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13 Must Read Hip Hop Autobiographies
Hip-Hop artists are some of the most captivating, colorful, and compelling people in The Culture. The lives they've lead and the stories they can tell naturally make them great subjects for biographies. And who better to tell those stories than the MC themselves? Hip-hop memoirs can give us a glimpse into an artist's creative world, help us understand what shaped the artists into the people they have become, teach us about the music biz, or sometimes all three. We've put together a list of 13 excellent hip-hop autobiographies you should check out. These books will put you up on game about your favorite artist and The Culture as a whole.
Jay Z – Jay Z: Decoded
Jay Z's 2010 book Decoded is a muti-facited book. Part memoir and part critical self-analysis. It details the experiences that shaped his music. The book is at it's best when Jay turns his eye to his own lyrics, unpacking the sly underpinning in his writing and really showing how seriously he takes the art form of rap. But while Jay is quite open and expressive when it comes to using his unique, astute perspective to comment on wealth, race and class in America, he is still an intsenly private person so there are some topics (his relationship with Beyoncé most prominent among them) that he glosses over or avoids altogether. That has changed a bit recently but again this book was written in 2010. Still, when it comes to rap autobiographies, Decoded can be considered one of the best of the best.
DMX – E.A.R.L
Earl Simmons, aka DMX is one oh hip-hop's most polarizing figures. Beloved for his hard hitting lyrics and his ability to open up and show vulnerability. Loathed for many of his personal decisions and inability to stay out of trouble. His autobiography does a great job of explaining how he became this his-hop enigma. The memoir focuses a lot on his childhood with harrowing and heart-breaking tales of family issues and life on the streets (literally). The book is old, it released in 2002 so you're missing major developments in DMX's adult life and it begs for a second addition. Still E.A.R.L. is a fascinating read worth any hip-hop head's time.
2Pac – The Rose That Grew From Concrete
The most unique and non-traditional "autobiography" on the list. Pac is another of hip-hop's most complex figures. A proponent of black empowerment on one hand and a self-proclaimed "Thug" on the other. But still an artist in the truest sense of the word. And that is evidenced in this book as it is comprised entirely of poems he wrote before he became an icon. This is one of the clearest windows you're gonna get into Pac's head. He writes about everything from the plight of the young black male in America to appreciation for his mom specifically and black women in general. And its all done once again through excellent poetry that's accessible, relatable, and keeps it hip-hop.
Common – One Day It'll All Make Sense
From one of hip hop's most respected MCs to a Hollywood star, and activist for the people. Common is a man that has achieved much and has a lot to say. In this memoir he covers a lot ranging from his childhood on Chicago's South side to his emergence as one of rap's biggest names. He goes into his beef with Ice Cube and his friendship Kanye West. He lets people know that just because he makes positive music, doesnt mean he's perfect or that every aspect of his life was always positive. Common stresses only that he does his best to walk a positive path just like any of us. An interesting aspect of the book is that he starts each chapter with a letter to someone. And in certain spots he even lets his mother step in and discuss some of his major life events from her perspective.
Scarface – Diary of a Madman
From Geto Boys legend and renowned storyteller Scarface, comes a passionate memoir about how hip-hop changed the life of a kid from the south side of Houston. And how he rose to the top and helped usher in a new generation of rap dominance. Scarface shares how his world changed when he heard Run DMC for the first time; how he dropped out of school in the ninth grade and started selling crack; and how he began rapping as the new form of music made its way out of New York and across the country. It is the account of his rise to the heights of the rap world. But also his battles with his own demons and depression. Passionately exploring and explaining the roots and influences of rap culture, Diary of a Madman is the story of hip-hop; the music, the business, the streets, and life in the Dirty South.
Questlove – Mo' Meta Blues: The World According to Questlove
Part memoir, part history of hip-hop. Questlove is a self-professed music dork who just so happened to start one of the most groundbreaking groups in hip-hop. And then he wrote a book talking about it all. His father was a pioneering doo-wop singer as was his mother and the whole family sometimes went on tour, like a funkier version of the Partridge Family with Quest on the drums. He drops plenty of gems throughout the book. For example, declaring that the "single most influential moment in the history of hip-hop" was an episode of "The Cosby Show" in which Stevie Wonder, as a guest star, demonstrated how to make a sample. He talks about so many things, from the future of hip-hop to Jimmy Falon to The Root's legacy. It's educational, funny, and interesting. Worth it just to read about Prince's post-Grammy roller-skating party.
Reverend Run – It's Like That: A Spiritual Memoir
As 1/3 of Run-DMC, one of the first rap acts to achieve nationwide recognition. Run seemed to have his life perfectly set up for him. But the dizzying effects of fame soon left Run feeling empty and dissatisfied. Feeling stuck, he went through the motions in public life while grappling with his loss of direction and a family life that was falling apart. His memoir is the story of how he turned his life around, discovering his spirituality and a special connection with God. Now an ordained minister, Run talks in this book about his profound life change and getting the message out to the community. A spiritual memoir unlike any other, It's Like That captures the ups and downs, and the joy that one can only find through righteous living. This is an absorbing tale from one of the most popular and complex performers of our times.
50 Cent – Pieces to Weight
50 Cent has lived an extrodianry life. One that was really movie worthy before he even blew up and this autobiography focuses mainly on that aspect of his life. Growing up in Jamaica, Queens, he was born to a 15-year-old drug-dealing mother who was killed under mysterious circumstances leaving a young 50 to take over the family business at the age of twelve. 50 gives some of the grittiest retellings of life in the hood that you'll read anywhere. Starting with how the crack epidemic hit his neighborhood. Living hard, he has been stabbed, shot nine times (one bullet in his face) and has survived a number of assassination attempts. He then compares those days to his early days in the music industry in a fascinating way. But he doesn't glorify it, he just writes about it frankly and bluntly but with a writer's flare that keeps you engaged.
Ice-T – Ice: A Memoir of Gangster Life and Redemption-from South Central to Hollywood
He's a hip-hop icon credited as one of the creators of gangsta rap. Then flipped the script (literally) to become a TV/Film star in the #CultureClassic New Jack City and Law & Order: SVU. Known for being raw, uncensored, and unafraid to speak his mind, Ice talks about his orphan upbringing on the gang-infested streets of South Central, his brief stint in the Army, his career as a hustler, and his fateful decision to turn away from that life and forge his own path to rap stardom. He also shares never-before-told stories about Tupac, Chris Rock, and a hilarious tale about Flavor Flav wrecking Ice's car on the way to Red Lobster, among others. And he offers up candid observations on marriage and monogamy, the current state of hip-hop, and his mentoring of at-risk youths. With insights into the cutthroat worlds of the streets and Hollywood, Ice is the memorable story of a real American OG.
Jermaine Dupri – Young, Rich, and Dangerous: The Making of a Music Mogul
Jermaine Dupri is a legit legend in the music industry. His songwriting and producer credits are too long to list. At his peak he was one of the most powerful African-Americans in the entire entertainment industry. By 20 he had produced a platinum album, become a millionaire; and was operating his own record label, So So Def. More than your average memoir, Young, Rich, and Dangerous is a road map for thousands who dream about making it big in the realm of entertainment or in the boardroom. What really happens behind the music? Dupri traces his experience in the music business, providing priceless advice for aspiring rappers, producers, or executives who want to follow his footsteps. The book is enriched with never-before-seen photographs from studios, parties, and awards shows with our favorite celebrities. Young, Rich, and Dangerous gives readers an inside look at the most exciting moments of this hit-maker's life.
Queen Latifah – Ladies First: Revelations of a Strong Woman
Pioneering female MC turned Hollywood star Queen Latifah is one of rap's most recognizable artist of all-time. The Queen has one of the few hip hop autobiographies written by a female MC. Her autobiography released in 2000 leans more towards the motivational tract. The narrative is based around some of the major events in her life: her parents' divorce, her experiences growing up in inner-city Newark, her initial forays into rap and her brother's death in a motorcycle accident at the age of 24. She also talks about drug use, God, romance and sex in a frank and heartfelt way. The main goal is inspiration so unfortunately there is little insight into her creative process or her decision to move into acting. But her positive message and attitude is infectious, and readers are bound to come away inspired. It's a must for female hip-hop fans.
Wyclef Jean – Purpose: An Immigrant's Story
In Purpose, Wyclef recounts his path to fame from his impoverished childhood to international fame and fortune with The Fugees. The son of a pastor and grandson of a Vodou priest, Wyclef was born and raised in the slums of Haiti, moving with his family to New York when he was nine and his struggle to had to translate for his parents while still trying to master English himself, and just train to "fit in". When Wyclef chose to pursue a career in music over theological school his father nearly disowned him. And it took a decade for them to mend their relationship. He also details the inside story of the group. Including their rise and fall, and his relationships with Pras and Lauryn Hill. Clef also looks back with candor at the catastrophic earthquake that struck Haiti in 2010. And he discusses his efforts to help rebuild, including the controversy surrounding Yéle, his aid organization, and his exploratory bid for President of Haiti. Wyclef's story is one of inspiration, full of drama and humor, told in compelling detail.
Prodigy of Mobb Deep – My Infamous Life
One half of the legendary duo Mobb Deep and a highly regarded wordsmith in hip-hop is just the surface of who Prodigy was. He was born into a family that included notable jazz musicians, singers, dancers and academics. His grandfather was famed saxophonist Budd Johnson and his great-great grandfather founded Morehouse College. Prodigy fit right into his family's creative lineage. However, he faced many challenges outside of the studio. Violence, drug abuse, beefs, and mistakes abound as he takes readers back to New York's mid 90's hip-hop scene. Anecdotes include the time Prodigy's rhyme partner Havoc accidentally shot the record executive who they were trying to get to sign them. And Mobb Deep booking a show with a rival rap crew just so they could jump one of the rappers. It's a fascinating hip-hop tell-all from a member of rap's most infamous rap crews of all-time. And RIP to this rap legend.
That's our list of hip-hop biographies you should add to your collection ASAP. Let us know what you think and if there's any one we missed on Twitter @CFTCulture.
We hope you enjoyed this look at some of the best hip hop autobiographies. Make sure to check out some of our other lists:
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Readers of this blog know that I spend a lot of time wondering. As I spend more time and gain more experience with the topic at hand, I offer up my two cents. But sometimes conclusions are seemingly far afield until they just hit like a lightning bolt. So it was today. The wonder of it all.
I think it is pretty clear that I have one foot planted in another dimension, and right now I'm straddling a time warp. And it is so interesting to be able to look down and note what is unfolding in time, and maybe how things are related. The "other" dimension changes from time to time, but right now it is firmly rooted in the happenings of seventy or so years ago.
I'm writing a story about a band of Marines, local guys, who went off to war together to fight the Japanese after Pearl Harbor. Out of the sixteen or so I am aware of, I've met and interviewed at least half. And all but three now have passed. So I recently got an email from a daughter looking for me to talk to her dad. He had read some of my stuff, saw that I had talked to his buddies, and was ready now to say something, for the record.
Glens Falls Post Star. Dom Fallacaro, bottom row, third from left.
It probably hit me midmorning, looking at the newspaper clippings from 1942-3. Seeing the scrapbook pictures of Marines who were going off to fight the war together. Young guys just out of boot, all spiffed out in their new uniforms. Greenhorns with no real idea of what they had gotten into. Some did not return.
I sat across a table from a 91 year old who was telling me the story of World War II from the perspective of a kid growing up in the Great Depression.
So he began to speak, with his wife of six plus decades by his side. Dom was starting stories, and I was finishing them. Not in a rude way. But in a sense, it was like I had been there too. And I think it made his day, in a way. All of Dom's buddies have died, or the few who remain are dying. It's a tough time in a veteran's life.
Dom's cousin Dom. KIA June 1944.
Or when Dom began to tell me about his cousin, who shared the same name as he, from Buffalo, NY, who was killed in 1944 in Europe. His wife Grace pulled a tattered newspaper clipping out of the scrapbook, one that Dom carried in his wallet for years. Dom told me that he was lying down and one of his tentmates from Buffalo was reading the newspaper from home, and tossed it over to him, telling him that "he" had died. Shocked, he clipped his cousin's death notice and carried it in his wallet for the rest of the war. When Dom started to tell me the story, I knew that a WW II era New Yorker with the same name from Buffalo had died, as I had done some on-line research on Dom before coming to the interview. So I told Dom his cousin had been in the Army Air Corps. He nodded and then we connected the cosmic dots.
About nine months later, Dom suffered an extreme appendicitis attack as the fight for Iwo Jima wound down, and wound up being operated on as they sailed away, nearly dying. The ship he was on had even altered its course to save the young Marine (the doctors demanded the ship stop shifting and zigging and zagging so much during the critical operation. As Dom said, his buddies did not realize he was so important!) He was on Guam returning to his truck driving duties and preparing for what would have been the Nov. 1945 invasion of Japan-his outfit was scheduled to be in the first wave-when the atomic bombs ended the war. So you can guess how he felt about that.
I sat with him and his wife Grace for two hours. Turns out the grandmother I never knew-she died before I was born-would clean and mend the curtains of the family and for the mom and pop store that Dom and Grace ran for forty years, seven days a week, fourteen hours a day.
After the camera was put away, four generations from our little town had lunch at the table at their camp on Glen Lake. For a kid who dropped out at age sixteen-"are you going to be a professional student, or are you going to work?" was the question of the day, in the Depression era-Dom looked around and fairly beamed at what it all meant to him.
He saw things that he put away for many years. Grace knew, from the naps he would stir restlessly in. He might not have shared everything with his family, but his family kept him going and together, they prospered. Now, here, as the old war buddies who survived pass on, maybe it is time for reflection. Dom is a survivor too, and he knows it. What blessings he shared with me today. And I think that is what he really wanted to say to me today, why he wanted to talk. How blessed he is, for his family, for their love, and for the love of his buddies.
After 91 years on this earth, the wonder of it all.
Such a great blog, Matt! It's wonderful that you are living in two time periods – you bridge time & space for your students and perpetual students (like me).


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Government representative Jean-Francois Colombet said the EU outermost region of 256,000 inhabitants was at risk of "very serious consequences" and that authorities had begun making sure the most at-risk inhabitants were indoors and evacuating the most exposed areas of the island.
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The cyclone is now 100 kilometres (60 miles) away from the island, but officials have told residents to be cautious nonetheless.
This is the third major cyclone to hit the island in 50 years, according to Colombet. The government has closed the airport and most roads.
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Pre-K teacher rocks same beautiful hairstyle as skeptical student to prove she loved it
by Imani Jackson
In February, as many of us sit up a little straighter, delve into our history a little deeper and celebrate Black History a lot louder, we should also celebrate Black love and its various manifestations. At Black Youth Project, this month we are putting special spotlights on Black joy and Black love.
In that spirit, we celebrate a young Black woman who expressed love for a Black girl named August, her student. Pre-K teacher Leigh Bishop says August thought Bishop was flattering her when she complimented the girl's braided hairstyle, but was not certain if her teacher actually loved it.
"Ok, Ms. Bishop," the girl said before rolling her eyes. "Don't be mad at me when I come to school with my hair JUST like that tomorrow," Bishop told her. The next day, Bishop did just that.
As a teacher, you have the power to not only teach your students but to also model grace and affirm their identities. Bishops's gesture will undoubtedly remain a positive academic association for August going forward.
While people near and far celebrate Bishop's thoughtfulness, the Sugarland, Texas-based teacher shared her desire to affirm her students. "Any chance I get to make a student feel whole and important, I take it! Plus I really loved her hair," she wrote.
Imani Jackson
Imani J. Jackson is an interdisciplinary scholar, journalist and environmental LL.M student at the University of Florida. Imani earned a J.D. at Florida A&M and B.A. at Grambling State. The Florida native secured bylines on Teen Vogue, USA Today, the Institute for Middle East Understanding and in academic journals. She loves human rights and interests, culture and education.


Let's look more specifically at digital preservation. This is something that should be of interest to everyone, since we all have files that we want to keep around for a long time, such as photographs. Even so, it doesn't get wide notice as an area of study outside libraries and archives. All the existing books about it are expensive academic volumes for specialists.
Efforts are being made. The Library of Congress has digitalpreservation.gov, which has a lot of information for the ordinary user. There's the Personal Digital Archiving Conference, which is coming up shortly.
Today in 2012, most of the world's leading cultural institutions are engaged in digital preservation of some sort, and we're doing quite well after a decade. We have any number of meetings throughout the year — the ECDL, the JCDL, iPres, this — but despite this decade of institutional progress, we've neglected the general public, and that's everybody.
Why hasn't there been more of an effect from these efforts? One reason may be that they're pitched at the wrong level, either too high or too low. Technical resources often aren't user-friendly and are useful only to specialists. The Library of Congress's efforts are aimed largely at end users, and it's sometimes very basic and repetitive. A big issue is picking the right level to talk to. We need to engage non-library techies and not just stay inside L-space.
Let's narrow the focus again and look at JHOVE. It's a software tool that was developed at Harvard; the design was Stephen Abrams', and I wrote most of the code. It identifies file formats, validates files, and extracts metadata. Its validation is strictly by the specification. Its error messages are often mysterious, and it doesn't generally take into account the reality of what kinds of files are accepted. Postel's law says, "Be conservative in what you do; be liberal in what you accept from others"; but JHOVE doesn't follow this. As a validation tool, it does need to be on the conservative side, but it may go a bit too far.
JHOVE is useful for preservation specialists, but not so much for the general user. I haven't tried to change its purpose; it has its user base and they know what to accept of it. There should also be tools, though, for a more general user base.
You will read in most digital preservation survey reports that these same tools are not meeting the needs of the community. At conferences, you will hear complaints about the performance of the tools. BUT, most strikingly, when visiting the sites where these tools are downloadable for free, you will see no signs of an active user community reporting bugs and submitting feature requests. The forums are silent. The open source code is sometimes absent and there are neither community building approaches nor procedures in place for committing code to the open source project.
Creating a community where communication happens is a challenge. Users are shy about making requests and reporting bugs. I don't have a lot of good answers here. With JHOVE, I've had limited success. There was an active community for a while; users not only reported bugs but often submitted working code that I just had to test and incorporate into the release. Now there's less of that, perhaps because JHOVE has been around for a long time. An open source community requires proactive engagement; you can't just create a project and expect input. Large projects like Mozilla manage to get a community; for smaller niche projects it's harder.
Actually, the term "project" is a mistake if you think of it as getting a grant, creating some software, and being done with it. Community involvement needs to be ongoing. Some projects have come out of the development process with functioning code and then immediately died for lack of a community.
Let's consider format repositories now. An important issue in preservation is figuring out the formats of mysterious files. Repositories with information about lots of different formats are a valuable tool for doing this. The most successful of these is PRONOM, from the UK National Archives. It has a lot of valuable information but also significant holes; the job is too big for one institution to keep up with.
To address this difficulty, there was a project called GDFR — the Global Digital Format Repository. Its idea was that there would be mirrored peer repositories at multiple institutions. This was undertaken by Harvard and OCLC. It never came to a successful finish; it was a very complex design, and there were some communication issues between OCLC and Harvard developers (including me).
A subsequent effort was UDFR, the Unified Digital Format Repository. This eliminated the complications of the mirrored design and delivered a functional website. It's not a very useful site, though, because there isn't a lot of format information on it. It wasn't able to develop the critically necessary community.
A different approach was a project called "Just Solve the Problem." Rather than developing new software, it uses a wiki. It started with a one-month crowdsourced effort to put together information on as many formats as possible, with pointers to detailed technical information on other sites rather than trying to include it all in the repository. It's hard to say for sure yet, but this may prove to be a more effective way to create a viable repository.
The basic point here is that preservation outreach needs to be at people's own level. So what am I doing about it? Well, I have an e-book coming out in April, called Files that Last. It's aimed at "everygeek"; it assumes more than casual computer knowledge, but not specialization on the reader's part. It addresses the issues with a focus on practical use. But so much for my book plug.
To recap: L-space is a subspace of "Worldspace," and we need to reach out to it. We need to engage, and engage in, user communities. Software developers for the library need to reach a broad range of people. We need to start by understanding the knowledge they already have and address them at their level, in their language. We have to help them do things their way, but better.
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Antonio Banderas will have cameo role in 'Indiana Jones 5'
Antonio Banderas will only have a "little" role in "Indiana Jones 5".
The 62-year-old actor has been cast in an undisclosed part in the upcoming action-adventure but has confirmed that he will have a minor part in the movie as a friend of Harrison Ford's protagonist.
In an interview with "Collider", Banderas said: "My character is very little; it's almost a cameo . . . He's just a friend of Indiana's character, and he's looking for him because he needs something from his friend.
"But he just takes up very little time of the movie, but very happy to be part of a saga that is of the history of motion pictures, obviously."
Banderas was able to spend some time with Ford during the making of the film and was full of praise for the legendary actor.
The "Spy Kids" actor said: "Just the fact that I step on the set, for me, was important. And I got to tell you: I had a great time with Harrison. He's a gentleman on the set and outside of the set.
"I share some dinners with him and some time, and what a gentleman."
Meanwhile, it was recently revealed that Ford is set to be de-aged in "Indiana Jones 5", which is set in 1969.
The 80-year-old star is reprising his role as the archaeologist for the final time in the upcoming movie and will be de-aged using visual effects to appear as he did in the original trilogy.
The technology is only used during the movie's opening scene, which takes place in a castle in 1944 and pits Indy against a group of Nazis.
Kathleen Kennedy, who is producing the movie for Lucasfilm, hopes that the technology isn't the main focus for fans.
She said: "My hope is that, although it will be talked about in terms of technology, you just watch it and go, 'Oh my God, they just found footage. This was a thing they shot 40 years ago.'" — iolnews.com
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A Garden, A Redevelopment Plan, And A Fight Over Who Owns A Neighborhood
WPSU | By Marielle Segarra
Published May 24, 2016 at 12:35 PM EDT
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Tommy Joshua was working in the garden when a guy from his neighborhood rode by on a bike and gave him some bad news.
"Some dude, some like arbitrary man," Joshua said, "told me straight up, 'Yo dog, they got a plan to like, take this whole jawn over. You're doing all this in vain.'"
It was 2014, and over the last couple years, Joshua and his friends had turned some vacant land in Sharswood, one of the highest-crime, poorest neighborhoods in Philadelphia, into a community garden. The land was about as big as a few basketball courts, and the group called it the North Philly Peace Park...
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Here are a few success stories, each of which has a dollar value figure assigned.
Tom Lan, Senior Operations Support Engineer, Production Support of ConocoPhillips China (COPC), cites a good example of knowledge sharing (KS) that took place early January 2005. Tom needed a simulation model to calculate the pressure drop on the subsea pipeline at Bohai Phase 1 and organized a site visit by Larry Harms, Staff Production Optimization Engineer at the US Lower 48 & Latin America business unit. By sharing software, Larry and Tom were able to create a simulation model at a net saving US$19,600 for the company.
In another story, Jerry Liu, Senior Buyer of Tanggu Operations, COPC, was preparing to order 7 5/8" 13 Cr casing for an upcoming drilling program. The quoted prices for this material seemed excessive, so contacts were made with Global Procurement who suggested checking with Australia for market intelligence. Changes to the Australian program had resulted in some of their material being surplus and available at a much lower price. 4,431 meters of pipe were then transferred from Australia to China. The China BU saved approximately US$526,000. An additional benefit may be claimed by the Australian BU as they were able to dispose of excess material.
Brendan O'Reilly, Senior Explorationist, Exploration Department, COPC, gave an example of how knowledge was shared from various BU's overseas to the China BU, saving the company US$10 million in drilling costs. The China BU Exploration Team called upon this expertise from Vietnam, Indonesia and two groups in Houston to peer review the geoscience and engineering aspects of the PL 9-1 Buried Hill Field that was discovered in 2000. The peer team reviewed the results of the discovery well, the geological, geophysical interpretation, the resulting geological model and the different play types and recommended that the China BU focus on a southern Carbonate Play that may provide the best opportunity to achieve economic success on the project. The peer team also recommended that an expensive deeper well (costing US$10 million) not be proposed until more well information is acquired.
Carl Cheng, Production Engineer, Production Engineering Department of COPC, gave an excellent example of applied KS centered around a developing technology. The China BU was recommended by UT to field-trial the Multi-Phase Meter (MPM) as an alternative well testing method (as compared to the conventional test separator method). During the six month testing phase in Bohai field, a number of comparison tests were conducted between the two with the guidelines established by a Flow & Metering expert at UT. Based on UT's recommendation, COPC purchased this unit of locally-made MPM last year and switched fully to MPM for all daily well testing in Bohai field as of November 2004. Experience from PL 19-3 Phase I operation shows that the MPM results were overall more consistent than the test Separator results. This has made production allocation more accurate as well performance is evaluated. Moreover, MPM has cut the well testing time by half from 4 hours to 2 hours with improved metering accuracy. It is projected that from November 2004 to the end of 2005, the revenue from the resulted incremental production could reach approximately US$147,000.
I think we will need to wait for the incident report to be published, and to look at the root causes, before we can comment on lessons being learned or not.


Independence Day already happened, but a more important celebration for independent origins is happening this Saturday: Break the Chains with Bonfire Madigan Shive headlining.
From 6pm to 10pm this Saturday, Break the Chains will host another dance party at Make Shift Boston. Bonfire Madigan Shive will perform hits from records released on Kill Rock Stars and K Records, after the crowd hears music from Anjimile, Myriam Ortiz, The Best Ever, JoRa, and a secret guest.
Break the Chains is Boston's all ages, all gender, all genre queer dance party, meant to offer attendees liberation and hope. Founder Evan Greer is a staple here in Boston's music community, but the semi-monthly event, which has been essential for years now, never would have existed if it weren't for this weekend's headlining musical act.
Bonfire Madigan has deep ties to the series, though. The riot-grrrl legend, cellist, singer, and activist helped pave the way for the strong underground queer, feminist, radical music scene that we have today. As such, Greer wanted to throw a show for her in Boston, so several years back she booked her at a co-op house in Jamaica Plain and turned it into a dance party to reach a broader audience. The title? Break the Chains.
Break the Chains recently won the Improper Bostonian's Boston's Best award for Dance Party Starter. It's one of many nods of recognition to the dedication and passion Greer's churned out continually to give Boston the dance series it needs. This Saturday's party is a special moment for the series because its origins come full circle. It's a reminder of why it all began — and that honor isn't lost on Greer.
BONFIRE MADIGAN SHIVE, ANJIMILE, MYRIAM ORTIZ, THE BEST EVER, JORA. SAT 7.8. MAKE SHIFT BOSTON, 549 COLUMBUS AVE, BOSTON. 6PM/ALL AGES/$10-20.


BE: It's interesting, when I mentioned on Facebook that I would be talking to you, I got a kind of unprecedented reaction from my friends.
BE: They were very excited that I was going to talk to you.
JC: Oh cool. Tell them they can follow me on Twitter and they can talk to me directly.
BE: I think we're mostly aware of that.
BE: Speaking of which, it kind of brings us back around to "The Raven" because the price of fame is a little bit the film's theme. You've kind of done this interesting dance where you've never been turned into portmanteau word with another celebrity [a la "Brangelina"], yet you're on Twitter and you're very much in touch with people. Was an interest in sort of the up-and-down side of fame part of what got you involved in "The Raven"?
JC: No, I just really loved Poe so I was just ready to immerse myself in that guy and play around with all of the different themes of his work. Then, I [also] think there is a contemporary aspect to the ongoing sort of fixation and love affair with that writer. He's got his hand in so much of culture, literature and films and music and fashion and poetry — not just in the United States, but in Europe as well. I was just interested in that. Fame was part of the theme, but not really; it wasn't the primary theme.
BE: We know what Poe looked like, but we don't know much about the way he talked. Now, I understand you're going to be playing Richard Nixon in Lee Daniels' next film, "The Butler." Have you thought about the differences, that we all know what Nixon sounded like and moved like? That must be an interesting new challenge for you.
JC: Yeah, that just sort of happened so I haven't really even thought about it too much.
BE: You haven't been working on your Nixon impression?
JC: No. You try not to do an impression because if people want to see an impression they can see impressionists and they can also watch footage and documentaries and TV. [It's] the same thing with Poe — you want to catch some essence of him or some truths about the person and you don't really need to impersonate somebody or dress exactly like them. But if you can inhabit them and get in contact with some things about them that are true [that is enough]. You're never going to do a definitive version of anybody because one book or movie or song couldn't ever really encapsulate their entire life.
BE: This is going to sound like one kind of question, but it's going to take a sharp left turn. I'm sure you've already been hearing a lot about your [widely quoted] statement on "The View" that you'd be open to playing Lloyd Dobler again….
JC: Oh right. Well, that's mostly a media kind of thing, you know people keep asking about it so…that's been basically a repeated media question from reporters.
BE: Right, but here's the sharp left turn. What I thought was interesting about that was that you're not, in theory, opposed to sequels. I've always wondered about this. [Before "War, Inc." came out] it seemed like you were going to be doing Martin Q. Blank again [but the quasi-heroic assassin in the movie was actually named Brand Hauser, and was presumably a different guy].
BE: So why didn't you just call him "Martin Q. Blank"?
JC: Because we couldn't get the rights and nobody wanted to let us do it. To a certain point, I just don't believe in asking permission to make things; you just make them. So, if they weren't going to let us make them or people weren't into the idea of it, we just made that. I think smart people can make the connections. You know my sister [i.e., the great Joan Cusack] was the secretary [in both films] and it was a similar kind of vibe.
BE: I've always wondered about that. Okay.
JC: Yeah, that was definitely what we had in mind.
BE: You've written and produced several movies now. You've picked out some very good directors, people like George Armitage ["Grosse Pointe Blanke"] and Stephen Frears ["The Grifters" and "High Fidelity"]. Did you decide deliberately that you're not going to direct something or are you thinking about doing that?
JC: Well, I sort of co-directed a bunch and directed "War, Inc.," as it turned out, with the other guy [documentary director Joshua Seftel]. So I've done my share. I've directed stage. So yeah.
BE: Are you thinking about doing it again sometime?
JC: Yeah, it just takes so long, you know, it takes a year, year and a half, to do and it's like you have to swim upstream like a deranged salmon. So, I think I'm just going to do some acting jobs and somewhere down the road, I will.
BE: You've been a martial artist; you studied with [legendary kickboxer and fight choreographer] Benny "the Jet" Urquidez. I've always been interested in how many really good actors there are out there who also are skilled at things like martial arts, ballet and sports. For you, is there any particular link between athleticism and acting?
JC: Yeah, it's the momentum of sports. You have to be warmed up. You have to be disciplined. You have to try to experience all of your emotions and control them and control your energy, so there are lots of parallels.


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Q: Despues de un UPDATE , ejecuto un select pero los datos no se actualizan estoy trabajando JPA , ejecuto el siguiente update:
  public int EditarUsuario(UserSys us) {

    EntityManager em = getEntityManager();
    em.getTransaction().begin();
    try {
        Query q = em.createNativeQuery("UPDATE `user_sys` "
                + "SET "
                + "`USER_NOM` = ?, "
                + "`USER_ESTADO` = ?, "
                + "`USER_ROL` = ? "
                + "WHERE `USER_ID` = ?; ");
        q.setParameter(1, us.getUserNom());
        q.setParameter(2, us.getUserEstado());
        q.setParameter(3, us.getUserRol());
        q.setParameter(4, us.getUserId());
        int v = q.executeUpdate();
        em.getTransaction().commit();
        return v;
    } catch (javax.persistence.NoResultException ex) {
        return 0;
    } finally {
        em.close();
    }
}

Funciona perfecto , ya que al ejecutar la consulta sobre mysql directamente veo la actualización , sin embargo al hacer el select * from de esa tabla no veo en los cambios en jpa:
 public List<UserSys> Buscartodos() {
   EntityManager em = getEntityManager();
   em.clear();

    try {
        Query q = em.createNativeQuery("SELECT * FROM user_sys ;", UserSys.class);
       List<UserSys> lista=q.getResultList();

        return lista;

    } catch (javax.persistence.NoResultException ex) {
        return null;
    } finally {
        em.close();
    }

}

He hecho inserts y funcionan y actualizan los datos , en este caso que  puede estar pasando?

A: Luego de cerrar la transacción y cerrar el EntityManager, las operaciones son correctamente perpetuadas en tu base de datos y futuras consultas, por ser nuevas transacciones, podrán leer los cambios realizados por transacciones anteriores.
El tuyo es un caso muy peculiar, puesto que explicas que a pesar de cerrar la transacción y el EntityManager, es como si no se hubiesen reflejado los cambios hechos en la base de datos, asumiendo que estas operaciones las ejecutas de manera secuencial y que se han cerrado todas las sesiones antes de ejecutar tu sentencia SELECT.
En todo caso, puedes acudir a los métodos EntityManager#flush y EntityManager#clear, en ese orden, para que todas las operaciones se ejecuten y que puedas ver los cambios reflejados. El código de tu consulta quedaría como sigue:
public List<UserSys> Buscartodos() {
    EntityManager em = getEntityManager();
    em.flush();
    em.clear();
    try {
    /*
        resto de tu código
        incluye cerrar este bloque try y aplicar finally
        para cerrar los recursos
    */
}

A: Se solucionó agregando
em.flush();
em.clear();`

Antes de ejecutar el select * from

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December 18, Odessa, Ukraine – Bitconist has learned that on the morning of December 15, Ukranian authorities raided the personal residence and office of Forklog founder and CEO Anatoly Kaplan.
A representative of ForkLog, the popular Russian-language crypto news website, reports that Ukranian Security Service (SBU) agents, along with two civilian witnesses, arrived at Kaplan's apartment in Odessa Friday morning with a warrant. During the execution of the warrant, Kaplan's premises were searched, during which time the SSU agents confiscated a number of personal items including a notebook and several cold storage devices.
Forklog sources have expressed their bewilderment over the charges, insisting that the company has never provided such services and, indeed, does not even have the kind of software and equipment that would be needed. Furthermore, none of the suspects involved in the case have been shown to have any connection whatsoever with Forklog or its founder.
In what is one of the most disturbing aspects of this situation, Kaplan asserts that one of the SSU agents attempted to transfer his bitcoins from his own storage devices to an unspecified address right in the middle of the search. The agent's actions were stopped only when Kaplan's lawyer called the police, alleging robbery.
The next day, however, approximately 305 ETH ($221, 734 USD) was transferred from Kaplan's wallet – which was still in SSU custody at the time – to a newly created wallet. Kaplan also reported a failed attempt by an unknown party to withdraw 3,000 hryvna ($110) from his bank account using his personal bank card.
I believe that this strange situation perfectly illustrates one of the possible scenarios for the state-cryptocommunity relationship. That is why we decided to make it public. It's not as much about protecting my personal interests as it is about protecting the interests of the entire community. This sends a warning to everyone who is in any way connected to blockchain technologies. It does not matter if you are a public figure.
Right now we are trying to return what we believe was unlawfully seized from us. We find the attempts to transfer cryptocurrencies to wallets controlled by SSU agents to be an extremely strange practice. Other than ETH, large sums in several other cryptocurrencies were moved to freshly created wallets. As to Bitcoin wallets, the situation is not quite clear yet. During the search my lawyer has detected a score of other procedural violations, including turning off the camera.
At the same time that Kaplan's personal residence was being searched, Forklog's office in Odessa was also being searched. Confiscated during the search were 10 iMacs, all available cash, and a bottle of Kraken rum.
#forklog is under the pressure in #Ukraine ! All #cryptocurrencies and office equipment confiscated by government. Hold on guys!
Financial regulators might still be on the fence regarding cryptocurrency, not being ready to even legally define it yet. But at the same time Ukrainian law enforcement shows that cryptocurrency is a valuable enough asset to conduct an occasional raid in search for it. Traditionally searches and raids conducted on New Year's eve are linked to jewelry shop heists. But this year cryptocurrency is trending.
We have no reason to doubt that this search was completely useless in regards to the criminal case in question. By the same logic you could accuse a news channel of gun trafficking on the premise of it running a story about gun trafficking.
Speaking about the events leading up to the search, Afian highlighted the fact that the search was sanctioned only after an investigator made the claim that cryptocurrencies were being exchanged using Forklog. He bluntly asserted that the investigator's claim is a result of "either blatant incompetence or deliberate obfuscation of facts." He also noted that these searches were a well-known tactic of Ukranian law enforcement before the reform (pre-Euromaidan).
We expect a prompt and proper reaction from the authorities and swift return of seized iMacs. As to the return of seized cryptocurrency and SSU agents' legal liability, I can only say that this will be a highly emblematic and evincive case.
What do you think of this latest development? Will we see more questionable searches and seizures of crypto assets as governments struggle to figure out how to address cryptocurrency? Let us know in the comments below.


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Pharmacists to begin prescribing birth control in Oregon
Health News Local News Top Stories December 31, 2015 Kristin Hosfelt 2016, birth contol, doctor, law, laws, legislation, new, oregon, pharmacists, pharmacy
Medford, Ore. — Among the new laws going into effect in the new year are a pair that aim to make access to birth control easier for Oregonians. As of Friday, insurers will be required to cover a full year of birth control, and pharmacists will be able to prescribe certain contraceptives without a doctor's visit.
"We'll be ready pretty quickly in the next handful of days," pharmacist and owner of West Main Pharmacy.
At West Main Pharmacy in Medford, the staff is gearing up to begin providing birth control to Oregonians.
"We do have a separate consultation area for these gals seeking birth control prescriptions," Clark says, "that'll make it private and out of the way that's separate from the rest of the pharmacy,
Governor Kate Brown signed HB 2879 into law this summer, allowing pharmacies to prescribe certain contraceptives to patients without a doctors visit.
"They'll be given a form they fill out much like a flu shot."
"Once that form is filled out, it will be given to the pharmacist who will go over it with the patient and the decision to prescribe or not prescribe will be made."
The law allows anyone 18 or older to receive a prescription for birth control patches or pills. Other contraceptives like rings or shots will still have to be prescribed by a physician. As for anyone under the age of 18, they'll have to have a prescription from a provider before getting it filled at a pharmacy. Pharmacist Dennis Clark says the new law will allow pharmacists like him to use their expertise of the medications to prescribe the best ones to patients.
"There's hundreds of different types and combinations," Clark says, "and we've long known which ones are better than others given the particular patient and what their medical history is."
If pharmacists want to be able to prescribe birth control they must complete a training program, but it's up to each individual pharmacist to decide if they want to take it. You can call your local pharmacy to see if they will be participating.
Kristin Hosfelt
Executive Producer Kristin Hosfelt anchors NBC5 News weeknights at 5 and 6. Originally from the Bay Area, Kristin earned her Bachelor of Science degree in Broadcast Journalism from San Jose State University.
She came to KOBI-TV/NBC5 from Bangor, Maine where she was the evening news anchor. Kristin has won multiple journalism awards including Best Feature Reporting in the State of Maine. In 2017, her investigation on lead pipes in Medford's water system was named Best News Series by the Oregon Association of Broadcasters.
When Kristin is not sharing the news, she's traveling, hunting down the best burrito, or buried in a Jodi Picoult novel. She's also a Green Bay Packers shareholder; if you see her out and about she'd be happy to tell you the story of how a California girl became a cheesehead.


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Nepal: NHRC chair expresses serious concern over govt apathy towards checking impunity
National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) chairman Kedar Nath Upadhyay on Sunday complained that impunity has risen significantly in the country as the recommendation made by rights organisations to take action against rights violators went largely unnoticed or were never implemented.
Speaking at a programme organised by NHRC in the capital on the occasion of the International Day in Support of Victims of Torture today, he expressed grave concern over the government's sheer apathy towards taking stringent action against individuals involved in serious rights violations.
Chairman Upadhyay, however, urged the media persons to raise their voices in a strong manner in order to ensure that justice is provided to the countless victims of rights violations.
The United Nations (UN) International Day in Support of Victims of Torture was first observed on 26 June 1998. This date, 26 June was chosen by the United Nations because on the same day in 1987, the UN Convention against Torture and other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment came into force – and on 26 June 1948 the United Nations Charter was signed.
Human Rights NGO's annually marks this day to recognise the pain and suffering that victims and survivors of torture have gone through during conflict period.
Source: http://nepalnews.com/archive/2011/jun/jun26/news13.php


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by Anne Swenson
I owe an apology, not only to visitors of 2 East Sheridan (an earlier Ely Echo HQ), but more especially, to my family. There really is no excuse for smoking.
At the old Echo, everyone but Jeanne Tome, Pam Roberts, Tom Coombe and Nick Wognum smoked. The building reeked of cigarette smoke. A haze was often seen over the desks of Mary, Vic, Bob and me.
Worse yet was smoking at home with both Warren and me smoking. Looking back I realize what a burden it was to Nick, Sandy and my Mom.
I learned to smoke in college, but it took until the 1970s for it to become a four-pack-a-day habit. Though many a cig burned out untouched in an ashtray, it was still too much. Sometime in the '90s I finally quit.
Growing up, cigarette smoking was in movies, magazines and billboards. It purported to be the sophisticated thing to do and I got hooked. Kicking it was hard to do, but I succeeded.
If you don't own or drive a snowmobile you may not be aware of what it takes to make a top-notch trail system.
In the Ely area we have three groups working on trails, the clubs (Ely Igloo, Babbitt Snowmobile & ATV and the Vermilion Penguins in Tower).
Those clubs take care of miles and miles of trails. They own grooming tractors, drags and snowmobiles used to keep trails in top shape. Some have paid employees, some volunteer, it all comes together to make the trails great.
The Minnesota DNR takes care of the Taconite (Ely to Grand Rapids) and the Arrowhead (Tower to International Falls) trails. There has been a big turnover in employees there but it sounds like the grooming skills have now been passed to the new group of employees.
Groomer operators are often out on the trails in the middle of the night. That's when the traffic is the least and it lets the snow set up and harden so the trails stay smoother for longer periods of time.
Trout Whisperer - Needing some fluff
It's an extremely pastoral setting. Snow is falling outside, the big floaty flake kind. We have nowhere to go because we're there. The fire inside is glowing red orange warm coals. A very snoozy golden retriever is lying prone in front of the hearth.
He is at one side of the bench, I'm on the other, we're not racing, but it's a competition to see who can tie up the most flies before the other guy.
We started out with a really easy one, muddler minnows, with whitetail deer hair, a blob of deer hair, wind, wind, wind, tie-off, a drop of glue, trim, and on to the next one. I stomped him on the muddlers.
Next up, we did one of my personal favorites the "Mcginty." When you're done it looks just like a bumblebee and the dual lacing of the black and yellow chenille is fun to me, and having done them many years now, I just don't think he stood a chance. Round two went solidly to me.
There's a logging operation taking place near Camp Cholesterol this winter. Evan and I have been out there to check it out and see what the "new" hunting grounds look like.
We agree there will definitely be opportunities for longer shots. Going to need to dial up the scopes.
After 20 years of hunting in that area we were ready for a change. A forest needs logging to renew periodically (and a lot better than fire).
When we started there was an area we called the "Christmas trees." It was a stand of planted Norway where the trees were maybe five feet tall. Now they are closer to 20 feet up.
There have been several logging operations and each has provided new opportunities. We've relocated deer stands and adapted to the changes.
Seeing the large cut this year closes a 20-year chapter and opens a new one. Will the deer use this area as they did in the past? Only time will tell.
Trout Whisperer - Small bobber season
He saves things, like wine corks, and he dabbles them with high gloss paints, making, shaping, carving, creating his own floats. We call them bobbers, and he says, its small bobber season, but once he makes one, it's a float.
Chunks of sponges, any color imaginable, driftwood chips, all sorts of insulating foam board pieces and sliced up plastic pop bottles are in bins and pails and buckets heaped to overflowing as well as half empty which are his warehouse of choosing choices.
He has a row of glue bottles, glue tubes and glue sticks and glue guns and its an oozy looking gobble of goop, like glue lava gone wild. But it all works once he re-warms it up.
The views of the holidays doesn't vary much among the elderly. Well in the past is the hustle and bustle of gift giving. Even the meals are in the past. The Saturday before Christmas is when the day was celebrated. Mary cooked up a delicious brunch, we shared gifts and it was peaceful and pleasant.
My son Evan and I took a ride last Sunday to check out a logging operation near our hunting shack.
After selling my sled at Hay Days I used Megan's to make the trip. We hopped on the trails and were surprised by two things.
One, the trails are in really good condition for this early in the season. Despite some of the worst swamp conditions you can imagine, the local snowmobile clubs and the DNR have been able to now get groomers out after the swamps were packed.
Two, there was hardly anybody out on the trails. We didn't meet a sled on the trail during our trip, other than two small groups stopped along the Taconite, including our friend Steve Groteboer out for a quick ride.
We pulled up near the shack to survey the changes. The logger had neatly stacked the trees in piles based on species, with some already cut to length.
Did you ever have to take an aptitude test when you were in school? Mine came back stating I should become a mechanic as an adult.
That wasn't too surprising given that I repaired my bike when needed and changed car tires for my parents. I also took apart a small table top fan in the heat of the summer to fix it.
The only problem was that when I re-assembled it, the fan ran backwards, pushing the blades so they revolved over the motor which heated up easily.
Nobody had air conditioning back then, and I was stumped and hot. I was again working for my dad that summer and knew there were men in the plant who were handy.
I brought the small fan into work and convinced a worker to see what I had done wrong and to fix it.
Before long he came back to me and asked where the rest of the fan parts were. Somewhat embarrassed, I handed them over.
He returned with a working fan.
So much for my mechanic's aptitude!
As winter cold arrives in the northland, folks reach out to friends and acquaintances to share the settling early darkness.
In 2002 a group of musicians gathered to light up an evening with music. Some listeners joined the evening affair to provide the audience.
Musicians in Ely can change with the seasons, as snowbirds come and go. Fortunately, there are a number of Ely musicians around.
Many years ago, Bob Cary's Starlighters band practiced at my home for its summer appearances at Burntside Lodge at the time.
Over time, the music room had also hosted a reggae group, Canadian and Russian performers, and others.
This particular evening was by request of a spouse. He had been ailing and his piano playing wife, Carol Brude prescribed the evening. That night Dan Erzar was on drums and Byron Moren fulfilled the role for stand up bass. The year that followed was not kind to all, with health issues hitting two of them.
Trout Whisperer - A place called north…
It's an anthem of mine, the phrase, "off the beaten path",and I wish I would have been the one to say it first, be the initiator of such thinking. I would have loved knowing the coined words fell from me, it's such a clever turn a phrase, but, alas, I am not.
My wife and I do that more often than most could possibly imagine and in so doing we've found in our footfalls a further place than, "off the beaten path" where the majority have not traveled. It could be a wanderer's way, for me, it's like a shooting star only earthen bound, or maybe from a stellar poem. It's simply, the road less travelled.


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3. How much of an impact will the changes have on mobile rankings?
On the same panel at SMX Munich, Zineb Ait Bahajji also mentioned that the 4/21 mobile-friendly update to Google's search algorithm will be bigger than any Panda and Penguin updates we've seen so far. This could mean that even if you are able to maintain your keyword rankings in mobile search after the update rolls out, you may not necessarily be able to sustain your mobile traffic.
4. Will sites that redirect to a mobile subdomain be considered mobile-friendly?
Immediately after the announcement of Google's mobile-friendly update, significantly more 'm.' websites started ranking well in the mobile SERPS. Additionally, as of late, many of Google's representatives have backed off of their strong insistence on responsive design. So while a responsive website design is Google's recommended configuration, it seems like the search engine is willing to accept other viable mobile site architectures.
5. How can you make sure that your website meets Google's requirements for mobile friendliness?
This one's easy. If you want to test a few pages, you can use Google's Mobile-Friendly Test, which will give you a 'yes' or 'no' answer on a per-URL basis. To assess your website's overall mobile friendliness, you can use your Webmaster Tools account to retrieve a list of your website's mobile usability issues using the Mobile Usability Report.
Note that since the results of the Mobile-Friendly Test are binary, clearly Google is sending out the message that your page is either mobile-friendly or not. There will be no degrees of mobile-friendliness.
6. Will having a mobile app have an impact on your mobile rankings?
Basically, two things come into play here. First, if a mobile search query is highly correlated with mobile app listings, having a mobile app could mean more visibility within the mobile SERPs. Secondly, Google Webmaster Trends analyst Mariya Moeva recently announced at SMX West that Google will be considering, within standard web and mobile web search, "high quality" apps as positive ranking factors.
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The present study was designed to evaluate the effect of bovine immunodeficiency virus (BIV) infection on immune functions and possible interactions between BIV and other bovine viruses in calves. Ten calves were inoculated intravenously with BIV, and five served as controls. An increased lymphocyte proliferation to BIV gag protein was demonstrated 2 to 6 weeks after BIV inoculation (P < 0.05). Lymphocyte subset differentiation revealed a decreased CD4/CD8 ratio (P < 0.05) during weeks 2 to 7, suggesting a possible immune dysfunction in BIV-infected calves. When the calves were inoculated with bovine herpesvirus type 1 (BHV-1), the antibody response to BHV-1 in BIV-infected calves was delayed and the antibody titers were significantly lower (P < 0.05). Injection of bovine viral diarrhea virus vaccine also elicited a lower neutralizing antibody response in BIV-infected calves. The results indicated that immune suppression occurred in BIV-infected calves.


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However tight our schedules, there were some of us who allocated time to watch the Olympics. To be honest, I was obsessed. Not by the Olympic medals that were won but by the story behind each winner; their struggle and triumph. Their achievements hold a lesson for each of us, be it on a personal or business level.
Australian athlete Michelle Jenneke has over 28 million hits on YouTube
Olympic medallists do not make money
Even though staging an Olympics costs about $ 10 billion-$ 40 billion, during the last couple of games, sadly, most athletes did not make any money. They actually do not make a lot of money off their sports outside of the Games either.
Fifty percent of track athletes who ranked in the top 10 in the US in their events earned less than $ 15,000 annually from the sport. Edward Etzel, an ex-Olympic shooter, spoke recently from personal experience of the difficulties that the best of the best had to go through to achieve their dreams, which is very sad considering that a tennis star can make between $ 2 million and $ 3 million playing for a month. I guess these are the inequalities of the world, although the lessons from the Olympics are not about money. Let me share some of them.
Olympic lesson 1: Mo Farah in the 10,000 m
Somali-born Mo Farah emigrated from the country when he was just eight to join his father in England. He could not speak a word of English when he came to the UK. His middle school coach Alan Natskin helped him buy his first pair of spikes and taught him English.
Many rebuked him for being Muslim and black. At the London games when he won the 5000 m and the 10,000 m events he said: "I have proved I am a worthy citizen of England," and he went on to run a lap of honour draped in the British flag. In Rio 2016, partway through the 10,000 m final, he tripped and fell but he got up and caught up with the Kenyan runner Paul Kipngetich Tanui and then beat him over the last 200 m. Farah knelt down, kissed the ground and prayed.
Lesson for business: Many times we fall during our business career when the world tends to rebuke us. Some do this publicly while others in a more private way. We show character when we stay calm and keep picking up the pieces and once again proving the critics wrong.
Especially in an island nation like Sri Lanka, we have to stay strong and keep being focused. Mo Farah did not argue with the critics but stayed focused on his task. Today he is giving leadership to England. He will be the brand ambassador for a multicultural society following Brexit.
Olympic lesson 2: 100 m Gold for Thompson
Elaine Thompson, the training partner of Olympic gold medallist Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce, beat her in the last 50 meters in a stunning upset in the blue-riband 100 m women's event. Both women are trained by the same coach. A magnanimous Fraser-Pryce said: "What I'm most happy about is that the 100 m title is staying in Jamaica. I'm on the podium with my training partner. I'm proud of Jamaica - just look at my hair (which was coloured the green and gold of the Jamaican flag)."
Lesson for business: Let's accept it - Sri Lanka is going through a tough time politically and business-wise. The country requires support to pull though these challenging times. We are burdened with a debt bill that needs to be restructured. We need to even out the political challenge and then have a strong provincial government so that policy activation can happen. The private sector has to help the Government ride this wave so that economic growth can be focused on through investment. To be honest we have no option.
Olympic lesson 3: Tennis Gold for Murray
Andy Murray was at one time regarded as a tennis player who could not pass the semi-final stage. In fact he had come to eight semi-finals and lost. The world had branded him a person who did not have what it took to win. When he came to his first Wimbledon finals and lost, the media labelled him a crybaby. But Murray did not give up. His biggest fan was his mum.
He went on to win Wimbledon twice, then the US Open and last week became the only tennis player to win a double at the Olympics. Murray admitted that the whole Olympic experience had been amazing but draining following his four-set, gold medal-winning victory over Juan Martin Del Potro in the singles final on Rio's Centre Court on Sunday night.
Lesson for business: So many times we tend to get distracted by what is going on around us, forgetting the race we are running. We cannot change the perception around us all the time. Even if we can it is very time-consuming. It is better to simply focus on our task and worry less about our distractions or competitors. I still remember my trainer telling me to focus on the reality and stay focused on your own lane, not anyone else's and pray. The actual winner always emerges. It's very tough to keep good talent away from achievement.
Olympic lesson 4: Bolt wins 100 m Gold
The media has said that Rio got what it paid for. When Bolt completed a triple-triple there was absolute mayhem in the stadium as the world witnessed an occurrence that had never been seen in the world, a feat that no man has achieved.
Against a backdrop of flawed behaviour he swept the world clean. People clapped and bowed. I guess there will be faster men in the future as the sport develops (it is estimated that one day man will run a 100 m in eight seconds) but Bolt has carved a niche in history against all odds.
Lesson for business: Olympic athletes don't just win by physical training alone; they have to visualise their success. In fact Bolt once said: "You have to train your mind like you train your body."
We in business will suffer from bouts of decline or stagnation given the market conditions. Apparently an Asian banking tsunami is predicted to hit shortly. But I guess we have to visualise a winning situation and keep the pressure on. Find new markets and keep the motivation up in our team. It's tough given the political economy that is at play but that is what it takes to do business in the Third World.
The world is not likely to soon see another triple-triple in Olympic athletics
Olympic lesson 5: Anna Kournikova of athletics
While there are many top athletes who have emerged over the years, a name that earned 28 million likes on YouTube was Australian athlete Michelle Jenneke. The Youth Olympic silver medallist hurdler earned her name not for her performances, even though she qualified for the Rio games from the Australian team, but for a pre-race warm-up dance she did four years ago. It became viral on social media and she was the most talked about athlete and top-dollar female personality in Australia.
Lesson for business: It is strange but sometimes for one to get through the clutter one needs to instil creativity and out-of-the-box communication. There are many brands in Sri Lanka that have got a strong share of media with almost no costs due to a creative idea. I guess we have to emulate the 28 million likes of Michelle Jenneke to cut through the clutter. This is very true for Sri Lanka Tourism given that the overall numbers are at a plus 19% but the two large corporates are at a growth on top line at below 5%. We as a team need to see how this can be addressed.
"Many times we fall during our business career when the world tends to rebuke us. Some do this publicly while others in a more private way. We show character when we stay calm and keep picking up the pieces and once again proving the critics wrong"
Olympic lesson 6: Phelps wins 22 Golds
The 22 gold medals Michael Phelps won during the last decade are more than the tally of almost 70 countries. A few short years ago though the greatest Olympian of all time was suddenly facing one challenge after the other in his personal life which resulted in problems in his professional life. It's a textbook upper limit problem. Phelps overcame them all. Not only did he overcome his problems to make an appearance in Rio, he's killed it in every single one of his races.
Lesson for business: This is one of the most important Olympic business lessons of all - be mindful of when you're sabotaging your success and immediately start to correct your course. Apart from coming out of retirement and winning his 22nd gold medal, he said of Joseph Schooling, whom he met 8 years ago and lost to in one of his races, "Believe in kids and their dreams. Support them. I never knew that a kid I met 8 years ago wanted to beat me and he did with determination."
Olympic lesson 7: 1,000 spies
Believe it or not the US sent 1,000 top-notch spies to Rio to ensure that al-Qaida did not get the best of the world's attention. Many did not even know that the US had 17 intelligent units in the country.
Lesson for business: Though the US and Brazil are archrivals in business and finance, sometimes rivals become the most important allies for challenges that the world throws at us.
(The author is a sports enthusiast and has a black belt in karate while being a kickboxing practitioner. The thoughts presented in this article are strictly his personal views and have no links to the organisations he serves in the private or public sector).


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A school district in Virginia is considering banning the use of two of the most banned books in American history because a parent complained about the racial slurs used in the books, the Christian Science Monitor reports.
A passage from Chapter 6 of one book and the cover of the other. (Voxitatis)
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain, written in the 1880s, and To Kill a Mockingbird by Nelle Harper Lee, written in 1960, are considered classics of American literature, but they do feature language that would be considered inappropriate today because of racial slurs.
Some districts have ordered versions of Huck Finn with the N-word replaced, in all occurrences, with the word slave. That doesn't appear to be an option here, though.
So the Accomack County Public Schools may take the books off the reading list, WPXI-TV reports. If they ban the books, all copies would be removed from the libraries and the books wouldn't be used by classroom teachers as part of the curriculum in any course.
"I keep hearing, 'This is a classic, This is a classic,' … I understand this is a literature classic. But at some point, I feel that children will not—or do not—truly get the classic part—the literature part, which I'm not disputing," the Monitor quoted the mother of a biracial student as saying at a November 15 school board meeting. "This is great literature. But there (are so many) racial slurs in there and offensive wording that you can't get past that."
She continued to say that by teaching books with racial slurs, the schools and our society would be teaching students that the use of the racial slurs is acceptable.
Historical whitewashing
In the case of Huck Finn, the book was written more than 130 years ago, when the US was a much different nation. Today's black students, however, hear the N-word differently from how white students hear it, and in high school, they may be too immature to consider the historical context of the usage of the word.
Therefore, proponents of banning the books argue, we should prevent students from reading the books, thus cleansing the context of this dark time in our histories from our school curricula.
Doing so, these people seem to believe, will provide a more welcoming learning environment for students in today's school, despite the fact that people who want to ban the books acknowledge that they are great works of literature and a part of who we are as a nation.
Merits of uncomfortable learning
Often, the greatest creativity comes when we are saddest, and the greatest learning comes when we realize how little we understand about some topic. In the case of relations between people of different races, it may be better, in the safe setting of a classroom, to make kids, black and white, uncomfortable for a brief moment in order to spur questioning and curiosity.
What is it about the N-word that makes black students uncomfortable? And more importantly, why don't white students seem to understand why black students are offended by the use of the N-word? Ban the book, and these conversations are held silent. Teach the book properly, and these conversations launch an opportunity for cross-cultural or interracial understanding.
"The question is not whether or not to teach this book, but how to teach this book, and it is an incredible opportunity to get students talking about our racial history and our racial present," the Monitor quotes University of California, Santa Cruz, literature professor Jody Greene as saying. "As teachers, if we want a better racial future in this country, we have to guide the conversation better."
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I've been really craving a good old-fashioned road trip this summer, not to mention wanting to get out into Colorado a little bit more and see parts of the state I've always wanted to see, so we decided to do a little mini road trip this week. Originally, we were going to make it a day longer and camp one night, but the forecast was calling for rain and temps in the 40s, so we decided to not be miserable and just drove through that section. It added more driving time, but ended up being a really great choice.
One of the things we did was drive over Independence Pass, which I think I had vaguely heard of, but never knew how gorgeous it would be.
There was a nice bit of paved trail around the pass, with incredible views of the mountains all over. It's apparently the highest paved road over the Continental Divide, and has great views of the highest mountain in Colorado, Mt. Elbert (I'm sure we saw it, but sadly didn't know exactly which huge mountain it was).
There were lovely wildflowers all over as well, thanks to all the rain we've been getting. One of the nice things about the high tundra is that things are usually a month or more behind the lower elevations, which means you get to see beautiful flowers for longer than in the valley, where things can get hot and dry quickly.
After Independence Pass, we drove to Aspen to see the Maroon Bells. This is probably one of the most photographed places in the world; the kind of place that once you see it and know it, you'll start to see it everywhere.
Due to our driving time, the time it took to park, and the time it took to take the shuttle to the Bells, we ended up only having about 45 minutes actually at the Bells (it took probably 2-3x as long to get there, thanks to some poor planning and reading comprehension fails on my part). Even though we only had a short time, we still had a lovely time.
Even though the light was fading and rain was threatening, it was still gorgeous. Emmie and I took a tiny hike to see the beaver house while Peter did some fishing. He finally caught a beautiful little brook trout with impeccable timing because as soon as I snapped a few shots of it, it was time for us to leave to catch the very last bus out. We had been warned by literally every person we talked to not to miss the bus because it would be a long 9-mile walk out without it (eek!). As it was, we caught the bus with a few minutes to spare (after some very quick walk/running and some panicking by sweet Emmie), but then we ended up waiting 15-20 more minutes for some alleged moms with strollers who never did appear (I truly hope they caught an earlier bus or at least were excited about a long walk back). We made it back to Aspen just in time to run through a driving rain to our car.
We drove the hour up to Glenwood Springs and checked into our great hotel, the Best Western Antlers. It turned out to be perfect for us. Good price, has its own pool, hot tub, and best of all, its own playground! Emmie and I played on the playground for a good hour while Peter rested, then we all walked across the street to a restaurant a friend recommended, The Pullman. Holy cow, was it ever good! We ordered a salad, an appetizer, entrees for each of us, a kid's meal for Emmie, and a dessert. Think we were hungry? Haha! Everything except my entrée was amazing (my entrée was fine, just not as incredible as the rest of it). It was probably one of the best meals I've had in quite some time.
Bellies very happily filled, we walked back to our hotel, crossing the bridge over the famous hot springs, and we stopped for a moment to watch the kids doing flips off the diving board in the warm night into the beautifully lit pool. It was amazing how many people were still swimming after 9 PM, many of them children. It was a perfect summer night.
In the morning, we had a great continental breakfast in the hotel lobby (free! yay!) with fresh waffles, yogurt, bagels, oatmeal, and hot chocolate. Mostly carb-based, but still very good for a hotel continental breakfast! All fueled up, we checked out of the hotel and headed for the Hanging Lake trailhead.
Since this is one of, if not THE most popular hikes in Colorado, there is a lot of information available online about the trail. It seemed like most of the information was intended to scare/warn people about: 1) the parking ; and 2) the strenuousness of the hike. We decided not to kill ourselves trying to get there crazy early (some placed said that the parking lot fills up as early as 8:30 AM). We got there just before 9 and managed to snag the very last spot in the lot! Once we had that, I felt a LOT better.
The hike itself was not crazy easy, but definitely not super hard. It was about 1 mile with 1,000 foot elevation gain. The entire thing followed the most beautiful stream, with countless waterfalls, 7 bridges, and tons of shade the whole way (awesome!). The best part? Emmie walked the ENTIRE WAY UP, ALL BY HERSELF! There were some serious steps for those little legs, but she did great.
Even though the hike itself was gorgeous, the reward at the top was absolutely incredible.
Hanging Lake was gorgeous. It literally is just hanging on a cliff, practically, and the color of the water is incredible. There are brook trout in the lake (no fishing), and the water is so clear you can see their every move. The waterfalls into the lake are stunning, and everything is just so gorgeous. There are boardwalks around the lake, with benches to sit on and enjoy the beauty. There were a lot of people, so this is not the hike for you if you go into nature for solitude, haha.
Above Hanging Lake is a lovely little spur to Spouting Rock, where a waterfall comes right out of a cliff wall. So cool! If you do this hike, you absolutely have to check it out. The hike down was a little trickier for Emmie, mainly due to balance. Rain clouds were coming in quickly, so Peter put Emmie on his back using our awesome Tula toddler carrier. Once we did that, we were able to make great time back down and hardly got rained on at all. Overall, the whole hike took us about 3 hours-ish, with a semi-leisurely pace (preschooler legs) on the way up and crazy hiker-man pace on the way down.
We drove back down the mountains after grabbing some lunch back in Glenwood Springs (there is no way to get back on eastbound I-70 from the Hanging Lake exit, so you basically have to go back to town, just to turn around and head in the right direction). Emmie was so tired after her big adventure that she fell asleep in the car for most of the drive, but not before asking multiple times if we could come back and do it again. I think that's a sure sign of success!
What summer adventures do you have planned? Who is planning on trying something they've never done before? Maybe you'll discover you love it as much as Emmie now loves hiking!
You guys to tooo cute!!
I love reading your adventures! What wonderful memories! I DO have something new this summer. I invested in a camera and gorgeous lenses and I've started learning photography from some professionals here. Very exciting. I enjoyed looking at the beautiful pics in your post too!
And the ones of you guys = a gazillion adorbs!!!!
As always, your life and adventure writing is grand and we so enjoy reading all about it!!


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Hollywood started making radical Black Power movies in the 1970s
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Mainstream media outlets are touting Black Panther as revolutionary. Claiming that nothing like it has ever been in theaters. That is beyond nonsense.
The Klansman Starring OJ Simpson. Distributed by Paramount Pictures in 1974.
A race war fantasy similar to Django Unchained. At the end of the movie, OJ Simpson massacres a large number of white KKK members.
Black Samson. Distributed by Warner Brothers in 1974.
Featured an Afro-centric hero who fought to protect the black community from white people.
Abar, The First Black Superman. Later re-titled "In Your Face" on VHS. Distributed by Mirror Productions in 1977.
A brilliant black scientist gives his bodyguard superpowers to fight racist white people.
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WONDER HOW MANY OF THESE NEGROPHILIAC MOVIES WERE MADE BY THE JUDAISTS.
The Judaists own and operate Hollywood. MGM = Goldwyn, Mayer.
Most of the movies promoting negrophilia are made by the Judaists.
Racebaiting, racemongering, negrophilia and necrophilia are typical Jewish pathologies.
The term "Judaists" isn't really accurate. JEWS is more fitting… because there are plenty of them who aren't "religious", who don't subscribe to Judaism or whatever.
JEWS OR JUDAISTS?
See the website mosesneverexisted on zohosites in the com domain for some details and an answer.
"Jews" is an English term for Hebrew Yehudi, which means a resident of Yehud (Judah). It refers to residents of a place, like Texans, New Yorkers, etc.
The Judaists who live in New York or Florida or Germany are obviously not Yehudi, as they are NOT residents of Yehud (Judah). In fact, the province of Judah no longer exists, so nobody is a Yehudi (Jew) any more.
So there are no more Jews in this world. Only Judaists.
Semantics and quasi-history, mixed with a lot of religiosity, Arnold. Please spare me. Fact is, they identify as JEWS, every one recognizes what you mean when you say JEWS.
Judaists, despite your histrionics, true or not, doesn't have quite the same punch that JEWS does. Did Hitler or any of the other thousands of historical figures who might be considered anti-Semites refer to them as Judaists…. or Jews?!?
Pat Hines
Ultimately, the Nigger Question has only one answer.
Marcus Cicero
The overwhelming majority have literally NO redeeming qualities.
Fr. John+
Is that Richard Burton driving the car in that pic? How disgusting, that a Shakespearean actor, King Arthur in Camelot, etc. ends up driving Miss OJ….
Older actors, even world famous ones, usually wind up begging for scraps, the older they get.
Hollywood is not a good place.
Johnny Paytoilet
Yes, that was Richard Burton in the "Klansman" from '74. I remember seeing this flick at the old drive-in on US 27 near Alexandria, Kentucky in late summer. It also, starred Lee Marvin, O.J. Simpson & Linda Evans. Must of been redneck night with lots of pickup trucks & white trash specials, (cars jacked up in the rear with dragster tires) if memory serves me correct. It was a double feature, & if I recall correctly, "Buster & Billie" starring Jan Michael Vincent was the first reel shown. I'm sure by the time they got around to the "Klansman" everyone in the facility was either pretty wasted or getting it on if you know what I mean.
spahnranch1969
Those low budget 70s action flicks were called "blaxploitation" films. The most famous examples of that genre include Shaft, Superfly and Foxy Brown.
In spite of these flicks, I still have great memories of that by-gone era. Was just remembering 1968, & all that transpired during that tumultuous year after hearing "Bend Me Shape Me" by the American Breed on an oldies station today.
Spain you should check out Sugar Hill… You'll love the ending 🙂
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newmetrology
Why do people spend money on this trash?
Just so they can debate their liberal friends?
Spend your time and money on saving what's
important, before it's completely gone.
Hollywood has been making implicitly anti-White movies at least since the '40's. They became explicit by the late '60's.
You're right. One of the first movies I ever saw was "Auntie Mame" (1958). Even though this a light hearted comedy, there are a lot of subliminal messages contained in this flick. It deals with feminism, the occult, bastardy, anti-Semitism, infidelity, lesbianism with some anti-white implications thrown in. It was based on a stage play & indirectly on a book. The vulgarity & several other controversial topics were removed in order to make the screen version.
… and making anti black film since 1919
Hollyjood has been glamourizing anti-European, anti – White insurgencies for a long time. The entire noble savage genre features all the tropes for the White guilt industry. The entire Marxist, freedom fighting genre features all the tropes for the Jew revolutions against White nations and their colonial history in other continents – a revolution that has now spread to the White nations where old founding European stock is on ancestral land or still has a majority demographic.
Michael Kuehl
How many whites will be murdered,assaulted, mugged, raped, gang-raped, tortured, brutalized, terrorized, etc, because of this movie with its white-hating and black-supremacist lies and delusions?
Mike Mann
Also, Mandingo, released in 1975 and its sequel, Drum, which was released in 1976
How about re releasing D.W. Griffith's Birth of a Nation, that might be a way of striking back?
My point exactly
Volkstaat
E. Michael Jones in Culture Wars covered the phenomena of the Hollywood rebel negro in detail over several years. First Jews tried to turn the Negro into a socialist revolutionary via the (((Harlem Renaissance))) and when that failed Hollywood was given the task of turning the Negro into a black power revolutionary. This also failed. The final refinement of this technique worked: turn the Negro into a Pimp and a Gangster. This one finally stuck. Between the (((blacksploitation films))) and rap music, the deal was sealed. E. Micheal Jones is the foremost authority on this.