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Offaly deaths and funeral details - June 13
Marian Hume (née Cooney), The Strand, Castlejordan, Meath / Castlejordan, Offaly
Mass in repatriation in Saint Peter and Paul's Church, Ilford, Essex on Tuesday (11th June) at 7.30pm. Funeral Mass on Friday (14th June) at 12pm in the Church of the Holy Trinity, Castlejordan, followed by burial in the local cemetery. Family flowers only, please, donations, if desired, to Cancer Research. Donation box in church.
Winifred (Winnie) SMULLEN (née Hannon), Clonin, Rhode, Offaly
Reposing at her home on Wednesday from 5pm to 8pm with Rosary at 8pm. Funeral Mass on Thursday at 12 noon in St. Peter's Church, Rhode, followed by burial in the adjoining cemetery.
Michael Gleeson, Thomastown, Rath, R42 XR63, Birr, Offaly
Reposing at the home of Mairead and Pat Mcloughlin, Thomastown, Rath, R42 XR63, on Tuesday and Wednesday evening from 5 o'clock with rosary both evenings at 9 o'clock. Removal on Thursday morning to the Church of John the Baptist, Rath, for 11 o'clock Mass, followed by burial in Rath Cemetery.
Aaron Buckley, 11 Collinstown, Clara, Offaly
Reposing at his aunt and uncle Fiona and Peter Delaney's house, New Road, Clara (eircode R35 P586) on Thursday (June 13th) from 2pm until 9pm. Rosary at 9pm. Removal on Friday morning to St. Brigid's Church, Clara arriving for Requiem Mass at 11am. Interment afterwards in the monastery cemetery, Clara. Family flowers only, donations, if desired, to The Dialysis Unit at The Midland Regional Hospital, Tullamore. House private on Friday morning please.
Dan Ryan, Ballyatty, Coolderry, Birr, Coolderry, Offaly / Birr, Offaly
Reposing at Boyd's Funeral Home, Birr on Thursday from 6'oc. – 8'oc. Removal on Friday morning to arrive at St. Ita's Church, Coolderry at 10.45'oc. for Funeral Mass at 11'oc. followed by burial in Clonoghill Cemetery, Birr.
Anna HENNESSY (née Malone), Borris, Carlow / Rhode, Offaly
Reposing at her home, Wednesday evening from 7pm to 9pm. House private, close friends and relatives please. Removal this Thursday morning to Sacred Heart Church, Borris arriving for Funeral Mass at 11am followed by burial afterwards in The Sacred Heart Cemetery, Borris. Family flowers only please, donations if desired, to the Irish Heart Foundation.


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Artist Pauline Amos tells London to 'Pity the Meat' in her immersive new performance work
By Michelle Johnson | 18 Aug 2017 | Culture
The performance artist is currently presenting her "spontaneous avant-garde opera" at Stolen Space Gallery
In east London's Stolen Space Gallery, Pauline Amos is quite literally climbing the walls to ready the outline for her new, immersive work of performance art. By the 24 August, Pauline's expansive graffiti-style charcoal sketch will become a outpouring of colour and imagination, painted live in front of gallery visitors and art enthusiasts.
It is the first time in 14 years that Pauline has created what she calls a "durational performance" – her last, created in Rome's Opera Paese gallery, was exhibited in 2005. Her new exhibition, Pity the Meat, is an intense multi-sensory experience of the artist's process, featuring music she created with virtuoso cellist and composer Paz Caplin and framed by her Canvas Carcasses works.
"Pity the Meat, like all my performance work, is a demonstration of process," Pauline tells Tempus. "I work fast, and I feel like once the painting's finished it's like removing its life-force. It hangs there like a dead thing. That's how I came up with Canvas Carcasses – hanging these pieces from meat hooks, like an abattoir of paintings."
Pauline, who is a vegetarian and a passionate advocate against processes within the meat industry, says that her personal politics may creep into her work but she ultimately aims for her paintings to remain largely apolitical. Instead she aims to capture the zeitgeist "right on the nail".
"Underlying all my work is the tragedy of the human condition and the relationships we have with each other and with ourselves," she says. "I'm an artist, I'm a woman and I'm from Liverpool. Those things together form a political statement, but I don't think art should be political. It's above dogma and doctrine. The artist is the future thinker, the provocateur, the one who critiques the times they are working in."
Pauline works on Pity the Meat surrounded by her Canvas Carcasses. © Instagram/paulineamos_art
Combining her painting with the spoken word music she has created with Paz adds a surreal quality to the experience, which she says lies at the heart of her performances. "I like to think of it as an avant-garde opera. I've performed in galleries and the Frieze Fair, but I also love graffiti and street art. It's energetic, evolving and challenging, so I love that.
"When we're recording it's spontaneous and improvised – whatever happens, happens," she says. "While recording our latest album, I picked up a book about the art of Francis Bacon by [philosopher] Gilles Deleuze, and opened it up to see the words 'pity the meat'. My imagination immediately went wild. His words reminded me of some of own life experiences and it became a metaphor for a man or a relationship and the effect on my life."
Pauline will be painting in situ until the 24 August, when she will hold a closing event with live performances from Paz as she unveils the final piece. "What's important about this kind of work is that you can't think too much – you can't let the ego get in the way. The paint carries you.
"Over the five days I'll be aiming to get to a place where I have to stop, which can be really hard. I already know there will be big areas of white space in this work, in order to let the piece breathe and so as not to choke the paint," she says. "But really, by the end it will probably be completely different from how I imagined."
Pauline will be performing Pity the Meat until the 24 August at Stolen Space Gallery, Osborn Street, E1
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By Sam Bradley | 05 Nov 2021
Time travelling through the Savoy

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EC One has been one of our trade secrets for a long time. Having struck gold almost 20 years ago with a bustling and vibrant location in busy Exmouth Market in Clerkenwell, just round the corner from London's main trade jewellery district Hatton Garden, the shop and its owners, Jos and Alison Skeates, have carved out their own perfect retail niche. A family run, authentic, stylish jewellery shop with on-site workshop for repairs and bespoke work, and staff bursting with knowledge and expertise.
Run by Jos, probably jewellery's most connected man in London, and Alison, the shop's main buyer with an eagle eye for cool jewels, there is literally nothing this shop couldn't do for you when it comes to jewellery. Bespoke work is undertaken on-site and has proved a big hit for the local clientele; engagement rings are made to order in the workshop – with people working in the area coming in off the street with photos on their phone of what they're after. Precious family heirlooms are reworked there and then, which means diamonds and gemstones need never leave the building.
One of the main pulls – apart from the jewellery – is the wonderful staff. Friendly, unintimidating and extremely knowledgeable, they take time to explain the designers' backgrounds, the metals and gemstones, or the varying importance of the 4 C's when buying a diamond (top tip – they're not all equally as important) – but, they do just leave you to it if you just fancy a quiet browse.
EC One's globally-sourced collections, from both local designers and large and small companies around the world, have an easy-to-wear, stylish feel displayed within the bright space with floor to ceiling windows. From industry heavyweights such as Shaun Leane, Alex Monroe and Stephen Webster, to the latest new designer discoveries such as Vogue darling Anissa Kermiche and Flora Bhattachary – incidentally both winners of the industry Award run by EC One, 'Unsigned' (if you're a new jewellery designer looking for a huge career boost, make sure you apply) – there is something here for all budgets.
Nurturing new talent through running their own design competition has resulted in EC One discovering exciting new designers, although owner Ali has also stopped people on the street to ask who their jewellery is by (and discovered that the wearer is the designer) – so these slightly unorthodox buying methods mean that the shop always has something unexpected and unusual amongst the more commercial pieces.
The engagement ring offering is both eclectic and traditional, with classic designs (with a slight twist or unusual detail) sitting alongside bright sapphire or emerald engagement rings, or more unusual stones such as morganite and aquamarine. With more organic, unusual engagement rings styles becoming more popular, designers such as Ruth Tomlinson and Sorrel Bay are in high demand.
Amongst the mix of fine and fine fashion jewellery is also a brilliant collection of modern pearl jewellery – a great discovery – from designers such as Melissa McArthur and Anissa Kermiche, both avant-garde and minimalistic in style. The constantly renewed stock of progressive additions to the basics everyone needs in their jewellery box means that you can find an exciting pair of earrings amongst more traditional pieces; like classic studs or hoops.
Coloured gemstones feature quite predominantly as well, with simple necklaces and earrings in all the colours of the rainbow by SuShilla, in slices of sapphire and labradorite, as well as beautiful handmade rings by EC One with peachy morganites and deep aqua-hued tourmalines.
Worth a peek is the workshop at the back, where you can see the in-house goldsmiths working on the EC One collections and bespoke pieces.
With its impressive credentials – including having occupied the same retail space for almost 20 years, a rare feat in itself – EC One is a true Hidden Gem for jewellery; a perfect place to build your personal jewellery collection, as well as build a relationship with an approachable, helpful jewellery boutique who can cater to your every need in the years to come, whether you need a missing earring re-made, a chain fixed or a bespoke engagement ring designed.
EC One truly feels like an important part of the fabric of Exmouth Market in London, a cool local gem of a store that will hopefully be around for 20 more years.


The dried bark of this tree is unique as far as local barks go because it sparkles brightly in the direct sunlight.
It is used for focus.
It can help one focus on the job at hand.
It can even help overcome astigmatism. That is if you are not too old.
It is a absolute boon to the senior population so that they do not loose interest and focus. It is very well known to the elders in the local population of the Eastern Cape.
It is found all over the wooded valleys in the eastern cape.
It produces abundant red seeds.


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Crowds: Anonymity for Web Transactions
by Michael K. Reiter, Aviel D. Rubin - ACM Transactions on Information and System Security , 1997
"... this paper we introduce a system called Crowds for protecting users' anonymity on the worldwide -web. Crowds, named for the notion of "blending into a crowd", operates by grouping users into a large and geographically diverse group (crowd) that collectively issues requests on behalf o ..."
this paper we introduce a system called Crowds for protecting users' anonymity on the worldwide -web. Crowds, named for the notion of "blending into a crowd", operates by grouping users into a large and geographically diverse group (crowd) that collectively issues requests on behalf
CONDENSATION - conditional density propagation for visual tracking
by Michael Isard, Andrew Blake - International Journal of Computer Vision , 1998
"... The problem of tracking curves in dense visual clutter is challenging. Kalman filtering is inadequate because it is based on Gaussian densities which, being unimodal, cannot represent simultaneous alternative hypotheses. The Condensation algorithm uses "factored sampling", previously appli ..."
The problem of tracking curves in dense visual clutter is challenging. Kalman filtering is inadequate because it is based on Gaussian densities which, being unimodal, cannot represent simultaneous alternative hypotheses. The Condensation algorithm uses "factored sampling", previously
On kinetic waves: II) A theory of traffic Flow on long crowded roads
by M. J. Lighthill, G. B. Whitham - Proc. Royal Society A229 , 1955
"... This paper uses the method of kinematic waves, developed in part I, but may be read independently. A functional relationship between flow and concentration for traffic on crowded arterial roads has been postulated for some time, and has experimental backing (? 2). From this a theory of the propagati ..."
This paper uses the method of kinematic waves, developed in part I, but may be read independently. A functional relationship between flow and concentration for traffic on crowded arterial roads has been postulated for some time, and has experimental backing (? 2). From this a theory
Analysis, Modeling and Generation of Self-Similar VBR Video Traffic
by Mark Garrett, Walter Willinger , 1994
"... We present a detailed statistical analysis of a 2-hour long empirical sample of VBR video. The sample was obtained by applying a simple intraframe video compression code to an action movie. The main findings of our analysis are (1) the tail behavior of the marginal bandwidth distribution can be accu ..."
We present a detailed statistical analysis of a 2-hour long empirical sample of VBR video. The sample was obtained by applying a simple intraframe video compression code to an action movie. The main findings of our analysis are (1) the tail behavior of the marginal bandwidth distribution can
Contour Tracking By Stochastic Propagation of Conditional Density
by Michael Isard, Andrew Blake , 1996
"... . In Proc. European Conf. Computer Vision, 1996, pp. 343--356, Cambridge, UK The problem of tracking curves in dense visual clutter is a challenging one. Trackers based on Kalman filters are of limited use; because they are based on Gaussian densities which are unimodal, they cannot represent s ..."
. In Proc. European Conf. Computer Vision, 1996, pp. 343--356, Cambridge, UK The problem of tracking curves in dense visual clutter is a challenging one. Trackers based on Kalman filters are of limited use; because they are based on Gaussian densities which are unimodal, they cannot represent
Model-Based Clustering, Discriminant Analysis, and Density Estimation
by Chris Fraley, Adrian E. Raftery - JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN STATISTICAL ASSOCIATION , 2000
"... Cluster analysis is the automated search for groups of related observations in a data set. Most clustering done in practice is based largely on heuristic but intuitively reasonable procedures and most clustering methods available in commercial software are also of this type. However, there is little ..."
for model-based clustering that provides a principled statistical approach to these issues. We also show that this can be useful for other problems in multivariate analysis, such as discriminant analysis and multivariate density estimation. We give examples from medical diagnosis, mineeld detection, cluster
Real-time american sign language recognition using desk and wearable computer based video
by Thad Starner, Joshua Weaver, Alex Pentland - IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON PATTERN ANALYSIS AND MACHINE INTELLIGENCE , 1998
"... We present two real-time hidden Markov model-based systems for recognizing sentence-level continuous American Sign Language (ASL) using a single camera to track the user's unadorned hands. The first system observes the user from a desk mounted camera and achieves 92 percent word accuracy. The secon ..."
We present two real-time hidden Markov model-based systems for recognizing sentence-level continuous American Sign Language (ASL) using a single camera to track the user's unadorned hands. The first system observes the user from a desk mounted camera and achieves 92 percent word accuracy. The second system mounts the camera in a cap worn by the user and achieves 98 percent accuracy (97 percent with an unrestricted grammar). Both experiments use a 40-word lexicon.
LOF: Identifying Density-Based Local Outliers
by Markus Breunig, Hans-Peter Kriegel, Raymond T. Ng, Jörg Sander - PROCEEDINGS OF THE 2000 ACM SIGMOD INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON MANAGEMENT OF DATA , 2000
"... For many KDD applications, such as detecting criminal activities in E-commerce, finding the rare instances or the outliers, can be more interesting than finding the common patterns. Existing work in outlier detection regards being an outlier as a binary property. In this paper, we contend that for m ..."
analysis showing that LOF enjoys many desirable properties. Using realworld datasets, we demonstrate that LOF can be used to find outliers which appear to be meaningful, but can otherwise not be identified with existing approaches. Finally, a careful performance evaluation of our algorithm confirms we show
Overview of the scalable video coding extension of the H.264/AVC standard
by Heiko Schwarz, Detlev Marpe, Thomas Wiegand - IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON CIRCUITS AND SYSTEMS FOR VIDEO TECHNOLOGY IN CIRCUITS AND SYSTEMS FOR VIDEO TECHNOLOGY , 2007
"... With the introduction of the H.264/AVC video coding standard, significant improvements have recently been demonstrated in video compression capability. The Joint Video Team of the ITU-T VCEG and the ISO/IEC MPEG has now also standardized a Scalable Video Coding (SVC) extension of the H.264/AVC stand ..."
standard. SVC enables the transmission and decoding of partial bit streams to provide video services with lower temporal or spatial resolutions or reduced fidelity while retaining a reconstruction quality that is high relative to the rate of the partial bit streams. Hence, SVC provides functionalities
Design of capacity-approaching irregular low-density parity-check codes
by Thomas J. Richardson, M. Amin Shokrollahi, Rüdiger L. Urbanke - IEEE TRANS. INFORM. THEORY , 2001
"... We design low-density parity-check (LDPC) codes that perform at rates extremely close to the Shannon capacity. The codes are built from highly irregular bipartite graphs with carefully chosen degree patterns on both sides. Our theoretical analysis of the codes is based on [1]. Assuming that the unde ..."
We design low-density parity-check (LDPC) codes that perform at rates extremely close to the Shannon capacity. The codes are built from highly irregular bipartite graphs with carefully chosen degree patterns on both sides. Our theoretical analysis of the codes is based on [1]. Assuming


There was a fitting and ironic announcement out of Hillsboro this morning. Strangely enough, it had nothing at all to do with all the high tech junk they've got going on out there. Baseball was the theme. And beer.
You may recall the recently departed Portland Beavers of the AAA Pacific Coast League. They left Portland a couple of years back to make way for the Timbers soccer club. I don't care for soccer, but the Timbers have been a success story here, attracting good crowds and quite a lot of media buzz...even though they've been dismal this year.
Of course, the soccer transition miffed a lot of baseball fans. See, Portland has a rich and lengthy history with baseball dating back to the 19th century. Many baseball fans simply failed to appreciate the move to soccer.
This is all about demographics, in my mind. Portland, particularly at its core, has become a young city in recent times. Droves of 20-somethings moved here to retire, as the saying goes. Soccer is a better fit than baseball for that community. Portland Beavers games were not well attended in the years leading up to their departure. Timbers games, though there are fewer of them, draw large, boisterous crowds.
I always suspected baseball would return to this area. The question was where. Would we build a stadium somewhere and try to attract another AAA team or, heaven forbid, try to bring Major League Baseball to town? Actually...no.
Enter the city of Hillsboro. And the Yakima Bears, Single-A affiliate of the Arizona Diamondbacks who play in the Northwest League. A few months back, the city and the Bears came to an agreement that will bring the team to Hillsboro next summer. The city's part of the deal is a $15 million investment in a 4500-seat baseball stadium/complex. The team's part of the deal is to show up come June.
The significant part of this arrangement involves the name...the team announced today that it will be called the Hillsboro Hops. This is a reference and a tip-of-the-hat to the area's fast-growing craft beer industry. Of course, there are good and bad hops in baseball. And Oregon does grow some of the hops used to make our fabulous beers.
The ironic part of the story is this: Yakima is the largest hops growing region in the US. And yet the team that played there from 2001 to 2012 was called the Bears. Now it moves to Oregon, where we are better-known for what we make with hops than for growing them, and the name changes to Hops. I like it, but I can't put the irony out of my mind.
No matter. I'm looking forward to seeing the Hops in action...while enjoying a few of those terrific beers.
The Treachery of "Grab Some Buds!"


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"Francisco's Fresh Paintings" (photo credit: Mark Fulinara @theiroldstuff)
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Each month, we showcase an emerging artist from around the world who is already garnering attention for their work. "One To Watch" presents some of the most exciting artists on Saatchi Art helping collectors to discover strong emerging talent.
Francisco Palomares and the Soul of Los Angeles
November 28, 2020Posted by Bethany Fincher
Los Angeles native Francisco Palomares documents the evolving landscape of his hometown. Drawing attention to both the heritage and socioeconomic realities of its residents, Francisco juxtaposes piñatas with pastoral landscapes, and cleaning supplies with floral still lifes. His current endeavor takes on a conceptual dimension—Francisco has repurposed a street vendor's fruit cart, a ubiquitous staple in L.A., into a mobile studio, where he paints en plein air, completing works for passersby in 30 minutes or less. Francisco has exhibited his work at the Mexican and Brazilian Consulates in Los Angeles, Human Resources L.A., and Site:Brooklyn Gallery in New York. Most recently, he was named a 2020 Saatchi Art Rising Star.
Tell us about who you are and what you do. What's your background?
I'm a native Angeleno and a first generation Mexican-American. From an early age I had an infatuation with art. I was particularly inspired by Renaissance Art. My goals were to learn the painting secrets of Master Artists like Goya, Rembrandt, and Velázquez.
I began my art career in high school on a scholarship based on technical skill to Ryman Arts, a nonprofit offering college art studio courses to high school students tuition free. After graduating from Ryman Arts and high school, I continued my studies at California State University, Long Beach. During my undergrad I was an art exchange student in Guangzhou, China, and Florence, Italy. In 2014 I graduated with a Bachelors of Fine Arts in Drawing and Painting. I returned to my childhood neighborhood of East L.A. and opened my first art studio called PalomaresBLVD. PalomaresBLVD aims to bring the experience of life on the streets of East L.A. to the outside world.
What does your work aim to say? What are the major themes you pursue in your work?
My artwork is a visual diary. My paintings reflect my heritage and my experiences, thus my art documents and reflects the black and brown experience in Los Angeles: We are the people who inhabit the spaces, and use the objects that comprise the soul of the City of L.A. My paintings are both reflections and symbolistic of our experiences. My work reflects the realities of living in L.A.—L.A. is a place where people from around the globe flock to pursue dreams. In the pursuit of success, happiness and our mental health suffers. Happy Green Balloon is a rendering of what we do to ourselves in the pursuit of happiness when it becomes merely a facade. I render a happy face helium balloon slightly deflated. It is creased and its happy grin has become a crooked smile. Reflecting our concern for facades while our insides deflate.
In Homage to my Mothers, I honor my upbringing in a working class Latino community. My mother is the inspiration for this painting that embodies the American Spirit. She is an immigrant and entrepreneur with aspirations for a better life. Yet while she is an entrepreneur with big dreams, she earns her success by cleaning the homes of the types of people that have the financial means to buy my artwork. In Homage to my Mothers I merge blue collar work and fine arts into one.
Can you walk us through your process for creating a work from beginning to end?
It starts with a vision. They come suddenly and unexpectedly when I am walking or driving and something in front of me becomes a background for a painting. I use my friends, lovers, and my Los Angeles neighbors as muses. They become actors in a scene. I ask myself what is the mood? What feeling do I want to extract? Hope? Dread? Ambition? Happiness?
I photograph both the model and backdrop only using my phone. I collage the images creating a new composition and a new image.
What series or artistic project are you working on next?
Francisco's Fresh Paintings is my current artistic pursuit. I repurposed a street fruit vendor's cart into a mobile painting studio. Cruising in public spaces of Los Angeles I paint produce based still lifes and in 30 min or less a client can purchase an original oil painting where the paint may still be drying.
What memorable responses have you had to your work?
My art often invokes joy. Seeing the audience smiles because they see themselves in my artwork is meaningful to me. The places I paint have long histories with many different people having ties to these places and to be a part of that history is powerful. When I paint these neighborhood landmarks, especially those overlooked by the outside world, I connect with my audience via retelling our shared story of seeking identity, recognition, and beauty.
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HP is a stockholder-owned corporation founded in 1939 that is a technology company that operates in more than 170 countries worldwide. The company's mission is straight-forward – to develop technologies and services that can help people and companies address their problems and challenges, and realize their possibilities, aspirations and dreams. Headquartered in Palo Alto, California, HP has approximately 172,000 employees.
Team HP's goal was to centralize the DLA infrastructure into dual Enterprise Data Centers (EDC ) by migrating appropriate applications and servers in four phases over 2 years. During each phase at the DLA sites, Team HP will establish clear lines of communication with DLA, verify the application and server baseline, finalize the migration plan and exceptions, send the application images to the EDC, and identify and ship selected GFE for EDC incorporation.
Quickly and accurately determine the status of projects related to the EDC program.
Project planning and scheduling: Assisted HP personnel with the development of project plans that included: project work-breakdown structures, task and project inter-dependencies, labor estimate, key milestones, schedule dates, project charter definition, schedule baselining, scope management plans, communications plans, and staffing plans.
Project monitoring and reporting: Assisted HP personnel with the definition of reporting standards and updating of project schedules to enable effective measurement of progress against project baselines.
Provided project status reports that summarize project progress.
Provided Project variance analysis from baseline and root cause identification: Assisted HP personnel with measuring project progress against commitments to project baselines and identify unfavorable variances to baseline in order to provide the data required to perform root cause analysis for these variances.
Provided Project communication management: Assisted HP personnel with project communications management, such as project status meetings, steering committee meetings, and the regular distribution of project status reports.
Provided Project-related issue and risk management: Assisted HP personnel with identification, tracking, management, communication, and resolution of project-related issues and risks.
Provided Project resource forecasting: Assisted HP personnel with development of resource forecasts to meet project staffing requirements.


Five minutes walk from this house will find you on the sands of Coopers Beach - the jewel of Northland!
The house is only 300 metres to the Coopers Beach Shopping complex (Doctor, Chemist, Dentist, Butcher, Takeaway Diner, large Four Square, Sport Shop, Hardware, Liquor store and Harcourts ).
The North facing house has 2 bedrooms, a comfortable open plan living area, kitchen complete with pantry stove etc. and separate laundry. a single carport is at the rear of the property. Another building at the rear of the property is a generous size and ideal as a games/rumpus room or a Man cave.


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Jacksonville University Election Polls
Anthony Pardella|November 1, 2016
Democracy takes work.
It's a form of government that relies on citizen participation. Not even the position of the president can be obtained without an election and consent from the electoral majority. It's a process that is the bedrock of our nation's form of government.
Paulina Cossette, assistant professor of the JU political science department, knows that elections play an integral part in America's form of democracy. And with the presidential election coming up in November, she decided to create the "Elections in the United States" class so students can better understand the election process.
"I want students to know that rules structuring elections are extremely important," said Cossette. "The outcomes of elections are largely influenced by the rules of who is allowed to run, who can vote, and how much money can be raised."
Sometimes learning requires a hands-on approach. And that is exactly what Cossette's students will be getting this semester.
"'Elections in the United States' is a student-service class," said Cossette. "So I had the idea to have them work at the polling stations during the elections."
This type of service requires a collaborative effort. Cossette contacted Greg Clark of the Duval County Supervisors of Elections to begin taking the steps necessary for her students to work at the polls.
Being an official poll worker trainer, Clark was able to get the JU students ready for the upcoming elections.
"We ensure they are registered to vote in Duval County," said Clark. "Then they must take a mandatory four hour class that explains the proper procedures of the polling stations and casting votes. They learn everything from how to cast votes to how to stay non-partisan on the day of the election."
According to the U.S. Election Assistance Commission, the national average age of U.S. poll workers is 72.
With an aging population of poll workers, the supervisors of elections wants to recruit a younger demographic of volunteers says Clark.
"Many of our poll workers have been helping with the elections for years .We love them, but it would absolutely be nice to have some younger volunteers. It strengthens our elections day team, and hopefully the younger adults will enjoy the experience and stay with us for years to come."
Alfred Battle is one of those potential recruits. A political science major, he saw the unique opportunities the class had to offer him.
"Having the chance to work the polls in such an important election and seeing the voter turnout is appealing," said Battle. "I believe the only way for someone to know about the importance of their vote is that it must be taught at young age. The youth are the future, and their knowledge of voting will aid them in knowing that all votes matter and that there's no such thing as a wasted vote."
The voter turnout is expected to be almost 81 percent, so the JU students will get plenty of polling experience, says Clark.
"They have to be at the station a 6 a.m. sharp and cannot be late," said Clark. They will be working until the last eligible voter has cast their ballot. As long as a voter is in line by 7 p.m., the poll will stay open, so the station could be open from 9 to 10 p.m. if necessary."
Cossette plans to use this experience as part of the Elections in The United States curriculum.
"We will meet up the day after the elections and reflect on their experience during election day," said Cossette. "We will discuss the results of the election and the face of the country. We will look at voter participation and voter numbers. We will see the effects of our participation in the election."
The hard work that will be put in by Battle and his classmates on election day is something to be proud of, says Clark.
"It's nice to have those volunteers who find investment in the work. And we want them to know the people appreciate their work. We thank you."
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Each day begins with a Greeting Circle, where the focus is building a sense of community. Children sing, perform a calming strategy (de-stressor), connect with classmates through fun activities, and commit to helping keep the classroom safe. This "community building" opening to the day is followed by a Morning Message where children are actively involved in the practice of early literacy skills. Greeting Circle is followed by a Moving and Learning activity where children sing, dance, or play games that relate to both program themes and lesson skills.
Two suggested Read-Aloud activities each day foster children's oral language and a sense of story. Children are actively involved in thoughtful discussions and immersed in robust vocabulary. They represent both fiction and nonfiction, varied genres (narrative, prose, predictable), art styles and photography and include traditional and new pieces of literature. Beyond the theme-related books, there are additional libraries for literacy, math, science and social skills that also integrate instruction with the program themes and skill continuums. The program includes 104 literature titles (including both English and Spanish) and two rhyme and poem-based flip-charts. In addition, the program includes a wealth of integrated listening stories, participation stories, and 34 story folders with props which enable children to re-enact the stories.
Literacy and math lessons are offered daily. Lessons are short, theme-related and filled with hands-on applications and meaningful context. They follow a continuum that ensures all children build foundation skills before they are expected to master more complex and challenging skills and concepts. Lessons spiral so that each time children return to a lesson concept or skill, they are able to expand their understanding.
Daily lessons include activities that address English Language Learner adaptations, each of the eight intelligences, scaffolding, and Special Needs adaptations at point of use in the lesson. The program contains two teacher resource books that break skills into smaller units on a continuum: Building Math Skills and Continuum for Physical Development. There is also an Adaptations for Young Learners guide that specifically tailors lessons to support younger learners, special needs students, and any child who temporarily or regularly needs additional support. Frog Street Pre-K is dedicated to the concept that all children can learn when instruction stimulates curiosity, nurtures the child's interest, is delivered with joy, and is tailored to challenge each child to the edge of his or her competency.
Childhood is a period of incubation. There is much to learn. The journey should be joyful. Frog Street Pre-K is filled with songs, music, hands-on materials and activities, chants, games, make-believe, and stimulation for the children's imagination. The journey is joyful from Greeting Circle to Closing Circle.
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Teaching youngsters about charity
Tuesday, 02 Jul 2019
By LO TERN CHERN
Students washing a visitor's car at the parking area.
LAUGHTER and cheer filled the GEMS International School of Pearl City in Simpang Ampat, Penang, as parents and students came together to help the needy communities.
Together, they decorated the booths within the school offering various services and products on sale, to raise funds for the BOLD Association for Children with Special Needs, Women's Centre for Change (WCC) and Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (SPCA) in Penang.
While some helped out with a car wash service at the parking lot, others manned stalls selling food items such as cotton candy, popcorn, cupcakes, doughnuts and bobba milk tea in the school building.
There were also some who made arts and crafts such as paintings and fridge magnets for sale at the event on Saturday.
Several booths also provided thrills and fun for students through games and activities that challenged the participants physically and mentally.
School principal Stephen Phillips said since 2016, the GEMS Parents Support Group had worked closely with the school to raise funds for charity.
"This year, we continue the tradition, not only to raise funds for charity but also give students an invaluable opportunity to learn the meaning of charity.
Students enjoying themselves at the PlayStation4 and Nintendo games centre during GEMS Charity Carnival 2019 at GEMS International School at Bandar Tasek Mutiara in Simpang Ampat, Penang. — Photos: ZAINUDIN AHAD/The Star
"A portion of the funds raised in the charity event will be donated towards improving the lives of women and children affected by violence, those with special needs and animal welfare.
"Students will learn the importance of giving and sharing, and to solve problems through teamwork and collaboration.
"They will grow to be future leaders who are responsible and compassionate to the community," he said.
The British international school offers progressive curriculum for students aged between three and 18, and is part of a global network of over 250 schools in 13 countries.


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Home Business Who is Abdelhamid Yousef?
Who is Abdelhamid Yousef?
Abdelhamid Yousef Is a rising superstar in the world of vaping (Vape industry Icon)
The most respected and appealing trait about this young man is his vast network of professional connections and partnerships in an out of the industry.
*Taking it back to the beginning briefly, Where did it all begin for Mr. Yousef ? (Idea for HQD and growing it internationally)
Birth of a new era?
-How did it all start?
After Hamid graduated from his master's program in finance from Florida International University, he was left wondering what was next on his path.
He began thinking about different business ideas in different industries that would allow him to make a name for himself as well as allow him to find a path in which he may
professional bloom and spread his wings as a leader in industry.
-How did he get into this industry and develop his idea?
After he graduated, he realized that the new generation of millennials were looking for a new, exciting, and less time-consuming ways to smoke.
He realized that being a smoker, there wasn't many alternatives to the downsides (smelling bad, bad breath, having to take up time to do so, etc.)
He began thinking of a new disposable device idea for smoking and leisure, leading to the birth of "Rubii Vapes".
Knowing his newly found idea is a force to reckoned with, he begins to research the market and possible manufactures for his new product that will revolutionize the vaping industry.
After completing research and development and investing money into the early stages of the "Rubii Vape", Mr. Yousef was then faced with his first obstacle.
Shortly after investing all his time, money & efforts into the prototypes and when the first manufactured devices first hit the market, so did the betrayal and disappointment from people close to the idea who thought they could do it better. In attempt to slander and defame Mr. Yousefs newly established business, his finances and efforts were almost bought to a halt after discourtesies among his confidants left him in a deep hole both financially and emotionally.
Overcoming the Obstacles:
After almost losing it all, he didn't give up. He formulated a new plan to re do it all over but way better and with not as many people involved this time around. after taking out several large loans and almost losing his livelihood, he came up with a new device design, manufacturing plan, and put it all into action seamlessly.
With goals on making HQD the largest disposable vape company in the world, he kept his sights and goals very high in his mind, so much so, that it all manifested for him in what would seem to be an overnight success.
-Conclusion:
to end this modern-day success story, Mr. Yousef is now recognized as one of the leading members in the vaping community with his company HQD Selling millions of devices monthly to happy customers via online ordering (www.hqdtechusa.com) or at one of many retailers and distributors worldwide.
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New lawyer silences bad-boy ex-pharma CEO Martin Shkreli
boy ex-pharmaceutical company CEO and prolific social media user Martin Shkreli has been muzzled. A new lawyer in a federal securities fraud case against Shkreli told reporters outside court on Wednesday that his client would stop speaking out in his own defense until the charges are resolved. ...
By Tom Hays - Associated Press - Associated Press
pharmaceutical company CEO and prolific social media user Martin Shkreli has been muzzled.
A new lawyer in a federal securities fraud case against Shkreli told reporters outside court on Wednesday that his client would stop speaking out in his own defense until the charges are resolved.
"We want to try this case in the courtroom and not in the media," defense attorney Benjamin Brafman said with a silent Shkreli at his side following a pretrial hearing in Brooklyn.
Shkeli, 32, gained notoriety last year after a drug company he founded, Turing Pharmaceuticals, spent $55 million for the U.S. rights to sell a life-saving medicine called Daraprim and promptly raised the price from $13.50 to $750 per pill.
The spotlight intensified last year when he was arrested on charges related to a hedge fund he once ran. Prosecutors allege that after he lost investors' money through bad trades, he looted Retrophin, another pharmaceutical company where he was CEO, for $11 million to pay back his disgruntled clients.
Since the arrest, Shkeli has frequently turned to social media and news outlets to lash out at his accusers. In a TV interview this week about his expected appearance before a congressional committee investigating the price of drugs, he said he'd like to "berate" and "insult" Congress — but instead will take the Fifth Amendment.
On Wednesday, a prosecutor told the judge that the value of a brokerage account used to secure Shkeli's release on $5 million bond — mostly invested in a biotech business once operated by Shkeli — had declined, and that more collateral may be needed if it goes down any further. Brafman said it wasn't surprising the account took a hit.
"There's nothing like an indictment to affect shares of stock," he said.
Shkeli's other assets most notably include the only copy of a Wu-Tang Clan album titled "Once Upon a Time in Shaolin," which the hip-hop group sold on the condition that it not be released publicly. He said he paid $2 million for it.
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The scent itself is light-hearted and feminine – sure to conjure your inner romantic. You will first experience this scent as a vibrant concoction of crisp pear and ambrette seeds. The heart accord features the scent of dewy rose petals. Base notes include white musk, Madagascar vanilla and ylang-ylang.
This sparkling mood lifter is sure to elicit complements from friends and family. The only caveat is that the scent lacks longevity, fading within a few hours.
This perfume is so delightful, the scent of rose captures your mood to make you feel in love, romantic etc. If you are into florals this is for you.
This fragrance is soft and sensual with hints of rose. It is playful and feminine, and is perfect as an everyday fragrance.
Sweet scent. Not long lasting unfortunately.
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Among the musical shrines of Nashville that count The Grand Ole Opry, Ryman Auditorium and Country Music Hall of Fame is a new fine-gun store – and America's latest authorized Fausti dealer.
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As a nation, we are riddled with depression and addiction.
Hate groups march openly in our streets. School shootings are a frequent occurrence. We imprison people at shocking rates.
We wage unwinnable wars against unseen enemies. We willfully poison our land, air and water. We don't believe a thing we say, and it doesn't seem to matter.
Who's running this place, anyway?
Not us, says Chris Hedges, the Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist whose new book, "America: The Farewell Tour," provides a scathing – and urgent – critique of the dire consequences of our nation's unfettered capitalism. As the title suggests, Hedges' book explores the final throes of our corporate empire, indicative of famously failed empires gone before, and the pathologies it manifests.
Hedges traveled the country, researching this book, but his view of America is refined also by nearly two decades as a foreign correspondent in Central America, the Middle East, Africa and the Balkans. He has reported for The Christian Science Monitor, National Public Radio, The Dallas Morning News and The New York Times.
Hedges currently writes a weekly column for the website Truthdig and hosts "On Contact" on the Russian government-funded network RT America. And as if that weren't enough, he also teaches a class in prison through Rutgers University in New Jersey and is an ordained Presbyterian minister.
Hedges visited Portland in recent weeks to promote his new book and to be the featured speaker for "Democracy Reborn: Communities Resisting. Communities Rising," an event by Oregon Community Rights Network. During his latest visit, he stopped by Street Roots to chat with vendors about their experiences with homelessness, which he wrote about in a Truthdig column.
Street Roots talked with him over breakfast on Oct. 2, and while he spoke calmly and clinically about America's crises, Hedges stated frankly that he is genuinely scared – for himself, his family and the planet. And we should be too. Because the problem is bigger than one or even both political parties. This cancer is rooted in our hallowed political and economic systems. And Charlottesville, Kavanaugh and Trump? Those are just the symptoms.
Chris Hedges: What's going on is that the social bonds that make a healthy society possible have been broken. And until those bonds are repaired, things are only going to get worse. And we see a myriad of symptoms – chronic underemployment and unemployment, homelessness, opioid addictions, a retreat into gambling, suicide, hate groups – we must remember that people who seek to destroy others are driven from a deep desire to annihilate themselves and everything that makes an open society.
It's what the socialist Emile Durkheim called "anomie." The literal translation of anomie is rulelessness. It means the rules don't work anymore, at least the rules as they're presented to society. What are those rules? You work hard, you get a good education, you obey the law, and you get a chance to carve out a meaningful existence with a living wage. That's gone.
There are two sets of rules. There's one set of rules for us, where we have criminalized poverty, created the most monstrous system of mass incarceration in the industrialized world, where wages have remained stagnant. American productivity since 1973 has increased by 77 percent, and if wages had kept pace with productivity, workers would be earning more than $20 an hour. Instead, over 41 million American workers – a third of the workforce – earn less than $12 an hour without employee-sponsored health insurance.
The capture of the economy by speculators, the deindustrialization of the country, the militarization of the police, and as we just saw in Portland, the lethal shooting of another American; 3.1 Americans are shot by police every day in the streets of American cities. In most cases, they're unarmed.
The stripping away of basic civil liberties, including due process. The trashing of the economy by the oligarchs who have in essence orchestrated a tax boycott: The highest rates of taxation for the wealthiest individuals and corporations under Eisenhower was 91 percent. Now large corporations like Bank of America don't even pay taxes, and this is while they essentially absolve themselves from all social responsibility, basically distorting all institutions and mechanisms of government to further consolidate their own power and amass greater wealth. As they do that, it becomes more and more punishing on the working class because they extract revenues from the most vulnerable.
So you have counties like St. Louis (Ill.) County; they depend, for 30 or 40 percent of their budget, on fines. It's just made-up crimes. Carrying an open container, not mowing your lawn – that's a fine in St. Louis County. Obstructing pedestrian traffic, which means standing too long on a sidewalk. Selling loose cigarettes, for which Eric Garner was killed. And if we don't address that anomie – the breaking of those social bonds – it doesn't really matter who's in office. You can get rid of Trump; it won't make any difference.
And of course we're not talking about it because the corporate forces that profit from that, and who see all mechanisms to create social solidarity as an impediment to profit, have complete control over the airwaves, academia (and) the two major political parties. And so the gravest social crisis is not discussed, along with the gravest existential crisis, which is climate change.
Joanne Zuhl: You say it doesn't matter who's in office. We're coming up to an election, and a lot of people are looking forward to the vote as a way to flip the House and/or Senate. Is that just theater in your opinion? Is the election going to make any difference?
C.H.: No, it's not going to make any difference. There's complete continuity on all of these issues no matter who's in office. In fact, the assault on civil liberties by Barack Obama was worse. He deported 4 million people. Arne Duncan (education secretary, 2009-15) was not privatizing and creating charter schools at quite the pace that (current Education Secretary Betsy) DeVos was, but these precedents were set.
You have one corporate party, and on one end you have troglodytes like the Sheldon Adelsons, the Mercers and Trump, who are unrepentant racists and bigots and Islamaphobes. And on the other end, you have Silicon Valley (types). They don't want to be painted as homophobic or racist or Islamaphobic, but on all the structural issues, there's zero difference. And it's the structural issues that are destroying us, including destroying the ecosystem on which we depend for life.
So how do you want to take your poison? In the classy, well-mannered posture of a Barack Obama, or the crude manner of a Donald Trump?
We are on the cusp of another economic meltdown; they have, since 2008, created $26 trillion out of electronic ether. They didn't invest it in the economy. They gambled with it. They bought back their own stock because their compensation packages are tied to it. And they hoarded it.
And this time around, when this – Marx calls it "fictitious capital" – when this bubble bursts, they don't have a Plan B. They can't lower interest rates any more than they've (already) lowered them. We will see even more egregious and naked forms of police repression, a further assault on the most basic civil liberties, including due process. All the things that poor people already experience will become more pronounced throughout the wider society. These tax cuts will erase – over 10 years – $1.5 trillion from the federal budget.
Next year, we're on track to pay just over $300 billion just on government debt on interest. Within 10 years, that will rise to $900 billion just on interest. It's not a sustainable financial system. So we've undergone a corporate coup d'etat in slow motion, and these people are just pillaging and destroying the country. And anybody who is poor understands: We don't live in a democratic state. It's fictitious. We're watching it with the Kavanaugh hearing. It's just political theater. The judicial process is political theater. The legislative process is political theater. It's become tribal. People don't care about truth; they don't care about justice. We are no longer a society rooted in verifiable fact. It's all of the hallmarks of an emerging totalitarian system. And nobody's even raising the issue. They're all sitting around watching Stormy Daniels.
J.Z.: You have talked about Standing Rock – the protest against the Dakota Access Pipeline near the Standing Rock Indian Reservation in South Dakota – as something we should be paying attention to and learning from. Why Standing Rock in particular?
C.H.: Standing Rock's important because it was an act of sustained mass civil disobedience, very rooted in a spiritual understanding of the sacred. It was led by indigenous communities.
You can always tell when the state is worried because they respond with draconian force. So the Women's March in Washington, they couldn't care less. But when you obstruct their ability to make money – in this case trying to block a pipeline – then they react viciously as they did. Attack dogs on the crowds, over 700 arrests, constant infiltration and surveillance, hosing protesters down with water cannons laced with pepper spray in sub-zero temperatures. And that's the kind of resistance we have to mount if we're going to save ourselves, because it's only going to get worse. It's probably going to get much worse.
Everyone has to organize, including the homeless. I know it's hard, because of all of the stresses of being homeless. Life's one long emergency when you're living on the street, and it takes a physical toll that's debilitating. But everyone has to rise up. If we don't take over this system and we don't overthrow it fast, climate change alone will extinguish the human species.
One of the reasons climate scientists are so frightened of going above 2 degrees Celsius is because of feedback loops. In essence the degradation of the biosphere becomes so pronounced that there's nothing you can do to stop it. And we know what feedback loops do because they've studied it on planets like Venus, which once had water and is now 800 degrees.
Were just not responding. We're entranced by these electronic hallucinations fed to us by corporate power.
J.Z.: There are multiple movements – #MeToo, Black Lives Matter, and we had Colin Kaepernick, who turned the NFL on its ear for a while. What are your thoughts on these efforts?
C.H.: Those movements, I support them, but they've got to be tied to economic structures, which they're not. There are segments of corporate power that are quite comfortable with identity politics, multiculturalism and diversity, as long as those who come from that community serve the system. So neo-liberalism as an ideology is about radical individualism; it's about destroying communal structures that make it possible to resist.
There's a large segment of the corporate capitalism that are quite comfortable with the Me Too movement, or diversity, as long as it doesn't include a critique of the systems themselves.
Radical individualism is not a positive force. Because it elevates the cult of the self and promotes the idea that your identity and your interests are paramount to everyone around you. And the corporate state is comfortable with that; that doesn't bother them. So I certainly support Black Lives Matter and I support all these groups, but I worry that they're not addressing the structural issues.
What will happen with a societal breakdown – and I saw it in Yugoslavia when I covered the war – you will get demagogues like Trump who will essentially green-light violent attacks against the "other," including, of course, the poor, but also African-Americans, Muslims, undocumented workers, as a way of channeling this inchoate rage toward the vulnerable. As if 12 million undocumented workers are somehow responsible for our economic decline. It's absurd. It's just ridiculous, but it works. You're already seeing it in the rhetoric of Trump.
J.Z.: You've also spoken about teaching in prison, that people who were incarcerated taught you possibly more about resistance than anything else.
C.H.: In terms of prison, we have 25 percent of the world's prison population because when you deindustrialize those urban centers, the only way most of the people could make a living was in an illegal economy, which means their poverty became criminalized. And you lock these people up as a form of social control. You lock the men up – I mean, you lock the women up too, but it's disproportionately poor men of color. And what you do to the women and children is evict them every six months so they can't build any community or network to resist. It's why when you visit an incarcerated relative in prison, it's so unpleasant. They make it unpleasant, especially for the children. They don't want people to build any network in which they can confront these forces. Because we can't confront them alone.
You have a group of very serious and impressive people who find whatever freedom they can find in prison through the life of the mind.
And I've watched them carry out acts of resistance in prison. One of my classes led a sit-down strike in the prison, and it was moving because they knew what was going to happen, which did happen, which was everybody had their cells searched, everybody was interrogated, and you're threatened with losing what little you have in prison: the ability to be in the education program, your rec time, your job. Until they found the two leaders, and they sent them to another prison, and they're in indefinite solitary confinement. Everybody knew (what would happen), but they rose up and resisted anyway. And that for me was instructive.
That's what we have to do. We have to stop asking ourselves if we're going to succeed, because if we don't rise up, we're definitely not going to succeed. And at the same time we have to be very conscious of the forces that are raised against us. I think the greatest existential crisis of our time is to at once grasp what it is we have to confront, and yet resist anyway. And I see that in the prison.
J.Z.: Do you support a civil war?
C.H.: Civil war? No. No. 1, because violence is the language the state can speak far better than we can. No. 2, it won't work. I mean, the state wants it. They love the Black Block, or Antifa. It's a gift from heaven because it demonizes the movement and makes people frightened of it. That's the basic goal of any counterinsurgency. I mean, the whole idea of throwing bricks through windows? Look, I've covered war. I know what special forces are equipped with and what they can do, and this is insane.
Revolution is not a form of catharsis. I support a revolution, but we won't win if we deploy violence. Any revolutionary movement succeeds by appealing to certain elements within structures of power and getting them to defect. That's what I saw in Eastern Europe, when I covered the revolutions in East Germany, Czechoslovakia and Romania. And what all the theorists like Crane Brinton ("The Anatomy of Revolution") and others have written that that's the only way revolution succeeds. And the system is so corrupt, so gamed, so rigged, so rotten that we have the capacity to appeal to those forces successfully. That's our only hope. Because at this point, unfettered, unregulated capitalism with no internal or external constraints will commodify everything. Human beings in their eyes are commodities; the natural world is a commodity that it exploits until exhaustion or collapse. And there's nothing now within the structure of power that will stop that.
J.Z.: You talk about appealing to people for the revolution. But it feels like they've already cut us off on that front, including gutting net neutrality. For example, we as an organization can't promote most of our news stories on Facebook because its algorithm categorizes them as political ads and won't let us do it. So it feels like that reach has been shut down.
C.H.: It is being shut down. Nobody's buying the ruling ideology, which is neo-liberalism – the idea that you structure your society around the dictates of the marketplace – and that's across the political spectrum. So they are going after the critics, such as myself, who has already been pushed to the margins of this society, because they don't have a counter argument. So they impose algorithms as they have on the website I write for, Truthdig.
So impressions – you go into Google and you type a word like "imperialism." If I had written a story on imperialism a year and half ago, it would have come up with any other recent article. Now it doesn't. So referrals from impressions to Truthdig alone have over the last year declined from over 700,000 to below 200,000.
Alternet's traffic has dropped by 63 percent. World Socialist Web Site by 83 percent. Black Lives Matter. Any of these groups that are critics of the stated ruling ideology are targeted, and net neutrality is another weapon to tier the internet and marginalize them even further. There's no question that it's under way. I have a show on RT America because it's the only place left where I can respectfully interview Mumia Abu-Jamal or interview David Harvey, the great Marxist economist, or Spenser Rapone, who was thrown out of the Army because he stood up for Kaepernick and declared himself a socialist. (RT America) is funded by the Russian government – I won't pretend that it isn't – but they've already targeted it. They've already managed to get RT off of the cable channels in New York state and California, and they'll shut the whole thing down. It has nothing to do with Russian propaganda. It has to do with a relentless campaign to silence voices like mine. And they will. They'll do it.
J.Z.: Was there ever a time when we got it right? And what do we do about this? You've talked about taking to the streets in the past.
C.H.: There's never a time when we got it right. America was always created as a closed system. And it is radical movements that opened up the space in American democracy as Howard Zinn writes in "A People's History of the United States." The labor movement – we had hundreds of American workers murdered. We had the bloodiest, most violent labor wars in the industrialized world. The civil rights movement, the struggle of African-Americans for freedom, which they still don't have. So we never got it right.
J.Z.: It seemed like we were trying, though.
C.H.: It was episodic. With the breakdown of capitalism in the 1930s, we created enough pressure on the oligarchic class that they responded. So Roosevelt created 12 million jobs. We had the movements in the 1960s. Out of that came the environmental movement, the feminist movement, and of course until the end of Vietnam War, the anti-war movement, which terrified the elites.
The current period is from the early 1970s until now, with the collusion of the Democratic Party – in particular Bill Clinton, who sold out to corporate power, destroying welfare – and 70 percent of the original recipients of the welfare program were children. Our mass incarceration exploded from about 700,000 to 2 million. And he militarized the police and extended the length of sentences, because he and Joe Biden wanted to take back the law-and-order issue from Republicans. The destruction of Glass-Steagall, which ripped down the firewalls between commercial and investment banks, which precipitated the (financial crisis) – all of that was Clinton.
So at that point, you didn't have a functioning liberal class. You had a faux liberal class that spoke in the traditional "feel your pain" of liberalism but assiduously served corporate power. That's Pelosi, that's Schumer, that's Obama and that's Clinton. And at that point, we just lost any mechanism to get the centers of power to respond. Now the only thing we have left is to try and mobilize sustained civil disobedience in the hope that we can wrest power back from the hands of these corporations that are cannibalizing the country, further impoverishing and repressing the working class and the poor, and who are, in the name of short-term profit, destroying the ecosystem on which we depend for life. I mean, it's really the gravest crisis in human history, and we're all sitting in front of the TV talking about Brett Kavanaugh being drunk at Yale.
J.Z.: So who are the leaders that you look to, or are there any?
C.H.: I wouldn't look to leaders. That's kind of a mistake.
You have to understand power before you can confront it. Education is a fundamental component to resistance because the ruling elites are never going to give you the information. You've got to go out and find it for yourself. All of the anarchists, communists, socialists, all of the radicals – we had a strong radical movement at the turn of the century, and they understood that. Sweatshop workers were spending 10 to 12 hours a day on the Lower East Side and then going to their study groups.
That's kind of why I teach in a prison. As my students say, it makes them kind of lonely because they can't talk to anyone, who are spitting back these thought-terminating cliches that are fed to them on television screens. On the other hand, how power works, that is the prerequisite of becoming an effective opponent. But if you don't understand how power works, you can't oppose it.


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Q: Reporting Services 2014 - Navigation Bar displays 0 of 0 Background:
We recently migrated to SSRS 2014; our source database is SQL Server 2008 R2.  We ran into some performance problems on a report where it simply would stop responding and ultimately timeout after 30 minutes when rendering the report.  Reviewing the execution log on the reporting server indicates that the data retrieval time is low, while the report rendering time is high.  The solution our DBA discovered after a month of this problem, is to set READ_COMMITTED_SNAPSHOT ON.
This seems to have cleared up the very strange performance problem with a single report.  This report would seemingly become deadlocked when users attempted to generate it.  The deadlock appears to be on the temp report server database, occurs only when returning the report to the browser (IE or Chrome), and does not occur every time the report is generated, but may be occurring when multiple users are attempting to generate the report around the same time frame.  The report has 3 levels of grouping, and returns a variable amount of rows for the entered parameters.
This setting (READ_COMMITTED_SNAPSHOT) seems to now have caused a secondary problem: in the navigation bar of the report, where the user can navigate through the pages on the report, initially displays 0 of 0 when an active "Next page" button.  When the user clicks the "Next page" button, the browser performs a post-back (like it would if you were navigating to the next page) and refreshes the screen with the first page.  Now, the navigation bar displays 1 of X.
All of our SSRS servers received READ_COMMITTED_SNAPSHOT ON, so I had asked the DBA to update my DEV server to OFF.  When this was done, I re-generated all of the reports (about one dozen), and each of them initially displayed 1 of X pages, as I would have expected.  Now, I question whether setting this property to ON was the correct approach for fixing the report.
I thought about whether creating a report snapshot would be a good solution, unfortunately, I don't think it is as we have users which have differing parameter selection.
Questions:

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*Was there a better way we should have solved the report performance problem above rather than setting READ_COMMITTED_SNAPSHOT to on?

*Does READ_COMMITTED_SNAPSHOT and ALLOW_SNAPSHOT_ISOLATION need to both be set to true/on if one is?

*Has anyone encountered this problem related to the Navigation Bar in SSRS, and how were they able to resolve the issue?

Update:
We ultimately had to roll-back the READ_COMMITTED_SNAPSHOT setting, as it caused an entirely different error to occur.  The problem outlined above, also seemed to clear itself up, with no issues reported two months in a row.  Unfortunately, no one knows what was causing the issue in the first place, or what may have fixed it (possibly a hardware change).

A: I'm assuming you changed these settings on the source database of the reports, not the SSRS server itself (unless they are the same server). Changing the settings of READ_COMMITTED_SNAPSHOT and ALLOW_SNAPSHOT_ISOLATION can have wide-ranging effects on your systems, so should be done with caution. See https://dba.stackexchange.com/questions/5014/what-risks-are-there-if-we-enable-read-committed-snapshot-in-sql-server for potential issues related to changing these settings (and also an answer to your second question).
To me it sounds like the problem is in your report query or queries, so changing these database level settings to resolve a performance problem in one report is probably overkill. I would first look at analysing your report queries and tuning them (and possibly adding missing statistics or indexes to the source database) before altering row versioning settings.
As to the navigation bar issue, perhaps the changes made to the row versioning mean the SSRS is unable to calculate the number of pages available when the page is initially loaded. However I don't know why that might happen.

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ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Albuquerque police are chasing "very strong leads" as they investigate who shot and killed a 7-Eleven clerk during a robbery early Tuesday.
The clerk, whose identity has not been released, was killed as the store at Central and University was robbed around 1 a.m., according to police.
The store had two employees working when the robbery happened, which complies with a state regulation passed in 2005, said Blake Lewis, spokesman for Southwest Convenience Stores, the company that owns 7-Eleven stores in the Southwest.
The other employee, whose identity was not released, was not injured.
"Clearly, we meet or exceed all the regulations that are placed on us," Lewis said.
Convenience stores are also required to have no more than $50 in the register, and they must have interior surveillance and employee safety training. The measures were adopted after APD determined that 22 convenience stores accounted for almost 5,000 police calls in 2005.
Unlike several other convenience stores along Central near UNM, the 7-Eleven in which the clerk was killed does not handle late-night business through an exterior window, where clerks distribute merchandise through a slot in a rotating window mechanism while customers wait outside.
Lewis said that security measure is not installed at all 7-Elevens in Albuquerque, but he would not go into detail about why certain stores have such measures.
"We do not discuss our security questions, for obvious reasons," he said.
Just up Central from the 7-Eleven is a Valero gas station that uses a security window late at night. A Valero Energy Corp. spokesman said "security evaluations" determine which stores take which safety steps.
Slayings of employees during robberies are rare. In June 2009, a cook at a Denny's on the West Side was killed by a bullet that ricocheted when the robber fell and his gun went off.
This is the first case in several years of a killing of any kind at a convenience store in Albuquerque.
In October 2007, a 17-year-old high school student was shot at a Circle K as he sat in the passenger seat of a vehicle. In February of the same year, a 19-year-old suspected gang member, Sean Cordova, was fatally stabbed at a North Valley Circle K.


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Please Don't Tell Me Trump's Speech to Congress Was Racist
10:30AM EST 3/1/2017	 Michael Brown
U.S. President Donald Trump is applauded after delivering his first address to a joint session of Congress from the floor of the House of Representatives in Washington. (REUTERS/Jim Lo Scalzo/Pool)
During the Republican primaries, when I was most critical of candidate Donald Trump, I still didn't believe he was a racist (in general) or an anti-Semite (in particular), yet charges of racism and even anti-Semitism persist against him to this day. After his speech last night, it seems to me that only his most cynical critics can lodge such charges against him. Will you really say that his address to Congress was racist?
Let's start with black Americans.
He began his speech by saying, "Tonight, as we mark the conclusion of our celebration of Black History Month, we are reminded of our nation's path toward civil rights and the work that still remains."
Was he seeking to get a message across? Quite obviously, he was.
Several minutes later (but still early in his speech), he said, "We've financed and built one global project after another, but ignored the fates of our children in the inner cities of Chicago, Baltimore, Detroit—and so many other places throughout our land."
It is no secret that a disproportionately high percentage of black Americans live in these inner cities, and so here too, he appeared to be sending a message, including this line, a few minutes later, as well: "And our neglected inner cities will see a rebirth of hope, safety, and opportunity."
And since black Americans suffer disproportionately from poverty and joblessness, were these lines directed their way as well? "Ninety-four million Americans are out of the labor force." And, "Over 43 million people are now living in poverty, and over 43 million Americans are on food stamps."
More overtly, he singled out a black American woman, Denisha Merriweather, as an example of the merit of private schools, calling her a "remarkable woman," noting that she was the first in her family to graduate from college (soon to get her master's degree), and stating, "We want all children to be able to break the cycle of poverty just like Denisha."
Even the reference that followed to breaking the cycle of violence, using Chicago as an example, probably spoke to black Americans as well. In fact, his first example of an American killed by an illegal immigrant was a 17-year-old black man, Jamiel Shaw, Jr., "an incredible young man, with unlimited potential who was getting ready to go to college where he would have excelled as a great quarterback. But he never got the chance. His father, who is in the audience tonight, has become a good friend of mine." (Note also that Trump honored Susan Oliver, a black woman, whose husband Danny, a white man, was a policeman killed by an illegal immigrant.)
Of course, the critics blast Trump as being a hypocritical opportunist, using these individuals to advance his own cause. But for anyone listening with an open heart and mind, the overall impression would be clear: President Trump is reaching out to the African-American community and saying, "We are in this together, and I want to help."
As for the Jewish people, also in his very first lines, Trump referenced "Recent threats targeting Jewish Community Centers and vandalism of Jewish cemeteries," while later stating, "I have also imposed new sanctions on entities and individuals who support Iran's ballistic missile program, and reaffirmed our unbreakable alliance with the State of Israel."
Could you imagine an anti-Semite speaking in these ways, mentioning the vandalism of the Jewish cemeteries in his first paragraph, and in the context of civil rights at that?
He also referenced at the outset "last week's shooting in Kansas City," where a gunman who allegedly yelled "get out my country" before killing one Indian man and wounded another, also wounding a white American who tried to stop him.
In other words, nationalism for Trump does not mean war on immigrants.
As for the immigrants whom he is deporting, Trump said, "We are removing gang members, drug dealers and criminals that threaten our communities and prey on our citizens. Bad ones are going out as I speak tonight and as I have promised."
Do even the most "progressive" Democrats really want to keep such dangerous people in our country, especially when they are here illegally? And can the president really be accused of being anti-immigrant or, more broadly, anti-Hispanic for saying that such criminals should be deported? For that matter, was President Obama an anti-Hispanic, anti-immigrant racist when he deported 43,000 illegals in 2015?
As for Islam, Trump could not have been more specific, saying, "We are also taking strong measures to protect our nation from radical Islamic terrorism," then proclaiming, "As promised, I directed the Department of Defense to develop a plan to demolish and destroy ISIS—a network of lawless savages that have slaughtered Muslims and Christians, and men, women and children of all faiths and beliefs. We will work with our allies, including our friends and allies in the Muslim world, to extinguish this vile enemy from our planet."
Here he made clear that radical Muslim terrorists are "lawless savages" (rather than model Muslims) who "have slaughtered Muslims and Christians, and men, women and children of all faiths and beliefs," significantly putting Muslims at the top of this list.
In other words, even though Christians in Islamic lands suffer most acutely at the hands of radical Muslims, while Christians in other countries are often targeted by radical Muslims, the greatest number of casualties of radical Muslims are themselves Muslims. That's why the president pledged to work with "our friends and allies in the Muslim world, to extinguish this vile enemy from our planet."
Can you genuinely say that Trump is anti-Muslim (rather than anti-radical Muslim) based on these carefully delivered words?
He even reached out to women, stating, "With the help of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, we have formed a council with our neighbors in Canada to help ensure that women entrepreneurs have access to the networks, markets and capital they need to start a business and live out their financial dreams." (I'm not saying this removes charges of misogyny or undoes his past, inexcusable comments; I'm simply noting the statement and its purpose.)
Of course, critics like the extreme-left, Islamic congressman Keith Ellison will disparage Trump's speech, claiming that Trump will say whatever he needs to say to sway public opinion but will not act accordingly. (Notably Ellison, along with DNC Chair Debbie Wasserman Schultz "reportedly remained 'firmly seated' while the widow of a slain Navy SEAL received a two-minute standing ovation, according to the Independent Journal Review's Benny Johnson.") And, obviously, this was just a speech.
But a speech is designed to accomplish certain goals and to send a certain message, and as far as a speech goes, the goals were clear and the message was clear.
Perhaps some of you who remain implacably opposed to the president will find room for at least a little hope?
Perhaps some of you who have accused him of racism (and worse) might be willing to take a second look, give him some benefit of the doubt and see if his actions match his words?
Personally, I think it's the least you can do.
For supporters of the president, his speech lived up to your expectations and proved that Donald Trump can truly act presidentially.
In the words of John Podhoretz, "In the first 38 days of his presidency, Donald Trump seemed to struggle to find his footing. On his 39th, he found it unexpectedly in a strong, direct and—surprise of surprises—beautifully modulated and spectacularly delivered address before Congress."
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