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«Ночные кошмары» — девятая серия шестого сезона британского научно-фантастического телесериалa «Доктор Кто». Премьера серии состоялась 3 сентября 2011 года на канале BBC One.

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Всё началось с того, что 8-летний мальчик Джордж, когда матери нужно было выйти из дома, очень боялся ложиться спать. Только когда мать совершила ритуал, состоящий из пяти включений-выключений света, он лёг. Он повторял: «Пожалуйста, спаси меня от монстров». Но не уснул и услышал из-за не до конца закрытой двери, что родители решили обратиться к специалистам. Ему показалось, что родители хотят от него избавиться.

Сигнал дошёл до психобумаги Доктора, на ней появилась надпись: «Пожалуйста, спаси меня от монстров», и Доктор направил ТАРДИС на сигнал… Приземлились где-то в Великобритании, в современности, недалеко от места жительства Эми и Рори, около большого многоэтажного дома и отправились, по словам Доктора, в самое страшное место Вселенной — детскую комнату. Но для начала надо её найти. Спутники разделились и поодиночке начали стучаться в квартиры и искать очень испуганного ребёнка.

Эми и Рори во время поездки в лифте неожиданно оказываются в странном доме. Там за ними начинают гоняться деревянные куклы. Они хватают Эми, и она превращается в куклу.

Тем временем Доктор находит ребёнка, просившего о помощи, и с помощью отвёртки определяет что-то странное в шкафу, в который родители убирали всё, что внушало мальчику страх. Он открывает дверь, и его вместе с Алексом, отцом мальчика, затягивает в шкаф. Они понимают, что оказались в кукольном домике, который стоял в шкафу.

Доктор говорит, что ребёнок — это тэнза. Они во множестве вылупляются в космосе и эмпатически определяют, чего хотят приёмные родители. Джордж не знает, что может контролировать кошмары. Он думает, что родители хотят от него избавиться. На него наступают деревянные куклы. Алекс бросается к нему сквозь строй деревянных кукол, и Джордж понимает, что он любим.

Все люди, попавшие в шкаф, возвращаются обратно.

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Vizag rape: Auto driver who shot video and reported crime to police, booked
Earlier, Union Minister Maneka Gandhi lashed out at those who recorded a video of the woman being raped, rather than help her.
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Three days after the shocking rape of a homeless woman in broad daylight in Visakhatpatnam, the city police on Wednesday registered a case against the auto-rickshaw driver who provided video footage of the crime to authorities.
The Times of India reported that a case under IPC section 354 (C) (Voyeurism) and also under the IT Act has been registered against the auto driver and cops released him on station bail, after seizing his mobile phone.
Quoting sources, the ToI report adds that pressure from top cops in Amaravati had forced the city police to register a case against the auto driver.
After a video of the heinous crime began doing the rounds on social media, police arrested the accused, identified as Ganji Siva, who has reportedly been a habitual offender since he was a teenager.
This comes a day after Union Minister Maneka Gandhi lashed out at those who preferred to record a video of the woman being raped, rather than help her, and said that they should also be booked under law.
"Everybody here is culpable...the people who were thrill seekers preferring to let a woman suffer rather than help her. I am totally outraged by their behaviour...by the behaviour of the man who raped her and by the people who by doing nothing helped it happen," she told PTI over the phone.
Voicing a similar opinion Andhra Pradesh Women's Commission chairperson Nannapaneni Rajakumari told media persons on Wednesday that she would urge the police to use CCTV footage to identify passers by, who failed to help the woman.
"We will ensure that the accused receives stringent punishment for the act and also request Chief Minister Chandrababu Naidu to offer compensation ranging between Rs 5 lakh and Rs 10 lakh to the victim. This case should lead to awareness so that such incidents do not happen again," she was quoted as saying.
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Украни (, , ) су средњовековно западнословенско племе које је било део племенског савеза Љутића. Били су насељени на обалама реке Укре (), на подручју између река Лабе и Зале, југозападно од Шчећинског залива, ово подручје Помераније данас носи име Укермарк (). Данас се делом налази на североистоку немачке државе Бранденбург и југоистоку Мекленбург-Западне Помераније, а делом у Полицком повјату на северозападу Пољске.

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Украни () су поменути у низу средњевековних извора, један од њих је текст немачког историчара Видукинда Корвејског, који потиче из 934. године. Осим тога, епископ Бранденбурга их помиње 948. године.

Име племена потиче од имена реке Укре, етимолошки произлази из балтословенске речи викру ("брзо").»

Украни су били део племенског савеза Љутића, или Велета. Главни град племена био је Прибислав (), а други значајни градови Пустоволк и Укрушће.

У првој половини 10. века, Украни су, као и остала племена Љутића, потпали под власт немачких феудалаца. Године 954. маркгроф Саксонске источне марке Геро Први Железни, у савезу са Конрадом I (зетом Отона I, цара Светог римског царства), започео је успешан поход за заузимање укранске земље, која је након битке код Лучина (929. године) постала део Саксонске северне марке Светог римског царства.

Након Великог словенског устанка 983. године, у коме су учествовали Љутићи и Бодрићи, Украни су поново постали независни, иако су остали под сталним и јаким војним притиском Пољске и Светог римског царства.

Средином 12. века Украни су ушли у састав Померанског војводства. Као и остали Полапски Словени, који су пали под власт немачких феудалних држава, Украни су асимиловани и потпуно понемчени.

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Speaking of the misuse of research studies for ideological purposes, check out Senator Al Franken (D-Minn) calling out apparent homophobe Tom Minnery, who represents a group of conservative christian extremists calling themselves "Focus on the Family", during a Senate hearing on the repeal of The Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA).
In a nutshell, Minnery had misinterpreted a 2010 study by the Department of Human and Health Services in support of his conclusion that …
"… children living with their own married, biological, and/or adoptive mothers and fathers were generally happier and healthier, had better access to health care; less likely to suffer mild or severe emotional problems; did better in school; were protected from physical, emotional, sexual abuse; and almost never live in poverty compared with children in any other family form."
Franken pointed out that he had read the study, and this is not what it said.
"I checked the study out," said Franken, "and I would like to enter into the record, if I may, it actually doesn't say what you said it says. It says that nuclear families — not opposite sex married families — are associated with those positive outcomes. Isn't it true, Mr. Minnery, that a married same sex couple that has had or adopted kids would fall under the definition of a nuclear family in the study that you cite?"
Minnery responded that he thought nuclear family, as defined in the study, meant one headed by a husband and wife.
"It doesn't," Franklin responded. "The study defines a nuclear family as one or more children living with two parents who are married to one another and are each biological or adoptive parents to all the children in the family. And I frankly don't really know how we can trust the rest of your testimony if you are reading studies these ways."
There was much laughter in the chamber during the exchange.
The authors of the study confirmed (via Politico) that Franken's interpretation of the study was correct and said the study does not provide evidence that straight couples' children necessarily fare better than same-sex couples' kids, as Minnery had so hopefully claimed.
Of course, this won't change the minds of the religious nutters who go around spouting this nonsense, but it still felt good to watch nonetheless. Minnery and his colleagues should know better than to expect to find empirical evidence to support their claims. Anyhow, why should they need evidence? They've got their faith!
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V.S. Ramachandran gives a stimulating TED lecture and a short interview, mostly about mirror neurons, over at Neurophilosophy.
NeuroLogica's Steven Novella recaps a recent study showing that acupuncture doesn't work — and points out the clever way in which the failure was spun by the study's authors.
Just the other day, I summarized a recent study looking at the relationship between disgust/purity and political ideology. In this short video, a brief discourse by Yale's Paul Bloom on the topic.
Over at Not Exactly Rocket Science, Ed Wong talks about work out of Bejing that showed male mice with reduced serotonin levels became less choosy about the sex of their sexual partners. And as should be expected, the sensationalistic headlines from mass media organizations shortly followed. From the BBC: "Sexual preference chemical found" And from CBS News, a NY Post-worthy headline: "Serotonin sex bomb: How to make a mouse bisexual or just really horny"
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Drive to legalize marijuana rolls on in California
Oaksterdam University specializes in how to grow, market and consume marijuana
Founder Richard Lee is organizing a petition drive for marijuana legalization
Lee and others say legalizing marijuana could generate significant tax revenue
Opponents say revenue claims are misleading, encourage drug abuse
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By Chuck Conder
OAKLAND, California (CNN) -- Richard Lee greets students, shopkeepers and tourists as he rolls his wheelchair down Broadway at the speed of a brisk jog, hailing them with, "Hi. How ya doin'?"
Marijuana activist Richard Lee is a local celebrity in the small district of Oakland, California, called Oaksterdam.
In this nine-block district of Oakland, California, called Oaksterdam, Lee is a celebrity.
Oaksterdam is Lee's brainchild, a small pocket of urban renewal built on a thriving trade in medical marijuana. The district's name comes from a marriage of Oakland and Amsterdam, a city in the Netherlands renowned for its easy attitude toward sex and drugs.
Lee is the founder of Oaksterdam University, which he describes as a trade school that specializes in all things marijuana: how to grow it, how to market it, how to consume it. The school, which has a curriculum, classes and teachers, claims 3,500 graduates.
Lee also owns a medical marijuana dispensary, a coffee house, a large indoor marijuana plantation, and a museum/store devoted to the cause of legalizing marijuana.
"I really see this as following the history of alcohol. The way prohibition was repealed there," Lee says, adding that he believes he is close to achieving his mission.
Lee is organizing a petition drive to place a marijuana legalization measure on the ballot in 2010, and he thinks the measure stands a good chance of being approved by voters.
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A recent California Field Poll showed that more than half the people in the state, where marijuana for medical use was approved more than a decade ago, would approve of decriminalizing pot.
The state's faltering economy is one reason why. If legalized, marijuana could become California's No. 1 cash crop. It could bring in an estimated $1 billion a year in state taxes.
Democratic State Assemblyman Tom Ammiano is spearheading a cannabis legalization bill in the California Assembly. He believes the state's need to increase tax revenues will work in his bill's favor.
"I think it's a seductive part of the equation," he says.
Ammiano says there are a number of ways legalized pot could be marketed, "It could be a Walgreens, it could be a hospital, a medical marijuana facility, whatever could be convenient. Adequate enforcement of the rules. Nobody under 21. No driving under the influence."
Even California's Republican governor, Arnold Schwarzenegger, says legalizing marijuana deserves serious consideration.
"I think we ought to study very carefully what other countries are doing that have legalized marijuana," Schwarzenegger says.
But Ammiano says selling a legalized marijuana bill to his fellow legislators remains a delicate matter.
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"If we held the vote in the hallway, we'd have it done," Ammiano says. "But people are necessarily cautious. They are up for re-election."
And that is why Lee believes voters will approve a marijuana initiative long before the state Assembly acts. Sitting under grow lights in a warehouse filled with hundreds of marijuana plants, Lee sums it up this way: "For some people cannabis is like a religion. As passionate as some people are about their religions and freedom to think what they want and to worship as they want."
But all of that is baloney to Paul Chabot. He is president of the Coalition for a Drug Free California. He says voters should not be fooled by promises of big bucks flowing to the state from marijuana taxes.
"It's their way of sort of desensitizing our communities, our state and our nation to a drug problem that we clearly need to put our foot down on, and say, 'No more. Enough is enough.' "
Chabot points out that California's medical marijuana law has been poorly regulated, and he expects more of the same if marijuana becomes legalized for everyone.
But a substantial number of Californians seem to believe that no amount of enforcement is going to make pot go away -- and that it's time for the state to begin taking a cut of the action.
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Constitutional Rights Series
Third Gender Rights and Legislations across the World
By Sunit Kumar Mondal, GNLU
Editor's Note: This paper discusses the third gender rights and the various legislations across the World. It covers Nepal, New Zealand and India and thereby, presents a comparative analysis of the same.
This may be an interesting subject – for those who don't have to deal with it at least. In a perfect world it would be the individual who chooses, but this can't happen until adulthood, can it? It's the parent that decides which school uniform to be worn – the colour of the bedroom – trunks or swimsuit – appearance in general. It's not about the choice; it's about pressure to choose. What a nightmare.
In recent times, the dynamics of legislation have reached a point where the countries like –New Zealand, Nepal, and India along with a number of South Asian countries. The third gender is now being legally recognised around the globe and for the newborns there is an option vested upon the parents for the child to be genetically operated into a male or female.
Intersex people, those born with reproductive or sexual anatomy that does not fit the typical definitions of female or male, are now able to list their gender on passports as X. Transgender people, whose perception of their own sex was at odds with their birth gender, are now able to pick whether they are male or female if their choice is supported by a doctor's statement. Previously, gender was a choice of only male or female, and people were not allowed to change their gender on their passport without having had a sex-change operation.1
SITUATION IN NEPAL
On Dec. 27, 2007, the Supreme Court of Nepal issued a decision mandating that the government scrap all laws that discriminated based on sexual orientation and/or gender identity and establishes a committee to study same-sex marriage policy. The court took the unique approach of establishing a third-gender category. Nepalese official documents afford citizens three gender options: male, female, and "others". This may include people who present or perform as a gender that is different from the one that was assigned to them at birth. Nepal's 2011 census was the first national census in the world to allow people to register as a gender other than male or female. The 2007 Supreme Court decision ordered the government to issue citizenship ID.
SITUATION IN NEW ZEALAND
Birth certificates are available at birth showing "indeterminate" sex if it is not possible to assign a sex. The New Zealand Department of Internal Affairs states, "A person's sex can be recorded as indeterminate at the time of birth if it cannot be ascertained that the person is either male or female, and there are a number of people so recorded."2 Passports are available from December 2012 with an 'X' sex descriptor, where "X" means "indeterminate/unspecified".3 These were originally introduced for people transitioning gender.4
SITUATION IN INDIA
The Hijra of India is most likely the most well known and crowded third sex sort in this dynamic world. As many as 175 complaints and issues were disposed of at the "khula durbar" and most of these pertained to the grant of pension, making ration cards and BPL cards, cleaning of village pools, allotment of 100 sq m plots, drainage of water and removal of encroachments. The Constitution gives rights on the basis of citizenship and on the grounds of gender but the gross discrimination on the part of our legislature is evident. The Constitution, while it contains certain prohibited grounds of discrimination such as race, caste, creed, sex, etc., does not specifically include sexual orientation. A reading of Section 13 of General Clauses Act, 1897 which talks about gender and number makes the discrimination holders more apparent. It says: "Words importing masculine gender shall be taken to include females". This in itself shows that the law makers did not take cognizance of eunuchs.
Legal Discrimination against the sexuality minorities takes many forms, the most notorious being Section 377 of the Indian Penal Code (IPC).5 It reads:
"Whoever voluntarily has carnal intercourse against the order of nature with any man, woman, or animal, shall be punished with imprisonment of either description for a term which may extend to 10 years and also be liable to fine."
There is no mention of eunuchs in this section, even as eunuchs are known to engage in prostitution. Neither the Hindu Marriage Act nor the Special Marriage Act mentions third gender. Degree of Prohibited relationship refers to any relationship between a man and woman that is mentioned in Part I and Part II of the First Schedule of the Act. The focus is on the male and the female sexes. The 'third sex' has conveniently been ignored. A BBC correspondent covering a eunuch festival in Bangalore in September, 2003 quoted a eunuch complain that due to their social unacceptability. Even a writ petition 6 was filed in October, 2012. The petition sought several directions from the Court, including granting of equal rights and protection to transgender persons; inclusion of a third category in recording one's sex/gender in identity documents like the election card, passport, driving license and ration card; and for admission in educational institutions, hospitals, access to toilets, amongst others.
Jobs are denied to eunuchs due to their gender and they are ridiculed in the society. Time Magazine once interviewed a eunuch who complained that the application form for the job has only two sexes mentioned and makes it blatant how unwanted they are. Even if they apply, they are not allowed to enter the offices. The articles also said that the eunuchs were deprived of the liberty of opening bank accounts and possess passports. The BBC report also spoke about eunuchs being deprived of the right to vote as the people shun them. This is a matter of concern that a citizen of the largest democracy in the world is not given his fundamental right granted by any democracy.
The main cause for discrimination against eunuchs is the mindset of the society at large. Owing to the fact that these people are different in matters of their sexual preferences and are strong enough to show it, the society sees it as a violation of a norm and thus subjects them to isolation. Family and popular psychology play a predominant role in perpetuating the present dilemma law needs to step in to ensure that a relatively small but deeply aggrieved humiliate section of the civil society is given its rights guaranteed by the Constitution of the land.
Edited by Hariharan Kumar
1. http://www.theguardian.com/world/2011/sep/15/australian-passports-third-gender-option. Last Accessed 2014-03-19
2. Knight, Kyle (24 April 2012). "Nepal's Third Gender and the Recognition of Gender Identity". Huffington Post. Last accessed 2014-03-19.
3. Department of Internal Affairs, "General information regarding Declarations of Family Court as to sex to be shown on birth certificates"
4. http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=10852012 X marks the spot on passport for transgender travellers], New Zealand Herald, 5 December 2012]. Last Accessed March 19, 2014.
5. Jaimie Veale – Academia.edu, "The prevalence of transsexualism among New Zealand passport holders, passports with an X sex descriptor are now available in New Zealand", 2008. Last Accessed 2014-03-19
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Zack Snyder has some strong opinions about people who thought his take on Batman was too bloodthirsty, and plenty of F-bombs to go with them. As The Playlist reports, a fan posted a video to Twitter of Snyder from a recent film screening Q&A where he addresses the complaints that Batman killed people in Batman V Superman: Dawn of Justice. Snyder made it very clear — to say the least — that the idealism of the comics books isn't what he was trying to portray on the big screen.
Snyder's take on Batman and Superman were incredibly polarizing with fans and did not go over well with critics. He stepped away from Justice League due to a family tragedy, with Joss Whedon stepping in to do reshoots that brought a lighter side to the material. Snyder has remained an executive producer on several DC Films including Aquaman and the upcoming Wonder Woman 1984 but has yet to step back behind the writer's desk or director's chair since.


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Nigel Farage must be Britain's best- known seven-times-failed Westminster parliamentary candidate. In the United States he presents himself as Mr Brexit; in the UK he is portrayed as the one British politician who championed Trump before his victory. Neither claim is in fact true. Farage was not a public face of the officially-designated Vote Leave campaign and they did their very best to keep him off the airwaves as much as they could during the campaign. In the run-up to the 2016 US presidential election Farage explicitly did not endorse Trump — he would only go so far as to say that he would certainly not vote for Hillary Clinton. Farage's endorsement came after Trump's victory.
By the time the UK leaves the EU next year Farage will, thanks only to proportional representation, have been a Member of the European Parliament for 20 years. UKIP's later rise was predicated upon the platform and indeed money the European Parliament provided. This was the essential launchpad for the party's later takeoff.
What has Farage achieved from his European platform? He has made pugnacious speeches which have had millions of views on YouTube. By the standards of today's politicians he is a great communicator — outclassed on the Right perhaps only by Boris Johnson and in his own idiosyncratic way Jacob Rees-Mogg — but Farage's appeal is limited to certain sections of the electorate, as his failure to win a first-past-the-post election demonstrates.
Farage also has another achievement to his name, such as it is. As he said in 2016, "I've spent ten years trying to make immigration and EU membership synonymous." When Farage was first elected in 1999 there had been no mention of immigration in UKIP's election literature. By the 2014 European elections, in which UKIP got the largest share of the vote, immigration was the party's defining issue. What had changed was the Blair government's decision in 2004 not to impose any work restrictions on citizens from the Central and Eastern European countries joining the EU that year. This led to an unprecedented level of migration to the UK and moved an issue which had been only raised by a fringe to an everyday concern of millions. Farage knew how to capitalise upon it and this helped to make a Leave vote possible.


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Best practices from nano-risk analysis relevant for other emerging technologies
Khara Grieger1,
Jacob L. Jones2,
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Christine Ogilvie Hendren4,5,
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Jennifer Kuzma ORCID: orcid.org/0000-0003-4456-96131 &
Anders Baun3
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The authors gratefully acknowledge support for this work through diverse funding mechanisms. In particular, K.G. and J.L.J. acknowledges the Game-Changing Research Incentive Program funded through the NC State Office of Research, Innovation, and Economic Development, RTI International and the Kenan Institute for Engineering, Science and Technology. K.G. and J.K. gratefully acknowledge the partial support of the Genetic Engineering and Society Center at NC State (https://go.ncsu.edu/ges). J.L.J also acknowledges National Science Foundation (NSF) award ECCS-1542015 and the Research Triangle Nanotechnology Network, a site in the National Nanotechnology Coordinated Infrastructure. A.B. and K.A.J. acknowledge the Horizon 2020 project, caLIBRAte, for support (Grant agreement no. 686239). S.F.H. wishes to acknowledge the Swedish Foundation for Strategic Environmental Research (Mistra) project Environmental Nanosafety Phase II. Finally, C.O.H. acknowledges support from the NSF and the Environmental Protection Agency under NSF Cooperative Agreement DBI‐1266252 and EF‐0830093, the Center for the Environmental Implications of NanoTechnology.
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Start-up Neuro Hero launches speech and language therapy apps
Neuro Hero founder Dr Aviva Cohen
Technology start-up Neuro Hero has launched a new set of apps for iOS and Android aimed at families whose loved ones have communications difficulties arising from strokes, brain injuries and other conditions.
The four Talk Around IT apps have been launched by Minister of State for Research and Innovation, Sean Sherlock, TD, and Neuro Hero founder Dr Aviva Cohen.
The word-finding technology was inspired when Cohen's husband, Steve, survived a stroke that left him with severe expressive aphasia.
Also launched today was a free version of the app focusing on natural objects: Talk Around IT Nature 'light'.
The Talk Around IT apps have been in development for more than two years and are designed in conjunction with speech and language therapists. The apps provide speech and language therapy that people can use in the comfort of their homes, without the cost of expensive therapy.
They are designed to help those with word-finding difficulties relearn everyday words. Each of the four word-finding apps has 50 pictures to name within a specific theme, such as common personal objects, animals and natural objects, masculine objects and household objects.
Making life better
There are around 30,000 people in Ireland living with the effects of stroke and conditions that can lead to speech and language difficulties.
Neuro Hero was one of 10 projects selected in 2011 for support from Diageo's Arthur Guinness Fund and received €50,000 along with business mentoring in order to advance this project further.
"These apps are the culmination of an enormous effort by the entire Neuro Hero team and many people who have helped us along the way," Aviva Cohen said.
"I know firsthand how stroke, brain injury and other illnesses can lead to isolation and despair. I am determined to find practical, cost-effective ways to help families by creating effective home-based therapies and useful tools like our short videos.
"We are committed to bringing these solutions to those who need them in Ireland and all over the world.
"I am confident that these apps will improve the quality of life of those living with communication difficulties. We will continue to find new ways to make life better for those living with chronic illness and their loved ones," Cohen said.
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Obama: Iran Nuclear Deal Makes World Safer
by Aru Pande July 14, 2015
Months of international negotiations and years of sanctions targeting Iran's nuclear program led up to this one moment. In the early hours of July 14, U.S. President Barack Obama made his way down a long red-carpeted hallway in the White House to announce a historic agreement.
"The United States, together with our international partners, has achieved something that decades of animosity has not – a comprehensive long-term deal with Iran that will prevent it from obtaining a nuclear weapon," Obama said.
The American leader, flanked by Vice President Joe Biden, spoke for 14 minutes in a televised statement where he hailed the Iran nuclear agreement as an example of how American diplomacy can bring about change that will make the "volatile" Middle East, and hence the world, more safe and secure.
"Today because America negotiated from position of strength and principal, we have stopped the spread of nuclear weapons in this region," Obama said.
Agreement details
President Obama laid out the key points of the deal, noting that "every pathway to a nuclear weapon is cut off." Under the agreement, he said Iran would no longer produce highly enriched uranium and weapons-grade plutonium that are necessary to make a nuclear bomb. Iran will remove two-thirds of its installed centrifuges, and will not use its advanced centrifuges to produce enriched uranium for the next decade. Iran will also get rid of 98 percent of its stockpiled enriched uranium and modify its core reactor.
As he laid out details of the nuclear deal, President Obama made clear that the international community will be in a position to verify Iran's compliance, noting "this deal is based not on trust, but on verification."
The American president said United Nations inspectors would have 24-7 access to Iran's key nuclear facilities. In exchange, Iran will receive relief from sanctions put in place by the U.S. and U.N. Security Council. President Obama said Iran must complete key steps before it begins to receive new sanctions relief, including the lifting of restrictions on arms and ballistic missiles.
"If Iran violates the deal, all the sanctions will snap back," Obama said.
Congressional review
The president closed his remarks with a message to the U.S. Congress, which now has 60 days to review the deal, saying while he welcomes lawmakers' scrutiny of the agreement, he will "veto any legislation that prevents successful implementation of the deal."
President Obama said now is not the time for "politics and posturing" and warned that an Iran armed with a nuclear weapon would be far more destabilizing to the Middle East and the world.
"History shows that America must lead not just with our might, but with our principals. It shows we are stronger not when we are alone but when we bring the world together," Obama said. "Today's announcement marks one more chapter in this pursuit of a safer, and more helpful, more hopeful world."


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My Perfect Day
On a perfect day
there would be no clocks
I would awaken
when I was rested
sleep when I was tired
eat when I was hungry
drink when I was dry.
I would go wherever
my creative muses led me.
I might wade a creek
touching nature
or I might go to
France's Mirmande
cobblestone streets
sun on my face
ancestral winds at my back.
I might drive over
to Penn's Store
where I would meander
amongst fellow misfits
poets, painters, songsters.
No one would care
what I looked like
what clothes I had on
or how I wore my hair.
no one would be nice
because of what I could give them
or do for them
or how I made them feel
about themselves.
No one would misread me
assigning desire where
only kindness was intended
or assuming anger when
quiet contemplation overtook me.
I might paint, write
sing or dance
or stare quietly into space
not really knowing where
my mind had been
then suddenly
having an inspiration
an insight
an ah-ha, that's it!
I might make a memory
with another or a few
without baggage
just joy.
I would be like a butterfly
landing where flowers bloom
hurting nothing
taking nothing
expecting nothing
–just being.
All I would want
would be warmth and freedom
from jars, nets and insect zoos.
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Looking at Ireland, part 1…her genetics
I have always heard that red hair, fair skin and blue eyes were "Scottish" and "Irish" traits, but experience has taught me differently. It is funny how we develop an idea of a people based on a stereo-type and yes, while those traits are more common among Scotch-Irish, they are not always indicative of Scotch-Irish ancestry, but this article isn't actually about red hair. It's about the Irish. The more I learn about Ireland, her people and her history, the more fascinated I become. Ireland plays a HUGE role in the making of modern America. So, over the next few blog posts, I'd like to talk about the Irish in early America and about genetics and just whatever else pops up in my little studies.
As of 2018, scientists and historians are beginning to see a different picture of the origins of Irish people than what most of us have been led to believe, or at least, in my neck of the woods. I live in Appalachia. I grew up being told that everybody was Scotch-Irish and I grew up with a notion of what that looked like. My notions weren't entirely correct. It is true that the people of modern Ireland share a definite genetic link with the people of Scotland and Wales, and to a smaller degree, the English (British) but what sets them apart? Is it their origins? Some tiny trace of an ancient ancestry? What about the people of ancient Ireland, who were they? Where did they come from? What about the deep ancestry of the Irish?
Up until last year, all the research that I had read, said that the Irish were Celts and that they had migrated there from Central Europe way back when (like around 500 years before Christ or something like that). These were the people that the Greeks called Keltoi. But researchers at Trinity University in Dublin and at Queens University have found that there were at least two migrations to Ireland in the past few thousand years. Findings from the analysis of the remains 5,200 year-old Irish woman suggests she was more like modern-day Spaniards and Sardinians, and her DNA indicated that her ancestors came from the Middle East long before that.
Other remains from about 4,000 years ago reveal that early Irish also shared genetic ties to the people of Eastern Europe, specifically, the Steppes of Russia and the Ukraine. These 4,000 year-old remains also show a link to modern day Scotch, Irish and Welsch, meaning that modern day Irish, Scotch and Welsh are all linked to these 4,000 year-old ancestors from Eastern Europe.
Now let's look at what Irish Origin stories tell us about their history. One of the oldest pieces of Irish literature, Leabhar Gabhla, says the first people in Ireland were a small dark-skinned people called the Fir Bolg, followed by the Tuatha de Danaan. Then the ancient books tells about Milesians, soldiers from Spain who were said to be the sons of Mil. Recent studies of Spanish and Irish male haplogroups actually seem to bear this out in that the paternal haplogroup R1b finds its highest concentration in Western Ireland and Northern Spain, in particular, Basque Country. So, the Irish share some relation to the Basque. I find that, well, kind of cool. Keep in mind that the sea was the easiest mode of transportation back in those days and some people, like the Basque, were accomplished sailors. The land was covered in forests and mountain ranges were hard to navigate. So, people built their settlements on the coasts and traveled the shores of Europe to get from place to place. Towns were built on the coasts and along the rivers so that it was easier to trade and to travel and people did travel–a lot more than you might think!
Research from last year (2018) leads geneticists to think that the Irish are closely related to the people of Brittany (NW France) and Western Norway. And again, of course, they share most of their DNA to the peoples, of Scotland, Wales and England. But while other parts of Europe have become far more integrated, Ireland's geographical location has helped keep the Irish gene-pool more constant. The same genes have been passed down for thousands of years now. Ireland has the highest level of R1b male haplogroups, followed by the Basque.
There is no question that there is a link between Ireland and Spain. There are those who believe that Spain and Portugal were once inhabited by Celtiberians (Celtic+Iberian)who spoke a Celtic language that is now extinct. They believe that these extinct Iberian Celts simply traveled the Atlantic seaboard, bringing their culture and language to what is now France and the British Isles. Of course, it's not been proven, but the link between Irish and Spanish DNA does lend some credibility to the idea.
So, to recap, Spain and Ireland share a prominent male haplogroup, indicating that at some point in the distant past, Spanish men came to Ireland and had offsprings with native Irish women (perhaps they had migrated from Scotland after the last Ice Age). Later came the travelers from Eastern Europe. Then, later the Celts from Central Europe, introducing their DNA into the mix. At some point, there was a Viking invasion, introducing Scandavain ancestry into some parts of Ireland. Then came the English. Today, the Irish share more ancestry with the rest of the British Isles than anywhere else. Spain and Portugal underwent Moorish occupation and have a hefty dose of North-African/Middle Eastern admixture.
So, the next time I hear someone say, "Oh, he/she looks Irish." I will respond with and "What exactly does that mean?"
In my next post I hope to discuss a brief overview of Irish history prior to the Spanish, French and English invasion of America.
https://www.thefamouspeople.com/ireland.php
Author Darlene Franklin-CampbellPosted on July 3, 2019 July 3, 2019 Categories reflectionsLeave a comment on Looking at Ireland, part 1…her genetics
Dreams of a County Poet
No dream comes true and thrives unless someone is willing to support it. My friend, Jeanne Lane [kinship to the poet, Robert Penn Warren] and her daughter, Dawn Osborne, have had a dream for many years, to keep the oldest country store in America operational. Located in Gravel Switch, Kentucky, in the heart of Kentucky's Knobs region, at the foothills of the Appalachian Mountains, is Penn's Store. It's a tiny building that sits on the corners of three counties with history dating back to before the 1850s.
Jeanne Penn Lane, speaking with a guest author.
Dawn Osborne, Performing.
Jeanne and Dawn haven't tried to keep the store open to make a profit. No, their desire was to keep something of heritage and tradition and family alive. Jeanne Penn Lane is a true historian, a curator of what made central Kentucky special and unique, a preserver of culture. But she is so much more. Jeanne and Dawn have always had a passion for the arts and for Kentucky. As a part of that, they initiated the Kentucky Writers Day held there each spring, in hopes of giving Kentucky writers, artists and musicians a place to share their voices, to make connections and to remember.
Jeanne's one desire has been to give something of beauty and value to her community. Kentucky has long been the birth place of world renown artists, novelists, poets, musicians and actors. Jeanne and Dawn want the world to know this, to understand the caliber of people that come out of these hills, hollers, swamps, tobacco patches, saw mills, corn fields, hayfields, coal mines and creek beds. Throughout the years, celebrities have trekked from all over the world to sit around the pot-bellied stove in Penn's Store and share their music with a receptive audience, even before they shared it with record labels. Prize-winning authors have sat on her porch and eaten a famous "balony sandwich" while bouncing story ideas off each other. Even modern day celebrities have graced the aged porch of Penn's Store. In 2009, Turtle Man answered the Call of the Wildman and showed up with his Team Turtle to enter the annual Great Outhouse Blowout, a fun event that Jeanne has hosted for years in order to bring in much needed funds in order to keep the store operational. It's a time when vendors can come and set up and people of all ages from all over the world can watch the outhouses race for the Golden Throne Award.
Animal Planet's Turtle Man and Yours Truly, goofing around.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Call_of_the_Wildman
If you don't live in the state of Kentucky and you are passing through, unless you check out Penn's Store, you've missed a part of what makes Kentucky culture unique. It's not the kind of thing with buttons, bells, whistles and all kinds of hoop-la, no, it's real Kentucky, both the way it was and the way it is. It's a piece of American history that has survived into the New Millennium and it's a good piece, a piece worth keeping.
Me, posing for a shot with the timeless poet, H.R. Stoneback, who has worked diligently to keep Kentucky Writer's Day and Penn's Store operational. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H.R._Stoneback
However, keeping a dream alive isn't free nor is it cheap. Jeanne's dream is to give others a piece of heritage, a piece of culture, an outlet for the arts but she needs help. I'm posting a link to Penn's Store's website where you can find all of their contact information. Most people could donate a few dollars to the store and help Jeanne and Dawn continue to offer events and opportunities for artists, writers, musicians and actors without it ever making a huge dent, but many small gifts could be the difference in whether the dream continues to live or whether it becomes just another forgotten paragraph of American history. I can't help but reference Audrey Hepburn who said, "People, even more than things, have to be restored, renewed, revived, reclaimed, and redeemed; never throw out anyone." In this case, the people are those who have come before us in our human family. By preserving this piece of the past and the this hub of community in the present, we preserve something for ourselves and our children. And, she did also say…things. But Penn's Store is more than a thing. It's a piece of "life."
Sarah Elizabeth Burkey, and I, hanging out at Kentucky Writer's Day. Sarah is the Assistant Director of Music for the Cherokee Historical Association.
Here's the link:http://www.pennsstore.com/history/history.htm Help in any way you can. No effort is too small. Sponsor an event, send a gift, go visit the store, be a vendor…anything helps.
Jeanne and Dawn have no idea that I'm writing this article. It was my own idea, but I want people to realize that this precious little gem has been buried in the hills of Kentucky all these years, this little unselfish piece of living history and heritage that seeks to help artist, musicians, writers and actors build a foundation for future endeavors. Let's not throw it out. Country stores have become a thing of the past in most places, but here is one, still operational, that has existed since the 1850s. That's living history. I hope some of you who read this will contact Jeanne and Dawn today and become a part of it.
You can contact Jeanne or Dawn via the contact info on their website, on their facebook page Penn's Store.
When a person visits Penn's Store, he or she travels back in time and feels a connection, not only with yesteryears but also with the earth itself.
Author Darlene Franklin-CampbellPosted on June 10, 2015 June 10, 2015 Categories art, Blogroll, conversations, music, personal essays, Poetry, reflectionsTags appalachia, country stores, events, festivals, gravel switch, h.r. stoneback, history, Jeanne penn lane, kentucky, penn's store, poet, robert penn warren, sarah elizabeth burkey, turtle man, writerLeave a comment on Dreams of a County Poet


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By Brian Bannen, Ian Gonzales and Michael Edwards • November 5th, 2014
Rasputin #1
(Image – writer: Alex Grecian; art: Riley Rossmo)
Mostly everyone knows of the legend of Rasputin. My first knowledge of the man came from hearing about his odd end, and how he was poisoned, stabbed, shot, thrown out a window and drowned. The version I heard, though, is that he died of exposure due to the cold, and not due to any of the other murderous attempts on his life. Regardless, Alex Grecian takes a look at Rasputin's origins in a comic that attempts to tell the story of Rasputin, from his mysterious beginnings to his equally mysterious end.
Grecian starts his story by telling of Rasputin's childhood. I don't know the true origin of Rasputin, but in Grecian's version, the boy grew up in an abusive home, doted on by the mother who at least loved him in opposition to the brutish father, who drank too much and beat his family. This is all delivered very perfunctorily. There's nothing much surprising about the writing, which is a bit disappointing. The comic is intriguing due to its main character, but the writing doesn't go beyond what's expected. Nothing really surprising occurs.
Where the issue is worth its price of admission is in Riley Rossmo's gorgeous art. He has a very unique style, one that has echoes of an unkempt Russell Dauterman. If Grecian is trying to make Rasputin a relatable villain, Rossmo is the one who brings that concept to life. His style is somewhat cartoonish, but edgier. His set pieces are tonal beacons, as whatever feeling Grecian aims for is delivered by Rossmo. The simple color palette used by Ivan Plascencia is weighty for how minimalist it is. I couldn't stop looking at the comic long after I read it, and I'm not doing the art justice. Trust me when I say that you need to pick up a copy for yourself, because the visuals are what make the comic worth reading.
I'm intrigued by Rasputin because of the history of the character. Grecian is a solid writer, but he hasn't given us anything we didn't expect or didn't know about. But I'm on board because of Riley Rossmo. The imagery of the book makes reading it all the more fun, and I can't wait to see what else he does. I'll follow Rasputin, more for the art than the story right now, but hopefully that will improve as the comic tells more of Rasputin's twisted history.
– Brian Bannen
Justice League United Annual #1
(DC – writer: Jeff Lemire; artist: Neil Edwards)
I have to confess that I haven't been following Justice League United too closely, but I took a chance on the book for one reason: Jeff Lemire. Lemire, to me, is a proven talent. I've been drawn to his writing since Sweet Tooth, and I loved his work on Animal Man, so I didn't feel like I was taking much of a gamble. I'm glad I gave Justice League United a shot, too, because while the comic has its flaws, it's tightly written and a great starting point for casual readers like myself.
The issue is the beginning of a storyline titled "The Infinitus Saga," and it involves the JL United plus the Legion of Super Heroes. Lemire finds a way to fill in the backstory of the team early on, so the majority of the comic is spent on building the conflict. Lemire basically splits the tale into two parts: the first following Martian Manhunter as he tries to protect Ultra, an alien super-hybrid, and the second following Green Arrow, Supergirl, Animal Man and Star Girl as they search for Hawkman's body.
The parts with Martian Manhunter are the best written, as they have the Legion of Super Heroes as well. Lemire is able to combine some pretty heavy exposition with solid characterization, so the story never lags, despite its density. The other half of the comic, however, is meant to throw a little levity into the situation with Animal Man playing the comic relief. Unfortunately, a lot of his jokes just fall flat. Plus, Lemire is setting up a conflict between Green Arrow and Supergirl, but the dispute is never fully fleshed out. This will probably come into play later, but the seeds are so overtly planted that we're practically beat on the head with them.
Furthermore, I don't buy into Supergirl being a hotheaded, quick-to-action person considering how she was originally portrayed by Michael Green and Michael Johnson in Supergirl. The character shift is a bit much to take, but again, I'm not a full-fledged Justice League United reader, so this may be how Lemire has been portraying the character all along. But other than this minor gripe, I loved the buildup to the climax. Lemire's pacing is pretty stellar and the final reveal is enough to invoke excitement for the future of the series.
Credit also goes to Neil Edwards, whose clean style aids the intergalactic setting of the comic. Character designs are sharp and polished, and his close-ups are works of art. Jay Leisten provides the lush inks that smooth the visuals, making for an aesthetically pleasing comic. There are a few hiccups, though, and these are mostly around the composition. A few times, character's hands are misshapen. Martian Manhunter, at one point, looks to have boulders for fists (but this could be to his ability to shape shift). And a few times, Edwards' images spill into other panels. This isn't often a problem, but more a distraction, especially when it conflicts with the imagery in the other panels.
These critiques aside, I really enjoyed Justice League United Annual #1. I'm more willing to become a constant reader after this issue, as I think Lemire has a cool plan for the series. "The Infinitus Saga" is a great place for new readers to come aboard, so if you're looking for a new title to get into, I'd suggest Justice League United. I think the effects of this series are going to felt throughout the DCU.
The Ghost Fleet #1
(Dark Horse – writer: Donny Cates; artist: Daniel Warren Johnson)
The Ghost Fleet is the story of Trace and Ward. They're two of the fleet's handlers. What's the Ghost Fleet, you ask? They are a clandestine group of the world's most elite combat-trained big rig truckers. The Ghost Fleet transport the world's most valuable, dangerous and secretive cargo across the open road. They're off the grid and untraceable – at least until a mysterious group attacks the rig Trace and Ward are hauling.
Donny Cates and Daniel Warren Johnson deliver a badass, action-packed first issue! The story starts with the fleet's secret origins, then moves to the present as Trace and Ward argue about whether Trace is a match for Ward's wife for a transplant. Trace takes their partnership seriously and personally and wants to help his partner. However, the discussion is tabled when the aforementioned attack happens.
Ghost Fleet #1 is exciting! Once the action starts, it keeps moving. It reads like a love letter to '80s action movies like Big Trouble in Little China and Die Hard and exaggerated gore-fests like Toxic Avenger. Cates and Johnson don't shy away from the blood, either. There's a scene involving a dude with an RPG rocket launcher playing chicken with the fleet's truck that ends as graphically as can be expected – and it's awesome.
Johnson's art paired with the lettering in this comic is something else! The crash effects blend into the art, heightening the action. Johnson's storytelling and character acting weave between the chase and the action. As big as the book's action and violence gets, it's the subtle work Johnson does showing us who Trace and Ward are that ties this book together.
Cates and Johnson build an entire world, establish their protagonist and proceed to tear that world down over his head by the end of the issue. I'm so glad this book is an ongoing because I can't wait to see all the places Trace and Ward are going to go.
Full disclosure: Dark Horse Comics provided Unwinnable with an advance review copy of this comic. The Ghost Fleet #1 hits store shelves today.
– Ian Gonzales
Deathlok #1
(Marvel – writer: Nathan Edmonson; artist: Mike Perkins)
Deathlok is a jerk. While I'm most familiar with the more cyborg zombie Luther Manning version of Deathlok, I have a vague grasp of some of his other incarnations, and at least in Manning's case I always found him to be a jerk, too. He doesn't have much personality – he's a cyborg and he kills people, which is a saturated field in the Marvel Universe. Thanks to the TV series Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. , interest in the character is up, so Marvel is rolling out a new Deathlok series, with nice guy Henry Hayes being duped into being the jerk assassin.
This version of Deathlok is closer to how he's portrayed on Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. and features a character introduced in the Original Sin miniseries. Henry Hayes has no recollection of any of his missions of mass murder and explosions, and for all he knows he's helping people out as part of Doctors Without Borders, thanks to false memory implants and memory wipes courtesy of his employers. He has a domestic life as Henry Hayes, with a daughter who's a typically jerky teenager. When he sets out on what he thinks are missions of mercy, something is switched on that turns him into a murderous asshole.
Nathan Edmonson does a serviceable job writing what is basically a bunch of action sequences, with quick domestic breaks in the Hayes house and a subplot involving a S.H.I.E.L.D. agent tracking him down to break things up. Mike Perkins does a great job drawing these action sequences, including one magnificent splash page of Deathlok being picked up by a helicopter after a successful mission. Even colorist Andy Troy should be commended for little details such as the Deathlok uniform to possessing similar color shades to the classic Luther Manning uniform. Everybody does good work on this comic, but still I'm left shrugging my shoulders after finishing the issue.
Maybe it's because I never was a huge Deathlok fan (though I loved the action figure that I had of him back in the day), or maybe I'm just bored with the concept of this comic, which is very similar to the Valiant series Bloodshot. He shows up, kills everybody, shoots an innocent woman's phone like a jerk does, blows shit up willy-nilly, then disappears. He also kills Black Tarantula randomly, and it's all done in a very bland and flavorless way. Is this wash/rinse/repeat cycle what we have to look forward to for issues to come? There's no cliffhanger at the end to make me want to pick up the next issue, and weirdly this guy is never referred to as Deathlok at all during this one. Are Luther Manning or somewhat more recent Deathlok Michael Collins going to appear from behind a corner and shoot this guy randomly in the head? That would at least be interesting.
There have been many takes on the Deathlok cyber-soldier over the years, and while I find the concept of murderous cyborgs interesting, I'm hoping there's a little bit more in issues to come. Also, give this cyborg some more personality; it seems like they've left him switched on to "Shithead Mode." It makes you wonder what C-list hero will be promoted to their own series next via Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. While I always hold out my crazy hopes that the answer is "Darkhawk," only time will tell.
– Michael Edwards
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We All Follow the Albion
Wealth of Albion Connections at Eastbourne Borough
Albion fans have even more reason to keep an eye on Nationwide League South fixtures this season and, in particular, those of Sussex-side Eastbourne Borough.
Albion's Icelandic U-21 striker Stefan Ljubicic was loaned to The Sports at the end of the January transfer window, tasked with helping to find the goals required to keep Eastbourne clear of the bottom three.
Ljubicic arrived in Sussex in July 2016, going straight into the Albion's U-18 setup. In the 2017/18 Premier League South season, Ljubicic made 18 appearances and caught the eye with ten goals and four assists. This form saw the striker stepping up to Simon Rusk's U-23 squad for the 2018/19 Premier League 2 Division 1 campaign.
The young striker did not find the net for the Albion's U-23s prior to his move to Eastbourne, although he was credited with an assist for a James Tilley's goal, as Simon Rusk's side impressively despatched Manchester City's U-23s 5-0 in August.
The loan follows a similar move to fellow National League South side Bognor Regis at the same time of the 2017/18 season.
Ljubicic has impressed in his early games since moving along the Sussex coast, as illustrated in a recent match report
"Up front Ljubicic added height, good movement and a quite imperious presence, and Howell must be quietly pleased with the coup of his signing from Albion."
Following that draw, Borough lost 2-0 at Billericay Town, extending a poor sequence of only two wins in 14 games, leading to the club parting ways with manager Jamie Howell.
Borough didn't waste any time replacing Howell, and former Albion manager Mark McGhee, who still lives locally, was brought in as interim manager for the remainder of the campaign. McGhee boasts an impressive footballing CV, including a European Cup Winners' Cup, a European Super Cup, four Scottish Premier titles, five Scottish Cups and three promotions with three different clubs as a manager.
The Albion connections don't end with McGhee however, as the Scot moved quickly to add popular ex-Albion midfielder Charlie Oatway to his off-field team as first-team coach.
Oatway played under McGhee back in the club's Withdean era, but since hanging up his playing boots he has been one of Gus Poyet's go-to men. Oatway worked with the Uruguayan at the Albion, before moving on to Sunderland, AEK Athens, Real Betis and most recently in the Chinese Super League with Shanghai Shenhua.


The use of external PR agencies is an established practise for organisations all over the globe yet it is somehow still seen as undesirable for public bodies in Ireland to engage PR support.
Clearly the many state agencies who employ PR consultants see the benefit, yet from time to time, some journalists or politicians use the PR label as an example of what they consider wasting public money. The reality is often very different.
Recently the RTE Radio 1 mid-morning current affairs programme, 'Today with Sean O'Rourke' visited the subject. To be fair the report and discussion in this case was reasonably balanced and not as antagonistic as on occasions when other broadcast media or print journalists have addressed the topic. It would have been better balanced had there been someone representing PR consultants on the programme.
Reporter Brian O'Connell outlined the result of a phone-around asking state bodies if they employed PR consultancies, if they did why, and how much the consultancies were paid.
Seven state bodies responded with a variety of answers. The report was broadly factual with Sean O'Rourke at one stage putting the value for money case in favour of consultancies.
It was followed by an interview with Senator Shane Ross who admitted that while state bodies may need external help marketing programmes or activities, his objection was to the culture he saw in hiring external consultants to provide corporate or crisis management services.
Just to be clear, I have no problem with media enquiries about the cost of PR services to State Bodies or indeed about the services provided. Most of these contracts are as a result of a public tender process and querying them is perfectly legitimate. Some of the bodies who responded to RTE gave details of the contracts, others didn't, citing commercial sensitivity.
Those who did respond deserve credit for being open and frank. I would be more critical of those who may have been approached but who refused to provide any information (we weren't told in the report if there were any).
But what really struck me was why anyone would be surprised that state bodies should seek the services of external PR services.
Anyone who thinks that an enterprise or organisation cannot benefit from the services of an external PR agency is living in the past.
Internal communication staff don't always have the resources to employ full-time skilled people across the wide range of communication techniques that are now required. Plus in many cases, depending on the scope and activities of the organisation, an external PR service provider can be more cost efficient than full time staff because of the additional costs that come with permanent employment.
PR consultancies working for state bodies often do a lot more than provide advise on communications strategy or implementation. Many contracts are for providing executive support in activating campaigns and programmes involving managing events, providing content for communication material, social & digital media support, media training and analysis.
Questioning an organisation as to why it sees the need to employ an external PR agency may have been an issue 25 or 30 years ago but PR consultancies have well established their bone-fides in the meantime.


Mineralogy Logs: Element To Mineral Transforms And Compositional Colinearity In Sediments.
The inversion of chemical data to meaningful mineralogical assemblages provides a quantitative basis for the prediction of petrophysical parameters. The most valuable transforms attempt to provide the proportions of actual mineral phases present (solids and fluids) at each depth interval rather than ideal minerals occurring in theoretical models (norms). Compositional colinearity, in which three or more of these phases lie on, or close to, the same compositional plane is a most serious problem. Depending on the algorithm used for the inversion the effects of these compositional constraints may vary between a failure to find any numerical solution, failure to find a unique solution, or a solution which may be significantly in error. These effects are illustrated for sedimentary environments using well-constrained laboratory geochemical and mineralogy data.


"Julia" is the story of a fascinating woman, told from the point of view of someone who hardly knew her. That is, I realize, an unkind judgment against Lillian Hellman, whose wartime memoirs provide the inspiration for the story. But this movie's problems start with its point of view, and it never quite recovers from them.
The film is structured as a tribute to a memory. We hear the voice of Jane Fonda, as Lillian Hellman, telling us about this great friend of her youth, and how Julia (Vanessa Redgrave) grew up to become a brave and doomed woman. All very well, but the film never really establishes a relationship between the two women; instead, it documents an attitude. To Lillian, Julia is a goddess. But what is Lillian to Julia? A courier, in the movie's long central scene: Lillian is recruited to carry large sums of Julia's money into pre-war Germany, to buy the freedom of several hundred Jews and other prisoners. But even here, in a scene in a Vienna cafe that contains the longest of the movie's rare stretches of dialogue between Julia and Lillian, confidences are not really exchanged. Julia, who seems to be acting as she feels an Eric Ambler heroine should, doesn't reveal herself except in a sort of understated, heroic posture.
It's awkward, the way the movie has to suspend itself between Julia -- its ostensible subject -- and Lillian Hellman, its real subject. Jane Fonda provides an interesting portrait of the young woman playwright who banged out her frustrations on the typewriter, who chain-smoked, who drank too much (and lived with Dashiell Hammett, who also drank too much) and who eventually became the legend we know today. We like this Lillian so much, indeed, that we wouldn't at all mind a whole movie about her.
But, no, the movie pretends to be about Julia. And so we get romantic flashbacks, and heroic musings on the sound track, and the one story trying to fit into the other and splitting its seams. The movie's central weakness betrays itself when we compare its two relationships. The one between Lillian and "Dash" is basically intended as background and atmosphere, I suppose, but Fonda and Jason Robards, Jr., make it real. They bring dimensions to it: When Hammett finally bestows his blessings on one of Hellman's plays, we believe the moment.
Between Lillian and Julia, though, there are only two notes. One is childhood idolatry, as in the scene, beautiful to watch but impossible to take seriously, in which the two adolescent girls idealize their emotions. The other is adult role-playing, in which Julia strides purposefully through Oxford, and then through Europe, playing the kind of heroic radical Vanessa Redgrave has sometimes fancied herself. Lillian, at her side, can admire and envy. But she cannot connect.
What you really have, buried deep within the memoir, is the unspoken wish that Lillian had known Julia better. But Julia remains an enigma. We see key moments of Lillian's life -- we even see her glorying in her first Broadway success -- but the movie's missing comparable information about Julia. She remains a distant symbol, an example of what women can do, an icon.
Many of the reviews of "Julia" went on and on about the relationship it portrays between two women, and have discovered in the movie all sorts of feminist lessons. That's wishful thinking. The only real relationship in the movie is the man-woman one, and, if anything, "Julia" documents how hard it was forty years ago for two women, even emancipated intellectual women, to meet each other on the level.
Perhaps to cover up that weakness, director Fred Zinnemann provides a long, would-be suspenseful, set-piece in the center of the film, following Lillian as she attempts to smuggle the money into Germany. The caper is so awkwardly acted and directed that we sometimes can't even follow it. The timing is off, the significant glances are insignificant, the adventure seems cooked up to fill screen time.
If "Julia" had been about Julia, that would have been an improvement. If it had been about Lillian, that would have been an inspiration. But how did a movie get made that isn't really about either one of them?


Every 1 May is Maharashtra Day to celebrate the formation of the state of Maharashtra on 1 May in 1960 as a part of the Bombay Reorganisation Act.
The brand new state of Maharashtra was separated from the territory of Bombay State by the Bombay Reorganisation Act, and Bombay State was renamed Gujarat. This was accomplished based mostly on linguistic components and with a view to refining the outcomes of the 1956 States Reorganisation Act.
The state authorities of Maharashtra sends out an official discover every year of 1 Could being Maharashtra Day. Staff and college students get time without work, and liquor is banned from sale for the day.
There's a huge parade in Shivaji Park, the place the state governor makes a significant speech. And there are the different parade and occasions and official ceremonies, moreover non-public events in individuals' properties. Lastly, new authorities and private-sector initiatives are launched on Maharashtra Day, and thus, it turns into the anniversary of the earlier 12 months' initiatives as effectively.
What the general population need is extremely straightforward.
They need Maharashtra in the same class as its guarantee.
JAI MAHARASHTRA MAZA, GARZA MAHARASHTRA MERA!


CORUM : HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE M.M. AGGARWAL .*.*.*.
Present: Mr. Avnish Mittal, Advocate.
This is petition for quashing FIR No.158 dated 13.10.2004 under Section 39 of Electricity Act and Section 379 IPC.
The offence is stated to have taken place on 26.9.2004.
Allegations are regarding theft of electricity. As per Section 151 of the Electricity Act, 2003, the Court could take cognizance of the offence only on a complaint by the appropriate government or by the appropriate commission or an officer authorized by them or Chief Electrical Inspector or the persons mentioned in Section 151 of the Act.
case had been filed by respondent No.2 i.e Electricity authorities.
Under these circumstances, this petition is accepted. FIR shall stand quashed. Respondents shall be at liberty to file complaint, if so desired.


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Q: Javascript call method Why the following code will output 1 ?

function func(){
  alert(this)
}
var i = 1;
func.call(i);

A: Definition
function.prototype.call(this,arg1,arg2,...);
Thus, when you call func.call, the first argument you pass in is bound to this variable. So in the function func, any this variable will be replaced with your first argument which is 1.
To play further
You can extend more arguments to func and call with further arguments and see what happen:
function func(a,b){
    alert(this + a*b);
}

func.call(1,2,3);

Recall the definition, the first argument or func.call refers to this variable of func. So you'll end up running
alert( 1 + 2*3 );

** Ref: ** https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Reference/Global_Objects/Function/call
** Even further reading **
function.prototype.call has another close sibling which is function.prototype.apply. The first argument of both functions refers to this variable. The only difference is function.prototype.apply accepts arguments of such function in array.
So instead of
func.call(1,2,3);

You will call it by
func.apply(1,[2,3]);

Have fun playing with it!

A: Because the first argument of call is the functions this value, the syntax is
function.call(thisArg[, arg1[, arg2[, ...]]])

as noted on MDN
Meaning whatever is passed as the first argument to call will be this inside the called function
function func(){
  alert(this)
}

func.call("test"); // alerts "test"

To pass arguments, you pass a this value, and then the rest of the arguments would be the arguments passed along to the function
function func(arg1, arg2, arg3){
    alert(this); // alerts "this_value"
    alert(arg2); // alerts "kitty"
}

func.call("this_value", "hello", "kitty", "cat");

apply works the same way, but takes an array of arguments instead
func.apply("this_value", ["hello", "kitty", "cat"]);

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Art and Expectation
CW: mentions of suicide and mental health later in the article.
Taylor Swift and I were both young when I first saw (and heard) her. I was 13, and she 21. Like many before me, my first exposure to her was her song "Love Story", part of her second studio album titled 'Fearless'. It didn't take a lot for me to be hooked; it was a really good song that spoke to my teen anxieties like few others. I had a raging crush and wasted no time in purchasing the audio CD for the entire album.
In the years since, I've been a fairly avid "Swiftie", indeed, that CD still lies on my shelf as one of the few pieces of physical media from my teens I still own. I must have played every album until "Red" tens of dozens of times and have many of her lyrics memorized better than more important things. I did drop out of the fandom for a while when she released "1989" and "Revolution", both albums that had a distinctly different vibe to her usual fare. They are admittedly important for her journey as a musician, but they were not, and continue to not quite be "my thing" in terms of genre. She did, however, bowl me over once again in the blink of an eye with "Folklore" and the subsequent "Evermore". It felt incredible to rediscover an artist I held so dear not so long ago, and to see how her songwriting has matured.
This is why I was excited, curious, and just a tad skeptical when, yesterday, she announced on Twitter that she would be re-releasing 'Fearless' later as a version more true to who she is now this year, with six tracks that didn't make the cut the first time around. She kicked this off by releasing what she calls "Taylor's Version" of Love Story earlier today. My heart pounding and my fancy headphones on, I tuned into Spotify to check it out.
Four minutes of anticipation, four minutes of disappointment. The song is, for all intents and purposes, basically the same as the original with a few minor tonal differences. Don't get me wrong, it's still a great song, but it rings different for me personally. This post is me thinking out loud to try and understand why this is the case, and wondering what I even expected to get out of it. For my fellow fans and those more ardent than I'll ever be, I'm not saying she shouldn't have released it or that she owes us (me) anything, really. I'm trying to articulate why I feel deeply unsettled listening to this song despite there being very few differences on the surface.
My personal experience with music is that the first time you discover a track playing on the radio or a streaming service of your choice is a very different experience. You almost never know the artist, and the music is all there is for you. You judge it on the way it sounds, on how it is written, how it makes you feel. Perhaps you like it. Every subsequent listen attaches new memories, new interpretations and new expectations. As you learn more about the artist and immerse yourself in their work, the way the song feels to you becomes something else entirely, more than a purely auditory experience.
When I first heard Fearless, I was fresh off getting my heart broken a first time, and riding the wave of hormones that is adolescence. When she recorded it around 2008, Taylor would have been a teen herself, and I felt like she "understood", that she went through a number of the same things I did and was able to express them better than I ever could. Every time I've listened to the album since, that purity, that clarity of thought, the innocence is what I'm taken back to. I'm not the same person that I was in 2010. I've seen more of life and of love than who I was back then, and I know Taylor has as well because we've been on that journey with her with every album she has released. She's not exactly an artist who creates "concept pieces", each several layers of abstraction from the real world. With her, you know her music is deeply personal, her way of processing or discussing the things she goes through in real life. So when I listen to Love Story now, while I'm taken back to a simpler, a better, more hopeful and innocent time, I'm also reminded of how far I've come since then and how the meaning of love and my expectations from it have evolved along the years. I guess I just expected her to be able to express this abstract notion the way she has expressed the myriad things I've felt over the years even when I haven't been able to do so myself.
If you're re-releasing a piece of music almost 15 years since you've made it, my expectation is that you'd talk about (or sing about, really) how far you've come since then, whether you see life differently or want to go back to seeing things as they were when you first released it. In essence, I think I just expected something substantially different in this new version. Someone I adore and respect greatly, who also happens to be a fan of Taylor's, mentioned that she could be in love again and could be feeling the same way she did back then. I feel like that's a very charitable reading of the situation and the new song as it is doesn't really give me any reason to interpret it that way. Of course, it could be possible. No one knows how an artist feels better than them, and what they choose to put out and how is entirely their choice. I just feel like it could have been really interesting if she added or changed a verse or the music as a way of showing she isn't the same person anymore and has been through so much in life, but is feeling like she is in the same place once again. That would have been really special.
I see none of that, feel none of it, instead I hear what is mostly the same song but with a weird, intangible emptiness to it. It is the same song as from 2008, recorded in a new studio with a new, perhaps better, production team. I find myself unable to relate to this 31 year old multi-millionaire pop sensation "Taylor Swift" the same way I could relate to the 18 year old "Taylor" who I felt was just like me all those years ago. To me, it doesn't feel like it is coming from her, or from a place of genuine feeling and desire to produce art. It feels commercial, like a cover of her own song from so many years ago, or maybe even like a very popular artist covering a song from a young upstart, doing an impressive job technically but without touching its emotional core. I can't help but feel this is coming less from her than from the record label looking to cash in on the nostalgia and the adoration of her fans, many of whom have expressed delight in seeing her "return to her roots" with the last two albums, in a way. Perhaps this is cynical. It feels less like "Taylor's Version" and more like Scholastic/Bloomsbury pushing new print runs of the Harry Potter books, this time with fancy foil covers or Hogwarts house-themed binding in the hopes that people throw money at it again. Perhaps it is unfair to her, and perhaps I see capitalism as a boogeyman in every corner. Or perhaps commercialization is something that has existed in the music industry as long as the term "industry" was appended to the music. Maybe this is part and parcel of life as an artist and it is unfair to project your expectations onto an artist you like, expecting them to cater to your very specific and very unimportant ideals.
In the epilogue to Brandon Sanderson's "Words of Radiance", a chapter also titled "Art and Expectation", he writes: >Art...is fundamentally unfair.
Expectation. That is the true soul of art. If you can give a man more than he expects, then he will laud you his entire life. If you can create an air of anticipation and feed it properly, you will succeed.
Conversely, if you gain a reputation for being too good, too skilled ... beware. The better art will be in their heads, and if you give them an ounce less than they imagined, suddenly you have failed.
I've discussed the way I feel about this new song with other fans and received some measure of pushback. And I get it. It is nitpicking. I am being unfair to her by expecting something she never promised in the first place, and I am perhaps being critical of something I don't deserve the right to critique. I still can't help but feel this way. The song still rings hollow to me. I can't see the same innocence and naivete in it that I did in the original, and that perhaps is more on me than it is on Taylor Swift.
I think long and hard before documenting my visceral reactions to music this way, because the last time I did was in 2017, soon after Linkin Park released "One More Light". Like several fans at the time, I didn't like the album. I saw firsthand as the poor reception poured out across social media, talk about how the band was a shell of its former self, how they were pushing out new music without thinking beyond their own pockets, how it was a completely different band and so on. Two months later, Chester Bennington was found dead. While a reason for his suicide has not been confirmed, I cannot help but feel that this toxic culture of entitlement I enabled and participated in to some extent could have played a part in it. I'm still very conflicted putting this post out because I don't want to be in that situation again. I might take it down later. This love is difficult, but it's real.


Could The Browns Have Interest In Texans WR Andre Johnson?
With the Browns likely to play the season without leading WR Josh Gordon, is there a chance the team could acquire Texans leading wide out Andre Johnson?
Before OTAs and minicamp, Johnson told the Texans he had heard enough from the new staff and coach Bill O'Brien to make him want to show up and join the team, Ian Rapoport of NFL Network reports.
He told them of his plans to be there for offseason workouts, despite missing the early portion of it. The question revolved around his $1 million bonus for attending workouts.
Though Johnson had missed some of the sessions, he wanted to earn his money back by working out extra, allowing him to receive the money.
The Texans told him no, per two sources informed of the situation.
That furthered the divide between Johnson and the Texans, driving a wedge between the parties. That caused Johnson to tell them he wanted to play for another team. He is now working out, "not thinking about the Texans," a source said.
The Texans have not yet been willing to trade him, and it's possible that the Browns could swoop in and grab him for the right price – depending on what that price is.
The Browns have done a good job at stockpiling picks, and while they might be willing to part with some, they should be careful on going after Johnson and giving up too much.
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Prespaavtalet är ett internationellt avtal mellan Grekland och Nordmakedonien (vid avtalets undertecknande fortfarande känt som Republiken Makedonien) som reglerar lösningen på den makedonska namnkonflikten. Avtalet innebar att Makedonien bytte namn till Nordmakedonien och att Grekland erkände landet vid detta namn, bland annat genom att upphäva sitt veto mot ett makedonskt medlemskap i Nato. Avtalet har fått sitt namn efter Prespasjön där avtalet skrevs under.

Avtalet, som löser en 28 år lång konflikt, undertecknades den 12 juni 2018 av respektive lands utrikesminister under inseende av deras premiärministrar och bevittnat av FN:s särskilda sändebud för den makedonska namnkonflikten, Matthew Nimetz. Det ratificerades därefter av det makedonska parlamentet respektive det grekiska parlamentet, en process som avslutades den 25 januari 2019. I Makedonien innebar ratificeringen även en konstitutionsändring. Avtalet trädde i kraft den 12 februari 2019 efter att Grekland hade godkänt Makedoniens anslutningsprotokoll till Nato. Avtalet är rättsligt bindande för båda parter på obestämd tid och kan inte ändras eller upphävas varken unilateralt eller genom något nytt avtal.

Bakgrund
Allt sedan Makedonien blev en självständig stat 1991 har Grekland motsatt sig landets namn med hänvisning till att Makedonien är en grekisk region tillika en del av den grekiska historien. Grekland har ansett att Makedonien har försökt göra anspråk på grekisk historia och geografi. Bland annat har Makedonien använt Alexander den stores namn på flygplatser och motorvägar.

Förhandlingar pågick till och från om att lösa namnfrågan, men det var först under 2018 som länderna enades om en lösning. Detta ledde till antaganden av Prespaavtalet.

Se även
 Makedonska namnkonflikten

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Noter

Externa länkar
 Prespaavtalet på engelska
Igor Janev, Prespa Agreement And Its Effects On Macedonian Right To National Identity: An Act of Ethno– Genocidal Termination of the National Identity, Lambert Academic Publishing 2021. .

Politik i Nordmakedonien
Politik i Grekland
Greklands internationella relationer
Nordmakedoniens internationella relationer
2019 i Nordmakedonien
2019 i Grekland