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Window on Eurasia: New Russian Web Site Highlights Resistance to Soviets in Baltics, Western Ukraine and Western Belarus after World War II
Vienna, April 27 – A new Russian website intended to ensure no one forgets what it calls "the victims of nationalist terror in the Western regions of the USSR" unintentionally calls attention to the strength of resistance to the imposition of Soviet power in the Baltic states, Western Ukraine and Western Belarus after World War II.
The site, lists.historyfoundation.ru/, includes data, admitted to be as yet far from complete, on 3294 civilians (2298) and military (996) who were killed (2444), wounded (505), kidnapped (293) or disappeared (52) between 1944 and 1947. The number of victims was 190 in 1944, 2641 in 1945, 204 in 1946, and 258 in 1947 (www.rus-obr.ru/blog/6429).
Victims of all categories, the site goes on, totaled 1945 in Western Ukraine, 423 in Western Belarus, 251 in Estonia, 168 in Latvia, and 507 in Lithuania. And the site can be searched by both name and location, something that will allow interested individuals to find out about their relatives or friends.
And the site also includes hypertext links to the full text of "Everyday Terror: The Activity of Nationalist Formations in the Western Regions of the USSR, Book I" (in Russian; Moscow, 2009, 232 pp., ISBN: 987-5-9990-0004-0), and to other collections of archival documents as well, from which some of the site's data entries are taken.
In presenting the site, its compilers note that "during the course of long years, the history of the activity of armed nationalist formations on the territory of the Western regions of the Soviet Union remained a prohibited theme for investigators" because it did not fit "into the Procrustean bed of official ideology."
"After the collapse of the Soviet Union, the history of the harsh 'war after the war' in the Western regions of the USSR appeared at the center of attention of the political elite of the independent states," where those who participated in the fight against Soviet power were presented as national heroes.
Thus it should come as no surprise that "in the last decade and a half, the activity of the nationalist armed formations became in the Baltic republics and in Ukraine one of the most actively investigated pages of Soviet history," the site's editors say. But these investigations, the editors add, were far from objective.
"The opposite site of making heroes of 'the forest brothers' and the militants of the OUN and UPA was the neglect of their numerous victims, a large part of which were not Red commissars but peaceful residents who were local to Soviet power." According to the editors, 85 percent of the more than 25,000 killed by the Forest Brothers in Lithuania were Lithuanian.
These victims and the thousands more in Western Ukraine and Western Belarus are being intentionally forgotten, dismissed as "Soviet agents" or classified as victims of the Soviet NKVD. That must end, the Historical Memory Foundation says, and to that end, it has launched this website.
"We are certain," the editors say, "that the memory of the innocent victims of nationalist terror must be carefully preserved and kept alive just as the memory about the innocent victims of Soviet political repressions are." And consequently, they have launched the site in the hopes that those with information about the victims will contribute to it.
"Recognizing that the problem of preserving the memory about the victims of nationalist terror is important for Belarus, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Russia and Estonia, the Historical Memory Foundation has begun the realization of the project of the creation of a generally accessible electronic data base" of the victims of "nationalist terror."
The primary source for the site, its organizers is, are the NKVD and MVD data bases housed in the State Archive of the Russian Federation, which include materials draw from the daily reports to NKVD Deputy Commissar S.N. Kruglov of these agencies during the course of their struggle with "banditism."
And the site's introduction concludes with the note that in order to present "the fullest data on the victims of nationalist terror," the site's editors "have considered it correct not to include in the lists the soldiers of the Red Army and organs of internal affairs and state security who died in the course of the operations for the liquidation of nationalist armed formations."
Many Russians who visit this site may learn for the first time just how strong was the resistance to Stalin's imposition or re-imposition of Soviet power in the Western borderlands of the USSR and the occupied Baltic countries, something that will do little to promote positive attitudes among them to the peoples of these now independent countries.
At the same time, many of the peoples in these countries will be able to use this site to learn more about the national resistance in their past than many of them have up to now, a knowledge that will also affect how they view the Soviet system and those who continue to apologize for some of its worst periods and personalities.


When you want to track down an old or obscure bottle of wine, and there aren't any feasible retailer options listed on wine-searcher.com, the next place to turn is the online auction market. Although there are a number of wine auction sites, my gut instinct tells me that Vinfolio is the leader in this space. This is based on how polished and functional their website is, how complete their information is in terms of how the process works, and their integration with CellarTracker (which allows users to easily list wines they have on hand for auction without having to let them out of their hands for an indeterminate price).
If I wanted to pursue buying the wine from one of these 3 retailers, I would need to spend some time determining whether each of them actually had it in stock, what their shipping terms are, and finally whether I trust that they're legitimate retailers that would follow through with the transaction in a pleasant manner.
That can be a little cumbersome, and that's where Vinfolio comes in. They offer a certain level of consistency in the buying experience. When I looked a couple months ago, this wine was available on Vinfolio at a "Buy Now" price of $99.95. I thought that was a nice round number to work with in terms of assessing transaction/shipping costs relative to the wine being purchased.
A couple of observations here. First, this wine was selling for less than $25 in stores when it was released. Now that Wine Spectator has rated it 95 points and named it their Wine of the Year it's going for north of $100. This tells me that for as much as we like to think that professional ratings are losing influence and community rating sites like CellarTracker and Corkd are gaining power, Wine Spectator can still move the wine market. Second, we discussed this wine and where to buy it in the Boston area over a year ago. Think of the profit you could have realized if only you'd stocked up! Subscribe to the WWP now and you might know about next year's big values before prices go up.
Back to our original hero- the Cakebread. On October 24th, I registered with Vinfolio, secured an account, and bid the asking price of $99.95. I was quickly alerted via E-mail that my bid was accepted automatically (since it was a Buy Now price). Depending on the wine you're bidding on, it might already be in storage at Vinfolio -or- it could be in someone's private collection anywhere in the country. For the particular wine I bid on, I could tell it was in a private collection so I fully expected it would take some time for the wine to travel to Vinfolio so it could in turn be shipped to me.
They offer Vinfolio Safe Shipping- a unique program where they monitor the weather at your shipping destination and determine the optimal time and shipping method which will get your wine to you without risk of weather-related damage. They're not just winging it- they've done more to analyze this than anyone I'm aware of. Read their blog entry on the subject for more information.
They offer free storage up to six months. This provides the opportunity to wait until weather conditions are favorable -and- you can stack purchases from multiple sellers and then ship a case of wine to reduce per-bottle shipping costs.
They've negotiated favorable shipping rates through the carriers they work with, and they don't charge additional fees for packaging materials.
For my friends in Massachusetts- they do not ship here. You may be able to finagle something through one of their third-party carriers and assume the risk of this transaction yourself. I wouldn't recommend this approach. It will cost a lot more money and it's probably illegal. Better to ship to a friend/family member in a neighboring state. And better yet, consume it in the neighboring state if possible to avoid the uber-ambiguous dilemma of whether you need to remit taxes to the state for out-of-state purchases just like you should when you buy a computer in tax-free New Hampshire and drive it home to avoid taxes. You do submit taxes to the state at the end of the year for purchases like these, right? And when you buying something on Amazon.com that isn't taxed too, right? Here's more information in this 4-page document from the Massachusetts Department of Revenue regarding "Use Tax".
Another tax implication that's ambiguous to me is whether these auction-based sales brokered by Vinfolio (not sure if broker is the right word but you get the idea) are subject to taxation. I've read through Vinfolio's tax collection policies but I'm still at a loss as to whether taxes should be collected (or later remitted by the purchaser) according to the state wine is shipped to. We don't pay tax when we sell a piece of used furniture on Craigslist- do things change when we buy and sell wine? Does the answer change because there is an intermediary involved? Who knows, really. For as much information as Vinfolio offers, many answers depend on the laws in each state and whether you want to play strictly by the book.
At any rate, once the bid is accepted the wait begins until the seller ships the wines to Vinfolio for inspection and shipping. I received notification that my wine arrived in San Francisco on November 12th, 19 days after I placed my order. I thought that was pretty reasonable.
Once the wine arrives, it becomes part of your VinCellar- Vinfolio's cellar management solution. You request your wine be shipped from VinCellar. I was initially confused by this part of the transaction because an important part of the web page wasn't being rendered using the Google Chrome web browser. When I checked the same page with FireFox, it became immediately clear how to interact with my newly-added wine to request shipping. This appears to have been repaired since I ordered my wine.
A nice feature, and one I wasn't aware of when ordering, is the ability to estimate shipping costs and assess whether they can ship to your zip code via the form pictured at left. Enter a Massachusetts zip code and it will say "NA" (can't ship here). Ship to a Manhattan address and it will estimate the cost of shipping 1 bottle. Switch the quantity to a case and you can trade-off the per-bottle savings vs. how likely you are to do additional purchases in the near future.
I really appreciate this feature because one of the single most annoying things in e-commerce is time wasted considering a purchase that you can't even make because they don't ship to your state -or- you find out after investing a lot of time in the transaction that shipping costs are higher than reasonable.
I think Vinfolio's cross-country ground cost of $9.40 for a single bottle (as of this writing) is reasonable, especially considering they don't charge additionally for packing materials. You can get it down to $7.27 if you ship to a business. For a case, it's $35.37 to a residence bringing the per-bottle cost to $2.94. These guidelines are helpful when seeking to trade-off shipping costs vs. the cost of the wine vs. procuring locally. I probably wouldn't consider shopping Vinfolio for wines under $30/$40 as the cost of shipping would be prohibitive but your situation may vary.
I considered trying the weather-safe option, but that forced a selection of 2nd day air and boosted the cost considerably. Since temperatures were moderate across the country I chose ground. There's no additional fees on top of the price of the wine and the shipping cost. My credit card was charged for the wine when the order was accepted. It was charged again for shipping when I requested the wine be shipped.
For Vinfolio it could be Ordered/In Transit to Vinfolio/Arrived at Vinfolio/In Transit to Me. But I couldn't get that information. One potential complication is that if I had the tracking number I could see where the wine came from and Vinfolio avoids letting you know who the seller is. I'm fine with this, but I just want to know the wine is scheduled to arrive at Vinfolio so I can in turn know when I can ask it be shipped to me.
I decided to just wait and see if it showed up. And it did. I'm sure I could have called or E-mailed about the tracking number but I decided to not sweat it and see how things went. If I was having to negotiate work schedules or staying at home to receive shipment this could have been a source of tension.
In the end, I received a bottle of wine that I couldn't find anywhere in my state, it cost half as much as the nearest retailer was offering it (in Rhode Island), and the seller presumably was able to receive far more than they would have otherwise. Vinfolio brought together a willing buyer and seller in an efficient transaction in an otherwise complex market.
They've put in a tremendous amount of work to establish an online auction marketplace that operates within the context of an incredibly varied and complicated set of state laws related to wine shipment.
The information they provide in terms of various selling and buying scenarios is the most comprehensive I've seen.
Thoughtful touches like weather-safe shipping options, free temporary storage to enable bulk shipments, and reasonable shipping costs make transactions as efficient and effective as is reasonably possible.
If you live near San Francisco or Napa, where drop-off and pick-up at Vinfolio would eliminate shipping costs, I can see this method of shopping being amazingly affordable and convenient.
A key portion of a page wasn't rendered when using the Google Chrome browser. This has since been fixed.
Order tracking could be improved in terms of website navigation and overall clarity in terms of where in the process each order is.
For hard to find wines, especially over $30, Vinfolio is a site I'd recommend consulting. Conveniently, their listings are reflected on wine-searcher.com making it easy to one-stop/comparison shop online. They've put together a marketplace that makes it as efficient and easy as possible to buy and sell wine within the context of a complicated interstate shipping environment.
What do you think of online auction sites like Vinfolio? Best thing ever? Or more trouble than it's worth?


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Game of Thrones would postpone the release date
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Game of Thrones has completely disrupted his fans because of the different developments that have been revealed in the recordings of the last season of fiction that has been going on for more than eight years.
However, against the announcement that the end would come in the middle of next year, the followers showed their full support and loyal guard to enjoy the definitive closure of one of the most famous HBO projects.
However, this seems to change on the basis of the information that has been revealed by some international media that indicate this the wait will take much longer than previously assumed because of the required post-production.
As reported TVGuide, the premiere of the eighth season of Game of Thrones It will take longer because of the hard work needed for visual effects, design and editing.
This is supported by statements from Joe Bauer, special effects supervisor, who has spoken Huffington Post and explained that they have just started the final product and the series will not be included in the nominations of the Emmybut up to two years from now.
"We go work hard in the eighth season until May 2019so we're on the road for eight or nine months, "he said. Bauer.
According to the terms that are there to compete in the prizes, the fiction series it should be issued before May 31, 2019and because of what was known to the production team member, it is quite difficult to launch before the summer.
yet Exact details about what the release date of this project will be are not knownso fans of history will have to wait much longer to know specifically when they will enjoy the closing and the first images.
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A test of alternative hypotheses for kin recognition in cannibalistic tiger salamanders
David W. Pfennig, James Collins, Robert E. Ziemba
CLAS-NS: Life Sciences, School of (SOLS)
The function of kin recognition is controversial. We investigated the adaptive significance of kin discrimination in cannibalistic tiger salamander larvae, Ambystoma tigrinum. Previous laboratory experiments show that cannibals preferentially consume less related individuals. We hypothesized that this example of kin recognition (1) is a laboratory artifact, (2) is a by-product of sibship-specific variation in escape responses, because cannibals from families with rapid responses may be more likely to cannibalize slowly escaping non-kin, (3) is an epiphenomenon of species recognition, (4) functions in disease avoidance, because kin may be more infectious than non-kin, or (5) is favored by kin selection. We evaluated these five hypotheses by using laboratory and field experiments to test specific predictions made by each hypothesis. We rejected hypotheses 1-4 above because (1) kin recognition was expressed in the wild, (2) escape responses did not reliably predict whether a cannibal would ingest kin or non-kin, (3) kin recognition was not most pronounced in populations where tiger salamanders co-occur with other species of salamanders, and (4) non-kin prey were more likely than kin to transmit pathogens to cannibals. However, we established that the necessary condition for kin selection, Hamilton's rule, was met. Thus, our results implicate kin selection as the overriding reason that cannibalistic tiger salamanders discriminate kin.
https://doi.org/10.1093/beheco/10.4.436
Ambystoma tigrinum
Hamilton's rule
Kin discrimination
Kin selection
10.1093/beheco/10.4.436
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Pfennig, D. W., Collins, J., & Ziemba, R. E. (1999). A test of alternative hypotheses for kin recognition in cannibalistic tiger salamanders. Behavioral Ecology, 10(4), 436-443. https://doi.org/10.1093/beheco/10.4.436
A test of alternative hypotheses for kin recognition in cannibalistic tiger salamanders. / Pfennig, David W.; Collins, James; Ziemba, Robert E.
In: Behavioral Ecology, Vol. 10, No. 4, 1999, p. 436-443.
Pfennig, DW, Collins, J & Ziemba, RE 1999, 'A test of alternative hypotheses for kin recognition in cannibalistic tiger salamanders', Behavioral Ecology, vol. 10, no. 4, pp. 436-443. https://doi.org/10.1093/beheco/10.4.436
Pfennig DW, Collins J, Ziemba RE. A test of alternative hypotheses for kin recognition in cannibalistic tiger salamanders. Behavioral Ecology. 1999;10(4):436-443. https://doi.org/10.1093/beheco/10.4.436
Pfennig, David W. ; Collins, James ; Ziemba, Robert E. / A test of alternative hypotheses for kin recognition in cannibalistic tiger salamanders. In: Behavioral Ecology. 1999 ; Vol. 10, No. 4. pp. 436-443.
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import {QueryList} from '@angular/core';
import {RenderFlags} from '@angular/core/src/render3';

import {getHostElement, ɵɵdefineComponent, ɵɵloadViewQuery, ɵɵviewQuery} from '../../../src/render3/index';
import {markDirty, ɵɵelement, ɵɵelementEnd, ɵɵelementStart, ɵɵelementStyling, ɵɵelementStylingApply} from '../../../src/render3/instructions/all';
import {PlayState, Player, PlayerHandler} from '../../../src/render3/interfaces/player';
import {RElement} from '../../../src/render3/interfaces/renderer';
import {addPlayer, getPlayers} from '../../../src/render3/players';
import {ɵɵqueryRefresh} from '../../../src/render3/query';
import {getOrCreatePlayerContext} from '../../../src/render3/styling/util';
import {ComponentFixture} from '../render_util';

import {MockPlayer} from './mock_player';

describe('animation player access', () => {
  it('should add a player to the element', () => {
    const element = buildElement();
    expect(getPlayers(element)).toEqual([]);

    const player = new MockPlayer();
    addPlayer(element, player);
    expect(getPlayers(element)).toEqual([player]);
  });

  it('should add a player to the component host element', () => {
    const fixture = buildSuperComponent();
    const superComp = fixture.component;
    const component = superComp.query.first as Comp;

    expect(component.name).toEqual('child-comp');
    expect(getPlayers(component)).toEqual([]);

    const player = new MockPlayer();
    addPlayer(component, player);
    expect(getPlayers(component)).toEqual([player]);

    const hostElement = getHostElement(component);
    expect(getPlayers(hostElement)).toEqual([player]);
  });

  it('should add a player to an element that already contains styling', () => {
    const element = buildElementWithStyling();
    expect(getPlayers(element)).toEqual([]);

    const player = new MockPlayer();
    addPlayer(element, player);
    expect(getPlayers(element)).toEqual([player]);
  });

  it('should add a player to the element animation context and remove it once it completes', () => {
    const element = buildElement();
    const context = getOrCreatePlayerContext(element);
    expect(getPlayers(element)).toEqual([]);

    const player = new MockPlayer();
    addPlayer(element, player);
    expect(getPlayers(element)).toEqual([player]);

    player.destroy();
    expect(getPlayers(element)).toEqual([]);
  });

  it('should flush all pending animation players after change detection', () => {
    const fixture = buildComponent();
    const element = fixture.hostElement.querySelector('div') !;

    const player = new MockPlayer();
    addPlayer(element, player);

    expect(player.state).toEqual(PlayState.Pending);
    fixture.update();
    expect(player.state).toEqual(PlayState.Running);
  });

  it('should flush all animations in the given animation handler is apart of the component', () => {
    const handler = new MockPlayerHandler();

    const fixture = new ComponentFixture(Comp, {playerHandler: handler});
    fixture.update();

    const element = fixture.hostElement.querySelector('div') !;

    const p1 = new MockPlayer();
    const p2 = new MockPlayer();

    addPlayer(element, p1);
    addPlayer(element, p2);
    expect(p1.state).toEqual(PlayState.Pending);
    expect(p2.state).toEqual(PlayState.Pending);

    fixture.update();
    expect(p1.state).toEqual(PlayState.Pending);
    expect(p2.state).toEqual(PlayState.Pending);

    expect(handler.lastFlushedPlayers).toEqual([p1, p2]);
  });

  it('should only play animation players that are not associated with a parent player', () => {
    const fixture = buildComponent();
    const element = fixture.hostElement.querySelector('div') !;

    const p1 = new MockPlayer();
    const p2 = new MockPlayer();
    const pParent = new MockPlayer();
    p1.parent = pParent;

    addPlayer(element, p1);
    addPlayer(element, p2);
    addPlayer(element, pParent);

    expect(p1.state).toEqual(PlayState.Pending);
    expect(p2.state).toEqual(PlayState.Pending);
    expect(pParent.state).toEqual(PlayState.Pending);

    fixture.update();

    expect(p1.state).toEqual(PlayState.Pending);
    expect(p2.state).toEqual(PlayState.Running);
    expect(pParent.state).toEqual(PlayState.Running);
  });

  it('should not replay any previously queued players once change detection has run', () => {
    const fixture = buildComponent();
    const element = fixture.hostElement.querySelector('div') !;

    const p1 = new MockPlayer();
    const p2 = new MockPlayer();
    const p3 = new MockPlayer();

    addPlayer(element, p1);
    addPlayer(element, p2);

    expect(p1.state).toEqual(PlayState.Pending);
    expect(p2.state).toEqual(PlayState.Pending);
    expect(p3.state).toEqual(PlayState.Pending);

    fixture.update();

    expect(p1.state).toEqual(PlayState.Running);
    expect(p2.state).toEqual(PlayState.Running);
    expect(p3.state).toEqual(PlayState.Pending);

    p1.pause();
    p2.pause();
    addPlayer(element, p3);

    expect(p1.state).toEqual(PlayState.Paused);
    expect(p2.state).toEqual(PlayState.Paused);
    expect(p3.state).toEqual(PlayState.Pending);

    fixture.update();

    expect(p1.state).toEqual(PlayState.Paused);
    expect(p2.state).toEqual(PlayState.Paused);
    expect(p3.state).toEqual(PlayState.Running);
  });

  it('should not run change detection on a template if only players are being added', () => {
    const fixture = buildComponent();
    const element = fixture.hostElement.querySelector('div') !;

    let dcCount = 0;
    fixture.component.logger = () => { dcCount++; };

    const p1 = new MockPlayer();
    addPlayer(element, p1);

    expect(p1.state).toEqual(PlayState.Pending);
    expect(dcCount).toEqual(0);

    fixture.requestAnimationFrame.flush();

    expect(p1.state).toEqual(PlayState.Running);
    expect(dcCount).toEqual(0);

    const p2 = new MockPlayer();
    addPlayer(element, p2);
    markDirty(fixture.component);

    expect(p2.state).toEqual(PlayState.Pending);

    fixture.requestAnimationFrame.flush();

    expect(p2.state).toEqual(PlayState.Running);
    expect(p1.state).toEqual(PlayState.Running);
    expect(dcCount).toEqual(1);

    const p3 = new MockPlayer();
    addPlayer(element, p3);

    fixture.requestAnimationFrame.flush();

    expect(p3.state).toEqual(PlayState.Running);
    expect(p2.state).toEqual(PlayState.Running);
    expect(p1.state).toEqual(PlayState.Running);

    expect(dcCount).toEqual(1);
  });
});

function buildElement() {
  return buildComponent().hostElement.querySelector('div') as RElement;
}

function buildComponent() {
  const fixture = new ComponentFixture(Comp);
  fixture.update();
  return fixture;
}

function buildSuperComponent() {
  const fixture = new ComponentFixture(SuperComp);
  fixture.update();
  return fixture;
}

function buildElementWithStyling() {
  const fixture = new ComponentFixture(CompWithStyling);
  fixture.update();
  return fixture.hostElement.querySelector('div') as RElement;
}

class Comp {
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I was born in an ordinary town of Afghanistan… I used to play on the streets when I was a child… I used to dream I would become a doctor…to heal people, but my step had driven me into a wrong direction, I caused a lot of destruction and I made a lot of innocent people suffer as they are not my enemy.
But one day Allah opened my eyes.
I can't turn back the time, but I can start doing good things and maybe I will be able to help people like in my child dreams.
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The Greeks seemed to understand human nature better than any other culture before or since. Take, for example, Narcissus, the hunter who was both beautiful and proud… to a fault. Seeking to correct his un-pretty nature, the goddess Nemesis lured him to a pool and there Narcissus saw his reflection for the first time. Immediately, he fell in love with the beauty of his own image and found himself incapable of parting with it. Thus, Narcissus died staring at himself. Hundreds of years later, psychologists adopted his name to refer to people with unnaturally inflated egos — the attention-seeking, shallow folks who sneakily take credit for success that is not theirs while blaming others for their failures.
There are everyday narcissists — yep, that person in your office who finds a way to bend every conversation to focus on herself — and then there are people who are diagnosed with narcissistic personality disorder. The difference between the two remains somewhat unclear, the researchers from University of Surrey state in their published study. Still, research demonstrates that people high in narcissism react aggressively to criticism or rejection, unduly deplete common resources, game-play in romantic relationships, and engage in exploitative behavior. More importantly, they are also more likely to commit criminal acts and be incarcerated. Most importantly, narcissists may be socially attractive at first acquaintance, but the shine wears off all too soon; others in their social circle eventually end up disliking narcissists, while long-term romantic partners become dissatisfied with their game-playing ways.
For the current study, a team of researchers led by Dr. Erica Hepper, a lecturer at the University of Surrey, analyzed the behavior of participants in three different situations. They recruited these study subjects, who were resident in the UK, the U.S., Canada, and 17 other countries, online via research websites. Most were students (86 percent), with the remainder employed (11 percent), unemployed (two percent) or home-makers (one percent). In the first experiment, participants rated on a scale of one to eight how much empathy they felt for someone suffering from a relationship break-up. The results showed that those with high narcissism lacked empathy for the distressed person. In a second experiment, half the participants were specifically asked to imagine how a woman who had suffered domestic violence feels. The results showed that individuals high in narcissism were capable of empathy when they took another person's perspective.
Things began to heat up during the third and final experiment. This time, the researchers timed participants' heartbeats as they listened to an audio blog of a character suffering from a break-up. (It is known that increases in heart rate indicate an empathic response.) The researchers discovered that the narcissists had significantly lower heart-rates than non-narcissistic participants. However, when they were specifically instructed to see things from the character's perspective, the narcissists' heart-rates increased to the same levels as participants with very low narcissistic tendencies.
"Our results clearly show that if we encourage narcissists to consider the situation from their teammate or friend's point-of-view, they are likely to respond in a much more considerate and sympathetic way," Hepper stated in a press release.
Why is this important? Well, according to Hepper, narcissism is increasing around the world. (Kimye, anyone?) "If narcissists have the physical capacity to feel empathy," she said, "interventions could be designed to help them do so in their everyday lives, with benefits to themselves, their family, friends and colleagues and for society as a whole."
Source: Hepper EG, Hart CM, Sedikides C. Moving Narcissisus: Can Narcissists be Empathic? Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin. 2014.


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By David Tiller2005-05-27T11:21:13+01:00
Chloroform: the quest for oblivion
Linda Stratmann
Stroud, UK: Sutton Publishing | 2004 | 288pp | ?8.99 (SB) | ISBN 0750930993
Reviewed by David Tiller
This book outlines the fascinating history of the uses and abuses of chloroform from its discovery in 1831 to the present day.
Chloroform was the second great anaesthetic. Ether had worked well but it had shown several disadvantages. It could irritate the throat, so that patients tended not to inhale the gas deeply enough or long enough to produce insensibility and it was also worryingly explosive.
James Young Simpson, professor of midwifery in Edinburgh, discovered the anaesthetic effects of chloroform. His investigations were simple but dangerous: he got samples of any substance with a 'breatheable vapour, inhaled them from a tumbler, and made notes of his reactions'. Four days after being knocked out by chloroform in November 1847, he used it successfully in an obstetric case.
Chloroform revolutionised surgery, which since the Middle Ages had been a terrifying and bloody affair. Surgeons could only perform operations which took a few minutes, with six lusty men holding the patient down. Now, with chloroform much longer operations could be attempted. But it wasn't long before doctors realised that there was also a downside to chloroform, as its use seemed to be involved in hundreds of sudden deaths. The reasons for these deaths were hotly debated in the medical press - did chloroform affect the heart or the respiration? Opposition to its use in childbirth was only silenced when Queen Victoria used it in her last two confinements. In warfare, there was initial prejudice against using chloroform but it soon proved to be invaluable on the battlefield.
From the outset there was a dark side to chloroform since it was used for various forms of wrongdoing - the author narrates some famous criminal cases involving its use. Examples include that of Adelaide Bartlett, whose acquittal on the charge of murdering her husband with chloroform prompted a judge's hope that she would now 'tell us how she did it'.
Fascinating characters populate the pages - Samuel Guthrie, who survived several explosive experiments to become the discoverer of chloroform; William Thomas Stead, the crusading journalist who used chloroform in his attempt to expose the Victorian trade in young girls; John Snow, whose administration of chloroform to Queen Victoria prompted her to pronounce the effect 'delightful beyond measure'; and Webster Mudgett (aka Henry Howard Holmes), who holds the dubious distinction as 'America's first serial killer'.
Chloroform continued to be used until newer, safer anaesthetics such as halothane began to be used in the 1950s but it is still used today in water disinfection, DNA extraction, chemical synthesis etc.
This well-researched book has been written for laymen but chemists and physicians will enjoy reading it and learn much from it.
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The Sound of a Musical
By	Ray Legendre on	 May 24, 2018 Features, Fordham Lawyer
Benjamin Reiser hears the message of Hamilton loud and clear.
Benjamin Reiser listened intently as his 1L Constitutional Law professor, Catherine Powell, raised his favorite subject—the smash Broadway musical Hamilton—during her spring 2018 course overview. When Powell surveyed the room for fellow show attendees, students to Reiser's left and right turned their gaze toward him. Among his peers, his obsession with the groundbreaking rap musical about American Founding Father Alexander Hamilton is legend: He has seen the show 10 times, peppers conversations with choice quotes from the musical, and authored both his law school personal statement and undergrad thesis on the cultural phenomenon.
Reiser's presence in the classroom—and ability to hear Powell's inquiry—is itself a stirring tale of triumph against monumental odds. The 23-year-old was born with severe-to-profound bilateral sensorineural hearing loss, and audiologists said he would never develop meaningful, intelligible speech. His journey from "tiny baby with gigantic devices" on each side of his head to Fordham Law School J.D. candidate is one of self-advocacy, hard work vis-a-vis 10-plus years of speech therapy, and proactive parents aggressive in equipping him with the best available technology.
"I think part of me was inspired to become a lawyer to prove that I could overcome the 'limits' resulting from my hearing impairment."
"I am grateful to be at a point where my hearing impairment is not something that defines me every day," says Reiser, who today wears a small black Phonak Naida hearing aid in his right ear. His professor's speech is wirelessly transmitted, crisp and amplified, into that ear via a mic attached to her shirt and an FM system clipped to her belt. Reiser credits his professors and the Office of Student Affairs with accommodating his classroom needs, and fellow students for clarifying classroom discussion points when need be.
Reiser received his hearing impairment diagnosis when he was 3 months old, after his parents observed he did not respond to the sounds of the doorbell ringing or the dog barking. Shortly thereafter, he became the first infant worldwide to use digitally programmable hearing aids.
As Reiser moved through elementary and middle school, he met with speech therapists several times a week to learn how to properly perceive the sounds different letters make. (The "s" sound in slippery proved particularly challenging.)
Outside of school, he would read all kinds of books with his grandmother and bask in his family's love of language, determined to make it something he could "conquer and have mastery over." Through Reiser's teenage years, assistive hearing technology continued to advance, giving him more access to classroom learning and making his hearing devices ever smaller.
Reiser discovered his love for the law during a mock trial in his eighth-grade social studies class. Preparing for the trial—scrutinizing pieces of evidence, developing arguments and rebuttals, practicing how best to articulate his client's interests—was a singular moment in Reiser's life when everything just clicked, he recalls.
"I think part of me was inspired to become a lawyer to prove that I could overcome the 'limits' resulting from my hearing impairment," says Reiser. "Ironically, the communication skills that were expected to be my greatest weaknesses became my very strengths and are valuable skills for a successful law career."
Reiser's newfound interest in law impacted his government studies in high school and college. "Now that I am at law school, it's amazing to get down to case law and study actual procedure, as well as concepts of jurisprudence that I've been thinking about for 10 years."
Whereas his eighth-grade social studies class inspired his legal pursuits, Reiser pinpoints Aug. 17, 2015, as the date he recognized his life's mission. Then a Georgetown University junior double-majoring in government and American studies, Reiser first experienced Lin-Manuel Miranda's Hamilton that evening at the Richard Rodgers Theatre. The show, which had opened on Broadway just days before, filled Reiser with patriotism, stimulated his intellect, drained his emotions, united him with his 1,300 fellow theatergoers, and exhilarated him like none of the 200 Broadway performances he has seen before or since. In particular, the rousing ensemble piece "Yorktown (The World Turned Upside Down)," with its dazzling choreography, lighting, and music, served as a personal "crystallizing moment."
"I have been infatuated with Broadway theater since childhood, but in that moment, I understood with complete clarity what the medium of theater could do," he wrote in his Law School personal statement. As he watched Hamilton, inside him "grew an insatiable desire to understand each and every gear that makes the watch of a Broadway show tick."
After the performance, Reiser's quest to explore the nuances of the legal and business sides of the theater
industry began in earnest. He pored over contracts on the Actors' Equity Association website and took classes on theater business at the Commercial Theater Institute in Manhattan. Through this type of engagement, Reiser discovered entertainment law—the legal field that melded his skills and passion.
Although Reiser is leaving open for the moment in what capacity he will practice entertainment law (as in-house counsel for Broadway productions? as a producer of shows on the side?), he is certain about his commitment to the field.
"I am determined to make entertainment law my life's work," he says. "I want to devote my time and talents to supporting theater people, who undeniably inspire me, as they endeavor to do their best work."
Reiser selected Fordham Law School to pursue his dream of becoming an entertainment lawyer, he says, because of its proximity to Broadway, its ability to offer every relevant course he "could imagine in this field"—intellectual property, copyright, trademark, and labor—and its Network Effect's "alluring" potential to connect him with industry leaders. In addition, participating in the Law School's Media and Entertainment Law Society offered a "thrilling opportunity to explore the field outside the classroom." Off campus, Reiser is eager to explore professional experiences within the commercial theater industry; in fact, he has accepted an offer for an externship in the business and legal affairs department at Disney Theatrical Group this fall.
If you attended My Fair Lady this spring at the Vivian Beaumont Theater across the street from Fordham Law School, chances are you saw Reiser, having finished a long day of classes, selling show merchandise during walk-in and intermission in the lobby. During the performance itself, you would likely find him behind his kiosk with an open casebook and laptop, the one with stickers featuring the Schuyler sisters—including Eliza Schuyler Hamilton, the focus of his undergraduate thesis—and the words "I wanna build something that's gonna outlive me" from Hamilton's Act 2 song "The Room Where It Happens."
The day after his last spring final, Reiser plans to celebrate at the now-familiar Richard Rodgers Theatre, with his eleventh viewing of Hamilton. This is one shot, as his friends and classmates know, he is not throwin' away.
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Akbar's two former colleagues, Sunil Gujral and Veenu Sandal deposed as witnesses before Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Samar Vishal and said the allegations came as a shock to them.
NEW DELHI: A Delhi court Friday recorded the statements of two witnesses in support of defamation case filed by journalist and politician M J Akbar against his former woman colleague Priya Ramani who had levelled allegations of sexual misconduct against him.
Akbar's two former colleagues, Sunil Gujral and Veenu Sandal deposed as witnesses before Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Samar Vishal and said the allegations came as a shock to them and irreparable damage was caused to his reputation.
Gujral, a businessman and printer, publisher of the Sunday Guardian, who appeared as a complainant witness to support defamation case filed by Akbar, testified that as a colleague and a friend, he never heard any whisper regarding misconduct or misbehaviour of any kind.
Regarding the allegations levelled by scribe Ramani against Akbar, he said this came as a "shock" to him and he was "very disturbed".
"I spoke to Akbar thereafter as I felt embarrassed and let down. Besides this, my embarrassment was compounded as friends and acquaintances who knew of all my old association with Akbar of almost 40 years started asking embarrassing questions, which made me feel very bad since I felt that irreparable damage has been done to Akbar's reputation in my estimation as well as in estimation of my friend circle and acquaintances," Gujral, who knows Akbar sinch 1979-80, testified.
Akbar, who resigned as Union minister on October 17, had filed a private criminal defamation complaint in the court against Ramani after his name cropped up on the social media when he was in Nigeria, as the #MeToo campaign raged on in India.
Ramani has accused Akbar of sexual misconduct around 20 years ago, which was denied by him.
The other witness, Sandal said she heard in the news about Ramani's tweets on October 8 and it was a "huge jolt" that she had called Akbar a "predator" and other revelations about him.
"It was really distressing that the allegations had been made and that he could do the things that Ramani had alleged... It was very shocking and painful to think that someone you had placed on a pedestal could allegedly fall so low," she deposed.
Sandal, a journalist who said she knows Akbar for over 20 years, added that there was a lot of talk about this at that time and during discussions with friends and at other public places, it was embarassing to be asked questions about Akbar as people knew of her association with him.
"It was very obvious that not only in my eyes but also in others, his reputation had been dragged through the mud and was in tatters," she said.
The court has posted the matter for further hearing on January 11, when it is likely to record the statement of another witness named by Akbar in his complaint.
It had earlier recorded the statements of Akbar and Joyeeta Basu, the editor of Sunday Guardian, in the matter.
Akbar had earlier told the court in his statement that an "immediate damage" has been caused to him due to the "scurrilous", concocted and false allegations of sexual misconduct levelled against him.
Multiple women have come out with accounts of alleged sexual harassment by him while he was working as a journalist.
He had termed the allegations "false, fabricated and deeply distressing" and said he was taking appropriate legal action against them.
Expressing her readiness to fight the defamation allegations, Ramani had said, "Rather than engage with the serious allegations that many women have made against him, he seeks to silence them through intimidation and harassment."


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Gary Clark Jr.: "Music is my religion"
There's a certain confidence when Gary Clark Jr. takes the stage, and from the first riff, it's clear why; he wields his guitar like a man possessed.
"I'm not, like, a religious person," he said. "I quit going to church a long time ago. But, like, music is my religion, I guess you could say. It's calming, it can hype me up. It's everything."
His mastery of the six-string won him a Grammy in 2013, and has earned him four more nominations this year. He's played the White House, and even toured with The Rolling Stones and Eric Clapton, who said he'd never seen a flow like Clark's on the guitar since Jimi Hendrix.
"Oh, damn," Clark responded when told by correspondent Kristine Johnson. "Pressure!"
This 35-year-old is still allowing comparison like that to "sink in," as he told us, when he sat down with "Sunday Morning" on his ranch in Texas. "It doesn't really resonate until I'm at home, and I'm goin', 'Wow, this is real,'" he said. "You know what I mean? Like, all those dreams and hopes and aspirations I had as a kid and I thought were silly and I was scared to share with people because they might think that I'm, you know, out of my mind?"
Gary Clark Jr. CBS News
Clark is from Austin, Texas, the son of Gary Clark Sr., a car salesman, and his wife, Sandi, an accountant. Mom still does his books, and says her son's life changed forever at the age of 12: "He got the guitar for Christmas, and then, checked out a couple of books, and was just totally self-taught."
"He was upstairs in his room playing," his father recalled, "and I told her, 'Come here. Come here and listen to this!' We open up the door and there he is, he was hitting [Jimi] note for note."
Johnson asked, "So, is that the day you realized ...?"
"He's got a gift," Gary Sr. replied.
His wife added, "Yeah, and he said, 'Sandi, he's really good.'"
The very next year Clark was good enough to play gigs in the city, on school nights no less. "I used to feel guilty having him in nightclubs," Sandi said. "And I'd look around, why do I have my 13-year-old kid in a bar?"
Why did she? "Because he wanted to be there."
Gary himself explained, "I was raised real religious – Baptist, go to church every Sunday. The fear of God was very present in the house, you know what I mean?
Johnson caught up with Clark as he was shooting the music video to his latest single, "Pearl Cadillac." The song is about leaving home to go on tour for the first time, and understanding everything his mother had done for him.
Gary Clark Jr. - Pearl Cadillac (Official Audio) by garyclarkjr on YouTube
"I didn't realize what it took to be a parent," he said. "I was like, 'Wow.' They put up with a lot, like a lot a lot. And I was like, 'Dang, thank you!'" he laughed.
For example, his parents put up with him "borrowing" the family car without their permission. That earned him the nickname Hotwire.
"I would steal my parents' car. I would start that thing up and just go wherever I wanted, from 'til whenever my dad fell asleep watching 'Star Trek,' 'til, you know, when they woke up to get everybody ready for school."
In 2001, Gary, just 17 years old, was performed on the local news. That same year the Mayor of Austin proclaimed May 3, 2001 "Gary Clark Jr. Day."
When asked how he measures success, Clark replied, "I got a beautiful family. I've got two kids that I'm crazy over. I got amazing, supportive wife who is, like, my backbone. I think that's success to me."
His success has also allowed him to buy his own piece of Texas Hill Country. "This is my peaceful zone," he said. "This is my serenity."
Gary Clark Jr. with Kristine Johnson on his Texas ranch. "I like to hear crickets," he said.
"It's so different than when you're on stage and you've got your screaming fans up there, and you've got your guitar going," said Johnson.
"My life is so loud and noisy. And I like to hear crickets. At heart, I am kind of a country boy. I like to be around nature, and nothing."
Clark's ranch outside of Austin is where he lives with wife, Austrailian model, Nicole Trunfio, and their children, and where he records music when he's not out touring the country.
It was also this land that gave Clark the material for the title track for his latest album. The song is about a confrontation with a neighbor who couldn't believe that a black man could own "This Land":
Gary Clark Jr - This Land [Official Music Video] by garyclarkjr on YouTube
"He said, 'I need to speak to the owner of the house,' and I'm like, 'Dude, you're talking to me.'
"You know, I'm 35. I've been dealing with this since I was in elementary school. You know what I mean?"
"That's a sad statement," Johnson said.
"Yeah, it is, but it's a reality."
A reality Clark's parents couldn't shield him from. As he was growing up, the family had dog feces put into their mailbox, and the N-word written on their fence.
Johnson asked, "And what was the discussion in the household when those things happened?"
"You just can't let that get to you," Sandi Clark said. "That's that other person's issue. That doesn't speak to you as a person and what kind of person you are. That's someone else with the problem."
"I was born this way and I love it, you know what I mean?" Gary Jr. said. "And so, for somebody to judge me based upon this, and not ask any questions, and not even try and get in here [indicates his mind], it made me upset, it made me sad, it made me curious about the future. Having kids and a family, you know, they tap into your emotions."
"So it's not all about you anymore?"
"Yeah, they unlock things that I think I didn't realize I was holding onto."
Gary Clark Jr. is considered one of the greatest guitarists in a generation. But don't tell him that. "I'm not special. I'm just a simple dude, simple dude from Austin, Texas who picked up a guitar and [explosion]."
Gary Clark Jr. in concert. CBS News
You can stream Gary Clark Jr.'s album "This Land" by clicking on the embed below (Free Spotify registration required to hear the tracks in full):
garyclarkjr.com
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What is it about the setting sun that gets us reaching for our cameras immediately? It's the ancient magic of the golden hour; that fey hour before darkness falls, when the sun pulls out all the stops for a final halleluiah, turning the skies into a glory of pink, gold and orange. We seldom see the true magnificence of the sunset in our over-polluted cities. That's why you must visit Malaysia at least once in your life, just to see the spectacular sunsets in that pristine blue sky.
The mosque, though fairly new, is a celebration of ancient Persian Islamic architecture, and a testament to local craftsmanship. The mosque makes a breathtaking sight, both during the day and at night. However, it's when the setting sun's rays hit it that the mosque transforms into something unbelievably lovely. It's sheer poetry in stone, and a favorite of photographers from around the world. The pink mosque is grandeur itself.
Broga Hill is famous for its lovely lush greenery, plentiful wildlife and panoramic views. People travel from near and far just to watch the sun rise and set from the top of Broga Hill. The hill has 3 viewing points; there's one at 880 feet, one at 1150 feet, and the third is at the very top, at 1312 feet. It takes about 60 minutes to get to the top, but the views are worth it.
Heli Lounge Bar is a helipad situated on top of Menara KH. Here you can nurse your favorite drink and train your eyes skywards at the golden hour to watch the glorious sunset. When the burning glory in the sky becomes too much for you, you can always enjoy the stunning 360-degree views of Kuala Lumpur.
As you drive through the cool tea plantations in the scenic mountains of the Scotland of the East, stop at a high point at the golden hour. Watch in silence as the skies burst into the most brilliant oranges, pinks and gold, lighting up the beautiful green landscape in a magical glow that you won't be forgetting for a while. The Cameron Highlands is one of the BEST places for sunsets in Malaysia.
Bukit Tabur is a green hill in Selangor, with several hiking trails. Find a perfect perch on one of the peaks of Bukit Tabur to catch great views of the spectacular mountain sunset and the Kuala Lumpur skyline. Don't forget to take a good camera to get your Instagram- worthy pictures!
The government has been reclaiming land for some time in Klebang, resulting in the buildup of huge sand dunes. As the rays of the setting sun spreads over them, these huge dunes take on an otherworldly aspect. For a few minutes, you'll think you've landed on Mars or some other far off planet! It's well worth getting a Malaysia Visa to see it for yourself!
I think we are all ready to catch some of these amazing sunsets! Check out Bamba's Malaysia tours and start your adventure!
Priya is an avid traveller who loves exploring different holiday destinations and shares her experience as a travel blogger. She believes in enjoying the present moments of her life to the fullest and loves adventurous travel.


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I learned a lot of new details about history and science that I didn't know before. What's better is that it is all from a biblical point of view! The cute and loving characters make the books even more inviting. It's a great way to learn about God's creation!
Not only are the Little Toys adventures delightful, I always enjoy seeing what they are up to next, I truly appreciate how accessible these stories are for children. Not only are they told on a level that they can understand and relate to, these stories encourage imagination. They allow them to dream of a bigger world and all the possibilities it holds for them. And as an added bonus, available with each book, you can also purchase a plush doll of the main character featured in the story. They are all so cute I have a very difficult time selecting a favorite.
The Little Toys is a great series that enables kids to learn about different places and historic events from a biblical perspective. It is a fun, creative, and colorful series that is even more endearing when accompanied by the hand-made plush characters!
If you want your child to learn Science and History from a Biblical Worldview, including Creation facts that can be difficult for even adults to explain, The Little Toys books would be a great addition to your home and church library. They are sure to engage your child, and the accompanying character plushes make them even more fun!
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I love to read the Little Toys books! I like that they teach about Jesus. I like that they explore different countries.
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Beautiful Fairy Tales Do Not Make Good Wine
I have said and written this many times now, not only because it is a normal evolution of things and times, but because it is absolutely unavoidable: everything changes. This is a principle in which I have always believed and to which I have continually adapted, convinced that being immovable and to stubbornly believe things should not change, is a huge mistake, as well as a vain illusion. Especially when avoiding the change by arguing that "everything was better in the past", while forgetting the only certainty we all have now is the present – today – and the prospect of the future. Everything changes, inevitably everything changes. Habits change, tastes change, needs change, we ourselves are the result of a continuous change beginning at the exact moment we are conceived. Wine also changes, of course. The story is there to tell us and, without a shadow of a doubt, the wine produced in archaic times would today be considered simply undrinkable by the majority of us "modern humans". The opposite is also and certainly true: our wine would have been decidedly considered as bad by those who preceded us a few centuries ago. We – modern humans of our times – like it and a lot, too. Everything changes, after all.
The way wineries and producers tell their wine and, in particular, to visitors, has also changed. Over the years – let's say, at least thirty – I have been able to see how much the relationship between producers and visitors has changed, who are obviously also customers or in any case potential buyers. Everything changes, as I have already stressed several times, and it is normal this aspect too has changed and, without a doubt, will change in the future. In modern wineries, there clearly is a certain attention from producers in the creation of specific structures destined to welcoming visitors, isolating them, more or less clearly, from the parts dedicated to production. Not least, this is a trend which has developed in recent years with the aim of giving the visitor the impression of being in a wine shop or a wine bar, last but not least, in a restaurant. Sometimes I have the impression the intent of the winery is to create a sort of "recreation room" for visitors in order to allows them to chat with friends, sipping a glass of wine, accompanied by "various appetizers". A showcase depicting a golden, friendly and happy, almost perfect world.
All theatrically supported by someone – often, the producer himself or herself – who tries to entertain the guests with captivating fairy tales, taking care to promptly supply the guests with "appetizers" and by refilling the glasses. The subject of the fairy tales is always the same, a story which is regularly heard over and over everywhere, with small variations adapted to the size and identity of the winery. Among the most loved subjects, the tradition and the identity of the place, proud defenders of the long stories and family traditions, when there is one. Or the perpetuation of the glories of grapes, territories, habits and strict adherence to the past, necessarily better than anything else because it is about the glorious past. When you then smell the glass, not only it is clear that wine is not exactly what their ancestors would have produced, but it is also rather modest. Most of the time, at least by observing the smiling and enraptured faces of the "audience", nobody cares about it that much, as it is the story told at that moment to make up for the possible mediocrity of the wine that expresses a supposed tradition and pride of centuries. It is the fairy tale to become the protagonist and cheer the amazement of the listener, between a breadstick and a slice of salami. The wine plays a modest side-role.
Wineries have become a sort of "welcome center" for casual or bored visitors – yes, of course, even genuinely interested ones – confident of spending a few happy hours, superficially sipping a wine in company of friends and accompanied by something to eat, listening in raptures to the exciting story that exudes a strenuous defense of the pride of a tradition or supposed one. Even paying a price, rightly so. After all, when you go to the cinema or the theater, you pay the entrance fee, as well as when you go to the restaurant, you then pay the bill. An unquestionable principle, given that, by now, the "hospitality" activity is becoming a significant cost for wineries as well as a means of communication and promotion. Each winery, without a shadow of a doubt, despite the strong commitment to the preservation of family traditions and the perpetuation of the production of a wine that has been handed down for generations, is also a company which must necessarily evaluate its balance sheet and pursue a profit. Unquestionable, understandable, legitimate and, above all, indispensable.
Everything changes and probably today it would not make sense – or rather, it would no longer be understood – the way in which wineries were visited decades ago and the way in which one was "welcomed". I certainly speak of it not with a spirit of nostalgia – everything changes, in fact – but as a simple reason for comparison. There were no rooms and structures dedicated to wine tasting, there were no dishes full of various appetizers: the only subjects were wine, vineyards, grapes, differences between the various vintages, especially from a viticultural point of view. The welcome, most of the time, was made either in the cellar – with the strong smell of mold and damp – or under a pergola near the manufacturer's house because, in most cases, the same building was both the winery and the home. At other times, the welcome was made directly in the middle of the vineyards because – after all – it is precisely there that the wine poured into the glass is born. I am clearly not nostalgic for those times just for the fact that everything changes and probably that way was suitable and coherent with those times: there were not the usual fairy tales to listen to because it was the wine to mainly speak.
The producer was frequently telling how he had managed to obtain that wine, despite the not always benevolent conditions of the vintage. And it was precisely at that moment that you could see in his eyes the profound pride in sharing with you the fruit of his or her land and work. They would also talk about family stories because, undeniably, what they were at that time was also the result of the contribution and teaching of those who preceded them. Today, however, when you visit a winery, you are promptly welcomed in an area specifically destined to this activity, it is not always possible to see the production facilities, not to mention the vineyards. When this is possible, one often gets the impression of being part of a group of "tourists on vacation" accompanied by a guide who scrupulously follows the same routes and always tells the same fairy tales. The reception in the winery, therefore, has become a promotional and communication activity, in my opinion not always carried out in an effective and profitable way.
I am aware this is also the result of changing times and, most likely, today is what people expect when they visit a winery, that is to find a vaguely recreational activity enlivened by a glass of wine and food, while enjoying the show of the fairy tale to listen to. After all, I find it hard to imagine the majority of visitors walking through the vineyards, even when the soil is damp or wet, and leaving with their shoes full of mud, often even their own clothes. Or breathing in the smell of humidity and mold which is sometimes found in certain cellars, especially in those buried in the deep of the earth or in a cave. It is a bit like to what happens for restaurants: everyone wants to see the beautiful tale of elegant rooms, made up of charming and beautiful chefs, in their impeccable and immaculate uniforms, rulers of an easy and perfect world of sublime dishes. They do not imagine that, beyond those walls, in the rooms of the kitchen you live very different efforts, you work hard and get dirty, in what is an absolutely different world and far from the fairy tales painted by the television shows about cooking.
The same has been happening for some time in the world of wine and in wineries: the real effort required for the production of the wine we are enjoying from the glass must be, in some way, hidden and made almost non-existent, so to speak, "cleaned up". Yet the vineyard requires hard work, and even a lot, you get dirty and the same happens when the grapes arrive in the winery, starting the production of wine. This should not be seen and should not even be imagined, replaced by the usual beautiful tale, always the same and for all wineries. It is told only the effort made to the indisputable fidelity to tradition – despite they use wine making methods and techniques, grapes and cultivation practices very distant from those of the ones who preceded them – respect for the territory, integrity of their wines, so strongly sons of the nature of their lands. Always the same story told in any winery while sipping a wine that sometimes – if you dare to distract yourself from the beautiful fairy tale and listen only to the voice of the wine screaming from the glass – is decidedly modest and even with some faults, sometimes embarrassing as well. Because, after all, dear producers, fairy tales are beautiful, engaging, compelling and exciting to listen to, but they do not make good wine.
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The first problem with "protest" is that the Blue Lives Matter movement got involved, and tried to change the narrative, it was not the Black Lives Matters advocacy who moved quickly to assist the Beal Family and have been supporting even after the death of Beal. Contrary to the story told by the Police-which differs from those who were with Beal when he was killed by an off-duty officer, but " The off-duty police officer and the off-duty sergeant, who have not been identified, have both been placed on paid administrative leave, officials said. One of the officers was taken to the hospital after the incident, but was not seriously injured, police said.
The video shows several vehicles stopped in the middle of 111th Street near Troy Street. People can be heard yelling at each other as Nelson approaches.
A man in a red shirt approaches part of the crowd with what appears to be a gun in his hand. Another man can be seen telling people to back off and get on the ground. The man in the red shirt then appears to tuck his gun into his pants or a holster.
The video then pans back and forth a few times, and briefly shows a man in a white shirt appearing to point a gun before lowering it.
The shooting is being investigated by the city's Independent Police Review Authority, they are looking to determine whether when Beal was shot if acted lawfully or did he have a reasonable fear for his life.
Please note: Per the Centers for Disease Control, police officer killings of blacks are down 75 percent over the last 47 years. Compared with blacks, twice as many whites are killed by cops. True, blacks represent about 25 percent of those shot by the police, and the black population is just over 13 percent. Still, a "movement" has now been launched.
The first one was the Mayor of Chicago and city hall was represented at the Protest by Associate Mayor Andrea Zapp and others who came with the "narrative let's all get along." The classical narrative that they are using which is false, wants to say that, all is ok now-without regard the correcting real issue, which is the Mount Greenwood community and it's long-term history of racial issues. It's ok for the Mayor and his staff of, "paid," proxies to whitewash this issue, but not at the expense of a family and who lost life.
They represent a tremendous threat to the progressive ideology of those who want real change as opposed to symbolic posturing.
Hundreds of Activist Leading Social Justice organizations will stand and rally because on Nov. 5, 2016-Police fatally shot 25 year old African American Male-Joshua Beal, a resident of Indianapolis, Indiana. In an unfortunate, tragic, and unclear set of circumstances Beal was in town following a funeral procession of a cousin as pallbearer. Near 111th Street and Troy Avenue -Joshua Beal while still in the procession of cars-stopped in front of a firehouse on 111th Street, and blocked the entrance; a confrontation soon started, according to prosecutors records, that ended in a physical altercation between multiple individuals which included Beal. When Beal, who police said "allegedly," then displayed a gun-and was shot multiple times by an off duty police who intervened once he saw the fight.
We believe-That this is one occasion where it must-clear that words, prayers, and protest are not enough to stop the "long-term," tension, and violence between police officers, community members, African Americans and other minorities who interact in this community. All across Chicago today, there must be condemnations, not just as a community but as a city for ending hate. We should never accept acts of hate, intimidation, and violence anywhere anytime against anyone for any reason. Across Chicago, the call for action "Now," is clear. There are those in the community who stand against racial hate, then they should join as well. We will also question the fire department's and police departments top brass who live in the community to answer to call against turmoil and violence and leave room for correction where diversity and values are upheld.
My concern is for the Mayor of Chicago Rahm Emmanuel to seriously question his leadership- In Mt.Greenwood- what's really being done Mayor to prevent a looming "race war." Many believe if the City of Chicago would have dealt with this Harassment, Racial Discrimination, excessive force issue a long time ago, we wouldn't have an issue today.
We call on Chicago Civic Leaders, Faith Leadership, Social Justice Activist, and concerned citizens-to follow and accept the "clarion call for November 20, 2016 2:00 pm (copy-face event invite below) but more basically, Mt. Greenwood is a problem because of the long-term racial injustice is there. We all must constantly respond to this type of call for aid. We should never again accept narrow, provincial "outside agitator" idea. Anyone who lives inside the United States can never be considered an outsider anywhere within its bounds.
Tio Hardiman, Violence Interrupters, Inc.
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Hundreds of Activist Leading Social Justice organizations will stand in serious disapproval to a Trump Presidency. Organizations involved are Answer Chicago, Chicago Violence Interrupters, Freedom First International, The Chicago SCLC, Over 800 protesters along with a growing list others will be on location at Trump Towers to express serious and resounding disapproval of a Trump Presidency.
We will conduct an EMERGENCY PROTEST! Because we believe Donald Trump, a vile racist and sexist, has been declared the winner of the U.S. presidential election. We must resist this outcome!
In fact, we cannot be idle. We must get into the streets immediately. We must unite and stand with immigrants, Muslims, women, LGBTQ people, poor and working people and Black Lives Matter. Only the people can defeat racism, bigotry and hate!
All Out! Come together and descend on the Trump hotel! Bring your signs, banners and voices of protest. Spread the word. Let's make the emergency protest as big as possible!
We went back to look at the unfavorable ratings of the major-party candidates from 1992 through the current election. The bottom line is that Trump was elected with a higher unfavorable rating than any candidate at any time during all of these previous election cycles, and that conclusion takes into account the fact that unfavorable ratings tend to rise in the heat of a general election campaign as the barbs, negative ads and heightened partisanship are take us to our highest disapproval levels-Our Country doesn't need him and Chicago with all it's problems doesn't need Trump. We want to send this message to the world! Media-Don't Miss This!
◾Change Perceptions of People of Color and others in the political system.
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