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The Dynamics of Social Media: How They Were Born? #3 Twitter
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In this serial, we talk about how the dynamics of social media were born and where they are now. In previous articles, we talked about the story of Facebook and Youtube, and today we are going to talk about Twitter. Let's start!
Twitter; one of the most popular social media platforms, allowing users to share 'tweets' restricted to 280 characters (140 characters for the Chinese, Koreans and Japanese). Users also can use hashtags to talk about a specific subject or they can find out the most popular topics by following trend topics.
How It Was Founded?
The idea of Twitter first came up when a group of 14 friends met at South Park, San Francisco. Jack Dorsey, current CEO of Twitter, was one those 14 friends and needed a SMS system to share the activity they were doing there which is not known. He could send a text message but he wanted something more useful. Thus, the idea of Twitter was born. They made a brain storm about the issue, then Jack created a web based site. Jack joined a competition with his project and became the first. He kept working and Twitter finally was born.
Jack tweeted the first tweet on March 21, 2006.
And the little bird on the logo of Twitter has a name. He is called ''Larry''. But why ''Larry''?
On Aug 12,2011 this question got its answer. Peter Stringer sent a tweet to Biz Stone, one of the co-founders of Twitter, asking if Larry is named after Larry Bird, a basketball player of Boston Celtics. Then, Biz Stone approved this question.
Where Is It Now?
The number of monthly active Twitter users : 335 million.
The number of daily active Twitter users : 313 million.
The number of monthly mobile active users: 257 million
The number of tweets tweeted per day: 500 millon
Most followed accounts on Twitter
Twitter Q2 2018 Revenue: $711 Million
This is the story of how Twitter became from zero to hero and where it is now. If you'd like to find out more success stories like this, wait for our serial. 😊
Onurcan Eki
Humbled and grateful to be living the social media life at GoInbound! Love reading, designing, writing, running and adventuring.
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This medal is awarded to games which have received perfect scores from the WSGF for their widescreen support, and are Widescreen Certified.
Submitted by The_cranky_hermit on 22 June, 2006 - 02:49
Another World (UK, Australia) / Out of This World (Rest of the world) is a DOS-era shooter from Delphine Software and Interplay. You play as Lester Chaykin, a physics professor, stranded in an alien universe after an experiment goes haywire. This re-release, which uses the game's European title of Another World, is fully WinXP compatible, has support for high resolutions, and has all-new artwork designed to take advantage of the high resolutions that can be turned off if desired.
Dreamfall: The Longest Journey
Submitted by Gabbo on 28 May, 2006 - 02:44
3rd person adventure game with a Sci-Fi protagonist. Very story driven with an emphasis on cinematics.
Submitted by The_cranky_hermit on 21 May, 2006 - 02:49
Dawinia is a strategy game from Introversion Software. The game takes place inside a computer network called Darwinia, which is inhabited by evolving digital life forms called Darwinians, and is infested with a virus that threatens to destroy the Darwinians and years of research along with them. You control various program-generated units to seek and destroy the virus.
Rise of Nations: Rise of Legends
Submitted by CodE-E on 30 April, 2006 - 03:02
Rise of Nations: Rise of Legends is a real-time strategy game for the PC made by Big Huge Games, and published by Microsoft. It is a spin off of the popular game Rise of Nations, released in May 2003. However, rather than being a historical game, it is based in a fantasy world, where technology and magic coexist. It was released on May 9, 2006 in North America and on various dates around May 26, 2006 in the rest of the world.
Submitted by The_cranky_hermit on 15 April, 2006 - 02:51
Half-Life 2 is an FPS from Valve Software, and was one of the most highly anticipated sequels of all time. You return as Gordon Freeman, the strong and silent-type physicist, and you must do battle with an alien race of enslavers to liberate the surviving remainder of humanity on earth.
Also applies to Half-Life 2 Lost Coast free downloadable level.
Condemned: Criminal Origins
Submitted by The_cranky_hermit on 31 March, 2006 - 02:48
What twists the mind of an ordinary human into a serial killer?
Assigned to the Serial Crimes Unit, Agent Ethan Thomas must answer this question, and bring the worst of society to justice. His solve rate is the best in the bureau....perhaps too good.
Tom Clancy's HAWX
Submitted by Anonymous on 18 March, 2006 - 06:44
Join the High Altitude Warfare eXperimental squadron for missions full of dogfights and bomb drops in this arcade combat flight sim. Tom Clancy's HAWX also features multiplayer coop and versus modes and is packed with top-notch gaming technology : accurate satellite-generated maps, voice commands, DX10/10.1, native support for TripleHead and TrackIR, full amBX...
Submitted by Corruptor on 13 March, 2006 - 03:01
Project Eden is a hybrid between first- and third-person shooter with an emphasis on teamwork and puzzle solving over combat. Players switch between control of four UPA (Urban Protection Agency) agents, each with their own special abilities, as they work their way through a city that has grown upward and upward, leaving delving buildings and neighborhoods "below city limits.".
The Bard's Tale (2005)
Submitted by MikeTwain on 28 July, 2005 - 13:24
The Bard's Tale is an action role-playing game created by InXile Entertainment, and published by Vivendi Universal Games in 2004. Vivendi marketed the game as a humorous spoof of fantasy role-playing video games. It is neither a remake nor a sequel to Interplay Productions' Tales of the Unknown, Volume I: The Bard's Tale (1985)
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The Ubiquiti UniFi UAP-nanoHD is a compact 802.11ac Wave2 MU-MIMO Enterprise Access Point, much like it's big brother the UAP-AC-HD. Deploy the UniFi nanoHD AP in high-density environments requiring maximum wireless performance and minimal footprint. The UniFi nanoHD AP features simultaneous, dual-band, 4x4 MU-MIMO technology and convenient 802.3af PoE compatibility.
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In the negotiations leading to the International Environmental Governance (IEG) process, some delegates voiced concern about the difficulty of implementing the IEG clustering idea at the national level, given that each Multilateral Environmental Agreement (MEA) may be managed by a different ministry. Some delegates also advocated a selective approach to MEA clustering, given the diverse nature of the agreements.
Recently however, as many developing countries have transitioned from environment and science to purely environment ministries, international institutions are receiving more requests for assistance in determining the benefits of clustering MEA focal points at the national level. Meanwhile, the 2005 World Summit Outcome stressed the need for a "more coherent institutional framework" in the field of environmental governance, including at the national level. In addition, the recommendations by the UN Reform and the UN Coherence Panels for integrating the environment into development and the need for coherence in implementation is further shifting the focus to operations and institutional coherence at the national level.
This means that the question now for many is not why we should pursue clustering, but how best should this be pursued.
Although there have been numerous examples of MEA clustering at the implementation level that show immediate win-win benefits1, some experts warn2 that clustering of functions alone would not be sufficient to strengthen coordination of the international environmental governance system.
This would mean that a closer look at institutional clustering is necessary as part of the ongoing reform process within the UN.
One clustering pilot launched through the IEG process is the global chemicals cluster, which includes the Basel, Stockholm and Rotterdam Conventions. Although implementation or functional level work for this cluster has been generally recognized and encouraged3, it is the institutional or administrative clustering approach where considerable debate still exists. At present, many countries have serious concerns about establishing a common secretariat for the three Conventions, based on the fear that specific issues, such as non-chemical wastes, could get lost in a broader, more general secretariat. Other countries generally support a joint secretariat head as a means to achieve financial savings and greater synergies, while still others are concerned that a full merger of the secretariats of the three conventions would create legal and political problems, in particular at the national level. This is because chemicals and wastes are still often dealt with separately – for reasons of differences of the maturity of the Conventions, scope of work, and variations of available funding from sources such as the GEF. This means that the challenge is to come up with a structure for the three convention secretariats that will reap the benefits of collaboration while avoiding the drawbacks of legal confusion and loss of focus4.
This issue was highlighted during the Fifth session of the Open-ended Working Group of the Basel Convention (OEWG5), where the African group expressed its strong opposition to finding synergies between the activities of the three conventions' secretariats, with one delegate stating that "Basel is being weakened and subjected to a marriage that is going to kill the Convention." Fortunately, this has not led to the creation of a "bad taste" for synergies among Parties, and on the contrary, the COPs of the three Conventions recently decided to convene an Ad Hoc Joint Working Group on Synergies, which will initially meet in March 2007 in Helsinki, Finland, to discuss both programmatic and administrative synergies.
There have been many initiatives at the national level with components5 attempting to either study or promote national clusters to assist MEA implementation. One interesting lesson learned from these initiatives, in particular from work done by the United Nations University, is the finding that, unlike sectoral institutional committees or groups, the creation of cross-sectoral MEA bodies does not necessarily point to better coordination.
For example6, Palau created the Office of Environmental Response and Coordination (OERC), under the President's office, initially to assume coordination related to atmosphere-related MEAs, but later on to oversee other MEAs as well. The Cook Islands adapted this set-up and created an International Environmental Advisory Unit (IEAU) to coordinate the negotiation and implementation of all MEAs. However, procedures for consultation with regard to the negotiation and ratification of MEAs were not formalized between the IEAU and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) and Immigration, which traditionally oversees the negotiation of MEAs, leading to differing views and positions between the IEAU and the MFA on a number of MEA issues.
Organizing MEA focal points under one roof can also be labor-intensive and require resources beyond the capacity of certain ministries. For example7, in Thailand, the National Environment Board (NEB) previously had 42 subcommittees created to oversee the implementation of MEAs and other environmental policies. This often requires support that exceeds the capacity of the office's resources. A similar problem arose in Malaysia, when the secretariat and focal point for the National Climate Committee was transferred from the Conservation and Environmental Management Division (CEMD) of the Ministry of Science, Technology and Environment (MOSTE) to the Malaysian Meteorological Service (MMS), because the Division lacked professional staff to oversee national coordination.
Another example8 is the Philippines, where the Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) formulates the government position and ensures participation in various UN and intergovernmental bodies. Most inter-agency MEA committees report back to the National Council for Sustainable Development (NCSD), and are chaired by the Planning Secretary. Although coordination structures exist at the implementation level through the NCSD and within the DFA with the establishment of the "Cabinet Cluster to Promote Coordination on International Relations", some stakeholders have noted that there is not enough interaction with the functional ministries that work on the issues discussed in intergovernmental meetings.
The global clustering pilot on chemicals and waste is one that is of interest to many stakeholders, in particular as it can have an effect on ongoing discussions on coherence and reform in the UN.
The Palau and Cook Islands case tell us that cross-sectoral institutional set-ups, if not properly backed at the systemic level, will not be effective. Palau with an environmentally minded President created an informal structure where coordination can exist among stakeholders. Without both this informal mechanism and a formal institutional structure, the Cook Islands' experience led to difficulties in coordination. The Thailand and Malaysian cases demonstrate that a drawback of concentrating focal points of various MEAs in one agency is that the appropriate technical capacity for a specific agreement may be located in another ministry or agency. In such cases, efforts to centralize national focal points under one administrative division would not necessarily produce effective and efficient results. The Philippine case shows that there are many levels of coordination, including horizontal (among government line departments), vertical (between the central, provincial and local) and phases of MEA management.
1 For example, since 2001, UNEP has pioneered the Green Customs concept. This project strengthens the compliance and enforcement of MEAs, and focuses on capacity building for national customs officials on "environmentally sensitive commodities" such as Ozone Depleting Substances (ODS), toxic chemicals, hazardous wastes and endangered species. This initiative is supported by the World Customs Organization, Interpol, CITES, the Basel Convention, the OzonAction Programme, the Ozone Secretariat, UNEP as well as Rotterdam (PIC) and Stockholm (POPs) Conventions.
2 Expert consultations on International Environmental Governance, 28-29 May 2001, Cambridge, UK (see http://enb.iisd.org/crs/ieg/ for more information).
3 Including encouragement to continue functional clustering work by the UN Coherence Panel report, "Delivering As One," 2006 (http://www.un.org/events/panel/resources/pdfs/HLP-SWC-FinalReport.pdf).
5 For example, projects that include the study or the creation of cross-sectoral MEA committees, including the GEF funded National Capacity Self Assessment, which focuses on the three Rio Agreements.
6 Velasquez, et al, Pacific Islands Case Study on Inter-linkages, United Nations University, 2002 (http://www.unu.edu/inter-linkages/docs/Policy/04_PIC.pdf).
7 Boyer, Velasquez, Piest. Inter-linkages: National and Regional Approaches in Asia and the Pacific, United Nations University, 2002 (http://www.unu.edu/WSSD/files/docs/update.unu.edu/downloads/RN_Report.pdf).
*Jerry Velasquez works for the UN. These are his personal views.


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Q: Make a method that edits original array instead of returning a new one? Array.prototype.foo = function() {
    this = [ "random", "static", "replacement" ];
}

originalArray = [ "this", "was", "here", "first" ];

originalArray.foo();

console.log( originalArray ); // [ "random", "static", "replacement" ];

I am wondering how to do the above.
Editing the original array by applying a method to it. So far all I think I can do is:
Array.prototype.foo = function() {
    var arr = [ "random", "static", "replacement" ];

    return arr;
}

originalArray = [ "this", "was", "here", "first" ];

originalArray = originalArray.foo();

A: Delete the original array, then use push
Array.prototype.foo = function() {
    this.length = 0;
    this.push( "random", "static", "replacement" );
}

As volune said, if the input is an array, you can use the apply function.
Array.prototype.foo = function() {
    this.length = 0;
    var newArray = ["random", "static", "replacement"];
    this.push.apply(this, newArray);
}

A: Array.prototype.foo = function() {
    this.length = 0; //this clears the array
    this.push("random");
    this.push("static");
    this.push("replacement");
}

A: You can use .splice() to modify the array.
Array.prototype.foo = function() {
    this.splice(0,this.length,"random","static","replacement");
}

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Made these Sunday night in my continuing efforts to adapt to life after deep fryer. I'm not entirely sure the recipe (from Tasting Table) came out the way it was supposed to... they weren't at all like beignets... but it was still quite tasty. I thought it was a disaster at first as the dough, with only 3/4 of a cup of whole milk as the liquid, was super dry... but the eggs were able to hold it together it seems. Like the flavors quite a lot. The difficulty in making this one exactly as written will be the corn flour... as I don't imagine a ton of people have that sitting in their pantry... but Bob's Red Mill does produce it, and we were able to find it at Whole Foods. If you are wondering what to do with all that extra corn flour afterwards, you can always make corn cookies.
I fried these up in my dutch oven using the Thermapen and found it to be super painless... making me wonder why I ever felt I needed a deep fryer in the first place. I know it was one of the first cooking things I bought when I was starting out on this path, but I don't recall the impetus. I would have guessed it had something to do with a Cook's Illustrated recipe I read, because they were basically my cooking bible back then... if they said everybody should own a deep fryer I would have believed them... but their reviews of deep fryers (sub required) imply the opposite stance. Well, either its purchase predated the blog or I just didn't write about it, so my reasoning is lost to time (though I wouldn't be surprised if Anna remembers). If you are deep frying a couple of times a month or more I can see why you'd want a dedicated appliance, but otherwise I think you should just take that $100 and spend it on a good thermometer.


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«Песняры́» ( — «певцы») — советский и белорусский вокально-инструментальный ансамбль (ВИА) под управлением народного артиста СССР Владимира Мулявина, созданный в Минске в 1969 году. Известен широкой аудитории по песням: «Косил Ясь конюшину», «Белоруссия», «Вологда», «За полчаса до весны», «Беловежская пуща» и многим другим.

В основе стиля «Песняров» лежал белорусский фольклор: коллектив включал в репертуар эстрадные обработки народных песен, а тексты были посвящены белорусской культуре и истории.

История
Началом хронологии «Песняров» можно считать 1 сентября 1969 года, когда решением художественного совета минской филармонии группа «Лявоны» получила право называться вокально-инструментальным ансамблем, хотя ещё в 1968 году «Лявоны» были аккомпанирующей группой певицы Нелли Богуславской, а также выступали с собственной программой.

С таким названием группа просуществовала около года, до IV Всесоюзного конкурса артистов эстрады, проходившего в октябре 1970 года, когда группе посоветовали сменить название. ВИА (теперь уже выступающий под названием «Песняры») разделил на конкурсе II место с певцом Львом Лещенко и грузинским ансамблем «Диэло». В 1970 году «Песняры» побеждают также и на Всесоюзном конкурсе политической песни, проходившем в Москве.

В конце 1970 года в коллектив приглашён бывший солист самодеятельной группы «Золотые яблоки» Леонид Борткевич, а летом 1971 года фирма «Мелодия» выпускает первый виниловый диск-гигант «Песняров» (записан весной 1971 года).

В 1971 году начинаются первые зарубежные поездки ансамбля — в августе «Песняры» выступают на Международном фестивале песни в Сопоте (ПНР) в конкурсе фирм грамзаписи. В 1973 году продолжающий набирать популярность ансамбль побеждает на проходившем в Минске Всесоюзном конкурсе советской песни.

В 1976 в одном из промежуточных выпусков фестиваля «Песня-76» впервые прозвучала песня «Вологда», затем она стала настолько популярной, что была выбрана в финал фестиваля (став лауреатом), как объявила ведущая Светлана Жильцова, «единодушно», то есть была названа лучшей во всех десятках тысяч присланных открыток единственный раз в истории фестиваля «Песня года». После исполнения «Вологды» в финале публика устроила длительную бурную овацию с многочисленными криками «браво». «Песняры» обретают всесоюзную популярность, в 1976-79, согласно хит-параду «Звуковая дорожка» «Московского комсомольца», занимая первое место среди ансамблей.

В 1976 году Песняры становятся первым советским ВИА, который проводит гастроли по США. В этом же году ансамбль выступает на международном конкурсе грамзаписей MIDEM в Каннах, к участию в котором допускаются только коллективы, выпустившие за год максимальное количество пластинок в своей стране.

В 1976 году «Песняры» представляют крупную форму — одноактную театрализованную кантату В. Мулявина на стихи Янки Купалы — «Песня о доле». Московская премьера состоялась в концертном зале «Россия». В 1978 году последовало новое обращение к крупной форме — «Песняры» показывают рок-кантату И. Лученка и В. Мулявина «Гусляр» по поэме Янки Купалы «Курган». Эти произведения, написанные сложным музыкальным языком, относятся к направлению арт-рок, в сравнении с эстрадными песнями, по которым ансамбль больше известен широким массам.

В 1977 году ВИА «Песняры» был удостоен премии Ленинского комсомола — «за концертные программы 1975—1976 годов, активную пропаганду патриотической песни среди молодёжи».

В 1979 году почти весь классический состав «Песняров» получил звания заслуженных артистов БССР: Александр Демешко (ударные), Леонид Тышко (бас-гитара), Анатолий Кашепаров (вокал), Леонид Борткевич (вокал) и Владислав Мисевич (флейта, саксофон, жалейка, окарина); а руководитель коллектива Владимир Мулявин — звание народного артиста Белорусской ССР.

В 1980-е годы многое поменялось: из коллектива ушёл (на учёбу в ГИТИС) в 1980 году вокалист Борткевич. Его сменил Игорь Пеня. Следом группу покинул басист Тышко, а в 1989 году — второй вокалист Кашепаров. Из группы ушёл также сыгравший важную роль в изменении стилистики ансамбля пианист и композитор, выпускник Белорусской консерватории Игорь Паливода, начавший работать аранжировщиком в Государственном оркестре Белоруссии под управлением Михаила Финберга. К моменту распада СССР из первого состава в «Песнярах» оставались только Мулявин и Мисевич.В 1989 году звания Заслуженных артистов Белорусской ССР получили вокалисты Игорь Пеня и Валерий Дайнеко.

«Песняры» очень часто обращались к крупным формам — концертным программам, рок-операм. Ансамбль поставил две рок-оперы на стихи Янки Купалы: «Песня о доле» и «Гусляр». Среди концертных программ особенно следует отметить «Весёлые нищие» на стихи Роберта Бёрнса, «Через всю войну». Особняком среди всего творчества стоит программа на стихи Владимира Маяковского «Во весь голос», написанная в стиле арт-рок. Аранжировали композиции В. Г. Мулявина к этой программе Валерий Головко, Олег Мартаков, Александр Растопчин, Валерий Дайнеко, Александр Виславский и особенно Дмитрий Явтухович, который также написал Увертюру к программе «Во весь голос».

Первый серьёзный раскол группы случился в 1998 году и имел под собой достаточно причин: затяжной кризис жанра советской эстрады на постсоветском пространстве, личные проблемы участников ансамбля, статус «Песняров» как государственного творческого коллектива. Приказом министра культуры Белоруссии на должность директора «Песняров» вместо Владимира Мулявина был назначен Владислав Мисевич (Мулявин был оставлен художественным руководителем). По официальной версии, причиной была болезнь Мулявина, а по словам самого Мисевича — пристрастие лидера «Песняров» к алкоголю в последние годы жизни. В коллектив вернулся Валерий Дайнеко. Так «Песняры» проработали почти год. Но затем Мулявин обратился к президенту Белоруссии А. Г. Лукашенко, после чего старый состав (кроме Олега Молчана и Аркадия Ивановского) написал заявления об уходе и стал гастролировать как «Белорусские песняры». В Мулявин собрал новый состав «Песняров» из молодых музыкантов.

После смерти Владимира Мулявина в 2003 году стали появляться другие группы, исполняющие песни легендарного коллектива. В 2009 году несколько музыкальных коллективов имели в своём названии слово «Песняры» и использовали старый репертуар легендарного ансамбля. Министерство культуры Республики Беларусь дало такой комментарий ситуации:

В настоящее время товарный знак «Песняры», принадлежащий Белорусскому государственному ансамблю «Песняры», признан общеизвестным товарным знаком в России, на Украине и в Белоруссии, и охраняется бессрочно.

Коллективы со схожим названием, исполняющие песни ВИА «Песняры»
 Белорусский Государственный ансамбль (БГА) «Песняры» под руководством Романа Козырева. Управляется министерством культуры Беларуси и считается официальным правопреемником старых «Песняров», однако состоит из молодых музыкантов, в «старых» «Песнярах» не участвовавших.
 «Белорусские песняры». Коллектив основан в 1998 году, в результате первого раскола ВИА «Песняры». Участники группы по состоянию на 2022 год: Заслуженные артисты Белоруской ССР Валерий Дайнеко и Игорь Пеня, Олег Аверин, Александр Катиков, Александр Соловьёв, Евгений Рябой и Николай Семёнов.
 «Песняры» под управлением Леонида Борткевича (2003—2011). Группа откололась от БГА «Песняры» в 2003 году по причине несогласия с кандидатурой нового директора коллектива. Руководитель — бывший солист ВИА (БГА) «Песняры», заслуженный артист Белорусской ССР Леонид Борткевич. С 2011 года до своей кончины в 2021 году Борткевич выступал со своим коллективом. Последний cостав ВИА под управлением Л. Борткевича: Леонид Борткевич, Вадим Косенко (бывший участник «Песняров»), Михаил Долотов и Андрей Еронин. Периодически в деятельности группы принимал участие бывший участник ВИА «Песняры», заслуженный артист Белорусской ССР Анатолий Кашепаров.
 «Песняры» под управлением Игоря Свечкина (2004—2019). Группа откололась от «Песняров» п/у Леонида Борткевича в 2004 году. Руководитель — администратор, заместитель директора ВИА (БГА) «Песняры» п/у Владимира Мулявина в 1992—2003 годах Игорь Свечкин. Состав группы в 2019 году: бывшие участники ВИА (БГА) «Песняры» п/у В. Мулявина — Виктор Молчанов, Владимир Марусич, Павел Заяц и бывшие участники БГА «Песняры» — Владимир Стамати и Вячеслав Исаченко.
 «Лявоны-песняры» (2005—2006) под управлением ударника классического состава «Песняров», заслуженного артиста Белорусской ССР Александра Демешко. Коллектив распался в 2006 году в связи с его смертью. В группе также участвовал клавишник старого состава Владимир Николаев.
 «Лявоны» (2008—2017). Отколовшаяся от «Песняров» Леонида Борткевича в 2008 году группа, исполняющая песни «Песняров» и состоящая из молодых музыкантов, никто из которых не участвовал в «Песнярах» до 1998 года. В 2017 году фактически прекратила своё существование.

Участники коллектива
В алфавитном порядке (все, кто участвовал до 1998 года):

 Аверин Олег — вокал, клавишные, гитара, композиция, аранжировка
 Бернштейн Борис — бас-гитара, скрипка, аранжировка
 Бадьяров Валентин — скрипка, гитара, аранжировка
 Беляев Владимир — ударные
 Карлышев Максим — бас-гитара, скрипка, аранжировка
 Борткевич Леонид — вокал
 Булда Вячеслав — ударные
 Виславский Александр — клавишные, фортепиано, бэк-вокал
 Гилевич Анатолий — фортепиано, клавишные, аранжировка
 Головко Валерий — клавишные, аранжировка
 Гурдизиани Валерий — тромбон
 Дайнеко Валерий — вокал, альт, аранжировка
 Демешко Александр — ударные
 Денисов Юрий — вокал, альт, бас-гитара
 Ивановский Аркадий — гитара
 Исупова Людмила — вокал, флейта
 Катиков Александр — бас-гитара, вокал
 Кашепаров Анатолий — вокал, баян
 Ковалёв Леонид — звукорежиссёр, бэк-вокал
 Крылов Иван — труба
 Кудрин Владимир — вокал
 Кульков Михаил — бас-гитара
 Лапташов Сергей — ударные
 Лукашевич Юрий — фортепиано, клавишные
 Мартаков Олег — клавишные, фортепиано
 Марусич Владимир — ударные
 Мисевич Владислав — саксофон, флейта, бэк-вокал
 Михнович Вячеслав — труба
 Молчан Олег — клавишные, композиция, аранжировка
 Молчанов Виктор — гитара, вокал
 Москальчук Александр — вокал
 Мулявин Валерий — гитара, труба, бэк-вокал
 Мулявин Владимир — художественный руководитель, вокал, гитара, композиция, аранжировка
 Неронский Николай — бас-гитара
 Николаев Владимир — клавишные, тромбон, саксофон, бэк-вокал
 Паливода Игорь — клавишные, фортепиано, композиция, аранжировка
 Пеня Игорь — вокал, клавишные
 Поздышев Евгений — труба
 Поплавский Виктор-Чеслав — скрипка, гитара, бэк-вокал
 Попроцкий Александр — звукорежиссёр
 Растопчин Александр — гитара
 Свечкин Игорь — директор
 Скорожонок Валерий — вокал
 Смольский Виктор — гитара
 Ткаченко Владимир — гитара, скрипка, аранжировка
 Тышко Леонид — бас-гитара, бэк-вокал, стихи
 Тышко Эдуард — бас-гитара, бэк-вокал, гармонь
 Шмелькин Марк — ударные
 Щёлоков Анатолий — звукорежиссёр
 Эскин Аркадий — фортепиано, клавишные
 Явтухович Дмитрий — клавишные, фортепиано, композиция, аранжировка
 Юринок Сергей — звукорежиссёр
 Яшкин Валерий — клавишные, лира, стихи
 Евгений Овчаров — бэк-вокал, флейта

Шкала по годам
Данные по годам 1969—1997 (отмечены основные участники)

Авторы песен
В репертуаре ансамбля были песни на стихи М. Шушкевича, Н. Н Добронравова, Р. И. Бородулина, Г. Н. Буравкина, Янки Сипакова, Петруся Макаля, Л. И. Прончака, Максима Богдановича, М. Л. Матусовского, А. И. Фатьянова, Л. П. Дербенёва, Д. Ф. Тухманова, В. Э. Крайчинского.

Кроме того, «Песняры» часто исполняли песни на стихи известных поэтов, таких как Янка Купала, Р. Бёрнс, В. В. Маяковский, Якуб Колас.

Признание и награды
 Лауреат IV Всесоюзного конкурса артистов эстрады (II премия, 1970)
 Лауреат Всесоюзного конкурса советской песни (I премия, Минск, 1973)
 Лауреат Фестиваля советской песни в Зелёной Гуре (ПНР)
 Лауреат X Всемирного фестиваля молодежи и студентов (Берлин, ГДР, 1973),
 Лауреат Международного фестиваля песни «Золотой лев» (Лейпциг, ГДР, 1973)
 Лауреат Международного конкурса артистов эстрады «Золотой Орфей» в НРБ (1974)
 Лауреат 2-го Международного фестиваля политической песни (Хельсинки, 1978)
 Лауреат Премии Ленинского комсомола Белоруссии (1976)
 Лауреат Премии Ленинского комсомола — за концертные программы 1975—1976 годов, активную пропаганду патриотической песни среди молодёжи (1977)
 Главный приз фирмы «Мелодия» «Золотой диск» (1982)
 Премия Президента Белоруссии «Через искусство — к миру и взаимопониманию» (Белоруссия, 2010)

Дискография

Альбомы
 1972 — «Песняры I»
 1974 — «Песняры II»
 1978 — «Песняры III»
 1979 — «Песняры IV»
 1979 — «Гусляр» (поэма-легенда по произведению Янки Купалы «Курган»)
 1983 — «Зачарованная моя»
 1985 — «Через всю войну»
 1994 — «Песняры — 25 лет» (Голландия)
 2001 — «Песняры — 2001»

Концертные программы

Обрядовые песни

Весёлые нищие (1982)
Музыка И. Поливоды, поэзия Роберта Бёрнса в переводах С. Маршака
 Базарный шут (Мудрец)
 В эту ночь сердца и кружки…
 Весёлые нищие (Когда бесцветна и мертва)
 Кто честной бедности своей…
 Моему незаконнорождённому ребёнку (Дочурка)
 Мой Джон
 Песня бродячего скрипача (Позволь слезу твою смахнуть)
 Песня старой маркитантки (Девицей была я)
 Я, Ваша честь
 Я лишь поэт
 Я пью твое здоровье (Прощай, красавица)
 Я несу вам дар
 В этом прекрасном и тревожном мире

Состав ансамбля «Песняры»:
 Владимир Мулявин — руководитель, вокал, 12+6-струнная электрогитара
 Анатолий Кашепаров — вокал, лира
 Валерий Дайнеко — вокал, скрипка
 Игорь Пеня — вокал
 Чеслав Поплавский — скрипка, подпевка
 Владислав Мисевич — флейта, подпевка
 Владимир Ткаченко — гитара-соло, скрипка
 Борис Бернштейн — бас-гитара, скрипка
 Игорь Поливода и Аркадий Эскин — клавишные инструменты
 Александр Демешко и Владимир Беляев — ударные

Программа «Во весь голос» (1987—1988)
 Увертюра / А вы могли бы? — (вступление — Явтухович, Виславский, Растопчин, Тышко, Беляев, затем солист с гитарой — В. Г. Мулявин)
 Ничего не понимают — в унисон — Пеня, Дайнеко, Тышко;
 Разве это молодость — Дайнеко;
 Облако в штанах — Мулявин;
 Я счастлив — Игорь Пеня;
 Что такое хорошо — Кашепаров, фальцет — Мисевич;
 Несколько слов о моей маме — Пеня;
 Лиличка! (вместо письма) — Мулявин;
 Послушайте! — Дайнеко;
 Во весь голос — Мулявин;
 Ноктюрн — инструментальная композиция;
 Подлиза — Демешко;
 Пример, не достойный подражания — Пеня, Виславский, Кашепаров, Дайнеко;
 Служака — Мулявин;
 Маруся отравилась — Пеня;
 Последний крик — Демешко;
 Прозаседавшиеся — акапелла, поют Пеня, Дайнеко, Тышко, Явтухович, Виславский;
 Разговор с товарищем Лениным — Мулявин;
 Финал — Кашепаров.

Состав участников коллектива (исполнявших «Во весь голос» на всех концертах):
 Владимир Мулявин — вокал, гитара, худ. рук.
 Владислав Мисевич — саксофон, флейта, вокал
 Александр Демешко — перкуссия, вокал
 Анатолий Кашепаров — вокал
 Валерий Дайнеко — вокал
 Игорь Пеня — вокал, аккордеон
 Владимир Беляев — ударные
 Александр Растопчин — гитара
 Дмитрий Явтухович — клавишные, рояль, вокал
 Эдуард Тышко — бас-гитара, вокал
 Александр Виславский — клавишные, вокал

Звукорежиссёры: Леонид Ковалёв, Сергей Юренок, Наталья Людвиковская.

Режиссёр-постановщик: Сергей Винников.

Директор программы: Анатолий Щёлоков.

Фильмография
 1971 — Мировой парень — на начальных титрах звучит песня «Берёзовый сок» в исполнении «Песняров»
 1972 — Следствие ведут Знатоки. Дело № 5. Динозавр (в одной из сцен по радио звучат две песни «Песняров» из их первого винилового альбома — «Беларусь» и «Александрына»)
 1973 — Ну, погоди! (выпуск 6) (мультипликационный)
 1973 — Улица без конца (в фильме звучат песни «Журавли» и «Улицы без конца» в исполнении коллектива)
 1973 — Эта весёлая планета («Песняры» в эпизодической роли, поют песню «Наши любимые»)
 1973 — По следам бременских музыкантов — инструментальное сопровождение песен «Мы к вам заехали на час» и «Баю-баюшки-баю»
 1973 — Горя бояться — счастья не видать («Песняры» в эпизодической роли, поют финальную песню Р. Бёрнса «Старая дружба»)
 1974 — Ясь и Янина («Песняры» исполняют главные роли, звучит много их песен)
 1975 — Квака-задавака (советский музыкальный мультфильм о лягушонке, выпущенный киностудией Беларусьфильм; Звучат песни «Песняров»)
 1976 — Воскресная ночь — звучит песня «Песняров» в исполнении В. Мулявина «В минуты музыки печальной»
 1982 — Раскиданное гнездо — исполняют песни, солист — В. Г. Мулявин
 1987 — Комедиант (TV, двухсерийный, Беларусьфильм) — исполняют песни, солисты — В. Г. Мулявин, В. Дайнеко, Д. Явтухович, в кадре Мулявин, Дайнеко, Кашепаров, Пеня, Демешко
 2005 — Я помню... — звучит песня «Берёзовый сок» в исполнении «Песняров»
 2008 — Гитлер капут! — звучит песня «Вологда»
 2016 — Суперплохие (в фильме и финальных титрах звучит песня «Касіў Ясь канюшыну»)
 2018 — Хрусталь — в одной из сцен играет «Спадчына» из второго альбома ансамбля

В массовой культуре
В 2022 году на платформе Start, а затем на Первом канале выйдет многосерийная музыкальная драма «За полчаса до весны» о творческом пути Владимира Мулявина и ансамбля «Песняры».

См. также
 Сябры
 Верасы

Примечания

Литература

 Анжела Гергель, Валерий Дайнеко. Песняры времени своего. Саммит-книга. 2016
 Анжела Гергель, Валерий Дайнеко. Песняры. Взгляд из будущего. Твердыня. 2018
 Мисевич Владислав. «Песняры»: Я роман с продолженьем пишу… — М.; Екатеринбург: Кабинетный учёный, 2018. — 504 с.

Ссылки
 Песняры. Вянок
 Песняры. Веселые нищие.
 Владимир Мулявин: Моя главная ошибка в Песнярах — Мисевич.
 Сайт о Игоре Паливоде и записанной в 2013 году программе «Весёлые нищие» .
 Виртуальный музей ансамбля «Песняры» .
 Cайт о ВИА «Песняры» .
 Были ли Песняры прозападным ансамблем?
 Песняры никогда не занимались фольклором
 Можно ли назвать гением Владимира Мулявина?
 Анжела Гергель, Валерий Дайнеко. Песняры времени своего. Саммит-книга. 2016
 Анжела Гергель, Валерий Дайнеко. Песняры. Взгляд из будущего. Твердыня. 2018
 Песняры — 50 лет
 Песняры 1976. Гастроли по Америке

Музыкальные коллективы СССР
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Фолк-группы Белоруссии
Рок-группы Белоруссии
Музыкальные коллективы, появившиеся в 1969 году
Музыкальные коллективы, распавшиеся в 2003 году
Лауреаты премии Ленинского комсомола
Исполнители белорусских народных песен
Лауреаты Всесоюзного конкурса артистов эстрады

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After spending my entire 28 years of existence in places where the traffic moves forward on the right side of the road it would take me a while to get used to it flowing from the wrong end. Not as a driver but, simply, as a pedestrian crossing the road. I've managed to avoid any collisions but, on a number of occasions, I have been startled by a car coming at me from a direction I did not expect: my right. Fear is a great learning aid.
I imagine that this is a known problem in a tourist heavy city like London. What else would be the motivation for painting, on intersection asphalt, signage telling pedestrian crossers which way to look? All around on the streets are painted notices advising people to "LOOK LEFT" and "LOOK RIGHT." No doubt many a foreigner walked onto the street looking the correct way only to be struck down by a double-decker bus coming coming from the other direction. I have not been so unfortunate as I have adjusted my jaywalking habits accordingly.
The streets I understand now but the pedestrian pavement continues to dumbfound. If the cars drive on the left which way, as a courtesy, are pedestrians meant to walk on the sidewalk? Casual observation shows that, as anywhere else, people tend to stick to the right hand side. But not everyone. I wonder about those contrarians: are they walking their own path, regardless of common decency and courtesy, or are they the few stragglers doing it right amongst a sea of wrong-headed tourists? I was uncertain until I started going into the London Underground where, along the deep escalator descents, signs were posted alerting those that choose to stand to stand on the right.
My questions had been answered. Pedestrians stick to the right except when passing. This must be, no matter what automobiles do, a universal rule. I was satisfied.
The very next day in some connecting station somewhere on the Northern Line, in the busy tunnels going from one platform to another, there were signs posted asking pedestrians to stick to the left. To add to that, some stations had their descending escalators on the left and others had them on the right. Once again I was confused so, now, I do what makes most sense: I walk in the middle. Let everyone else sort it out.
⎈ The Hazards of Looking Left was categorized as London, self.
It was published on July 15th, 2008.
When I went to the DiGRA conference in Tokyo last year I quickly found out that the rule seems to be for pedestrians to stick to the left. I was constantly leaving the hotel in the morning and walking upstream of pedestrian traffic for several yards until I realized I was on the right side and not the left. This was most problematic on escalators when I would habitually stand on the right side and the custom is apparently to stand on the left side and allow people to run up the right side.
Having also just moved to the UK I can very much relate to your story. In fact, I wrote a blog post on Facebook a while ago about how I keep having near-collisions with pedestrians. For a while I was convinced you're supposed to walk on the left, but that doesn't seem to be the case. Apparently the Brits just make it up as they go along. It's extremely annoying, almost as annoying as all the door locks unlocking in the opposite direction. Arrrrgggggghhhhh!!
Leave it to the Japanese to get it all organized. The Brits though, yeah, it's a mess. Walking the sidewalks, especially if you walk faster than most slow people, is a constant slalom.
hehe at the door locks. I noticed that too.


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May to force decision on trade
Even if the PM manages to unite her Cabinet, will the EU agree to her deal? Emily Hohler reports.
by: Emily Hohler
A Cabinet lock-in at Chequers on Friday 6 July, dubbed the "body-bag summit", is designed to "force a decision" on the UK's post-Brexit trade policy, says Andrew Atkinson on Bloomberg. "Back the prime minister or resign" is the option reportedly facing ministers. Theresa May's new plan for Britain's future relationship with the EU is top secret, says the Financial Times, with even David Davis, the Brexit secretary, being kept in the dark.
However, "all the signs are" that May plans to soften her red lines, enraging "arch Brexiteers" who believe this will be a "betrayal of her original pledge to take the UK out of the customs union, single market and European Court of Justice", says James Blitz in the FT.
Leading eurosceptic Jacob Rees-Mogg warned earlier this week that May will "face an open Tory rebellion that risks the collapse of her government" if she does not deliver the Brexit "she herself has promised". He was rapidly slapped down by various government ministers and MPs. One Foreign Office minister, Alan Duncan, accused him of "insolence" and told him to "pipe down".
A time for decisions, not threats
All this hectoring has got to stop, says William Hague in The Daily Telegraph. An observer might be forgiven for thinking that the Tory party now "consists entirely" of two warring factions. In fact, there is a "vast sensible middle" comprising ministers and MPs that just "get on with their jobs without threatening to bring the house down every couple of weeks".
Time for agreeing a policy is "long overdue" and "continued division is worse than any of the options causing it", since it allows the European Commission to "sit back, make zero concessions and prepare to impose its own terms" in the absence of any alternatives. It was clear that "very difficult compromises would have to be made" the moment last year's election results indicated a minority government. If ardent Brexiteers push too hard, the Commons will be "much more likely to vote in the near future to stay in the customs union in its entirety".
Quite, says Robert Shrimsley in the FT. "It is in the nature of politicians and pundits to fixate on the immediate and forget the fundamentals." But the essential realities aren't going to go away, namely: no money, no parliamentary majority and the "greatest constitutional challenge in modern memory". Even if May were replaced and the political direction shifted towards a harder Brexit, these problems would remain and Tories would still be divided. "The choice then is between a leader who grasps the complexity of Brexit and wants a compromise that does minimal damage to the economy, and a leader who does not, but will be forced to accept one in the end."
Hard Brexiteers aren't the only issue
Even if May manages to face down hard Brexiteers at Chequers, she runs the very real risk of being "shot down by the EU" when she delivers her Brexit white paper to Europe next week, says Peter Foster in The Daily Telegraph. The "word from Whitehall" is that May will propose a new customs arrangement that will see "close alignment with EU rules on industrial goods and a commensurate degree of EU oversight", with the UK free to diverge only on services, but "with its hands tied" on many sectors, including agriculture.
This will "infuriate" Brexiteers, since it hardly amounts to the clean break many of them want. And even then, the EU has "already clearly signalled" that it will reject such a plan because it provides British companies with an unfair advantage. As one EU negotiator put it, "Our biggest fear is that the white paper is full of fluff May wins her internal battle yet again and yet we are precisely nowhere." Next week may be "a bloodbath".
Socialist firebrand delivers shock
Democrat voters in New York "delivered a shock to the political system" last week, says The New York Times. In a primary for New York's 14th congressional district they rejected the fourth-ranking House Democrat Joe Crowley in favour of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, a 28-year-old left-wing activist and former campaign organiser for Bernie Sanders.
Ocasio-Cortez's victory is a "vivid sign of the changing of the guard". She ran on a platform of Medicare access and a government-guaranteed job for all, and also proposed the abolition of the Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency (ICE). She says her victory proves that left-wing policies can win elections, says Tara Golshan in Vox.
There are plenty who disagree. Democrat Senator Tammy Duckworth of Illinois notes that "you can't win the White House without the Midwest, and I don't think you can go too far left and still win the Midwest". House minority leader Nancy Pelosi remarked that her win didn't imply a wider shift in Democratic party beliefs, adds Lauren Gambino in The Guardian. According to Pelosi, it was "about that district". Ocasio-Cortez disagreed, telling NBC there were many other districts "that have changed a lot in the last 20 years and whose representation has not".
Republicans shouldn't get complacent, says The Wall Street Journal. Ocasio-Cortez is likely to nudge the party to the left. She will be a "sure winner" in the November mid-terms and her victory may well encourage other Democrats to shift left to avoid a challenge in their own primaries. This trend "portends more polarisation" in US politics, with Democrats probably even less inclined to compromise now.
Nor can Republicans necessarily count on the conventional wisdom that a "sharp left turn" makes the Democrats less appealing to the electorate. Look at what everyone said about Corbyn.
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The political Brexit pantomime aside, Britain is in pretty good shape. With near-record employment, strong wage growth and modest inflation, there is …
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It turns out that there was to be no opportunity to short the S&P 500 (link below to my previous post). Instead, the S&P 500 continued its recovery from Friday's lows.
Indeed, in today's final hour of trading, the S&P 500 closed above a key resistance level on the hourly chart. America's benchmark stock index ended the day at 273.03 (based on SPY ), above the 272.36 resistance level defined by the high reached on Feb. 7. For good measure, the S&P 500 also closed above the 200 period moving average on the hourly chart. As such, we must conclude for now that the trend on the hourly time-frame has changed to up. The next target on the upside is around 280 based on SPY .
This means we'll be looking for opportunities to go long this market. Rather than chase this market, I'll wait for a pullback.
A word of warning: as with any breakout, one must be on the lookout for a potential failure. A failure of today's breakout would be signaled by a sharp drop in the first hour of trading tomorrow. We could then short on the close of that hourly bar (yesterday, I wrongly referred to this trade set-up as an anti, but it is actually a breakout failure).
I will be closely watching tomorrow's first hour of trading to make sure this breakout is for real.


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Rogue Spooks: The Intelligence War on Donald Trump
Rogue Spooks: The Intelligence War on Donald Trump quantity
Categories: Biography, Populism, Spotlight
By Dick Morris with Eileen McGann.
This is the story of an attempted coup d'état―now in progress―by rogue intelligence agents. The goal: to overthrow the presidency of Donald Trump and subvert the will of the electorate.
Donald Trump's first 100 days in office were roiled by allegations of treasonous contacts between his campaign team and the Kremlin to rig the election. These outrageous charges first surfaced in the notorious "Trump Dossier," an unverified document of suspect provenance, full of wild and salacious accusations. This dossier—filled with little more than gossip, rumor, and innuendo—was compiled by Christopher Steele, a former British intelligence operative who teamed up with the FBI and anti-Trump partisans. Hillary Clinton supporters paid for Steele's work.
When no news media would publish the unverified dossier, the ex-spook enlisted the help of a former UK ambassador to Russia, who arranged in turn for a former U.S. assistant secretary of state to get the document to Senator John McCain, in the hope that he would then bring it to FBI Director James Comey's attention. McCain did just that. Comey himself played a critical role in the dossier ultimately going public, giving a confidential summary to President Obama and congressional leaders. It was immediately leaked by rogue spooks in order to demean, destabilize, and destroy Donald Trump's nascent presidency.
The dossier and this mythical intelligence are the basis for the phony claims about a Russia-Trump collusion to steal the election. No proof was found. No substantiation uncovered. Even Comey told Trump he was not under investigation for the Russian meddling charges. But that didn't end the leaks or the allegations. Working in concert with liberal news outlets, these rogue spooks have formed a new Intel/Media complex that threatens our democracy.
Rogue Spooks will reveal how it works. Readers of Rogue Spooks, from bestselling authors Dick Morris and Eileen McGann, will be shocked to learn the truth about the false accusations against President Trump in the flawed dossier. They'll be interested to know how leaks to the media fueled the phony scandal, and how intelligence agencies will try to use the newly appointed special prosecutor to oust President Trump.
They will also learn what we can do—specifically—to stop them.
Dick Morris has authored 19 books, including 13 New York Times bestsellers, such as Armageddon, Screwed! and Here Come the Black Helicopters! Morris served as Bill Clinton's chief political consultant for twenty years, and is a regular political commentator on the Internet and Facebook. He has been married to coauthor Eileen McGann for 40 years. Morris can be found online at www.dickmorris.com.
Eileen McGann has authored more than 15 books, including 13 New York Times bestsellers, such as Armageddon, Screwed! and Here Come the Black Helicopters! McGann, an attorney, has written extensively on Congress and the White House. She has been married to coauthor Dick Morris for 40 years.
"Dick Morris: FBI Rogue Spooks Caught Red-Handed Leaking"
By Dick Morris, January 29, 2018, Western Journal
For the past year, a central question has been: Who is leaking to the media from the FBI? Now we are beginning to get an answer: Peter Strzok and Lisa Page, the star-crossed lovers high up in the FBI have been caught through their newly released texts to one another to be among the key sieves.
In our book Rogue Spooks: The Intelligence War on Donald Trump, Eileen and I write that rogue agents in the FBI were conspiring with willing left-wing reporters to spread false and biased information about President Trump. Now, thank to their texts, the truth of that charge is becoming clear. Among the main leakers were Peter Strzok and Lisa Page and among the recipients was Devlin Barrett of The Washington Post.
The litany of their leaks, spelled out in their own emails to one another, demonstrates the intimacy of the co-ordination between the FBI leakers and their newspaper recipients. At times, they almost all seem to be working together. And they were: To hype the phony story of Putin's meddling in the U.S. election and to advance the storyline that Trump was in on the conspiracy.
For example, on Oct. 28, 2016, a week before the election, Page and Strzok were texting as they were leaking. The date is important. That is precisely when the FBI announced that it was re-opening the investigation of Hillary's private server emails.
At 5:19 p.m., Page texted "still on the phone with Devlin. Mike's phone is ON FIRE."
"Devlin" refers to Devlin Barrett, a key reporter with The Post.
Ten minutes later, Strzok texts back "you might wanna tell Devlin he should turn on CNN, there's news on."
Lisa replied a minute later: "He knows. He just got handed a note."
"Ha. He is asking about it now?" Stroke texts.
Lisa texts back: "Yeah. It was pretty funny. Coming now."
Then, at 5:36 p.m., Devlin Barrett himself weighs in: "This is a possibility, per sources."
The re-opening of the email investigation was only one of many leaks coming from Strzok/Page.
A few days before, on Oct. 23, 2016, Devlin Barrett tweeted: "Scoop: McAuliffe PAC gave $467,500 to campaign of wife of senior FBI official who oversaw Clinton email probe."
McAuliffe is Terry McAuliffe, then governor of Virginia, and formerly the chief fundraiser for both Clintons. The senior FBI official is Andrew McCabe, who was Lisa Page's boss.
Immediately, the FBI pair begin texting about whether McCabe should recuse himself from the email probe, as Comey's chief of staff James Rybicki was recommending.
In the texts, Page told Strzok "Rybicki just called to check in. He very clearly 100% believes that Andy should be recused because of the 'perception.'" The Strzok/Page emails reflect their disbelief that anyone would recuse themselves over such a matter.
Strzok replies with shock to Page's suggestion that McCabe recuse himself, texting "God."
Then Lisa says, with evident self-satisfaction, that their leaking has found its mark: "Our statement affected the stock market."
McCabe did recuse himself but only one week before the election.
On Oct. 24, 2016, Page texted Strzok about another leak and were conscious of hiding the role in leaking the story. Page wrote: "article is out, but hidden behind paywall so can't read it." (In other words, nobody can tell that it we who are leaking).
Stroke texts back: "Wsj. Boy that was fast. Should I 'find' it and tell the team?" (In other words, should I admit that we did it?)
Discussing how to tell his team about the leak without taking responsibility, Strzok writes: "I can get it (the article) like I do every other article that hits any Google News alerts, seriously," Strzok texted, adding he did not want his team hearing about the article "from someone else."
(WSJ refers, of course to Wall Street Journal where Devlin Barrett worked before joining The Washington Post staff).
Now we are beginning to learn who the rogue spooks were who held the nation in their thrall as they leaked breathlessly about their investigation of President Trump. Congress needs to call Strzok and Page as witnesses to explain the context of each leak and show the country how it has been duped by the FBI and the national media.
CD – The Russia Hoax: The Illicit Scheme to Clear Hillary Clinton and Frame Donald Trump
It's Not Easy Being God: George Soros
WILLIS CARTO and the American Far Right
List of Illustrations vii
List of Illustrations — vii
2. The Far Right before Carto — 5
3. Early Years — 18
4. Right — 24
5. Uniting the Right — 41
6. The Birth of Liberty Lobby — 62
7. Francis Parker Yockey and Imperium — 75
8. The Turbulent Decade — 87
9. Youth for Wallace — 94
10. The Spotlight — 102
11. Opposition — 113
12. The Institute for Historical Review — 124
13. The Populist Worldview — 144
14. The Populist Party — 157
15. The Rise and Decline of the Christian Patriot/Militia Movement — 177
16. Internecine Battles: The Struggle with the IHR — 195
17. The Barnes Review — 209
18. Death and Rebirth? The End of the Spotlight and the Emergence of American Free Press — 218
19. Conclusion: Willis Carto and the Postwar American Far Right — 239
Notes — 247
Bibliography — 313
Willis Carto: Champion of the American Right
By John Friend
Despite certain fallacious assumptions, particularly regarding the veracity of the official "Holocaust" narrative of WWII and the purported diabolical nature of Adolf Hitler and National Socialist Germany, George Michael's detailed biography of Willis Carto's life, political activities, and publishing endeavors is commendably balanced and written in an extremely scholarly fashion, with literally hundreds of end notes coupled with an extensive bibliography. The details and facts provided throughout the book are painstakingly documented, providing a thorough and all-encompassing overview of one of America's greatest patriots along with a general history of the American far right.
Michael, a political science professor who has studied and written extensively about the political right, was granted exclusive access to Willis Carto in preparation for his must-read book, Willis Carto and the American Far Right, conducting numerous personal interviews which allowed him to obtain a deeper insight into Carto's views and activities since he became active in the right wing struggle shortly after WWII. Describing Carto as "undoubtedly the central figure in the post-World War II American far right," Michael outlines Carto's efforts to promote the various causes associated with the right wing in America.
Carto has been instrumental in publishing and promoting a wide variety of marginalized, demonized ideas and political perspectives over the course of his long publishing career. The Spotlight, perhaps Carto's most influential and well-known publication that was later reorganized as American Free Press, championed traditional right wing and conservative causes including nationalism, populism, patriotism, and racialism. Carto's publications have also been and remain uncompromising opponents of multiculturalism, unnecessary wars and foreign interventions, and the push for internationalism, free trade, and open borders, among other important issues. The views and opinions found in Carto's former and current publications epitomize American political and economic traditions formulated and implemented by the Founding Fathers.
Perhaps his most controversial endeavor (yet arguably the most important), Carto also sought to institutionalize historical revisionism, which is simply an attempt to bring history into accord with the facts as we know them, especially as it relates to WWII and the alleged Jewish "Holocaust." This vital and courageous undertaking lives on with The Barnes Review, the sister publication of American Free Press. Additionally, Carto attempted to institutionalize a populist, America-first political lobby and political party, founding the Liberty Lobby and the Populist Party respectively.
As the founder of the Liberty Lobby, which Michael characterizes as "one of the most enduring institutions in the history of the movement" that "provided a base where virtually all segments of the far right came together," Carto sought to institutionalize and unify the various, and often diverging, actors and organizations comprising the right wing in an effort to gain credibility amongst the American populace as well as advance the interests of the right wing more effectively.
Given the nature of the Liberty Lobby's political persuasion, along with its hard-hitting, resolute, and popular publication, The Spotlight, it of course attracted powerful and ruthless enemies who were determined to undermine and destroy it, which was eventually accomplished.
Michael details the origins and platform of The Spotlight newspaper, which was "an important bridge between various segments of the far right," a role now fulfilled quite effectively and successfully by American Free Press. Indeed, American Free Press and The Spotlight before it are arguably "the organ of the American far right" as Michael notes, which appeal to many segments of the right wing in addition to other populists, environmentalists, and critical thinkers, including opponents of globalism, massive immigration, and the Israel lobby as well as traditional America-first conservatives and racialist thinkers. Early in his career, Carto eloquently argued that "each cultural unit has a moral imperative to be true to itself and pursue its own destiny," a theme that is righteously emphasized in his both his current and past publications.
Willis Carto is a man who has done more to advance the agenda and causes of the right wing in post-WWII America than any other single individual. Over the years, he has published a variety of newsletters, newspapers, and journals, covering some of the most important and controversial issues facing not only America, but the entire world. Carto has never backed down from or avoided the uncomfortable realities that so many in the media and political establishment cowardly acquiesce to or traitorously facilitate.
Confronting the organized Jewish community, the Israel lobby, race hustlers, cultural Marxism, the war on White America, and false narratives of history— particularly as they related to WWII—Carto has been, and remains, in the vanguard of authentic American nationalism, populism, and truth-telling. He has been persecuted, stabbed in the back, and slandered—yet he has persevered and today he stands as the most iconic and influential figure in the American right wing.
Michael's book is simply a must read for anyone truly interested in the history of the American far right and the courageous, heroic efforts of one of its key players in the post-WWII era—Willis Carto.
To obtain a thorough understanding of Carto's worldview and opinions on a variety of controversial and complex geopolitical and historical matters, pick up a copy of An Appeal to Reason: A Compendium of the Writings of Willis A. Carto. Discover what Carto really thinks about these important subjects, straight from the horse's mouth.
RUSSIAN POPULIST: The Political Thought of Vladimir Putin
Matthew Raphael Johnson received his Ph.D. in comparative politics and political theory from the University of Nebraska in 1999. Working largely on classical political thought throughout the 1990s, he shifted to Slavic studies near the end of his graduate education. His first book, published also by The Barnes Review, was The Third Rome: Holy Russia, Tsarism and Orthodoxy. He has also published widely on Balkan politics, Russian and Ukrainian literature, as well as contemporary politics through the lens of the Orthodox church. An increasingly well known expert on Russian history, Matt has written numerous articles that have been published in major journals in several languages.
His first position out of graduate school was to assist in researching (and eventually editing) The Barnes Review, and doing research and writing for both The Spotlight and later, American Free Press. Converting to the Russian Orthodox Church in the late 1990s, Johnson also received a monastic theological education from the Monastery of the Holy Name in West Milford, NJ. Married with two young children, Johnson makes his living writing as a freelance researcher, teaching at several universities, and writing full-time in the anti-globalist movement.
He is also author of several books in addition to The Third Rome, including: Sobornosti: Essays on the Old Faith; Heavenly Serbia and the Medieval Idea; Orthodoxy, Autocracy, Nationality: Lectures on Medieval Russia and The Ancient Orthodox Tradition in Russian Literature.
One of Johnson's overarching projects is to continue the work of Gogol in reconciling Ukrainian and Russian nationalism through the lens of a shared Orthodox faith and monastic tradition.
Synthesizing the Romantic movement of Herder and Kostamarov with the Orthodox, Slavophile approach to philosophical topics is his all consuming idea. Convinced that the East is well poised to continue the battle against globalization, Johnson's approach is to borrow heavily from the Orthodox monastic tradition is situating man within an ethnic, agrarian and localist order.


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Q: Netbeans JavaSE components size different when executed I was wondering why the GUI editor on Netbeans 8.2 displays the components way smaller than they will be when the program is executed, you can see the difference  (left is in editor and right is in execution).
If there is no fix for this, is there a way to change the default font of the components ? It's set to Tahoma 11 Simple and I would like the size to be at least 18.

A: add this in the main method to get it as you are seeing in designer preview
    try {
        UIManager.setLookAndFeel(UIManager.getSystemLookAndFeelClassName());
    } catch (Exception e) {
        e.printStackTrace();
    }

A: I have a similar problem, but the displayed sizes of some of the components are larger than in the designer.  This causes the alignment to be off, since I align them in designer. It appears that the component that has a defined size (Properties -> preferredSize [136, 266]) seems to display exactly the same size. But I would rather not go through each of my dozens of component and set the preferredSize to see if that works.

A: I found the problem and a solution: The problem is by default, the application uses Nimbus as the Look and Feel. But the Design View uses a Look and Feel that is not Nimbus, so it looks different. To change the Design View LAF in NetBeans 14, go to Tools -> Options and select the Appearance tab. Then select the Look and Feel tab and select Nimbus from the drop down. NetBeans then has to be restarted.  Note that earlier versions of Netbeans put the LAF setting in a different place.


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The Juice (Faculty/Staff) - April 27
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Spiritual practices during May Term
What is a spiritual practice? How can we grow closer to God in our daily lives? Follow the Spiritual Life & Campus Ministry Facebook page during May Term every Tuesday at 10 a.m. to find out! We will worship through exercise, meditation, cooking and creating. Join us as we focus on the "I am…" statements of Jesus. Contact Rebecca Baird, pastoral intern, with questions.
Go to the college's website for updates about coronavirus and COVID-19 at www.wartburg.edu/coronavirus, including all of the college's communications, what to do if you have symptoms, and FAQs.
Scholarship Spotlights: Fulbright, Goldwater and McElroy
Significant scholarship opportunities still continue for our most talented, engaged, well-spoken, driven and creative students, even in this time of profound disruption. As the campus scholarship contact, Kathleen Sihler needs your help to connect our capable and qualified students with these opportunities! Please click here to read the "Scholarship Spotlight #1" for a quick summary of three such scholarships – Fulbright, Goldwater and McElroy – and contact kathleen.sihler@wartburg.edu with any current, upcoming and/or recently graduated students who may fit the scholarship profile and trajectory. More Scholarship Spotlights to come in the Juice.
VAC Knights of Service: Letters to Locals
The Volunteer Action Center is issuing its Knights of Service — Four Weeks of Action event by challenging everyone in our Wartburg family (students, faculty, staff and alumni) to uplift our pillar of service. Check the Juice or VAC social media each week for instructions. VAC will provide action steps and templates to use.
Week 2: Writing Letters to Locals
Knights are challenged to write and send five letters of encouragement to those living alone or in retirement facilities (either old-school pen to paper or electronic.) Another option: making calls to those living alone and the elderly. Accept the challenge and post about where you sent the letters on social media tagging @WartburgVAC and using #KnightsofService
Our goal is to provide service to our communities while keeping everyone safe! The events will conclude the week of May 11 with a virtual celebration during the final week of classes! For more information, contact vac@wartburg.edu or kristin.teigtorres@wartburg.edu.
Student organization form due May 15
Keep your student organization registered! The time has come for Wartburg's Recognized Student Organization Annual Report. The form collects information about your organization's membership, leadership and activity during the 2019-20 academic year. This form, available at this link, is due Tuesday, May 15, by 11:59 p.m.
All student organizations must return this form to be recognized as official student organizations for the upcoming academic year. If you encounter any issues or have questions, please email studentorgs@wartburg.edu or kalyani.kannan@wartburg.edu.
Voter registration details
The U.S. Department of Education requires institutions receiving federal funding to provide notice regarding how to register to vote. Directions on how to register to vote are available at this link.
Over-the-counter medications and the CARES Act
The recently signed CARES Act will allow over-the-counter medications to be allowed under your flexible spending accounts or HSA accounts. Please click here to see a PDF document from Advantage Administrators explaining the update.
ITS upgrades website
Information Technology Services has worked with the Marketing & Communication Office to upgrade the ITS website to provide a more simple, streamlined presence for all technology-related resources. The website is now more mobile-friendly and easy to navigate for the campus community. The website can be found at www.wartburg.edu/its. If you have any feedback regarding the new website, please email loni.abbas@wartburg.edu.
Access to academic buildings
Effective April 17, all of the exterior doors to campus buildings will be locked, except the Student Center. After entering the Student Center, those who need to have access to the other buildings may do so via the skywalks. Faculty and staff are welcome to use their keys to enter buildings.
• Student Center doors: open 7 a.m. to 11 p.m. daily
• Skywalks: open 7 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. Monday-Friday
Vogel Library adds online resources
Vogel Library is in the process of obtaining access to multiple additional online resources.
• Ebooks—thousands more ebooks should soon populate your searches in OneSearch.
• Streaming films—we are working on securing a subscription to Kanopy, a film database with both major motion pictures and documentaries. Once our subscription is established, check out the offerings to consider as first choices or good substitutes.
• Multiple primary and secondary source databases—many academic database vendors and publishers have freed up access through the end of May. These options will begin to populate your OneSearch results, no additional clicks necessary.
See the Winter/May 2020 Remote Resources guide for more information!
Students can ride Wartburg Shuttle for free May 22
End-of-the-year shuttles will be departing on Friday, May 22, to Waterloo, Cedar Rapids, Chicago, Minneapolis and Des Moines. The deadline to sign up is May 15. We recognize that students might be experiencing financial difficulties due to unemployment or a reduction in work hours. In an effort to ensure all students are able to travel without being hindered by cost, ALL SHUTTLES ON MAY 22 WILL BE FREE TO STUDENTS! Details and registration are at www.wartburg.edu/shuttle.
If you need transportation on a date other than May 22, please contact jennifer.onuigbo@wartburg.edu. While we can't provide rides on other dates to all locations, Student Life can assist you in making arrangements.
Fall GPA Report available
The Fall 2019 GPA Report and Executive Summary are now available on the InfoCenter. Direct questions to edith.waldstein@wartburg.edu.
Allen Employee Assistance Program
Your mental health is important, especially during this time of change and uncertainty caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. The Allen Employee Assistance Program will continue to provide counseling services. However, all EAP counseling sessions will be conducted by phone or virtually through their video chat service called Vidyo. This is being done to practice social distancing and to minimize the number of individuals visiting them in person. Allen EAP will be reaching out directly to everyone who has a scheduled appointment to explain this process. Otherwise, please schedule appointments as normal and they can walk through any details at that time. Allen's counselors have used technology for virtual counseling sessions for several years, but they understand it will be new for many people. If you have any questions about this or wish to schedule an appointment, please contact Allen EAP at 319-235-3550.
Pathways Center remote access guide
The Pathways Center is available and ready to continue serving students and faculty/staff remotely! Click here to download a PDF of the Pathways Center Remote Access Resource Guide. Pathways staff are available remotely for academic support, career services, disability support and accommodations, and the Peer Learning Lab.We are offering the Math Lab via an app called Discord that features chat and video for student in partnership with math faculty.
To schedule Zoom appointments: Call Jan at (319) 352-8330 or (319) 352-8615 to schedule with Pathways team members, or e-mail a specific staff member with topic(s) to discuss and times you are available. Regular hours are 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. M-F, and evening hours are also available by appointment. More information at www.wartburg.edu/pathways.
Share your prayer requests
As life continues with COVID-19, Spiritual Life & Campus Ministry invites you to share your prayer requests with us using our confidential link: bit.ly/SLCMPrayerRequest
May Term begins
May Commencement
Click here for the campus events calendar
The Wartburg community extends its condolences to Vicky Green, part-time security officer, on the death of her husband, George E. Green, who passed away Wednesday, April 15, in Waverly. There will be a Celebration of Life service at a later date. Please click here to view the obituary.
The Wartburg community extends its condolences to Dr. Christine DeVries, associate professor of chemistry, whose father, Thomas Erickson, passed away April 13 in Independence. Please click here to view the obituary.
WELCOME (new arrivals):
Stephanie Key, Facility Technical Assistant (3/2)
Sheila Rosengarten, Assistant Director of Massage Therapy (3/16)
Rebecca Cockerham, Financial Services Coordinator (3/23)
Renae Johnson, Dining Services Office & Business Assistant (3/23)
Jennifer Buss, Dining Services Cook (3/30)
Carrie Gleason, The Wellness Center Membership Manager (4/1)
Theresa Moore, Assistant Director of Leadership (4/1)
Laura Albert, Financial Aid Coordinator (4/14)
Dina Grampton, Dining Services Retail Associate (4/14)
FAREWELL (departures and retirements)
Jeffery Franzen, Cleaning Staff (3/4)
Tandi Dewater, Cleaning Staff (3/6)
Erica Sadler, HR & Payroll Assistant (3/31)
Dr. Kunihiko (Kuni) Terasawa, associate professor of religion, presented "Interreligious/Transnational Solidarity of Religions as Resistance to Ultranationalism in Asia and the Pacific Rim" at the Hang Seng University of Hong Kong on April 23. Hong Kong scholars of other universities also joined.
Dr. Caryn Riswold, professor of religion and the Mike and Marge McCoy Family Distinguished Chair in Lutheran Heritage and Mission, has published an essay about teaching, learning, and living in a time of pandemic on the NetVUE blog Vocation Matters. It is titled "Called to a Pedagogy of the Cross."
WARTBURG IN THE NEWS
Jeana Larson '01 was elected to be president-elect of the Iowa Bandmasters Association, a 93-year-old organization that promotes "excellence in bands through professional development, mentorship, performance and advocacy," according to the Northwest Iowa Review. She is the band director at Sheldon Middle School. She named Dr. Craig Hancock, Wartburg's director of bands, as an influential mentor in her life.
Jared Pirkl '04 is using a small 3D printer he had in his Hansen Elementary School classroom to produce face shield visors for area medical professionals fighting COVID-19, as reported by the Waterloo-Cedar Falls Courier.
The following students have been selected for this year's Leadership & Service Awards. They will be featured on the college's social media this week in lieu of the annual awards event this spring:
• Nobility Award – Freddie Eden, Juana Perez Mandujano
• Dell Awards - 4Y – Monique Ellison, Sierra Mastin, Saffa Bockarie, Collins Kalyebi and Josh Voigt; 3Y - Bree Gryp; 2Y - Jaylen McBride; 1Y - Connor Moore
• Outstanding Organization Award – The Trumpet
• Outstanding Organization Advisor Award – Katie Wyman, Wartburg Ambassadors
• Outstanding International Senior Award - Charmaine Denison-George
• Debbie Heida Award – Jenna Brannaman
Mercy Umba '22 received a $10,000 grant from the Davis Projects for Peace program to help increase mental health access for refugees in northern Uganda received, but the project has been postponed because the of Covid-19 pandemic. Umba was to be mentored by Collins Kalyebi '20, who received a Davis grant in 2018.
Brittany Strause '21 was one of 290 students from across the U.S. selected by Campus Compact to be among its 2020-21 cohort of Newman Civic Fellows. Strause, a social work major from Plano, Ill., has served as the volunteer coordinator for the Department of Social Work's Holiday Shoppe, a program that provides Christmas gifts for hundreds of Bremer County children, for the last two years.
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ACADEMI's classrooms are climate controlled in permanent buildings and fully equipped for Computer-Aided-Instruction – including computers and projectors or an alternate display device. Additionally, each room comes equipped with dry-erase boards and markers as well as Wi-Fi access. Individual classrooms can accommodate 14 to 24 students. Specialty classrooms include a 1,200-square-foot training area with padded floors that provides a safe learning environment for hands-on defensive tactics training.


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Bukayo Saka names surprising player who helped him the most
Bukayo Saka says David Luiz is probably the player to have the biggest impact on him in the early stages of his senior career.
Newcastle United v Arsenal – Premier League – St James Park Arsenal's David Luiz warming up before the Premier League match at St James Park, Newcastle upon Tyne. Issue date: Sunday, May 2, 2021. Copyright: Lindsey Parnaby
It's sometimes easy to forget just how rapidly Bukayo Saka has risen through the ranks at Arsenal.
This is a player who started the 2018/19 season in the Arsenal u18s – not even the u23s – and he's now up to 100 appearances for the first team and has a guaranteed starting spot, as well as making himself an England regular.
That's thanks to a number of coaches who have shown faith in him, from Freddie Ljungberg and Unai Emery to Mikel Arteta, but it's also with the help of Saka's Arsenal and England teammates.
When asked which of those teammates helped him the most, Saka named Brazilian centre-back David Luiz.
"I've had a lot of help from a lot of different players but I would say probably the biggest impact – probably David Luiz," Saka said.
"He has done the most for me in my career, to go into the first team was obviously not always the easiest experience but, and I think if you say this to all of the young players at Arsenal, [they'd say] David done so much.
"He went out of his way to do a lot for us – advice on and off the pitch, yeah he was a really good guy. There has been loads of other players at Arsenal of course, but I'd probably say David."
PIRAEUS, GREECE: David Luiz, Granit Xhaka, Bukayo Saka, Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang, and Mat Ryan of Arsenal celebrate following their team's victory in the UEFA Europa League Round of 32 match between Arsenal FC and SL Benfica at Karaiskakis Stadium on February 25, 2021. (Photo by Milos Bicanski/Getty Images)
This is far from the first time we've heard about David Luiz's positive impact on the younger members of Arsenal's squad. He got along well with them and often defended them publicly.
Luiz probably didn't quite have the Arsenal spell he was hoping for, with all his red cards and failing to help the team back into the Champions League before leaving for Flamengo.
But with the FA Cup win and his influence on the likes of Saka, he does at least leave some legacy at Arsenal.
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We are ranked among the top orthopedics programs in the country by U.S. News & World Report. Vanderbilt University Medical Center is ranked the #1 adult hospital in Tennessee and metropolitan Nashville. Our orthopedic specialists are national leaders in research and innovative treatments.
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Healthcare's Most Wired: Among the nation's 100 "most-wired" hospitals and health systems for its efforts in innovative medical technology.
Becker's Hospital Review: named as one of the "100 Great Hospitals in America", in the roster of 100 Hospitals and Health Systems with Great Oncology Programs and to its list of the 100 Hospitals with Great Heart Programs.
The Leapfrog Group: One of only 10 children's hospitals in the to be named at Leapfrog Top Hospital.
American Association for the Advancement of Science: The School of Medicine has 112 elected fellows
Magnet Recognition Program: Received our third consecutive Magnet designations.
National Academy of Medicine: 22 members, elected by their peers in recognition of outstanding achievement
Human Rights Campaign Healthcare Equality Index: 6 th year in a row that Vanderbilt University Medical Center was a Leader in LGBTQ Healthcare Equality.