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200 Years On: Engels and his Revolutionary Contribution
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Today (28/11/20) marks 200 years since the birth of Friedrich Engels. For this occasion we reproduce an article from Revolutionary Perspectives 1 (Series 3), originally published back in 1995 for the 100th anniversary of Engels' death.
Interpreting Marx's Theory of the State and Opposition to Anarchism
Though Marx intended to dedicate a volume of Capital to the question of 'the State', he died before he could even begin that work. We are, therefore, left to reconstruct the 'Marxist theory of the state' from scattered references littered throughout Marx and Engels' collected works. My analysis investigates the shifts and contradictions in their thought, as well as the utility these contradictions served in misrepresenting the anarchist alternative.
Neue Rheinische Zeitung
A short history of the newspaper Neue Rheinische Zeitung edited by Karl Marx in the 1840s and the role it played in the events of the day.
Beyond the Party: The evolution of the concept of "the Party" since Marx – Junius Collective (Pour une Intervention Communiste)
An essay by Pour une Intervention Communiste on the origins and development of the concept of "the Party" in the Marxist tradition, with critical analyses of the contradictions of Marx's and Engels' vacillations on this issue, and their partial responsibility for the subsequent career of the Party concept in its permutations at the hands of Liebknecht, Bebel, Kautsky, Lenin, Trotsky and Bordiga (social democratic continuity, the dictatorship of the Party), and its radical yet insufficient reformulations by Luxemburg, the KAPD and others ("return to Marx", "historic Party", the "Marx Party"—or even the "Debord party") as a revolutionary minority whose goal is to promote proletarian autonomy.
Anarchism and anarcho-syndicalism: selected writings by Marx, Engels and Lenin
A collection of writings of Marx, Engels and Lenin on anarchism and anarcho-syndicalism, published by Progress Publishers.
Communism has not yet begun - Claude Bitot
First published in 1995 in France: Section One, "The Historical Balance Sheet" includes chapters on: communist movements throughout history; Marx and Engels and communism; "Real" vs. "Formal" domination of capital and the importance of this distinction for understanding the failure of the old workers movements (capitalism was not "obsolete" prior to 1945). Section Two, "Perspectives", contains an extensive discussion of: the economic roots of capitalism's current crisis (the "final stage of its cycle"); the communist revolution; and socialism.
Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels - David Riazanov
Part of the series of biographies of Karl Marx.
Reproduced here for reference.
La origino de la familio, de la privata proprieto kaj de la ŝtato: Fredericko Engelso
Libro en la origino de la familo kaj klaso socio kun privata posedaĵo. Skribita per Fredericko Engelso en 1884.
Revolutionary Feminism, Communist Interventions vol. 3
The third volume of the Communist Interventions reader series, on Revolutionary Feminism. A century of debates between communist, anarchist, and radical feminist militants on women's oppression and capitalism.
Ethnology, historical materialism and the dialectical method – Paul Kirchhoff
The world-renowned ethnologist—and former member of the KAPD—explains the basic principles of ethnology, i.e., "the study of classless primitive society", in this series of lectures delivered at the National Autonomous University of Mexico in 1938-1939.
German communist and close collaborator with Karl Marx on the foundations of communist theory.
Key articles:
The origin of the family, private property and the state - Frederick Engels
The holy family, or critique of critical criticism - Karl Marx and Frederick Engels
Ludwig Feuerbach and the End of Classical German Philosophy


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Will Scalability Issues Be The Death Of Blockchain?
Hassaan Malik Follow on Twitter January 9, 2019
The decentralized technology, blockchain, has catered to a myriad of obstacles that were in the way of many of the fields. Transaction support, Supply Chain management, government operation are just a few of the many fields that have been completely revolutionized, however, blockchain with all of its much dotted advantages has a few downsides.
The first one being that it does not hold the ability to carry out a lot of transactions at an unmatchable speed. Granted, it does ensure that the transaction is secure and are conducted without any intrusions from third parties, but a lot of traffic on the network can compromise its speed. This features makes scaling blockchain close to impossible. Moreover, to date, no blockchain is 100% decentralized owing to the fact that all these are constituted of consensus protocols, none of which ensure 100% decentralization of the network.
Nearly in every one of these protocols there exists a fragment of centralized authority. If we consider the PoW, that has been incorporated in Bitcoin as the consensus mechanism, it relies on the fact that the more electric power you can accumulate to mine bitcoins, the greater chances of unlocking a block. There are numerous variations of the technology but the dilemma prevails.
When Bitcoin was first released, many were in awe of the underlying technology, but there were a handful that determined early on how difficult it would be to scale the technology. This shortcoming of blockchain was pre seen by an individual who proceeded to download Satoshi Nakamoto's(the creator of Bitcoin), white paper and run the source code. Along the way he tried to exploit the weaknesses of the code, to conclude that the code was flawed in the sense that as more blocks were mined the transaction rate became slower. So he took the initiative to form an improved variation inspired by Satoshi's formula.
This gentleman is named Dan Hughes who claims to have built a new and improved version of blockchain over a period of six years that is capable of carrying out transactions at much higher rate than blockchain. Previously Hughes had been known for helping build the software for the NFC mobile payments. Radix is the product of his relentless hard work that boasts such amazing features which could potentially render blockchain obsolete.
The feature that makes Radix unique and better than blockchain as claimed by its creator is that it uses shards, a decentralized structure split into 18 quintillion pieces so that transactions can be carried out with ease. These shards can be tracked down with the help of a key that holds its location. Theoretically Radix can carry out hundreds of millions of transactions with ease. Without doubt, Hughes was inspired by the code behind Bitcoin, but it is entirely different and has not inherited a single line of code from Bitcoin. Rather its constituent underlying technology is called Tempo.
Radix is now in its Alpha Testing phase and a few projects have also been incorporating it to test it functionality. Metalyfe, an encrypted web browsing application and Pillar, who is planning to build apps on Radix. Radix has also received a very generous funding of $1 million from a leading European venture capitalist. Radix is all set be launched in March this year.
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Afghans protest invasion anniversary
KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — Hundreds of people marched through the streets of the Afghan capital today, demanding the immediate withdrawal of international military forces ahead of the 10th anniversary of the U.S. invasion.
The peaceful demonstration in downtown Kabul was meant to mark the Oct. 7 invasion of Afghanistan 10 years ago, after the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks against the United States.
The U.S. invasion came after Taliban leader Mullah Omar refused to hand over Osama bin Laden, purportedly because of his disbelief the al-Qaida chief was responsible for the attacks and because it went against the Afghan tradition of hospitality and protection of guests.
U.S. forces killed bin Laden in a raid on his hideout in Pakistan in May.
The demonstrators chanted, "No to occupation," and "Americans out" as they marched through the streets holding pictures of Afghans killed in violence and later burned an American flag. The demonstration was organized by a small left-wing party.
No official events have been announced so far to mark the invasion, neither by the government nor NATO.
"The United States said it came to help the Afghan people and provide a good life to Afghan people, but their true purpose was to occupy our country," said Farzana, a 22-year-old woman who goes by one name. "It is 10 years since the invasion of Afghanistan, and all it has left behind is the blood of the Afghan people. We want the U.S. to leave our country."
She added that "suicide attacks, insecurity and corruption are increasing day by day."
In Copenhagen, military officials said a Danish soldier was seriously wounded by an explosive device during an operation today in Afghanistan. The blast occurred west of a Danish base in Helmand province, the military said, providing no other details.


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Humane Society CEO Lists the Beauties and Beasts of Advocacy
Wayne Pacelle has tackled everyone from pig farmers to fashion designers in his quest to protect animals for the Humane Society of the United States. On Tuesday, the group's charismatic CEO was back in the fray when he testified before the House Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism and Homeland Security about the business of animal fighting.
Before he went, Pacelle sat down with The Politico's Jean Chemnick to talk about himself, the society's political agenda and who's not on his Christmas card list.
Q: How did you get interested in animal advocacy?
A: I think like a lot of kids I had an instinctual empathy for animals … No one instilled the ethic in me or the instinct. As I got older, I just began to attach some intellectual constructs to the emotional instinct. I began to talk about it more, and I began to read about the subject as a kid. I had all the encyclopedias dog-eared to the animal entries.
At the end of my sophomore year (at Yale), I spent a summer in a park working for the student conservation organization. I got my first pick, which was Isle Royale National Park in the northern part of Lake Superior. It was this incredible ecosystem that had moose and elk. I saw wild animals in an unmolested state.
I started an animal organization my junior year, and we worked on a wide range of issues, and had quite a wide following on campus. After I graduated, a number of groups recruited me, and I took a job with a magazine (called Animal's Agenda).
Q: Who are five of the Humane Society's best friends in the House and the Senate?
A: In the House, I'd say Elton Gallegly (R-Calif.), Edward Whitfield (R-Ky.), who has been an ally on horse slaughter and voted with us on 100 percent of our tough fights, Earl Blumenauer (D-Ore.), who has been an ally on animal fighting and downers (cows that are too sick to walk into slaughterhouses) , Peter DeFazio (D-Ore.), who has worked to halt lethal predator control, and Jim Moran (D-Va.), who has introduced a bill to ban the sale of raccoon dogs and bear baiting. Chris Shays (R-Conn.) has also been an ally.
Some friends in the Senate include John Ensign (R-Nev.), Mary Landrieu (D-La.), Dick Durbin (D-Ill.), Carl Levin (D-Mich.), Maria Cantwell (D-Wash.), and Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.)
Q: And who has opposed your agenda?
A: Richard Pombo (R-Calif.) was horrendous on our stuff. He was the tip of the spear for animal abuse industries. Duke Cunningham (R-Calif.), and Tom DeLay (R-Texas) were also bad on our issues. Conrad Burns (R-Mont.) was definitely the worst in the Senate. (Pombo, Cunningham and DeLay are no longer in the House, and Burns is out of the Senate.)
I don't like to use the word "enemy." People can be rough on one issue, but good on another. (Rep.) Bob Goodlatte (R-Va.), opposed us on downers and horse slaughter. Jim Sensenbrenner (R-Wis.) killed a bill we favored on animal fighting; he's not on our Christmas list anymore.
Q: You have used ballot initiatives extensively to promote your agenda. Why does that work?
A: First, they bring about reform in the states. They also create momentum for an issue, which allows it to play out at the national level. It is also a training ground; we have become an army of activists.
Q: Where do you think the society is going?
A: HSUS has been steadily amping up its political operation, and that effort accelerated with the creation of the Humane Society Legislative Fund, a 501c4 organization.
But we have also been strengthening our traditional programs. For instance, we have more animal sanctuaries than ever and have assembled an extraordinarily capable disaster response unit. We have also stepped up our work with corporations and we are working with them to modify their practices … We have worked to get dozens of companies to sell only cage-free eggs, and just last week, Smithfield Foods, the nation's largest pig producer, announced it would phase out its use of gestation crates.
Q: Do you have a pet?
A: No. I'm never home. I travel a lot, and it wouldn't be fair. I preach that if you have a pet, you have to have a strong commitment.


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Djemba (ou Diemba) est un village du Cameroun situé dans le département du Boumba-et-Ngoko et la région de l'Est, à proximité de la frontière avec la République centrafricaine, sur la route rurale reliant Ngatto Nouveau à Gribé. Il fait partie de la commune de Yokadouma.

Population
En 1964 Djemba comptait 281 habitants, principalement des Bombong. Lors du recensement de 2005 on y dénombrait  habitants.

Notes et références

Annexes

Bibliographie
 Dictionnaire des villages de Boumba-Ngoko, ORSTOM, , , 34 p.,

Articles connexes
 Parc national de Boumba Bek

Liens externes
 Yokadouma, sur le site Communes et villes unies du Cameroun (CVUC)
 Monographie de la commune de Yokadouma. État des lieux prospectif, Arc-en-Ciel, , 92 p.

Village dans la région de l'Est (Cameroun)

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Vallee, Jacques & Aubeck, Christopher; Together with: the "Magoniax" Research Team.
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The Pain of Sending My Autistic Son to Residential School
Sometimes the toughest, most painful parental decisions are the right ones.
Psychology Today, December 20, 2020
Thirteen years ago, my husband and I began reluctantly discussing the possibility of sending our autistic teenage son Nat to live at his school. He was 17 at the time. Coming to terms with the painful prospect of his moving out took a long time and considerable planning. And yet, it also happened in a split second. I think the real decision was made right during one of Nat's more frightening outbursts, which I only remember in fragments. What stands out to me is the thought I had then: I can't do this. I can't live like this anymore. It had been months of almost daily incidents, where Nat would become frantic, screaming and biting himself and clawing at us, about anything that was not quite right: a porch light left on during the daytime; the bagel bag that fell out of the freezer onto his foot. The everyday things out of whack had sudden and terrible consequences and were like land mines in our family.
So, after a year of discussion with the school, Nat was going to move to a group home run by his school. The prospect of the move-out brought me no relief. At that point, I felt like the timing could not be worse. As often happens with these kinds of things, the difficult, explosive phase of last year also contained some wonderful triumphs for Nat: his first job in the community, at a Papa Gino's, and his solid teamwork at his Special Olympics basketball games.
Because of all his amazing progress, I was torn about our decision. Even though he was now 18, and would probably thrive there, I was tormented that maybe I should have tried harder to make our home life work for him. Would he feel like we abandoned him? There was no way to know. There were only the choices that lay before me.
My only relief was to go on long, hard bike rides. One day, as I pushed up a hill, I was so choked with grief that I almost stopped. "I can't do this," I thought, like before, only this time I was envisioning my home without Nat, and it felt like my heart was breaking. I suddenly flashed to a memory of when he was a baby, and it seemed I was constantly asking God for help. But back then, unknowing young mother that I was, my requests were about random, unfounded fears, like these: "Don't let him get sick," or, "Don't let him turn out to be a criminal."
Stopped on that hill, I thought again about God and asking for help. But I didn't. I wanted action, not prayer. I wanted some peace, but that seemed out of reach. Sobbing there on my bike, I let the wind dry my face as I coasted downward.
My mother called me early the next morning. She was still in bed, but she told me she had thought of me as soon as she woke up. I just talked and talked, while Mom listened, only murmuring from time to time, holding me gently with her soft voice. "I thought I would ask God for help," I confided. There was a tiny pause. "Oh? And did you?" she asked carefully, probably not wanting to intrude or say the wrong thing. "No, not yet," I said.
When I hung up, I still felt sad. But I also noticed a satisfying emptiness, a regularity to my breathing, as if something inside me had become unstuck. OK. I knew I was going to try to follow through with my plan for Nat. Let him move out, but carefully evaluate it, and frequently.
It did not have to be forever! But it was the decision I had made for now.
I really don't know when it all stopped hurting. But it did. That quiet, soothing little conversation with Mom worked better than any prayer I could have uttered. And 12 years later, Nat did come back home to live with us during the COVID-19 quarantine. But now, he loves his current group home so much that he periodically asks when he's going back. His anxiety resurfaces, but now it's about wanting to go back. For he's a man now—31—and he has learned from both positive and negative experiences how to live life away from me. Now the problem is, I'm enjoying him here so much I don't want him to go back. But now, it's not up to me. It's his decision.


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Inspirational Quotes by Tupac Shakur (American Rapper, Actor)
Tupac Amaru Shakur (1971–96,) born Lesane Parish Crooks, also known as 2Pac, was an American rapper, actor, poet, activist. He was one of the leading names in 1990s gangsta rap.
Born in New York City, Shakur was named after a revolutionary Incan leader—the name Tupac Amaru is Incan for "shining serpent." As a teenager, he moved with his family to California, where he joined the rap group Digital Underground.
In 1992, Shakur launched his solo career with 2Pacalypse Now, in addition to appearing in the film Juice (1992.) His fame grew and later albums, notably Me Against the World (1995) and All Eyez on Me (1996,) achieved multi-platinum status.
Shakur was a prominent figure in the intense feuding between the East and West Coast U.S. rap scenes and was often arrested for violent crime. In 1994, he survived being shot by burglars in a recording studio; he died two years later from wounds received in a drive-by shooting in Las Vegas.
Despite his relatively short recording career, Shakur left an enduring legacy within the hip-hop community. A long succession of posthumous releases of repackaged or remixed music reiterated his popularity.
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Wars come and go, but my soldiers stay eternal.
I'm not Saying I'm gonna change the world, but I guarantee that I will spark the brain that will change the world.
Watch people, because you can fake for a long time, but one day you're gonna show yourself to be a phony.
A coward dies a thousand deaths… a soldier dies but once.
Measure a man by his actions fully, from the beginning to the end. Don't take a piece out of my life or a song out of my music and say this is what I'm about, because you know better than that.
Reality is wrong. Dreams are for real.
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Fear is stronger than love, remember that. Fear is stronger than love, all that love I gave didn't mean nothing when it came to fear.
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By Ed Pettersen
Based in New York City, Zion 80's mission is to expand the scope and framework of Jewish music and lead it into the 21st Century while paying homage to its forefathers.
If you're not well versed in Jewish music its melodies have been prevalent in popular music maybe even without you consciously knowing. Songs like "Nature Boy" and "Strange Fruit" for example are not only written by Jewish writers but contain key elements and structure of song passed down for generations. What makes the Book of Angels vol. 22 so exciting is that Zion 80 carves out its own identity and territory while at the same time paying respect without hitting you over the head with it and the results are exciting and addictive. This may be the best played, produced, arranged, conducted, mixed and recorded album I've heard in the last ten years. I'm not kidding. It's that great. Each song will make you tweak your head to one side, enticing you to listen closer, to think you're hearing something, a note, a phrase, you might have heard before then takes you in a new direction that will both make you smile and titillate the mind at the same time.
For someone like myself, who is ¼ Jewish (yes there are Norwegian Jews; 892 were shipped from Oslo in 1940 to concentration camps by the Nazi's. Only 9 survived and returned after the war) these themes have been swimming in my soul for my whole life but you don't need to be Jewish or have some ancestry to enjoy this work. Do you like Indian music? Do you relate to Middle Eastern scales? Well then, that's precisely what this is seen "through the lens of Afrobeat" (according to their website). How this pertains to us here in Free Jazz land is that it's completely original, wildly inventive, exciting, brilliantly played, passionate and filled with joy. Lots of joy. I've listened to it three times already for this assignment and I will listen many more times after my fingers are done typing. I did not know of this group before being asked to write this review so maybe my exuberance is in direct relation to a new discovery but I think not (Disclaimer: I worked with Ms. Lurie on Giuseppi Logan's 2013 release "And They were Cool…" but didn't know she was part of this group until I researched them for this piece).
Nothing is perfunctory or forced on this record and the songs, 8 of them in total and perfectly sequenced, are not indulgent with the longest clocking in at just over ten minutes. They are tight, taut, superbly crafted and endlessly thrilling. No one takes a solo just because it is time. When member Brian Marsella takes a superbly creative keyboard turn during the song "Kenunit" it's not a jazz convention; it takes the song someplace new and ends the song perfectly. The horns make you want to believe they are improvised as they grunt and howl but in the most musical fashion so it can't be, can it? They are too together! I had a huge smile on my face during all three spins of this record and my wife laughed at me as she found me bopping across our living room floor with the volume cranked. As a guitarist myself Jon Madof (the leader of Zion 80) and Yoshie Fruchter are my new heroes. The interplay between them is brilliant and the solos and their tone are out of this world and the bass playing is tremendous. Shanir Blumenkranz knows just when to kick on (and step off) a fuzz pedal and use phasers judiciously and they add quite a lot to those songs without being distracting or getting in the way. For an album with so many players and complexities it's a wonder that there is also a good deal of space on this record. Nothing feels crammed in nor cramped ever.
If you can't tell by now you really must get this. You will not be sorry. Hopefully, like myself, it will stick with you long, long after the music stops playing. I can't recommend it enough.
If we could give an album six stars this would be it.
Zion80 is:
Jon Madof – guitar
Frank London – trumpet
Matt Darriau – alto sax
Greg Wall – tenor sax
Jessica Lurie – bari sax
Zach Mayer – bari sax
Brian Marsella – keyboards
Yoshie Fruchter – guitar
Shanir Blumenkranz – bass
Marlon Sobol – percussion
Yuval Lion – drums
Videos and more here: http://zion80.com/
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Its not exactly a pocket camera since its kind of robust. New on the market, it accepts SDHC memory cards (the new SD memory cards with capacity over 2GB). As for movies, Panasonic Lumix DMC-FZ8 records full-size movies in wide-aspect VGA (848×480) at 30fps, allowing you to view your recordings on a wide screen television.


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Q: Incomprehensible JMS Exception ActiveMQNotConnectedException In a project we are connecting to a server using JMS. We have a recurring exception approximately every month, and as we don't have access to the server side we don't know what is happening. We only have logs from our client. Below is the error trace:
javax.jms.JMSException: ActiveMQNotConnectedException[errorType=NOT_CONNECTED message=AMQ119006: Channel disconnected]
    at org.apache.activemq.artemis.jms.client.ActiveMQConnection$JMSFailureListener.connectionFailed(ActiveMQConnection.java:728) ~[NSP.jar:NFMP_19_11]
    at org.apache.activemq.artemis.jms.client.ActiveMQConnection$JMSFailureListener.connectionFailed(ActiveMQConnection.java:749) ~[NSP.jar:NFMP_19_11]
    at org.apache.activemq.artemis.core.client.impl.ClientSessionFactoryImpl.callSessionFailureListeners(ClientSessionFactoryImpl.java:701) ~[NSP.jar:NFMP_19_11]
    at org.apache.activemq.artemis.core.client.impl.ClientSessionFactoryImpl.callSessionFailureListeners(ClientSessionFactoryImpl.java:689) ~[NSP.jar:NFMP_19_11]
    at org.apache.activemq.artemis.core.client.impl.ClientSessionFactoryImpl.failoverOrReconnect(ClientSessionFactoryImpl.java:645) ~[NSP.jar:NFMP_19_11]
    at org.apache.activemq.artemis.core.client.impl.ClientSessionFactoryImpl.handleConnectionFailure(ClientSessionFactoryImpl.java:504) ~[NSP.jar:NFMP_19_11]
    at org.apache.activemq.artemis.core.client.impl.ClientSessionFactoryImpl.handleConnectionFailure(ClientSessionFactoryImpl.java:497) ~[NSP.jar:NFMP_19_11]
    at org.apache.activemq.artemis.core.client.impl.ClientSessionFactoryImpl.access$100(ClientSessionFactoryImpl.java:72) ~[NSP.jar:NFMP_19_11]
    at org.apache.activemq.artemis.core.client.impl.ClientSessionFactoryImpl$1.run(ClientSessionFactoryImpl.java:360) ~[NSP.jar:NFMP_19_11]
    at org.apache.activemq.artemis.utils.OrderedExecutorFactory$OrderedExecutor$ExecutorTask.run(OrderedExecutorFactory.java:122) ~[NSP.jar:NFMP_19_11]
    at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:1142) ~[?:1.8.0_45]
    at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:617) ~[?:1.8.0_45]
    at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:745) [?:1.8.0_45]
Caused by: org.apache.activemq.artemis.api.core.ActiveMQNotConnectedException: AMQ119006: Channel disconnected
    at org.apache.activemq.artemis.core.client.impl.ClientSessionFactoryImpl.connectionDestroyed(ClientSessionFactoryImpl.java:353) ~[NSP.jar:NFMP_19_11]
    at org.apache.activemq.artemis.core.remoting.impl.netty.NettyConnector$Listener$1.run(NettyConnector.java:956) ~[NSP.jar:NFMP_19_11]
    ... 4 more

As you can see:
javax.jms.JMSException: ActiveMQNotConnectedException[errorType=NOT_CONNECTED message=AMQ119006: Channel disconnected]

The error says the Channel disconnected. We searched for this, but we cannot understand what does it mean in the context of JMS. Is it related to our client or to the server?
Anyone have an idea about this specific error or JMS channels in general?

A: There is no such thing as a "JMS channel," per se. The channel referenced here is the underlying Netty channel used in the JMS client implementation provided by ActiveMQ Artemis.
The stack-trace simply indicates that the channel has failed. It has been disconnected. Therefore, the client is no longer connected to the broker. There is no specific indication of why the channel has been disconnected. The disconnect could have been caused by the broker crashing, a network failure of some kind, etc.

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The establishment of the Crime Information Cell opens a new chapter in operational cooperation between Common Security and Defence Policy (CSDP) and Justice and Home Affairs (JHA) actors that will strengthen their collective effectiveness and operational impact.
The Crime Information Cell will further enhance the exchange of information on criminal activity in the Central Mediterranean and will provide a platform to make full use of the Agencies' unique capabilities to disrupt criminal networks in the area of EUNAVFOR MED operation and beyond.
The Crime Information Cell will facilitate the collection and transmission of information on human smuggling and trafficking, the implementation of the UN arms embargo on Libya, illegal trafficking of oil exports from Libya in accordance with UNSCR 2146 (2014) and 2362 (2017), as well as criminal activity relevant to the security of the operation itself.


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The first trailer for Spider-Man: No Way Home will finally be released on August 24, 2021. An expected trailer that will have accidentally leaked a few hours before its official release. And if fans were expecting it so much, it's because the mysteries surrounding the film are still numerous. While the signs continue to point towards the return of the other 2 Spider-Mans, confirmation is still lacking.
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Will Andrew Garfield and Tobey Maguire appear in Spider-Man: No Way Home? An answer that over the weeks has struggled to find its answer. Rumors are rife, aided by new set photos released yesterday. Better still, this first trailer is full of details of all kinds and points towards the return of the other Spider-Man as well. As expected, their respective nemeses are, in turn, actually present. Dr. Octopus, Electro and the Green Goblin can all be seen in the trailer. Confirmations that go well and allow us to discover the first images of the film's antagonists.
But obviously the leaks don't stop at Marvel and Sony anymore. After the trailer leaked and pictures were filmed, we were delighted to see that new stolen photos appeared on the internet. The opportunity to meet Dr. Octopus, Electro and the Green Goblin, three of the enemies Peter Parker has to face again in this new feature film.
In the face of these new, unseen images, one can already see that the expression of electro that actor Jamie Foxx embodies on screen seems to have changed completely. Shy and reserved in The Amazing Spider-Man: A Hero's Fate, Maxwell Dillon is more confident in this stolen shot. Obviously, nothing says that his character developed in that direction, since the photo was taken outside of a shot.
Of the 3 pictures presented here, it is the 3rd that is the most challenging. And for good reason we discover the face of Willem Dafoe, the performer of the Green Goblin in the first trilogy. Problem: Norman Osborn is said to be dead at the end of Spider-Man, published in 2002. The plot of Spider-Man: No Way Home will therefore have to offer us a timeline in which Harry's father (James Franco) does not dead. It remains to be seen how. Until the release of Spider-Man: No Way Home next December, more leaked photos will surely keep us posted of the upcoming Spider-Man walks.
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I'm a snowboarder traveling the world with my friends competing, filming and enjoying life along the way. Currently living in Monaco.
I'm born and raised in Stockholm, Sweden. I grew up in a family of five kids. Got in to snowboarding at the age of 7, It was so much fun that I kept riding together with my older brother Nils and progression went fast. I was spending almost every night after school in a small hill called Väsjöbacken just outside Stockholm in the winters.
At the age of twelve, I got my first sponsor and I have now been doing this professionally since the age of fourteen.
At the age of fifteen I moved away from home and started in a Swedish elit snowboard school in Malung, a big reason that I've become what I am today.
In 2013 I started of the season winning the prestigious Air&Style in China and the next week taking a silver medal at Dew Tour in Breckenridge, Colorado. All of a sudden I had become a medal favorite for the 2014 Olympic winter games in Sochi, I ended up with a 4th place, a big achievement for me at that time.
Since then I've been able to get X-games medals, winning the overall Air&Style tour along with other achievements.
Plans for the future is to keep progressing and have fun snowboarding as much as possible!


That little gal has got it all right! How sweet!
Thank you, Robyn. That's my hope and prayer.
Wonderful pictures and thoughts re innocent joy. Your granddaughter is adorable and her happiness shines through.
Grandchildren keep us young, don't they? At least in spirit. 😉 One of the many blessings of being a grandmother. We don't mind looking "silly" as we play with our little ones. We earned the right to stop being such a grown-up and appreciate the little joys, not just the bigger ones, of life! Glad you enjoyed my post, Margo.
Amen Mama! A precious and sweet reminder. Such a sweetheart she is.
Oh, I love your idea of a Today's Treasures journal. Such a great idea. I hope yours gets filled to the brim!
Beautiful post. I see joy in every picture and read it in every word. Thank you.
This world would be a better place if we could just spread more joy around, wouldn't it?
I wished for a LOVE button to click for this post. How sweet: both the picture and your words. And I've decided that, the next time, something makes me smile, I'm going to jot it down right away (even if it's just noting it in my cell phone memo app). Because that happens quite often, and when I look back, I remember that something unexpected brought a smile, but most of the time, I can't remember what it was! Thanks, Cindy, for the reminder that we need to find joy in the simplest things. And I'm reminded of this quote: "We don't stop playing because we grow old: we grow old because we stop playing".
I'm so glad Little One's joy came through the photos. Of course, it was evidenced on her face too, but I don't like showing her sweet little countenance on such a public forum as my blog. Wouldn't we just have a notebook full of smile-giving moments if we just took the time to jot them down? And oh yes, I love that quote too. So true!


The 1990s were a time of economic growth and a new decade of decadence. Jamie (Jake Gyllenhaal) is a young pharmaceutical salesman who learns to woo his clients but soon falls in love with terminally ill Maggie (Anne Hathaway). While Maggie learns to deal with her early-onset Parkinson's disease, Jamie learns what it's like to really give your heart to someone and actually fall in love.
I think that the title "Love & Other Drugs" along with the overt rom com marketing push this film received actually hurt it more than it did help. This movie is far from your standard romantic comedy. While it has plenty of humorous moments, and there is of course a romance in there, it's a deeper film that touches on heavier emotional moments.
I liked the difference this film represents, and that's not a big surprise for someone familiar with director Edward Zwick's work. He doesn't do formula films, and we don't get a standard formula with this film at all.
The performances are the heart and soul of the piece. Gyllenhaal manages to play the womanizer who grows subtly throughout the film. Hathaway has a charm and likeability that lets the viewer feel for her even at her darkest moments.
It's not necessarily ideal for date night because the movie steps in some rough territory, but it's definitely something that a couple can watch and enjoy.
Oh, and it doesn't hurt that the good-looking leads spend plenty of time without their clothes on. Everyone should enjoy something about that.
While the actors were able to breathe some heartfelt life into the characters of this film, they had a lot to overcome. In general, I'm not wild about characters that are deliberate jerks, and both Jamie and Maggie slip into this. I understand the sympathy we are to feel for Maggie, but if you read between the lines, you'll see she had alienated everyone in her life long before she was diagnosed.
Additionally, even though Zwick does a decent job navigating the romantic comedy minefield, he steps into a couple traps. Secondary characters played by Oliver Platt, Hank Azaria and particularly Jamie's brother played by Josh Gad just seem too cheesy and formulaic for what this film is trying to achieve.
Finally, and this is a pet peeve of mine, the film tries to feel retro by setting itself more than 10 years ago in the 90s, but there are too many anachronisms (like inaccurately available flip phones and 80s-sized boom boxes) that reek of poor production research.
The two-disc set includes a disc for digital copy as well as the Blu-ray. Special features include a slate of deleted scenes, plus four featurettes. "Love & Other Drugs: An Actor's Discussion" looks at the acting process. "Beautifully Complex: Anne Hathaway Is Maggie" and "Reformed Womanizer: Jake Gyllenhaal Is Jamie" spotlight the leads. "Selling Love & Other Drugs" looks at the inspirations for this movie and the sales process in pharmaceuticals in the 1990s.
The date crowd who can handle a more series romantic comedy.


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After Roe: 3 Troubling Trends from the 'Compassionate' Anti-Abortion Crowd
Mallory Carroll of Susan B. Anthony Pro-Life America tells NBC News's Chuck Todd that we would not be better with a 15-week abortion ban compromise.
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In the early '90s, my Catholic grade school hosted a guest speaker, a member of the Pennsylvania state legislature. After giving our eighth-grade class a basic civics lesson, he opened the floor to Q&A. And, in the excruciating hour that followed, every last question consisted of some variation of, "What are you doing about abortion?" You see, my classmates and I had been so marinated in anti-abortion rhetoric that we couldn't understand why someone in his position could waste time with tax codes when there were so many babies to save. By the end of the session, our local representative was visibly shaken. I wonder whether he ever agreed to speak at a parochial school again.
That episode has been at the front of my mind since news broke of the Dobbs decision, "among the Court's worst decisions in history." While there would never be a good time for the Supreme Court to take away a half-century-old constitutional right, there could hardly be a worse time than right now, with major news outlets still committed to a pernicious bothsidesism.
It didn't take long for the horror of forced-birth policies to become obvious. Less than a month after Dobbs, a 10-year-old rape victim in Ohio had to leave the state to seek an abortion. That story, along with many others, convinced some conservatives to recalibrate their message, even if that meant downplaying or—in the case of senate candidate Blake Masters—denying their anti-abortion stance.
A peculiar assortment of anti-abortion pundits has stepped into this morass. Unlike my classmates, these more sophisticated activists hope to salvage some civility from the shitstorm they helped to create.
Readers may have already come across op-eds or expert panels calling on the anti-abortion movement to shift its focus from pressuring the Supreme Court to building some kind of abortion-free utopia, where people with unintended pregnancies find the support they need to carry the baby to term. Major outlets have provided space for anti-abortion activists in centrist drag to lament the abruptness of Dobbs as they call for humility and dialogue.
I'm not the first to notice these efforts at hand-waving and damage control. The Atlantic's Elaine Godfrey has written about the anti-abortion advocates who claim to support widening the social safety net, even as their plans seem to lack some key details; Savannah Jacobson of Slate.com has criticized the New York Times for amplifying the voices and overstating the charitable efforts of anti-choice activists; and RD's Mary E. Hunt has called out the Catholic bishops who, after a post-Dobbs victory lap, released a statement touting their work to support pregnant people.
My own bullshit detector has picked up a few trends among these "compassionate" anti-abortion types, starting with a specific kind of pearl-clutching that's become a genre all its own.
Many of the more polite anti-abortion advocates seem to have only recently noticed how authoritarian and misogynistic their movement is. For example, David French, who's earned praise as a Trump critic, nevertheless appears unable to see how the movement's inability to compromise is a feature rather than a bug.
In a recent interview, French stated that, while he agrees with Dobbs, the case was decided at "a bad time" because "we've been polarized" (note the passive voice). Three separate times, he describes anti-abortion trigger laws—abortion bans designed to automatically take effect at the overturn of Roe—as merely "performative," as though the people who passed them didn't really mean what they were doing. (They did.)
A number of others have expressed a similar view, like the panelists in a recent discussion hosted by Georgetown University who lamented the moral "compromises" that anti-abortion activists have made. Others, like Religion News Service columnist Charles C. Camosy, have—either naively or disingenuously—called on the movement to move past Trump, as though the movement could easily shed its racism, hatred of LGBTQI people, and the other hallmarks of Christian nationalism. I found it amusing that a few (like here and here) called on anti-choicers to essentially abandon the former president without actually naming him.
Even if I were to play along and assume that these experts are sincere, it's too late for them to notice that the anti-abortion movement might have somehow lost its way. Indeed, the movement has consistently demonstrated that resentment and authoritarianism are among its animating principles. One of the consequences of going down that road is siding with a huckster like Trump, which played the biggest role in the polarization that these pundits find so regrettable. Anti-abortion advocates never hid their anti-democratic tactics, from stealing Supreme Court seats to gerrymandering state legislatures. No one gets to frame the alliance with Trumpism as an "inconvenient truth" that can now simply be reversed without consequences.
A second trend I've noticed: anti-choicers paying lip service to progressive reforms like subsidized healthcare, while failing to explain whom they'd be willing to vote for, which specific policies they would support, and which policies actually have any realistic chance of being implemented within our lifetimes.
For example, in a commentary from late 2021 anticipating the fall of Roe, Erika Bachiochi, a fellow at the conservative Ethics and Public Policy Center, suggested that somehow, some way, the pro-life movement can compel the Republican Party to bolster the social safety net. Since then, unfortunately, Rick Scott, head of the National Republican Senatorial Committee, has put forward a Congressional agenda hellbent on gutting social services. In so doing, Scott merely put into words what his party has been trying to do for decades. Meanwhile, Oren Cass, writing for CNN, has touted the Family Security Act, a post-Roe welfare program with no shot at becoming law, and one that would be inadequate if it did.
Conservative Catholic writer Leah Libresco Sargeant has called for more support for pregnant women. Sounds good, until you listen to this conversation with the New York Times. A surreal moment occurs around the 11-minute mark, when Sargeant is asked how she feels about Dobbs's potentially devastating impact on poor people. She deflects by talking about how European abortion laws are more restrictive than those in the US.
The moderator repeats the question, though this callout has been stricken from the transcript for some reason. Sargeant then concedes the moderator's point—right before doubling down on her opposition to abortion rights. Fellow panelist Michelle Goldberg correctly summarizes Sargeant's answer as: "I feel bad for you. I want to help you. But at the end of the day, too bad."
Sergeant's nebulous position is consistent with the American Solidarity Party, for which she serves on the board of advisors. If you've never heard of the American Solidarity Party, that's because they have no shot at winning an election anywhere. Ever. The party seems to exist for the sole purpose of allowing anti-Trump conservatives to vote with a clearer conscience.
Anti-abortion advocates in this camp also tend to call for religious organizations to provide the services that pregnant people will need in a post-Roe world. In reality, religious institutions provide a fraction of the services that state and federal governments do, only with no oversight and no accountability. Social Security alone costs over a trillion dollars a year. There's no possible world in which religious institutions could make a difference, even if they vow to "redouble" their efforts, as the Catholic bishops have done.
These gestures appear to be deliberately meaningless, or hopelessly naive. Is it realistic to expect a kinder, gentler abortion ban from the people who burned everything down to overturn Roe, especially in the states that are the most likely to criminalize the practice? Don't bet on it. And certainly don't bet on the bishops threatening to withhold communion from a politician over it.
No follow-up questions, please
A third trend: as many of the examples above show, anti-abortion "centrists" are a little too coy about what they're willing to accept in order to maintain the criminalization of abortion. This is especially important to me because the simple question of how exactly we would enforce a ban on abortion is what compelled me to change my mind on the issue.
Journalists must press these activists harder on where they draw the line; on what their limits would be. There was a brief taste of this in Chuck Todd's recent discussion with Mallory Carroll of Susan B. Anthony Pro-Life America. Toward the end, Todd asks Carroll if the movement would be better off with the compromise of a 15-week ban—which was at the heart of the Dobbs case—rather than throwing out Roe entirely. Her answer: "Absolutely not." In a sense, you have to appreciate her candor. But it goes to show that many anti-abortion activists want people who can become pregnant to live with this newly-located Overton window no matter what comes next. Keeping abortion illegal will always be more important to them than alleviating the suffering that an abortion ban would cause. There's no turning back.
But the questions shouldn't stop there. What if the maternal mortality rate goes up? What if the police treat miscarriages as potential homicides? What if Dobbs becomes the template for dismantling other rights? And what about the fascists who've been empowered by Dobbs, like Doug Mastriano, who could become the next governor of my home state of Pennsylvania? Would the anti-abortion movement support the person—a Democrat?!—with the best chance of defeating someone like that? Or would they simply rationalize this latest deal with the devil, like they did with Trump?
The criminalization of reproductive healthcare is a looming disaster, not a mere policy distinction. We should treat it like one, even if it means telling certain people that dialogue with them is a waste of time. Humility and dewy-eyed optimism about conservatives having a change of heart simply aren't enough. These activists have scored their big victory. Instead of spinning it as a promising new beginning, they should instead spend more time thinking about what they've done.
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Socorro Islands Articles from Solmar V eNEWS - Socorro Bound: Diving the Mexican Galapagos with giant manta rays, dolphins, whalesharks, humpback whales, hammerheads, Galapagos sharks, whitetip sharks in the Mexican Galapagos, Revillagigedos Mexican liveaboard dive boat Solmar V.
The Socorro Islands are actually called the "Archipelago de Revillagigedos" on maps and charts (see trivia below), but since most people have a bit of difficulty saying Revillagigedos (Ray-Vee-ah-hee-HAY-dose), they are generally known as the Socorro Islands, after the largest island in the group of four. The others are San Benedicto, Roca Partida, and Clarion. All of the islands are visited on most cruises except for Clarion, which is too far to the west.
The islands are approximately 250 miles south and west of Cabo San Lucas, well offshore, and are also a protected "biosphere" by the Mexican government (a designation a bit stricter than the U.S. National Park designation). Except for a small naval/weather station, the islands are completely uninhabited.
Not so below the waterline! Giant Mantas, Whale Sharks, seven other varieties of sharks, Humpback Whales (seasonal), and graceful dolphins are but some of the "big animals" that call Socorro home. This is adventure diving, on a par with Galapagos, Malpelo, and Cocos… While some dives are serene and quiet, others simply scream with adventure! A whale shark came up to investigate the inflatable tender as we did our safety stop! Wild dolphins will interact with you, a rarity anywhere in the world (where they usually just ignore you!).
Water temperature varies during the Socorro "Season", starting out in the low 80's in October thru December, dropping nearly ten degrees due to oceanic currents in February and March (Humpback Whale season), and returning to the 80's in April and May… Visibility is usually good to excellent. The crossing to Socorro is an overnight trip, and that's why we schedule our Socorro trips as "9 day" trips to make sure you get as much diving as possible.
The Giant Mantas alone are worth the visit. The larger ones have wingspans up to 18 feet, and they are among the most graceful of all underwater animals. In Socorro, they are cleaned by Clarion Angels at specific "Cleaning Stations", and show no fear of divers. In fact, they will actually come very, very close to you (close enough to touch) and seem to repeat this behavior throughout the dive. Simply fantastic.


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Mount Launches Film Festival for High Schoolers
By: Ryan Korengel
The Mount's Department of Communication and New Media Studies will hold an event that is unlike anything Mount St. Joseph University has ever hosted before on Tuesday, April 18. The first New Media Film Festival will expose local high school students to digital media by giving them the opportunity to submit a film for cash prizes.
I recently discussed the New Media Film Festival with Dr. Robert Bodle, Associate Professor of Communication and New Media Studies, and Dr. Lisa Crews, Department Chair. Bodle has a great deal of expertise in film, having earned a Ph.D. in Critical Studies from the University of Southern California and a Master's Degree in Film Studies and Interdisciplinary Humanities at Arizona State University. Crews also has a background in film, with a Ph.D. in Mass Communication from Ohio University and a Master's Degree in Mass Communication from the University of Denver.
Crews told me that all local high schools have been contacted regarding the New Media Film Festival – specifically targeting the schools that have a designated instructor for media or communication. Bodle outlined the three categories of film in the festival: Documentary and Social Change, Short Narrative, and Experimental, with each video lasting one to seven minutes. While many people may not be familiar with the Documentary and Social Change category, Bodle explained, "For well over a century, non-fiction film documentary has had the transformative potential for social change."
He described the Short Narrative category as "situation-driven or character-driven stories that include a life-changing event, an obstacle/antagonist, and a goal. You should always try to tell a compelling story. Short narrative films must engage your audience emotionally."
Experimental Films, according to Bodle, are "concept-driven films that challenge the conventions of both the documentary and narrative modes of filmmaking, and offer alternative methods of filmmaking."
The inspirations for this event at the Mount are The Golden Lion Awards, Cannes, the Sundance Film Festival (and) the 48 Hour Film Festival," he said. He went on to tell me that "we hope to engender community around digital media production, bringing together students from the Mount with local high school students, and the broader Mount St. Joseph Community." Each movie will be judged by Communication and New Media Studies students, alumni, and faculty based on content, technical excellence, and overall quality, among other factors. There are three prizes per category, nine prizes total. The winner gets $100 and the runners-up get $50. Film submissions were due March 17, with the films being judged the week after, and notifications sent the following week. According to Bodle, students who participate in this event will also partake in an awards ceremony, red carpet event, reception with live music, screening with filmmaker(s) and Q&As.
As a current Communication and New Media Studies major, I can attest to the fact that selecting this major is one of my best decisions I have ever made – a decision that I didn't make until the second semester of my freshman year of college. At a school that is known for an incredible nursing program and other respected healthcare-related majors, Communication and New Media Studies is often overlooked, but this major is entirely unique to the Mount. This major changes the way students think about digital media and other forms of new media. This critical view of the media is essential to the growth of a student as we must continue to build the necessary skills to adapt to the constantly changing digital world. Therefore, I view the first New Media Film Festival as a significant step for the major as a whole, since it will expose our major to high school students and show them what we are all about. If the New Media Film Festival had been offered three years ago, I'm sure I would have participated and who knows? Perhaps I would have even declared the major a semester earlier.


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10 Worlds We'd Love to See in Kingdom Hearts III
Jaina Hill
Kingdom Hearts III is coming and that means we will once again join Sora, Donald, and Goofy as they venture into the most beloved of intellectual property: the Disney universe. But since the last Kingdom Hearts came out in 2005, Disney has gone from a cultural giant to unstoppable behemoth. They own just about everything any of us have ever loved. That's a little scary, but we should at least get the full benefit of this cultural ubiquity. We deserve to see our favorite anime heroes venture into wilder worlds than we have ever imagined. Here are ten worlds we would love to spot in Kingdom Hearts.
10. Wreck-It Ralph
Kingdom Hearts is a series of video games that bring together characters from our favorite games and Disney movies. Wreck-It Ralph is a Disney movie that brings together characters from our favorite games. It's a no-brainer. We already know Ralph is in the game, but there are so many fun, original worlds that Sora, Donald, and Goofy could explore… and race through! Whether the candy-coated Sugar Rush of the first film or the deadly Slaughter Race from the second, Wreck-It Ralph opens up a plethora of gameplay possibilities. Plus, how fun would it be to have a crossover between Sora, Venelope, and the cast of Tron?
One of the ground-breaking things about the original Mary Poppins was how it brought together live action and cel-shaded animation. Kingdom Hearts isn't exactly "live action," but we've seen a facsimile of the style in the Pirates of the Caribbean worlds. Though the England of Mary Poppins is a peaceful place, there's plenty of room for action (Admiral Boom's cannon! Penguin racing!) and also plenty of ways the Heartless could get up to mischief.
8. The Sword in the Stone
Sort of a cult favorite Disney flick, the adventures of a young King Arthur seem a perfect place for Sora and company. The movie is best remembered for its various transformations. Merlin turns young Arthur (aka Wart) into a squirrel, a bird, and a fish. All would make for cool levels. This would all obviously have to culminate in an epic boss fight with Mad Madam Mim in which Sora would have to utilize all of his new shape-shifting skills.
7. Muppets
Who doesn't want to start the music and light the lights in Kingdom Hearts tonight? Disney has fully held the rights to the Muppets since 2004, and they are among the best-loved characters in the entire Disney multiverse. There are a lot of complicated ideas that could be rad, like a redux of Muppet Treasure Island or A Muppet Christmas Carol. There could be a whole set of shenanigans involving Dr. Honeydew and Beaker. But I think the best idea is the simplest one. Kermit and company need to put on a show, but the theater is filled with Heartless! Inevitably, the trio would leave with Animal as a new summon.
6. Ivalice
Despite a good number of Final Fantasy characters, Kingdom Hearts has never journeyed to a Final Fantasy world. There are many good choices, but no one world has shown up in more games than that of Ivalice, as seen in Final Fantasy Tactics and Final Fantasy XII. Frankly, a crossover between those two is a great idea in and of itself, and the opportunity to ride a Chocobo and pilot an airship is just too enticing. There are probably as many people out there stoked to see Balthier or Ramza as there are clambering for a world based on Tangled.
5. Robin Hood
One of the fun aspects of world-hopping in Kingdom Hearts is seeing what strange costumes Sora, Donald, and Goofy have to put on to blend in. That can be as simple as a Halloween costume or as nutty as a full-on animal transformation in The Lion King and The Little Mermaid. But what about the most formative anthropomorphic animals of all, the foxes and bears from Disney's Robin Hood cartoon? The story is perfect for Kingdom Hearts, and giving the vile Prince John a legion of Heartless sounds like a great opportunity for Sora to learn some brightly animated anime-style archery!
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The extended evolutionary synthesis: Its structure, assumptions and predictions
Kevin N. Laland*, Tobias Uller, Marcus W. Feldman, Kim Sterelny, Gerd B. Müller, Armin Moczek, Eva Jablonka, John Odling-Smee
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Scientific activities take place within the structured sets of ideas and assumptions that define a field and its practices. The conceptual framework of evolutionary biology emerged with the Modern Synthesis in the early twentieth century and has since expanded into a highly successful research program to explore the processes of diversification and adaptation. Nonetheless, the ability of that framework satisfactorily to accommodate the rapid advances in developmental biology, genomics and ecology has been questioned. We review some of these arguments, focusing on literatures (evo-devo, developmental plasticity, inclusive inheritance and niche construction) whose implications for evolution can be interpreted in two ways-one that preserves the internal structure of contemporary evolutionary theory and one that points towards an alternative conceptual framework. The latter, which we label the 'extended evolutionary synthesis' (EES), retains the fundaments of evolutionary theory, but differs in its emphasis on the role of constructive processes in development and evolution, and reciprocal portrayals of causation. In the EES, developmental processes, operating through developmental bias, inclusive inheritance and niche construction, share responsibility for the direction and rate of evolution, the origin of character variation and organism-environment complementarity. We spell out the structure, core assumptions and novel predictions of the EES, and show how it can be deployed to stimulate and advance research in those fields that study or use evolutionary biology.
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Crisp, clean, and flawless. Use the color white as a backdrop to accentuate accessories, or let it take center stage for a dramatic effect.
Paint walls, ceilings, and trim all the same white hue. The result is a blank canvas, which allows the eye to gravitate toward warm textiles and brighter hues found in furniture and accessories.
Paint: Alabaster (SW7008) by Sherwin-Williams; sherwin-williams.com.
Allow lighting to create warmth in an all-white room. This bath uses sheer cafe curtains to allow in as much natural light as possible.
Brighten a room that has dark wood floors and accents with white walls. Walls painted white recede, allowing the natural wood paneling and molding to steal the show— without becoming overwhelming.
A monochromatic white palette allows experimentation with texture. Layer wood, ceramics, and other materials to keep the look of white paint from falling flat.
A white background allows accessories to rule the room's decor (and makes for easy updates, too!). Choose pillows, art, and other accents carefully because they'll garner all the attention.
Paint: Titanium (2141-60) by Benjamin Moore; benjaminmoore.com.
Mix shades of white to createthe illusion of depth in a space, and add hues of different colors to create a neutral-like color scheme.
Paint: Niveous (OC-36) by Benjamin Moore; benjaminmoore.com.
Dress tight quarters in bright white for a more spacious and airy feeling. As the light changes, so will the space's color and ambience.
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Use white to warm up stone walls, interior brickwork, or other hard surfaces, allowing them to appear approachable and inviting.
Paint: Pure White (SW7005) by Sherwin-Williams; sherwin-williams.com.
Use white as your base for the entire room. Colorful fabric and accessories pops against a white background.
Barstools: Grayson from Pottery Barn; potterybarn.com.
Barstool slipcover fabric: For a similar look, try Corazon in Seaglass from Calico Corners; calicocorners.com.
Natural light brought in by the large windows pairs well with the white upholstery and white walls in this dining room.
A warm wood ceiling and floor treatment paired with painted wood walls adds vintage character to the space.
In keeping with the calming color scheme, an antique shopkeeper's cabinet with glass-front drawers was painted white and serves as an interesting dresser.