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A Place at the Table: On the "New American Haggadah"
By Erika Meitner
IN MY CHILDHOOD memories of Seder, what looms largest are the rituals: my grandmother attaching her squeaking meat grinder to the side of the kitchen counter to pulverize whitefish or carp into gefilte fish; my aunt opening the door to the empty Queens street to usher in Elijah the prophet; the way the lace of my grandmother's tablecloth cascaded onto our heads like veils when my cousins and I would dive under the table to search for the afikomen. I grew up celebrating Pesach with family and extended family, in an area of New York that was so Jewish our bagel places and pizza parlors closed for the entirety of Passover. Many people we knew had separate Passover kitchens in their basements. I have, however, been in exile from New York for more than half my life now. Because I'm an academic, because I live far from home and travel mid-week during the semester is close to impossible, it has been over 20 years since I've spent Passover with my family.
In that time, I've participated in massive Hillel Seders, radical feminist Seders, queer Seders, vegetarian Seders, chocolate Seders, and piecemeal graduate student Seders. This year I helped organize a Seder for 25 people (nine of whom were kids under the age of six). I currently live in rural Southwest Virginia, in a town that has only a lay-led Jewish Community Center and a relatively new Chabad house. Our Jewish community is a motley crew of Israeli expats and refugees from Jewish hometowns married to non-Jews, all of us employed by the large state university in town: physicists, economists, liberal arts professors, administrators, business school faculty, and school teachers.
The one thing all of my Seders have in common since I've left New York is the ubiquitous photocopied Haggadah, the manual for the Passover Seder. Because I'm a poet and English professor moonlighting part-time as a doctoral student in religious studies, I'm usually in charge of the Haggadah. For the past two years we've been using a hacked-up-and-amended version of the free-to-download The Velveteen Rabbi's Haggadah for Pesach, assembled by Rabbi Rachel Barenblat. Her politics resemble those of most of the liberal egalitarian academic Jews at our Seder, so it's an easy fit.
Enter the New American Haggadah, edited by Jonathan Safran Foer, with translations by Nathan Englander. I should preface any discussion of this Haggadah by saying that I am huge fans of both authors — their novels and short stories are among my favorite things to read for pleasure. My initial question for the New American Haggadah is this: would I use it for Seder? Could the New American Haggadah replace our photocopied version? Would I want it to?
There are many editions of the Haggadah — literally "the telling" — from around the world, but each generally has the same core Hebrew text composed from a pastiche of Jewish sources: biblical text, blessings, instructions for the conduct of the Seder, rabbinic commentary originally found in the Mishnah and the Talmud, and liturgical poems and songs (many of which were added in the Middle Ages). The main text recounts the story of the Jews' Exodus from Egypt, and Seder participants are meant to narrate this history as if they themselves had been liberated from slavery. Commentaries were added, and a large portion of the current version was completed by the end of the Talmudic period (500–600 CE). The original Haggadah was a section within the Jewish prayer book, but the earliest stand-alone Haggadah can be traced back to 13th-century Spain; the earliest printed version appeared in 1486. Since the 15th century, more than 4,000 printed editions of the Haggadah have been published.
In the United States, the Haggadah is the Jewish book with the largest number of copies in print. The first Haggadah printed in America, officially (and snappily) titled Service for the Two First Nights of the Passover in Hebrew and English, According to the Custom of the German and Spanish Jews, was published in New York by S.H. Jackson in 1837. The first rendition of a distinctly American Haggadah was the 1879 Liberman-Chicago edition; while other illustrated 19th century American Haggadot used European drawings, this Haggadah contained contemporary drawings that represented Jewish life at that time in Chicago. In 1908, the Reform movement issued the Union Haggadah, which included added content: English poems and hymns, and transliterated Hebrew blessings. The most popular American Haggadah, however, has been the Maxwell House version, which was first published in 1932 as a promotion for Maxwell House coffee. Copies came free with a coffee purchase, which made it easy to give each Seder-goer their own Haggadah. More than 50 million copies of the Maxwell House Haggadah have been printed, it is still free with a coffee purchase, and it remains in use today in many Jewish homes. Paperback and small, it's easy to toss onto, or under, a dinner plate.
A quick glance at New American Haggadah reveals two practical stumbling blocks. The first is cost; at $29.99, outfitting my entire Seder with copies would cost almost $500. The second is its size; clocking in at eight inches by 11 inches, in hardback, there's no way this book would even fit on an already over-crowded table. The book is extremely unwieldy to handle. To read the timeline at the top of nearly every page, running perpendicular to the book's main text, you must turn the book 90 degrees counterclockwise. That said, the timeline, created by Mia Sara Bruch, is extremely compelling, as it locates various Jewish figures and communities in actual history (in a diachronic way) running alongside the telling of the Exodus (which takes place synchronically, in every time). Spanning from 1250 BCE to 2007, it includes everything from Jewish population statistics to film trivia about The Ten Commandments, tidbits from literary works to facts about historic cases of Jewish persecution. The timeline also recounts various Haggadot through the ages and serves as a breath of diversity — we hear about women, Muslims, Buddhists, Rastafarians, lesbians, and gay men. We hear from Edward Said and Paul Celan, James Joyce and Martin Luther King Jr. We hear about feminist Seders and interfaith, interracial Seders. These additions provide a broader sense of historical community for seder-goers as well as connections to cultural representations of the Passover story in real time. But in order to read the timeline, we have to physically disrupt the main text and turn the book sideways — the marginalized as marginalia.
The same logistical issues with the commentary, inserted betweeen the traditional text, force the reader to turn the book vertically — this time, 90 degrees clockwise — to read them. The commentary tackles topics (like "Four Sons" or "Ten Plagues"), rituals (like "Afikomen"), or textual bits of the Seder (like "Next Year in Jerusalem"), and uses four subheadings for the musings of four separate authors: Nation (Jeffrey Goldberg), Playground (Lemony Snicket), Library (Rebecca Newberger Goldstein), and House of Study (Nathaniel Deutsch). The commentary provides the sort of humorous musings, scholarship, and philosophical asides your Seder guests might deliver themselves if you happen to have an award-winning journalist, a best-selling children's author, a brilliant philosopher-novelist, and a Guggenheim-winning Jewish Studies professor at your Seder.
Excessive book-flipping and neighbor-elbowing aside, the book itself is physically beautiful. The design is clean and a little whimsical, the typography pleasing to the eye for both the Hebrew and English text, and the designer Oded Ezer's abstract letterforms add captivating texture and color to the book without distracting focus from the primary text. Ezer's work is what might happen if a medieval tattoo artist-calligrapher met a MOMA installation. Passover is a sentient holiday, and, like all rituals, is oral, aural, visual, tactile, and intellectual, all of which lead us (on good days) to the spiritual.
The artwork in the New American Haggadah felt both intriguing and uplifting to me (and the freeform designs offer great camouflage for errant wine and haroset stains). In my family, we always alternated between two Haggadot, neither of which were especially visually appealing to me when I was young. There was Rabbi Nathan Goldberg's mustard and rust-colored Passover Haggadah, which featured extremely literal artwork — WPA-esque black and white block prints of ritual Seder items, and scenes from Exodus, like Egyptians whipping Jewish slaves. We also used the vaguely terrifying The New Union Haggadah, with calligraphy and extremely creepy watercolors by visual artist Leonard Baskin. Which is to say that artwork matters, sometimes as much as text.
Because the Haggadah is meant as an educational tool — particularly one that should be appealing to children — it became acceptable to illustrate Haggadot. There are many famous illuminated and illustrated versions, like The Sarajevo Haggadah (which dates back to the mid-14th century), and The Prague Haggadah (1526). In a piece he wrote for The New York Times Opinion pages, Safran Foer muses that fatherhood was perhaps partially the inspiration for this project, and goes on to tell us how much his six-year-old loves stories — especially the story of Moses. But this is not a kid-friendly book. From the lack of English transliterations for even the four questions (meant to be recited by the youngest Seder-goer in Hebrew) to the tastefully abstract artwork, this is squarely a book for an all-adult Seder. This adult-focus isn't a failure of the Haggadah, after all, there are plenty of kid-friendly Haggadot, like Sammy Spider's First Haggadah (truncated, rhyming, colorful, heavy on the songs), or even adult Haggadot with kid-friendly artwork, like The Agam Haggadah, which offers Seder-goers traditional content with joyful rainbow illustrations.
But the lack of English transliterations for any of the Hebrew in here not only precludes younger children with limited Hebrew skills from being able to participate — it also means Jews and non-Jews unfamiliar with Hebrew won't be able to join in for the shorter blessings commonly chanted in unison, or the songs sung during and after the Seder. For a book called the New American Haggadah to leave out transliteration in a day and age where more than half of American Jews are married to people who are not Jewish, on a holiday that specifically welcomes strangers to the table at the start of the Seder with the words "let all who are hungry come and eat" (or in this case, "All who are bent with hunger, come and eat") seems insular and shortsighted.
The main reason we won't be using the New American Haggadah at our Seder next year has to do with Englander's translation. "You are blessed, Lord God-of-Us, King of the Cosmos," begins the first, and all of the blessings in this Haggadah. God-of-Us is a lovely reworking of the traditional "our God," and implies that God walks with us, rather than belongs to us. It makes a possessive into a spiritual statement — God is part of us, among us, in us. In the introduction, the New American Haggadah says this: "The Haggadah is our book of living memory. We are not merely telling a story here. We are being called to a radical act of empathy. Here we are, embarking on an ancient, perennial attempt to give human life — our lives — dignity." The introduction also speaks of the new Haggadah as part of a quest to "engage everyone at the table in a time that is unlike any that has come before. Our translation must know our idiom." But this Haggadah, in referring only to our forefathers, in referring only to the four sons, in opting in every blessing to affirm God's maleness, is one that does not allow me, as a woman, to participate in this story as if it were mine.
All of my Seders are egalitarian, and always have been. This is something my mother, raised in an Orthodox home, insisted on for her daughters: the right to claim a place at the table, with dignity. The introduction to the New American Haggadah claims that it "makes no attempt to redefine what a Haggadah is, or overlay any particular political or regional agenda." But when the majority of Haggadot published in the last 20 years use egalitarian language in their translations, Englander's choice to go back to a specifically gendered, masculine translation reads as a political act — especially in a year in America when it seems like women's bodies and rights are under constant attack.
Englander opts for lyricism and creativity in so many other parts of his translations: the plague of darkness becomes "a clotted darkness — too thick to pass," while "hail" becomes "hail-full-of-fire." A simple four word blessing, baruch hamakom baruch hu — literally, blessed is the space, blessed is he — becomes, in Englander's translation, "Blessed is the One that is Space and the Source of Space, the One that is the World but Whom the World Cannot Contain." Is it so hard, then, to imagine "fathers" instead as ancestors? Even the unbelievably static Maxwell House Passover Haggadah, which hadn't seen a translation update since the original 1932 edition, chose in 2011 to reprint their Haggadah using gender neutral translations — four children, our ancestors, God the Eternal, Monarch of the Universe. "It was not our fathers alone who were delivered by the Holy One, Blessed is He," says the New American Haggadah, and I wonder, immediately, about our mothers, about me. I become, from the first page of this new version of an old book, an exile in the story of my people.
New American Haggadah
By Nathan Englander, Jonathan Safran Foer
Published 2012-03-05 00:00:00
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Stocks skid as physical, economic toll of virus worsens
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Wall Street and markets around the world fell sharply Wednesday as the economic and physical toll caused by the coronavirus outbreak mounts—and as experts say they still can't predict when it will end.
The S&P 500 lost 4.4% after the White House said anywhere from 100,000 to 240,000 Americans could die from COVID-19, even if the country follows guidelines to avoid shopping trips, eating at restaurants and other activities through April. Florida's governor became the latest to issue a statewide stay-at-home order.
Such restrictions have already deeply gashed the economy, and Whiting Petroleum, one of the biggest drillers in the Bakken shale formation, filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection Wednesday, with the price of oil near $20 a barrel. Automakers also reported sharp drops in U.S. sales for March, including a 43% plunge for Hyundai. Mortgage applications tumbled 24% from year-ago levels as open houses are all but shut down.
"There is a lot of uncertainty," said Megan Horneman, director of portfolio strategy at Verdence Capital Advisors. "The negative news is really taking over."
The negative news was also global. Japanese stocks took some of the world's heaviest losses, down 4.5%, after a survey of business sentiment there fell to its worst result in seven years. Britain's FTSE 100 fell 3.8% after big banks there scrapped dividend payments, part of a worldwide effort by companies and households alike to conserve cash.
Stocks have plunged this year as the coronavirus pandemic forces economies into what is expected to be a steep, sudden recession. The S&P 500 just closed out its worst quarter since 2008 with a 20% loss.
"The challenge for investors is you don't know how deep and how wide this downturn may be," said Rob Haworth, senior investment strategist at U.S. Bank Wealth Management. "It ends up being a true leap of faith that the forecast and the duration of the pandemic will be accurate."
A report on Wednesday said that private U.S. employers cut 27,000 jobs last month, which was actually much milder than economists were expecting. The survey used data from March before the number of people seeking unemployment benefits exploded to a record.
Even Friday's more comprehensive jobs report from the government may not show the full scale of the layoffs sweeping the country, according to Rhea Thomas, senior economist at Wilmington Trust. Small businesses are seeing the sharpest declines in employment, and some firms that closed may not be responding to the survey.
The government's weekly jobless claims report may offer a better view. The next batch of numbers comes Thursday, and economists say it could blow past last week's total of nearly 3.3 million initial claims, which itself was quintuple the prior record.
The number of infections keeps rising, which worsens the uncertainty. The United States has more than 206,000 cases, according to a tally by Johns Hopkins University. That leads the world, which has more than 911,000 confirmed cases.
For most people, the coronavirus causes mild or moderate symptoms, such as fever and cough that clear up in two to three weeks. For some, especially older adults and people with existing health problems, it can cause more severe illness, including pneumonia, and death.
Stocks had cut some of their severe losses in recent weeks as Washington swooped in with aid for the economy and markets.
The S&P 500 jumped nearly 18% in just three days last week as Congress struck a deal on a $2.2 trillion rescue package for the economy and the Federal Reserve promised to buy as many Treasurys as it takes to get lending markets running smoothly.
House Democrats are already collecting ideas for a possible fourth round of aid for the economy, and Trump has tweeted his support for a $2 trillion infrastructure package. But top Republicans in Congress say they first want to see how well their just-approved programs do.
The S&P 500 fell 114.09 points to 2,470.50, and all 11 sectors that make up the index lower. Among the few gainers were Kellogg, Dollar General and other companies selling day-to-day essentials that households are stocking up on to ride out stay-at-home orders.
On the losing end was Macy's, whose drop Wednesday brought its loss for 2020 so far to nearly 74%. So much of the company's market value has vanished that S&P Dow Jones Indices is removing it from the S&P 500 index of big U.S. companies, skipping its index of mid-sized stocks and placing it into its small-stock index, effective Monday.
The market's hardest-hit areas included banks, utilities and other dividend payers.
"There are more worries now about this rippling through dividend payments and cutting back on the income investors are getting," said Jeffrey Kleintop, chief global investment strategist at Charles Schwab.
The Dow Jones industrial average lost 973,65, or 4.4%, to 20,943.51, and the Nasdaq composite fell 339.52, or 4.4%, to 7,360.58.
The yield on the 10-year Treasury dropped to 0.60% from 0.70% late Tuesday. A bond's yield drops when its price rises, and investors buy long-term Treasurys when they're fearful because they see U.S. government bonds as having virtually no risk of default
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How many retail companies will use this as the go ahead and shutter more stores. Where before they would have tried longer, this gives them the ammo to retrench and maybe look at on line as a bigger part of the mix finally.

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Clonal diversity within the adaptive immune system, while endowing organisms with the ability to respond to a broad range of potential pathogens, presents a substantial risk for autoimmunity. Numerous complementary mechanisms have evolved to prevent such deleterious outcomes, and to establish and maintain appropriate tolerance to self. Medullary epithelial cells of the thymus play an essential role in this process by displaying a diverse set of tissue-specific antigens via a mechanism dependent on the Autoimmune regulator (Aire) gene. Here we describe a discrete population of extrathymic Aire-expressing cells (eTACs) in the secondary lymphoid organs. We show that Aire regulates a diverse range of tissue-specific antigen genes in eTACs distinct from those presented in the thymus. To define a potential role for this population in immune tolerance, we demonstrate that self-antigen expression in eTACs is sufficient to prevent T cell-mediated autoimmune diabetes mediated by CD4+ or CD8+ T cells. We demonstrate that such tolerance is established via anergic or deletional mechanisms for CD4+ or CD8+ cells, respectively, and does not require the presence or induction of regulatory populations. Further, we show that tolerance induction by eTACs is highly resistant to conversion to immunogenicity. Finally, we describe the development of a novel transgenic mouse model for depletion of mTECs and eTACs, and suggest that the absence of these populations predisposes to autoimmunity. Together this work identifies self-antigen expressing eTACs as a population with potential significance in both physiologic and therapeutic maintenance of self-tolerance.
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Bandai Namco will release the next main entry into their famous Tales Of RPG series later this year. Tales of Arise is set to release on the PS5, PS4, Xbox One, Xbox Series X, and PC on September 10th. Like all video games released in North America that means the game has been rated by the ESRB board. The Tales Of Arise ESRB rating is revealed and it includes blood, violence, and more.
In case you're unaware all games that go through this process also receive a summary of why it was rated the way it was. In very rare cases that report can be used to glean details about the story or game mechanics. That doesn't seem to be the case this time, but it is still interesting to check out why the game is rated as it is. It helps give us an idea of what to expect when the game launches.
The rating for Tales Of Arise has been revealed as T for Teen. This isn't surprising, by any means. The reasons for this rating include Alcohol Reference, Blood, Language, Suggestive Themes, and Violence.
Here is the full summary for Tales Of Arise's ESRB Rating.
"This is a role-playing game in which players lead characters on a quest to battle an evil force in the fantasy world of Dahna. From a third-person perspective, players traverse various environments, complete quests, interact with characters, and battle fantasy characters (e.g., giant insects, armored knights, feral beasts). Players use swords, firearms, and magic spells to defeat enemies; battles are accompanied by screen-shaking effects and impact sounds. Cutscenes depict additional acts of violence and blood: a woman bleeding on the ground after being impaled; a man stabbed in the back; characters impaled in the chest; a woman burned at the stake. Blood is also seen splattering players' screen on occasion. Some female characters wear outfits that reveal large amounts of cleavage; some characters' breasts also jiggle. A hot-springs sequence contains some innuendo and suggestive dialogue (e.g. 'It's so silky-smooth. I wanna reach out and touch it'; 'Hey, hands off, remember'; "You wouldn't deny me the chance to be a man, would you?"). In a side quest, characters engage in a prolonged conversation about an alcoholic substance called cillagin, with dialogue/text referencing alcohol (e.g., 'So it's not just a buzz you're after'; 'Not until you're the right age, Rinwell'; 'Quest Complete: Hard Liquor'); characters are also seen drinking and/or discussing alcohol in taverns (e.g., 'Maybe we've just had to much too drink and have started to hear things.'). The word 'a*shole' appears in dialogue."
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Coups Return to Latin America
Gabriel I. Rossman
On June 22, the Paraguayan Congress impeached President Fernando Lugo, a progressive who assumed office in 2008. Although technically legal, Lugo's removal threatens the very integrity of democracy in Paraguay. It is the latest in a disconcerting series of attacks against progressive governments in South America that highlights the vulnerability of its nascent democratic institutions and calls into question the trend of democratization in the region.
Lugo's victorious election campaign was historic. It ended more than 60 years of dominance by the Colorado Party. This right-wing coalition of landed and military elites used violence and coercion to dominate Paraguay through the extensive state bureaucracy created by dictator Alfredo Strossner, a Colorado strongman who ruled from 1954 to 1989. The Party's legitimacy gradually eroded through its land-grabs and corruption scandals involving high-level officials. It was also implicated in political assassinations, most notably that of Vice President Luis Maria Argana in 1999, after which President Raul Cubas was forced to resign and flee the country.
Lugo, a progressive who proposed numerous social reforms, was widely known in Paraguay as the "bishop of the poor." Pledging to fight corruption, reduce poverty, and enact agrarian reform in a country where 38 percent of people live in poverty and 2 percent of the population controls 75 percent of fertile land, Lugo won 41 percent of the popular vote in 2008, beating out the Colorado candidate by 10 percentage points. Despite this electoral success, the conservative legislature and the tenuous coalition of center-right parties that helped bring him to power systematically frustrated Lugo's progressive efforts at reform.
The Impeachment
Lugo was impeached on grounds of "malfeasance" after 17 people were killed in a clash between police and landless squatters protesting land inequality. This legal formality, however, obscures the fact that Lugo's ouster, long-desired by those who opposed his democratic reforms, was politically motivated.
A leaked 2009 U.S. diplomatic cable claimed that the "shared goal" of General Lino Oviedo and ex-President Nicanor Frutos, both Colorado party members, was "to change the current political equation, break the political deadlock in Congress, impeach Lugo and regain their own political relevance." The cable, which was classified as "secret," includes this prophetic sentence: "Oviedo's dream scenario involves legally impeaching Lugo, even if on spurious grounds."
South American governments from all across the political spectrum immediately condemned Lugo's abrupt removal (he was given less than 24 hours notice and just two hours to defend himself). Mercosur suspended Paraguay and refused to recognize the new government. Venezuela unilaterally halted all fuel shipments to Asuncion. Brazil and Mexico withdrew their ambassadors, as did Colombia, whose president, Juan Manuel Santos, is a staunch conservative. Argentina's President Cristina Fernandez Kirchner publicly called Lugo's impeachment a "coup d'état."
Regional Trend?
The removal of Lugo is particularly disturbing because it is the latest in a series of actions against progressive populist governments in Latin America. In a 2009 coup, democratically elected Honduran President Manuel Zelaya, who had raised the national minimum wage despite strong opposition from the business elite, was removed at gunpoint. In 2010, Ecuadorean President Rafael Correa was tear-gassed, assaulted, and held captive by insurgent police officers in an attempted coup that ended in a shootout.
An international fact-finding team arrived in Asuncion on Monday to collect information on the events leading up to the impeachment, Lugo's satellite government, and the major players in the recent events. The U.S. State Department said it was "quite concerned" about the rapidity of Lugo's impeachment. The United States is unlikely to take a more definitive stance until the OAS team submits its report in the coming days.
One thing is certain: few people want a repeat of what happened in Honduras. Since the 2009 coup, political dissidents have been assassinated, minorities have been targeted, and violence and disorder have ensued. Honduras now has the world's highest homicide rate.
The fact-finding mission's report should elucidate the details of a political upheaval that remains opaque. So far, there is no indication that any outside powers played a role in the coup.
The impeachment's rapidity and the vote's unprecedented margin (in the House of Representatives, the vote was 73 in favor and 1 against impeachment) suggest that Lugo's impeachment was not a response to his "malfeasance" surrounding the killings by the police. It was coordinated and politically motivated, likely by domestic landowning and business elites, with powerful allies in Congress, who opposed Lugo's progressive agenda and preferred a return to the right-wing Colorado party.
Ironically, the state that has benefitted the most from Lugo's ouster may be Venezuela. Venezuela was selected to replace Paraguay in Mercosur after Paraguay's membership was suspended.
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PlayStation 4 due in 2013 - Report
Sources say Sony to ship new console next year; company flirted with idea of download-only system, but decided against it over bandwidth concerns.
By Eddie Makuch on December 25, 2012 at 3:40PM PST
The PlayStation 4 will hit store shelves next year, sources have told the Wall Street Journal. The unnamed tipsters said Sony is aiming to hit this date, but did not elaborate further. A Sony representative declined to comment for GameSpot.
The PS4 could hit next year.
On top of outing a release window for the PS4, the paper's sources explained Sony considered making it download-only, but ultimately decided against it. According to the report, Sony's flirtation with such a system came to a halt mainly because of concerns regarding the prevalence and reliability of Internet connections around the world.
A user in a region with a relatively slow Internet connection would face lengthy download times, and this turned Sony off to the idea, the source said. A Sony representative told GameSpot, "This is rumor and we do not comment on rumor."
If Sony had moved forward with a digital-only home console, it would have followed the company's PSP Go in ditching boxed games. That system shipped in 2009 and during one week in February 2011 was outsold by its PSP predecessor 1,000-to-1 in Japan.
The site also reports that Microsoft's next Xbox will boast an optical disc drive, as was suggested earlier this year when rumor had the new console sporting a Blu-ray drive. The source told the paper that Microsoft also harbored concerns regarding access to reliable Internet connections when devising plans for its upcoming console.
For more on speculation concerning the PS4 and next Xbox, check out GameSpot's rumor roundup feature.


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9.41pm GMT21:41 Beto O'Rourke is heading to Wisconsin for a closed press event in Madison at the University of Wisconsin. Matt Viser (@mviser) Beto O'Rourke is heading to University of Wisconsin-Madison campus for meet and greet with students and faculty. He's slated to be on campus for a two-hour event early Friday evening. Event is…
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The pilot whose plane crashed during the Shoreham airshow in 2015, killing 11 people, had "very limited" experience of flying that aircraft, he has told a court. Andrew Hill flew a 1950s Hawker Hunter fighter jet in the display on 22 August that year. The aircraft plunged to the ground and exploded into a fireball…
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An AI startup founder is teaming up with a former hostage negotiator to help businesses boost their sales
Caroline Cakebread
Business InsiderBlack Swan CEO Chris Voss is a former FBI hostage negotiator.
It sounds like the set up to a joke: a former FBI hostage negotiator and a founder of an artificial intelligence startup walk into a room …
In this case, though, it's no joke, but the basis for a lecture series. Sponsored by AI startup Node and targeted at sales and marketing executives and managers, the series is designed to help companies understand how they can boost their business by combining AI with the emotional intelligence possessed by their human workforce.
"We're going to marry AI with emotional intelligence and we are going to smash through barriers really fast," said Chris Voss, the CEO of Black Swan group, who is teaming up with Node founder Falon Fatemi to put on the lecture series, which kicked off with a half-day event Tuesday in San Francisco.
AI technologies such as Node's have become so advanced that they can not only help managers find the right people to talk to for potential business deals, they can even suggest conversation openers. That's potentially taken a lot of the tedious work out of sales jobs — and opened up opportunities for sales managers.
"Technologies like artificial intelligence are going to be so pervasive we're going to be freed up to really be able to focus on interactions with one and other," said Fatemi.
NodeFalon Fatemi's startup, Node, uses artificial intelligence to help companies find sales leads.
That's where Voss, the former hostage negotiator, comes in. As he explains it, technology like AI has created the Jetsons-like world that we now live in. But emotionally and psychologically, people are still in the Fred Flintstone era. Business leaders can use technology to get sales leads, but they still need to know how to relate to and interact with other human beings.
"My stuff helps you understand what's going on in Fred Flintstone's head so we can get to live in a Jetsons world." he said.
The marriage of the two approaches could offer big benefits. Voss said he's seen people who have combined AI with human-based emotional intelligence techniques quadruple their sales rates.
The initial event included sessions on advanced negotiating techniques, scenario planning, and examples of how to pair Voss' human skills with AI to close sales deals.
Node plans to offer future events in the series in New York and Los Angeles, depending on demand.
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Asking for Astaxanthin
Antioxidants possess almost mystical powers, and scientists continue to learn about their role in scavenging and quenching free radicals and reactive oxygen species, preventing disease.
Astaxanthin, an antioxidant, is the main carotenoid found in algae and sea life such as salmon, trout and shrimp. Studies show its ability to protect against UV photo oxidation and DNA damage; stimulate the immune system by increasing T and B-cell production; and help inhibit formation of oxidized LDL, which is associated with plaque formation in blood vessels. It also reduces inflammation, and may prevent the formation or production of tumors.
Algatechnologies Ltd. has a plant in Kibbutz Ketura in the Arava desert, in Israel, and has taken advantage of the desert sun to farm the microalgae Haematococcus pluvialis for the industrial production of astaxanthin. The company cultivates the microalgae in a closed system, providing complete protection from environmental contaminants. Algatechnologies is the biotechnology company responsible for the science behind AstaPureâ"¢ natural astaxanthin. The consistent, kosher ingredient is offered in several forms, including two new products: AstaPure 2.0% astaxanthin vegetable beadlets and AstaPure 0.4% astaxanthin NSSL, a transparent, viscous, concentrated oil that consists of 0.4% natural astaxanthin. It can be incorporated into liquid dietary supplements and beverages. AstaPure is also available as a dry biomass containing 3.5%-4.0% astaxanthin, as a 10% standardized oleoresin, beadlets and water-dispersible beadlets.
Astaxanthin is recognized as being about 500 times more effective than vitamin E, making it significantly more potent than other carotenoids such as lutein, lycopene and beta carotene. Because of its special ability to cross the blood-brain barrier, research has suggested it has a role in protecting the central nervous system, and can protect against cataracts. The ingredient has had huge interest in Japan and is generating a growing interest in Europe and U.S. markets as well. Algatechnologies' patented production process allows it to offer astaxanthin at competitive prices. NS
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Celine Dion at The Colosseum
The show, directed by long time Grammy Awards producer Ken Ehrlich, includes Celine's biggest hits mixed with timeless classics and pays tribute to some of the most celebrated songs and artists of all time. Featuring 31 musicians, consisting of a full orchestra and band, Celine is set to a visually stunning backdrop designed exclusively for the 4,300-seat state-of-the-art venue.
October: 30, 31
November: 2, 3, 6, 7, 9, 10, 13, 14, 16, 17
December: 28, 29, 31
January: 2, 4, 5, 8, 11, 15, 16, 19, 20
Tickets may be purchased in person at The Colosseum at Caesars Palace Box Office, by calling 866-320-9763, or online at thecolosseum.com or axs.com. Orders are subject to additional service charges and fees. Ticket prices are $250/$175/$140/$95/$55 (prices include 9% Live Entertainment Tax as assessed by the state of Nevada). For groups of 10 or more, call 866-574-3851. All shows are scheduled for 7:30 p.m.
Celine at The Colosseum at Caesars Palace is a glamorous show directed by legendary Grammy Awards producer Ken Ehrlich and presented jointly by AEG Live and Caesars Entertainment. Celine's updated Las Vegas show includes her biggest hits mixed with timeless hits by iconic artists that celebrate all generations and genres of music ranging from Elvis to the Bee Gees, Queen and Prince. The show features a full orchestra and band and is set to a visually stunning presentation designed exclusively for the 4,300-seat state-of-the-art venue. For show information visit www.celineinvegas.com.
About Celine:
One of the most immediately recognized, widely respected and successful performers in pop music history, Celine Dion has sold almost 250 million albums during her over 30-year career. She has earned five Grammy Awards, two Academy Awards, seven American Music Awards, 20 Juno Awards (Canada) and an astonishing 40 Felix Award (Quebec). In 2004, Celine received the Diamond award at the World Music Awards recognizing her status as the best-selling female artist of all time. In 2007 she was honored with the Legend Award at World Music Awards in recognition of her global success and outstanding contribution to the music industry.


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Corporate Criminality and Genocide
Jan 30, 2013 John HurshCriminal Law
Michael J. Kelly, Prosecuting Corporations for Genocide Under International Law, 6 Harv. L. & Pol'y Rev. 339 (2012).
John Hursh
As his title suggests, Professor Michael J. Kelly offers a sound legal argument for prosecuting corporations for genocide under international law. While there is much to admire about this article, perhaps its greatest strength is the straightforward manner in which Kelly systematically refutes possible challenges to his position and the even-handed tone Kelly employs when discussing the often divisive topic of corporate regulation. Rather than resorting to polemics or incendiary rhetoric, Kelly begins with the basic premise that "anyone who commits genocide should be held accountable" (339). Noting that international law holds individuals, states, and organizations accountable for genocide, Kelly asks simply: "Why not corporations" (339)?
Kelly grounds much of his argument for prosecuting corporations for genocide on the lack of distinction between a legal and natural person in the 1948 Genocide Convention (339). Applying the interpretative framework set forth in the Vienna Convention on the Law of Treaties, Kelly moves from the treaty text to the travaux preparatoires, where he finds no definitive evidence that delegates intended to include or exclude corporations from the treaty's reach. Still, citing the "plain meaning of the term 'persons' at the time" and the drafters' decision not to delineate between legal and natural persons, Kelly argues that corporations should be considered persons under the convention (346). He bolsters this argument by noting an accordant view from Harold Koh, Legal Advisor to the U.S. Department of State, and by appealing to our basic sense of fairness to recognize that the unprecedented growth and influence of corporations requires a similar level of responsibility (347). Continue reading "Corporate Criminality and Genocide"
Rethinking Perpetual Trusts
Jan 28, 2013 Jeffrey CooperTrusts & Estates
Lawrence W. Waggoner, From Here to Eternity: The Folly of Perpetual Trusts, Univ. of Michigan Public Law Working Paper no. 259, available on SSRN.
Jeffrey Cooper
One of the notable current developments in modern estate planning is that of the dynasty trust, a device for passing family wealth though the generations without the imposition of estate, gift or generation-skipping tax along the way. Fueled by the combination of clients seeking a measure of immortality, state legislatures seeking to attract trust business, and lawyers and trust companies seeking to secure a "client" that will last for generations, the device has become a must-consider technique for wealthy Americans.
Professor Lawrence Waggoner does not think dynasty trusts represent good public policy, a theme he has addressed in many of his earlier writings. However, his argument in this piece is slightly different. Addressing his remarks not only to state legislatures, but to those clients considering implementing a dynasty trust, he contends that dynasty trusts may not serve any useful interest for the very clients clamoring to establish them. His argument takes two major forms. First, utilizing some mathematical modeling, he illustrates how the passage of time dramatically multiplies the number of eligible trust beneficiaries of a hypothetical dynasty trust and dramatically dilutes their genetic relationship to the individual who originally establish the trust. For example, Prof. Waggoner calculates that some 325 years after its inception, a typical dynasty trust might have over 100,000 beneficiaries, and after 450 years might have well over one million such beneficiaries. Continue reading "Rethinking Perpetual Trusts"
CyberHealth: Computerizing Personalized Comparisons of Treatment Effectiveness
Jan 25, 2013 Frank PasqualeTechnology Law
Sharona Hoffman & Andy Podgurski, Improving Health Care Outcomes through Personalized Comparisons of Treatment Effectiveness Based on Electronic Health Records, 39 J.L. Med. & Ethics 425 (2011).
Frank Pasquale
Economists are beginning to lose faith in technological progress. As one wag puts it: instead of cancer cures, "Captain Kirk & the USS Enterprise, we got the Priceline Negotiator and a cheap flight to Cabo." Even formidable companies like Google have fled the health field, daunted by the complex legal environment. Some have called for radical deregulation as a solution. But a more viable approach is to turn to the work of some of the smart, committed, and impartial legal scholars who are pioneering the field of cyberhealth law. Particularly instructive is Sharona Hoffman & Andy Podgurski's article, Improving Health Care Outcomes through Personalized Comparisons of Treatment Effectiveness Based on Electronic Health Records.
In an information economy, even cheesecake can be optimized using data-driven methodology. Unfortunately, leading health care providers often resist such methods of improvement. Pharmaceutical firms have sometimes continued to market drugs even after reports emerge that undermine the rationale for taking the drug, let alone paying for it.That troubling method of attaining short term profits at the cost of long term sustainable business models needs to be countered by sophisticated methods of analyzing (and disseminating) data on the real effect of medical interventions. Hoffman and Podgurski help develop a legal and technical framework for assuring that happens. Continue reading "CyberHealth: Computerizing Personalized Comparisons of Treatment Effectiveness"
Jan 23, 2013 Michael MadisonIntellectual Property Law
Aaron Perzanowski, Intellectual Property Norms in the Tattoo Industry, Wayne State University Law School Research Paper No. 12-14, available at SSRN.
Michael Madison
Tattooing has gone mainstream. In the introduction to Intellectual Property Norms in the Tattoo Industry, Aaron Perzanowski lets the facts speak for themselves: "An estimated twenty-one percent of adults in the United States—more than sixty-five million Americans—have at least one tattoo. For those under the age of 40, that percentage nearly doubles. Not surprisingly, the tattoo business is booming. By some estimates, the U.S. tattoo industry generates $2.3 billion in annual revenue."
Small wonder, then, that Perzanowski has tackled the originality and copying norms adopted by the communities of tattooers, extending in certain respects – and distinguishing in others – recent work on informal IP norms among stand-up comics, fashion designers, French chefs, magicians, roller derby queens, and fans of jam bands. The first great contribution that Perzanowski makes in this paper is assembling and describing a collection of qualitative data about the relationship between formal IP rules and informal norms among yet another group of people with their own distinct sets of creative and copying practices. It's not surprising, perhaps, that despite the mainstream popularity of tattooing, tattooers continue to regard themselves as outsiders, pirates even, and that they have little use for or reliance on formal IP rules. Yet unlike their counterpart comics, designers, chefs, and magicians, tattooers have ample opportunity to integrate their work with copyright law. Tattoos are copyrightable subject matter, and infringement claims, while rare in practice, are hardly unimaginable legally.
What makes this paper compelling is that Perzanowski goes beyond the instinct to look at informal anti-copying norms in tattooer communities primarily as substitutes for or complements to formal copyright law. The insight offered by earlier work on comics, fashion designers, and so on has been that copyright's formal structure is often overbroad, because creative communities may thrive even when copyright falls short. Informal social norms can pick up the slack, guiding creative practice and policing copying where needed. The lesson is specific: efforts to extend and broaden copyright law in those domains may cause more harm than good. Continue reading "Tattoo You"
Economic Analysis of Personal Jurisdiction
Jan 21, 2013 Alexandra LahavCourts Law
Daniel Klerman, Personal Jurisdiction and Product Liability, 85 S. Cal. L. Rev. ___ (forthcoming 2013).
Alexandra Lahav
Here is a practical problem: Where should a person who was harmed by a product be able to sue the manufacturer of that product?
Here is a complex judicial answer to that problem: Combine ½ cup state sovereignty and ½ cup due process, cook on low simmer and stir with circular reasoning, adding three or four new factors every twenty years. After ingesting this concoction you might feel a bit ill, as did one civil procedure student who wrote on an exam: "personal jurisdiction is a pain in the _____" (original language omitted). Felix Cohen said it more eloquently when he described the kind of reasoning that still passes for personal jurisdiction doctrine as "transcendental nonsense," but the student's reaction is more direct.
Daniel Klerman's new article, Personal Jurisdiction and Product Liability, is a welcome antidote to the combination of creeping transcendentalism in the Case of the Giant Shears (the Supreme Court's most recent personal jurisdiction case, more commonly known as J. McIntyre v. Nicastro), and the proliferation of factors that characterizes personal jurisdiction doctrine today. Personal jurisdiction is an area of law for which economic analysis especially well-suited because of the policy implications entailed. As hard as it is to imagine, Klerman's is the first article to apply economic analysis to personal jurisdiction doctrine. I am glad he was the one to do it. Continue reading "Economic Analysis of Personal Jurisdiction"
Against the Law?
Jan 18, 2013 John GoldbergTorts
W. Jonathan Cardi, Randy Penfield & Albert Yoon, Does Tort Law Deter?, Wake Forest Univ. Legal Studies Paper No. 1851383 (2011), available at SSRN.
John Goldberg
Why have tort law? After all, other laws and institutions cover a lot of the same ground. If we want to punish bad actors, there is criminal law. If we want to ensure safety, there is regulatory law. If we want to aid injury victims, there is public and private insurance. What's left for tort?
A standard answer is that tort, with its threat of liability, deters people from engaging in conduct that unduly risks harm. Tort law is needed for this purpose, the answer continues, because a good deal of risky conduct falls outside the ambit of criminal and regulatory law. For example, injuring someone by careless driving usually isn't a crime, so the threat of negligence liability fills the void. Of course this answer assumes that the prospect of liability will actually induce people to act more carefully. Does Tort Law Deter?, by Professors Cardi, Penfield, and Yoon, is an innovative attempt to harness social science methods to investigate that assumption. Continue reading "Against the Law?"
Integrating Tax and Development Policy
Jan 16, 2013 Adam RosenzweigTax Law
Mitchell A. Kane, Bootstraps and Poverty Traps: Tax Treaties as Novel Tools for Development Finance, 29 Yale J. Reg. 255 (2012).
Adam Rosenzweig
A quiet, but powerful, movement seems to be emerging in the field of international tax – the explicit recognition that development policy is integral to any analysis of international tax policy.1 Put differently, if the initial distribution of resources affects the return on resources, which itself affects the taxation of resources and thus the provision of public goods (which themselves feed back into the return on resources), distribution must be incorporated into the efficiency analysis of international taxation rather than thought of as a second, unrelated "fairness" step.2
Mitchell Kane contributes to this evolution in his thoughtful new article, Bootstraps and Poverty Traps: Tax Treaties as Novel Tools for Development Finance, 29 Yale J. Reg. 255 (2012). In this article, Kane attempts to integrate development economics into the tax treaty calculation itself – the exact opposite of traditional tax treaty policy. Originally, the policy behind tax treaties was to lower tax barriers to cross-border trade – as barriers dropped, trade increased, making everyone better off. What this theory did not take into account, however, was that this only worked for countries between which trade would flow. That is, countries with roughly similar economies. But what about small, capital poor countries? What would they get in return for signing a tax treaty with a wealthy country? The emerging consensus is: nothing. So why would they ever sign a treaty with a wealthy country such as the United States? Continue reading "Integrating Tax and Development Policy"
Obamacare and the Competing Conceptions of Insurance
Jan 14, 2013 Abigail MoncrieffHealth Law
Kenneth Abraham, Four Conceptions of Insurance, ___ U. Pa. L. Rev. ___ (forthcoming 2013), available at SSRN.
Abigail Moncrieff
In the highly contentious debates over the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA or "Obamacare"), different conceptions of health insurance vied for supremacy. But the struggle occurred silently. The debaters never explicitly acknowledged—and may not have completely understood—that the foundation of their disagreement might be their underlying sense of what health insurance is and ought to be. Ken Abraham has ably shone a light on this silent struggle in his recent article, Four Conceptions of Insurance.
Abraham lays out and critiques four views of insurance: as contract, public utility, product, and regulator. In the end, his conclusion is simple. All four visions have some explanatory power for the content of modern insurance law, which necessarily means that none of the four visions is fully descriptive of modern practice. Modern law sometimes treats insurance as contract, sometimes as public utility, sometimes as product, and sometimes as regulator. But one's preferred conception of insurance has much to do with one's preferences as to what the law should be. When law treats insurance as a contract, those who see insurance as akin to a public utility are quite unhappy. Continue reading "Obamacare and the Competing Conceptions of Insurance"
Reconsidering Work and Family with "the Marriage Equation"
Jan 11, 2013 Kerry AbramsFamily Law
Deborah A. Widiss, Changing the Marriage Equation, 89 Wash. U. L. Rev. 721 (2012).
Kerry Abrams
Every day, married couples make decisions about how to allocate work within their relationships. Some couples specialize, with one person performing a breadwinning role and the other doing the lion's share of caregiving tasks. Others divide breadwinning and caregiving tasks fairly evenly, and still others perform the breadwinning role together while outsourcing caregiving to housekeepers, gardeners, and nannies. When spouses make a decision about how to allocate work, the decision often feels like a private choice. Feminist scholars have long argued that, to the contrary, choices regarding breadwinning and caregiving are largely shaped, or even coerced, by law.
Deborah Widiss's article Changing the Marriage Equation provides a new way of analyzing the complicated interaction of law, social norms, and individual choice that leads to gendered roles in marriage. Widiss argues that choices regarding the allocation of paid and care work are profoundly shaped by three factors, which together make up what she calls the "the marriage equation." Two of the factors of the marriage equation are legal—sex-based classifications within marriage law, and the substantive law of marriage. The third is social—the gender norms of marriage. The article argues that all three factors affect couples' decisions about the allocation of labor. Widiss also argues that the first factor, sex-based classifications within marriage law, was largely dismantled during the equal protection revolution of the 1970s, but that the other two factors continue to work together to produce gendered outcomes in the allocation of work within marriages. She then suggests that same-sex marriage can provide a natural experiment for assessing the relative strength of substantive marriage law and gender roles within the marriage equation. Continue reading "Reconsidering Work and Family with "the Marriage Equation""
Uncomfortable Marriage
Jan 9, 2013 Robert LeckeyEquality
Yuvraj Joshi, Respectable Queerness, 43 Colum. Hum. Rts. L. Rev. 415 (2012).
Robert Leckey
Much legal scholarship about same-sex marriage by liberals presents arguments for judges to use when interpreting constitutional rights. Another current of critical research, from queer, feminist, or other left scholars, explores how expanding access to marriage may disadvantage those who will not or cannot marry, undermine an intersectional queer politics, or both. Much less writing has explored the impact, for gay men and lesbians who might marry or who have married, of the lobbying and litigation that made doing so possible.
Some reasons for this relative neglect are obvious. It may be too early to have meaningful data. The question may be one for sociologists. But surely another is that a lot of people assume that same-sex marriage is a good thing for at least those who take it up. Yuvraj Joshi's paper joins the critical research about the potential harms arising from the campaign for same-sex marriage and its realization for those who wouldn't walk down the aisle even if they could. But it also enriches legal scholarship by exploring the psychological effects of same-sex marriage for those who marry. Continue reading "Uncomfortable Marriage"


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Nothing But a Neurochemical Reaction
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Rob Drummond's In Fidelity
Edinburgh Festival Fringe | Edinburgh
directed by Steven Atkinson
How do you define love? It's a word that we use frequently, but one that we struggle to pin down and describe – or at least the audience at In Fidelity did. Is love elusive? Special to each individual person? Rob Drummond (writer and 'host') describes himself as believing in love, but sometimes not sure if he is really feeling it. This is followed by murmurs of agreement from the audience. But if we don't really know what love is, how do we look for it?
In Fidelity has three key strands. First, the story of the couple Drummond has randomly selected from the audience who go on their 'first date' onstage in front of us. Second, the marriage of Charles and Emma Darwin, which was impacted considerably by Charles' work, and lastly Drummond's own marriage which might be showing the first cracks after his foray into online dating for research.
The first strand, the 'Blind Date'-style setup, sounds a little gimmicky and the set compounds this, with its garish logo and projections, Drummond squeezing onto the sofa beside the two nervous volunteers. But this actually works well as a bit of humour and light relief to go alongside the intense scrutiny of our basic human inclination towards relationships and love. We see that Drummond's brain reacts in exactly the same way to an image of his wife as an image of Anna Kournikova. In physical terms, it would seem he feels the same about both women. So what of our unique and special love? We watch two people start to fall in love onstage; therefore love can be manufactured, it would seem. But at the same time our abstract ideas of love begin to erode, the first sparks of a blossoming new love still seem as magical as ever.
Although it is only two members of the audience who fully take part in the experiment, every person in the room is immersed in the experience. We are asked to indicate whether or not we consider ourselves to be in a relationship, whether or not we have cheated or been cheated upon. By encouraging everyone to give to the performance, even if it is something as small as a raised hand, a deep sense of empathy is created. We are all implicated in the discussion and the date onstage; so we re-evaluate our own ideas of love and trust under a new light.
Despite being frequently awkward, sometimes uncomfortable and occasionally a little depressing In Fidelity is a major achievement. It is a fun and fascinating piece of experimental theatre, pushing the boundaries of our conceptions of love while, ultimately, being a great love letter to love itself.
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PeaceOUT: The 5th Annual World Homohop Festival,Oct. 28-30, Oakland
Date Saturday October 29
Time 7:00 PM - 11:00 PM
Juba Kalamka
Festival Director
info@peaceoutfestival.com
PeaceOUT:
The 5th Annual World HomoHop Festival
October 28 to 30, 2005
21 GRAND
416 25th Street (at Broadway)
(exit 19th Street Station downtown Oakland)
Oakland,California
all shows $10 - ALL AGES
*21 GRAND is wheelchair accessible*
*nearby AC Transit Transbay bus runs to SF all night*
$20 FestivalPass available at
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Event Type Concert/Show
Organizer/Author juba kalamka
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PeaceOUT:The 5th Annual World HomoHop Festival
October 28-30, 2005 at 21 GRAND.
What is PeaceOUT?
PeaceOUT is an international gathering of lesbian, gay,bisexual and transgender hip-hop artists, activists, fans and supporters to celebrate the LGBT presence in hip-hop music and culture, hosted and produced by Sugartruck Recordings in conjunction with A.C.R.O.N.Y.M.Records. The
festival will take place over the weekend of October 28-30 in Oakland,California and will feature live music,DJs,spoken word, dance/performance events.
The first PeaceOUT World Homo Hop Festival (Then known as Cypher) was held in August 2001 at Oakland's East Bay Pride and has become an annual tradition.Its popularity enabled the creation of the recent 2nd
Annual PeaceOutEast (NYC-July 14-17,2005) PeaceOUT UK (London,August 5-6,2005),
last year's PeaceOutSouth (Atlanta,Sept.5)and the upcoming PeaceOutNorthwest,(Portland Oregon, Spring 2006).
The evolution of PeaceOUT and the lives of performers in the scene are chronicled in the feature documentary PICK UP THE MIC (Planet Janice Films) which recently premiered to rave reviews at the 30th Annual Toronto International Film Festival. For more info on the film,reviews,and details on its upcoming release, visit
http://www.pickupthemic.com
A number of LGBT hip-hop performers are listed on the Phat Family Records and Sugartruck Recordings homepages. Most of them have their own websites
with photos, MP3s and CDs available for sale.Many any of them have appeared on one or more Phat Family Records CD compilations.Please visit
http://www.phatfamily.org and http://www.sugartruckrecordings.com for more info.
All news and updates will be announced on the Phat Family Announcements mailing list and Kitchen Sink's monthly e-newsletter. Updates and show
information will also be available at Mama Buzz Cafe
(2318 Telegraph Ave, Oakland.)
Artists and fans interested in the latest information on PeaceOUT and other Sugartruck and Phat Family Records events are encouraged to sign up
by sending e-mail to phat-family-announce- subscribe@yahoogroups.com.
If you are in need of more specific info, email us at
info@peaceoutfestival.com or events@kitchensinkmag.com.
Kitchen Sink, the magazine for people who think too much, is a non-profit, quarterly print magazine that explores thought, art, culture, identity and politics. It is the premiere program of the Neighbor Lady Community Arts Project, an Oakland-based arts organization, was recently named 2004 Best Cultural Happening by San Francisco Magazine, is the recipient of the 2003 Utne Independent Press Award for Best New Title, and the Best of the Bay 2003 awards from the SF Weekly, SF Bay Guardian, and East Bay Express.
Mama Buzz is a cafe, gallery and gathering place for artists, creators and their communities. Mama Buzz was also named Best Hipster Hangout by The East Bay Express, Best Coffee with the Kitchen Sink by the SF Bay Guardian, and Best Indoor/Outdoor Cafe by San Francisco Magazine.
Editor in Chief**Kitchen Sink Magazine
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Mike Monroe: When Kiki Vandeweghe moves from his spot in the Nets' front office to his new role as head coach Thursday, he'll take over the NBA's worst team.
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First order of business for the new coach of the NBA's only winless team: Buy some new clothes.
Kiki Vandeweghe's reputation as one of the NBA's most laid-back personalities began in his first season. Then, he famously lived in a Denver apartment with one piece of furniture and wore the same gray sweater through an entire season.
On Tuesday, he wore a coat and tie to the press conference at which his new duties with the Nets were announced but admits he needs more David Stern-approved duds to patrol the sidelines.
He will take over head-coaching duties Thursday, and by the time his new position becomes official, the Nets probably will have established an all-time low for start-the-season futility. Assistant Tom Barrise, who took over for Lawrence Frank on an interim basis, will be in the hot seat for tonight's game against the Mavericks. Barring an upset, Vandeweghe is apt to inherit an 0-18 team when he makes his NBA coaching debut.
"On some level," he said in a Tuesday afternoon phone interview, "I am excited, but let's not sugarcoat it. This is something I haven't done before, and the team is going through a very, very tough time."
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Vandeweghe's move from the front office to the bench continues something of a trend. Earlier this season, GM Jeff Bower took over as the Hornets' coach after Byron Scott was fired. Portland's Kevin Pritchard finished out the 2004-05 season on the bench, then went back to the front office when Nate McMillan was hired.
Vandeweghe, too, wants to go back to the front office, but that will depend on what Mikhail Prokhorov decides about the team's basketball management when, and if, he is approved as the team's new owner.
"This job was taken," Vandeweghe said, "because we needed to do something. I understand it, but it also was taken with the caveat I'd go back to the front office."
Working the sidelines, he said, will give him a different perspective from which to evaluate the players who will be available in next summer's free-agent market, when the Nets will have about $30 million in salary-cap space to spend.
"It's a different look than sitting in the stands and watching them," he said. "Do I know the players? Of course I do, but it provides a different kind of look I think will be very beneficial that you just don't get in the stands."
Vandeweghe will try to get the Nets running more, which is what you'd expect from someone who played for Doug Moe and sat behind Don Nelson's bench in his only assistant coaching stint.
He won't be a screamer but insists he will leave his easy-going persona at the door on game nights.
Could he be the NBA's most laid-back head coach?
"It's possible," he said, "but I'm not always the nicest guy in the world, either. Nobody gets to an NBA level, even as a player, without having a little bit of an edge."
Moe, the ex-Spurs coach who had Vandeweghe as a Nuggets rookie, often screamed at him in practice in hopes he could send his laid-back player over the edge.
Vandeweghe rarely accommodated.
"I'm going to have to call Doug," Vandeweghe said. "I'll bet he's laughing his ass off."
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This section is a source of information for health care providers to guide them in their clinical practice regarding the Universal Influenza Immunization Program (UIIP).
The Health Protection and Promotion Act 1990 (HPPA), R.S.O., 1990, outlines the requirements for physicians, practitioners, laboratories, and institutions to report any suspect or confirmed influenza cases to the Medical Officer of Health. This information is collected under Regulation 569 of the HPPA. Influenza is to be reported by the next working day. If the individual presents with a novel or emerging respiratory infection, please report immediately to the Medical Officer of Health.
General information regarding Ontario's influenza immunization program:
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2021/2022 Universal Influenza Immunization Program (UIIP)
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Public Health Ontario – Influenza Vaccines for the 2021/2022 Influenza Season
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National Advisory Committee on Immunization (NACI): Canadian Immunization Guide Chapter on Influenza and Statement on Seasonal Influenza Vaccine for 2021/2022
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Pregnant women are recognized as a priority group for influenza vaccination, as influenza infection in pregnancy increases the woman's risk of hospitalization and other serious complications, as well as the baby's risk of adverse neonatal outcomes. Vaccination of pregnant women also helps protect the baby from influenza in the first few months of life.
Influenza vaccination in pregnancy is a safe and effective method for protecting pregnant women and their babies from influenza.
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NAGPRA aims to preserve history
Alden Naranjo has been the NAGPRA coordinator for the Southern Ute Indian Tribe since 1990 when the Native American Graves Protection Repatriation Act was first established. The Act consists of historical remains being returned from museums and institutes to their appropriate tribes.
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The Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA) was established in 1990 to ensure that cultural objects and remains of historical significance are returned to the affiliated Indian Tribes. Since its formation, hundreds upon hundreds of native remains and artifacts have been brought back to their tribes in one piece. However, there are still many artifacts across the globe that is still waiting for their return home.
"I became the NAGPRA coordinator in 1990 when the act was past," Alden Naranjo, NAGPRA Coordinator said. "[The act] covers all artifacts, remains, and any associated items that belong to whichever tribe is in that area when the excavation was made. These were items that ended up being used in repositories and museums."
For many years, tribal leaders have visited museums and institutions and would find Native American remnants stored away in boxes in locked rooms with little to no information on exactly where they came from. This issue was first addressed back in 1976 when the Colorado Commission of Indian Affairs was created, particularly for these concerns alone.
The laws surrounding NAGPRA have changed vastly. It is now a criminal offense to traffic in Native American remains without right of possession or in Native American cultural items obtained in violation of the Act, which can lead to imprisonment and a hefty fine.
NAGPRA goes through a particular process in which museums and agencies determine the rights of certain artifacts to the lineal descendants connected to the Indian tribes and Native Hawaiian organizations. If the descendants of the artifacts/remains cannot be identified, then the objects will go directly to the associated tribes.
In December 2013, the Southern Ute Indian Tribe signed a memorandum of understanding that provided available lands for a number of remains that were set for reburial on the reservation. Those remains have now been properly laid to rest.
Having these artifacts of cultural significance returned to their appropriate habitat opens the doors for education. Plenty of work is involved, but showing the honor and respect for these historical items is significant to the community, according to Naranjo.
"A lot of these artifacts are priceless," he said. "Educationally, tribal members will be able to see and have an understanding of what that particular item is and what it's been used for, and who it belonged to. Everything is sacred, and we must [appreciate] that."
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Report Suggests Live Nation Is Now the Sole Owner of Bonnaroo
According to a new report, Live Nation plans on exercising a buyout clause to purchase the rest of Bonnaroo. Live Nation bought a controlling interest in the festival back in 2015.
Billboard reports that the transaction will take place before next year's festival.
Bonnaroo 2019 was the last year Superfly Entertainment produced the festival. Now, a limited role for Superfly going forward is currently being discussed.
AC Entertainment and C3 Presents will produce future Bonnaroo events. Live Nation purchased C3 Presents back in 2014.
As part of the original 2015 agreement, Superfly and Ashley Capps Entertainment were retained as operators. Organizers purchased the Great Park Stage site — also known as the Farm — in 2007. Bonnaroo is an annual gathering for jam bands but has expanded its lineup for multiple genres.
Live Nation booked U2 for the festival in 2016 as the only festival stop for the Joshua Tree tour. This year's festival was headlined by Phish, Childish Gambino, Post Malone, Odesza, the Lumineers and more.
Bonnaroo has had as many as 80,000 daily attendees but usually averages around 60,000.
Superfly was hired to produce the event at Watkins Glen, but the company pulled out over a disagreement with the organizers. Woodstock 50 has been left without a producer or the iconic Watkins Glen location after the festival failed to meet milestone goals.
Superfly co-founder Rick Farman will also be departing and won't have a role in organizing future Bonnaroo events going forward.
Just recently, four paramedics working the 2018 Bonnaroo festival were . At least 37 attendees were hospitalized with links to CO poisoning from the festival.
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Home World Asia News Pope Francis arrives in Philippines for three-day visit
Pope Francis arrives in Philippines for three-day visit
Hundreds of thousands of cheering people who waited several hours in steaming heat have greeted Pope Francis at his arrival in the Philippines.
People lined the streets of the capital Manila to glimpse his motorcade.
Millions more are expected to come out to see him over his five-day visit to the nation's 80 million Catholics.
Pope Francis said that a priority of his visit would be to send a message to the poor who face "social, spiritual and existential" injustices.
"The central nut of the message will be the poor, the poor who want to go forward, the poor who suffered from Typhoon Haiyan and are continuing to suffer the consequences," the pontiff said while travelling to the Philippines from Sri Lanka.
Typhoon Haiyan killed or left missing more than 7,300 people, razing villages to the ground in the centre of the Philippines in 2013.
Leyte province was especially badly affected, and it is there where Pope Francis will seek to console survivors on January 17.
The Pope said that also prominent in his mind were some Filipino workers at the Vatican who had left their families for jobs overseas.
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The Philippines is one of the world's largest exporters of labor – it is estimated that about a tenth of the population has left the country in search of work – and reports of their abuse and exploitation are commonplace.
President Benigno Aquino has also spoken of his determination to eradicate poverty, although he has been at loggerheads with the local Roman Catholic Church over a 2012 reproductive health law that promotes artificial birth control.
After leaving the airport, Pope Francis boarded an open-sided Popemobile to travel the 7 mile route to the Apostolic Nunciature in Manila, where he is staying.
The highlight of Pope Francis' visit will be a huge open-air Mass in Manila on January 18 and a visit to Tacloban to meet survivors of a devastating typhoon in November 2013.
Security will be tight after failed attempts to kill two previous popes.
Tens of thousands of soldiers and police have been deployed.
Pope Francis is the fourth pontiff to visit the Philippines – 80% of its 100 million people are Catholic.
A three-day public holiday has been declared in Manila to clear the traffic.
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CES 2012: OmniMount ActionMounts put TVs right where you want them
By Clare Newsome published 10 January 12
Play20, Play20X and Play40 ActionMounts allow you to raise or lower your TV - and pan it - to suit everything from sofa-surfing to yoga lovers and stand-up games
If you and your family enjoy different ways of watching TV, OmniMount has a new range of wall brackets that allow you to move your flatscreen to exactly where you want it.
The three new 'full-motion' TV brackets in OmniMount's ActionMount range allow your set to be raised or lowered by up to 50cm (20in) to put it at the perfect height for a range of uses.
For example, you could lower your set to suit children or yoga enthusiasts sitting on the floor (see above), or move it to a higher-than-normal level for games that get you up on your feet (as below).
The mounts could also be used to put flatscreens in a more discreet position when not in use, but then elevated/lowered into the best viewing position when needed.
The new mounts additionally allow for 180-degree panning, which means the TV can be seen from multiple viewing areas within a room.
The three mounts - the Play20, Play20X and Play40 - suit different sizes and weights of screen. Each uses patented 'Constant Force' technology, designed to provide fluid, light-touch adjustments.
The mounts - made from polished aluminium with a black trim - come with cable-management clips to hide trailing wires.
They will be available shortly, priced from $129; we hope to get UK information soon.
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