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Wednesday, July 11, 2018 – "Meant to Be" still is meant to be at the top of the Billboard Hot Country Songs chart for the week ending July 14. The song from Bebe Rexha and Florida Georgia Line has been first since December 2017. Luke Combs held the top spot on the Top Country Albums chart with "This One's For You."
On the albums chart, Combs took the top spot from "Dan + Shay," who fell to second. Jason Aldean remained third with "Rearview Town." Kane Brown was fourth with his self-titled disc. Chris Stapleton was fifth with "Traveller."
Kenny Chesney's "Live in No Shoes Nation" returned to the chart at eighth. Blake Shelton was at 18, up 3, with "Reloaded: 20 #1 Hits." FGL also was up 3 to 19 with "Here's to the Good Times." Luke Bryan was at 22 with "Crash My Party," up 4. Tim McGraw's "Number One Hits" gained eight, to 23. Chesney also was at 26 with "Greatest Hits II," up 12. Toby Keith was back with "Greatest Hits 2" at 32. George Strait's "50 Number Ones" moved up 8 to 33. "The Essential Johnny Cash" was up from 45 to 39.
The rest of the top five was the same as last week on the songs chart: Dan + Shay second with "Tequila," Brown third with "Heaven," Chesney fourth with "Get Along" and FGL fifth with "Simple."
Morgan Evans was at 13 with "Kiss Somebody," up 7. Bryan also climbed 7 to 16 with "Sunrise, Sunburn, Sunset." Old Dominion jumped 9 to 18 with "Hotel Key." Dylan Scott was at 21 with "Hooked," up 5. LANCO's "Born To Love You" stood at 32, up 5. Maren Morris moved up 7 to 34 with "Rich." Carly Pearce was 36th with "Hide the Win," up 4. Brothers Osborne held the 37th spot with "Shoot Me Straight," up 6. Russell Dickerson was at 39 with "Blue Tacoma," up 5.
Copolit Music + Sound debuted at 41 with "Take Me Home, Country Roads." Chris Young was 42nd with "Hangin' On," up 5. Garth Brooks debuted at 43 with "All Day Long." Midland was at 44 in its first week, with "Burn Out." Chris Lane's new single "I Don't Know About You" was 47th. Little Big Town debuted at 50 with" Summer Fever."
On the Bluegrass Albums chart, Kittle & Co. debuted in first with "Whorls." Trampled By Turtles were second with "Life Is Good On the Open Road." Old Crow Medicine Show held third with "Volunteer." Steve Martin And the Steep Canyon Rangers were fourth with "The Long-Awaited Album." Alison Krauss was fifth with "Windy City."
Stapleton led the Americana/Folk Albums chart with "Traveller." He also was second with "From a Room: Volume 1" and fourth with "From a Room: Volume 2." Simon and Garfunkel's Greatest Hits" was third. Kacey Musgraves was fifth with "Golden Hour."
On the Billboard Top 200, Combs was 14th, Dan+ Shay 20th, Aldean 23rd, Brown 32nd and Stapleton's "Traveller" 37th.
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Luke Combs has gotten a lot of life out of his album "This One's for You," which includes his breakthrough hit "Hurricane," as well as the popular single "When It Rains It Pours." This deluxe edition includes five new tracks, many of which are just as strong as the original 12. "Houston, We Got a Problem" includes a smart lyric highlighting specific details about that big Texas city. Even though it has all these famous landmarks, it doesn't have »»»
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The Madness Continues and Jesse Williams Speaks Truth
Posted on July 8, 2016 by Valerie Elverton-Dixon
In December of 2014, I wrote an essay where I connect police violence against African-American people to racism as a social psychosis. In other words, racism has made most people in the United States crazy, police included. (http://www.tikkun.org/tikkundaily/2014/12/09/blue-on-black-violence-racial-bias-and-societal-psychosis/) I discuss an essay – "A Superhumanization Bias in Whites' Perception of Blacks" published in the journal "Social Psychological and Personality Science." Fast forward to July 2016, and in the space of two days, two African-American men, in two cities, in two different parts of the country – Alton Sterling in Baton Rouge, Louisiana and Philando Castile in a suburb of Minneapolis/St. Paul– have been shot and killed by police. Both shootings were caught on video and broadcast widely. I shall quote myself:
"And the crazy is so crazy deep that many people affected by the crazy do not realize how crazy they are. The insanity causes us to misperceive reality, so that we see what is not really real and do not see what is really real."
The madness continues.
Jesse Williams is an actor on the popular television show "Grey's Anatomy." In June 2016, he received Black Entertainment Television's Humanitarian Award. In his acceptance speech, he referred to Tamir Rice, an African-American child who was killed by Cleveland police while playing with a toy gun. The young man was killed within three seconds of the police arriving on the scene. Three seconds.
Williams said in part: "Now, what we have been doing is looking at the data and we know that police somehow manage to deescalate, disarm and not kill white people every day. So what's going to happen is we are going to have equal rights and justice in our own country or we will restructure their function and ours." (http://time.com/4383516/jesse-williams-bet-speech-transcript/)
In responding to the two killings in remarks from Poland, President Obama presented data. He said:
"And I just want to give people a few statistics to try to put in context why emotions are so raw around these issues. According to various studies – not just one, but a wide range of studies that have been carried out over a number of years–African Americans are 30 percent more likely than whites to be pulled over. After being pulled over, African-Americans and Hispanics are three times more likely to be searched. Last year, African Americans were shot by police at more than twice the rate of whites. African Americans are arrested at twice the rate of whites. African American defendants are 75 percent more likely to be charged with offenses carrying mandatory minimums. They receive sentences that are almost 10 percent longer than comparable whites arrested for the same crime.
"So that if you add it all up, the African American and Hispanic population, who make up only 30 percent of the general population, make up more than half of the incarcerated population. Now these are facts."
(https://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2016/07/07/statement-president)
President Obama also spoke of systemic racism that renders poor communities of color basically out of sight and out of mind to the majority of the people who hold power in the United States. Thus, these communities suffer from a lack of quality education, employment, and opportunity. The president also spoke of building trust between local police and the communities they serve.
There is little trust between the African American community and law enforcement in many cities because the police in all too many cases are not in the business of protecting and serving the community. They are in the business of controlling black bodies. From the earliest days of the republic, from the days when African Americans were present to provide slave labor, the patrols existed to keep the slaves on the plantation. Known as paddy rollers, their job was to track down runaway slaves. It may seem as if I am making a very long historical leap from the slave patrols to local policing in the 21st century, but I do not think so.
The logic of race in the United States, the logic of white supremacy had to define the enslaved in contradictory terms, both sub-human and super-human, infantile yet dangerous, happy and docile yet oversexed and brutish. This was necessary to provide an immoral moral justification for slavery. It was an immoral moral justification for Jim Crow legal apartheid in the United States. It was the rationale for keeping white women from black men lest they marry and produce black children. Only two white people can produce more white children.
So, the question becomes: what do white police officers see when they see an African American person? What are they trying to kill when a killer cop shoots a young black man sixteen times, or takes three seconds to kill a 12-year-old? Do they see a human being worthy of respect, or do they see a sub/superhuman dangerous brute whose body needs to be restrained and controlled by any means necessary? Do they see an opportunity to demonstrate their own superiority over the Other? Do they see a threat to whiteness itself, and therefore a threat to their own existence?
When Jesse Williams spoke of a restructuring of function for both the police and for ourselves, I took that to mean that our function is to make certain the police exist to establish justice and the rule of law in our communities, not their current de facto function of controlling the movement of black bodies. To restructure the function of police, We the People have to take our responsibilities as citizens seriously. We have to register to vote, inform ourselves about the issues and then vote in federal, state, and local elections. When called to serve on juries, we have to go and not try to shirk that responsibility. We have to pay attention to elections for judges. We have to make sure that policing policies in our communities conform to the standards outlined in"The Final Report of the President's Task Force on 21st Century Policing." One suggestion in the report is training on "implicit bias and cultural responsiveness." (http://www.cops.usdoj.gov/pdf/taskforce/taskforce_finalreport.pdf)
When any of us lose a loved one to violence, it is a death that ought to affect us all. These are our sons and daughters who are losing their lives at the hands of those we have the power of the state behind them to exert deadly force. They ought not to be able to kill citizens who pose only an imaginary threat without punishment. This means that it is way past time that killer cops go to jail. It is not enough to give multi-million dollar payouts to the families of the dead.
As I write this essay, police in Dallas have lost four or their own to sniper fire that occurred during a protest rally. These gatherings happened in various cities across the United States. Now four police officers in Dallas are dead and seven more have been wounded, some seriously. The situation is still unfolding, so I do not know how it will end. This adds tragedy upon tragedy. Death upon death. Grief upon grief.
This kind of lawlessness is the reason why there must be justice for police officers who kill unrighteously. The founders knew that the first purpose of the government of the United States is not to keep the country safe, but to establish justice. They wrote: "We the People of the United States in order to form a more perfect union, establish Justice, ensure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution of the United States."
In effect, they were saying: No Justice; No Peace.
Valerie Elverton Dixon is founder of JustPeaceTheory.com and author of "Just Peace Theory Book One: Spiritual Morality, Radical Love, and the Public Conversation."
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Valerie Elverton Dixon, the author of Just Peace Theory Book One: Spiritual Morality, Radical Love, and the Public Conversation?, is an independent scholar studying ethics, peace theory, public discourse, and the civil rights movement. She reads these subjects through the lens of womanist, postmodern, and postcolonial thought. She received her Ph.D. in Religion and Society from Temple University under the direction of womanist scholar Katie Cannon. During her nearly ten years as full-time faculty in theological education, Dr. Dixon taught Christian Ethics at United Theological Seminary in Dayton, OH and at Andover Newton Theological School in Newton Centre, MA. While teaching at UTS, she served as faculty advisor to the Social Crisis Doctor of Ministry Group and as mentor and faculty advisor of the Church and Society Doctor of Ministry Group. While teaching at Andover Newton, she was a faculty member of the Ph.D. seminar in ethics at Boston College. The classes she has taught include: Womanist/Feminist Ethics, Ethics of Peacemaking, Letter From Birmingham Jail and Deconstruction in Public Discourse: Reading the Iraq War. Also while teaching at Andover Newton, she served on the executive committee of the Interreligious Center for Public Life, an interfaith organization begun by Andover Newton and Hebrew College.
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fred on July 8, 2016 at 3:24 am said:
As we are wondering want happened in those killings in Minnesota and Louisiana, 5 Dallas officers were gunned down by assassins in Dallas. Please acknowledge this or else you are guilty of ugly bias.


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Tottenham Hotspur manager, Mauricio Pochettino, wants his side to challenge for titles despite not being able to match their rivals in the transfer market. Photo: Dylan Martinez/Reuters
LONDON – Mauricio Pochettino insists Tottenham's lack of activity in the transfer window isn't a problem because it was just as important to hold onto the club's key players.
With the Premier League transfer market closing at 1600 GMT, Tottenham are set to be the only top-flight side not to make a signing since the end of last season.
Pochettino had been linked with several players and a fresh approach for Aston Villa midfielder Jack Grealish was rebuffed by the Championship club earlier this week.
The Tottenham manager had challenged his club to be "brave and take risks" when asked what Tottenham needed to do to improve their squad.
But, although the Argentinian on Thursday conceded the transfer window would probably close without a fresh face arriving, he was adamant it was still a good period for his team.
The reason for his optimism? – England striker Harry Kane, Denmark playmaker Christian Eriksen, South Korea forward Son Heung-min and England defender Kieran Trippier have all signed new contracts since May.
"We have a very good squad, with very good players and it is very difficult to add players to that," Pochettino said.
"We didn't sell players and with 25 players in the squad it is difficult to add players.
"It's not about adding because it's fashionable to sign players. It's about if you really need them or not and then if you can get your target or not.
"It's true our targets are always the same level as Manchester United, Manchester City or Real Madrid but for different circumstances we can't achieve that.
"I am not worried, I am not sad, I am so happy. To keep our best players was our objective and goal and we have achieved that - at the moment, we will see what happens in the next 20 days in Europe.
"If you can't add a player that can improve your squad, the most important thing is to make sure you do not lose your best players and I think that was a great job from the club to keep the best players and the manager."
Some Tottenham fans fear their club's lack of activity might force Pochettino to consider leaving, but the former Southampton boss is happy with the club's vision.
"Of course it's difficult to understand for people in football that Tottenham didn't sign or sell players, but sometimes in football you need to behave differently," he said.
"If we are happy with our squad and cannot improve our squad, sometimes it's better to keep our squad together."
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I see almost the same thing. We'll start out well, then start to get whipped. I will be very surprised if we win more than 7.
He's definitely drawn some attention from me this year, FWIW (which isn't much). Would love to hear some more on him from our experts.
Bumping this for 2019. I have always like Reyes for some reason. .857 OPS so far this year.
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I was hoping we'd clean house. It'll be interesting to see where we go from here. I figured we'd probably dump a bunch of money to keep Mosley and Suggs here and thought that was going to be a mistake.


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Acharya Prashant (AP): The first question comes from an MBA 2nd year student from IIT Kanpur named Prashant. He says:
"I have been reading Krishnamurti and Vivekanand since the past three years having learned from them, I genuinely feel that the teachings of such great teachers should be at the core of our education system. I personally feel that my decisions regarding my career and life would not have been emotionally driven had I studied these. But Sir, unfortunately, we do not find the teachings of our saints in our mainstream education system; either at school or at professional level – at most there might be a few books tucked away at some corner of the library. And I want to add that even in the premier institutions of this country, one would find a complete negligence by the student community with respect to the Vedantic teachings and the sayings of the saints. The students are preoccupied with their pre-decided career paths and don't pay heed to these teachings. Sir, why are even so-called intelligent students ignoring these valuable teachings?"
Prashant, there are two reasons. The first reason is eternal and the second is contemporary. Let's look at both.
The way man is, he is not designed to prioritize learning, wisdom or realization over his more basic, primary, animalistic needs and instincts. It's a bodily thing; it's an evolutionary thing. It's there in entire mankind irrespective of nationality, ethnicity, gender, age; irrespective of what kind of identity you carry. We are not programmed to be naturally drawn towards the teachings of somebody like J. Krishnamurti or Swami Vivekanand. And there is ample reason why we would ignore their teachings, or at times even be hostile to them.
You see, when you look at a person and you say, "here comes a human being; a man or a woman", what is the defining characteristic of the human being? It's the body, right? It's the body you look at. Everything else comes later. So, no body, no human being. And that's the primary identity we all are carrying. We are bodies. And around that identity and from that identity all else is built. See, remove your body from your life and what is left of your life? The moment you remove your body you're called as a dead man. And your world comes to an end.
So, it is our bodily presence, it is our body-identification that marks our very existence. Remove the body and we cease to exist, right? And as we said, from that body-identification, all our actions, thoughts, emotions, ways of the intellect, information gathering by the senses, and then analysis and codification of that information, its structuring into knowledge, all that happens. Remove the body, you don't have any senses to even gather information; remove the body, you don't have any brains to interpret the information; remove the body, you don't have any science. Right? No language, nothing.
Acharya Prashant is an emerging champion of socio-spiritual awakening in the world today. An alumnus of IIT-Delhi and IIM-Ahmedabad, and a former Civil Services officer, Acharya Prashant is an acclaimed Speaker, Vedanta Teacher and author of over 50 books. Apart from that he wears various hats: a veganism promoter, an environmental activist, a science activist, a campaigner against superstition, and a champion of essential human freedom. Know More
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On our newest episode of Boss Rush, Laura joins in on our discussions about all things Spider-Man! Also, Jason tries Stardew Valley for the first time, Jett finished Mega Man 11, and Laura's a pro at Nintendo's newest mobile game!
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LG Electronics' Q4 operating profit estimated to nose-dive 91%
LG Electronics said Friday it expected its 2022 fourth-quarter operating earnings tumbled more than 91 percent from a year prior, amid its home appliance unit's sluggish performance coupled with global recession woes. LG estimated operating profit for the October-December period came in at 65.5 billion won ($51.6 million), down 91.2 percent from the same period a year before, according to the co...
Naver closes acquisition of US e-commerce firm Poshmark
Korean internet portal giant Naver announced Friday that the company has completed its acquisition of Poshmark, a US social commerce marketplace for fashion, a move to penetrate into the global consumer-to-consumer market. Naver's special purpose company Proton Parent acquired all shares and its assets of Poshmark for $1.31 billion. Its enterprise value stands at about $1.2 billion. With the tr...
Samsung Electronics' Q4 operating profit set to plunge nearly 70%
Samsung Electronics predicted Friday that its 2022 fourth-quarter operating profit would plummet 69 percent from a year earlier, as its main semiconductors business faced major headwinds from weakening demand for chips and home appliances amid recession woes. In its earnings guidance, the South Korean tech giant estimated its October-December operating profit to be 4.3 trillion won ($3.4 billion...
Celltrion's Avastin biosimilar wins regulatory nod from Canadian authorities
Celltrion announced Thursday that the company has cleared the regulatory hurdle to sell Vegzelma, a biosimilar referencing Roche's Bevacizumab sold under the brand name Avastin, in the Canadian market. Vegzelma, or also known as CT-P16, is used to treat a number of types of cancers including metastatic colorectal cancer and non-small cell lung cancer. According to Celltrion, Canada's drug regul...
[CES 2023] LG CEO touts customer value as key to success
By Jo He-rim Korea Herald Correspondent LAS VEGAS -- LG Electronics Chief Executive Officer Cho Joo-wan underscored the company's commitment to its "customer-centric vision" at the world's largest home appliance convention Wednesday, highlighting that the key to the tech giant's successes lies in the customers. During the LG World Premiere press conference held on the sidelines of CES in Las V...
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MSDS Marine are pleased to announce two new annual grant awards for maritime archaeology in the UK that will be awarded at the NAS conference in 2018.
2018 is the 45th anniversary of the Protection of Wrecks Act 1973. This represents over 45 years of Licensees and their teams volunteering their time and enthusiasm to help ensure the wreck sites are enjoyed, researched and protected. Licensees and their teams have played a huge role in the careers of all MSDS Marine staff. They have inspired us, taught us and helped us develop our skills and to recognise this we would like to give something back. The first award will be to help support Licensees and their teams.
The second award will help support maritime archaeology students in the UK. The growing MSDS Marine team includes a number of early years' professionals who have all recently completed university courses. Their recent experience highlights the significant costs faced by students to complete their education. We strongly believe fieldwork and other training experiences help create professionals with a more rounded skill set and are keen to help allow students to maximise the experiences that they get. To this end we offer many volunteer opportunities for students but we are now also keen to help support them financially to gain experiences which might otherwise be unaffordable.


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If you care about the G train...
Back in September, I observed that transit lines are often in competition with parallel highways. The main reason that governments have to spend so much money subsidizing transit is because they're spending more money subsidizing roads. As an example, I gave the proposed Tribororx line from Yankee Stadium to Bay Ridge, which is paralleled for much of its length by the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway and the Belt Parkway. How much ridership can we expect this line to have if the State is spending billions to upgrade the competing highway at no direct cost to drivers?
In the comments to my post, Jonathan pointed out that the G subway line also parallels the BQE in this corridor. Historically, the G has had notoriously low ridership. That has begun to change in recent years due to the booming popularity of Williamsburg and Greenpoint, but the MTA still treats it with contempt. After the V train was introduced, the MTA wanted to cut the G back to Court Square at all times. Under pressure from advocates, they agreed to run the G on nights and weekends, when the V was not running. Somehow, though, there seems to be track work on nights and weekends, nine times out of ten. I'm always surprised to actually see the G at Queens Boulevard stations.
The MTA has also run four-car trains on the G. I think they're back up to six cars, but the combination of short cars, truncated service, and infrequent service discourages people from taking the G, which in turn reduces ridership, which leads to more cuts...
The initial low ridership that seems to irk the MTA managers so much can be easily traced to the local-stop configuration of the G train and the BQE. Why would you want to sit through stops at Classon Avenue ... Bedford/Nostrand... Myrtle-Willoughby... Flushing... Broadway... if you can hop on your car and get to Queens without stopping? The alternatives through Manhattan are not much quicker; the E and the F run local, and the A only makes two stops more than the E (Spring Street and 23rd Street).
I have seen this dynamic in person multiple times. Many years ago, my girlfriend lived in Fort Greene and worked at Queens College. She would take the G to the E to the Q74 (or sometimes the A to the E, it didn't really save any time), and the total trip would take her an hour and twenty minutes. A couple years later, one of her colleagues at Queens College rented an apartment in Brooklyn Heights. I asked him if he was prepared for the long commute. Not really, he said. He had a car, and it took him twenty minutes to drive to Queens College.
Once I had a meeting in Brooklyn Heights, and from Woodside I took the 7 to the A, a little more than an hour. That meeting took longer than expected, and I had to rush back to Woodside for another meeting. With that story in mind, I hailed a cab and was home in twenty minutes.
I have a neighbor in Woodside who regularly visits his elderly aunt on Ocean Parkway. He used to spend forever on the F train, but now he takes a car service. If he owned a car himself, I'm sure he would drive.
This is the main reason for the low G train ridership: the state spent a ton of money building the BQE and the Kosciuszko Bridge, and now they're planning to spend another $1.7 billion to replace the Kosciuszko. Not just with another bridge the same width (three lanes in each direction), but with a wider one, with four northbound lanes and five southbound. These added lanes are sold as "reducing congestion," but who are they trying to kid? They'll be filled up with cars in no time.
It's true that the replacement bridge will have a unicycle lane that will make it easier for non-motorized traffic to get from Brooklyn to Queens, but the main thing it will do is make it even easier for people to not use the existing G train infrastructure, or the proposed Tribororx.
The DOT will have the second of two open houses next Wednesday in Greenpoint. They are also accepting comments by email on the project at kosciuszko@dot.state.ny.us. But the public will not be asked whether they want the new bridge to have nine lanes instead of six like the old one, or even to decrease the number of lanes to four in order to save money and encourage people to use transit. They will not be asked whether there should be tolls on the bridge to help pay the enormous cost, and to discourage overuse. No, they will be asked which of four "designs" they prefer, with the difference being mostly cosmetic. As with the Tappan Zee Bridge, the most important decision - how many lanes - was taken by the DOT without soliciting public input.
Henry Ford is quoted as saying that customers could buy the Model T "in any color, as long as it's black." In this case, you can have your bridge in any design you want, as long as it costs $1.7 billion dollars and has nine lanes to encourage lots of driving and draw riders off the G train.
Posted by Cap'n Transit at 11:21 PM
Labels: boondoggle, bridge, bridge tolls, brooklyn, plans, Queens, sustainability, symbolic rituals, tribororx
Jonathan said...
Cap'n: Thanks for mentioning my original comment. I used to live on a Brooklyn block with a G train stop at the corner, and my downstairs neighbor commuted to Forest Hills using the G train's one-seat ride.
The service suffers from the lack of a one-seat ride to Manhattan. If a connection was built in Williamsburg from the L train tunnel to the G train line, the MTA could run service from Queens Boulevard through to 14th Street. A one-seat ride from Bedford-Nostrand (via switching tracks at Hoyt-Schermerhorn) to Manhattan IND service would also be a winner.
The G's problem is not highway competition; it's that along the waterfront its only non-IND transfer is to the L at Williamsburg. If the IND had the intelligence to build the G to intersect Queensboro Plaza and Atlantic/Pacific, it would have much higher ridership.
The one-seat ride is a non-issue given good connections, and may actually backfire by screwing with frequencies.
Alon, I agree with you about the oversight with transfer stations. Of course, if the IND Second System had been built, the G would have had a simple stairway transfer at Broadway/South 4th St/Union Ave to Manhattan service via Houston and Worth Streets.
It wasn't an oversight. The IND was deliberately built to be minimally compatible with existing lines, even though the city had already intended to take over the IRT and BMT in the future.
The Second System transfers would have made the G only somewhat more useful. South 4th would have probably become an important transfer station, but it would never have been Atlantic/Pacific, and would not have addressed the lack of transfer in Queens.
sparky said...
As a former Greenpointer, I say nice post, and apt observation as to the realities of "choice".
But I quibble with the notion that the BQE is quick or convenient, except at 3AM. During much of the workweek, there's no way that it's faster to drive from say LIC to downtown Brooklyn, much less park there.
Also, at least in my experience, the IND connections aren't really that awful. If you are going to midtown, the E/V is fine and if you are going to lower Manhattan it's often easier to go via Jay St. than to put up with the inbound Queens rush.
I left the 'hood still annoyed about gentrification and the L becoming crowded so I have no comment there.
Let's subsidize bad choices - and then tax them!
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Hey guys, I have a 30w fiber laser and my circles are not coming out correctly. I believe the parameters are in the Galvo 1 and Galvo 2 settings. Does anyone know.of a way to adjust the settings or is there a correct parameter setting for a perfect circle.
It's that dreaded time where you need to spend an hour or so aligning the laser-- In the F3 params menu is where it's all done. You need to re-shape the laser's output AND align the red LED to the laser's cut.
Once you have your square, best is to place it on a black background, doesn't matter what, paper, whatever. Tape the two together, set aside.
NEXT- find something to test engrave, 4" x 4" -ish, 2" at least. White is good. Draw a SQUARE box in EzCad that fits on the text piece, SQUARE is best. Lets say 80x80mm.
put the test piece on the table, focus, then red-light it so it's close to the lens center, then tape or clamp it so it doesn't move. Set your speed at 1500 and power at ZERO, then run an outline pass.
-if it didn't mark, add 10% power and run until it does mark.
When done, measure the engraved box for exact height and width. Let say it measured 79.44mm on the X and 80.22mm on the Y- In the main F3 menu in the Galvo1 and Galvo2 section, note the 'scale' sections. Also note ABOVE which galvo = X. On the right side of the 'scale' is a box with 2 >> in it, click on whichever is your X galvo- you'll get 2 boxes, 'desired marking size' and 'actual mark size'- in this case desired is 80mm, and actual is 79.44... enter those, and the program will calculate the adjustment. Repeat for the Y galvo. When done, repeat the engrave test, and re-measure. You'll likely have to tweak, and you can use your own numbers to fine-tune.
When you get it to actually engrave an 80x80 square, you're close.
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When you donate food to the Edmonton Food Bank, where does it go and how does it get there? Kristina Partsinevelos takes us through the process.
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Q: How to print the text inside of a child tag and the href of a grandchild element with a single BeautifulSoup Object? I have a document which contains several div.inventory siblings.

    123

           $1.23

I would like to iterate over them to print the item number and link of the item.
123 http://linktoitem
456 http://linktoitem2
789 http://linktoitem3

How do I parse these two values after selecting the div.inventory element?
import requests
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htmlSource = requests.get(url).text
soup = BeautifulSoup(htmlSource)
matches = soup.select('div.inventory')
for match in matches:
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    #prints http://linktoitem

Also - what is the difference between the select function and find* functions?

A: You can find both items using find() relying on the class attributes:
soup = BeautifulSoup(data)
for inventory in soup.select('div.inventory'):
    number = inventory.find('span', class_='item-number').text
    link = inventory.find('span', class_='cost').a.get('href')
    print number, link

Example:
from bs4 import BeautifulSoup

data = """

        123

               $1.23

        456

               $1.23

        789

               $1.23

"""

soup = BeautifulSoup(data)
for inventory in soup.select('div.inventory'):
    number = inventory.find('span', class_='item-number').text
    link = inventory.find('span', class_='cost').a.get('href')
    print number, link

Prints:
123 http://linktoitem
456 http://linktoitem2
789 http://linktoitem3

Note the use of select() - this method allows to use CSS Selectors for searching over the page. Also note the use of class_ argument - underscore is important since class is a reversed keyword in Python.


Please join us for our Sunset Easter Vigil Service beginning promptly at Sunset, 7:41 pm on Saturday, April 20th.
A vigil is an evening service of Scripture readings and prayers in which believers vigilantly and eagerly wait and watch for the celebration of the Savior's deliverance. Old Testament believers waited through the night of the Passover for God to deliver them from the Egyptians. The midnight worship reported in Acts 20:7-12 is another example of late-night waiting and watching. One might say that our Christmas Eve and New Year's Eve services are vigils of sorts. Coming together for a vigil helps believers practice waiting patiently for God to reveal his will in his own good time.
Good Friday is part of the sacred Triduum, the three-day observance of the Passion of our Lord Jesus Christ. There is no Invocation or Benediction. The name may originally have been "God's Friday," but it is certainly also "good" because of the good gifts Christ won for us on this day. Good Friday is not observed as a funeral for Jesus. It is a day for repentance over sin and restrained joy and praise for the redemption the Lord Jesus accomplished for us on the cross. In keeping with this character, music is kept to a minimum, though not silenced. Elaborate words of praise are omitted. The altar remains bare, having been stripped on Holy Thursday.
The service of Tenebrae (meaning "darkness") consists of the extinguishing of the church lights. Historically, Tenebrae occurred early in the morning at the Offices of Matins and Lauds on all three days of the Triduum. In recent times, the service has been observed only on the evening of Good Friday.
Please join us for Maundy Thursday services at 3:45 pm or 7:00 pm.
The name comes from the Latin word "mandatum," meaning "commandment." It refers to the two "new" commandments our Lord gave to his disciples on this day. The first is "Love one another," and the second is "Do this in remembrance of me." In the early church, Maundy Thursday was also the day on which those who had fallen away from the Church were restored to full fellowship with other believers after having observed the 40-day penitential season of Lent. We are reminded of the reconciliation we have because of Christ's body and blood given for the forgiveness of sins, and the example of self-giving love shown by our Lord as he washed the feet of his disciples.
Join Us for Short Devotional Prayer Services each evening at 7:00 pm April 15th, 16th and 17th.
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Ash Wednesday marks the beginning of the season of Lent. During the 40 days of Lent Christians prepare for the Savior's journey to the cross with humble repentance, acknowledging that it was our sins that sent Jesus to the cross to suffer and die. Join us for these midweek services for prayer, reflection, and repentance under the theme of "Three Words of Truth" that focuses on a poignant three-word phrase from the record of Jesus' passion and resurrection.
Service Times: 3:45 pm and 6:30 pm with Holy Communion.
Midweek Lenten Services Wednesday's at 3:45 & 6: 30 p.m.
March 6th through April 10th.
Save a Life and Donate at Trinity's Blood Drive on Monday, February 25th from 3-7 pm in the Fellowship Hall. Get a COOL new pair of socks with your donation!! Contact Deb Pries at (262) 661-9774 or click HERE to sign up!
Trinity's Fellowship Committee is hosting a spaghetti dinner on Sunday, February 24th following our 10:45 am worship service. Come mangia!
Trinity Lutheran School offers a high quality, faith-based education for grades K3-8th. If you have school aged children or know someone who does, please stop by Trinity's School Open House Wednesday, February 13th from 4-7 pm. Meet the principal, staff and explore the campus!
Trinity is hosting a rummage sale on Saturday, February 9th from 8:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. in the Fellowship Hall. The proceeds from this event will benefit Tomorrow's Choice. Come shop till you drop!
One night a week, learn more about the Bible and God's plan for your life. Meet new Christian friends, learn God's Word from our pastor, and find peace in Christ. Sessions start on Wednesday, January 23 at 7:00pm and Sunday on January 27 at 9:40am.
Christmas Day worship at Trinity Lutheran features a service of lessons and carols. A local version of a longstanding English tradition, the congregation gathers to hear nine short lessons from Scripture and to sing several new and classic Christmas hymns.
Join the Christmas Eve tradition! Your calendars are already marked for Christmas Eve, so consider marking 6:30pm for a special candlelight service at Trinity Lutheran. The annual tradition at Trinity includes beloved Christmas carols, an uplifting message from our pastors, and a candlelight prayer and singing of Silent Night.
Coffee with Christ is a monthly Bible study group for women. The group meets at [cafe] on [street]. The format is casual and informal — come if you have time to discuss God's word with us.
Men's Breakfast Bible Study is the monthly men's Bible study at Trinity Lutheran. Men meet on the third Saturday of the month for food and fellowship at [restaurant].
Our current study is called "Strength Upon Strength — Reclaiming biblical manhood for godly men."


Dicyclopentadiene, abbreviated DCPD, is a colourless crystals with a camphor-like odour. Dicyclopentadiene is coproduced in large quantities in the steam cracking of naphtha and gas oils to ethylene. The major use is in resins, particularly, unsaturated polyester resins. It is also used in inks, adhesives, and paints. It is also a kind of high-energy fuel.
Diesel Euro III is the liquid fuel used in diesel engines. The most common is a specific fractional distillate of petroleum fuel oil, but alternatives that are not derived from petroleum, such as biodiesel, biomass to liquid (BTL) or gas to liquid (GTL) diesel, are increasingly being developed and adopted.
Diesel Euro IV Test Fuel is the liquid fuel used in diesel engines. The most common is a specific fractional distillate of petroleum fuel oil, but alternatives that are not derived from petroleum, such as biodiesel, biomass to liquid (BTL) or gas to liquid (GTL) diesel, are increasingly being developed and adopted.
Diesel PC-9 is a pale yellow to brown liquid with mild odor.This material has the ability to resist vapor lock.It exhibits durability and quality on emissions or drivability in a particular engine.
Dieselite is a multi-functional fuel treatment containing combustion catalysts and ash modifiers. It is intended for use in diesel engines and boilers burning residual fuels.
Diethyl Ether was first synthesized in 1540 by Valerius Cordus, and he termed as - sweet oil of vitriol. Diethyl ether is an extremely flammable organic solvent with many uses. Diethyl ether was one of the first anesthetics developed for surgical use, but has since been replaced by less flammable chemicals. Diethyl ether is commonly used as an industrial or laboratory solvent. It has narcotic properties and has been known to cause temporary psychological addiction, sometimes referred to as etheromania. Diethyl ether is particularly important as a solvent in the production of cellulose plastics such as cellulose acetate, fats, waxes, resins and similar substances. Diethyl ether has a high cetane number of 85-96 and is used as a starting fluid, in combination with petroleum distillates for gasoline and diesel engines. It is a common laboratory solvent. It is also a common solvent for the Grignard reaction in addition to other reactions involving organometallic reagents,liniments and analgesics (painkillers) and smokeless gun powder. It is also used in agricultural and pharmaceutical applications, as an intermediate in the preparation and manufacturing of other basic organic chemicals, as a catalyst in industrial polymerization processes, as an alternative fuel, as a foam expansion agent, and as an aerosol propellant for a variety of products that include adhesives, sealants, foam in a can, coatings, paints, automotive care products, topical skin cooling sprays, over the counter treatments, hairspray, sun screen and a variety of other personal care and household products. Diethyl ether can be prepared both in laboratories and on an industrial scale by the acid ether synthesis.


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Press Statement by the Special Representative of the UN Secretary-General for West Africa and the Sahel, Mohamed Ibn Chambas, on the Peaceful Conclusion of the Legislative Elections in the Gambia
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The Special Representative of the Secretary-General and Head of the United Nations Office for West Africa and the Sahel, Mohamed Ibn Chambas, congratulates the Government and the people of The Gambia for the peaceful and inclusive legislative elections of 6 April. He applauds Gambian political parties and candidates for their active participation in the elections, as well as the Independent Electoral Commission for its efforts in ensuring the people's right to elect their representatives in the National Assembly.
Mohamed Ibn Chambas commends the progress achieved by the Gambians with the conduct of these legislative elections which confirm the country' steady march towards sustained peace, democracy and stability.
Mr. Ibn Chambas reiterates the commitment of the Office of the United Nations for West Africa and the Sahel (UNOWAS), to continue supporting The Gambia in consolidating peace and prosperity.
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Adopted by the Peace and Security Council of the African Union at its 942nd meeting held on 28 August 2020, on the Report of the Chairperson of the Commission on the AUTSTG within the context of National Institutional Reforms in The Gambia
Press Release by the Peacebuilding Commission on impact of COVID-19 in The Gambia
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Will The Gambia be a turning point for AU peace efforts?
The 844th meeting of the African Union Peace and Security Council on the Progress Report on Security Sector Reform in The Gambia


This is my second CD, Scorpio and Me, released on September 21, 2010. All songs are written or co-written by me, including 14 original Modern Folk songs reflecting his folk and rock influences. I have composed music for over 30 years and have written over 150 songs to date. I am a member of BMI®, the Nashville Songwriters Association International (NSAI) ®, and the National Academy of Recording Arts & Sciences, Inc.
Scorpio and Me was recorded and mixed at E.A.R. (East Austin Recording) Studios...View MoreThis is my second CD, Scorpio and Me, released on September 21, 2010. All songs are written or co-written by me, including 14 original Modern Folk songs reflecting his folk and rock influences. I have composed music for over 30 years and have written over 150 songs to date. I am a member of BMI®, the Nashville Songwriters Association International (NSAI) ®, and the National Academy of Recording Arts & Sciences, Inc.


Enter into a 'prohibited' era where the culture of the cocktails made its debut in what we have come to presently love in the 'Long Island Ice Tea'. An idea conceptualized by partners Mohit Panikar, Jennifer Baumgartner and Rohit Monserrate have created a hub where 'unique' cocktails, local spirit infused preparations and some interesting preparations make merry in the heart of Panjim. Big-glassed enclosures with bricked pillars - given the restaurant a basement styled effect and murals on the walls depict the swinging era. It is a woody effect with the furniture but it is the small details; drinks served on 'vinyl' coasters, interesting ways of serving and presenting the food that will interest the diner. Start off with the 'Elder Flower' and 'Cucumber Collins' which is a must order as is the 'Whisky Maple Apple' along with 'Grilled Chestnuts' or a mini basket of 'French Fries'. From the Global & Desi munchies try the 'Thread Prawns' and 'Tandoori Fruits' respectively. For a light meal try the 'Chili Con Carne' and 'Kheema Channa'.
Special Deals and Offers in Swing, Panaji, North GoaDrink the night away with this hip themed bar in the heart of Panaji, Goa. As the locals know of it as Swing, the bar is owned by a trio who have bought the retro era back with a bang. Swing has created a trendy hub where interesting cocktails, unique local spirit infused preparations are offered to the tipplers. Their fun way of emphasizing the theme through murals and vinyl coasters adds a creative touch to the evening. If you want to spend some casual lazy time with someone special over drinks, Swing should be your port of call for a Special Occasion.


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A cruel trick by TDK. While the US got the excellent CD Power cassettes, as entry level Type IIs, we got more CD-ing IIs :-(
The formula has merit. Old generation TDK SF chrome tape in a shell similar to the TDK FE, at a low price. The downside is that it's not consistent.
We've just found an awful lot of Wow & Flutter with these at the start and towards the end of the tape, unless you're using a deck with a pad lifter. Others have performed like an SA...
At the end of the day, they do have TDK Type II tape in them and are one of the most reasonably priced Type II out there, so if you like them...
About TDK:
TDK was founded in Tokyo, Japan, on 7 December 1935 to manufacture the iron-based magnetic material ferrite, which had been recently invented by Yogoro Kato and Takeshi Takei.[3] In 1952 and 1957 they began production of magnetic tapes, with compact cassette tapes following in 1966; it is for these that the company is most widely noted. TDK used to manufacture an extensive portfolio of magnetic and optical media, including several formats of videotape and blank CD-R and recordable DVD discs until the recording business was sold to Imation in 2007.
Operations in the USA began in 1965 with a New York City office,[4] and European operations began in 1970 with an office in Frankfurt, West Germany.[5]
Since 1997 TDK has gradually withdrawn from the production of compact cassettes. First with the MA-X and AR ("Acoustic Response"), then the AD ("Acoustic Dynamic") and SA-X line in 2001 and 2002 respectively, then the MA ("Metal Alloy") line in 2004. The SA ("Super Avilyn") and D ("Dynamic") lines were withdrawn in 2012 under Imation ownership. Industry trends see the company moving into new forms of media; in 2004 TDK was the first media manufacturer to join the companies developing BD post-DVD technology.[4] TDK operated a semiconductor division in California for about a decade, but divested it in 2005.
In late 2007, Imation acquired TDK's recording business, including flash media, optical media, magnetic tape, and accessories, for $300 million.[6][7] This also included a license to use the "TDK Life on Record" brand on data storage and audio products[8] for 25 years.[6] In September 2015, Imation announced that it had agreed to relinquish this license[9] and would cease selling TDK-branded products by the end of the year.[10]
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Tomas Hult is Executive Director of the Academy of International Business as well as Professor and Byington Endowed Chair in the Eli Broad College of Business at Michigan State University. Masaaki "Mike" Kotabe tells us about his role as President of the Academy of International Business, his background in international business, and his interests that span management, marketing, and international business. Plus, as AIB President, Professor Kotabe shares with us why it is so valuable to be a member of the Academy of International Business (with members in some 90 countries). Mike Kotabe is a graduate of the Eli Broad College of Business with a Ph.D. in marketing and has been one of the most prominent researchers in global sourcing in the last several decades.
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Q: Will a CPU upgrade speed up my web browsing? How to tell? My CPU model is 2 and a half years old now, released Intel Q4'2010.  How can I determine if getting a new CPU will improve how fast I surf the Internet, versus getting a better ISP subscription?

A: Measure what your current bottleneck is. Run things like vmstat (BSD), iotop and top (Linux), taskmanager or resource manager (windows). Then start your browser and watch what the measurements do while you surf.
If the CPU tends to spike a lot to 100%, or of it stays at 100% for periods, then a faster CPU will help. If it never even spikes above half load then a faster CPU will not help much.
Do the same with memory: Does opening a few dozen tabs cause you to page (swap)? In that case more memory might help (adjust for your normal usage: Mine is between 30 and 60 open tabs at the same time).
If neither of the above two is stressed then the network might be the weakest link. However that can have several reasons. Pure throughput is just one of them.
Other reasons could be access times, or no installed adblockers (many webpages wait for advertisement to load. And the servers providing the adds are often damn slow. Which means that actualy surfing can feel a lot faster with an add-blocker. Even if your thoughput is more than enough to handle the normal surfing data and the adds at the same time).
There are probably a few more points which I have forgotten, but the main thing I tried to say is "measure!". (Or as we Dutch say 'Meten is weten' ('to measure is to know').
Tl;dr: A faster CPU is probably not going to help much. But check how much CPU is used with your current setup.

A: CPU makes browsing much, much, much faster, depending on the machines I've seen speed increases 10 fold. Fully tested also.


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Self Evident Presents: "American Revolutionary: The Evolution of Grace Lee Boggs "(by Making Contact)
This week, we're playing an episode from Making Contact. Making Contact produces media that analyses critical issues and showcases grassroots solutions in order to inform and inspire audiences to action. The episode, based on a documentary by filmmaker Grace Lee, is called "American Revolutionary: The Evolution of Grace Lee Boggs," and it's about the life and legacy of the famed civil rights activist.
Making Contact takes a close look at Boggs's lifetime of vital thinking and action; from labor to civil rights, to Black Power, feminism, the Asian American and environmental justice movements and beyond. Revolution, Boggs says, is about something deeper within the human experience — the ability to transform oneself to transform the world.
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Evolving the Forest, Creative Summit 19-21, 2019, Call for submissions
Art & Ecology opportunities, art and ecology, art and forests, Cathy's work, Celebrating Irish and world forests, ecoart, forest research Leave a comment 2019art and ecologyart and forestsart.earthcfpDartingtonevolvingforestsroyal forestry society
I have been lucky enough to attend two creative art and ecology summits organised by art.earth. Next year's theme is all about forests so I'm very much hoping to attend!! I expect it will be not so much 'evolving forests', more that it will a rich event promoting conversations and creativity, practical and scientific knowledge, about how we must urgently evolve our relationship to all forests across the world. The impetus for changing all industrial land and ocean practices has never been clearer in recent scientific reports: the IPCC and WWF clearly conclude that current industrial agri-forestry-aqua- cultural practices are causing catastrophic losses in wildlife and biodiversity.
There is now a call for artist/forester contributions to the event here. (Deadline November 19 2018)
Evolving the Forest will be a three-day international gathering bringing together creative thinkers and doers to explore the forest and how we live with trees. Evolving the Forest is convened by art.earth, the Royal Forestry Society and Timber Strategies.
This three-day symposium draws together a wide variety of voices to explore a heritage of woodland and forest and look to their future. In celebration of the UK Forestry Commission's centenary it looks back at the last 100 years and looks forward to the next. We draw on the wisdom of foresters, environmental managers, policy-makers, scientists and other experts; we hear the voices of artists, designers, writers, philosophers and others who wander and wonder in our varied British forests; and we learn from others around the world about their own cultural connections to trees, and the wood that produces some of the world's most beautiful objects.
This symposium incorporates the annual conference of the UK Royal Forestry Society (RFS) and is their primary contribution to marking the UK Forestry Commission's centenary. The event is produced by art.earth, renowned for their re-invention of the academic conference into something inclusive, collaborative, friendly, experiential and tactile.
There are nine broad themes:
Our historic relationship with trees and woodland
Landscape and the sublime forest
Land use, agroforestry and new approaches to cropping
Trees and woodland in society and as a source of health and wellbeing
Woodland habitat as a home to many
Artistic and literary responses
Wood as a material / contemporary timber-based design
How we live with trees, ethical approaches, and questions of sentience
Evolving the Forest takes place on the Dartington Hall estate with the support of the Dartington Hall Trust. The estate has a rich history of forestry and woodland planning over the past 100 years in parallel with the Forestry Commission but with divergent paths of public and private sector imperatives and so provides a thought-provoking setting for contemplating the past and future of UK forestry.
The event convenes at Dartington Hall (TQ9 6EL) mid-afternoon on June 19 2019, and ends around 16.00 on June 21. In addition to the main programme we will be offering a day-long 'Future Forest' workshop, and on the first evening, a gala celebration of 100 years of the Forestry Commission led by Forestry Commission Chair, Sir Harry Studholme, an exhibition and other special events.
Read the call for participation (deadline November 19 2018)
About art.earth
is a family of artists and organisations whose work focusses on contemporary art and ecology, the environment and the natural world. We're like a family because we're all different and we all have differing views and sometimes we hug and sometimes we squabble (and sometimes we just up to our rooms); we're not like one because anyone can join. But we are family by choice with a shared ethos and a shared commitment to the planet on which we all live.
We're here because we believe strongly that art has a role to play, and that artists have a responsibility to pose questions and to worry about the way we live in and on our world. We don't focus on any one artform, but on all forms of creative expression.
We produce events, conduct research, and work with our partners to make new projects happen. We believe in working as internationally as possible while acknowledging absolutely to power and lure of the local. These things are not mutually exclusive. We work openly and collaboratively.
Our work focusses on how we live on the planet and on art as a practice of being present and being here. Based on the Dartington estate, we are a centre for learning and creation, each year attracting some of the most enquiring minds and some of the most creative people from across the world to come and spend time finding new energy and knowledge.
PS: at a previous art.earth creative summit I wrote an article about art and the politics of forests. Some of you may like to read it here:
Deep Sustainability and the Art and Politics of Forests
This article was re-published by request on the UK 'Save our Woodlands' website and for the UK 'Home and the World Summit' (2012)
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Sepah's Ground Forces adept in protecting borders, ensuring security: Cmdr.
Nasim–A senior commander of the Army of the Guardians of the Islamic Revolution (Sepah) said the army's ground forces are ready and skilled enough to safeguard the country's borders and secure its territorial integrity.
Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) Ground Forces Commander Brig. Gen. Mohammad Pakpour said the forces are well prepared to guarantee safety in every nook and cranny of the country.
Meeting a number of MP from Azerbaijan, Pakpour asserted that the safety parameters inside Iranian borders are high, and most of the troubles are usually sprung from outside of the borders which are addressed by the forces as much as possible.
He underlined Takfiri movements in the region as the number-one peril to its security, and said the Ground Forces of Sepah are well-prepared to counter offensives of any kind to the country's territorial integrity.
Earlier this year (Jan 15), Pakpour received the "Victory One" medal from Supreme Leader Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei.
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NGC 4455 (другие обозначения — UGC 7603, IRAS12262+2305, MCG 4-30-1, KAZ 390, ZWG 129.2, WAS 57, KUG 1226+231, PGC 41066) — спиральная галактика с перемычкой (SBcd) в созвездии Волосы Вероники, находящаяся на расстоянии ~ 45 млн. св. лет.

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Posted on May 29, 2018 by CENTA Medical Group
Ménière's disease is an inner ear disorder that causes fluctuating hearing loss, tinnitus, vertigo and fullness or pressure in the ear. It is the result of excess fluid in the inner ear. There is no cure for Ménière's disease, but various strategies can help you manage your symptoms.
What Causes Ménière's Disease?
The exact cause of Ménière's disease is unknown. It is believed to be associated with a dysfunction of the endolymphatic sac, an organ responsible for regulating the volume and pressure of fluid in the inner ear. Various theories point to circulation disorders, viral infections, head trauma, allergies, migraines and obstructions of the ear canal as possible causes.
It is estimated that Ménière's disease affects about one out of every 1,000 people, with most patients between the ages of 40 and 60.
What Are the Symptoms of Ménière's Disease?
People with Ménière's disease suffer progressive attacks that are often characterized by warning signs in advance. These include loss of balance, dizziness, headache, increased hearing loss and/or tinnitus, sensitivity to noises, and pressure in the ear. During the attack, you may experience episodes of severe vertigo, fluctuating hearing loss, fullness in the ear, and tinnitus. These symptoms may be accompanied by anxiety, blurry vision, nausea, vomiting, trembling, rapid pulse, and diarrhea.
Afterwards, exhaustion often sets in, leading to an increased need for sleep. Attacks may be brief, lasting for as little as 20 minutes, or may persist for as long as 24 hours. Their frequency is unpredictable and sporadic; they may occur several times a week, or as little as once every few years. Due to the unpredictable nature of this disease, it's impossible to tell just how much it will affect your life.
How Is Ménière's Disease Treated?
Because the symptoms of Ménière's disease resemble those associated with other conditions, we will need to perform hearing and balance tests in order to make a diagnosis. An audiogram will show hearing loss in the low tones, a key indicator of Ménière's disease. In some cases, imaging scans or blood tests are ordered.
Medical options for treating Ménière's include motion sickness and anti-nausea medications, diuretics, an antibiotic called Gentamycin, and oral or injectable steroids. These, coupled with a low-sodium diet, can help prevent dizziness or reduce the severity of attacks. Other lifestyle remedies include limiting caffeine, alcohol, chocolate and monosodium glutamate from your diet; drinking six to eight glasses of water per day; quitting smoking; avoiding allergens; and reducing stress and anxiety.
When medications don't work, you may benefit from vestibular rehabilitation exercises to improve balance. Hearing aids will help treat hearing loss associated with Ménière's.
Individuals who experience severe attacks and are unable to find relief from other treatments may have success with surgery. Procedures that have proven effective include an endolymphatic sac procedure to drain fluid from the inner ear, a vestibular nerve section to cut the nerve that connects the ear and brain to eliminate dizziness and preserve hearing, and a labyrinthectomy to control dizziness.
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The XT460 is an 8 channel two way radio by Motorola. It has a Tri-coloured LED interface that allows you identify radio features and status.
Clear audio, loudspeaker settings, dust and water resistant make this a great walkie talkie for harsh environment like construction and industry settings. The XT420 runs on a PMR unlicensed frequency so there are no call charges or subscriptions . Designate 16 pre-recorded channel names for your departments and easily stay in touch with a range around 9km.


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This unusual & pretty pendant was designed and handmade by Jean Wilkinson. Known as Rondelle it is made of silver and the plique a jour is a very delicate pale pink and dark blue and reminds me very much of a stained glass window. There is a marquise shaped rubover set iolite suspended from the round top section. The pendant hangs from a silver chain.


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Q: The CSRF protection token for the requested module is missing or invalid I got this error, what it does it mean?
Core: Exception handler (WEB): Uncaught TYPO3 Exception: #1417988921: The CSRF protection token for the requested module is missing or invalid | TYPO3\CMS\Core\Exception thrown in file /var/www/typo3_src_elts/typo3/sysext/backend/Classes/Http/BackendModuleRequestHandler.php

And how can I fix it?

A: CSRF is a way of protecting forms against Cross-Site Request Forgery.
As far as I remember, it appears if you clear cookies or for some old Typo3 version when you have two backend instances opened on the same Internet navigator.
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Usually it should disappears if you log off and log in again.


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This was very intensive time and we had hands full of work, so there was no time to update you on progress of Jaaz Portal project.
In two weeks we are going to officially launch our beta test program and there is plenty of news to come but biggest is that Jaaz has split in two companies.
The newborn children is YEHUDI Solutions, a Jaaz subsidiary that will now take care of technical development of our product. The mother company - Jaaz - will be still responsible for the project management and all things related to the business side of the project.
This will allow YEHUDI Solutions to focus on the development process.