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A: Mira lo hice de la siguiente manera: Puedes utilizar el replace para eliminar la T y poner un espacio, espero te funcione!

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Scrolling through the Facebook news feed can be an emotional roller coaster ride. Life and death, tragedy and comedy all flow across our screens at a scale and scope that isn't really possible to consciously absorb, let alone respond to adequately.
A year or so ago, Facebook added 'Reactions' to its vocabulary of responses. Prior to the 'Reactions' rollout we could reply to a post by simply liking or commenting. If a post particularly moved you, or resonated, it could also be shared to your own newsfeed, a high-value move in the Facebook algorithm hierarchy.
'Reactions' were designed as an extension of the 'like' button, and you receive a notification when they're used, in the same way you are notified about likes on a post. If fans and followers use them your engagement rates go up.
The 'Reactions' lexicon includes six different animated emojis meant to express Like, Love, Haha, Wow, Sad or Angry. In May, for Mother's Day, a purple flower was added to express 'thankfulness'. Keep your eyes open on your newsfeed because rumour has it that the 'thankfulness' flower may become a permanent emoji.
This month, Facebook announced, "We believe in building a platform that supports all communities. So we're celebrating love and diversity this Pride by giving you a special reaction." June is the month when LGBTQ community around the world celebrates Pride, so a rainbow flag emoji is currently available.
The 'Reactions' emojis were Facebook's response to users reporting the awkwardness in having only the 'like' button as an option when responding to difficult or negative posts, for example, posts about the death of a loved one.
So let me make a side-argument here. With or without an increased range of emoticons, expressing more nuanced emotional reactions is challenging. Compassion, empathy, tenderness, relief, anticipation – these are subtle and sometimes complex sentiments.
This is why we have art, and poetry and music, mediums that are more suited to subtlety. I'm not sure we want to use social media and the Internet to fully convey the many shades of human feeling and expression. Artificial Intelligence is already in wide and common use. Can artificial emotional intelligence be far behind?
Facebook's attempt to solve this problem through the 'Reactions' feature has some benefits, but I fear simple emoji reactions may further reduce the scope of our ability to truly express our more difficult human reactions.
As it is, we often find ourselves tongue-tied at important moments. We often fail to speak the words we want to say to loved ones before it is too late. We are prone to hide what we really feel. Skillfully learning to articulate emotional range can take a lifetime. Are we at risk at becoming even less skillful by relegating our emotional responses to a heart, flower or flag?
Vicki McLeod is the author of #Untrending, A Field Guide to Social Media That Matters, a TEDx speaker, and award-winning entrepreneur. She is a business and personal coach and consultant. Follow her on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram or find her at www.vickimcleod.com. This column first appeared in the Maple Ridge NEWS.
Vicki aso writes long-form essays. You can find them on her blog or in the Facebook Notes section of her profile.


NaNoWriMo is like 16 days away, you guys.
I met with my writer's group on Saturday. I know, it's hard to believe that I was able to do anything after Friday night's rager with Nyquil and tomato soup. But I did. I rolled out of bed, didn't shower, put on what has become my weekend uniform (leggings, comfy shirt, afghan-looking sweater, thick socks, legwarmers), and went to the cafe to meet with my group.
We usually start the two- sometimes three-hour meeting by going around and saying what we're reading, then going off on random tangents about books, authors, genres, or tv shows. Eventually we start the discussion of any work submitted for discussion/workshopping. I submitted a character sketch titled "Ruby". I claimed it was flash fiction, but the only action that occurred was her carving a linoleum block, so I suppose as far as conflict goes, it was pretty dull. I got some good ideas for expanding on the character and have since started toying around with a few character exercises where I put Ruby in different scenarios to see how she reacts.
I know that's a little strange – trying to see how this character I made up reacts to conflict. But really, what else is fiction but trying to figure out the people in our heads?
Anyway, we ended up talking about National Novel Writing Month. It seems like a great endeavor, really. Writing a novel in a month? How awesome would that be? The point is to write 50,000 words in a month, which amounts to about 1,600 words a day. Not too bad, right? Of course not, until you get in the thick of it.
I would love to say that I'll be participating this year, but I know I won't be. I'm starting a new job that is training-intensive, working overtime, working out, maintaining a blog, trying to have a social life, AND reading Infinite Jest. Just where am I suppose to find time to write 1,600 words every day? I'm sure I would be able to find the time if I really wanted to do it, but I don't. Maybe next year.
Anyway, the whole reason I'm writing this post is because I think you should all follow Fake NaNoWriMo Tips on Twitter, especially if you're a writer who isn't participating in NaNoWriMo. I suppose it could provide some comic relief if you are participating, but let's be real. You're not.
Also, while you're at it, you can follow me on Twitter for some Everything is Blooming microblogs.
I couldn't think of a picture that would go well with the post, so here's a grainy picture of me in a miniature bowler hat at the Christmas party my friends and I had last weekend.
Yes, you read that correctly. We had a Christmas party.
If you're interested, find out more about National Novel Writing Month here. I'm told you can register and find (support?) groups in your area.


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REVIEWS OF INFECTIOUS DISEASES. 1983 May-Jun; 5(3):452-9.
This summary of the worldwide impact of measles discusses epidemiology, reported incidence, clinical severity, community attitudes toward measles, and the impact of immunization programs on measles. Measles, 1 of the most ubiquitous and persistent of human viruses, occurs regularly everywhere in the world except in very remote and isolated areas. Strains of measles virus from different counties are indistinguishable, and serum antibodies from diverse population have identical specificity. Yet, the epidemic pattern, average age at infection, and mortality vary considerably from 1 area to another and provide a contrasting picture between the developing and the developed countries. In the populous areas of the world, measles causes epidemics every 2-5 years, but in the rapidly expanding urban conglomerations in the developing world, the continuous immigration from the rural population provides a constant influx of susceptible individuals and, in turn, a sustained occurrence of measles and unclear epidemic curves. In the economically advanced nations, measles epidemics are closely tied to the school year, building up to a peak in the late spring and ceasing abruptly after the summer recess begins. Maternal antibody usually confers protection against measles to infants during the 1st few months of life. The total number of cases of measles reported to WHO for 1980 is 2.9 million. Considering that in the developing world alone almost 100 million infants are born yearly, that less than 20% of them are immunized against measles, and that various studies indicate that almost all nonimmunized children get measles, less than 3 million cases of measles in 1980 is a gross underestimate. There was adecrease in the global number of reported cases of measles during the 1979-80 period due primarily to the reduction in the number of cases in the African continent and, to a lesser extent, in Europe. It is premature to conclude that such a reported decline is real and that it reflects the beginning of a longterm trend. The contrast between the developed and the developing worlds is most marked in relation to the severity and outcome of measles. Case fatality rates of more than 20% have been reported from West Africa. It has been estimated that 900,000 deaths occur yearly in the developing world because of measles, but data available to WHO indicate that the global case fatality rate in the developing world approaches 2% (in contrast to 2/10,000 cases in the US), and the actal mortality may be greater than 1.5 million deaths per year. The advent of WHO's Expanded Program on Immunization has brought about an awareness of the measles problem. Whenever and wherever measles vaccine has been used effectively on a large scale, a marked reduction in the number of cases has been recorded.
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Bisceglie (latinski: Vigiliae)  je grad i biskupsko središte u talijanskoj pokrajini Barletta-Andria-Trani u regiji Apulija od 54 877 stanovnika (2011.).

Zemljopisne karakteristike
Bisceglie leži na obali Jadranskog mora, udaljen oko 190 km jugoistočno od najvećeg grada Južne Italije Napulja,i 34,5 km od regionalnog centra Barija.

Povijest
Za antičkog Rima naselje se zvalo Vigiliae, po stražarskom tornju za nadgledanje obale.
Grad su zauzeli Normani, u 11. st. u i služio im je kao prijestolnica istoimene grofovije.
Nakon što je izmijenio nekoliko feudalnih vladara grad je postao samostalna komuna.
Od 1532. Bisceglie je dio Napuljskog Kraljevstva, a od 1861. Kraljevine Italije.

Znamenitosti
Najveća znamenitost grada je zamak (Castello di Bisceglie) koji su izgradili njemački Hohenstaufeni na mjestu starije normanske utvrde, koju su kasnije dogradili Anžuvinci.
Bisceglie ima puno građevina apulijske romanike iz 11. – 11. st. a, kao što su katedrala San Pietro Apostolo i crkva Santa Margherita, uz to ima i nekoliko renesansnih (Palazzo Tupputi) i baroknih palača.

Gospodarstvo
Bisceglie je grad vezan uz more, značajna je ribarska luka i turistička destinacija u ljetnim mjesecima. Uz to njegovi se stanovnici bave maslinarstvom i vinogradarstvom.

Od Bisceglie je industrije grad ima tvornicu namještaja.

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Izvori

Vanjske poveznice

 Službene stranice grada
 Bisceglie na portalu Encyclopædia Britannica
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In April 2012, Seun Abiola joined ACCORD, as a Senior Programme Officer in the Peacekeeping Unit. She held this position until May 2014 when she left ACCORD. She has a Bachelor's degree in Politics, Philosophy and Economics from Wadham College, Oxford University, (UK) and a Masters Degree in Anthropology and Development from the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE).
Prior to joining ACCORD, Seun was based in Nigeria as a Researcher and Programme Officer for the human rights non-governmental organisation Prisoners' Rights and Rehabilitation Welfare Action (PRAWA). PRAWA promotes Justice and Security Sector Reform in Africa with projects aiming to redress the rule of law and human rights violations, as well as to improve access to justice, detention conditions, the humane treatment of detainees in prisons and police cells, and the wider criminal justice sector. Seun had worked in Nigeria, Kenya, Zambia and Sierra Leone implementing projects in collaboration with stakeholders such as National Prison and Police Services, Ministries of Justice and Interior, National Human Rights Commissions, civil society and traditional leaders, as well as the African Commission on Human and People's Rights' (ACHPR) Special Rapporteur on Prisons and Detention Centres.


Calvary Chapel on Florence Ave in Santa Fe Springs, CA is in the Beach California section(s) Religious Organizations. The map of Calvary Chapel shows the approximate location in Santa Fe Springs, but you should call them at phone number (562) 906-0697 to verify their address is 12223 Florence Avenue, Santa Fe Springs, California 90670-3805 and to get hours and driving directions. Calvary Chapel Santa Fe Springs is part of the Calvary Chapel chain. For more information on Calvary Chapel Santa Fe Springs their website URL is www.calvarychapel.com.


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The correct place of Karl Marx's early writings within his system as a whole has been a matter of great controversy. Some believe there is a break in Marx's development that divides his thought into two periods: the "Young Marx" is said to be a thinker who deals with the problem of alienation, while the "Mature Marx" is said to aspire to a scientific socialism.[1]
This difficulty centers on the reasons for Marx's transition from philosophy to the analysis of modern capitalist society. The debate arose with the posthumous publication of the works that Marx wrote before 1845[2] — particularly the Economic and Philosophic Manuscripts of 1844[1] — which had been unavailable to the first generation of Marxist theorists.[3] These writings, first published between 1927 and 1932,[4] provide a philosophical background to the economic, historical and political works that Marx had hitherto been known for.[5] Orthodox Marxism follows a positivist reading that sees Marx as having made a progressive change towards scientific socialism. Marxist humanism, on the other hand, denies there is a break in Marx's development, seeing continuity between the Hegelian philosophical humanism of the early Marx and the work of the later Marx.[6]
Étienne Balibar argues that Marx's works cannot be divided into "economic works" (Das Kapital), "philosophical works" and "historical works" (The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Napoleon or the 1871 The Civil War in France).[7] Marx's philosophy is inextricably linked to his critique of political economy and to his historical interventions in the workers' movement, such as the 1875 Critique of the Gotha Program. The problematic is also related to Marx's rupture with university and its teachings concerning German idealism and his encounter with the proletariat, leading him to write along with Friedrich Engels The Communist Manifesto a year before the Revolutions of 1848. Marxism's philosophical roots were commonly explained (for example by Vladimir Lenin)[8] as derived from three sources: English political economy; French utopian socialism, republicanism and radicalism; and German idealist philosophy. Although this "three sources" model is an oversimplification, it still has some measure of truth.
1 The break with German idealism
2 Various breaks
3 Louis Althusser's "epistemological break"
4 Criticisms
6 Endnotes
The break with German idealism


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FACT, FICTION AND GATEWAY TO THE TOTENUNIVERSE
Toten Herzen
Jane Dougherty – The Green Lady
Jane Dougherty is a product of the Irish diaspora. She was brought up in Yorkshire, educated at Manchester and London, then moved to Paris to work in the wine trade. She now lives in Bordeaux with her family, a Spanish greyhound, and a posse of cats. She writes fantasy with a touch of history and mythology and enjoys retelling Celtic legends. She has published the first two volumes of The Green Woman series and several spin-off stories. The third volume is in the formatting machine and will be out very soon. She is a sucker for anything Viking. Following a family tradition, she also writes poetry and has been published in Poetry Nook Magazine and The Bamboo Hut.
You've completed your trilogy The Green Woman. Looking back on when you started, would you do it all again?
That's a hard one to answer. I know some people believe that a story is like a baby. If it's left alone it grows regardless of the author's wishes. Some stories are no doubt just 'waiting to be told', but I think there are usually other factors too. I started on The Green Woman years ago, easily ten, because the two main readers among my children worked their way through the fantasy section in our local library and learnt very quickly which books they were going to discard before they got beyond the first chapter. This was when I first took an interest in fantasy. Stuck at home with a newborn baby, and too wobbly on my legs to go with them to the library, I read whatever they did. The idea for The Green Woman came to me after listening to what my kids disliked in a lot of fantasy literature and reading how other authors did it. Deborah and the world of Providence was my take on fantasy without the kings, dragons, mages and soothsayers.
Given other circumstances, I'd maybe never have had the idea, but if the idea did come to me nonetheless, I'd jump back in again with no hesitation. I'm certainly glad I entered the world of the Green Woman, and I'm not ready to leave it yet.
What does the reader learn from The Green Woman novels? What will they take away with them when they've finished reading?
It has been simplest to describe The Green Woman as a dystopian series, mainly because Amazon insists on categories but doesn't deal in subtlety. Providence is a dystopian society, caste-ridden, unequal, and misogynist, demanding complete obedience. But it is also a theocratic society, deeply religious and profoundly convinced that the prevailing lunacy is 'good'. What drives the story is the hope in something better. It doesn't centre on destroying a regime, but on starting again and making a better job of it this time. I prefer to call The Green Woman utopian fantasy, but Amazon doesn't have that option.
What I hope will stay in readers' minds when they get to the end of the series is a sense of exhilaration. The ending isn't all sweetness and light and it's full of strong, conflicting emotions, but the world is poised on the brink of something potentially wonderful. Overthrowing an evil regime does not necessarily mean overcoming evil itself. Evil, or the potential for evil, is in all of us, and all we can do is have ideals and stick to them. I hope that readers will have thought a little about the nature of good and evil in the course of the story, and feel as excited as I am about the possibilities that are open to the survivors of Providence as they face their brave new world.
With all the work you've put into The Green Woman how frustrating is it to walk into such a crowded marketplace and not be able to spread the news about your writing?
Like most writers, I suppose, who write because they feel very deeply they have something worth saying, I rather took it for granted that the great book buying public would be as thrilled with my writing as I was 🙂 I had hoped that because I had a publisher that word would get out that this was the best thing to hit fantasy since GRRM, to name but four. I never worked out what my publisher did in the way of marketing, and never saw any evidence that they'd done any promotion whatsoever. After five months of nothing happening and nothing selling, I took my book back. However frustrating it is not breaking into the best seller lists as an indie, it isn't nearly as frustrating as having your book stuck with a publisher who forgot about it ten minutes after it was released. I don't do much in the way of promotion—too busy writing—so I can't really complain. Happily I enjoy blogging so if I make myself interesting and agreeable maybe a few people will be tempted to give the books a try.
Some people think Amazon's subscription service (Amazon Kindle Unlimited, read-all-you-can-for-$10-a-month) is a good thing for authors! What do you think?
I've given up trying to work out what's good and what's bad for authors. All I know is it's all good for Amazon.
When you're working on a novel what is your writing process ?
I don't really have a writing process. When I have an idea I start writing. I write the bit that gave me the idea, usually an opening scene, do something completely different like write a bit of flash fiction or work on a poem, then go back to it when I've started to get an idea of what comes next. If I get a lot of ideas that string into a sort of plan I note them down. Once I get into the writing though, the story often has other ideas about where it wants to go.
Do you have any non-literature influences on your work?
I was one of those unnerving kids who was interested in about a million things and chose her university degree course in function of how many diverse classes it offered. I had a library full of books about history, linguistics, geology, languages, prehistory, history of art, animals, plants and insects—looking back, it was all about getting to the roots of things. I was brought up an Irish Catholic (as opposed to any other mainstream kind of Catholic) so naturally I have always been fascinated by mythology, the Irish and Norse stories in particular. Visiting Newgrange when I was about twelve was a life-changing experience. I remember feeling that I was breathing the same air as people who lived thousands of years before I was born. And when my uncle Michael took me to stand on the boundary wall of his farm, we looked down on the Plain of Meath and he pointed out the hills of Tara and Uisneach in the distance. I knew then that all the old stories were true. The notion has never left me.
You've been quite vocal on your blog about advice to authors. What's the worst bit of advice you've ever come across?
It's more a tacit understanding than advice, but the received wisdom that it's better to have a tin pot, one-man-show publisher, or a massive author mill publisher than to do it yourself. Many of these very small outfits were started by authors to publish their own books. They have no more clue about publishing than I do. And author mills do exactly that, and nothing more—they churn out book after book like spaghetti coming out of a machine, chucking them onto Amazon believing that the law of probabilities will give them a winner if they turn the handle long enough. Don't go there. If you can write a book on a computer you can do a bit of formatting. It's just the extra very tiny mile.
Should an author have any moral or ethical obligations?
I think the answer to that is that each human being has moral and ethical obligations. You know, like the people who win the lottery—can a character in a story spend all his winnings on utterly futile crap and be a hero? What does that make the character who uses his winnings to do something worthwhile? When you write a novel you create characters whose behaviour you have to be able to justify. You can make them do whatever you like, but if it is morally reprehensible, you have to tackle it, give your character a reason, remorse, self-loathing maybe. Otherwise you are lauding their behaviour. You can't have a hero who is morally void, I don't think. And that applies to YA heroes too.
Thanks to Jane for sitting in the interview chair. Everyone should now follow the links and find out more about the world of the Green Woman, Jane's writing and poetry, and even a book trailer at Youtube.
Jane's author profile at Amazon
The Dark Citadel at Amazon.com
The Dark Citadel at Amazon.co.uk
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COAST OF MEXICO FROM TECPAN DE GALEANA WESTWARD TO PUNTA SAN TELMO.
OF MEXICO FROM ZIHUATANEJO WESTWARD TO MANZANILLO.
DEPRESSION IS MOVING TOWARD THE WEST-NORTHWEST NEAR 9 MPH...15 KM/H.
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Anyone try the ipower watch yet?
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Can one of you explain the setup/breakdown process? Do you need a pre-existing power supply and foot switch for it to connect to somehow? I'm imagining it's similar to one of those maintained power switches where you just click your machine on and off.
Edit: I see where Butternuts explained how to start it, still want to confirm that it's a standalone power supply/switch.
It is a standalone power supply. The tattoo machine is run 100% by the wrist unit and the cord that connects the machine to wrist unit is the only cord. Got some more time on it and everything went without a hiccup. Battery life is incredible, definitely lasts longer than I am willing to sit there tattooing. Only issue I had arise so far is the cord they give you to hook the machine up starting cutting out and they give several different extensions to try to cater to the different inputs of machines and it just makes it kinda wonky having the big extension plus the mini RCA think plugged into it. I contacted the company about the faulty cord and they sent me out a new one right away. I did decide to make my own cord though using a decent RCA cord and wired a micro USB port onto the end of it so now the cord is nice and sleek looking. The power unit itself though I am extremely impressed with so far but time will tell how durable it is.
Okay, I get it now. Thanks! Seems interesting.
This thing looks neat. Like, you could go camping and tattoo out in the woods or in the river if you put your ink caps on a float, lmao. Basically good for combat tattooing.
My colleague has one.. He really likes it.. He says it took some getting used to the fact that you cant just put the machine down in the same way as you're used to.
My iPower watch just took an iShit yesterday lol. Keeps turning itself off every 2 minutes. Also, the faulty cord I had that they "were sending a new one right away" never arrived.
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See the gallery for quotes by Jean-Marie Le Pen. You can to use those 8 images of quotes as a desktop wallpapers.
The government would have preferred not to take a stand, but the constant presence of the Israeli-Arab conflict on our television screens made it an issue that could no longer be avoided.
The result is that you are now experiencing what we experienced in the war in Algeria: The Israeli government says that it is a victim of terrorist activity, but this activity is less visible than the military strikes.
When you write a two thousand page history of the Second World War, the deportations and the concentration camps will take up five pages, and the gas chambers perhaps 20 lines.
I'm always suspicious of people who repent of other people's sins.
When Joan D' Arc was asked by her judges why as a Christian she did not love the British, she answered that she did love them, but she loved British in their country. In the same way, we do not hate the Turks, we love them, but in their country.
After all, you're not exactly a nation like all the other nations. You are unique, if only because you are such an ancient people, and because of the way you are spread all over the world and your obvious success in many fields.
France was an occupied country, a country that surrendered and was left without the right to choose.
I'm not saying that the gas chambers didn't exist. I couldn't see them myself.
Millions also perished in the Chinese camps, and there have been terrible genocides in Cambodia and Vietnam.
The much greater crimes of the Soviet Gulags occurred over decades and cost millions of lives.
The Second World War claimed tens of millions of victims.
The suffering caused by the terrorists is the real torture.
The Vichy government was under occupation and carried out the orders of the German occupier.
There wasn't anti-Semitism in France.
What's surprising is that the people who fought against torture here are the communists.
When two drivers curse each other on the road, and one of them happens to be a Jew, you can't define that as anti-Semitism.
You cannot speak on behalf of a nation when you have no mandate to do so.
As for me, even though I have been accused of anti-Semitism countless times, no one has ever heard me make anti-Semitic statements or engage in anti-Semitic behavior.
Much more quotes by Jean-Marie Le Pen below the page.
In recent years - before the intifada - there were three or four incidents of anti-Semitism a year, and that's out of 18 million crimes and violations of the law.


I think you can easily guess the topic for this blog post. Through the years, especially prior to becoming a parent, there are things I swore I would never do. This involved a certain amount of pride (are my standards really that much higher than everyone else's?) and just some general ignorance about why I might make decisions in one way versus another. In the interest of full disclosure and my constant pursuit of humility (and humor), I thought I would look back on some of the things I promised not to do…and have since decided there is a better way :) Enjoy a blog at my expense!
1) I swore I would never be religious about nap time. Oh, boy. This is kind of hilarious, especially given by Type A nature. I knew I wanted my kid to be on a schedule, but especially when she was younger and napped 4 times a day, I was willing to give up one nap time per day if it meant doing what I needed (or wanted) to do. I did not want to be a parent who had to be on a certain schedule and was blocked off from leaving the house at certain times.
Um. I was wrong. While I do my best to stay flexible, I did not factor in how children act when naps are delayed or missed. It is FAR less productive to skip a nap to 'get stuff done' than to just keep Willow on her schedule and plan my activities around whether or not I'm in the house. I just laugh at this one. Fortunately, I have amazing friends who are willing to come visit me for afternoon coffee and work around my child's nap times with no complaints. In that regard, I am extremely lucky.
4) I didn't want to let go of all the ideas and principles I had when it came to child-rearing, even if some of them were unrealistic. And yes, some of them were unrealistic. I don't want to get into details online (though I'm always happy to speak in person!), but there were so many little things I swore I would never do, and now I come to realize why so many people say yes or no to this or that. It's hard. I struggle and fight within myself, and sometimes Nathan and I struggle as we both came into the marriage and parenthood with different ideas of what it looked like. Yet again, I am learning to let go and trust that God made us parents to Willow, and it's better for me to not do it alone.
I'm sure by the end of this journey I'll have a laundry list of things I never thought I'd do that have now become part of my routine. And that's ok. There are some things I have decided not to compromise on, but all of this is a learning process that I will continually be in until the day I die!
If you recently walked into marriage or parenting, what are some things you do now that you promised you never would? I'd love to hear!


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Students shut out: Cuomo & DeBlasio bicker, schools left in limbo
by Cyril Josh Barker April 16, 2020 October 22, 2021
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Last Saturday, New York City Public Schools Chancellor Richard Carranza said that "learning will continue" as schools remain closed due to COVID-19. However, some politicians and education advocates say the learning never started.
A tug-of-war of sorts over closing New York City public schools has caused friction between Mayor Bill de Blasio and Gov. Andrew Cuomo and is creating dire consequences for the city's youth.
Public schools in New York City have been closed since March 16 with the idea that schools would reopen in mid-April. However, the possibility of reopening is now far away for the 1.1 million public school students.
Last Saturday, de Blasio announced during a press conference that the city's public schools will remain closed for the remainder of this school year. He said there was "nothing easy" about the decision and that it's helping beat the coronavirus (COVID-19).
The city's Department of Education (DOE) confirmed tot the AmNews that public schools will be closed for the rest of the school year.
"Lord knows having to tell you that we cannot bring our schools back for the remainder of this school year is painful," de Blasio said. "But I can also tell you it's the right thing to do. It clearly will help us save lives because it will help us to guarantee that the strategies that have been working, the shelter-in-place, the social distancing, all the focused strategies that are finally beginning to bear fruit, they need the time to continue to be effective."
Gov. Andrew Cuomo previously said that any decision about closing schools would be left up to him. During a press conference this week, he said opening the schools would have to be done with other essential services.
"You have to coordinate the schools with the transportation with the economic system," Cuomo said. "These systems work in coordination. They're big gears and each gear intermeshes with the other gear. And you can't start one gear with the other gear stopped, right? That's the coordination."
Carranza agrees that the decision to keep public schools closed was a difficult one but one made in the best interest of all New Yorkers.
"We know that the past few weeks have not been easy," Carranza said. "And we've asked a lot of our teachers and our administrators and our families and our students, I know you're exhausted. But thank you for continuing to do the work that you do. While we may not be together in school buildings, I want to be very clear that schools remain in session because of our teachers and our administrators, and the learning continues."
Some politicians, education advocates and experts say that many students still don't have the tools they need to do their work. Many fear it could have long-lasting effects on children's education.
Brooklyn Councilwoman and former educator Assemblywoman Inez Barron recently said on the New York Amsterdam News Podcast that remote learning is ineffective and many students are falling through the cracks.
"There's still about a quarter of the population of students who have not received their devices," she said. "The problem is the manifestation of the moral standing inequity of funding for our Black and Brown communities. What we're finding is that we were not prepared for a situation of this magnitude.We have schools that really didn't even have a database of children who did not have electronic devices."
Barron added that she's been told that households with multiple children don't have a device for every child. For example, a household with five children could only have two devices for all of the children to share. Barron said that getting a full day of class work was not possible under the circumstances.
"We've got to make sure that we use this to demand and to call for and make sure that we get our fair share," she said.
In a statement to the AmNews, a spokesperson from the DOE said work is still being done to make sure students have all of the equiptment they need to do their school work.
"Our preparation for and execution of remote learning has been thoughtful and inclusive, ensuring all students are able to engage in meaningful growth, learning, and development during this unprecedented crisis," the DOE spokesperson said. "We've taken into account students without devices, students with disabilities, and multilingual learners, and worked with schools to ensure we're getting our students, staff and families the resources they need. Families in need of a device should complete the Remote Learning Device Survey available at schools.nyc.gov or call 718-935-5100 and choose option 5. All requested devices will be shipped to families by the end of the month. We are collecting information about how schools are interacting with their students remotely during this time."
There are also major concerns about the city's foster care and homeless children when it comes to remote learning. President and CEO of The New York Foundling Bill Baccaglini said during an interview that students are missing out on one-third of a school year's education.
The New York Foundling runs Haven Academy Charter School in the Bronx, which caters to students in the foster and child welfare systems. All students at the school have been equipped with electronic devices to do schoolwork and teachers are in constant contact with families.
"I am concerned about the other kids in foster care in the general public school system," Baccaglini said. "The high school graduation rate for kids in foster care was 22%; only 1 in 5 had a high school degree aging out of foster care. I have kids in foster care who are going to be high school juniors in foster care, unlike kids on the Upper East Side and Upper West Side whose parents are going to make sure that they have what they need before they go back to school in the fall. Who's going to help my kids catch up?"
Baccaglini has solutions to make sure all students are caught up when schools reopen in the fall. He's proposing that public school teachers educate 15 students who are at risk for being held back per teacher over the summer for one-on-one tutoring.
Schools would be cleaned and open over the summer and teachers would be paid along with getting a year's worth of services added to their pensions. Students would also get incentives like movie tickets or gift cards for showing up.
The DOE told the AmNews that Students affected by homelessness have been prioritized for distribution for internet-enabled devices.
"Extensive efforts are being made to ensure that the Bridging the Gap social workers are able to continue offering tele-therapy and remote counseling supports – in addition to wellness check-ins and the remote learning support provided by our Students in Temporary Housing Community Coordinators and Family Assistants," a DOE spokesperson told the AmNews." We are working to partner with contracted Community Based Organizations to provide remote enrichment and social-emotional learning opportunities to students in temporary housing."
Coalition for Educational Justice director Natasha Capers said that any decision on what would happen to students for the rest of the school year would be detrimental. She said the feud between Cuomo and de Blasio is having adverse effects on learning because of delayed decision making.
"It is time for Governor Cuomo and Mayor de Blasio to end their narcissistic feud and start working together for the benefit of all of New York's students and families," Capers said. "We need leaders to put aside egos during this crisis and prioritize the well-being of students and their families. We need them to show leadership and to be on one accord for the health and safety of New York State and City. The consequence is unnecessary confusion and additional stress in a time when school communities are already traumatized."
Sheena Wright, President and CEO of United Way of New York City (UWNYC), told the AmNews the COVID-19 pandemic is worsening existing inequities and economic disparities such as food insecurity, and deepening the achievement gap for low-income, immigrant, communities of color in New York City.
In a recent survey distributed by NY Equity Trust, parents reported that they were "very concerned" about their child falling behind, including 71% of parents who are low-income, 72% of Black parents, and 66% of parents in school districts classified by the state as "high-need."
UWNYC recently established the COVID-19 Community Fund that's working with partner nonprofits and community-based organizations who work directly with communities who are disproportionately impacted by coronavirus.
"We cannot afford to wait until the fall to meet the basic needs that families rely on, and are most often met within school buildings," Wright said. "Nor can we afford to delay our efforts to combat the learning loss which will be experienced by our children – especially for the students furthest behind. The initiation of NYC's remote learning plan continues to reveal new depths of inequality and inequity throughout our City, and for our most vulnerable families, those who do not have the resources to support virtual learning—like books, laptops and internet—it is crystal clear that they need us now more than ever."
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Hetchins at Clarence Street Cyclery
Southend-on-Sea, in Essex, more commonly referred to as Southend, or Sarfend, is a seaside resort town and borough on the north side of the Thames estuary. It was a busy holiday destination in its heyday, and it's still a charming place to visit, if just to stroll along the boardwalk and reminisce about what lay behind the modern facade.
It was also home, for a while, of one of the most revered and, now, collectable, British marques of handmade bicycle: Hetchins. Vintage Hetchins are highly sought-after, and this one made it all the way to Sydney with its owner, where it was restored by one of the city's oldest bike shops — Clarence Street Cyclery.
Known for their curly stays and elaborate 'lug' work, Hetchins are still considered the Rolls Royce of Bicycles. The workshop was located at 117-119 Hamstel Road, Southend-on-Sea which, ironically, is currently occupied as a bike shop. Although, it has to be said, the bikes sold there today are not quite of the same pedigree.
'Harry' Hyman Hetchins settled in the United Kingdom after fleeing the Russian Revolution. He opened a music shop in London where he repaired gramophones and sold sheet music, alongside a sizeable stock of Rudge and Raleigh bicycles. Harry was an avid cyclist, a member of the Allondon Road Club, and being a natural engineer, soon began to dream of making his own frames.
Hetchins built his first frame during the early 1920s, and it was nothing like the bikes he became famous for. It was a standard design, but he sold it, and demand continued to grow. He subsequently hired Jack Denny, the son of a local frame builder and owner of two London bike shops. It was actually Denny who first imagined the attributes of the modern Hetchins.
Many of Jack's riding buddies had fallen victim to frame failure where the tube had sheared away from the straight lugs that were in use at the time, and so began to reinforce the frames with extra pieces of metal. He wasn't happy with their aesthetic and started to carve them away with fleur-de-lys designs, which helped to spread the load over a larger area.
Denny also looked at the rake of the forks and thought that the same concept could bring a comfortable amount of compliance to the rear of the bike. It was tested, and it worked. Harry saw the frame, and asked Denny to join his business and produce these elaborate frames under the Hetchins name, to which he agreed.
The story behind this frame extends over three generations of men. A son had ordered the base model from the Hetchins workshop, and his father went back into the shop, unbeknownst to his son, and upgraded the order to very top model, which proved to be a wonderful surprise. It was brought with the son to his new home in Australia.
Sixty years later it was brought into Clarence Street Cyclery by the grandson for a complete restoration. The frame was stripped and the dropouts were adjusted by Geoff Scott to accept modern brakes, the rear end widened and new seat and chain stay bridges were installed. It was then resprayed and lug-lined by Peter at Star Enamel.
The customer sourced new decals for the frame, including the rare seat tube decal. It was then built up with a modern Dura-Ace groupset and saddle. The new components might shock the purists or the collectors, but it was selected for its modern-day usability. It's going to be ridden every day, and that's exactly what Harry Hetchins would have wanted.
Special thanks to David Cook and Gid at Clarence Street Cyclery.
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NASCAR Camping World Truck Series Drivin' for Linemen 200 and Europe's Champ Truck World Series highlight the schedule!
March 10, 2015 – Madison, Illinois / St. Louis – Officials from Gateway Motorsports Park (MSP) have released the preliminary schedule of events for the venue's 1.25 mile NASCAR speedway and the 1.6 mile road course. The 2015 schedule is highlighted by the return of the NASCAR Camping World Truck Series Drivin' for Linemen 200 presented by Ameren on June 13 and the debut of the Champ Truck World Series for big rigs July 17 through 19, 2015.
Last year marked the return of NASCAR to St. Louis for the first time under the new ownership of Curtis Francois. The event, which saw popular driver Darrell "Bubba" Wallace claim the victory, was an action-packed race that featured a new track record, multiple lead changes, on-track drama and an exciting finish. Blair expects more of the same for the 2015 event.
The Champ Truck World Series is a transplant from Europe where the series competes in front of massive crowds on many of the same tracks as Formula One. The series features full-size big rigs that feature 2-axle, class-8 tractors with commercially available diesel engines between 10-15 liters and manual transmissions. The series will visit six of the top road racing venues in the United States as part of the first ever American championship. Gateway Motorsports Park will host a complete show on both Saturday, July 18 and Sunday, July 19, 2015.
Also on tap are three events with the Porsche Club of St. Louis, three events with the Sports Car Club of America (SCCA), two events with the Midwest Cafe Racing Association, a weekend with the National Auto Sport Association and the debut of U.S. Drift Street Driven Tour – an automotive lifestyle event to be held on July 4, 2015.
Car enthusiasts who want to use their own car during track-day events can participate in five SCCA PDX events to be held on the third Wednesday of each month in May, June, July, August and September. Participation in PDX events gives drivers one-on-one instruction with SCCA certified driving instructors and makes them eligible for other track day events.
Along with the association race weekends, the road course at Gateway Motorsports Park will also feature appearances and track days with a variety of driving experiences ranging from stock cars to formula cars as well as the Gateway debut of the Skip Barber Racing School. In addition to motorized events, the American Heart Association Heart Walk, the Graffiti Run and Color Fun Fest are just a few of the specialty events held on the venue.
For additional information regarding Gateway Motorsports Park, please visit www.GatewayMSP.com or follow us on Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, YouTube and Snapchat. The Gateway Motorsports Park offices are open Monday – Friday from 9 a.m. – 5 p.m. by calling (618) 215-8888.
Please note that schedule is subject to change. Please verify all events before travel.
Located just five minutes from downtown St. Louis and covering 180 acres of prime real-estate, Gateways MSP is the largest outdoor entertainment facility in the region, encompassing a ¼ mile NHRA-sectioned drag strip, 1.25 mile NASCAR speedway, 1.6 mile road course, a new Gateway Karting facility and a new 14-acre off road course. The vision for the new Gateway Motorsports Park is to create a racing lifestyle that attracts enthusiasts, professionals, amateurs and street-car lovers of all kinds by harnessing the grassroots momentum, energy and passion of the thousands of racing enthusiasts and fans in the area.
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Crypto.com Announces Airdrop Of Its "The Moment of Truth" NFT Collection Featuring LeBron James
Crypto.com has announced the airdrop of its "The Moment of Truth" nonfungible token (NFT) collection featuring Los Angeles Lakers forward LeBron James to 5,550 randomly selected viewers of its Super Bowl commercial.
It has been reported that those who found and scanned a hidden QR code that appeared 10 seconds into a conversation between present-day James and his apprehensive teenage self could enter to win a limited edition NFT.
However, the collection consists of instant snapshots of behind-the-scenes moments from the making of the Big Game spot. "Sleuths" who scanned a QR code that appeared on-screen for a split second followed it to a "secret" webpage and had the chance to sign up for the Crypto.com NFT platform until the Friday after the game.
The report said that lucky fans will be airdropped one of 5,550 total NFTs for free; the drop is made up of 15 NFTs that come in three tiers with varying editions.
Likewise, Crypto.com partnered with LeBron James and the LeBron James Family Foundation (LJFF) to collaborate on educational and vocational opportunities focused on Web3.
According to a statement, the partnership will give students and families in LeBron James' hometown of Akron, Ohio access to tools and resources to learn about blockchain technology and potential career paths in crypto.
"I want to ensure that communities like the one I come from are not left behind. Aligned on the need to educate and support my community with the information and tools they need for inclusion."
The airdropped NFTs are not for sale by Crypto.com. Five percent of any NFT re-sales, whether on the Crypto.com NFT platform or other secondary exchange, will go to the LeBron James Family Foundation as royalties.
Thus, LeBron James is part of Crypto.com's long roster of celebrity partners that includes Matt Damon, whose commercial has been subject to criticism. The exchange also recently partnered with the LA-based women's sports team, the Angel City Football Club.
Source: Cointelegraph


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The Big Push To Reform Music Copyright For The Digital Age
Bill Rosenblatt Contributor
Momentum is building around a number of bills proposed in Congress that could increase royalty payments for music creators in the digital age, while making life more efficient for digital music services.
Although the four bills affect different sets of people, the music industry at large has gotten behind all of them collectively in hopes of getting them passed this year, calling the collection of bipartisan proposals the Music Bus (as in "omnibus legislation"). But a more appropriate metaphor is a train; the question is whether all of the cars will stay on the track or if a single car will derail and cause a wreck.
The four pieces of legislation go by names that represent the typical Washington combination of puns and alphabet soup: the CLASSICS (Compensating Legacy Artists for their Songs, Service and Important Contributions to Society) Act, the Fair Play Fair Pay Act, the AMP (Allocation for Music Producers) Act and the Music Modernization Act (MMA).
Music creators are paid royalties through an ad-hoc patchwork of laws, industry conventions and private deals, many of which date back decades. The industry has struggled to adopt, adapt, stretch and contort these structures as music has transitioned to digital. These four bills are part of that process; collectively, they are the biggest copyright legislative package to reach Congress in decades.
To understand what each of these four bills does, it helps to know a few facts about music industry royalty flows. Here's a diagram that captures the basics:
Basic rights & royalty flows from use of a digital music track.
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Each recorded music track — that you might download from iTunes, own on vinyl, play on Spotify or hear on an FM radio station — has two copyrights: one for the musical composition and one for the sound recording. In the simple case, the former is created by a songwriter and managed by a music publisher while the latter is created by a recording artist and managed by a record label.
In addition, each of those two copyrighted works has two sets of rights that digital music services may need to license from the owners in order to play the track: the reproduction and distribution right (known as a "mechanical" for musical compositions) and the public performance right.
The patchwork of laws and deals has led to today's complex and confusing situation, in which different types of digital music services have to license different rights and pay royalties according to different schemes under different conditions. For example, the law distinguishes between download services like iTunes; so-called interactive streaming services like Spotify, Apple Music and Google Play; and so-called non-interactive streaming or digital radio services like Pandora, Sirius XM and the streams of individual AM/FM broadcast stations.
With that background in mind, let's look at the four pieces of proposed legislation.
The Bills
The AMP Act is the simplest to describe, although the details are rather arcane: It would formalize royalty payments to producers and engineers for sound recordings played on digital radio services so that they are more likely to get shares of those royalties.
The CLASSICS and Fair Play Fair Pay Acts also pertain to digital radio services; they are attempts to close loopholes in copyright law.
The last major revision of federal copyright law, in 1976, did not establish a federal copyright in sound recordings made before 1972; instead, state copyright laws (if any) governed those recordings. This wasn't a big deal until digital music services appeared, with very large catalogs of music. Federal law gives digital radio services implicit permission to play sound recordings as long as they pay a government-set royalty rate. But because federal copyright doesn't exist for pre-1972 recordings, digital radio services technically have to secure permission from and negotiate royalties with rights holders in order to play them. This is a painfully complex process, so most digital music services just didn't bother. This led to lawsuits in different states, which (making matters worse) produced different outcomes.
The CLASSICS Act seeks to do what Congress neglected to do in 1976: make federal copyright apply to pre-1972 recordings. On the one hand, this would require digital radio services to pay royalties on those recordings (which some are doing now anyway, partially as a result of the various lawsuits); on the other hand, the statutory royalty rate would apply, making the process much simpler. It's for the latter reason that digital radio services aren't pushing back too hard against the CLASSICS Act, even though they fought lawsuits over pre-1972 recordings in court. The CLASSICS Act was first introduced into the House of Representatives last July, and a counterpart bill came into the Senate earlier this month.
The Fair Play Fair Pay Act would also affect digital radio. Both digital and AM/FM radio pay performance royalties (e.g., to ASCAP and BMI) on musical compositions. But only digital radio services pay performance royalties on sound recordings; AM and FM stations do not. That's the loophole that Fair Play Fair Pay purports to close.
The original rationale for AM/FM radio not paying performance royalties on sound recordings was that radio provided important promotional services for them. Artists and labels needed radio airplay to sell records, so instead of radio stations paying recording artists and labels, the money flowed the other way, through payola and other "considerations" that made their way to radio DJs and program directors.
Digital radio services, on the other hand, needed sound recordings in order to attract audiences when they first appeared in the 1990s, so they didn't object to paying performance royalties. Now, however, there's an argument to be made that digital radio services are roughly as popular as AM/FM radio and therefore that the royalty playing field isn't level.
There are three sets of stakeholders here with overlapping interests: recording artists and labels, digital radio services and AM/FM broadcasters. The stakeholders argue endlessly over the relative promotional values of various types of radio in the digital age. In addition, the NAB — the lobbying group for AM/FM radio — touts the value of small-town radio stations to their communities beyond playing music. (Fair Play Fair Pay exempts stations with less than $1 million in annual revenue from providing feeds of music play data and paying royalties; those stations merely need to pay $500 flat annual fees.) Meanwhile, record labels and digital radio services both point out that the United States is only one of three countries on earth that don't provide performance royalties on sound recordings, the other two being Iran and North Korea.
A Different Focus
That leaves the Music Modernization Act, the newest of the four proposals; it was introduced into the House last December, with a Senate counterpart introduced last month. The MMA addresses different parts of the music industry: songwriters and music publishers, instead of recording artists and record labels; interactive music services like Spotify and Apple Music, not digital radio; and licensing for mechanical (reproduction and distribution) rights, not performing rights.
The MMA purports to fix a problem that has been festering for years in the world of interactive music services. These services require reproduction and distribution licenses for both sound recordings and their underlying compositions. They get licenses for sound recordings by making private deals with record labels; for compositions, the law guarantees them so-called mechanical licenses at government-set royalties without having to receive permission from rights holders in advance. But it doesn't grant a blanket license covering all music. Instead, the law requires interactive streaming services to file paperwork called Notices of Intention (NOIs) with copyright owners for each track they want to offer, if they haven't made licensing deals with music publishers that make the paperwork unnecessary.
This system made sense 20 years ago, when mechanical licenses were needed mostly for recording cover versions of other people's songs. But today, for services like Spotify, Apple Music and Google Play, with their huge and growing catalogs, it requires them to get licenses to more than 10,000 compositions per day.
Yet the real problem isn't the paperwork: It's that the music services don't always know the identities of the songwriters or music publishers for the underlying compositions. They get data feeds from record labels and independent artist aggregators, which sometimes don't convey that information. These music services hire agencies that are supposed to find the composition rights holders' identities and, when necessary, send them the paperwork.
This is a difficult problem, resulting from decades of incorrect, contested or just plain missing data. Both rights holders and music services are motivated to solve this problem: Rights holders want to get paid accurately and promptly while music services want to lower their administrative burden and their legal risk.
The MMA proposes two major steps to solve the recording-composition matching problem. One is simple: provide a blanket license, as digital radio has for sound recordings and as most digital music services have for performances on compositions. That would eliminate the need for licenses for each track.
But then someone still has to figure out whom to pay the mechanical royalties for compositions. For that, the MMA calls for appointing a single licensing agency, which would take music play data feeds from the interactive streaming services, figure out the underlying compositions and their rights holders, and pay the mechanicals. The music services would pay administrative fees to the single licensing agency instead of paying the private services they use now.
This would certainly make life easier for the interactive streaming services, and it would eliminate the kinds of lawsuits they are getting now, from songwriters and music publishers, over alleged mechanical licensing related errors. In fact, it's such a win for the services that music publishers believe they can get them to agree to higher royalties in exchange.
Royalties are set in a process run by the Copyright Office every five years, in which a panel of administrative law judges hears testimony from both sides and determines a rate based on certain economic principles. The MMA proposes changes in those economic principles that music publishers expect will result in higher royalties.
The streaming music service, music publisher and songwriter communities are all generally in favor of the MMA. Yet in its current form, it's something of a lost opportunity.
In addition to higher royalty rates, music creators have been pushing for more accuracy and accountability in royalty processing. Many current royalty allocation processes rely on bad or nonexistent data and are done through less-than-ideal means such as statistical sampling and various types of "educated guesses." Blanket licenses exist not only for efficiency reasons but also to paper over the various data problems that pervade the industry, particularly on the composition and music publishing side.
The problem of matching recordings to compositions makes payment of streaming mechanicals perhaps the hardest of these problems. Currently there is a competitive market, of sorts, among companies that provide this service, such as the Harry Fox Agency (HFA) and Music Reports Inc. (MRI). (A third player in this space, RightsFlow, was acquired by Google and processes royalties only for Google Play and YouTube.)
Yet the MMA calls for a single agency — a monopoly — to take over this task, and requires that the agency be a nonprofit entity. The agency would have little accountability or oversight, and minimal incentive to improve.
The existing private agencies — all for-profit companies — would not be motivated to serve this function. In fact, the only organization known to be interested is SoundExchange, a nonprofit that serves a similar role for the somewhat easier task of processing sound recording royalties for digital radio. The MMA could be improved by adding provisions for stronger oversight of the mechanical licensing agency, to make up for the lack of economic incentives, as I have suggested elsewhere.
So what are the chances of all four pieces of legislation being enacted? Clearly it's advantageous to group them all into an "omnibus" package to make passage through a very distracted Congress easier. But as I mentioned, this lays open the possibility that any one of the four bills could derail the package.
Right now, the various lobbying groups are trying to get leverage by playing these bills off one another, by asking for concessions in one bill in exchange for letting another bill move ahead. The biggest factor by far in these negotiations is the NAB.
The RIAA has been lobbying for sound recording performance royalties from terrestrial radio for a long time; the Fair Play Fair Pay Act is just the latest attempt to get this done. The NAB has vigorously opposed it every time.
The NAB has a big advantage in these standoffs, which has little to do with music industry economics and everything to do with congressional representation.
The RIAA represents companies that are based primarily in three states: New York, California and Tennessee (Nashville is a major music industry hub). Digital radio services are predominantly headquartered in California (Pandora, Apple, Google) and New York (Sirius XM). Therefore, bills that involve only those industry segments are simpler to get through Congress.
But AM/FM radio is a different beast. It isn't concentrated anywhere in particular; for example, the largest terrestrial radio operator, Texas-based iHeartMedia, owns only about 6% of the FCC-licensed radio stations nationwide. In other words, there are AM/FM radio interests in all 50 states, meaning that members of Congress in 47 states could be inclined to oppose legislation like Fair Play Fair Pay.
As a result, the current thinking among some music industry policy wonks is that the music industry will give up on the Fair Play Fair Pay Act in order to get the other three bills passed. In other words, maybe the bus metaphor was the right one after all: The music industry will have to throw Fair Play Fair Play under the Music Bus in order to save it. And the industry's struggle to adapt its crazy quilt of laws to the evolving digital age will continue.
Bill Rosenblatt
I am the founder of GiantSteps Media Technology Strategies, a consulting firm whose clients include content providers and digital media technology companies ranging from...


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PC Records is a German Neo-Nazi music label. The label is an artistic outlet for the Chemnitz Neo-Nazi scene and one of the most active of the far-right and "Rock Against Communism" music scene in Germany. PC Records is releasing some of the most regionally popular Neo-Nazi bands. Several of the albums released by the label have been indexed for Neo-Fascist content. The label includes a shop and a mailorder business. The name "PC" refers to the phrase "Political Correctness, no thanks!"

According to the Office for the Protection of the Constitution (Landesamt für Verfassungsschutz Sachsen), PC Records "has a high reputation in the right-wing extremist scene at home and abroad. Its turnover is estimated at several hundred thousand euros per year. The profits enable business owners not only to make a living, but also to finance and promote scene activities."

Connections and Glorification of NSU Terrorist
Founder of PC Records, Hendrik Lasch, had good connections to National Socialist Underground (NSU) member Uwe Mundlos in the 1990s. Lasch promoted a T-shirt, made to raise money to support the three Neo-Nazi activists of NSU, who hid from the police.

The album Adolf Hitler Lives by Gigi & Die Braunen Stadtmusikanten was released on PC Records in 2010. The CD features the song "Döner-Killer". In the song, Daniel Giese praises the series of murders committed by the NSU, which were later uncovered.

Bands
Featuring around 200 far-right rock album releases from 2000 to 2014, PC Records is one of the most active right-wing labels in Germany. With numerous solo samplers, the label finances activities of the neo-fascist scene and its protagonists. The label released music from the following bands:

 Aryan Brotherhood
 Arische Jugend
 Act of Violence
 Blitzkrieg|Blitzkrieg, Chemnitz
 Brutal Attack, UK
 Die Lunikoff Verschwörung (follow-up project of the forbidden Berlin band "Landser")
 Division Germania, Mönchengladbach
 Gigi & Die Braunen Stadtmusikanten, Daniel Giese
 Heilige Jugend
 Kodex Frei
 Sacha Korn
 Sleipnir
 Stahlgewitter
 Sturmwehr
 Skalinger
 Ungebetene Gäste

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German nationalist organizations
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Food sensitivities are a real problem for a lot of people with fibromyalgia (FMS) or chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS or ME/CFS). Experts believe that, because of the central sensitization involved in these conditions, you can develop sensitivities to foods that then aggravate your symptoms.
The best way to figure out what, if any, foods are a problem for you is an elimination diet. It's not easy, but it is mercifully short compared to most diet plans. You start out by eliminating broad categories of foods that are the most likely one to cause problems. Then, you re-introduce one at a time and see how you feel.
Even without mental fog, it can be hard to remember what you ate on any given day. That's why a food diary and symptom journal are important for the success of an elimination diet. You'll be comparing the two of them to see what effect your diet is having.
Your food diary doesn't need to be anything complicated. A simple list of what foods you eat each day is probably enough. A symptom journal can be that simple as well, or you can go to Tracking Your Symptoms to find several sample logs.
Once you start the elimination diet, give it at least five days. If you notice a reduction in symptoms that last for a couple of days, you're ready to start adding foods back in. If you don't notice changes, give it another five days. If you still don't notice any difference, it's tempting to give up, but if you stick to the diet, you may notice subtle changes as you add things back in that can point to food sensitivities.
While it's uncommon, it is possible for people to feel worse when they switch to this diet, probably because they've introduced a new food to replace something they've eliminated. If this happens to you, try eliminating anything new you've introduced to see if that helps.
IT'S ONLY TEMPORARY! Keep in mind that some people with FMS and ME/CFS see pain and fatigue drop significantly when they eliminate certain foods. If you find something that helps, it'll be worth it. If not, it's still valuable knowledge.
Once your 5-10 day elimination period is over, it's time to start adding foods back in. You'll want to add one category at a time, then wait 2-3 days before adding another one. Eat a lot of the re-introduced foods, at least three servings a day.
Depending on the foods and your body, you could notice an increase in sensitivity-based symptoms within minutes or hours, or possibly the next day.
If you find a sensitivity, eliminate that category again and wait until your body has recovered from the increased symptoms before you add another food.
This is a tedious process and it may see like it takes forever. Just do your best to stick with it and remember that it could make a major difference in how you feel.
Some food sensitivities are easier to deal with than others. If you find you're sensitive to gluten, for instance, you may want to see a nutritionist to find out the broad range of foods you'll need to avoid and learn about alternatives.
If you don't discover any sensitivities, you might still want to maintain the healthier eating habits you adopted for the elimination diet. Read Changing Your Diet to Manage Fibromyalgia & Chronic Fatigue Syndrome for more information on why.
Copyright 2008 Celiac Disease and Gluten-free Diet Information Since 1995. All rights reserved. "Elimination Diet May Ease Fibromyalgia"


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$lang['en'] = array();

$lang['en'] += array(
	//Developers
	'developers.rapid_pace' => 'Peercoin development is moving ahead at a rapid pace.',
	'developers.core_protocol' => 'Core Protocol',
	'developers.core_protocol_desc' => 'Upcoming editions of the core protocol wallet will contain the following features:',
	'developers.cold_wallet_minting' => 'Cold Wallet Minting',
	'developers.cold_wallet_minting_desc' => 'Currently, in order to mint new coins, users must keep a wallet connected to the network, which is known as a hot wallet. Hot wallets are at a greater risk of malware stealing their coins, because they must remain connected to the internet during the minting process. In upcoming versions of Peercoin, special minting keys will allow users to mint while keeping their spending keys entirely offline.',
	'developers.optional_checkpointing' => 'Optional Checkpointing',
	'developers.optional_checkpointing_desc' => 'Today, the network uses centralized checkpointing to protect against attacks. The need for this security decreases as the network grows, upcoming versions will make these checkpoints optional. A future version will turn off checkpoints by default.',
	'developers.peercoin_ecosystem' => 'Peercoin Ecosystem',
	'developers.peer4commit' => 'Would you like to get involved in Peercoin development and get paid for it? Here's your chance! Peer4commit provides a central hub for development. You can:',
	'developers.peer4commit.1' => 'Select a project on the site, work on it, and receive peercoins as a reward.',
	'developers.peer4commit.2' => 'Pick a project you'd like to support, and contribute peercoins toward it.',
	'developers.peer4commit.3' => 'Think up a new project, submit it, and receive donations towards its development.',
	'developers.what_are_you_waiting_for' => 'Well, what are you waiting for?',
	'developers.get_started' => 'Get started with Peer4commit',
	'developers.notable_community_projects' => 'Current community projects',
	'developers.peerunity_desc' => 'Peerunity is wallet software that is developed and maintained by the Peercoin community. It includes many extra features that the official wallet lacks, such as coin control and one click minting. Future releases will contain a redesigned theme, Peershares integration and a minting tab.',
	'developers.peershares_desc' => 'Peershares is an inexpensive and decentralized ledger to be used by businesses for raising funds, tracking share ownership and distributing dividends in an automated fashion. Each business using Peershares has its own blockchain that is independent of all others and secured cheaply and easily using Peercoin's proof-of-stake.',
	'developers.peerbox_desc' => 'Peerbox is a secure operating system for minting and running Peercoin nodes, and is currently under active development. It focuses on inexpensive, energy-efficient devices such as the Raspberry Pi, which is compatible with Peercoin\'s goal of providing an energy efficient cryptocurrency. If ASIC is a term for dedicated and energy efficient mining, then Peerbox is the ASIC of Proof-of-Stake.',
	'developers.nubits_desc' => 'NuBits is a project by the creator of Peershares, Jordan Lee. NuBits is the first implementation of Peershares. It is intended to solve the problem of volatility in cryptocurrencies.',
	'developers.devforums' => 'Find more innovative ideas on our forums or join the chat to discuss and share your own.',
);

$lang['en'] += array(
	//Exchanges
	'exchanges.what_are' => 'What is an Exchange?',
	'exchanges.what_are_desc' => 'Exchanges enable you to trade your government-backed currency, such as US Dollars or Euros, in order to buy and sell Peercoins. Exchanges also facilitate trade between peercoins and other cryptocurrencies, such as Bitcoin.',
	'exchanges.buy_sell' => 'Placing an Order',
	'exchanges.buy_sell_desc' => 'Trades begin by the placing of buy and sell orders. Create a Buy order to request a certain amount of Peercoins for a specific price. Create a Sell order to offer to sell Peercoins. When different orders overlap in price, the trade is automatically completed, and the accounts of both parties are credited with the currencies they traded. A Market Order will trade immediately at the price currently available.',
	'exchanges.fees' => 'Fees',
	'exchanges.fees_desc' => 'Each time a trade occurs, a small percentage is taken by the exchange for facilitating the transaction. This is known as a Trading Fee. Some exchanges also charge a Withdrawal Fee when you withdraw your new currency from the exchange.',
	'exchanges.choosing' => 'Find a Peercoin exchange using CoinMarketCap',
	'exchanges.disclaimer' => 'Reminder: Be sure to withdraw your Peercoins from the exchange after you purchase them. Storing coins in your own wallet is more secure, and makes you eligible for Peercoin's 1% minting reward.',
	'exchanges.location' => 'Location',
	'exchanges.notes' => 'Notes',
	'exchanges.visit' => 'Visit',
);

$lang['en'] += array(
	'footer.links' => 'Links',
	'footer.tools' => 'Tools',
	'footer.exchanges' => 'Exchanges',
	'footer.mining' => 'Mining',
);

$lang['en'] += array(
	// FAQ
	'faq.yes' => 'Yes',
	'faq.no' => 'No',
	'faq.sources' => 'Sources',
	'faq.q1' => 'Was Peercoin fairly launched?',
	'faq.q1_ans' => 'Sunny King announced the planned release of Peercoin 9 days before the release. There were no blocks mined prior to launch. One forum member wrote, "[Sunny King] released a link to the source in the other thread at the promised time (5 min before 18:00 UTC). There was no premine. By the time I had built from source and got things running, there were 5 blocks mined."',
	'faq.q2' => 'What is the purpose of checkpointing?',
	'faq.q2_ans' => 'As of version 0.2, centrally-broadcasted checkpointing is no longer a critical part of the protocol. Its purpose is to defend the network during the initial growth period, and to help ensure a smooth upgrade path. Central checkpointing is now being gradually weakened, and will be eventually removed, to achieve a similar decentralization level to Bitcoin. The checkpoints exist solely as a security measure: if something terrible were to happen, we have the checkpoints as a backup.',
	'faq.q3' => 'Is Peercoin a clone of Bitcoin?',
	'faq.q3_ans' => 'Peercoin is one of the truly unique alternative coins. Although its code is based on Bitcoin, Peercoin is the first coin to introduce Proof of Stake to secure the network. Proof of Work is also used in Peercoin, to promote fair coin distribution, but is not necessary for the security of the network.',
	'faq.q4' => 'Is Peercoin a pump-and-dump coin?',
	'faq.q4_ans' => 'Peercoin brings innovative features, active developers and significant community involvement. As of August 1, 2014, Peercoin is nearly two years old, and has a market cap of over $20 million USD.',
	'faq.q5' => 'Is the 1% minting reward fair for all users?',
	'faq.q5_ans' => 'When the entire money supply grows due to the minting process, all Peercoin holders who participate in minting maintain their relative share of the network. Although large stakeholders generate a higher total number of Peercoins, they cannot, in percentage terms, pull ahead of other minters.',
	'faq.q6' => 'Is Peercoin inflationary?',
	'faq.q6_ans' => 'The change of PPC money supply is determined by:',
	'faq.q6_l1' => 'Proof of Work mining (increases supply)',
	'faq.q6_l2' => 'Number of transactions (decreases supply by 0.01 PPC per transaction)',
	'faq.q6_l3' => 'Proof of Stake minting (increases supply at a rate up to 1% per year)',
	'faq.q6_ans2' => 'Thanks to increased mining participation, Peercoin inflation rate has consistently remained below 5% for the first half of 2014. At the current adoption rate, this rate will decline further over time, making Peercoin less inflationary and more sustainable than most other cryptocoins.',

);

$lang['en'] += array(
	// Global
	'homepage_title' => 'Peercoin - Secure & Sustainable Cryptocoin.',

	'second_ago' => 'second ago',
	'seconds_ago' => 'seconds ago',

	'website' => 'Website',
	'forum' => 'Forum',
);

$lang['en'] += array(
	// Header
	'header.get_started' => 'Get Started',
	'header.newcomers' => 'Newcomers',
	'header.investors' => 'Investors',
	'header.merchants' => 'Merchants',
	'header.miners' => 'Miners',
	'header.developers' => 'Developers',
	'header.tutorials' => 'Video Tutorials',
	'header.learn' => 'Learn',
	'header.frequently_asked_questions' => 'Frequently Asked Questions',
	'header.peercoin_whitepaper' => 'Peercoin Whitepaper',
	'header.exchanges' => 'Exchanges',
	'header.mint_peercoins' => 'Minting',
	'header.mining-guide' => 'Mining',
	'header.wallet' => 'Wallets',
	'header.community' => 'Community',
	'header.languages' => 'Languages',
);

$lang['en'] += array(
	// Index page
	'index.why_peercoin' => 'Why Peercoin',
	'index.download_wallet' => 'Download Wallet',
	'index.price' => 'Price',
	'index.market_cap' => 'Market Cap',
	'index.total_supply' => 'Total Supply',
	'index.last_updated' => 'Last Updated:',
	'index.last_updated_never' => 'never',
	'index.why_peercoin_q' => 'Why Peercoin?',
	'index.why_peercoin_desc' => 'Peercoin seeks to be the most secure cryptocoin at the lowest cost, rewarding all users for strengthening the network by giving them a 1% annual PPC return when minting.',
	'index.built_to_last' => 'Built to Last',
	'index.built_to_last_desc' => 'The world\'s first Proof-of-Stake coin.',
	'index.fair_distribution' => 'Fair Distribution',
	'index.fair_distribution_desc' => 'No insider pre-sale or instant mining.',
	'index.transparent_protocol' => 'Stable and Secure',
	'index.transparent_protocol_desc' => 'Protecting your investment since 2012.',
	'index.energy_efficient' => 'Energy Efficient',
	'index.energy_efficient_desc' => 'Mint Peercoins on any device.',
	'index.learn_more' => 'Learn more',
	'index.get_started' => 'Get started',
	'index.newcomers' => 'Newcomers',
	'index.newcomers_desc' => 'Learn how to buy, sell, spend, and store Peercoin.',
	'index.investors' => 'Investors',
	'index.investors_desc' => '1% annual PPC return when minting.',
	'index.merchants' => 'Merchants',
	'index.merchants_desc' => 'It\'s time to cut down on transaction fees.',
	'index.miners' => 'Miners',
	'index.miners_desc' => 'Put your mining equipment to good use.',
	'index.developers' => 'Developers',
	'index.developers_desc' => 'Take a look at some innovations in the pipeline.',
	'index.newsletter' => 'Newsletter',
	'index.newsletter_placeholder' => 'Enter your e-mail address...',
	'index.newsletter_submit' => 'Sign me up!',
);

$lang['en'] += array(
	//Investors
	'investors.established_network' => 'Established Network',
	'investors.established_network_desc' => 'Peercoin was launched in 2012, making it one of the oldest and most reliable cryptocoin networks in existence.',
	'investors.limited_supply' => 'Limited Supply',
	'investors.limited_supply_desc' => 'Peercoin's annual inflation rate has averaged below 5% during the year 2014, and continues to fall.',
	'investors.efficient_security' => 'Efficient Security',
	'investors.efficient_security_desc' => 'Peercoin is the first proof-of-stake coin, which means it doesn't require massive computing power to secure the network. Get into the nitty-gritty with the Peercoin whitepaper.',
	'investors.guaranteed_returns' => 'Guaranteed Returns',
	'investors.guaranteed_returns_desc' => 'After Peercoins are held for 30 days, they are eligible to earn a 1% annualized reward. Learn more about minting or you can also get started by buying coins from one of the many Peercoin exchange.',

);

$lang['en'] += array(
	//Merchants
	'merchants.instant' => 'Get paid instantly',
	'merchants.instant_desc' => 'Transactions are processed almost immediately via Peercoin's blockchain technology. A block explorer instantly verifies an incoming payment.',
	'merchants.no_chargebacks' => 'Avoid chargebacks',
	'merchants.no_chargebacks_desc' => 'Once a payment has been confirmed by the network, it is secured by world-class cryptography, making it impossible for the customer to reverse.',
	'merchants.no_transaction_fees' => 'Cut out transaction fees',
	'merchants.no_transaction_fees_desc' => 'To make a payment, each sender pays a fee of just 0.01 Peercoin. As a merchant, you pay absolutely nothing.',

);

$lang['en'] += array(
	// Mining
	'mining.compatible_with_bitcoin' => 'Compatible with Bitcoin',
	'mining.compatible_with_bitcoin_desc' => 'Peercoin uses the same mining algorithm as Bitcoin, known as SHA-256. Any hardware that works on the Bitcoin network can also be used to mine Peercoins.',
	'mining.fair_distribution' => 'Fair Distribution',
	'mining.fair_distribution_desc' => 'Proof of Work mining is used to spread the distribution of new coins, while the security of the network is maintained entirely by Proof of Stake minting. This means that Bitcoin mining vulnerabilities such as Selfish Mining do not impact Peercoin security.',
	'mining.sustainable_reward' => 'Sustainable Reward',
	'mining.sustainable_reward_desc' => 'The reward for mining a block gradually declines as the computing power of the network grows. Over time, mining will have an ever-decreasing impact on the growth of the money supply.',
);

$lang['en'] += array(
	'mintguide.title' => 'Follow the guide corresponding to your Peercoin client to start minting!',
	'mintguide.qt_step1' => 'Ensure your wallet is encrypted with a good passphrase. Write this down and keep it somewhere safe; if you forget the passphrase you will lose your coins. The wallet encryption option can be found under the settings tab in the Peercoin-Qt wallet program.',
	'mintguide.qt_step2' => 'To start minting go to help -> debug window -> console and enter:
walletpassphrase abc 999999 true
 where "abc" is your passphrase and "999999" is the time you want to mint for in seconds. You can change the amount of time to whatever you like, but it is usually easiest just to set it at a very high number. If your passphrase has spaces then enclose it in quotation marks.',
	'mintguide.qt_step3' => 'Clear your passphrase by pressing Ctrl-L.',
	'mintguide.qt_step4' => 'You can check you are minting by looking at the little padlock in the bottom right corner of the client. After a few moments it should become unlocked. If you hover your mouse over it, it should say "Wallet is encrypted and currently unlocked for block minting only".',
	'mintguide.peerunity' => 'Peerunity is a client developed by the Peercoin community. It has more features than the standard Peercoin v0.4 client, and also has an easier method for minting. It is available for Windows, Linux, and OS X. You can download it here and view the launch thread here.',
	'mintguide.peerunity_step1' => 'Ensure your wallet is encrypted with a good passphrase. Write this down and keep it somewhere safe; if you forget the passphrase you will lose your coins. The wallet encryption option can be found under the settings tab in Peerunity.',
	'mintguide.peerunity_step2' => 'To start minting, simply press the "Unlock Wallet for Minting Only" button, enter your passphrase and press OK.',
	'mintguide.peerunity_step3' => 'You can check you are minting by looking at the little padlock in the bottom right corner of the client. After a few moments it should become unlocked. If you hover your mouse over it, it should say "Wallet is encrypted and currently unlocked for block minting only".',

);

$lang['en'] += array(
	// minting
	'minting.mint_anywhere' => 'Mint Anywhere',
	'minting.mint_anywhere_desc' => 'Most cryptocoin mining requires specialized hardware, but Peercoin minting can be done on any computer. Minting is energy-efficient, because it is based on the Peercoins you hold, rather than on your processing power.',
	'minting.secure_the_network' => 'Secure the Network',
	'minting.secure_the_network_desc' => 'Each time your minting generates a block, your coins help guard the network. To reliably attack the Peercoin network, a malicious user must control the majority of all minting coins, which could even end up harming his own investment.',
	'minting.earn_reward' => 'Earn a Reward',
	'minting.earn_reward_desc' => 'Minting earns you 1% annually. Coins are first eligible to mint 30 days after they have been transferred, and after 90 days, their chance of success is maximized. If you mint more often, your earnings will compound!',

);

$lang['en'] += array(
	//Newcomers
	'newcomers.getting_started' => 'Getting Started with Peercoin',
	'newcomers.downlaod_wallet' => 'Download wallet software',
	'newcomers.download_wallet_desc' => 'Head on over to the download page, where you can grab the program you'll need to store and manage your new coins.',
	'newcomers.buy_from_exchange' => 'Buy from an exchange',
	'newcomers.buy_from_exchange_desc' => 'Send your money to a Peercoin exchange, where you'll be able to buy from other traders in the open market.',
	'newcomers.withdraw_coins' => 'Withdraw your coins',
	'newcomers.withdraw_coins_desc' => 'Take possession of your peercoins by sending them to an address generated by the wallet software. This will protect you in the event that the exchange closes its doors while your money is inside.',
	'newcomers.learn_more' => 'Learn More',
	'newcomers.learn_more_desc' => 'Now that you have coins in your wallet, it's time to learn how to grow your investment with Peercoin Minting.',

);

$lang['en'] += array(
	'pig.title' => 'Use the following steps to accept Peercoins on your website:',
	'pig.step1' => 'Use the Bulk Wallet tab at wallet.peercointalk.org to pre-generate a large number of Peercoin addresses. Copy and paste the generated comma separated values (CSV) list to a secure text file on your computer. Back up the file to a secure location.',
	'pig.step2' => 'Import the public peercoin addresses into a database table on your web server. Do not import the private keys, but instead keep them offline in order to protect them from hackers.',
	'pig.step3' => 'Provide an option on your website shopping cart for your customer to pay in Peercoin. When this option is selected, display one of the addresses from your database to the customer as a payment address, and save it with the shopping cart order.',
	'pig.step4' => 'Use a block explorer to detect the incoming payment. One such service can be found at ppc.blockr.io.',
	'pig.step5' => 'Peercoins sent to the imported addresses are secured by their private keys. To spend them, use the original wallet file generated in step 1.',
	'pig.step6' => 'If you encounter any issues, feel free to post in the community forums.',

);

$lang['en'] += array(
	'waldownload.download' => 'Download',
	'waldownload.source' => 'Source Code',
	'waldownload.license' => 'License',
	'waldownload.other_platforms' => 'Other platforms',
	'waldownload.signatures' => 'Signatures',
	'waldownload.qt_title' => 'Peercoin-QT',
	'waldownload.peerunity_title' => 'Peerunity',
);

$lang['en'] += array(
	// Wallet
	'wallet.title' => 'Wallets',
	'wallet.desc' => 'A Peercoin wallet is an application used to store and transact Peercoins with other users. Peercoin has two desktop wallets: Peerunity and Peercoin-QT. We recommend Peerunity for most users. For more information on how to use your wallet software, visit the Newcomers page.',
	'wallet.peerunity' => 'Peerunity (recommended)',
	'wallet.peerunity_desc' => 'Peerunity is developed by the Peercoin community. It includes features beyond the core protocol wallet, such as one-click minting and coin control. It features new Peercoin style theme and dedicated minting tab.',
	'wallet.peercoinqt' => 'Peercoin-QT
(core protocol)',
	'wallet.peercoinqt_desc' => 'Peercoin-QT is Peercoin's core protocol, built and maintained by Peercoin developer Sunny King. It receives only high-priority updates.',
	'wallet.paper_wallet' => 'Paper Wallet',
	'wallet.paper_wallet_desc' => 'A paper wallet stays completely offline, printed onto on a piece of paper for safekeeping. Use a paper wallet if you want to limit access to your Peercoins, and plan to store them for a long period of time.',
	'wallet.android_wallet' => 'Android Wallet',
	'wallet.android_wallet_desc' => 'A mobile Peercoin wallet that allows you to manage your Peercoins without carrying a fullsized blockchain on your mobile phone. It conserves precious space on your android device and allows you to take your coins with you, wherever you are.',
	'wallet.bkchain_wallet' => 'Bkchain Wallet',
	'wallet.bkchain_wallet_desc' => 'Bkchain is an online, client-side wallet. It allows you to access your peercoins with a web browser using an electrum-like 12 word seed.',
	'wallet.download' => 'Download',
	'wallet.visit_site' => 'Visit',
);

$lang['en'] += array(
	//Whitepaper
	'whitepaper.download_pdf' => 'Download PDF',
	'whitepaper.software' => 'The whitepapers are available in Portable Document Format (PDF). Please use your preferred software for reading.',

);

$lang['en'] += array(
	'mineguide.title' => 'Follow these steps to start mining Peercoin!',
	'mineguide.step1' => 'Set up the wallet software',
	'mineguide.step1_desc' => 'If you haven\'t yet, download the Peercoin wallet.',
	'mineguide.step2' => 'Select a mining pool',
	'mineguide.step2_poollist' => 'Peercoin-dedicated pools:',
	'mineguide.step2_multipoollist' => 'Multicoin pools:',
	'mineguide.step3' => 'Sign up with the pool',
	'mineguide.step3_desc' => 'Follow the instructions on the pool\'s website. You can also find more pools here.',
);


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Q: Gnome shell VS Unity Did I understand correct that the Gnome shell is the a shell written to allow GUI based operation, and that the Unity GUI is actually one of the interfaces that are based on the Gnome shell?

A: Until version 17.04 Ubuntu was delivered with the Unity 7 desktop environment as default, as of versions 17.10 and ongoing it is delivered with the Gnome 3 desktop environment as default of which gnome-shell is a part of.
But there are a lot more Flavors of Ubuntu, namely Xubuntu, Kubuntu, Lubuntu and those have all different desktop environments. Unity7 is as of now still available in the repositories for 17.10 but might be dropped in further versions of Ubuntu due to the fact that Canonical stopped developing it.
Short overview of the flavors:

*

*Ubuntu: before 17.10 with Unity 7 desktop environment, since 17.10 with gnome environment

*Lubuntu: has the LxDe desktop environment

*Kubuntu: has the KDE Plasma desktop environment

*Xubuntu: has the Xfce desktop environment

*GnomeUbuntu: has the Gnome 3 desktop environment and is discontinued as flavor since version 17.10 where it became the default.

So Unity is based on Gnome and gnome was up until 11.04 the default desktop environment for Ubuntu. Unity was designed to use existing functions and underlaying programs which changed over time, in newest versions of Unity you will only find traces of gnome and even most of the underlaying programs have been changed and altered.
So yes Unity is 'based' on gnome, but in fact has very much to do with it in forms of customization and functionality.

A: GNOME Shell and Unity are both shells on top of the GNOME desktop environment. Neither is based on the other; you either use GNOME Shell, or Unity, and underneath that you'll have GNOME.