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Dave McGillivray returns to Ironman
October 14, 2014 By triadmin Leave a Comment
KONA, Hawaii – October 12, 2014 – Dave McGillivray, the 60-year-old race director of the B.A.A. Boston Marathon and famed endurance athlete now battling coronary heart disease, made a triumphant return to the Ironman World Championship triathlon on Saturday after a 25-year absence from the event.
McGillivray, who is a member of the USA Triathlon Hall of Fame, completed eight Ironman Triathlons in Hawaii in the 1980s. He finished 14th overall in 1980, the third year for the event, making him one of the first 30 athletes to ever finish an Ironman.
On Saturday, McGillivray finished the 2.4-mile ocean swim, 112-mile bike leg and marathon run in 13 hours, 34 minutes and 3 seconds while persisting through some of the most difficult wind, sun and heat conditions in the 36-year history of the world's toughest endurance event.
"I had two goals – first to get to the starting line and second to get to the finish line, no matter how long it took," McGillivray said. "I was pleased with my swim and my run. As for the bike, Rome was built quicker than it took me to cover the 112 miles. Wow, the wind out on the course was the toughest I've ever experienced. There were times I questioned whether I was going to even make it by midnight, but seeing all the other athletes fight though it actually inspired me to do the same. I am so impressed and humbled by the level of fitness, strength and determination of all the athletes in this race. They are truly amazing."
His impressive result comes almost one year to the day – Oct. 9, 2013 – from his diagnosis of severe coronary heart disease. Additionally, McGillivray had to deal with a fractured rib suffered in a bike accident during his training four weeks ago.
The health scare last fall prompted McGillivray to change his diet, eliminate stress and rededicate himself to fitness. Since then he has lost about 25 pounds and lowered his cholesterol level by about 100 points, reducing the disease by about 40 percent.
"Good nutrition, daily dietary supplements, regular weight lifting and 'core' work have made a huge difference, as well as the support from my friends and family and the excellent care of Dr. Aaron Baggish at Mass General," he said. "I couldn't do it without all of them."
McGillivray also went public with his disease in hopes of urging others like him to get checkups and helping them understand that "being fit doesn't mean being healthy."
His story and message caught the attention of a variety of media over the past year, and he will be profiled by NBC Sports on Saturday, Nov. 15 (1:30-3 p.m. ET) as part of its coverage of the 2014 Ironman World Championship. McGillivray said he has received countless emails and phone calls from "fit" athletes around the country who heard his story, went to get checked out and discovered similar heart issues.
"Their words, "you helped save my life" will stay with me for the rest of mine," McGillivray said. "They, like me, got a second chance."
Soon after his diagnosis last fall, McGillivray decided he also needed a big goal to help push him through: a return to Kona for his ninth Ironman.
In preparation for Saturday's event, he completed five triathlons this summer – three sprints, one Olympic distance and one half Ironman distance. He finished top three in his age group (60-64) in all five events, winning two of them. Each week, he swam 3-5 miles, biked 200-250 miles and ran 35-60 miles.
In addition, McGillivray completed his annual birthday run when he turned 60 in August (one mile for every year) as well as the B.A.A. Boston Marathon and training runs of 31 and 43 miles. He also participated this year in most of the races DMSE Sports manages – including the TD Beach to Beacon, Bellin Run and New Balance Falmouth Road Race.
McGillivray's participation in the Ironman triathlon also is benefitting the Martin W. Richard Charitable Foundation (known as MR8), named in honor of the eight-year-old boy who was killed at the 2013 Boston Marathon bombings. Donations can be made at http://www.firstgiving.com/fundraiser/dave-mcgillivray/davemcgillivraysfundraisingpage-1.
McGillivray wore clothing on Saturday referencing Boston Strong. His Ironman sponsors include Specialized Bicycles, Champion System, HUUB, Timex, Oakley, Landry's Bike Shop, Fit Werx Bike Shop and Adidas.
McGillivray, president of DMSE Sports, first gained national prominence with his 1978 cross country run that took 80 days and raised almost $150,000 for the Jimmy Fund – the first money any runner ever raised for a cancer charity, according to Runner's World. He has completed a number of similar feats of endurance since his groundbreaking cross country trek, including a second cross-country run in 2004 from San Francisco to Boston as part of TREK USA, a relay team event that raised more than $300,000 for five children's charities. He has now logged more than 150,000 miles, nine Hawaii Ironman Triathlons and has finished 131 marathons – including 42 consecutive Boston Marathons.
McGillivray, a Medford, Mass., native who lives in North Andover, Mass., is a pioneer in what is now one of the most important aspects of the endurance sports industry – combining athletics with philanthropy. Nearly every DMSE Sports event combines fitness and fundraising, giving back to the Jimmy Fund and Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Children's Hospital, Lazarus House and many others charities and non-profit organizations in New England and across the country. He along with all the events he has directed have helped raised more than $100 million for charity over the years.
DMSE Sports is a leader in sports event management, specializing in creating, marketing and producing mass participatory athletic events throughout the U.S. and abroad. In addition to the B.A.A. Boston Marathon, DMSE manages more than 25 major road races per year, including the TD Beach to Beacon in Maine, the New Balance Falmouth Road Race on Cape Cod, the Finish at the 50 at Patriot Place, Run for the Dream in Williamsburg, Va., the Bellin Run in Green Bay, Wis., the Feaster Five Thanksgiving Day Road Race and the Across the Bay 10K in Annapolis, Maryland, among others
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Q: How to use 'magnific-popup' with Angular I have implemented  the Magnific popup almost successfully here:
https://github.com/orchidea90/Popup
https://orchidea90.github.io/Popup/,
 but I need a help with my .ts file. How to make it simpler and without so many repetitions.
https://github.com/orchidea90/Popup/blob/master/src/app/menu/menu.component.ts
I'm still learning. Thanks in advance.

A: One thing you could do is create an array with the items data, then in your template use a ngFor to to show wach item.
So in your .ts you create the array ( in OnInit ).
I also created a variable (imageFolderPath) to hold the common path for all images.
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        { imagePath: 'menu-image1.png', title: 'American Breakfast', ingredients: 'Tomato / Eggs / Sausage', price: 25 },
        { imagePath: 'menu-image2.png', title: 'Self-made Salad', ingredients: 'Green / Fruits / Healthy', price: 18 },
        { imagePath: 'menu-image3.jpg', title: 'Chinese Noodle', ingredients: 'Pepper / Chicken / Vegetables', price: 34 },
        { imagePath: 'menu-image4.png', title: 'Rice Soup', ingredients: 'Green / Chicken', price: 28 },
        { imagePath: 'menu-image5.png', title: 'Deli Burger', ingredients: 'Beef / Fried Potatoes', price: 46 },
        { imagePath: 'menu-image6.png', title: 'Big Flat Fried', ingredients: 'Pepper / Crispy', price: 30 },
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You're traveling and your hotel doesn't have a gym?
You're broke and can't afford a gym membership?
You want to be as independent as possible in your muscle building journey?
No problem. If you can move, you can build muscle.
You don't need any equipment to get bigger and stronger. Get rid of the notion that you need anything other than yourself to get in shape. You could be trapped in an elevator and still build the body of a Spartan warlord.
You goin' up or down?
Excuses? You're kidding, right? Now let's get to it.
Push-ups, pull-ups and squats are the only exercises you will ever need to build your body. It's how you perform them, it's how you train that will determine your results.
Your objective is to progress in the low to moderate rep ranges (6-10).
If you can do more than 20 clean push-ups or 12 pull-ups, adding more reps will provide very little benefit. You need to find ways to increase the difficulty, the complexity and the intensity. Work your way up the progressive calisthenics latter.
In order to reap the maximum benefits of bodyweight training, you need to get a little creative. Use your surroundings. Look around. What exercises can you do? What can you use as resistance? How can you position yourself to maximize exercise difficulty? How can you increase leverage (without slipping and breaking your neck)?
Irrespective of the exercise you do, position yourself in a way so that you put maximum tension on the targeted muscle.
Find the right form, the right execution for your anatomy. Feel the tension in the muscle or the part of the muscle you're trying to hit. Do a couple of sets with slow and controlled repetitions to get a feel for the exercise before moving on to your work sets.
Focus on the muscle, not the number of repetitions (although you should track your numbers!).
Just because you see guys on social media perform incredible feats of strength and athleticism doesn't mean you should try and emulate those moves after 2 weeks of training.
These people have put in the time.
They started with the basics and slowly progressed week after week, month after month. Train with intensity and be consistent, but give your body enough time to adapt. There is no rush.
If you're already advanced and are ready to take it to the next level, use the following progression strategies. How do you know when you're ready? If you can perform a particular exercise with 10+ perfect repetitions it's time to increase the difficulty. Let the gains begin.
– Weighted calisthenics: use a training partner, dipping belt, resistance bands or a weight vest to add resistance to your exercises. Weighted push-ups with a partner on your back are an incredible upper body builder (kills the bench press).
Start with the basic exercises and move towards more advanced variations as you get stronger. If you're intrigued and want to delve deeper into the subject of progressive bodyweight training, check out Paul Wade's book Convict Conditioning.
How many reps should you aim for in your work sets?
What are you trying to accomplish? If muscular size is your prime objective, shoot for 6-12 repetitions for the majority of your sets. This is the most effective rep scheme for muscular hypertrophy (read).
If you want to build strength more than anything, do multiple sets of 1-5 repetitions. Take longer breaks between sets (3-5 min) to be fully recovered before going into your next set. This strategy has shown to produce the greatest gains in strength (read, read).
Progress is the name of the game.
There's research showing that moderate rep training is superior to lower rep training for maximizing growth. But you'll also find exercise studies pointing in the opposite direction and declaring low rep training the victor.
What should you make of this? Absolutely nothing.
progressive overload still reigns supreme for muscle growth.
Get stronger in the low to moderate rep ranges and include higher rep sets to amplify the anabolic response to training. Eat and rest sufficiently and watch your body transform.
Go outside and tie a rope to a tree branch. Congratulations, you are now in possession of your own sling trainer. This is my favorite training equipment by a long shot (I use this one). You can literally work every muscle in your body with this low-tech device.
Also, if you don't have access to a pull-up bar, make your way to your neighborhood park/ playground. You'll find that many places have a variety of exercise equipment you can use. Yes, you can build muscle without any of this stuff, but it's nice to have the option.
Pick 3-5 exercises per session and get to work.
Some of these exercises require additional equipment and space. If those are not available to you, focus on the basics. In one of my Videos (check out the YouTube channel), I said I could build muscle curling a shampoo bottle. It's not about what you do in the gym, it's how you do it.
You could train at the highest quality facility using the best equipment in the world and still get lackluster results. Train with a purpose and the results will come.
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Hudgell Solicitors supported the family of 84-year-old grandmother Lilian Hugill in a medical negligence case against York District Hospital, as she choked on a sandwich just hours after being admitted to the Acute Medical Unit. She died after suffering a heart attack and hypoxic brain injury, which led to bronchopneumonia.
The legal case focused around the failure of staff to note Mrs Hugill was not wearing false teeth and were therefore unaware they needed to serve her softer food or soups. It was alleged a staff nurse failed to ask whether she wore dentures on admission, as prompted on admission forms, or, if such a question was asked, failed to record the response in the patient documents. This error proved fatal. We also alleged that the Trust had failed to put standard procedures in place at meal times to ensure suitable food was served and that observations took place.
Following our representation on behalf of Mrs Hugill's family, the Trust admitted that had the issue around dentures been noted, Mrs Hugill would have been put on a soft diet, and on the balance of probabilities would not then have choked. As a result her brain injury, bronchopneumonia and death would have been avoided. A five-figure damages settlement was agreed.
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›Uncategorized›ROARING SUCCESS FOR CHAIRTY FIREWALK
April 25, 2014| SibaAdmin | Uncategorized
Patrons of a Lancashire pub walked across fire and hot coals to raise money for a children's cancer charity.
The Elletson Arms, Pilling, hosted a sponsored firewalk which helped raise £2000 for the charity Little Heroes. The unusual event was spearheaded by licensees Julie Kingham and Mick Keeler in conjunction with the Shipley based charity.
"We suggested the firewalk to some of our locals in November", recalls Julie. "We wanted to celebrate our one year anniversary at the pub by holding an event that would benefit others. We honestly thought we would be lucky to get one volunteer who was crazy enough to walk across fire but to our surprise we had a number of interested parties!"
The day began with a safety briefing and a tipple of Robinsons' Unicorn for a little Dutch courage.
The walk turned out to be a roaring success and despite several volunteers, ironically, getting cold feet the night before, thirteen brave walkers tiptoed across the scorching coals to help raise over £1900 in sponsorship.
The community came out in droves to cheer participants as they battled through the flames and across the finish line.
"The pub was absolutely packed. You couldn't move!" said Julie. "The highlight of the evening was seeing a member of the Pilling Silver Jubilee Band playing a few notes on his tuba as he walked across the hot coals. I was so proud of all our volunteers, particularly our local Vicar who also braved the heat."
"We want to thank Robinsons Brewery," said Mick, "they kindly donated a barrel of Unicorn ale, which allowed us to raise even more money for the charity on the sales of beer. We even had a special firewalker pump clip made to commemorate the event."
Colin Nesbitt who is the founder of Little Heroes Cancer Trust and personally managed the fire walking event said, "We are thrilled with the amount raised by Julie and Mick and the whole team at The Elletson Arms. Charity fire walking is a great spectacle to watch! £2000 will buy a mountain of toys and put a lot of smiles on the children's faces."
For more information on upcoming events and more information on Little Heroes Cancer Trust please visit: http://littleheroes.org.uk/ and for information on upcoming events at the Elletson Arms, follow them on Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/ElletsonArms or call 01253 790269
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Agent Nermin Mollaoğlu: The French Market Is Beginning To Open Its Doors to Turkish Books
In News by Porter Anderson February 27, 2018
Taking note of the fact that two of the six shortlisted titles are Turkish in this year's EBRD Literature Prize, Istanbul's Nermin Mollaoğlu looks at the rights scene for Turkish books in 2018.
Author Oya Baydar and agent Nermin Mollaoğlu. Image: Kalem Agency
By Porter Anderson, Editor-in-Chief | @Porter_Anderson
New EBRD Literature Prize Shortlists Two Turkish Titles
In its first award cycle, the newly established European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) Literature Prize has included two Turkish novels among its six shortlisted titles—one by Burhan Sönmez, a client of Nermin Mollaoğlu's Kalem Literary Agency in Istanbul, and one by Orhan Pamuk.
The shortlist:
All the World's a Stage by Boris Akunin (translated by Andrew Bromfield) (Weidenfeld & Nicolson)
Belladonna by Daša Drndic (translated by Celia Hawkesworth) (Maclehose/ Quercus)
Language: Croatian
The Traitor's Niche by Ismail Kadare (translated by John Hodgson) (Penguin)
Language: Albanian
The Red-Haired Woman by Orhan Pamuk (translated by Ekin Oklap) (Faber & Faber)
Language: Turkish
Istanbul Istanbul by Burhan Sönmez (translated by Ümit Hussein) (Telegram Books)
Maryam: Keeper of Stories by Alawiya Sobh (translated by Nirvana Tanoukhi) (Seagull Books)
Language: Arabic
The winner of the award program is to be announced on April 10 at EBRD's UK headquarters, coinciding with the London Book Fair (April 10-12). The first prize of €20,000 (US$24,630) will be equally divided between the winning author and translator. Two runners-up and their translators will receive a prize of €1,000 each (US$1,231). The three finalists' books will be announced early next month.
The prize program is a new one, announced last autumn with a jury led by Rosie Goldsmith. In a prepared statement, Goldsmith is quoted, saying, "Already I can predict this prize is here to stay. It's different and it's important. Our entries came from Armenia to Albania, the Baltics to the Balkans and beyond. This prize has broadened my mind and also my definition of the novel."
Kalem Agency Books Published in Paris
In light of this development on the EBRD shortlist, we took the chance to be in touch with Nermin Mollaoğlu of Istanbul's Kalem Agency to ask how she sees things going for Turkish literature this year and the potentials for rights sales.
Mollaoğlu pointed first to the sale she just closed this month with btb Verlag/Random House for the Germany rights to Şebnem İşigüzel's The Girl in the Tree. The book was one of the twelve chosen to be presented at the Books at Berlinale program this year. (See our coverage today of the February 19 event.)
And as pleased as she is about the rights sale in Germany—the deal was made at auction—she has an interesting perspective on what she feels may be a mis-reading by some German publishers of the interest among German readers in Turkish work.
"German publishers buy books because of the Turkish people living in Germany," Mollaoğlu tells Publishing Perspectives. "That is definitely wrong. Those four million people have been in Germany for more than 50 years."
Mollaoğlu says that, in fact, the German readership has an openness to the writings of immigrants—"They don't close their eyes to things coming from Turkey and other nationalities," she says. "I really appreciate that."
What's more, she says, the longtime presence of Germany's Turkish population has helped establish a framework for processing literature from Turkey. "They have more people to prepare reading reports," she says, "and the editors there know more translators" to call on for work on Turkish titles.
By contrast, she says, the French market has for many years seemed much slower to warm to Turkish literature. And yet, she says, this may be changing.
Kalem's Sonmez and Baydar Published in France
"I was in Paris last week," Mollaoğlu says, "and two of our books have been published there."
The first is the coming publication by Gallimard of Burhan Sönmez's Istanbul, Istanbul—one of the EBRD prize's shortlisted titles—as Maudit soit l'espoir, a translation by Madeleine Zicavo.
Set for a release on November 1, the French title, roughly translated as "Cursed Be the Hope," is a reference to how Sönmez's highly regarded book describes Istanbul as "a city that evolves in the orbit of pain, but still hopes."
The author, in his own comments, has characterized his book as depicting two Istanbuls, "one underground, the other above, yet in reality both are one in the same. That's the main point."
Now passing 30 languages and territories—with a Korean sale the most recent—here are some of the key rights sales for the book:
English: OR Books
Romania: Polirom
Italy: Nottetempo
Croatia: Opus Gradna
Denmark: Turbine
Greece: Kastoniotis
Serbia: Agora
Germany: btb Verlag/Random House
Poland: Klimaty
Arabic: Shourafarin
Bulgaria: Riva
French: Gallimard
The second French publication Mollaoğlu calls attention to is Éditions Phébus' translation by Valerie Gay-Aksoy of Oya Baydar's Conversations by the Wall as Dialogues sous les ramparts. The new edition was released last month.
Baydar's book is an examination of the emotional context around the 35-year conflict between the Turkish state and the Kurdish militant group, the PKK. The collapse of a ragged ceasefire in 2015 ushered in a resurgence of violence. While casualty figures are disputed by various parties, numbers released by the Anadolu Agency, citing a Turkish security source, said that from 1984 to August 2015, there were 36,345 deaths in the conflict—a figure that may well be on the conservative side.
In her book, Baydar brings together an ethnic Turkish citizen and a local Kurd who engage in a series of conversations by the ancient Diyarbakır city walls for which the Sur district is famous. The two debate history, the war, the state, its power, and violence, and—having started their conversations on December 31 in snow, they part on April 1 in a chapter called "Farewell," as if leaving an impossible love affair.
Promotional copy for the book refers to it as an epic poem, not unlike the heroic works of antiquity, and Mollaoğlu and her staffers stress that the book is focused on people rather than politics and on a regional conflict with a universal dimension. As the book's description in Paris is written at Phébus, "The revolutionary ideal and the good intentions of a generation of Turkish intellectuals collide, in alternate songs, with the raw reality of the war and daily life of a people, for whom the urgency is to survive."
"I think it's special," Mollaoğlu says, "that the French market is beginning to open its doors for more Turkish books."
Mollaoğlu says that two more books for which she has commissioned English translations for rights-buyers are to be released in May, one The Pasha of Cuisine by Saygin Ersin, and the other Özgür Mumcu's Peace Machine from Pushkin Press.
Foreign rights sales for Ersin's The Pasha of Cuisine include:
Arabic: Atlas
Bulgarian: Prozoretz
The Netherlands: Orlando
English: Arcade
German: Hoffman & Campe
Greece: Enalios
Poland: SQN
Serbia: Vulkan
Foreign rights sales for the Mumcu Peace Machine's foreign rights sales include:
Catalan and Spanish: Catedral, in a pre-empt
English: Pushkin Press
German: btb Verlag/Random House, in a pre-empt
Italy: Bompiani
Korea: IWBook
More of Publishing Perspectives' coverage of the Kalem Agency's work in Turkish literature is here. Our report on this year's Books at Berlinale is here.
Porter Anderson
Porter Anderson has been named International Trade Press Journalist of the Year in London Book Fair's 2019 International Excellence Awards. He is Editor-in-Chief of Publishing Perspectives. He co-founded The Hot Sheet, a newsletter for trade and indie authors, which now is owned and operated by Jane Friedman. He formerly was Associate Editor for The FutureBook at London's The Bookseller. Anderson also has worked as a senior producer, editor, and anchor with CNN.com, CNN International, and CNN USA, and as an arts critic (National Critics Institute) with The Village Voice and Dallas Times Herald.
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His Holiness Dorje Chang Buddha III has been recognized by the most highly realized practitioners of Buddhism as the third incarnation of the original Buddha. His accomplishments transcend religion, healing and art.
As the first in history to meet manifest real accomplishments in the five vidyas, He meets the highest standard of Buddhism. The five major vidyas (Craftsmanship, Healing, Sound, Causality, and Inner Realization) represent enlightened brightness, and are the fundamental principles of the universe.
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Weekend Report: 'Guardians' Holds Top Spot on Slowest Weekend in Six Years
On one of the worst weekends in years, Guardians of the Galaxy easily held on to first place for the third-straight frame. Meanwhile, The Identical�the week's only new nationwide release�bombed with less than $2 million.
The Top 12 earned $51.5 million, which makes it the lowest-grossing weekend in six years. In the past decade, the worst weekend was September 5-7, 2008, when the Top 12 grossed $50.3 million.
Guardians of the Galaxy eased 39 percent to $10.4 million. This is the movie's fourth weekend in first place; the only other movies to accomplish such a feat in the past decade are The Dark Knight, Avatar and The Hunger Games.
On Saturday, Guardians passed last Summer's Man of Steel, which is noteworthy given the discrepancy in pre-existing fanbases for these two superhero movies. With $294.8 million, Guardians is now the highest-grossing movie ever from the month of August (ahead of The Sixth Sense), and it's on track to ultimately pass the original Iron Man's $318 million total.
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles held on to second place with $6.5 million (down 46 percent). The movie has grossed an impressive $174.6 million so far.
Let's Be Cops added $5.57 million (off 33 percent) for a very good $66.8 million total. Meanwhile, If I Stay eased 40 percent to $5.56 million, which brings its total to $39.5 million.
Last weekend's openers both dropped off quickly this weekend. The November Man fell 46 percent to $4.3 million, which brings its 12-day total to a weak $18 million. Meanwhile, As Above/So Below plummeted 55 percent to $3.85 million for a total of $15.7 million.
The Identical opened in 12th place with just $1.59 million. That's a fraction of recent faith-based movie God's Not Dead ($9.2 million), which was also from Freestyle Releasing. Even worse, it earned less than half as much as Moms' Night Out, which opened to $4.3 million from 900 fewer theaters.
As hard as this is to believe, The Identical was significantly overestimated. Distributor Freestyle Releasing was banking on a 33 percent Saturday-to-Sunday bump thanks to increased traffic from churchgoers; instead, the movie fell 21 percent (which was still the best hold in the Top 12).
By the end of April, this was shaping up to be the year of the faith-based movie: Heaven is for Real, God's Not Dead and Son of God all did impressive business at the domestic box office. Since then, though, its been tough to get this audience out to theaters. Moms' Night Out, Persecuted, When the Game Stands Tall and now The Identical have struggled to make serious inroads with Christian moviegoers.
The reason is quite simple: these were all movies with a faith component, not movies about faith itself. In comparison, God's Not Dead, Heaven is for Real and Son of God are all primarily focused on the faith angle (it's right there in their titles).
Playing at 337 IMAX theaters, the Forrest Gump re-release took in a weak $381,654 this weekend. In comparison, the Raiders of the Lost Ark re-release opened to $1.67 million from 267 IMAX theaters on the same weekend in 2012.
This gap can be explained in a few ways. First, it's unlikely that Paramount spent a ton of money on marketing; in comparison, the Raiders re-release had a solid campaign that coincided with the franchise's upcoming Blu-ray release. Also, Forrest Gump lacks the kind of thrills that are typically associated with the IMAX format, which made it tougher to get people to pay $15 for something they can watch at home for free.
Lucy led the foreign box office this weekend with $25.5 million. The Luc Besson hit opened on Wednesday in South Korea and earned an impressive $7 million through Sunday. To date, Lucy has earned over $192 million overseas, and still has Russia and China on the way.
Hercules reached a few key markets this weekend and added $17.1 million. It had a strong $4.4 million first place debut in Brazil, but was less impressive in Germany ($3 million) and Spain ($1.4 million). The movie has now grossed $122.9 million overseas, and still has to open in Japan and China.
Dawn of the Planet of the Apes took in $16.6 million this weekend, which brings its total to an impressive $435.5 million. Its biggest markets so far is China, where it has earned $72 million in just 10 days. The movie opens in Japan on September 19th, and should do fairly well there (Rise earned over $30 million back in 2011).
Into the Storm added $11.6 million from 54 markets; so far, it's earned $65.7 million overseas. It opened to a solid $3.65 million in Mexico, but was less impressive in Australia ($1.8 million).
Without any major new openings, it was a quiet weekend for Guardians of the Galaxy. The Marvel hit added $11.5 million for a new total of $291.6 million. It has now earned more worldwide ($586 million) than the first Iron Man, and still has Japan, China and Italy on the way. Based on comparable Summer 2014 titles, Guardians will almost certainly take in over $100 million from those three markets, which will push its worldwide total past $700 million.
This Weekend in Past Years
� 2013 - Vin Wins As 'Riddick' Leads Quiet Weekend
� 2012 - 'Words,' Cold Light' Bomb on Worst Weekend in Years
� 2011 - 'Contagion' Catches On
� 2010 - 'Resident Evil' Earns Extra Life with Fourth Movie
� 2009 - Tyler Perry 'Can Do' Good at the Box Office
� 2007 - '3:10 to Yuma' Arrives at Top Spot
� 2006 - 'Covenant' Hovers Over Weak Weekend
� 2005 - 'Exorcism' Torments Top Spot


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Africa 11.08.2015
Federal Service of Consumer Rights warned tourists of a cholera epidemic in Kenya
The Federal Service for Supervision of Consumer Rights Protection and Human Welfare has warned Russian tourists on the cholera outbreak in Kenya, according to the official website of the Ministry. For four months in the African nation of sick 5 thousand people, 98 of them died. In the Kenyan capital Nairobi, the number of cases amounted to 1.1 thousand. People, 24 of them died. The epidemic, as explained in the department, broke out against the backdrop of deteriorating living conditions and lack of safe water. "Federal Service for Supervision of Consumer Rights Protection and Human Welfare recommends choosing to holiday abroad, the country prosperous in epidemiological terms and to comply with measures for the prevention of infectious and parasitic diseases," the agency said. Federal Service noted that visiting disadvantaged areas in Kenya, tourists should be sure to wash your hands before eating and to use a heat treatment for food products.
Tanzania becomes the leader
Royal Flight airline began flights to Zanzibar Island
Pegas Touristik to fly to Zanzibar from two more Russian…
Tour operators are promoting Tanzania
Russian tourists fly to Hurghada and Sharm el-Sheikh from…
Pegas Touristik expands its flight program to Zanzibar


I've never been to Lebanon, and until Sunday I could name only one winery there. I was blown away by a group of 14 Lebanese red wines I tasted blind at this year's Concours Mondial de Bruxelles, the world's largest wine competition.
I thought these wines were French, and maybe even high-end. The flight was easily the best my group got in three days, and we were stunned when we learned where they were from.
The best wines had a French sensibility, with elegance, balance and complexity. I think most were Cabernet-based, but I could be wrong, because Lebanese winery websites are terrible.
Moreover, the prices are reasonable: under $20 for the wines I could find. And none were from the only Lebanese winery with any fame in the US, Chateau Musar.
Anything I could tell you about Lebanon's terroir would be something I learned on wikipedia, so you can go there and read for yourself. The short version is that the area is one of the world's oldest wine regions and had the most European culture in the Middle East before its civil war. Consultants, mostly French, are coming back and wine production is increasing. Most vineyards are in the Beqaa Valley, with plenty of sun but temperatures moderated by the high elevation and breezes off the Mediterranean Sea. Chateau Ksara makes 70% of the wines in Lebanon.
The best place in North America to buy Lebanese wines is Canada; the best place in the U.S. is Washington, D.C. I didn't see any of the wines I liked for sale west of the Mississippi River, and many I didn't see at all.
But these were terrific wines, so if you see Lebanon on a wine list, give it a shot.
Nice post, Blake. I lived in Beirut in 2005 and 06, and I found a lot to like in the local wines. The winemakers were far ahead of most of the public, which is majority muslim. So the prices are low. But as you pointed out, the Lebanese winemakers learned a lot from the French. And they are adapting their knowledge to the hotter climate there. All good.


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Q: create cylinders in 3D volumetric data I'm trying to create a dataset of raw volumetric data consisting of geometrical shapes. The point is to use volume ray casting to project them in 2D but first I want to create the volume manually.
The geometry is consisting of one cylinder that is in the middle of the volume, along the Z axis and 2 smaller cylinders that are around the first one, deriving from rotations around the axes.
Here is my function so far:
function cyl= createCylinders(a, b, c, rad1, h1, rad2, h2)

% a : data width
% b : data height
% c : data depth
% rad1: radius of the big center cylinder
% rad2: radius of the smaller cylinders
% h1: height of the big center cylinder
% h2: height of the smaller cylinders

[Y X Z] =meshgrid(1:a,1:b,1:c);  %matlab saves in a different order so X must be Y
centerX = a/2;
centerY = b/2;
centerZ = c/2;

theta = 0; %around y
fi = pi/4; %around x

% First cylinder
cyl = zeros(a,b,c);

% create for infinite height
R = sqrt((X-centerX).^2 + (Y-centerY).^2);

startZ = ceil(c/2) - floor(h1/2);
endZ = startZ + h1 - 1;

% then trim it to height = h1
temp = zeros(a,b,h1);
temp( R(:,:,startZ:endZ)<rad1 ) = 255;
cyl(:,:,startZ:endZ) = temp;

% Second cylinder

cyl2 = zeros(a,b,c);

A = (X-centerX)*cos(theta) + (Y-centerY)*sin(theta)*sin(fi) + (Z-centerZ)*cos(fi)*sin(theta);
B = (Y-centerY)*cos(fi) - (Z-centerZ)*sin(fi);

% create again for infinite height
R2 = sqrt(A.^2+B.^2);
cyl2(R2<rad2) = 255;

%then use 2 planes to trim outside of the limits
N = [ cos(fi)*sin(theta) -sin(fi) cos(fi)*cos(theta) ];

P = (rad2).*N + [ centerX centerY centerZ];
T = (X-P(1))*N(1) + (Y-P(2))*N(2) + (Z-P(3))*N(3);
cyl2(T<0) = 0;

P = (rad2+h2).*N + [ centerX centerY centerZ];
T = (X-P(1))*N(1) + (Y-P(2))*N(2) + (Z-P(3))*N(3);
cyl2(T>0) = 0;

% Third cylinder
% ...

cyl = cyl + cyl2;

cyl = uint8(round(cyl));

% ...

The concept is that the first cylinder is created and then "cut" according to the z-axis value, to define its height. The other cylinder is created using the relation A2 + B 2 = R2 where A and B are rotated accordingly using the rotation matrices only around x and y axes, using Ry(θ)Rx(φ) as described here.
Until now everything seems to be working, because I have implemented code (tested that it works well) to display the projection and the cylinders seem to have correct rotation when they are not "trimmed" from infinite height.
I calculate N which is the vector [0 0 1] aka z-axis rotated in the same way as the cylinder. Then I find two points P of the same distances that I want the cylinder's edges to be and calculate the plane equations T according to that points and normal vector. Lastly, I trim according to that equality. Or at least that's what I think I'm doing, because after the trimming I usually don't get anything (every value is zero). Or, the best thing I could get when I was experimenting was cylinders trimmed, but the planes of the top and bottom where not oriented well.
I would appreciate any help or corrections at my code, because I've been looking at the geometry equations and I can't find where the mistake is.
Edit:
This is a quick screenshot of the object I'm trying to create. NOTE that the cylinders are opaque in the volume data, all the inside is considered as homogeneous material.

A: I think instead of:
T = (X-P(1))*N(1) + (Y-P(2))*N(2) + (Z-P(3))*N(3);

you should try the following at both places:
T = (X-P(1)) + (Y-P(2)) + (Z-P(3));

Multiplying by N is to account for the direction of the axis of the 2nd cylinder which you have already done just above that step.


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by Jack Heyman
Photo by Port of San Diego | CC BY 2.0
Lessons of the 2008 Longshore Strike Against U.S. Imperialist War
May Day 2018 is the 10th anniversary of the longshore strike against the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan which shut down all West Coast ports from the Canadian to the Mexican border to demand the immediate withdrawal of U.S. troops. The shutdown and protest by members of the International Longshore and Warehouse Union (ILWU) was a stunning show of labor's power and a call to action addressed to other unions and anti-war activists and drew much attention and support in the Bay Area and Seattle. It was the first strike action by U.S. workers against a U.S. imperialist war in 90 years.
And the effect of the 2008 strike continues to this day. On May Day 2015, ILWU Local 10 shut down the Port of Oakland and marched to Oscar Grant Plaza in front of City Hall demanding "Stop Police Terror." Last year the Longshore Caucus with delegates representing 29 all West Coast ports voted to stop work every May Day, the international workers day. This year the port workers are protesting in particular the police killing of Stephon Clark in Sacramento and Saheem Tindle, gunned down by BART police in West Oakland.Yet, when directed by the highest body in the union's longshore division to take unified Coast action, the ILWU International officers have not mobilized the membership into action.
In 2008, the marquee on the Grand Lake Theater in Oakland proclaimed: "We salute the longshoremen's May Day strike to protest the criminal occupation of Iraq". Few unions aside from ILWU longshoremen actually took any action that day, but postal workers held "moments of silence". The faculty union at the largest public university, the City University of New York (CUNY) called for events in solidarity with the longshore workers. Unions from around the world sent messages of solidarity, as did the Vermont and South Carolina state AFL-CIO's. As the Brass Band played The Internationale spirited demonstrators marched from the San Francisco longshore union hall at Fisherman's Wharf along the Embarcadero, the site of historic maritime labor struggles. They were joined by other transport workers, like the Inlandboatmen's Union, the Oakland teachers, S.F. State students, even the SEIU dancers from the Lusty Lady strip club and many others.
In the port of Oakland where all the cranes were boomed up in a salute to labor action, railroad workers honored anti-war picket lines at the vast intermodal rail yard and refused to work the trains. Undoubtedly the most action was the work stoppage by the Iraqi General Union of Port Workers who sent a solidarity message to the rally:
The courageous decision you made to carry out a strike on May Day to protest against the war and occupation of Iraq advances our struggle against occupation to bring a better future for us and for the rest of the world as well…. We in Iraq are looking up to you and support you until the victory over the US administration's barbarism is achieved.
Clarence Thomas, a former Black Panther and member of San Francisco longshore union Local 10 had gone to Iraq during the war to express ILWU's solidarity with Iraq port workers against the U.S. imperialist war and now they were returning that solidarity gesture by striking. Yet, U.S.-kindled conflagration continues to ravage the Middle East from Syria, to Iran, to Yemen, to Gaza and still Iraq and Afghanistan.
A Brief History of Labor Strikes Against Imperialist Wars and Reaction
The 2008 U.S. West Coast longshore strike against war and occupation of Iraq and Afghanistan was not a unique event. There is a history of workers strikes against imperialist wars. In 1921, under the influence of the Russian Bolshevik Revolution, French dock workers refused to ship arms to suppress a rebellion by independence fighters in the Rif area of the French colony of Morocco.
After WWII when "Free" French troops were being transported back to Indochina attempting to re-colonize Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia, seamen who were members of the National Maritime Union aboard U.S. ships sent telegrams to President Truman protesting the imperialist venture. That was the first U.S. protest against that colonialist war. Later, the port of Marseilles dockworkers, members of the Communist Party-led CGT, refused to load war materiel on ships bound for Vietnam as Communists troops at Dien Bien Phu encircled and defeated French troops. A similar scenario prevailed in the French colonial war against Algerian independence.
While the U.S. imperialist Marshall Plan in Europe was being implemented, witchhunt hysteria was erupting in America. Communists were being jailed, deported and purged from U.S. maritime unions. The Communist-led Canadian Seamen's Union strike was broken and the union destroyed. In the U.S. this dark page of history came to be known as McCarthyism. But the drive to purge "reds" who had built the unions was spearheaded not by right-wing Republicans like Senator Joseph McCarthy but by liberal Democrats, including inside the unions. The "red purge" was especially ferocious in the once militant Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO). The only place in the U.S. where there was a successful protest of this anti-red repression was in Hawaii. When Jack Hall, the ILWU union official instrumental in organizing the islands, was arrested, accused of being a communist, plantation workers, longshoremen, hotel and restaurant workers went on strike. Hall was released from prison the next day. Thus, imperialist war abroad was and is inextricably linked to capitalist class repression at home and labor strikes can stop it.
Perhaps the first and most spectacular strike by American workers against imperialist war occurred in 1919. In the midst of the civil war that followed the successful Russian workers revolution, Seattle longshoremen while loading a ship discovered that crates marked "sewing machines" were actually rifles intended for the counterrevolutionary White Army commanded by Admiral Kolchak in Vladivostok, buttressed by the U.S. Military Expedition there. The longshore union, in solidarity with the Bolshevik Revolution, declared it "hot cargo" and notified other ports of their strike action. The Seattle Union Record, newspaper of the IWW-influenced Labor Council, reported "Pacific Coast longshoremen will tie up the coast from Seattle to San Diego before they will load rifles or munitions for Siberia or any part of Russia…". Eventually scabs from the American Legion loaded the cargo but by the time the ship reached Vladivostok the port was in the hands of the Red Army, founded and led by Leon Trotsky, which had driven out the counterrevolutionaries and imperialist forces of which the U.S. military was part.
2003 Police Attack in the Port of Oakland: Prelude to the 2008 Anti-War Strike
After the 2001 terrorist attack on the World Trade Center and the build up to war, ILWU was facing hard-nosed longshore contract negotiations. The California Anti-Terrorism and Information Center threatened that any job action on the docks to support union negotiators or protest against the impending war could be seen as an act of terrorism. When it comes to class war at home or imperialist war abroad Republican and Democrats are of one mind. President Bush warned the ILWU that he would send in U.S. troops to occupy the ports to quash any job action. When the employers' Pacific Maritime Association locked out longshore workers, California Senator Diane Feinstein working in tandem with Republicans, implored Bush at to invoke the slave labor Taft-Hartley Act. He did, forcing longshoremen back to work under the bosses' yoke.
At the start of the war in 2003, a few thousand protesters chanting "War is for profit, workers can stop it" demonstrated in the port of Oakland. As police in riot gear under the guise of fighting terrorism attacked the protesters and longshoremen firing rubber bullets, wooden dowels, concussion grenades and tear gas canisters while motorcycle cops in brigade formation ran over protesters as Czarist Cossacks on horseback had done 100 years earlier. Dozens of antiwar protesters and longshoremen were injured, some seriously.
As the ILWU business agent on site, I was attacked by a squad of police, pulled from the car pummeled and arrested. Democrat Jerry Brown, then mayor of Oakland, now governor of California commanded the police who attacked demonstrators. The UN Human Rights Commission later characterized it as one of the bloodiest assaults against protesters who were claiming that the war was based on lies asserted by the government and dutifully repeated by the main stream media. The city of Oakland ended up paying over $2,000,000 to those injured by the police brutality. This police attack was compared to the police attack on maritime strikers killing two that provoked the 1934 San Francisco General Strike. On May Day 2008, longshoremen tagged the anti-war coastwide strike action "payback".
Organizing the 2007 Longshore Workers Anti-War Conference
The Pacific Maritime Association (PMA) appealed to the industry arbitrator to stop the 2008 action. Twice the arbitrator ruled that the work stoppage would be illegal. Twice dockworkers stood defiant in their determination to carry out what many believed was to be the first anti-war strike in the U.S. history.
Where did this workers' intransigence come from? The anger brewing from the police assault was necessary but not sufficient by itself to organize the action.
In fact, from 2003 on, almost every year a resolution was presented calling for a coastwide port shutdown against the war on Iraq and Afghanistan. Almost every year, it passed the historically militant Bay Area Local 10, only to be "deep-sixed" (buried) or voted down in the Longshore Coast Caucus. But after 2006, something changed, which we who were fighting for labor action against the war didn't pick up on right away. Many port workers, solidly against the war from the start, thought of it as "Bush's war," as the antiwar movement proclaimed. They figured that if the Democrats got in, the war would stop. After Bush was reelected in 2004, in the 2006 mid-term elections the Democrats won control of both Houses of Congress. But nothing changed in the war. In fact, it intensified with the so-called "surge" killing tens of thousands of Iraqis. So by 2007, there was a sea change in the mood of the longshore ranks.
So, many longshoremen figured, if the Democrats aren't going to stop it, it's up to us. At the Coast Caucus in June 2007 we saw the possibility that the "strike to stop the war" resolution could finally pass. The call for labor strikes against the war had been first raised earlier by the Internationalist Group to longshore workers. Now that it seemed concretely possible, we were concerned that the Bay Area local, the militant and only predominantly black local in the ILWU, could be isolated. So we pushed for Local 10 to call an international "labor against the war" conference in San Francisco at our union hall to back up the call to action.
Speakers at the conference included Labour MP Jeremy Corbyn, Alexander Cockburn, then-editor of Counterpunch, Bob Crow, General Secretary of the Rail, Maritime and Transport Union (UK), Robert Mashego of the South African Transport and Allied Workers Union, Takumi Shimizu of Doro-Chiba, the Japanese Rail Union and longshore union leaders. With workshops like "Class Struggle and the War" and "Soldiers Organizing Against the War" participants were steeled in the lessons of working class struggles. During the conference feisty members of Code Pink announced that they were going to picket the docks. Longshoremen, Leo Robinson and Howard Keylor, organizers of the longshore 1984 anti-apartheid ship boycott, took the deck to explain that the best way to organize an effective action is for the workers themselves to raise resolutions at their union meetings to call for strikes against the war at the point of production where workers wield the real power. Substitutionalism, they argued, doesn't work. That resolution passed overwhelmingly with the support of the Code Pink sisters.
A few months later, at the Local 10 membership meeting a resolution was passed to go to the Longshore Caucus, in which elected delegates from all 29 West Coast ports meet to discuss the pressing issues of the day. Bob McEllrath, the International President and other officers of the union knew ahead of time which resolutions had passed the locals. They didn't want the Local 10 resolution to pass, afraid that shutting down all West Coast ports to oppose the war would interfere with contract negotiations. McEllrath's backers in Local 10 tried to stop its chances of passing the Caucus by reducing the usual number of delegates to exclude the maker of the resolution. Although they were able to keep out the messenger they didn't kill the message because by then it had resonated deeply in the ranks.
At the Caucus when Local 10 delegates presented the resolution former International President David Arian from Los Angeles Local 13 and other officers spoke against the resolution warning that a coastwise job action would imperil contract negotiations. But then Vietnam veterans hit the mike and suddenly the momentum of the entire debate changed. A vet from Seattle and another from San Francisco passionately agreed with the anti-war resolution, saying that workers had campaigned for Democrats who promised to end the war but were betrayed as the war continued with working class youth being used as cannon fodder to fight another rich man's war for oil. They argued that workers, by shutting down the coast for 24 hours and stopping global trade, could show the working class the power they have at the point of production to stop the imperialist slaughter.
It was contagious. Delegate after delegate joined in supporting the resolution. When McEllrath saw the tide turning against him, he asked the delegates to reduce the action to one shift instead of the entire day. The resolution shutting down the whole West Coast passed overwhelmingly. Even then there was bureaucratic resistance. The president of the largest local on the Coast, Local 13, let it be known in days leading up to the May Day port action that he wasn't going to shutdown Los Angeles/Long Beach. The International tops saw that that would divulge weakness and undermine contract negotiations. All West Coast ports were shut down tight. Shipowners, terminal operators and stevedoring companies were forced to concede to the power of the union.
The International bureaucracy kept trying to sabotage the action right up to May Day. As a last ditch effort "Big Bob" McEllrath tried to turn the anti-imperialist strike which demanded withdrawal of the U.S. military into a patriotic parade calling for supporting the troops, i.e. the Pentagon brass. This was directly contrary to the Caucus resolution itself. In Seattle a sea of American flags were waving. No so in San Francisco. Marchers, the heart of the action, were adhering to the resolution for troop withdrawal. We were prepared to explain to marchers that the Iraqi port workers were striking in solidarity and that if they saw the American flag being carried, they could think it was directed against them. But all along the march you couldn't see a stars-and-stripes. Instead marchers carried the red-lettered May Day banner "No Peace, No Work" to the tune of The Internationale, the anthem of the international working class and the solidarity message from the striking Iraqi port workers was read to an enthusiastic rally.
Linking the Class Struggle to the Anti-Imperialist War
At the same time as the 2008 May Day strike and march against the war, an economic crisis was brewing across the U.S. With the housing bubble bursting and more generally the continued falling rate of profit the capitalists' intensified a general assault on workers– their wages, social benefits, working conditions and jobs. The "too big to fail" bailout of the banksters and automakers "socialized" losses for the capitalists while working people were thrown out of work and out of their homes. It exposed the corruption in both capitalist political parties, Democrat and Republican. The bailouts resulted in a redistribution of wealth upwards from labor to capital, i.e. a transparent theft of wealth to the upper echelons of the capitalist class using fraud and force. Over half of the wealth of African Americans was stolen through the loss of homes and jobs while a black president was sitting in the White House. Neoliberal capitalism has meant bailout for the capitalists and brutal austerity for the working class and oppressed.
Yet, there has been virtually no labor fight back because the trade union bureaucracy and, in Europe, the social democracy have collapsed in the face of this neoliberal capitalist attack. Worse yet, they've become the cheerleaders and enforcers of these new social contracts. Here's a litany of betrayals: IAM bureaucrats forced a revote of a rejection of the machinists concessionary contract until the members got it "right". UAW bureaucrats collaborating with the automakers have held wages down, imposed a tier system in a pathetic and failed attempt to organize autoworkers in the South. ILWU President McEllrath ensured the EGT grain contract was ratified without a rank-and-file vote and without effectively stopping the scabbing. He surrendered the union-controlled hiring hall and grievance machinery.
Now we are seeing a bright light on labor's horizon, teachers' strikes in West Virginia, Kentucky and Oklahoma. Government workers fighting austerity can be contagious and could spread to other sectors of the working class. But the labor bureaucracy still acts as a brake on these struggles and an obstacle to workers' victory. In France railroad workers have taken the lead in fighting the austerity measures of banker-President Macron. Over the last 15 years port workers led by the International Dockworkers Council have been organizing protests against neo-liberal capitalist port privatizations at the European Parliament in Strasbourg. But in crucial battles such as in Greece, the unions have failed to use their power to occupy the docks to spike these assaults. And the result is one defeat after another.
Until a fighting leadership can be forged with the program and guts to fight for the interests of working people and all oppressed sectors through to the end, the promise contained in the 2008 May Day West Coast port shutdown cannot be realized. That means ousting the "labor fakers" who tried to prevent, then undercut and then divert this signal example of militant class-conscious workers action.
Today, we are witnessing an intensified inter-imperialist rivalry in Europe and imperialist provocations most apparent in the Middle East with Trump's recent attack on Syria his blood-curdling threats to wipe out North Korea, his attempts to strangle Venezuela and U.S. neocolonial military intervention in Africa. In every single case, the imperialist marauding of the Republican Trump have been backed and even spurred by the Democrats. The fact is that these machinations are rooted in the dying capitalist system.
Clearly, fighting for capitalism's elimination must be the point of departure for the working class and the left. But there is no mass political party to represent workers in this struggle in the U.S. "Socialist" Bernie Sanders only serves to rope potential dissent back into to the Democratic Party. In Britain there is the reformist Labour Party and in Brazil, the reformist Workers Party, both of which have carried out the bosses' attacks on the working class, although perhaps not as successfully as more right-wing sectors had wished. The crisis in working-class leadership is clear as day. What's needed here and now is to oust the bureaucrats, break with the Democrats and build a class struggle workers party that will mobilize for workers struggles, for immigrant rights, women's rights and against racist police and fascist attacks.
At the April 15 Oakland antiwar rally billed as "No to U.S. Wars at Home and Abroad" barely a reference was made to the working class. There was not one speaker representing a trade union. And this happens repeatedly at U.S. antiwar events. On this May Day, longshore union Local 10 will be organizing a rally in the port of Oakland calling for "Workers Rights for All!" and "Stop Police Repression". Three longshore union members in the Bay Area have had sons and a nephew killed by police recently, one black, one latino and one white. The latest, Sahleen Tindle, was killed by BART transit police in January. This local which overwhelmingly rejected a contract extension pushed by PMA employers and ILWU International Officers is now shutting down Bay Area ports to protest police killings, just as they did in the 1934 Big Strike. The struggle against capitalist class repression at home is directly linked to the struggle against imperialist war abroad. As demonstrators chanted at the start of the U.S. invasion of Iraq, "War is for profit, Workers can stop it." And longshoremen replied "No Peace, No Work!"
Jack Heyman, a retired Oakland longshoreman, has been organizing ILWU union protests since the 1984 South Africa ship boycott to protest apartheid. His 2008 Longshore Caucus resolution sparked the anti-war West Coast ports shutdown. He chairs the Transport Workers Solidarity Caucus. www.transportworkers.org
Jack Heyman (jackheyman@mac.com) is chair of the Transport Workers Solidarity Committee www.transportworkers.org and a retired longshoreman who writes on labor politics and history.


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HomePoliticsULP VIEW: Some thoughts on our 40th Anniversary Celebrations
ULP VIEW: Some thoughts on our 40th Anniversary Celebrations
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On October 27th 2019, St. Vincent and the Grenadines celebrated its 40th anniversary of independence in a number of ways, chiefly through the military parade at Victoria Park, and along with the activities to mark the Renewal at 40! initiative.
It was an amazing sight to see the level of patriotism exhibited by Vincentians, young and old, male and female, from the countryside and the built-up areas around Kingstown. It was a clear sign that the love for our beloved country is growing, despite efforts by persons within the leadership and the rank and file of the opposition New Democratic Party, to sully the name of St. Vincent and the Grenadines.
The men and women of our uniformed forces exhibited their skills with precision and pride on the parade ground, witnessed by thousands of Vincentians who applauded their every move. Many Vincentians who attended the parade, as well as the other events, were not afraid to demonstrate their national colours. The owners of vehicles were not to be left out, displaying the national flag on their cars, vans and SUVs.
The activities
There were three activities which dominated the independent celebrations, the agricultural exhibition at the ET Joshua tarmac at Arnos Vale, the further distribution of land titles at the Chatoyer Memorial Park, and the Everything Vincy exposition which was organized and hosted by Invest SVG.
All three activities were hugely successful. The two exhibitions demonstrated the creativity of our Vincentian farmers and small entrepreneurs. Our farmers demonstrated that the agricultural sector was alive and well, with huge potential for the future. Not to be outdone, our small business persons demonstrated their creativity in a number of ways, an indication of the skills which are present in the market space, awaiting proper development. In both cases, the interest shown by the general public was so intense, that the organizers had to extend the exhibitions beyond the original dates.
The event at the Chatoyer Memorial park, where land titles were handed out to persons in the North Windward area, was a further demonstration of the strategy adopted by the ULP administration, of turning dead capital into live capital. The recipients are getting an opportunity to purchase land at knock-down prices and will now be in a position to use the land as collateral, for economic and social development.
Our Renewal
In our 40th year of the reclamation of independence, Renewal at 40! it is important that we correctly apply our historical lessons. First, it is wrong to ignore our history, it is not bunk; it has shaped us. Secondly, we must not sanitize or white-wash it. That approach is likely to deny us our very essence, thus adding to our burdens. Thirdly, we must not live in history and stylize our sufferings in a permanent victimhood. That approach will hold us back by impossibly looking forward to a past while other nations are moving to the future.
Instead, what must we learn from our history? Let it be a noise in our blood, and echo in our bones, and embrace it to uplift ourselves, without rancor, though with sense and sensibility.
Most of all, we must deepen our understanding of our past so as to avoid the desecration of the future. We must hold no malice or grudge against anyone; we are not better than anybody, but nobody is better than us! We resolve differences through dialogue; we are for peace, not war; we embrace partnerships and multi-lateral engagements; we reject hegemony and hold aloft international law, the precepts of justice, and the settled, time-honored principles which elevate humanity and the civilized relations within, and between, nation-states.
Proud Vincentians
As Vincentians, we have much to be proud of, when we look back at our forty year history as a nation, and in particular, since the year 2001. It is clear that our country has developed by leaps and bounds. Our Education Revolution has provided our young citizens in particular, with the tools to allow them to soar like eagles with their wings unclipped, and they have been soaring to great heights. Our international airport at Argyle has brought us into sharp competition with the other CARICOM countries, and the tourism playing field has developed a competitive edge, and we must take advantage of this.
In our 40th year of independence, we will be on the world stage, as we take our seat as a non-permanent member of the Security Council of the United Nations, the smallest nation in the world, to achieve this feat. Some 185 nations supported our quest, an indication of our international profile, and the status in which we are held. Expect more great and positive things from the ULP administration, as we continue to make our country proud.
As we mark our 40th year of independence, we recognize that there are many challenges facing our country. Yet, these challenges and threats do not paralyze us into inaction and learned helplessness, or prompt us to adopt unsustainable approaches to development or any faddish mirages of the day.
With our traditional friends, and globally, we, in partnership with other nations in the region, shall overcome our challenges; we shall remain focused and creative; we shall further fortify our hard and smart work; and we shall be our brothers' and sisters' keepers. We shall uplift further our nation. We shall not be idle or faint-hearted, nor weary in our efforts to exalt every valley, make low every mountain of obstacles, turn the crooked straight, and smooth that which is rough.
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Emerging research suggests the role of dreams may be more powerful than initially imagined.
Scientists have tried to understand the substance of dreams for years as cultures from all over the world believe dreams contain important hidden truths.
In six different studies, researchers surveyed nearly 1,100 people about their dreams. "Psychologists' interpretations of the meaning of dreams vary widely," said Carey Morewedge, an assistant professor at Carnegie Mellon University and the study's lead author.
In one study that surveyed general beliefs about dreams, Morewedge and co-author Michael Norton, an assistant professor at Harvard Business School, surveyed 149 university students in the United States, India and South Korea.
The researchers asked the students to rate different theories about dreams. Across all three cultures, an overwhelming majority of the students endorsed the theory that dreams reveal hidden truths about themselves and the world, a belief also endorsed by a nationally representative sample of Americans.
In another study reported in the article, the researchers wanted to explore how dreams might influence people's waking behavior. They surveyed 182 commuters at a Boston train station, asking them to imagine that one of four possible scenarios had happened the night before a scheduled airline trip: The national threat level was raised to orange, indicating a high risk of terrorist attack; they consciously thought about their plane crashing; they dreamed about a plane crash; or a real plane crash occurred on the route they planned to take.
A dream of a plane crash was more likely to affect travel plans than either thinking about a crash or a government warning, and the dream of a plane crash produced a similar level of anxiety as did an actual crash.
Finally, the researchers wanted to find out whether people perceive all dreams as equally meaningful, or whether their interpretations were influenced by their waking beliefs and desires. In another study, 270 men and women from across the United States took a short online survey in which they were asked to remember a dream they had had about a person they knew.
People ascribed more importance to pleasant dreams about a person they liked as compared to a person they did not like, while they were more likely to consider an unpleasant dream more meaningful if it was about a person they disliked.
The authors say more research is needed to explore fully how people interpret their dreams, and in what cases dreams may actually reveal hidden information.
"Most people understand that dreams are unlikely to predict the future but that doesn't prevent them from finding meaning in their dreams, whether their contents are mundane or bizarre," said Morewedge.
The article appears in the February issue of the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, published by the American Psychological Association.


Nike's SFB 6 Cognac Bomber is the real treat of Winter 2016. If Nike and Timberland had a lovechild, this would be it. With the heavy labor look of a Timberland, and the iconic Nike tread, the SFB 6 Cognac Bomber has clocked in for the season.
The SFB 6 Cognac Bomber is up front when it comes to getting down to business. Its profile at Nike.com postures the shoe as a crossover, since it marries two legendary styles. It borrows the functionality of the SFB family while maintaining trendy curb appeal of other premium Nike sneakers. This unique crossover could be the first of many re-purposed SFB shoes for the fashion audience.
The "hard work" look popularized in the late 1990's and early 2000's featured mainstreamed fashion of Timberland, Carhartt, and Dickies. With the SFB 6 Cognac Bomber, Nike inserts itself into the trend—and is here for the long haul.
You can't have a serious Nike sneaker without a little party in the back. The SFB 6 Cognac Bomber has the work boot look, but boasts the comfort of party kicks. The smooth premium leather is ultra-luxurious, giving the sneaker a custom-like fit for ever wearer. Fit, of course, is really determined by the lacing—and the SFB 6 Cognac Bomber aims to please.
Perhaps the most innovative fit feature of the SFB 6 Cognac Bomber is its inside zip. The frequent adjusting of laces for that perfect fit takes time, and often puts premature wear on the laces. While the zip is an embellished feature, it actually supports the custom-fit feel of the sneaker.
Tedious lacing becomes a thing of the past in the SFB 6 Cognac Bomber, and the sneaker lends itself to a customized fit every wear. Wearers only need to lace up once to get going, because the inside zip allows for easy access.
The SFB 6 Cognac Bomber rocks the house from the inside out, just like Kid N' Play in House Party (1990). The lining is also a nod to this year's bomber jacket trend with elements of the sheepskin and shearling look. By all accounts, the SFB 6 Cognac Bomber is on point with the tends of Fall/Winter 2016-2017.
The cream plush lining puts the sneaker at the top of the list for warmest fashion footwear. The original SFB line inspires the lining's functionality. Most other winter boots with are fully lined with plush, but the SFB 6 Cognac Bomber actually refrains from lining the inner sole. This maintains the cushioned fit and feel from the inside of the shoe—which is often lost with fully-lined winter boots. The inner sole, also cognac, instead features a white Nike and Swoosh logo at the inside heel.
From most angles, the SFB 6 Cognac Bomber rocks the crossover appearance. Looking at the underside of the sneaker brings the wearer back into the sneaker's athletic side. The outsole dons the iconic geometric Nike pattern. With the grooves and ridges in all the right places, the SFB 6 Cognac Bomber offers spectacular traction and shock-absorption. The outsole and midsole blend together into a slight platform, which is perfect for winter weather.
Nike has seen its fair share of sell-out releases, especially with limited reissues of Jordans, yet the SFB 6 Cognac Bomber is still available online. Does that mean if a shoe isn't sold out, that it's not hot? It's quite the opposite, actually, considering the SFB 6 Cognac Bomber. The thing is, loyal Nike fans know that this sneaker is a prominent member of the Nike family, especially as a crossover.
This is the beginning of bringing over the SFB to mainstream wearers. The SFB 6 Cognac Bomber sends the message that Nike's dominance in the footwear industry is largely due to its versatility. The success of the SFB 6 Cognac Bomber means the possibilities are endless: different high top sizes and colorways are bound to drop in the near future.
For now, though, the SFB 6 Cognac Bomber remains one of the most unique Nike releases of 2016. If you're planning on picking up a pair for the holidays, be sure to grab Sneaker Shields to go with it. Visit our store and subscribe to our emails to get the best deals on Sneaker Shields all through December.


Dr. Anne Kress was confirmed a trustee by the New York State Senate in June of 2014. Her background encompasses a broad range of knowledge, with specialties in workforce development, technology, global education and student access and success.
Since 2009, she has served as the President of Monroe Community College in Rochester, New York. Dr. Kress currently serves on Governor Andrew M. Cuomo's Regional Economic Development Council and has been involved in higher education policy in both New York and Florida.
She has been honored several times, including being named a Woman of Distinction by the New York Senate, as well as receiving the Athena award from the Women's Council of the Rochester Business Alliance and the Empowering Women award from the Rochester YWCA. She presents frequently at national conferences and events.
Dr. Kress received her doctorate in higher education administration, master's and bachelor's degrees in English, and a bachelor's degree with honors in finance, all from University of Florida. In 2012, she was named an outstanding alumna by the Institute of Higher Education at University of Florida.


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"""
This is a little module for phenny that talks to you, for more details see here:
http://hackerspace.be/TheSilentGuy
http://github.com/fs111/TheSilentGuy

Author: André Kelpe <efeshundertelf at googlemail dot com>
License: MIT

"""
from subprocess import Popen, PIPE

COMMAND = ".talk"

ESPEAK_COMMAND = "espeak -s 40  -p 99  -v en"

class Speaker:
    """Class that wraps the espeak subprocess"""

    def __init__(self):
        self.process = Popen([ESPEAK_COMMAND], shell=True,
          stdin=PIPE, close_fds=True)

    def sayitoutloud(self, what):
        """I'm geek and proud! :-)"""
        self.process.stdin.write(what + "\n")

# poor mans singleton
speaker = Speaker()

def announce(phenny, input, origin):
    """Callback that phenny calls when somone choins the channel"""
    speaker.sayitoutloud("Dudes, %s has joined the channel" % origin.nick)
# tell phenny what to do
announce.rule = "(.*)"
announce.event = "JOIN"
announce.with_origin = True

def talk(phenny, input, origin):
    """Callback that phenny calls when somone issues the .talk command"""
    # only admins are allowed to use the .talk command
    if origin.nick in phenny.config.admins:
        input = input.replace(COMMAND, "")
        speaker.sayitoutloud(input)
    else:
        phenny.reply("only admins can use .talk")
# tell phenny what to do
talk.commands = ["talk"]
talk.example = ".talk what"
talk.with_origin = True

redpajama_set_name: RedPajamaGithub


An illness in newborns caused by viral infection; symptoms include fever, cellular enlargement, microscopically-visible clumps of viral particles or protein s in the cytoplasm and nuclei of affected cells, enlargement of the spleen and liver. Long-term effects of the disease may include mental retardation.
The most severe form of malaria ; it is sometimes fatal, and is characterized by fever, confusion, spleen enlargement, nausea and anemia. It is caused by the protozoan Plasmodium falciparum.
This is a nuclear scan involving the intravenous injection of radioactive gallium. Gallium concentrates in areas of inflammation and tumor growth. Although liver, spleen, bone and colon retain gallium, it is possible to differentiate abnormal gallium uptake from normal retention. This is a useful test for the detection of metastatic tumor activity.
A tumor which secretes gastrin . It is usually found in the pancreas , but may also be found in the stomach, spleen , nearby lymph nodes, or other areas.
A structure or organ with specialized cell s that secretes/excretes a substance that is unrelated to the normal metabolic processes. Examples in humans are the pineal gland , the pituitary gland , the adrenal gland s, or the spleen . Glands are found in plants as well as animals.
A form of malignant lymphoma that is characterized by painless enlargment of lymphatic tissue and the spleen and often involves symptoms such as fever, wasting weight loss, anemia, and night sweats.


The cypress trousers from RLX Ralph Lauren feature a zip fly and clasp closure at the waist. Made from moisture wicking material, these trousers will help to keep you comfortable while on the course. They feature two side pockets and two button down back pockets with a metal stud RLX logo above the back right pocket.


A Chinese folktale: Chen and her mother are very poor and their Landowner, his wife and sister are greedy and cruel. Chen wishes she had a paintbrush to be able to paint pictures to keep her mind off her sorrows. A magician arrives and offers her a magic paintbrush!
Starring: Ambre BESSON, Marie CHANDON, Sienna JOUAN, Tim LE JEUNE, Cerès MASSELINK, Yana PECHENICK, Emily PERRIER, Victor STAEGER-HOLST and Margaux TUTIL.


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Armando Diena est un footballeur italien, né le  à Turin au Piémont et mort le  à Gênes. Il joue au poste de milieu de terrain à Novare Calcio, à la Juventus FC et à l'Ambrosiana Inter dans les années 1930.

Il était surnommé Diena II pour le distinguer de son frère aîné Ferruccio Diena dit Diena I.

Biographie

Durant sa carrière, Diena II, plus doué techniquement que son frère, n'a joué que dans trois clubs, tout d'abord au Novare, puis à la Juventus son club formateur (où il dispute son premier match le  lors d'un succès 1-0 contre l'Ambrosiana-Inter), et enfin à l'Ambrosiana-Inter.

Palmarès
Armando Diena remporte avec la Juventus FC le championnat d'Italie en 1935.

Références

Liens externes

  Profil sur Playerhistory.com

Naissance à Turin
Sportif italien du XXe siècle
Footballeur italien
Joueur du Novare Calcio
Joueur de la Juventus FC
Joueur de l'Inter Milan
Naissance en avril 1914
Décès en juillet 1985
Décès à Gênes
Décès à 71 ans

redpajama_set_name: RedPajamaWikipedia


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Booklouse
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Book Lice
Tiny, wingless, biting insects, Liposcelis corrodens Heymons, of the order Psocoptera. Booklice (nymphs and adults) feed on Cellulose and carbohydrates, such as stored Flour, Paper, Starch, and books. They especially like mold, Mildew, and fungi. Eggs hatch into nymphs in 6 to 9 days and the full life cycle takes 24 to 38 days. The adult booklouse is a grayish white color and it reaches sizes of 1-2 mm. They have flattened bodies with relatively large mouths. Booklice prefer damp, constant conditions, and can often be killed by warming and drying their environment.
Synonyms and Related Terms
book louse; booklice; book lice; book mites (incorrect); psocid; pscocid (sp)
Resources and Citations
Van Nostrand's Scientific Encyclopedia, Douglas M. Considine (ed.), Van Nostrand Reinhold, New York, 1976
Random House, Webster's Encyclopedic Unabridged Dictionary of the English Language, Grammercy Book, New York, 1997
The American Heritage Dictionary or Encarta, via Microsoft Bookshelf 98, Microsoft Corp., 1998
Encyclopedia Britannica, http://www.britannica.com Comment: "louse" [Accessed April 9, 2002].
Lynda A. Zycherman, J.Richard Schrock, A Guide to Museum Pest Control, FAIC and Association of Systematics Collections, Washington DC, 1988
Matt Roberts, Don Etherington, Bookbinding and the Conservation of Books: a Dictionary of Descriptive Terminology, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington DC, 1982
Retrieved from "https://cameo.mfa.org/index.php?title=Booklouse&oldid=85665"


How will the "immigrant integration" section of the Schumer-Rubio bill work in practice? Let us examine how "immigrant integration" currently works in two states: Illinois and Maryland.
The State of Illinois established a Governor's Office of New Americans (GONA) in 2006. The director of GONA declared, "Immigrant integration in the State of Illinois is made possible through our Strategic partnerships with community based organizations, local governments," and various state agencies. GONA's website specifically highlighted that its "strategic partnership" with the Illinois Coalition for Immigrant and Refugee Rights (ICIRR) receives "national recognition." The ICIRR will undoubtedly become a major beneficiary of the Schumer-Rubio proposal.
On July 8, 2012, the ICIRR hosted "Electoral Organizing training designed for people who are planning to run electoral or issue campaigns in 2012." Participating in the ICIRR's electoral training was a close ally (listed on the ICIRR letterhead as an affiliated organization): the Council of Islamic Organizations of Greater Chicago (CIOGC). This group works closely with the Islamist (and Muslim Brotherhoodaligned) Islamic Council of North America. The CIOGC, along with the ICIRR, as well as the radical Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund, which is another official "strategic partner" of the Governor's Office of New Americans, will clearly play important roles in any "immigrant integration" in Illinois.
At the center of immigrant integration is CASA de Maryland (originally Central American Solidarity Association) and its executive director, Gustavo Torres. CASA has tremendous influence in state politics both with the legislature and with Governor Martin O'Malley. Torres was co-chair of O'Malley's transition team. He is a key member of the Maryland Council for New Americans, which advises O'Malley, and he chairs its working group on citizenship issues.
Torres left his native Colombia to support the Sandinista revolution in Nicaragua in the 1980s. According to the Washington Post, he was a Sandinista journalist who met his first wife, an American Sandinista sympathizer and "advocate for reproductive health," in Nicaragua. The Sandinistas, it is worth remembering, were officially Marxist-Leninists that is to say, Communists. In other words, during the Cold War struggle against Communism, Gustavo Torres of CASA de Maryland was not on the side of the free world, and he continues to this day to be a critic of Reagan's anti-Communist policies.
Torres became executive director of CASA in 1993 and a U.S. citizen in 1995. In 2007 he spoke at a Chávez-funded conference in Venezuela on "revolution" in Latin America. Shortly thereafter, from 2008 to 2010, CASA received $1.5 million in funding from the Chávez regime. Besides Chávez, CASA's funders include the Maryland state government, the U.S. government, the Ford Foundation, and George Soros's Open Society Institute.
CASA's major activities consist of opposing federal, state, and local enforcement of immigration laws. Representative Dana Rohrabacher (R., Calif.) has charged CASA with "aiding and abetting criminal activity" by teaching illegal immigrants "how to circumvent the law." On May Day in 2008, CASA organized a demonstration that included contingents from the American Communist Party and the Socialist Workers Party. Not surprisingly, CASA and Torres are strong supporters of the "Cuban Five," five Castro spies convicted by the American government, whose cause has become trendy for the international Left.
We can be sure that "immigrant integration" will work in the Senate bill the same way it currently works in the states. The left-wing groups that will benefit from the "Alinsky" section of the Schumer-Rubio bill include the Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund, the Service Employees International Union, La Raza, the Asian Law Caucus, the National Immigration Law Center, CASA, the Massachusetts Immigrant and Refugee Advocacy Coalition, and various organizations supported by Islamists and the Muslim Brotherhood. National Review readers have been alerted to the activities of these groups particularly through the writings of Stanley Kurtz, as well as David Horowitz and Jacob Laksin, co-authors of The New Leviathan.
As Lenin used to say, Cui bono? Who benefits? So who benefits from pages 37094 of the Schumer-Rubio bill? Schumer knows. Does Rubio?