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Last August, the correspondents association's board of directors unanimously recommended the denial of a legislative media credential application by Katy Grimes, a senior correspondent for The Flash Report.
Grimes' application listed her principal employer as The Flash Report, with Jon Fleischman as her editor/producer.
Association bylaws "prohibit the credentialing of any applicant employed by or receiving any compensation, directly or indirectly, from any lobbyist or lobbying association, any state office holder or candidate for state office."
Mr. Fleischman, or his consulting firm, had received about $35,000 from Jan. 1, 2010 through Dec. 31, 2015 in payments categorized as "campaign consultants" on state campaigns, according to state filings. There also was a $3,000 payment categorized as "campaign paraphernalia/misc" and a $600 payment described as "grassroots lobbying." (Click here to view those payments.) We let Ms. Grimes know of our concerns after receiving her application. Ultimately, the board felt those payments violated the above provision of CCAC bylaws, which are part of the Joint Rules of the Legislature.
To the board's knowledge, CCAC has never recommended a full-time credential for an applicant in similar circumstances. As of last month, there were more than 110 media professionals — representing about 30 different organizations — with full-time Capitol media credentials.
In 2010, the correspondents association recommended that the Legislature issue a credential to Ms. Grimes, who then worked for CalWatchDog. She held that credential until she went to work for the state Senate in 2014.
Under the bylaws, "Applicants recommended for denial shall be informed in writing their right to appeal to the Joint Rules Committee and Governor's Office, which shall have final authority of issuance of press credentials."
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I'm celebrating Henry with you, Mary. Thank you for sharing.
Wow. I am so glad I stumbled on this and your blog this morning.Thank you, and love to Henry!
What a lovely tribute to Henry! I am his Grandma Jeannie. He has enriched my life. He has informed my work as a school psychologist. Now that I am retired he informs my volunteer work in the schools. And of course, he makes me smile and brightens my days. I love you Henry!
YES!! Thank you, thank you, thank you!!!
I gladly celebrate your friend and teacher Henry. I also continued to be totally blown away by your beautiful insights and your being a teacher to me and so many others. Thank you Mary and give "Bud" a hug from me.
The above comment is from Helen C and the fact that it says from David only tells you how much more I need to learn!
Henry WOW. Mary as usual beautifully written.
The Henrys and the Buds and the Brookes of this world have taught me so much. Love and hugs to them all.
Hooray for Henry and the joy he has spread!!!
I have a Henry who goes to school with Henry! And how lucky he is to have met him! The way people can connect with no words at all is what Henry has taught me. One time on a school field trip, I chaperoned and it was getting time to leave and all were tired and talking and talking, but Henry wasn't much for words at that point. Waiting to get the group together, I found my son and Henry just quietly communicating by bumping their hips together over and over. Deliberately and with a togetherness and an "I get you" that did not require talking. That day sealed my love for Henry although I knew I loved him all along. And boy does my son love Henry too!
I never met Henry. But I know his father. And I know those words you wrote will always be remembered.
I've always felt this way about you and Bud. Apparently I was getting Henry, too. Thanks for this beautiful post.
Here's to Henry! And to the joy he brings! I celebrate with you.
I found this thru Diary of a Mom. Henry - I will celebrate you and pray you continue to celebrate life for a very long time.
Thank you for your beautiful words about one of my favorite people. Henry is without a doubt one of my favorite people I have ever had the pleasure to know. My thoughts and wishes are and will always be with him and I'll always have a key for him whenever he asks for it.
I will go and watch "Zootopia(latest Disney film) to celebrate Henry. So important what you said about labeling preferred activities as "passions," instead of "obsessions." When my youngest was diagnosed with ASD, his fascination with letter blocks and spelling, was called an "obsession." But it's that which has helped him to become such a good reader! We celebrate the positive:) Thank you for sharing your story about Henry.
Your writing has been such a gift to me, and I've shared it with others to try and help them understand my wonderful girl with the hair dryer brain in this world full of toaster brains. Thank you, Henry, for being you!!!
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Toyota shall give the right for F1 back to Suzuka !
First-aid-stations were closed punctual at 6 p.m. although many visitors were still remaining.
We are very angry about the terribly poor operation and strongly oppose the holding of the Japanese Grand Prix at Fuji.I will not purchase any Toyota vehicles as long as the Japanese Grand Prix of F1 will be held at Fuji in the future. In case my relatives or acquaintances are planning to purchase Toyota vehicles, I will strongly recommend them to buy vehicles of other car manufacturers.
Wir sind gegen die Austragung des F1 Grand Prix in Fuji International Speedway.
Toyota solle seine Austragungsrechte für F1 dem Suzuka zurückgeben !
•Unfallstationen wurden pünktlich um 6 Uhr geschlossen, obwohl noch viele Besucher sich am Austragungsort befanden.
Wir sind sehr aufgebracht über das mangelhafte Management und sind absolut gegen die Austragung des F1 Grand Prix in Fuji International Speedway.Hiermit bestätige ich, daß ich keine Toyota-Fahrzeuge kaufen werde, solange der F1 Grand Prix in Fuji International Speedway ausgetragen wird. Auch bestätige ich, daß ich meinen Verwandten und Freunden empfehlen werde, Fahrzeuge anderer Hersteller zu kaufen, falls sie den Kauf von Toyota-Fahrzeugen planen.
Il n'y a aucun relation entre ma profession et Formule 1, mais je suis int?ress? au Grand Prix depuis quand je suis all? au Suzuka il y a dix ans.
Laisser-moi vous expliquer ce qui s'est pass? sur les spectateurs ? Fuji (?a ne veut pas dire les journalistes, ni les invit?s des ?quipes non plus).
Parce que je ne sens pas que votre article dessous est bien juste.
possibilit? ? cause de la restriction qui leur interdit les autre acc?s comme en la voiture priv?e, ? pied.
remboursera de ses d?penses. Mais, je crois que plus de personnes avaient d? avoir la m?me problem.
Au minimum, beaucoup du monde a d? renoncer ? y venir dimanche parce qu'ils aient ?t? pris de la fi?vre sous la pluie samedi.
Je souhaite que TOYOTA, qui a Fuji Speedway, soit plus gentil pour les spectateurs l'ann?e prochaine.
Please let me know you what happened to the fans in Fuji (not journalist, guest of team, and so son), because I felt your writing below is not pretty fair.
Sorry, most of articles in this site are written in Japanese. But some English articles, many photo and video will tell you the real situation. We want all the people in the world to know.
We are very angry about terribly poor operation in F1 JAPAN GP organized by Fuji Speedway and TOYOTA, and trying to gather records "What a hell the audiences really met there?" on this site, as much as we can. FSW & TOYOTA are ineligible to organize F1 GP, and should give the right back to Suzuka now. The poor operation hurt TOYOTA's brand image not only in motorsports fans' mind but also in ordinary people's. Even though they spend a lot of money to hold this big event. TOYOTA should stop every motorsports activity, know their place, and just manufacture Corolla. That's the only way for TOYOTA and us to be happy.
The first-aid station for the audience at FSW was not available after 6:00 p.m. while some patients suffering from sudden illnesses were waiting for help.
The Japanese Grand Prix, held in Fuji "TOYOTA" SpeedWay, was woolly management outside the circuit.
Organizers determined to repay some galleries since their reserved seats did not provide the view they expected.
This is caused by the fact that their stand did not have enough slope to see the entire course below.
Total amount of repay will be 350 million yen (3 million US dollars).
More serious problem was a transport between parkings and the circuit.
Because of the kink of the road maintenance, many of the galleries were water-bound in the circuit around 2 to 5 hours after the qualification in 29th.
In addition to the road maintenance problem, organizers took particular note of traffics for VIPs and presses.
This preferential treatment led much further jams in the shuttle bus for publics.
At the final held in 30th, some galleries could not reach the circuit until the start due to the traffic jam of their shuttle bus.
After the completion of the final, the jams were again happened in the return road.
Despite 5 hours were passed from the finish, there were more than 100 people at the circuit in the cold environment without any kind of official support.
These bungles will lead organizers to difficult situation.
Please let me tell you what actually happened to the fans at Fuji (I mean ordinary fansm not journalist nor team-guests), as I felt your writing below is not pretty fair.
As you know TOYOTA is spending a lot of money for advertisement and Japanese media can say almost nothing against them. I really wish you, as a global media, will report this disaster we saw at Fuji speedway.
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Climate-Change-Stoked Bacterial Plague Kills 200,000 Endangered Antelope
January 22nd, 2018 - by admin
Merritt Kennedy / National Public Radio – 2018-01-22 01:08:59
https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2018/01/17/578610222/strange-weather-triggered-bacteria-that-killed-200-000-endangered-antelope
Strange Weather Triggered Bacteria That
Killed 200,000 Endangered Antelope
Merritt Kennedy / National Public Radio
CENTRAL KAZAKHSTAN (January 18, 2018) — Scientists knew that bacteria called Pasteurella multocida type B caused the mass death. Now, new research suggests that the bacteria was already present in the animals; it was triggered and became harmful because of a period of unusual weather.
Richard Kock, a professor of Wildlife Health and Emerging Diseases at The Royal Veterinary College, witnessed the "rapidly accelerating death."
"You went from one or two animals to within three or four days — thousands. And then they were all dead by the seventh day," Kock tells NPR. "The animals were showing normal behavior, normal signs, normal grazing and then suddenly they'd start looking a little bit unhappy and stop feeding. Within about three hours they were dead."
This happened across a landscape of several hundreds of kilometers. Kock says the animals showed clear signs of a form of blood poisoning called hemorrhagic septicemia, caused by the bacteria initially found in the tonsils. The bacteria "very rapidly goes within the bloodstream," causing hemorrhaging, he says.
"It's so toxic and so devastating that the animal doesn't show a lot of pathology actually, other than the hemorrhage and rapid death."
But the bacteria alone were not enough to explain the mass fatalities, which only 30,000 of the area's critically endangered saigas survived.
In a paper published today in Science Advances, the scientists say that they believe "virtually 100 percent of adults" already had the organism present in their bodies. An environmental factor must have triggered the bacteria to proliferate and kill these animals at the same time.
The culprit, Kock says, is a period of unusual heat and humidity in the ten days leading up to the mass death.
The team developed models that looked at other extinction events — one in 1981 and another in 1988 — where the animals are also believed to have died because of hemorrhagic septicemia. It compared environmental factors such as temperature, rainfall, wind and the state of the vegetation.
"You have unusually high levels of humidity each day over that 10 day period. And by doing that we could really tease it out and get a significant correlation," says Kock.
That makes sense, he says, "because the bacteria in the tonsils, they're quite close to the environment of the air and they then basically, presumably, respond to that change in atmosphere. And that triggers them to start growing."
The 30,000 surviving animals probably lived because they were out of the deadly "climate envelope," says Kock. Some "bachelor" male saiga antelope move further north where the humidity was lower, he adds, and some females stayed in smaller groups in remote areas.
And while they are now recovering and breed quickly, it's not clear whether they could survive another event like this. "If we get a similar event, and all the animals are within a sort of weather envelope, it could be total extinction. It could happen in a week," says Kock.
The saigas have historically been resilient. They've lived on these lowlands since ancient times, roaming alongside mammoths, Kock adds. They're fast and adaptable. They're "survivors," he said.
There's evidence that unusual weather patterns could be having similar impacts in other animal populations, such as reindeer and musk ox. "We may be looking at a much more global effect," he adds.
Saigas "are a legacy of ancient times, and it would be very sad to see them go," he said.
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Duck 'N Roll: These Ducks Stare Back at Danger and Laugh
FishDuck Staff April 3, 2012 Editorials
Ducks getting pumped up before their Fairmont victory.
Next to football, it's potentially the most dangerous and physically demanding sport in the Oregon athletic program. The keys to being successful in this sport are trust and concentration. When launched into the air twisting and flipping, with gravity finally deciding it won't hold this flying human airborne any longer, it is only trust in the teammates below that can ensure a soft landing. If the other fellow players fail to catch their teammate on the way back down, the results can be catastrophic. There is so much pressure to make sure everything goes according to plan, with fractions of a second to react correctly.
Oregon football fans yearn for a national championship someday, and lament coming within inches of achieving it two years ago. But in this relatively new sport to the NCAA where an inch can be just as vital as on the gridiron; the University of Oregon is not only the defending national champions, they have so dominated the sport since its inception that the Ducks have only ever lost one single head-to-head match in school history.
Oregon's Acrobatics & Tumbling team must like pressure. Not only do they practice these dangerous routines on a daily basis, but the team is undefeated at 8-0, with wins against Azusa Pacific, Quinnipiac (twice), Baylor (twice), Maryland and Fairmont State.
Acrobatics & Tumbling at the collegiate level is not at all how we learned to do it in grade school. Nowhere to be found are the big, colorful mats that got rolled out on the gym floor followed by everyone doing summer-saults for a few minutes or walking across a wood beam only a couple inches off the ground. Acrobatics & Tumbling is so much more grueling and physically challenging than anything that could be comprehended by whistle-blowing gym teachers.
When the Ducks go to a meet, this is the checklist of exhausting routines that they must complete in order to win:
Two to four teams compete at a meet. The typical duration is roughly two hours. A meet is made up of six events: compulsories, acrobatics, pyramids, tosses, tumbling, and team routine. A halftime intermission typically takes place between tosses and tumbling.
All event competition is in team rotation throughout each event. The rotation order is predetermined by the head official prior to the beginning of the meet, but the home team always performs last.
Scoring is based upon pre-determined difficulty start values. Each skill performed is valued by the officials of the NCATA prior to the meet. Teams submit their skill sequences 72 hours prior to the meet. Officials perform two primary functions at the meet: They monitor the skills being performed to ensure that each element is correctly performed to equate to the posted start difficulty value. Second, they evaluate the execution and technique of the skills performed.
Here is the more detailed breakdown of the requirements for each event: http://www.goducks.com/ViewArticle.dbml?DB_OEM_ID=500&ATCLID=205079894
The Ducks latest roadblock was Fairmont State (W. Virginia) and Baylor (for a second time) in two fairly close competitions. The Ducks were victorious 291.26-288.375 at Joe Retton Arena in Fairmont last Wednesday, followed by their eighth win on Saturday in Waco, TX against the Bears. With those victories, the Ducks are making a strong case for the number-one seed in the upcoming NCATA National Tournament to be held April 26-28 in Waco, TX to defend Oregon's national championship from 2011.
What makes this perfect season so remarkable is that Oregon is the only team in the league that has not lost a competition, and their remaining schedule looks to favor the Ducks finishing without a loss. The team emboldens the same philosophies as the football team in practicing as hard as they play, performing with a familiar drive and ambition to be the best team in the country, the personification of University of Oregon athletics in every sport.
Against Fairmont, the two teams were tied going into the tumbling events. If the Ducks wanted the victory, they would have to produce good scores in the tumbling event to take a comfortable lead into the final event, the team routine. So as usual, the pressure was on.
Instead of playing it safe, the Ducks bore down and won all of the tumbling routines, including securing perfect scores in the aerial and six-element tumbling passes.
How's that for handling stress?
This marks the second straight meet that the Ducks have recorded perfect scores in the aerial and six-element tumbling passes. With those two 10's, Oregon notched a program-high seven perfect scores, and have now scored five or more 10's in back-to-back competitions.
However, even with the tumbling sweep, in order to beat Fairmont the Ducks had to put together a solid finish on the team routine to bring home the victory. They did just that.
The close final was just one more added teaspoon of pressure, something they've seen all season. However, these Ducks eat pressure for breakfast, handling it like it was nothing against the formidable Fairmont State squad.
The aesthetic artistry of Acrobatics & Tumbling can be flashy and awe-inspiring when it is done flawlessly. The Ducks sprinkled in some flawless as they tallied a season-high 106.76 in comparison to Fairmont State's 105.60, winning the meet 291.26 to 288.376.
With that team routine, the Ducks smashed the NCATA record for team routine (106.56) and total meet score (290.56), set by Maryland on March 9th against Quinnipiac.
However, the Ducks were not done competing in a neck-and-neck competition. Baylor gave the Ducks a run for their money on Saturday.
Oregon's team found themselves in a similar position following the compulsory round against Baylor on par with what they had overcome against Fairmont. They were tied for the second time in three days going into a crucial round. Oregon faltered in the pyramid and tumbling round, but won the acrobatics and toss portion to set up the 38.55-38.55 tie, heading into the acrobatic event. The tie was short lived as the Ducks tallied a 9.40 or better in all heats to take a 67.1-64.29 lead into the pyramid event.
Like Chip Kelly's frenetic offense, the Ducks Acrobatics & Tumbling crew picked up the pace in the pyramid event recording a 10.0, their only perfect score of the afternoon. They recorded 9.9 and 9.95 in heats one, two and three in comparison to the Bears' (2-4) 9.9, 9.85 and 9.85. With a quarter of a point lead and the toss and tumbling events on deck, Oregon used the toss event to create a larger gap between the two teams, 125.6-121.94.
For the second time that week, the Ducks stared pressure in the face, and knew exactly how to overcome it.
These Ducks came out prepared in the tumbling portion of the meet as they won the duo pass, 9.2 to 8.6, trio pass 8.9 to 8.85 and the quad, 8.65 to 8.1. The Ducks once again secured superior tallies in the aerial, six-element and open tumbling passes to also take that round from the Bears, 56.23 to 54.41, heading into the final event, the team routine.
Due to the space that Oregon created in the other events, The Ducks were able to take the team routine round, 93.31 to 89.65 to tally a definitive almost 10-point difference victory, 275.135 to 265.91 over the Bears in the venue where the national tournament will take place later this month.
Victory over the Bears
Team routines and tosses can be dangerous, and can potentially result in severe injury. Even with helmets and pads emerging from the Autzen tunnel looking like gladiators preparing for battle, some football players get hurt and are never able to play again. The incredible thing about acrobatics and tumbling is that these women don't wear helmets, pads, or any protective material for that matter, yet fling their bodies wrecklessly with the same velocity as on the turf.
The only protective armor these Oregon athletes wear is trust. Trust that their teammates will catch them or be in the position that they are supposed to be, something they spend countless hours practicing with more than their own fair share of bumps and bruises. As an undefeated squad, the Ducks have perfected more than just the art of Acrobatics & Tumbling; they have perfected the biggest challenge in team sports, total commitment and trust.
When reading a recap of a competition, there is one element that sticks out like a sore thumb. Unlike any other sport, the one thing you won't see in an Acrobatics & Tumbling recap is mention of individual athletes. In other sports there may be a mention of one or more Duck athletes that came up big for their team, box scores and highlights recounting the specifics of their individual efforts. Not in acrobatics and tumbling. To be successful, the whole team must play their role to be effective.
In baseball (or softball) for example, if a hitter is having an 0-4 day at the plate, there are still eight other hitters that can make up for the lack of production. This sport literally takes all 44 athletes to play their specific part, whether it be an individual acrobatic performance or a member that is on the bottom of the team pyramid. If one member of the group has an off day, it will affect the rest of the lineup and the team's point total.
Now more than halfway through their season, the Ducks find themselves with a zero in the loss column. This means that they are perfect when it comes to their fundamentals and meet performances. It also means that they have perfect chemistry and every member accepts their specific role, molding them into an error-less freight train headed for the national tournament in Texas.
Writer Max DePree once said, "Earning trust is not easy, nor is it cheap, nor does it happen quickly. Earning trust is hard and demanding work. Trust comes only with genuine effort, never with a lick and a promise."
The result of the Ducks hard work off the mat, learning to trust each member of the team, has resulted in hard work on the mat. The recipe for trust and hard physically-demanding work has resulted in the Ducks being atop the national acrobatics and tumbling pyramid with a 7-0 record. With only three meets left, they appear to be picking up speed, along with wins.
These women compete in a sport that provide no protective material and can result in horrific injury. What makes them untouchable is that all 44 members of the team share something else in addition to trust. They share a 'can't lose' attitude, a mantra just as powerful as Oregon football's Win The Day motto. The 44 warriors that stare danger in the face respond with their own "bring it" attitude.
The undefeated Oregon women that make up Acrobatics & Tumbling can be described in four words: No losses. No Fear. | {
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Power outages and a UN report citing "medieval sieges" against Venezuela (Video)
by Alex Christoforou March 12, 2019 1.2k Views 5 Comments
The Duran's Alex Christoforou and Editor-in-Chief Alexander Mercouris discuss how the mainstream media has turned a blind eye to a UN Report on Venezuela, all the while relentlessly pushing out the false narrative of collapse at the hands of an evil dictator.
Meanwhile the siege warfare against Venezuela continues, with large scale power outages reported in the nation's capital, for which President Maduro claims were orchestrated by US/Deep State cyber hackers.
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Don't you think something is fishy when the presstitutes orchestrate a fake news "humanitarian crisis" in Venezuela, but totally ignore the real humanitarian crises in Yemen and Gaza?
Don't you think something is really very rotten when the expert, Alfred Maurice de Zayas, sent by the UN to Venezuela to evaluate the situation finds no interest by any Western media or any Western government in his report?
Don't you think it is a bit much for Washington to steal $21 billion of Venezuela's money, impose sanctions in an effort to destabilize the country and to drive the Venezuelan government to its knees, blame Venezuelan socialism (essentially nationalization of the oil company) for bringing "starvation to the people," and offer a measly $21 million in "humanitarian aid."
As the United States is completely devoid of any print or TV media, it falls upon internet media such as this website to perform the missing function of honest journalism.
As for the alleged starvation and humanitarian crisis in Venezuela, Zayas has this to say:
The December 2017 and March 2018 reports of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN (FAO) list food crises in 37 countries. "The Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela is not among them."
"In 2017, the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela requested medical aid from the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria, the plea was rejected, because Venezuela 'is still a high-income country … and as such is not eligible'."
The "crisis" in Venezuela "cannot be compared with the humanitarian crises in Gaza, Yemen, Libya, the Syrian Arab Republic, Iraq, Haiti, Mali, the Central African Republic, South Sudan, Somalia, or Myanmar, among others."
In order to discredit selected governments, failures in the field of human rights are maximized so as to make violent overthrow more palatable. Human rights are being "weaponized" against rivals.
In paragraph 37 of his report, de Zayas says: "Modern-day economic sanctions and blockades are comparable with medieval sieges of towns with the intention of forcing them to surrender. Twenty-first century sanctions attempt to bring not just a town, but sovereign countries to their knees. A difference, perhaps, is that twenty-first century sanctions are accompanied by the manipulation of public opinion through 'fake news', aggressive public relations and a pseudo-human rights rhetoric so as to give the impression that a human rights 'end' justifies the criminal means. There is not only a horizontal juridical world order governed by the Charter of the United Nations and principles of sovereign equality, but also a vertical world order reflecting the hierarchy of a geopolitical system that links dominant States with the rest of the world according to military and economic power. It is the latter, geopolitical system that generates geopolitical crimes, hitherto in total impunity."
He expresses concern about the level of polarization and disinformation that surrounds every narrative about Venezuela. "A disquieting media campaign seeks to force observers into a preconceived view that there is a 'humanitarian crisis' in the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela. An independent expert must be wary of hyperbole, bearing in mind that 'humanitarian crisis' is a term of art (terminus technicus) that can be misused as a pretext for military intervention."
In order to discredit selected governments, failures in the field of human rights are maximized so as to make violent overthrow more palatable. Human rights are being 'weaponized' against rivals.
A political solution is blocked because "certain countries [the US] do not want to see a peaceful solution to the Venezuelan conflict and prefer to prolong the suffering of the people of that country, with the expectation that the situation will reach the threshold of a humanitarian crisis and provoke a military intervention to impose a regime change."
Washington's attack on Venezuela is in violation of established international law. "The principles of non-intervention and non-interference in the internal affairs of sovereign States belong to customary international law and have been reaffirmed in General Assembly resolutions, notably 2625 (XXV) and 3314 (XXIX), and in the 1993 Vienna Declaration and Programme of Action. Article 32 of the Charter of Economic Rights and Duties of States, adopted by the General Assembly in 1974, stipulates that no State may use or encourage the use of economic, political or any other type of measures to coerce another State in order to obtain from it the subordination of the exercise of its sovereign rights." Chapter 4, article 19, of the Charter of the OAS stipulates that "No State or group of States has the right to intervene, directly or indirectly, for any reason whatever, in the internal or external affairs of any other State. The foregoing principle prohibits not only armed force but also any other form of interference or attempted threat against the personality of the State or against its political, economic, and cultural elements."
Zayas reports that an atmosphere of intimidation accompanied the mission, attempting to pressure him into a predetermined matrix. He received letters from American-financed NGOs asking him not to proceed on his own, dictating to him the report he should write. Prior to his arrival in Venezuela, a propaganda campaign was launched against him on Facebook and Twitter questioning his integrity and accusing him of bias. https://off-guardian.org/2019/02/09/what-the-press-hides-from-you-about-venezuela/
As Washington's sanctions and currency manipulations constitute geopolitical crimes, Zayas asks what reparations are due to the victims of sanctions. He recommends that the International Criminal Court investigate Washington's coercive measures that can cause death from malnutrition and lack of medicines and medical equipment.
"Despite being the first UN official to visit and report from Venezuela in 21 years, Mr de Zayas said his research into the causes of the country's economic crisis has so far largely been ignored by the UN and the media, and caused little debate within the Human Rights Council.
"He believes his report has been ignored because it goes against the popular narrative that Venezuela needs regime change." https://off-guardian.org/2019/02/09/what-the-press-hides-from-you-about-venezuela/
Venezuela has the largest oil reserves in the world and an abundance of other natural resources including gold, bauxite and coltan. But under the Maduro government they're not accessible to US and transnational corporations.
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You can add to the circumstantial evidence of US involvement all the talk recently in the MSM of Russia crippling the US with a cyber-attack, which was based on wargaming by the US think-thank/intelligence blob. What the heart is full of, the mouth overflows with.
Flying Gabriel
US barbarism always targets children first. Half a million infants in Iraq, fighter jets attack columns of fleeing refugees in Syria as we speak, and now children are dying in Venezuelan hospitals. The only remaining hope is their willingness to turn on each other and to kill their own children post birth – go USA!
VioletB
US has been involved in regime change operations for far too long. Venezuela should not be the next target. The US should get out of that "business" entirely. That said, I hesitate to take the word of one person who went to the country last fall and looked at the situation through the eyes of the United Nations goals and objectives. He has an impressive resume but that doesn't counter his biases in favor of world "equality" and an international order, where he regards the U.S. capitalist system and wealth to be a threat. I don't know the truth of… Read more »
Olivia Kroth
Power outages and other forms of sabotage of the US regime in Venezuela: nothing new under the sun. This already happened a lot under President Hugo Chavez. And the US regime will not stop until it is dead and buried.
RT reports:
"US withdrawing all remaining diplomatic personnel from Venezuela – State Department".
Well, if this is true, then it is the best news today, coming from that shithole, the US regime. But probably it is not true; they say they will withdraw, then they stay forever.
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"To Make Meaningful Long-Term Change We Have to Take a Systemic Approach To It"—Ruchika Tulshyan on Creating a More Inclusive Workplace
by Brendan Dowling on March 1, 2022
Ruchika Tulshyan combines her years of expertise as a DEI consultant for global companies along with her journalist's acumen to write Inclusion on Purpose: An Intersectional Approach to Creating a Culture of Belonging at Work, a ground-breaking and user-friendly guide to making workplaces more inclusive environments. Tulshyan articulates that inclusion must be a practiced habit rather than an acknowledged theory, and gives leaders the tools to transform their companies into more inclusive spaces. Tulshyan's meticulously researched management book also serves as a workbook for leaders, ending each chapter with prompts for writing and reflecting on how the issues covered in the chapter show up in the reader's life. Tulshyan might be familiar to readers for her appearance on Brené Brown's podcast as well as her frequent essays for The New York Times. Her previous book, The Diversity Advantage: Fixing Gender Inequality in the Workplace, focused on leadership strategies to advance women at work.
Can you begin by discussing how the pandemic has affected women of color in the workplace?
I think the pandemic revealed—especially to people who didn't have it on their radar—how challenging the workplace is for women, and especially women of color and people with other intersectional identities. Currently the data just from last year is that thirteen million women as a whole left the workforce, versus male employment returning to pre-pandemic levels by the end of 2021. That was really concerning data and showed just how precarious current working conditions are for women, people who are caregivers, and people who have mental health challenges. It's certainly women of color who are disproportionately in lower wage, very hazardous jobs with poorer protection. I think that the pandemic really revealed that and hopefully put it more on the radar of people who, in the past, just weren't aware of or didn't have any insight into what the situation is like.
Something I found valuable was how you called the reader's attention to how systems are structured. Can you talk about the systems that are in operation and what needs to be done to make them more inclusive?
What's interesting about this book is there's this tension between how much change comes down to an individual, right? I don't know if you've been following this viral thing that happened where a travel writer tweeted her salary, and she said, "For the person coming after me, this is what you should ask for." People applauded her and were very excited about it. When I was interviewed about this, my take was that it's amazing what she did, but expecting individuals to solve the systemic issue—where the job [listing] should ideally have had a salary posting on it—is only going to take us so far. One individual will go to another and say, "Here's what I was paid, here's how I was hired, and here's how the system works." That's tricky, because then we're not going to solve the systemic issues at large. So there's this tension between how much of it comes down to the individual and how much of it is the systemic change to make. What I always argue is that these are systemic issues and as individuals we need to take responsibility for creating better systems, so it's not just a one-to-one change on the individual level.
I think in terms of systems that have been exclusionary in the workplace, they range from hiring and the way that hiring systems are set up to the overreliance on meritocracy and the belief that the best person for the job—or the best person for the leadership role, or the person who deserves to be paid the highest—will just naturally select themselves out. I think there's an over-reliance on the system to be fair and bias free, when truly the research is quite clear that, unfortunately, that's not the case. Across the board we fall prey to our biases, whether it's the affinity bias of wanting to hire people who look like us, or whether it's the homogeneity of our networks, where we generally hire people who look like us or went to school with us. I think to make meaningful long-term change we have to take a systemic approach to it.
You write about hiring for a culture add instead of culture fit. Can you talk about how that shift in thinking benefits the workplace?
Again words matter and vocabulary matters. I think what often happens is we think of culture fit as being a very benign and even benevolent way of thinking about the workplace: "We all come from the same culture, we all connect with each other." It's an approach that isn't rooted in reality, when there's a system where a culture is exclusionary and we continue trying to fit for it. What that inadvertently means is essentially back to that idea of hiring for sameness. Often what that means is hiring people of the same race, gender, and background of what's already represented. We've seen this in industries and corporations and organizations across this country where there's a very specific fit. Sometimes people don't even articulate that. In the United States, back to this [idea of] meritocracy, we want to believe that of course we'll hire the best person for the job, but when you actually look at the data of the last five people who were hired, you find there is a pattern. We are hardwired to pattern match. A culture fit really perpetuates that.
What a culture add does is give vocabulary to say, "We realize the last five people we've hired have been the same ,or they've had very similar traits, and now we need to think about what's missing today and what's going to add to our culture so that we can truly diversify it." It's what feels like a very little tweak in language, but it can actually make a monumental difference when it comes to diversifying and making your culture more inclusive.
It feels like as the book progresses, you're continually widening the scope on what change could look like. Can you talk about how you structured the book?
The structure of the book really came from my own experience in advising companies around creating inclusive cultures and with my own research that I've done over the years. What I've found time and again is that sometimes the biggest barriers and challenges that needed to be overcome were the internal defensiveness and the internal biases that the leaders were grappling with. Conversely, where I would see huge change, or where I would see those interventions that were being put in place on a systemic level making change, was when individual leaders had taken responsibility and accountability for creating change. So I structured the book learning from my experiences in the over ten years that I've been advising leaders on creating inclusive cultures. The first step is really to understand, identify, and give language to how bias shows up, how it sounds, and how we want to make change to be more inclusive, and what that actually looks like on an individual level.
The second part of the book is more around organizational interventions. There are certainly examples of how you can do that as an individual contributor or if you're a manager with a smaller team versus the very large interventions where I've interviewed corporate companies that gave me really large examples of making change. Then the final part of the book was really structured on a more aspirational and asking on a more macro level, "What does it mean to create a technology industry that's more inclusive and centers women of color?" It's much more aspirational. It's much more thinking about what does change at large mean?
The book is much more interactive than perhaps other management books, in terms of the workshop elements you include at the end of each chapter, asking readers to reflect or write about their own experiences. Can you talk about why it was important for you to have that element of the book and how you envision a book being best used by a reader?
My hope was that this would be seen and viewed as a management leadership book not unlike when we're reading about creating better habits in the workplace or better management and whatnot. My hope is that it will not be relegated to the diversity and inclusion category: "We should share it with our women's employee resource group" or "Only the diversity and inclusion office in our organization should be reading this." I really hope that managers, leaders, and individual contributors at all levels will think about it, because there are examples of how we have influence in every area of our life to make change. For me, I hope people will make notes, scribble in the margins, and write where the key reflections have given them space to write and really think about this in a much more living breathing way. I think these ways to carry it forward beyond what you're reading in the moment, there's a real opportunity to do that only if you've spent time reflecting on what you've been reading, so that was my hope in having those key reflections there.
You write about how inclusion is often thought of as the sole responsibility of Human Resources. Why is that a dangerous assumption and how can others in the workplace take on the responsibility of having an inclusive mindset?
It's tricky, because I think what has happened–and I think the reason why in a lot of organizations there's so much room for improvement around inclusion, diversity and equity–is that it has been seen as the sole mandate of HR to put policies in place and that's it. [There's the thought,] "Beyond that, it's not my responsibility, because my day to day job is in accounting or finance," or whatever it is.
The change that needs to be made, and hopefully that this book can inspire, is actually we all need to take responsibility. We all have an opportunity to do that, whether it's thinking about how we're interviewing candidates—and it could be for a role completely unrelated to diversity and inclusion—it could be asking, "How do we ensure that we have a diverse candidate pool?" Where I've found change—again, I'm thinking of all the different leaders and managers I've worked with—is when a manager will go back to HR and say, "Actually, I'm not going to interview this candidate pool because it lacks diversity, and I'm looking for a culture add in my organization or team. I'm not looking for a culture fit."
These interventions can only happen when individual leaders take responsibility and ask for change. I think that's where that partnership between HR and other functions of the organization can again be really powerful. There have been a lot of social psychology experiments around this, but when we think that other people are going to take responsibility for it, that often absolves us from taking responsibility for it. Hopefully the book—and really the foundation of the body of work that's built on taking a much more active approach to creating an inclusive anti-racist culture—shows us that no, we all need to take responsibility for it and there are opportunities to do that well beyond HR.
You talk about how literature specifically related to undoing anti-Black racism is crucial to read in tandem with this book and you include some resources at the end. Can you talk about why it was crucial to have this list of other resources for readers to make use of?
My experience that really shapes my perspective is living in different countries around the world. I've also been really fortunate to travel quite extensively from a young age. What I've found again and again is that anti-Black racism is a huge issue that we see around the world. Linked with that is this nuance of colorism, where people with darker skin are largely disadvantaged and lighter skin is preferred. When I think about the biggest opportunity for meaningful change from an intersectional lens, it really is ensuring that Black women are put in the forefront of any sort of major effort to be inclusive. I really wanted to make sure that everyone who reads this book, no matter where in the world you are, [understands] that the legacy of the experience of Black people in America really has a huge part to play in the way the whole world has unfortunately been structured around anti-Black racism. I think that's something very hard to say and sometimes it's hard to name. Without confronting that, I don't think we can make meaningful change. That's not my area of expertise, so that's why it's important to do this work in collaboration and solidarity with historians and scholars whose expertise is grounded in both the legacy and the history of anti-Black racism as well as how it shows up in our contemporary world.
And finally, what role can libraries play in helping patrons make their world a more inclusive place?
How much time do you have? (laughs) I can't speak for every author, but I can definitely speak from my own experience. Growing up in Singapore, I found myself largely underrepresented. Being a minority ethnicity and race in every country I've lived in, including my own home country, has formed my experience. I remember growing up how much the role the public library in Singapore played. Actually being able to seek out the perspectives of other communities who had experienced marginalization, racism, or being underestimated created this very unique, expansive solidarity in me from a very young age. I'm thinking of books by Black American women authors—Terry McMillan, Maya Angelou—books that really made me realize, "I'm not alone and there are connections around the world that exist." The reason I had access to that is because of public libraries.
I've had conversations with schools and how the curriculum often needs to be diversified. I talk about my own experience growing up in Singapore and largely reading literature that was recommended and required at the time, largely being from Western authors, largely talking about a white American or a white British experience, which was completely foreign to me. I definitely did not find myself reflected in that. Where I think the public library has a really important part to play is in ensuring that the resources are from a diverse background of authors and reflect the diversity of experiences. For me, that was one of the very early times in my life when I remember being able to have access to picture books with characters of color, with skin color more like mine, and realizing there's actually a really big world out there where I can find my experience reflected. The public library was a very big part of that. Now being able to come full circle, I have a five year old, and again being able to make very intentional choices: "Hey let's look for a book where you'll find yourself reflected, where the characters could have a name that's unusual, or they could have a skin color like yours, or they could have hair like yours."
We know that when you do not see yourself reflected in media and books and literature how much it impacts your sense of self, especially when you're younger. The public library has a huge part to play in creating a more inclusive world and creating a more inclusive workplace. If you've interacted with diverse points of view from a young age, research shows you will carry that forward into all the other areas of life as you grow older.
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I owe my sanity as a mother to a book I stumbled across at the library. Last spring, I had a few minutes to spare so I decided to take my toddler to the library. It's sad to say, but because I spend so much of my time working at the library, I don't bring my kids back as often as I should. I decided to just let her explore. She loved it!
After a little while of wandering I decided to find a book about potty training because it is something we had been trying to work on for months and months but with no success. Honestly, I was at the point that I knew I did not have the patience or time to dedicate to getting her potty trained. It was easier to just leave her in a diaper. She had no desire whatsoever to go to the bathroom on the potty.
We read through several books and she was mildly interested and then I picked up IT HURTS WHEN I POOP! by Howard J. Bennett. Little did I know that this book would be life changing for us. She was totally engrossed by it. Apparently she related to the little boy who didn't want to go potty because it hurt when he pooped. He would hold everything inside until he got a stomach ache. This book helped her make sense of the feelings she had and to put words to something she couldn't express. She studied the pictures and asked me to read it to her over and over. She especially loved the simple drawing of how food goes into our mouth and then through our stomach and intestines and finally ends up in the potty.
I'm telling you, she was mesmerized! In the next couple days she totally potty trained herself. I didn't have to encourage her to get on the potty and she would say she was just like the little boy in the book. I kept waiting for her to go back to needing diapers, but she never had an accident from that point on. I realize that all of the problems in life can't be solved by a picture book and that not all potty training will go this smoothly, but for my daughter and me, this book did the trick. It was such a neat process to watch her connect to a book.
There is a special spot in the Children's Picture Book section with all of the picture books that talk about toilet training. Just ask a librarian and we can show you where it is. The library has other great books about potty training that we can recommend if you are in that stage of life. If you are ready to start potty training, don't get discouraged, you can do it!
This book has been around for a long time and is considered a classic picture book on potty training. It goes through the basics of potty training but some people don't like that it doesn't use real names for things. There is a version for boys and a version for girls and also a DVD with the same title.
This is a fun, humorous picture book about potty training.
Mo Willems is the beloved author of the Knuffle Bunny, Pigeon, and Piggie &Gerald books. In this cute picture book, sign-carrying mice give encouragement and instructions for how to use the toilet.
This short book has easy to follow steps to help your child learn to use the potty. It also follows the 1-3 day training process.
This classic has been around for a long time. I glanced through it several times, but never had time to dedicate to sitting down and reading the whole thing. I have offered this book to may patrons over the years. This process works, but sometimes takes a little bit longer than a day.
This book is a game-changer for my life. The author talks specifically about setting goals and why most of us never finish them. One of the things that really resonated with me was when the he said that the most important day of any goal is "the day after perfect". It's what we choose to do the day after we don't get our exercise in, or eat the doughnut, or lose the receipt we needed for our budget. Will we do what the majority of people do and quit because we weren't perfect or will we find a way to readjust and keep going. I listened to this on Libby and highly recommend it. The author narrates this book in a personable and engaging way. He also added some "bonus" material not found in the printed book.
We tend to think that we will be happy once we find success in life. Shawn Achor is a positive psychology researcher at Harvard and he believes it is the other way around. Happiness actually fuels success. When we are positive our brains are better able to cope with life and can become more productive. Don't worry if you are not a naturally positive person. He shows, through research and example, ways that we can begin to train our brains to look for the positive first. It can be as simple as writing down three good things that happened to you every day for 21 days. This book is targeted for business readers, but his seven principles can apply to everyone seeking more happiness in life. His suggestions are simple but profound.
Rachel Hollis has built a social media business on the premise of uplifting and inspiring women. In this book she talks about the lies that we tell ourselves and let ourselves believe. Things like: I'm not good enough, I'll start tomorrow, I'm not a good mom, or I will never get past this. These and other lies are all things that Rachel believed in her own life. She examines each one and talks about the things she did to overcome the lie. Each chapter addresses a different lie and at the end of the chapter she summarizes three specific things that helped her. The main point of her book is that each of us is ultimately responsible for who we become and how happy we are. It is empowering to have Rachel say, and to finally start to realize, that I have control of my life. We don't need to wait for the right house, the right job, or the right amount of money to be happy. We need to take control of what happens next and we are capable of becoming so much more than we are right now.
I probably shouldn't have enjoyed reading this book as much as I did. The author admits that she is not naturally organized or clean. For me, this was a breath of fresh air. Most house cleaning/organizing books are written by people who have a natural talent for being clean. They can't understand why some of us hold on to things for so long, or live with clutter. The author has written this book for the housekeeping-impaired. I connected to her observations and suggestions and she has a really humorous and engaging way of writing. One of my favorite suggestions was to change my house to fit my behaviors instead of trying to change the behaviors I have had for years. Sometimes we don't realize our problem areas could be changed with a couple simple adjustments to the house to accommodate our natural tendancies.
I have really big trees in my backyard, which is great in the summer time because they create shade and make it enjoyable to be outside. Unfortunately, I hate these trees during the fall because of the millions of leaves that drop all over our yard. And even when I get them cleaned up, the wind tries to blow them around again. This past week as I was raking up the leaves I got to thinking about rakes and how many fun romance titles I buy that have the word "rake" in them. Whenever I hear these titles, I picture the actual rake that I use to clean up leaves and it makes me laugh. After looking over these titles, I bet you'll never look at a rake the same way again.
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Strings Of Light (2019)
Glowing strings on a rainy day
Anthony Phillips - Strings Of Light
Seven long years have passed since Anthony Phillips released his last album of new music, City Of Dreams (Private Parts & Pieces XI). Since then Esoteric have re-released a bunch of older previously unreleased recordings (three Private Parts & Extra Pieces CDs, three bonus CDs for Slow Dance, Invisible Men and Seventh Heaven, ten bonus tracks on Harvest Of The Heart, Only Your Love) as well as some new material (two singles with Lettie Maclean, three tracks on Harmony For Elephants, Gemini and Il Crepusculo). A new full album, on the other hand, has always been described as desirable, but it was always stressed what an effort it was these days.
The announcement of a new album in August 2019 was therefore quite a surprise. Strings Of Light would contain guitar music only. Unlike Field Day, this project had been kept secret until the announcement. In his interviews with us (and other interviews accessible from his website) Ant has provided deep insights into how the album came about and into the way he works. We will not repeat all that here, though.
A look at Ant's discography shows that Strings of Light is his fourth album to only contain guitar music. Each of these four albums has followed a different concept. Antiques (Private Parts & Pieces III) consisted of guitar duets that Ant performed and, for the most part, also wrote with Enrique "Quique" Berro Garcia. On the other three albums he played on his own. Twelve (Private Parts & Pieces V) used a single guitar, and it followed the idea of setting the twelve months of the year to music. Field Day was intended to present the various wonderful guitars Ant had collected; it took so long to come about that it eventually turned into a double album. String Of Light is an album Ant would not describe as a double album, as its playtime is only slightly longer than a standard CD. He calls it an "album with two sides" (as in the olden times of vinyl; and though vinyl is coming back, there will be no vinyl edition of this album). Ant employed the concept of two sides also on Dragonfly Dreams (Private Parts & Pieces IX), and, in a way, also on Gypsy Suite, though those were just on one CD. Field Day and Strings Of Light both use a number of different guitars, but the approach on the one album is exactly the opposite of the other: On Field Day the idea was to showcase the instruments, and the compositions were chosen to fit the instrument. For Strings Of Light, Ant first had the music (ideas collected over some fifteen years) and then chose the instrument best suited to it.
Ant has expanded his collection of instruments since Field Day, and we get to hear some of the new instruments. Some of the 17 instruments (same amount as on Field Day) are long familiar, too, e.g. the characteristic Bell Cittern we know from Bel Ami.
The album has 24 pieces, twelve to each "side". That brings up ideas and makes you think of, perhaps, collections like Johann Sebastian Bach's Well-Tempered Clavier and others, where one piece was written for each of the 12 major and 12 minor keys – but that does not apply here. Neither is the release in the upcoming Christmas season to be understood as a kind of advent calendar. The number of 24 pieces is more or less random. In fact, there was considerable doubt whether four particularly tricky pieces would come about. Even when those four had finally been recorded successfully in April 2019 there was some indecision as to whether two pieces should be left off the album to fit all the music on one CD. In the end they decided to split the album into a listening experience of "two sides" with time for a nice tea break in between. The average piece is 3:35 long (on Field Day, 2:07) and varies from 21 seconds to ten minutes (on Field day, 27 seconds to 8:27).
As we pop in the CD one question looms large for the Phillips fan: Has he still got it? Is he still up to creating original music, creating something new? Let's press play and listen …
I/1 Jour de Fête
It is meant to be a day of celebration, and this sets the positive mood the "strings of light" are to exude (despite all the variety of atmosphere we will experience on the way). Like The Geese & The Ghost, New England, Field Day, and City Of Dreams, the album begins intentionally with a simple piece; cheerful, few contrasts, the tonic D almost always present. You can hear the Bell Cittern here … and you can also see it, for there is an official live performance video of the piece.
I/2 Diamond Meadows
What a contrast to the opening piece! A twelve-string guitar blazes out, sparkles (like diamonds) in its splendor. In an interview, Ant explained the effect with the choice of strings (silk and steel), but added that most of the effect came by tuning the six pairs of strings to different notes (usually both strings of a pair are tuned to the same note, occasionally transposed by an octave). This has given him much richer chords. It is quite worthwhile comparing the version from Ant's live video where – to keep up the metaphor – the diamond sparkles in a slightly different light.
The piece is a kind of toccata in C in the pattern of AABCCD, with an eight-bar A and a four-bar C. B is a bit slower and played rubato, whereas D is groovy with some shifts in the musical stress, changing between major and minor keys (blue notes, as it were). It ends in a long, calm coda with string harmonics.
I/3 Caprice In Three
The next two pieces are played on a classical (six-string) guitar by David Whiteman. It is the instrument most frequently used on the album as you can also hear it in Pilgrimage Of Grace and Fleur-de-Lys. It is a not at all capricious, songlike G major piece in 3/4. Its structure is AABABA plus coda, with the harmonics of the B part moving as far as B flat major. Caprice In Three has something of the spirit of Lullaby – Old Father Time. That song used a second guitar, though, and did not have the contrasting second part.
I/4 Castle Ruins
Ant found it difficult to find a title for this piece. He had an idea of something Iberian, something medieval … The motive sounds a bit like a tolling bell (perhaps the former bell of the ruined castle) and reminds me of Church Bells At Sunset.
There are a number of noteworthy things in this apparently simple piece: Time changes that go by almost unnoticed because of a fermata or a pause, and the extraordinary Phrygian-dominant scale on G that is resolved to C major at the end.
I/5 Mermaids and Wine Maidens
This song is related musically to Diamond Meadows. It is a toccata in D played on a six-string guitar. It is a bit richer in melodics in the descant. The end reprises the beginning.
I/6 Winter Lights
Winter Lights is not only the longest piece on "Side 1", but also one of the four pieces that Ant found particularly difficult to record. It is one of two very old pieces that go back to 1971; Ant discusses it a length in our interview. Actually, only the opening part (and its later reprise) is old; the part from 1:57 to 3:51 is probably what was newly written. You wouldn't know there are fifty years between the writing of both bits, though. Winter Lights is most likely the piece Ant mentions in the interview as having five or six twelve-string guitar mixed on top of each other. The initial theme is striking, and the whole piece (written in D) resembles material from the 1970s, e.g. Tregenna Afternoons, Gypsy Suite.
I/7 Song for Andy
There are no indications to which Andy exactly this very tasteful song without words is dedicated. The melody is sketched out in the descant, the piece has several verses and a bridge. The tonic G does not appear anywhere in the lower voice except for the closing cadences. This keeps the piece in the air and keyed up for the release. It would be great to hear the Song For Andy one day with lyrics on a song album of Ant's!
I/8 Pilgrimage of Grace
Change from G major to E minor. Structure: AABABA', similar to Caprice In Three. The upper voice has the lightest sketch of a melody with charming legato elements (i.e. the left hand slides along the string to the new note). E minor contrasts with the opposing C major, then with a diminished C sharp chord and finally, rather crass and savouring it, with C minor.
The title refers to a historical event, an uprising against Henry VIII.
I/9 Skies Crying
What a track! Lively changes between tension and relief in high position with lots of reverbertion (resembling White Spider), then a strumming part, all this in C Sharp minor. For the first time on the album the rain is evoked that Ant wanted to feature in the originally intended album title, Rainy Day Postcard.
I/10 Mouse Trip
Though it is only 1:05 long, this is probably the one piece on the album that was the most difficult to play. It uses a playing technique that Ant calls dubbing (which may be identical with palm muting) and has impressively fast plectrum triplets on classical guitar. Mouse Trip is quite a simple composition, but it may be the children's favourite on the album as well as the scherzo that hardly any of Phillips's album omits. Special effects added by sound engineer James Collins contribute to the quirky character of this piece in G major; the "wrong" notes, whether added into the mix or collateral sound of the performance, fit the style very well. It may not be the most sophisticated listening pleasure on the album, but it breaks new ground. The humorous note is underlined by the playful title that puns on mouse trap.
I/11 Restless Heart
One of the richest compositions on the album, Restless Heart wanders restlessly between various keys (F major at times, E minor at others) and various time signatures – sometimes in 10, in 5 or in 4, and rubato and short breaks leave the listener uncertain about the time in which this restless heart is beating. One of the highlights of the album.
I/12 Still Rain
The rain returns with lots of reverb as in Skies Crying, but softer and gentler this time. The strings are plucked in two patterns. The initial pattern A returns at 2:07, while pattern B begins at 1:03 and 2:45. The keys change from E minor to B minor, finally to G major. The A minor chord in the B minor part at 3:20 is simply breathtaking. Uplifted this way we let the rain fade away and turn to a nice cuppa tea.
If you think that CD2, or "Side 2" contained lesser material you are in for a pleasant surprise.
II/1 Into the Void
You cannot tell just from listening how these 21 seconds of sound are created. Ant explains it at length in our interview. Does the shortening of time intervals really follow an exponential function, as Ant suspects? We have not calculated it, but experiments on the intervals at which a ball jumps up and down seem to support that theory. Unless the ear is deceived by overtones, the twelves strings appear to be tuned in EBcdeg (at least this is what I hear).
II/2 Andean Explorer
The album continues with the same guitar and certainly a different tuning. The first 80 seconds embody the love of adventure. Its dramatic liveliness reminds me of Twelve or Flamingo. The piece is as changeable as Restless Heart, but with more positive connotations. A slower part probably illustrates the Andean explorer coping with the challenges of the high plateau; it is full of lush peculiar chords rich in subtle dissonances and grace notes. A brief, questioning part beginning at 2:37 leads into a reprise of the beginning and a piece that has captured the listener from the beginning ends with a 7-9-11 E minor chord.
II/3 Mystery Tale
This is where the "toy guitar" Guitarina comes in. A drone in E and B lays the foundation for a brief, simple melody in a harmomic minor scale with gentle legato moments.
II/4 Sunset Riverbank
This is -the- resting point of the album. A six-string guitar plays its part three times. During the third time (which begins at 1:55) it does not switch to D major anymore. Instead, a tender solo played on the electric guitar (a Fender Stratocaster) is added on top. This piece is made to listen to on repeat so you can calm down and drift away.
II/5 Tale Ender
If Mystery Tale was not mysterious enough for you, well, it has not ended yet. It is reprised here, mainly in the reverb, like a dream vision of Mystery Tale that finally lives up to its name. Tale Ender is the last of three sound experiments (with Mouse Trip and Into The Void) that loosen up the album in the middle.
II/6 Shoreline
We have reached track number 6 again. Again we hear the 12-string L'Arrivée, and again it's an old piece (this time completely old). Shoreline is the simplified third movement of a quintette in four movements simplified for one guitar. Ant wrote the quintette in 1971 for guitars and for strings and brass instruments, respectively, but never completed or recorded it. The first movement could be heard as Conversation Piece on Radio Clyde and at the Living Room Concert. Musically, it slightly resembles the Tibetan Yak Music. A motive like the breaking of waves appears in various shapes, in a slow 3/4 from 1:07 onwards. It is contrasted with a fine melody from 1:43 onwards. At 2:38 the piece suddenly begins to start over. It is remarkable for its calm strength and the colourful changes of timbre.
II/7 Days Gone By
A meditation in G in 7/8, rather unlike a song, with a very simple melody. With a structure of AABA´ABA´A´´ it is slightly too long at 3:44.
II/8 Crystalline
This very disciplined fantasia on a twelve-string guitar may have its name for similar reasons as Diamond Meadows, so it represents the essence of the album title.
II/9 Fleur-de-Lys
A slow four-part composition, dissolved in triplets. This could also be a movement in the style of a baroque air for a string quartet – hence probably the name: the fleur de lys, the lily is part of the coat of arms of the French kings.
II/10 Grand Tour
This piece may have its title from its six-minute length or from the 16 strings the guitar has. The use of this instrument made it a particular challenge for Ant. It starts off with interesting chords based on A, and the deep A' we hear is really impressive. At 2:08 a calmer part in E begins, the first part is reprised at 3:45, and groovy strumming comes in at 4:16. The piece ends, surprisingly, in B major. In some places the instrument Michael Cameron made especially for Ant sounds like an accordion.
II/11 Home Road
Time to breathe before the grand finale of the album. Jour De Fête and Home Road are the brackets around (almost) the whole album. It used the Bell Cittern again, and it is very cheerful, simple and short.
II/12 Life Story
The last and longest "beast" Ant had to deal with both as a composer and a player, is this ten-minute piece in D. In our interview with him Ant goes into the nuts and bolts of this piece. Life Story is particularly attractive because of the warm sound of the almost 90 year old Spanish instruments, the lavish ornamentations, some harmonic turns (the C7-9 in the beginning, the cadence at 7:20, the B flat 7 chord at 8:14) and the pianissimo ending with its tricky simultaneous combination of shimmering and hammer-on. Whether it conjures up images of the sea (Ant's original vision of the song) or a Life Story, the ending fits the concept of expiring life.
Back in the present we look back on an album of versatile music that is evidently an album of Ant's but still has turned many new ideas into music. The big new thing is: the unique sound that, as Ant puts it, lets the recording sound more like the actual instrument than ever before. The effects, mainly reverby and cross-fading, are employed only to support the song-writing and never trespass into tampering with it (except for the three experimental pieces above, perhaps). Anthony Phillips has used the kairos, the good opportunity to use the instrument that most permits him to be original to create and record music. For this, our thanks, Ant!
What else is there to say? You get a surround sound DVD with the album. Its effect is limited, of course, on an album where, for most of the time, you only hear one instrument. – It appears for the cover artwork light points shaped like a guitar were photographed in motion, much like the cover for And Then There Were Three. The cover art inspired the album title. – The liner notes are brief. At their ending Ant thanks three women in a remarkable way.
By Andreas Lauer (10/2019), English by Martin Klinkhardt
Strings Of Light was released by Esoteric/CherryRed as 2CD/DVD digipak can be ordered directly at CherryRed.
Anthony Phillips - 1984 (2CD)
2008 Remaster Edition 2CD
Anthony Phillips - Wise After The Event (2CD)
Remaster Edition 2008 - Double-CD with Bonus tracks.
Anthony Phillips News
New album "Strings Of Light" out soon
New Anthony Phillips content
Strings Of Light - 2CD/DVD review
Interview (Strings Of Light, 24th September 2019)
The Geese & The Ghost - 5.1 Surround Sound (2CD/DVD review 2015)
Invisible Men - 2CD review
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Would you like to work one-on-one with a member of the Gotham faculty?
There is a time-honored tradition of writers giving each other advice on their work. After reading an early draft of a first novel, F. Scott Fitzgerald told an aspiring writer that he found about 24 sneers, superiorities, and nose-thumbings-at-nothing that marred the whole narrative. The author, Ernest Hemingway, took the suggestions, and the novel, The Sun Also Rises, launched his career.
It's tough to catch a break in the writing business. Editors, agents, and producers seldom grant you more than a first look, so you want your work to be in the best possible shape before sending it out into the world. Gotham has a large network of professional writers, in every field, who can help strengthen your work and maximize your chances of success. And if your main goal is just to get better, we can help with that too.
The type of One-on-One writing service that is right for you will vary depending on your particular needs.
Here are the options—each one available either in NYC or long distance.
For the person who wants professional feedback on a particular project, which could be anything from a book to a short story to a screenplay to a collection of poems.
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For the person who wants to develop a project over time under the guidance of a mentor. It's a mixture of advice, assignments, critique, and inspiration constructed to fit your particular needs and schedule.
For the person who wants a one-on-one class, we have two options. 1) A private three-hour session that provides a quick overview of a type of writing through mini-lectures and exercises. 2) A private 6 or 10-week course, based on our group-class curriculum, but tailored to your interests and needs.
For the person who wants a one-on-one Business Writing class, we have two options. 1) A private three-hour session that provides a quick overview of a type of writing through mini-lectures and exercises. 2) A private 6-week course, based on our group-class curriculum, but tailored to your interests and needs.
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Enter: the Interstate Highway System you take for granted today.
Here is the difference between a really fast Supercar in the form of the Audi R8 GT Spyder and the Koenigsegg One:1 Megacar. The One:1 hit 220 mph during that run but backed off due to a wheel alignment issue. The R8 GT completed this run at 190 mph.
An egg baked INSIDE a muffin loaded with cheese and bacon flavours! Great breakfast on the go!
It's been more than three years since we've found the Higgs boson. So how does it give particles mass?
Finding intimacy and beauty in a colourful, chaotic city.
This amazing little aircraft is as fun on the water as it is in the air, and its spin-resistant design makes it safer during a stall.
Human Connectome Project finds surprising correlations between brain architecture and behavioural or demographic influences.
The following is a step-by-step guide to the construction of a complete home brewery system. Designed with burner heat shielding and built-in plumbing for mash, cooling and cleaning water re-circulation. The guide includes plans for both an immersion chiller and my own counter-flow heat exchanger design.
A great swathe of Pluto that features a strange rippling terrain is perhaps the highlight of the latest image release from the New Horizons mission.
Today Stonehenge is England's most important monument, but 100 years ago it was up for sale. The man who bought it helped seal its fate.
The war in Afghanistan proved that we can't just rely on new technology, but the Pentagon wouldn't listen—and troops paid the price.
A U.S. Environmental Protection Agency investigation has concluded that for years Volkswagen has been installing software in its vehicles that circumvents federal emissions standards for air pollution, the agency announced Friday.
As wedding photographers and cinematographers, we get to shoot ... A LOT! But something is always missing, something that got us into our profession in the first place ... shooting for ourselves. Our trip to Ladakh this fall was intended to address the same.
Clearly Honda's immediate priority should be to halt production of everything, and focus instead on building Jenson and Fernando a decent F1 engine. However, we'll forgive them a quick lapse in this strategy, because this new '2&4' concept is, frankly, quite excellent. It's been revealed today, here, ahead of a public debut at the upcoming Frankfurt Motor Show. We're told it's the winner of Honda's global design project, and marries the worlds of motorbikes and cars.
Renault will stop supplying engines to other Formula 1 teams, with its relationship with Red Bull likely to end this year.
After almost 40 years in storage, an unusual fiberglass-bodied, custom Aston Martin has surfaced. One of only three ever made, this rare vehicle is heading to auction later this year.
On Sunday 15th September 1940 the Luftwaffe launched its largest and most concentrated attack against London in the hope of drawing out the RAF into a battle of annihilation. Around 1,500 aircraft took part in the air battles which lasted until dusk. The action was the climax of the Battle of Britain.
What an amazing moment as UR-82060 leaves the ground..
A range of articles covering cosmic phenomena of all kinds, ranging from minor craters on the Moon to entire galaxies.
Opening in theaters August 14th. In the high-stakes pursuit of big-wall climbing, the Shark's Fin on Mount Meru may be the ultimate prize. Sitting 21,000 feet above the sacred Ganges River in Northern India, the mountain's perversely stacked obstacles make it both a nightmare and an irresistible calling for some of the world's toughest climbers.
A new video imagines what the Barcelona's Sagrada Família will look like when it's finished in 2026.
Chipotle Lime Marinated Grilled Pork Chopse, juicy, perfect pork chops with a bit of fresh flavored zing.
Solving the greatest mystery of Wonderland, 150 years later. By David Day.
Chicago. Sand dunes. A ferry crossing. A voyage reveals striking topography, time-worn communities and the reassuring permanence of an unchanging lake amid it all.
Explore the legendary Lancaster bomber, from the bomb aimer to the rear gunner. 12 interactive panoramas show and explain all the details. | {
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In the low energy reactor antineutrino physics experiments,either for the researches of antineutrino oscillation and antineutrino reactions,or for the measurement of abnormal magnetic moment of antineutrino,the flux and the spectra of reactor antineutrino must be described accurately. In this paper,the method of calculation of reactor antineutrino spectra was discussed detailedly. Furthermore,Based on the actual circumstances of NP2 reactors and the arrangement of detectors,the flux and the spectra of reactor antineutrino in TEXONO were worked out.
CHEN Dong-Liang, LI Jin, MAO Ze-Pu and WONG T. Calculation of Reactor Antineutrino Spectra in TEXONO[J]. Chinese Physics C, 2002, 26(9): 889-894.
In this paper, using supersymmetric (SUSY) quantum mechanics, we discuss exactly solvable Quantum mechanical model with nonlocal potential. And we present a simple nonlocal presentation of exactly solvable local model, so exactly to obtain energy eigenfunctions and eignvalues.
ZHANG De-Xing and CAI Shao-Hong. Quantum Mechanical Model with Nonlocal Potential[J]. Chinese Physics C, 2002, 26(9): 895-899.
It is shown that the possible higher squeezing order of the superposition state β>+eiφ βeiδ> of the generalized coherent states of the q deformed non-harmonic oscillator can be expressed as k≠2π n/δ,with n an integer and δ the phase difference between the two generalized coherent states. When δ=π,the order of squeezing can only be odd,which is just the result of the generalized even and odd coherent states of the q deformed non-harmonic oscillator;when δ takes other values,the squeezing order can be even. These results show that the parameter phase difference δ plays the key role in determining the possible squeezing order.
LIANG Mai-Lin and YUAN Bing. Phase Difference and the Squeezing Property of the Superpositions of the q-Deformed Generalized Coherent States[J]. Chinese Physics C, 2002, 26(9): 900-903.
Single event effects induced by 15.14MeV/u 136Xe ions in different batches of 32k×8 bits static random access memory are studied. The incident angle dependences of the cross sections for single event upset and single event latchup are presented. The SEE cross sections are plotted versus energy loss instead of linear energy transfer value in sensitive region. The depth of sensitive volume and thickness of "dead" layer above the sensitive volume are estimated.
HOU Ming-Dong, ZHANG Qing-Xiang, LIU Jie, WANG Zhi-Guang, JIN Yun-Fan, ZHU Zhi-Yong, ZHEN Hong-Lou, LIU Chang-Long, CHEN Xiao-Xi, WEI Xin-Guo, ZHANG Lin, FAN You-Cheng, Single Event Effects Induced by 15.14 MeV/u 136Xe Ions[J]. Chinese Physics C, 2002, 26(9): 904-908.
In order to assign γ-ray multipolarity, a method of ADO ratios deduced from coincidence data has been described. The factors affecting the reliability of the ADO ratios have been discussed using an experimental detector configuration. The multipolarities for known γ-rays deduced by the ADO method are consistent with the previous results obtained from γ-ray angular distribution and DCO ratio measurements. This consistence proves that the ADO method is reliable. The advantages of the ADO method over the traditional DCO ratio measurement have been discussed.
ZHENG Yong, ZHOU Xiao-Hong, LIU Min-Liang, LIU Zhong, HE Jian-Jun, GUO Ying-Xiang, LEI Xiang-Guo, ZHANG Yu-Hu and LUO Wan-Ju. γ-Ray Anisotropy Measurement in Coincidence Mode[J]. Chinese Physics C, 2002, 26(9): 909-913.
The effect of the decay data on the measured activation cross section is investigated carefully and testified by several examples. These decay data include the half-life of the product, γ branching ratio of the product and decay scheme. Present work shows that these effects must be considered carefully when evaluating the activation reaction cross section. Sometimes they are main reason for causing the discrepancies among the experimental data.
HUANG Xiao-Long and LU Han-Lin. Study of the Influence of Decay Data in Activation Reaction Cross Section[J]. Chinese Physics C, 2002, 26(9): 914-919.
In the reaction induced by 33.4MeV/u 17N beam on 197Au, the coincident measurment between neutron and fragment was performed with the different combinations of 16 neutron detectors at 4°-83° and 14 telescopes at 2.3°-9.0°. Integrating the measured angular distributions of the different isotopes, the isotopic yield distributions of Z=3-6 elements are obtained. Based on the Abrasion-Ablation model, isotopic yield distributions are calculated using different density distributions for the projectile 17N and compared with the experiment data.
LI Xiang-Qing, HUA Hui, JIANG Dong-Xing, YE Yan-Lin, CHEN Tao, LI Zhi-Huan, GE Yu-Cheng, WANG Quan-Jin, WU He-Yu, JIN Gen-Ming, DUAN Li-Min, XIAO Zhi-Gang, WANG Hong-We, Coincident Measurement between Neutron and Fragment in Reaction 17N+197Au[J]. Chinese Physics C, 2002, 26(9): 920-925.
We have studied the equilibration with respect to isospin degree of freedom in four systems 96Ru+96Ru,96 Ru+96Zr,96Zr+96Ru,96Zr+96Zr at 100 MeV/u and 400MeV/u with isospin dependent QMD. It is proposed in this paper that the neutron-proton differential rapidity distribution is a sensitive probe to the degree of equilibration with respect to the isospin degree of freedom. By analyzing the average N/Z ratio of emitted nucleons, light charged particles (LCP) and intermediate mass fragments (IMF), it is found that there exists memory effect in multifragmentation process. The average N/Z ratio of IMF reduces largely as beam energy increases from 100MeV/u to 400MeV/u, which may result from the change of the behavior of the isotope distribution of IMF. The isotope distribution of IMF does also show certain memory effect at 100 MeV/u case but not at 400 MeV/u case. We also found the rapidity distribution of differential neutron-proton counting in neutron rich nucleus-nucleus collisions at intermediate energies is sensitive to the isospin dependent part of nuclear potential. In conclusion, based on these studies we have found it's an effective way to explore whether the final equilibration could be reached in intermediate HICs by constructing a set of isospin (a)symmetry nuclear-nuclear collision systems with same mass and different charge.
LI Qing-Feng and LI Zhu-Xia. Probing Equilibration in HICs and Symmetry Energy by Using Isospin-Related Observables[J]. Chinese Physics C, 2002, 26(9): 926-932.
The effective Λ nucleon interaction in single Λ hypernuclei is studied using the Relativistic Mean Field theory. Five sets of hyperon meson coupling parameters,for Λ-σ and Λ-ω interactions, are obtained by fitting the recent data of the binding energy of a Λ in the 1s state of 13Λ C,B1s1/2Λ. The detailed method is to fix one of the parameters to be a special value such as 2/3 or 1,or to suppose two of them be equal,and then the parameter sets are deduced. With these parameter sets determined from only this experimental quantity,we calculate the single particle spectra of Λ in single-Λ hypernuclei for a wide range of mass number from A=9 to A=208. The calculations reproduce the available data well.
LV Hong-Feng, LONG Wen-Hui, MENG Jie and ZHOU Shan-Gui. Effective Hyperon-Nucleon Interactions in the Relativistic Mean Field Theory[J]. Chinese Physics C, 2002, 26(9): 933-940.
Phenomenological nucleon-nucleon interactions consisting of central,tensor,spin-orbit and quadratic spin-orbit terms,with Gaussian radial dependence,are constructed by varying their parameters in order to obtain the best fit between the calculated and the experimental values of the binding energy,the root mean-square radius,the D-state probability,the magnetic dipole moment and the electric quadrupole moment of deuteron. The ground-state nuclear wave function of deuteron is expanded in terms of the translation invariant shell model basis functions corresponding to the number of quanta of excitation 0≤N≤10. Moreover,the binding energy,the root mean-square radius and the magnetic dipole moment of the nuclei 3H,4He,5He and 6Li are also calculated by using the new interactions. The wave functions of these nuclei are expanded in terms of the basis functions of the translation-invariant shell model with N=10 for the first two nuclei, N=7 for 5He and N=6 for 6Li. Furthermore,the role of the three body force is investigated for the triton nucleus. The obtained results are in good agreement with the corresponding experimental values.
S.B.Doma. Ground State Characteristics of the Light Nuclei with A≤6 on the Basis of the Translation Invariant Shell Model by Using Nucleon-Nucleon Interactions[J]. Chinese Physics C, 2002, 26(9): 941-948.
The time evolution of expectation values of the basic dynamic variables in a quantum system under different effective Planck constant were compared with the exact values of the basic dynamic variables in classical system. It is found, for the regular motion, the difference comes from the quantum effect; for the chaotic motion, it comes from the dynamical effect and the destruction of the dynamical system. With these results, a correspondence between the quantum heterogeneity of the phase space and the Lyapunov exponent is made satisfactorily.
LIU Fang, LI Jun-Qing and XING Yong-Zhong. Quantum Classical Correspondence in a 2-Dimensional Deformed Harmonic Oscillator System[J]. Chinese Physics C, 2002, 26(9): 949-954.
The relations between the pion source parameters in two models in ultrarelativistic heavy ion collisions are given using pion interferometry at small relative momentum. And comparisons are made with the experimental results of 200 A GeV O+Au collisions.
CHEN Xiao-Fan, YANG Xue-Dong, CHEN Zhi-Lai, HAN Ling and WANG Qing-Dong. Two-Pion Interferometry at Small Relative Momentum in Ultrarelativistic Heavy Ion Collisions[J]. Chinese Physics C, 2002, 26(9): 955-958.
Four plastic scintillators coupled with three photo multiplier tubes (PMTs) were used to construct a preecise trigger timing system. When one charged particle passes through the system, the PMTs can measure its time information independently. By off line data analyzing, a precise trigger timing with resolution about 57ps has been gotten. This system can be used to research the time resolution of detectors.
HUANG Sheng-Li, XU Zi-Zong, WANG Zhao-Min, WANG Xiao-Lian, LI Cheng, CHEN Hong-Fang, WU Jian and ZENG Hui. A Precise Trigger Timing System[J]. Chinese Physics C, 2002, 26(9): 959-963.
Radioactive ion beam is generally characterized by small beam intensity and big beam size. In order to carry on precise scattering and reaction experiments it is necessary to monitoring the incident angle and absolute number of the beam hitting the target. We therefore have designed and made up low pressure multiwire proportional chambers (LPMWPC) which have good beam transparency and are also adequate to be used in vacuum. Experiment test indicates that the position resolution of the chambers is about 0.5mm and the position determination efficiency is larger than 90% for the low Z particles at intermediate energies. This kind of chamber can then be used to detect the direction of the incident particle and to record the absolute number of the particles which really hit the target, or to detect the emitting angle of the outgoing particles.
LI Zhi-Huan, CHEN Tao, YE Yan-Lin, JIANG Dong-Xing, HUA Hui, LI Xiang-Qing, WANG Quan-Jin, GE Yu-Cheng, PANG Dan-Yang, DI Zhen-Yu, TAN Ji-Lian, ZHANG Jin-Xia, FENG Ying, Low Pressure Multiwire Proportional Chamber and Its Application to Radioactive Ion Beam Experiment[J]. Chinese Physics C, 2002, 26(9): 964-970.
An overview of experimental status of the international collaboration on ultra-high energy induced nuclear reactions and the relative heavy-ion physics is given. It includes: 1. theoretical predictions of quark matter (quark gluon plasma), 2. the experiments of ultra-high energy heavy-ion collisions: (1) the BNL/AGS fixed target experiments, (2) the CERN/SPS fixed target experiments, (3) the BNL/RHIC colliding experiments, (4) the CERN/LHC colliding experiments.
CAI Xu and ZHOU Dai-Mei. Experimental Status of Ultra-high Energy Induced Nuclear Reactions[J]. Chinese Physics C, 2002, 26(9): 971-990. | {
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Since launching in 2005, YouTube has played a central role in democratizing video distribution. Today, anyone can launch their own YouTube channel—and potentially become a megastar, without the help of Hollywood studios, networks, or agents. YouTube makes money by selling advertising and sharing revenue with creators who choose to monetize their videos. It also offers YouTube Red, a $9.99-a-month ad-free subscription.
In recent years, the Google-owned platform has turned its lens on 360-degree video, virtual reality, and live streaming. Much like Hulu, Netflix, and Amazon, YouTube has been investing in original programming, some of which is bundled exclusively with its Red subscription tier. Through its YouTube Spaces studio locations around the world, YouTube offers creators of all stripes the chance to film their projects with professional gear, including cameras that shoot immersive, 360-degree videos.
If I Could Tell You Just One Thing follows Chopra Jonas as she interviews three women on their lives and careers–and there are definitely some words to live by here.
Singh will be the first woman to host a daily late-night show for a major network, but can she translate her 14 million YouTube subscribers to TV viewers?
They can shape public sentiment on everything from climate change to public health. Understanding why people believe them is vital, researchers say.
As advertisers such as Disney and Epic Games punish the platform with a boycott because of videos of minors used by pedophiles, marketers and agencies are coming to grips with the trade-off between scale and safety.
Las Vegas shooting false-flag theorists, 9/11 truthers, and anti-vaxxers are easy to find, thanks to YouTube's recommendation engine.
Why a video of an eye exam can relax me in a way that other sleep methods can't, and the emerging science of autonomous sensory meridian response, or ASMR. | {
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River City Girls and the San Fransokyo Aesthetic
Posted on September 18, 2019 by sdshamshel
River City Girls is a new game in the aged genre of the side-scrolling beat-em-up, and a role reversal of the classic damsel-in-distress story. As friends Kyoko and Misako, the player sets out to rescue their boyfriends by clobbering everyone in their way. As suggested by its title, it's a sequel of sorts to the classic NES game River City Ransom, which is itself a heavily localized version of the Japanese Downtown Nekketsu Monogatari from the Kunio-kun franchise. Because River City Girls aims to be a successor to both River City Ransom and Downtown Nekketsu Monogatari, it takes cues from both the former's American-esque "dudes with attitudes" style and the latter's Japanese "yankee delinquents" presentation, resulting in a fascinating mashup of both aesthetics.
Rather than lean in one direction or the other, River City Girls mixes things up. The game takes place in "Cross Town" (from River City Ransom) but the boyfriends' names are "Riki" and "Kunio" instead of "Ryan" and "Alex." Japanese street gang figures (banchou) roam the street at the same time as cheerleaders. Kyoko wears a letterman jacket on top of a school uniform while Misako's takes cues from Japanese fashion, and they both kind of resemble Powerpuff Girls in a way that calls to mind the anime adaptation Powerpuff Girls Z. A story cinematic shows the girls in an American-style school cafeteria.
Some Double Dragon characters even make cameos (Double Dragon was originally developed from the original Kunio-kun engine but with more international appeal). While those games always took place in the US, River City girls specifically uses the Double Dragon Neon versions of the characters, a game that was much more American-facing than Japanese.
The result is that Cross Town comes across in the same vein as Big Hero 6's "San Fransokyo" and Hurricane Polymar's "Washinkyo"—a place that's both Japanese and American at the same time. I can only guess at the reason behind this decision, but I imagine it has to do with the fact that both River City Ransom and Kunio-kun are beloved in their respective regions. There's a certain generation of Nintendo fan that holds the game River City Ransom in high regard. One part beat-em-up, one part adventure RPG, there really wasn't much like it back in 1990. Kunio-kun, in turn, has starred in many, many games over the years, and he was a company mascot for Technos Japan. River City Girls aims to please both audiences, and maybe even poke fun at those bygone days of extreme localization.
Because River City Girls is this deliberate combination of Japanese and American, it also begs comparison with another piece of media heavily inspired by manga and retro gaming: Scott Pilgrim by Bryan Lee O'Malley. In fact, Scott Pilgrim is itself heavily influenced by River City Ransom, as indicated by one of the comics' characters crying "BARF!" as they're hit, and the Scott Pilgrim video game being a beat-em-up. The senses of humor found in River City Girls and Scott Pilgrim, while not wholly identical, are similar in their irreverence and fourth-wall breaking one-liners. There's even a boss fight in River City Girls against a musician just as there's one in Scott Pilgrim. At the same time, enough time has passed that Scott Pilgrim (itself a love letter of sorts to the NES era of gaming) is old enough to be a nostalgia trip for fans of comics, video games, and other media. That, in turn, makes River City Ransom an even more distant memory in the collective video game and pop culture fandom.
River City Girls is an entry into a genre whose heyday has long since passed that uses 2D sprite graphics and playful animations. In taking from the late 1980s of both Japan and America, and filtering them through a contemporary lens in an age where "anime-influenced" works are more common than ever before, RIver City Girls ends up feeling somehow both extremely current and incredibly nostalgic, instantly dated yet also timeless. It's an aesthetic I can get behind.
Posted in video games | Tagged big hero 6, hurricane polymar, kunio-kun, river city girls, river city ransom, scott pilgrim | 1 Comment
Before San Fransokyo, There Was Washinkyo from Hurricane Polymar
Posted on May 22, 2015 by sdshamshel
When watching the Disney animated film Big Hero 6, one of the first things that stands out is the city in which the characters live: the portmanteau of "San Fransokyo." How it relates to either San Francisco or Tokyo remains a mystery, but it's probably meant to pay tribute to both Disney's own American origins and the inspiration Big Hero 6 takes from Japanese media.
However, Big Hero 6 hasn't been the only work of fiction to combine American and Japanese cities. One such work is an anime that dates back to the 1970s: Hurricane Polymar.
A series by Tatsunoko Production, the same studio responsible for classics such as Gatchaman and Casshern, Hurricane Polymar comes from that same era and young Amano Yoshitaka-derived aesthetic sense. A mix of Inspector Gadget, Bruce Lee, and Superman, the series takes place not only in the capital of "Washinkyo" (Washington DC + Tokyo), but in the country of "Amehon" (America + Nihon [Japan]).
I think it's fun to imagine what an actual "Amehon" would be like, or where it would come from. Would it literally be the US and Japan deciding to be one nation? Would it be some strange alternative universe where they were the same land mass all along? Would anime fans who despise American culture and love Japanese culture be more at home, or would the appealing "foreignness" of Japan be lost in the process? Going back to anime itself, could Hurricane Polymar himself be considered a blend of American and Japanese superhero tropes and qualities, similar to how the characters of Big Hero 6 occupy a similar category?
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Everyone Digs Robots: Big Hero 6
Posted on November 28, 2014 by sdshamshel
When Disney announced that they had purchased Marvel, they opened themselves up to three things: jokes, cross-promotional opportunities, and new material from which to create new stories. The first two have been well in supply, while the third has just made its debut in the form of Big Hero 6, a 3DCG film loosely adapted from a Marvel comic series of the same name. The result is a movie that wears its lineage as the offspring of Disney and Marvel upfront, and which for the most part benefits from combining the raw, simple excitement of superheroes with the old Disney desire of creating family-friendly and uplifting animated films.
Story-wise, Big Hero 6 is an overall strong affair. The film centers around a 13-year-old boy named Hiro Hamada, a young robotics prodigy from the awkward portmanteau of "San Fransokyo" who mostly squanders his talents. Due to the influence of his older brother Tadashi, as well as Tadashi's own creation in the form of a gentle healthcare robot named Beymax, Hiro is set on a path that leads him to not only pursue his ambitions but become a full-fledged superhero in the process. Big Hero 6 balances humor with action and a bit of tragedy, and it's amazing how much can be done with a simple fistbump joke. On top of that, though, there are two qualities in the film, or I should say the protagonist, that stand out to me.
First, Hiro is an Asian protagonist in a field that is classically connected to the image of white heroes. At first, this might not seem that important because both Disney and Marvel have histories with Asian characters. Disney has Mulan and American Dragon Jake Long, and if we're counting the Middle East as part of Asia as well, then there's also Aladdin. Marvel has numerous superheroes that are ethnically Asian, such as Sunfire and Jubilee. However, I what's special about Hiro is being able to see an Asian hero at the center of a big, important Disney + Marvel movie as someone whose abilities are not derived from his "Asian-ness," especially because of how both companies have historically projected an image of "whiteness," intentional or otherwise. Both companies have most recently shown a greater concern for diversity in characters (see Princess and the Frog and the new Ms. Marvel for a few examples), and while Big Hero 6 may not be the first, it is a clear and concerted effort to further show heroes of all kinds. To have powers derived from some mystical East Asian aspect is not inherently a bad thing, but it is quite overdone. While there is the risk of the association of Japan with technology and thus a kind of Techno-Orientalism, it never comes across that way even as San Fransokyo greatly resembles a Disney-fied Blade Runner Los Angeles.
The second important aspect of hero, which I've already mentioned, is that he's a nerd. At this point nerd chic is old hat, and we're at a point where so many people play video games that there's little of the stigma that used to be there, but I think this is still important because of the portrayal of nerds in media, especially in Disney and Marvel properties. Again, both companies are not inherently against hyper-intelligent characters; Phineas and Ferb, a comedy about two genius kids, is one of Disney's most successful properties in recent memory, while Marvel has characters like Professor X leading the X-Men. However, in both cases the go-to formula for hero vs. villain primary conflict has been some form of brawn vs. brains, where intelligent characters are scheming connivers: Scar to Mufasa, Jafar to Aladdin (who granted is more clever than anything else, but it's a different type of smarts), Captain America vs. the Red Skull, Hulk vs. Leader. Big Hero 6 doesn't just flip this into a good brains vs. evil brawn scenario, but actually makes it brains vs. brains. At the climax it's a matter of pitting intellects against each other (albeit intellects redirected to look a whole lot like brawn) which are doing battle.
Of course, the brainy Asian who's good at math is still a prominent stereotype, but this is mitigated by the fact that many different characters, Asian and non-Asian, are shown to be intelligent and into robotics. The rest of the core cast, which is mostly comprised of Tadashi's college friends, are Asian, Black, White, etc., who are all so enthusiastic about developing technology that they went to college to accomplish that. Additionally, these characters have not just ethnic diversity but also a kind of physical diversity as well. While it doesn't go as far as to include, say, handicapped or transgendered characters (which is still probably a risky step for a company like Disney and so unlikely to happen), the characters have a wide range of body shapes and sizes. Compare for example the difference between the tall and thin Honey Lemon and the shorter and rounder Gogo, both of whom are portrayed as beautiful in their own ways without their beauty being their most defining features or their primary functions in the narrative.
Speaking of diversity, the character Wasabi, who in the context of the film is the nickname for a black character, was originally a source of some controversy because his name was "Wasabi-no-Ginger" for an Asian character. I can see why this got a bad reaction, but I do wonder if it was supposed to be a reference to how manga characters are sometimes named. Most famously, Toriyama Akira, creator of Dragonball Z, names most of his characters after food (Vegeta), food-related products (Freeza), or underwear (Trunks). Here, the choice to change a Japanese character with a potentially offensive name into a black character might in a vacuum be considered on the same level as turning a non-white character into a Caucasian, but I think the contexts are different. My opinion on this is still undecided, but I think it's the result of both an increasing awareness of cultural sensitivity and how important that can be, along with Disney responding to a market that increasingly cares about this issue.
This being primarily an anime and manga blog, I also want to mention all of the references and similarities to anime and manga that litter the film. From Hiro's not-Mazinger Z wall clock to the fact that his superhero outfit looks awfully similar to Priss Asagiri's hardsuit in Bubblegum Crisis, there's much love paid to mecha in a way similar to Pacific Rim and even anime like Robotics;Notes which are also love letters to robot shows. Having seen it only once in theaters I couldn't go over it with a fine-toothed comb, but attention is paid to Japan and its own history of animation. Given Frozen and its enormous success in Japan, I wonder if Big Hero 6 with its Japanese protagonist can perform similarly
Overall, Big Hero 6 is a strong first step in a lot of different areas. It's good as the true debut of the Disney-Marvel alliance, and even better as a product of both companies' increasing efforts to represent and inspire a multicultural environment. There's clear intent at franchising this film, so I'll be curious as to where it all goes.
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Beatrice Hahn and George Shaw, Pioneers in HIV Research, to Join Penn Medicine
• AIDS/HIV • • Public Health • Sep 23, 10
Beatrice Hahn, MD and George Shaw, MD, will be joining the faculty of the Penn Center for AIDS Research in the School of Medicine in 2011. Both are international leaders in human and simian immunodeficiency virus research and have made groundbreaking contributions to this field for over two decades. Hahn and Shaw have also contributed significantly to the study of the transmission of human infectious pathogens from non-human animals.
Hahn's most recent work, reported in the cover story of the September 23, 2010 issue of Nature describes groundbreaking studies identifying the origin of Plasmodium falciparum, the most deadly form of malaria, in West African gorillas, findings that will spearhead new research to understand host/pathogen interactions that underlie the transmission and pathogenicity of malaria.
"Individually and together, Dr. Hahn and Dr. Shaw will bring additional depth to Penn Medicine in this critical area of science," says Dr. Arthur H. Rubenstein, Executive Vice President of the University of Pennsylvania for the Health System and Dean of the School of Medicine.
"Their impact will extend far beyond the School of Medicine and the Penn Center for AIDS Research to the entire biomedical research community on campus, and their recruitment signals the University's commitment to basic and translational research involving global health pathogens."
"The recruitment of these two distinguished physicians-scientists underscores the strength of the Penn scientific community and its unique attractiveness in coupling the best of biomedical discovery with the betterment of the human condition," says Richard P. Shannon, MD, the Frank Wister Thomas Professor of Medicine and chair of the Department of Medicine.
Hahn received her MD degree from the University of Munich Medical School, and pursued postdoctoral studies at the National Cancer Institute Laboratory of Tumor Cell Virology. She joined the Departments of Medicine and Microbiology at the University of Alabama, Birmingham (UAB) in 1985 where she is currently Professor and Co-Director of the UAB Center for AIDS Research. She has published over 200 research papers, many of which are senior authored manuscripts in Science, Nature, Cell and other prominent journals. Her seminal contributions include developing the first molecular clone of HIV-1, discovering the origins of HIV-1 and HIV-2 in non-human primate species in Africa, determining the pathogenic impact of SIV infection on wild chimpanzee populations, and making fundamental observations in the molecular and virologic characterization of numerous HIV and SIV genes and isolates.
Shaw received his MD degree from Ohio State University and his residency training in Medicine at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, and continued his post-doctoral studies at the National Cancer Institute Laboratory of Tumor Cell Virology. He joined the Department of Medicine at UAB in 1985, and served as Director of the Hematology/Oncology Division from 1997-2003. In 1997 Dr. Shaw was named an Investigator of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, and he is currently Professor of Medicine and Microbiology at UAB. Shaw's 230 original publications include pioneering studies revealing the dynamic nature of HIV replication in acute and chronic infection, HIV escape from host humoral and cellular immune control, and novel insights into the genetic and biological features of acutely transmitted isolates of HIV and SIV that are responsible for the spread of virus between individuals. His work has also introduced innovative technological advances that transformed the field of molecular virology, and his recent studies expanded these concepts to studies of viral hepatitis.
Penn Medicine is one of the world's leading academic medical centers, dedicated to the related missions of medical education, biomedical research, and excellence in patient care. Penn Medicine consists of the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine (founded in 1765 as the nation's first medical school) and the University of Pennsylvania Health System, which together form a $3.6 billion enterprise.
Penn's School of Medicine is currently ranked #2 in U.S. News & World Report's survey of research-oriented medical schools, and is consistently among the nation's top recipients of funding from the National Institutes of Health, with $367.2 million awarded in the 2008 fiscal year.
Penn Medicine's patient care facilities include:
The Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania – the nation's first teaching hospital, recognized as one of the nation's top 10 hospitals by U.S. News & World Report.
Penn Presbyterian Medical Center – named one of the top 100 hospitals for cardiovascular care by Thomson Reuters for six years.
Pennsylvania Hospital – the nation's first hospital, founded in 1751, nationally recognized for excellence in orthopaedics, obstetrics & gynecology, and behavioral health.
Additional patient care facilities and services include Penn Medicine at Rittenhouse, a Philadelphia campus offering inpatient rehabilitation and outpatient care in many specialties; as well as a primary care provider network; a faculty practice plan; home care and hospice services; and several multispecialty outpatient facilities across the Philadelphia region.
Penn Medicine is committed to improving lives and health through a variety of community-based programs and activities. In fiscal year 2009, Penn Medicine provided $733.5 million to benefit our community.
Source: University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine
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Egypt frees Al-Jazeera journalist detained since 2016 CAIRO (AP) — An Egyptian court has ordered the release of Al-Jazeera journalist Mahmoud Hussein, detained since 2016 on allegations of spreading false news and defaming Egypt's reputation. Husse...
Egypt sues Christie's over £5m sale of King Tut sculpture Egypt has asked Interpol to help track down a 3,000-year-old sculpture of Tutankhamun after Christie's auctioned it despite the country's objections....
Hosts Egypt beat Zimbabwe in AFCON opener Egypt have started their Africa Cup of Nations with a 1-0 win over Zimbabwe. Dominant for much of the match, the favorites struggled to break down outgunned but well-drilled opponents....
Egypt TV says ousted president Morsi dies in court CAIRO (AP) — Egypt's state TV says the country's ousted President Mohammed Morsi has collapsed during a court session and died. The state TV says the 67-year-old Morsi was attending a sess...
| Egypt's former president Morsi quietly buried in Cairo Egypt's first democratically elected president Mohamed Morsi has been buried, as the UN backed calls for an independent investigation into the causes of his death after he collapsed in a Cairo courtro...
Egypt opens new international airport for trial period Egypt has opened a new international airport on a one-month trial basis to service the city which will become the country's new capital from mid-2020....
| Egypt's Sinai: At least 47 fighters, 5 troops killed in battle Forty-seven fighters and five Egyptian soldiers were killed during Egypt's ongoing military offensive in the restive Sinai Peninsula, where it is fighting Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant....
Egypt v Zimbabwe: Africa Cup of Nations 2019 – as it happened Trezeguet's goal gives hosts winning start 10.57pm BST Mission accomplished for the hosts. They started this match with real vibrancy but soon ran out of ideas against a well organised and very tidy Z...
Despite need for Sinai funds, Egypt unlikely to join Kushner plan A U.S.-proposed $9 billion aid package could tempt Egypt with long-sought financing to transform its strife-torn Sinai peninsula, but analysts say political risks are likely to outweigh any potential ...
| Egypt blackface sketch spotlights racism in region An Egyptian comedian has sparked anger by using blackface in a sketch and mocking Sudanese people, drawing attention to what experts say is a deeper racism problem in the region....
Officials: Militants kill 4 workers in Egypt's Sinai EL-ARISH, Egypt (AP) — Egyptian officials say militants have attacked construction workers in the restive northern Sinai Peninsula, killing at least four civilian workers. The officials say Saturday&#...
Is Egypt using Syrian refugees as a bargaining chip with Europe? For Syrian refugees in Egypt, crackdowns from the state and racism in society are a part of everyday life. A migration expert spoke to DW about conditions in the country, and how the EU shares some of...
The Latest: Watchdog assails Egypt over Morsi mistreatment The Latest on developments in Egypt after former President Mohammed Morsi's dramatic collapse and death inside a Cairo courtroom (all times local): 8:10 a.m....
Bust of Tutankhamun sold at auction for £4.7m despite Egypt protests The 'rare and beautiful' 3,000-year-old sculpture goes under the hammer in defiance of claims it was stolen A brown quartzite head of young king Tutankhamun has sold at auction in London for more than...
Egypt explosion injures tourists near Giza pyramids At least 14 people were injured in an explosion that targeted a tourist bus carrying 25 South African citizens, Egypt's state-run Ahram daily reported....
Egypt's Morsi quietly buried, a day after courtroom death CAIRO (AP) — A lawyer says Egypt's ousted President Mohammed Morsi has been buried, a day after collapsing and dying in a Cairo courtroom. Abdul-Moneim Abdel-Maqsoud says Morsi's family at...
Al-Qaida accuses Egypt of killing ex-president Morsi in jail CAIRO (AP) — Al-Qaida is accusing Egyptian authorities of killing jailed former President Mohamed Morsi, who died in a Cairo courtroom during his trial earlier this month. The militant group's m...
Trézéguet goal sinks Zimbabwe and gets hosts Egypt up and running • Egypt 1-0 Zimbabwe• Mohamed Salah makes return to action in Africa Cup of NationsTrézéguet scored the only goal as the hosts, Egypt, opened their Africa Cup of Nations campaign with a 1-0 victory ov...
Egypt officials say roadside bomb wounds 6 police in Sinai EL-ARISH, Egypt (AP) — Egyptian security officials are saying that six policemen were wounded by a roadside bomb targeting a police patrol vehicle in the restive northern Sinai province. The officials...
U.N. calls for independent look into death of former Egypt leader Mohamed Morsi The United Nations human rights office called for an independent investigation Tuesday into the death of former Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi, a day after he died inside a Cairo courtroom....
Top militant suspect transferred to Egypt from eastern Libya: state TV Top Egyptian militant suspect Hisham al-Ashmawy was transferred to Egypt from eastern Libya in a military aircraft, Egyptian state television said on Wednesday....
New cities in the sand: inside Egypt's dream to conquer the desert Four decades ago Egypt embarked on the most ambitious new cities building programme in the world. Their boom shows no sign of stoppingDo you live in a city planned from scratch? Share your experiences...
Tunisia, Algeria, Egypt call for a cease-fire in Libya TUNIS, Tunisia (AP) — Tunisia, Algeria and Egypt have expressed their "deep concern" over the chaotic situation in Libya and called for an immediate cease-fire in the country. The foreign ...
The Latest: Egypt slams Houthi attack on 2 Saudi airports DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — The Latest on developments in the Persian Gulf (all times local): 2:25 p.m. Egypt is strongly condemning two drone attacks by Yemeni rebels, known as Houthis, that t...
The Latest: Egypt's leader says Gulf security vital to Cairo Egypt's President Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi told Arab heads of state gathered at an emergency summit in Mecca that the security of Arab Gulf states is intrinsically linked to the national security of Egyp...
| Fallout runs deep as Salah, Egypt flop at Cup of Nations After his tale of redemption with Liverpool this season, Mohamed Salah was instead left in disbelief once more as Egypt crashed out of their own Africa Cup of Nations....
Statue Of King Tut, Which Egypt Claims Was Stolen, Sells For $6 Million A 3,000-year-old bust of Egypt's boy king Tutankhamen was auctioned off Thursday in London for nearly $6 million, despite claims by the Egyptian government that it was looted and smuggled out of the.....
Egypt's Salah fit to face South Africa - team official "Egypt forward Mohamed Salah, who missed training with a cold on Thursday, will be fit to face South Africa in their Africa Cup of Nations round of 16 match on Saturday, a team spokesman said."...
King Tut bust that Egypt claims was 'stolen' sells for $6 million A controversial 3,000-year-old stone sculpture of boy pharaoh King Tutankhamun has been sold for nearly $6 million at auction in the U.K., despite protests from the Egyptian government....
Militants attack security checkpoints in Egypt's northern Sinai: TV Militants launched attacks on a number of security checkpoints in northern Sinai and Egyptian forces were dealing with the attackers, Egypt's Extra News television said on Wednesday....
Hundreds of Brotherhood supporters mourn Egypt's Mursi in Turkey Hundreds of supporters of the Muslim Brotherhood in Turkey took to the streets of Ankara and Istanbul on Tuesday to mourn former Egyptian president Mohamed Mursi, with some chanting slogans blaming Ca...
| Egypt jihadist returned from Libya to face terror charges A high-profile Egyptian jihadist who was transferred to Cairo from Libya will face a military tribunal over his alleged involvement in terror attacks, security and judicial sources say....
Egypt's ousted president Morsi dies in court during trial Egypt's state TV says Mohammed Morsi, the Brotherhood leader who became the country's first freely elected president and who was ousted by the military after a year in office, died during a court sess...
Egypt asks Interpol to trace Tutankhamun relic sold for £4.7m in UK Cairo calls on international police agency to find head sold to unknown buyer for £4.7mEgypt has asked Interpol to track down a 3,000-year-old Tutankhamun artefact sold in London for £4.7m despite fie...
Africa Cup of Nations roundup: Mohamed Salah on target as Egypt win • Madagascar 2-0 Nigeria; Burundi 0-2 Guinea• Mohamed Salah scores as Egypt beat UgandaMadagascar pulled off one of the great shocks of the Africa Cup of Nations finals when they upset Nigeria 2-0 on ...
Egypt opens Sneferu's 'Bent' Pyramid in Dahshur to public Egypt opened to visitors on Saturday the "Bent" Pyramid built for pharaoh Sneferu, a 101-meter structure just south of Cairo that marks a key step in the evolution of pyramid construction....
| US, Egypt urge calm in Libya amid Tripoli offensive The United States and Egypt, a key backer of Libyan militia leader Khalifa Haftar, have called for calm as the strongman pressed ahead in his offensive on Tripoli....
Mohamed Morsi, Egypt's First Democratically Elected President, Dies Mohamed Morsi, who was ousted after serving a year as president, collapsed and died in a Cairo courtroom. Critics cited poor prison conditions as a possible cause of death....
Egypt opens two of its oldest pyramids to visitors for first time since 1960s The Bent Pyramid and its satellite pyramid in the Dahshur royal necropolis represent a transitional form of pyramid construction. ...
Egypt, Jordan, Morocco to attend U.S.-led Palestinian conference: official Egypt, Jordan and Morocco have informed the Trump administration they plan to attend a U.S.-led conference in Bahrain in late June on proposals for boosting the Palestinian economy as part of a coming...
Europeans and Egypt send air support as Israel battles wildfires Four European countries and Egypt sent aircraft to help Israel battle wildfires that have forced the evacuation of some small towns, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Friday, as a record heatw...
Mohammed Morsi, Egypt's ousted president, dies in court Mohammed Morsi, the ousted president of Egypt, collapsed in court and died Monday, according to state TV. Morsi, 67, was being tried on espionage and other charges when he blacked out and died of an a...
Mohamed Morsi, ousted president of Egypt, dies in court Imprisoned former leader, 67, collapses and dies while on trial on espionage charges Egypt's first democratically elected civilian president, Mohamed Morsi, has collapsed during a court session and di...
The Latest: Amnesty urges Egypt to investigate Morsi's death CAIRO (AP) — The Latest on former Egyptian President Mohammed Morsi's death during a court hearing (all times local): 9:50 p.m. A leading human right group is urging Egypt to investigate the dea...
Media group says Egypt suppressed coverage of Morsi's death CAIRO (AP) — A media advocacy group says Egypt has suppressed media coverage of the death of former president Mohammed Morsi in a Cairo courtroom this week. Reporters Without Borders, or RSF, said Fri...
Mohamed Salah, Hosts Egypt Set for Africa Cup Bow In Stifling Heat All eyes will be on Mohamed Salah on Friday as the Egypt star looks to help the Africa Cup of Nations hosts launch their bid for a record-extending eighth title...
Egypt suspends hot air ballooning in Luxor after 11 tourists swept into the desert Egypt has suspended hot air ballooning over ancient sites in Luxor after winds took 11 tourists off course and forced them to land in the desert. ...
Amr Warda returns to Egypt squad after intervention of senior players • Mohamed Salah among players to show support for midfielder • Midfielder was expelled after sexual harassment allegationsAmr Warda's expulsion from Egypt's Africa Cup of Nations squad for alleged sex...
Rights group: Abuses in Egypt's Sinai amount to war crimes A leading international rights group on Tuesday accused Egypt's security forces of committing widespread abuses against civilians in the Sinai Peninsula, where Egypt has been battling Islamic militant...
Investors Dodge Global Worries in Currencies of Egypt, Ukraine Investors are snapping up exotic currencies like the Egyptian pound and Ukrainian hryvnia as they seek assets with little correlation to global markets amid rising worries over growth and trade....
France, Britain, Egypt, UAE, U.S., Italy call for immediate end of Libya violence France, Britain, Egypt, the United Arab Emirates, United States and Italy on Tuesday called for an immediate end of hostilities around Tripoli and warned of attempts by "terrorist groups" to take adva...
Mohamed Morsi Made History As Egypt's First Democratically Elected Leader When Mohamed Morsi, a leader of Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood, broke out of jail during the final days of Hosni Mubarak's presidency in 2011, he little imagined that the following year he would be......
Netflix, Disney consider boycotting Georgia, continue partnerships with Egypt, China Entertainment giants Netflix and Disney are threatening to pull their business out of Georgia over the state's recently-enacted "heartbeat" abortion bill....
Sudan military chief meets Egypt's Sisi on first trip since ouster The head of Sudan's ruling military council visited neighboring Egypt on Saturday - his first trip abroad since the army overthrew former president Omar al-Bashir last month after mass protests agains...
Salah helps Warda get reinstated in Egypt's national team Mohamed Salah's intervention helped get Amr Warda back on the Egyptian national soccer team despite accusations that he sent lewd messages to two women ...
Egypt condemns attack on oil tankers in Gulf of Oman: foreign ministry Egypt condemned on Thursday any acts that undermine the safety of waterways in the Gulf region, the foreign ministry said, after two oil tankers were attacked and left adrift in the Gulf of Oman....
Egypt's Ex-President Mohammed Morsi Dies In Court While Facing Trial Mohammed Morsi, Egypt's first democratically elected president, collapsed in court and died Monday while facing trial, prompting supporters and human rights activists to demand an impartial probe into...
Egypt's ousted Islamist president Mursi dies after collapsing in court Former Egyptian President Mohamed Mursi, the first democratically elected head of state in Egypt's modern history, died on Monday from a heart attack after collapsing in a Cairo court while on trial o...
Egypt's ousted President Mohammed Morsi dead after collapsing in court Mohamed Morsi, the former president of Egypt and top Muslim Brotherhood official who was ousted by the military in 2013 and had been standing trial for espionage, collapsed and died during a court ses...
Egypt's Former President Mohammed Morsi Dies in Court, State TV Reports (CAIRO) — Egypt's former president, Mohammed Morsi, the Muslim Brotherhood leader who rose to office in the country's first free elections in 2012 and was ousted a year later by the ...
Africa Cup of Nations 2019: Hosts Egypt maintain perfect record Host nation Egypt made it three wins out of three in Group A, beating Uganda who finised as group runners up. Elsewhere, Madagascar caused the biggest upset of the tournament so far by beating Nigeria...
Egypt Quietly Buries Former President Morsi, Muting Coverage of Death The country's first democratically elected president, Mohamed Morsi, was buried at dawn in a furtive and closely guarded ceremony. Reporters were barred....
In Egypt's Nile Delta, fishermen's families hope for a bigger catch In Egypt's Nile Delta, Om Ahmed ponders how her two sons will be able to marry and build new homes when they only earn about 70 Egyptian pounds ($4.10) from a day's fishing....
| Disgraced footballer kick-starts fresh #MeToo debate in Egypt Egyptian footballer Amr Warda, accused of rampant sexual harassment, has been reinstated for the Africa Cup of Nations amid a heated debate about women's rights....
Climb down a 256-foot tunnel to explore Egypt's Bent Pyramid Egypt has opened a tunnel into the 'bent pyramid' for tourists to explore two chambers in the 4600-year-old structure. ...
Egypt teaches students about love and marriage in attempt to curb divorce During a recent class at Cairo University, students laughed as they watched a skit acted out by their peers about a married couple. The husband came home from work and asked his wife, who was......
Christian Church Ruins Unearthed in Alexandria May Be Oldest Ever Found in Egypt An excavation in Egypt has unearthed some ruins that they say is one of the oldest Christian churches ever found in the country. The experts were working on a ruined basilica when they found the remai...
"Nawaz Sharif Won't Meet Fate Of Egypt's Mohammad Morsi," Says Daughter There is a serious threat to the life of jailed former Pakistan Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif due to lack of medical care, his daughter Maryam said Saturday as she vowed to not let his father meet the.....
Egypt Ex-President Mohamed Morsi Dies After Fainting During Court Session Former Egyptian president Mohamed Morsi died on Monday in a Cairo hospital after fainting during a session in court, judicial and security sources said....
Egypt opens Bent Pyramid to tourists, unveils new archaeological finds The Egyptian government has opened an unusual pyramid to the public for the first time in decades. Its Antiquities Ministry also put on display a host of significant archaeological finds recently disc...
MIDEAST STOCKS-Qatar and Egypt rise, other Gulf markets closed for holiday Stock markets in Qatar and Egypt rose on Monday, while other Gulf markets, including Saudi Arabia, are closed for the Eid ul-Fitr holiday. QATAR The index .QSI rose 1.5 % to 10,319 points EG...
Islamist Mursi briefly made history as Egypt's first democratically elected president When Mohamed Mursi, a leader of Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood, broke out of jail during the final days of Hosni Mubarak's presidency in 2011, he little imagined that the following year he would be presid...
Serial Sexual Harasser Amr Warda Allowed To Rejoin Egypt National Team On Wednesday, it appeared that the Egypt national soccer team had taken a commendable stand against sexual harassment when it kicked Amr Warda off the team after stories of Warda being a pestering cre...
Africa Cup of Nations 2019: Day of shocks as holders Cameroon and hosts Egypt both fall The holders and the hosts are both out as Nigeria and South Africa pulled off big wins. Odion Ighalo was the star for Nigeria, who came from behind to beat Cameroon, while a late Thembinkosi Lorch stu...
| Egypt's Sisi hosts Abu Dhabi crown prince amid Gulf tensions Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi has met Abu Dhabi's powerful crown prince, Mohammed bin Zayed al-Nahyan, the presidency says, amid rising tensions in the Gulf....
Indian Naval Ship Tarkash Reaches Egypt For Overseas Deployment Programme Indian Naval ship Tarkash arrived at Alexandria in Egypt on Friday for a three-day visit as a part of Western Fleet Overseas Deployment programme, the Navy said....
Egypt's ousted president dies in court while facing trial, state TV reports Mohamed Morsi died of an apparent heart attack, according to Egyptian media. He had been imprisoned since 2013, when his elected government was overthrown in a military coup....
MIDEAST STOCKS-Egypt snaps winning streak, while MSCI upgrade keeps lifting Kuwait Egypt's blue-chip index snapped four straight days of gains on Thursday as most of its stocks dropped, while Kuwait rose for the sixth consecutive session after MSCI decided to upgrade Kuwaiti equitie...
A defense lawyer says Egypt's ousted President Mohammed Morsi has been buried in Cairo, with family attending CAIRO (AP) — A defense lawyer says Egypt's ousted President Mohammed Morsi has been buried in Cairo, with family attending. The post A defense lawyer says Egypt's ousted President Mohammed...
Egypt at 2019 Africa Cup of Nations: AFCON squad, fixtures, draw and group, titles and history Egypt will be looking to go one better than their 2017 Africa Cup of Nations runners-up finish, with The Pharaohs among the favourites this time around....
UN chief pays tribute to Egypt's role in avoiding 'dramatic' escalation in conflict across the Gaza-Israel border UN Secretary-General António Guterres has paid tribute to the role played by Egypt in helping to avoid a "dramatic" escalation of violence in Gaza over recent months, as tensions grew over Palestinian...
Egypt v South Africa: Africa Cup of Nations round of 16 – live! Updates as the hosts look to secure a quarter-final place in CairoBenin shock Morocco to set up Senegal clashFeel free to email Scott with your thoughts 11.09am BST Can hosts Egypt make it to the quar...
Facebook will pay you to let it spy on you After coming under fire earlier this year for quietly paying users between the ages of 13 and 35 up to $20 a month in most cases for permission to install a "Facebook Research" VPN on thei...
Facebook Wants Your Blood Donating blood is a selfless act, and as with many altruistic behaviors, it's not always easy to convince people to take a couple of hours out of their day to do it. Yet it is desperately requir...
|Facebook,Instagramhavingconnectivityissuesforsomeusers Facebook said its applications, including the main social-media service and Instagram photo-sharing app, were experiencing connectivity issues on Wednesday....
Facebook and Instagram Can't Seem to Keep Their Shit Together Well, folks, Facebook and its "family of apps" has experienced yet another crash. A nice respite moving into the long holiday weekend if you ask me.Read more......
Is Facebook really the corporate monster everyone wants it to be? The ethics of Facebook, as a corporation, have come into question lately. Though criticisms of the platform have stretched back to its inception, the incident that inspired the most recent waves of ir...
Why is Facebook doing robotics research? It's a bit strange to hear that the world's leading social network is pursuing research in robotics rather than, say, making search useful, but Facebook is a big organization with many com...
Facebook will offer more info on the ads you see There's a good chance some strange ads have popped up in your Facebook News Feed. Now, the company wants to give users more clarity about why they're seeing specific ads. In the past, users ...
New Facebook app will pay users for their data Facebook is launching a new app called Study which will pay users for their data following a series of scandals about the way the company acquires and handles users' data....
Facebook wants your actual blood Facebook isn't happy just hoarding your data for its own good, so now it wants your actual blood. But it's all for a good cause, as the site's new Blood Donation notifications featur...
FTC Fine Alone Won't Get Facebook Out of Crosshairs Facebook is moving closer to settling a privacy probe by its main U.S. regulator, but the large fine it has prepared to pay is unlikely to get the social-media giant out of the political hot seat in W...
Facebook's New Cryptocurrency Gets Big Backers Facebook has signed up more than a dozen companies including Visa, Mastercard, PayPal and Uber to back the new cryptocurrency that the social-media giant plans to unveil next week....
How you can see which companies found you on Facebook Facebook's new ad-transparency features can give valuable context into how companies find you, but it's not likely to stop a tracking industry. ...
Facebook Patents Shadowbanning Within the past 24 hours, Facebook was granted a patent for "Moderating content in an online forum," which it first applied for in February of 2015. Unfortunately, the most accurate term to describe w...
What is Libra? All you need to know about Facebook's new cryptocurrency Facebook claims it wants to reach people without access to a bank account, and that Libra is the best wayOn Tuesday, Facebook announced a digital currency called Libra that will roll out for use in 20...
How Fox News conquered Facebook The channel attracts an ageing, angry crowd on its page, resulting in a high number of reactions, comments and shares – and that's good for TrumpDonald Trump's backing from the Fox News channel is wel...
Why Facebook Is Minting a Coin and How You Can Use It Facebook Inc. -- along with 27 partners -- is wading into the world of cryptocurrencies with Libra, a digital token that's projected to be used in everything from commerce to money transfers. Here are...
Everything You Need to Know About Facebook's Upcoming Cryptocurrency In case you hadn't heard, Facebook's working on a cryptocurrency. There have been plenty of rumors floating around on the secretive project, codenamed Libra, for a while now, but this week we saw the ...
Facebook will ban ads that tell people in U.S. not to vote Facebook Inc will ban ads that discourage people from voting ahead of the 2020 U.S. presidential election, according to its second annual Civil Rights Audit published on Sunday....
Facebook is ripe for exploitation – again – in 2020 Facebook claims to have cleaned up its act. But the platform remains vulnerable to the same sorts of divisive propagandaWe won't need Russia in 2020. We will hijack our democracy ourselves. And Facebo...
Facebook tries another pay-for-data market research app Facebook is launching a new market research app to gather data from users' phones. The company wants to know which apps users have installed, the amount of time they spend on those apps and users...
Facebook To Cut Off Huawei To Comply With US Sanctions Facebook said Friday it would cut off Huawei from its popular social networking apps to comply with US sanctions, further isolating the Chinese tech giant considered a national security threat by......
It's not you, it's Facebook, Messenger, Instagram and WhatsApp; all four are currently down Having trouble using Facebook, Facebook Messenger Instagram or WhatsApp this morning? That's no surprise to those who view DownDetector on a regular basis. The site shows that all four Facebook-owned ...
Facebook CEO may have known of questionable privacy practices: WSJ Facebook Inc emails appear to show Chief Executive Officer Mark Zuckerberg's involvement in discussions about its much criticized privacy practices, the Wall Street Journal reported on Wednesday, citi...
How to Sign Up as a Blood Donor With Facebook When hospitals are running low on blood, there's no way to just order more—blood banks have to get the word out to volunteers like you and me who might want to donate. Facebook is now rolling out a bl...
FTC Gets Jurisdiction for Possible Facebook Antitrust Probe The Federal Trade Commission will lead any antitrust investigation into Facebook under an arrangement that gives the Justice Department chief oversight of Alphabet's Google, as the U.S. government gea...
Facebook's 'cryptocurrency' Libra has nothing to do with Bitcoin Facebook's Libra is not a cryptocurrency and won't offer the kinds of protections that Bitcoin does. It's a way for Facebook to track what you buy.Read More...
When Police Officers Vent on Facebook Emily Baker-White's systemic look at officers on social media found thousands of racist, Islamophobic or otherwise offensive posts. Here's how (and why) she did it....
Facebook's cryptocurrency may debut this month Facebook's long-rumored cryptocurrency may be on the cusp of launching, and with a few twists to boot. The Information sources say the digital money is expected to premiere later in June. The s...
Facebook to create 500 new UK tech jobs Facebook is expanding its presence in the UK with a new engineering center and the social network has announced that it will create 500 new tech jobs in London by the end of 2019.Of these new jobs, 10...
Facebook launches app that will pay users for their data New app comes months after Apple cracked down on Facebook for similar apps that paid users for extensive data on phone usageA new Facebook app will allow users to sell the company data on how they use...
Facebook could announce its own cryptocurrency next month Public interest in cryptocurrency could be set for a rebound as social media giant Facebook is planning to announce its own digital coin later this month according to a new report from The Information...
Facebook to pay users to monitor their cellphone use Facebook announced Tuesday it's launching a new optional program to pay users if they allow the social media company to monitor how they use their cellphone....
Facebook reveals new Libra cryptocurrency Facebook has finally taken the wraps off its long-awaited cryptocurrency.The social media giant has revealed that it will be launching the new Libra cryptocurrency as part of its blockchain-powered Ca...
Facebook's New Cryptocurrency, Libra, Gets Big Backers Facebook has signed up more than a dozen companies including Visa, Mastercard, PayPal and Uber to back the new cryptocurrency that the social-media giant plans to unveil next week....
Facebook is working on 'entirely new' apps and 'experiences' Today, Facebook announced a New Product Experimentation (NPE) Team that will be responsible for developing new apps. The goal is to give people "entirely new experiences for building community" and to...
ProBeat: YouTube is no better than Facebook or Twitter YouTube is not a social network, but when it comes to its rules and recommendation algorithms, the Google company is just like Facebook and Twitter.Read More...
Facebook to launch cryptocurrency for FB users Facebook unveiled an ambitious plan Tuesday to create a new digital currency for its 2 billion-plus users worldwide. The currency, called Libra, could drive more e-commerce and boost ads on its platfo...
Facebook to Boost Consumer Advertising Facebook may more than double its global advertising spending as it aims to rebuild trust after a series of privacy missteps and other controversies dented the social-networking giant's reputation....
Apple co-founder thinks you should get off Facebook Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak has some advice for most Facebook users: Delete your account. The millionaire, who co-founded Apple with Steve Jobs, recently said that a lack of privacy is his main con...
Facebook's VR Dream May Never Take Off, Oculus Co-Founder Says Oculus may not be profitable as Facebook is struggling to bring VR to the mainstream consumer market, says Jack McCauley, one of the co-founders of Oculus....
U.S. judge waves through D.C. case against Facebook A U.S. judge on Friday denied Facebook Inc.'s request to dismiss a lawsuit by the Washington, D.C. attorney general over the social media giant's improper sharing of 87 million users' data with Britis...
U.S. SEC chief says he has not met with Facebook since Libra announcement A top U.S. financial market regulator said on Tuesday he has not discussed with Facebook its Libra currency proposal, nearly a month after the social media giant announced the project....
Facebook's New Libra Coin: How Does It Work, and Should You Buy It? On Tuesday Facebook announced Libra, a cryptocurrency that it will launch (along with 27 other partners) in 2020. A little like Bitcoin and a little like PayPal, Libra will be a new digital currency, ...
Facebook's Notifications Are Out of Control. Here's How to Tame Them. Facebook already has you hooked, but now it wants to keep you engaged with dozens of notifications each day. Here's how to get a little peace and quiet....
FTC approves roughly $5 bln Facebook settlement - WSJ The United States Federal Trade Commission voted this week to approve a roughly $5 billion settlement with Facebook Inc over a long-running investigation into the company's privacy missteps, the Wall ...
Facebook's Libra Needs Scrutiny, BOE's Carney Says Facebook's Libra project should be carefully vetted by regulators, Bank of England Gov. Mark Carney is expected to say Thursday, offering an early insight into how the U.K. central bank will approach ...
|Facebook'sLibracryptocoin:5thingsweknow,and5wedon't Facebook unveiled plans for a new cryptocurrency called Libra this week. After a week of analysis, here's what Bloomberg reporters and editors know about Libra, along with key unknowns that remain....
SEC Weighs Whether to Regulate Facebook's Libra U.S. securities regulators are examining whether Facebook Inc.'s planned cryptocurrency should fall under their oversight, a development that could further complicate the project....
Facebook now provides more info about targeted ads – and tools so you can opt out In March this year, Facebook released a tool called "Why am I seeing this?", which allowed users to take a deeper look at the ads they were being shown and the reason they were being tar...
Why (Almost) Everybody Hates Facebook's Cryptocurrency Libra Facebook Inc. says its mission is to "bring the world closer together." Its plans to launch a digital currency called Libra have succeeded in uniting central bankers and financial regulators from arou...
U.S. SEC chief says he has not discussed Libra with Facebook A top U.S. financial market regulator said on Tuesday he has not discussed with Facebook its Libra currency proposal, nearly a month after the social media giant announced the project....
Facebook Now Shows You Where Advertisers Get Your Data—Here's How to See It The next time you see Facebook ads for, say, erectile dysfunction pills or egg freezing, you can check to see why you were targeted by those brands and where the companies got your data.Read more......
Facebook Still Working On the Whole Genocide Thing In a blog post yesterday evening, social media giant Facebook announced several changes meant to mitigate the effects of misinformation and hate speech causing real-world violence, including the forma...
Go chat yourself with Facebook's new Portal companion app Ignoring calls that it's creepy, Facebook is forging onward with its Portal smart display. Today Facebook quietly launched iOS and Android Portal apps that let owners show off photos on the scr...
|Facebook'sbigLibralaunch'onlyfannedtheflames'forcritics Congress holding hearings on Facebook's plan for a possible digital coin suggests that the high-profile debut for Libra was likely a public relations effort gone bad....
Facebook Ditches Commissions, Not Dollars Facebook is finally getting smart about public relations by making important-sounding changes to its business that do virtually nothing to affect its bottom line....
WSJ: Facebook reaches $5 billion FTC settlement The inevitable has happened for Facebook. After weeks of reports that the company was working to settle with the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) over its privacy practices, the two parties have finally...
Facebook Dodged a Bullet From the F.T.C. It Faces Many More. The social network may have escaped restrictions and financial bruising with the F.T.C.'s settlement, but its pain is just beginning around the world....
Facebook to ban ads dissuading Americans from voting Facebook issued an update on its Civil Rights Audit today and notes that the platform now bans messages that praise, support or represent white nationalism and white separatism. The report adds that F...
Facebook and Twitter are growing into the mainstream The row over a fake Nancy Pelosi video shows platforms are no longer disruptors, but incumbents, gatekeepers and publishersIn the first three months of 2019, Facebook removed about 2bn fake accounts f...
Senators Want Facebook to Put a Price on Your Data. Is That Possible? A bill introduced by senators Mark Warner and Josh Hawley would require big tech companies to disclose the data they collect and value it for each user....
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1995: Navarat Maykha, accidental smuggler
Add comment September 29th, 2019 Headsman
A Thai national named Navarat Maykha was hanged in Singapore on this date in 1995 for drug-smuggling.
"An impoverished and uneducated woman, and also deeply religious, she swore until her death that she was unaware of the heroin that was hidden in the lining of a suitcase given to her by a Nigerian friend," is the sad summation of this 2005 article about Singapore's death penalty — which goes on to quote her attorney Peter Fernando on the injustice of the island
"It's heartbreaking sometimes," said Fernando during a recent interview from his office in Singapore. "If you are an addict, and you are simply sitting at home with more than 15 grams of heroin and you cannot prove with scientific accuracy that a portion of the drugs are for personal use, you will hang."
This wasn't the particular form of heartbreaking that applied to Navarat Maykha, who was persuaded by the aforementioned Nigerian friend to bring some clothes to a pal in Singapore. The luggage encasing said wardrobe had 3.19 kilos of heroin sewn into it.
* Most of the (few) citations for this case situate the hanging on September 28. However, Singapore always carries out its hangings on Friday … and in 1995, Friday was September 29.
1832: William Hodkin, child rapist - 2020
1972: Helenira Rezende, Brazil guerrilla - 2018
1848: Harris Bell - 2017
1554: A false coiner and a masked dummy - 2016
1891: Ed Leeper and James Powell - 2015
1469: Humphrey and Charles Neville, Lancastrians - 2014
1893: Scuffletonians in Mt. Vernon, Georgia - 2013
1939: Pete Catalina and Angelo Agnes, Colorado murderers - 2012
1915: Thomas and Meeks Griffin, ancestors of Tom Joyner - 2011
1941: Babi Yar massacre begins - 2010
1503: Anacaona and the caciques of Xaragua - 2009
1979: Francisco Macías Nguema, President for Life - 2008
1995: Angel Mou Pui-Peng
1994: Johannes van Damme, heroin smuggler
1988: Adrian Lim and his two wives
1995: Flor Contemplacion, OFW
1923: Florence Lassandro, unwilling feminist
1973: Mimi Wong Weng Siu, jealous hostess
1983: 26 in Tehran
Entry Filed under: 20th Century,Capital Punishment,Common Criminals,Crime,Death Penalty,Drugs,Execution,Hanged,Singapore,Women
Tags: 1990s, 1995, changi prison, navarat maykha, september 29
Add comment January 6th, 2019 Richard Clark
(Thanks to Richard Clark of Capital Punishment U.K. for the guest post, a reprint of an article originally published on that site with some explanatory links added by Executed Today. CapitalPunishmentUK.org features a trove of research and feature articles on the death penalty in England and elsewhere. -ed.)
Angel Mou Pui-Peng, a 25-year-old unmarried mother, was hanged in Changi prison before dawn on Friday the 6th of January 1995. She became the 95th person (and third woman) to hang under Singapore's strict 1975 anti-drug laws. Cheuk Mei-mei, 29, also from Hong Kong, was executed in 1994 and another three women were executed for drug trafficking in 1995 including two who were only 18 at the time of their crime. Altogether 30 people were hanged in Singapore for drug trafficking in 1995 with a further six men and one woman (Flor Contemplacion) being hanged for murder. Although there have been more women executed for murder, only one other woman has been hanged for drug offences since the end of 1995. (Navarat Maykha, a Thai national, was executed in September 1996.)
Under Singapore law, the death sentence is mandatory for anyone over 18 convicted of trafficking in more than 15 grams (half an ounce) of heroin, 30 grams (one ounce) of morphine or 500 grams (18 oz.) of cannabis. Prisoners have an automatic right of appeal to the Appeal Court and if that fails, may petition the President for mercy. However, death sentences are virtually always carried out. I know of only one case where a reprieve was granted — to a Burmese man who was completely illiterate and clearly had no idea that he was committing a crime.
Angel, a resident of then-British Hong Kong born in then-Portuguese Macau,* was arrested at Singapore's Changi airport on August the 29th, 1991, after arriving from Bangkok with a suitcase containing 20 packets totaling over 4.1 kg of heroin according to the Central Narcotics Bureau. At her trial, she claimed she did not know the false-bottom suitcase contained heroin and thought she was carrying contraband watches instead. She was found guilty and sentenced to death in 1993 and as usual in Singapore, both her appeals were rejected.
However, she was granted a temporary stay of execution on the 22nd of December 1994, apparently to allow her family to visit her over Christmas, after a plea by her mother and nine year old son, having been originally scheduled to hang on Friday the 23rd of December with two Singaporean drug traffickers.
On the eve of her execution, her lawyer Peter Yap said that she was "normal and calm" when he saw her. He said she "was emotionally stable and prepared to die. Spiritually she was very strong." He also said Angel was comforted by the settlement of guardianship for her son.
The day before her execution, she would have been weighed by Singapore's executioner, Darshan Singh, to enable calculation of the correct drop. The British Home Office 1913 table of drops is still used. Unusually, Angel was executed on her own (due to the stay.) At about 5.30 a.m., she would have been escorted by her guards to a waiting room to be prepared. Shortly before 6.00 a.m. her hands would have been handcuffed behind her back and a black cloth hood placed over her head. She would then have been led the few meters to the gallows at 6.00 a.m. local time. Her legs would have been strapped together and the leather covered noose placed round her neck. Singh then told her "I am going to send you to a better place than this. God bless you."
After execution, the body was returned to relatives and she was cremated in the early evening at Mount Vernon crematorium after a short service attended by her family and friends.
"Our sister Angel has now been taken to heaven — a place we will go and we shall hope to see her there one day," an elderly pastor, speaking in Cantonese, told the congregation of some 25 people.
"When are you coming back to Hong Kong?" a young woman cried in Cantonese as she, Angel's sister, Cecilia, and a few others watched the coffin, covered in black velvet, disappear into the furnace.
Her father, reportedly reconciled with his daughter during her brief stay of execution, broke down uncontrollably after the cremation.
Macau was a Portuguese province and the President of Portugal, Mario Soares and the Portuguese government appealed for clemency on the grounds of Angel's youth and the fact that she was only a carrier. But according to Portuguese officials, Singapore said it could not differentiate between foreigners and its own people.
The Governor of Macau expressed deep sorrow and called the execution "revolting," the Portuguese news agency Lusa reported. "For someone like me who is a citizen of a country that takes a pride in being one of the first that abolished capital punishment, the loss of human life is something that is incomprehensible and even revolting," Lusa quoted Governor Rocha Vieira Vasco as saying in a message to Angel's mother. Chris Patten, who was at the time the Hong Kong Governor, said the British colony had supported a plea for clemency put forward by Britain and the European Union.
* Both colonies became Chinese territories in the late 1990s.
1977: Dardo Cabo, Argentina junta victim - 2020
1806: Cesar Herbaux, Vidocq's path not taken - 2018
1928: Floyd Hewitt, "Boy Clubber" - 2017
1927: Robert Greene Elliott conducts six electrocutions in one day - 2016
1865: Henry Regley and Charles King, General Sheridan's deserters - 2015
1554: Guillaume Dalencon, defrocked priest - 2014
1836: Abraham Prescott, homicidal somnabulist - 2013
1989: Kehar Singh and Satwant Singh, assassins of Indira Gandhi - 2012
1939: Joe Arridy, on Woodpecker Hill - 2011
1794: Maurice Joseph Louis Gigost d'Elbee, Vendean general - 2010
1634: Anna Tait, "trublit in conscience" - 2009
1945: Josefa Llanes Escoda - 2008
1953: Louisa May Merrifield, elder abuser
1935: May Hitchens Carey and Howard Carey, mother and son
1949: Margaret "Bill" Allen, transgender
1951: Jean Lee, the last woman to hang in Australia
1726: Mary Standford, shunning convict transportation
1949: Jake Bird
1752: Mary Blandy, "forgiveness powder"
Entry Filed under: 20th Century,Capital Punishment,Common Criminals,Crime,Death Penalty,Drugs,Execution,Guest Writers,Hanged,Other Voices,Portugal,Singapore,Women
Tags: 1990s, 1995, angel mou pui-peng, changi prison, drug war, january 6
2018: Shoko Asahara and six Aum Shinrikyo followers, for the Tokyo sarin attack
Add comment July 6th, 2018 Headsman
Shoko Asahara and six of his followers in the Aum Shinrikyo cult were hanged today in Japan as authors of one of the most infamous terrorist attacks in recent history: the sarin attack on the Tokyo subway of 1995.
Thirteen people died and several thousand more were injured when members of this millenial sect deposited punctured bags of homemade liquid sarin on multiple rail lines of Tokyo's subway during Monday rush hour.
It was only one of several gas attacks perpetrated by Aum Shinrikyo during the 1990s; just nine months previous, they had killed nine people in a sarin attack in Matsumoto. But it is by far the most notorious. Images of stricken commuters, blinded and suffocating under the nerve agent's influence, sprawled on the transit platforms or outside them shocked orderly Japan in 1995, especially so since it came fast on the heels of the devastating January 1995 Kobe earthquake.
These comprised "two of the gravest tragedies in Japan's postwar history," according to Haruki Murakami's Underground: The Tokyo Gas Attack and the Japanese Psyche. "It is no exaggeration to say that there was a marked change in the Japanese consciousness 'before' and 'after' these events." Japanese Justice Minister Yoko Kamikawa struck a similar chord in announcing the hangings today: "These crimes … plunged people not only in Japan but in other countries as well into deadly fear and shook society to its core."
Its mastermind Shoko Asahara, the first man executed this morning, emerged soon thereafter into public view a bedraggled and half-blind fanatic, almost the picture of an agent of chaos. Shockingly, his cult had been able to thrive in the early 1990s thanks in part to murdering an attorney who was investigating Aum Shinrikyo back in 1989.
Beyond the seven hanged on July 6, 2018, six additional members of the cult still remain under sentence of death in Japan for the Tokyo subway atrocity.
1961: Edwin Bush, Identikitted - 2020
1791: Joseph Wood and Thomas Underwood, children - 2019
1835: Five professional gamblers lynched at Vicksburg - 2017
1962: Roger Degueldre, OAS commando - 2016
2009: Yahia al-Raghwa, shot in Sana'a - 2015
1999: Gary Heidnik, serial kidnapper - 2014
1631: Giles Broadway and Lawrence Fitzpatrick, for consistency - 2013
1977: Hu Nim, Cambodian Minister of Information - 2012
1415: Jan Hus, reformer of religion and language - 2011
1816: Jorge Tadeo Lozano, Colombian Renaissance man - 2010
1840: Francois Benjamin Courvoisier, for the murder of Lord Russell - 2009
1535: Thomas More, the king's good servant but God's first - 2008
2008: The Bali Bombers
2006: 27 at Abu Ghraib Prison
2003: Paul Hill, anti-abortion martyr
2004: Mamoru Takuma, for the Osaka school massacre
2001: Mona Fandey, witch doctor
2002: Aileen Wuornos, Monster
1880: Ned Kelly
Entry Filed under: 21st Century,Capital Punishment,Common Criminals,Crime,Death Penalty,Execution,Hanged,History,Infamous,Japan,Mass Executions,Murder,Popular Culture,Religious Figures,Ripped from the Headlines,Terrorists
Tags: 1990s, 1995, aum shinrikyo, july 6, literally executed today, sarin, shoko asahara, tokyo
1995: Boris Dekanidze, the last in Lithuania
1 comment July 12th, 2016 Headsman
Lithuania conducted its last execution on this date in 1995, distinguishing Vilnius crimelord Boris Dekanidze with the milestone.
Dekanidze was born in Georgia, but had no citizenship anywhere. His father Georgy cashed in on the collapse of Soviet rule with businesses that, to survive and thrive in the 1990s, would be mobbed-up practically by definition. "When you have a collapse of government and total incompetence, people appear who can organize themselves and influence the lives of others," Georgy said in this Newsweek report. "I can't say if this is good or bad." Georgy ran the Hotel Vilnius, an apt metaphor for the era.
The dapper son was convicted of ordering the murder of investigative reporter Vitas Lingys, founder of the still-extant Lithuanian newspaper Respublia* — a conviction sustained on the evidence given by the admitted gunman, Igor Akhremov.
"The collapse of government and total incompetence" was a much more nettlesome foe than this or that murderer, however. The single bullet fired into Dekanidze's head on the morning of July 12, 1995 crippled his own criminal syndicate, the "Vilnius Brigade" — but it was not long before new gangs emerged to replace it.
Lithuania abolished the death penalty in 1998.
* Despite the punishment meted out in this one case, a wave of 1990s journalist assassinations around the former Soviet Union during the 1990s went mostly unsolved.
1822: Gullah Jack - 2020
1391: Amerigot Marcel, cast down - 2019
1758: Not Florence Hensey, Seven Years' War spy - 2018
2008: Two alleged prostitutes, by the Taliban - 2017
1936: Earl Gardner - 2015
Themed Set: Meaghan Good (II) - 2015
2013: Zeng Chengjie, China's Bernie Madoff - 2014
1960: Manfred Smolka, East German border guard - 2013
1833: Frankie Silver, Morganton legend - 2012
2006: Rocky Barton, suicidal - 2011
1916: Cesare Battisti and Fabio Filzi - 2010
1537: Robert Aske, for the Pilgrimage of Grace - 2009
1726: William Fly, unrepentant pirate - 2008
Themed Set: Embarrassed Executioners - 2008
1977: Gary Gilmore
1924: Gee Jon, debuting the gas chamber
1996: John Albert Taylor, the last American to face a firing squad
1972: Vassilis Lymberis, the last executed in Greece
1999: Zarmeena
1970: Udilberto Vasquez Bautista, Peruvian popular saint
1996: Sergey Golovkin, the last executed in Russia
Entry Filed under: 20th Century,Capital Punishment,Common Criminals,Crime,Death Penalty,Execution,Lithuania,Milestones,Murder,Organized Crime,Shot
Tags: 1990s, 1995, boris dekanidze, journalism, july 12, vilna, vilnius, vitas lingys
1995: 43 armed robbers
1 comment July 22nd, 2014 Headsman
On this date in 1995, Nigeria's military dictatorship struck a bloody blow against the country's surging crime waves with a mass execution of 43 prisoners at Kirikiri prison in Lagos.
Soldiers dressed in camouflage and with black shoe polish on their faces fired semi-automatic weapons to execute the convicts who were tied to stakes in three groups of 12 and one of seven.
The executions, which lasted 90 minutes, were witnessed by three doctors, who certified the deaths, an Irish Roman Catholic priest and a Muslim imam. (Reuters report, in the July 23, 1995 Los Angeles Times)
Armed robbery had since the 1970s been the most feared and high-profile genre of a crime surge that seemed all but impervious to remedies. Organized into aggressive syndicates stealing on an industrial scale, robbers grew so numerous and brazen that they plundered the personal home of the Vice President in 1983; another band raided currency exchange offices at the Lagos airport in 1993. For everyday citizens, the terror of home invasion, often accompanied by rape or gratuitous murder, horribly taxed material and psychological resources. A 1985 Nigerian Herald article (via) reported that
Lagosians now live behind bars, in houses caged with tough iron rods. In such homes, it takes occupants 20 to 30 minutes to get through the barricades each time they want to go out or get in. Driving in Lagos as well is done in a style intended to avoid interception by armed robbers. The basic rule is that no driver allows the vehicle behind him to catch up with his and overtaking at the wrong side of the lane by another motorist is avoided at the risk of death. In Lagos, people live in such terrible fear of armed robbers that those who are not attacked as each day passes regard themselves as fortunate.
The death penalty was decreed for armed robbery in 1970, revoked in 1980, re-introduced in 1983. In the late 1980s, Nigeria tried check points, road blocks, increased police patrols — nothing stemmed the tide.
This date's demonstrative mass execution made the news, for sure. But it didn't exactly do the trick either.
1881: Albert and Charles Talbott, bad sons - 2020
1822: Thomas Thomasen Bisp, skull exhibit - 2019
1991: Andrew Lee Jones, the last electrocuted in Louisiana - 2018
1587: George Gaspar, an English heretic in the Inquisition - 2017
1916: Arthur Grove Earp, shellshocked - 2016
1799: Elizabeth Lavender, teenage Fairlight infanticide - 2015
1979: Saddam Hussein's Ba'ath party coup - 2013
1789: Joseph-Francois Foulon, corrupt financier, lynched - 2012
1635: Domingos Fernandes Calabar, traitor? - 2011
1501: Antonio Rinaldeschi, bad gambler - 2010
1209: Massacre of Beziers, "kill them all, let God sort them out" - 2009
1794: Three generations of Noailles women, but not the Marquise de Lafayette - 2008
Themed Set: Thermidor - 2008
1943: 186 prisoners at Plotzensee Prison
2001: Zhang Jun and his gang
1981: Nasiru Bello, a little overeagerly
1960: Phineas Tshitaundzi, the panga man
1912: Thomas Jennings, fingerprinted
1994: Not Arthur Judah Angel, death row artist
1924: Frank Johnson, the first electrocuted in Florida
Entry Filed under: 20th Century,Capital Punishment,Common Criminals,Crime,Death Penalty,Execution,Mass Executions,Nigeria,Shot,Theft
Tags: 1990s, 1995, july 22, lagos
1 comment March 17th, 2012 Headsman
On this date in 1995, Filipina maid Flor Contemplacion was hanged for murder in Singapore.
Contemplacion had, four years before, strangled a fellow-maid and drowned that maid's four-year-old charge.
That's what she confessed to, at least. Even though Contemplacion's camp would eventually argue that the confession had been coerced, or that she'd been possessed by a strange epileptic, Contemplacion herself never really walked back that admission.
Still, Flor Contemplacion the cause celebre and Flor Contemplacion the cultural phenomenon was never only about the woman's innocence, even if many do still believe she was framed.
By whatever happenstance of timing and circumstance, widespread publicity of her case in the Philippines during the months leading up to her hanging tapped a national discontent among her countrymen and -women about "OFWs" — overseas Filipino workers.
This economic sector — exported labor — had been intentionally nurtured (pdf) by Manila beginning with a 1974 labor code, and over the ensuing generation ballooned twentyfold into a positively enormous phenomenon.* By the time Flor Contemplacion hanged, everybody in the Philippines knew people who had worked overseas, and whose wage remittances were indispensable (pdf) for supporting their families in the Philippines. (And increasingly, the entire national economy.)
Boom of the overseas Filipino workers sector, 1975 – 2000 (1975 = 1). Source of figures; there are more official OFW stats here.
Ascendance of the OFW industry brought with it the discontents attendant with scattering wholesale quantities of the populace to unfamiliar corners of the globe, many of them to confront the timeless varieties of workplace abuse from positions of special vulnerability: "The dark reality," one organization says this year, of "low wages, horrid working conditions, little protection for human rights, exploitation, harassment, threats, illegal arrests, imprisonment, criminalization, and deportation."
To say nothing of the political discontents raised by such a discomfiting abdication of autarky, and the "domestic anxieties" (pdf) of developing "the embarrassing reputation that we are a country of DHs [domestic helpers], entertainers, and even prostitutes." This is, truly, a rich and complex tapestry.
Flor Contemplacion is practically the patron saint of the indicted Filipino/a abroad, and her fruitless clemency appeal the political breakout of OFWs and their allies as a constituency to reckon with.
The effect was immediate. Contemplacion hadn't had any great level of consular support early in her criminal process — the time when it might have made the most difference. (The Philippines embassy in Singapore later took considerable heat for this fact.)
But as the story made headlines and some sketchy witnesses accused the victim's widower husband of being the real perpetrator, the case became a national sensation. Recently-elected president Fidel Ramos, who campaigned on restoring the previously-abolished death penalty in the Philippines, not only had to put on the full-court press for this condemned woman but incongruously declared her a "national hero"; his wife personally received Contemplacion's remains at the airport. Leaders and ordinary people from Catholics to Communists rallied (sometimes rioted) in anger.
(Singapore was just at this time establishing its own reputation as the place that never gives diplomatically expedient clemencies. Never.)
Whatever the domestic controversies, the labor-export business has only continued to grow in the generation since Contemplacion's hanging. To this day, the Filipino public has shown great sympathy with OFWs entangled in alien criminal justice systems, and demanded diplomatic support — regardless of particular individuals' putative guilt.
Regrettably, it is often called to do so: from Saudi Arabia to China, the plight of Filipinos executed abroad remains a recurrent and emotionally charged theme in the country.
Flor Contemplacion's name, well-known still anywhere in the archipelago, was back in the news last year … when her three sons all drew lifetime prison sentences for drug-smuggling.
1542: Margaret Davy, poysoner - 2020
1780: Elizabeth Butchill, Trinity College Cambridge bedding-girl - 2019
1830: Robert Emond - 2018
1784: Anne Castledine, infanticide - 2017
1706: Matthias Kraus, Bavarian rebel - 2016
2015: Twelve in Pakistan - 2015
1713: Juraj Janosik, Slovakian social bandit - 2014
1662: Rose Cullender and Amy Denny, Bury St. Edmunds witches - 2013
1999: Andrew Kokoraleis, the last ever in Illinois? - 2011
1834: Fusilamientos de Heredia - 2010
2006: Yuan Baojing, gangster capitalist - 2009
1915: Four French Corporals, for cowardice - 2008
1956: Wilbert Coffin
1963: Nora Parham, the only woman hanged in Belize
1945: Lena Baker
1871: The Paris Commune falls
1927: Sacco and Vanzetti (and Celestino Madeiros)
Entry Filed under: 20th Century,Arts and Literature,Capital Punishment,Common Criminals,Crime,Death Penalty,Disfavored Minorities,Execution,Hanged,History,Murder,Philippines,Popular Culture,Racial and Ethnic Minorities,Ripped from the Headlines,Singapore,Women
Tags: 1990s, 1995, cinema, fidel ramos, flor contemplacion, labor, march 17, migrant workers, migrants, ofw, overseas filipino worker
1995: Girvies Davis, framed?
8 comments May 17th, 2010 Headsman
On this date in 1995, Illinois executed Girvies Davis for murdering 89-year-old Charles Biebel in Belleville, Ill.
A small-time African-American hood reared in an alcoholic home, Davis was not linked to the murder by any physical evidence, or even any eyewitnesses. There was only one piece of evidence against him: his signed confession.
Unfortunately, the source lacked all credibility.
Davis copped to some 20 crimes under police interrogation. Officially, he did this when he voluntarily wrote out a list of evildoings and spontaneously passed it to a guard, which would be hard to believe even if the guy weren't nearly illiterate. (Even the official story later became that Davis must have dictated the confession to someone else, like a cellmate.)
According to Davis's later account, he signed statements the police had prepared for him … at gunpoint. The police logs say that he was taken out for a drive that night ("for evidence"), and conveniently confessed in the small hours of the morning.
Even though our man's involvement in most of these "admitted" crimes (anything outstanding in the area that was still unsolved, it seems) was disproven, he couldn't get traction in the courts once his conviction by an all-white jury was secured. Paradoxically, because there was no other evidence in the case to discredit, that "a-ha!" exoneration moment became all but impossible to secure despite the other holes in the case.
More action was had in the court of public opinion, where the usual suspects enlisted any number of pro-death penalty prosecutors and Republicans with serious misgivings about the case.
Time magazine lodged a naive early entrant in the "wait, wrongful confessions happen?" genre. The New York Times also covered the Davis clemency campaign:*
"The public sees the Bundys and the Gacys executed and they cheer," said Gary V. Johnson, a former Kane County, Ill., prosecutor, who sought the death penalty in the past but opposes the execution of Mr. Davis. "The public doesn't see the Girvies Davises."
What savvy pols like Illinois Gov. Jim Edgar could see was that in the 1990s, all the political upside was in denying clemencies. So that's what he did.
Years later, Davis's last appellate attorney still believes "that the State of Illinois executed Girvies Davis for a crime I am sure he didn't commit."
Northwestern University journalism professor David Protess was also convinced of Girvies Davis's innocence, and led a team of students researching the case back before he was famous for doing exactly that sort of thing. His work did not yield success on this occasion, but to judge by his account (pdf) of a last conversation he and his students had hours before Davis was put to death, it helped lead to the school's later headline-grabbing wrongful conviction exposes.
Protess put [Davis] on the speakerphone, and the group gathered around. "Try not to mourn for me," Davis said. "Move on with your lives. Just try to help people like me who get caught up in the system." …
Davis had a final request: He wanted Protess and the students to promise that this wouldn't be their last crusade in a capital case.
The room fell silent. "Of all the guys you know on the Row, who do you think most deserves help?" Protess asked.
"Buck Williams," Davis answered without hesitation. "I'm certain he's innocent."
Protess … vowed that he and his next group of students would leave no stone unturned for Williams.
Protess was as good as his word.
In less than a year, Williams along with Verneal Jimerson, Willie Rainge and Kenneth Adams were free men after a generation in prison.** These men, known as the "Ford Heights Four", would win the largest civil rights lawsuit payment in U.S. history for their wrongful imprisonment.
* Davis may also have been the first death-row prisoner in the U.S. with his own Internet site and online clemency petition, although these interesting artifcats have long since vanished into the digital oubliette. Gov. Edgar reportedly received 1,200 emails asking him to spare his prisoner's life … testament even then to elected officials' disregard for online advocacy.
** Williams and Jimerson were on death row; Rainge and Adams were serving life sentences.
1865: George Baker and George Beal, Salem murderers - 2020
1872: Matias Salazar - 2019
1693: Francis Winter, at the Whitefriars sanctuary - 2018
1723: Christopher Layer, for the Atterbury Plot - 2017
1649: Three Banbury mutineers at Burford church - 2016
1536: Anne Boleyn's supposed lovers - 2015
1866: Mokomoko and the Maori killers of Carl Volkner - 2014
1521: Edward Stafford, Duke of Buckingham - 2013
1964: Namgyal Bahadur, Bhutan assassin - 2012
1868: Kondo Isami, Shinsengumi - 2011
Themed Set: Executions for Abolitionists - 2010
1972: The rapists of Maggie dela Riva - 2009
1955: Leslie George Hylton, a better bowler than liar - 2008
1936: Bruno Richard Hauptmann, The Most Hated Man in the World
1993: Ruben Cantu, an innocent child?
1993: Leonel Herrera, perilously close to simple murder?
1909: Will James, "the Froggie", lynched in Cairo
1992: Billy Wayne White, after 47 minutes
1947: Willie Francis, this time successfully
Entry Filed under: 20th Century,Capital Punishment,Common Criminals,Crime,Death Penalty,Disfavored Minorities,Execution,History,Illinois,Lethal Injection,Murder,Racial and Ethnic Minorities,USA,Wrongful Executions
Tags: 1990s, 1995, charles biebel, david protess, dennis williams, ford heights four, gary johnson, girvies davis, kenneth adams, may 17, northwestern university, verneal jimerson, willie rainge, wrongful confessions
1995: Nie Shubin. Oops.
2 comments April 27th, 2009 Headsman
On this date in 1995, Nie Shubin was shot in the back of the head in Hebei Province for the rape and murder of a woman in Zhang Ying village.
According to a 1994 newspaper report (.pdf) supplied by the authorities,
After a week of skillful interrogation, including psychological warfare and gathering evidence, police officers made a breakthrough. On September 29, this vicious criminal finally confessed to having raped and murdered the victim. On August 5, while loitering around Zhang Ying village, he stole a shirt and then walked to the vicinity of the Xinhua Road police station, where he saw Ms. Kang ride her bicycle into a corn-field path. He went after her, knocked her off her bike, dragged her into the field, beat her unconscious and raped her. He then used the shirt to strangle her to death.
Sounds pretty definitive, even if they did have to beat it out of him. A confession is a confession, after all.
Except, not.
In 2005, another man admitted to the murder, reportedly supplying persuasive crime scene details to boot.
Nie Shubin's parents — who had complied with China's one-child policy — have unsurprisingly been devastated by the loss of their only son, which they learned about the day after his execution when the boy's father attempted to deliver a care package to the prison.
"All my hopes," said the mother, "rested with him."
Update: As of late 2011, the poor mother is still fighting to formally exonerate her executed son.
1663: Gustav Skytte, pirate - 2020
1877: James Singleton, Beeville character - 2019
1827: Joseph Sollis, the sheriff unmanned - 2018
1896: Carl Feigenbaum, the Ripper abroad? - 2017
1803: Michael Ely, personator - 2016
1889: The first executions in French-occupied Tunis - 2015
1883: Henry De Bosnys, bane of Elizabeths - 2014
1940: Wilhelm Kusserow, Jehovah's Witness - 2013
1945: German soldiers for cowardice - 2012
1649: Robert Lockyer, Leveller - 2011
1792: Jacob Johan Anckarström, assassin of Gustav III - 2010
1733: William Gordon, almost cheating death - 2008
1915: Joe Hill
1923: Edith Thompson and Frederick Bywaters
1953: Derek Bentley, controversially
1998: Bahram Khan, by his victim's brother
Entry Filed under: 20th Century,Capital Punishment,China,Common Criminals,Crime,Death Penalty,Execution,Murder,Rape,Shot,Wrongful Executions
Tags: 1990s, 1995, april 27, nie shubin, zhang ying
1995: Kimura Shujish
1 comment December 21st, 2007 Headsman
On this date in 1995, Kimura Shuji was hanged in Japan.
It remains the norm in that ancient land to hale a man to the gallows with little more than an hour's warning, having kept him in a state of unremitting apprehension of that moment for the space of decades. Given that norm, this day's hanging was distinguished by little save an accidental, heartbreaking particular.
According to a report by the International Human Rights Federation (this page has links to .pdf versions of the report in both English and French):
when his mother and sister in law visited him on the morning of the day of execution, they were told by an officer 'could you come again at noon since we are very busy at the end of the year?' When they returned they were told that he had already been executed during the morning. The officer made no mention of the time of his execution. His family members said that although he had asked the detention house to inform them they had not done so. In addition, he had hurriedly written a short letter to his family during the few minutes just before his execution
1739: Elizabeth Harrard - 2019
1929: Peter Kudzinowski - 2018
1782: Patrick Dougherty, robber - 2017
2014: A day in aborted death penalty moratoriums around the world - 2016
1689: William Davis - 2015
1875: Henry Wainwright, Whitechapel murderer - 2014
1893: Frederick Wyndham, unrepentant patricide - 2013
1692: A batch at Tyburn, escorted by the Ordinary of Newgate - 2012
1838: The first hangings of the Lower Canada Rebellion - 2011
1936: Aberra Kassa and Asfawossen Kassa, Ethiopian royalty - 2010
1624: Marco Antonio de Dominis, posthumously - 2009
1855: The slave Celia, who had no right to resist - 2008
1962: Arthur Lucas and Ronald Turpin
1944: Richard Sorge and Hotsumi Ozaki
1911: Charles Justice
1740: Not William Duell
2005: Van Tuong Nguyen
1838: Seven perpetrators of the Myall Creek Massacre
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Sirusho
Posted on July 18, 2010 December 16, 2018 Author Barahantes.Com Comment(1)
ABOUT SIRUSHO (HARUTYUNYAN)
Sirusho's biography is one of the most accomplished and interesting biographies in the Armenian show business of today. She comes from a family of artists – her parents have been recognized as accomplished artists of Armenia – her father being a renowned actor and director (an Honored Artist of Armenia) and her mother a reputable singer beloved by the public (also an Honored Artist of Armenia).
Sirusho's first encounter with singing and music was when she was ten months old. Yet, it wasn't long before she started to sing full songs, being two years old. One of the songs that Sirusho performed as a child was "Qele-qele", an Armenian folk song written in the early 1900s by Komitas.
For over 13 years, the 22 year old artist continues to be one of the most famous and adored singers for Armenians in Armenia and abroad. In one of her interviews she mentioned, "I have never been one of those children who dreamt of becoming a singer. I was a little kid and people would ask me to sing at events. Every time after I sang, I would see the amazed looks on their faces and I couldn't figure out the reason. I mean, I thought I wasn't doing a hard thing, I was just singing the way I felt the music". Those amazed faces marked the beginning of her career, following her from success to success.
At the age of 7 Sirusho began to write her own music, as well as lyrics in Armenian and English. She was 8 when she greeted her first big crowd. At the age of 9 the song, she had composed, brought her an award at the Contest of Young Talent. Being only 10 years old, she successfully competed in a contest with participants over her age (under 22) eventually winning the first place. She released her first album "Sirusho" when she was 13, gradually becoming one of the most favored performers at the biggest Armenian concerts. Some of the best Armenian composers have written songs for her. She has toured around several countries, bringing vibrant Armenian pop and folk music to Canada, the U.S., France, Belgium, Greece, Germany, Lebanon, Egypt, Georgia, Russia, Jordan, Turkey, Syria, Iran, Poland, Ukraine, United Kingdom, Czech Republic and elsewhere.
After performing soul and pop music for years, Sirusho decided to work on the album of Armenian folk gusan songs by Gusan Sheram (this album also included the hit song "Shorora"). In 2005, the album was recognized as The Best Album of the Year at the Armenian National Music Awards. Her success at the 2005 Awards became double by receiving the award for Best Female Artist of the Year, being only 18. At the end of her thank-you speech, she said, "I have worked and toured a lot this year, and even in a few hours after this event, I'll be flying to the U.S. for concerts, and I want to thank you all for giving me wings for all the future "flights" of my life. In a few days her single "Give me wings", written by herself, had flooded radio waves and music channels, becoming a hit among the Armenian public. In 2006, Sirusho received the award for Best Female Artist of the Year at the Annual Armenian-Russian Diaspora Music Awards held in Moscow. A year later, she was announced The Best Female Artist of the Year at the Armenian Music Awards, held by the Armenian-American Diaspora at the Kodak Theater. Sirusho received her fourth Best Female Artist award at the 2008 Armenian National Music Awards, where she had obtained her first award in 2005, and had promised to continue her "flight". She has received several other awards for her songs and music videos.
In 2006, Armenian pop music suffered the loss of one of its best performers of all times, Varduhi Vardanyan, in a tragic car accident. Varduhi had been like a sister for Sirusho ever since she was a little kid. In her loving memory, Sirusho dedicated a song called "Mez Vochinch Chi Bazhani" ("Nothing Will Part Us").
In 2007, Sirusho released her third album, titled "Hima", which included the song dedicated to Varduhi, as well as many other tracks written and produced by Sirusho. The album proved to be a breakthrough in Armenian music, unleashing a fresh wave of mixing soul and R&B with Armenian instruments such as Duduk, Dhol, Zourna, and others.
Graduating from Yerevan School #114 named after Khachik Dashtents, Sirusho decided to continue her education at Yerevan State University. And now she has graduated International Relations.
In 2007, the Armenian Public Television surprised Sirusho by asking her to represent Armenia in the upcoming Eurovision Song Contest. From four candidate songs produced by four Armenian composers (with lyrics written by Sirusho), the Armenian vote selected "Qele, Qele"!
Sirusho took the fourth place in Eurovision Song Concert 2008 in Belgrade. She had a wide promo tour in many europian countries and "Qele-Qele" became famous all over Europe.After the contest she participated in many famous music evets in Sweden, Italy,Ukraine,Russia,Belarus,UK,Israel,Greece,Serbia,Cyprus and other Europian countries.Sirusho continues performing and composing, producing songs for her colleges.
source: Sirusho's Official Website
Antoine Bezdjian
Posted on January 21, 2010 December 16, 2018 Author Barahantes.Com
Antoine Bezdjian born on May 7, 1970, in Beirut, Lebanon, moved to the United States in 2004. Prior to his arrival in the United States, Antoine had studied vocal and music in the…
Elie Berberian
Elie Berberian was born and raised in Beirut Lebanon. His singing talent was discovered by his parents at an early age.
Joseph Krikorian
Joseph Krikorian was born and raised in Beirut, Lebanon. He is the youngest among his siblings and the only child to take after his mother's beautiful and inspiring voice.
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You are my favourit Armenian songer, I can not get enough of your Shorora…….stay like that…..so that we can be always proud of YOU!!!!!! | {
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Tipping Points: In Response to Elizabeth Price
Elizabeth Price, KOHL (2018), 4-channel HD video still. Courtesy the artist
On March 14, the Walker presents Tipping Points,a screening program conceived in response to the Walker's current solo exhibition by Elizabeth Price. The program is presented by Steven Bode, director of Film & Video Umbrella, a London-based organization dedicated to commissioning artist moving image works. Along with the Walker and Nottingham Contemporary, FVU was one of the co-commissioning partners that invited Price to create FELT TIP (2018), currently on view in Perlman Gallery. Taking Price's works as a key, Bode considers themes of cultural change, vernacular language, fashion, and the archive in relation to works by Duncan Campbell, Bill Morrison, and Carey Young that will be presented as part of Tipping Points.
There are moments in history, or so we are told, when people start to notice the ground shifting beneath their feet. Sometimes, it is possible to date these so-called "tipping points" extremely accurately: to the year, to the month, or even to the day. But at others, the realization dawns gradually, hazily—like a change in the weather, a feeling in the air. Commentators speak of the presence of the zeitgeist, the spirit of the age, an unspoken mindset or default outlook that helps shape a wider collective consciousness. In several of his writings, the British cultural critic Raymond Williams advanced a roughly similar notion—although he preferred the phrase "structure of feeling," as if to emphasize a more materialist (and classically Marxist) model of interpretation, in which the relationship between base and superstructure, and its implicit paradigm of surface and depth, enables us to better appreciate how popular forms of vernacular expression are frequently determined by underlying, tectonic forces. These structuring influences may be invisible, subliminal, but their effects can be clearly seen, and tangibly felt.
View of the exhibition Elizabeth Price, 2018. Photo: Bobby Rogers, Walker Art Center
Elizabeth Price possesses a similar inclination to go beyond the surface features of different cultural artifacts and idioms to consider how they might be reflective of deeper processes and conditions. With a frame of reference that oscillates between popular music, design iconography, and art history/museology, her pieces always situate their ostensible subjects within a larger social and intellectual field. She also often gravitates towards themes that are emblematic of pivotal, transitional moments. In two new video installation works, the four-screen KOHL and the dual-screen FELT TIP, her focus is on the cultural hubbub and social commotion of the 1980s and the lasting impact of that period on the present day. Intriguingly, both of her project titles allude to mark-making devices, whereas the written (and spoken) narratives that unfold within each piece probe and percolate far beneath the surface.
KOHL begins with a series of images of pitheads at collieries in the North of England. As if to demonstrate how mining has been toppled from its former position at the apex of the industrial economy, the images have all been flipped. The inference is obvious: an industry has gone into reverse; a world has been turned upside down; King Coal has been dethroned. A tip-tap drip of teleprinted text tells how the old mineshafts have become flooded, and water flows along the vacated seams, like underground aquifers through layers of rock. Ripples of water now replace the ripples of sound that once resonated here—echoes of all of the frenetic activity that used to take place. The mines have gone quiet, but their legacy continues to reverberate. As well as the irrevocable marks they have made on the local landscape, they have equally clearly left their stamp on the local psyche. Revenants of the past haunt the area—underground presences that occasionally rise up like outliers of a clandestine resistance movement.
Elizabeth Price, KOHL, 2018. Courtesy the artist
Kohl is not a derivative of coal. The two words just sound the same. The black eyeliner made famous by Cleopatra that has adorned and beautified faces for millennia is actually a byproduct of charcoal. The two words may indeed be almost identical. But whereas coal is a bedrock resource, its near-namesake is a surface coating, a cosmetic application. It is, literally and figuratively, a case of style over substance. After coal mining was abandoned in many of its former heartlands, most of the promises of post-industrial transformation proved equally superficial: a tarting up here, a makeover there. Price's narrative (across KOHL and FELT TIP) also alludes to other changes, most notably a parallel upheaval in gender roles stemming from a fracture in the some of the foundational myths of masculinity. Once the old jobs had gone, so did many of the old ways—including the dominant place of the dominant male as breadwinner or paterfamilias. This seismic shift increasingly altered the balance of pre-existing power and gender relations, and frequently prompted a revaluation of stereotypical male roles. If the 1980s witnessed agonized outpourings of embattled male pride such as Alan Bleasdale's BBC2 series Boys from the Blackstuff, the decade also saw the arrival of a new generation of boys wearing black stuff (post-punk leather jackets, faces glammed with eyeliner), exemplified by a wave of electro-pop bands, that often emerged from the declining industrial strongholds of the North of England. Considering Price's longstanding interest in the music and subcultures of that era, it is no surprise that flashbacks to some of the sounds of the 1980s punctuate KOHL and FELT TIP.
Elizabeth Price, FELT TIP (2018), 2-projector video installation. Courtesy the artist. Commissioned by the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, Film and Video Umbrella, and Nottingham Contemporary. Supported by Arts Council England
FELT TIP continues KOHL's preoccupation with the ramifications of post-industrialization and the shifting nature of gender conventions. As its narrative highlights, the "felt tip" of its title has multiple meanings. It is, at one and the same time, a colored writing pen, the name for a futuristic innovation whereby data can be stored beneath the cuticle of a fingernail, and a fictional term for a feminist appropriation (and customization) of the male necktie—also at some point in a vague near-future. A tie is always, tacitly or intentionally, a signifier: a marker of allegiance or a display of identity. Like a man's suit, it is an item of "smart" attire that it is not supposed to be too "flashy" or draw too much attention to itself. An undemonstrative statement of business-like authority, it can also be a symbol of dull uniformity, of officialdom, of company-man conformity. While the "old school tie" is a badge of belonging that may, in time, become a passport to career advancement, putting on a tie, any tie, will usually gain the wearer entry to a certain type of "club," and generally guarantee acceptance in the more conventional sort of office-oriented workplace. A tie was only rarely, if ever, what men wore to stand out. More typically, it was worn to fit in.
In its retrospective gaze from a vantage point in a not-too-distant future, FELT TIP looks back at a passing trend during the 1980s for male neckties emblazoned with pseudo-digital patterns. Where the traditional "old school" tie continued to tout its elitist, quasi-heraldic associations, these moderne electronic motifs seemed to speak of a new kind of network—one that would soon become a reality with the advent of new digital technologies. It may not be a coincidence, Price seems to hint, that these intimations of a bright, new electronic frontier should emerge at a moment where the coal-fired infrastructure that used to power the industrial economy was being sidelined, and eventually terminated. These ties may be a fleeting, faddish phenomenon but they also seem strangely prescient. Superficial as they may be, they appear to echo deeper forces at work.
Later on in Price's narrative, she recounts how, at an unspecified future moment, men's ties became adopted as fashion-statement accessories by more and more women—albeit worn loosely draped around the neck and with their ends cut off, as if enacting a détournement, a kind of symbolic castration. An alternative name for these self-styled "felt tips" is "longue tongues"—a nod to a fast-changing gender dynamic in which women's voices increasingly make their presence felt.
The word "tip" is the palindrome of "pit." And it is its opposite, its mirror image, in other ways, too. A tip is the place where all the waste matter from a pit is piled up—often providing the most visible exterior marker of all the subterranean activity that is going on otherwise unseen. But a tip is another kind of leftover, of surplus value. A tip is a gratuity: the extra supplement you may or may not choose to add to a financial transaction. Conversely, a tip can be something that comes before a particular venture takes place: a piece of inside information that frequently generates economic benefit. A tip is, instructively, both material and immaterial. It has a physical manifestation; it can be observably seen and touched. But it also has a comparable affective dimension—something not demonstrably present that is nevertheless intangibly, intuitively felt.
To add to the lexicon of meanings that Price has bestowed on a "felt tip," we might agree that it is, of course, on the one hand, a Sharpie (a writing implement, available in multiple colors), but that it might also correspond to what Roland Barthes called a punctum: the pointed, poignant detail that "jumps out" of an image, whose visual import may not be immediately apparent, but whose emotional force hits us viscerally, palpably. It is something we feel in the tip of our fingers or the pit of our stomach. It is the frisson of anticipation that the ground beneath us is shifting. It is the sudden epiphany that things could be different. It is the leading edge of approaching change. Elizabeth Price's KOHL and FELT TIP vividly capture the elusive quality of that feeling, as they deftly drill down to the material conditions from which it emanates.
Elizabeth Price, The Woolworths Choir of 1979 (2012), HD video still. Courtesy the artist
When moving-image artists, like Price, draw upon the accumulated resources of film and video history, it is sometimes hard to resist geological analogies or notions of excavation and extraction, rediscovery and redeployment. The 20th century is a motherlode, with different layers and strata of imagery—from deep, compacted black and white to richly varicolored recent deposits. In one of Price's early, breakthrough works, The Woolworths Choir of 1979 (made in 2012), she brings together found material from disparate archival sources, including internet-derived concert footage of early American girl groups like the Shangri-Las, whose heavenly pop-gospel vocals hover over informational slideshow representations of historical ecclesiastical architecture: these contrasting elements melded, almost alchemically, in the heat of the still-smoldering aftermath of a mortal conflagration that blazed through a Manchester department store several decades ago and whose devastating physical and personal effects are also captured in news reports and public testimonials. Price often starts out in this way, with seemingly unrelated, heterogeneous ingredients, but always fuses them into something more than the sum of their parts.
Price is not alone is working like this. Increasing numbers of contemporary artists adopt and adapt existing materials; fossicking through the remnants of images past, prospecting ever-expanding swathes of public domain and library footage, and frequently striking gold when a clip they discover or a link they uncover possesses enormous contemporary currency. Foremost among these raiders of the lost archive is the New York–based Bill Morrison, whose films, such as the hugely acclaimed Decasia, highlight the fragile, evanescent nature of the cinematic image and its haunting, elegiac afterlife. Morrison's The Miners' Hymns, a collaboration with the composer Jóhann Jóhannsson, is a lament to the passing of people and places whose lives were profoundly shaped by the presence of coal. In its deft collating and collaging of archive material, its evocative use of music, and its conspicuous polemical and political subtext, it offers interesting parallels to Price's KOHL and FELT TIP.
Bill Morrison, Outerborough, 2005. Photo courtesy the artist and the Ruben/Bentson Moving Image Collection
To open a program of four artists' films that explore and extend some of those parallels, I have chosen a shorter work of Morrison's, Outerborough. Reworking vintage 1899 footage shot from a trolley crossing Brooklyn Bridge, the film's passage from one New York borough to another evokes the transition from one era to another: a journey from a hazy, unrecorded past into the light of the new century, which would become known as the century of cinema. An icon of the industrial era, its steel construction as starkly beautiful as one of Price's pitheads, the bridge is rhapsodized through Morrison's intricate, looping edits and shifting, swirling accompanying soundtrack.
Duncan Campbell's Make It New John, 2009, film transferred to video, 50 min.
Co-commissioned by Chisenhale Gallery, London; Tramway, Glasgow; the Film and Video Umbrella; and the Model Arts and Niland Gallery, Sligo
At the beginning of Duncan Campbell's Make It New John (2009), an equivalent journey out of the past is undertaken not by train but by car. Or rather, a procession of cars, each embodying the postwar American dream of individual freedom, upward social mobility, and consumer aspiration. After this jump-start, archive-fueled medley of America at the wheel, Campbell's film hones in the story of whiz kid automobile designer, John DeLorean—initially of General Motors and then the inventor of the "revolutionary" DMC-12 sports car that was later made even more famous by its drive-on part in the movie Back to the Future. Much of its focus is on DeLorean's British government–backed efforts to establish a factory in Belfast, Northern Ireland, and the subsequent failure of the enterprise. As I have written elsewhere, the DeLorean car, like the DeLorean business, was a case of surface dazzle over actual substance—undermined by faulty engineering and dodgy finance. But the episode is also a parable of the rapidly changing industrial and labor environment of the 1970s and 1980s: a pivotal period of social and economic transformation that Price hearkens back to in KOHL and FELT TIP.
Sadie Benning's Me and Rubyfruit, 1990, Pixelvision video. Courtesy Ruben/Bentson Moving Image Collection
A micro-seam in the history of American experimental filmmaking can be traced in the father-daughter relationship of James and Sadie Benning. A leading light in the American avant-garde, James Benning is known for his durational studies of landscape, distinguished by their structural motifs and their formal rigor. Sadie, on the other hand, came to attention, in the early 1990s, for her sensuous, playful embrace of video (actually a Fisher-Price children's toy camera) as a means to explore an inner world of identity, emotion, and sexuality. Where Elizabeth Price, in KOHL and FELT TIP, introduces the emblem of the male necktie as an index of changing cultural attitudes, it is possible to see, in the family ties of Benning father and daughter, a loosening of the hold of the myth of the (often male) avant-garde auteur, in favor of other voices, perspectives, and aesthetics. Me and Rubyfruit (1990) is one of Sadie Benning's first Pixelvision works—its close-up, confessional mode, shot mainly in the sanctum of the artist's bedroom, a template for an intimate diaristic sensibility that has become increasingly prevalent in present-day artists' moving image.
Carey Young's I am a Revolutionary, 2001, single-channel video. Commissioned by Film & Video Umbrella in association with John Hansard Gallery, Southampton
The final work in the program is Carey Young's I am a Revolutionary (2001). Intrigued, like Price, by the rhetoric and signifiers of renewal and transformation, Young visits a presentation trainer to improve her delivery of what she hopes will be an inspiring, revolutionary speech. For her coach, it is simply a matter of presentation over content, communicating the message rather the message itself—a symbol, perhaps, of how quickly radicality, once the grist and grail of the pioneering modernist artist, can be co-opted into commodity. As with Price, in KOHL and FELT TIP, the piece looks back at a time, in politics, as well as culture generally, when surface style often won out over underlying substance, but is a reminder also that it continues to be the artist's voice that frequently brings the latent spirit of a particular age to wider public attention. | {
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God Bless Ozzy Osbourne2011
God Bless Ozzy Osbourne (2011)
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God Bless Ozzy Osbourne pulls the curtain open on the man known as the Prince of Darkness. For four decades Ozzy has been a rock icon known as much for his trademark personality and offstage antics as for his music as the frontman of Black Sabbath. With his rise to fame and money and his self-esteem issues, everything eventually took a toll on Ozzy as he embarked on an epic binge that would last 40 years. Directors Mike Fleiss and Mike Piscitelli spent two years on the road with Ozzy. Live footage from his latest tour is threaded throughout, but it's Ozzy's reflections and surprising candor about himself that make up the heart of the film. Frank interviews with his family-including Kelly, Jack (also a producer of the film), and wife Sharon, who we saw on the popular television series The Osbournes, as well as his other children and siblings-don't always paint a pretty picture. But Ozzy readily admits that his crazy life, marked by decades-long battles against addiction, affected his role as a husband and father. His life and career have had their ups and downs, and this definitive bio-doc is a testament to his survival. -- (C) Tribeca
Documentary, Musical & Performing Arts
Mike Piscitelli, Mike Fleiss
Aug 29, 2011 limited
NCM/ Fathom
Aimee Osbourne
Robert Trujillo
Critic Reviews for God Bless Ozzy Osbourne
All Critics (6) | Top Critics (2) | Fresh (4) | Rotten (2)
[A] rather affectionate and candid portrait of a singer/TV personality whose continuing respiration is regarded as a marvel of human achievement.
A funny, candid and emotionally affecting portrait of one of heavy metal rock's most unpredictable legends.
Erin Free
FILMINK (Australia)
Produced by Jack, Ozzy's son, the project has a poignancy that it doesn't have as a movie experience.
September 15, 2011 | Rating: 2.5/5 | Full Review…
Peter Galvin
sbs.com.au
The result of two long years spent with the heavy metal godfather, this compelling and well-constructed documentary lures the real Ozzy out of his cartoon shell.
Leigh Paatsch
Herald Sun (Australia)
Full of irony and pathos, this doco takes us inside the life of a man who had to almost destroy himself before he found a way to salvage his self esteem. It should be mandatory viewing for all wanna be rock stars
September 11, 2011 | Full Review…
Andrew L. Urban
Urban Cinefile
Audience Reviews for God Bless Ozzy Osbourne
I'm sure that out there somewhere there is a rock documentary that strays from the formula - but God Bless Ozzie is not that film - not that it doesn't manage to entertain and inform (which is, I would suppose, the goal of the enterprise). The formula, in case you are new to this 3rd planet in our solar system, is to show the person/band now, and then rewind back to childhood and then to the glory days that make us want to find out about the person/band in the first place. One of the failings in this film is that it shows the childhood pics by having Ozzie flip through them all and comment - a questionable tactic as his train of thought is still a bit scattered after 40 years of substance abuse. There are no real insights here - those come later, and mostly from his 2nd wife Sharon, who reveals that Oz has always had deep seated insecurities. Where the film shines is in showing that very bright light that was early Black Sabbath - as the many testimonials attest, Sabbath pretty much invented heavy metal - and musical luminaries such as Sir Paul noted that they were original, and looking back, quite talented and excellent song writers. The film then slogs through the post Sabbath, Randy Rhodes years as Oz self destructs - it is to the film's credit (or perhaps simply watching the act of redemption) that the slow catharsis and healing of OZ has some poignancy. At the end, when he speaks of finally accepting and coming to terms with himself, it rings true and resonates (something as simple as when, at age 60, he finally gets a drivers license - something most would take for granted - but here it signifies a return to the real world - and Ozzie has come full circle to embody that 3rd Sabbath album title "Masters of Reality").
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Washington D.C. – Members of the District's diverse Muslim community announced their endorsements for the April 26th District of Columbia Special Elections. The Muslim Democratic Caucus' "One DC Slate" of endorsed candidates consists of Vincent Orange, bidding to become the next At-Large DC Councilmember, D. Kamili Anderson for the Ward 4 State Board of Education post, and Anthony Muhammad seeking to succeed the late William Lockridge as Ward 8 District School Board Member.
WASHINGTON, DC – Council Chairman Kwame R. Brown has announced David Zvenyach's appointment as acting general counsel. Upon confirmation by the full Council, he will be named general counsel for the body.
Zvenyach has been serving as chief of staff in Councilmember Mary Cheh's office since August 2008. He is a graduate of The George Washington University Law Center and the University of Wisconsin, where he received a BS in Mechanical Engineering. Following law school, Zvenyach clerked for Chief Judge of the US District Court for the Middle District of Pennsylvania, Yvette Kane. His work experience also includes the Office of the Inspector General at the National Science Foundation and the law firm of Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP in Washington, DC. He is a member of the District of Columbia and New York Bars.
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Meta's Instagram Is The To-Go Platform For Illegal Weed Dealers, Here's Why
by Nina Zdinjak, Benzinga Staff Writer
November 28, 2022 12:07 PM | 3 min read
Over these past several years, social media platforms have nabbed the number one spot for advertising. Why? By enabling advertisers to reach a much broader audience than TV and newspapers.
As such, it's no surprise that some of these platforms have become the to-go place for illegal weed dealers. Yes, you read that correctly. It turns out that most of these platforms' efforts to avoid illegal activities on their services remain futile. Well, maybe not completely useless but there are always loopholes, ideal for those eager to find them.
Apparently, a large part of illegal cannabis sales in New York take place on Meta Platforms' META Instagram, reveals Bloomberg.
Just last week, the Empire State issued the first 36 conditional adult-use retail dispensary licenses, aiming to regulate and tax the industry, known for its booming illegal operations. New York is trying to establish rules and regs similar to other states with legal programs while focusing on strict advertising limitations. Usually, these restrictions are similar to those adhered to by the alcohol and tobacco industry, which by law cannot focus or appear to focus on minors.
Unfortunately, there's one thing giving these lawmakers a headache: the digital world.
Reaching More People Through Instagram
For a while now, marijuana cultivators have been using Instagram to advertise their products.
"Meta is very good at getting themselves incorporated into people's daily routines," Mike, a New York City cannabis grower told Bloomberg News. "You reach more people through Instagram," said Mike who asked to remain anonymous because he hasn't applied for a cannabis license yet.
The outlet noted that there are numerous sponsored posts and stores with marijuana clubs, cultivators and sellers, some of which include links to illegal vendors. After Bloomberg News uncovered a few cannabis ads, Meta said it would remove two pages over policy violations, but the posts remained online.
"We prohibit content — both in ads and organically on pages — that promotes the buying and selling of drugs, including marijuana, and remove it whenever we find it," said Rachel Hamrick, a Meta spokesperson.
According to the company, cannabis content is forbidden on Instagram, with its "restricted goods policy" banning content that markets cannabis, tobacco and e-cigarettes.
So, how do these experienced pot dealers bypass the strict rules and end up promoting their goods to a young audience on the platform?
Some use disclaimers saying cannabis is "not for sale" though at the same time they include links to their accounts on an external page or include a phone number. Some provide backup pages or second accounts where followers can gather if the main page gets closed down.
"I've already been taken down like about three times," says Phil, who also asked to remain anonymous because he has no license and hasn't yet applied. Phil runs a marijuana delivery service that relies on Instagram to reach new customers.
What other social media platforms are weed dealers using? According to Bloomberg, other sites that have become popular for illegal cannabis operations include Snapchat, Discord, Telegram and upstarts like WeedTube and Social Club.
Why Is Instagram The Best Choice For Illegal Pot Sales?
Instagram is more appealing due to the audience that regularly uses it, which is mostly late teens and young adults.
The formula is simple, with 71% of people between 18 and 29 using Instagram and nearly 35% of that group also consuming marijuana (as per 2020 data from the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration), Instagram is the ideal platform for reaching this targeted audience.
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Patterns of therapist variability: therapist effects and the contribution of patient severity and risk
J Consult Clin Psychol. 2012 Aug;80(4):535-46. doi: 10.1037/a0028898. Epub 2012 Jun 4.
David Saxon 1 , Michael Barkham
1 Centre for Psychological Services Research, University of Sheffield, Sheffield, England. [email protected]
Objective: To investigate the size of therapist effects using multilevel modeling (MLM), to compare the outcomes of therapists identified as above and below average, and to consider how key variables--in particular patient severity and risk and therapist caseload--contribute to therapist variability and outcomes.
Method: We used a large practice-based data set comprising patients referred to the U.K.'s National Health Service primary care counseling and psychological therapy services between 2000 and 2008. Patients were included if they had received ≥2 sessions of 1-to-1 therapy (including an assessment), had a planned ending to treatment, and completed the Clinical Outcomes in Routine Evaluation-Outcome Measure (CORE-OM; Barkham et al., 2001; Barkham, Mellor-Clark, Connell, & Cahill, 2006; Evans et al., 2002) at pre- and post-treatment. The study sample comprised 119 therapists and 10,786 patients, whose mean age was 42.1 years (71.5% were female). MLM, including Markov chain Monte Carlo procedures, was used to derive estimates to produce therapist effects and to analyze therapist variability.
Results: The model yielded a therapist effect of 6.6% for average patient severity, but it ranged from 1% to 10% as patient non-risk scores increased. Recovery rates for individual therapists ranged from 23.5% to 95.6%, and greater patient severity and greater levels of aggregated patient risk in a therapist's caseload were associated with poorer outcomes.
Conclusions: The size of therapist effect was similar to those found elsewhere, but the effect was greater for more severe patients. Differences in patient outcomes between those therapists identified as above or below average were large, and greater therapist risk caseload, rather than non-risk caseload, was associated with poorer patient outcomes.
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Jazz Legend Pete Fountain Dies
NEW ORLEANS (CelebrityAccess) — Pete Fountain, a clarinetist who helped to spread the gospel of the New Orleans Dixieland sound, died on Saturday in New Orleans. He was 86.
Benny Harrell, Mr. Fountain's son-in-law and manager told the New York Times that Fountain died of heart failure.
A native of New Orleans, Fountain took to music at an early age, picking up the clarinet at 12, inspired by the sounds of artists such as Benny Goodman and Irving Fazola. His practice bore fruit and by the time he was 16, he was a known quantity in the Bourbon Street club scene.
"When I was a high school senior, my history teacher asked me why I didn't study more," he wrote in 2001, in the notes of a CD anthology of his recordings from the 1950s and 1960s. "I answered that I was too busy playing clarinet every night, and when I told him I was making scale — about $125 a week — he said that was more than he made and I should play full time. I guess I was a professional from that point on."
Fountain would go on to perform with several notable groups, including the Basin Street Six, which he formed with trumpeter George Girard, as well as stints with the Dukes of Dixieland and with trumpeter Al Hirt.
In 1956, the arrival of both bebop and rock music made the Dixieland sound unfashionable, forcing Fountain to give up music in order to support his family. However, bandleader Lawrence Welk threw Fountain a lifeline in 1957 by offering him a regular gig performing on Welk's hit television program The Lawrence Welk Show.
The exposure on the show helped to propel Fountain's career, making him a nationally recognized artist. He would continue his successful affair with broadcast television, with regular appearances on programs such as The Ed Sullivan Show and Late Night With Johnny Carson.
His success allowed him to return to New Orleans, where he opened his own successful jazz club in the city's French Quarter, later expanding with Pete's Place, — a larger club at a new location. In 1977, he moved the club again but was eventually forced to close it in 2003, citing slowing business.
Hurricane Katrina hit Fountain hard, destroying his home in Bay St. Louis and severely damaging his house in New Orleans. Most of his possessions were destroyed and he suffered from a variety of medical issues that he attributed to depression.
His final performance was in 2013 at the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival.
Through Pete's career he has received numerous awards and honors including a Doctorate of Music from the College of Santa Fe; he was voted the #1 Jazz Clarinetist for 13 consecutive years in the Playboy Readers Poll; he was King of Bacchus; he received an Emmy for the 1990 Super Bowl Pre-Game Music; and he was awarded the 1993 Louisiana Legends Award, according to his label Verve Records.
Survivors include his wife of 64 years, the former Beverly Lang; three children; six grandchildren; and five great-grandchildren. – Staff Writers | {
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Donskaya G. A., Drozhzhin V. M., Bryzgalina V. V.
Abstract. Technology and formulations of fermented dairy drinks supplemented with easily digestible whey proteins and water-soluble natural antioxidants have been developed to increase functional product range. Lactobacillus acidophilus has been used as a probiotic strain with expressed antibiotic activity. Whey protein concentrated (WPC) has been used as an additional source of protein. Variation in redox values, such as pH, titrated acidity, redox potential (Eh) has been used to estimate mass content of WPC in formulation during fermentation process. Based on approximation coefficients obtained while studying functional correlation between titrated acidity and fermentation time, and organoleptic profile, optimal concentration of WPC has been determined. It has been demonstrated that combination of WPC with probiotic culture decreased fermentation time by 1hr, improves structural properties of the product and increases water-soluble antioxidant concentration. In order to provide prebiotic properties to the drink, phytotea extracts of Sophora japonica and hibiscus flowers have been introduced into the formulation. Phytotea extraction protocols with the use of whey and water have been developed. Antioxidant activity of tea extracts and infusions along with their active and titrated acidity has been studied. Plant infusion impact on acidity dynamics during fermentation has been evaluated. The research has demonstrated that combination of phytotea with WPC inoculated with Lactobacillus acidophilus provides 3-fold increase in antioxidant activity of the product. Therefore, our low-fat, 0 % sugar product supplemented with natural antioxidants can be used as a good source of extra protein and recommended for people with active life style to improve antioxidant protection, for decreasing risk of cardiovascular diseases and normalization of lipid metabolism.
Printed reference: Fermented drinks supplemented with whey proteins and water-soluble antioxidants Donskaya G. A., Drozhzhin V. M., Bryzgalina V. V. // Vestnik of MSTU. 2018. V. 21, No 3. P. 471-480.
Electronic reference: Fermented drinks supplemented with whey proteins and water-soluble antioxidants Donskaya G. A., Drozhzhin V. M., Bryzgalina V. V. // Vestnik of MSTU. 2018. V. 21, No 3. P. 471-480. URL: http://vestnik.mstu.edu.ru//v21_3_n76/10_donskaya_471-480.pdf. | {
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Q: Application - Law of large numbers Let $X_1,X_2,...$ be independent Uniform(0,1) distributed random variables.
My first problem ist to show, that $Z_n := \frac{X_1^2+...+Xn^2}{X_1+...+X_n}$ converges almost surely and to find its limit.
My second problem is to show that $\lim_{n\to +\infty} \sqrt[n]{X_1\cdots X_n}=e^{-1}$ almost surely.
Can anybody help me here?
A: Hint: You can use continuous mapping theorem for a.s. convergence, that is
Assume $f$ is continuous, and $X_n \rightarrow X$ a.s., then $f(X_n) \rightarrow f(X)$ a.s. as well.
Back to your question, in the first question, try to divide both the numerator and denominator $n$, and use apply Law of Large Numbers to $\frac{1}{n} \sum X_n$ and $\frac{1}{n} \sum X_n^2$.
For the second question, consider $e^{\log (X_1 \ldots X_n)^{\frac{1}{n}}} = e^{\frac{1}{n}\sum \log X_n }$.
EDIT
To calculate $E\log X$ it suffices to see that $E \log X = \int_0^1\log xdx = x\log x|^1_0 - \int_0^11dx =-1$. Note that you have to argue $\lim_{x \rightarrow 0} x\log x = 0$ which can be done in many ways, like this.
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Academy Fixtures This Weekend
It's now six unbeaten for The Imps under 18 side and this weekend it's a trip to Huddersfield Town that awaits Tom Shaw's squad.
Last time out on Friday, there was a 2-0 win over Oldham Athletic at home for City who currently top the table ahead of Lincolnshire rivals, Grimsby Town, by virtue of a point.
The opponents for The Imps this weekend are currently bottom of the standings, after losing their last two games, but have tasted victory on their own patch so still represent a challenge for City.
The game between the Terriers and The Imps takes place at the Huddersfield Town Training Centre, on Leeds Road in Huddersfield and kicks off at 11am on Saturday morning.
Chesterfield are the opponents for many of the younger age groups on Sunday, with the Under 11, 13 and 15's coming to the city to face The Imps. The under 10, 12, 14 and Under 16's make the journey to face the Spireites on their patch over in Derbyshire with all games getting underway at 10.30am.
The Under 15's also are at home this weekend, but the opponents are Sheffield Wednesday. That game also kicks off at 10.30am.
Meanwhile the Under 9's get the experience of travelling to take on their counterparts at Premier League side, Tottenham Hotspur, at their training ground in Enfield.
Good luck to all the sides this weekend.
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Russia has been a major world power house since the end of the cold war. With icons such as Lenin, Gorbachev, Joseph Stalin, Boris Yeltsin and everyone else in the former communist haven, you are sure to be surprised what this country has to offer.
Aside from its major imports such as oil and nuclear power components, Russia is now opening its doors to people who would want to invest in the country. The money market has been a lucrative business to any nation and options for treasury bills, investment opportunities are now being given priority by the Russian Federation.
You get the security happiness you desire in return of investments because the country's consumer spending has been at an all time high. This also is an untapped market so if you plan to get acquainted with the Russian Stock Market the time to invest is now. | {
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I'm a divorced dad with two boys ages 9 and 11. My youngest son has challenges with transitions and wanting his own way. This causes power struggles with getting him out of bed. I came to Cynthia for help with his defiant behavior.
Cynthia's been teaching me how to state an expectation or limit on my child clearly. For example, " it's time to get out of bed." My son is so defiant that I can repeat myself several times and he'll keep saying. "No, I'm not getting up." We can even end up in a physical tug-of-war with me trying to take his blanket from him. It always turns out bad. This morning, to my amazement, I remembered to stop the power struggle, and respond with empathy.
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Malaysia: Family Laws and Regulations 2021
ICLG - Family Laws and Regulations - Malaysia covers common issues in family law – including: jurisdiction, divorce, cohabitation, children, abduction, relocations, cross-border issues, parental responsibility, child maintenance and marital agreements - in 21 jurisdictions
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1. Divorce
2. Finances on Divorce
3. Marital Agreements
4. Cohabitation and the Unmarried Family
5. Child Maintenance
6. Children – Parental Responsibility and Custody
7. Children – International Aspects
1.1 What are the grounds of jurisdiction for divorce proceedings? For example, residence, nationality, domicile, etc.?
Malaysia has a dual system of justice applicable in matters of family and personal law. Secular or civil law governs non-Muslims and is applied in the civil courts, whereas Islamic or Sharia (Syariah) law governs Muslims and is applied in the religious or Syariah courts. For the purposes of this chapter, only the law governing non-Muslims will be discussed.
With respect to non-Muslim divorces, the Malaysian courts have jurisdiction to grant a decree of divorce if:
the marriage was or is deemed to be registered under the Law Reform (Marriage & Divorce) Act 1976 (LRA) (s 48(1)(a), LRA), or was contracted under a law providing that, or in contemplation of which, marriage is monogamous (s 48(1)(b), LRA); and
the domicile of the parties to the marriage at the time when the divorce petition is presented is in Malaysia (s 48(1)(c), LRA).
In Malaysia, a wife does not a possess a domicile of her own. A woman acquires the domicile of her husband upon marriage and assumes his domicile during the subsistence of that marriage (Khoo Kay Peng v Pauline Chai Siew Phin [2014] 10 CLJ 403). A married couple, therefore, have only one domicile and that is the domicile of the husband. However, as an exception, a wife may petition for divorce although her husband is not domiciled in Malaysia if she has been deserted by him or if he has been deported from Malaysia and was before the desertion or deportation domiciled in Malaysia, or if she is resident in Malaysia and has been ordinarily resident in Malaysia for a period of two years immediately preceding the commencement of the proceedings (s 49, LRA).
1.2 What are the grounds for a divorce? For example, is there a required period of separation, can the parties have an uncontested divorce?
A married couple may petition for divorce:
where one party to the marriage has converted to Islam (s 51, LRA);
where both parties mutually consent to its dissolution (s 52, LRA);
where the marriage has irretrievably broken down (s 53, LRA) by reason of one or more of the following facts (s 54, LRA):
the respondent has committed adultery and the petitioner finds it intolerable to live with the respondent;
the respondent has behaved in such a way that the petitioner cannot reasonably be expected to live with the respondent;
the respondent has deserted the petitioner for a continuous period of at least two years immediately preceding the presentation of the petition; and
the parties to the marriage have lived apart for a continuous period of at least two years before the presentation of the petition.
A petition for divorce cannot be presented:
within the first two years of marriage unless it can be shown that there are exceptional circumstances or hardship suffered by the petitioner (s 50, LRA). This requirement does not apply to a marriage where one spouse has converted to Islam; and
subject to certain exceptions, until the couple has first referred their matrimonial difficulty to a conciliatory body and that body has certified that it has failed to reconcile them (s 106, LRA). Reference to a conciliatory body is not required if the couple is dissolving the marriage on the ground of conversion to Islam or by mutual consent.
Unless the petitioner is relying on desertion, or two years of living apart as a ground for divorce, there is no required period of separation.
If both parties consent to divorce and can reach an agreement on all the terms of their divorce, they can have an uncontested divorce.
1.3 In the case of an uncontested divorce, do the parties need to attend court and is it possible to have a "private" divorce, i.e. without any court involvement?
Both parties must attend court. If a party is unable to attend, leave of court to dispense with that party's presence must be sought.
It is not possible to have a "private" divorce. The legal termination of a marriage, whether by divorce, judicial separation or annulment can only be effected by a decree of court.
1.4 What is the procedure and timescale for a divorce?
If the divorce is uncontested, the parties file a joint petition. Depending on the court's schedule, a hearing date is usually fixed within one month from the date of filing whereupon a decree nisi dissolving the marriage may be pronounced. The decree absolute is applied for after three months from the decree nisi, unless the court grants leave to expedite it.
If the divorce is contested, the petitioner files a unilateral petition. Further pleadings are then exchanged. Upon close of pleadings, pre-trial case management directions will be given by the court and trial dates fixed. The judge will hear the case and, after considering all the evidence including the testimony of witnesses, may pronounce a decree nisi, to be made absolute after three months unless expedited. During the proceedings, discovery and inspection of documents may be sought and interlocutory applications, for example applications for child custody, maintenance pending suit, a stay of proceedings, and injunctions, may be filed. The timescale can range from one year to a few years, depending on the volume and complexity of the facts and issues being tried and the degree to which the proceedings are contested by the parties.
1.5 Can a divorce be finalised without resolving other associated matters? For example, children and finances.
Before granting a decree of divorce, the court will consider all the circumstances of the case including how the interests of any children of the marriage and the parties may be affected. In the case of an uncontested divorce, the court must satisfy itself that both parties freely consent to the dissolution of their marriage and that proper provisions have been made for the wife, and for the support, care and custody of the children, if any. Whilst the court is empowered to make and vary custody and maintenance orders subsequent to divorce, an order for the division of matrimonial assets can only be made "when" a decree of divorce or judicial separation is granted and not at a later date (s 76(1), LRA; Manokaram Subramaniam v Ranjid Kaur Nata Singh (2008) 6 CLJ 209).
1.6 Are foreign divorces recognised in your jurisdiction? If so, what are the procedural requirements, if any?
If a marriage solemnised in Malaysia under the LRA is dissolved by a court of competent jurisdiction outside Malaysia, either of the parties may apply to the Registrar General of Marriages for the registration of that foreign decree (s 107(3), LRA).
If a marriage not solemnised under the LRA is dissolved by a court of competent jurisdiction outside Malaysia, either party may apply to the Malaysian court for an order to recognise that foreign decree.
1.7 Does your jurisdiction allow separation or nullity proceedings?
Married couples who have a religious or conscientious objection to divorce may petition for judicial separation on the ground that the marriage has irretrievably broken down by reason of one or more of the four facts listed in s 54, LRA applicable to a unilateral petition for divorce (see the answer to question 1.2 above) (s 64, LRA). A person who is judicially separated cannot remarry.
A couple may also annul their marriage if:
the marriage is void (s 69, LRA), namely if: (i) it was bigamous; (ii) it was within the prohibited degrees of relationship; (iii) the parties, or either of them, were underaged; or (iv) the parties were not respectively male and female;
the marriage is voidable (s 70, LRA), namely if: (i) it was not consummated; (ii) either party did not validly consent to it, or if he or she was incapable of giving valid consent, or was a mentally disordered person; or (iii) at the time of the marriage, the respondent was suffering from a communicable venereal disease, or was pregnant by some person other than the petitioner.
1.8 Can divorce proceedings be stayed if there are proceedings in another country?
Divorce proceedings in Malaysia can be stayed in favour of proceedings in another country on the grounds of forum non conveniens. The Malaysian court hearing a stay application will consider whether it has jurisdiction and if it does, whether there is some other available forum in which the case may be more appropriately tried for the interests of all the parties and the ends of justice and whether it would be unjust to the petitioner to confine him or her to remedies elsewhere (Spiliada Maritime Corp v Consulax Ltd (The Spiliada) (1987) AC 460; American Express Bank Ltd v Mohamed Tonfic Al-Ozier and another [1995] 1 MLJ 160).
2.1 What financial orders can the court make on divorce?
Division of matrimonial assets
The court is empowered, when granting a decree of divorce or judicial separation, to order the division between the parties of any assets acquired by them during the marriage or the sale of any such assets and the division between them of the proceeds of sale (s 76, LRA).
Under the LRA, the court is empowered to order a man to pay maintenance to his wife or former wife during the course of any matrimonial proceedings or when granting or subsequent to the grant of a decree of divorce or judicial separation. The court also has the corresponding power to order a woman to pay maintenance to her husband or former husband where he is incapacitated, wholly or partially, from earning a livelihood by reason of mental or physical injury or ill health, and the court is satisfied that having regard to her means it is reasonable to so order (s 77, LRA).
Under the Married Women & Children (Maintenance) Act 1950 (MWCMA), if any person neglects or refuses to maintain his wife who is unable to maintain herself, a court, upon due proof, may order him to pay a reasonable monthly allowance to her, in proportion to his means (s 3, MWCMA).
The court may, at any time, order a man to pay maintenance for the benefit of his child. The court is also empowered to order a woman to pay or contribute towards the maintenance of her child where it is satisfied that having regards to her means it is reasonable to so order (s 93, LRA).
Under the MWCMA, the court may order a person who neglects or refuses to maintain a legitimate child of his, to pay a monthly allowance for maintenance in proportion to his means, as is reasonable. If the child is illegitimate, the court may order him to pay a reasonable monthly allowance (s 3, MWCMA).
Other financial orders
The court can also:
award damages against a co-respondent, on a petition for divorce where adultery has been alleged and proven (s 58, LRA);
order security for maintenance (ss 79 and 94, LRA);
vary orders or agreements for maintenance (ss 83, 84, 96 and 97, LRA);
recover arrears of maintenance (ss 86 and 98, LRA);
make maintenance orders against a man to ensure the welfare of a child who is not his child but who has been accepted by him as a member of his family (s 99, LRA); and
set aside and prevent dispositions intended to defeat claims to maintenance (s 102, LRA).
2.2 Do matrimonial regimes exist and do they need to be addressed by the court on divorce? Is there a default matrimonial regime?
There are no matrimonial regimes in Malaysia.
2.3 How does the court decide what financial orders to make? What factors are taken into account?
In determining the division of matrimonial assets, the court will have regard to (s 76(2), LRA):
the extent of the contributions made by each party in money, property or work towards the acquisition of the assets or payment of expenses for the benefit of the family;
the extent of the contributions made by the other party who did not acquire the assets to the welfare of the family by looking after the home or caring for the family;
any debts owing by either party that were contracted for their joint benefit;
the needs of any minor children of the marriage; and
the duration of the marriage,
and subject to those considerations, shall incline towards equality of division.
In determining the amount of spousal maintenance to be paid, the court bases its assessment primarily on the means and needs of the parties, regardless of the proportion such maintenance bears to the income of the husband or the wife, but shall have regard to the degree of responsibility which the court apportions to each party for the breakdown of the marriage (s 78, LRA). Factors that the courts have taken into account include the duration of the marriage, the ages of the parties, whether there are any children of the marriage, whether the husband had financially supported the wife during the marriage, his ability to pay and the potential earning capacity of the applicant.
In assessing child maintenance, the court shall have regard to the needs of the child and the means of the parents, taking into account the standard of living the child was accustomed to during the marriage.
2.4 Is the position different between capital and maintenance orders? If so, how?
Broadly speaking, capital orders or asset distribution orders are assessed based on the parties' respective contributions towards the acquisition of those (matrimonial) assets and towards the marriage, whereas maintenance orders are assessed based on the means and needs of the parties. Asset distribution orders can only be made by the court "when" a decree of divorce or judicial separation is granted and are final orders, whereas maintenance orders may be made during the course of any matrimonial proceedings, when or subsequent to the grant of a decree of divorce or judicial separation and are inherently variable. There is no provision under the LRA for the court to make a capital or lump-sum order in lieu of maintenance which is payable periodically.
2.5 If a couple agrees on financial matters, do they need to have a court order and attend court?
Yes, if they want their agreement to be legally binding.
2.6 How long can spousal maintenance orders last and are such orders commonplace?
Unsecured spousal maintenance orders expire on the death of the husband or wife, whichever is the earlier. Secured maintenance orders expire on the death of the spouse in whose favour the order was made (s 81, LRA). The right of any divorced person to receive maintenance from his or her former spouse ceases upon his or her remarriage or living in adultery with any other person (s 82, LRA).
Spousal maintenance orders, in particular those in favour of a wife, are commonplace especially in cases where the wife has been financially dependent on her husband, but where she is gainfully employed and able to support herself, the court is less inclined to award it.
2.7 Is the concept of matrimonial property recognised in your jurisdiction?
Yes, and they are subjected to division upon divorce. The courts have held that matrimonial assets include:
the matrimonial home and everything put into it by either spouse to be used for the benefit of the family as a whole;
properties acquired during the marriage apart from the matrimonial home;
cars, cash and jewellery;
shares in companies;
insurance policies, employment and retirement benefits;
assets owned by one party before the marriage which have been substantially improved during the marriage by the other party or by their joint efforts; and
assets held by a nominee on trust for either party.
2.8 Do the courts treat foreign nationals differently on divorce? If so, what are the rules on applicable law? Can the court make orders applying foreign law rather than the law of the jurisdiction?
Provided jurisdiction is found, foreign nationals are not treated any differently. The Malaysian court will apply Malaysian law.
2.9 How is the matrimonial home treated on divorce?
The matrimonial home is treated as a matrimonial asset and will form part of the pool of matrimonial assets that may be subjected to division.
2.10 Is the concept of "trusts" recognised in your jurisdiction? If so, how?
Yes. If it can be proven that an asset is held by a nominee on trust for either party to the marriage, then that asset may be treated as a matrimonial asset, subject always to the provisions of the LRA.
2.11 Can financial claims be made following a foreign divorce in your jurisdiction? If so, what are the grounds?
Under the LRA, claims for maintenance may be sought subsequent to divorce but the Malaysian court has no power to make any orders for the division of matrimonial assets following a foreign divorce.
Unsatisfied foreign financial orders made in a foreign jurisdiction may be enforced but they cannot relate back to properties situated in Malaysia.
2.12 What methods of dispute resolution are available to resolve financial settlement on divorce? E.g. court, mediation, arbitration?
Apart from court, financial settlements may be resolved via mediation, collaborative law and negotiations between the parties or their respective solicitors.
3.1 Are marital agreements (pre- and post-marriage) enforceable? Is the position the same if the agreement is a foreign agreement?
Marital (prenuptial and postnuptial) agreements are not legally binding in Malaysia. The Malaysian court may be persuaded to consider the agreement as evidence of how the parties intend to regulate their financial affairs when the marriage breaks down but any agreement between spouses in Malaysia must be subject to the LRA and require the court's approval before they may be enforceable.
3.2 What are the procedural requirements for a marital agreement to be enforceable on divorce?
Please see the answer to question 3.1.
3.3 Can marital agreements cover a spouse's financial claims on divorce, e.g. for maintenance or compensation, or are they limited to the election of the matrimonial property regime? Can they deal with financial claims regarding children, e.g. child maintenance)?
Marital agreements can cover all types of financial claims, including financial claims regarding children, provided these claims are not inconsistent with the LRA and do not oust the jurisdiction of the court. There is no matrimonial property regime in Malaysia.
4.1 Do cohabitants, who do not have children, have financial claims if the couple separate? What are the grounds to make a financial claim?
Malaysia does not recognise cohabitation. Cohabitants therefore have no entitlement to financial claims under family law. If they separate and have any claims against the other, they would need to fall back on, e.g., the law of contract, land law or trust principles.
4.2 What financial orders can a cohabitant obtain?
4.3 Is there a formal partnership status for cohabitants (for example, civil partnerships, PACS)?
No, there is not.
4.4 Are same-sex couples permitted to marry or enter other formal relationships in your jurisdiction?
No, Malaysia does not recognise same-sex marriages or relationships.
5.1 What financial claims are available to parents on behalf of children within or outside of marriage?
A parent can apply for child maintenance under the LRA and/or the MWCMA.
Section 92 of the LRA provides that except where an agreement or order of court otherwise provides, it shall be the duty of a parent to maintain or contribute to the maintenance of his or her children, by providing them with accommodation, clothing, food and education as may be reasonable having regard to his or her means and station in life or by paying the cost thereof. A "child of the marriage" under the LRA includes a child of one party to the marriage accepted as one of the family by the other party and "child" in this context includes an illegitimate child of either party to the marriage (s 2, LRA). A man who has accepted a child who is not his child as a member of his family also has a duty to maintain that child if the mother and father of that child fail to do so (s 99, LRA).
For claims under the MWCMA, please see the answer to question 2.1.
5.2 How is child maintenance calculated and is it administered by the court or an agency?
Child maintenance is assessed based on the means and needs test (please see the answer to question 2.3) and administered by the court.
5.3 For how long is a parent required to pay child maintenance or provide financial support for their children? For example, can a child seek maintenance during university?
Unless expressed to be for any shorter period or where such order has been rescinded, child maintenance orders expire when the child attains 18 years of age but where the child is under a physical or mental disability, or is pursuing further or higher education or training, it expires on the ceasing of that disability or completion of the further or higher education or training, whichever is later (s 95, LRA).
5.4 Can capital or property orders be made to or for the benefit of a child?
There are no provisions under the LRA for the making of capital or property orders to or for the benefit of a child. However, the court can order a person liable to pay child maintenance to secure the whole or any part of it by vesting any property in trustees upon trust for the settlor. Child maintenance would then be paid by the trustees out of the income from the property (s 94, LRA).
5.5 Can a child or adult make a financial claim directly against their parents? If so, what factors will the court take into account?
Yes. The application can be made on the child's behalf by:
the guardian of the child;
any person who has custody or care and control of the child under a court order;
a welfare officer to whom the care of the child has been committed by order;
any person who has obtained leave to intervene in the cause for the purpose of applying for the custody of a child;
the Official Administrator if appointed as the guardian ad litem of the child; or
any other person in whose care a child is and who has obtained leave to intervene in the cause (rule 57 of the Divorce and Matrimonial Proceedings Rules 1980 (DMPR)).
The same factors apply, namely the court will apply the means and needs test (please see the answer to question 2.3).
6.1 Explain what rights of custody both parents have in your jurisdiction, whether (a) married, or (b) unmarried?
The Guardianship of Infants Act 1961 (GIA) accords both the father and the mother equal parental rights over their children (s 5, GIA). However, this does not mean that both parents must at all times be equally parenting the child. Whenever there is a dispute, the court can decide which parent should be given custody, care and control of a child, including access (Lai Meng v Toh Chew Lian [2012] 10 CLJ 479). The GIA applies to both legitimate and illegitimate children (Sean O'Casey Patterson v Chan Hoong Poh and others [2011] 3 CLJ 722).
If the couple is married, either of them may seek an order for custody of a child of the marriage.
If the couple is unmarried, the mother of the illegitimate child will prima facie have the right of custody and when questions on custody or access arise the wishes of the mother will be taken into account but the welfare of the child is the first and paramount consideration (T v O [1993] 1 MLJ 168).
6.2 At what age are children considered adults by the court?
In Malaysia, a "minor" is someone who has not reached the "age of majority". Pursuant to the Age of Majority Act 1971, the age of majority is 18 years. This is, however, subject to other written law fixing the age of majority. For instance, under the GIA, non-Muslim children shall be deemed to have attained their majority at age 21 years (s 2(2)(a)(ii), GIA). Under the LRA, a "minor" means someone who is under 21 years and who is not a widow or widower (s 2, LRA). Under the LRA and the Child Act 2001, a "child" means someone who is under the age of 18 years.
6.3 What is the duration of children orders (up to the age of 16 or 18 or otherwise)?
Unless expressed to be for a shorter period or where such orders have been rescinded, child custody and maintenance orders expire when the child attains 18 years. Please see the answer to question 5.3 for extension of children orders.
6.4 What orders can the court make in relation to children? Does the court automatically make orders in relation to child arrangements in the event of divorce?
Under the LRA, the court can make orders for custody, care and control, access and maintenance. "Custody" means the right to make important decisions in relation to, e.g. the child's upbringing, health, education and religion. "Care and control" denotes the day-to-day care of the child and "access" comprises contact arrangements for the parent deprived of custody, care and control.
Under the GIA, the court is empowered to appoint and remove a guardian over the person and property of a child.
Under the Courts of Judicature Act 1964, the court has jurisdiction to appoint and control guardians of infants and generally over the person and property of infants.
Orders are made when sought but the court in divorce proceedings will consider the arrangements pertaining to any children of the marriage.
6.5 What factors does the court consider when making orders in relation to children?
The paramount consideration is the child's welfare and subject to this the court shall have regard to the wishes of the parents and the wishes of the child where he or she is of an age to express an independent opinion (s 11, GIA; s 88(2), LRA).
There is a rebuttable presumption that it is for the good of a child below seven years to be with his or her mother but in deciding whether that presumption applies, the court shall have regard to the undesirability of disturbing the life of a child by changes of custody (s 88(3), LRA).
Where there are two or more children, the court is not bound to place both or all in the custody of the same person but shall consider the welfare of each independently (s 88(4), LRA).
6.6 Without court orders, what can parents do unilaterally? For example, can they take a child abroad?
Without court orders, both parents can move freely with any of their children and are entitled to make decisions on their child or children's behalf without the need to consult the other.
6.7 Is there a presumption of an equal division of time between separating or divorcing parents?
No, there is not. The court will consider all factors and decide what arrangements are in the child's best interests.
6.8 Are unmarried parents treated in the same way as married parents when the court makes orders on separation or divorce?
6.9 Is a welfare report prepared by an independent professional or is the decision taken by the Judge alone? If so, does the child meet the Judge?
When considering any question relating to child custody and maintenance, the court shall, whenever practicable, take the advice of a person who is trained or experienced in child welfare but is not bound to follow the advice of this person (s 100, LRA). The judge may also interview the child. Ultimately, the decision rests with the judge.
6.10 Is there separate representation for children in your jurisdiction and, if so, who would represent them, e.g. a lawyer?
Not as of right, but if in any matrimonial proceedings it appears to the court that any child ought to be separately represented, the court may (r 86, DMPR):
of its own motion, appoint the Official Administrator if he consents; or
on the application of any other proper person, appoint that person to be guardian ad litem of the child with authority to take part in the proceedings on the child's behalf.
6.11 Do any other adults have a say in relation to the arrangements for the children? E.g. step-parents or grandparents or siblings. What methods of dispute resolution are available to resolve disputes relating to children?
The courts will take into account all relevant matters and may consider the evidence of other adults which might include the child's relatives, if their evidence is adduced in court or if an application (for example, an application for guardianship) is made by any of them, before it determines the arrangements for the children.
7.1 Can the custodial parent move to another state/country without the other parent's consent?
Yes, unless the court order granting sole custodial rights to the custodial parent prohibits it.
7.2 Can the custodial parent move to another part of the state/country without the other parent's consent?
7.3 If the court is making a decision on relocation of a child abroad, what factors are taken into account?
The welfare of the child must be the paramount consideration and if the applicant's reasonable proposals for relocation is not incompatible with the welfare of the child and would not have a detrimental impact on the welfare of the child, an application to relocate may be granted (Teh Eng Kim v Yew Peng Siong [1977] 1 LNS 138).
7.4 If the court is making a decision on a child moving to a different part of the state/country, what factors are taken into account?
7.5 In practice, how rare is it for the custodial parent to be allowed to relocate internationally/interstate?
It is not rare, provided the court is satisfied that the relocation is in the child's best interests.
7.6 How does your jurisdiction deal with abduction cases? For example, is your jurisdiction a party to the Hague Convention?
Malaysia is not a party to the Convention on the Civil Aspects of International Child Abduction 1980 (Hague Convention). There is, therefore, no mechanism in place for the prompt return of children abducted to or from Malaysia. The Malaysian court has jurisdiction to deal with children and accord them protection for as long as they are physically and lawfully present in the country. If there is a foreign custodial order, the Malaysian court will take that into account but is not bound by it and is entitled to hear the merits afresh and make its own decision applying Malaysian law, based on what it considers is in the child's best interests.
8.1 In your view, what are the significant developments in family law in your jurisdiction in the last two years?
On 15 December 2018, long-awaited amendments to the LRA came into force:
the civil courts are now accorded with exclusive jurisdiction over the dissolution of a civil marriage and all matters incidental thereto including granting a decree of divorce or other orders under the LRA, where one party has converted to Islam and that such decree or orders made shall, notwithstanding any other written law, be valid against the party to the marriage who had converted to Islam. This amendment resolved the confusion pertaining to the jurisdiction of the civil courts vis-à-vis the Syariah courts, thereby overriding past judicial trends which had taken the position that matters touching Islamic law and practice are within the jurisdiction of the Syariah courts to the exclusion of the civil courts;
a mother/adoptive mother of a child who has not attained the age of 21 may now give written consent for the child to marry. Prior to this, only the father could give consent where the child was legitimate, and where the child is illegitimate or adopted, the mother/adoptive mother's consent could only be given if the father/adoptive father had died;
either party or both parties to a marriage may now petition for divorce, where one of them has converted to Islam. Before, only the non-converting spouse could petition. Furthermore, they may now petition for divorce by mutual consent on the grounds of conversion;
a new section 51A of the LRA makes provision for the following persons to apply for a distribution of the matrimonial assets of a person who has converted to Islam but who dies before the non-Muslim marriage is dissolved: (i) the surviving spouse of the deceased; (ii) the surviving children of the marriage, if any; and (iii) the parents of the deceased converted spouse. Prior to this, the non-converted family members could not inherit from the converted spouse's estate unless he/she had bequeathed his/her assets to his/her non-Muslim family members;
the court's power to divide matrimonial assets under section 76 of the LRA is no longer confined to assets acquired by the "joint" efforts of the parties but now extends to all assets acquired during the marriage; and
the duration of child custody and maintenance orders with regard to a child who is pursuing higher education or training is now extended from age 18 until the child completes his or her higher education or training.
In 2019, collaborative law was introduced.
8.2 What impact, if any, has the COVID-19 pandemic had on family law in your jurisdiction to date, and is likely to have over the next 12 months?
In an effort to curb the spread of COVID-19, various Movement Control Orders (MCO) (varying in severity) were imposed in Malaysia under the Prevention and Control of Infectious Diseases Act 1988 and the Regulations issued thereunder. At its most confining nationwide, all schools and government and private premises were ordered to shut and everyone had to stay at home unless they needed to buy groceries, seek medical treatment or perform any official duty or any duty in relation to any essential services. Restrictions have since been relaxed to allow most economic sectors to re-open, though, as at the date of writing (June 2020), Malaysia's borders remain shut.
The pandemic has had the following impact:
all hearings and trials during the MCO period were adjourned;
the solemnisation of all marriages was put on hold;
separated or divorced parents who live in one country or in one state within Malaysia and who had planned to exercise their rights of access to their children in another country or state were unable to do so due to international and inter-state travel bans and health and safety concerns;
the loss of jobs or reduction in income has in some cases totally eliminated or reduced the ability of the spouse/parent against whom the financial orders were made, to meet those financial obligations. It has also affected financial negotiations between divorcing spouses on maintenance and asset distribution;
separated/divorced parents are seeking advice on how to navigate the thorny issue with respect to the movement of their child/ren between two households pursuant to agreed child access arrangements disrupted by the MCO, and some parents are reluctant or refusing to allow their child/ren to see or stay with the other parent due to concerns about that other parent's ability to take proper health and safety precautions or to provide adequate educational support to their child/ren;
there has been a surge in married couples seeking divorce and pre-divorce advice;
cases of domestic violence have escalated. Women's rights groups in Malaysia have reported an increase in distress calls amid lockdown; and
the pandemic has also triggered more and more people to write their wills.
It is anticipated that the impact felt to date will continue over the next year, to a greater or lesser degree in certain cases.
8.3 To what extent and how has the court process and other dispute resolution methods for family law been adapted in your jurisdiction in light of the COVID-19 pandemic (e.g. virtual hearings, remote access, paperless processes)? Are any of these changes likely to remain after the COVID-19 crisis has passed?
This section discusses how the Malaysian courts in general have adapted. The MCO at its most restrictive required all law firms and court premises in Malaysia to close. As a consequence, all hearings and trials as well as case managements that required the physical attendance of lawyers in court were adjourned. New cases, notices of appeals and documents could still, however, be filed electronically using the e-Filing system, which was implemented over a decade ago under the e-Court system, and case managements scheduled to be conducted remotely proceeded as normal via the more recently introduced e-Review system. Thus, when the pandemic hit, the Malaysian courts were already quite prepared to progress cases remotely, and a number of hearings, trials and appeals have been conducted via video conference, some of which were streamed live for public viewing.
Courts and law firms have since been permitted to re-open, with strict health and safety measures in place. Fewer cases are now fixed on any given day and limits are imposed on the number of persons who may be present in court per case, to avoid over-crowding.
Due to its efficiency, online access to justice may well remain an option available even after the COVID-19 crisis is behind us. Currently, they require the agreement of all parties – judges, lawyers and litigants alike – to proceed, not all of whom may be receptive to it or have access to the equipment and technology that it entails. Proposals have been made suggesting amendments to the legislative framework to enable the court, of its own motion, to direct trials, hearings or appeals to be conducted otherwise than in open court, provided it is in the interest of public health and safety.
8.4 What are some of the areas of family law which you think should be looked into in your jurisdiction?
In my view, the following should be addressed:
stateless children in Malaysia who have been adopted by Malaysian parents, or one Malaysian parent, are not automatically conferred Malaysian citizenship upon adoption. They therefore remain stateless unless an application for citizenship is made to the government of Malaysia who retains a discretion to grant or refuse it;
the law regulating surrogacy in Malaysia needs to be developed;
Malaysia has not ratified the Hague Convention;
civil partnerships are not recognised; and
same-sex relationships and marriages are not recognised. The Malaysian Penal Code still criminalises same-sex relations.
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How should we define a Citizen's Basic Income?
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It has been a very difficult year for my family. As a family and individually, we have faced some very tough challenges, changes, and painful experiences. Usually, when I write about my children, I point out how wonderful they are, the things they have accomplished, and that I think they are the best kids a mother could ask for. And yet I realize my children aren't perfect. Neither are they the most wonderful kids in the world. My husband isn't perfect or the most wonderful husband and father in the world. And I'm certainly not the perfect, most wonderful wife and mother in the world. Truth be told, none of us are!
I hit my lowest point two weeks ago as I was sitting at work trying to finish something I had to get done before the next day. It was 7:00 p.m. and I had been there since 8:30 a.m. I had seen nine patients that day, been on seemingly endless phone calls with insurance companies, and tried to squeeze in additional, important phone calls in the three to five minutes I have between sessions. It was a Thursday night and I was completely exhausted. Near the breaking point, I received a text from my youngest daughter who has just started high school and is on the school's Pom team. It read, "Mom will you be at the pom's Toys for Tot's party? Are you on your way? It's starting." I could feel my heart start racing, my stomach drop, and the exhaustion overwhelm me. "Of course!" I texted back. "Ofcourse honey, on my way! See you soon!" I had completely forgotten. I didn't have anything to bring and was a complete mess. I looked exhausted, wasn't wearing anything festive, and wanted to crawl into a hole to hide. I nearly burst into tears.
In that moment, I realized that while I was imperfect, and I messed up, it really was just fine. I am certain that every single mother there that night has had a time when she felt the same way. Whether a working-out-of-the-house mom or a working-in-the-house mom, we all have had times when we have felt overwhelmed and assumed that everyone else has it together except us.
As a therapist, I know better. But in that moment, I was sent back to an old place in my heart and in my mind that insisted, "I have to be a great mom. I don't ever want my daughter to feel neglected or embarrassed by me." Because I lost my mother at a very young age, it's always been very important to me to be the best mom in the world. The problem is, I can't be. None of us can be. There is no such person!
It's okay when we mess up; it's okay that we aren't perfect. Sometimes, we are going to disappoint our children, spouses, and friends. We are human and, for the most part, I believe we all do the best we can. We are going to make big and small mistakes, but we are also going to accomplish some great and wonderful things.
I haven't made cookies, sent out cards or even decorated the way I normally do, but that's just fine. It's better than fine. As I sat watching my youngest and her friends at their pom competition today, I realized something: She is happy. She is so joyful in this moment with her friends, the music, and the camaraderie. I also thought about my older two children. They are growing up. They are adults. They enjoy life sometimes and sometimes they don't. Isn't that what we all do? Sometimes things are great and sometimes they are just horrible. What I have learned though is that the horrible things are just as much a part of our lives as the great things. The mess is just as much a part of us as the beauty.
I love my imperfect family that makes mistakes, messes things up sometimes, and doesn't always look like what we assume is a normal, happy family. I'm going to love my imperfect holiday with my imperfect family and my imperfect self. We have gotten through a very tough year and I am very proud of each of us for the wonderful things we've accomplished and how we've handled the tough things.
The therapist me sees how difficult the holidays can be for some people. They may have experienced a recent loss, struggle with financial problems, be in the middle of a divorce, or be dealing with illness. Perhaps they have children who are experiencing difficult challenges. It's so hard to see other people happy and celebrating when you feel like your world is upside down. For anyone who may be experiencing a difficult, imperfect holiday season, please remember: It is okay that it is not perfect. It is okay to be sad. I realize that in some situations there is nothing anyone can say to make it any better. In those cases, I will just add that you are not alone. Take it one moment at a time, and remember to breathe.
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The Best Tropical Chicken Burger Ever!
Sorry guys, I don't mean to toot my own horn here, but I'm afraid am-'onna-have-to.
Or after it did, for that matter!
In fact, I don't think I'd ever seen a meat pattie that looked so darn good, period!
Just look at all the pretty colors!
That, combined to the amazing smell that emanates from the burgers, makes it very hard to resist sinking your teeth into them.
For oh yeah, each of these pretty colors gives their very unique twist to these delicious chicken burgers.
And the combination of flavors is just plain incredible!
We're talking bell peppers, green onions, mango and COCONUT!
These burgers are in fact packed so full of flavor that you don't even need to garnish them all that much.
Of course, they are amazing on their own, but if you choose to serve them on a bun, hamburger style, toppings can be kept at a bare minimum: a handful of greens, a few strips of roasted bell peppers and a couple of shavings of fresh coconut meat did the trick for me.
No ketchup, relish or mustard needed here, thank you very much!
Now I wish they served burgers like this one at my local burger joint.
Until then, I'll keep making my own at home!
Cut the chicken into small cubes and grind it in your food processor, on pulse, until it has the consistency of ground chicken.
Transfer to a large mixing bowl and add the rest of the ingredients. Mix with clean hands until all the bits and pieces are nice and uniformly distributed.
Preheat your outdoor grill to high. Or, if you are making these indoors, preheat a non-stick pan sprayed with olive oil over medium-high heat.
Serve immediately, bun entirely optional!
Not even cooked and already lookin' good!
Smokin' hot, all dressed up and ready to party!
These surely do look very moreish: the addition of both mango and coconut are new to me: so simply have to stop licking my lips and see whether I have all the ingredients in the kitchen 🙂 !
Your chicken patties look beautiful!
They are gorgeous. Love the shot with the coconut on top. I'm a huge tropical food fan.
Oh, you're after my heart with this one. I tend to over stuff my burgers and it makes them so juicy!
These were so YUM! Definitely worth the effort. Thank you!
I made these the other night and they were super delcious. I threw in some cilantro into the mix too!
Oh. My. Gosh. These burgers were AMAZING!! They were juicy, sweet and savoury all at the same time. The coconut flour gave the burgers a nice thickness, and the pepper gave it a good texture. I omitted the jalapeño and replaced it with a dash of red chilli flakes. Also, I used unsweetened coconut flakes. Instead of grilling, I baked the burgers at 375 degrees for 22 minutes, flipping them halfway through. I served them with a mint yogurt dip (kind of like tzatziki). I knew these were a hit when my father (a super picky eater) said they were good and that he wanted one for lunch tomorrow! Thank you for this recipe, it is definitely a keeper! | {
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ReLIFE Chapter 192 : Is This What They Call a Girl's Heart?
ReLIFE Chapter 190 : Is it Okay Like This?
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'Micro-blogging', 'photo-sharing', 'online shopping', 'sharing economy', 'digital-savviness' are the various characteristics that define the lifestyle of millennials. 'Millennials' refers to the demographic group generally comprising those born in the years between early 1980s and early 2000s. They are also regarded as Gen Y, whose parents were part of Generation X or the Baby Boomers. India's population today consists of more than 400 million millennials.
According to a report titled 'Trend-setting millennials: Redefining the consumer story' by consulting firm Deloitte India and Retailers Association of India, with a stunning 47% share of the working age population, millennials are the chief wage earners in India. They are also known as digital natives since they have grown up in the technology age.
It is always about the location. Millennials believe in living life to the fullest. This means work hard but party harder. Home should be easily accessible from work as well as play. Residences located close to offices as well as malls and entertainment are always attractive. Transport conveniences also play a big part, so homes close to modes of transport are equally important. TIme saved in commuting is spent in networking and nurturing relationships.
Developers today are designing integrated communities which offer various lifestyle amenities within the residential complex such as trendy cafes and restaurants, wellness spas and gyms, and recreational facilities. Another characteristic of integrated townships is proximity to social conveniences like educational institutions, medical facilities and employment centers. These features appeal to millennials who appreciate and desire good work-life balance.
Our 120 acres integrated community at OMR, Chennai is an example of thoughtfully designed integrated lifespaces that offer convenience and comfort packaged in elegant luxury which appeals to this jet-set generation.
Known as the 'plugged-in' generation, millennials are always hooked to their gadgets. This love for technology extends to the space they live in as well. Generation Y is big on home automation systems, sensors, video door phones, keycards and automated car parking. In addition to comfort and convenience, these tech-enabled amenities also provide a sense of safety and style to apartments, transforming them into a comfortable home.
Among the many adjectives used to describe millennials and their lifestyle choices, is green generation. Millennials are very conscious about the environment and make green choices. These include reducing their carbon footprint, choosing sustainable travel options such as trains, bicycles and sharing cabs, and they also champion numerous green causes. Their love for the planet also extends to their homes which should adhere to green building norms, have more green and open spaces, as well as follow sustainable practices such as rainwater harvesting, sewage treatment, waste recycling and solar panels among other such solutions.
Contrary to their 'live-for-the-moment' image, millennials care about their families, friends, society, wellness and the world they live in. This is clearly visible in the choices they make which are sustainable and altruistic. Millennials have grown up in an age of technology, globalisation and economic disruption. This gives them a unique perspective and personality which differentiates from the generations before them. Millennials are the future of the country and will determine the direction we collectively take. Designing, developing and marketing homes to this cohort of young people is an intrinsic part of the House of Hiranandani. | {
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GTA 4 -- Special Edition
GTA 4: The Ballad of Gay Tony
GTA 4: The Lost and Damned
LocoCycle
Xbox 360 GTA Games on Sale, LocoCycle Permanently Discounted
Get Niko on the cheap and I.R.I.S. on the run.
By Steve Watts
Posted: 4 Feb 2014 11:32 pm
This week's Xbox Live deals are a collection of fast-moving vehicles and slightly insane protagonists. An assortment of Grand Theft Auto games and DLC are on sale, and LocoCycle for Xbox One has already gotten a permanent 50% price reduction.
On Xbox 360, Grand Theft Auto V
Best priceon Amazon
is 33% off, reducing it to $40. Grand Theft Auto IV and its DLC, The Lost and the Damned, are both 50% off, making them $10 and $5, respectively. The other GTAIV DLC, Ballad of Gay Tony, is 60% off at $8. Those prices are in effect through February 10, and as always, exclusively available to Gold members.
Lococycle, meanwhile, has gotten a permanent price drop on Xbox One to match its upcoming PC and Xbox 360 price. It now costs $9.99, the same price it will be when it hits those two platforms. It was deemed "okay" in IGN's review.
Steve Watts is a freelance writer who was dragged by a talking motorcycle one magical summer. You can read more of his keen insights by following him on Twitter and IGN.
If you buy something through this post, IGN may get a share of the sale. For more, learn more.
Rated "M"
DeveloperRockstar North
PublisherRockstar Games
Release DateSeptember 17, 2013
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"At this rather difficult moment in our history, we need dreamers and dreams. We cannot give in to fatalism. At least I will not stop dreaming about a better and united Europe," Tusk said. It was not immediately clear which leader he was referring to. The summit compromised by giving Britain another six months.
"I know that, on both sides of the Channel, everyone, including myself, is exhausted with Brexit, which is completely understandable. However, this is not an excuse to say: "let's get it over with", just because we're tired," EU president insisted. | {
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Swindon Turn Down Town Bid For Robins Striker
Town boss Lee Clark has had another setback in search for a striker after Swindon have reportedly turned down an offer for their striker Simon Cox. Carlisle'...
Posted by Sean Makin, 19th January 2009
Match Report: Huddersfield Town vs Swindon Town
Town moved up to eighth in League One after a 2-1 victory over woeful Swindon Town, who were reduced to 10 men half way through the second half. Even though Sw...
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Swindon Town are the visitors at the Galpharm this Saturday afternoon in a 3 p.m kick-off. Swindon have a new manager in former Barnsley and Hartlepool boss ...
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Young Town striker Daniel Broadbent has been sent out on loan to Blue Square Premier side Rushden and Diamonds. Broadbent, 18, will spend a months loan a Nen...
Town Still in For Carlisle Striker
Graham Bid Rejected
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Bury striker Andy Bishop has been linked with a move to the Galpharm Stadium but Bury boss Alan Knill has stated it would have to be an impressive offer to take...
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Community Projects Publications Newsletter
Climate Change Impacts on the Global South and Inadequate UN Agreements
When: Sunday, March 15th, 2pm
Where: Beit Zatoun, 612 Markham St, Toronto.
Climate change is already catastrophic for countless people around the world, especially in parts of the Global South. Some residents of low-lying Island States in the Pacific Ocean are already having to move to other countries as a result of rising sea levels. Water is also rising in Bangladesh, swallowing up coastal areas and contaminating fertile land. In East Africa changing sea surface temperatures have disrupted seasonal rains and lead to severe droughts while West Africa is experiencing rising temperatures and shifting precipitation patterns which are threatening agriculture. Southern Africa is similarly seeing rising temperatures, below-normal rainfall, and droughts. Meanwhile, South Asia and South East Asia have been subjected to extreme weather events that have killed and displaced tens of thousands of people, with more severe climate impacts on the way.
These developments are revealing all too starkly the limits of neoliberal development strategies of building capitalism. There is a pressing need to turn to ecologically-responsible production and egalitarian development.
Yet, wealthy nations continue to look the other way, formulating weak and non-binding agreements on climate change at UN conferences. Even the 2 degree Celsius target set out by developed countries for capping the rise in warming would lead to full-scale humanitarian disasters in the developing world. Indeed, scientists say that at 2 degrees of warming, expected in 20 to 30 years, the world will encounter widespread food shortages, unprecedented heat-waves, and more intense cyclones.
Please join us to hear about the climate impacts in some of the most vulnerable regions in the world, an assessment of the current impasse at the global level, and some thoughts on ways to avoid an escalating crisis.
* Nasima Akter, Executive Director, Bangladeshi-Canadian Community Services
* Isaac Asume Osuoka, Director, Social Action, Nigeria
* Romain Felli, Senior researcher in Political Science, University of Geneva
The talk is free. The space is accessible by mobile ramp upon request in advance. Washrooms are downstairs and not accessible.
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Socialist Register 21: Beyond Digital Capitalism
Join us on Wednesday February 10th for the launch of Socialist Register 21: Beyond Digital Capitalism (Merlin Press, 2020), with presentations by Greg Albo, Sam Gindin, Bryan Palmer, Joan Sangster, Stephen Maher, Pat Armstrong, Hugh Armstrong, Tanner Mirrlees, and Derek Hrynyshyn.
Lower Fares, More Service! Public Transit Struggles In and After the Pandemic
When: Sunday December 13th, 2pm A second wave of the pandemic is raging across the country, and Toronto and other cities are again in lockdown. Austerity for social provisioning including public transit is high on the agenda for city governments across North America. In Toronto, both the city government and the Toronto Transit Commission are […]
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Posted on April 10, 2017 April 9, 2017 by The Bloc
Global Fest Encourages Cultural Education, Travel and Acceptance
By Connor Bell
The Maryland South Hill Council hosted its annual Global Fest event April 5.
The event took place in Annapolis hall in the South Hill Community in a small auditorium with a lot of food and drinks for those in attendance.
Global Fests' main goal was to show students the possibilities of studying abroad through Maryland and allow students to recognize the different cultures on campus, according to South Hill Community Director Will Dalton.
"Students come for the music and food, but also learn about the ways they can travel and actually experience the culture for themselves" Dalton said.
Each table in the small auditorium had its own type of food with a description of the history of the food right next to it. Students and other guests dined on plantains, Jamaican beef patties and mango sticky rice. Resident Director Coty Behanna said all food brought to the event was ordered from local eateries in Prince George's County.
Dalton said resident directors in the South Hill Community were in charge of setting the event date, but the Resident Assistants were in charge of everything else, from serving the food, to getting the room set up and reaching out to dance groups to perform.
The performers of the night were two student dance groups: Celtic Grace Dance Troop, featured an Irish style of dance, while the other group, African Sisters, displayed an African style of dance.
When students were done watching both dance performances, guests could walk out of the auditorium and learn about the study abroad trips available for the upcoming semesters. Not only were study abroad opportunities present, but students could also learn more about the United States Peace Corps.
Senior Resident Assistant Kaushik Nagarur expressed what this event means for students: "The one thing we stress as RAs is inclusion. . Getting other people exposed to cultures they really aren't used to is all part of college."
"It's cool there is something organized to promote multiculturalism" said South Hill Council Resident Jacob Mitchener. "I'm an engineering major, and you kind of get funneled into engineering classes, so it's good to get opened up to other things going on in the world."
Aside from watching, eating and learning about different cultures, students could try their best at creating dream catchers. The South Hill Community provided arts and crafts supplies for people to make these catchers and also allowed them to read the origin of the dreamcatcher and its significance in American Indian culture.
Perhaps the most important aspect of making these crafts was the fact that the community made it a priority to include the definition of cultural appropriation next to the history of the dreamcatchers. Despite the definition being from Wikipedia, it reminded all people present at the event to not use a different cultures objects in a negative or offensive way whether it was at the crafts table or the food people were eating.
Featured Photo Credit: Courtesy of PROstu_spivack's Flickr account.
Connor Bell is a junior journalism major and can be reached at [email protected].
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Legoland has partnered with The Cloud to offer free Wi-Fi throughout the Windsor theme park. Visitors can use the free wireless internet connection as much as they like while on the site, and can also access Legoland's Q-bot service, which allows them to reserve their place in queues while enjoying other rides.
A free Legoland Resport application is also available for smartphones, which can be used on the day to view the entire park and receive exclusive offers that might make their visit a little cheaper.
"We want to make sure everyone who visits the Legoland Windsor Resort has a fantastic time with us," said Mark Anderson, head of marketing at the resort.
"Being connected is all part of this, with new technologies like Q-Bot changing the way visitors queue. Our guests also like to interact with us throughout the day while they're in the theme park, especially sharing photos and videos and using our mobile app."
Legoland Windsor is the latest in a list of venues run by Merlin Entertainment that have partnered with The Cloud for free Wi-Fi. Others to already offer the service include Alton Towers, Thorpe Park, The London Eye, Madame Tussauds and Chessington World of Adventures. | {
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Q: How to calculate sample size needed for effect size CI I have an experiment which is examining thickness of hair before and after a certain treatment. I have 2 different treatments. I calculated the effect size in R of the treatments and found the confidence interval of the effect size to include 0, meaning the difference in thickness of hair after a treatment was not affected.
I would like to be able to calculate how many more participants I would need for sample size needed to detect a difference ie. to not span 0, and I have been told I can use length of confidence interval. I've tried to figure it out but I am still confused.
I had 30 participants in my pilot study, and would like at least to see an effect size of 0.3. I am just looking at differences within participants.
A: To answer such questions you would need to do a power analysis. And to do power analysis you will need 4 values:
*
*mean difference between groups
*standard deviation (pooled from two groups)
*sample size
*significance level (typically 0.05)
If you have these then you can use R with the pwr library to calculate the power of the test to detect the difference between groups under your specified parameters:
library(pwr)
pwr.t.test(n=15, d=0.3/1, sig.level=0.05)
Here n is sample size in of one group, d is Cohen's d which is difference between means divided by standard deviation and sig.level is your wanted significance level (probability of false positive result).
Note that I could not find standard deviation from your post - so I used 1 instead. You would have to change this number according to your data.
The function will output the following:
Two-sample t test power calculation
n = 15
d = 0.3
sig.level = 0.05
power = 0.1246978
alternative = two.sided
You might be interested in calculating the sample size needed to achieve a reasonable good power (by default 0.8 is considered good in most cases). You can do this by removing the sample size from the function arguments and adding the wanted power instead:
pwr.t.test(d=0.3/1, sig.level=0.05, power=0.8)
Two-sample t test power calculation
n = 175.3847
d = 0.3
sig.level = 0.05
power = 0.8
alternative = two.sided
This means that to have 80% chance of detecting the 0.3 difference (with 1 as a standard deviation) you would have to have 175 samples per group.
Most likely is that in your case the standard deviation is lower - so you will have to plug it in and see.
A: If you are using R, then you should use the pwr.t.test to calculate your sample size (n), by setting your effect variable (d) equal to 0.3.
You can calculate as follows:
pwr.t.test(n = , d = , sig.level = , power = , type = c("two.sample", "one.sample", "paired"))
You might find this link helpful: http://statmethods.net/stats/power.html
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Q: Vuejs + vue-html2pdf: window is not defined I can't get the plugin to work. As stated in these instructions, I imported vue-html2pdf in my vue component:
import VueHtml2pdf from 'vue-html2pdf
I registered it in my component's components list:
components: { VueHtml2pdf }
Here's my methods:
methods: {
generatePDF () {
if (process.browser) {
this.$refs.html2Pdf.generatePdf()
}
}
}
Here's my template:
<v-btn class="mt-5" @click="generatePDF">
Télécharger le catalogue
</v-btn>
<client-only>
<vue-html2pdf
ref="html2Pdf"
:enable-download="true"
filename="hee hee"
:manual-pagination="false"
>
<section slot="pdf-content">
<!-- PDF Content Here -->
</section>
</vue-html2pdf>
</client-only>
but I get this error:
window is not defined
What am I missing here please ? One answer to this could save my job, any help would be appreciated...
Here's a screenshot:
Package Version
"vue-html2pdf": "^1.8.0",
A: As stated here, I directly used html2pdf (without the vue wrapper) and everything worked fine.
Hop this will help someone !
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Aliás, n?o existem limita??es no programa, de modo que grupo todo pode ligar-se simultaneamente sem impedimentos, inclusive um é possível que ver que outro modificou.
Que você precisa verdadeiramente é gostar da atividade a sinal de desenvolvê-la com prazer e maestria.
Begin the writing process with a vision or general idea where you want your essay to go. The writer must keep in mind that the thesis statement is about similarities or differences that can be proven and must be backed-up with details, statistics or examples.
Inclui alimentos acontecimento usando esses gr?os, nomeadamente cerveja, p?es, massas, etc.
There are certain terms that might be acceptable in spoken language but not for formal writing.
Begin the writing process with a vision or general idea where you want your essay to go. In Rainbow Road, the conclusion of the Rainbow trilogy, it is the summer after graduation and Jason, Kyle, and Nelson take Vibram Five Fingers a cross-country road trip--a journey of continued self-discovery as they learn how to be "out" in the wider world.
Even bad creditors who are able to meet such needs can put on along with us without any anxiety volbeat tour rock this country because as opposed to selling lots of people to acquire a product or service once, you sell simply a people to acquire something each month. | {
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Twins With Twins Are Having More Twins
"Nobody was expecting or even thinking any of this could be a possibility."
ByTaylor Pittman
09/16/2015 11:47am EDT
After facing fertility issues, twin sisters Kerri Bunker and Kelli Wall have learned they're both expecting twins -- for the second time.
According to KSL, the identical twins are each expecting their second set of twins in March. After learning in July that her sister was pregnant with twins, Bunker decided to take a pregnancy test.
"I don't even know what got into me, but I decided at that moment that I should take a pregnancy test," she told The Huffington Post in a phone interview. "Why would I possibly think I was pregnant? I knew I couldn't get pregnant on my own."
Bunker's doubt stemmed from the fertility issues she has faced over the years. According to KSL, she had been told it was unlikely she would become pregnant without medical assistance. When the test came back positive, Bunker said she was "literally stunned." Two weeks later, she learned she was having twins.
Courtesy: Kerri Bunker
Both Bunker and Wall became pregnant with their first set of twins after receiving in vitro fertilization treatments. Bunker's twins, Hallie and Kole, will turn 4 in just a few days, and Wall's twins, Madison and McKell, will turn 5 in October. Bunker also has a 2-year-old named Sadie. While she said she didn't receive fertility treatments before becoming pregnant with Sadie, Bunker told HuffPost that her doctor credits that pregnancy to her high hormone levels while she was freezing her embryos.
Bunker also explained her twin sister is expecting her second set of twins after receiving an in vitro fertilization treatment in June. Despite being told her chances of becoming pregnant on her own were slim, Bunker is expecting her twins without medical assistance.
"It's just shocking because everyone that's close to us knows the fertility issues that we've dealt with, both my twin sister and I," Bunker told HuffPost. "Nobody was expecting or even thinking any of this could be a possibility."
She also wants to let other women facing fertility issues know to "not give up."
"I hope those people that are dealing with fertility [issues] do not give up because miracles happen in a variety of ways every day of our life," she said. "And I feel like in vitro alone is a miracle and has provided a way for people like us to have kids."
The twin sisters are both due in March, exactly two weeks apart. They also married best friends and currently teach at the same school. Together, Bunker said they are "ready for complete chaos" as they prepare to add to the family. Luckily, there will be enough bundles of joy to go around.
"We tease that there will be enough babies for everyone to have one to hold," Bunker told HuffPost. "So we won't be fighting over one baby. There will be enough babies to pass around."
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Q: npx react-native init MyProject: "Error: Command failed: yarn add react-native@latest" I decided to use Yarn in a new project I wanted to create. I have installed yarn following their instructions.
Yarn v3.3.0
Node v16.13.1
When I hit npx react-native run-android MyProject it throws an error:
> × Downloading template error Error: Command failed: yarn add
> react-native@latest Usage Error: The nearest package directory
> (C:\Users\janic\AppData\Local\Temp\rncli-init-template-eIz0rX) doesn't
> seem to be part of the project declared in C:\Users\janic.
>
> - If C:\Users\janic isn't intended to be a project, remove any yarn.lock and/or package.json file there.
> - If C:\Users\janic is intended to be a project, it might be that you forgot to list AppData/Local/Temp/rncli-init-template-eIz0rX in its
> workspace configuration.
> - Finally, if C:\Users\janic is fine and you intend AppData/Local/Temp/rncli-init-template-eIz0rX to be treated as a
> completely separate project (not even a workspace), create an empty
> yarn.lock file in it.
>
> $ yarn add [--json] [-E,--exact] [-T,--tilde] [-C,--caret] [-D,--dev]
> [-P,--peer] [-O,--optional] [--prefer-dev] [-i,--interactive]
> [--cached] [--mode #0] ...
I have already uninstalled the globall @react-native-community/cli and react-native-cli
A: Updating NodeJs globally to the latest LTS version did the fix.
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October 15, 2021 by Joseph Fitsanakis 1 Comment
THE DIRECTOR-GENERAL OF Pakistan's Inter-Service Intelligence (ISI) directorate, which is one of the country's most powerful institutions, has been replaced, following weeks of speculation. On Wednesday, a press release issued by the Pakistani military announced that Lieutenant General Faiz Hameed would step down from his post of director of ISI, and will be replaced by Lieutenant General Nadeem Ahmed Anjum. General Hameed will now assume charge of Pakistan's elite Corps XI in Peshawar, according to the press release.
As F.M. Shakil notes in The Asia Times, General Hameed's removal from the top post at ISI had been speculated about for some time. His leadership in the ISI was marked by the spy agency's increasingly close relations with the Afghan Taliban, as the group prepared to take back power in Afghanistan. Hameed's activities in Afghanistan were strongly supported by Pakistan's Prime Minister, Imran Khan, who is believed to have fought to retain him as ISI director until the dust from the Taliban's takeover settles in Kabul. The fact that Khan's wish did not materialize is interesting, especially since, under Pakistani law, it is the prime minister's office that appoints the director-general of the ISI.
Shakil suggests that Khan may have faced pressure from two fronts. First, from China, which is arguably Pakistan's most important international ally. Beijing has been notably unhappy with the inability of the ISI to stop a string of armed attacks against Chinese workers, who are employed by the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC), as well as other projects throughout Pakistan. These attacks have angered China, and have prompted strong calls for more security around Chinese-funded building projects in Pakistan. Beijing is believed to have asked for Hameed's replacement as a result.
Second, the Pakistani military leadership saw Hameed's relationship-building program with the Afghan Taliban as having gone a few steps too far. The issue is not so much the relationship-building itself —on the contrary, the Pakistani military wants to be in a position to influence Afghanistan's new masters. But Hameed stands accused of having maneuvered too visibly. As Shakil notes, the ISI strongman visited Kabul just days after the Taliban takeover and was photographed "sipping green tea [next to Taliban leaders] with a triumphant smile". That angered the Americans and caused some Pakistani military leaders to believe that Washington might even impose sanctions on Islamabad.
The argument, therefore, is that Hameed's replacement pleases the Chinese, the Americans and the Pakistani military. The only side that did not get its way is that of the prime minister. Time will show what this means for the future of civilian rule in the world's only nuclear-armed Muslim-majority nation.
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One Response to Director of Pakistan's powerful spy agency replaced following much speculation
Completely cooked up balderdash. Lt general Faiz Hameed has been promoted to Corp command in order for him to qualify as the next Chief when Gen. Bajwa relinquished office in a year. He is the anointed one. Imran Khan couldn't care less for American/Chinese views. He is rumored to be not happy with new ISI appointment. Goes to show all western & Indian commentators are clueless as to what is reaally happening in Pakistan – thus the hyper-creative fiction. | {
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£500 in 1782 is worth £84,943.53 today
£500 in 1785 → 2020
GBP inflation rate in 2020
UK future inflation calculator
Value of £500 from 1782 to 2020
£500 in 1782 is equivalent in purchasing power to about £84,943.53 today, an increase of £84,443.53 over 238 years. The pound had an average inflation rate of 2.18% per year between 1782 and today, producing a cumulative price increase of 16,888.71%.
This means that today's prices are 169.89 times higher than average prices since 1782, according to the Office for National Statistics composite price index. A pound today only buys 0.59% of what it could buy back then.
The 1782 inflation rate was 1.52%. The current year-over-year inflation rate (2019 to 2020) is now 1.50%1. If this number holds, £500 today will be equivalent in buying power to £507.50 next year.
Buying Power of £500
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Inflation from 1782 to 2020
Cumulative price change 16,888.71%
Average inflation rate 2.18%
Converted amount (£500 base) £84,943.53
Price difference (£500 base) £84,443.53
CPI in 1782 6.700
CPI in 2020 1,138.243
Inflation in 1782 1.52%
£500 in 1782 £84,943.53 in 2020
GBP Inflation since 1750
Annual Rate, the Office for National Statistics CPI
Buying power of £500 in 1782
This chart shows a calculation of buying power equivalence for £500 in 1782 (price index tracking began in 1750).
For example, if you started with £500, you would need to end with £84,943.53 in order to "adjust" for inflation (sometimes refered to as "beating inflation").
When £500 is equivalent to £84,943.53 over time, that means that the "real value" of a single U.K. pound decreases over time. In other words, a pound will pay for fewer items at the store.
This effect explains how inflation erodes the value of a pound over time. By calculating the value in 1782 dollars, the chart below shows how £500 is worth less over 238 years.
According to the Office for National Statistics, each of these GBP amounts below is equal in terms of what it could buy at the time:
Pound inflation: 1782-2020
Pound Value
1782 £500.00 1.52%
1783 £559.70 11.94%
1785 £537.31 -5.26%
1797 £671.64 -10.00%
1800 £1,007.46 36.36%
1809 £1,044.78 9.37%
1811 £1,044.78 -2.78%
1814 £1,059.70 -12.88%
1975 £10,059.70 24.24%
1978 £14,708.96 8.30%
2009 £62,910.45 -0.53%
2020 £84,943.53 1.50%*
* Compared to previous annual rate. Not final. See inflation summary for latest 12-month trailing value.
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This conversion table shows various other 1782 amounts in today's pounds, based on the 16,888.71% change in prices:
Conversion: 1782 pounds today
Equivalent value
£1 pound in 1782 £169.89 pounds today
£5 pounds in 1782 £849.44 pounds today
£10 pounds in 1782 £1,698.87 pounds today
£100 pounds in 1782 £16,988.71 pounds today
£1,000 pounds in 1782 £169,887.07 pounds today
£10,000 pounds in 1782 £1,698,870.69 pounds today
£100,000 pounds in 1782 £16,988,706.88 pounds today
£1,000,000 pounds in 1782 £169,887,068.77 pounds today
How to Calculate Inflation Rate for £500 since 1782
Our calculations use the following inflation rate formula to calculate the change in value between 1782 and today:
CPI today CPI in 1782
1782 GBP value
Today's value
Then plug in historical CPI values. The U.K. CPI was 6.7 in the year 1782 and 1138.2433607545 in 2020:
1138.24336075456.7
£500 in 1782 has the same "purchasing power" or "buying power" as £84,943.53 in 2020.
To get the total inflation rate for the 238 years between 1782 and 2020, we use the following formula:
CPI in 2020 - CPI in 1782CPI in 1782
Cumulative inflation rate (238 years)
Plugging in the values to this equation, we get:
1138.2433607545 - 6.76.7
News headlines from 1782
Politics and news often influence economic performance. Here's what was happening at the time:
The Bank of North America opens in Philadelphia, it is the first US commercial bank
Rama I overthrows King Taksin of Siam (now known as Thailand).
The US mint is established by a resolution of Congress
Data Source & Citation
Raw data for these calculations comes from the composite price index published by the UK Office for National Statistics (ONS). A composite index is created by combining price data from several different published sources, both official and unofficial. The Consumer Price Index, normally used to compute inflation, has only been tracked since 1988. All inflation calculations after 1988 use the Office for National Statistics' Consumer Price Index, except for 2017, which is based on The Bank of England's forecast.
You may use the following MLA citation for this page: "£500 in 1782 → 2020 | UK Inflation Calculator." Official Inflation Data, Alioth Finance, 15 Jan. 2021, https://www.officialdata.org/uk/inflation/1782?amount=500.
Special thanks to QuickChart for their chart image API, which is used for chart downloads.
in2013dollars.com is a reference website maintained by the Official Data Foundation.
Ian Webster is an engineer and data expert based in San Mateo, California. He has worked for Google, NASA, and consulted for governments around the world on data pipelines and data analysis. Disappointed by the lack of clear resources on the impacts of inflation on economic indicators, Ian believes this website serves as a valuable public tool. Ian earned his degree in Computer Science from Dartmouth College.
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The birth of a child is one of the most joyous occasions in any parents' lives. It is also a sophisticated medical procedure which, if appropriate care is not given, can cause severe birth injury during labor and delivery. Birth injuries can be permanent, requiring long-term medical care.
A relatively common, and potentially severe birth injury is a Brachial Plexus injury or Erb's Palsy. An injury to the brachial plexus is defined as "an injury to the network of nerves that sends signals from your spine to your shoulder, arm and hand" and occurs when the nerves are stretched as a result of pressing down forcefully on the shoulder while the head is pushed up and away from that shoulder. The birth injury may cause paralysis to the child's shoulder, arm and hand, which may be permanent.
Brachial Plexus injury or Erb's Palsy as a result of excessive pulling on the baby during birth may be the result of negligence, so it is important to contact a birth injury lawyer about your case.
1. Excessive pulling of the arm.
2. Pressure by raised shoulders during a breech delivery, when the baby enters the birth canal and is deliver feet first instead of headfirst.
Moreover, Brachial Plexus injury may also occur outside of the birth context. Specifically, it is commonly associated with contact sports involving children, where the pulling of the arm or shoulder frequently occurs.
Neuropraxia Brachial Plexus Injury, also called Stretch Brachial Plexus Injury, is the most common and results when the nerves are stretched, but not torn. Rupture occurs when the nerve is torn, but not at the spine. Avulsion Brachial Plexus Injury is the most severe since the nerve is torn from the spine.
In newborns, diagnosing Brachial Plexus Injury involves observing the functional use of upper extremities, such as arms, head and neck. The University of Pittsburgh Department of Neurosurgery describes the examination as consisting of "a motor evaluation that scores both individual muscle groups (using the five-point British Research Council Grading System) and functional muscle group activities, including abduction, external rotation, and hand-to-head, hand-to-back and hand-to-mouth movements as well as sensory and reflex exams." Follow up examinations are to take place every 3 months, and the results compared in order to assess progress.
Though most infants recover from Brachial Plexus Injury within 6 months, those who do not recover require surgery to repair the nerve. The surgery may be a nerve graft or nerve transfer, and may require an extended hospital stay. There may be permanent damage, which will require long term care.
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I've rebased the vendor changes on 3.10.77 to 3.10.102, seems still works. jun your are the MAN Next step is I think to troubleshoot the network issue on some system that "prevent" network driver to load at boot. How can I (or the community) help you to debug ? How do you display/access the early boot stage without serial console ?
Clean OP, add link to Pokanskiman's tutorial and add download mirror. DMS 6.1 uses updated kernel (3.10.102). The kernel sources for 6.0.2 (3.10.77) has not been released yet so don't hope anything from Syno before months. Like before no sources = no loader jun's v1.01 loader CAN'T support DSM 6.1 so DO NOT UPGRADE !
I tried to set CONFIG_SYNO_FIXED_DISK_NAME=n (in menuconfig: Synology Enhancement Features -> Device Drivers -> SATA -> Use Fixed Disk Name) and compile ata_piix kernel module. Now it's successfully loaded with insmod, but hard to say how it will work without Use Fixed Disk Name. Interesting... If syno_libata_get_index is missing in the genuine syno kernel it means that it's disable, otherwise when we insmod module it shouldn't complain about missing function. Can you repack this in a test ramdisk so I can test it with my mobo using ata_piix. About your r8169 not working I think it's a crappy adapter that need firmware like my old dlink s*** ^^ r8169 from kernel is FULL of bugs for lot of adapters. This is why realtek create r8168 to split support in separate modules. Edited OP with new links.
It's ICH8R - You need ata_piix.ko, which is not included, I will add it to bootimage. During my test with updated network modules, I have tried to add sata driver including ata_piix (needed for my old ICH7 mobo). When trying to insmod these sata modules it complain about unknow syno_libata_get_index or something like that. This function should be included in the kernel (function declared in libata-core) but it doesn't. I even try building these module with vanilla 3.10.77 kernel. sata_sil, sata_via, sata_amd .... load ok but ata_piix module is stuck during insmod. Of course using vanilla is not great idea and probably will cause disk naming conflict and other bugs.
Here is my little contribution to this release : https://download.xpenology.xyz/drivers/ ... rs-dsm6.7z Updated broadcom tg3, bnx2, bnx2x, cnic Updated intel e1000e (I219 support) Add/Updated realtek r8168, r8169 and r8101 (r8169 from realtek website no the one inside the kernel tree) I use kernel source/toolchain from first post to compile these modules. Sorry no time to repack this inside the current loader. | {
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Laptops are way more sensitive than desktop PCs. Whether the damages are small or big, each and every single issue in a laptop can get converted into a big damage easily. In our daily lives, we normally meet with a number of accidents and that is how our very own personal laptops can also be damaged accidently in the same way as we do.
Say it as a liquid damage, fire, accidental fall, or anything else, any type of accident can damage the laptop partially or fully. In case, only a few parts of the laptop is damaged then it is always tried to make all those parts repaired whereas if there is a chance that the parts of the laptop cannot be repaired then it is normally advised to get the claimed money from the insurer.
In order to get the claim on the damaged laptop, it is essential to have Laptop repairs and Computer damage report for insurance claim and at Gladesville Computers, it can be prepared easily.
* The dropped computers- It includes cracked screens, broken power jacks, damaged hard drives.
* Theft and loss – Maybe the computer could also be stolen.
* Liquid damage – If the damages are made by spilled drinks, pipes bursting, flooded basement, overflowing dishwasher.
* Power surges or lightning – Power fluctuations, or any type of electricity damage.
* Fire – Due to fire, the computer may be damaged by smoke, water, electrical surges or anything else.
At Gladesville Computers, the experts may ask to keep the damaged PC along with them so that they can prepare a comprehensive report for the insurance claim. It will hardly take 1-2 days to undertake a thorough test and assessment of the damaged pc.
In this process, each hardware part of the computer is properly tested and all the damaged items are carefully identified.
Before making an insurance claim against the damaged a desktop computer or even other computer equipment and devices an insurer will surely ask for a computer insurance claim report to accompany all the insurance claim. The report consists of an estimated cost of repair, along with the availability of replacement parts and time for completion. It is important to note that, the claim report further helps in determining that whether a computer should be repaired or replaced. For getting an appropriate and professional Computer Insurance Claim Report, the experts at Gladesville Computers can guide you perfectly. | {
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Q: Increase volume before streaming with Python Here we have a normal code for streaming audio from a wav file with PyAudio:
def play_sound(sound):
CHUNK = 1024
wf = wave.open(sound, 'rb')
p = pyaudio.PyAudio()
stream = p.open(format=p.get_format_from_width(wf.getsampwidth()),
channels=wf.getnchannels(),
rate=wf.getframerate(),
output=True)
data = wf.readframes(CHUNK)
while len(data) > 0:
stream.write(data)
data = wf.readframes(CHUNK)
stream.stop_stream()
stream.close()
p.terminate()
return True
How do you increase volume to the audio before streaming it to speaker WITHOUT using PyDub?
A: What about using the soundfile and sounddevice modules?
import soundfile as sf
import sounddevice as sd
weight = 1.7
data, fs = sf.read('myfile.wav')
sd.play(data * weight, fs, blocking=True)
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For instance, the speed portal speeds your character up, while its size is changed by the size portal. As the game progresses, the cube can also be transformed into things like ball or a ship, each form having its own unique mechanics. In those cases, it will become very important to get the first jump absolutely right. Play amazing Geometry Dash Online right now! But you do have to practice a lot if you want to advance through the levels. On the site play all your favorite crazy games.
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This game has newer updates in versions of and. But the slower you go the shorter the distance of your jumps. Geometry Dash is a rhythm-based platformer game has 21 levels. Honestly, encountering them by surprise is a lot more fun. Have fun with this ragdoll physics-based Flash game! Instead all you need to do is to ensure you have the most recent version of Flash installed on your computer.
There are currently over 50 million online players worldwide. Your job is ensuring the characters avoid any and all deadly obstacles that can kill you. Some are very simple, but others that people have created are difficult to master and very unique. Just look out for them as you play and see if you can catch them. Just avoid taking too big risks to get them.
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Unlocking New Levels You will be given coins at the end of every level you complete successfully. Endless Levels Although you are provided with 21 different levels by the game makers, there are also millions of other levels you can access that other players have created. Your ball is able to bounce, roll and rush, so use his abilities to make your way to the finish. In addition there are numerous different kinds of portals that introduce changes to game play that are quite significant. Basically, that allows you to customize your profile icons to provide you with quite different game experiences to enjoy. However, with this game, you need to be at the very top of your game right from the first time that you try playing it.
Knowing what they do is important so that you can take advantage wherever possible. You can only play them by having enough coins saved up. Happy Wheels is a bloody and addicted action game that has you playing through a plethora of different levels with over a dozen unique characters!. Also this will help you to slow anging process and enhance multi-tasking skills. We bet that you will get into it for hours from the very first glance and move! They will be able to both help you succeed and cause all sorts of problems. Geometry Dash was developed by Robert Topala. The first way to do this is to complete official and user levels.
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Adobe Flash is totally free, which is the best part about it. That music can help you time your jumps a lot better. This one will actually send you backwards to the start of the level. The orbs are scattered around the levels and you should try and pick up as many as you can. Essentially, you will want to hit the space key at the right time, every time. This is Geometry Dash, a title where you will play for a small ball that tries to make it through the obstacles and dangers, such as spiky traps and other harmful objects. Your task in Geometry Dash: Jump over all obstacles.
This will result in numerous new custom levels being created. When you hit these, they can transport you to another part of the level. There are even Linux versions that are also available for you to use. But the simplicity of the controls should not be mistaken for this being a simple game to play. When you first play the game, you might think that slowing down is going to help. Check it now — it is free! The shop is not amazing, but it does give you the ability to make some customizations.
That is because the controls are really simple actually. The site offer many categories of games , some of them can be played in full screen. There are upgrades as well that help you make it through the various game play achievements. But one thing you should pay close attention to is the beats to the electronic music that is constantly playing. The way you do that is playing the level and reaching the end without getting yourself killed. This must be done without any special upgrades in normal play mode.
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And using the beat to space out your jumps will make a huge difference. Before you are allowed to share your creations, you first have to prove that succeeding is possible. One portal to look out for that will cause all sorts of problems is the mirror one. This is not just centered around clearing the various levels. Play It Right Here On Our Website. This includes different shapes and colors for your icon, and you might have certain preferences for this. Timing each of the jumps is where the difficulty lies.
The trick will be to really get the timing right, and that takes practice and experience. There have been major improvements made to the level editors bringing all of the new obstacles, color changes and objects into play. What Are The Newest features? Visit the website to do this and use their free version checker. But the game play is tough to master right from the first level. The levels are very variable, so you can literally play it for days. | {
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Sunlight and vitamin D findings may help understanding of autoimmune diseases
By Jennifer Phillips, University of Aberdeen
(Medical Xpress) -- Aberdeen scientists have demonstrated for the first time a clear link between sunlight, vitamin D and an impact on regulatory cells in the immune system in findings that might provide new insights into diseases such as multiple sclerosis (MS).
The research - published in the Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology – shows how UV (ultraviolet)-B light boosts vitamin D, as well as cells in our body that are responsible for regulating or balancing the immune system.
Vitamin D is made in our bodies by UV-B light from the sun.
Some studies have suggested a link between vitamin D deficiency and autoimmune diseases such as MS. This possible link might also explain the increasing prevalence of autoimmune disease among those living far from the equator, where there are lower levels of winter sun.
Autoimmune diseases - like MS and type 1 diabetes - are diseases where the immune system mistakenly attacks the body's own tissues or harmless substances that enter the body.
University of Aberdeen researchers studied patients in the north of Scotland - which has the highest rate of MS in the UK - who were being treated during winter with artificial UV-B light therapy for skin diseases caused by their immune systems acting inappropriately.
Researchers looked at the impact of the UV-B light on vitamin D levels, as well as its impact on cells known as regulatory T cells, which play a critical role in the immune system, keeping it in balance and preventing it from carrying out damaging autoimmune responses.
Regulatory T cells are known to be lacking in some patients with autoimmune diseases. Previous research has also shown that regulatory T cell function is enhanced by vitamin D.
Dr. Anthony Ormerod, Clinical Reader in Dermatology at the University, said: "Our study shows that UV-B light, which mimics sunshine, can have a striking effect on the immune system of patients.
"We found that UV-B light boosted the production of vitamin D, and of regulatory T cells, which play an important role keeping our immune systems in check.
"Our findings have important implications for future interventions including the recommendations for healthy lifestyle and a possible role for phototherapy and / or vitamin D supplementation in the prevention or treatment of autoimmune and inflammatory diseases.
"While too much exposure to sunlight is harmful and increases skin cancer risk, these results suggest that subjects in our study would have some benefits from small amounts equivalent to summer exposure in the winter but more work needs to determine the role of sunlight and the role of supplementing the diet with vitamin D."
Dr. Helen Macdonald, senior lecturer in nutrition and translational musculoskeletal research and Chair of the National Osteoporosis Society Nutrition and Lifestyle forum, said: "There are risks associated with high levels of both therapies, so it is important that we get the balance right.
"We would also want to stress that we are not advocating sun bed use since this is not the same type of radiation produced by sun beds which already have well-documented health risks.
"The average dose of UV light that the volunteers received was the equivalent to sunlight exposure in Aberdeen over spring and summer and further work is required to determine if lower doses are effective."
Professor Mark Vickers, Chair in Applied Medicine at the University, said: "Ours is the first study to demonstrate in patients a cause and effect between UV light, vitamin D and systemic immune function in people."
Professor Rob Barker, Chair in Medicine and Therapeutics, added: "Our study suggests a predisposition to autoimmune and allergic responses may be explained by a deficiency in exposure to sunlight, which in turn leads to a lack of vitamin D and regulatory T cells."
How sunlight may reduce the severity of multiple sclerosis
Journal information: Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology
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Citation: Sunlight and vitamin D findings may help understanding of autoimmune diseases (2012, July 18) retrieved 18 January 2020 from https://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-07-sunlight-vitamin-d-autoimmune-diseases.html
Study explores link between sunlight, multiple sclerosis
Extra vitamin D in early childhood cuts adult diabetes risk
Research reveals UK's north-south divide in vitamin D deprivation
When too much sun is not enough
Researchers learn that genetics determine winter vitamin D status
Researchers investigate molecule, VISTA, which keeps immune system quiet against cancer
Inflammation 'game changer' as cellular death dance discovered
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<?php
namespace App\Containers\Localization\Values;
use App\Ship\Parents\Values\Value;
use Illuminate\Support\Facades\Config;
use Locale;
/**
* Class Region
*
* @author Mahmoud Zalt <[email protected]>
*/
class Region extends Value
{
/**
* @var null
*/
private $region = null;
/**
* A resource key to be used by the the JSON API Serializer responses.
*/
protected $resourceKey = 'regions';
/**
* Region constructor.
*
* @param $region
*/
public function __construct($region)
{
$this->region = $region;
}
/**
* @return string
*/
public function getDefaultName()
{
return Locale::getDisplayRegion($this->region, Config::get('app.locale'));
}
/**
* @return string
*/
public function getLocaleName()
{
return Locale::getDisplayRegion($this->region, $this->region);
}
/**
* @return null
*/
public function getRegion()
{
return $this->region;
}
}
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Fighting Admiral: Sir Philip Louis Vian of Britain's Royal Navy
British Admiral of the Fleet Sir Philip Louis Vian was one of history's great fighting commanders, serving with distinction during World War II
by David T. Zabecki 8/7/2021 8/6/2021
Sir Philip Vian of the British Royal Navy was awarded the Distinguished Service Order (DSO) and two bars. (Getty Images / Imperial War Museums)
British Admiral of the Fleet Sir Philip Louis Vian was one of history's great fighting commanders. During World War II he was thrice awarded the Distinguished Service Order, the Royal Navy's equivalent of the U.S. Navy Cross. A 1911 graduate of the Royal Naval College, Vian served primarily on destroyers and cruisers during World War I. He was aboard the M-class destroyer HMS Morning Star during the 1916 Battle of Jutland, though his ship was not actively involved in the fight.
During the interwar years Vian worked his way up through progressively more responsible assignments both afloat and ashore. On New Year's Day 1940, four months after Britain declared war, Capt. Vian took command of the 4th Destroyer Flotilla, leading from the Tribal-class destroyer HMS Cossack.
A month later Vian's flotilla tracked down the German oil tanker and supply ship Altmark, which British intelligence believed was holding 299 British merchant seamen whose ships had been sunk by the pocket battleship Admiral Graf Spee. Although Altmark was in neutral Norwegian waters, Vian pursued it into Jossingfjord, boarded it on February 16 and freed the captives. Though the action was a clear violation of neutrality laws, Vian's grateful nation awarded him his first DSO.
After Germany invaded Norway on April 9, Vian's flotilla continued to operate in Norwegian waters. He won a bar (second award) to his DSO after attacking a German convoy on the night of October 13–14. On May 25 Vian's five destroyers were escorting a troop convoy when ordered to join the search for the German battleship Bismarck. His flotilla harried the enemy ship overnight on May 26, reporting its location. The British main fleet engaged the warship the next morning, forcing Bismarck to scuttle with the loss of all but 114 of its 2,200-man crew. Six weeks later 47-year-old Vian was promoted to rear admiral.
That fall Vian took command of the 15th Cruiser Squadron in the Mediterranean. On March 20, 1942, an emergency supply convoy of four merchant ships left Alexandria for Malta. Vian led the escort of four light cruisers, an anti-aircraft cruiser and 17 destroyers. On the morning of the 22nd in the Gulf of Sirte off Libya two Italian heavy cruisers and two destroyers attacked the British convoy.
Though outgunned, Vian turned to attack. The Italians initially withdrew, but two hours later they returned with the battleship Littorio, an additional light cruiser and a screen of 10 destroyers. Though massively overmatched, Vian fought on for more than two hours and ultimately drove off the Italian force, with three of his cruisers and five of his destroyers having sustained damage. Unfortunately, the merchant ships became separated from their escort, and all were later sunk by enemy air attacks. Regardless, Prime Minister Winston Churchill deemed the battle "a naval episode of the highest distinction."
Vian commanded a carrier force covering the September 1943 landings at Salerno, Italy, and the Eastern Task Force supporting the Normandy landings in June 1944. That November he assumed control of air operations for the British Pacific Fleet and in April 1945 directed support of the American landings on Okinawa. A month later he was promoted to vice admiral. In 1942 Vian was appointed a knight commander of the Order of the British Empire, and in 1952 a knight grand cross of the Order of the Bath.
In addition to his British decorations, Vian received the French Légion d'honneur and the U.S. Navy Distinguished Service Medal. His last assignment was commander in chief of the British Home Fleet, retiring with the rank of admiral of the fleet in 1952. Vian died at age 73 on May 27, 1968. MH
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Royal's Contact Adhesive is the most multi-purpose contact adhesive for your bonding needs. This product offers durable final bonds that are fast and flexible, with good water and heat resistance. For those hard to reach places, this Contact Adhesive offers you excellent brushability, ensuring you experience an easy application.
NOT SUITABLE for polystyrene. DO NOT use as a structural adhesive.
Stir Royal Contact Adhesive well before use. Ensure that both of the surfaces to be bonded are clean, dry, and free from any dust or oil. If the surface is very smooth, it may first require roughening with sandpaper. Use a serrated scraper or brush to apply a uniform coat to both surfaces and allow to dry for approximately 10-15 minutes. This product has an open time of 20 minutes, allowing sufficient time to line up both surfaces. Once aligned, apply an even pressure to ensure a permanent bond. Applying clamping and some heat can have an improved effect in your final bond strength.
You will cover approximately 2-3㎡ per litre, for double-sided applications.
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Back to the Future! NBC's Ignore-the-Web Ad Pitch
At the annual "upfront" presentations this week, the broadcast networks try to sell advertisers the shows they'll air next fall, using splashy presentations and cocktails.
Depending on the year and the network, you'll also hear some lip service paid to digital. Yesterday, for instance, Fox played up its popularity on Facebook. (Both Fox and this Web site are owned by News Corp.)
But these events really aren't the place to be if you're trying to reach Web eyeballs: The TV ad guys are paid to sell TV ads, and they're happy to explain why TV is the best place to spend your money.
Here's how NBC chairman Ted Harbert put it yesterday, during his network's pitch. Technology is great, he said. But!
What we really need to focus on is a lot more of the back-breaking blocking and tackling that brings great stories and great characters to television–or what I call now–the "big screen"…
Of course we have to embrace change. We know that consumers are looking for content any place they can get it.
And I'm no different from anyone else. I love catching up on episodes of "Parenthood" on nbc.com. The xfinity app actually works. And like you, I like all devices that begin with the letter "i." And I'd be lost without my laptop.
But please remember: The best and most popular, most salable content starts here.
Now to put some things in perspective. According to our close friends at Nielsen, each week, people spend almost 38 hours in front of the television set, only 20 minutes a week watching video online, and just four minutes a week watching mobile video.
So until George Jetson shows up and folds his spacecar into a briefcase, the big screen is still the best place to watch video. Whether you're a 26-year-old media buyer, part of a family of four, or an alpha boomer like me.
If you're so inclined, it would be easy to listen to Harbert's pitch and conclude that he's a dinosaur. But a better word would be "pragmatist".
Traditional TV may or may not be in the midst of a disruption, but for now it's a $70 billion business. Web video ads? $1 billion. Until the gap between those numbers closes a bit, Harbert and his new employers at Comcast are going to spend most of their time on the big screen.
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The primary goal of the Community Risk Reduction Division (formerly known as Prevention) is to make our community a safe and healthy place to live, work and visit through the preservation of life—both civilian and firefighter—and property, in that order. We will achieve this goal by following the NFPA Standard on Organization and Deployment of Fire Prevention Inspection and Code Enforcement. Risk Reduction personnel use a strategic and measurable approach to reducing the community's risks of fire and emergency medical incidents through the programs and processes listed on this page. For more information on any of these, please click on the corresponding button.
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This week's Into-yous features British (Welsh) expat Patricia Anderson.
I moved to Dubai in 2005 because of my husband's work.
We've moved around quite a lot, actually – Hong Kong, Bangkok and Qatar … so far!
Enjoy it! There's a lot to do in Dubai, so get out there and make the most of it, especially during the winter months. We're lucky to have mountains, coastline and pristine desert to explore and enjoy.
How safe it is. I have never felt at risk in any situation.
Mabrouk. A very positive and surprisingly useful little word!
Dubai Time – implying that something will get done, but not necessarily very quickly. This concept drives me mad, but I have found myself using the expression to refer to events in Dubai, such as having a repair done or getting a delivery!
Getting to know people through Gulf for Good from so many different backgrounds who are all driven by a desire to make a difference in the world.
Skiing in Lebanon – I haven't been to Lebanon yet, but have heard so many good things about it. I'd also like to hike in the Lebanese mountains – Gulf for Good ran a challenge there last year and the participants raved about the beauty of the mountains.
The Smiling BKK on Al Wasl Rd – fun atmosphere, really quirky and tasty Thai food. | {
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Q: Add watermark on after upload image in visualforce page I did upload image into record in this way but i need how to add watermark on after upload image.If know any idea please say to me.
Apex class:
public class UploadImage
{
public Attachment attachment {
get {
if (attachment == null)
attachment = new Attachment();
return attachment;
}
set;
}
public PageReference upload() {
attachment.OwnerId = UserInfo.getUserId();
attachment.ParentId = '00190000010E7V9'; // the record the file is attached to
attachment.IsPrivate = true;
try {
insert attachment;
} catch (DMLException e) {
ApexPages.addMessage(new ApexPages.message(ApexPages.severity.ERROR,'Error uploading attachment'));
return null;
} finally {
attachment = new Attachment();
}
ApexPages.addMessage(new ApexPages.message(ApexPages.severity.INFO,'Attachment uploaded successfully'));
return null;
}
}
Visualforce page:
<apex:page controller="UploadImage">
<style type="text/css">
div.resized_image p {
margin: 2px;
margin-top: 0;
font-size: 8px;
background: url(http://i242.photobucket.com/albums/ff244/9861_omikron/error.png) no-repeat;
padding-left: 20px;
color: #333;
}
</style>
<script type="text/javascript">
var loadFile = function(event) {
var output = document.getElementById('output');
output.src = URL.createObjectURL(event.target.files[0]);
loadfile.resize(50, 50);
};
$(document).ready(function() {
(
function(maxht, maxwt, minht, minwt) {
var imgs = document.getElementsByTagName('img');
var resize_image = function(img, newht, newwt) {
img.height = newht;
img.width = newwt;
$(img).wrap('<table><tr><td class="tborder"><div class="resized_image"><a href="' + img.src + '" target="_blank"></a></div></td></tr></table>');
$(img).parent().before('<p>NOTE: This image was resized. To view it full-size, click on the image.</p>');
$(img).parent().after('<p style="text-align:right;background:none;margin:0;padding-right:3px">Image resizing script by <a href="http://aetus.net/217/programming/automatically-resize-large-images-with-javascript/">Aetus Designs</a>.</p>');
};
for (var i = 0; i < imgs.length; i++) {
var img = imgs[i];
if (img.height > maxht || img.width > maxwt) {
var old_ratio = img.height / img.width;
var min_ratio = minht / minwt;
if (old_ratio === min_ratio) {
resize_image(img, minht, minwt);
}
else {
var newdim = [img.height, img.width];
newdim[0] = minht;
newdim[1] = newdim[0] / old_ratio;
if (newdim[1] > maxwt) {
newdim[1] = minwt;
newdim[0] = newdim[1] * old_ratio;
}
resize_image(img, newdim[0], newdim[1]);
}
}
}
}
)(500, 500, 500, 500);
});
</script>
<apex:form enctype="multipart/form-data">
<apex:pageMessages />
<apex:pageBlock title="Upload a Attachment">
<apex:pageBlockButtons >
<apex:commandButton action="{!upload}" value="Save"/>
</apex:pageBlockButtons>
<apex:outputLabel value="File" for="file"/>
<apex:inputFile value="{!attachment.body}" filename="{!attachment.name}" id="resize_image" accept="image/*" onchange="loadFile(event)"/>
<img id="output"/><br/>
</apex:pageBlock>
</apex:form>
</apex:page>
A: Server-Side
As commented on your previous question on this How to watermark a Image (gif,jpeg and bmp) in visualforce?, the Apex language does not include the necessary libraries or indeed the ability to directly manipulate bytes that would be needed to write those libraries to do this sort of work. (The 10 second CPU limit might also be a block.)
So you have no choice but to make a web service callout to an external system - pass the image over and receive the image back - to get this work done. If you are very lucky such a service might already exist - Google to see - but if not you will have to write it yourself and host it yourself. I would start by trying to find the best watermarking libraries and then whatever language they use would help make the hosting decision e.g. Heroku supports a number of languages.
Client-Side
You don't explain why you want to add the watermark, but if you don't mind the small risk of expert users tampering with the process, you could use JavaScript to do the watermarking; watermark.js is one library you could use for that.
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Interview with Jompet
Susan ACRET
Diaaalogue Women in Art History
Diaaalogue Editor Susan Acret spoke to the Indonesian artist Jompet about his home of Yogyakarta, his Yokohama Triennial work, and the idea of 'Javanese Syncretism'
Susan Acret: Your work often features sound and is somewhere between music performance and art installation. I understand you worked as a freelance cameraman/video editor, and your background is in music. How do you define your practice?
Jompet: A very long time ago I worked as cameraman and video editor. Sometimes I make documentary films for social movement purposes, but now I work as a full time artist.
Ten years back I was not in art school, I was a musician, I joined many kinds of art communities; I was involved in many multidisciplinary art projects. My music and sound performances were then curated and performed in many visual art events. Then I found myself a visual artist.
I experienced how in a country like Indonesia, which doesn't have a proper education infrastructure, informal communities become very important and effective for the younger generation to learn something and to present their practice. Especially in my hometown of Yogyakarta, where community-based organization networks are growing massively, it's almost impossible to be unconnected.
I work freely for my arts, I use many kind of mediums, I talk about many issues, I work independently and collaboratively. I am also affiliated with some non-art communities like eco-social movement groups.
SA: You often incorporate elements of the Gamelan orchestra, and in your work Garden of the Blind figures sometimes resemble contemporary wayang puppets, hooked up to electronic sensors that react when the body moves. Tell us about the influence of traditional Indonesian culture in your work.
J: If you come to the city of Yogyakarta, you will see that various cultural values meet and mix or interact in parallel to build the social-cultural landscape of the city. I am really inspired by how Javanese people absorb these values and then produce a unique way of living.
I really do live and learn from the tension between traditional–modern, old–new, mystical–scientific issues of Javanese culture today. This kind of dialectic is the spirit of my artworks and the history behind the objects and the techniques I use in my work shows this tension.
SA: Can you explain your idea about 'Javanese syncretism' and also tell us about your work for the 2008 Yokohama Triennial, Java's Machine: Phantasmagoria.
J: The history of Java is a history of intersections, contestations, juxtapositions and negotiations between different beliefs and values. Java has been in contact with Hinduism, Buddhism, Islam, European Colonialism, Christianity and modernity. Instead of opposing incoming cultures and religions, the Javanese were thought to have taken everything as necessary ingredients to form a new synthesis: a basic Javanese syncretism. This 'system' became the island's true folk tradition. The 'fuel' of its civilization. The 'machine' of its culture.
Syncretism then became a strategy for Javanese to reconcile, to manipulate, or to overcome disparate or contradictory beliefs; between the 'old' and the 'new'; the 'genuine' and the 'alien'; the 'traditional' and the 'modern'; between 'us' and 'the other'. Hence, beside being a defence mechanism, you could see syncretism also as a device to reconcile and to alleviate such binary oppositions. As a result, Java is always a 'collage'; filled with series of layers of beliefs and values. A phantasmagoria.
In Java's Machine: Phantasmagoria, fifteen figures of Javanese Royal Army stand in rows without bodies in the installation space. There are videos projected on the wall and some are screened on the monitors placed on the figures. Musical instruments are attached on the figures. Globally, this installation performs a video and mechanical music orchestra.
The Javanese Royal Army costume is a portrayal of how Javanese syncretism trys to merge divergent beliefs and cultures that have come to Java. Since the middle of 18th century, when the Dutch colonized Indonesia and started to intervene in cultural and political affairs of Javanese kingdoms, Java's royal soldiers have not had a military function. Their existence seems only to serve a symbolic status, but this should be seen as a new strategy. The army uniform was re-designed and various cultural symbols were collaged. Since then, the army of Java has not fought a war but they entered a new battlefield with a new enemy. A war that required a new defensive mechanism: the Javanese army is now opposing the idea of homogenization.
SA: Tell us something about the contemporary art scene in your home of Yogyakarta.
J: Yogyakarta society provides an interesting dialectics for many artists who live there, many wonderful and powerful artworks are produced and departs from this dialectics, and the most important thing is that the artists' initiative networks are growing very well and strong as reaction to the minimum role of the state.
SA: Indonesia is a huge archipelago with over 230 million people: are there many definitions of being an 'Indonesian artist'?
J: I just can say: I can be an Indonesian artist but it is impossible to represent Indonesia.
SA: Can you tell us what you are working on at the moment?
J: I'm not a busy artist, so I still have enough time for my domestic affairs. I'm now working hard for my solo exhibition at the end of this year at Cemeti At House in Yogyakarta, and working harder to be a father, since my baby was just born in the last month.
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RCSO responds to video circulating of fight in Downtown Augusta
New Orleans Police say a woman was robbed at gunpoint Friday night in the Lower Garden District.
By Destiney Burt | March 23, 2019 at 4:35 PM EDT - Updated March 23 at 4:35 PM
RICHMOND COUNTY (WFXG) - The Richmond County Sheriff's Office (RSCO) says they are aware of a video that has been circulating on social media of a fight that happened in Downtown Augusta Friday night. In the video there's only a small portion of the fight that happened outside of a bar on Broad St.
According to RCSO, the incident shown in the video is from a large fight that was called in around 1:45am from an off duty deputy working special duty. One of the deputies that responded is a part of the plain clothes undercover team and responded from 3 blocks away.
Two people were taken into custody and charged with disorderly conduct and transported to Charles B Webster Detention Center. RSCO says the plain clothes proactive teams will continue to patrol the downtown area.
Copyright 2019 WFXG. All rights reserved.
Destiney Burt
Multimedia Journalist
Destiney Burt is a multimedia journalist at WFXG, she joined the team in April 2018.
Organizers say Operation Southern Shield has saved lives. In 2017 speeding killed 9,717 people, which was about 26 percent of nationwide traffic fatalities that year.
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Lex Juarez
'Kids and Cops' camp hopes to build relationships between deputies and youth
Miya Payton
City of Augusta, Gold Cross reach agreement on ambulance service contract
Hurricane Barry is pushing a heat wave into Augusta and the CSRA | {
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As a matter of Christian principle and in accordance with its foundation, the school promotes equality of opportunity in all aspects of school life, and for all pupils, staff, parents and carers receiving services from the school, irrespective of race, gender, disability, language, faith or religion, socio-economic background or sexual orientation. We aim to develop a culture of inclusion and diversity in which all those connected to the school feel proud of their identity and able to participate fully in school life.
Below, you will find our Equalities policy. This policy states how All Saints' complies with the Equalities Act 2010. It includes our equalities objectives which are a set of actions that the school prioritises. These objectives are reviewed every year by the School staff and Governors.
Our parent, staff and children's survey provide an opportunity for us to gather the views of people who could be affected by discrimination. Our surveys are published on the school website and inform our school improvement plan.
Equality Policy March 2022 and action plan.pdf | {
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Before the increased lockdown in the 20th century, domestic trade in the U.S. was loosely regulated, if at all. The income tax didn't exist, except for a trial run during the Civil War which was eventually repealed. There was no permanent central bank managed by unaccountable elites arbitrarily dictating interest rates or inflating the economy through asset purchases. Businesses were formed around partnerships which were limited in their scope, and while government grants and aid were afforded to some of these partnerships (as during the construction of the transcontinental railroad), these grants or bonds had an expiration date set for the moment the job was completed. At that point, the partnerships were dissolved, and the company heads were expected to pay back the government on the grants given.
Corporations are defined by their corporate charter, which is granted by the government, as well as their "corporate personhood" derived from the exploitation of the 14th Amendment. Corporate personhood allowed for limited liability as well as many other government protections. Unlike partnerships, leaders of corporations cannot be prosecuted for many crimes if those crimes were executed by "the company". The company can be sued as a "legal person" in civil court, or fined by the government, but in general CEO's and major shareholders are protected from any consequences even if they were directly involved in the commission of a crime.
This is why the establishment is so obsessed with converting to a cashless society in which every transaction no matter how small is tracked and vetted. Why governments are enacting harsher and harsher penalties for anyone doing business without their explicit approval. Why government taxation and regulation is making small business ventures more difficult. And why law enforcement officers are being encouraged by bureaucrats to write tickets punishing children selling lemonade on street corners. We are being conditioned to avoid attempting free market trade.
I agree with Adam Smith in the idea that normal citizens will act to pursue success, but also to pursue balance. When given the opportunity to actually function within a true free market, most people are not going to destroy their surrounding environment and resources in some mad dash for gain. Why? Because it is in their self-interest not to. They know that if they abuse the structures around them they will lose their source of commerce. They know that if they ruin the system for others that they will be shunned in business. They also know that if they fail in such a spectacular manner and commit criminal sabotage of the free market system they will have to suffer the regret and shame that will follow. | {
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I will go to great lengths to avoid using a hydration pack. This includes strapping tools, pumps, and tubes to my frame; shoving water bottles in jersey pockets, or even going without. This works for shorter rides close to home, but it's not practical for long days in the woods. Sometimes the need to bring extra food, tools, or clothes necessitates a pack.
As I geared up for the Huracan 300 early this year, I was looking for something that could safely carry my camera, while also keeping it readily accessible. High Above's Cascadia pack looked to be an ideal solution, so I reached out with a list of questions. John Canfield, the owner of High Above, responded right away with an offer to send one out for review.
High Above is based in Bellingham, Washington, a hotbed of Pacific Northwest mountain biking, and home to Kona and Transition. High Above is a one-man show with John designing, sewing, and testing his packs there in Bellingham. In fact, all the components – save the buckles and mesh – are made in the USA. This includes the waterproof Dimension Polyant sailcloth shell, the sturdy YKK zippers, the foam backing, the webbing used for the belt, and the clip that holds the "Bottle Rocket" pouch to the pack.
The Cascadia is the largest of the High Above packs with dimensions of 12.5″ x 3″ x 5.5″ (LxWxH). The length might be an issue for skinny riders, but with a 34″ waist, it worked well for me. Until just recently, High Above made only two packs: the Cascadia and the smaller Das Radpack. However, they've just released a third pack to their line, the Lookout. The Lookout lands somewhere in between the two in terms of volume, and adds an external zippered pocket, perfect for stashing your phone. Pricing for Das Radpack starts at $60, the Cascadia at $75, and the new Lookout at $80. The Bottle Rocket pouch can be added to the Cascadia or the Lookout for $10.
The large YKK zippers run all the way to the edges of the pack allowing easy access to the pack's main compartment. Inside the main compartment are two smaller pockets, along with a lanyard to clip your keys to. High Above chose 1.5″ webbing for the waist belt, which is wider than the 1″ webbing found on most commercial packs. To keep pokey things like multitools from jabbing you in the back, there's a thin piece of foam separating you from the pack. It's covered in a layer of mesh to improve breathability.
I received the Cascadia pack just in time for the Huracan. I used it to carry my small, interchangeable lens camera, but the spacious pack left room for other items I wanted to keep handy like sunscreen, chapstick, chamois cream, and a rain jacket. It's hard to beat a hip pack for convenience. With a quick twist, I could pull the pack around to the front and easily grab whatever I needed, even while riding. Thanks to the beefy zippers and extra long paracord pulls, fumbling was kept to a minimum.
The exception to that was the water bottle – I had to come to a full stop to remove and replace it. Initially I was skeptical the friction fit would be enough to keep the bottle from bouncing out, but that was not the case. The pouch is just big enough to fit a standard water bottle. In my experience, taking the bottle out or putting it back required two hands. Shorter bottles work best in the Bottle Rocket, as taller 26oz bottles had a tendency to flop to the side. John has revised the positioning of the Bottle Rocket for the Lookout pack in an effort to eliminate the flopping and will be updating the Cascadia in the same manner.
During the Huracan, I wore the Cascadia for around 40 hours, and never got tired of it. Even packed out, the weight isn't noticeable thanks to the Cascadia's wide waist belt and low positioning. Since the Huracan, it's accompanied me on just about every ride. I've found that I just leave the basics (tube, pump, multitool, patch kit) in it at all times so when it's time to ride, all I need to do is fill up a water bottle and grab a bike. For longer rides, I supplement the basics with some snacks, a jacket, arm warmers, a beer or two, etc. — whatever the ride that day requires.
So far the Cascadia has shrugged off a 340-mile ride, sand, rain, mud, and a crash (or two). The zippers are still pulling smoothly and the sailcloth material is just starting to break in. This is a pack built to withstand years of on-trail abuse.
The Cascadia hip pack has become an indispensable part of my riding kit. I can now carry enough food, water, and gear, to get me through 75% of my rides, almost eliminating the need for a hydration pack. It has also cut my ride prep time down significantly – I'm no longer digging through dirty jersey pockets searching for a misplaced multitool.
If you want to ditch your hydration pack and replace it with a well-made, durable, American product, give High Above a look. | {
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Barbashev Moves Back to NHL
Home | News | Barbashev Moves Back to NHL
The Chicago Wolves announced Monday that center Ivan Barbashev has been recalled from loan by the St. Louis Blues.
In his latest stint with the Wolves, Barbashev appeared in one game on Feb. 22 against the Cleveland Monsters at Allstate Arena. Through the 2016-17 season with Chicago, Barbashev has skated in 46 games and collected 37 points (19G, 18A). The 22-year-old ranks third in club scoring.
Since Barbashev's initial recall on Jan. 26, he has dressed for 12 games with the Blues that included his NHL debut the same evening. The 22-year-old netted his first NHL goal on Feb. 7 against the Ottawa Senators and has tallied three points (2G, A).
The Wolves continue their six-game homestand against the reigning Calder Cup champion Cleveland Monsters on Saturday (March 4). Puck drop for American Girl Night is set for 7 p.m., and the first 5,000 children into Allstate Arena receive a doll outfit. The contest will be broadcast on CW50 in the Chicago area. For complete ticket or schedule information, visit ChicagoWolves.com. | {
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from django.contrib import admin
from .models import Category, Tag, Post
class PostAdmin(admin.ModelAdmin):
list_display = ['title', 'created_time',
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# Register your models here.
admin.site.register(Post, PostAdmin)
admin.site.register(Category)
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Here at school there's a lot of talk about majors. Why we picked them. Why we love them. Then, for some, why we hate our decision and want to do something else. Choosing a major is hard. For me, it took me years before I realized what I wanted to do. I'm also a massive planner, so when I hit High School I was already planning for college. The other thing about me was I didn't want to accept the major that I've always wanted.
When I got to High School, I was told that it was preparation for College. For someone who is constantly thinking five years down the line, I was already thinking about what my major should be. The first thing I thought about going into was photography. Then I did some studying and realized that photographers don't always get to take the photos they want, but instead photos they are commissioned for. I still loved it and do love it, but I wasn't sure that I would love it as a major. I also did a bit of archeology, I would volunteer once a week organizing pottery pieces, and I have gone out on a dig. Again, while I enjoyed the work, I didn't want to sit in a classroom for it, so I moved on. After that I tried, I couple other things that I figured would pay the bills but wasn't something I would enjoy studying about.
During this entire time, I had one thing that I loved. Writing. Writing was the one thing that never left that I always wanted to do. If I didn't write, I would come up with stories upon stories that would bother me until I decided to write them out. I started writing when I was 12, but I was afraid that it wouldn't support me like I would need it too. I was afraid I would become the starving artist, settling for any job I could get because my degree couldn't feed me. I specifically enjoy creative writing. Which makes those fears worse. The field of novel writing is highly competitive. Everyone thinks they are going to be the next New York Times Best Seller. I have that dream. Everyone in my major has that dream too. And the truth is, only some of us will get there. Whether that takes perseverance or wickedly amazing talent, I don't know. I just know some of us might give up somewhere along the way and I hope that won't be me.
These fears are what ran me away from becoming an English major for a long time. Even after I had decided I would go for it, I still hesitated to go for the job I want. Instead, I thought about going for other things that would require a bachelors but that I felt would guarantee a living. However, I didn't have the whole story until I got deep enough into the major to see the jobs that were out there. Through networking, talking to teachers and personal online research I found out about many creative jobs that required an English degree. Do I still want to publish a novel? Absolutely. But in the meantime, I'm going to find another job that I will love to support me.
I feel that when choosing a major, it is important to pick something you love. That way when the classes get hard, you are able to push through it and get to where you want to be. It's easy to get discouraged in a major. For me, when that moment came, because I'm passionate about writing I didn't care that I was discouraged. I wanted what I wanted, and I was going to get it. And this hasn't happened with just me. It's happened with my roommates, with other people I talk to on campus. The thing that keeps them going is their love for the material and their dreams. If you are passionate about something, go for it. Everything will work out. | {
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Paulo Panther Weekly
Weekly events and announcements: 10/24/2021
This Week's Schedule
Sun. Oct. 24th: Last day to register for TACHS Test
Quarterly Exams
Thurs. Oct. 28th Representative from Msgr. Farrell for 8th grade PD 6
Fri. Oct. 29th School Spirit Day: Black and Orange Day
Fri. Oct 29th 6th & 7th grade Halloween Party (Schoolyard)
**ATTN. 8TH GRADE: LAST DAY TO REGISTER FOR TACHS TEST**
The last day to register for the TACHS test is Sunday, October 24th and the last day to submit an Applicant Record to Mrs. Castellan is Monday, October 25th.
NO Halloween Costumes on Friday Oct 29
Unfortunately, there was a miscommunication and students WILL NOT be permitted to wear Halloween costumes to school on Friday Oct. 29th. It will still be Black and Orange Day so students will still be able to participate by wearing black and orange For students who are attending the 6th & 7th grade party after school, costumes are optional. The costume must be kept in a locker during the school day and due to COVID restrictions, all costumes must be able to go over the student's clothing/slip on over their clothes that day. There will be no option to change into a costume. Locker rooms are not in use. at this time.
ATTN 8th Grade: HIGH SCHOOL OPEN HOUSE INFO
CSI High School for International Studies Open House Information. virtual question and answer sessions: Tuesday, October 19th, 2021, 6:00PM-7:00PM; Thursday, October 28th, 2021, 6:00PM-7:00PM, & Wednesday, November 3rd, 2021, 6:00PM-7:00PM. Links to the information sessions will be posted on the CSIHighSchool website 24 hours prior to the session.
New Dorp High School will be holding a virtual open house/information meeting on Tuesday, November 2, 2021 at 6:30 PM. Please copy the link below to join the webinar: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/87227134183?pwd=ZW1wR0U5NlVGR3lhOGdhejM5S1BQUT09 Passcode: 901953
Staten Island Technical High School Wednesday, November 3, 2021 from 5- 8 PM Virtual; Register via https://www.siths.org/
Gaynor McCown ELS will be hosting two virtual High School Information Sessions on October 20th and November 4th at 7:00 PM for 8th grade parents. Register here --> November 4th
Port Richmond High School Tuesday, November 9, 2021 at 7:00 PM Virtual https://www.portrichmondhs.org/
Susan Wagner High School Monday, November 15, 2021 at 6:00 PM Virtual www.wagnerhigh.net
Ralph McKee High School Tuesday, November 16, 2021 at 6:30 PM Virtual mckeecths.org
Curtis High School on Thursday, November 18, 2021 at 6:00 PM Virtual www.curtishs.org
Tottenville High School Monday, November 22, 2021 at 6:00 PM Virtual www.tottenvillehs.org
SCHOOL SPIRIT CALENDAR FOR 2021-2022
Here at Paulo, we understand the importance of cultivating a sense of student pride and ownership across our hallways and classrooms. We believe that this sense of warmth and optimism allows our students to feel valued and welcomed each and every day and makes Paulo a place where all students can flourish. To this end, we enlist your support in ensuring your child participates in our various Paulo Pride days.
October 29, 2021 – Wear Black and Orange Day
November 24, 2021- Crazy Hat Day (8th Grade Only Event)
December 17, 2021 – Door Decorating Judging
December 22, 2021 - Ugly Sweater Day
December 23, 2021- Twins Day
January 7, 2022 – College Awareness Day- Wear your favorite college swag
February 11, 2022 – Football Jersey Day
February 14, 2022 – Wear Red for Valentine's Day
February 17, 2022 - International Night
March 17, 2022 – Wear Green for St. Patrick's Day
April 8, 2022- Basketball Jersey Day
April 29, 2022 – Light it Up Blue for Autism
May 4, 2022- Star Wars Day
May 27, 2022 – Superhero Day
June 1, 2022-Soccer Jersey Day
8th Grade T-Shirt Design Contest
The theme for this year's graduating class is "Make Lemonade." This speaks to recent challenges we have endured and the remaining aftermath, making choices, and keeping things positive and in perspective. Now more than ever, we are making the most of less than ideal circumstances.
The official start of the senior t-shirt design contest is now! The deadline to submit an entry will be December 1st. Designs are to be submitted to Ms. Runfolo, digitally or directly in person to room 418.
6th & 7th Grade Halloween Party 2021
Our 6th & 7th Grade Halloween Party will be held on Friday, October 29, 2021 from 2:30-4:30 pm IN THE SCHOOLYARD. Cost of tickets is $5 for all students. Registration has closed because the party is sold out; please note that no monies will be accepted on the day of the party.
Transportation home is the responsibility of the parent/guardian Pick-up in the schoolyard (RAINDATE: Monday, November 1, 2021 from 2:30pm - 4:30pm)
Recognizing 2021 Honor Society and Jr. Arista Members:
Last schoolyear's Spring candidates will be honored this Fall at a ceremony on Wednesday, November 3, 2021 (6th Grade Honor Society Society-current 7th graders) and Thursday, November 4, 2021 (7th Grade Jr. Arista Society-current 8th graders) in our school auditorium. Our students who had met the requirements for Scholarship and Citizenship during the 2020 – 2021 school year will be recognized. Due to COVID concerns, parents and guardians will not be in attendance at the ceremony. However, the ceremony will be recorded and live streamed for parents and family members to watch. The ceremony will take place during periods 2 and 3.
Service credit is a form of school-based volunteer work where students are acknowledged for their meaningful contributions. In-school service can be in the form of classroom monitoring, being a member of a school team, or even just participating in a spirit event. Students are encouraged to participate in as many activities as possible. School service, partnered with a dedication to their academics, builds a strong foundation for the well-rounded student. Students are afforded opportunities throughout the year to earn these credits. Participation in out-of-school charitable events or organizations does not count for service credits. Participation in said events are recognized separately. Letters of participation in community-based service can be sent in to Mr. Herrmann, who will catalog their efforts and count them toward the Philanthropy Award (given to deserving graduates).
Requirements for Arista
The mission of the Paulo Arista Society is to make the qualities of scholarship, citizenship, and service function as a beacon of excellence for all members of the school community. To communicate this mission, Paulo has made the requirements for inclusion in Arista (8th grade), Junior Arista (7th grade) and Honor Society (6th grade) as follows:
1. Scholarship – Academic average of at least 91.00% in each marking period with no grade, in any subject, below 80 or "S". Please note that a course grade of 79 or lower precludes a student from Arista.
2. Citizenship – No citizenship grade below "S" (Satisfactory) in any marking period.
3. Service – The attainment of at least 25 service credits per school year.
4. Attendance/Punctuality – Students absent more than 10 days per school year are precluded. Also, students who are picked up early from school five or more times in a given semester are also precluded from this recognition.
Please see the Student Handbook for a more in-depth explanation of criteria for the Paulo Arista Society.
PTA Corner
Join I.S. 75 on our first online fundraiser of the year. Java Joes Freshly Roasted Gourmet Coffee fundraiser begins on 10/19 thru 11/16.
No Cost "Virtual" After School Math Tutoring & Virtual Saturday Math
During the School Week
We are happy to be able to provide additional math support "virtually" after school.
Classes will meet remotely via google classroom on weekdays (according to the schedule below) 4:00 PM to 6:00 PM, beginning Monday, October 4th and ending Thursday, January 27th.
Algebra: Tuesdays & Thursdays
8th Grade: Mondays & Wednesdays
7th Grade: Mondays & Tuesdays
6th Grade: Tuesdays & Thursdays
"Virtual" Math Tutoring on Saturdays
Saturdays from 9:00 AM to 10:30 AM starting October 9th and ending January 22nd.
Classes will take place remotely. Students WILL NOT report to school.
You must register your child at IS75.org under the School Store/Online Payments tab in order to attend math tutoring. After registering, the student will receive an invite to the google classroom.
It is important that you and your child have separate Pupil Path accounts to ensure that parents and students receive the proper access and notifications. You can find student and parent registration codes in the document, "Advisory Classes and Registration Codes" which can be found on the IS75 Website under "News and Announcements".
Operoo
Please be sure to create an Operoo account. If you have not received an email from Operoo to create an account, please check the spam folder in your email.
Paulo Athletics
Track and Cross country track fall season has started.
Useful Links: Self-help
Daily Health screening https://healthscreening.schools.nyc/
Health and Safety in Our Schools COVID-19 School Health Policy.
IS75 Website https://www.is75.org/
NYC Schools Account Portal NYC Schools Account (NYCSA) portal
Parent Consent for Testing New York City Schools Account (NYCSA)(Open external link
School Food Forms https://www.myschoolapps.com/Application
Student Account information schools.nyc.gov/studentaccounts
Student-Family Handbook https://www.is75.org/pdfs/Paulo%20Student-Family%20Handbook%202021-22%20_1_.pdf
Student transportation https://www.schools.nyc.gov/school-life/transportation/transportation-overview/whats-ne
Vaccine portal Vaccine.schools.nyc
Tues Nov 2 Remote School Day for Students - Election Day
Wed Nov 3 Arista Honor Society Ceremony (postponed from May 2021)
Thurs. Nov 4 Jr. Arista Ceremony (postponed from May 2021)
Thurs. Nov. 4th End of First Marking period
Fri. Nov 5th TACHS Test
Thurs. Nov. 11th Veteran's Day- School closed
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What makes a chocolate snack healthy?
Growing kids need healthy snacks. We all know fruit and vegetable pieces are great, nutritious and fat free, but sometimes a sweet treat is what they really fancy! My secret is simple store cupboard ingredients with no nasty additives,strange fats or fillers and fortified bran flakes with added vitamins and fibre. These chocolate crispies are so easy to make, I knock them up in minutes, yes literally minutes! Or why not take your time and make them with the children's help. They are perfect for after school treats, in packed lunches and picnics.
I am a bit of a just poor it in the pan by judgement girl with ingredients, but this is my approximate guide on quantities. Remember I cook on a large scale with eight in our family and extra to sell in reception for our holiday makers. You may want to scale this back!
1. Melt the sugar and butter in a large saucepan over a medium heat stirring until both are dissolved.
2. Reduce the heat and add the syrup then the cocoa powder and stir to a smooth liquid taking care not to boil the mixture.
3. Remove from heat add the bran flakes. Carefully stir to thoroughly coat all these.
4. Working swiftly while the mixture is still warm spoon into cup cake cases.
5. Chill in the fridge for about 15 minutes or at room temperature for 1/2 an hour.
Stored in an airtight container they will last up to a week if they have the chance!
Here is what happens when my children come home from school and spot my chocolate crispies cooling!
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Just like Space Invaders
by theatrealtairPosted on 21 Mar 2021 21 Mar 2021
Programming / Music.
For the youngest, it will surely not remind anything – but as I am not in the youngest, Space Invaders inevitably resonates in my memory.
Do you remember this game? It was a terrible game – the game where we couldn't win.
The game where we could only 'score' – raise our score and put the beginning of our first name in the machine's memory to pound the other players in the game room.
Space Invaders is a 1978 arcade game – THE arcade game, created by Tomohiro Nishikado.
It doesn't sound like much – but this man didn't have a computer to program Space Invaders – he made it himself, he bought the components that were really absolutely expensive – he invented and drew the characters so that they could be adapted to the constraints of the Pixel
Original artwork for the Space Invaders characters – by Tomohiro Nishikado.
and obviously, he programmed the game, so that people would learn what these new machines were : microcomputers.
In 1979, we were not yet on the laptop – to think of putting a computer in every home was already an extravagant dream – and the big industrial names of the time were those of the machine manufacturers – not the distributors of programs or applications.
It was not yet the time of programming.
He says it himself: by proposing Space Invaders, he largely contributed to explode the game : it became possible to program. It became possible for a layman to use a computer – without learning those barbaric languages, without being alone in front of a black screen and a highlighted green dash. It became possible to have your own microcomputer and pretend to be too good at what microprocessors were – just by reading popular magazines.
Tomihiro Nishikado interview – bonus in Taito Legends 1, on PS2.
I hope you are interested.
But this is largely more a tribute to the man than my topic of the day.
Although.
In the thorny subjects for Altair (which I find thorny, because I am not used to these arts), there is the so-called classical music, the great music, and I do not speak to you about the baroque music which represents for me, a priori, a summit of strangeness.
I told myself that I needed at least the beauty of Kim Novak to attract many young guys in a hall that gave baroque music.
I still maintain that.
But the others?
And then it will work once.
On the other hand, and I've been using videos that use this piano_™ staging software for a while now, there is one idea that is a must keep.
I can listen to the whole thing – because I'm fascinated by these strange notes coming down to the keyboard – is he going to succeed, is he going to manage to blow them away?
Just like in Space Invaders.
It was lost when the alien touched the ground.
Lost if the note touches the piano
Does this only apply to me? I find myself passionate about listening to the music and at the same time frightened to see all those notes falling, inexorable, sometimes so many, it's terrific – and it becomes narrative, epic, the pianist's playing becomes an exhilarating adventure that you wouldn't give up for anything in the world…
Yes, I know – I'm very childish, it's true – it scatters 'real music', it's true too – but for scattered children, of which I am still one – it's exactly the way we had to develop to tie our hearts together.
So obviously, when I realize that there is a series of the most difficult pieces, I look.
And then when I see that there are "four-handed" pieces, I look too – especially when it's hard rock – and I read the comments and I know that the people who comment are as childlike as I am – I feel much less alone.
And finally, what do I discover? That this infernal musician also realized my favorite OST of my times of big depression: here are my JoJo in music, in the Space Invaders style – and how better to pay homage to this game and its creator than, from detour to detour, to use it to give back to everyone the love of the piano?
You'll tell me that I'm halfway there and that it's all well and good, but what do we do with it in Altair?
And I say that the day I get rich, I'll work full time for Altair & in the waiting time, everyone is waiting. Toc. 🙂 ❤
Featured image : a so famous Space Invaders' Alien
Posted in Music, Video Game LinksTagged Entertainment, Music, Video Game
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21 Mar 2021 at 16 04 29 03293
You brought back memories, I thought Space Invaders was the BEST thing ever! I loved that game. But probably would not love it now. Piano music is wonderful, I took piano lessons but I can't seem to find the music in my own hands and I am always envious of people who do. Terrific music.
22 Mar 2021 at 0 12 10 03103
Oh yes, I feel the same : how do they do that ???? with only 2 hands ???? 😀 …that's why I love them so much ….
Oh gosh! I used to love that game! I assume it belongs to the retro or vintage category now!… haha…
Wonderful music, dear, as well. Thank you!
🙂 I loved it too – but … I hated it more 😀 .. yes, we are a little bit vintage, that's okay 😀
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oooooooh !!!!! THE Gift !!!! MERCI !
C' est un plaisir!
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