#Marina Burnel

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Sexypink - “A Suh It Guh”, a photographic retrospective of Marina Burnel, a Kingston-based French photographer whose work is inspired by the city and the people who call it home.  Far away from her home in Normandy, the overt sensory overload of Kingston’s concentrated culture inspires her philanthropic and artistic manifestations.  Idealising her raw and natural aesthetic, she deviates from the traditional, displaying her works on aged zinc, wood, and clay, exploring beauty through the broken. This retrospective showcases the past eight years of her journey through Kingston.  

She explores the complexities of modern Jamaican society with the backdrop of a rich world influencing culture. What better place to enjoy this journey than through the Kingston Railway Terminus, which was built in 1845 and continues its very own journey into the 21st century. 

This show is presented in association with the Jamaica Railway Corporation at The Kingston Railway Terminus located at 142 Barry Street. 

 This event is free and open to the public Saturday June 10 and Sunday June 11 from 10 a.m. – 4 p.m. Secure parking is available at the station. 

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Celebrating International and Inspirational Women for the Month of March

This is just a short list of women who are inspirational that we highlighted this month.  International Women’s Day was March 8th. 

If you see something in someone that you admire, just tell them. It might not seem like much but it could make their day! 

Cheers to the amazing women who raised us, the ones who are in our lives, and the daughters and granddaughters that we are raising. 

March 1 - Roberta Bondar

March 2 -  Avye Couloute

March 3 -  Kenojuak Ashevak

March 4 -  Jaime Black

March 5 - Michelle Yeoh

March 6 - Ada Lovelace

March 7 - Mary Shelley

March 8 -  Malala Yousafzai

March 9 - Marie Curie

March 10 - Hedy Lamarr

March 11 - Donna Strickland

March 12 -  Jocelyn Bell Burnell

March 13 -  Elsie MacGill

March 14 -  Harriet Brooks

March 15 -  Rosalind Franklin

March 16 -  Dr. Indira Vasanti Samarasekera

March 17 -  Dr. Lindsay LeBlanc

March 18 -  Kimberly Bryant

March 19 -  Limor Fried

March 20 -  Margaret Atwood

March 21 -  Dr. Heather McNairn

March 22 -  Lucy Li

March 23 - Marina Nemat

March 24 - Autumn Peltier

March 25 - Dr. Wanda Thomas Bernard

March 26 - Lieutenant Colonel Maryse Carmichael 

March 27 - Dr. Lillian Eva Dyck

March 28 - Dr. Buffy Sainte-Marie

March 29 - Tanya Tagaq

March 30 -  Dr. Samantha Yammine

March 31 -  Lyn Slater

R. J. Davies

A Riveting Jacked-In Dreamy Mind-Bender

RJ Davies - Science Fiction Author, Maddox Files, Novels

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My Most Anticipated Fights of March 2022

I actually wrote this list out at work and just forgot to post it. Just in time for the first big fights of March tho. Good thing too cause a few fights have already fell apart. Warning - this is a ONE Championship heavy list.

Superbon vs Marat Grigorian - ONE X (March 26) - Marat kind of back doors his way into a title fight after getting hurt and missing his semifinal against Chingiz, but this is still an amazing kickboxing bout. Superbon is coming off one of the biggest singular wins in kickboxing history with his KO of Giorgio Petrosyan. Marat has looked fantastic since he finally beat Sittichai. How can you not love this fight?

John Lineker vs Bibiano Fernandes - ONE: Lights Out (March 11) - this is a fight I never dreamed we’d get 5 years ago but now it’s one of the fights I most want to see. Crazy styles clash. Should be great. Hopefully it happens cause I’m pretty sure this is the 3rd time it has been booked.

Nong-O Gaiyanghadao vs Alaverdi Ramazanov - ONE X (March 26) - this fight is so high cause I’m just excited to see Nong-O again. Ramazanov is a good really good fighter but I haven’t seen Nong-O fight in forever and he’s so good and fun to watch.

Askar Askarov vs Kai Kara-France - UFC Fight Night (March 26) - Yeah, this is the best fight from the UFC this month imo. A proper #1 contender’s bout with two guys coming off huge wins over JoeB and Cody Garbrandt. Both hit hard as crap and can push a pace. Should be fantastic if KKF can’t stay off his back.

Artem Vakhitov vs Luis Tavares - Glory 80 (March 20) - a LHW title fight from Glory. I like Vakhitov despite others complaints about his style of fighting and what I’ve seen from Tavares (not a lot) has been pretty damn good. Excited to see how this shakes out in the ring.

Roman “Chocolatito” Gonzalez vs Julio Cesar Martinez - March 5 - the original fight was Chocolatito vs El Gallo 3 and that was my #1 anticipated fight of this year. Unfortunately, Gallo got the covid but I think we got a solid replacement. Martinez was a beast down at flyweight and was planning to move up for a big fight eventually. Now he’s got his shot. And considering how Jesse Rodriguez and Fernando Martinez have come thru in ‘22 to grab gold at super fly from two big time players like Cuadras and Ancajas, nothing should be taken for granted.

Marina Rodriguez vs Xaionan Yan - UFC 272 (March 5) - Probably a curveball to those of you who don’t know me. Rodriguez vs Yan is just a fantastic striking affair. Both were on great runs outside of a hiccup vs Carla Esparza. Both could put their names back in title contention with a win. And Marina’s aggressive style should make this one an intense fight.

Demetrious Johnson vs Rodtang (mixed rules) - ONE X (March 26) - another surprise. Cause it’s so low. I’m not opposed to weirdo special rules match-ups but I prefer it in fights where dudes are obvious specialist. DJ is good everywhere. This is not Aoki vs Nagashima. Still DJ is my fav and Rodtang is as exciting as anyone in combat sports. Can’t not be interested, you know?

Alex Caceres vs Sodiq Yusuff - UFC FN (March 12) - I just like this match up. Bruce Leeroy is a on a run against young but talented fighters and Yusuff checks those boxes. It’s a win Yusuff needs if he wants to show he’s still a burgeoning contender. Good match making.

Adriano Moraes vs Yuya Wakamatsu - ONE X (March 26) - it’s time we all put some respect on Moraes’ name. Dude is phenomenal. He’s coming off that huge win over DJ. And Wakamatsu is a fun fighter who’s finally putting it together. It’s what you want in a good title fight.

Some honorable mentions

Alex Pereira vs Bruno Silva - UFC FN (Mar 12) - Pereira is an elite kickboxer and Silva is a banger. We know how this goes and I’m looking forward to it.

Mike Grundy vs Makwan Amirkhani - UFC FN (March 12) - Grundy is a great wrestler and so is Amirkhani. Expecting five minutes is scrambly chaos to start this one.

Mads Burnell vs Adam Borics - Bellator 276 (March 11) - if Borics was a better defensive grappler, this would be higher.

Thiago Silva vs Magomed Ankalaev - UFC FN (March 12) - I don’t think this one is happening and I have some questions about Silva that have stopped me from investing heavily into this one, but has huge violence potential.

Angela Lee vs Stamp Fairtex - ONE X (March 26) - an earned fight on Stamp’s part but I can’t imagine she’s able to stop Stamp from subbing her. That’s why I didn’t have it in top 10. Hoping it’s competitive though.

Capitan vs Hiroki Akimoto - ONE X (March 26) - don’t know enough about Akimoto to put this higher but Capitan is a STUD. Watch him fight folks. My #11 if I had to pick.

Tiffany Van Soest vs Manazo Kobayashi - Glory 80 (March 19) - I don’t see this being competitive but I love the effort to go to another promotion to try to find a challenger for TVS. Kobayashi is good but the size is concerning.

Jessica Nery Plata vs Yesica Bopp - March 11 - not convinced Bopp is still an elite fighter but definitely a fight that’s going to tell us if that’s the case as Plata is still one.

NCAA Wrestling Championships - March 17-19 - I don’t follow college wrestling but I make the effort to tune into the championships every year because they are always some of the most entertaining combat sports I watch all year. Just crazy athletics on display.

What fights this month are you all anticipating for March?

[kapdata]

Assignment 1

Data set: Gapminder

Variables: CO2 emissions and Polity score

Codebook

co2emissions 2006 cumulative CO2 emission (metric tons), Total amount of CO2 emission in metric tons since 1751. CDIAC (Carbon Dioxide Information Analysis Center)

polityscore 2009 Democracy score (Polity) Overall polity score from the Polity IV dataset, calculated by subtracting an autocracy score from a democracy score. The summary measure of a country's democratic and free nature. -10 is the lowest value, 10 the highest. Polity IV Project

 Second topic variables: CO2 emissions and income

Codebook

incomeperperson 2010 Gross Domestic Product per capita in constant 2000 US$. The inflation but not the differences in the cost of living between countries has been taken into account. World Bank Work Development Indicators

 Research questions: What is the relation between democracy and CO2 emissions? Does the relationship change when accounting for personal wealth in a country as measure in income per person?

 Hypothesis: Across all countries, polity and CO2 emissions will not correlate.

 https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0305750X14002514

 Literature review:

Povitkina, Marina (2018) The limits of democracy in tackling climate change, Environmental Politics, 27:3, 411-432, DOI: 10.1080/09644016.2018.1444723

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/09644016.2018.1444723

This article supports the hypothesis, except when the variable of corruption is added.  

 Prathibha, J & Beck, K. 2018 ‘Democracy and carbon dioxide emissions: Assessing the interactions of political and economic freedom and the environmental Kuznets curve’ Energy Research & Social Science. Vol. 39 pp 46-54

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S2214629617303481

This article supports the hypothesis: “…mixed results for the impact of political and economic freedom, depending on region”

 Adams, S & Acheampong, A 2019 ‘Reducing carbon emissions: The role of renewable energy and democracy’ Journal of Cleaner Production. Vol 240

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0959652619331154

This article does not support the hypothesis as applied to a subset of the data, sub-saharan Africa.

 Burnell, P 2012 ‘Democracy, democratization and climate change: complex relationships’  Democratization, 19:5, 813-842, DOI: 10.1080/13510347.2012.709684

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/13510347.2012.709684?src=recsys

This article supports the hypothesis.

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10/23/19 - Fall into Anime Hour!

1. Glassy Sky by Yutaka Yamada, sung by Donna Burke (Tokyo Ghoul OST)

2. The Girl Who Sells Misfortune by Kikuo feat. YURiCa

3. Boys Don't Cry by fatman, Gakupo Cover by cillia feat. Gakupo

4. Pacify Her (male version) by Melanie Martinez, Nightcored by  S a m a

5. Purgatory and the Canary Girl by HayakawaP feat. Kagamine Len

6. Bringing the Rain by Hadano-P feat. Kagamine Len

7. Chasin' Balloons by Leonell Cassio ft. Kristia Marina, Nightcored by Nintendofan12000

8. A Song For A Heartbroken Boy by Aku P feat. Fukase

9. The Truth of Planetarium by Natsushiro Takaaki feat. Hatsune Miku

10. How to Love by Cash Cash ft. Sofia Reyes, Cover by NIKITA and Randy C, Nightcored by NightcoreGalaxy

11. The Count of Monte Cristo Opening - We Were Lovers by Jean-Jacques Burnel

12. Mr. Lonely by Bobby Vinton, Nightcored by Nyx

13. At Dusk, I Will Think Of You from Kingdom Hearts, Cover and Lyrics by Lizz Robinett

14. Idea of Her by Whitney Woerz, Nightcored by Clari3

15. Safe and Sound by Taylor Swift ft. The Civil Wars, Cover by Landon Austin and Ellie, Nightcored by Bella2855

16. Dream by Vocacircus feat. Megurine Luka

17. Alice's and My Wonderland by Lelele-P feat. Kagamine Len

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• Marie Curie fue la primera persona honrada con dos premios Nobel tanto en física como en química. Sus logros incluyeron una teoría de la radiactividad, técnicas para aislar isótopos radiactivos, y el descubrimiento de dos elementos, polonio y radio. • Sally paseo fue la primera mujer estadounidense en el espacio, a bordo del transbordador espacial challenger. • Rachel Carson fue una bióloga marina, conservacionista y autora conocida por el avance del movimiento ambiental. • Jane Goodall es una antropóloga y primatóloga conocida por su extraordinario estudio de 55 años de las interacciones de los chimpancés salvajes en el parque nacional de gombe stream, Tanzania. • Rosalind Franklin fue una biofísica cuyo trabajo en las imágenes de difracción de rayos x de ADN condujo a su descubrimiento de la doble hélice de ADN y sus datos se utilizaron para formular la hipótesis de crick y la de Watson. • Grace Hopper fue una científica informática que desarrolló el lenguaje de programación informática de cobol. Popularizó el término “depuración” para arreglar fallas informáticas después de haber sido motivada por una polilla que se eliminó de la computadora. • Ada lovelace es considerada como el primer programador de computadora del mundo para su trabajo en el motor analítico de Charles Babbage. • Dorothy Hodgkin fue una bioquímica que avanzó la técnica de la cristalografía de rayos x, un método utilizado para determinar las estructuras de tres dimensiones de biomoléculas. Ella se convirtió en la tercera mujer para ganar el premio Nobel de química. • Elizabeth Blackwell fue una profesional de medicina británica, notable por ser la primera mujer en recibir un título médico en los Estados Unidos. • Jocelyn Bell burnell es una astrofísica que descubrió los primeros pulsares de radio. • Barbara mcclintock produjo una investigación innovadora en citogenética y demostró que los genes son responsables de convertir las características físicas en una y otra vez. • Lise Meitner fue parte del equipo que descubrió la fisión nuclear, para la cual su colega Otto Hahn fue galardonado con el premio Nobel. En 1997, el elemento 109 fue nombrado meitnerio en su honor. • Shirley Ann Jackson recibió su doctorado en física nuclear en el instituto de tecnología de Massachusetts en 1973, convirtiéndose en la primera mujer afro-Americana para ganar un doctorado en mit. • Chien-shiung wu trabajó en el proyecto Manhattan, donde ayudó a desarrollar el proceso para separar el metal de uranio en uranio-235 y los isótopos de uranio-238 mediante la difusión gaseosa. Es mejor conocida por llevar a cabo el experimento wu, que contradice la hipotética ley de conservación de la paridad. Este descubrimiento dio lugar a sus colegas tsung-DAO LEE Y Chen-ning yang ganando el premio Nobel de la física. • Kalpana chawla fue la primera astronauta indio-estadounidense y primera mujer hindú en el espacio, a bordo del transbordador espacial columbia. • Alice Augusta ball fue una química africano-estadounidense que desarrolló un extracto de aceite inyectable que fue el tratamiento más eficaz para la lepra hasta los años 1940 También fue la primera mujer y primer africana que se graduó de la universidad de hawái con un título de maestría. • Flossie Wong-Staal es una viróloga y biólogo molecular chino-estadounidense. Era la primer científica en clonar el VIH y determinar la función de sus genes, un paso importante en la prueba de que el VIH es la causa del SIDA. • Maryam mirzajani fue la primera mujer y la primera iraní honrada con la medalla de los campos, el premio más prestigioso de las matemáticas.

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SOUTH HADLEY, Mass. (WWLP) – You don’t need a boating license to drive a boat in Massachusetts, but there are still some things you should know before heading out on the water.

Someone can be as young as 12 and drive a boat on the Connecticut River in Massachusetts, but have to take a boating course first. Once you reach the age of 16, you can drive a boat without even having a driver’s license.

James Burnelle, the Captain of the Lady Bea at Burnelle’s Marina, said it’s safest if all boaters took the boating safety course as a precaution.

“I suggest going to a boating safety course,” Burnelle said. “They’re important so you know the rules of the river. A lot of people buy boats, they just go out and then just go have fun and not know all the rules.”

If you want to drive a jet ski you have to be at least 16 years old. Between 16 and 18, you have to take the boating safety course to know what the proper boating etiquette is. It’s also important to stay inside channel markers and to have life-vests on board.

There are also markers, called no-wake buoys, in the water. You have to slow your boat down so that it doesn’t leave a wake behind it until you pass a second set of buoys further out.