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Opel Manta GSe ElektroMOD
Revivalist Opel Manta GSe electrifies its way towards another award
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The Opel Manta GSe ElektroMOD has been awarded the Grand Prix of the Festival Automobile International, in Paris.
The twelve experts from the fields of motorsport, architecture, fashion, design, culture and media awarded the Opel Manta GSe ElektroMOD the Grand Prix du Festival as a "successful reinterpretation of past models". This underlines that the Manta GSe ElektroMOD is not just a car that has simply been brought back to life. It is a legend that has been made fit for the future by car enthusiasts from Rüsselsheim with great attention to detail. A true brand statement: bold, pure – and excitingly different.
The purely battery-electric Manta is as sporty as a genuine Opel GSe and proudly displays its ambitions in its name – ElektroMOD. MOD stands for change, for technical and stylistic Modifications as well as a Modern sustainable lifestyle. It is a car that sparks emotions and turns heads with its neon-yellow paintwork and contrasting black bonnet as well as extravagant details such as the Opel Pixel-Vizor. That is where its message, how it stands for Opel's commitment, is clearly displayed: "My German heart has been ELEKTRified. I am on a zero e-mission."
There is no trace of the past in the interior either, which features the latest Opel digital technology. The classic round instruments are history; instead, the driver now looks at a wideOpel Pure Panel with two integrated widescreens.
The Manta GSe ElektroMOD combines the great Opel tradition with today's commitment to emissions-free mobility for a very desirable, sustainable future.
A concept inspires and excites people – as it did at the Festival Automobile International. The renowned event took place for the 37th time in 2022 in Paris and honours the most beautiful, most successful and most forward-looking automotive projects of the year.
Charisma and… an electric heart
Launched over 50 years ago with a four-cylinder petrol engine, today the Manta is once again in top form, as the first electric MOD in the history of the German brand. The new Opel Manta GSe ElektroMOD combines the best of both worlds: the classic appearance of a style icon together with state-of-the-art technology for sustainable motoring – far removed from a classic car rally. Because the new Manta is future-proof: electric, emissions-free and full of emotions.
The Opel Manta GSe ElektroMOD reflects the fascination of a growing fan community that transforms classic cars like the Manta into so-called RestoMods with modern technologies and new design. The purely battery-electric Manta is as sporty as a genuine Opel GSe and proudly displays its ambitions in its name – ElektroMOD. MOD stands for change, for technical and stylistic MODifications as well as a MODern sustainable lifestyle.
That is why the four-cylinder engine under the Opel-iconic black bonnet makes way for an electric motor with 108 kW/147 hp. The "e" in GSe now stands for electrification.
In 1974 and 1975, the Manta GT/E was the first generation's powerhouse model with 77 kW/105 hp. The 2021 electric Manta delivers maximum torque of 255 Nm from a standstill. Now the driver has the choice of manually shifting the original four-speed gearbox or simply engaging fourth gear and then driving automatically; power is always transmitted to the rear wheels. The Manta thus remains a classic sports car – with an innovative, modernised drivetrain.
The lithium-ion battery has a capacity of 31 kWh, allowing an average range of around 200 kilometres. Regular charging takes place via a 9.0 kW on-board charger for single-phase and three-phase AC charging. This means it takes just under four hours to fully charge the Manta battery.
The wheelarches now house specially designed 17-inch light alloy wheels from Ronal, with 195/40 R17 tyres at the front and 205/40 R17 at the rear. The boot proudly displays "Manta" in the new, modern Opel script.
The interior features the latest Opel digital technology. The classic round instruments are history; instead, the driver now looks at a wide Opel Pure Panel, just like in the new production Mokka.The two integrated, driver-oriented, 12 and 10-inch widescreens show important information about the car such as charge status and range. Music comes via a Bluetooth box from the legendary amplifier brand Marshall.
The sports seats with their centre yellow decor line were once developed for the Opel ADAM S. They now offer a level of comfort and lateral support far superior to that in the original Manta. The driver gets behind a Petri three-spoke steering wheel reworked by Opel.
The ceiling of the passenger compartment is lined with fine Alcantara and completes the stylish ambience of this special car. At this moment, there are no plans for production of the Manta GSe ElektroMOD.
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Fresh peaches, plums, nectarines sold nationwide recalled due to listeria concerns
Fruit distributed in 18 states at retail stores including Walmart, ALDI
Fruit recalled from Walmart, Costco, and Aldi over listeria concerns
By Gray News Staff | January 29, 2019 at 2:57 AM EST - Updated January 29 at 2:58 PM
(Gray News) - Several varieties of fresh fruit, which were sold at retail stores like Walmart and ALDI, have been recalled after random sampling revealed some of the produce contained the bacteria listeria.
The company, Jac. Vandenberg, Inc., announced the recall of 1,727 cartons of fresh peaches, 1,207 cartons of fresh nectarines and 365 cartons of fresh plums Thursday through the FDA.
The fruit was distributed in 18 states nationwide at both small and large stores, including ALDI, Costco and Walmart.
The recalled peaches and nectarines were sold as a bulk produce item with stickers that listed the country of origin as Chile and had PLU numbers of 4044, 3035 or 4378.
At ALDI, the recalled peaches, nectarines and plums were packaged in a 2-pound bag with the brand Rio Duero and EAN numbers of 7804650090281, 7804650090298 or 7804650090304.
At Costco, the recalled nectarines were packaged in a 4-pound plastic clamshell with the brand Rio Duero and an EAN number of 7804650090212.
The recalled peaches, plums and nectarines were distributed in 18 states nationwide through both small and large stores, including ALDI, Costco and Walmart. (Source: FDA) (Source: FDA)
Consumers who have purchased any of the fruit are urged to return it to the place of purchase for a full refund.
No illnesses have been reported in connection to the recall, which was initiated when routine sampling at the packing house revealed the presence of Listeria monocytogenes in the finished products.
Jac. Vandenberg, Inc. has stopped distributing the produce while they and the FDA investigate.
Consumption of food contaminated with listeria can cause listeriosis, a serious and sometimes fatal infection that primarily affects young children, older adults, persons with weakened immune systems and pregnant women.
Less commonly, persons outside these risk groups are affected.
Listeriosis can cause fever, headache, stiffness, nausea, abdominal pain and diarrhea in otherwise healthy individuals. In pregnant women, it can cause miscarriages and stillbirths.
Consumers with questions about the recall may contact the company at the following email address: compliance@jacvandenberg.com.
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Join NAICJA and the Ho-Chunk Nation for an introductory training on peacemaking. Registration is free.
For more information, contact kate@naicja.org.
Full agenda and more information to follow.
Registration Information: Register here. This Conference is sponsored by the Bureau of Justice Assistance. No cost for registration, but participants must cover the costs of travel, lodging, and per diem/food. Click here to view the conference page.
The National American Indian Court Judges Association (NAICJA) and its collaborative partners will host the American Indian Justice Conference (AIJC) on the Agua Caliente Reservation in Southern California on December 7-8, 2017.
The goal of the AIJC is to provide training to enhance your tribal community's response to combat alcohol and drug abuse, recognize how trauma impacts drug and alcohol abuse in tribal communities, and identify current trends and best practices for tribal justice systems to strengthen multi-disciplinary approaches to healing and justice. The five multi-disciplinary tracks include alcohol and substance abuse, tribal justice strategic planning, tribal courts, tribal security and probation, and tribal youth.
CTAS Purpose Area 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 8, and 9 grantees may use grant funds to attend the AIJC. Please confirm with your Program Manager that you have adequate travel and training funds remaining in your award.
UPDATE: This conference has received final approval by the Department of Justice.
This project was supported by Grant No. 2016-AC-BX-K004 awarded by the Bureau of Justice Assistance. The Bureau of Justice Assistance is a component of the Department of Justice's Office of Justice Programs, which also includes the Bureau of Justice Statistics, the National Institute of Justice, Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention, Office of Victims of Crime, and the SMART Office. Points of view or opinions in this training or website are those of the author and do not necessarily represent the official position or policies of the U.S. Department of Justice.
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The 2017 National Tribal Judicial and Court Personnel Conference will take place at the Isleta Resort & Casino in Albuquerque, NM on October 10-13, 2017!


I had purchased some Pomegranate Publications© postcards a couple of years ago, but one among the few had haunted me. In a good way, that is.
I had to work with this unnamed girl. And so I did.
After composing "Ziegfield Moon", I studied the text side of this postcard and found, through a search online, that Pomegranate had made a typo in attributing this photo to "Cheney Johnson". The photographer's last name is actually Johnston. And while Pomegranate had come by this image by way of the Motion Picture and Photo Archive, I could not find this particular girl within their online collection.


With pasta dishes, the shape of the pasta can make all the difference! Campanelle is one of my all-time favorite pasta shapes—and in this primavera, it holds the cream sauce in all snug and tight, making every bite delicious. If you're feeling creative, though, choose whichever pasta shape makes you happy or whichever shape you have in your pantry! The frozen veggies make this a quick meal.
Paleo: Use 2 cups full fat coconut milk.
1. Cook the pasta according to package instructions.
2. Heat a large skillet or wok pan over medium heat. Add the butter to the skillet.
3. When the butter is melted, add the garlic, California medley, green beans, and peas. Cook, stirring periodically, for about 8-10 minutes or until the veggies are tender.
4. Add the heavy cream to the pan and let it come to a light simmer (you don't want it to boil rapidly). Simmer for about 3 minutes.
5. Add grated Parmesan and stir constantly for about 2 minutes. Let the sauce lightly simmer another 2 minutes or so.
6. Add the pasta to the pan with the sauce and vegetables and stir to combine.
7. Add salt to taste and top with more Parmesan cheese, if desired.


Now when you open the PulseAudio Manager it looks like Figure 2, and aplay will play your file.
But on a multi-user system this is not the best way to run PulseAudio, according to the developers. It is better to run it per-user for these reasons: it creates a potential security hazard because it runs SUID, users can mess with other users' sound, and settings are system-wide instead of individualized. If you're on a single-user system then it doesn't matter.
Verify your filepaths first, of course.
Check out the various userland tools, which you should find in your multimedia menu, and next week we'll learn how to configure per-user startup, learn about sinks and sources, and play networked sounds.
Carla Schroder is the author of the Linux Cookbook and the newly-released Linux Networking Cookbook, and is a regular contributor to LinuxPlanet.


Total and Guanghui1 have signed a long-term Sale and Purchase Agreement (SPA) for the supply of 0.7 million tonnes per year of liquefied natural gas (LNG) for a period of 10 years. The gas will be delivered to Guanghui's regasification terminal in Qidong, Jiangsu Province, from Total's global LNG portfolio.
"We are delighted to start a long-term relationship with Guanghui, an increasingly successful LNG market player in China with clear ambitions for growth. This new supply contract is in line with Total's strategy to expand its presence in the Chinese LNG market, which grew by over 41% in 2018 and will continue to be a key driver of the LNG markets growth in the future," commented Laurent Vivier, Senior Vice-President Gas at Total.
Total is the second-largest Private global LNG player among the majors, with an overall LNG portfolio of around 40 Mtpa by 2020 and a worldwide market share of 10%. With 21.8 million tonnes of LNG managed in 2018, the Group has solid and diversified positions across the LNG value chain. Through its stakes in liquefaction plants located in Qatar, Nigeria, Russia, Norway, Oman, the United Arab Emirates, the United States, Australia, Angola and Yemen, the Group sells LNG in all global markets.


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The Strange Case Of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde
The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde: Review
By Amy Berwick on	 November 14, 2017
With a stunning cast and great direction, Jekyll and Hyde may be one of the best plays I have attended this year. The Blackeyed theatre company brought Robert Louis Stevenson's words to life on the stage.
Jack Bannell's characterisation of Jekyll and Hyde was fascinating. The change between the distraught Doctor and the murderous Hyde was seamless, and all together spine tingling.
Both Zach Lee and Ashley Sean-Cook played their characters beautifully. You could hear the terror in Ashley's voice as Hyde's true nature is revealed to his character Hastings Landon. Lee's portrayal of the distressed Utterson, left the room silent for a few moments as they processed the decision he was forced to make at the end of the play.
The stand out character, however, was Paige Round playing Eleanor Lanyon. Eleanor is a character that has been added to this adaptation to add an extra layer of confrontation between Jekyll and his colleague Hastings Landon (Eleanor's husband). The Birmingham born actress portrayed her character with true emotion while keeping up an almost seamless Irish accent.
The play took place with one back drop, subtly altered when the cast changed scenery. Cleverly using UV paint to conceal Jekyll's notes scrawled on the wall as he sinks into desperation.
The initial personality shift is extremely well staged, carefully planned lighting changes and whispers put the audience on edge as Jekyll loses himself for the first time. Without a doubt, some of the most chilling stage work that I have seen.
A truly superb performance, a wonderfully thought provoking drama
The Blackeyed theatre company has one more performance at the Lichfield Garrick that has sold out. However, there are still tickets available at other locations, see website for details.
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Today, most video conference calls are full of pauses, delays, garbled audio and complex interfaces. Those conditions remain the norm, even though a Gallup Poll found that 70% of employees around the world work remotely at least once a week — and globalization means even more remote offices and bureaus.
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The most neglected part of your video conferencing system is staring you right in the face. It's that big flat black screen that hangs on your wall, sits on your desktop, or looms over your conference room table.
Employee Communication Videos Make It Easy to Engage a Global Workforce
Distributed workplaces are becoming more… well, distributed. We're including workers from locations all over the world in our work groups, enabling them to collaborate and communicate with each other in real time through better employee communication videos and HR videos technology.
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Employee Communications: Video's Value Beyond Engagement
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Employee communications programs and initiatives these days rely increasingly on video communication to drive employee engagement. No doubt your organization was spooked by the low employee engagement numbers coming out every year, revealing over half of your employees don't feel engaged at work. So you invested in a video communication program to help. Engagement increased, but something's missing. What indicator of engagement is the piece that makes your employee communications program whole?
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Renowned game designer Jane McGonigal describes gamers as super empowered, hopeful individuals, attributes that she believes can be channeled into real-world contexts. The business world today really needs a lot of super empowered and hopeful employees, given that 85% of them are currently either lacking in engagement or actively disengaged. And gamification can hopefully help businesses motivate and empower a mostly listless workforce to reverse nearly $7 trillion in lost productivity.
Employee Communications Best Practices: If You Build It, They Will Stay
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There are a tremendous number of words and phrases being used in today's workplace to enhance communications best practices. Some have become very familiar: corporate culture, change management, employee communication, business process management, and talent onboarding, to name a few. Corporate culture, in its broadest sense, is an organization's collective beliefs and practices, which affect its interactions among employees and customers alike. There's a phrase, "best practices," that is used in business to define the most effective method to deal with an issue. Some companies become infected with what could be termed "worst practices."
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My favorite urban myth involves NASA and a multi-million-dollar space pen. The myth contends that while the U.S. space program in the 1960s spent millions developing a pen that would work in zero gravity, their Russian counterparts simply used a pencil.
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After Twitter renewed its security policies, a huge crackdown took place in which many fake accounts were suspended. The crackdown caused many celebrities to lose millions of followers. The most-followed celebrity on Twitter, Katy Perry and Lady Gaga lost about 2.5 millions of followers while Barack Obama lost 2.1 million.
Twitter said that the decision was taken due to their "ongoing and global effort to build trust" with their users. The new measures mean that any user whose account is locked for unusual activity – such as being blocked or sending unusual volumes of Tweets – and who did not respond to a prompt to verify their identity would be excluded from Twitter follower counts.
Twitter itself felt the effects of the situation since they lost a whopping number of 7.7 million in followers.


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Q: Selection Sort not working Here's my selection sort implementation using Java 1.7:
public class SelectionSort {

    private static void swap(int[] a, int i, int j) {
        int temp = a[i];
        a[i] = a[j];
        a[j] = temp;
    }

    public static int[] sort(int[] numbers) {
        for (int i = 0; i < numbers.length - 1; i++) {
            int smallestValue = i;
            for (int j = i + 1; j < numbers.length; j++) {
                if (numbers[j] < numbers[smallestValue])
                smallestValue = j;
            }
            swap(numbers, smallestValue, i);
        }
        return numbers;
    }
}

Inside my test harness, the following code is used to call the sort method:
public static void main(String args[]) {
    int[] unsortedNumbers = new int[] { 9, 8, 5, 4, 3, 7, 2, 1 };
    int[] sortedNumbers = new int[0];

    System.out.println("\nUnsorted Numbers:");
    if (unsortedNumbers.length >= 1) {
        System.out.print(unsortedNumbers[0]);
    }

    for (int i=1; i <unsortedNumbers.length; i++) {
        System.out.print(", " + unsortedNumbers[i]);
    }

    sortedNumbers = SelectionSort.sort(unsortedNumbers);

    System.out.println("\n\nSorted Numbers:");

    if (sortedNumbers.length >= 1) {
        System.out.print(sortedNumbers[0]);
    }

    for (int j=1; j < sortedNumbers.length; j++) {
        System.out.print(", " + sortedNumbers.length);
    }

}
Here's the very frustrating / erroneous output:
Unsorted Numbers:
9, 8, 5, 4, 3, 7, 2, 1

Sorted Numbers:
1, 8, 8, 8, 8, 8, 8, 8

What am I possibly be doing wrong?

A: for (int j=1; j < sortedNumbers.length; j++) {
    System.out.print(", " + sortedNumbers.length);
}

Notice how you are printing the length of the array repeatedly, instead of the numbers in it.
You probably meant this:
for (int j=1; j < sortedNumbers.length; j++) {
    System.out.print(", " + sortedNumbers[j]);
}

A: if (numbers[j] < numbers[smallestValue]);
smallestValue = j;

is the same as
if (numbers[j] < numbers[smallestValue])
    ;
smallestValue = j;

i.e. "If this number is less than the smallest number, do nothing. Then, set smallestValue to j." In Java (and C, and many other languages with syntax derived from C), ; is a valid statement that does nothing.
Remove the extra semicolon.

A: Also you need additional if statements in your sort method:
if (smallestValue != i) {
    swap(numbers, smallestValue, i);
}

Use that code instead of:
swap(numbers, smallestValue, i);

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If you have been checking out my Instagrams, you would notice that… well you wont notice but all my photos go through a round of editing on Snapseed and then another round on VSCO. So the former app plays a bit role in my day to day editing process. I'm sure it does to many of you too.
Yesterday Google updated the iOS version of Snapseed to 2.0, bringing new revamped UI and new features.
If you have not been using Snapseed to edit your photos, you should start now.


This journal article reflects on the conceptualization of a three-day meeting convened to open space for thinking differently about the city of Johannesburg, South Africa, and to begin to explore the possibility of working beyond the constraints of standard urban studies and regimes of spatial planning through which the city is conventionally viewed and researched. The incentive underpinning the 2015 Performative Urbanisms workshop was the desire to find areas of correspondence and overlap in the often widely separated realms of scholarly research and grassroots urban activism. To this end, a group of international and Johannesburg-based academics, writers, artists, analysts, and activists came together to explore a range of themes around the city and its visual, spatial, textual, and especially performative, representations, in the context of its functioning as a global city in comparative perspective. As the contents of this Special Issue show, the workshop provided space to consider diverse research methodologies, creative writings, and artistic strategies aimed at moving beyond formulaic constructs of Johannesburg, and instead to offer an accounting of its novelties, complexities, and originalities.
Johannesburg has been described variously as an elusive, genre-less, blank, even self-cannibalizing city. Without refusing such rhetorical play, this article seeks to secure a mode of urban analysis that attends to the city's material losses as well as its conceptual elisions. In so doing, it engages the critical potential, in particular, of melancholy, establishing through this concept not just an affective condition or a psycho-spatial categorization, but a way of mapping the city. Through analysis of Mark Gevisser's Lost and Found in Johannesburg (2014), this article follows his self-styled 'dispatcher's eye' in its efforts to navigate those spaces in the city otherwise erased from the city's self-image. In particular, it finds important precedence in Ranjana Khanna's notion of a 'postcolonial melancholia', as well as interventions by Roland Barthes and Walter Benjamin, as it elaborates upon the imaginative as well as political claims made available by such a melancholy mapping of Johannesburg.
African hair braiding on Bree Street offers a glimpse into how immigration, black female sexuality and shifts in urban retail economies provide important economic and cultural resources to urban residents and users. As both ontology and epistemology, black hair braiding practices recalibrate local economies, spaces, and aesthetic codes, and thus co-constitute emergent urban identities and a way of knowing the city. The intimate, networked, and fractal nature of black hair braiding spaces disrupts the rigid colonial spatial orders of the city and its architecture. As an epistemology, braiding disrupts the grand narrative of Johannesburg in 'crisis', while also disrupting the colonizing and gendered structure of urban studies itself.
This article discusses the first phase of Babel Re-Play, a collaborative project by academics and artists in South Africa and Switzerland applying principles of art as research and play theory. The interest of the participants, inspired by the larger research initiative Construction Site/Chantier, is in deepening our understandings of the ways modernity is playing out in contemporary cities. The article shows how re-playing the well-known myth of Babel recorded in Genesis in the Old Testament, which has been explored and re-shaped by countless artists, philosophers, and scholars over the ages, affords new readings and new knowledge of the city. A South African team and a Swiss team each produced a short film, serving to sample aspects of the contemporary city led by interpretations of myths associated with Babel.
Ponte City is a project by Mikhael Subotzky and Patrick Waterhouse that uses photographs, architectural diagrams, text, interviews, fiction, found objects, oral history, and archival material to critically explore a particular urban landscape in Johannesburg. The exhibition and book, which comprise this project, manifest in different ways, but both work together to cut across disciplines and incorporate the languages of fine art, photography, architecture, urban planning, history, economics, popular culture, and literature. The publication comprises a book of photographs and pamphlets in which the artists have collaborated with former and current residents, gathered personal stories, delved into the archive, invited authors to contribute essays on a variety of topics, and worked with material found at the site. This article examines the notion of a 'portrait of a city' in relation to the Ponte City project, and asks the questions: What is a portrait of a city? Is it possible to take a 'portrait of a city', and what techniques are used when a photographer portrays places and people, or attempts to take, or make, a 'portrait' – of a city, a place or even a building such as Ponte? Can a building come to stand in for a city? And how have these strategies been put into play by Subotzky and Waterhouse in the Ponte City project?
This paper takes the form of a 'performative' dialogue, a recounting of scenes, which alternate, in the mode of a cinematic montage, with academic analysis of the interfaces between boxing, art, and space. In his book Body and Soul: Notebooks on an Apprentice Boxer (2004), sociologist Loïc Wacquant mixes three genres: analytic sociology, depictive ethnography, and short story. He argues that he used this unorthodox methodology 'to make the reader simultaneously feel and understand how boxers are "gripped" by their craft and viscerally tied to it'. Similarly, in this paper, the overlapping voices of its two authors engage in both performative, creative and intellectual ways with the critiques and social rituals surrounding boxing, ultimately finding that an understanding of boxing as an epistemological encounter gives rise to interesting ways to think through the relationships between art and urban space itself. The paper ranges widely over each author's personal experience of boxing, analyses of specific artworks both ancient and modern, and an analysis of the psychogeography of urban space, and in particular, Johannesburg. The form of the paper, as it incorporates narrative experience (embodiment) and analytic mode, can be seen as a text that re-enacts the 'performance' of boxing and art-making in which the traditional opposition between the two is integrated, if not suspended.
This photographic essay is about places that have the same names but are often worlds apart. Satellite Cities (2016) looks at the naming of settlements and suburbs primarily in Johannesburg and Cape Town, and their parallels in other parts of the world. It examines the possibility of relationships or connections between these disparate places, and their realities as sites of conflict and struggle, and of war, liberation, and reconciliation.


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An Incredible Lunar Event Will Happen This January 30th and You'll Be Able to See It From Mexico
Updated: 2 days ago
Astronomical phenomena usually have a direct effect on the signs of the zodiac and the behavior of each of them; That is why more and more people are interested in this topic and Mexico is no exception.
One of the most anticipated for this month of January 2023 is the Lunar Eclipse of Mars, which can be seen across Mexico and which you should not miss; It will happen on January 30, and here we tell you all the details you need to know.
astronomy 2023
The event is ideal for lovers of astronomy and even astrology as they are sometimes related to ushering in certain streaks of luck in subjects such as love, money and health; This phenomenon occurs when one celestial object passes in front of another, thus blocking the most distant object from the observer's view.
The most common example is when we talk about a solar eclipse, which occurs when the Moon passes between the Sun and the Earth, thus blocking the Sun from our view; This is according to the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA).
a new astronomical phenomenon
So, when we talk about a lunar eclipse of Mars, we mean that the Moon will block out the Red Planet for a few minutes; This type of event provides great scientific information such as determining the distance between the Earth and the Sun; Will be on 30 January 2023 at 10 pm.
Later, you will be able to see the great lunar occultation of Mars, located in the direction of the constellation of Taurus, the earth sign that refers to issues related to commitments, tenacity and thrift; It can be seen at 10:30 pm.
Moon and Venus Conjunction: 3 Zodiac Signs That Will Attract Love During the January Event
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I had the opportunity to man the Mozilla Booth at Africacom 2014 with fellow Mozillian Oarabile Mudongo.
This was the largest Tech show I'd ever attended. Our job was to demo Firefox OS phones made by Alcatel and to get people excited before the launch. Africacom was hosted in the beautiful city of Cape Town in South Africa. There were more than 6000 attendees on each of the days.
The show was held over three days at the Cape Town International Convention Center.


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To hold the straws at a variable height they need to be supported securely. After lots of iterations and models I developed a method of slotting them in horizontally and rotating them.
Chelsea was born with Cerebral Palsy, has very limited mobility and is a wheelchair user. Her condition is underlined by severe spasticity which has severely hampered therapy designed to get her exercising and walking. Chelsea's grandfather bought her an excellent walking frame to improve her muscle strength, posture and mobility, all of which would eventually lead to much greater personal independence.
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Industry News, Tugboats & Towing
Ken Harford receives SS Beaver Medal for Maritime Excellence
(VICTORIA, British Columbia) — Ken Harford, former president of Robert Allan Ltd., was presented with the SS Beaver Medal for Maritime Excellence by the Maritime Museum of British Columbia in a ceremony held at Government House in Victoria on Nov. 8.
Upon graduating from the University of British Columbia as a mechanical engineer in 1970, Harford applied his engineering skills and business acumen to the establishment of a noise and vibration consulting engineering company, a z-drive steering system manufacturer, and a Z-Peller distributorship that all remain as successful companies today. In his role as an acoustical engineer, he was a pioneer in identifying sensible solutions for better noise and vibration control in the British Columbia tug fleet.
Joining Robert Allan Ltd. in 1988, Harford applied his mechanical engineering skills and experience to the arrangement and installation of the propulsion machinery and shafting systems on many vessels types, but particularly tugs. His work contributed significantly to many of the unique and progressive aspects of the Robert Allan Ltd. tug designs that have been widely accepted by the industry worldwide.
Harford became president in 2008 when Robert Allan Ltd. transitioned to an employee-owned company. In January 2015, he retired from his role as president, passing the helm to Mike Fitzpatrick, however he remains as an active director of the company.
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I have it on pretty good authority that most ladylike mermaids keep a pigeon on their shoulder. It distracts the eye from one's bosom, if one's bosom is uncovered. However, this mermaid is particularly modest and keeps covered up. So her pigeon is more of fashion statement than a practical piece of adornment with a purpose. I'm not sure if the giant pink shell is a hat or just a thing she likes to carry around with her to match her outfit. Maybe it's some kind of mermaid ninja throwing star or something.


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Marie-Claire Blais () a fost o scriitoare canadiană de limbă franceză.

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Decese în 2021
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Scriitori LGBT
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Francezi din Quebec

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Rare Fossil Fish Nodule discovered in the Middle Atlas mountains near Asfla village, Goulmima city, Morocco.
Age: Cretaceous period, Lower Turonian 93.9 to 89.8 million years ago.
Rare Moroccan Fossil Fish Nodule.


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BEST Community Competition
Digicel Foundation Finances BEST Community Competition
Kingston, Jamaica – December 1, 2006
The non-profit organization, Digicel Foundation has committed $10 Million per annum, towards the staging of the BEST Community Competition, which will be open to participation from over 780 communities islandwide.
Major General Robert Neish, Executive Director of the Digicel Foundation made the announcement last evening at the Launch of the BEST Community Competition at Jamaica House. He explains that the financing from Digicel Foundation will make prizes, prize money and training available to community groups.
"Those funds will go towards the provision of trophies and prize-money, with $2Million for the winning community at the national level," said General Neish. "Digicel Foundation will also be presenting a trophy for the Best Educational Institution."
He outlines the nature of the Foundation's involvement in other aspects of the project, "At Digicel Foundation, we are committed to building sustainable communities through the utilization of resources in the development of cultural, educational and social opportunities. In this vein, we will be assisting with social transformation in communities by offering technical expertise and resources in the area of educational and cultural development, to communities participating in the competition."
Digicel Foundation is not only a sponsor and facilitator for the Competition, but a member of the Steering Committee which has been involved in the planning and implementation of the programme. This non-profit group says it decided to support the programme, because it was impressed with the vision that the Steering Committee presented. "We endorse this vision for Jamaica of orderly, attractive communities providing nurturing environments for the young, serene surroundings for the elderly, and a familial spirit where we recapture traditional Jamaican sisterhood and brotherhood," commented General Neish.
He applauded the efforts of the Steering Committee for the BEST Community Competition, in ensuring that no matter what the socio-economic conditions of each neighbourhood, they can receive assistance in improving themselves and in becoming model communities. General Neish told participants in last evening's Launch Ceremony, that the Foundation deems it commendable for the competition to not just invite participation from communities, but will empower them with a network of volunteers and organizations to help the communities achieve their objectives.
This thrust, the Digicel Foundation feels, augurs well for the island's socio-economic development. "If the BEST Community Competition gets the response it should receive, we will all be showing the true face of Jamaica. That is, a clean, hospitable face and one that will reflect positively on our attitude, our self-esteem and our country," the Executive Director of the Digicel Foundation declared.
Also addressing yesterday's function, Governor General Professor Kenneth Hall expressed confidence that the BEST Community Competition "can re-energise our efforts to build a better Jamaica." The Governor General appealed to non-governmental organizations, the private sector and communities in general to support the initiative and redesign communities to meet the demands of the people.
Donald Buchanan, Minister of Information and Development, delivered the message on behalf of Prime Minister Portia Simpson-Miller at the launch exercise. The Prime Minister endorsed the competition and called for widespread support:
"One of the objectives of the Competition is to encourage those of us who have been fortunate enough to have been trained and educated to assist communities by providing training opportunities as well as, technical and professional guidance to them for the activities they wish to undertake," the Prime Minister's message noted. "I appeal to those of you to whom much has been given, to give back to your country."
She stressed the importance of the involvement of communities in ensuring that the values and attitudes in our society are restored and maintained at high standards.
Application forms for entry into the BEST (Better Environments for Social Transformation) Community Competition is available at the offices of the Social Development Commission and entries close on February 16, 2007. Communities will be judged on seven areas including: built environment, natural environment, education, heritage and culture. Prizes will be offered in sectional, parish and national categories.
About Digicel Foundation
Digicel Foundation is a non-profit organization established by Digicel in 2004 that distributes and utilizes funds on a charitable basis, for the sole purpose of building communities and the community spirit in Jamaica.
Among projects implemented by the Foundation are:
The establishment of a state-of-the-art Resource Centre at Jessie Ripoll Primary
$9Million expansion and refurbishing of STETHS sports complex
The J$5 million refurbishing and equipping of the Meteorological Services.
The establishment of a Chair in Telecommunications Policy and Management at the UWI
Rebuilding of the Lakes Pen Basic School in a record time of six weeks


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Renaissance and early modern literature
Milton's Paradise Lost
Books V and VI
Author: John Milton
Editor: A. W. Verity
Date Published: October 2013
Originally published in 1892 as part of the Pitt Press Series, this book presents the text of the fifth and sixth books of Milton's Paradise Lost, in which Raphael tells Adam and Eve of the war between God and Satan. The poem is accompanied by a biography of Milton, a history of the poem, a discussion of the cosmology of Paradise Lost and other scholarly appendices. This book will be of value to anyone with an interest in Milton and the history of Paradise Lost.
Introduction (Life of Milton, History of Paradise Lost, The story of the poem, Milton's blank verse)
Paradise Lost: Book V
Book VI
Appendix. The cosmology of Paradise Lost, The character of Milton's Satan)
Glossary Index.
Front Matter (1570 KB)
A. W. Verity
Books I and II
Books VII and VIII
Books IX and X
Comus and Lycidas
Paradise Lost: Introduction
John Milton's Epitaphium Damonis
The Cambridge Companion to Paradise Lost
Milton's Visual Imagination
Imagery in Paradise Lost
And Its Critics
African and Caribbean literature
Anglo Saxon and medieval literature
English literature: general interest
English literature 1700-1830
English literature after 1945
European and world literature: general interest
Irish literature
Printing and publishing history


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Released January 14, 2022 (Worldwide)
CD [ Amazon US | Amazon UK ]
MP3 [ Amazon US ] | iTunes (US)
Black Widow Angel
Crying Wolf
Damned By You
No Shame At All
Nowhere to Fly
Passion Killer
Run Like the Devil
This is your Damnation
All songs and music by Tony Martin (presumed)
Tony Martin – Vocals, Guitar, Bass, Violin, Drums
Scott McClellan – Guitars
Magnus Rosen – Bass
Danny Needham – Drums
Greg Smith – Bass
Catalogue Numbers
CD Dark Star Records ???? (North/South America)
CD Battlegod Records ???? (Everywhere else)
Tony's long delayed third "solo" album, his first since 2005's "Scream".
Tony Martin & Scott McClellan
Album Press Release
Tony Martin signs with Battlegod Productions
Tony Martin, former Black Sabbath singer, signs with Battlegod Productions Australia for his upcoming solo album "THORNS". The album is licensed in all of North and South America by Dark Star Records.
Talking about the new album Tony had this to say, "This new album is probably the most "Tony Martin" a Tony martin album has ever sounded!! It's got several surprises that will lift people's eyebrows I am sure. Largely but not entirely based around the riffs of Scott McClellan, new to the world scene he has proved to be a worthy partner in crime for this release… I was able to make some great songs out of the riffs he was coming up with which is very similar in the writing sense to that which I experienced with Tony Iommi. Different sound and style but the riffing talent that someone like Scott has is very cool.
It is diverse, melodic, powerful, thought provoking and of a standard high as ever i have worked on. I believe there are stories still to tell, songs still to be sung and with this album i feel it's achieved everything i could have wished for.
Grateful to the people who have given their extra talents in appearances on this recording, it's been a challenge in COVID lockdown, getting everyone's performances from across the world, but in another way it was a perfect opportunity to get it done."
"Tony Martin is one of the best Metal vocalists of all time and lyrically brilliant and musically fantastic, a True Heavy Metal Legend. ~ Peter Kotevski / President / Battlegod Productions.
"Tony Martin has one of the Best Metal Voices that I have ever Heard and his Words and Music are Timeless" ~ Jeffrey A. Swanson / President / Dark Star Records
Tony Martin, is an English heavy metal vocalist, best known for his time fronting Black Sabbath, initially from 1987 to 1991 and again from 1993 to 1996. Martin was the band's second longest serving vocalist after Ozzy Osbourne. Eternal Idol and Headless Cross are among the best known Black Sabbath albums featuring Tony Martin as well as Scream his solo album from 2005.
The new album will feature Danny Needham (Venom), Magnus Rosen (HammerFall), Scott McClellan (who helped co-write the album) and Greg Smith who performed with Alice Cooper, Rainbow, Blue Öyster Cult, and many more!
Battlegod Productions world distribution except North and South America by Dark Star Records including both physical and streaming.
Track Listing: – As The World Burns – Black Widow Angel – Book Of Shadows – Crying Wolf – Damned By You – No Shame At All – No Where To Fly – Passion Killer – Run Like The Devil – This Is Your Damnation – Thorns
Out Soon, stay tuned for further details.


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Mike webber on drums,crazy chun in solos and jazz.
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Ying is back from aussie d... WOHOO!!! so that means its time to go out again after err 3 weeks from me and ivan staying at home all day(sleeping). I wanted to be all malaysian-proud and watch cicakman,BUT ivan said that his fren said that dejavu not bad so yala... we decided to watch it.i really din wanna watch cuz u noe larr,these movies must think alot wun and me and thinkin not so good la... haha. starting of it was a bit confusing but we got the jist of it after a while so that was good.
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Barely a year into his tenure, CEO Scott Santi is moving quickly to rejuvenate 100-year-old Illinois Tool Works Inc.
Third-quarter results show big strides in an ambitious plan to streamline, curb expenses and boost profit margins at the far-flung industrial conglomerate. ITW, which makes everything from restaurant ovens to auto parts, is down to 80-plus business units from about 800. Slow-growing, low-margin units representing about a quarter of its business have been divested or set aside for sale.
Most important, the third-quarter operating profit margin expanded 1.1 percentage points to 19 percent, putting Glenview-based ITW on track for a full-year margin between 17.6 and 18 percent. It aims to boost operating margins to 20 percent from a historical average of around 16 percent by 2017.
Investors seem comfortable, too. ITW shares climbed 1.3 percent last week after the Oct. 21 earnings report. The stock is up 29.2 percent this year, outpacing the Standard & Poor's index of industrial stocks.
Mr. Santi, 52, a 30-year ITW veteran, inherited a big challenge when he was promoted from chief operating officer upon the death of predecessor David Speer last fall. Despite a long track record of superior profitability and shareholder returns, ITW hadn't snapped back sharply enough from the recession. Nudged by an activist investor, directors laid out a plan to spur growth and push returns to new heights.
Mr. Santi emphasizes ITW "is not a broken company in need of fixing." Rather, he says, it's striving to recapture its "best-in-class" stature.
So far, the "enterprise initiative" is delivering as promised. Overhead is falling as hundreds of small operating units consolidate. Profits are expected to expand further when their combined purchasing power starts generating significant savings next year.
These are important accomplishments. In fact, ITW probably can reach its 20 percent operating margin goal on cost savings alone. But in a sense, they're low-hanging fruit. Streamlining an $18 billion-revenue company isn't easy, but it plays to ITW's proven strengths in operating efficiency. And corporate organization and structure are largely within Mr. Santi's control.
"I'm quite confident they can achieve what they want to achieve on the cost side," says analyst Mircea Dobre at Robert W. Baird & Co. in Milwaukee.
Revenue is another matter. After decades of deriving two-thirds of revenue growth from acquisition and one-third from internal sources, ITW aims to flip the equation. To pull it off, ITW figures organic sales must grow 2 percentage points faster than overall industrial expansion. That's a significant jump from its average of 1 percentage point above industrial production growth.
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Mr. Santi insists ITW can innovate with the best, noting that new products lifted organic sales in its automotive unit 11.5 percent in the third quarter, well above the 4 percent rise in auto production. "Automotive is a good proxy for the way we want the entire company to operate," he says.


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Light & Darkness Radio: Featured Today! "Sorrows Path, Daedalus..."
You guys enjoying L&D Radio in this 5 months of life? I really appreciate your support and hope L&D last long blasting and filling your ears with rich musik, Hail Metal! Now lets get to business shall we? ;) Here's the Featured bands of the day!
Sorrows Path (GRE) - Sorrows Path was formed by Takis Drakopoulos (bass) and Kostas Salomidis (guitar) back in November 1993. Both being inspired by bands like Memento Mori, Solitude Aeturnus and Candlemass and shortly after Angelos Ioannidis (vocals) and Kostas Farmakis (drums) joined them, the band began rehearsing and composing material. During 1994 and 1995 Sorrows Path performed live in several gigs that by that time were being held in local clubs such as Rodeo, An Club, Στον Αέρα etc. In the meanwhile, on January 1995 "Sorrows Path", the band's first demo, was released but shortly after that, Kostas Farmakis decided to leave the band (sometime in autumn 1995). At the fall of 1995 and while the band was in a search of a new drummer Takis Drakopoulos tragically dies of a serious brain disease leaving the remaining members numb.After putting themselves together, Angelos and Kostas decided to continue with band and so after recruiting Stavros Giannakos on bass and Gregory Vlachos on drums continued rehearsing and performing live (Qualisound Festival, Rainbow Club, etc). The result of their efforts was a promo tape released in May 1996, simply entitled "Promo 96", which was aiming in signing a deal with a record label. During the following year (1997) and after being in touch with record labels and promoters, Sorrows Path entered the studio to record some new material which was never released. In 1998 the band decided to take a break for about 2 years due to the mandatory military service that the band members had to undergo. In the rise of the new millennium and while the band started to work again, Sorrows Path co-founder, Kostas Salomidis, was almost paralyzed because of a neck problem which was caused a few years by a devastating motorcycle accident. After 5 rough years of courage and pain, with medical treatment, family support, and with the help of God or Fate, Kostas partially recovered, being able to make some "noise" with the guitar! So in May 2005 everyone in the band was more than enthusiastic to the idea of rehearsing and 7 years of doom!By the end of 2005 the band was back in action in order to catch up with the time lost all these years. Old songs were being rehearsed once again, while new songs and were put together for future release. That was the time when Sorrows Path decided to release the re-mastered version of their first demo along with their '96 promo tape. In the meantime, some personal problems forced Gregory Vlachos (drums) to leave the band and on December of 2005 Fotis Mountouris replaced him. In the same month Sorrows Path agreed with Eat Metal Records in releasing the remasters. On April 2006 Sorrows Path hit the stage after 9 whole years as the opening act for the Texan masters of Doom Metal, Solitude Aeturnus at Underworld Club, Athens, Greece. On the very next day the remasters were out from Eat Metal Records entitled "Resurrection". From that time and then, the band was back in full action… For the next two years, the band spent time composing and preparing 12 new songs for public release. During that time Sorrows Path performed many gigs all over Greece, either supporting well known metal bands like Memory Garden, Pagan Altar and Brocas Helm, or sharing the stage with some of the most popular Greek bands. At the summer of 2008, they entered Fragile Studios in Athens to record their first album with well known Greek metal producer, musician and composer Vangelis Yalamas (has collaborated with Duncan Patterson-ex Anathema and Joey Vera, Ray Adler from Fates Warning, plays and composes for Fragile Vastness and Jazzment Day), who also taking part in this album as a guest musician, playing synth and making some arrangements. With the entrance of 2009, a new guitarist Giannis Tziligkakis (Ominous Sky - GR) joined Sorrows Path in order to fulfill the band's vision for a solid and heavier sound that the new material demanded. From that time, the band spent many hours rehearsing in order to work out the chemistry between them. By the end of the summer 2009 everything was ready! The recordings, mixing and mastering of Sorrows Path new album was completed! All the artwork and photography for this album has been made by the most important of his kind in Greece, Seth Siro Anton (Paradise Lost, Moonspell, Soilwork, Exodus, etc) "The Rough Path Of Nihilism" was released on October 29th 2010 their most powerful album so far!
Daedalus (ITA) - DAEDALUS is a progressive metal band from Genoa, Italy.In theirmusic they try to combine a complex harmonic texture, elaborate rhythmic elements and clear melodic lines, melting and alternating different atmospheres in a gradual or sudden way, trying to create an overwhelming and fascinating musical journey while keeping the structure of the songs rather simple. In 2003 the band published their first album LEADING FAR FROM A MISTAKE. In 2009 Galileo Records and ProgRock Records published the second one, THE NEVER ENDING ILLUSION. Roberto Tiranti (Labyrinth) and Alessandro Corvaglia (La Maschera di Cera) appear as guest singers. Roland Grapow (Helloween, Masterplan) mixed the tracks while Mark Wilkinson (Marillion, Judas Priest, Iron Maiden) drew the artwork. MOTHERLAND, their third album,was released on May 02, 2011. It contains 11 songs pervaded with strenght, melody, contemplation. The lyrics offer different points of view concerning the uneasiness in today's world and analyze some peculiar elements that may lead to an inexorable crumbling of the modern society. Roland Grapow (Helloween, Masterplan) mixed the album and played a killer guitar solo, Trevor (Sadist) and Elisa Montaldo (Il Tempio delle Clessidre) appear respectively as guest singer and main keyboardist. The artwork has been drawn by Davide Nadalin (Threshold, Extrema, Vision Divine, Sadist). MOTHERLAND got a very accurate production and is a fresh-sounding, heavy and enthralling album. Daedalus' line-up features members of IANVA, Il Tempio delle Clessidre and Thought Machine.
Thunderbolt (NOR) - Thunderbolt is a Norwegian Power/Heavy Metal band that combines the classical influence of bands like Iron Maiden, Helloween, and Black Sabbath with a more modern, powerful sound like that of Bad Brains and Entombed. After releasing their demo Bandits at 6 O'Clock in 2001, the band received multiple offers for a record contract and subsequently signed in Scandinavia with Face Front/WME (and Massacre Records outside of Scandinavia) for the release of their 2003 debut album Demons and Diamonds. The album received acclaim in Norwegian and international music press and was even appreciated by the mainstream Norwegian press rare for a band in this genre. Following the success of Demons and diamonds, the band played several gigs and festivals in Norway, Germany, and Scandinavia from 2003 through 2005. Recording and mixing of the follow up album Love and Destruction was finished in the summer of 2005. However, due to matters in the hands of the record label it took quite a while to make administrative arrangements and bring this album to the public, It was finally released Friday 19. May 2006 and followed up by a Norwegian tour together with Paul Di'Annoand Masterplan as well as a major European tour supporting King Diamond (May-June 2006). The band followed this with yet more activity, furthering their reputation as a ferocious liveband in their native Norway, as well as gaining a cult-following throughout Europe. The band did another European tour with Swedish battlemetallers Sabaton during the summer of 2007, as well as more Scandinavian dates later on that year. 2008 and 2009 saw Thunderbolt continue to tour, the highlights being Basinfirefest 2008 in the Czech Republic, the 2009 Norway Rock Festival, and touring Europe as support once again for Paul Dianno. In 2010 Thunderbolt went on yet another European tour, this time supportingTim "Ripper" Owens.The third studio album, titled Dung Idols is scheduled for release on February 25, 2011 through Rock It Up Records. The album is mixed and mastered by Andy LaRocque. Touring to promote the album will begin this summer.