Representatives later in the day.
Trans Venezuelan lawmaker: Country is 'melting down'
Archila and other Colombia-based activists with whom the Blade spoke at the conference noted Venezuela's economic and political crisis continues to have a devastating impact on people with HIV/AIDS who live in the country.
Adrián — a supporter of Venezuelan National Assembly President Juan Guaidó who the U.S. and dozens of other countries have recognized as the country's interim president — in 2015 became the first openly trans woman elected to the Venezuelan National Assembly.
She told the Blade on May 18 that Venezuelans wait up to eight hours in some parts of the country to fill their cars with gasoline. Adrián also said some parts of the country that are outside of the Venezuelan capital of Caracas only have electricity for a few hours a day.
"Venezuela unfortunately … is melting down as a country," she said.
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Through exercising its functions, the Ministry aims at participating in realizing the economic development, upgrading the living standard and bringing about prosperity for the nationals,and increasing productivity and constantly striving to realize economic and customs unity between the Emirates members of the Federation.
1-To suggest economic and commercial policy with a wiew to realizing economic development, increasing productivity, upgrading the living standard and achieving prosperity for the nationals.
2-To come up with the necessary plans, programs, and projects to implement the above-mentioned policies, once those are approved.
3-To suggest bills for laws and regulations organizing commercial and economic activities, and supervise implementation thereof.
4-To prepare legislation organizing the support of the cooperation between public and private activities, an encourage savings and investment.
5-To suggest bills for laws organizing step-by-step phases which are suitable for realizing the economic and customs unity between the Emirates of the Federation in collaboration with the Ministry of Finance & Industry and other concerned ministries.
6-To cooperate with the concerned ministries in concluding economic and commercial agreements, follow up on the activities of economic organizations, hold international and regional fairs and exhibitions, and do whatever could lead to supporting the trade exchange with other countries.
7-To prepare studies and researches on economic development.
Other functions entrusted to the Ministry in accordance with other laws.


What is Beautician's Public Liability Insurance & what does it cover?
Unlike employer's liability insurance, public liability insurance is not required by law. However, as public liability insurance claims can easily run into six-figure sums, no business should consider operating without it.
This type of insurance is particularly important for beauticians because, due to the nature of their profession, beauticians come into contact with members of the public on a daily basis, and this increases the risk of a public liability claim arising.
There are also some specific risks that beauticians face that other businesses don't face, so public liability insurance for beauticians is not the same as a standard business public liability insurance policy.
What does public liability insurance for beauticians cover?
Whenever you come into contact with members of the public, there is a risk that you could be responsible for them being injured or for their property having been damaged.
This could be due to something that you've done. If you've left a bag in a walkway and someone has tripped over it, for instance, you would be responsible for any injury sustained. It could also be due to something that you've not done. If someone is injured because you failed to give them a warning, you would be responsible.
Public liability insurance covers the compensation claims that could be made against you in this scenario. As well as paying the compensation awarded to the claimant, it also covers the legal costs as well as any other associated expenses. Your public liability insurer will also handle the compensation claim on your behalf, so you don't have to worry about dealing with potentially complex legal issues.
Compensation claims can be expensive. Even a minor injury can result in a £1,000 claim. A compensation claim for a broken bone could cost £25,000 and a compensation claim for a serious injury could easily cost ten times that amount.
Public liability insurance only covers compensation claim involving injuries or property damage. It doesn't cover compensation claims for purely economic losses. An example could be where a beauty treatment hasn't actually injured someone or damaged their property, but has prevented them working. If that was the case, they might decide to claim compensation from you to cover their lost income.
Pure economic losses can be covered by making sure that your public and products liability insurance policy contains a financial loss extension.
This is the main area where public liability insurance for beauticians differs from the standard public liability insurance policies that other businesses have.
A standard public liability insurance policy will exclude claims arising from the delivery of professional services. Beauticians are members of a profession, so this would mean that any claim arising from a beauty treatment, or a product, would be excluded, leaving beauticians with very little cover.
Because of this, public liability insurance for beauticians should include treatment liability. Without this, a beautician could end up having to deal with a potentially expensive uninsured compensation claim if the beauty treatment they provide causes their client injury.
By contrast, products liability works slightly differently. While public liability insurance covers you if a compensation claim is made against you for something that you have done or failed to do, it doesn't cover you if a compensation claim is made against you because someone has been injured or their property has been damaged as a result of a defect in something that you have sold or supplied.
This type of compensation claim is covered by products liability insurance. Products liability insurance is usually included as an additional section in a public liability insurance policy.
Having both of these covers included in your beautician's insurance policy helps to avoid gaps in cover while keeping beauticians safe no matter what duties they're carrying out.
A compensation claim for facial scarring as a result of a beauty treatment that has gone wrong could cost in excess of £50,000. There would also be legal fees on top of that, and you might be required to pay for the cost of private cosmetic surgery. In the same vein, a compensation claim for an injury sustained from a product you've sold or supplied could also wrack up similar costs, which means it's incredibly important to have the right cover to ensure that you don't get caught out when things go wrong.
It is vital that beauticians make sure that they have public liability insurance that is aimed specifically at beauticians and contains both products liability and treatment liability, rather than relying on a standard public liability insurance policy to protect them if something goes wrong. The main reason for this being that, as a freelance beautician, it's unlikely that you'll have the money necessary to defend yourself if faced with claims like these, but also because specialist insurance companies tend to have a legal team that is experienced in matters like these. This means, in the event there was a claim, not only would you not have to worry about sourcing your own legal representative, but also you'd be assured that you'd have the best legal defence possible. And, if you did have to pay compensation, you could also rest easy knowing that your insurance company would cover the costs on your behalf, so you wouldn't have to try and fund the compensation owed yourself. The price of a beautician's insurance policy versus the potential claim amounts you could find yourself faced with makes a specialist beautician's insurance policy an incredibly worthwhile investment to keep your business safe should the worst happen.


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Patronyme

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 Dwight Stephenson (né en 1957), joueur américain de football américain ;
 Francis Richard Stephenson (né en 1941), astronome britannique ;
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 Gilbert Stephenson (1878-1972), militaire britannique ;
 Henry Frederick Stephenson (1842-1919), amiral de la Royal Navy ;
 John Stephenson (né en 1923), acteur américain ;
 Marjory Stephenson (1885-1948), biochimiste britannique ;
 Michael Stephenson (né en  1980), joueur anglais de rugby ;
 Neal Stephenson (né en 1959), auteur américain de science fiction ;
 Robert Stephenson (1803-1859), ingénieur ferroviaire et fils de George Stephenson ;
 Thomas Alan Stephenson (1898–1961), biologiste marin britannique spécialisé dans les anémones.
 Thomas Calderwood Stephenson (1876-1948), ornithologue américain.
 William Stephenson (1897-1989), inventeur, homme d'affaires et espion canadien.

Prénom
 Lord Robert Stephenson Smyth Baden-Powell of Gilwell (1857-1941), fondateur du scoutisme.

Toponymie

 Place et
 Comté de Stephenson Comté de l'Illinois.

Divers
 Fusée de Stephenson : Locomotive construite en 1829 par George Stephenson ;

Voir aussi

Patronyme anglais


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08/30/18 Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 54. Noes 24. Page 7029.).
08/29/18 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 26. Noes 11. Page 5996.).
07/02/18 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 6. Noes 0.) (June 27).
06/20/18 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on GOV. & F. (Ayes 8. Noes 2.) (June 19). Re-referred to Com. on GOV. & F.
06/07/18 Referred to Coms. on T. & H. and GOV. & F.
05/29/18 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 52. Noes 22. Page 5377.)
05/16/18 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 12. Noes 5.) (May 16).
05/10/18 Re-referred to Com. on APPR.
05/09/18 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on APPR. Read second time and amended.
04/19/18 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 6. Noes 3.) (April 18). Re-referred to Com. on APPR.
04/11/18 Re-referred to Com. on L. GOV.
04/10/18 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on L. GOV. Read second time and amended.
03/21/18 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on L. GOV. (Ayes 4. Noes 1.) (March 21). Re-referred to Com. on L. GOV.
03/01/18 Referred to Coms. on H. & C.D. and L. GOV.
02/13/18 From printer. May be heard in committee March 15.


Jerry Paul Patterson, 79 of Dyersburg, Tennessee died on Sunday, October 14, 2018, at his residence in Dyersburg, Tennessee.Born Thursday, November 10, 1938 in Dyersburg, Tennessee, he was the son of the late Jesse Elick Patterson and the late Lettie Elizabeth Patterson. He was the owner of Patterson Brothers Wrecker Service.Funeral services for Mr. Patterson will be 3:00 PM on Thursday, October 17, 2018 in the Chapel of Johnson-Williams Funeral Home. Officiating this service will be Rev. Anthony Carter. Interment will follow in Fairview Cemetery in Dyersburg, Tennessee. Visitation will be Wednesday from 5:00 PM until 8:00 PM at Johnson-Williams Funeral Home.He is survived by wife, Nadine Patterson of Dyersburg, Tennessee; one son, Kenneth Patterson of Dyersburg, Tennessee; one daughters, Ann Patterson of Dyersburg, Tennessee; one step-daughter, Paula Cathey of Dyersburg, Tennessee; one brother, Tom Patterson of Murfreesboro, Tennessee; two sisters, Margie Galloway and Joyce McCorkle both of Dyersburg, Tennessee and a host of grandchildren, great-grandchildren, nieces and nephews.In addition to his parents he was preceded in death by one daughter, Paula Patterson Combs; two brothers, Ray Patterson and Jimmy Patterson and one sister, Betty Prater.Pallbearers will be Derek Patterson, Kyle Patterson, Chase Patterson, Brandon Haynes, Joshua Cathey and Anthony Patterson. Honorary pallbearers will be Mike Prater and Brian Morgan.Online condolences may be made to the family at johnsonwilliamsfuneralhome.com. Johnson-Williams Funeral Home is honored to serve the family of Jerry Paul Patterson.


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«Семья акробатов с обезьяной» () — картина испанского и французского художника Пабло Пикассо. Относится к розовому периоду. Выполнена в смешанной технике на картоне гуашью, акварелью, пастелью и тушью в 1905 году. Находится в Гётеборгском художественном музее. Размер картины — 104 × 75 см.

История и описание
Картина, созданная художником в начале 1905 года для выставки в Париже, является одним из знаковых произведений розового периода, в течение которого Пикассо изображал повседневную жизнь цирковых артистов, часто с оттенком меланхолии.

На фоне драпировок серо-зелёного и голубого цветов изображены молодые мужчина и женщина, одетые в цирковые костюмы: женщина — в легкое голубое платье, а мужчина — в розовое трико Арлекина и шляпу двууголку. Они с нежностью смотрят на маленького ребёнка, сидящего на коленях у матери. В правой части картины на полу расположился павиан, который особенным, почти разумным взглядом также смотрит на мальчика. Вся сцена напоминает классические изображения Святого семейства, где центром композиции часто является младенец. В верхней части картона на голубом фоне есть надпись чёрной краской — «Picasso», а на оборотной стороне — «P 1905». Картон местами оставлен незакрашенным.

«Семья акробатов с обезьяной» изначально принадлежала брату и сестре Лео и Гертруде Стайнам, чей дом в Париже был местом встречи художников и интеллектуалов. Картина была одной из первых работ Пикассо, купленных Лео Стайном у арт-дилера Кловиса Саго осенью 1905 года, и приобретение «Семьи акробатов с обезьяной» стало началом дружбы между Пикассо и Стайнами. Известно, что картина пришла в Швецию через норвежского арт-дилера Вальтера Халворсена, а затем в Гётеборг, благодаря коллекционеру Конраду Пинеусу. С 1922 года картина является частью коллекции Гётеборгского художественного музея.

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Картины Пабло Пикассо
Обезьяны в живописи


A slightly different rice dish. Adjust the garlic and pepper according to your own taste. Keep in mind Kampot pepper is so flavorful it can quickly overwhelm the garlic. This can be made vegetarian by substituting the beef broth for water or vegetable broth.


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