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Targeted killings of Shia and Ahmadi Muslims and violence and discrimination against Christians, Hindus, and Ahmadi Muslims continued to occur. Throughout the year, unidentified individuals assaulted and killed Shia and Ahmadis in attacks sources believed to be religiously motivated. The attackers' relationship to organized terrorist groups was often unclear.
Shia Hazaras in Quetta, Balochistan, continued to express concern about targeted killings taking place for the last several years. Although the government continued to implement elevated security measures around Hazara neighborhoods in Quetta, some Hazara community members continued to state that these measures had turned their neighborhoods into isolated ghettos.
In July, a teenager killed U.S. citizen Tahir Naseem in a Peshawar courtroom, where Naseem was on trial for blasphemy. The young man and two coconspirators were indicted, taken into government custody, and were awaiting trial at year's end. The 16-year-old suspect was being tried as a juvenile; the two coconspirators were a prayer leader and a young lawyer involved in the blasphemy complaint against Naseem. Many social media users celebrated Naseem's killing. At least three top Twitter trends praised the killer and called him the "savior" and "pride" of Pakistan. Twitter and WhatsApp users circulated graphic images and video footage from the courtroom, depicting Naseem slumped over a chair and crowds of men ignoring the body and seeming to congratulate the killer.
Following Naseem's death, there were a series of additional violent incidents targeting Ahmadis, and Ahmadiyya community members said they felt in more danger than ever before. Unknown assailants shot a Peshawar trader, also an Ahmadiyya community member, near his business on August 12. Police stated they believed he was targeted because of his religious beliefs. On October 5, also in Peshawar, Professor Naeemuddin Khattak, a member of the Ahmadiyya community, died after being shot while driving home from work. Khattak's brother, who witnessed the killing, named two suspects in his criminal complaint, including a friend of Khattak – a lecturer from the University of Agriculture in Peshawar – with whom Khattak had had a heated religious argument on October 4. On November 9, also in Peshawar, an 82-year-old retired Ahmadi government worker was killed by unknown gunmen while waiting for a bus. Ahmadiyya community leaders said he was targeted due to his religious beliefs.
On November 20 in a rural area of Punjab, a teenage boy killed Ahmadi doctor Tahir Ahmad and seriously wounded three of his family members. On November 21, Human Rights Minister Shireen Mazari posted a tweet calling for the government to protect all its citizens. Ahmadiyya community members said they were surprised by this instance of a senior government official condemning anti-Ahmadi violence, but added that they do not expect it to become the new norm. The special assistant to the Prime Minister for religious harmony, Tahir Ashrafi, said it was "the responsibility of the government and court to punish" the perpetrator in a televised interview.
In its 2020 World Watch List report, the international NGO Open Doors listed Pakistan, noting that Christians face "extreme persecution in every area of their lives, with converts from Islam facing the highest levels." According to Open Doors, all Christians in the country "are considered second-class citizens, inferior to Muslims." The NGO stated Christians are often given jobs "perceived as low, dirty and dishonorable, and can even be victims of bonded labor." The NGO also said that Christian girls in the country were increasingly "at risk of abduction and rape, often forced to marry their attackers and coerced into converting to Islam."
AsiaNews, the official press agency of the Roman Catholic Pontifical Institute for Foreign Missions, reported that two members of a Christian family were shot and wounded after buying a house in a neighborhood inhabited primarily by Muslims on June 4 in the Sawati Phatak Colony of Peshawar. Police arrested several members of a neighboring Muslim family in connection with the incident. Salman Khan, the head of the Muslim family, remained at large. According to AsiaNews, once Khan learned the family was Christian, he ordered them to leave immediately, because "Christians are enemies of Islam." After harassing the family for a few days, Khan gave them a 24-hour ultimatum to leave. When he and his sons returned to the house, they shot and wounded two of the Christian family members.
Civil society activists and media reported young Christian and Hindu women being abducted and raped by Muslim men. Victims said their attackers singled them out as vulnerable due to their religious minority identity. According to the NGOs Center for Legal Aid, Assistance, and Settlement (CLAAS) and the Pakistan Center for Law and Justice, there were also reports of religious minority women being physically attacked by men. On October 9, a Hindu teacher was attacked by a Muslim man with an axe on her way to her school in Mithi, Sindh. The teacher survived the attack and told media the man had been following and harassing her for days. Despite her filing a complaint, police did not open a case initially. The man was later arrested by police after the Sindh education secretary intervened in the case.
The HRCP said forced conversions of young women of minority faiths, often lower-caste Hindu girls from rural Sindh province, continued to occur. On October 13, according to local media reports, Reeta Kumari, a pregnant Dalit Hindu woman, told the Sindh High Court in Sukkur that she had been abducted by a Muslim man, Rafique Domki, in Islamkot. She said Domki had taken her to Balochistan two months earlier and held her there until police rescued her. She denied her abductor's claim that she had willfully married him and converted to Islam, and instead asked the court to allow her to reunite with her Hindu husband and minor son. The court ordered police to hand over the woman to her Hindu husband and no police or court action was taken against Domki.
Christian activists also stated young women from their communities were vulnerable to forced conversions. On February 22, a Christian woman from Lahore fled to a shelter after a Muslim factory worker forced her to convert to Islam and marry him. The woman's mother filed a police report against the abductor, who was subsequently arrested.
On July 22, Saeed Amanat, a Muslim man, abducted a 15-year-old Christian girl on her way to church in Faisalabad, Punjab. The girl's family said they feared she had been forced to convert and marry a Muslim. On August 22, another teenage Christian escaped from the home of Mohamad Nakash, a Muslim who had kidnapped her in April and had been holding her since. On September 8, Mehwish Hidayat, a Christian woman, was reunited with her family after being abducted by a Muslim man and spending three months in captivity.
Also in September, a Karachi court issued an arrest warrant for Abdul Jabbar, a Muslim man who allegedly abducted, forcibly married, and converted a teenage Christian girl in Karachi in 2019. She was taken to Dera Ghazi Khan, in Punjab, to avoid Sindh provincial law, which bans marriage of girls younger than 18. At year's end, she and her alleged husband had not appeared in court in Karachi, despite multiple court orders to do so.
International and local media, as well as Christian activists, reported that young Christian women, many of them minors, were specifically targeted by Chinese human traffickers because of their poverty and vulnerability. The traffickers told pastors and parents they would arrange marriages to Chinese men who had supposedly converted to Christianity, after which the women were taken to China, abused, and in some cases, sexually trafficked. Reports indicated parents and pastors were frequently paid by the traffickers for the women, and that some pastors were complicit in the trafficking.
Members of civil society reported that converts from Islam lived in varying degrees of secrecy for fear of violent retribution from family members or society at large.
Representatives of the Kalash, an indigenous group in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Province, continued to report their youth were under pressure from Muslim schoolteachers and others to convert from their traditional beliefs.
Throughout the year, Islamic organizations with varying degrees of political affiliation held conferences and rallies to support the doctrine of Khatm-e-Nabuwat. The events were often covered by English and local-language media and featured anti-Ahmadiyya rhetoric which Ahmadiyya community representatives said could incite violence against Ahmadis. In addition to the large JUI-F conference and rallies, the Islamist party Jamaat-e-Islami also held a large event in September in Peshawar; both parties criticized the PTI-led national government for failing to enforce Islamic law. The TLP and Ahle Sunnat Wal Jamaat, a banned organization under the National Counterterrorism Authority's Schedule-I list, also held smaller rallies. The rallies occurred days after a unanimous resolution by the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Provincial Assembly condemning anti-Islam statements and the republication in France of the Charlie Hebdo cartoon depictions of the Prophet Mohammed.
In September, several religious groups from the Deobandi and Barelvi schools of Sunni Islam organized a series of rallies in Karachi to denounce Shia "defamation" of revered Sunni religious figures. The rallies came after police charged Shia cleric Taqi Jaffar with blasphemy on August 30 for criticizing two companions of Mohammed during a Karachi Muharram procession.
Ahmadis continued to report widespread societal harassment and discrimination against community members, including physical attacks, destruction of homes and personal property, and threats intended to force Ahmadis to abandon their jobs or towns. On August 12, armed gunmen attacked the house of Ahmadi Muslim Syed Naeem Ahmad Bashir in the Sahiwal District of Punjab, firing into the courtyard at night, where they reportedly expected the family to be sleeping. The family was in another location, however, and survived. On August 20, attackers attempted to kill Sheikh Nasir Ahmad, an Ahmadi man from the Lalamusa area of central Punjab.
In October, members of a State Youth Parliament team in Gujranwala defaced a public portrait of the country's first Nobel laureate, physicist Dr. Abdus Salam, an Ahmadi. The group also painted slogans insulting the Ahmadiyya community. On October 22, a private business school, the Institute of Business Administration in Karachi, cancelled an online seminar that was to feature U.S.-based Ahmadi economist Dr Atif Mian, citing pressure by "extremists."
Christian religious freedom activists continued to report widespread discrimination against Christians in private employment. They said Christians had difficulty finding jobs other than those involving menial labor, with some advertisements for menial jobs specifying they were open only to Christian applicants. In January, two Christians, Kamran Sandhu and Nauman Aslam, applied for seats reserved for minorities in the Gujranwala Electric Power Company (GEPCO) in Punjab. Both passed the recruitment test and had successful interviews but were denied appointment by the assistant manager. CLAAS helped both file an antidiscrimination petition in the Lahore High Court. The court ordered the chief executive officer of GEPCO to hire the two Christians, but he did not do so. The CLAAS legal team filed a contempt of court application, but the Lahore High Court dismissed the plea. At the end of the year, CLAAS was planning to take the case to the Federal Ombudsman.
Observers reported that English-language media continued to cover issues facing religious minorities in an objective manner, but Urdu-language media continued to show bias in reporting on minority religious groups, including multiple instances in which media censored references to Ahmadis on talk shows, used inflammatory language, or made inappropriate references to minorities. In a September editorial, the largest Urdu daily, Nawa-i-Waqt, described the 1974 legislation declaring Ahmadis officially non-Muslim as a historic day in the country's history. The high circulation daily Jang also published a lengthy editorial on the struggle to declare Ahmadis as non-Muslims in a special magazine edition.
Human rights and religious freedom activists and members of minority religious groups continued to report that they exercised caution and, occasionally, self-censorship when speaking in favor of religious tolerance because of a societal climate of intolerance and fear. Some activists reported receiving death threats because of their work.
Hindu activists in Sindh reported discrimination against the Hindu community during COVID-19 food-relief efforts by private charities. In April, some members of the Hindu community in Karachi's Lyari area were denied food packages provided by a local charity, according to local sources.
Reports continued of attacks on religious minorities' holy places, cemeteries, and religious symbols. In July, police arrested four men for destroying a 1,700-year-old Gandharan civilization statue of Buddha in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa after a video showing one of the men hammering the statue went viral on social media. The four men were charged with defacing antiquities. On October 25, a Hindu temple was vandalized in Nagarparkar, Sindh, during the nine-day Navratri celebrations. Several statues were destroyed. Sindh Chief Minister Syed Murad Ali Shah Imran Ismail issued a statement condemning the attacks.
On October 20, HRCP reported that an Ismaili Muslim mosque in Ghizer was attacked by unknown assailants, who opened fire on the building. No casualties were reported.
On December 30, a mob estimated at 1,000 people incited by a cleric attacked an historic Hindu temple site in Karak District, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, destroying the shrine of Hindu saint Shri Paramhans Jee Maharaj and an adjacent building under construction. Police arrested more than 45 JUI-F followers and clerics involved in the destruction. Government officials condemned the incident, suspended more than 100 police officials for failure to stop the mob, and ordered the temple rebuilt.
On October 7, Dr. Qibla Ayaz, then chairman of the Council of Islamic Ideology, inaugurated a national code of conduct to promote interreligious harmony in the face of increased sectarian violence and mistreatment of religious minorities. Islamic and minority religious leaders endorsed the code. Ayaz also spoke at a seminar on interfaith harmony at the cultural center at the National Library of Pakistan in Islamabad.
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President Donald Trump has nominated an under secretary for nuclear security in the U.S. Department of Energy, a position that includes serving as administrator of the National Nuclear Security Administration. The Y-12 National Security Complex in Oak Ridge is an NNSA site.
The nomination of Lisa Gordon-Hagerty was announced by the White House on Monday, December 11.
If confirmed by the U.S. Senate, Gordon-Hagerty would replace Frank G. Klotz, a retired U.S. Air Force lieutenant general who was confirmed by the Senate on April 8, 2014.


This hill top is the highpoint of an "island" in the middle of the Grand Pacific Glacier. Access is by boat along Glacier Bay to the head of Tarr Inlet. Follow the Grand Pacific Glacier to a glacial pass on the north side of this "island". Hike along the north ridge to reach the summit.


A Happy New Year - Aspiehelp -- Asperger's Syndrome -- Peer Support -- Mentors and Social Workers for all ages.
The end of 2012 for Aspiehelp was marked by a BBQ at Leith's home. It was a very pleasant celebration of the camaraderie which has developed between the folk who attend our monthly social events.
A wider camaraderie is also accessible through Facebook Aspie pages. Those pages which originate in New Zealand have now been joined by several people from other countries, as they like our friendly, knowledgeable and compassionate tone, leavened with the wonderful wit Aspies produce so effortlessly!
Black Triangle- an activist page.
Aspergers amongst Aspergers is an international page which also attracts a wide membership which includes some very interesting and insightful people.
Most of these pages require approval before you can be admitted to membership and there are basic requirements of members like keeping what you read confidential, no abuse etc.
Aspiehelp begins again on January 16th. This year we plan to have two meetings per month- one will be social and the other more of a "study" format. This is with the aim of helping folk become better informed about Asperger Syndrome so that they can talk to others with confidence about their condition and make their way through life with more assurance.
Our new fortnightly Women's Support Group will be held on Friday 20th January at 11 a.m.


Based on the hit film School of Rock, the next stop for this musical tour is Austin, Texas! Played live by musical theater's first-ever kids rock band, the musical features 14 new songs as well as all the songs from the original film. The rocking play runs through Feb. 18.


In 1907, the master confectioner Heinrich W. von Oven and his wife Louise bought the piece of land located at the seafront, where the Seeschlösschen was built in 1908, as well as the already existing pension Fortuna, located at the opposite of the street.
Prior to this, Otto Schramm administered the pension Fortuna.
After building the Seeschlösschen as a café and restaurant and constructing an extension in 1909, the pension Fortuna was given into the hands of W. Kreutzfeldt. Therefore the married couple von Oven could focus on the further devolopment of the Seeschlösschen.
Even two world wars and two generations later, the present owners Rohlf and Brigitte von Oven reacquired the pension Fortuna after they had already assumed the hotel management for four years, since the year 1985.
The building was renovated and reopened as hotel and restaurant called "von Oven's Landhaus".
Wood pannelled walls in shades of blue and red, cozy tables in frisian style, antique cupboards and a chimney from grandma's adolescence create the well worth seeing interior of the restaurant.
In the course of the time the hotel rooms were transformed and today they are not longer there. The Landhaus is now run exclusively as a restaurant.


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Album Review: Jamie xx, 'In Colour'
Elias Leight
Elias Leight Published: June 1, 2015
Will there be a more innocuous album released this year than Jamie xx's In Colour?
Jamie Smith came to fame as a member of the xx (which he started with school friends Oliver Sim and Romy Madley Croft) and they made a rapid ascent in 2009 with their artfully moody sound. Their albums are today's answer to Chet Baker or Joao Gilberto – an embodiment of a certain type of cool chic.
At a time when bands grouped under the label "indie" were forced to expand their palette or become irrelevant, the xx seemed to offer a way forward. They pulled together R&B, electronic music and soft, suave pop. This was not a novel mix: mainstream R&B and adult contemporary have been working this blend of sounds for decades. The xx's innovation was to take a sound that had been previously scorned by indie performers as overly slick and commercial and transformed it into something critics went head over heels for.
But the xx were more than just a sensation in the music press. They also took home England's prestigious Mercury prize in 2010 and their debut was certified gold stateside. This helped launch Smith as a force in his own right as a producer. The title track to Drake's Take Care (the album that propelled him to superstardom) relied on one of Jamie's beats, and he has also worked with Radiohead and Alicia Keys among others.
Smith's solo debut as Jamie xx, In Colour, generated a lot of pre-release buzz, possibly because he went with a traditional rollout instead of dropping it with little to no warning like Drake and D'Angelo. Instead of revealing everything all at once, Jamie xx exposed his music in a long, slow tease. But the release style is far from the only old-fashioned thing about the album. Much attention has been given to the samples, pulled from documentaries about the English dance scene – Smith's loving tribute to a past he wasn't a part of. In Colour also nods to the past with its length: a mere 11 songs and 42 minutes. The album is impressively self-contained and concise in an era when the value of brevity is largely forgotten. However, this feels less like a courageous stance against excess and more like the fear that taking up time is a potential affront to listeners. In Colour is here and gone before you know it.
But the albums traditional fixings don't feel like a search to recapture something lost. Instead, they mostly work to make the whole enterprise as inoffensive as possible. The samples often serve mainly as signposts and, for all the talk about his love of old dance and rave, none of the songs lasts more than five minutes. The greatness of the sampler has always stemmed from its ability to smash together time periods that could never have coexisted otherwise, reconciling opposing forces. But there is nothing to reconcile here – just a reassurance that Jamie xx has studied his elders.
Ultimately, this is lifestyle music for critics, calibrated to form the smoothest of surfaces and surrounding the listener in a cozy bubble. Like Feist's The Reminder or Phoenix's Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix, it's an album that will do well on year-end best of lists despite being mostly boring.
There are a few moments when you think Jamie xx is setting you up for a breakthrough, as though he's about to punch through the elegance. "Sleep Song" relies on an itchy beat and vocals with a religious influence; there is potential for sparks here, but the track never registers so much as a ripple on the seismograph. "Loud Places" also comes with a gospel tinge, and it almost attains dynamism. But its percussion stays buried; when it arrives, Jamie spreads it out, attenuating its power. That's the clever (but maybe too clever joke: it's called "Loud Places," but it never gets loud.
Not being loud isn't necessarily a problem, of course: softness is not intrinsically less valuable than toughness. It's far more difficult to communicate tension and nuance with gentleness, to disturb that calm surface without necessarily puncturing it. In Colour, however, does neither: The beats sigh and flicker and the vocals drift and linger with softness inherently devoid of risk. It's appealing, but it's also tepid. The seduction is short-lived because seduction contains push and pull and persuasion and effort, while Jamie xx believes mostly in technique.
Still, In Colour is an impeccable, artfully-blended collection of signifiers that attempt to fool you into feeling. Dance pulse? Check. There are a number of rhythmic grids at work, but nothing too aggressive and nothing that might disturb the peace. Like moody late '50s vocal jazz, this is swaying music. Exoticism? Check. Steel drums offer a touch of the Caribbean in the same way bossa nova offers Americans an easily accessible fantasy of Brazil. Pretty vocals? Check. Both singers from the xx show up.
All of this ends up being the ideal soundtrack for consumption. To put it in the words of "Daisy" from The Great Gatsby, the music "sounds like money." It's polite, gleaming and charming. These tracks will sell you things you didn't know you needed and it will feel great. Every song is probably already licensed for an Apple commercial.
Even "I Know There's Gonna Be (Good Times)" – the all-star, eye-poppingly cross-genre collaboration between Jamie xx, Atlanta rapper Young Thug and dancehall singer Popcaan – is basically a DJ Mustard beat sapped of its energy. Jamie strips away the rhythmic shouts, bursts of high-hats and explosive syncopation that characterize Mustard's hits. What you have left fits perfectly with the rest of In Colour: thin, carefree, sunny blobs of synth. Look at it sideways and it might just disappear.
But what separates "I Know" is the presence of Young Thug. To this point, no one has figured out how to smooth out this rapper's rough edges. He basically ignores the beat; his delivery is weird and out of tune and snappish. He even goes so far as to talk about sex, which feels shocking in the context of the other songs on the album. You might want more Popcaan, more fluidity, more melody. This is the only moment where Jamie doesn't give you those things, the only startling move from a producer obsessed with the anodyne. Luckily for the ad agencies, there are ten other tracks on In Colour.
Next: Watch the XX's Video for 'Fiction'
Filed Under: Jamie xx, The xx
Categories: Album Reviews, Music, News

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Q: Select every nth element in list, with n rational/non-integer int_list = list(range(1000))  # list [0, 1, 2, 3, 4, ..., 999]

Now I want to select every nth element from this list.
Assume n to be rational. Here: n = 7/3 = 2.333...
The size of the new list should therefore be around 42,85% (1/n) of the original one.
But I don't want the elements to be selected randomly. The gap between the selected elements should be similar, but doesn't need to be always exactly the same.
The result may differ by your algorithm used and the algorithm is up to you as long as it fulfils the requirements. But to answer the comment, here is an example of what the result could look like:
int_list = [0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10]
out_list = [0, 2, 4, 8, 10]

The size of out_list is 45.4545...% of the int_list, which isn't 42,85%, but it's the nearest it could get.

A: Scaling the range by the denominator, stepping with the numerator, and scaling back down by dividing by the denominator:
>>> [i // 3 for i in range(0, 3 * 1000, 7)]
[0, 2, 4, 7, 9, 11, 14, 16, 18, 21, 23, 25, 28, 30, 32, 35, ..., 991, 994, 996, 998]

Your example is a range, not a list. If you really do have a list, then simply use my numbers as indices, i.e., instead of i // 3 do a[i // 3].

A: A rather generic approach where the list doesn't have to consist of the int range and where the rational value could even be less than one:
N = 7
D = 3

k = 0
result = []
for i in int_list:
    k += D
    while k >= N:
        result.append(i)
        k -= N

A: A naive take would be
from math import floor

def every_n(lst: list, n: int) -> list:
    l = []
    i = 0
    while i < len(lst):
        l.append(lst[floor(i)])
        i += n
    return l

>>> every_n(range(1000), 7/3)
[0, 2, 4, 7, 9, 11, 14, 16, 18, 21, 23, 25, 28, 30, 32, 35, ..., 991, 994, 996, 998]

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The House Appropriations Committee on Thursday tentatively approved $105 million in funding for several DPS troopers, but not before some border lawmakers on the panel questioned how the DPS would prove the money is being spent wisely.
The Texas Department of Public Safety moved a a step closer to getting funding for hundreds of additional troopers Thursday after the House Appropriations Committee tentatively approved a $105 million agency request.
The money would go toward training 300 new officers and support staff. About 250 of those troopers would be stationed on the border, and lawmakers said the goal is to have them in place by the end of the 2016-17 biennium. A final state budget must still be approved by both chambers.
Since last summer, the DPS has had an increased presence on the Texas-Mexico border in response to the surge of unaccompanied minors and family units, mainly from Central America, who breached the border. The Texas National Guard has also deployed soldiers to the border.
The funding request is a sliver of the DPS's estimated $2.2 billion proposed baseline budget, but it was still met with some resistance from border lawmakers who questioned how and where the officers would be deployed.
State Rep. John Otto, R-Dayton, the committee chairman, said that decision would ultimately be up to DPS. He added that the end goal is to withdraw the Texas National Guard, which has had hundreds of troops in the Rio Grande Valley since last summer.
Removing the troops is something most border lawmakers have been lobbying for as they have said soldiers on the border harms the area's image and scares away businesses.
Otto reminded the budget-writing committee that lawmakers initially asked for 500 new troopers, which DPS officials said wouldn't be possible in such a short timeframe. But border Democrats also wanted to know what mechanisms, if any, will be offered to measure the success of the surge. The concern stems from testimony last month by DPS Director Steve McCraw. He told the Senate Finance Committee that the surge is working but lacks efficiency because troopers have to be rotated in and out of the area, which costs money.
State Rep. Sylvester Turner, D-Houston, the Appropriations Committee vice chairman, said the budget request would include a rider that will seek to keep the agency accountable by reporting how the money is being spent on the border.
State Rep. Sergio Muñoz, D-Palmview, said the entire agency should be placed under scrutiny.
Lawmakers also want more answers on how the deployment of hundreds of border cameras is working. McCraw testified last month that the department's goal is to transition from "boots on the ground" to a combination of officers and technology. But state Rep. Helen Giddings, D-DeSoto, said the agency hasn't provided enough guidance on that.


Mohammad Sabir "Baburaj" (also known as M. S. Baburaj, Malayam was a Malayalam music composer. He is often credited for the renaissance of Malayalam film music.
His early childhood was spent in destitution and poverty. His father, who was a Hindustani musician from Bengal who frequently held concerts in Kerala, deserted his Malayali mother when he was very young, and returned to his native Kolkata. Baburaj thus became a semi-orphan, often singing songs in trains to make a living. But as luck would have it, a policeman from his native town of Kozhikode, noticing the boy's vocal talents, decided to adopt him. Baburaj thus found an avenue where his talents could blossom.


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Nickelodeon has named Kari Kim as its new Vice President (VP) of animation development.
In this newly created role, Kim, a digital and television industry veteran, will be based out of Nickelodeon's Burbank, California headquarters and report to Executive Vice President (EVP) of animation production and development, Ramsey Naito. She will be responsible for all aspects of original series development all the way from concept through to the pilot stage, including all creative and production.
Prior to taking on this new position, Kim was a development executive at King Features Syndicate where she created and produced content for its intellectual properties (IP) Cuphead, Popeye and Flash Gordon as well as co-creating the game Trivia Treat for Amazon Echo. She has also served as a development executive at pocket.watch, developing and pitching new animated content for its slate.
This move is part of Nick's efforts to grow its animation content pipeline, notes Naito in the announcement.
It is the latest executive move for the Viacom network, which has been revamping its programming team under new president Brian Robbins. In the months since taking the helm of the kids network, Robbins has tapped Disney alum Paul DeBenedittis to oversee programming strategy and Ramsey Naito and Shauna Phelan to lead animation and scripted live action, respectively. Most recently, Paula Kaplan, the EVP of Talent and Development at Viacom Digital Studios (VDS) was named Executive Vice President of Talent and Development for Viacom Digital Studios and EVP of Talent for Nickelodeon, and Rob Bagshaw was named as Executive Vice President (EVP) of Unscripted Content.
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13 Reasons Why Apple Watch ⌚ is Worth Buying
Since the time when Apple announced its first-ever wearable device, named Apple Watch, people, especially Apple lovers have been using it. The latest Apple Watch Series 5 was released in September 2019. Apple smartwatch is currently available in three types – the standard Apple Watch, Apple Watch Sport and Apple Watch Edition.
Other people who are still waiting to buy a smartwatch after comparing Apple smartwatch with smartwatches from other OEMs must be looking for reasons why Apple Watch is worth buying. There are quite a few good smartwatches available in the market but if you are looking for a reason to buy the Apple Watch, you came to the right place. In this article, we will be going to highlight the 13 reasons why you should buy Apple Watch.
1 1. Apple Watch Apps
2 2. Ease of Use
3 3. Battery Timing of Apple Watch
4 4. Replaceable Battery
5 5. Health & Fitness
6 6. Retina Display
7 7. Apple Ecosystem
8 8. Exquisite Design Aesthetics
9 9. Apple Watch is a Fashion Icon
10 10. The Power of iOS
11 11. Apple Pay
12 12. New Ways to Communicate
13 13. Showing Off and Bragging Rights
1. Apple Watch Apps
Apple Watch comes with a lot of apps in the App store even before it arrived in the market. These apps are not only just Apple apps specifically made for Apple Watch, but these are also apps by everyone. Apps like Facebook, Twitter, etc. are available for other smartwatches too but there are some dedicated apps made by third parties specifically for Apple Watch.
There is a City Mapper's app that saves information about the busses, routes, etc. Then there is a BMW app made by BMW itself to allow owners to check how much charge is left in their BMW's electric car. And one of the major show stopper apps showcased at the event is the Major League Baseball app that shows the score with the team's short name and logo on the watch screen. These are just a few of the main apps that are already available on Apple Watch but not on any other smartwatch platform.
2. Ease of Use
Smartwatches feature a very small display and so it all depends on the housing OS to present features in a way that is easy for the users to operate with and do everyday operations with ease. Apple has done a remarkable job in this regard by making the Apple Watch interface so user-friendly and easy to use that even Apple users find it surprisingly easy to use.
The main circular display has a grid of tiny icons for apps which at first seems impossible and frustrating if you are to select an app but with the combination of touch screen, the dedicated button and the crown on the Apple Watch, it is very easy to pick an app you want to open.
3. Battery Timing of Apple Watch
One of the major reasons that people often look for while deciding to buy a smartwatch is how much it can last on a single charge. Most of the smartwatches can only last for a few hours on a single charge. According to Apple, Apple Watch can give you about 18 hours of battery life on a single charge. This means that you only have to charge the device once within 24 hours and if you can find a balance between the times you put on the smartwatch and use and when you charge it, then it's going to be more fun. Apple Watch comes with a magnetic charger, you just have to take your Apple Watch closer to it and it will automatically stick to it.
The 18-hour battery life is divided into different tasks performed on Apple Watch. Apple said that during these 18 hours, people can check notifications 90 times, check the time 90 times, use apps for 45 minutes and do a 30-minute workout with music playback via Bluetooth connection.
4. Replaceable Battery
Apple Watch is the first smartwatch available on the planet right now that offers replaceable batteries. No other smartwatch has this option. This gives the end-user two type of benefits
1 – If they feel like the battery is dying out, they can replace it without replacing the whole smartwatch.
2 – If in the future, Apple comes out with bigger battery capacity for Apple Watch, owners of the watch can simply replace it with the existing low capacity battery.
5. Health & Fitness
Apple Watch has quite a lot of health and & fitness-related features and apps that it is no less than a fitness tracker for a person who owns it. There are quite a number of apps provided for tracking various health and fitness-related features of a person. For instance, the Activity app provides a visual display of a person's daily activity which includes three colored rings. The first Move ring shows how many calories you have burned, the second Exercise ring shows how many times you have done any exercise and the Last Stand ring tells you how often you stand up to take a break from your regular routine.
Apart from the above available fitness data, the Apple Watch also acts as a reminder for your goals and progress updates that you have set. There is also a workout summary that shows how much you have worked out or jogged and how many calories you have burned in a specific period of time. Apple Watch also has a Heart Rate Sensor, an accelerometer that works with your iPhone's Wi-Fi and GPS to accurately measure the duration of your workouts like walking cycling, etc.
6. Retina Display
Another great reason to buy Apple Watch is that it is the first smartwatch to feature a Retina display. Retina display adds much-needed clarity and sharpness to the display of the device and even if the display is so small, it looks clear and vivid because of the Retina display used by Apple.
Retina display also makes display more readable in daylight and so the Apple Watch is an ideal candidate if you plan to use it more in daylight.
7. Apple Ecosystem
Apple's ecosystem is something that has been admired by a lot of people and is also one of the many reasons why people prefer Apple products. The Apple ecosystem is so strong that everything works together and they perform better when paired with any other device. The same goes for Apple Watch and other Apple products.
If you own an iPad, iPod, iPhone, Mac or even Apple TV, you already have one reason to buy Apple Watch as it gives you access to features right on your wrist. Wouldn't it be cool to operate your TV from your wrist or check your messages without grabbing or picking your device? Of course, it is.
8. Exquisite Design Aesthetics
Apple Watch is not just a techy gadget for geeky people. Apple has designed it in such ways that it not only offers extended functionality and various features but is also a valuable fashion accessory for you.
Other smartwatch OEMs have struggled to keep up with the fashion world and usually end up addressing one area or another but Apple has taken the necessary step by introducing Apple Watch in two different watch faces and three different types of models namely aluminum for Apple Watch Sports edition, stainless steel for normal day wear and the 18-Carat gold version called the Apple Watch Edition. There are a lot of wristbands to choose from as well.
9. Apple Watch is a Fashion Icon
One thing that both Apple and CEO Tim Cook has put the focus on about the Apple Watch that it is not just an ordinary smartwatch but a fashion icon and a luxury accessory for everyday wear. Think of Apple Watch like Mont Blanc or Rolex that have decided to upgrade their watches into smartwatches. With the Apple Watch, you get to design, aesthetics and fluidity in a single wrist package.
10. The Power of iOS
Apple Watch is also powered by iOS so it means that you get the same smooth and awesome experience that you get on iPhone or iPad. iOS is so well optimized that there are no lags whatsoever and you can have a seamless experience. And with the OTA updates rolling out every now and then by Apple, iOS keeps on getting better and better.
Besides that, iOS also has the number of apps available for it than any other mobile platform. So, even though Android Wear has been in the market for quite a while but iOS has more apps for Apple Watch than Android Wear. Apple also invited some of the major iOS developers at the Apple Watch event. This is because they know how important it is to get things rolling and provide the best iOS experience to end-user
11. Apple Pay
Basically, Apple Pay is a new mobile payment system developed by Apple which allows you to pay via your iPhone. Well, things are going to get even simpler and easier if you have an Apple Watch with you. Now you can pay on outlets supporting Apple Pay by using your Apple Watch instead of pulling out your smartphone from the pocket.
12. New Ways to Communicate
A great new feature demoed by Apple about the Apple Watch is the way two people can communicate with each other using the Apple Watch. Any two people who own Apple Watch can share little sketches, hand-made drawings, and emoticons with each other. This is a great thing to have and it's a very interesting way of communication.
Not only this, you can just tap your Apple Watch to get other person's attention wherever they are. To do this, simply go to contacts by pressing the dedicated button on the watch. Then pick a contact and tap on it. On the next screen, tap a few times to send a buzz to the other person. You can even send your heartbeat to another person by pressing and holding two fingers together on the Apple Watch screen.
13. Showing Off and Bragging Rights
Another important (sarcasm intended) reason to buy Apple Watch is to show it off to people that you own it. It's such a stylish piece of hardware that anyone will want to have it. So before anyone else gets it, you should get it first and brag about it.
There you have it, all the reasons why Apple Watch is worth buying. Apple Watch is one of the very first smartwatches that are here to make an impact in the wearable industry. They will reshape how people think about these wearable devices. It will revolutionize both the tech and fashion industry. So, be a part of this revolution by becoming an owner of this awesome piece of technology.
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Bruno, Cosima (2017) 'Breaking Language Down: Taiwan Sound Poetry and its Ways of Saying.' Concentric: Literary and Cultural Studies, 43 (2). pp. 33-56.
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This paper explores the appearance and rapid development of a genre that crosses the boundaries between art, music, drama, and literature, and that is being variously called "sound poetry" (聲音詩 shengyin shi), "language art" (語言藝術 yuyan yishu), or "text-sound art" (文本聲音藝術 wenben shengyin yishu). I argue that Taiwan sound poetry develops as an alternative genre to Chinese poetic tradition, forging a disorienting aesthetics that is disruptive of conventional ideas of artistic quality. I conceptualize this phenomenon in its unique history and politics, extrapolating some key features that include: a poetics that strives not for semantic extension or enrichment, but that radically aims at "semantic abjection"; intervention in Taiwan language politics and translingual context, through its contribution to a "culture of the ear"; a shift of attention from textual semantics to performance with audience/users' participation; strategic denial of a genealogy rooted in the Chinese tradition, with sound poets' pronouncements about their poetics as being an entirely Western import; double nature as local, Sinophone, and global.
DOI (Digital Object Identifier):
https://doi.org/10.6240/concentric.lit.2017.43.2.03


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Colton Dixon's 2013 debut, A Messenger, set the record for biggest first-week sales by a new solo Christian act, becoming the No. 1 selling album of 2013 by a new Christian artist and the No. 9 best selling album of 2013 in the Christian genre overall. A Messenger also became the No. 22 best-selling album across all genres that same year, while Dixon was still reeling from his highly publicized seventh place finish on Season 11 of American Idol.
Awards and accolades followed. Colton received three Dove Award nominations, winning for Best Contemporary/Rock Album, and he was nominated for Male Artist of the Year at the 2014 K-LOVE Fan Awards. Colton also racked up two No. 1 radio singles in 2013 and toured with Third Day, TobyMac and Josh Wilson. And he was recently named an Official Steinway Artist by the legendary piano maker.
It was a dream debut, but Idol fame can be fleeting without a strong foundation and a solid sense of who you are as an artist and a person. Fortunately, with Colton Dixon's recent release of his sophomore project, Anchor (August 19, 19 Recordings/Capitol CMG), he's as grounded as ever, with his feet planted firmly in faith and family and a clear idea of where he's headed artistically.
Despite all the life-changing opportunities of the past few years, Colton is still pretty much the same guy that left Tennessee for Hollywood. Home base is still in Murfreesboro, which speaks as much to his grounded foundation as it does to his hectic schedule. While Colton's parents were always extremely supportive, a career in music wasn't a given. A self-described "sports guy," his early interests included soccer, hockey and baseball. His dad coached his little league team, and Colton loved the pitcher's mound and the psychological aspects of the game.
As kids, he and his sister Schyler would regularly perform for their parents, but the music gene wasn't necessarily something that was inherited. It was actually a passion that grew slowly and steadily. An aunt who taught piano talked Colton's parents into signing him up for lessons when he was eight. It was hardly love at first sight. In fact, like many kids, he grew to hate those structured sessions, but they gave him a musical foundation that would take him places he couldn't even begin to imagine back then. At age 13, he sang in public for the first time, and that's when everything finally began to fall into place.
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Q: Email address is not verified (AWS SES) I want to use Amazon's Simple Email Service to send emails.
I verified my domain as well as the email address I want to send from.
For both it says verified.
Now when I use the Send Test Email from the AWS Console to send a test email to myemail@outlook.com, I only get the error message:

Email address is not verified. The following identities failed the
check in region EU-WEST-1: myemail@outlook.com (Request ID:
9fb78de1-2673-11e6-bbbc-5f819fabe4f4)

Now it strikes me because it says myemail@outlook.com was not verified but I tried to send from admin@mydomain.example. The Send Test Email Dialog even forces you to use an email which already is registered.
How can this issue be resolved? Did I miss anything?

A: @Matt Houser has already answered the questions but I am adding a screenshot from June, 2020 that explains what he said.

A: When your SES account is in "sandbox" mode, you can:

*

*Only send from verified domains and email addressed, and

*Only send to verified domains and email addresses

In order to send to anyone else, you must move your account out of sandbox mode by contacting AWS support and requesting it:
https://docs.aws.amazon.com/console/ses/sandbox

A: Make sure

*

*You add your email to ses and get verified.

*You enable the Production mode for your account.

A: In my case I needed to verify the email again in the region where it failed. You can try to change your region in the top right then you have click again "Verify a New Email Address"

A: Make sure
-You have submitted your case request to support customer and explain in what purposes confirm it for to 24 maybe they will ask you about some additional information about your application

A: If the email is already verified and you're out of the SES Sandbox, check that you've the correct AWS region for the SMTP server. I was trying to connect to email-smtp.eu-west-1.amazonaws.com when my SMTP credential was for the email-smtp.us-east-1.amazonaws.com server.

A: I had this issue. I verified domain and email, even the DKIM settings was verified.
But still getting this message :
Email address is not verified. The following identities failed the check in region {aws_region}: {email}

I added SourceArn as parameter for sendEmail than get this message :
User `arn:aws:iam::{account_id}:user/{username}' is not authorized to perform `ses:SendEmail' on resource `arn:aws:ses:{aws_region:{account_id}:identity/{email}'

After 2 days I found out the I was using wrong IAM user !

A: Be aware the Verified Identities are actually case sensitive. I was wondering why I got such error, even though my email was verified and out of SandBox.

A: Problem
Confusion comes from the fact that your e-mail address shows as "Verified" in AWS SES -> Verified identities and still not working.
In fact, there are two verification:

*

*DKIM one (which makes the field tick green and verified)

*E-mail address verification

That means you must use the e-mail address which you have access to (mailbox) in order to click in the verification link.
Without clicking the link in the e-mail, your identity may be verified but you'll still see the error everywhere.
Simple solution using AWS WorkMail
I am using AWS WorkMail but I've created a new Group instead of another WorkMail account, then added my personal account to it, received a verification e-mail and managed to get: "noreply@..." working.

A: In my case, I wanted to email to the same verify email.
So, I verified my email by DKIM as @Greg Wozniak mentioned. I saw the field tick green and verified:

But I was still seeing:
Email address is not verified. The following identities failed the check in region...

The solution in my case was to add this function in the code:
def verify_email_identity():
    ses_client = boto3.client("ses", region_name="us-east-1")
    response = ses_client.verify_email_identity(
        # Email address that will receive the email
        # In my case the same email address
        # that was verified on Amazon SES
        EmailAddress="receipientemail@gmail.com"
    )
    print(response)

Taken from this webside
So, I received a new email to verify the recipient email address. After verify the recipient email address by clicking in the link sent by Amazon SES. I was able to send the email with this code:
client = boto3.client('ses',region_name="us-east-1")
# Try to send the email.
try:
    #Provide the contents of the email.
    response = client.send_email(
        Destination={
            'ToAddresses': [
                receipientemail@gmail.com,
            ],
        },
        Message={
            'Body': {
                'Html': {
                    'Charset': "UTF-8",
                    'Data': "Test",
                },
            },
            'Subject': {
                'Charset': "UTF-8",
                'Data': "Test",
            },
        },
        Source=receipientemail@gmail.com,
    )
# Display an error if something goes wrong.
except ClientError as e:
    print(e.response['Error']['Message'])
else:
    print("Email sent! Message ID:"),
    print(response['MessageId'])

A: I had verified an email address, and then a few days later my domain. When the domain was fully verified (inc DKIM) I was still getting the 'Email address is not verified' error when trying to send emails to email addresses within my domain, that weren't my specific verified address.
I deleted my verified email address, and re-verified it, and it worked immediately. I could then send domain wide emails, whereas before - I could only send to and from the email I had previously verified.

A: I was having the same issue a couple minutes ago, although this time I'm working with the SDK in PHP.
I had to double check the SesClient instantiation code.
$SesClient = new SesClient([
    'profile' => 'default',
    'version' => '2010-12-01',
    'region'  => 'us-west-2',

]);

I discovered that the region in the instantiation code is us-west-2.
I went back to my console and discovered that SES account was sandboxed in us-east-2 (Ohio).
I implemented the change in the instantiation code like so
$SesClient = new SesClient([
    'profile' => 'default',
    'version' => '2010-12-01',
    'region'  => 'us-east-2',

]);

It's working now.

A: I had this issue and none of the above worked for me. My issue related specifically to sending via python using boro3. I eventually figured out that the system I was working on had a different set of aws credentials stored in the windows system than it did on the Linux subsystem on the same windows machine. The solution was to set both sets of aws credentials to match the appropriate aws account. I add this here just in case anyone has the same issue and, like me, couldn't find an answer.

A: For me the issue was that I was mismatching cases.
The verified email and the email sent have to match exactly.
test@gmail.com vs Test@gmail.com


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Starting from Jan 7, coaches from Datong East Coach Station to towns, counties and cities in Hebei province with medium- and high-risk infection have been suspended.


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An old school bus circles through Vine City on a recent winter morning, stopping at abandoned gas stations and cracked-pavement parking lots to collect several dozen men and a few women.
All are dressed for long exposure to the bitterly cold weather, some in greasy down jackets and Army surplus overcoats, a few wrapped in blankets. But, while the sky spits freezing drizzle, their attitudes are sunny.
"You have a good weekend?" sings out driver, Cedric Brown.
"Oh yeah," answers one of his charges.
"I know it was beautiful, 'cause you're still here," Brown adds.
Brown pilots the bus down Joseph E. Boone Boulevard, past a long palisade of black iron fencing, then into a gate, parking between two low warehouses on eight acres of land. A line of ragged figures is walking toward the same destination.
Inside one of the warehouses is a warm dining room where hot soup is bubbling on the stove and fried chicken is stacked on platters. There are servers waiting to bring food to the table. It is a respite from a harsh world outside.
This feeding program is one aspect of City of Refuge, an Atlanta non-profit operated by The Mission Church.
For several years, this group of maybe 200 parishioners, led by Pastor Bruce Deel, has worked under the radar, building an organization that serves 19,000 meals a month and offers medical and mental health services, day care, transitional housing and job training facilities.
But the City of Refuge is gaining attention from donors, churches and other homeless advocates. The city of Atlanta contributed funds for construction of transitional housing for homeless women within the warehouse complex. Numerous Atlanta churches, including such old-money bastions as the Cathedral of St. Philip and the Church of the Apostles, have offered time and cash.
City of Refuge already has drawn up plans for the addition of a 16,000 square-foot medical facility to be housed inside one of the cavernous buildings, with pro-bono design work from a quartet of top-drawer architects.
And this month images from the City of Refuge are on display at a unique exhibition of documentary photographs created by a class of Emory University students.
"They do everything with excellence," said Emory physician Charles Moore, who spearheaded the creation of a clinic at the complex.
Deel, a pastor with the Church of God, can be credited with instilling that standard, said clients and associates.
"He has gained respect of the neighbors in that entire community," said real estate developer David Mimms, who helped fund a commercial-grade kitchen at the center that serves hundreds of meals a day.
Deel has done this by putting himself in the middle of the worst of situations, moving his family and himself into blighted neighborhoods and trusting in his instincts, and in grace, to keep himself alive.
That doesn't mean he won't grab a baseball bat and chase an occasional burglar down the street, if necessary. It helps that he's built like a linebacker, trains for half marathons and is fearless.
Deel, white-haired at 49, grew up near Pulaski, Va., the son of a Church of God pastor who worked regularly at missions overseas. The son came to Atlanta in 1992 to serve as associate pastor at a Doraville church before accepting a six-month assignment at the Midtown Mission Church of God.
So instead of pulling her children to a neighborhood school in a little red wagon, Rhonda Deel heard junkies and prostitutes trying to bash her windows in at 4 in the morning.
"When we moved in, oh my gracious, I learned how to cry in the shower so nobody would know," she said.
Yet both say they were led to the church by the spirit and wouldn't have missed that experience for the world. While working in Midtown, Deel made mission trips with his congregation to neighborhoods around Bankhead, English Avenue, Washington Park and Hunter Hill to bring sack lunches and free clothes to residents.
In 2003, while looking for a facility in the Bankhead area to better serve that neighborhood, he inquired about renting one of two warehouses at 1300 Joseph E. Boone Blvd., on the market for $1.6 million. He told the owner, commercial developer Malon Mimms, the kind of mission he planned to build. Mimms gave him the property.
"Of all the things I've done in my life, I'm proudest of this," said the developer.
The two warehouses enclose a combined 210,000 square feet, and the City of Refuge has improved about half that space, building offices, a gym, a clinic, and residential units within the warehouse walls. With a total of $2.2 million from the Atlanta Development Authority, the church built the 132-bed Eden Village 1, transitional housing for homeless women and their children, and the 100-bed Eden Village 2 for single women without children.
After being processed through the Gateway Center downtown, the women of Eden go through an intensive 120-day process, with drug screening, mental health counseling and the goal of finding permanent housing elsewhere. They have an 86 percent success rate, said staff member Tony Johns.
The mission operates on a $2 million budget, with a staff of 28 and hundreds of volunteers.
For safety reasons, the City of Refuge does not provide housing for homeless men, said Johns. But both men and women can get assistance at the clinic and the resource center and job training in the culinary arts at the commercial kitchen.
City of Refuge offers a way out of the ruins. One-time cocaine trafficker Gregory Washington feels good about being part of its mission because he had a hand in some of that ruin.
"They put me back in the same community I helped destroy once, but they gave me something positive to do," said Washington of Deel's ministry, which gave him work as a manager and a driver.
On parole after serving 40 months of a 10-year sentence, Washington got his first real job in years as manager of Compassion Atlanta, a Refuge division that handles donated food and clothing, redistributing them to some 40 different churches and groups that are part of the organization's network.
Washington recently walked through an unheated section of the warehouse where towels, socks and hygiene kits were stockpiled in 10-foot stacks, as volunteers loaded and unloaded pallets. A roaring portable heater battled the frigid warehouse air.
The Mission Church is a congregation composed of a mixture of the homeless (many of whom are African-American) and staff and volunteers (many of whom are white).
Some of his friends shy away from a church led by a white preacher, said Washington, 39, who is black.


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MTA, LIRR Contract Talks Set Resume Next Week As L.I. Lawmakers Call On Cuomo To Intervene
Filed Under:Aaron Donovan, Andrew Cuomo, Carl Marcellino, Jack Martins, Kemp Hannon, LIRR, Long Island Rail Road, Mike Xirinachs, MTA, National Mediation Board
Riders get ready to board a Long Island Rail Road train in Bethpage, N.Y. (file/credit: Getty Images)Riders get ready to board a Long Island Rail Road train in Bethpage, N.Y. (file/credit: Getty Images)
NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) — Contract talks are expected to resume next week between the Metropolitan Transportation Authority and Long Island Rail Road union workers.
The latest round of talks last week ended with no compromise in sight and both sides have blamed the other for the stalemate.
The MTA said Wednesday that it plans to take part next Tuesday in a meeting scheduled by the National Mediation Board.
"We're doing what we can to avoid any type of labor action, labor stoppage," MTA spokesman Aaron Donovan told 1010 WINS. "We recognize that the shutdown of the Long Island Rail Road would be crippling for the economy."
Christopher Natale of the Brotherhood of Railroad Signalman said the unions will also participate in the next round of talks.
LIRR, MTA Contract Talks Set To Resume
The MTA has offered workers a 17 percent raise over seven years, but would require them to pay toward health care costs. Currently, LIRR workers don't contribute toward their health insurance at all.
The union has made a counter offer, but the details of their proposal have not been released. Union leaders have blasted the MTA for making the details of their proposal public.
Meanwhile, state Sens. Kemp Hannon, Carl Marcellino and Jack Martins called on Gov. Andrew Cuomo Wednesday to get involved in the stalled contract talks.
With a potential strike coming as early as July 20 that would affect 300,000 daily riders, Martins said we're running out of time.
"Our window is closing rapidly and we need someone to bring the sides together," Martins said. "The consequences of a strike I think are pretty obvious."
L.I. Lawmakers Calling On Cuomo To Get Involved With MTA, LIRR Contract Talks
At the very least, Marcellino said the governor should force an extension of a strike deadline.
"He has the gravitas," Marcellino said. "He has the power."
Cuomo has said he has no plans to intervene.
LIRR employees have been working without a contract since 2010.
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They make a wedding, don't they, the cute bridesmaids and pageboys, all done up to the nines in their best wedding gear?
There's a new name on the block when it comes to wedding wear for little ones, and that's Little Eglantine. The range of super-cute outfits has been created by French designer Stephanie Staub, and she offers up personally-designed delicate dresses for flower girls, and sophisticated and stylish outfits for pageboys.
Fabulous for weddings and parties, these gorgeous shirts and French shorts from 6 to 18 months will make the little boys effortlessly chic. Choose from the online boutique among long or short sleeved Peter Pan collar shirts in ivory or white cotton (from £35) and French shorts in cotton or taffeta (from £50).
If a designer wedding isn't in your budget, there's always the high street. Surprisingly good quality and much more affordable than a bespoke design, you might not think of sourcing your wedding party outfits from Tesco, but the Florence and Fred collection is actually rather adorable, and the bridesmaid's dresses start at just £20 for a basic cream dress with a matching taffeta bag. A boy's three piece brocade waistcoat set starts at £18.
Debenhams has been in the weddings game for a good few years now, so it's not a great surprise that they have a great range of affordable outfits – that are just a little bit special at the same time. The page boy and flower girl collections feature stunning dresses, the smartest of suits and all the accessories to make the day extra- special.
Dresses start at around £30 for dresses for babies, and £48 for older girls, and come with a range of little details like petals, bows and even a gold corsage. Top the outfits off with these flower baskets from Fair Baskets – the pretty willow baskets are available from just £5 – www.fairbaskets.co.uk and for the boys, £22 for a very grown-up looking waistcoat, shirt and cravat set.
This entry was posted on April 24, 2012 by inspiredessex in Kids Corner, Weddings and tagged bridesmaids and pageboys, Chelmsford Magazine, essex weddings, Inspired.


The Treehouse Guys are all kids at heart, so when they were asked to build a treehouse for a children's museum in Acton, Massachusetts, they couldn't pass up the chance. Their plan to get more kids outside begins with the construction of a huge treehouse with crooked windows and a wavy shed roof. Then, the large wrap around deck leads to a wobbly bridge and slippery, family-sized slide.


GU Board Forums > Basketball discussion > Men's Basketball > Robert Sacre's All Canadian game cancelled.
View Full Version : Robert Sacre's All Canadian game cancelled.
This was supposed to be his great "sending off" in his hometown, but to no avail. Is Robert playing in any other all all star games?
Why as it cancelled? Any link/story?
I'm from British Columbia and I'm a huge Zags fan, been down to the basketball camp with my high school team every year so far. Graduating this year...but enough about me...Rob played in the BC All-Star Game.