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Now Reading: Issue 3
Publication Date: 02/15/21
San Juan and Philadelphia: In Common, There Is No Wealth
By: Por: Joel Cintrón Arbasetti
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To Flee from Gas and Fly Mid-Pandemic
The crowd clambers up a slope on the side of the highway. They are fleeing from tear gas thrown by the police. A cloud of asphyxiating, stinging smoke envelops them. They flee, but the cops, with their protective gear and gas masks, keeps throwing hot cartridges. Some people are carrying their bikes, on their shoulders, up this hill toward a cement wall full of creepers and a steel fence they will also have to scale. A helicopter hovers. An officer arrests a woman with a red shirt as if she were a rag doll, dragging her down toward the highway to make the arrest. Those who struggle up the incline are wearing their facemasks. There is audible crying. Amidst the collective, unintelligible murmur, the only phrase that rings out loud and clear is, "I can't breathe." It can be heard over and over. But in this particular instant, in contrast to the march, the phrase is no longer a chant. Those who are climbing, can't breathe.
Signs, bicycles, umbrellas, sneakers, gloves, water bottles, and backpacks are strewn across the weeds.
Thus, ended the third consecutive day of protests in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, following the May 25 assassination of George Floyd, an unarmed Black man, at the hands of a white police officer in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
Today, a sunny June 1, more than a thousand protesters were marching on Philadelphia's streets. A little before 5:00 pm, a section of the march walked onto Interstate Highway 676, close to Center City. They stopped traffic. After a while, the police arrived and began shooting tear gas canisters. Protesters tried fleeing by climbing up this rugged incline. But it seems the police strategy was to teach them a lesson for protesting, hoping this would dissuade them from prolonging the marches. The preceding days were intense. Patrol cars were set on fire in the center of the same city where the U.S. Constitution was signed.
I observe the slope scene on my laptop; it's already nighttime, almost 10, and I'm lying on my bed, on the second floor of a reinforced concrete house I rent in the municipality of San Juan, Puerto Rico's capital city, which is populated by more than three hundred thousand people. Drifting through the aluminum sheet window, I can hear the neighborhood's soundscape to my left: Santurce, sub-neighborhood Hipódromo, Aibonito Street, bordering on the Barriada Figueroa, La Colectora. The soundscape: the explosive motors of ramshackle trucks. Some carry imported goods down the highway. These goods come out of San Juan's port. Standing on my balcony, from afar, I see the port's giant crane arms lifting boxcars to a flank of the "John F. Kennedy Expressway," a pestilent route that connects San Juan to the Cataño, Bayamón, and Guaynabo: part of San Juan's Metropolitan Area ("Área Metropolitana de San Juan"), home to more than two million of the island's three million inhabitants. This port defines an essential part of what makes up the "Commonwealth" in Puerto Rico: the "common" comes down to a corporate conglomerate that controls the entry and exit of goods. According to the Cabotage Law, the cargo ships that arrive at the island's ports have to be crewed, flagged, owned, and built "primarily" by the United States. The same regulation applies to states, but Puerto Rico is not a state. Nor is it an independent country, but rather a "Commonwealth." The "Commonwealth of Puerto Rico," unlike Virginia or Pennsylvania, does not translate into Spanish as "Commonwealth of Nations, but "Estado Libre Asociado" or "Free Associated State," which, to make a long story short, can be translated as "Colony." Under the capitalist economic regime that dominates us, the literal translation, "Common-wealth," would also be inadequate.
The most distant but persistent sound belongs to the planes that descend into Luis Muñoz Marín International Airport. When I am in the air, and we are commencing our descent onto the island, from my window seat, I always find my street. My reference points include a grey square that is a giant Walmart near the Parada 18 in Santurce and a white circle that is an old (probably empty) water reserve. Despite the noise, and given that it is the most violent neighborhood in the second most violent capital in Latin America and the Caribbean (after Caracas), with 53.5 homicides for every 100,000 inhabitants (in 2019 there were 172 violent deaths in San Juan, 606 in the whole island), in this sector, the sub-neighborhood Hipódromo, one breathes a homey air; a bucolic environment that at night is bathed in neon lights pulsing from billboards almost a mile away. The sound of the truck motors that speed down the highway sometimes gets tangled with gunshots or the gunshots get tangled with the motors, until it becomes clear what we are hearing is an automatic weapon. The noise of police sirens or ambulances or firetrucks is not as constant as that of weapons or shaky motors.
As I watch the police brutality video on that June day, from my room in Santurce, I recall the bitter taste of tear gas from the strikes at the University of Puerto Rico against the 2010 and 2011 tuition hikes and the May 1 protests against the Financial Oversight and Management Board imposed by the U.S. Congress. I remember the Summer of 2019, when massive protests and violent confrontations with the police made then-governor Ricardo Rosselló resign; the desperation of a giant mouthful that seeks breath but only succeeds in swallowing more gas that continues penetrating deeper still into one's lungs. The drowning.
I saw the beginning of the Summer 2019 protests from the opposition direction, staring at my laptop on the second floor of a house in Kensington, North Philly. I've spent a year coming and going between the two cities, in order to see my partner, Heather. Today, June 1, at 9:42 am, I bought another ticket to that city, Philadelphia.
In a big U.S. city (Philadelphia is the sixth largest city and the and the poorest of these six), one easily forgets the rest of the state. I've always gone to Philadelphia, never Pennsylvania, much less the "Commonwealth of Pennsylvania." Nor do I live in the "Commonwealth of Puerto Rico," which is impossible to visit because it doesn't exist. What does exist is the nonincorporated territory, administered by the same two parties belonging to the technocratic elites since 1948 and subject to the mandate of the United States Congress.
My flight to Philadelphia is Delta 357. It leaves on June 4, at 3:40 pm. It makes a stop in Atlanta at 7:20. I arrive in Philadelphia at 10:30 on Delta 2116. I'm supposed to return, but I never bought a return ticket.
I'm going to take a plane mid-pandemic.
I will quarantine myself in a West Philadelphia church.
Churches for Gentrification
I arrived in Philadelphia on a rainy night. We crossed the street running up to the red church door that opened with a four-digit security code. The church exterior is built with grey brick, in a Victorian style, designed by the architect Frank Funnes and built in 1900 on 4700 Kingsessing Avenue. In 2017, it was converted into a complex that houses 21 apartments. The lent studio where we quarantined has a spiral staircase shaped like a conch that leads up to a mezzanine containing a bathroom and a bed. The window frames are concave with a stained-glass tip. The brick columns are adorned with chapiter. Is this another example of gentrification or a display of historical preservation? The church was set to be demolished in 2014, but it was saved with the aim of converting it a housing complex. Each studio rents for $1200 monthly. Does preservation necessarily lead to gentrification? Is there another alternative? In Spring Garden, an area much closer to downtown Philadelphia, the neighborhood where Edgar Allan Poe lived and that later began Philly's first Boricua barrio in the '50s, there was a church. It was called La Milagrosa, and it was a meeting place for the Latinx community. Now it is an expensive condo building. After riots and massive arrests, the Boricuas were expelled from Spring Garden towards the Northeast, to zones such as Hunting Park, Kensignton, and Fairhill—the current Boricua barrio with a growing Dominican population (as the saying goes, "Puerto Rico and the Dominica Republic, two wings of the same bird.") Philadelphia is the second city with the largest Puerto Rican population outside New York. From the '50s to today, the Boricua community—along with the other non-rich, non-white communities—still faces the threat of displacement posed by gentrification.
Earthquakes: Welcoming a Poet
In 2018, the city of Philadelphia named the Puerto Rican poet Raquel Salas Rivera as its Poet Laureate, in other words, the city's poetry ambassador. Raquel lived out their childhood years in the U.S. and, at the age of 14, moved to Puerto Rico. At 26, he headed to Philadelphia to complete a PhD in Comparative Literature and Literary Theory at the University of Pennsylvania. He published five poetry books in Spanish, some with self-translations into English. He is an editor and a translator.
On December 8, 2019, after eight years in Philadelphia, at the age of 34, Salas Rivera returned to San Juan, Puerto Rico. He received the 2020 New Year with the island in his heart. And the New Year and his island received him with shaking arms: earthquakes in the Southern and poorest half of the island, a seismic sequence that reached a climax on January 7, the day after Three Kings Day. That morning, a little before sunrise, the earthquake reached a scale of 6.4 and was felt throughout all of Puerto Rico. There was an island-wide blackout. The aftershocks continued for months and still continue to this day. Hundreds of people in the south lost their homes. Thousands returned to refugee camps and darkness, reminiscent of hurricanes Irma and María that hit Puerto Rico in September 2017. Irma only grazed us, but María entered the island as a category 5 hurricane. There were thousands of deaths and the government tried to hide them.
The hurricane and the earthquakes crowned more than a decade of economic depression caused by a global capitalist crisis; the neoliberal politics adopted by the two parties that share power in Puerto Rico; the colonial politics of the U.S. Congress; and the economic interests that mutated from military and agrarian interests; and mono-cultivation of the land. This went hand in hand with cheap industrial works and their tax exemptions; mass migration to the U.S.; the pharmaceutical plantation; experimental transgenic companies; multinationals for mass consumption; government bonds emitted with great gains for banks and financial entities; and, later on, the debt.
In 2014, Puerto Rico declared bankruptcy with more than $70 thousand million in debt. In 2016, the government entered a debt restructuring process that would take place via the Puerto Rico Oversight, Management, and Economic Stability Act (PROMESA). This law, signed during the Barack Obama administration, imposed a Fiscal Control Board that was placed in charge of government finances. It is an organism similar to the Pennsylvania Intergovernmental Cooperation Authority (PICA), which supervises finances of the city of Philadelphia, but with the much greater power to rule over a whole country, one that can't vote for the legislative body that selected the seven members who make up "la Junta" (FCB). While the country goes through what has been described as the largest crash in the history of the U.S. municipal bonds market, dozens of investment firms, insurance companies, and venture capitalists battle it out in court to collect an odious debt that, if properly audited, would most probably be declared illegal. In this recent interval of successive crises, emergencies, and states of exception that define the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, the government's only economic plan has been to market the island as a fiscal paradise of tax exemptions for the rich, millionaires, administrators of investment firms—many of them fraudulent—, and cryptocurrency speculators. Thus, along with mass migration, many millionaires or aspiring millionaires arrive on the island, in what could be called tax-exemption tourism.
But, sometimes, there is the arrival (or return) of poets.
[let's say you go to philadelphia
to look for the coats much needed
by the abuelas, the angelías, the río maunabo, etc.
you work hard, look for a license with a renewed address,
buy three four five hundred coats,
go to the local branch and say
here they are.
i would like to pay that debt.
but without looking up they answer
here in philly we don't accept coats.]
*Fragment of "'coats are not exchanged for coats'" from lo terciario/the tertiary by Raquel Salas Rivera.
The Monster That Eats Flags
On June 6, protesters marched from the Philadelphia Museum of Art (PMA) to City Hall, paralyzing Philadelphia's Center City. According to Billy Penn, it was the largest march for social justice the city had seen. That day, it was 88 degrees out and a helicopter flew through the gray sky above our heads as we parked on Fraternity Street, Mantua Hood, and then proceeded on foot toward the Museum steps. These steps, which Silvester Stallone raced up as Rocky Balboa, are visited by dozens of tourists daily, even in the midst of a pandemic. That day, they were packed with hundreds of people protesting against police brutality. We reached City Hall, built in the Second Empire architectural style, whose giant tower is crowned by William Penn, Philadelphia's founder. In the wake of the toppling of colonial statues throughout the U.S., this would be the highest aspiration, to topple William Penn, the Quaker slave-owning colonizer. Although it may still seem impossible, those days I overheard evening conversations, amidst the flies of summer, in front of working-class Kingston homes, about the best method of accomplishing such a mission. Someone suggested a giant crane and I suggested the services of Puerto Rican Tito Kayak, who among his many accomplishments, once climbed and planted a Puerto Rican flag on the Statue of Liberty in order to denounce the island's colonial status.
At an intersection near the Museum, there waited a military vehicle whose carrier was packed with soldiers, protected from the sun by a sand-colored canvas cloth, wearing sunglasses and surrounded by boxes full of water bottles. Other soldiers walked down the street carrying M4 carbines, an automatic assault rifle, crossing in front of citizens that marched to protest social injustice and the police state, demanding the defunding of the police under the Black Lives Matter slogan. Some soldiers blocked a street while others ate Fudge Pops, protected by fusil, helmet, camouflaged bullet-proof vest, and good-natured smiles that seemed to say they didn't want to be there. But there they were. And the whole world knows all it takes is an order for them to drop the ice-cream and grab the riffle.
Using the Spring Garden bridge, we crossed the Schuylkill River until we reached the Museum. On our way, scattered across the grass, we saw pieces of cardboard, paintbrushes, tempera, and small plastic cups: materials for sign-making. I wanted to make one that read, "Looting is protest." I decided to take a lighter route in order to avoid any possible discussions and instead wrote, "Corporations are looters." Heather wrote the phrase, "Austerity is state violence." When we almost finished painting, a boy of three or four came up to us and showed us his sign. His father stood behind him wearing a surgical mask, and his mother stood much further back wearing a surgical mask and carrying a baby in her arms. Both let the boy move freely, as if he were alone. Showing us the sign with great pride—his piece of painted cardboard that was a tumult of red brushstrokes, an abstract protest, or a premonition—he explained its meaning in English and in detail. The red tumult was the ending of a story he and only he understood, and thus, we stood before a revelation. All that red was explicable: a monster, we have no idea what kind, started eating flags (we also don't know what kind, but let's assume they are American), and the monster ate so many, I mean so many flags, that he ended up vomiting them all. And that was the red: the vomit of a flag-eating monster. His small index finger pointed at the strokes, as he explained that the sign was product of his current state of human development: "I don't know how to form letters, but I feel like I know the numbers."
The father came closer, read Heather's sign and said that now he'd have to find a way to explain to his son the meaning of "austerity." When it is an everyday occurrence, austerity is something so vulgar that it almost doesn't need an explanation. But, undoubtedly, it's a difficult concept for someone who doesn't have to live it. Still, I was surprised that, at such a young age, the boy understood that flags, along with statues, borders, and police stations, were something to be abolished, gobbled up, and vomited. There goes someone with an upside-down U.S. flag, but that isn't really a flag, it's an anti-flag. Another flag that's worth it, is a flag on fire. In the city's center, in front of City Hall, when the protest felt truly massive, I saw another flag (or anti-flag) I'm meant to identify with: the Puerto Rican flag dressed in black.
Trump Visits Philadelphia
On Tuesday, September 15, at 5:00 pm, I turned off on 6abc Action News and left the apartment after watching Air Force One land in Philadelphia International Airport. I began walking toward the intersection of 46th and Walnut Street, West Philly, heading toward the same destination as Trump, who sped there in his vehicle and security contingent: the National Constitution Center, on the other side of the Schuylkill River. It was an hour-and-17-minute walk towards downtown Philly. In a car, it would take Trump less than 15 minutes. His visit was part of the 2020 presidential campaign and the electoral battle for Pennsylvania, a decisive state in the upcoming elections. Trump would take part in a "Town Hall Event," a presentation targeting undecided voters. There had been a call for a protest right in front of the building.
The street numbers in West Philadelphia count down toward the east. From 46th to 10th, nothing seems to indicate that Trump would be in the city today, his first visit after a summer packed with street protests and confrontations with the police. On the Walnut Street's sidewalks, in front of the Chinese Christian Church—next to the Association Islamic Charitable Projects—they pass, as they do every afternoon: joggers, dog walkers, the stuttering woman who asks passerby for change, the UPS worker with his brown uniform. Further down, the students with their UPENN (University of Pennsylvania) shirts, the motorcycle crews that are running red lights and doing wheelies, the cars playing trap at full-volume, the high-rises that can be seen in the skyline behind the Schuylkill, September's good weather, the afternoon drifting in on a few clouds, and people and cars forming Center City traffic.
Starting at 9th and Arch, I started to see a noticeable increase in police presence and blocked streets. The National Constitution Center was on Arch between 6th and 5th. The protestors took up the middle of the street in front of the Independence National Historical Park Visitor Center. Behind a table, a group of activists gave out stickers that read Trump/Pence OUT NOW RefuseFacism.org #OutNow! A paper mâché Trump marionette with devil horns and a Bible made its way down Arch. One sign said: Fuck Off Trump. Large speakers played music in the space between speeches: Janelle Monae, "I Like That"; Marvin Gaye, "What's Going On"; dancers improvising; Bob Marley, "O'Clock Roadblock"; Frank Ocean, "Sweet Life"; Curtis Mayfield, "Back to Living Again"; Shop Boyz, "Party Like a Rockstar." A pantless woman with a Trump mask and a blazer performed mid-crowd. A man carried a piece of cardboard and a megaphone, offering JESUS OR HELLFIRE to the protestors, fully protected by a line of cops.
Proud Boys in West Philly
In September, a flyer started appearing all over West Philadelphia light posts and walls that read:
PROUD BOY FASCISTS ARE COMING
Proud boys are a fraternal order of neo-fascists who glorify white supremacy, patriarchy, and authoritarian leaders like Trump. They are a violent far right organization and they are targeting our neighborhood for a Saturday rally in "the belly of the beast." Stand together with your neighbors to drown them out, shut them down and kick them out!
THIS SATURDAY: SEPTEMBER 19 CLARK PARK
bring noisemakers, shields, signs
and all of your friends & comrades
The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) identifies the Proud Boys as a "general hate group." The SPLC is a non-profit organization that monitors hate and extremist groups throughout the U.S. and exposes their activities. In 2019, this organization identified 940 hate groups throughout the country. Its Hate Map shows 36 in Pennsylvania. Philadelphia has the Be Active Front USA, described as Skinheads, various groups classified as Black separatists, and the Proud Boys. The group was founded during the 2016 elections by VICE Media cofounder, Gavin McInnes. It is a self-described
"fraternal group" of "western chauvinists" with an agenda to fight against political correctness and "white guilt."
Clark Park is an important gathering place in West Philadelphia. It's a green area populated by trees, benches and tables. People picnic on the grass and play sports or instruments. There is usually a farmer's market on Saturdays. West Philly is known to be a diverse neighborhood that includes the following racial, ethic, and political groupings: white, Black, Indian, Bangladeshi, Mexican, Vietnamese, Ethiopian, a large queer community, anarchists and anti-fascists. On Saturday, September 19, around noon (the day the Proud Boys were supposed to march), there was already a great deal of movement at the park. It was more packed than usual. Someone sold pizza under a tent, a girl gave out an anti-fascist newsletter. An older gentleman gave out flyers with a touch of nostalgia that filtered through his small, round glasses and came off as a spark of joy. What makes this man so content, this white activist over seventy that hands out a sheet of paper with the Socialist Resurgence logo?
I take one and read the first paragraph: Fascists thugs like Proud Boys, militias, and Nazis are mobilizing, emboldened by Trump's racist rhetoric and often helped by police. From Charlottesville to Portland they are on the march.
I don't know if the man was remembering the older days of activism when clearly-formed enemy groups gave a more concrete sense of a political struggle that mostly happened on the battlefield of abstract language; but, if this was the case, shouldn't he instead be upset or sad that he still has to fight these fascist groups? Or can we attribute his smile and happiness to the number of people who have shown up to reject fascism? The park is full. According to The Philadelphia Inquirer, there are more than 500 people here. A notable group dressed all in black, with black umbrellas, backpacks and shields, has gathered in one of the park's two main sections. It is a black bloc, the self-proclaimed vanguard of the riots. Its members stand at the frontlines, confronting the police during protests. The umbrellas are useful in hiding its members from the camera's lens. Yet, no matter much they've covered, it is evident that they are mostly young, white, and 20-something.
The atmosphere in the park, more than that of a protest or counter-protest, feels like that of a family outing. People are walking their dogs, babies in carriages take sunbaths, and someone is dressed as Gritty, the official mascot of the Philadelphia Flyers, wearing a black shirt with an anti-fascist symbol: a circle and three arrows. There is a sound system, people give speeches, and only one skirmish takes place. Suddenly, a faction of black bloc starts running toward a provocateur that apparently has a weapon. This open field stampede across the green grass bowl in the middle of the park, amidst slides and jungle gyms, of a group dressed in all black, with covered faces, gloves, and backpacks, is a scene at once infantile and medieval. The group chases the fascist to his car and breaks in the windows. On a nearby street, leans a bicycle police contingent. Amongst those gathered, it's easy to identify the detectives with their jackets, their badges, and their pistol handles poking out of their belts.
One of the black bloc members becomes upset that I'm taking photos. That's how I find out what the umbrellas are for. They explain how they can be identified even when covered. They have a particular voice; I wonder if they are disguising it for protection. I comment that their group needs some more color. They say that isn't true, that not everyone in the group is white, and that those are just lies the liberal press perpetuates to discredit them. They tell me they have been to Puerto Rico, went to Naguabo, and mention a supposed Taíno god I've never heard of. Before taking leave, they ask me my name. After answering, I ask theirs and they say: "Not this time, but I'll find you again."
The Proud Boys never show up. Later, on the social media, they claim the march was a staged event created to expose Left radicals. One week later, sixty self-proclaimed Proud Boys march through Center City.
The Assassination of Walter Wallace Jr.
The ceaseless drone of police helicopters has been filling West Philly homes all morning, as they restlessly circle the area.
Yesterday afternoon, a white cop murdered Walter Wallace Jr. on the 6100 block of Locust Street, a half-hour walk from where I live. As evening fell, dozens of people congregated between 54 and 55 on Pine St., in front of the 18th precinct. Wallace was a Black, 27-year-old mentally ill resident. He had a knife in his hand when the police arrived and was shot more than ten times, in front of his home, his mother and their neighbors. The scene was caught on a cellphone video and later posted on social media.
That night, I left the apartment at 10:21 and headed by bicycle towards the protest. There were light showers and some fog. When I arrived, I tried to penetrate the crowd, but in that very moment, a group of protesters came running toward me, zigzagging between parked cars. I couldn't see what was happening up ahead, but I could tell that there was a multitude and, from what I could gather on Instagram, it faced a row of cops.
After a while, a group of teenagers (between 16 and 19 years old), from the surrounding West Philly community, arrived carrying a box full of big empty bottles, which they immediately began launching. More cops, on foot and on bike, started appearing from lateral streets. The teens easily dispersed the police by walking toward them, screaming, "Get the fuck out of here!" This was eventually followed by the arrival of a riot squad that formed an immovable line, once again blocking the street. I tuned onto a website that allows one to listen in on police radios. I searched for the Southwest police zone and heard there had been disturbances on the corner of 52nd and Market St. I grabbed my bike and headed over. There was a giant dumpster on fire in the middle of the street, police cars with shattered windows, broken storefronts, open warehouses, people carrying boxes full of new sneakers. The most powerful image delivered that night, showed a vandalized cop car parked in front of a McDonalds. As the night progressed, the car eventually caught fire and finally exploded. This was a celebration, a release that will not stop police brutality. The next night, two cops stood right there, in front of that same McDonalds that, like other area businesses, met the day with boarded up windows, as if this expecting a hurricane. This time, the protests were quickly contained, dispersed by the toxic mist of the new election cycle.
Expecting Chaos
One day before the election, the sun began setting at 5:25, with a temperature of 45 degrees and a mostly clear sky. The boarded-up businesses kept reminding me of hurricane season storm shutters in Puerto Rico. It doesn't help that people, in their homes, are discussing the possibility of preventative shopping, food storage, stockpiling. But no hurricane is on its way, just the elections; just Trump giving indications that he's getting ready for a "coup"; just the deployment of the Pennsylvania National Guard to City Hall, spurred by a fear of riots.
A Bitter Victory
It's 11:50 am. Through my window, I can hear screams, car alarms, and the beating of kitchen pots. Today people celebrate the virtual victory of U.S. presidential candidate Joseph Biden. I prefer to think that the celebration is a response to Donald Trump's defeat, in a city where the vote has been decisive. Meanwhile, in Puerto Rico, parallel elections are taking place. Pedro Pierluisi is the projected winner, a candidate belonging to the same political party as Ricardo Rosselló, the ex-governor dethroned by massive protests in summer of 2019. In San Juan, there is a tight mayoral race between the right-wing candidate belonging to Ricardo's party, and a "liberal" or left-leaning candidate that is part of the new party, Victoria Ciudadana. Vote counting in San Juan has been delayed by a series of irregularities: lost suitcases containing votes, which have slowly been reappearing, and accusations that there have been duplicate votes, phantom votes, or even intimidation from the right-wing candidate's supporters, whose party remains in power.
"safety briefing"
Another tense day. More than 20 thousand National Guard members from all states and other territories of the United States of America were deployed to attend President-elect Joe Biden's inauguration in Washington D.C. Today is Trump's last day at the White House. Certainly it will not be the last day of Trumpist fascism. On January 6, for many Latin people the Three Kings Day, a white supremacists mob of various denominations violently stormed into the United States Capitol Building protesting the alleged fraudulent presidential election.
There is fear that the violence will continue today in the inauguration of the Democrat president. Not only in D.C., but in every part of the country. The Commonwealth of Puerto Rico will be contributing to this new chapter of USA paranoia with 127 soldiers of the 92nd Military Police Brigade of the National Guard. They departed last Saturday from the Muñiz Air National Guard Base in Carolina. For Barack Obama's oath of office in 2012, 8 thousand soldiers were deployed, for Trump's in 2016, 10 thousand soldiers, and today there are 22 thousand troops deployed.
General José Reyes, of the Puerto Rico National Guard, warned the boricua soldiers that extremist groups, like the Proud Boys, could be present in the inauguration, according to a report by Sofía Rico for the Puerto Rican news media Noticel.
"The Proud Boys group leader is Enrique Tarrio. He lives in Miami and is of Cuban descent. This group was created around 2016. Many members speak Spanish and could try to take advantage and infiltrate our troops of Puerto Rican soldiers because they speak Spanish too. They have announced that they will not be wearing the colors that usually distinguish them (black and yellow) and that they will be infiltrated among people. So, (the message) is like a 'a safety briefing' to our soldiers, this is the moment where you can't trust anyone. There are different groups, but I mentioned the Proud Boys since some of their members speak Spanish", Reyes declared.
The Commonwealth of Pennsylvania Capitol Building, in Harrisburg, the capital of this state with a population of more than 12 million, is totally surrounded by barricades. Extreme security measures have been taken and the FBI is on a state of alert, here and in the whole nation. In Philadelphia the police commissioner said there were no specific threats but the officers are prepared.
Today in Walnut Hill, West Philadelphia, Philadelphia, the most populated city of the Pennsylvania Commonwealth, part of the Delaware Valley and the Northeast Megalopolis, the morning was slightly cloudy. At 11 a gust of wind came in with snow. In Knockbox cafe, in the Spruce Hill area, customers are listening to the presidential inauguration on MSNBC. From a car and from the windows of a house in Locust St, near 47 Street, you can listen to the voice of Lady Gaga singing the United States anthem while the snowy gusts of wind increase in power turning Southeast. The temperature is 37 degrees and it is expected to lower to 23 degrees at night. The weather forecast never detects the presidential changes. In the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, Caribbean tropical archipelago north of South America, slightly cloudy, 81 degrees of temperature, 127 National Guard soldiers less, and 14 new COVID-19 related deaths.
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It is hard for such young talent to go unnoticed. Matt Ox mom name is Laurel, and she raised her son alone. Philadelphia rapper Matt Ox was just 12 years old when he dropped his viral hit "Overwhelming" – and, sure, a lot of the hype and bemusement came from the novelty of his age. 13 year old Instagram star Matt Ox was robbed by STREET GOONS. Age 15. Location Philadelphia, United States. He is 15 years old and is a Sagittarius. Matthew Grau (born December 13, 2004), better known as Matt Ox, is an American rapper and singer from Philadelphia.He is best known for his single "Overwhelming" (2017), which has since reached nearly 30 million views on YouTube, and for his feature on "$$$" with XXXTentacion released in March 2018, which has achieved more than 100 million plays on Spotify. Like Mello and Near, and earlier, L, Matt was raised at Wammy's House—Watari's orphanage for gifted children in Winchester, England. The young viral rap star has been to the studio with various Hip-hop superstars, Lil Yachty and Lil Pump included! The song garnered millions of views, a huge achievement for a 12-year-old new in the industry. Share your vote now. Matt Ox has recently teamed up with XXXTENTACION for a new track called '$$$.' Childhood And Background. The young rapper spent his childhood in Northeast Philly neighbourhood. And the teen who robbed him, immediately went online bragging about committing a FELONY against the little boy. He is homeschooled and began pursuing hip hop at the age of 11. Matt Ox is the rapper making waves before even starting high school. The future star was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, US. Matt ox was born in Lawncrest, Philadelphia; he was raised by his mother because his father committed suicide due to mental illness when Matt was two years old. Thanks for voting for Think they should be in the lead? Matt Ox was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA on Monday, December 13, 2004 (Generation Z). Matt Ox is a Sagittarius and was born in The Year of the Monkey Life. About "Overwhelming" Overwhelming is Philadelphia rapper MATT OX… His mother's name is Laurel. Matt has brown hair and dark blue eyes. 12-Year-Old Philly Rapper MATT OX Is Working With Your Favorite Soundcloud Artists.
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87 year old woman convicted for selling cannabis
.. Remanded In old people's home
By Ladipo Sanusi
Justice Hadiza Rabiu-Shagari, of a Federal High Court, Lagos, today, convicted an 87 year-old woman, Agbomabiwon Maria Seriki, for dealing in 10.3 kilograms of Cannabis Sativa.
Justice Rabiu-Shagari however, ordered that the convict should be remanded at the Lagos State's Old People's Home, Yaba, pending when any member of her family, who is willing and able to take proper care of her, apply to court to take her custody.
The convict, a resident of 9, Osunba Street, Oto-Awori, Ijanikin, Lagos, had last week Tuesday, pleaded guilty to a count charge of unlawful dealing in 10.3 kilograms of Cannabis Sativa, a narcotic similar to cocaine, heroine and LSD, when she was arraigned before the court, by the National Drugs Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA).
Upon her plea of guilty, the prosecutor, Aliyu Abubakar, had urged the court to adjourn the matter till today, to review that fact of the case.
At the resumed hearing of the matter, today, the prosecutor after reviewed the fact of the case, tendered some exhibits which includes the convict's confessional statements, drug test analysis, and the bulk of the Cannabis Sativa seized from her, which were admitted as exhibits by the court.
After the admisibility of the exhibits, the court pronounced the 87 years old woman, convicted as charged.
However, the convict's lawyer, Prosper Ojakovo, in his alucutor, pleaded with the court to be lenient in sentencing his client.
Ojakovo told the court that the court was a first time offender, who has nobody to take care of her. He pleaded with the court to tamper justice with mercy, and consider her age in sentencing her.
In sentencing the convict, Justice Rabiu-Shagari stated that sending her to prison will not will be of no benefits, especially when consider her age.
The judge, consequently ordered that the convict be remanded at the Lagos State's Old People's Home, Yaba, pending when any more member of her family who is willing and able to take proper care of her apply to court for such.
In the same vain, Justice Rabiu-Shagari also sentenced a 56 years old, Anya Nneoma, to 12 months imprisonment, for unlawful dealing in 5.5 kilograms.
Anya, a resident of Vulcaniser area of Seme, Badagry, had also pleaded guilty before the court, last Tuesday, for illegal dealing 5 kilograms of the same substance (marijuana).
She was however unlucky, as the judge sentenced to female section of Kirikiri prisons for the next 12 calendar months.
The both convicts offence is said to be contrary to and punishable under sections 11(c) of NDLEA cap. N30, laws of the federation of Nigeria, 2004.
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The purchase of life insurance may seem like a difficult task for those who are smokers. This is because the premium cost of coverage tends to be higher for those who smoke – in some cases, the price can be three or four times higher than for comparable coverage of a non-smoker, even if you are otherwise in excellent overall health.
It is estimated that today, approximately 25% of adults in the United States are smokers. This means that life insurance carriers know there is a market for those who are in this category. Working with a company that knows which of the carriers to turn to can be helpful as you shop for your ideal policy. Knowing where to apply up front can end up saving you countless hours of time and frustration during the application process. It can also get you the coverage that you need and want much faster. Therefore, having an ally you can work with can certainly help.
When determining the cost of life insurance coverage, the insurance carriers will typically take several factors into consideration. These will include the type and amount of life insurance that an individual is purchasing. They will also include the age, gender, and health condition of the applicant who is applying for the policy.
In addition, an insurance carrier will also consider any potential risk factors that an applicant may pose in terms of the possibility of the insurer having to pay out a claim. With regard to life insurance coverage, these risks will typically center around potential dangers such as occupation and / or hobbies, as well as health issues such as cholesterol, blood pressure, and weight. The insurer will also consider smoking habits.
Smoking can, in fact, play a key role in the price that a person pays for their life insurance policy. This is because it can be a major risk factor as is can lead to many types of related health conditions – some of which are fatal – including lung and throat cancer.
Does Smoking Cigars or E-Cigarettes Count as Being a Smoker for Life Insurance Coverage?
In addition to smoking regular cigarettes, there are other methods of smoking that can also have an effect on your life insurance application, as well as on the premium rate that you pay for coverage.
For example, in many instances, the smoking of cigars can also be considered in the smoking risk category, which in turn, could result in the requirement of higher policy premiums. This is because there are many life insurance companies that will consider the smoking of cigars, as well as smoking a pipe – and even the chewing of tobacco – to be a factor that could potentially decrease an applicant's life expectancy. This is the case, even if the individual is otherwise in good health.
Although cigar and cigarette smoking are considered by many people to be two entirely different things, there are certain types of cigars that contain the same amount of tobacco as several cigarettes. There are even some instances of cigars that contain the equivalent amount of tobacco as an entire package of cigarettes. Therefore, life insurance companies will tend to rate this type of smoking with higher premium rates.
Today, given the many harmful effects of smoking to one's health, there are a number of people who have tried to "kick the habit." One route that numerous individuals have gone in their quest to do so is the use of the E-cigarette, or "e-cigs." When using an e-cigarette, an individual will inhale a vapor, so there is no burning or smoke that will take place. However, the user will oftentimes still be ingesting nicotine – just in a liquid form.
As e-cigarettes are still relatively new on the market, there is not a great deal known regarding their long-term health issues – and because of this, life insurance companies have little to go on regarding how these devices can impact an individual's overall health and / or life expectancy. Therefore, many insurers are issuing policyholders who use e-cigs with smoker's premium rates.
In some instances, it could be possible to obtain a non-smoker Standard Plus rate. However, in order to obtain this rating, a person will usually need to be free of using cigarettes for at least one full year.
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Therefore, if an individual smokes marijuana on a daily basis, then he or she may be rated as a Substandard B, whereas if they only smoke it on occasion, they may be able to obtain a Standard policy rate.
When applying for life insurance coverage, the underwriters will want to know as much as possible about your overall health condition. In obtaining this information, you will be required to complete the application for coverage. On this application, the company will ask for details regarding your age, gender, height and weight, occupation and income, health history, family health history, hobbies, foreign travel frequency, medications taken, and smoking status.
In addition, it is likely that you will also be asked to undergo a medical examination. Here, you will meet with a paramedical professional at either your home or another convenient location. This exam will only take approximately 30 minutes. The paramedical professional will take a blood pressure and heart rate reading. They will also obtain from you a blood and a urine sample.
These samples will be tested for certain types of risk factors by the life insurance company. It is here that the samples will typically also show that you are a smoker if this is, in fact, the case. This is because most life insurance medical exams can assess, and in turn, confirm the levels of cotinine – a byproduct of nicotine – that are in a person's body. In doing so, the insurer will be able to determine whether or not you will be considered as a smoker by the company's underwriting standards and criteria.
Preferred – If a person is in excellent health – even above the health of the average policyholder – they may be considered a Preferred. These policyholders will typically be charged a lower amount of premium than the average, or Standard, policyholders.
Standard – If your health is considered to be average, then you will likely be placed into the Standard policy class. Here, your premium rate will typically be that of the average policyholder.
Substandard – A Substandard policyholder will typically have health that is considered to be somewhat below average as compared to other average policyholders. As such, their premium rate will be higher. Here is where many smokers are placed.
Regardless of what type of smoker an applicant or policyholder may be, there is good news in that there are ways that you could reduce your premium. For example, if a person quits smoking, it can lead to other positive health factors, such as a lowering of his or her blood pressure, as well as an increase in energy.
In addition, there are other positive steps that can also be taken to help in reducing the premium, too. For instance, beginning – and maintaining – a regular exercise program can also help in moving one into a more positive state of health, which can, in turn, increase life expectancy. Likewise, getting enough sleep and eating a healthy diet are also other factors that can move one in the right direction in terms of a more positive quality of life.
It is important to note that once a person does quit smoking, they will oftentimes have to be a non-smoker for at least one year – or in some cases, longer – before the life insurance company will consider reducing their rates. This is because the insurer wants to be sure that the individual will maintain his or her non-smoking status. It can also take some time for the nicotine and other negative attributes of smoking to exit one's body.
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I've always thought one way to check how good things are for you is to see what you complain about. We (and I include me in we) often forget all of the good things we have, and tend to complain about what we don't have.
Even when what we do have is very, very good.
And many modelers fall right into that category.
A great meme from Spencer Pollard.
Be sure and visit his blog at https://thekitbox.wordpress.com/.
Thanks to Spencer for allowing use of his graphic!
A prime example of this is the angst many are pouring out over Tamiya's announcement of a new-tool 1/48 F-14A. Generally a product announcement from Tamiya would be seen as wonderful news. Past announcements often send the model world into a frenzy, with modelers figuratively doing to Tamiya's leg what a happy dog will often do to its owner.
Yet this announcement has created quite the opposite reaction in many a modeler. It's not the plane they want. It doesn't look right. Everyone else has done it. Why didn't they do XYZ airplane instead?
Granted, discussion forums are for just that- discussion. So expressing opinions is part and parcel of the entire process. But it does make me shake my head, because it revels something about us as a community.
We generally act like spoiled rotten children.
It's not enough that Eduard is producing some of the finest kits ever in the history of the hobby. Or that Airfix is putting out a wide range of affordable kits at an astonishing rate. Other emerging Eastern European and Asian companies are producing a wider variety of kits than have ever been seen. And even when some of those are difficult, they are heads and shoulders above the "good old kits" we so lovingly like to remember.
There are decal sets, resin sets, photoetch sets, paints, putties, equipment, and more to make the hobby more enjoyable, more accurate, and more engaging. The sheer depth of knowledge available in printed and digital format is unprecedented. And our ability to directly engage other modelers from around the globe- many of them luminaries in our hobby- is something never before available.
We've become spoiled. Rotten, whiny, spoiled. We don't acknowledge how good we've got it.
Well, here's a dose of cold, hard reality. Those days are numbered.
Why? Just look a the trends. The survey I conducted last year, while not perfect, indicates one inevitable conclusion. The majority of the model buying hobbyists of this world will be dead within 25 years. Really most sincerely dead. And all the high hopes for printing your own models, or new people entering the hobby to sustain it, just aren't realistic to sustain the industry.
Because modeling is a business.
Tamiya and Eduard and Airfix and all the others aren't in business to worry about how much you promise you'll buy kit XYZ if they'll just make it. Their reason for producing a kit- bottom line- is revenue. Period. End of story.
Face it- the model companies who survive do so because they know more about the market than we do. In that regard, Mr. Grumpy Mcgrumperson, they are smarter than you.
Now there's nothing wrong with expressing your opinion. Personally, I was hoping Tamiya's foray back into the 1/48 model world would have been a WWII fighter. That's what I build. Of course I'd hope for that. But I am encouraged that they are getting back into 1/48 scale. I was beginning to worry they'd abandoned it altogether. Hopefully if this model does reasonably well, it will encourage them to do more. And eventually, they'll get around to WWII single engined fighters. Hopefully they'll choose a subject I'll be very interested in.
Yet even if they don't, I'll take the long view. The view that says as long as they're active, the hobby still has some life in it.
So whine away. In a few years, you'll sit silently amid your stash, wishing someone would release anything new.
If you'd like to know more about Tamiya's new kit, take a look at this video produced by Brett Green of Hyperscale.
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Well, that was spot-on and true, Jon. As much as we like to think that we know the market the manufacturers have a solid handle on it themselves. While baffled that, of all the subjects to chose from Tamiya chose an F-14, I am pleased to see them release a new 1/48 aircraft kit. Let us hope this is the start of something good.
'Active internet forum participants' are a minority of the overall modelling community; a minority voice. Hyperscale publishes stats of visits from various countries around the world – some impressive, hefty numbers in themselves but when it comes to posted F-14 complaints or those directed at the previous incarnation of the Eduard Bf109G-6, etc, etc, etc, the actual numbers of identified individuals making the noise in a given thread are a fraction of those who are either uniformly and consistently silent on such forums and those for whom forums play no part in their participation and enjoyment of the hobby (and happier by far, per capita, I bet they are).
Some of that 'silent majority' may certainly concur with the expressed criticism but I don't believe that gets even remotely close to a majority. On that basis, Spencer's meme pokes fun at a minority (and I'm happy to see them lampooned). If my assertion is correct, then forums are not 'the voice of modelling'. They are instead, 'a voice of modelling' and one that perceives itself as being more important than it really is. I've spoken to Airfix about similar sentiments that have been directed at them over the years. Much of it they sensibly disregard and rightly so and just continue on with the overall game plan; things which have logical foundations of truth however, are absorbed and acted upon. The former outweighs the latter.
Something else revealed in all this is how active internet forumites of all persuasions gravitate readily towards tribalism and the consequent division of modellers across a host of boundaries and parameters, into pigeon holes of their own personal invention.


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• Although the UK has become home to the highest rate of coronavirus cases in Europe, its Prime Minister, Boris Johnson, is set against imposing restrictions, including masking, over Christmas, saying "I see no evidence whatever to think that any kind of lockdown on the cards…The best thing everybody can do is get that booster jab as soon as you're offered it." Source
• In Brazil,the pandemic has dramatically increased homelessness. The country faces double-digit inflation, and emergency aid to the nation's poor will expire at the end of the month. "Money doesn't last anywhere," said Andreina Santos da Silva, 21, who was checking into a Rio homeless shelter. Source
• WHO Director General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus addresses the G-20, noting that "vaccine equity is not charity; it's in every country's best interests," and listing actions to address the vaccine crisis and end the pandemic. Source
• Moderna issues a press release to announce that the US FDA requires more time to review the company's Emergency Use Authorization (EUA) request for a 100 µg dose of its coronavirus vaccine in adolescents (ages 12-17 years). The Agency will evaluate recent international analyses of the risk of post-vaccination myocarditis, and may not be completed before January 2022. Moderna will delay requesting EUA for the 50 µg dose of its coronavirus in younger children (ages 6-11 years) while the FDA completes its review of the adolescent EUA. Source
• President Xi Jinping of China and President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia, who chose to attend the G20 summit virtually, called for "mutual recognition" of COVID-19 vaccines by global health authorities by video. Russia's Sputnik V coronavirus vaccine has not been authorized by the EMA or WHO.
Mr. Putin called on WHO to expedite the vaccine registration process, and on the G20 "address the problem of mutual recognition of vaccine certificates."
Mr. Xi, who noted that China has supplied over 1.6 billion shots to the world, and is working with 16 countries on manufacturing vaccines. He announced his support for a proposal to waive intellectual property rights rights for coronavirus vaccines and called for vaccine manufacturers to transfer their technology to developing countries. Source


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Russia on its own is no great threat. Russia with its Western accomplices is a serious one.
The Kremlin did not send tanks to the Interpol headquarters in Lyon to encourage the international police organization to use its "Red Notices" to harass the critics of the regime in Moscow. Russia has not occupied the "sunny places for shady people"—the offshore jurisdictions that are so important in international money-laundering. It did not threaten to open fire on Wall Street or the City of London. Russian special forces did not burst into the newsrooms of Western media organizations to make them publish the results of Kremlin hacking operations, with dreadful results in terms of public trust and election outcomes.
No, we did all these things ourselves. And we continue to do them. Russia has managed to maneuver its candidate Alexander Prokopchuk to be the front-runner for the presidency of Interpol—a vacancy created by the kidnapping by the Chinese authorities of the previous incumbent, Meng Hongwei. It is odd, to put it mildly, that nobody in Western officialdom saw this one coming. Surely the big, well-run countries of the West could have got together to ensure that more suitable candidates were well-positioned for the top job?
A hands-off approach works fine when a system is running according to sound, universally obeyed rules. Governments should not get involved in the details of criminal justice systems, and certainly not in issuing or blocking arrest warrants. That is a matter for prosecutors and judges. But what happens when a country like Russia (now, or China soon) decides to use these tools in a deliberately politicized way.
The most notable victim of this tactic is Bill Browder, a former financier whose forensic accountant, Sergei Magnitsky, was beaten to death in a Moscow jail in 2009. Mr. Browder has become a formidable human-rights campaigner, and the Kremlin has responded by trying to label him as a fugitive criminal. During a recent visit to Spain he was arrested in his hotel room by Spanish police, giving the terse justification of "Interpol-Russia." As it happens, Mr. Browder, who has excellent media connections and legal support, was released within hours. Browder cites seven previous attempts by the Russian state to have him arrested and extradited.
The West has failed to respond to this. Should we be trying to boot Russia and China out of Interpol? Should we be changing the way we interact with the international body? Should we set up a new organization for countries which understand and abide by the rule of law? None of these questions has obvious or easy answers. International cooperation in criminal justice is always imperfect. Even between like-minded countries such as Britain and the United States, differences in legal systems and prosecutorial discretion can lead to disagreements—and blazing political rows.
It is time to drop the fiction that Russia and China are normal countries with which we can conduct normal diplomacy. They should be seen as rogue states, akin to North Korea or Iran. True, they are much bigger, richer, and better connected than these pariah regimes. We need to have economic and political contacts with them. But we should be under no illusions about what we are dealing with: they are countries which use kidnapping and murder as instruments of state policy (the same is true, incidentally, for Saudi Arabia). They are not interested in playing by the rules of the international system. They are interested in exploiting and abusing those rules for political ends. Once we realize that, we have a chance of defending ourselves—and our allies.
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You may have heard Inhaler on the Radio X playlist… But who are they and why is there a buzz about this new band?
Who are Inhaler?
Inhaler are a four-piece band from Dublin, who formed in 2012, and decided on their current name in 2015.
Who is the lead singer of Inhaler?
Elijah Hewson is Inhaler's frontman - his dad is Paul Hewson, better known as Bono Vox, the lead singer of U2.
Elijah Hewson of Inhaler performs on stage at Rankin's Wood Stage during Electric Picnic Music Festival 2019 at Stradbally Hall Estate on August 31, 2019. Picture: Debbie Hickey/Getty Images
Who are the other members of Inhaler?
Also in the band are Josh Jenkinson on guitar, Rob Keating on bass and Ryan McMahon on drums. They met at St Andrews school in Blackrock, Dublin.
Josh Jenkinson and Elijah Hewson of band Inhaler performs on stage during Electric Picnic Music Festival 2019 at Stradbally Hall Estate on August 31, 2019. Picture: Debbie Hickey/Getty Images
Where can you see Inhaler live?
Inhaler head out on a UK tour in February 2020 and have also lined up some festival dates for the summer, including Neighbourhood Weekender and Latitude.
Inhaler UK tour dates 2020
12 February O2 Academy, Liverpool
13 February O2 Academy 2, Birmingham
14 February Rescue Rooms, Nottingham
15 February Academy 2, Manchester
17 February Concorde 2, Brighton
18 February Tramshed, Cardiff
20 February Heaven, London
21 February Beckett Students Union, Leeds
22 February Riverside, Newcastle
23 February SWG3 Warehouse, Glasgow
7 March Lexington, London
24 May Neighbourhood Weekender, Warrington
20 June Victoria Park, Leicester (supporting Kasabian)
16-19 July Latitude Festival
Coventry-based 5 piece guitar band FEET are special guests on all UK dates.
What songs have Inhaler released?
Inhaler's discography currently looks like this:
I Want You (January 2017, reissued March 2018)
It Won't Always Be Like This (March 2019)
My Honest Face (May 2019)
Ice Cream Sundae (September 2019)
What is Inhaler's connection with Noel Gallagher?
Inhaler were on the bill for the Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds homecoming show at Manchester's Heaton Park in JUne 2020. Noel told the BBC that he liked Inhaler's music, saying: "They're a bit like the Bunnymen and early U2, which is a surprise." Some of Inhaler's publicity photos have been taken by none other than Anaïs Gallagher, Noel's daughter.
Pictures as always - by me 🧝🏻♀
A post shared by Anaïs Gallagher (@gallagher_anais) on May 6, 2019 at 10:16am PDT
What influences do Inhaler have?
A lot of people are comparing My Honest Face to early U2 - particularly the Boy and October eras - but the band themselves have admitted they're fans of The Stone Roses - as this cover version demonstrates. They've also covered Love Will Tear Us Apart by Joy Division and Echo & The Bunnymen's The Killing Moon, which should give you an idea of where their sound comes from.
Clip of us performing I Wanna be Adored live at the Grand Social recently Enjoy
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What does Bono think of his son's band?
Bono was spotted at Inhaler's debut live gig at Dublin's Button Factory in December 2017. "My dad's good when I want to see if a song is shite or not," Hewson told Extra in Ireland. "He will tell me straight away." "His old man does help us a bit but he will definitely point out the hardships that we might have to go through more than the positive things," Keating admitted.
Elijah Hewson with his parents Bono and Ali at Cannes back in 2000. Picture: Alain BENAINOUS/Gamma-Rapho via Getty Images
What do the rest of U2 think of Inhaler?
"It's in the DNA," U2 bassist Adam Clayton told Radio X's Chris Moyles. "He sounds a little bit like his dad. They've been working really hard. I've seen them over the years, practicing in the garden shed and stuff, so it's really great to see this happening for them."
What was the row over the Inhaler band name?
A band from Hertfordshire also called Inhaler demanded an apology from the Dublin lads, saying that they had used the moniker first. But, in a statement, the Irish Inhaler were firm, declaring: "It is not uncommon for bands in different locations to have matching names. We have never been in dispute with anyone over our name. There are other bands called Inhaler on the planet, but we seem to be the one the Hertfordshire band have targeted for some reason."
Are Inhaler on social media?
Yes, Inhaler have an official website, along with a presence on Twitter, Facebook, Instagram and a YouTube channel. You can also hear Inhaler's music on Spotify.
lijah Hewson of Inhaler performs on stage at Rankin's Wood Stage during Electric Picnic Music Festival 2019 at Stradbally Hall Estate on August 31, 2019. Picture: Debbie Hickey/Getty Image
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Q: Should I write logic for visuals clientside and serverside when using Ajax? I was wondering how on Facebook, you would go from this:

To this (on the clientside):

But also if you were to refresh the page it would say:

Does this mean that Facebook have logic on both the front and backend to display this information like this?
Or would the logic only exist on the front end, and the server is simply informing the client of what users 'liked' the post? The reason I am asking is because I am trying to achieve something similar with this:

I need it to update the counter on the buttons and also colour them accordingly based on your selection, however, I am about to 'repeat' the visual logic both serverside and clientside which doesn't seem practical..
How would you approach colouring these buttons, should I do so with PHP or should I just pass a bunch of information and let the clientside scripting decide?

A: It will set the appropriate "Like" display on the front end and send a message to the backend that it was clicked. It is a game of data, where as long as you can keep the two ends consistent, you don't need to reload anything, store anything in cookies, etc. In fact storing anything permanently on the client side is not beneficial, because if I move machines, suddenly I no longer get the "You liked something" sign.
The way Facebook and similar websites do this effect, is they check if you are one of the people who likes the post. This happens on the backend. So for instance you might get a JSON string from the backend like this (please let me know if I got the JSON string wrong in terms for formatting):
   { 'Posts':
          {
               'Title': 'Foos are cool!',
               'Content' : 'They totally are, don\'t even argue!',
               'youLike' : 1,
               'likeCount' : 10
           }
   }

where the youLike: 1 indicates that you do "liked" the post at some time before loading the page. When you click the "like" or "unlike" button, the JavaScript on the front end makes the appropriate HTML changes to reflect the data. Then it informs the backend of the event. Let's say you unlike something, but you haven't reloaded the page. When you press "unlike" button (or whatever it is these days), the javascript will make the appropriate changes to the front end and then send a signal to the backend. A signal might look like this:
  { 'Action' : 'Like', 'Value' : 0, 'PostID' : 123534234, 'UserID' : 1234234 }

which informs the backend that the value on the front end is now 0, or false. So the backend can now interpret this as "The like value was set to 0" and make the appropriate changes.
So when you reload the page, you now get youLike: 0 instead of the previous youLike: 1
I hope that KIND of answers your question. If you need me to clarify anything, please let me know!

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The question of tolerance and Islam is not a new one. Polemicists are certain that Islam is not a tolerant religion. As evidence they point to the rules governing the treatment of non-Muslim permanent residents in Muslim lands, namely the dhimmi rules that are at the center of this study. These rules, when read in isolation, are certainly discriminatory in nature. They legitimate discriminatory treatment on grounds of what could be said to be religious faith and religious difference. The dhimmi rules are often invoked as proof-positive of the inherent intolerance of the Islamic faith (and thereby of any believing Muslim) toward the non-Muslim. This book addresses the problem of the concept of 'tolerance' for understanding the significance of the dhimmi rules that governed and regulated non-Muslim permanent residents in Islamic lands. In doing so, it suggests that the Islamic legal treatment of non-Muslims is symptomatic of the more general challenge of governing a diverse polity. Far from being constitutive of an Islamic ethos, the dhimmi rules raise important thematic questions about Rule of Law, governance, and how the pursuit of pluralism through the institutions of law and governance is a messy business. As argued throughout this book, an inescapable, and all-too-often painful, bottom line in the pursuit of pluralism is that it requires impositions and limitations on freedoms that are considered central and fundamental to an individual's well-being, but which must be limited for some people in some circumstances for reasons extending well beyond the claims of a given individual. A comparison to recent cases from the United States, United Kingdom, and the European Court of Human Rights reveals that however different and distant premodern Islamic and modern democratic societies may be in terms of time, space, and values, legal systems face similar challenges when governing a populace in which minority and majority groups diverge on the meaning and implication of values deemed fundamental to a particular polity.
Many Muslim societies are in the throes of tumultuous political transitions, and common to all has been heightened debate over the place of shari`a law in modern politics and ethical life. Bringing together leading scholars of Islamic politics, ethics, and law, this book examines the varied meanings and uses of Islamic law, so as to assess the prospects for democratic, plural, and gender-equitable Islamic ethics today. These essays show that, contrary to the claims of some radicals, Muslim understandings of Islamic law and ethics have always been varied and emerge, not from unchanging texts but from real and active engagement with Islamic traditions and everyday life. The ethical debates that rage in contemporary Muslim societies reveal much about the prospects for democratic societies and a pluralist Islamic ethics in the future. They also suggest that despite the tragic violence wrought in recent years by Boko Haram and the Islamic State in Iraq, we may yet see an age of ethical renewal across the Muslim world.
This volume provides the first collection of studies devoted to the binomial dār al-islām / dār al-ḥarb, offering new perspectives on this underexplored issue through the analysis of a wide range of contexts and sources, from medieval to modern times.
This book is the first analysis of parental care regimes in Muslim jurisdictions, both in a comparative and country-specific sense. It contains the proceedings of a workshop on Parental Care and the Best Interests of the Child in Muslim Countries that the Max Planck Research Group "Changes in God's Law: An Inner-Islamic Comparison of Family and Succession Law" hosted in Rabat, Morocco in April 2015. This workshop saw a total of 15 country reports presented on questions of custody, guardianship and their development within different Muslim jurisdictions (ranging from Indonesia to Morocco), a number of which are included in full in the book. Each of these country reports contains a historical perspective on the evolution of domestic rules regarding custody and guardianship, and on the introduction and development of the notion of the best interests of the child. Most importantly, the prevailing legal norms, both substantive and procedural, are explored and particular attention is given to legal practice and the role of the judiciary. In addition to a selection of country reports from the workshop, the volume includes two comparative analyses on questions of parental care in both public and private international law. With a high practical relevance for legal practitioners working in the area of cross-border custody disputes and the most up-to-date assessment of parental care regimes beyond a pure analysis of statutory law, this book combines a number of country reports authored by experts who have worked or are still based in the respective countries they are reporting on and thus contains in-depth discussions of legal practice and custody law in action. Nadjma Yassari is Director of the Research Group "Changes in God's Law: An Inner-Islamic Comparison of Family and Succession Law" while Lena- Maria Möller and Imen Gallala-Arndt are Senior Research Fellows at the Max Planck Institute for Comparative and International Private Law in Hamburg and the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology in Halle respectively.
The relationship between Islamic law and international human rights law has been the subject of considerable, and heated, debate in recent years. The usual starting point has been to test one system by the standards of the other, asking is Islamic law 'compatible' with international human rights standards, or vice versa. This approach quickly ends in acrimony and accusations of misunderstanding. By overlaying one set of norms on another we overlook the deeply contextual nature of how legal rules operate in a society, and meaningful comparison and discussion is impossible. In this volume, leading experts in Islamic law and international human rights law attempt to deepen the understanding of human rights and Islam, paving the way for a more meaningful debate. Focusing on central areas of controversy, such as freedom of speech and religion, gender equality, and minority rights, the authors examine the contextual nature of how Islamic law and international human rights law are legitimately formed, interpreted, and applied within a community. They examine how these fundamental interests are recognized and protected within the law, and what restrictions are placed on the freedoms associated with them. By examining how each system recognizes and limits fundamental freedoms, this volume clears the ground for exploring the relationship between Islamic law and international human rights law on a sounder footing. In doing so it offers a challenging and distinctive contribution to the literature on the subject, and will be an invaluable reference for students, academics, and policy-makers engaged in the legal and religious debates surrounding Islam and the West.
This book is an examination of natural law doctrine, rooted in the classical writings of our respective three traditions: Jewish, Christian, and Islamic. Each of the authors provides an extensive essay reflecting on natural law doctrine in his tradition. Each of the authors also provides a thoughtful response to the essays of the other two authors. Readers will gain a sense for how natural law (or cognate terms) resonated with classical thinkers such as Maimonides, Origen, Augustine, al-Ghazali and numerous others. Readers will also be instructed in how the authors think that these sources can be mined for constructive reflection on natural law today. A key theme in each essay is how the particularity of the respective religious tradition is squared with the evident universality of natural law claims. The authors also explore how natural law doctrine functions in particular traditions for reflection upon the religious other.
Law and Empire relates the principles of legal thinking in Chinese, Islamic, and European contexts to practices of lawmaking and adjudication. It shows how legal procedure and legal thinking could be used in strikingly different ways.
*Mutiges Plädoyer einer jungen Muslimin für einen modernen Islam Dürfen muslimische Mädchen aus religiösen Gründen von Klassenfahrten ausgeschlossen werden? Ist es in Ordnung, wenn schon Sechsjährige verschleiert sind, weil Muslime "nun mal anders" sind? Nein, denn Menschenrechte sind wichtiger als Religion. Der Westen muss sie klar vertreten und dort, wo sie in Frage gestellt werden, energisch verteidigen. Falsch verstandene Toleranz führt zu Gleichgültigkeit und fördert Parallelgesellschaften, zementiert Vorurteile und arbeitet den Extremisten in die Hände. Mit ihrem Plädoyer für eine Toleranz, die Grenzen kennt, gibt Elham Manea der schweigenden Mehrheit der Muslime eine Stimme.
Die Probleme der islamischen Welt sind unübersehbar, ebenso deren Folgen für den Westen. Mit dieser provokanten Feststellung analysiert Beranard Lewis die historische Entwicklung des Orients - insbesondere des Osmanischen Reiches und seine Nachfolgestaaten: Die einstige Drehscheibe der Kultur, des Fortschritts und der Kunst verlor im Laufe der Geschichte ihre zivilisatorische Vormachtrolle gegenüber dem Westen und geriet in einen konfliktträchtigen Dualismus zwischen Tradition und Moderne. Das E-Book wendet sich an Leser und Leserinnen, die sich für Lösungsansätze der Krise zwischen der islamischen und der westlichen Welt interessieren: Themenfelder wie Wohlstand und Macht, soziale und kulturelle Schranken, Modernisierung und soziale Gleichheit, Säkularismus und Zivilgesellschaft. Zeit, Raum und Modernität sind die Leitfäden der Darstellung. Die Originalausgabe des Bandes aus der Feder des Princeton-Emeritus Lewis erschien unter dem Titel "What went wrong?".
Posted on Geschlechtergerechtigkeit durch Demokratisierung?
Das Buch hinterfragt die These, dass Demokratisierungen in der islamischen Welt per se zu Geschlechtergerechtigkeit führen, und zeigt, welche politischen, religiösen und kulturellen Faktoren bei Transformationen von Geschlechterordnungen bedeutsam werden. Dabei werden die arabischen Staaten, in denen die »Arabellion« erfolgreich war (Ägypten, Tunesien), mit anderen verglichen, in denen die Machtverhältnisse nicht (Saudi-Arabien, Kuwait, Syrien) oder nur minimal verändert wurden (Jemen, Jordanien). In die Untersuchung werden auch Länder einbezogen, in denen ausländische Interventionen einen Regimewechsel einleiteten (Irak, Afghanistan), in denen eine Revolution bereits mehr als ein Jahrzehnt zurückliegt (Indonesien), erfolglos war (Iran) oder gar nicht stattfand, da das Regime bereits demokratisch verfasst ist (Indien).
Mehr zum Buch Axel Michaels' umfassende Einführung in den Hinduismus gilt inzwischen als Standardwerk. Das Buch macht mit der Geschichte des Hinduismus und seinen klassischen Texten vertraut, beschreibt aber auch anschaulich die alltägliche Religiosität. Es erläutert die verschiedenen Riten und Feste, die Bedeutung der unzähligen Götter, das Kastensystem und nicht zuletzt die hinduistischen Vorstellungen von Raum und Zeit, Tod, Wiedergeburt und Erlösung. (Quelle: www.chbeck.de).
In diesem Band wird die Grenzsoziologie als neues soziologisches Themenfeld abgesteckt und in das Gebiet eingeführt. Territoriale Grenzen und ihre Wirkungen sind zu einem wichtigen Thema der sozialwissenschaftlichen Forschung geworden. Gleichwohl ist die Soziologie noch eine fundierte Auseinandersetzung sowohl mit der Entstehung als auch mit Wirkung von Grenzen und Grenzziehungen bisher schuldig geblieben. Der vorliegende Band reagiert auf dieses Defizit und beantwortet auf der Grundlage sowohl klassischer soziologischer Theorieansätze, als auch neuerer theoretischer Überlegungen und empirischer Untersuchungen die Frage nach der spezifischen Bedeutung von Grenzen für die Soziologie. Die Beiträge beschäftigen sich mit Entstehung, Funktion und Wandel von Staatsgrenzen und mit den Faktoren, die die Transformation von Staatsgrenzen und ihrer Bedeutung bewirken und schließlich mit der Frage nach den sozialen Folgen von Grenzen.


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Baketmut (b3k.t-mwt, "Mut szolgálóleánya") ókori egyiptomi hercegnő a XIX. dinasztia idején. II. Ramszesz fáraó második leánya.

Az Abu Szimbel-i nagy templom homlokzatán látható szobra Ramszesz egyik kolosszusának bal lába mellett áll. Felnőttként ábrázolják, ureusszal díszített fejpántot visel. Alakja megjelenik bent a templomban is, ahol Ramszesz kilenc legidősebb lánya vonul fel, itt Baketmut a második. Egyes feltételezések szerint anyja Nofertari királyné volt, de ezt sehol nem említik; a kisebbik Abu Szimbel-i templomon, amely kifejezetten Nofertari számára épült és homlokzatán feltehetőleg a királyné hat, vér szerinti gyermeke szerepel, Baketmut nem jelenik meg.

Sírja nem ismert.

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On January 24, the Congressional Sportsmen's Foundation (CSF) hosted a reception during the 2018 SHOT Show in Las Vegas, Nevada, which brought together pro-sportsmen legislators, industry representatives, sportsmen's groups, and outdoor celebrities to support the mission of CSF in protecting and advancing hunting, angling, recreational shooting, and trapping.
Following remarks from CSF Board Chairman Paul Miller, CSF President Jeff Crane announced the launch of the organization's first official Ambassador, country musician Lucas Hoge.
SHOT Show is the largest firearms trade show, hosted by the National Shooting Sports Foundation. Title Sponsors of CSF's Reception included Bass Pro Shops, FN America, Hornady Manufacturing, National Shooting Sports Foundation, United Sporting Companies, and Vista Outdoor Inc. The reception Co-Host Sponsor was Athlon Outdoors.


[Banksy] is famous aside from his anonymity, for his pranks upon the art world. The (real) elephant in the room or the Dismalland theme park are his stock in trade, and you may have seen another prank of his in the news in the last day. One of his paintings, the 2006 Girl With A Balloon sold at auction for over a million quid, and as the gavel fell a hidden shredder in the picture frame sprang into life and partially shredded the canvas. The report suggests that a number of [Banksy]'s associates were present at the event, and that one of them was detained with a device that might have been a remote control trigger for the shredder. The quote from Sotheby's Europe head of Contemporary Art, [Alex Branczik] says it all: "We got Banksy'd".
The interior of the Banksy shredder frame, taken from a frame of the video.
[Banksy]'s cool and all that, but where's the hack? The artist briefly put up a video with a few details, but aside from showing us a row of craft knife blades and a tantalizing but fleeting glimpse of a few equipment enclosures, it's short on technical details. We can see what appears to be at least one motor, and those white boxes may be batteries, but that's it.
This hasn't stopped some fevered speculation as to how the feat was achieved. A home-made shredder would require a significant amount of readily available power, and since this one has seemingly lain undetected within the frame since 2006, that power source needs to have possessed both exceptional energy density and retention. We can't imagine many consumer grade batteries in 2018 being able to retain a charge for twelve years, so how on earth did he do it? Our best guess is that a primary battery was involved, as anyone who has found a neglected Duracell in a box of electronics from their youth will tell you it's not unknown for decent quality alkaline cells to live well beyond their shelf lives, and other chemistries are specifically designed with that property in mind. Even so, for the cells to power a receiver circuit in standby for so long would certainly tax their capabilities, so it has also been suggested that a concealed switch could have been flipped by a [Banksy] accomplice during the viewing phase to activate the system. There are still so many unanswered questions that it's certainly piqued our technical curiosity. Sadly we don't know [Banksy] to ask him how he did it, but we welcome speculation both informed and otherwise in the comments.
Our own [Joe Kim]'s tribute to the work in question.
Meanwhile the piece itself lies half shredded and protruding from the base of the frame. On the face of it that's ruined the painting as an artwork, but of course this is a Banksy. Normal rules seem not to apply, so the notoriety it has received will no doubt mean that its shredded remains are an artwork in themselves, and possibly even one worth more.
Banksy owners worldwide are no doubt now paying a huge amount more attention to the artist's frames than previously, but Hackaday readers need not worry. Our London Unconference logo and stickers featured a [Joe Kim] homage to the Banksy in question, which we can guarantee does not incorporate an artist's shredder.


Parisss :D. . Wallpaper and background images in the paris jackson club.
This paris jackson photo contains chihuahua, greyhound italia, and italian greyhound. There might also be rat terrier, pengkhianat, and ratter.


...Where students gather to create, invent, and learn!
Makerspaces are an open space that can fuel creativity by encouraging people of all ages to make and create. The maker movement starts to change the role of students from consumers to creators.
At BHS, we want student to Think, Make, and be Innovative. To feel comfortable in "failing forward". After all, fail stands for First Attempt In Learning. Being problem solvers and critical thinkers are important skill sets everyone needs in order to be successful members in society.
Coding is what makes it possible for us to create computer software, apps and websites. Your browser, your OS, the apps on your phone, Facebook, and this website – they're all made with code. Learning coding empowers you to do many things you wouldn't otherwise be able to do. These things include hand-crafting your own websites, becoming a career coder or even becoming an entrepreneur and starting a technology business. Most importantly, you'll be able to understand the technology shaping your world!
Need a new cell phone case? How about a prop for a class project? Oh, I know! A gift for a friend or family member.
By setting up your own account (see Mrs. Cichosz), you can design your own object or download an already created item to alter and make your own.
From robots, to 3D pens, and circuitry to arts and crafts, there is something for every maker or want-to-be maker.
Try your hand at knitting, duct tape creations, origami, cup stacking competitions, "Small Weapons of Mass Destruction", and take a break from your stress by taking the time to COLOR! We have great adult coloring books that are available to use or tear out a page to take with you.


The Don't Be a Banker scholarship!
I originally thought it must be some kind of joke but its for real. What a fantastic idea!
The blurb states that the grant is also available for those graduates seeking to join large consulting firms so perhaps, if this had been released earlier, it could have "saved me from myself" too…..


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De minister van Justitie van Curaçao is lid van de ministerraad van Curaçao. Het ambt bestaat sinds 10 oktober 2010 toen het eilandgebied Curaçao, na de opheffing van de Nederlandse Antillen, een land werd binnen het Koninkrijk der Nederlanden.

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