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The Academy strives to breakdown the social barriers and provides opportunities for differently abled people to integrate into societal mainstream as self-reliant members. Hard work, commitment and single-minded devotion to the cause have contributed to the growth of SRMAB. Its multifaceted activities provide services in the field of health, education and socioeconomic rehabilitation to people from urban and rural areas. The academy believes in a participative, rights-based, barrier-free society, which enables the differently abled persons to live life to the fullest. People with disabilities are empowered so that they actively participate in community events and are able to contribute to the society. The academy provides education along with accommodation, vocational training and rehabilitation, livelihood support, and social empowerment to persons with disabilities. All services are provided free of cost to the beneficiaries.
In a developing country like India where persons with disabilities constitute about 5.21% of the total population of the country, the challenges faced are acute and innumerable. 40% of the country's population lives below poverty line, with only 2% of disabled children having access to education and approximately 80% of disabled population being unemployed. One out of every five persons below the poverty line is disabled. Wide spread ignorance, lack of awareness, nutrition, unhygienic conditions, pre-natal and post natal care, accidents, lack of proper health facilities and many more reasons cause disabilities, especially among the poor. The existing physical, social and attitudinal barriers increase the challenges faced by persons with disabilities. Considering all these factors, the Academy designs programs to address and redress the need of persons with disabilities within the community.
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Each month the St. Louis Federal Reserve issues a report on Monetary trends. August's (covering the month of July) is below containing the very latest data from the Fed. Frankly, it's frightening and historic what is happening to our economy – while money is being produced like there's no tomorrow (for the dollar that may be true), the rest of the story is not for the faint of heart.
Take a look at the charts contained in this report and I'll break out the exciting ones for you below:
Let's start by looking at the Adjusted Monetary Base as expressed in percent change from one year ago. Base money is the most narrow measure of money supply (mostly cash and reseves) and it has basically doubled from one year ago. But is that trend continuing and sustainable?:
Next, let's look at the Adjusted Monetary Base expressed in percent change at an annual rate. When we look at these changes two different ways, we see that the base is up from one year ago, but is currently falling at a rate nearly the equal of last fall's:
This next chart shows PRICE DEFLATION, not price inflation with the CPI in negative territory, but EXPECTATIONS are disconnected from reality, expecting inflation all along, and recent expectations rising further against reality:
A real economic recovery would be one where the debts are cleared. Take a look at what is happening to Federal Debt. Suicide by Government:
To compensate for all the money that must pay back debt, the government prints and prints. Look at the percent change from one year ago in the money supply figures:
Yet, when we look at them in percent change at an annual RATE, we see that only cash and equivalents (M1) is moving up, the broader aggregates are moving down!
And even though we're printing like crazy, overall inflation is NOT happening as the base money velocity is CRASHING at a 70% +/- rate! Look at the charts below, you will not see anything like it in the previous recessions, and THAT is a huge difference:
Nonfinancial Commercial Paper (loans) are plummeting, losing more than 20% from one year ago. Growth in Consumer Credit is negative for the first time since 1992:
Here are the charts of Velocity for M2 and MZN – a steady and sharp decline into historic low figures. Money does not turn over when it must be used to service DEBT. The harder the Fed pushes money into the system with DEBT, the lower velocity goes and that counters their efforts. Do it too much and it becomes a death spiral:
And the graph that should have all the greenshoot toker's attention is this chart showing the S&P 500 against its Price to Earning's ratio. This chart is current up through July 15th and shows how disconnected the market is from actual earnings. Earnings have been PLUMMETING while the market price has been soaring (but look at the rally in proportion to the collapse) creating a huge disconnect all the way to HISTORIC P/E ratios:
I think I'll leave the equity buying to Goldman's computers. Have fun with that!
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Gathering Moonlight
Sharing this much loved practice was inspired by a lovely walk at the lake a few nights ago with my dear friends, Di and Indie. We watched the sunset over the mountains and were then pleasantly surprised to see the beautiful Piscean Full Moon rise from the east. I shared with them that this was a special moon to me since I was born on the Pisces full moon in Virgo. We practiced Gathering Moonlight together and enjoyed the nurturing energy from it. It was one of those moments which will remain in my memory for many years.
Moonlight is a heavenly elixir which is essential in our ability to connect with the feminine aspects of who we are. In the past, when people lived closer to the earth and used less artificial light and technology, we were more in touch with the moon and its healing qualities. We were able to live in rhythm with our bodies and with the natural phases of the earth, moon and all of life.
The divine feminine mystery is reflected in the moon and its energy. Tuning in and using the energy of the moon can have a profound effect on our bodies, soul and spirit. One profound aspect of the female body in which the moon plays a role is with the menstrual cycle. The twenty-eight days in a full cycle of the moon coincides with the average menstrual cycle. It is most beneficial to bleed during the inward new moon and ovulate during the fertile, vibrant, full moon.
On a spiritual level, we often feel inspired to begin a new project during the new moon phase. We then allow the increased light to carry us through to the fruition as the moon becomes full. After the full moon wanes, we often feel the need to rest and allow time to retreat before beginning to nurture a new creative seed on the next new moon. Sometimes projects take longer than one cycle, yet beginning on the new moon is very auspicious and aligned. It gives the project tremendous support for its manifestation. Becoming aware of the moon's effect on our lives allows for us to become more in tune with nature, with our own creativity and with the flow of life itself.
Gathering moonlight not only draws in the feminine, nurturing elixir, it also assists our bodies in becoming more in tune with the moon cycle and with our own creativity and fertility; literally and figuratively. We can use this energy to connect deeply with the internal, mysterious aspects of ourselves, allowing the yin power to awaken within us and be expressed as us.
The Gathering Moonlight Practice is very beneficial during the full moon, yet practice this when you fell drawn to do so. You may want to begin the practice on the new moon and continue through the phases, which adds the benefit of journeying with the complete lunar cycle. During the new moon, the moon is up during the day so will not be seen easily, yet tune in and find her with your intuition. She often will draw your attention to her and will guide to where she is in the sky.
Each phase of the moon offers a different feel, and as we do this, we will discover the subtle and healing aspects of all of the moon phases. Staying in touch with the moon's journey and relationship with the sun is a glorious experience. Enjoy each phase and notice what it offers along your own journey.
To gather moonlight, stand on the earth, with your feet firmly planted, shoulder width apart, with your tailbone slightly tucked in. Take a few deep breaths, sending the exhale down into the earth, releasing and grounding into the planet.
Look up at the moon and connect with her. Bring your arms up above your head and face your palms to her. Begin to breath through your palms, gathering the moonlight there. Allow it to flow down your arms into your heart center. Continue drawing it into your palms, yet also feel the moonlight spreading out from your heart into your entire body.
Continue to gaze at the moon and gather her light for five to ten minutes. Let the light enter through your eyes as well, in an open, receptive manner. Feel the light spread through every cell in your body and expand out a few feet to fill your field. Notice how it feels to be filled with the moonlight elixir. Be open and receptive to hearing or perceiving any insight from the moon. Listen very quietly as you are soaking in her energy.
When you feel complete, send gratitude to the moon for her assistance in nurturing you, as she shines moonlight, the reflection of the sun, into your body and soul.
Practice this each day and take note of changes in your creativity and inner cycles. You may be pleasantly surprised to see its effects over time. It will align you and open you up to your own internal rhythms, which are very connected to the natural cycles in all life. And you will be in harmony with the silvery, subtle, peaceful radiance of the divine feminine.
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Is there an example somewhere of this library running an alarmed event?
I guess I had an older version of Time that didn't have TimeAlarms?
Yes, the TimeAlarms library was only added recently. Perhaps you can report how you get on with the alarms library in the thread linked above.
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Stefanie Dolson scored 23 points and Kaleena Mosqueda-Lewis added 22 to help fourth-ranked UConn rout No. 13 St. John's 74-43 on Monday night in the semifinals of the Big East tournament.
The Huskies will play No. 3 Notre Dame in the championship game Tuesday night. The Irish routed West Virginia 73-45 in the first semifinal. The teams have met five times in the title game and UConn has come out on top each time.
Connecticut (28-4) gained a measure of revenge on the Red Storm on Monday night. St. John's ended UConn's 99-game home winning streak when the two teams played on Feb. 18. That victory also propelled the Red Storm (22-9) into the Top 25 two days later and they've been climbing the rankings ever since. They reached their highest ever on Monday when the jumped up five spots to 13th.
The win was the 799th of coach Geno Auriemma's Hall of Fame career.
UConn jumped all over St. John's, scoring the game's first seven points. The Red Storm got within 13-8, but then the Huskies quickly erased any hopes of a second victory in Connecticut for St. John's by outscoring them 23-6 run over the next 10 minutes. Dolson and Bria Hartley combined for 13 points during the burst.
The Huskies led 38-18 at the half and Dolson extended the advantage to 24, scoring the first six points of the second half. She only had six points in the earlier meeting between the teams.
After Dolson's two free throws made it 42-18 and St. John's couldn't get any closer the rest of the way.
Nadirah McKenith scored 10 points to lead St. John's, which shot just 29 percent from the field.
Despite the loss, it was a breakthrough season for the Red Storm. They won 14 of their previous 16 games under Big East coach of the year Kim Barnes Arico.
The Red Storm finished second in the conference and that forced the Huskies to wear their road blue uniforms in Hartford for the first time since 2005 when they were also a three seed in the Big East tournament. Still the XL Center had a home feel for UConn, which dressed in their normal locker room and had most of the crowd of 8,731 cheering on every one of their baskets.
UConn is one victory away from continuing its 18-year run of winning either the Big East regular season or tournament title. The last time the Huskies were a three seed in 2005, they won the tournament crown.
To keep that streak alive, they will have to figure out a way to beat the Irish, who have a rare three-game winning streak against UConn. The Irish beat them in the national semifinals last season before sweeping them this year en route to their first outright Big East title.


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This rather bizarre-looking creation isn't a solar panel that's normally found on a roof—oh no, it's the latest work from Philippe Starck, and is made from OLEDs and stainless steel. It's a light. A very, very pricey light.
It'll set you back more than you pay annually for electricity, but as it uses OLEDs for the light source at least the bills won't soar! $5,900, if it floats anyone's boat. Just don't try fixing it to your roof. [Moss via AcquireMag via Born Rich]


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TOULON — Questions about several thousand dollars in purchases made with city funds during the final 22 months of a city employee's time on the job will be turned over to Illinois State Police for further investigation.
The Toulon City Council voted 6-0 on Monday night to endorse Mayor Larry Hollis' request for that outside probe. The council spent the past few weeks deciding between that request and trying to resolve questions internally with former longtime public works director Shane Milroy, 54, of Kewanee.
Milroy, who retired in October after 32 years with the city, has publicly acknowledged making some $7,000 in purchases city officials have recently questioned, partly in response to reporting by the weekly Stark County News in Toulon. But he has insisted all the purchases, made at a Menards store in Kewanee, were made for city purposes and approved by the council.
And as recently as April 8, Hollis had told the Journal Star he planned to meet with Milroy last week to discuss possible reimbursement for any questionable items. Milroy said he would consider any such proposals, but never heard anything further until contacted by the Journal Star on Tuesday.
"All (Hollis) said was that he was going to discuss it with the council," Milroy said.
Council member Donna Lefler, who previously suggested a special audit of city finances, said Monday night that "would be very costly." A state police investigation will cost the city nothing and should provide information about "what they find about what our next step should be," she said.
The decision was welcomed by people at the meeting. Toulon residents Ron Wallace and Fulvio Zerla urged the council to call for an outside investigation.
"They did the right thing. That's the best possible outcome," Zerla said later.
The small-town issue has played out in an unusual way partly because of the ground-breaking role the weekly paper played in reporting the matter. That organization never contacted or identified Milroy, and he later spoke only with the Journal Star and Kewanee Star Courier in denying he did anything improper.
"I just wanted to give my side," he said at that time.
Milroy offered new information this week on one of the larger purchases questioned earlier. That was a $1,199 tankless water heater that was reported as questionable but is still in the city water building, though he did not know about its location until after he retired, he said.
"It's been there all along," he said.
In a related matter, the council voted to formally terminate Milroy as the city's licensed water and sewer operator, a role he had been filling at no pay since retiring so that longtime city employee Mike Richardson could have time to acquire that license.
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Of course no one has claimed responsibility for the bombs of Nasr city which injured 5 citizens badly yet.
Well the Sinai based militant group whose operations shocked the Egyptians whether in Sinai or Cairo or Ismailia or Mansoura released a new video representing themselves to the public again as if it feels offended on how it was ignored by the government.
It is typical Jihadist video , the narrator speaks in Non Egyptian accent Classical Arabic and if I am not mistaken he is not an Egyptian. You got the same rhetoric of Jihadists that considers the army as infidel and agent.
A friend of mine also noticed that the verses of the Quran read in the introduction of the video was actually related to praying teachings in war time not actually Jihad related verses.
Some experts in Islamist and Jihadist groups say that this was one of the weakest videos ever produced by the notorious group.
The militant group started to target the army and police after what they called "El Sisi's coup"
The video allegedly also accused Morsi of not raising the Islamic banner slamming the Muslim Brotherhood and Al Nour party , I am not surprised actually because in the end Ansar Beit Al Maqids is a Jihadist group that considers anyone that gets engage in the democratic process an infidel.
The Pro-Military supporters and media claim that Ansar Beit Al Maqids is a MB subsidiary. There is no official proof about this except bunch of untrusted statements and leaks about prosecution's investigations in our mainstream tabloid media.
It is more complicated than that from I read , heard and know about that group from experts in Sinai affairs and Islamist movements. Even the possible relation between that Salafist Jihadist group with the Brotherhood is complicated as you can see in the video.
Personally I believe that it is not about the Muslim Brotherhood or Morsi's presidency or even about Rabaa massacres' victims just it is not about the struggle in the occupied territories in Palestine.
The Pro-Muslim Brotherhood supporters and media claim that Ansar Beit Al Maqid is a fake group created by the army and intelligence to justify the crackdown against the Islamists , it is not.
Ansar Beit Al Maqids group is a real Jahidist militant group and unfortunately Siyad Qutb's radical bloody though plays an important role in its doctrines. Unfortunately the radical doctrines and thoughts of Qutb are finding their way among the Islamist youth which no longer believe in democracy.
Of course the Muslim Brotherhood leaderships whether inside or outside Egypt "the free or detained" can end the argument of the MB and Ansar Beit Al Maqids by issuing an official statement condemning and attacking the actions of that militant terrorist group explicitly.
Speaking of Ansar Beit Al Maqids , I can not ignore how TV channel and News website Sada El Balad claimed that the Sinai based militant group declared on twitter that it was not responsible for the blast on Thursday. Luckily the website showed a screenshot for the alleged tweet and account and so as social media junkie , I went to check it. I did not expect to see twitter's blue verification sign and I did not expect either to see a private account !! Oh yes the alleged Ansar Beit Al Maqids' account on twitter is private except for few including the journalists in Sada El Balad news website and channel !!
Using bad Arabic language that does not suite an ultra-conservative Jihadist Salafist group , the account amazingly says that it is an official page for Ansar Al Maqids but it follows them !!!!!
By the way there are no rebels in Sinai , there are radical Jihadist groups. Yes there are human rights abuses in Sinai and yes we need news policies whether security policies or political policies to save Sinai before it is too late but there are no rebels in Sinai. Unfortunately the people of Sinai are stuck between a government that does not learn from its mistakes and heartless terrorist group as well smugglers and arms dealers.
What I see now that the army is achieving victories for extremely high price " its relation with the locals in Sinai" versus the terrorists whose operations reached to the valley boldly. I do not know anything but I would say we need a new intelligence plan that minimizes casualties as well human rights abuses and yes you can achieve it.
In real civilian democracies all the officials responsible for national security , terrorism , intelligence and defense are seriously questioned by the parliament's national security committee whether publicly or secretly in order to see the progress of the counter-terrorism operations and how effective its progress is.
Since August 2012 and the murder of our soldiers and even before that the locals in Sinai were warning from the Salafist Jihadists but no one was listening. We need to know what happened since August 2012 for real , I do not want lies and cheap propaganda. I know I speak in vain but it is better than being a silent devil if you know what I mean.
As long as there is no true accountability , we will never admit our mistakes or even try to mend them.


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"A bad sequel" is how American Legion National Commander James E. Koutz described President Obama's proposal to grant amnesty to people who are in the United States illegally.
"Whether it's called 'Pathway to Citizenship' or some other euphemism, it's still amnesty," Koutz said. "It didn't work when President Reagan signed the Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986 and it will be even more disastrous if we repeat that mistake again. The proposals coming from the group of senators known as the 'Gang of 8' are no better."
Reagan's attorney general, Ed Meese, has since repudiated the 1986 amnesty. "After a six-month slowdown that followed the passage of the legislation, illegal immigration returned to normal levels and continued unabated," Meese wrote in a 2006 New York Times op-ed. "Ultimately, some 2.7 million people were granted amnesty, and many who were not [granted amnesty] stayed anyway, forming the nucleus of today's unauthorized population."
The American Legion warned of the consequences back in 1986. "Amnesty can serve only to attract future illegal aliens who would also be provided the opportunity for permanent resident status," said the Legion's National Commander at the time, Dale Renaud. Renaud's prediction was dead-on considering that there are now an estimated 11 million illegal immigrants in the country – many of them anticipating that the government will soon change their status. Moreover, the Center for Immigration Studies estimates that the total net cost of the 1986 amnesty was more than $78 billion over the following ten years.
"As far as The American Legion is concerned, amnesty is a deal-breaker for us but there are some measures currently being proposed that we like such as tightening security at the borders, crackdowns on those who hire illegal workers and stricter visa procedures," Koutz said. "The American Legion is not opposed to immigration. We are a nation that was built by immigrants. But we also believe in adherence to the law. What kind of message does it send to those who worked hard to become legal immigrants if we offer the same status to those who disrespected the process? 'American citizen' is a special title that should not be bestowed upon people who broke the law to get it."
Thorough background screening should be essential before the U.S. government allows any foreign national to even enter U.S. territory, according to Koutz. "Public safety and national security is job one for our government to address," Koutz added. "Every one of the 9/11 hijackers was an illegal alien in the sense that they all lied to government officials about their true intentions for entering the country. Terrorism attacks by illegal aliens have also been stopped at Fort Dix and in Times Square. We cannot afford to allow these things to happen again."
Koutz said that The American Legion is eager to share its views with Congress and the White House to help draft a sensible immigration policy. The American Legion's positions on the issue can be found by visiting www.archive.legion.org and entering "illegal immigration" into the search engine.
"The consequences wrought by the Immigration Reform and Control Act bring to mind the words of George Santayana, 'Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it,'" Koutz said. "Let's not make the same mistakes again."


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Israel's venerated Rabbi Kaduri predicted Messiah to come after his passing
With the death of former Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon expected imminently, the chronicler of the life of Israel's venerated Rabbi Yitzhak Kaduri's prophecies is much in demand by the media.
Because Kaduri, subject of a new book and movie, both titled "The Rabbi Who Found Messiah," announced to his followers the long-awaited Messiah would not come until after the death of Sharon. He made the prediction two months before Sharon, still acting as prime minister, had a major stroke in 2006 that has left him in a coma ever since.
Sharon's family is at his bedside, and he may be pulled from life-support systems at any time. His medical condition has deteriorated following kidney surgery that backfired.
Dr. Zeev Rotstein, director of the Sheba Medical Center near Tel Aviv, said Sunday Sharon's condition is critical and life-threatening, according to an Associated Press report.
Sharon's condition has been on the decline since being hospitalized for renal failure.
Sharon, 85, served as Israel's prime minister from 2001 to 2006 when he became incapacitated. During his tenure, he initiated a disengagement plan, during which thousands of Jews were deported from Gaza and northern Samaria – turning the once-fertile region over to Hamas-control.
Sharon suffered a serious stroke on January 4, 2006, and has been comatose since.
In January 2013, Israeli specialists reported Sharon had showed "significant brain activity" in an MRI scan, responding to pictures of his family seven years after the stroke.
Sharon's death is of interest to mystics in Israel as well as prophecy buffs around the world because of the prediction byKaduri. Carl Gallups authored the book "The Rabbi Who Found Messiah" and inspired a movie on the subject of the same name in late 2013.
In 2007, Kaduri, the most famous rabbi in Israel's modern history, at 108 years old, left a cryptic death note revealing the name of the long-awaited Messiah. Within a year after the rabbi's death, the note was reported to have been verified as authentic by some of Kaduri's closest followers and then placed on Kaduri's own website.
The purported Kaduri message proclaimed that Messiah's name was Yehoshua, or Jesus.
It shocked the religious world.
Shortly thereafter the furor began. The note immediately disappeared from Kaduri's website. The media refused to report further on the matter.
The Kaduri family, and several others close to the Kaduri ministry, began to claim that the note was a forgery or a mere fabrication – a cruel joke.
Gallups, an American pastor and former police officer, used his detective skills to piece the mystery together in "The Rabbi Who Found Messiah: The Story of Yitzhak Kaduri and His Prophecies of the Endtime," a book and movie combination that has reignited the controversy surrounding his prediction about the Messiah and Sharon.
Chuck Missler, founder of Koinonia House ministry, says that in the book, Gallups "explodes one of the biggest bombshells of our lifetime. The implications of these astonishing declarations from the most venerated ultra-orthodox rabbi in Israel impacts every one of us – not just those of the traditional Jewish faith. This is a must-read for anyone who takes God seriously."
"The only prophetic utterance of Kaduri concerning Ariel Sharon was that Messiah, would not appear until Ariel Sharon had died," said Gallups. "Within a little over two months after speaking these prophetic words Sharon was in a coma and Kaduri himself died."
The Kaduri prophecy did not name a specific time or date in which Messiah would be revealed — only that it would not happen until after Sharon had died.
"Many who have examined Kaduri's prophecy have interpreted the urgent feel of it to mean that Messiah might appear very shortly after Sharon's death," said Gallups. "This sense of urgency was strengthened by the fact that for several years prior to his death, Kaduri made several pronouncements of Messiah's imminent return."
Both the book and the movie look at Kaduri's many prophecies objectively – neither affirming or denying their accuracy or authenticity. The book and the movie simply examine his remarkable story about the popular rabbi and his shocking messianic prophecy from a journalistic and biblical point of view.
Since Sharon's condition took a turn for the worse around the new year, Gallups has been in huge demand by the media – particularly the Christian media.
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On "The Weary Blues"
Steven C. Tracy
In The Big Sea Hughes reported that his "Weary Blues," which won him his first poetry prize, "included the first blues [he's] ever heard way back in Lawrence, Kansas, when [he] was a kid."
The blues verse in "The Weary Blues:"
I got de weary blues
And I can't be satisfied.
Got de weary blues
And can't be satisfied.
I ain't happy no mo'
And I wish that I had died.
is very close to the "Texas Worried Blues" recorded by songster Henry Thomas in 1928:
The worried blues
God, I'm feelin' bad.
I've got the worried blues
God, I'm feelin' bad.
I've got the worried blues
God, I'm feelin' bad.
In "The Weary Blues" Hughes dealt with the blues singer and his song in relation to the speaker of the poem. The poem gave its title to Hughes'' first volume, published in 1926.
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Donald Dickinson saw the first verse of "The Weary Blues" as "an alliterative innovation in the style of Lindsay's 'The Congo.'" However, the verse, with its references to crooning, its strategic repetition of the "lazy sway" line, and its description of a blues performer and his playing, seems to derive partly from the vaudeville blues tradition as well. For example, Richard M. Jones's "Jazzin' Baby Blues," recorded in 1922 by Alberta Hunter and by Ethel Waters, and in 1923 by King Oliver and by Eva Taylor, discussed the way "that old piano man he sure can jazz 'em some":
Jazzin' baby blues are drivin' me insane
There's nothin' to them but that lonesome blue refrain.
But when that cornet and that flute begin to play,
Just make me get right up and throw myself away.
Just play those jazzin' baby
Blues for me all night and day.
Bessie Smith's recording of Fletcher Henderson's "Jazzbo Brown from Memphis Town" celebrated the clarinet playing of a man with no professional training:
Jazzbo Brown from Memphis Town,
He's a clarinet hound!
He can't dance,
He can't sing,
But Lawdy, how he can play that thing!
He ain't seen no music, too.
He can't read a note.
But he's the playin'est fool
On that Memphis boat.
Hughes's poem, too, deals with the singer and his song, but Hughes presents the flip-side of the romantic vaudeville blues image of the wild and celebrated jazz player, good-timing his way through life. It is doubly significant that Hughes gave his volume the title of this poem and that it is the first poem (following "Proem") in the volume. It suggests that the entire volume begins with and is informed by the "weary blues," and the tradition with which one must come to grips.
The poem itself is a third-person description with some interpolated first-person, eight- and twelve-bar blues lyrics, giving it a sophisticated structure not unlike some vaudeville blues songs.
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Clearly in this poem the blues unite the speaker and the performer in some way. There is an immediate implied relationship between the two because of the ambiguous syntax. The "droning" and "rocking" can refer either to the "I" or to the "Negro," immediately suggesting that the music invites, even requires, the participation of the speaker. Further, the words suggest that the speaker's poem is a "drowsy syncopated tune" as well, connecting speaker and performer even further by having them working in the same tradition. The performer remains anonymous, unlike Bessie Smith's Jazzbo Brown, because he is not a famous, celebrated performer; he is one of the main practitioners living the unglamorous life that is far more common than the kinds of lives the most successful blues stars lived. His "drowsy syncopated tune," which at once implies both rest and activity (a tune with shifting accents), signals the tension between the romantic image and the reality, and very likely influences the speaker to explore the source of the tension between the singer's stoicism and his resignation to his fate as expressed in his blues lyrics. Significantly, the eight-bar blues stanza, the one with no repeat line, is his hopeful stanza. Its presence as an eight-bar stanza works by passing more quickly, reinforcing both his loneliness and the fleeting nature of the kind of hope expressed. This is especially true since the singer's next stanza, a twelve-bar blues, uses the repeat line to emphasize his weariness and lack of satisfaction, and his wish to die.
All the singer seems to have is his moaning blues, the revelation of "a black man's soul," and those blues are what helps keep him alive. Part of that ability to sustain is apparently the way the blues help him keep his identity. Even in singing the blues, he is singing about his life, about the way that he and other blacks have to deal with white society. As his black hands touch the white keys, the accepted Western sound of the piano and the form of Western music are changed. The piano itself comes to life as an extension of the singer, and moans, transformed by the black tradition to a mirror of black sorrow that also reflects the transforming power and beauty of the black tradition. Finally, it is that tradition that helps keep the singer alive and gives him his identity, since when he is done and goes to bed he sleeps like an inanimate or de-animated object, with the blues echoing beyond his playing, beyond the daily cycles, and through both conscious and unconscious states.
Another source of the melancholy aura of the poem is the lack of an actual connection between the performer and the speaker. They do not strike up a conversation, share a drink, or anything else. The speaker observes, helpless to do anything about the performer and his weariness save to write the poem and try to understand the performer's experiences and how they relate to his own. Ultimately he finds the man and his songs wistfully compelling; and he hears in his song the collective weary blues of blacks in America and tries to reconcile the sadness with the sweetness of the form and expression.
The poem is a fitting opening not only to this volume, but to all of Hughes's volumes. It combines traditional blues stanzas that emphasize the roots of African-American experience, touches of vaudeville blues as the roots were being "refined," pride in African-American creativity and forms of expression, and a sense of the weariness that ties together generations of African-Americans. With the words "Sweet Blues," Hughes strikes upon the central paradox with which the poem attempts to come to terms. It is one of his central themes.
From: Tracy, Steven C. Langston Hughes and the Blues. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1988. Copyright ©1988 by the Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois.
Michael G. Cooke
The paradoxes of self-veiling [an unassertive, undemanding adaptation to the environment. Its motive--to survive--is positive, but its vision limited] are sharply etched in the title piece of Langston Hughes's first volume of poems, The Weary Blues. The blues singer in the poem transcends "his rickety stool," which seems to represent his life condition and not just the appurtenances of the joint: "He played that sad raggy tune like a musical fool." We can reasonably infer that nothing in his life conveys the concentration and depth of his music. He collapses after he plays, and it almost seems that he must alternate between comatoseness and music. His life, then, deeply veils what his music expresses.
But how much certainty do we have concerning what his music expresses? The manner of playing ("like a musical fool") and thematter involved do not chime together. Where his play is vivid, sure, superior, what he sings is all depression and defeat:
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His stamina as a singer ("far into the night he crooned that tune") does little to offset the intensification of woe in the song, and woe finally seems to have undone him when he "stopped playing and went to bed," for "he slept like a rock or a man that's dead." He has played himself out, and it is impossible to tell whether his woe or his playing has contributed more to his undoing. The blues may give us more than the life, but it gives us meanings veiled in paradox.
But the poem contains a complex reversal. The blues singer's apparent self-exhaustion (for his state is a product of his will, his soul) is counterbalanced by the fact that he has played himself into the heart and mind of the speaker in "The Weary Blues." This effect is less obvious here than in Wordsworth's "The Solitary Reaper," a strangely analogous poem, but the speaker's attachment comes out in two ways. First, more than the coming of daylight is indicated in the line "The stars went out and so did the moon"; we may understand also that the speaker is possessed by the singer's woe, and his art, and so loses a sense of the world beyond. And second, the speaker is telling as much about himself as about the singer when he says:
The singer stopped playing and went to bed
While The Weary Blues echoed through his head.
He slept like a rock or a man that's dead.
Has the speaker followed the singer home in fascination, in obsession? And in whose head does the echo of the weary blues play? The singer's, yes, but not his alone. The speaker is also bearing "that music," as Wordsworth says, in his heart. Not even the speaker's empathy with the blues singer, though, can enable us to penetrate the latter's veil of sleep, a veil as opaque as rock and as deep as death.
It is an accident that offsets the singer's repetitious self-veilings. Clearly he goes through his routine, his ritual, every night, and as clearly a Langston Hughes does does not often happen by.
From Afro-American Literature in the Twentieth Century: The Achievement of Intimacy. Copyright © 1984 by Michael Cooke.
Herman Beavers
Hughes's aesthetic works out a trope that brings internality and externality into a state of opposition. One sees an example of how this unfolds in "The Weary Blues." The speaker in the poem documents the experience of listening to a piano player in Harlem play the blues. Steven Tracy's compelling argument asserts that the piano player and speaker are united by the performance.
I would like to argue to the contrary however. In my view, the poem works out Hughes's apprehension, his feeling that his ability to understand the emotions that generated this form of artistic expression was not on a par with the expression itself This is indicated by the last line of the poem, where the speaker notes that the piano player "slept like a rock or a man that's dead." The key word here is "or," for it denotes the imprecision of the speaker's understanding. What the blues articulates is the simultaneous presence of the "tragic and comic aspects of the human conditions." Thus, the blues in the poem is not the conventional "either/or" condition configured within the Cartesian construct. Rather, the piano player, by metaphorizing loneliness has already chosen self-recovery. The poem's last line, then, ignores the blues performer's ability to articulate pain and likewise to subsume it. That the speaker and the piano player never meet, or as Tracy asserts, "strike up a conversation, share a drink, or anything else," suggests that the experience does not rupture the speaker's externality. He never enters that space whereby the piano player is speaking for him, giving utterance to his loneliness. Finally, at no point in time does the speaker in the poem insert himself into the lyrics.
What this implies is that "The Weary Blues" can also be read as an anti-Jazz Age poem. That is, a case can be made in which we need not equate the speaker in the poem with Hughes at all. While Hughes obviously had a strong desire to "link the lowly blues to formal poetry," locking him into the poem ignores its efficacy as cultural commentary. Given the increasing number of whites traveling to Harlem to be entertained in clubs like The Cotton Club, the poem can be seen as an attempt on Hughes's part to warn the community that African American expression was being appropriated by mainstream culture.
The poem's structure enables this reading, if only because the speaker "quotes" the lyrics, but never allows his own voice to give way to them. Moreover, the speaker is "Down on Lenox Avenue. . . " which also, interestingly enough, marks the location of the Cotton Club and thus implies travel from downtown Manhattan. The I/he dichotomy Hughes establishes never collapses, which means that we can read the exteriority of the speaker as that which pertains to someone being entertained, who will leave Harlem after the performance is over. In this respect, the "or" in the last line calls our attention to the slippage that occurs when an understanding of the blues is lacking. That the speaker utters the possibility that the piano player has killed himself illustrates his failure to realize that the blues is performed reflection and not a preface to suicidal behavior.
From "Dead Rocks and Sleeping Men: Aurality in the Aesthetic of Langston Hughes," in The Langston Hughes Review.
R. Baxter Miller
The performance in the title poem [. . . .] completes the ritualistic conversion from Black American suffering into epic communion. On 1 May 1925, during a banquet at an "elegant" Fifth Avenue restaurant in New York City, the poem won a prize from Opportunity magazine, where it subsequently appeared. The thirty-five-line lyric presents a singer and pianist who plays on Harlem's Lenox Avenue one night. Having performed well in the club, he goes to bed, as the song still sounds in his mind: "I got de weary blues / And I can't be satisfied." In the "dull pallor of an old gas light," his ebony hands have played on the ivory keys. During the "lazy sway" from the piano stool, he has patted the floor with his feet, struck a few chords, and then sung some more. Finally, he sleeps "like a rock or a man that's dead," the artistic spirit exhausted.
His performance clearly implies several dramatic actions. While one sets the dynamic playing--the Black self-affirmation against what fades--a second presents a vital remaking of the Black self-image. A third shows the transcendence through racial stereotype into lyrical style. From the dramatic situation of the player, both musical as well as performed, the poem imposes isolation and loneliness yet the refusal to accept them. The song marks a metonym for the human imagination. In a deftness often overlooked, Hughes uses anaphora to narrate an imperial self so as to sustain the blues stanza as countermelody and ironic understatement: "Ain't got nobody in all this world, / Ain't got nobody but ma self." What most complements the lyric skill is the dramatic movement of feeling. In narrative distancing his speakers achieve a double identification.
From The Art and Language of Langston Hughes. Copyright © 1989 by The University Press of Kentucky.
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Jeremy Grantham, famous for growling gloomy forecasts, is surprisingly sanguine in the face of a stock market that keeps on testing new highs and hasn't seen a 10% correction since 2011.
The Grantham, Mayo, Van Otterloo & Co. hedge fund manager refers to himself as a "value-driven bear," most likely as part of his general personality, but he musters little but the case for bullishness in his new quarterly investment letter.
The widely followed GMO manager notes the apparent strangeness of the market's unrelenting rise despite a shocking 2.9% GDP contraction in the first quarter ("forecast by no one," he adds), a decline in corporate earnings and "very low" market volatility despite "Middle Eastern problems."
The rise comes, he says, despite the fact that the so-called "January effect" predicts a negative market this year, and another Wall Street omen — the dread of a presidential third year — is on the horizon, reinforcing his recent forecast that the S&P 500 must wend its way up to 2,250, minimally, before the bubble is fully blown.
A further contrarian indicator of bullishness is the voluminous surge in financial deals — "a veritable explosion, to levels never seen before," Grantham writes.
Corporations are engaged in mergers and acquisitions because the cost of debt is lower than in previous deal frenzies and profit margins remain "at very high levels and are widely expected to stay there."
Compelling as that may be, the hedge fund manager is even more impressed with the fact that the economic recovery, to him, appears quite young.
Grantham draws that conclusion based on the room he sees for a growing economy to draw discouraged workers back to jobs, foreseeing the possibility of a 2% increase in the labor participation rate; he similarly envisions space for a robust increase in capital spending, which he bases a pace of capital spending that has "never, ever" been so slow.
All this points to an economic recovery "that seems to have enough slack to keep going for a few years," Grantham writes.
The money manager forecasts the next year or two will see all previous deal records broken.
"This of course will help push the market up to to true bubble levels, where it will once again become very dangerous indeed," he writes.
But market bears be warned: "Perhaps the single best reason to suspect that a severe market decline is not imminent is the early-cycle look that the economy has," Grantham writes.
Based on Friday's S&P 500 close of 1,978, stocks can gain another 14% before passing Grantham's minimum threshold for a fully formed bubble.
In that forecast, released May 1, Grantham was expecting the market to reach that lofty level some time around the fourth quarter of 2016. He did not say in his current letter whether he expects the market peak to come any sooner based on the stock market's surge over the past quarter.
Fueling market speculation until the bubble gets fully blown is Federal Reserve Chairwoman Janet Yellen's easy money policy, which Grantham says, critically, follows the pattern of her predecessors Alan Greenspan and Ben Bernanke.
Grantham calls that policy an "affirmation of moral hazard," which he characterizes as "we will not move to stop bubbles, dear investors, but will help you out when things go badly wrong."
The money manager and environmental activist devotes most of his letter, as he frequently does, to sundry other topics including Malthusian economics, the Keystone natural gas pipeline and to the story of an early financial wipe-out that forever turned him away from speculation and formed him as a "patient, long-term value investor."
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Kenneth Fok Kai-kong, a newly-elected vice chairman of All-China Youth Federation, gestures during an interview with Xinhua on Aug. 31, 2020. (Xinhua/Wu Xiaochu)
Kenneth Fok Kai-kong, a newly-elected vice chairman of All-China Youth Federation, called for more efforts to help young people in Hong Kong to tap opportunities and find a broader arena in the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area.
As Hong Kong youth are beset by a bleak job market and exorbitant housing prices especially after suffering from prolonged violence last year and COVID-19 epidemic, Fok described the Greater Bay Area as an unmissable chance during an interview with Xinhua.
"The Greater Bay Area development is a major opportunity for Hong Kong, offering a very good opportunity for the new generation of Hong Kong to participate in the growth of the mainland," he said.
However, Fok said more should be done to make the opportunities materialize, citing obstacles including high costs of commuting between Hong Kong and mainland cities, and urged bold reforms to address the concerns of young people.
After such problems are solved, Hong Kong youth can truly "share the benefits of the Greater Bay Area development from seeking jobs, setting up their own businesses or joining cultural and sports exchanges," Fok said.
"We are young people of Hong Kong and, more importantly, of China," he said.
Fok, also serving in the Youth Development Commission of Hong Kong, was elected as the vice-chairman of the national youth federation last month. Along with him, 93 other Hong Kong representatives became the members of the federation, including 60 new faces. Those members come from a wide range of sectors in Hong Kong, including education, technology, health care and the internet.
The new members can play the role of a bridge, Fok said, vowing to heed the opinions of Hong Kong young people more and learn about their requests and needs.
Fok in particular mentioned the involvement of young people in violent incidents last year.
"Blaming them is easy but not constructive, only increasing confrontations," Fok said, suggesting an effective dialogue platform and giving more care and help to young people.
Also vice president of the Sports Federation and Olympic Committee of Hong Kong, Fok plans to organize more sport activities between the mainland and Hong Kong young people and said his wife Guo Jingjing, a famous retired diver and Olympic gold medalist, had already helped a lot.
As sports facilities are inadequate in Hong Kong, Fok said efforts should be made to help Hong Kong athletes use training spaces of other Greater Bay Area cities.
Hong Kong, highly internationalized, can work with other Greater Bay Area cities that have sound sports facilities to jointly host large international sports events, Fok said, citing cross-boundary matches, such as marathons and cycling races.


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The Emmet County Wellness Coalition Wednesday discussed plans for the Lifestyle Challenge which started Friday.
Regional Wellness Center director Bob Grems said 75 had paid to date. Initial weigh-in was scheduled for 6:30 a.m. to 6:30 p.m. Friday, Jan. 10. Jen Hough, Avera Holy Family Hospital community relations manager, said there would be a pre-diabetes screening questionnaire at the initial weigh-in.
Grems said there were 47-48 youth participating in Energizers Plus, nearly full capacity. He said basketball programs were also continuing with 70 in Tiny Tot basketball and 40 in youth. He said 60 youth were participating in swim league with the first home meet Jan. 18 and the next meet Feb. 22. Grems said practice was held two nights and three mornings each week.
Grems said the RWC was getting new play blocks for the imagination playground, a $6,000 project funded by donations from GKN, Iowa Lakes Electric Cooperative and members. Grems said the play blocks are a STEM-based activity to engage children's learning while playing.
Grems said the RWC is remodeling the lobby for the RWC's 10th anniversary celebration the week of Feb. 26. He said the center is also getting ping pong tables to offer adult table tennis two nights a week.
Coalition members reviewed upcoming newspaper articles in the Estherville News.
Sandy Fandel of Avera Holy Family Hospital said the hospital is trying to educate people regarding antibiotics. She also noted influenza cases in Emmet County.
Vickie Rooney of Fitnessquest in Armstrong said North Union and the fitness center were taking part in Lifestyle Challenge, starting late January and going to mid-April.
Britney Rosburg of Emmet County ISU Extension noted the Live Healthy Iowa program was underway and that ISU has blogs for Science of Parenting and Just in Time Parenting, in both English and Spanish. She said the Strengthening Families program for ELC sixth-graders will go from the end of February through March.
Estherville city administrator Penny Clayton noted men's basketball leagues were underway.
Estherville Area Chamber of Commerce executive director Lexie Hash noted the chamber banquet will be next Thursday. Anyone interested in attending can get information at estherville.org. Hash also said the Lunch and Learn series is continuing every other month with Jackie Mart conducting the next session noon to 1 p.m. Thursday, Jan. 23 at Sleep Inn & Suites. The $5 fee includes lunch.
Emmet County Conservation Board naturalist Jenna Pollock said she is conducting J-term "skinny" classes at North Union on geocaching. Snow shoeing and cross-country skiing had been scheduled; however, there has not been enough snow. Pollock said archery will be held at ELC this week and next week at North Union.
Pollock said there will be an archery fun shoot Jan. 18 with an archery club tournament at Spencer Jan. 19. She said work is moving forward on water trails and that she had applied for a grant and hoped for a DNR grant to update three access points.
Pollock said the winter survival program scheduled for last Saturday had been rescheduled to 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 22. The Signs of Love program will be held 7 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 15, the same night as the owl moon.
Sharon Hooge of Emmet County Public Health said the agency was still offering flu vaccine and that Public Health wants to increase adult vaccination rates.
Pam Caboth of Iowa Lakes Electric Cooperative talked about the Prime for Life Program and wellness screenings. She said a tobacco awarenesss program is set for June.
Brenda Evans of GKN said a weight-loss program will start at the end of the month.
Kathy Preston, Emmet County Public Health nurse administrator, said a grant had been received and a car seat event will be held in May.
The next Emmet County Wellness Coalition meeting will be 10 a.m. Wednesday, Feb. 5.


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Pfizer Inc. said Tuesday it will buy a company specializing in pain drugs in a $3.6 billion deal meant to shore up the portfolio of the world's largest drug company.
The deal to buy King Pharmaceutical Inc. is Pfizer's largest since it bought rival Wyeth for $68 billion in 2009. Pfizer already has a large stake in the pain drug market with its drugs Lyrica and Celebrex, which combined for more than $5 billion in sales in 2009. But now the company is betting that King's work on "abuse-resistant" pain drugs will pay off and help make up for the revenue it will lose when top sellers such as the cholesterol drug Lipitor no longer have patent protection in a few years.
King markets one such drug, called Embeda, and it's seeking approval for two others under the names Remoxy and Acurox. Remoxy is similar to Purdue Pharma LP's OxyContin, the top-selling painkiller in the U.S. Both are designed to treat pain by slowly releasing the narcotic oxycodone. But the time-release mechanism on OxyContin can be defeated if the drug is crushed or dissolved, allowing users to get a high similar to what they can get from heroin. Embeda is also designed to resist abuse, but it contains morphine.
Millions of people have reported abusing prescription painkillers including OxyContin in recent years, and regulators and health officials have pushed hard to get OxyContin alternatives on the market. Embeda and Remoxy are designed to be tougher to abuse, and so is Acurox, which is faster-acting. Embeda was approved in September 2009, but sales have been slow. The Food and Drug Administration has held up approval of Remoxy and Acurox, partly because it wants more proof they will really cut down on abuse.
King plans to file a new application for approval of Remoxy in the fourth quarter of 2010 and one for Acurox in the first quarter of 2011.
Pfizer is paying $14.25 per share for King. That's a premium of 40 percent to the stock's Monday closing price of $10.15. Along with the abuse-resistant pain drugs, the deal gives Pfizer other products, including EpiPen, a pre-filled injection designed to quickly treat serious allergic reactions; Thrombin-JMI, designed to control bleeding; the Flector pain patch; and the pain drug Avinza.
Through a partnership with the U.S. Department of Defense, King also makes pre-filled injections designed to block the effects of nerve agents. The company also has an animal health business that will be combined with the unit Pfizer already owns.
King has struggled in recent years as patents on several of its key drugs have expired or been thrown out. The company reported a 17 percent drop in sales in the second quarter of this year.
The boards of both companies approved the deal. Pfizer said the purchase will add about 2 cents per share to its net income in 2011 and 2012, and 3 to 4 cents per share in each of the next three years. It does not expect the deal to affect its 2010 results. The company currently expects to earn $2.10 to $2.20 per share on revenue of about $68 billion.
The companies did not say whether jobs would be eliminated after the deal closes. King says it has about 2,600 employees. Pfizer had 116,500 workers at the end of 2009, but is in the process of cutting about 20,000 jobs in the wake of the Wyeth deal.
In afternoon trading, King shares soared $3.99, or 39 percent, to $14.14 and earlier peaked at $14.17, a three-year high. Pfizer shares rose 10 cents to $17.48.
Acurox was developed by Acura Pharmaceuticals Inc., which licensed it to King. The company will get royalties on sales if the drug is approved, and Acura shares rose 28 cents, or 12 percent, to $2.55.


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IBM has joined the OpenOffice.org (OOo) development community and will be contributing source code from Lotus Notes and participating in ongoing efforts to improve the open source office suite. IBM will also be incorporating parts of OOo into Lotus Notes.
"IBM is very pleased to be joining the OpenOffice.org community. We are very optimistic that IBM's contribution of technology and engineering resources will provide tangible benefits to the community membership and to users of OpenOffice.org technology around the world," said Mike Rhodin, General Manager of IBM's Lotus division in a statement.
IBM has long been one of the most vocal supporters of the ODF standard, an XML-based document format that is used by both Lotus Notes and OpenOffice.org. IBM's efforts to improve OOo could help to expand use of the ODF format.
"We welcome IBM's contributions to further enhancing the OpenOffice.org product," said OOo marketing project lead John McCreesh in a statement. "But equally important is IBM's future commitment to package and distribute new works that leverage OpenOffice.org technology supporting the ISO ODF standard. ODF is a once in a generation opportunity for the IT industry to unify round a standard, and deliver lasting benefit to users of desktop technology."


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Monitoring and Administration using JMX
Apache Karaf provides a large set of MBeans that allow you to fully monitore and administrate Karaf using any JMX client
(like jconsole for instance).
You can find more or less the same actions that you can do using the shell commands on the JMX layer.
Apache Karaf provides the following MBeans:
org.apache.karaf:type=admin to administrate the child instances
org.apache.karaf:type=bundles to manipulate the OSGi bundles
org.apache.karaf:type=config to manipulate the Karaf configuration files (in the etc folder) and the ConfigAdmin layer
org.apache.karaf:type=dev to get information and manipulate the OSGi framework
org.apache.karaf:type=diagnostic to create information file (dump) about Karaf activity
org.apache.karaf:type=features to manipulate the Karaf features
org.apache.karaf:type=log to manipulate to logging layer
org.apache.karaf:type=packages to manipulate to PackageAdmin layer and get information about exported and imported packages
org.apache.karaf:type=services to get information about the OSGi services
org.apache.karaf:type=system to shutdown the Karaf container itself
org.apache.karaf:type=web to get information about the Web bundles (installed with the war feature)
org.apache.karaf:type=obr to manipulate the OBR layer (installed with the obr feature)


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East Coast Tribes Celebrate Native Culture as Pow Wow Season Winds Down
Vincent Schilling
As pow wow season begins to wind down, ICTMN is reporting on three events held by the Nottoway Indian Tribe of Virginia, Chickahominy Tribe and the Meherrin Tribal Nation.
According to Chief Lynette Allston of the Nottoway tribe, the important takeaway from her pow wow, which happens annually at the end of September in Surry County, Virginia, is 'just being together' to celebrate Native culture.
"It is a wonderful time for Native people to get together to have, camaraderie, fellowship and friendship," Allston said. "But it goes beyond just Native, it goes to everyone and that way people learn about each other."
Allston also said that a group of soldiers came to the pow wow from Fort Lee to create another opportunity for its community to learn about history.
"Having a pow wow really turns into an educational event, a cultural event, a ceremonial event and just good time to be together," she said.
At the Nottoway Indian Tribe of Virginia pow wow, the master of ceremonies was John Blackfeather Jeffries (Occaneechi Saponi), the head dancers were Debora Moore (Pamunkey) and Louis Campbell (Lumbee) and the drum groups were Yough-Ta-Nund and Na-Ma-Wo-Chi.
The 62nd Annual Chickahominy Pow Wow, which took place September 28th and 29th in Providence Forge, Virginia, focused on Eastern Woodlands Indian culture.
During the pow wow, visitors took in a wide range of native dances styles including the Chicken Dance, Hoop dancing, Grass dancing, as well as men's and women's traditional, Jingle Dress and Fancy Shawl.
Also in attendance at the Chickahominy pow wow was Chief Stephen Adkins, noted MC Keith Colston (Tuscarora/Lumbee) the VEVITA Honor Color Guard from Washington, D.C., and former Virginia Governor Tim Kaine.
At the Chickahominy pow wow, the head dancers were Chris Fortune, (Rappahannock) and Rebecca Balog, (Oglala Sioux/Mohawk) and the host drum group was Yough-Ta-Nund from Richmond, Virginia.
The Meherrin celebrated their 25th Annual Pow Wow last weekend in Ahoskie, North Carolina.
According to Chief Wayne Brown of the Meherrin tribe, his pow wow has a strong focus on Iroquoian tradition and so the dances were slightly different than what you might see in other tribes with a Powhatan influence.
"Most of the natives from this area were not Iroquoian," said Brown. "The only Iroquoian nations down here were the Nottoway, the Meherrin, and the Tuscarora, so our dances are a little different."
The Meherrin tribe, which is Iroquoian, danced the Smoke Dance and the Duck Dance both styles that are celebrated by the Iroquois Nation.


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In the midst of the NFL lockout, one rumor that won't go away is that the Eagles are looking to deal backup QB Kevin Kolb to a team that wants to make him a starter. Kolb, who is signed to a reasonable contract and who sits behind Michael Vick on the depth chart, says he's ready to start, and his performance in fill-in performances supports that belief. And Eagles head coach Andy Reid seems open to granting Kolb's trade wish if the price is right.
But is this wise for the Eagles? And is trading for Kolb a good move for a quarterback needy team? Let's do a research project to see the results other trades in which teams dealt for someone else's backup quarterback and made him a starter.
*If you can think of an example we forgot, leave a comment and we'll add it in below.
2010 – Chargers trade Charlie Whitehurst and 2010 second-round pick (60th overall) to Seahawks for 2010 second-round pick (40th overall) and 2011 third-round pick – Whitehurst, a former third-round pick, was never going to surpass Philip Rivers in San Diego, but he had also fallen behind vet Billy Volek on the depth chart. So when the Seahawks wanted Whitehurst to compete for their starting job, the Bolts made the deal. The Seahawks didn't give up as much as other teams had for QBs they knew would start for them, but it was a fairly hefty price for an unproven backup. In his first year in Seattle, Whitehurst couldn't beat out veteran Matt Hasselbeck, and he started just two games. While his numbers weren't great, he did lead the Hawks to a Week 17 victory over St. Louis to clinch a playoff spot. Hasselbeck is now a free agent, and the Seahawks want to keep him, which speaks to Whitehurst's current value. But the jury is still out on whether Seattle got what it paid for in this deal.
2009 – Patriots trade Matt Cassel and LB Mike Vrabel to Chiefs for second-round pick (34th overall) – Cassel, who had been a backup at USC and with the Patriots, got his chance to play in 2008 when Tom Brady suffered a season-ending injury in Week 1. Cassel acquited himself well, to the point that the Patriots put the franchise tag on him after the season. That was really a move to protect his value, and New England soon traded Cassel to Kansas City for an early second-round pick. That was a pretty nice return on investement for the Pats, who were obviously going to turn back to Brady as their starter. Cassel struggled a bit in his first year as a starter, but he really came on in 2010 to show he can be at least an above-average NFL starting QB. At this point, K.C. has to be thrilled to have Cassel, even after paying a hefty price.
2007 – Falcons trade Matt Schaub and 2007 10th overall pick to Texans for 2007 8th overall pick, 2007 second-round pick, and 2008 second-round pick – This is the one example that worked out far better for the team acquiring the backup quarterback. Schaub had started two games behind Michael Vick in Atlanta before the Falcons were able to get a pretty nice ransom for the former fourth-round pick. Schaub went on to the Texans, where he supplaned disappointing No. 1 overal pick David Carr. Schaub has developed into a prolific passer and has started every game when healthy over the past four seasons. The Falcons, meanwhile, didn't know that their first season without Schaub would also be their first season without Vick, whose legal troubles began that year. So under first-year head coach Bobby Petrino, Atlanta started a poo-poo platter of Joey Harrington, Chris Redman, and Byron Leftwich that season. Petrino bailed and went to Arkansas, and the Falcons ended up drafting Matt Ryan as their new franchise QB. Atlanta bounced back from this trade, but it was as disastrous at first for the Falcons as it was shrewd for the Texans.
2004 – Eagles trade A.J. Feeley to Dolphins for 2005 second-round pick – Andy Reid learned from Ron Wolf, the GM of the team he had been an assistant coach for, when it came to trading quarterbacks. So once Donovan McNabb was an established starter, Reid dealt third-stringer Feeley to the Dolphins for a pretty high price – a second-rounder. Feeley had been a fifth-round pick, but when McNabb and backup Koy Detmer were injured in 2002, Feeley went 4-1 as a starter, helping the Eagles land a playoff berth. He was stuck on the bench another year before the Dolphins anted up to get him. But Feeley started just eight games in Miami and played poorly, losing the starting job to Jay Fiedler as coach Dave Wannstedt got forced out. Within two years, Feeley was gone. The Eagles, meanwhile, got WR Reggie Brown out of the deal as a draft pick, and actually got Feeley back as a backup a few years later. Philly won in this deal, and Miami definitely lost.
2001 – Packers trade Matt Hasselbeck plus 2001 17th overall pick and seventh-round pick to Seahawks for 2001 10th overall pick and third-round pick – Hasselbeck was the third Packers backup under Brett Favre who was traded to become a starter elsewhere, and he was the most valuable. For one, GM Wolf had built up the value of his backups enough to show that they were worthwhile investments for trading partners. Plus, the Seahawks made the trade under GM/coach Mike Holmgren, who had been in Green Bay when Hasselbeck was drafted in 1998. Hasselbeck was a sixth-round pick who developed into a preseason star in Green Bay, but he was never going to get a chance to start with Favre in place. So he moved on to Seattle. It took a while for Hasselbeck to beat out Trent Dilfer for the starting job in Seattle, but Hasselbeck eventually developed into a three-time Pro Bowler who led the Seahawks to several playoff berths and one Super Bowl. The fact that Seattle lost just one draft pick (a third-rounder) while giving up a few spots in the first round was a solid investment. Both teams came out of this deal as winners.
2000 – Packers trade Aaron Brooks and TE Lamont Hall to Saints for 2001 third-round pick and LB K.D. Williams – Brooks was the Packers' third-string quarterback as a fourth-round pick out of Virginia, but after a year Ron Wolf was able to deal him to New Orleans for a third-rounder. The move was worthwhile for the Saints, as Brooks became a starter his first year and ended up starting 82 games for the team. Meanwhile, the Pack once again took advantage of Favre's durability and turned a backup quarterback into a better pick than the one it had spent on him. So this deal was another win-win.
1999 – Broncos trade Jeff Lewis to Panthers for 1999 third-round pick and 2000 fourth-round pick – The Panthers, looking for a franchise quarterback, dealt for Lewis, who was a former fourth-round draft pick who was backing up John Elway in Denver. But Lewis couldn't beat out veteran Steve Beuerlein in Carolina. Lewis was a backup for two years, in part because of a severe knee injury, getting only nominal playing time after the Panthers were eliminated from the playoff chase in 2000. And after George Seifert cut Beuerlein following the 2000 season to clear the way for Lewis, he fell flat on his face and was released at the end of training camp. The Panthers, led by rookie Chris Weinke, fell to 1-15 in 2001. The Broncos, meanwhile, dealt Lewis at the top of his value, because they already knew that Brian Griese had surpassed Lewis on the depth chart. After Elway's retirement in 1999, Griese surpassed Bubby Brister and became a four-year starter for Denver. Denver fared fine in this trade, but it was a disaster for the Panthers.
(The short-lived Lewis era was when I covered the Panthers. Two funny stories: First, Lewis referred to himself as No. 8, leading reporters to joke that he was the first athlete to talk about himself not in the third person but the fourth person. Secondly, when Lewis saw a group of out-of-shape reporters going to play basketball during training camp, he looked at them and said, "Don't blow a knee," pointing back to the basketball injury that had derailed his career. It was the only time we saw a sense of humor from Lewis.)
1995 – Packers trade Mark Brunell to Jaguars for 1995 third-round pick and 1995 fifth-round pick – Brunell, who had spent two years backing up Brett Favre in Green Bay, was Jacksonville's choice as their franchise quarterback for their first season, despite the fact that he had thrown just 27 NFL passes. It was a great move for the Jags, who got a three-time Pro Bowler for a very reasonable price. The Packers, meanwhile, had figured out that starter Favre was not just a Pro Bowl player but also an iron man who wouldn't miss any time. So Wolf turned Brunell, a former fifth-round pick, into third- and fifth-round picks. The deal ended up as a win-win for both sides.


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I wanted to let everyone know that I have been invited by the Team Waffle Cast group to participate in their Pre-MoP Resto Druid Round Table Friday, August 10 at 7:00 PST.
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We will be talking about the changes we've seen in the beta, how we feel those changes will impact us as healers, and brainstorming for improvements that we'd like to see before launch. There will also be a Q&A segment at the end so please use the link above to send in any questions you'd like answered!


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