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By Rachael Hauschild May 11, 2017
Festivals are normally my go-to events, not conventions. I've been to the Toronto International Film Festival, New York Film Festival, Tribeca, Milwaukee Film Festival, Philadelphia Film Festival, and I've volunteered at Sundance for the past two years (and continue to do so). Each of these festivals, I go to dig deeper into all the genres of film that I love. They are a complete blast and a one of a kind experience. However, none of these festivals focus on my one true favorite genre of film: horror. For that, I travel to Dallas for a convention known as Texas Frightmare Weekend.
I'm lucky enough to have one of my best friends in a town near Dallas, so I stay at her place. It helps even more that she is also a horror fan and attends the convention with me. We both attended the convention last year. As first timers, there was a lot to take in and figure out. How much money to bring? How should we plan our schedule? Who do we want to meet while we're there? These are all questions that we scrambled to find the answer for. In the end we walked away with a few items purchased, saw some great panels, and met wonderful horror icons. Most notably for me was meeting Danielle Harris and Matthew Lillard, and seeing the wonderful George A. Romero in person. We accomplished a lot in a short amount of time spent there each day, but there was so much more to explore.
This year we were seasoned visitors. We knew what to expect and how to map out our days accordingly.
Texas Frightmare Weekend did NOT disappoint this year. I landed from a late afternoon/evening flight from Philadelphia to Dallas and immediately went to see a movie. Army of Darkness in 35mm with Ted Raimi there for introduction and a post Q&A is what my eyeballs feasted on first. I firmly believe the best way to watch Army of Darkness is with a crowd. The campy fun holds up to this day. Ted Raimi is hilarious and I could listen to him speak for hours on end of his many film industry stories.
Friday roles around and that is the official kick off of Frightmare. It doesn't start until that evening and last year we skipped Fridays events. This year we decided it was best to go Friday, get our weekend passes, and go straight to the Mondo table to get posters everyone was raving about. Mondo's limited edition posters at the convention were gorgeous. I snagged The Thing and An American Werewolf in London, two of my favorites. My friend got Wes Craven's New Nightmare, Friday the 13th Part 3, and The Thing. I may have dropped over $100 on two posters alone, but it was so worth the two-hour wait. Yes, two hours… you read that correctly.
After we secured posters back in the car, we roamed the convention to see the layout of merchandise tables and figure out how weekend plans would pan out. That night I got to meet the wonderful Pollyanna McIntosh. She's most notable from The Woman by Lucky McKee, which we got to chat about. She is everything I hoped and absolutely amazing.
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The weekend just kept getting better. I've been listening to a horror podcast called Shock Waves. It's the podcast child of Blumhouse Productions and is every bit of awesome. It has honestly changed my life for the better. The podcast is run by Rebekah McKendry, Ryan Turek, Rob Galluzzo, and Elric Kane. Blumhouse.com was a sponsor of Texas Frightmare Weekend since the previous sponsor, Fangoria, is no more. Panels were moderated by the crew of Shock Waves. The first panel we attended was the 35th Anniversary Panel for The Thing moderated by Ryan Turek. Keith David, Thomas Waites, Wilford Brimley, and the legendary Dean Cundey entertained the guests with stories of life on set of The Thing. From stories of an intoxicated Kurt Russell, to Wilford Brimley's wise cracks, to tales of John Carpenter catching his cast talking about him while on mic, you couldn't help but smile.
Since I've become a huge Blumhouse fan, I had to go to the Blumhouse panel as well as the Shock Waves 50th episode live recording. Awesome doesn't even sum up the experience. Underrated 90s horror movies were the topic, and hidden gems emerged from the depths of time. Freeway, Z Ram, Stir of Echoes, and Idle Hands [Editor's Note: I fucking LOVE Idle Hands dammit!] were just a few mentioned in the large lineup. Ironically enough, I had just bought Idle Hands that day before. It felt amazing to be surrounded by people who share a common love for not only horror movies, but Shock Waves.
Meeting the Shock Waves crew, I thought, would be the highlight of my weekend since I look up to them so much. Then Sunday happened. My friend and I got to the convention early. The past two days, they capped the meet and greet line for one of my favorite horror directors. Dario Argento is a Giallo master and Suspiria means the world to me. Sunday, I got to meet the legend himself. Argento doesn't speak a lot of English, but he is so very humble for every fan that comes to see him. I couldn't stop thanking him for everything while he shined a smile for our picture together. I don't think I have shaken that much meeting someone since meeting Michael Shannon at Sundance two years ago.
We got through Argento's line quick enough to see a few more people. We met the energetic and loving Soska sisters, as well as the very funny Malcolm McDowell. Malcolm McDowell cracked a few jokes about Bernadette Peters, but don't worry, it was all in good fun. He's a really cool guy.
As our journey at Frightmare was coming to an end, there was one more panel for us to sit in on, the 40th Anniversary Suspiria panel moderated by Elric Kane. Dario Argento, Barbara Magnolfi, Stefania Casini, and Claudio Simonetti of Goblin all were in attendance. It was magical to sit and listen to Dario speak about Suspiria and his inspirations when it came to color, cast, and music. He is so grateful for the success of the film and how well it is regarded now. Frightmare was generous enough to make 40th Anniversary awards for them. Dario repeatedly thanked all of the audience in the crowd and you could feel the genuine love and appreciativeness. It was perfect.
Texas Frightmare Weekend 2017 was one for the books. The attendance may be crazy at times, but everything is worth it to celebrate such a diverse genre with fans and icons from the past and present. I met a fellow online Shock Waves friend in person (Hey Dustin!), met some of my horror idols, thanked my favorite podcast for everything they've done, and walked away with some pretty great memorabilia. The horror genre and their fans aren't like any other. We're passionate and it feels like one giant family. If you love horror, Frightmare is the place for you. You will not be disappointed.
Rachael Hauschild
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Rachael was born and raised outside of Philadelphia and has lived there her whole life. Movies took over her life after graduating from college. Horror, indies, and classic Hollywood are her favorite genres. If she's not watching a movie, she's most likely traveling, attending a film festival somewhere in the US, watching hockey, or doing her full time job of reception/social media coordinator at an animal hospital outside of Philly.
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The Holocaust in Thessaloniki, Covid 19 Vaccine and Viagra.
Some people will probably accuse me for using specific words in the title as 'clickbait', and to an extend that is true. But anyone who writes a blog, and especially one with an extraordinary story, want readers to click on that link to read that story.
I make no excuse for the use of the title, basically because all the words are linked.
There were an approximate 50,000 Jews in Thessaloniki ,Greece, before World War 2. Only 2000 of them survived.
In the summer of 1942, the persecution of the Jews of Thessaloniki started. All men between the ages of 18 and 45 were conscripted into forced labor, where they stood for hours in the hot summer sun and were beaten and humiliated. The Jewish community was depleted of its wealth and pride. Jews were ordered to wear the yellow Star of David and forced into an enclosed ghetto, called Baron Hirsch, adjacent to the rail lines.
On March 15, 1943, the Nazis began deporting Jews from Thessaloniki. Every three days, freight cars crammed with an average of 2,000 Thessaloniki Jews headed toward Auschwitz-Birkenau. By the summer of 1943, the Nazi regime had deported 46,091 Jews.
Two of the survivors were the parents of Albert Bourla. For many of you the name Albert Bourla will mean very little. However is the CEO of a company which will have made an impact to millions ,and possibly billions, of people across the globe. The company if Pfizer, the first company ,the Pfizer–BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine was the first approved vaccine used to provide protection against infection by the SARS-CoV-2 virus in order to prevent COVID-19. Of Course Pfizer is also known for Viagra, initially used as a treatment for heart-related chest pain. But is now primarily used as a treatment of erectile dysfunction (inability to sustain a satisfactory erection to complete sexual intercourse). Its use is now one of the standard treatments for erectile dysfunction.
Dr. Albert Bourla joined the Sephardic Heritage International on January 28th for International Holocaust Remembrance Day, where he shared his family's story of tragedy and survival during the Holocaust.
Below is an excerpt of his speech.
"My father's family, like so many others, had been forced from their homes and taken to a crowded house within one of the Jewish ghettos," recounted Bourla. "It was a house they had to share with several other Jewish families. They could circulate in and out of the ghetto as long as they were wearing the yellow star."
"But one day in March 1943, the ghetto was surrounded by occupational forces and the exit was blocked. My father and his brother (my uncle) were outside when it happened. Their father (my grandfather) met them outside, told them what was happening and asked them to leave the ghetto and hide because he had to go back inside as his wife and two other children were home. So later that day, my grandfather, Abraham Bourla, his wife Rachel, his daughter Graziella and his youngest son David were taken to a camp outside the train station and from there, left for Auschwitz. My father and uncle never saw them again,"
"When the Germans had left, they went back to Thessalonki and found that all of their property and belongings have been stolen or sold."
Bourla's mother was well known which caused her to hide at home "24 hours a day" out of fear of being recognized on the street and turned over the Nazis . She left the house very rarely, but it was during one of her rare ventures outside that she was captured and taken to a local prison.
"My Christian uncle, my mother's brother-in-law, Costas de Madis approached a Nazi official and paid him a ransom in exchange for a promise that my mother would be spared,"
"However, my mother's sister, my aunt, didn't trust the Germans. So she would go to the prison every day at noon to watch as they loaded the truck of prisoners. One day, her fear had been realized, and my mom was put on the truck. She ran home and told her husband, who then called the Nazi official and reminded him of their agreement – who said he would look into it. That night was the longest night in my aunt and uncle's life because they knew that next morning, my mom would likely have been executed."
"The next day, my mom was lined up with other prisoners. And moments before she would have been executed, a German soldier on a motorcycle arrived and handed some papers to the men in charge of the firing squad. They removed my mother from the line. As they rode away, my mom could hear the machine gun slaughtering those that were left behind. Two or three days later, she was released from prison after the Germans left Greece."
Eight years later Bourla's parents met by way of matchmaking, through which they agreed to get married.
I fully respect anyone's decision whether to take or not to take the vaccine, or any vaccine for that matter. Once this decision is based on sound, verified and peer researched information, and not by social media memes or sources which can't be traced or verified.
However I will never condone the current vaccinations being compared to the Holocaust, it is absolutely vile and disgusting.
Just imagine i
https://www.jpost.com/diaspora/pfizer-ceo-shares-his-familys-tragic-story-during-the-holocaust-658818
https://www.ushmm.org/information/exhibitions/online-exhibitions/special-focus/holocaust-in-greece/thessaloniki
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/my-familys-story-why-we-remember-albert-bourla/
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Q: On toggle, show a class and hide the rest whilst in alphabetical order. I have some div elements which I want to be able to be sorted based on their children.
I sought something that showed a certain class whilst hiding the rest, using jQuery without any plugins. I came across this Toggle multiple Div names/content by one button click which was extremely helpful in doing just that. However, I also want the sorted elements to appear in alphabetical order as well, depending on the specified class.
I attempted to use this: Jquery - sort DIV's by innerHTML of children. However, it doesn't appear to work. Any help would be immensely appreciated!
Here's what I have so far: http://jsfiddle.net/y11hr6d8/.
Here's the jQuery:
$(function() {

var $articles = $('.article');

$(".langButton").click(function() {
    var language = $(this).attr("data-language");
    $articles.hide(); // Hide them all
    $("." + language).show(); // than show the needed ones
});
});

function sortUsingNestedText(parent, childSelector, keySelector) {
    var items = parent.children(childSelector).sort(function(a, b) {
        var vA = $(keySelector, a).text();
        var vB = $(keySelector, b).text();
        return (vA < vB) ? -1 : (vA > vB) ? 1 : 0;
    });
    parent.append(items);
}

$('#sEthnicity').data("sortKey", "span.article ethnicity");
$('#sGender').data("sortKey", "span.article gender");
$('#sPet').data("sortKey", "span.article pet");
$('#sSubject').data("sortKey", "span.article subject");

$("button.langButton").click(function() {
    sortUsingNestedText($('#sortThis'), "div", $(this).data("sortKey"));
});

A: Your sortKey data values are wrong, those values are in div with classes article and ethnicity, gender, pet or subject. Also the ID used to select the buttons are wrong
$('#sblood').data("sortKey", "div.article.ethnicity");
$('#sgroup').data("sortKey", "div.article.gender");
$('#scanon').data("sortKey", "div.article.pet");
$('#sability').data("sortKey", "div.article.subject");

Demo: Fiddle

A:     $(function() {
        var $articles = $('.article');
        $(".langButton").click(function(){
            var language = $(this).attr("data-language");
            $articles.hide();                  // Hide them all
            $("."+ language ).show(); // than show the needed ones
        });
    });

    function sortUsingNestedText(parent, childSelector, keySelector) {
        var items = parent.children(childSelector).sort(function(a, b) {
            var vA = $(a).find("."+keySelector).text();
            var vB = $(b).find("."+keySelector).text();
            return (vA < vB) ? -1 : (vA > vB) ? 1 : 0;
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    $("button.langButton").click(function() {
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As a "present" for blackhat an exploit against the DHCP client of Windows 2000 was released publicly. See MS06-036 for more details.
The exploit claims to add the user "bl4ck" with a very insecure password and might cause the service to terminate. The author left some suggestions for "improvement" in the source code, so expect potentially nastier versions to be used in real life.
If you still have not patched your Windows client systems, it is a very good time to do so now.
The nature of DHCP makes it so that any device on a LAN can answer any and all DHCP request. So be sure people understand there is no need to attack or compromise any server first. Detecting this is helped slightly by DHCP's use of broadcasts (the client doesn't have an IP address).
It is quite imaginable that this gets used not just over wired networks - where the defending staff could disable a port in a worst-case scenario - but also over wireless networks, hotspots, hotels etc. where no such option is available. Or it could be used in a multi-stage attack where this gets inside your network in other ways and then does its "magic" on the local LAN.


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'I Just Don't Know That Those Questions Are Necessary Almost 13 Years Later': Shaunie Henderson Shuts Down Questions About Shaq, Brings Up Husband Keion
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Shaunie Henderson is tired of the Shaquille O'Neal questions and would like all questions concerning her ex-husband to shift into questions concerning her new man, Pastor Keion Henderson.
Shaunie reveals that she wasn't properly asked for her hand in marriage prior to her proposal from her current husband, Keion Henderson. Photo:@sherri/YouTube
When asked about the former basketball player's recent interview with People magazine and how she felt about him taking full responsibility for the demise of their relationship, Henderson, in talking to Page Six, had this, among other things to say, "What he needs to share for his truth is his truth and it is what it is."
I am happy that he's able to share his truth of how he feels. I don't really have an opinion on it. That was so long ago. I am in a new place in life. What he needs to share for his truth is his truth and it is what it is," she told Page Six.
While Henderson commends her ex-husband of over a decade for recognizing his faults, she told Page Six his truth no longer concerns her.
"I don't really have an opinion on it. That was so long ago. I am in a new place in life."
The 48-year-old entrepreneur also admitted to being tired of the majority of questions that she is asked when it comes to O'Neal.
"I just don't know that those questions are necessary almost 13 years later, you know what I mean? That was a time in my life… If you have any questions about Keion Henderson, you are more than willing to ask all day long, shoot!"
Shaunie and Keion Henderson married in May at the Aurora Anguilla Resort and Golf Club, People magazine exclusively confirmed.
The mom of five told People after her father passed three months before the wedding, she "really struggled with how I was going to get down the aisle."
Nevertheless, she had the support of many, including her five children, four of whom she biologically shares with O'Neal and one O'Neal adopted.
Shaunie O'Neal's Instagram (@shaunieoneal5)
Although O'Neal and Henderson will always be tied together by their children, it looks as if the "Basketball Wives" creator and executive producer is ready for new questions surrounding her new journey as first lady with husband Keion.
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Conventional wisdom states that you shouldn't write a review about a concert more than a week after you've seen it. I respectfully submit a formal proposal to screw that noise.
A few weekends ago, I saw two childhood heroes of mine—musicians whose work is practically part of my DNA—play live. Something that significant is worth chronicling, even if it's a little slow in coming.
June 1 brought with it a pilgrimage to the Paramount Theater to genuflect at the altar of Welsh singer Tom Jones. The guy's had the kind of lengthy and storied career that could occupy a few thousand words by itself. But for the uninitiated, Jones is a legit entertainment legend who began his career in the mid-1960s, combining sexualized rock-and-roll energy with showbiz glitz. His calling card was—and remains—his voice, a windstorm of an instrument with power, soulfulness, and theatricality to spare. As a staple on my parents' radio, a cherished presence in my record collection, and at least one karaoke go-to for yours truly, he's been a fixture in my existence for literally as long as I can remember.
Jones is the last of a dying breed–practically the last man standing to represent a bygone era of old-school 20th-century showmanship. But there have always been two Tom Joneses, really; the furry chested, swaggering lounge lizard, and the rock and soul singer who escaped a life of working-class labor in the coal mines of Wales on the strength of his room-filling voice.
The latter Tom Jones was the one who strode onto the stage that Friday. It marked the sixth time I'd seen the man live. It was also, unequivocally, the best I'd ever seen him.
Gone were the cooing female backing vocalists and the blast of campy bombast that often accompanied the man's sets. Jones' uniformly sharp backing band played lean and mean throughout, and Jones fronted them with the unforced confidence of a man who knows exactly what he's doing, and how to do it right.
The set opened with one drummer and one guitarist, bashing out some bludgeoning garage-rock blues, with Jones joining them onstage to match the licks, slug for slug. Imagine the best old-school soul singer you never heard fronting the Black Keys, and you've got the idea.
The remainder of Jones's performance swung between heartfelt covers of old rock and blues songs (the man's last couple of records have definitely reflected a back-to-basics approach) and familiar Tom Jones classics, radically reinterpreted.
To these ears, those reimaginings of the old hits were a profound reflection of Tom Jones's creative restlessness, and of his eagerness to alternately own and transcend his legacy. The Euro-disco overseas hit "Sexbomb" was rejiggered into a swank, extremely cool swing number. "It's Not Unusual" gained a bounding zydeco arrangement, and the classic scorned-lover epic. "Delilah" was configured into a percussive Tex-Mex track. Best of all was the reinterpretation of that evergreen Jones classic, "What's New Pussycat." The stripped-down, lilting acoustic guitar, accordion, and tuba arrangement felt so breezy, so charming and unforced, it sounded like Jones wandering into a trio of buskers along the River Seine, then spontaneously singing along.
Jones is a pro whose voice has never disappointed, and he still sports a set of pipes that can rattle rafters. But he tempers that vocal firepower with a nuance and confidence that can only come from experience. The old Tom Jones would never have been able to croon out an unaffected cover of Otis Redding's "Dock of the Bay" with the easygoing soulfulness that the latter-day Jones lent to that old chestnut.
Jones saved his hit cover of Prince's "Kiss" for near the end, and like the other familiar Tom Jones staples that night, it was radically reworked. Jones growled it out with damn-right sureness, and the arrangement was sinewy perfection, with not much more than a funk guitar and in-the-pocket drums and bass backing him during the verses. And somewhere amidst the booty-shaking groove, you could hear the inspiring, exhilarating sound of a 77-year-old showbiz veteran reinventing himself by being himself.


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What you're looking at is the work of a Houston-born artist, named Cheryl Kelley. She was born in the late 1960s, and grew up at the tail end of the original muscle car era. It makes sense, then, that when her artistic passion became a career, she focused most of her effort on muscle cars.
Take a good look here, because most of her oil-on-canvas paintings could easily be mistaken for an actual photograph.
That was actually her goal from the outset. These all started out as photographs Cheryl took at various car shows over the years.
She then takes her photos and paints them, which, in her words, makes them, "somewhat more real in the painting than their photographic predecessor."
The way she sees it, manipulating the cars' reflection in each photo adds a depth you can't get from a photograph.
She also says it enables her to bring out each car's feminine lines.
The feminine lines are actually crucial to her overall point of the cars, so much so that there's a juxtaposition in that the cars, "seemingly fueled by raw testosterone, were ironically most definitely feminine in form."
Or, to put it a different way, she considers the car itself to be reality, and the world within the reflection to be fantasy.
She eventually expanded beyond muscle cars to do more classics and even a few European rides, but each one is still instantly recognizable as her work.
Of course, it's also possible to overthink it. At the end of the day, she's making gorgeous paintings from real photos of some of the most classic cars anyone would be proud to keep in his or her garage.
Aaron Miller is the Rides editor for Supercompressor, and can be found on Twitter. He'd love to see her paint historic race cars in action.


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John Winstanley of Manchester – Bookbinder
Posted on October 31, 2013 by Laurence Worms - Ash Rare Books
Always a pleasure to find a book with an old bookbinder's label in it – even more so in this case when there are three different labels in each of the three volumes of the first edition of Bulwer Lytton's Devereux (1829). Bulwer Lytton has cropped up here before – so I won't dwell on him, although this is the first of his extraordinarily successful historical novels, a florid tale of political intrigue and melodrama in the days of Queen Anne. Suffice it to say that a modern Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest challenges entrants to compose the opening sentence to the worst of all possible novels.
Bound in an absolutely contemporary half calf, as the labels tell us, by J. Winstanley of 25 Fountain Street, Manchester. Highly skilled work with some telling detail – just look at the exquisite feathery marbling of the text-edges. But who was J. Winstanley? The British Library Database of Bookbindings has pictures of a couple of examples of blind-tooled bindings by J. Winstanley of Manchester, noting three others as yet undigitised, but beyond saying that they are nineteenth-century, the story does not advance there. One of the books is from Charles Ramsden's collection, so his Bookbinders of the United Kingdom is the obvious next port of call. Ramsden gives him as John Winstanley, active at various addresses in Manchester from 1813 to perhaps 1850, recording him at 25 Fountain Street in 1828, before moving to 81 Fountain Street by 1832 – so that settles exactly how contemporary the Devereux binding is.
A search of various other sources adds very little else. Time for someone to delve a little deeper. Census returns, parish records and some advertisements fill in the story. John Winstanley (1784-1856) was baptised in Manchester on the 22nd February 1784, the first child of James Winstanley, 'callenderman', and his wife Mary Knowles, who had married the previous year. He married Elizabeth Hulme on 4th July 1807 – and the couple had at least a dozen children before her death in 1853 and his in the summer of 1856. His final address, from at least 1851 and not recorded elsewhere, was at 35 Cooper Street. And this is where it all starts to become rather more complicated, because at least two of the sons also became bookbinders – John Winstanley junior (1810-1875) and George Winstanley (1824-1897). (Another son became a cattle-dealer, which lends a pleasing circularity of product to the family business).
The younger John Winstanley led a rather peripatetic career, working in London briefly in the 1830s, in Manchester at Fountain Street with his father in 1841, in Liverpool, in Eccles, Altrincham and Chorlton, while George (some of whose work you can find readily enough on the internet) took over his father's business, advertising himself as his father's successor from an address at 7 Dickinson Street, Manchester, in 1862.
Even after John Winstanley junior's death in 1875 a bookbinding business was continued in that name until at least 1881, when a partnership between J. Winstanley, C. Winstanley and Mary Winstanley trading as 'John Winstanley' was formally dissolved – these I take to be two sons and the widow of the younger John. Charles Winstanley (1851-1934) – grandson of the first John Winstanley, son of the second, was himself a master bookbinder, employing sixteen assistants in Sale in 1882 – and some his work too can readily be found on the internet.
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Ed Robbins says:
Just found your article on the Winstanley bookbinders. George Winstanley (1824-1897) was no fool, he married Mary Booth the daughter of a publican. Mary's brother Samuel married the daughter of a book seller called George Bentham (1792-1866) from Manchester.
Still researching, but it seems that George Bentham was possibly the brother of publisher/printer Christopher Bentham. He became a member of the Society of Friends and he seems to have been well connected in literary circles.
Laurence Worms - Ash Rare Books says:
Thank you very much for the additional information – please feel free to add more. All best wishes, Laurence Worms.
Edward George Robbins says:
Thanks Laurence. Minor suggested correction: John Winstanley died 13 Aug 1858 aged 75 at his son's home in Moss Side (given as G Winstanley so assume George?) At the time John Winstanley was doing business from 59 (or 69) Princes Street, Manchester (four doors from Cooper Street). Two clippings can be viewed:
https://www.newspapers.com/clip/29726965/death_john_winstanley_1858/
https://www.newspapers.com/clip/29727485/
The reference to his place of death is on another newspaper archive site and not so easy to send a link, but a copy can be made available as a reference if you drop me an email.


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Kenneth Saul "Ken" Rogoff (born March 22, 1953) is an American economist and chess Grandmaster. He is the Thomas D. Cabot Professor of Public Policy and Professor of Economics at Harvard University.
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Rogoff grew up in Rochester, New York. His father was a Professor of Radiology at the University of Rochester. He attended East High School.
Rogoff received a BA and MA from Yale University summa cum laude in 1975, and a PhD in Economics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1980.
Rogoff learned chess from his father at age six, but took up the game in earnest when he got a chess set for his 13th birthday. He was soon recognised as a chess prodigy. By age 14, he was a USCF master and New York State Open Champion, and shortly thereafter became a senior master, the highest US national title.
At sixteen Rogoff dropped out of high school to concentrate on chess, He won the United States Junior Championship in 1969 and spent the next several years living primarily in Europe and playing in tournaments there. However, at eighteen he made the decision to go to college and pursue a career in economics rather than to become a professional player, although he continued to play and improve for several years afterward. Rogoff was awarded the IM title in 1974, and the GM title in 1978. He was 3rd in the World Junior Championship of 1971 and finished 2nd in the US Championship of 1975, which doubled as a Zonal competition, a half point behind Walter Browne; this result qualified him for the 1976 Interzonal at Biel where he finished 13–15th. In other tournaments, he drew for first at Norristown in 1973 and at Orense in 1976.[1] He has also drawn individual games against former world champions Mikhail Tal[2] and Tigran Petrosian.[3] In 2012 he drew a blitz game with the world's highest rated player Magnus Carlsen.[4]
Early in his career, Rogoff served as an economist at the International Monetary Fund (IMF), and at the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System.
Rogoff was the Charles and Marie Robertson Professor of International Affairs at Princeton University.[5]
In 2002, Rogoff was in the spotlight because of a dispute with Joseph Stiglitz, former chief economist of the World Bank and 2001 Nobel Prize winner. After Stiglitz criticized the IMF in his book, Globalization and Its Discontents, Rogoff replied in an open letter.[6]
In April 2013, Rogoff was at the centre of worldwide attention with Carmen Reinhart (coauthor of the book This Time is Different) when their widely cited study "Growth in a Time of Debt" was shown to contain computation errors which critics claim undermine its central thesis that too much debt causes recession.[7][8] An analysis by Herndon, Ash and Pollin argued that "coding errors, selective exclusion of available data, and unconventional weighting of summary statistics lead to serious errors that inaccurately represent the relationship between public debt and GDP growth among 20 advanced economies in the post-war period."[9] Their calculations demonstrated that high debt countries grew at 2.2 percent, rather than the −0.1 percent figure initially cited by Reinhart and Rogoff.[9] Rogoff and Reinhardt claimed that their fundamental conclusions were accurate after correcting the coding errors detected by their critics.[10][11] They further disavowed the claim frequently attributed to them that a 90% government debt to GDP ratio is a specific tipping point for growth outcomes.[12] Further papers by Rogoff and Reinhart,[13] and the International Monetary Fund,[14] which were not found to contain similar errors, reached conclusions similar to the initial paper. The subject remains controversial, because of the political ramifications of the research, though in Rogoff and Reinhart's words "[t]he politically charged discussion ... has falsely equated our finding of a negative association between debt and growth with an unambiguous call for austerity."[12] He is a member in the Group of Thirty.
His most recent book, This Time Is Different: Eight Centuries of Financial Folly, which he co-authored with Carmen Reinhart, was released in October 2009.[15]
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^ "Mikhail Tal vs Kenneth Rogoff". Chessgames.com. Retrieved April 18, 2013.
^ "Tigran Vartanovich Petrosian vs Kenneth Rogoff". Chessgames.com. Retrieved April 18, 2013.
^ Kavalek, Lubomir (September 5, 2012). "Magnus Carlsen Storms New York's Chess Scene".
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^ Rogoff, Kenneth (July 2, 2002). "An Open Letter".
^ Alexander, Ruth (April 19, 2013). "Reinhart, Rogoff... and Herndon: The student who caught out the profs".
^ "How Much Unemployment Was Caused by Reinhart and Rogoff's Arithmetic Mistake?".
^ a b Herndon, Thomas; Ash, Michael; Pollin, Robert (April 15, 2013). "Does High Public Debt Consistently Stifle Economic Growth? A Critique of Reinhart and Rogoff" (PDF).
^ "Reinhart "Reinhart-Rogoff Initial Response", Financial Times blog, April 16, 2013 (subscription required)
^ Inman, Phillip (April 17, 2013). "Rogoff and Reinhart defend their numbers".
^ a b http://www.nytimes.com/2013/04/26/opinion/debt-growth-and-the-austerity-debate.html "Debt, Growth and the Austerity Debate"], op-ed by Carmen M. Reinhart and Kenneth S. Rogoff, The New York Times, April 25, 2013
^ http://www.aeaweb.org/articles.php?doi=10.1257/jep.26.3.69
^ http://www.imf.org/external/pubs/ft/weo/2013/01/index.htm
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'Poetry where the heavy and the light are held in tension'—Rustum Kozain reviews Fiona Zerbst's new collection, In Praise of Hotel Rooms
August 27, 2020 October 22, 2021 Rustum KozainLeave a Comment on 'Poetry where the heavy and the light are held in tension'—Rustum Kozain reviews Fiona Zerbst's new collection, In Praise of Hotel Rooms
Rustum Kozain reviews In Praise of Hotel Rooms, the fifth collection of poetry by Fiona Zerbst, calling it 'a fine collection of poetry by one of South Africa's finest poets'.
Read an excerpt from In Praise of Hotel Rooms here
In Praise of Hotel Rooms
Fiona Zerbst
Dryad Press, 2020
What is it that draws me to Fiona Zerbst's poetry? When I first read her work, back in 1991 with her debut, Parting Shots, I was struck by the assuredness of the poetic voice. Enrolled for an MA in English Literature, I also fancied myself an aspirant poet. But, for all my pretension, I was struck by the maturity and control in the poetry of Parting Shots—struck, not without envy, that here was someone younger than me whose poetry read as the writing of a fully formed poet. A real poet against whose work my own writing then amounted to so much scrimshandering. I admired the poetry, but also envied that gift. I do not know how many times and hours I have stared at 'Mandelstam: A Photograph', trying to unlock Zerbst's secrets. How could she see what she sees in a photograph of a long dead Russian poet: 'Your face, retentive as broken stone'?
With In Praise of Hotel Rooms, Zerbst's fifth volume, that admiration has deepened, and so has the envy. Feckless, despairing Romantic that I am, I have to admire the commitment to a poetry that comes from work—perhaps even dogged work—and which pushes through the surfeit of language in our loud internet age. As Zerbst writes in 'Tools':
still I come
to lay them [words] out
row after row,
used before,
honest with use,
or stunted, solid,
rusted, worn,
dull as a hoe.
In Zerbst's ars poetica, the work of poetry, of writing, leads, counter-intuitively, to a certain plainness—'all glamour gone'—but a plainness that lies beyond the utilitarian. Or, put another way, the utility of poetry lies in its very refusal, paradoxically, to be useful: a 'useful blankness'. A useful, glamourless blankness.
I think it valuable to think of poetry as sometimes divested from glamour and from usefulness. At present, we witness demands that writing and art exhibit full-spectrum awareness. Artfulness that doesn't address present urgencies is seen as an impoverished art. I myself suffer from an anxiety that poetry is 'useless' in the face of myriad barbarisms and injustices perpetrated by political and economic elites, while we consume terabytes of glamourous audiovisual mass culture and shout out our grievances and hurt at each other. And we get louder and louder—listen to me!—because the elites, the people who have power over us, aren't listening.
Reading Zerbst's poetry reminds us that there are parts of our lives that cannot be addressed via loudhailers—difficult parts, like the loss of love or the loss of a loved one to death, that are best approached through a language tempered by reflection. Zerbst's poetry is not a poetry of ready-made insights or easy resolutions. As the title poem that opens the book implies, poetry is also to be found in those moments that cannot be captured exactly or in their fullness: 'That hush behind curtains/ you can't describe later'.
The moment or experience or emotion that evades description … to make poetry out of that, to communicate the ineffable or unsayable, is Zerbst's metier and her deft hand can treat serious matters with a light touch without sacrificing the gravitas of the subject matter. Because the language isn't clamouring for attention—because, in a way, the poetry refuses the terms of 'normal' communication that requires ever loudening, clamouring language—the reader trusts the voice. The voice does not draw attention to its performance. The upshot is that the writer disappears from the text—the words on the page appear as if natural, effortless. There is no straining towards the poetic.
This quality in Zerbst's poetry is what draws me back to the writing—the deft touch, the seemingly effortless poetry. Eschewing the glamour, I suppose, of topical material, staying true to some inner vision of what is true and sincere to her—writing on her own terms—one cannot help but turn her lines over and over in the head and mouth. Here is an epiphanic moment from the end of 'Presentiments':
… And between us –
this line of coast and me –
that dried-out puzzle of salt
on a maze-like path of sand.
A chunk of coast in a crescent
where at last I came to rest
after years of loneliness,
presentiments of death.
Look again at the ordinary or plain language in the above—the language or words 'honest with use' as described in 'Tools'. The syntax too is straightforward. But there is something going on in 'A chunk of coast in a crescent/ where at last I came to rest', something that comes as a surprise, perhaps because of the syntactical variation. Compared to these lines, the first half of the poem is fairly prosaic with the two main clauses being 'I remember this chunk of coast …' and 'I recall/ the houses'. Then, a few fragments—i.e. lines without main, finite verbs. Then, the final four lines, also a fragment, but with the subordinate clause 'where at last I came to rest'. The line that is the centre of gravity of the poem—weighted further by the two lines following—is at the same time a line that is metrically more alive than the rest of the poem. That's deft and artful.
In 'The Bay', Zerbst commemorates her friend and mentor, Stephen Watson. As heavy as the heart may be, Zerbst again uses her deft touch to conjure the late poet while avoiding the maudlin: the sea 'offers up waves in which you wade/ until you're almost solid again/ alive within the poems you made'. This nexus of creative forces—poetry, the sea, conjuring—brings to the fore another quality I envy in Zerbst's poetry—its spectral nature. It should be clear that I do not mean this in any morbid, ghostly sense. I'm trying to describe, rather, a quality in the poetry where the heavy and the light are held in tension. Or where the seen and the unseen co-exist. Where the ineffable and the elusive are not big cosmic riddles, but neither are they ephemeral—ordinary as a 'hush behind curtains' ('In Praise of Hotel Rooms') or a 'huge, dark animal' ('After-Image).
To approach it from the opposite direction: Zerbst's poetry is deceptively 'light', but there is almost always a shadowy something about—a presentiment, an unknown animal, a past love. And then, treated with her characteristic deftness, at fine pitch in filigreed verse ('Herringbone-fine' as she describes a seahorse in 'Knysna Seahorse'), the elusive nature of memories of a past love ('One Night in Kyiv' and 'Odessa Days') ring true. The representation of that elusiveness is convincing.
In Praise of Hotel Rooms is a fine collection of poetry by one of South Africa's finest poets. That this is her fifth volume of poetry is also an indication of Zerbst's commitment to her art, given that few poets in South Africa go on to publish more than one or two books, and despite the fact that Zerbst has received scant attention from prize committees. Dryad Press should consider bringing out a meaty selected volume of her work.
Rustum Kozain is The JRB Poetry Editor. He is the author of This Carting Life (2005) and Groundwork (2012), both of which won the Olive Schreiner Prize, as well as, respectively, the Ingrid Jonker Prize and the Herman Charles Bosman Award. His poetry has been published in translation in French, Indonesian, Italian and Spanish. Follow him on Twitter.
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Life & Style is exclusively reporting that model Bella Hadid and rapper Drake are dating. On the surface, it seemed pretty random that Drake threw Bella an extravagant 21st birthday bash at NYC's Socialista lounge on Oct. 9. Turns out there was a reason for his generosity: They "have been secretly dating since June," a source reveals.
Since Drake threw her the party, "Bella has fallen even harder" for the rapper, says the source. "She thought it was so romantic. It started out casual, but they're definitely serious [now]. They've been meeting up and going out for romantic dinners.
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Please join us for a screening of the documentary Pussy Riot: The Movement, a film that follows the members of the band from their performances to their lives in prison and back again. Producer and writer Carole Keeney Harrington will be present for a Q&A session after the screening!
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Luis and Christine provide uplifting insight to the many aspects of disaster recovery. They will discuss their experiences with service-oriented leadership in their community and share valuable lessons through their words and music that can be applied to our own Aggie Community. Luis and student musicians will perform works from his recently debuted album, Amor(es), directly influenced by Hurricane Maria.
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A "soft landing" is still the likeliest scenario, the National Bank of Canada says.
A "for sale" sign is pictured in the front yard of a house in Toronto, July 17. The latest data from the Teranet/National Bank house price index shows house prices in Canada's largest cities have largely turned negative in the past few months.
Many in the real estate industry have declared that Canada's housing markets have achieved the much-desired "soft landing," and the country is not in for a severe housing correction.
But the latest data from the Teranet/National Bank house price index shows house prices in Canada's largest cities have largely turned negative in the past few months.
House prices fell in October in eight of the 11 cities surveyed in the index, with only Quebec City and Halifax showing any price growth, and prices flat in Victoria.
"In the most expensive markets, new mortgage qualification rules and the rise in interest rates have cooled demand significantly," National Bank economist Marc Pinsonneault wrote.
"For instance, in Vancouver, November was a fourth month in a row without a rise in home prices, for a cumulative drop of 1.8 per cent. In Toronto, prices declined over the last three months, for a total loss of 0.4 per cent."
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Markets were also particularly weak in the Prairies, where the recent decline in oil prices has hit the economy.
On top of new mortgage rules that have reduced buying power by about 20 per cent, rising interest rates have also been putting downward pressure on the housing market.
But with weaker-than-expected economic data coming in recently, expectations are growing that the Bank of Canada may delay further rate hikes, providing some relief to homebuyers.
"With interest rates set to rise more slowly than previously thought, hopes for a soft landing of the Canadian home resale market are still warranted," Pinsonneault wrote in a client note.
But even the most optimistic outlooks for the market — such as those put out by real estate agencies — concede that the days of rapid house price growth are likely over in Canada.
In a report issued this week, realtor Re/Max predicted house prices would rise by a tepid 1.7 per cent in 2019, while in a separate report, realtor Royal LePage predicted prices would rise 1.2 per cent next year nationwide.
That may prove to be below the overall rate of inflation, which has been running at a 2.4-per-cent clip recently.


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American Society of Cinematographers Accepting Entries in Television Competition
Organization Sets 2018 Date for Annual Awards Gala
The American Society of Cinematographers (ASC) has opened its call for entries in the television categories for the 32nd Annual ASC Awards for Outstanding Achievement in Cinematography, which will be held February 17, 2018, at the Ray Dolby Ballroom at Hollywood & Highland.
The ASC is now accepting submissions in three categories: (1) Episode of a Television Series – Commercial; (2) Episode of a Television Series – Non-Commercial; and (3) Motion Picture, Miniseries, or Pilot Made for TV. The deadline to enter is November 1 by 5 p.m. (PT).
To qualify for the ASC TV Awards, shows must have a premiere broadcast date in the United States between November 1, 2016, and October 31, 2017. Entry forms can be downloaded on the ASC website at www.theasc.com/asc/awards/entry-forms.
Winners in the television categories at the 31st ASC Awards included Fabian Wagner, ASC, BSC for Game of Thrones, Tod Campbell for Mr. Robot, and Igor Martinovic for The Night Of.
In addition to the TV awards, the ASC gala in February will also honor excellence in feature film cinematography, and recognize cinematographers and filmmakers for their contributions to the art and craft of filmmaking throughout their career.
For a complete timeline of the 32nd ASC Awards, visit www.theasc.com/asc/awards/dates-deadlines.
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"A Friend in Need is a Friend Indeed"; interview with Hakim Gul
Published: 08:50 AM 11-06-2018 Updated: 09:51 AM 11-06-2018
Memories of ACBAR
Engineer Hakim Gul was Steering committee member of ACBAR in 1991 to 1993, 1996 -1997 and Vice Chair in 1993-1994. He is currently advisor for the Ministry of Economy, NGO Department.
Engineer Hakim Gul has many memories of ACBAR as member of Steering Committee and Vice Chair in the 1990s. "Working with ACBAR itself is a memory, it was an honor for me, through ACBAR we helped very needy people, who were leaving Afghanistan and migrating to Pakistan in the 70s and 80s due to the Soviet invasion."
During the war, beside other things, schools were also destroyed. Hakim Gul remembers building a school from which he graduated in his own village in the Wardak province. "When I came to my village, the school was burned by militants, in 1990 I wrote a proposal with the help of UNESCO, then I got funds to build a school, which is still a place for children to study, it has graduated many engineers, doctors and others with various professions. When I see this school and the kids attending the school I feel proud and very happy."
ACBAR NGO members had programs for supporting refugees in Pakistan and working on cross border activities. In order to coordinate better, NGOs were sharing the information through ACBAR and coordinating services in those areas. Regular meetings were held in ACBAR, than later other coordinating bodies like ANCB and SWABAC also started working.
We asked Hakim Gul about the achievements of ACBAR at that time, he replied: "The Afghanistan Resource and Information Centre (ARIC) was a big achievement of ACBAR. It is now a world wide centre for anyone who wants to research about Afghanistan and is based at Kabul University under the name ACKU. Nancy Dupree was responsible for this."
Engineer Hakim Gul says as the situation is changing so the role of ACBAR also must change. "At that time when ACBAR started there were refugees and emergencies and we were trying to save the lives of people. Now there is an established government, ACBAR must change its mission and focus on capacity building to provide knowledge and tools to NGO staff. Also play an advocacy role on behalf of its members and the Afghan civil society. ACBAR must ensure transparency and accountability through effective and efficient utilization of resources to the best satisfaction of the government, donors and responsive to the needs of the people and improve coordination among its members and all stakeholders."
The strongest thing for ACBAR has always been its members. ACBAR coordinates all issues with member organizations, thus the voice of ACBAR is in reality the voice of its members who are represented by ACBAR. Sometimes NGOs are doing many activities but there is less publicity. Hakim Gul's recommendation to NGOs is to publicize better what is being done. Show to the people what you do through the media. NGOs should work together to show the results of their activities to the people and to the government so that they will know the importance of NGOs work and will be satisfied with the essential value of NGOs.


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Pew experts discuss protection for sharks and manta rays - Episode 1: Sharks' Big Hope
It's big business, a big vote, and a big moment for sharks.
The Conference of the Parties to the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora, or CITES, takes place in Bangkok, Thailand - March 3 to 14. Tune in to Oceans inc to keep up-to-date on the series of podcasts released in conjunction with this conference.
At this critical meeting, governments will debate adding five species of sharks and two species of manta rays to the treaty. A positive result will limit international trade of shark fin and meat and manta gill rakers and help reduce the threat of over fishing facing these species.
For nearly 40 years, CITES has shielded thousands of plants and animals from over-exploitation through international trade. This treaty is considered one of the best-enforced international conservation agreements. Pew experts highlight key issues under discussion and potential outcomes for this important meeting. Check back on Tuesdays and Thursdays for more episodes.
Episode 1: Sharks' Big Hope
In the first installment, Lieberman explains which of the seven species advocates are seeking to protect at this year's conference and how the CITES treaty works to protect more than 30,000 endangered species. Listen to the podcast here.
ABOUT THE EXPERT Sue Lieberman Deputy Director, International Policy Susan Lieberman joined Pew in August 2009 as deputy director of International Policy. She leads an integrated program focused on treaties, regional fisheries management organizations and other intergovernmental organizations to achieve Pew's marine conservation goals.
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Memorial Research and Information Centre (St Petersburg) is continuing to inform all who are interested in the events concerning the organization in the wake of the decision by the Ministry of Justice of the Russian Federation to include it in the list 'of organizations carrying out the function of a foreign agent'. This is our second bulletin.
25 November, evening. The Ioffe Foundation, together with the Polish Institute in St Petersburg, organized a presentation of the book 'Killed at Katyn', released by the International Memorial Society in September 2015. The book represents a memorial to the Polish officers from the Kozelsky prisoner of war camp who, following a decree of the Politburo of the Central Committee of the Bolshevik Party, were shot in the spring of 1940 in the Katyn forest near Smolensk. The list of those executed contains 4,415 names with brief details, including the pre-war biography of the prisoners, their civilian professions and family circumstances, and also information relating to their becoming Soviet prisoners, concluding the date when they were sent to 'be at the disposal of the Smolensk NKVD', i.e., to be shot.
The chair of the board of the International Memorial Society, Arseny Roginsky, the Polish historian, Professor Albin Glovatsy of Lodz university, Aleksander Guryanov, head of Memorial's Polish programme and author of the introduction to 'Killed at Katyn', and the book's editor, Larisa Eremina, all spoke at the presentation.
A discussion then followed. There were a few people in the hall led by the blogger, Nikolai Kamnev; in an 'internet-report' published by them the following day, they are referred to as '#SPb.Media team'. This team brought with them two 'specialists on the Katyn question' – V. V. Vasilik, a member of the department of the history of Slavic countries, and E. A. Prudnikova, a journalist known for her books and publications which 'refute' the facts relating to crimes of the Stalinist period, and in particular of those relating to Katyn.
Vasilik and Prudnikova defended the long disproved Soviet version of the Katyn events, according to which the Polish officers were shot by the Germans; Guryanov and Glovatsky presented counter arguments.
Kamnev himself only asked one question: has the Ioffe Foundation authorization for a public viewing of Andrzej Wajda's film 'Katyn', announced for the following day?
26 November, morning. The Memorial Research & Information Centre received a letter, by e-mail, from the Ministry of Culture department for the North-west Federal District. The letter stated that the Ministry has 'received information' of a planned showing of the film 'Khatyn' (in the document!) and, that, in accordance with the federal law 'on state support for cinematography in the Russian Federation', the showing of the film on the territory of the RF without a license is an administrative infringement of Article 14.58 of the Administrative Code.
Indeed, in accordance with legislation adopted in 2014, the public showing of films without a license – even of non-commercial films – is prohibited, except for those shown at an international film festival, even when the authors of a film give their permission (and in this case Andrzej Wajda had given permission, in 2011, for Memorial to show the film 'Katyn' on a non-commercial basis).
An infringement carries the threat of a fine of 50-100,000 roubles Under the circumstances, the organizers decided to postpone the screening to a later date, after sorting the matter out with the Ministry of Culture. In the announcement of the postponement, it was stated that this is the second such prohibition to have occurred recently. On 26 October 2015 a similar situation blocked the showing of the film in Tiumen.
26 November, 17.44. The Interfax news agency announced that, according to its sources, the St Petersburg Prosecutor's Office was carrying out an inspection of the activities of Memorial Research & Information Centre. According to the source, the basis for the inspection was 'the receipt of actionable intelligence'; however it was stated that the Prosecutor's Office did not have any information relating to the prohibition of the showing of the Wajda film 'Katyn'.
26 November, 18.45. Fifteen minutes before the originally announced time for the showing of the film 'Katyn', the assistant prosecutor for the Central district of the city of St Petersburg arrived at the offices of the Memorial Research & Information Centre accompanied by seven police officers. He stated that the reason for his visit was to check whether the showing of a 'prohibited film' was taking place in the building, however he presented no document in support of his assignment.
The assistant prosecutor was shown in to the conference hall; meanwhile the police officers, despite the protests of the Memorial volunteers (none of the permanent staff were in the office at the time), forcibly entered the building and inspected the offices. Then the visitors left, leaving no written record of their actions.
As of now the Memorial Research & Information Centre is preparing a submission to the St Petersburg Prosecutor's Office. We intend to request an explanation of the reason for and the aims of the inspection of the work of the Centre, as announced by Interfax.
In addition, we wish to receive commentary by the Prosecutor's Office about the legal basis for, and the relevant documents relating to, the appearance of the assistant prosecutor of the central district, and the accompanying police officers, at the Centre's offices.


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De Progressieve Volkspartij is een regelmatig voorgestelde fusie van linkse partijen in Nederland. Midden jaren zeventig was er sprake van serieuze samenwerking tussen de progressieve partijen Partij van de Arbeid, Politieke Partij Radikalen en Democraten '66 die moest uitmonden in een Progressieve Volkspartij. Nog steeds wordt erover verregaande samenwerking tussen linkse partijen gesproken in termen van een progressieve volkspartij.

De samenwerking tussen de PvdA, PPR en D'66 was uitgemond in een Progressief Akkoord, een gezamenlijk programma Keerpunt '72 en een schaduwkabinet onder leiding van Joop Den Uyl. Bij de verkiezingen van '72 werden de progressieven de grootste formatie, en werden ze leidende partij in het Kabinet Den Uyl.

In 1970 nam D'66 het initiatief voor een Progressieve Volkspartij. De PVP moest gevormd worden als een nieuwe partij niet als samenwerkingsverband tussen bestaande partijen. Hans van Mierlo was een groot voorstander. In 1971 sprak het PvdA-congres zich positief uit hierover. André van der Louw en Anne Vondeling waren voorstander en Joop den Uyl en Ed van Thijn waren tegen. Het idee van een Progressieve Volkspartij ging hand in hand met het idee van herziening van het kiesstelsel, naar Brits model: er moest een tweepartijenstelsel komen met een progressieve en een conservatieve partij. Dan zou er een regering gevormd kunnen worden of door de progressieven of door de conservatieven. Tussen 1971 en 1973 werd er binnen de partijen gediscussieerd over de nieuwe partij: een federatie, gezamenlijke fracties en afdelingen, en dubbellidmaatschappen werden als tussenvormen voorgesteld. In dezelfde periode dat de progressieve partijen verregaand samenwerkten werd het Christen-Democratisch Appèl gevormd door de confessionele partijen. In 1973 wees het PvdA-congres definitief federatieve samenwerking tussen PvdA, PPR en D'66 af. De partij wilde haar sociaaldemocratische identiteit niet laten verwateren voor een progressieve partij. Ook D'66, onder leiding van Jan Terlouw, nam in deze tijd afstand van progressieve samenwerking.

Nog steeds wordt er regelmatig opgeroepen tot verregaande progressieve samenwerking in de vorm van een Progressieve Volkspartij. In 1994 deed Paul Kalma zo'n oproep, in 2002 volgde Klaas de Vries, en in 2004 Job Cohen. In 2010 deed Xandra Schutte, hoofdredacteur van De Groene Amsterdammer, in haar blad zo'n oproep tot een fusie van PvdA, D66 en GroenLinks.

Progressieve samenwerking in Nederland in de jaren 1970

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Tower Hamlets scraps Press bench at Council meetings
Cllr Peter Golds, Leader of the Conservative Group on the London Borough of Tower Hamlets reports
Tower Hamlets Council is fighting to the death to preserve its infamous so called local newspaper, East End Life. This is the organ which costs more than the cover price of The Sun to produce and costs tax payers £1.5 million each year.
It has been calculated that public-sector organisations and the council paid a total of £980,000 to advertise in East End Life in 2009, making its true cost to the public purse £1.1 million a year, a cost which has increased in subsequent years. The "paper" employs journalists at more than £40,000 per year, has an editor and is overseen by the Head of Communications and Marketing, Takki Sulaiman, a one time Labour councillor in Haringey who lost his seat in 2006 and was Cabinet member for social services up to that time – enough said.
Despite the proposed changes in the law the council are investigating the possibility of an East End Life ALMO, which will allow the paper to exist after the new rules come into operation.
How this borough treats the real and independent press can be seen in another move. Officers have removed the press table from the council chamber. Reporters from the established press have to queue up for the gallery (a long task as Mayor Rahman ensures his supporters arrive at 5.30pm for a 7.30pm start) and sit where they can to take notes in what ever fashion is possible. The Head of Communications and Marketing of course, has a raised, front row seat.
Elected bodies from humble Parish Councils to Parliament provide press tables, but not Tower Hamlets Council.
I attach the exact words used by one of the most senior officers in response to my enquiry:
"This is not about access for reporters it's about a press desk which we dealt with some time ago as it takes up too much space. The last few meetings have operated perfectly acceptably without a press desk. I don't think there is an issue here"
Here we have a local authority, spending £1.3 billion of public money where one of the three most senior council officers feels "the press desk takes up too much space", despite the public section of the council chamber being increased in size since October last year.
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Lita and Kelly are back at it to catch up on this season's live shows and go over the highs and lows of the finale, as well as discuss the newest winner!
Lita and Kelly are back to walk you through this season's newly-announced top 10 of Season 15! They mourn the cuts, praise the all-stars, and give an update on some stars of SYTYCD's past.
Lita and Kelly are back to kick off season 15 of So You Think You Can Dance! They break down the old faces and new at the L.A. auditions, and are surprisingly pleased with Vanessa Hudgens.
Angela, Lita and Kelly get you caught up on the FINALE episode of ABC's Dancing with the Stars Season 25 and give their thoughts on all the couples and gossip!
Lita Brillman, Angela Bloom & Kelly Bedard get you caught up on the two most recent episodes of ABC's Dancing with the Stars Season 25 and give their thoughts on all the couples and gossip!
Lita Brillman, Angela Bloom & Kelly Bedard get you caught up on the first 4 episodes of ABC's Dancing with the Stars Season 25 and give their thoughts on all the couples and gossip!
Lita and Kelly take their final bow as they recap the final episode of So You Think You Can Dance Season 14!
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In the wake of a brutal double elimination, Lita and Kelly break down the routines from this week's excellent evening of dance and set the stage for next week's performance finale.
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Make yourself at home in one of the 255 air-conditioned rooms featuring MP3 docking stations and minibars. Windows open to city and courtyard views. Complimentary wireless Internet access is available to keep you connected. Private bathrooms with bathtubs or showers feature handheld showerheads and makeup/shaving mirrors.
Relax at the full-service spa, where you can enjoy massages, body treatments, and facials. You can take advantage of recreational amenities such as a health club, an outdoor pool, and a spa tub. Additional amenities include complimentary wireless Internet access, concierge services, and babysitting/childcare.
Enjoy a meal at one of the hotel's dining establishments, which include 3 restaurants and a coffee shop/café. From your room, you can also access 24-hour room service. A complimentary evening social is served for your convenience. Relax with your favorite drink at a bar/lounge or a poolside bar. Hot/cold buffet breakfasts are available daily for a fee.
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Nonrenewable Resources
By James Chen
What Are Nonrenewable Resources?
A nonrenewable resource is a natural substance that is not replenished with the speed at which it is consumed. It is a finite resource.
Fossil fuels such as oil, natural gas, and coal are examples of nonrenewable resources. Humans constantly draw on the reserves of these substances while the formation of new supplies takes eons.
Renewable resources are the opposite: Their supply replenishes naturally or can be sustained. The sunlight used in solar power and the wind used to power wind turbines replenish themselves. Timber reserves can be sustained through replanting.
Understanding Nonrenewable Resources
Nonrenewable resources come from the Earth. Humans extract them in gas, liquid, or solid form and then convert them for their use, mainly related to energy. The reserves of these substances took billions of years to form, and it will take billions of years to replace the supplies used.
A nonrenewable resource is a substance that is being used up more quickly than it can replace itself. Its supply is finite.
Most fossil fuels, minerals, and metal ores are nonrenewable resources.
Renewable resources such as solar and wind power and water are unlimited in supply.
In economic terms, nonrenewables are resources of economic value that cannot be readily replaced at the speed with which they are being consumed.
Examples of nonrenewable resources include crude oil, natural gas, coal, and uranium. These are all resources that are processed into products that can be used commercially.
For example, the fossil fuel industry extracts crude oil from the ground and converts it to gasoline. Fossil fuel liquids also are refined into petrochemical products that are used as ingredients in the manufacture of literally hundreds of products from plastics and polyurethane to solvents.
Fossil Fuels Vs. Nonrenewables
Fossil fuels are all nonrenewable. But not all nonrenewables are fossil fuels. Crude oil, natural gas, and coal are all considered fossil fuels, but uranium is not. Rather, it is a heavy metal that is extracted as a solid and then converted by nuclear power plants into a fuel source.
In the language of economics, nonrenewables are resources that cannot be replaced at the speed with which they are being consumed.
All of these nonrenewable resources have proved historically to be valuable energy sources that are inexpensive to extract. Storage, conversion, and shipping are easy and cheap.
Fuels created from nonrenewable resources are still the primary source of all the power generated in the world due to their affordability and high energy content.
Other Types of Nonrenewable Resources
Most nonrenewable resources are formed from organic carbon material which is heated and compressed over time, changing their form into crude oil or natural gas.
The term nonrenewable resource also refers to minerals and metals from the earth, such as gold, silver, and iron. These are similarly formed by a long-term geological process. They are often costly to mine, as they are usually deep within the Earth's crust. But they are much more abundant than fossil fuels.
Some types of groundwater are considered nonrenewable resources if the aquifer is unable to be replenished at the same rate at which it's drained.
Renewable Growth
Following the basic rule of supply and demand, the cost to obtain nonrenewable resources will continue to rise as they become scarcer. Supply for many of these fuels is in danger of running out completely. Eventually, their prices will hit a point that end users cannot afford, forcing a move toward alternative energy sources.
Meanwhile, concern over the impact of fossil fuel use on the environment and its contribution to global warming is growing. The first international agreement on fighting climate change was the Kyoto Protocol, adopted in 1997.
One caveat is that the alternatives require ample lead time to be put into place. That process has begun slowly. Wind power generated about 6.3% of American electrical power in 2017. About 1.6% of American electricity was supplied by solar power as of the end of 2017. Plug-in electric vehicles had a market share of a bit over 2% in 2018.
Why Renewable Resources Are Becoming More Vital
A renewable resource is a substance of economic value that can be replaced or replenished in less time than it takes to draw the supply down.
Energy Sector Definition
The energy sector is a category of stocks that relate to producing or supplying energy, i.e., oil and gas drilling and refining or power utility companies.
Hydrocarbon Definition
A hydrocarbon is an organic chemical compound composed exclusively of hydrogen and carbon atoms.
Crude Oil—Black Gold Defined
Crude oil is a naturally occurring, unrefined petroleum product composed of hydrocarbon deposits and other organic materials.
Energy Return on Investment (EROI)
Energy return on investment is the amount of energy that has to be expended in order to produce a certain amount of energy.
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Q: How to execute a .bat file first instead of an file .exe when both have the same path/name? My emacs.bat rest in the same bin directory as emacs.exe. This directory is included in the PATH variable (Windows).
Content of emacs.bat:
@echo off "%~dp0emacsclientw.exe" -na "%~dp0runemacs.exe" "%1"

However, whenever I use this command, emacs.exe gets executed instead of the .bat file. How would I go about fixing this?

A: It seems you could put the emacs.bat in another directory and place that directory earlier in the PATH. Note: if you were to run "emacs" while in the directory containing emacs.exe then the .exe would take precedence.
Edit: Alternatively, you could just type emacs.bat instead of emacs at the command prompt.
Edit 2: As seen in this Answer, you could set the PATHEXT environment variable. Something along the lines of:
PATHEXT=.BAT;.COM;.EXE;.CMD;.VBS;.VBE;.JS;.JSE;.WSF;.WSH;.RB;.RBW


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1. Who are the eleven actors who have portrayed Dr Who on TV.
2. What was the Danish pop group Aqua�s second number one single
3. Andre Romelle Young, American record producer, rapper, entrepreneur, and actor is better known as who?
4. Who was the first murderer to be captured with the aid of wireless communication?
5. Who was the weapons inspector who allegedly commited suicide after the Iraq dossier row?
6. What was the British television comedy series based on a set of books by Richard Gordon about the misadventures of a group of newly qualified doctors?
7. Who was the Dr from Hyde, Greater Manchester, found guilty in 2001 for the murders of 15 of his patients?
8. What was Dr Hook & The Medicine Show�s only British number 1 single?
9. What is the name of the health expert regularly seen on ITV since 1989 giving advice on health issues?
10. Who took the part of Dr Richard Kimble in the 1993 film, The Fugitive?
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3D model of headphones modelled in Blender v2.72b. The model is completed of materials and textures. You can find the UV Layout in the ZIP - see folder 'UV Layout'. The headphones equips a controller with two buttons for increasing or reduce the volume. The mike is fully rotatable. The audio and the microphone channel are connected by two separated jacks.


From being the gateway to the Land of Opportunity for millions of American families, landmarks such as the Empire State Building and Statue of Liberty, to having the best bagels and pizza in the known universe, you may be aware that New York has its share of claim to cultural fame.
Perhaps you may have heard someone say that being a New Yorker is in their blood.
Now a fashion start-up – formed right here in Rockland County – is taking that concept and making a brand out of it: "New York Is A Nationality." New York Is a Nationality, also known as NYIAN, is putting "what being a New Yorker is all about" at the center of its product line and identity.
The four creators behind the brand are creative director Manuel Santana, manager Rayson Vazquez, artist Tevin Zamor, and operations manager JK Diaz. The fashion impresarios said they have been pleased with the demand their products have found thus far in the New York marketplace.
It started with the hoodie, but four men were determined to expand their clothing brand with additional products for all ages, including such novelties as a pen and coffee mug available on their online store.
Currently, the company has seven different products and will continue to fortify their brand as they keep expanding.
There is discussion of opening a pop-up shop that can be brought to shopping centers and markets in Rockland County. Vazquez credited networking and making connections with others for helping their team move forward with the company.
The company is not afraid to co-collaborate. Recently they worked on a concept with Jack Farber, a 14-year-old entrepreneur from New York City. NYIAN's Cheddar Jack collection will include an exclusive tie-dye hoodie, which is scheduled to hit the marketplace in the near future.
Although a majority of their customers are young adults, the creators hope to bring unity and appeal to every kind of New Yorker regardless of their age, color or creed.
If you are interested in checking out their online store, you can visit www.nyisanationality.com.