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If you're an artist making genre-bending R&B and mysteriously obscuring your identity on the Internet in 2014, you have to work hard to stand out from the crowd. But if you, say, had a hand in one of the best pop albums in years, by the biggest pop star in the world, that immediately set sales records after it arrived on iTunes as a surprise release, you just might have a shot—and that's where Beyoncé collaborator and producer/singer/rapper Boots finds himself with his debut release, WinterSpringSummerFall.
As Boots, whose real name is Jordan Asher, showed on signature Beyoncé cuts like "Haunted" and "Blue", he's adept at building tense, pretty atmospheres with his sweeping production. Most of WinterSpringSummerFall finds him working in the same realm, seamlessly moving through clattering, dance-oriented drum patterns, fuzzy synths, burbling bursts of electronic noise, and subdued piano ballads. While this scuzzy, genre-bending sonic palette doesn't deviate from what's come out of left-of-center R&B in the last couple years, Asher's take is just flat-out better than much of the comparable stuff out there, boasting more technical command and, particularly, a more thorough knowledge of electronic music. Throughout much of the album, particularly in places like the romantic, dreamy "EST" and the sad, delicate "Atom", WinterSpringSummerFall is unequivocally pleasant and pretty, with enough of a searing edge and emotional point of view to avoid falling into generic anonymity. Asher's voice is capable, if not exactly distinctive.
Jordan Asher has explained that the album is his chance to share his story with those who were aware of his involvement in Beyoncé and wanted to know more. It goes something like this: Asher bounced around between bands and states of homelessness in Miami before he eventually moved to New York and signed a deal with Roc Nation. Career backstory aside, Asher alludes to incidents on the record that have serious resonance: his best friend drowned, and he also watched Joshua Basin, a 20-year-old who was shoved onto Brooklyn's Bedford Avenue subway station tracks and hit by a train in 2012, die in his arms. Unfortunately, apart from these brief moments, the tales told on WinterSpringSummerFall are kind of boring, and as a result the album frequently works best where Boots is saying the least.
Asher's songwriting often lacks inspiration, particularly when it leans on his wholly uncharismatic rapping. There's a common (and, in some cases, sexist) assumption that great pop music is mostly the work of the producers behind it, but, WinterSpringSummerFall suggests that, despite Asher's obvious talent and good instincts, he needs collaboration to bring out his best work (as contributions from Kelela and Jeremih here show). As he mentioned in his interview with Pitchfork, Beyoncé's input strongly shaped and reshaped the way he produced certain songs on her album, and the lack of guidance is clearly felt on WinterSpringSummerFall's missteps.
Asher has the tendency to hamstring his songs with clumsy raps; his delivery has the kind of slick patter and heavy-lidded, personality-bereft tone that's common for artists who are primarily singers. Since he doesn't provide much of his own personality to latch onto, it's hard to identify with his ranting about girls who only want to meet him so they can meet Jay Z, or meatheads in the Meatpacking District. Sometimes, he's sanctimonious ("That's 32 [bars] and I didn't even mention one motherfucking car"); elsewhere, his boasts sound hollow, especially since his good fortune is obviously not due to his talents as a rapper. The reasons for WinterSpringSummerFall's lack of substance go beyond Asher's rapping skills: "Ride Ride Ride" ride, ride, rides the same pattern for too long, an embrace of repetition that might work if a vocalist more dynamic than Asher were delivering it. (It doesn't help matters, either, that his contributions to Beyoncé linger over this project, beyond the titular singer's enjoyable, if minor, contribution to album closer "Dreams".)
That said, Asher isn't entirely adrift on his own. "My Heart Is A Stone Today (Unharmed)" coasts on a lovely falsetto and builds with a propulsive, insistent beat and scattered dance rhythms before breaking apart into a stunning piano ballad, and the simple house music nod "Fade Away" is the kind of whirlwind performance that could captivate an entire field of festival-goers. But most of WinterSpringSummerFall doesn't connect quite so obviously, and it ultimately feels like what it definitely is: a talented producer's unwieldy, overly long solo project.
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Back in November, I snuck out of the lab for a whole 10 days on vacation. In a long and complicated story, Husband and I decided to go on a family vacation (yes, I know… I see my mother in law at least once a month, sometimes multiple weekends in a row, and I still somehow thought it would be enjoyable to travel with her). Because of limitations of his mother, we decided a cruise would be the best option at satisfying all involved… but then, at the last minute, she wasn't able to attend (awww, shucks!). So, off we went with my own parents, who love to travel as well.
We specifically picked the cruise because it left out of Baltimore, meaning an easy drive and no flights necessary. Husband came down from Philly, I came up from D.C., and my parents came southeast from Harrisburg, and we were on our way! (Click on links of city names for more pictures from each location!)
After two days at sea consisting of lots of relaxing, reading, games of UNO and Scrabble, and a somewhat ridiculous amount of alcohol, we arrived in the first port: San Juan, Puerto Rico. We spent our time in San Juan exploring Old San Juan and Fort San Cristóbal… and of course, stopped for an afternoon drink. (Alcohol consumption is an absolutely essential part of vacationing according to my parents.)
Our next port of call was St. Thomas, U.S. Virgin Islands. St. Thomas is one of my favorite islands in the Caribbean (after Aruba, where I used to spend time every January before graduate school sucked all the fun out of life, and Grand Cayman, because of the scuba diving). We spent the morning at our favorite beach, Magen's Bay. The day was mostly overcast and the waves were gigantic compared to previous visits, due to the tropical storm brewing further north. I had been hoping to go scuba diving over on St. John that day, but all the beaches and water were closed due to the waves! After a morning on the beach, we went to my favorite little synagogue ever, St. Thomas Synagogue (insert witty joke from my father regarding naming synagogues after saints). It is a tiny little building atop a big hill (aptly named Synagogue Hill) and comes complete with a sand floor. Perfect!
Next up, we visited Samana, Dominican Republic. It was the first time for all of us going to the DR, but instead of exploring, we were all ready for a nice, relaxing beach day. It was a gorgeous, sunny day, and we spent it swimming, snorkeling (the off-the-beach snorkeling had a better reef than some of my deep scuba dives!), and my father and I took out an ocean kayak and paddled our way up and down the coast for a few hours.
Last but not least, we found ourselves in Labadee, Haiti. The day was absolutely beautiful, but the sand was covered with coral and broken shells, which made it a bit tricky getting in and out of the water!
On the way back to Baltimore, our vacation was extended by a day, courtesy of Tropical Storm Ida. The Coast Guard closed the Chesapeake Bay, so we were unable to enter until it was reopened a day later. There are certainly worse things in life than getting an extra unexpected day of vacation… though Husband may disagree, as the rough waters made him rather seasick!
Hmm… I'm ready for another vacation! Where to next, Husband?!

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It didn't take Linda Korpics long to figure out that she wanted to become a teacher.
Just a year or two of being a student.
By the time she was in second grade, Korpics realized how much she enjoyed helping other students "and seeing their happiness when they got the skill I was teaching," she says. A fifth grade teacher reinforced her interest in the profession – and today Korpics is a second grade teacher marking her 30th year in the classroom.
But even after decades of experience, she says, it's still a thrill to see children light up with the excitement of learning.
This year, Korpics has a child who has been shuffled from one school setting after another, with the result that she started the year struggling in all subjects. Her guardian told Korpics that the child was not very trusting and has always been reluctant to participate in class. But after months of one-on-one work, Korpics reports, the student has shown daily progress.
"Now her hand is up for every lesson," she says, "even when it isn't her reading group."
Korpics recalls that at the beginning of the year she briefly put her arm around the student, but noticed that she tensed up so she resisted doing it again. Then, a month later, the child came running into the room "and gave me the biggest bear hug you can imagine," she says.
"I teared up and told her that hug was the best present she could have given me," says Korpics. "I have been teaching for 29 years and it is moments like those that always mean so much to me and show me why I teach."
A fellow teacher at Echo Lake who has observed Korpics at work says, "It gave me chill bumps to see Linda get so excited and overcome by emotion when talking about her students and their successes."
Korpics' colleague also noted that she works constantly at developing new and innovative ways to teach, such as creating "books" to accompany the science and social studies curriculum and interactive notebooks to reinforce math concepts.
A parent wrote that he, too, admires the way Korpics is able to customize her teaching methods according to each child's needs, and that he believes her ability to individualize her teaching methods has been instrumental in his child's school success -- not to mention whetting his child's intellectual curiosity outside the classroom.
Korpics' ability to combine cutting-edge techniques and technology with the experience and passion of a long-time educator, said the parent, help create a learning environment that is unmatched in its effectiveness.
"In an era of 21st-century learning," wrote the parent, "it is a joy to know that 29 years of experience still counts."
Among the former students that Korpics has enjoyed hearing from recently is one that was in her second grade class in 1983. "[She wrote] a letter," says Korpics, "telling me that she is teaching in my old classroom in New York and that she went into teaching because of me."
Another former student who is now a senior came to visit Korpics recently and told her that he plans to study physical therapy. Korpics recalled that when she had him in her class, the student struggled in all areas and had behavior issues. "We had many lunches together," she says, "to strengthen skills and to have discussions on behavior and consequences."
Her now-grown-up student told Korpics that he had come to thank her.
"It is great to know that I have touched the lives of these kids in such a positive way," says Korpics.
"[He told me that] I made a difference and that he wants to help others just like I helped him.
"How awesome is that!"
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Natalie Portman Is Still Figuring Out Her Prego Style
Once Natalie Portman made the announcement last month that she is expecting fiance Benjamin Millepied's baby, everyone went on high alert, watching for her baby bump. But Natalie has been careful about keeping her bump to herself, dressing in shapeless shifts that style experts either love or hate.
"So far, she seems to be dressing for red carpet events in slightly looser clothing, rather than accentuate her growing bump in tight dresses," says Fashionista Senior Editor Leah Chernikoff. "But Portman's far too stylish to just throw on a shapeless sack or tent dress and call it a day. She's chosen appropriately modest dresses that still show off those 'Black Swan'-trained gams and arms: a blue ruffled Jason Wu to the People's Choice Awards on the 5th and a mod-ish Vionnet with a gold sequined collar to the 2011 Palm Springs International Film Festival Awards Gala."
Celebrity stylist June Ambrose thinks that Portman is still getting used to her new body and that we might see more daring bump styles down the road.
"It seems like she still wants to keep the cat in the bag," Ambrose says. "But even the baggy look can't hide this blossoming tummy, especially with her petite frame! First time mommies are always modest. We need to give her some time to get fashionably acclimated to her new nonballerina body."
Portman should make the most of the benefits of pregnancy, one of which is an amazing head of hair. But so far the 'Black Swan' actress has been conservative with her locks as well as her belly, opting for simple buns and ponies on the red carpet.
"While few women actually experience that elusive pregnancy 'glow,' a universal truth is that hair is at its healthiest and most gorgeous during these nine months," says Jackie Cascarano, creative director of luxury hair retailer Lock & Mane. "Pregnancy hormones temporarily prevent hair from shedding, leaving you with a full head of thick and glorious locks. Natalie should revel in the nine months of great hair by pampering herself with blowouts, deep conditioning treatments and ultra feminine accessories, like headbands and bobbies."
Portman's prego style right now is perfectly fine, but we all want to see just a little more fun, especially as awards season heats up. Tack on some tighter frocks and let your hair down, Nat. What good is a famous baby bump if you don't let it have its red carpet moment?
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- Tuesday 11 JanuaryBy Ira
Im sure there are plenty of doll outfits shed fit into. i hear Toys r us are having a sale!
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Why? Because she's petite?
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Celebrity stylist June Ambrose thinks that Portman is still getting used to her new body and that we might see more daring bump styles down the road.I love this , So does My boyfriend .he is almost 11year older than me .i met him via age'lessmate.c'om a nice place for seeking age le ss love.which gives you a chance to make your life better and open opportunities for you to meet the attractive young girls and treat you like a king. Maybe you wanna check it out or tell your friends..
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Ms. Portman is dressing beautifully and always has. A woman can dress in style and not show their large bump, not necessary.
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she's quite petite..if she chooses to dress in loose clothing so be it..no one else's business..bet she doesn't walk around in stilletto heels either..she's never been one to dress like most in Hollyrot
- Tuesday 11 JanuaryBy Ted Bundy
Yeah, that's why I like her. She seems pretty down to earth and real.
- Wednesday 12 JanuaryBy Cricket
The dress with the collar is horrid and so is the hairstyle. I have faith that she will don some better styles in the future though.
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DevOps tends to focus on the relationship between Dev and Ops, putting an emphasis on the ops and application infrastructure. But that's changing with microservices architectures. In her session at DevOps Summit, Lori MacVittie, Evangelist for F5 Networks, will focus on how microservices are changing the underlying architectures needed to scale, secure and deliver applications based on highly distributed (micro) services and why that means an expansion into "the network" for DevOps.
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"We have a tagline - "Power in the API Economy." What that means is everything that is built in applications and connected applications is done through APIs," explained Roberto Medrano, Executive Vice President at Akana, in this SYS-CON.tv interview at 16th Cloud Expo, held June 9-11, 2015, at the Javits Center in New York City.
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Containers have changed the mind of IT in DevOps. They enable developers to work with dev, test, stage and production environments identically. Containers provide the right abstraction for microservices and many cloud platforms have integrated them into deployment pipelines. DevOps and Containers together help companies to achieve their business goals faster and more effectively. In his session at DevOps Summit, Ruslan Synytsky, CEO and Co-founder of Jelastic, reviewed the current landscape of...
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"AgilData is the next generation of dbShards. It just adds a whole bunch more functionality to improve the developer experience," noted Dan Lynn, CEO of AgilData, in this SYS-CON.tv interview at 16th Cloud Expo, held June 9-11, 2015, at the Javits Center in New York City.
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The Internet of Things is not only adding billions of sensors and billions of terabytes to the Internet. It is also forcing a fundamental change in the way we envision Information Technology. For the first time, more data is being created by devices at the edge of the Internet rather than from centralized systems. What does this mean for today's IT professional? In this Power Panel at @ThingsExpo, moderated by Conference Chair Roger Strukhoff, panelists addressed this very serious issue of pro...
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"We provide a web application framework for building really sophisticated web applications that run on a browser without any installation need so we get used for biotech, defense, and banking applications," noted Charles Kendrick, CTO and Chief Architect at Isomorphic Software, in this SYS-CON.tv interview at @DevOpsSummit (http://DevOpsSummit.SYS-CON.com), held June 9-11, 2015, at the Javits Center in New York
Jul. 1, 2015 02:45 PM EDT Reads: 1,067
Discussions about cloud computing are evolving into discussions about enterprise IT in general. As enterprises increasingly migrate toward their own unique clouds, new issues such as the use of containers and microservices emerge to keep things interesting. In this Power Panel at 16th Cloud Expo, moderated by Conference Chair Roger Strukhoff, panelists addressed the state of cloud computing today, and what enterprise IT professionals need to know about how the latest topics and trends affect t...
Jul. 1, 2015 02:30 PM EDT Reads: 1,183
Explosive growth in connected devices. Enormous amounts of data for collection and analysis. Critical use of data for split-second decision making and actionable information. All three are factors in making the Internet of Things a reality. Yet, any one factor would have an IT organization pondering its infrastructure strategy. How should your organization enhance its IT framework to enable an Internet of Things implementation? In his session at @ThingsExpo, James Kirkland, Red Hat's Chief Arch...
Jul. 1, 2015 02:21 PM EDT Reads: 594
In the midst of the widespread popularity and adoption of cloud computing, it seems like everything is being offered "as a Service" these days: Infrastructure? Check. Platform? You bet. Software? Absolutely. Toaster? It's only a matter of time. With service providers positioning vastly differing offerings under a generic "cloud" umbrella, it's all too easy to get confused about what's actually being offered. In his session at 16th Cloud Expo, Kevin Hazard, Director of Digital Content for SoftL...
Jul. 1, 2015 01:15 PM EDT Reads: 2,161
"A lot of the enterprises that have been using our systems for many years are reaching out to the cloud - the public cloud, the private cloud and hybrid," stated Reuven Harrison, CTO and Co-Founder of Tufin, in this SYS-CON.tv interview at 16th Cloud Expo, held June 9-11, 2015, at the Javits Center in New York City.
Jul. 1, 2015 12:54 PM EDT Reads: 598
One of the hottest areas in cloud right now is DRaaS and related offerings. In his session at 16th Cloud Expo, Dale Levesque, Disaster Recovery Product Manager with Windstream's Cloud and Data Center Marketing team, will discuss the benefits of the cloud model, which far outweigh the traditional approach, and how enterprises need to ensure that their needs are properly being met.
Jul. 1, 2015 12:15 PM EDT Reads: 2,052
The time is ripe for high speed resilient software defined storage solutions with unlimited scalability. ISS has been working with the leading open source projects and developed a commercial high performance solution that is able to grow forever without performance limitations. In his session at Cloud Expo, Alex Gorbachev, President of Intelligent Systems Services Inc., shared foundation principles of Ceph architecture, as well as the design to deliver this storage to traditional SAN storage co...
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"Plutora provides release and testing environment capabilities to the enterprise," explained Dalibor Siroky, Director and Co-founder of Plutora, in this SYS-CON.tv interview at @DevOpsSummit, held June 9-11, 2015, at the Javits Center in New York City.
Jul. 1, 2015 11:45 AM EDT Reads: 1,023
It is one thing to build single industrial IoT applications, but what will it take to build the Smart Cities and truly society-changing applications of the future? The technology won't be the problem, it will be the number of parties that need to work together and be aligned in their motivation to succeed. In his session at @ThingsExpo, Jason Mondanaro, Director, Product Management at Metanga, discussed how you can plan to cooperate, partner, and form lasting all-star teams to change the world...
Jul. 1, 2015 11:30 AM EDT Reads: 2,246
SYS-CON Events announced today that JFrog, maker of Artifactory, the popular Binary Repository Manager, will exhibit at SYS-CON's @DevOpsSummit Silicon Valley, which will take place on November 3–5, 2015, at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA. Based in California, Israel and France, founded by longtime field-experts, JFrog, creator of Artifactory and Bintray, has provided the market with the first Binary Repository solution and a software distribution social platform.
Jul. 1, 2015 11:30 AM EDT Reads: 978
In his session at 16th Cloud Expo, Simone Brunozzi, VP and Chief Technologist of Cloud Services at VMware, reviewed the changes that the cloud computing industry has gone through over the last five years and shared insights into what the next five will bring. He also chronicled the challenges enterprise companies are facing as they move to the public cloud. He delved into the "Hybrid Cloud" space and explained why every CIO should consider 'hybrid cloud' as part of their future strategy to achi...
Jul. 1, 2015 11:10 AM EDT Reads: 672
"We got started as search consultants. On the services side of the business we have help organizations save time and save money when they hit issues that everyone more or less hits when their data grows," noted Otis Gospodnetić, Founder of Sematext, in this SYS-CON.tv interview at @DevOpsSummit, held June 9-11, 2015, at the Javits Center in New York City.
Jul. 1, 2015 11:00 AM EDT Reads: 956
Internet of Things is moving from being a hype to a reality. Experts estimate that internet connected cars will grow to 152 million, while over 100 million internet connected wireless light bulbs and lamps will be operational by 2020. These and many other intriguing statistics highlight the importance of Internet powered devices and how market penetration is going to multiply many times over in the next few years.
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Internet of Things (IoT) will be a hybrid ecosystem of diverse devices and sensors collaborating with operational and enterprise systems to create the next big application. In their session at @ThingsExpo, Bramh Gupta, founder and CEO of robomq.io, and Fred Yatzeck, principal architect leading product development at robomq.io, discussed how choosing the right middleware and integration strategy from the get-go will enable IoT solution developers to adapt and grow with the industry, while at th...
Jul. 1, 2015 09:45 AM EDT Reads: 1,948
The most often asked question post-DevOps introduction is: "How do I get started?" There's plenty of information on why DevOps is valid and important, but many managers still struggle with simple basics for how to initiate a DevOps program in their business. They struggle with issues related to current organizational inertia, the lack of experience on Continuous Integration/Delivery, understanding where DevOps will affect revenue and budget, etc. In their session at DevOps Summit, JP Morgenthal...
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Maghtab is a village in Malta. Maghtab is mostly known for Malta's largest landfill. Since Malta joined the E.U it has been closed down.[1] The only acoustic mirror constructed outside the United Kingdom is found there.
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PHR Analysis: CIA Health Professionals' Role in Torture Worse Than Previously Known
PHR Analysis: CIA Health Professionals' Role in Torture Worse Than Previously Known | Press Release
The extent to which American physicians and psychologists violated human rights and betrayed the ethical standards of their professions by designing, implementing, and legitimizing a worldwide torture program is greater than previously known, according to a report by Physicians for Human Rights (PHR).
A team of PHR doctors authored the new white paper, Aiding Torture: Health Professionals' Ethics and Human Rights Violations Demonstrated in the May 2004 Inspector General's Report. The report details how the CIA relied on medical expertise to rationalize and carry out abusive and unlawful interrogations. It also refers to aggregate collection of data on detainees' reaction to interrogation methods. PHR is concerned that this data collection and analysis may amount to human experimentation and calls for more investigation on this point. If confirmed, the development of a research protocol to assess and refine the use of the waterboard or other techniques would likely constitute a new, previously unknown category of ethical violations committed by CIA physicians and psychologists.
"Medical doctors and psychologists colluded with the CIA to keep observational records about waterboarding, which approaches unethical and unlawful human experimentation," says PHR Medical Advisor and lead report author Scott Allen, MD. For example, "Interrogators would place a cloth over a detainee's face to block breathing and induce feelings of fear, helplessness, and a loss of control. A doctor would stand by to monitor and calibrate this physically and psychologically harmful act, which amounts to torture. It is profoundly unsettling to learn of the central role of health professionals in laying a foundation for US government lawyers to rationalize the CIA's illegal torture program."
"The Dream" Remains a Vision
"The Dream" Remains a Vision
By Dr. Wilmer J. Leon III | Truthout
On August 28, 1963, during the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. stood on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial and delivered one of the most famous speeches in world history, "I Have A Dream." What has troubled me over the years is how Dr. King, the visionary, prophet, and revolutionary's vision, action, and ultimate sacrifice have been hijacked, compromised, and relegated to being those of just a dreamer.
Dreamers are safe. People are comfortable with dreamers. Why? To be a dreamer you must be in a restful state, usually asleep. Dreamers are comfortable in that sleep state. Dreamers are docile, easy to manipulate, and non-threatening. To cast Dr. King in the light of a dreamer allows people to be convinced that action resulting from clear vision is not necessary. It allows the oppressed to be fooled into being patient and non-revolutionary; yours will come by-and-by.
We hear those powerful words "I Have a Dream ..." What many fail to realize is that Dr. King was no dreamer. He was a visionary, not some abstract thinker or philosopher. He was a prophet and a true revolutionary. Read more.
Resisting Homophobia in the Military
Resisting Homophobia in the Military
By Dahr Jamail | Truthout
Homophobia arguably manifests itself in the worst form of discrimination in the military, surpassing even racism. Instead of enabling recruits to vanquish their prejudices and strengthening the individual and the collective spirit, all military training seems to be geared toward invoking the darkest elements in human nature - fear, hatred, pettiness, insecurity and similar aberrations. Under normal conditions, such an orientation legitimizes unacceptable behavior; under harsh and hostile conditions, it makes beasts of men. It is immaterial whether one is at the perpetrating end or the receiving end of unjust behavior. Of greater significance is the general air of violence and inequality that gets normalized in the process.
As the occupation of Afghanistan increasingly leads the military to search for more boots on the ground, homosexual soldiers who are beginning to resist the treatment they are receiving in the military are slowly becoming yet another hurdle the overstretched military faces.
As the Don't Ask Don't Tell (DADT) policy instituted under President Bill Clinton continues, more soldiers are beginning to resist this repressive and discriminatory practice. Many, like New York Army National Guard member Jennifer Hogg, have found it a reason to begin questioning their involvement in the military.
"Being a lesbian on 9/11 is what initially led me to begin to question my involvement in the military and the military's involvement in the world," Hogg explained to Truthout, "If on 9/11, I did not have the freedom to hug my girlfriend goodbye before we left as a unit for NYC, then what freedom was I protecting? What freedom could we offer to the world if we treat it so restrictively based on who a person falls in love with?" Read more.
Who's Paying to Kill Health Care Reform?
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Bad Advice: Bush's Lawyers in the War on Terror
Bad Advice: Bush's Lawyers in the War on Terror
by Harold H. Bruff | Reviewed by Stephen F. Rohde | Los Angeles Lawyer September 2009
In William Shakespeare's historical drama, King Henry V asks his trusted advisers, including the Archbishop of Canterbury, whether "with right and conscience" he may make a claim to the crown of France. In their response, the king receives the advice he wants, instead of the advice he needs, and his ensuing invasion of France leads at first to victory but in the end to great tragedy.
Harold Bruff, author of a new and engrossing book Bad Advice: Bush's Lawyers in the War on Terror, uses
the test of "right and conscience" to judge the wisdom and ethics of the lawyers who advised President George W. Bush. Did John Ashcroft, Alberto Gonzales, John Yoo, David Addington, Jay Bybee, and others at the Justice Department and in the White House meet the fundamental standard of the American Bar Association to "exercise independent professional judgment and render candid advice"? Based on his sober and comprehensive study, Bruff convincingly concludes that to a man, "[i]gnoring the need for detachment
and lacking a willingness to consider constitutional claims of the other branches, President Bush's lawyers manipulated the law for political ends."
After tracing the history of the relationship between presidents and their lawyers from George Washington to the present, with particular emphasis on critical episodes when national security was at stake, Bruff, who himself served as a senior attorney-adviser to the Office of Legal Counsel (OLC) at the Justice Department from 1979 to 1981, focuses on key decisions made by the Bush administration since September 11, 2001.
Billionaires for Wealth Care at Susan Davis Town Hall in Spring Valley, CA - Updated! New Pics!
SPRING VALLEY, CA -- A dozen ultra-rich protesters pulled up in their stretch limo and stole the show at a Town Hall Meeting hosted by Congresswoman Susan Davis (D-CA) in Spring Valley, California on Saturday, August 29, 2009.
The group, which reportedly consisted of individuals made incredibly rich on US health care industry profits, seemed to delight in engaging with other protesters in the Free Expression Zone. And the super-rich protesters were a hit from the moment they entered the meeting, as cheers and a steadily rising applause indicated strong support from many of the meeting's hundreds of attendees.
The well-off protesters waved signs and urged everyone to consider the importance of continuing to spend wastefully on health care. "We also wanted to thank all of the average folks who put our profits ahead of their own interests by opposing health care reform," said Bitsy Hart Faruthers, a member of the group. "Thank you. And please, for my sake, keep it up!"
Bitsy said her group opposes health care reform. Instead, the group encourages Congress and the public to continue putting a priority on protecting the interests of health care industry profiteers.
For more information on the Billionaire's heavily-funded campaign, visit BillionairesForWealthCare.com
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Obama's Narrowing Window of Opportunity
By Dave Lindorff
The way I see it, President Obama has a couple of months to turn his failing administration around.
The war in Afghanistan is going south, and within a couple of weeks, his General William Westmoreland, Gen. Stanley McCrystal, will be coming to him asking for more troops. Things are getting hairier in Iraq too.
His signature health care initiative is foundering, with Republicans working in lockstep to see to it that it fails.
Pressure is mounting for an honest probe into the criminality of the prior administration in its authorization and promotion of torture against captives--most of them innocent--in the Bush/Cheney "war" on terror.
The stock market, which by climbing back 50% from its collapse and the bottom it hit on March 9, gave the president a breather, is showing signs of exhaustion, and is likely to start sinking again, as investors realize that there is no end in sight for the recession in the real economy.
America's Tortured Past
America's Tortured Past
By Stephen Lendman
On August 24, an ACLU press release stated:
In response to two Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuits, "The government today handed over to the American Civil Liberties Union (one of dozens of documents comprising an unprecedented 130,000 previously secret pages, including) a detailed official description of the CIA's interrogation program."
Referring to a heavily redacted December 2004 report (originally commissioned by CIA director George Tenet) detailing torture of prisoners in Iraq and Afghanistan, it "describes the use of abusive interrogation techniques including forced nudity, sleep deprivation, dietary manipulation and stress positions." Far worse ones were understated or redacted entirely.
According to Jameel Jaffer, Director of the ACLU National Security Project:
Ridge, Cheney Assail Holder's Decision to Investigate CIA Officials
Ridge, Cheney Assail Holder's Decision to Investigate CIA Officials
Bush-Era Officials Such as Cheney Say Justice Department's Investigation into Interrogation Techniques is Wrong
By Jake Tapper | ABCNews.com
Ridge backed Cheney this morning on "Good Morning America," saying, "I think he's right, pure and simple. It's wrong, it's chilling, and it's inappropriate."
Even though Ridge said he believed waterboarding was wrong and "wasn't the appropriate way for America to be conducting itself," the former Pennsylvania governor said that "to suggest four or five years later what they [CIA officers] did was criminal -- I think that's criminal."
Officials from the Bush administration this week entered the debate over national security, although President Barack Obama's administration was not the only one criticized.
While former Homeland Security Secretary Tom Ridge's new book, "The Test of Our Times: America Under Siege ... And How We Can Be Safe Again," raised questions about whether some national security decisions by various Bush administration officials were based on political, and not counterterrorism, concerns, former Vice President Dick Cheney took to the airwaves to assail Obama's commitment to making the nation safe.
Cheney Sunday told his preferred venue, Fox News, that Attorney General Eric Holder's decision to allow a preliminary review into whether any CIA officers crossed the line in its interrogations of detainees was "outrageous." Read more.
Cheney vs. Obama: CIA Abuse Probe 'Political'; Kerry: Cheney Disrespects Constitution...Rule of Law
Cheney vs. Obama: CIA Abuse Probe 'Political'
Former VP Says CIA Investigation Will Hurt National Security
By John Cochran | ABCNews.com
"Dick Cheney has shown through the years, frankly, a disrespect for the Constitution, for sharing of information with Congress, respect for the law, and I'm not surprised that he is upset about this," Kerry said.
Also speaking on "This Week," Liz Cheney, the former vice president's daughter, told Stephanopoulos that the Bush administration looked into the way terror suspects were treated and found no reason to prosecute CIA officials.
Former Vice President Dick Cheney, who has been a fierce critic of the Obama administration, today attacked Attorney General Eric Holder's decision to investigate whether the CIA abused terror suspects during the Bush years.
"I think it's an outrageous political act that will do great damage long-term to our capacity to be able to have people take on difficult jobs, make difficult decisions without having to worry about what the next administration's going to say about it," Cheney said on Fox News.
On ABC's "This Week with George Stephanopoulos" Sen. John Kerry, D-Mass., retorted that Cheney couldn't be expected to support an investigation of the treatment of terror suspects. Read more.
Dick Cheney And The Rule Of Law
Dick Cheney And The Rule Of Law Posted by Michael Scherer | Swampland on Time Inc.
Fox News Sunday's Chris Wallace was able to get an important, and clarifying, admission from Vice President Dick Cheney in an interview that was broadcast today. Wallace mentions a list of techniques that CIA agents are accused of using in violation of the legal guidance that the Bush Administration established. These include threatening a naked detainee with a power drill and a gun, and staging mock executions. Then Wallace asks Cheney this question:
WALLACE: So even these cases where they went beyond the specific legal authorization, you're OK with it. CHENEY: I am.
There is not much nuance there. Cheney is saying he does not object to the rogue behavior of CIA agents who went beyond their legal mandate. (In the same interview, Cheney says that the Bush Justice Department found there was nothing "improper or illegal" in this behavior, a determination that is now under review by the Obama Justice Department.) Speaking of the interrogation program as a whole, Cheney says, "It was good policy. It was properly carried out. It worked very, very well."
Power drills and mock executions are not the only extralegal techniques that CIA employees are alleged to have committed. One CIA contractor, according to the CIA Inspector General, is alleged to have beaten an Afghan detainee to death with a large metal flashlight and his foot. Released criminal records show that another CIA employee was interrogating a detainee at Abu Ghraib prison in a stress position with a bag over his head, when the detainee died of asphyxiation. Assuming that Cheney did not misspeak, his statement to Wallace suggests that he believes these deaths are "OK' given the circumstances. Read more.
Apologies, Anger, and Apathy
Apologies, Anger, and Apathy
My Lai and Lockerbie Reconsidered
by Nick Turse | Tom Dispatch.com
A week ago, two convicted mass murderers leaped back into public consciousness as news coverage of their stories briefly intersected. One was freed from prison, continuing to proclaim his innocence, and his release was vehemently denounced in the United States as were the well-wishers who welcomed him home. The other expressed his contrition, after almost 35 years living in his country in a state of freedom, and few commented.
When Abdel Baset al-Megrahi, the Libyan sentenced in 2001 to 27 years in prison for the 1988 bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland, was released from incarceration by the Scottish government on "compassionate grounds," a furor erupted. On August 22nd, ABC World News with Charles Gibson featured a segment on outrage over the Libyan's release. It was aired shortly before a report on an apology offered by William Calley, who, in 1971 as a young lieutenant, was sentenced to life in prison for the massacre of civilians in the Vietnamese village of My Lai.
After al-Megrahi, who served eight years in prison, arrived home to a hero's welcome in Libya, officials in Washington expressed their dismay. To White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs, it was "outrageous and disgusting"; to President Barrack Obama, "highly objectionable." Calley, who admitted at trial to killing Vietnamese civilians personally, but served only three years of house arrest following an intervention by President Richard Nixon, received a standing ovation from the Kiwanis Club of Greater Columbus, Georgia, the city where he lived for years following the war. (He now resides in Atlanta.) For him, there was no such uproar, and no one, apparently, thought to ask either Gibbs or the president for comment, despite the eerie confluence of the two men and their fates. Read more.
Billionaires for Wealthcare Steal the Show in San Diego
"Billionaires for Wealthcare" Steal the Show in San Diego
Barbara Cummings
Congresswoman Susan Davis had a town hall in spring Valley Ca yesterday. The venue changed from a library to a gymnasium due to the number who rsvp'd. She scheduled only 1, yes, one hour to respond to the 1500 or so who attended. The temperature soared to well over 100 degress. We Billionaires enjoyed the air conditioned comfort of our Escalade Limo both before and after our appearance.
Approaching the venue, we saw many anti Obama messages, bumper stickers, lots of patriots wrapped in flags and flag clothing, an indicator of things to come. It was clear they did not attend to discuss healthcare. Staff handed out very detailed fact sheets with the most common questions asked and answered. These were mostly left on the floor and never even opened. Questions were done by lottery and most were not questions at all but rather long angry accusatory statements. When a real question was asked, the questioner was shouted down and the congresswoman was called a LIAR among other things.
Before the main event the hall was taken by surprise by BILLIONAIRES FOR WEALTHCARE! The San Diego troupe, dressed to the nines, entered the hall with great panache, blowing kisses to the poor people. We told them to keep the status quo, we like being rich! Go across the border and get your healthcare in Mexico, for heavens sake! There was some confusion as the no reform crowd did not know what to do, they were flummoxed about our message at first. Smart people "got it" right away.
Billionaires is a great idea and I urge you to try it in your own communities. You only need 10-12 people, vintage thrift stores for dress, collect for limo or use luxury cars for drop off. Ta Ta!
How the Corporatocracy Fools us into Not Noticing Overwhelming Support for National Health Care
How the Corporatocracy Fools us into Not Noticing Overwhelming Support for National Health Care
By Time For Change | Democratic Underground
Americans have long supported a universal national health care plan. Typical of this support was a June 12th poll that showed 72% of Americans in favor of a government administered health insurance plan that would compete with private health insurance plans, compared to 20% who opposed. A little over a month later, due to a barrage of insurance company propaganda, the margin of support for that statement was down to 66% in favor to 27% opposed. But nevertheless, American support for a universal national health care plan, as shown by polls worded in numerous different ways, has been consistent over at least two decades.
How then does one explain a July 2009 opinion poll indicating that 42% of Americans believe that President Obama's health plan is a bad idea, compared to only 36% who say that it's a good idea? That answer is a combination of corporate propaganda and misleading polling. Most important, we are bombarded by the claim that government will ration health care, thus resulting in so-called death panels, while ignoring the fact that health care is already rationed by private health insurance companies, and that a government plan would make health care available to millions of Americans who currently have very limited access to it. Read more.
The Five Biggest Lies in the Health Care Debate
The Five Biggest Lies in the Health Care Debate
By Sharon Begley | Newsweek
To the credit of opponents of health-care reform, the lies and exaggerations they're spreading are not made up out of whole cloth—which makes the misinformation that much more credible. Instead, because opponents demand that everyone within earshot (or e-mail range) look, say, "at page 425 of the House bill!," the lies take on a patina of credibility. Take the claim in one chain e-mail that the government will have electronic access to everyone's bank account, implying that the Feds will rob you blind. The 1,017-page bill passed by the House Ways and Means Committee does call for electronic fund transfers—but from insurers to doctors and other providers. There is zero provision to include patients in any such system. Five other myths that won't die:
You'll have no choice in what health benefits you receive. Read more.
Slide Show: Health Care Rally in Times Square
On the same day as Senator Edward M. Kennedy's funeral, protesters rallied in support of health care reform in Times Square. Slide Show: Health Care Rally in Times Square
Can You Help Send "Count Bleed Ya Dry" Across The Nation?
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Dear Friends,
Recovering from our local fight against the proposed industrial gravel mine and an early victory (We could get used to that!) Backbone Campaign is regrouping to marshal our resources for a variety of other regional and national campaigns, but our coffers are empty and we've had to reduce staff time to keep the doors open.
The most pressing call for our imagery is the national effort to ensure access to quality healthcare for all Americans regardless of ability to pay. The Backbone Campaign has since its inception supported the HR676, Medicare for All bill.
We'd LOVE to send Count Bleed-Ya-Dry and the other great props built by us and Single Payer Vashon across the country to make appearances in front of Congressional offices, Big Pharma, and Insurance Industry offices. Ideally, this would happen along the same route as the Mad As Hell Doctors Tour, doing pre-publicity for their tour.
Here's the problem:
Prosecuting Bush and Cheney Could Prevent Future Crimes
By Sherwood Ross
Allowing today's leaders to get away with war crimes will send a dangerous signal to future leaders that they can do the same.
"The battle to impose criminal responsibility upon them (Bush, Cheney, etc.) is not for today alone but to safeguard a vast future," points out Lawrence Velvel, dean of the Massachusetts School of Law at Andover.
"Otherwise the future will be threatened by Executive lawlessness undertaken because of knowledge that leaders need fear no personal consequences," he writes in his recently published "America 2008"(Doukathsan Press).
"Today, there is no accountability for our leaders, nor do their own families face death on the front lines as occurred during the Civil War when several Cabinet officials' sons or brothers faced battle and World WII when one of FDR's sons participated in extraordinarily dangerous missions in the Pacific."
Mohammed Jawad: 'I was 12 when I was arrested and sent to Guantanamo'
Mohammed Jawad: 'I was 12 when I was arrested and sent to Guantanamo'
By Jeremy Page in Kabul | Times Online
Sitting cross-legged on the cushioned floor of a family friend's house, Mohammed Jawad furrowed his brow and fidgeted nervously as he struggled to explain his extraordinary ordeal over the past seven years.
In December 2002, when he says he was only 12, he was arrested on suspicion of throwing a grenade into a Jeep carrying US special forces soldiers through Kabul, wounding two of them and an interpreter. He was taken first to an airbase north of Kabul, then to the US prison in Guantánamo Bay, where he remained until his release a few days ago after a ruling by a US judge that his confession had been obtained by force.
One of the youngest and most controversial prisoners in Guantánamo, Mr Jawad is now finally a free man after being flown back to Kabul on Monday and reunited with his family and friends.
But after seven years in custody — six of them in Guantánamo — he faces a long struggle to pick up the pieces of his lost childhood and teenage years, and to build a future for himself in a country still at war with the Taleban. Read more.
What Every American Should Be Made To Learn About The IG Torture Report
What every American should be made to learn about the IG Torture Report
By Glenn Greenwald | Salon
I wrote earlier today about Eric Holder's decision to "review" whether criminal prosecutions are warranted in connection with the torture of Terrorism suspects -- that can be read here -- but I want to write separately about the release today of the 2004 CIA's Inspector General Report (.pdf), both because it's extraordinary in its own right and because it underscores how unjust it would be to prosecute only low-level interrogators rather than the high-level officials who implemented the torture regime. Initially, it should be emphasized that yet again, it is not the Congress or the establishment media which is uncovering these abuses and forcing disclosure of government misconduct. Rather, it is the ACLU (with which I consult) that, along with other human rights organizations, has had to fill the void left by those failed institutions, using their own funds to pursue litigation to compel disclosure. Without their efforts, we would know vastly less than we know now about the crimes our government committed.
Before saying anything about the implications of this Report, I want to post some excerpts of what CIA interrogators did. Every American should be forced to read and learn this in order to know what was done in their names. Read more.
Expert Fired Who Warned Levees Would Burst: Hurricane George, Four Years Later
Expert Fired Who Warned Levees Would Burst: Hurricane George, Four Years Later
by Greg Palast | www.GregPalast.com
There's another floater. Four years on, there's another victim face down in the waters of Hurricane Katrina, Dr. Ivor van Heerden.
I don't get to use the word "heroic" very often. Van Heerden is heroic. The Deputy Director of the Louisiana State University Hurricane Center, it was van Heerden who told me, on camera, something so horrible, so frightening, that, if it weren't for his international stature, it would have been hard to believe:
"By midnight on Monday the White House knew. Monday night I was at the state Emergency Operations Center and nobody was aware that the levees had breeched. Nobody."
On the night of August 29, 2005, van Heerden was shut in at the state emergency center in Baton Rouge, providing technical advice to the rescue effort. As Hurricane Katrina came ashore, van Heerden and the State Police there were high-fiving it: Katrina missed the city of New Orleans, turning east.
What they did not know was that the levees had cracked. For crucial hours, the White House knew, but withheld the information that the levees of New Orleans had broken and that the city was about to drown. Bush's boys did not notify the State of the flood to come which would have allowed police to launch an emergency hunt for the thousands that remained stranded.
"Fifteen hundred people drowned. That's the bottom line," said von Heerden. He shouldn't have told me that. The professor was already in trouble for saying, publicly, that the levees around New Orleans were no good, too short, by 18". They couldn't stand up to a storm like Katrina. He said it months before Katrina hit - in a call to the White House, and later in the press.
So, even before Katrina, even before our interview, the professor was in hot water. Van Heerden was told by University officials that his complaints jeopardized funding from the Bush Administration. They tried to gag him. He didn't care: he ripped off the gag and spoke out. Read more.
Growing Poverty and Despair in America
Growing Poverty and Despair in America
By Stephen Lendman
In 1962, Michael Harrington's "The Other America" exposed the nation's dark underside enough for John Kennedy to ask his Council of Economic Advisor chairman, Walter Heller, to look into the problem and for Lyndon Johnson to say (on January 8, 1964) that his administration "today, here and now, declares unconditional war on poverty in America."
In fact, it was little more than a skirmish that fell way short of addressing the real problem in the world's richest nation. Today it's even greater and increasing exponentially under a president who, unlike Johnson, declared war on the poor and disadvantaged to favor privilege over growing needs and essential social change.
In his book, Harrington wrote:
"In morality and in justice every citizen should be committed to abolishing the other America, for it is intolerable that the richest nation in human history should allow such needless suffering. But more than that, if we solve the problem of the other America we will have learned how to solve the problems of all of America." Sadly, we didn't then nor have we now.
Losing Wars We Already Won (Part I): Torture vs. WWII
Over the past century, our nation has triumphed over two sets of aspiring global tyrants: the axis powers in WWII, and the Soviet Union in the Cold War. Our victories over these foes were, in each case, world-historical in scale and importance. Yet within less than a century, we now flirt with losing the principles those successes established.
First, our recent record on torture, and more recent failure to prosecute all officials involved in enabling it, undermines the legacy of international human rights we established after the Second World War. Second, after vindicating freedom, liberty, and individual privacy in the Cold War, we now dutifully submit to a surveillance state more intrusive than any that has ever existed in human history.
Kucinich: U.S. Playing a New Rendition of an Old Song-Torture
Kucinich: U.S. Playing a New Rendition of an Old Song-Torture | Press Release
Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) today made the following statement in response to news reports that the Obama Administration plans to add increased oversight to the rendition program:
"Extraordinary Rendition is an illegal practice hailing from the misguided policies and practices of the previous administration," Kucinich said. "As such, I am deeply concerned by the Obama administration's decision to continue the practice of extraordinary rendition. As a democracy it is imperative that we end the use of the inhumane and immoral practice of extrajudicial detainee transfers to places where the potential use of torture as a part of detention and interrogation exists.
Homeless and Struggling In New Orleans
Homeless and Struggling In New Orleans
On the Fourth Anniversary of Katrina, New Orleans is Still Far From Recovery
by Jordan Flaherty | Dissident Voice
Crawling through a hole in a fence and walking through an open doorway, Shamus Rohn and Mike Miller lead the way into an abandoned Midcity hospital. They are outreach workers for the New Orleans organization UNITY for the Homeless, and they do this all day long; searching empty houses and buildings for homeless people, so they can offer services and support. "We joke about having turned criminal trespass into a fulltime job," says Rohn.
Up a darkened stairway and through the detritus of a building that looks like its been scavenged for anything of value to sell, Rohn and Miller enter a sundrenched room. Inside is Michael Palmer, a 57-year-old white former construction worker and merchant seaman who has made a home here. Palmer – his friends call him Mickey – is in some ways lucky. He found a room with a door that locks. He salvaged some furniture from other parts of the hospital, so he has a bed, a couch, and a rug. Best of all, he has a fourth-floor room with a balcony. "Of all the homeless," he says, "I probably have the best view."
Mickey has lived here for six months. He's been homeless since shortly after Katrina, and this is by far the best place he's stayed in that time. "I've lived on the street," he says. "I've slept in a cardboard box." He is a proud man, thin and muscled with a fresh shave, clean clothes and a trim mustache. He credits a nearby church, which lets him shave and shower. Read more.
Health Insurance Premiums Have Increased 119% Over The Last Decade
Health insurance premiums have increased 119% over the last decade
By Kate Thomas | SEIU Blog
Although many right-wingers will tell you that the current health care system works fine, the majority of Americans are happy with the plan they already have, and only a small number of uninsured people would benefit from reform....we know that's just not true.
With health spending projected to double if we don't enact real reform, middle and lower income families are at high risk of losing their health coverage--or facing an impending future of stagnant incomes.
Premiums are eating up middle-class incomes: Over the past decade, insurance premiums have been rising in cost at a much greater rate than income in the U.S...and not by a small amount. A recent report by the non-profit, non-partisan Commonwealth Fund found that premiums have been ballooned so much that employer-sponsored health coverage for families has increased by 119 percent between 1999 and 2008.
What's even scarier: The report determined that rates could jump by 94 percent in the coming decade if cost growth continues on its current course--to $23,842 per family. Read more.


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moreThe authors have written a rigorous yet elementary and self-contained book to present, in a unified framework, generalized convex functions, which are the many non-convex functions that share at least one of the valuable properties of convex functions and which are often more suitable for describing real-world problems. This book will be a useful tool not only for researchers, but also for graduates and advanced students working in economics, mathematical programming, the management sciences and operations research. It begins with a review of convex analysis and the fundamental theoretical findings on generalized convexity and on optimization, including their applications. The text continues with an introductory chapter devoted to generalized monotonicity and its relationship to generalized convexity, with the characterizations of important classes of fractional programming, and with theoretical properties and sequential methods.This book also includes numerous exercises and two appendices which list the findings consulted. less
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Black Rock Farmers' Market Opens June 20th: Honey Tastings, Michel Nischan & Food Demos!
The Black Rock Farmer's Market (BRFM) is back and better than ever! Now in its second season, the market will be held every Saturday from 9:00 am – 1:00 pm on the field next to St. Ann Church on 481 Brewster Street. The mission of BRFM is to serve as a community gathering place where local and organic farmers, producers and artisans can offer fresh agricultural and related locally sourced products to the Black Rock community and surrounding area. With a strong focus on sustainability, BRFM educates people on the importance of good health and creates business opportunities for local vendors.
This year will host a variety of local vendors including Sport Hill Farm of Easton, Aradia Farm of Southbury, K is for Cookies of Black Rock, Jane's Good Food of Westport and more. There are many new and exciting experiences for market attendees, including more local farms, food demos and educational programs. The last Saturday of every month, visitors can shop for unique and creative items in the Artisan Market.
New this year there will also be a lecture series beginning on June 27th featuring Michel Nischan, CEO, President and Co-Founder of Wholesome Wave in Bridgeport. Nischan was recently named Humanitarian of the Year by the James Beard Foundation.


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to free my mind
So, I am still a student, but spending waaaay too much time doing other things, at the moment planning my three month internship to South Africa, so Master will have to wait till I come back!
When I was not planning my trip to SA and even now I work on several youth projects for volunteers, national, European and global, topics we cover are human rights, solidarity through volunteering, anti bias education, humanitarian and development issues etc. It would be too much information to go into details, but I would be happy to explain in person what exactly I do, and how much things, wonderful experiences through volunteering are there waiting for people to explore.
I've travelled quite a big part of Europe, mostly when participating in international seminars and trainings. I am also a trainer on topics of prejudice, discrimination and communication.
I live in a small country called Slovenia, that is not the same as Slovakia, though many people think so:-) We are 2 million people in one beautiful green country (second most green country in Europe), we have everything, mountains, sea, plains on 20.000 square km. Its wonderful, the country I live in, nature-wise, but lets not talk about politics. I stopped paying attention to that some time ago. Life is too short to be frustrated.
I like meeting new people, share opinions, point of views, discuss issues and solve them. I think I'm a nice human being, the only people I don't like around me are people radiating vast negativity, and with strong prejudices (those two are anyway connected).
I love to spend time with free spirited people, living their life at ease, I always gain valuable insights into my life, when I talk to people from various different backgrounds. It fulfils me. I feel sorry for those who are too afraid to experience life, to travel to get to know and on the other hand I wish for my self to be even more free spirited and not worrying about things that don't matter so much at the end.
Free your mind! I live to free my mind, I am aware that I worry too much at times, I am upset about things that do not deserve my time. So I live to learn to balance my life, harmonize it. Its my life project, my objective.
I think I have had several comebacks with couch surfing community :D I started my profile in 2007, then it was almost empty for two years, and after arrving to Toledo, Spain on Erasmus, I have activated it again, meet several new friends, surfed a couch in Portugal, but after arriving back to my home town, profile was again abandoned a bit :) I revived it in the end of the year 2011 again, since I was attending several trainings around Europe and was again a perfect tool to meet new interesting people.
And now its July 2012.. Some would call me selfish, but the reason I am updating it is because I will travel through USA next month. I sincerely believe, things will be more reciprocal between CSers and me, when I get my own flat, and will be actually able to host again.
And now its end of July 2013, I am updating my profile again, travelling to South Africa next week and hoping to meet great people through CS again.
I had few couch surfing experiences, one when two girls from Salamanca were staying at our place in Toledo in 2009, they were really nice, and Im hoping to get to know more folks like that:-), then an Erasmus student from Turkey surfed our couch in Toledo, I have walked around Alicante with two nice couchsurfers, and surfed a couch in Porto, Portugal and this March in Lisbon, Portugal.
I have also surfed some couches through USA last year in August (in Charleston, Key West and Washington-all of them being very nice experiences).
trevelling, playing djembe and a bit of guitar, listening to the music, reading psychology/philosophy/astrology books, lately I got more interested in Eco turism, eco way of living. I love my own made coffee with rice milk and a good cup of tea.
I dont know when was the last time I have read a real book. All that I read lately are training manuals, workshop manuals, applications on tenders etc.
Music; everything more old than new, 80s mostly, reggae etc.
Movies, no favourite movie in particular, but from TV series: Big bang theory, Game of Thrones, True Blood, Scrubs, That 70s show,...
lived in Spain, it was a big decision for me at that time, and it was a great one.
to play basic guitar, how to play some rhythms on djembe, how to find the cheapest plane flight, how to live if you are allergic to wheat, how to apply a good project and get funded.
Learn: to play guitar better, to cook African, Indian food, how to surf, how to speak French (this is a pretty new one), how to live a more eco way of life and be fulfilled.
Share: my ideas, impressions, stories, laughs...
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When it comes to fall colors, Manteca and Ripon – or the South San Joaquin County area – is not Vermont or Maine, or even the Sierra foothills and surroundings by any stretch of the imagination.
STOCKTON - My buddy Kurt once lived along a picturesque tree-lined street in Stockton's University District.
OAKDALE - Murder rides the rails out of Oakdale.
All these thriller and mystery books have one thing in common: "Purgatory Ridge." "Boundary Waters." "Iron Lake." "The Devil's Bed." "Mercy Falls." "Blood Hollow."
For the past six years, mysterious murders have occurred at Minnie's Restaurant in Modesto as hundreds of people try to figure out "who-dunnit."
Manteca Kindred Arts' 27th season line-up features the Sacramento Baroque Soloists ensemble, the Felici Piano Trio, the Golden Bough which is back by popular demand with its "Christmas in a Celtic Land" after its sold-out appearance here last year, and Dr. Kent Cook who is professor of piano and head of the keyboard department at Wesleyan University in Bloomington, Illinois.
SONORA – The Bureau of Reclamation announces the autumn interpretive programs at New Melones Reservoir.
With recreation being a vital aspect of daily life, Turlock residents have a number of City parks to choose from. Whether it is for exercise, taking the family pet on a walk, or merely to socialize, parks continue to serve community members as an outlet for recreation and fun.
Maintaining 75 parks, the City of Modesto has a vast array of facilities available for community members to take advantage of while keeping up with a social and healthy lifestyle. With activities such as festivals, concerts, baseball games, picnics and social gatherings, Modesto parks are filled with all kinds of fun opportunities for the whole family to enjoy.
Manteca's 56 parks run the gamut from the 30-acre Big League Dreams sports complex with six replica Major league baseball fields plus an indoor soccer arena to the 3.7-mile greenbelt park known as the Tidewater that serves as the backbone of a citywide separated bike path system.
SAN TA CRUZ - If you don't happen to have time to tour the entire state of California, we found a place that almost seems like a microcosm of the state. You have your beaches, your surfers, your Redwood forests and, just an hour away, one of the state's largest and most cosmopolitan cities.
MONTEREY - Who can resist the charms of historic Monterey or the picturesque seasidecity of Santa Cruz? Nobody goes home disappointed, of course, but what many visitors may not take the time to do is visit the small towns and attractions between these two popular destinations.
Manuel Valverde Park becomes awash with people when the annual Relay for Life transforms the impeccable grounds into ground-zero for the fight against cancer.
What's not to love about Victory Park?
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Getting young children involved with summer activities in Manteca is fairly easy for two reasons.
As a shy, introverted little girl, scared of her own shadow, Jolynda Lyon grew up feeling as if it wasn't safe to express her thoughts and feelings for fear of being judged or rejected but then she committed her heart to God and things began to change.
Although this year marks the first time that Backstage Academy of Dance students have competed in the Rainbow National Dance Competition in Sacramento, audience members probably could not have guessed as the dancers stole the spotlight and secured a number of awards.
Dance is alive and kicking in the 209.
SONORA – The Bureau of Reclamation is offering summer interpretive programs and activities at New Melones Lake, located in Calaveras County.
Redwoods in California's coastal mountains get more of the glory including being the official state tree but they are babes and petite in terms of age and girth compared to their giant sequoia cousins in the Sierra.
ARNOLD - Three miles north of Arnold off Highway 4, the colossal trees of Calaveras Big Trees State Park stand in quiet testimony to prehistoric times.
People who think that being a stay-at-home mom is not considered a job obviously have never met Jennifer Gonzales.
One set of great grandparents stands tall in their family for giving their all to a pair of great grandsons.
Rachel Castillo and her husband were well on their way to an empty nest.
She's a mother but she also fills the role of the father.
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