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No Good Deed Goes Unpunished
While we were in Utah I talked to my sister. She and my brother both work for the business my Dad started after he retired, my brother doing sales and my sister doing accounting. It's a bathroom and kitchen refinishing business, and they get a lot of business in big housing developments in the Phoenix area.
My Dad had hired my sister's middle son after he had quit his job at Home Depot because the management there are "jerks." Everyone he's ever worked for are such jerks that he's had to quit. My nephew did really good work at first. He was enthusiastic and the other guys got along well with him. My father decided that he was going to take a leap of faith and make my nephew a supervisor. The guys who work for my father work strictly on commission. For each job they do, they get certain amount of money, which means that they knock themselves out to do a lot of work well and quickly (if they get called back to a job because it's done wrong, they work for free on the callback). My nephew went salary, meaning that regardless of how many jobs he worked or for how long, he got paid the same, although he was also getting sick time, holidays and insurance.
My sister the genius started complaining that her boy was being paid less than all the commission guys were being paid and was being forced to work his little fingers to the bone. She was working the whole network - my younger sister, my mother, my stepmother's parents, me, everyone - trying to convince us that my father's the villain in this little drama because he's making my nephew work for poverty wages and forcing him to live in squalor. And she enticed my nephew into quitting, claiming that my father's a jerk. She's looking for a new job herself, not because my father has treated her badly, but because of the imagined horrible treatment he's giving her son.
Well, it comes out that during the few weeks that my nephew was a supervisor, he had been lying the whole time about the amount of time he'd been working. He'd tell my sister that he'd been on a job for four hours and that there was another four hours' worth of work to be done, and another guy would go out to complete it and find that he hadn't even been there. My father and brother confronted him, and he quit in a huff, telling them that they didn't know what they were talking about, that they were taking the word of the other employees over his word.
My nephew agreed to stay and work for commission, but the hideous irony is that for this week, jobs are down and he's making even less. He's bitter, and again, it's my father's fault. My poor father feels stuck between a rock and a hard place, protecting his business at the cost of ill will on the part of his own family.
The worst part is that my sister has long been the cornerstone of the Olympic grudge-holding team. For both weight AND distance.


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MEMOIRIST: BENJAMIN HIRSCH
INTERVIEWER: JANE LEAVEY
RUTH EINSTEIN
Benjamin Hirsch was born in 1932 in Frankfurt am Main, Germany. He was the fifth of seven children born to a dentist, Hermann Hirsch, and his wife, Mathilde Auerbach Hirsch. In 1938, as the Nazi regime terrorized German Jews, Ben's father was arrested and sent to Buchenwald. Their mother sent Ben and his four older siblings to France on a Kindertransport. The two youngest children were too young to go.
Ben was separated from his siblings in France and shifted through various children's' homes—Villa Helvetia, Château de Masgelier, Château des Morrelles and others—for the next several years. In 1941, after the Germans grip on France grew tighter, Ben and his two older sisters were smuggled out of France to Lisbon, Portugal on transports organized by the Oeuvre de Secours aux Enfants (OSE). From Lisbon, the children sailed for the United States. The three siblings met up with their brothers in Atlanta, Georgia. The children were all separately placed in local Jewish foster homes. Ben lived with several Jewish families until he graduated from high school. Ben's parents and younger brother and sister perished in the Holocaust. Hermann died in Sachsenhausen concentration camp in November 1942. His mother and two siblings were murdered in the gas chambers of Auschwitz-Birkenau sometime in the fall of 1943.
Ben served in the United States armed forces during the Korean War and then studied architecture at the Georgia Institute of Technology. Ben became an architect in Atlanta, designing several award-winning structures. For a short time he was in practice with Warren Epstein in the firm of Epstein and Hirsch. In 1978, Hirsch founded Benjamin Hirsch and Associates, Inc. Ben is the designer of the Holocaust Gallery at the William Breman Jewish Heritage Museum as well as the Memorial to the Six Million in Atlanta's Greenwood Cemetery.
Ben has published two autobiographical books, Hearing a Different Drummer: A Holocaust Survivor's Search for Identity (2000) and Home is Where You Find It (2006). He and his wife Jacquie had four children and are the proud grandparents of 20.
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Benjamin introduces his family. He describes what he witnessed on Kristallnacht and his father's arrest. Ben explains how he was sent to France with his four older siblings and the various homes he lived in over the next few years. He recollects his journey from France through Spain to Portugal before sailing to the United States. Ben explains how the siblings ended up in Atlanta, Georgia. He shares many of his experiences adjusting to life in the United States and growing up in Atlanta. He recounts the jobs he held and learning the fate of his parents and younger siblings. Ben explains how he became interested in studying architecture, joined the army, and began to study Judaism. He outlines his early career and his designs of the Memorial to Six Million, the Doris Zaban chapel, and Or VeShalom's synagogue. Ben describes his social activism and interest in Holocaust education. Ben recalls his marriage, the birth of his children, and how he returned to his Orthodox roots. Finallly, Ben outlines the trajectory of his siblings, their children, and his own children and grandchildren.

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An Archaeologically Fertile Area of Iraq Opens to Researchers
Archaeologists get their best chance yet to study Kurdish origins.
By Bruce DormineyMay 7, 2014 3:00 PM
Michael Danti, the archaeologist leading the effort to search the isolated Kurdistan region, stands atop a dig near Gird-i Dasht thought to include artifacts from the Early Iron Age. | Allison E. Cuneo/Boston University
All of Iraq is not created equal — at least not for archaeologists. Its war-torn northern region, known as Kurdistan, has been closed to digs for more than half a century. But the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) is now allowing a team led by Boston University archaeologist Michael Danti to search the mountainous area for artifacts. Their continuing efforts in the western Zagros Mountains, along the Turkish and Iranian borders, likely represent the best chance yet to dig at the root of Kurdish origins.
Case in point: While widening a road leading into Iran, Danti says Kurdish workers dug into a 25-kilometer section of hillside, exposing the buried and burned remains of several stone, adobe and timber buildings from the Early Iron Age. After carbon-dating them, Danti believes these charred remnants are connected to local marauding by Assyrian King Sargon II, who sacked the region's Kingdom of Musasir/Ardini about 27 centuries ago by unexpectedly attacking from the east. "We think this modern road probably follows the route that Sargon II followed in 714 B.C.," says Danti.
Danti's Rowanduz Archaeological Program — the first American project ever granted a five-year excavation permit in Iraqi Kurdistan — began work in spring 2013 at Gird-i Dasht. The site, thought to be an ancient fortified settlement, likely was continually occupied from roughly 3000 B.C. to A.D. 1800, during the area's Bronze Age, Iron Age, and Middle and Late Islamic periods. The archaeologists hope to determine just how much interaction there once was between ancient cultures in the area.
Danti predicts the team will uncover the remains of an Early Iron Age "militarized frontier zone," complete with fortresses, watchtowers and population relocation camps. It would be a fitting reminder that history often repeats itself.
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LIVE: MR. BEN & THE BENS / DOG DAISIES / FAMILY SELECTION BOX / SUNDRIFT – 23/03/2018
Posted by Kate Meighan on Monday, March 26, 2018
A Bingo Records Showcase
-THE CASTLE HOTEL, MANCHESTER-
Manchester's place as the hub of Northern music has never been in dispute and it's a well known fact that The Castle Hotel in the Northern Quarter has seen its fair share. Bands from all over will come to play in our prestigious venues and Friday night is no different as I head down to check out a litany of Lancastrian bands as part of A Bingo Records Showcase.
It's a small place but it's great that such emerging talent have managed to sell out the venue tonight. Settling in, I'm struck immediately by the 'niceness' of the crowd – this metal girl is used to a slightly grumpier, more serious crowd but the vibe in The Castle tonight is reminiscent of a bank holiday weekend in the sunshine – everyone's smiling, everyone's getting along nicely and it's all just nice. Nice. Funny word but meant in the most charming possible way in this context.
The nice continues as the first band takes the stage. Sundrift is the first of four bands we'll be seeing tonight, all hailing from Lancaster, all sporting strong accents and clutching real ales. We're in good company.
Sundrift start off with their lead staring into the distance, seemingly very nervous and trying to find his vibe. Eventually though his easiness infects the audience and the atmosphere relaxes. Some of his songs are reminiscent of early Crosby/Stills/Nash and when headliner Mr Ben joins him on the drums the crowd moves forward. 'Daylight', a lovely sunny song, makes you think of music videos bathed in light. We're officially off.
Next up is Family Selection Box. Right away I'm struck by their confidence and almost geeky swagger – a total change in tempo from earlier. It takes a while for the crowd to filter back through to the event space but when they do we're treated to songs about life – "I just want to set my alarm for the following day as I know the one ahead isn't going to be very nice," and hanging out at local parks. Everyone seems to know everyone in the crowd and the fun and easy sounds of "Getting your toast out of the toaster" go a long way to encourage the mood. This is good old, British music at its best and the mix of leads – male and female – really makes it pop.
Now the last band before Mr Ben and The Bens are just as endearing. Dog Daisies come in wearing literal walking coats ("they said it was going to rain" the lead singer says a song in, clearly feeling the regatta's warmth with a smile on his face) and you know it's only going to get better. Again, there's a change-up with a harder sound, more confidence and more thought. The gravelly voice of the lead singer really comes through at times and Mr Ben is invited up again, this time displaying his musical talents with some trumpet playing – is there anything he can't play?!
Right before he starts his set, Mr Ben requests Dog Daisies play his favourite from their recent tour 'The River Runs Through It' and the real ales and the temperature rise really have us hooked now.
Then Mr Ben and The Bens are up.
Right off his sound is unique, really fun and just wonderful 60's rock n roll – the whole group is slick, polished and considered even if they don't want to look that way.
'Meet Me at the Corner Shop' is a definite highlight and the gorgeous keys and trumpet combinations on a couple of tracks are just other wordly. 'Do You Love Me', a song he introduces as being about unrequited love, would almost definitely had been met with a resounding "YES" from most of the crowd if he'd been asking seriously!
He banters back and forward with the crowd and the event manager, who's pretty vocal all night, and it's again really clear that the crowd are their people – fellow northerners, all there to support their local artist. It's a little bit magical to see so many people having travelled so far and the sparkle is still there as I walk home.
Cheer's Bingo Records – what a lovely bunch you are!
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Not Mentally Mainstream Series
Signs of Depression
What is a Positivity Wall?
I am starting to make a "Positivity Wall" in my apartment.
What is a "Positivity Wall," you may ask?
It's just as it sounds -- hanging positive quotes and affirmations on your wall.
I got this idea from my friend Caitlin Henry who, shortly after moving into her condo, started searching for positive quotes on Pinterest, such as Theodore Roosevelt's "Do what you can, with what you have, where you are." She framed the quotes and displayed them in her bedroom and in the hallway.
"Having a positivity wall has been a game changer for me. It's always good to think positive especially when you think everything is going wrong in your life," Caitlin told me. "It is easy for me to sit and feel sorry for myself but seeing positive quotes reminds me that there's more to life that one simple event."
For me, the self consciousness only comes when the room is silent and I'm by myself. No one is there to say, "Stop it, you're beautiful! You've got this!"
When I'm coming home after a tough day at work or an exceptionally bad date, that's when I need the reminder, "Better things are coming." The purpose of the "Positivity Wall" is, when you're feeling down and you're by yourself, you can be the one to tell yourself these things.
When you're having a bad day, it's hard to think positive. These quotes on the wall are like letters sent from my happy self to my future not-so-happy self to remind her that it'll be okay.
So, why is it so important to keep your mind thinking positively?
Science writer Susan Reynolds said in Psychology Today, "Happy thoughts and positive thinking, in general, support brain growth, as well as the generation and reinforcement of new synapses, especially in your prefrontal cortex (PFC), which serves as the integration center of all of your brain-mind functions."
For those starting your own positivity wall, here are some ideas from Pinterest and on SkinnyMom.com. Just print out the quotes and frame them. It doesn't have to be an expensive project.
Leave a comment below with your favorite affirmation.
Monica Drake
Monica's goal is to raise awareness about suicide and help erase the stigma associated with mental illness. In 2012, she won first place in News Enterprise Reporting by the Michigan Press Association for her series on suicide in the community, and in 2013, was named "Digital Innovator of the Year" by the Local Media Association. In 2019, she received the Ambassador Award from the suicide prevention nonprofit Six Feet Over. She started the blog Meant to Live to help others by sharing signs of depression, reasons to live, resources, suicide and bullying prevention groups, other people's stories and memorials. She especially wants to show people that they are not alone.
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It's not about the size of the dog in the fight
It's about the size of the fight in the dog! X
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I love that!!
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We've been in newborn heaven these last couple of months and as the fog of this wonderful, exhausting, precious time in our lives has started to lift, I wanted to write down these earliest experiences of Zayn's life before they become a distant memory. I will never forget each of these moments but there's something extra special when it's captured in the written words of parents, someday to share with their growing children.
Qatar will always have a special place in our hearts. Hayat spent much of her first year of life here. She helped us see life here with much more focused and appreciative eyes. Her first giggles, words and steps were taken here. This makes my heart swell with an abundance of rainfall-like emotions. Gratitude. Humility. Thankfulness. And a mission. To continuously look at life through her innocent, curious, unbiased eyes. Full of wonder. Reckless abandon. Millions of possibilities. Always with a smile and a laugh ready to be bellowed out by any joke.
It's official. We are moving back to Canada. As much as we loved this international lifestyle, we feel the urge to settle down close to family. It's a bitter sweet feeling, but my heart is calling for home in another place. So, we are trying to enjoy these last few months in Qatar, visiting all the sites and sounds that this country has to offer before we head back to the north pole, I mean, Ottawa.
F A I L U R E. Who knows the dreaded feeling of failing to reach your goals, or plain and simple, screwing up royally?
God know's how many times I've failed in my life. Miserably. Gracefully. Sloppily. Any adjective fits well here.


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State-conferred Legitimacy: On Pakistan's Hindu Marriage Bill & India's IPC Section 377
February 18, 2016 Exclusive
Mujhko bhi tu legit karade... Photo credit: Avinash Singh, QGraphy
On February 8 the Law and Justice Standing Committee of the National Assembly of Pakistan unanimously approved and adopted the 'Hindu Marriage Bill 2016'. On February 15, the Assembly of Sindh province, home to over 90% of the country's 3 million Hindus, passed it into law. For the first time since India's partition and their subsequent minority status in the new Muslim homeland 70 years ago, Pakistani Hindus will be able to register their marriages as husband and wife. If passed by the National Senate, this law will be applicable throughout the country as well.
This protracted struggle by the Hindu religious minority has similarities and differences with the Indian LGBTIQ sexuality and gender minorities' ongoing fight for equal recognition of their relationships. It may be argued that the struggle for legalization of same-sex relations has not even begun, given that the beleaguered community is still in the primary stage of erasing the blight that many post-colonial countries in the British Commonwealth face – that of the anti-sodomy law, or the notorious Section 377 of the Indian Penal Code, which effectively criminalizes all non-penile-vaginal sex but is selectively enforced to oppress gender and sexuality non-normative populations. While the Indian Parliament passed the Hindu Marriage Act in 1955, making it mandatory to register Hindu marriages in this country with an approximately 79% (1 billion, 24 million) Hindu-majority population in 2016, a "Gay Marriage bill" seems light years away in India, as it does in Pakistan. Nevertheless, a closer scrutiny of these two struggles for recognition of their relationships – of religious minority Hindus in the Islamic Republic of Pakistan and of the disparagingly labelled 'miniscule' minority queers (and their 'so-called rights') in avowedly, seemingly-unflinchingly patriarchal and heterosexist India, provides an insight into how ubiquitous, quotidian and often unacknowledged social and political discrimination is exacerbated by legal lacunae, but also of how these communities have overcome these barriers by increasingly appealing to the inherent, hitherto latent sense of solidarity and empathy among majority populations to achieve real and tangible progress in their efforts to win fundamental rights. Here are some such aspects:
Path To Equal Citizenship
Efforts to enact a Pakistan Hindu Marriage Act have been made since at least the 1970s, but never bore fruit. The loss of East Pakistan to the new nation of Bangladesh in 1971 also meant a further precipitous drop in their population, making them an even feebler voice in the hurly-burly of politics governed by electoral gain. In July 2007, a 45-year old married mother of four, Parmeshwari Devi was refused a Computerised National Identity card (CNIC) at the National Database and Regulatory Authority (NADRA) office of Rahim Yaar Khan district, because she didn't have a nikahnama or Form B. It took a tedious 2.5 year legal battle in the Supreme Court for her to win her national identity card. The silver lining was the SC directive for a policy amendment enabling and requiring district administrations to accept Panchayati (community organization-provided) affidavits . This momentum did not slacken after an abortive attempt at introducing such a bill in 2008, and Pakistani Hindus, with the help of NGOs started anew a campaign for marriage registration in 2009. Meanwhile, after the 18th Constitutional Amendment of April 8, 2010, family matters of religious minorities became provincial subjects in Pakistan. After 2 more Parliamentary failures (in 2011 and 2012), senators Ramesh Lal of the Pakistan People's Party and Dr. Darshan of the Pakistan Muslim League (Nawaz) jointly moved a private members bill in 2014. Subsequently a Government Bill was introduced by Law Minister Pervaiz Rashid in 2015.
Mehndi rang laayi… Photo credit: Avinash Singh, QGraphy
While these events played out in Pakistan, in India, the AIDS Bhedbhav Virodhi Andolan (organization against discrimination related to HIV/AIDS) intensified the campaign to repeal Section 377 in 1994 after Delhi's IG (Prisons) Kiran Bedi denied access to condoms to male inmates of the country's largest jail Tihar, in New Delhi. Subsequently in 2001, Naz Foundation (India) Trust filed a public interest litigation in the Delhi High Court to legalize homosexual intercourse between consenting adults. But the Delhi High Court declined to hear the petition citing that the petitioners had no locus standi in the matter. On appeal, the Supreme Court decided that Naz Foundation indeed had the standing to file a PIL in this case and sent the case back to the Delhi High Court to reconsider it on merit. Eventually, in a historic 105-page judgement delivered on July 2, 2009, Delhi High Court overturned the 150-year-old section. However, on 11 December 2013, the SC ruled homosexuality to be a criminal offence, setting aside the 2009 judgement and effectively re-criminalizing the Indian LGBTIQ community (and thereby, 17.8% of the world's LGBTIQ community), after it had enjoyed 4.5 years of decriminalization.
Observing the trajectories taken by these two struggles thus far reveal some interesting contextual insights: unlike with LGBTIQ persons in India, there never was any criminalization for being Hindu or practising Hinduism in Pakistan, and the sacredness and the primacy of the institution of marriage was never in doubt. Registering Hindu marriages was never a threat to hetero-patriarchy, on which the edifice of religious moral control is based. The 'othering' of the Hindu has some roots in the bloody history of Partition and the seemingly irreconcilable nature of polytheism and monotheism, among many, many other things. This 'othering' has been courageously countered by progressives in Pakistan, who locate the inalienable rights of Pakistani Hindus in the kernel of a passionately-espoused idea of Pakistan – that of a safe haven for minorities to live full, vibrant lives free from discrimination.
However the very idea of homosexuality is considered threatening to this foundation of a 'moral' society. It is deemed unnatural and "against the order of nature" according to the carnally-blinkered Victorian-era Section 377 of the Indian Penal Code. Hence the recognition of same-sex relationships in India will have to first overcome this gigantic hurdle before it can move to the next step – the marriage equality movement in the United States lost 17 years due to the defeat in trying to repeal the very same sodomy laws in Bowers vs Hardwick (1986) till the victory in Lawrence vs Texas (2003) paved the way for marriage equality, another 12 years later, in 2015. India's Special Marriages Act 1954 is argued to provide a robust framework to potentially recognize same-sex relationships as it provides a special form of marriage, registration and divorce, irrespective of religion or caste. However, the setback in the Supreme Court of India in 2013 made activists fear that a similar delay in decriminalization would push the struggle for relationship equality back by a generation in India – thankfully, the directive of the Supreme Court on February 2, 2016 that the Curative Petition against Section 377 be heard by a 5-judge Constitutional Bench has allowed the community a glimmer of hope that they would not have to go back to square one and fight this battle with a fresh case all over again. The 'othering' of the gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender, intersex or queer person in India is also based on social and religious morality. Which is precisely why, the eloquent espousal of Constitutional morality by Justice A.P.Shah's landmark judgment in the Delhi High Court in 2009, meaning that even the tiniest minority of citizenry must have its fundamental rights protected – an effective counter against the sometimes blatant, sometimes obscurantist 'othering' of queers.
The Delhi High Court's 2-judge bench in July 2009 declared Section 377 to be a violation of the fundamental rights of LGBTIQ people in India to dignity and privacy. It held that "the right to life and liberty is guaranteed by Article 21 under the fundamental Right to Freedom charter of the Indian Constitution. Criminalization of consensual gay sex violates these rights. Section 377 also offends the guarantee of equality enshrined in Article 14 under the fundamental Right to Equality charter."
Article 25 of the Pakistan Constitution of 1973 stipulates that "all citizens are equal before law and are entitled to equal protection of law". But difficulties in ensuring that this constitutional guarantee protects religious minorities has meant that Pakistani Hindus have often hitherto been a socially, politically and legally excluded community of the country. Among the other religious minorities, Christian marriage and divorce laws existed in Pakistan since 1870 under British Rule and these continued after independence. Pakistan passed the Sikh Anand Marriage Act in 2007. In 2012, India passed The Anand Marriage (Amendment) Bill, after which Sikhs are able to register their marriages under the Anand Marriage Act instead of the Hindu Marriage Act.
Don't categorize me… Photo credit: Chaitanya Chapekar, QGraphy
Thus both States, by omission (absence of Hindu marriage registration) or commission (presence of 377), have fomented such an unreasonable classification and targeted homosexuals (in India) or Hindus (in Pakistan) as a class, by dragging their feet and hiding behind the fig leaf of social opprobrium in denying them their rights. The Delhi High Court judgement explained that public animus or disgust towards a particular social group or a vulnerable minority cannot be held as grounds for such a classification. Article 15 of the Indian Constitution forbids discrimination based on certain characteristics, including sex. In the case of Pakistani Hindu marriage registration, this classification may be argued to be a relatively clear case of religion-based discrimination. But in the case of 377, the unreasonable classification is slightly more nuanced: the Court held that the word "sex" includes not only biological sex but also sexual orientation, and therefore discrimination on the ground of sexual orientation is not permissible under Article 15.
The inability to prove the marital relationship is a fount of myriad problems for married Pakistani Hindus. The 'Statements of Objects and Reasons', attached to the Hindu marriage draft bill, states that: "A large section of the Hindu community, particularly women, does not have basic documentation to prove their marital status or identity. They are also deprived of legal rights such as inheritance, remarriage, separation, adoption of children and annulment of marriage. This legislation will institutionalize marriage and marriage-related legal rights thereof. This act is applicable to every person who is Hindu by his or her religion in any of its forms". Significantly, the Hindu Marriage Bill will thus enable both 'jati' and scheduled caste married Pakistani Hindu women a legal escape from domestic violence, abuse or exploitation, thereby circumventing in one stroke, the problems arising from treating Hindus as a monolithic whole, and placing the resolution of problems of scheduled caste Hindus in the hands of upper castes, who may have more traction and rapport with the state machinery. Before such a law, it would be understandable that any Hindu woman would be reluctant to report matters like domestic violence to the police. In the absence of legal recognition, they are merely co-habiting with a man, needlessly obfuscating the issue, increasing red tape, providing scope for corruption and ultimately denial of legal remedy. Among a host of other aspects, the marriage bill will also make adoption easy, especially for homeless Hindu children and childless Hindu married couples in Pakistan. Inability to furnish marriage proof causes, in case of a Hindu husband's demise, the wife and children of the deceased to be unable to prove their relationship for succession and also a multitude of problems for inheritance. Widows face difficulties in claiming pensions. The transfer or succession of movable and immovable properties is harder, causing Hindu women to be denied any share in their husband's property.
Making adoption easier… Photo credit: Ganesh Shedge, QGraphy
Similarly, in the presence of Section 377, Indian gays, lesbians, bisexuals and transgenders face violence, blackmail, extortion and other abuse, but are afraid to file a report at the police station for fear of revelation of their alternate sexuality, and thereby, their criminal status. Just as in the case of married Hindu women who are averse to their codified relationships being seen as a behaviour (cohabitation), LGBTIQ persons are distressed by their identities being defined by the sexual act, which is just a behaviour and not an integral whole to define a person.
Though convictions are extremely rare, Human Rights Watch has argued that the law has been used to harass HIV/AIDS prevention efforts, sex workers, homosexuals and other groups at risk of the disease. The People's Union For Civil Liberties has published two reports of the rights violations faced by sexual minorities in general, and, in particular, transsexuals in India. Indian homosexuals do not face difficulties like Pakistani married Hindus in obtaining passports or CNIC-like documents (the landmark NALSA judgement of the Indian Supreme Court opened the gates to full equal transgender rights in India including access to gender-appropriate passports), however domestic partners face the same difficulties in adoption, inheritance, transfer of property, protection from domestic violence, and unlike the heterosexually married couple where the family is supportive, here the partner may be even denied hospital visitation rights. Again, as in the case of Hindu Pakistani women, this leaves Indian queers vulnerable to corruption, invasion of privacy and misuse of powers by the police.
Additionally, the decriminalization of same-sex love is also hoped to produce a variety of allied positive outcomes in the community: increased self-acceptance, confidence, protection from bullying in schools through awareness, fighting discrimination, reducing the incidence of self-abuse, substance dependency and suicide among LGBTIQ teens. Similarly, the registration of marriages is expected to produce a variety of positive outcomes for the Pakistani Hindu community.
Fear of a backlash from religious hardliners has stymied progress in both cases. In India, as far as the legal battle against Section 377 is concerned, prominent religious leaders have called homosexuality, among a host of other things: unnatural, a bad addiction, a regression, animal-like, a crime, a transgression of human relations and against Indian culture, nature, science and scriptures.
The fear of religious opposition has resulted in a ominous condition in the Hindu Marriage Act which the community is opposing tooth and nail. It is Clause 12 (iii), which says that the marriage will be annulled if any of the (Hindu) spouses converts to another religion. The patron-in-chief of the Pakistan Hindu Council, and PML-N member of National Assembly, Dr. Ramesh Kumar Vankwani, has pointed out,"There are fears the clause would be misused for forced conversions of married women the same way young girls are being subjected to forced conversions." There is no mention of whether an individual who forcibly converts a Hindu girl will be eligible for appropriate punishment or not, which could help in mitigating the quotidian threat of abduction faced by Pakistani Hindu women. The clause was inserted by the Council of Islamic Ideology when the Bill was sent for Sharia vetting in 2015. Standing Committee Chairman Chaudhry Mahmood Bashir Virk expressed regret over the long-drawn tactical delay in framing family law for the Hindu community. No mention is made about whether this conversion would be voluntary or not. India's Special Marriages Act allows spouses of different religions to be married. Thus on the positive side, a law that has become a bulwark against religious and caste-based suppression of freedom of choice for heterosexuals, promises to play the same role for sexual minorities too. And on the negative side, presently a law that targets those very sexual minorities is dragging a number of straight people in its vicious, puritanical undertow. The (constitutional) moral of the story: Hindu or Muslim, gay or straight, we are all in the struggle against extra-constitutional oppression together.
The Indian LGBTIQ community has been arguing for decades that a lack of recognition and equal status for same-sex relationships has led to forced heterosexual marriages of queers, to spouses oblivious of the alternate sexual orientation of their partner, often leading to double lives, deceit, and a lot of emotional trauma. In a gender unequal society like India, this hypocrisy has affected women acutely, because divorce leaves them with much social stigma. Both the Indian LGBTIQ and the Pakistani Hindu community have been fighting conservative efforts to stymie their existence and curtail social diversity.
Retaining religious, sexual and gender diversity; Photo credit: QGraphy
Conditions for Recognition
The first two conditions of the Hindu Marriage Bill 2016 are strikingly similar to the motive behind the demand for reading down Section 377 in India: keeping consensual, adult sex in private outside the ambit of Governmental interference, and to have separate gender-neutral laws against rape, and for child protection. India's legal system seems to view marriage or sex only through a procreative lens. The 2 conditions are: parties to the marriage be of 18 years of age or above, and that parties to marriage to be able to give consent. Just like activists supporting the Hindu Marriage Bill, LGBTIQ activists calling for the reading down of Section 377 want to enshrine the rights of consenting adults. Both groups of reformists want to protect children – whether by preventing child marriages (Hindu Marriage Bill) or by having separate robust laws against child sexual abuse (reading-down Section 377).
There are many more similarities and differences in these two struggles. The underlying thread appears to be the hankering of a tenacious minority to full and equal citizenship. Pooja Rajput wrote in The Express Tribune after the bill was passed that, today, "she is not a Hindu living in Pakistan but a Pakistani Hindu". Similarly, sexuality and gender minorities do not merely happen to be living in India, but be respected Indian LGBTIQs.
Sachin Jain
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The Pistolwhips are revving up to release the follow-up to 2014's debut LP On Your Side, but before Voices arrives next February, the band have offered up a lyric video for the lead single of the same name.
The new record was made at Revolution and Vespa Studios in Toronto with producer Eric Ratz, who helped the group hone a sound that's more polished and mature than their first album.
The first sample of that new and improved sound shines through on the title track, which has been paired with some funky visuals. The new lyric video is as colourful, fuzzed-out and energetic as the song itself.
"It's time to open up our audience to exactly what we're all about," guitarist Paul Kuzbik said in a statement. "You'll know in the first 10 seconds of this single, exactly who we are."
For those yet to be acquainted, you can get to know the Pistolwhips right now by hitting play and taking in the video premiere of "Voices" in the player below.


First posted 5/20/2012. Updated 5/21/2014.
Named after entertainer Ivor Novello, these awards for songwriting and composing – nicknamed The Ivors – are presented annually by the British Academy of Songwriters, Composers and Authors (BASCA). Since it was founded in 1956, the organization has given out more than 1000 awards to primarily British and Irish songwriters and composers.


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What is the process of nanofiltration?
Nanofiltration is a pressure-driven membrane process that lies between ultrafiltration and reverse osmosis in terms of its ability to reject molecular or ionic species. Nanofiltration membranes, organic membranes, or ceramic membranes can be either dense or porous.
What is nanofiltration in wastewater treatment?
Nanofiltration (NF) is one of the widely used membrane processes for water and wastewater treatment in addition to other applications such as desalination. NF has replaced reverse osmo- sis (RO) membranes in many applications due to lower energy consumption and higher flux rates.
Does nanofiltration remove hardness?
Their results showed that this nanofiltration membrane could remove 70–76% of hardness and 44–66% of salinity. Because properties of groundwater near the coast are close to diluted sea water, in this study we attempt to produce drinking water from groundwater near the coast.
Can nanofiltration remove TDS?
Nanofiltration has caught the attention of many for the purpose of water softening and the removal of various contaminants from drinking water. NF can reduce or remove TDS, hardness, color, agricultural chemicals, high molecular-weight, fulvic materials (which can form trihalomethanes when chlorinated).
What is membrane structure in case of nanofiltration?
Nanofiltration membrane is a pressure-driven membrane, with a nominal molecular weight cutoff (molecular weight of solute that is 90 % rejected by the membrane) ranging from 200 to 1000 Da, pore size of around 0.2–2.0 nm, and operating pressures of 70–200 psi (5–15 bar) (Schäfer et al. 2002).
What is nanofiltration for water?
Nanofiltration is often used to filter water with low amounts of total dissolved solids, to remove organic matter and soften water. Because it is a "looser membrane", nanofiltration membranes are less likely to foul or scale and require less pretreatment than reverse osmosis systems.
What is nanofiltration membrane?
Nanofiltration (NF) is a membrane liquid-separation technology sharing many characteristics with reverse osmosis (RO). Unlike RO, which has high rejection of virtually all dissolved solutes, NF provides high rejection of multivalent ions, such as calcium, and low rejection of monovalent ions, such as chloride.
What is pore size of RO membranes?
reverse osmosis (RO, hyperfiltration): pore size < 1 nm (required pressure 10 – 70 bar) – removes microcontaminants and both polyvalent and monovalent ions (dissolved substances).
What is the operating pH for RO systems?
Not only is the pH of reverse osmosis water in the healthy range of 5 – 7, RO water treatment provides the highest quality and best tasting drinking water.
Is nanofiltration better than reverse osmosis?
Nanofiltration, however, does not remove dissolved compounds. Reverse osmosis removes turbidity, including microbes and virtually all dissolved substances. However, while reverse osmosis removes many harmful minerals, such as salt and lead, it also removes some healthy minerals, such as calcium and magnesium.
Which are the factors affecting the performance of nanofiltration?
The efficiency of the nanofiltration process is affected by fouling on the membrane and other factors like tangential velocity, pressure, temperature, turbulence, feed particles size, concentration polarization changes in membrane properties, and membrane characteristics [2].
Which membrane is used for ultrafiltration?
Explanation: In ultrafiltration, semi-permeable membranes are used. In this filtration forces like pressure or concentration gradients lead to a separation through a semipermeable membrane.
What is nanofiltration?
Nanofiltration is a pressure-driven membrane process that lies between ultrafiltration and reverse osmosis in terms of its ability to reject molecular or ionic species.
What are the key performance parameters of nanofiltration membrane separation?
The key performance parameters of a nanofiltration membrane separation process are permeate flux and salt rejection. Under specific reference conditions, flux (the rate of permeate transported per unit of membrane area) and rejection are predictable, intrinsic properties of membrane performance.
What is the cut-off value of a nano-filtration membrane?
The cut-off value is expressed in Dalton (Dalton = weight in grams of mole of the molecule). A typical nano-filtration membrane lies in the range of 150-500 Dalton, depending on the molecular structure. Nano-filtration membranes possess pores with a size of approximately 1nm.
What is the mass of the solute removed by nanofiltration?
Nanofiltration is a pressure-driven membrane process used for removing solutes with molecular weight in the range of 200–1000gmol−1, typically from aqueous streams. Endre Nagy, in Basic Equations of Mass Transport Through a Membrane Layer (Second Edition), 2019


Summer: the season of sauna and sassafras tea; time for fans and flights to faraway spots, for A/C and I.C (Air Conditioning and Ice Cream); time to drink in the yellow nectar that pours forth from the giant yellow star that saves the hurtling planet on which we live from being another bleak rock.
In summer, the sun is all too hot, all too real. It is a truth we cannot blink away. Summer makes us honest.
And with sun-like warmth and honesty, our mental health recovery can only improve. Such honesty may be found in BRIDGES peer-to-peer educational classes and support groups. Our pain "forces [us] to be honest," writes Helen Perry. "It doesn't get any realer than that." For it is only by confronting past and present traumas that we become more "real." We who have mental illness are the Story Keepers; we need to be Story Sharers.
And as I visit mental health courts, residential care facilities and a forensic psychiatric hospital to promote BRIDGES, I hear the health that comes from Stories Shared: of a woman for whom love brought only self-hatred, of a transgendered woman with an enduring heart despite unendurable abuse, and of a man no longer as shattered as the glass that once was his trundle-bed - all being tended by treatment and Telling Their Truth.
Think of your life story as climate control. As long as you dwell in the cold, unplumbed depths, you will know only the darkness. If you would be warm, then Tell Your Story. It heals.
Glenn Close said, "What mental illness needs is more sunlight." So go on. Face the Sun. And remember your sunscreen.
Contributed by Ramona Taylor, Director of BRIDGES at MHA.


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Q: Revit API - How to return to "normal code" after PostCommand is called I've been looking around for an answer but I haven't found anything that addresses it.
I have a thread that calls a PostCommand and I've noticed a couple of things: No matter where I put the PostCommand, it occurs last in my thread even if it's inside a separate transaction.
Is there any way to call it in order and then return to my Revit API code to continue executing?
I've found this thread but I'm hoping their error is because they're running in dynamo instead of using c# in visual studio

A: Revit and the Revit API is single threaded.
You can only call PostCommand in a valid Revit API context, and that context is within the single thread.
Whatever command requests you post, they will not be executed until after your external command or other event handler has terminated and relinquished control, so Revit can resume doing whatever it wants to do next.
You have no further control over that.
As soon as your event handler terminates, Revit is back in normal mode.
There is nothing you can do to change that in any way.

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Love your box! That stick pin is so pretty! Now I'm curious...was inside the box?
Love the pretty gift box and the stick pin.
I came looking for your hop project and found this amazing box you created a few weeks ago! So happy it worked out that I had time to come say hello. This is great, Rebecca...that pin is gorgeous with your gift box. I'll be back for your hop project in a bit! Happy Friday dear lady!
Hi Miss Rebecca. Happy I too could stop in for the hop and come across this beautiful box. I like the colors and swirls. And PP Stick Pin gives your box added fun but elegant look.
I came a-hopping, but found this beauty. Love the box! Hey, Bek. You need to visit me here in WI. We made it ALL the way up to 51 degrees today and there are frost warnings for tonight. On the plus side, the Northern Lights are supposed to be spectacular tonight after midnight. Can't wait!
I came to see your project for the September hop, but I guess it isn't up yet. But I really love this box! That pin is gorgeous and the perfect addition!


Won't be there because I have a regional tournament to attend at IUP. But from what I saw of some of these AAA powerhouses early in the season and then again in the final weeks, my observations about the AAA brackets.
Don't be shocked if Bellefonte wins the team title.
Every team in this 8-team field is likely to get somebody to the AAA regionals. But getting from there to Hershey is a very different issue. I'd still like the CM fan who predicted two weeks ago that his team would have six state qualifiers to please give me some idea on what weight classes they will come from.
I understand "why" a truly awful overall D4/9 District now gets 5 regional qualifiers while a much tougher D6 only gets 4. But it is wrong. They should have given both 4 and dropped the regional field from 14 to 13 per bracket.
And finally after looking at the AAA brackets, I can with a great amount of certainty assure fans from both classes that in a head to head meeting between the D6AA champs and top seeds in D6AAA top seeds, the AA kids would win somewhere between 9 and 11 of 14 weight classes. Just ask the PO Coach. He brought two "defending D6AAA champs" to the D6AA tournament and both advanced to the SWAA regional thru the consolations.
I think "awful" is a very strong statement. Mark my words, D4/9 will more than hold there own this year at regionals. All 3 D4 teams have a couple strong individuals and the normal from Clearfield, St Mary's, DuBois, and now the co-op of Cranberry and Oil City.
Too strong a word. Probably so. DuBois will carry the day for D9's contingent. Clearfield's return to prominence is visible but they are not quite yet old enough to drive but soon.
A little bit of youth and resurgence in Williamsport will boost D4's group. Yes. Shik and Grove both have several state qualifiers in the fold.
But now based on sheer ratios and numbers, the D4/9 contingent should have more state qualifiers than D6 and in turn D6 should have more than D10—- now if somehow this D4/9 coalition has fewer state qualifiers than D6 or D10, then you can expect the howling to be very loud coming of course from Clinton County and probably Mifflin County too.
Ironic and a little funny that some of the long time opponents of BEA and PO bashed those programs for doing the right thing and competing in AA and now that is the reason that D4/9 get one more qualifier that D6 in AAA. If I read correctly, legendary Clearfield qualified to compete in AA as well but the Bison pride (and common sense) kept them out of a brutal NWAA region with the likes of Reynolds and company.
Also would love to put a wager on your Boyd pick over Scott.
I hope I get to see some of your region. Not sure how 138 might go in Altoona but I think DuBois gets a state title the following week regardless at 138.
DuBois looks the the team to finish #2 in the region. Even more amazing the NWAAA Region takes a normally deserved bad rap but that smallest AAA region could very well win state titles at 138-160-182-195 and 285. Five would be remarkable.
And I agree that the Selinsgrover hammers Mel Jr at 220.
Not sure if DuBois finishes 2nd, but will be in top 5. Prep should win the team title, then I'm thinking MC? Scott is on a mission this year, and I think Woodrow beats Johnson at 145 as well. I am looking forward to the weekend, counting down the days!
It won't be CM. You heard it hear first.
And if accurate reports came, then your team also got hit by the Boalsburg Pikers this season??
There's some really strange stuff going on with all of that and the subject has been beaten all over the place on here.
But curious about the Wyoming Seminary guy or guys who were at different times at the D5AA and D6AA events.
I think at D5 looking at Ridge underclassmen and then in Altoona seemed to be hovering at different times around FH, Glendale, BEA and the Boalsburg Pikers. Understood some of that except BEA until I heard they had a forgotten AAA state runner up out all year but back next year with his team in AA.
I don't care who Seminary recruits and steals from as long it's not Ridge or any LHAC teams.


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Check Out the First Trailer for 'The Glass Castle'
Catherina Gioino May 22, 2017
The movie that's been in 'talks' for over five years finally sees a release date and a trailer for audiences to laud over. The Glass Castle first created hubbub in 2012 after Jennifer Lawrence's name was attached to produce the film adaptation of Jeanette Walls' novel.
With this being Lawrence's first producing role, The Glass Castle is already seeing its popularity skyrocket after its trailer was released this weekend. The film, based off of Walls' memoir of the same name, follows Walls's dysfunctional upbringing, dealing with her abusive and alcoholic father and her aloof artist mother. Brie Larson stars as Jeannette Walls, with Naomi Watts playing her mother Rose Mary and Woody Harrelson playing her father Rex. Destin Daniel Cretton, who previously worked with Larson on Short Term 12, steps in as a writer and director for the film.
The trailer looks and grabs at one's emotions almost immediately. The sense of a nomadic lifestyle led by kids who are just trying to survive dealing with their parents, let alone their own lives, is sensed right away. However, readers of the 2005 bestselling book are quick to point out that the trailer almost glorifies the father figure in a way. Throughout the entire novel– as well as some parts hinted with Rose Mary's character in the trailer, Jeannette has very conflicted feelings in regards to her father and that is made apparent in every decision she makes. However, this trailer puts Rex in a sort of "man down on his luck" character that deserves the audience's empathy.
Nonetheless, the trailer is stirring talks about the film's premiere and how true it stayed to the novel. In addition to the main cast above, Sarah Snook (Steve Jobs) stars as Jeannette's sister Lori, and Max Greenfield (New Girl) stars as Jeannette's love interest David. The film is set to come out on August 11. Check out the trailer below.
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Here's what you might not have in common with Paul Calobrisi: His cancer didn't start in the prostate. It started in the bladder and included the prostate.
Here's what you may have in common with Paul: He is persistent. He had to be his own advocate, and he was relentless in learning everything he could – not only about his illness, but about the best possible treatment. He has kept his sense of humor. He also has dedicated himself to getting his life back, and this means that he's pushing himself and his rehab. He is doing this because he wants to be here, and be strong, for his family. And one more thing: He has seen way, way too much cancer.
Paul's mother had neuroendocrine cancer (small cell lung cancer). His wife died of the same kind of cancer (pancreatic neuroendocrine cancer) a year and a half ago.
That was urologic surgeon Bernard Bochner at Memorial Sloan Kettering, for several reasons: "His age, his reputation, the articles he had written, and the fact that I had family in New York." Paul, his wife and two-year-old daughter went to New York in June 2007. It was not an easy trip. "My wife was starting to get into serious PTSD from the original trauma of the disease, and was starting to become very disillusioned and confused." The doctors in Italy had given him an expected lifespan of 10 months. Paul was 45, and otherwise in excellent health. He said to Bochner: "We're the same age. What would you do?" Bochner's answer: build an internal bladder, called a neobladder, out of a stretch of intestine, but that will depend on the extent of your cancer.
The day before his birthday, Paul started chemotherapy, with Gemzar and Cisplatin. "All I knew was that this was the chemo that killed my mother in 2001. I totally freaked. My mom died within a few hours of getting those drugs." Meanwhile, his lack of connection with the oncologist kept getting worse.
Here is a sample conversation, recounted by Paul, between himself and the oncologist.
But the urologist, Bochner, had an excellent bedside manner, Paul says, which "helped me a lot. We blew through the chemo and set a date of October 16, 2007, for the surgery." He went back to Italy and went fishing for three days by himself. Then he came back to New York for his surgery.
Paul did have a nerve-sparing radical cystoprostatectomy, in addition to having the neobladder created. "They removed 70 lymph nodes. The survival mathematics are, the more lymph nodes you have in the muscle-invasive stage, whether or not they come out clear in the pathology report, that gives you other potential complications (such as edema, or fluid swelling). I fortunately have not had any of these drainage issues, which means other lymph nodes have kicked in.
Recovery was not easy. "Because I had a new bladder, I had to be catheterized for a month, and you have to have a third party rinse your bladder from the outside through the catheter three times a day to get the new bladder ready, because it's a piece of intestine, and it doesn't know from urine, or from anything else." When it was time for the catheter to come out, another complication set in: peripheral neuropathy, a side effect of the cisplatin. "We knew it was a possibility," and he still struggles with it.
And then his wife got sick. "She had a very aggressive pancreatic neuroendocrine tumor, 8 cm when they found it." She died less than three years later.
Jonathan Simons, M.D., medical oncologist and CEO of the Prostate Cancer Foundation, says that Paul and people like him "are the example of what's best in the human condition when you're diagnosed with cancer. He was proactive about being a partner in his care. Even as he was going through all the uncertainty and fear, he was actively interested in understanding at each step what the choices were, and what the reasoning was for the next treatment. He was willing to endure all of this so he could be there for his family.
In 2007, the afternoon before Paul had to get on a plane to come to New York for his surgery, his urologist in Italy called. The doctor, Paul says, was a bit miffed that Paul was leaving to have his surgery done in America.
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His beautiful son is asleep on the couch. His daughter is just home from choir practice after school. Paul still struggles with peripheral neuropathy, and is recovering from a hernia operation that should have been a 30-minute piece of cake and instead was a four-hour ordeal, because the tissue in that area was messed up from his surgery and the chemo. But he's recovering, he's alive, he's here for his kids, and life is good.


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Mohammad Salah Wins Premier League Player Of The Month Award for October 2021
The Egyptian King was very active for the Reds with his 5 goals and 4 assists in the Premier League in October.
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Mohamed Salah has clinched his 4th Premier League Player of the Month award of his career. His performance this October has been phenomenal as usual. The Egyptian King was very active for the Reds. With his 5 goals and 4 assists in the Premier League in October.
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Salah's amazing performances at Old Trafford, following his hat-trick. Which ensured Liverpool a 5-0 thrashing over Manchester United, which has been sensational. He also ended up scoring an unbelievable goal against Manchester City and also finding the net against Watford. He provided one assist in each of his four October matches, including his pass to set up Jordan Henderson's strike in the 2-2 home draw with Brighton & Hove Albion.
Ben Chilwell, Maxwell Cornet, Foden, Tino Livramento, Aaron Ramsdale, Declan Rice, and Youri Tielemans were also nominated. Though there was only ever likely to be one winner this time.
Salah is the third Premier League Player of the Month this season, following on from Michail Antonio and Cristiano Ronaldo.
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Touring: Art of Anarchy Is Set To Tour
Art of Anarchy is one of the rare rock bands where each member has a strong identity, and together creates something special. No filler, just raw talent, and dedication to the music and being true to who they are. The members have collectively sold tens of millions of albums worldwide and have a rock pedigree that most artists would be content to rest their laurels on. But while AOA possess the star power of a rock "supergroup" in spades, the band's focus is squarely on songwriting and musical craft.
Lead guitarist Ron "Bumblefoot" Thal hails formerly from Guns N' Roses, while bassist John Moyer first rose to fame as a member of Disturbed. Twin brothers Jon Votta (guitar) and Vince Votta (drums), meanwhile, first gained renown as fixtures on the New York music scene. The most recent addition to the group is Grammy Award winner Scott Stapp, the founder and lead singer of Creed. Stapp will be replacing the late Scott Weiland (of Stone Temple Pilots) as AOA's lead singer.
AOA evolved organically out of an 18-year friendship between Bumblefoot and the Votta brothers. Jon Votta came to Bumblefoot with the idea of putting together a new band with a diverse group of talent and a uniquely melodic and aggressive sound.
The group released their self-titled debut album, Art of Anarchy in June 2015, featuring the late Scott Weiland on vocals. The album showcased a gritty hard rock edge balanced by a powerful focus on innovative songwriting and skillful musicianship. Bumblefoot shines throughout the album not only as band's co-guitarist (and a world class one at that) but also as the producer and engineer on the album. Jon Votta shares lead responsibilities with Bumblefoot and co-wrote the album with Weiland. Vince Votta brings his powerful rock drumming sensibilities and showmanship, while Moyer brings a punchy bottom end that rounds out the sound of AOA.
The band's next chapter begins now: The addition of Stapp and the electrifying new musical direction he brings ushers in a new era for the group. "I'm excited to be a part of Art of Anarchy," said Stapp. "I appreciate collaborating with other talented artists and I can't wait to share our new music with the fans very soon."
"The other members of AOA and I are equally excited to have Stapp on board," said manager John Gomez. "This is the first band Scott has fronted outside of Creed and his heart's really in it. Scott's vision, his gift for gut-wrenching storytelling, and his powerful vocals lend a bold new energy to the group,"
Bumblefoot adds, "Scott's style and the personal lyrics he's been writing are taking the sound in a new direction— one that brings out the best in all of us. It's a new chapter for us all, and I'm looking forward to sharing the new music with the fans and seeing what the future holds."
Vince Votta concurs, saying, "It's been awesome having Stapp on board. Everyone is bringing their A-game and can't wait to bring it live to the stage."
*AOA Album release "The Madness" set for March 24th world wide.
*AOA headlining "Rock into Spring" festival on April 29th in Las Vegas.
*AOA doing 10 'Album Release Shows' in April, with tour dates below.
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Art of Anarchy Tour Dates
4/3/17 – Amityville, N.Y. – Revolution Bar & Music Hall
4/4/17 – Asbury Park, N.J. – The Stone Pony
4/6/17 – Toronto, Ontario – Velvet Underground
4/7/17 – Sarnia, Ontario – Station Music Hall
4/8/17 – Battle Creek, Mich. – The Music Factory
4/10/17 – Libertyville, Ill. – Austin's Saloon
4/11/17 – Chesterfield, Mich. – Diesel Concert Lounge
4/13/17 – Fort Wayne, Ind. – The Rusty Spur
4/14/17 – Ringle, Wisc. – Q&Z Expo Center
4/29/17 – Henderson, Nev. – M Resort
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ANAHEIM — John Gibson couldn't save the Ducks from themselves Saturday at Honda Center. His teammates had to figure it out for themselves in their first home game in more than two weeks, and they couldn't get it right during a 5-4 come-from-ahead overtime loss to the Arizona Coyotes.
As ever, it was a struggle.
The Ducks had not one, not two, but three two-goal leads and still were forced to overtime, where Nick Schmaltz scored 33 seconds into the five-minute extra session. The Ducks suffered their fifth consecutive loss, but ended a four-game streak without a point.
Gibson returned to the Ducks' net after an upper-body injury sidelined him for the final two periods of their 4-2 loss Thursday to the Sharks in San Jose. Gibson sat out the Ducks' practice Friday, but was ready to go Saturday. Kevin Boyle was returned to San Diego of the AHL after Friday's recall.
Ondrej Kase scored two goals, including one only 46 seconds into the game. Nick Ritchie had a career-high three assists, including a deflection of Hampus Lindholm's perimeter shot that then struck Kase in the leg before ricocheting into the back of Arizona goalie Adin Hill's net.
Adam Henrique had a goal and an assist and Daniel Sprong also scored for the Ducks (19-15-6).
It could have, and probably should have, added up to a slump-busting victory.
"It's one of those games we should have tightened up and should have won," Henrique said.
Maybe it was too easy. Perhaps the Ducks were lulled into a false sense of security because they scored so early, so often and so easily at times.
The Ducks seized a 2-0 lead in the first period and they controlled play for extended stretches, but couldn't put away the opportunistic Coyotes. The Ducks certainly had plenty of chances to make it easier on themselves. But that's not exactly their style, is it?
The teams were deadlocked 4-4 heading into the third period despite the fact that the Ducks built a 32-20 advantage in shots on goal that climbed to 41-30 by game's end. A bad bounce and a couple of misplays led to Coyotes' goals during their second-period rally, though.
The Ducks should have sailed into the final period leading by a comfortable margin, but a puck skipped past Gibson behind the net and onto the stick of Christian Fischer, who smacked it into the cage to cut the Ducks' lead to 3-2 at 8:22 of the second.
Kase scored the second of his two goals to put the Ducks ahead 4-2 at 12:18.
Arizona rallied to tie the score 4-4 by the end of the second on goals from Nick Cousins at 13:58 and Jakob Chychrun at 14:37. Ducks defenseman Jacob Larsson turned the puck over on the Cousins goal and then the Ducks failed to clear the puck and paid the price on Chychrun's score.
In the closing minutes of the second, the Ducks failed to click on a 5-on-3 opportunity for 1:08. Their 26th-ranked power play generated plenty of sustained pressure, but couldn't produce the tiebreaking goal with a two-man advantage or on the 5-on-4 situation that followed.
In the end, it wasn't a lack of offense that cost the Ducks, it was lackluster defensive play.
"They have to understand there's a certain way we expect them to play," Carlyle said. "Our expectations are not for individuals to step out and do something spectacular because I don't think that's the type of team we have. We have a team that needs to play with cohesiveness and defend properly.
The Ducks opened a six-game homestand with a rare Saturday game at Honda Center, their lone Saturday home appearance of 2018-19. Earlier in the week they completed a stretch in which they played 11 of 15 games on the road, including Thursday's loss in San Jose.


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