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St. Vincent Performs "Los Ageless" On Colbert's Late Show
By Ernie Ball on October 5, 2017 in Artists, Instruments, News
With just eight days to go until the release of her fifth album, MASSEDUCTION, Annie Clark appeared on Stephen Colbert's Late Show performing "Los Ageless" for the studio audience. The performance featured her signature Ernie Ball Music Man STV guitar in Neon Pink from her limited MASSEDUCTION release. The Colbert appearance comes on the heels of the music video release for the track earlier this week. MASSEDUCTION features Kamasi Washington, Jenny Lewis, and more; it's out October 13.
She also performed a slightly slowed vocal version of her first single off the forthcoming album, the melancholic ballad, "New York".
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St. Vincent recently released a strictly limited edition 'MASSEDUCTION' neon version of her Ernie Ball Music Man signature guitar to coincide with the release of her new album of the same name. The aesthetic is an extension of the unique visual world of 'MASSEDUCTION.' The guitar is available in four neon colors: blue, lime, pink and orange (with leopard print pick guard). The guitar also comes with a deluxe vinyl copy of 'MASSEDUCTION' and a signed back plate.
Only twelve of the guitars will be sold globally through select music instrument retailers. Five more guitars will be given away to lucky winners. Contesting details will follow in the coming weeks.
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Description: A former Catholic female missionary embraces Islam.
The nuns looked so clean and smart in their starched white habits. They looked like the saints in the pictures that hung on the wall of every classroom that I dreamt of the day I could be like them. I was among two other girls who got excellent grades at the end of the school year and we were asked if we would like to study religion. They thought we were pious for our ages because we liked to spend endless hours inside the church. They didn't realize that the inside of the church was dim and cold and a welcome relief from the hot African sun. I couldn't wait to tell my father, who surprisingly said, 'absolutely not!' He would not like that kind of life for one of his girls; without husband and children. He enrolled me in another school, which had previously only admitted boys. Besides myself, there was another girl in the Roman Catholic Mission school in Burundi. The years I spent at this school made me quite tough as I competed only against boys. The nuns used excessive force in disciplinary matters. The fact that we were all adolescents might have had a good deal to do with it. Still, it didn't seem a very Christian thing to do. I was interested in religion and excelled in the study of languages and accepted a full scholarship to a university in Cameroon after graduating from high school. Again, as the only female, I enrolled in the College of T heology. I wasn't sure where I would go with it, but after a short while, the administration applied for a scholarship in the same College of Theology, but in Belgium. There I would learn how to be a Pastor in the Roman Catholic Church. My language ability aided me quite a bit and my mastery of some of the African dialects attracted them as a good candidate for missionary work.
As the years went by, I began to see through the layers of theology and found the superficiality of their teachings. I was not alone in seeing the many contradictions in the New and Old Testaments. To learn that the 'Trinity' is mentioned only once in the New Testament was a surprise but when I learned it had been fully established at the Council of Nicea and that it was not part of what Jesus taught, something in my mind clicked. We were shown certain books called the Gnostic Books, which we were told were hidden teachings, I understood that the church was being deceitful and this was disturbing. How could I believe that this was, as they said, the word of God from A to Z.
Still I pursued my studies in an effort to be able to help myself and my people some day.
After graduation from University, I took a position in Nairobi, Kenya. The Church was very anxious to have an African in a position such as this. They had many programs for women and I was a coordinator for these programs under the auspices of the World Council of Churches. I handled different aspects of exhibitions, women's projects, donors, workshops and conferences. I was sent to the regional office in Togo because they are mainly French-speaking which I spoke fluently and the type of projects I knew how to handle were being implemented there. I began to search for the spiritual force that was missing in my life and in Togo I searched through all the practiced religions. When one looks for truth there are many things thrown in one's path. This part of Africa has many people who practice witchcraft and who claim to have knowledge of the unseen and it was obvious they were just taking people's money. There is no one with knowledge of the unseen except God. I had been facing much mediocrity from the Church and at the same time I had Muslim friends who were very comfortable in their knowledge of God, who prayed five times daily and who had many virtues. They believed in what they said, in contrast to the Church where you repeat what you have been taught without believing in it.
I had never been taught anything about Islam except a superficial introduction so I did a lot of reading about the religion.
I cannot say that my path to Islam was easy; but when one is searching for the truth things become easy although they may seem hard at first. The decision to become a Muslim was also difficult due to the material reasons involved, as I had one of the highest paying professions with many perks. In spite of all of this, I resigned from my position citing my conversion as my reason and immediately lost my job and salary, housing and medical benefits. I became destitute in one day!
My family does not like my hijab but they admired the moral aspects of Islam. I helped to raise my brothers and sisters who were much younger than I, and it is quite difficult to see how much they hate me!
They felt the economic hardship immediately as I did, and could not understand why I would do such a thing. But with the grace of Allah they too will find the truth of Islam, Insha'Allah. I hope and pray that I can use the knowledge that the education in the Church gave me towards the propagation of Islam. The spiritual climate of West Africa is ripe for Islam and there are many projects which need doing. This is what I have been trained to do and so my path is straight and narrow for me now.


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Anandabazar's alt-journalism
Nazmul Ahasan
Here in Dhaka last year, at a conference on the future of print media business, DD Purkayastha, CEO of ABP Group, the parent company of Anandabazar Patrika, said of the paper's digital strategy: "We are giving what our readers want."
The century-old newspaper is the 'jewel in the crown' of ABP Group, a huge media empire with millions of readers and viewers. It played a crucial role during British rule and indulged in the power game afterward, but it was hardly ever praised for maintaining objectivity.
As the digital age loomed over print media, Anandabazar embraced an online strategy that sought to gratify the demands of its readers, as suggested by Purkayastha, at the cost of what is left of its journalistic integrity.
While expanding its territory on the web, the paper targeted Bangladeshi audience by focusing on soft and likable issues such as cricket and entertainment, as a reflection of its audience-gratifying strategy, along with its signature explosive commentaries on Bangladeshi politics.
Focusing on Anandabazar's explicit agenda-driven opinionised journalism will be a waste of time, but its apparent disdain for facts, accuracy and our history, and reckless handling of sensitive issues, is something that should be of concern.
Let's look at some of the most outrageous blunders Anandabazar has committed not long ago, aside from its hilarious misspelling of Bangladeshi names and places, and countless sensationalised headlines.
In a report on a meeting between PM Sheikh Hasina and the visiting Indian Air Force chief Arup Raha, the paper fictitiously stated that the duo had reminisced about an event of our liberation war in which Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, his daughter Hasina and other family members "were in a hideout" and witnessed a grand IAF attack against a Pakistani force.
Even a novice about our history would know that Bangabandhu had been arrested and taken to Pakistan before the war began. As Bangladeshi social media users reacted harshly to this ridiculousness, the paper has since erased the part with a vague retraction later added at the end.
But it does not always bother to even take the trouble of inserting a retraction when proven wrong; instead, the webpage is simply deleted.
The newspaper's inaccurate report claiming that Canadian authorities decided to expel Nur Chowdhury, one of the killers of Bangabandhu, from the country was removed after being challenged by other news outlets such as Deutsche Welle. The same thing happened when a fabricated story claimed that actress Joya Ahsan was subjected to a fatwa in Bangladesh that had termed her "Bangladesh's Sunny Leone" and had threatened her to leave the country.
At least two other Bangladeshi actresses, Pari Mani and Ashna Habib Bhabna, objected to the treatment they received from Anandabazar. While Pari Mani accused the paper of misleading readers by sensually distorting her quotes, Bhabna alleged that comments that she never uttered were attributed to her and that some conversations involving her that had never taken place were mentioned.
In an article professing chief justice Surendra Kumar Sinha to be the next president of Bangladesh, the paper stated that "East Pakistan's chief justice Abu Sayeed Chowdhury was Bangladesh's first president". Mr Chowdhury was actually the second president of Bangladesh, whereas Sheikh Mujibur Rahman was the founding president, and the chief justice Surendra Kumar Sinha is still in his post.
While incorrectly stating that the post of the CJ ranked just below the president's and that Major General Abul Manzoor was a former president, the report went on to indicate that the PM had appointed Mr Sinha as the chief justice to appease the country's minorities. The fate of this story? Not found, 404!
In 2015, Bangladesh cricket team brought the guest Indian team to the brink of a "Bangla Wash" owing to debutant Mustafizur Rahman's extraordinary performance. Anandabazar reported, unsubstantially, that captain Mashrafe Mortaza had taken the Fizz to Indian skipper MS Dhoni to request him to give Mustafiz a chance to play in IPL, and that he had sought Dhoni's bat to give as a gift to Mustafiz. Mashrafe later trashed the report, but Anandabazar didn't retract the story.
Following the Gulshan attack in July last year, Anandabazar nearly slandered North South University by grossly headlining that the university was now a "breeding ground" for militants. About four months later, it carried another story by the same author that said Bangladesh government indentified 18 educational institutions, including Dhaka University and BUET, in Dhaka as the "breeding ground of terrorism." As for BUET, it claims, 72 percent of its teachers belong to either Jamaat-e-Islami or Hizb ut-Tahrir. "Their job is to inspire students by using websites, video footage, Jihadi books, audio CDs," it states. Couldn't be more outrageous!
Most recently, one of its reports on an anti-militant operation by police in Sitakunda, Chittagong featured the photo of a deceased female banker as a militant killed in the operation. Anandabazar took days to adjust the mistake, albeit without any retraction.
Aforementioned articles could be debunked or challenged because they carried specific information, but some other reports contain statements that are seemingly unverifiable and hardly believable.
Interestingly, there's an absurd explanation from one of Anandabazar's own journalists. In an op-ed for the paper, Surbek Bishwas wrote why he and other fellow journalists failed to restrain from the temptation of seductive stories.
"Can we journalists firmly say that unless we can verify whether the police is feeding us deliberately or committing mistakes unknowingly, we wouldn't submit our stories?" he asks. "When other TV channels or newspapers break the story, we cannot help but regret it because we also had the story but decided not to run it." So, did he just confirm our suspicion that his paper plainly carries stories without adequately verifying them? Maybe, yes.
Belated author Ahmed Sofa was one of the fiercest critics of Anandabazar, so was novelist Akhteruzzaman Elias. Elias in one of his critically acclaimed novels, Khoyabnama, which ironically won Ananda Purashkar by Anandabazar, branded the paper as "Bengalis' enemy".
Sofa, on the other hand, in an interview with Kolkata's Swadhin Bangla magazine in 1999, accused Anandabazar of propelling the Partition of Bengal. Quoting Indian author Samar Sen's notable work Babu Brittanto, he said, "When we were fighting for our language, Anandabazar intensified communal tension by writing that the severed head of a Hindu woman had been found inside a Hilsha fish." It was, he said, intended to fuel riots. He also mentioned Anandabazar's "ugly" editorial that opposed Maulana Bhashani's momentous campaign against the Farakka water barrage built by India.
Their testimonies illustrate that in the past Anandabazar ran explicit anti-Bangladesh propaganda defying objectivity. Let us also remind ourselves of the infamous article by Nirad Chowdhury published in Desh Patrika, the literary concern of ABP Group, that termed our country as "so-called Bangladesh" and led to a financially painful ban on the paper in the country.
In this age when the free flow of information is celebrated, similar atrocities in the name of journalism may not be possible to be repeated, but Anandabazar's flagrant violation of the basic code of journalistic ethics deserves proper criticism. At a time when terms like 'fake news', 'post-truth' and 'alt-facts' are creating chaos in the global media industry, Anandabazar's alt-journalism shouldn't be left unchallenged.
Nazmul Ahsan is a journalist. Drop him a line at nazmulahasan@live.com.
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Buhari & The Hausa Language By Reuben Abati
"Baba just fall my hand! Ha, wetin."
"Which Baba?"
"Baba Bubu, the President of all Nigeria."
"In the spirit of this season, may Almighty Allah (SAW) grant him good health and quick recovery. It is part of our duty to pray for our leaders. Only infidels pray for evil."
"My friend, the fasting season has ended. Stop fasting after Ramadan. I am saying something serious. Was it right for the President of Nigeria to address the Nigerian people in Hausa? "
"Hausa? Me no hear am oh. Have they changed the country's official language?"
"Yes. Hausa."
"Baba just enter radio begin speak Hausa to over 400 Nigerian ethnic nationalities"
"In the spirit of this season, my brother, we must thank God for everything"
"You have started."
"Do you know if there is a medical reason? Suppose Baba's diagnosis is that he can only speak Hausa from now on, what if something has happened to his English language? Impairment of the ability to speak English."
"Are you okay? Some yeye people said Baba was suffering from speech impairment and that he would no longer be able to speak. They didn't say anything affected his ability to speak English."
"So, they organized a national broadcast in Hausa to convince us that the President of Nigeria can still speak. But by making him speak Hausa, they simply confirmed the speech impairment. They have just told us that the President can no longer speak the country's official language."
"No. Well, I don't think so. Hausa is actually an official language of Nigeria."
"You have started. I say you have started. Even one of their aides said the whole thing could have been handled better."
"I don't believe that"
"That's what I heard"
"He didn't know his boss was going to speak Hausa?"
"Dey there."
"But no problem. Section 55 of the Nigerian Constitution actually says when the business of Nigeria cannot be conducted in English, you can speak three other languages: Hausa, Yoruba and Igbo."
"The Constitution of Nigeria says that? I don't believe that."
"Yes, you don't ever believe anything."
"Does it also say that when a President is on medical vacation abroad, he can choose to address Nigerians in his mother tongue?"
"The thing is you never know. Some illnesses manifest in certain ways. There is a way you will feel sick, and the best way out is to speak in vernacular. We as Nigerians should show some understanding. Some people will fall sick now and they will do strange and unique things. That is the way I see it."
"I hope the day will never come when a Nigerian President will speak Igbo on my television set. I swear, I will carry that TV set and smash it on the ground."
"You see your problem? Are you saying Igbo is not a constitutionally recognized Nigerian language? You are an Igbo-hater, you this guy. One of those people Nnamdi Kanu refers to as idiots. So, if tomorrow a Nigerian leader decides to speak Fulfulde, what will you do? You will hang yourself? "
"I have said my own."
"You have not said anything. If language is your problem, then ask your ngbati brother in the Villa, to also start speaking Yoruba at Federal Executive meetings and other state functions. If he likes, let him speak Ijebu-Remo dialect. It is, I keep telling you, constitutional."
"What are we running then? Some kind of linguistic zoo where anyone that gets to Aso Rock can speak in tongues?"
"Not in tongues. Three languages. Hausa, Yoruba and Hausa. And for your information, someone that I know once said that there is a spiritual side to that seat of power. You can't ever predict how the spirit moves people in that place. We should just thank God for everything. We are talking about change. When you vote for change, you don't know how God will change things. Our God works in mysterious ways. He speaks all languages, and he can do his miracles in any language he chooses."
"But I don't speak Hausa."
"There is actually a transcript of the Presidential message. It is nothing harmful in any way."
"After almost 50 days of absence?"
"Medical vacation. Try and be humane, this man."
"Hausa language? At a time Hausa youths are telling Igbos to get lost and get out of Nigeria."
"Don't worry. We should just keep praying to God."
"This is not about God. This is about us. Why will my President speak to me in a language that I don't understand?"
"Everything is about God. Go and sit down and stop forming. Is English your language? Do you understand English? You are better off learning Hausa, if I may say so. See as you are losing sweat over the President speaking a constitutionally recognized Nigerian language"
"What of my own language, my own mother tongue? Is it also in the Nigerian constitution? This is about my identity, my Nigerian-ness, my sense of belonging. You don't get it."
"I get it. I say stop forming. If your language is not there, then your local government must be there. That is what you need, afterall, it is not everybody in your clan that speaks English"
"We don't speak Hausa either, and I am sure that I have the right to ask that I should be addressed in a language that I understand as a bona-fide Nigerian citizen."
"It's okay. This is not a big deal. I'll get you a transcript of what the President said."
"In my local Ejagham language, with a broadcast in my people's voice."
"This man, what is your problem? It is people like you who want to break up Nigeria. How many of you are in that your Ejagham village sef, that you are making wahala like this?"
"Why must the President speak sef? The acting President has been speaking English to various groups in Nigeria. I was in fact hoping that he will get round to some of us and invite us to Aso Villa, and now from nowhere, the President releases a message that makes nonsense of the Acting President's efforts at promoting unity in the country."
"The Acting President is what Yoruba people call Adele, get it right, he cannot be the Baale, the village head, when the village head is alive. Adele is Adele. Baale is Baale."
"We don't have such a stupid saying in my village. Good for you Yoruba people who speak from all sides of the mouth. You will see the truth korokoro like this, you will start speaking from all sides of the mouth."
"Why korokoro?"
" I speak small Yoruba."
"I will ask Senator Musiliu Obanikoro then to sue you for using that phrase koro koro. This one that everybody is likely to start speaking in mother tongue, you better watch what you say. Stick to your own mother tongue."
"Isn't that what some people want in any case? They want to turn our country into a Tower of Babel. Let everybody speak his or her mother tongue."
"Your interpretation. Whatever language the President speaks, should not be a problem."
"Fine. Donald Trump should also start speaking German then since his ancestors are from Germany, and the Windsors in England should start speaking French."
"It is not the same thing. We are dealing with a peculiar situation here. What if the President is going through a special kind of therapy? New things are being discovered in the field of medicine everyday. This may be one of those cutting edge things. In the spirit of the season, you and other Nigerians should just chill."
"You are just talking. I think at some point, we just have to restructure this country and get certain things right. There is something called protocol in governance."
"I am not against restructuring, but restructuring for me is not about secession, break up or hate speech. Restructuring means making this country work for all of us, a country of great potentials where the aggregate of our country, resources, people, talents and diversity can put us on the world map. We are a blessed country. We just have to get things right, yes."
"We do well as individuals, take Evans, the kidnapper, but not as a country because we are not yet a nation."
"You can't say some people are doing well like Evans. We can't define our country with negativity. Evans is a kidnapper who made millions of dollars from making other people unhappy. We are a country in search of good role models and standards. By the way, Evans' father says he needs to be taken to a spiritual home for deliverance, but I think he should have his day in court."
"The truth is that we are actually a country of kidnappers. Right now, I feel as if I have been kidnapped in this country of my birth. They told me change begins with me, but I actually feel as if I have been kidnapped."
"My friend, stop that drama. Don't be a drama king. Be a positive citizen. Your mates are winning international prizes and doing well on the international stage, promoting Nigeria and Africa, you are here whining about village issues, my friend, you got to wake up. This is what we mean when we say change begins with you."
"Which of my mates has won international prize?"
"Akinwumi Adesina, President of the Africa Development Bank, Nigeria's former Minister of Agriculture. Something big. Really big. The Nobel Prize of Agriculture."
"Nobel Prize?"
"It is called the World Food Prize. It is the biggest thing in Agriculture."
"Adesina. He did it as Minister of Agriculture. He has done it again globally. Up school!"
"Hel--looo. What is that?"
"Up school! Great of the greatest Ife! Ife gbogbo! Ife gbagba! Gre-at Ife!"
"You see yourself? You just must reduce everything to the level of the village and yet you complain about someone else speaking a local language."
"Adesina is a product of the University of Ife, Obafemi Awolowo University."
"Sorry, the World Food Prize is not about the university that you and Adesina attended, it is something bigger, it is about his accomplishments in promoting food security and by extension global security, his life-long distinction in the field of agriculture."
"What I am saying is that this is Great Ife's achievement."
"It's an achievement for Nigeria, for Africa, for the world. The security of the world is tied to the security of food. The point is clear: if the people of the world are hungry, the world cannot be safe."
"Correct point, there. When I am hungry, I cannot guarantee that I will be a good person."
"I hope you have eaten today."
"It has been a very dry Sallah, my brother. I visited a friend of mine who usually slaughters a cow at a season like this. The man, this year had only fish, chicken and turkey. For a moment, I thought it was Christmas."
"May be you are mixing up things. Muslims don't usually slaughter rams after Ramadan. They do so during the main Sallah, the eid-el-kabir."
"My own Muslim friends slaughter rams and cows all the time, but I see that this year, things are different, very very different. Recession palaver, I think."
"You too should learn to give your friends rams and cows, instead of going from house to house to eat free meat, so stop complaining my friend."
"Am I a Muslim? When it is Christmas, you can come to my house to eat turkey and chicken"
"We are all children of God, indivisible under the umbrella of God, that is all that matters."
"I hope some people know that in the spirit of the season. I wish they knew."
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How to transfer Google Play Music library to YouTube Music
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We have been waiting for Google Play Music to shut down since YouTube Music was first announced. Now, the end has arrived for Google Play Music. The app has now been removed from the Google Play Store and on web browsers. However, if you still have your Google Play Music app installed on your phone, you can still transfer your library to the YouTube Music app. Here's how to move your songs, albums, playlists, and preferences to YouTube Music.
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Hopefully, you will be able to use this article to complete this process before the end of the year.
Google claims it only takes one press of a button in the YouTube Music app to transfer Google Play Music content over to the newer service. Here's how to do it:
If you have not already done so, go ahead and download the YouTube Music app from the Google Play Store.
Open the YouTube Music app on your Android device. You should see a "Transfer your Play Music library" option. Press the "Let's Go" button to continue."
You should then see the "Transfer your latest Google Play Music additions" selection, along with "Not Now" and "Transfer" options at the bottom of the screen. Press the "Transfer" button to start the process.
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Effects of mineralocorticoids on transport properties of cortical collecting duct basolateral membrane
S. C. Sansom, R. G. O'Neil
The effects of long-term mineralocorticoid (deoxycorticosterone acetate, DOCA) elevation for 9-16 days on the active and passive transport properties of the basolateral cell membrane of rabbit and cortical collecting ducts were assessed using microelectrode techniques. It was found that both the transepithelial membrane voltage (V(te)) and basolateral membrane voltage (V(b)) hyperpolarized and the basolateral membrane conductance (G(b)) increased on chronic elevation of mineralocorticoid levels. Barium (5 mM) addition to the bathing solution effectively blocked an induced K+ current across the basolateral cell membrane without an immediate affect on the other barriers. Therefore Ba2+ was used to quantitate the basolateral cell membrane K+ conductance (G(K)(b)). It was found that G(K)(b) increased from 1.0 ± 0.2 mS·cm-2 (controls) to 3.7 ± 1.0 mS·cm-2 in DOCA-treated animals. The basolateral membrane electrogenic pump current (I(act)(b)) was quantitated from the change in the basolateral membrane equivalent emf on addition to either ouabain (0.1 mM) to the bath or of amiloride (50 μM) to the perfusate. There was a large increase in I(act)(b) from 32 μA·cm-2 in controls to 195 μA·cm-2 in the DOCA-treated group. In addition, the estimated Na+-to-K+ coupling ratio of the Na+ pump was observed to increase from 1.6 to 1.0 in the control group to 3.2 to 1.0 in the DOCA-treated group. The estimated basolateral membrane passive K+ current (I(K)(b)) increased from a value that was not significantly different from 0 in controls to ~-45 μA·cm-2 (from bath to cell) in the DOCA-treated group. These findings support a model whereby mineralocorticoids induce an increase in electrogenic Na+ pump activity in response to chronically elevated rates of Na+ transport. This results in a hyperpolarization of V(b), which is well above E(K)(b), thereby resulting in a net driving force for K+ uptake into the cell, bringing about an increased rate of K+ secretion.
American Journal of Physiology - Renal Fluid and Electrolyte Physiology
Desoxycorticosterone
Active Biological Transport
Microelectrodes
Ouabain
Sansom, S. C., & O'Neil, R. G. (1986). Effects of mineralocorticoids on transport properties of cortical collecting duct basolateral membrane. American Journal of Physiology - Renal Fluid and Electrolyte Physiology, 251(4), 20/4.
Effects of mineralocorticoids on transport properties of cortical collecting duct basolateral membrane. / Sansom, S. C.; O'Neil, R. G.
In: American Journal of Physiology - Renal Fluid and Electrolyte Physiology, Vol. 251, No. 4, 01.12.1986, p. 20/4.
Sansom, SC & O'Neil, RG 1986, 'Effects of mineralocorticoids on transport properties of cortical collecting duct basolateral membrane', American Journal of Physiology - Renal Fluid and Electrolyte Physiology, vol. 251, no. 4, pp. 20/4.
Sansom SC, O'Neil RG. Effects of mineralocorticoids on transport properties of cortical collecting duct basolateral membrane. American Journal of Physiology - Renal Fluid and Electrolyte Physiology. 1986 Dec 1;251(4):20/4.
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ANALYSIS The Islamization of the British Labour Party
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By Dr Paul Stott – 11th November 2016
EXPLANATIONS for the disillusionment of working-class voters with the Labour Party are fashionable and numerous: the development of an increasingly post-industrial Britain since the 1980s; the abandonment of working-class concerns within the Labour Party under Blair; through to mass immigration post-1997 and an increasingly atomized society.
There is a further explanation: that the left has embraced an Islam whose worldview is anathema to many working-class people in Britain, of any religion or none.
If this shift has a defining image, it is one of two pictures from Labour's campaign in the 2015 Oldham West and Royton by-election.
At the Labour Friends of Bangladesh event, men are placed on one side of the room, women segregated in the other.
In the second image, no women are present at all, and the candidate, Jim McMahon, sits awkwardly, the only white person in a room full of Muslim elders.
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The economic powerhouse of Europe you say? Germany may well be carrying the hefty weight of fellow European flailing finances on its broad shoulders, but it certainly has a funny old fashioned way of showing it.
Paying the bill in a restaurant has never been and will never be the highlight of an evening. Or at least, if that has ever indeed been the case, you must have had an absolutely abysmal evening with abysmal company. Nevertheless, someone has to cough up. This is nothing new of course. We are all well accustomed to paying the bill by now.
But how do you level up?
You can flash card after card, or anything else for that matter, but unless it's the sweet soundless silence of a bank note hitting the table, you will not be leaving your German establishment in a hurry. More often than not in Berlin, you will be confronted with the words 'cash only' or 'no cards'. An accepting city which welcomes citizens from all walks of life. So long as that walk of life led you to a cash point on your way in that is.
It would appear that the plastic credit card is the stuff of nightmares for locals. Keying in your pin code just doesn't push a native German's buttons. Seemingly stuck in a time warp, cold cash is the chosen method of payment. Despite the advanced economy, this cash intensive country fears for their privacy protection and anonymity. More interested in keeping tabs on their bank balances, cash payments supposedly limit spending power whereas that cheeky card could tempt you into all sorts of impulse buys.
So whether you're heading off out for dinner or booked in for a haircut, make sure you go via the bank first. Shouldn't be too hard in a capital city, right? Wrong. I'm afraid this too, is easier said than done.
to take it out from your own bank. Otherwise you will be fined a withdrawal fee. It's a matter of principals, not prices.
After leaving London where you can stick everything and anything on the card, old habits die hard. But here in Berlin, it's all a little backwards. You can stick it anywhere but on the plastic.
Alice joined the Berlin start up scene in July 2014 and works for an online travel company. Originally from London UK, she swapped one capital for another and now details her latest discoveries on DiaryDE.


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Fr. Gerard joined the Office of Mission and Ministry as chaplain in August 2017. He presides at the liturgy on Sunday evenings at 6 p.m. at Holy Family Church and at the daily liturgies Monday - Thursday at 12:30 p.m. in the Blessed Edmund Rice Chapel. Fr. Gerard coordinates the RCIA program as well as with the liturgy committee. He also serves as the spiritual adviser to the Kairos retreat team.
Fr. Gerard is a native of the Bronx and attended Cardinal Spellman High School, as well as Manhattan College. He entered the Capuchin Franciscans in 1983 and professed his vows in 1984. Fr. Gerard was ordained a priest in 1991. Most of his ministry has been in parishes run by the Capuchin in the New York area and in Middletown, Conn. He also worked in the formation program for the Capuchins as co-director of the Postulant Program.
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Peter Richard Kyle Prescott KC (born 23 January 1943) is an Anglo-Argentine barrister and was a Deputy High Court Judge of England and Wales, and a specialist on the law of copyright.

He was educated at St George's College, Argentina, Dulwich College and University College London, where he gained a BSc, followed by an MSc from Queen Mary College.

He was called to the bar at Lincoln's Inn in 1970 and was made a bencher in 2001. As a Deputy High Court Judge, he has heard a variety of intellectual property cases, including CFPH LLC's Applications (2005), which sought to bring the United Kingdom practice concerning patentable subject matter more into line with that of the European Patent Office.

Prescott is regarded as one of the foremost authorities on copyright law in the United Kingdom. Laddie, Prescott and Vitoria - The Modern Law of copyright and Designs, a leading copyright text in the United Kingdom, bears his name alongside Sir Hugh Laddie and Mary Vitoria QC.

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How the 1992-93 Maine Black Bears Made My Mother a Hockey Fan
Anniversaries of big moments are always a good time for reflection upon the great times in one's life. Because, as those moments happen, it is difficult to understand how those moments end up affecting you for the rest of your life.
Such is my story of the 1992-93 Maine Black Bears. It was the very first major hockey team I got to watch in person on a regular basis. It gave my first chance to see hockey played by a raft of future NHL players. Not just those on the Black Bears, but also those on rival Hockey East and other teams that came through Orono that year and the years to follow. That team became an inspiration for me to not only become a hockey broadcaster, but also to reach for the highest levels, because if a hockey team assembled and playing in little Orono can be the best college hockey team ever, anyone from our state could do anything.
But, most importantly as it turned out, it began my mother's understanding of the sport of hockey and why I loved it so much. And after a few years of convincing, she finally got on board with my dream of calling hockey games for a living. It became the most obvious way in which she showed me that she was and would always be my #1 fan, not only in my career, but in life. It drew us closer and continues to allow me to hang onto her and her memory, now five years after her death.
The story starts in Aroostook County.
Presque Isle to be exact. It was where I was born and raised for the first 11 years of my life. Mostly, I was raised by my mom, a single parent after she and my dad divorced right around the time I turned two-years-old in 1983. My first Maine Black Bear hockey experience came at the Northern Maine Forum (or just "The Forum" to locals), a community building at the Northern Maine Regional Fairgrounds that hosted craft and agricultural shows, concerts, and the Anah Temple Shrine Circus. Every November, it was the only polling place in the city. And every winter, it was, for many years, the only ice arena in the county.
In the late 1980s and early 1990s, Shawn Walsh decided to start playing Blue/White games around the state to start expanding the reach of the team that had become a national powerhouse. They were intrasquad scrimmages played in late September before the real season started. And after the game was over, fans got to skate with the team.
It was around this time that my mom decided to switch careers and become a speech language pathologist, the field she ended up in until she retired. She began attending classes at the University of Maine-Presque Isle, beginning her undergrad from scratch. She hadn't gotten a college degree after high school because the careers she'd had to that point didn't require one. She could get the first two years done there but would have to finish bachelors and masters work elsewhere in the UMaine system. That would mean we'd have to move from the only home I'd ever known.
By the summer of 1992, the moment had come to figure out where our next home would be. My mom had two options: she could finish her bachelors in Orono or Farmington. The only place she could get the masters degree to become a practicing SLP was Orono. So, Orono was going to be the eventual destination no matter what.
Being the brash, entitled, and moody only child that I was, I was very against leaving Presque Isle. It was mostly out of fear, I would eventually realize, but I didn't know that then. By the time my fifth-grade year started that September, my mom had decided Orono would be best, because it only meant moving me once.
To help convince me that I wouldn't be miserable there, she enlisted the help of her cousin Don Stimpson, who was an administrator at UMaine at the time. He and his wife Rita had us down to their home in Orrington for Halloween weekend. While my mom looked for apartments all of that Saturday, Don took me watch the Black Bear football team play Delaware in the afternoon, which was followed by my first hockey game at Alfond Arena, an exhibition against New Brunswick which we watched from the skybox of Fred Hutchinson, the UMaine President at the time. Maine won 11-1 and I was officially hooked. The team was really good and I knew it, as much as an 11 year-old who constantly watched hockey could know, anyway.
My mom knew I loved hockey, but she didn't get it herself. She wasn't really a sports fan at all. The most she'd get into was basketball, as she would often go watch Presque Isle High School basketball games with me. I think it helped her connect to her own high school days, as she had been a cheerleader at PIHS in the early 60s. Her dad, my grandfather, played on the 1932 state championship team, which remains the only one in school history to win a boys state basketball title. She accompanied me to the Blue/White hockey games and even skated with me afterward, taking pictures of me with the guys I got autographs from.
She knew I loved it so much that she would let me watch Hockey Night in Canada at dinner on Saturday nights on a black-and-white TV with rabbit ears that only picked up WAGM, the one TV station in town, Maine Public Television, and the local CBC station out of Fredericton, New Brunswick. She would watch something else on our color TV that was hooked up to cable.
The move I was dreading finally took place in January of 1993, just prior to the start of the Spring Semester at UMaine. As a student, it meant my mom could get tickets for herself and any family members for free as part of enrollment at the school. This meant I could go to every game, but she would have to go with me.
The first Maine hockey game we attended together was on January 15, a Friday night non-conference game against Clarkson that ended in a 4-4 tie, only Maine's second blemish of the season to that point, dropping their record to 18-0-2. I told my mom before that game that, even if she didn't like hockey, she would likely enjoy watching Maine's team, because it was so good. And she did enjoy that first game, asking questions of me and other fans around us as it went along, trying to understand what was going on. The next night, when Maine dominated and won 6-0, my mom really got into it. Almost as much as I did. When we made the short drive back to our apartment just off campus that night, she told me that she was beginning to like hockey. She expressed disappointment when I told her that they wouldn't play at home again for another three weeks. I couldn't believe it, but I was so happy!
We attended every single game at the Alfond for the rest of that season, with one exception: the one game they lost! We visited Presque Isle that day so I could see my old classmates and Nan, the name I called my grandmother. I still sort of watched the game on TV, though a scrambled picture, as the game was on NESN, which was a premium channel on cable at the time.
My mom and I both agreed before we made the trip up that we would leave early enough on Saturday to get back to Orono in time for the second game of the series against Boston University that night. The atmosphere in the building was electric. Like nothing I'd experienced in my young life as a sports fan. The unbeatable team had lost for the first time and they weren't happy about it. They took it to the Terriers in the rematch and won 6-1. One of my big memories of the night was after Maine had scored a goal when the game was still close, Jim Montgomery waived his stick in a lasso motion above his head before the ensuing faceoff to get the crowd even more juiced. The place went nuts and Maine scored again not long after. It was as though everyone in the place knew something special was happening.
Until the end of that season, my mom was with me for every game, whether at the Alfond, watching the road games on television, or listening to the road games on the radio that were not televised. She was as into it as I was.
As both the Hockey East and NCAA tournaments went on, we could anticipate that something we would remember was unfolding. Even in the games where they were pushed, it was clear that Maine was still the best team out there, even to my mom.
After Lee Saunders (one of my mom's favorite players) scored the overtime winner to put Maine into the national championship game, we both knew they would win the whole thing. I think my mom was more sure of it than I was. Even we they entered the third period down 4-2 to Lake Superior State, she knew they would win. She just knew. She assured me they'd find a way, even though my pessimistic side (which was full blown at that moment in life) was making me think they wouldn't.
When they did come back and win, we were glued to the celebration that night and all of the local news coverage later that night and into the next day. My mom and I got to Alfond Arena as they were opening the doors for the championship rally, to happen as soon as they arrived back on campus. We waited with anticipation as the members of the band that hadn't gotten to go Milwaukee psyched the crowd up by playing continuously until the moment finally came when our conquering heroes entered the building to probably the loudest cheer ever heard in that building (which is saying something, right?!).
My mom went on to get her bachelors degree in 1994 and her masters in 1996, graduating with honors in both cases. We went to pretty much every UMaine hockey game at Alfond together between 1993 and 1996, while we could get the free tickets. We were able to go a few more games at Alfond together as time went on. But, we still paid attention as much as we could with her working in Augusta and me being a very active student, athlete, actor, and speaker at Bangor High School.
When I became a student at UMaine myself in the fall of 2000, it was with a plan to go there for a year or two to save money and eventually finish a broadcast journalism degree at Arizona State so I could have a pedigree and education that would immediately give me a shot at big market jobs.
But, very shortly thereafter, I started in the sports department at WMEB, the student radio station on campus. In my third week on campus, I was told I would get to be one of the student play-by-play announcers for the hockey team. My first game was Shawn Walsh's first game back from his cancer treatment on October 27, 2000, a 3-2 loss to Ohio State. My mother dutifully popped cassette tapes into the boombox in my childhood bedroom and began recording my broadcast so I could listen back to them and improve my call, while also giving myself resume tape material. She did it again the following night and for every single game I called on WMEB for the next five years, as I would call a season after I graduated because no current student was interesting in calling hockey (I couldn't believe it either!) That included two Hockey East Championship games, one of which is still the longest game in program history, and two National Championship games.
This tradition continued when I came back to Maine in 2011 to call Portland Pirates games. Whenever the games were broadcast on TV, she put a tape into her VCR (yes, she still had a VCR) and record whenever the games were on. I think she did it more out of habit, but she was so excited whenever she could watch and hear me call games. And she watched lots of hockey without me. We would talk a lot about the Stanley Cup Playoffs every spring, even when I lived in Washington and was missing home practically the whole time.
When she got sick and died in October of 2012, it was, of course, one of the hardest things I've endured. She died the night of a Pirates game, in fact. I missed that game, as I was at her side, but when the Pirates played in Springfield, Massachusetts the next afternoon, I got up early and drove from my home in Lewiston and called the game. It's what she wanted. I know that because, when she was hospitalized a week earlier in Bangor, I visited her on a Saturday morning with my future wife Nicole (it was the only time my mom and my wife ever met, unfortunately, but it was a visit I know all three of us treasure). When I walked in the room and she saw me, she was surprised but very happy because I hadn't told her I was coming. When I told her I couldn't stay all day because I had to call a hockey game in Manchester, New Hampshire that night, my mom, who never wanted to be a burden on me and knew how much I loved what I did, told me I should've have come to see her at all. I laughed and told her that that was silly. That day ended up being the last time I really got to have a conversation with her, as her condition worsened quickly after that.
My mom very much shaped me into the man I am today. There's plenty of other major influences on my life, including my dad, my little brother, my uncle, my two aunts, Nan, and a great many teachers, professors, colleagues, and friends over the years. But none have been as influential of my mom. She taught me how to be kind, loving, and caring. She taught me to value things and show appreciation to those you love. I wish I would've showed her appreciation even more than I did. Because she deserved it.
Hockey is definitely not the only thing my mother and I shared in life. But, it was one of the most meaningful things for me. Helping convince my skeptical mom that the sport I loved but barely played and wanted to broadcast more than anything in my life growing up was both worthy of her time, attention, and love is a huge accomplishment for me. And I know that the 1992-93 Maine Black Bears 42-1-2 team is really what made my mom a hockey fan. It was the best possible hockey team to introduce a non-fan of the sport to the game. It's influence on my own life will be with me forever.


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FIFA World Cup 2022: Lionel Messi equals HUGE record of Diego Maradona after Argentina vs Mexico clash
Nov 27, 2022 argentina, Argentina vs Mexico, Diego Maradona, fifa world cup 2022, fifa world cup argentina schedule, FIFA world cup news, Fifa world cup updates, lionel messi, Messi vs Maradona stats, qatar world cup 2022
Seven-time Ballon d'Or winner Lionel Messi was at his best against Mexico in Argentina's must-win Group C fixture of the FIFA World Cup 2022. The 35-year-old along with his Argenina teammates was in a tight situation walking into the fixture against Mexico with the fear of elimination inside their heads, but the Copa America champions kept their cool and displayed a dominant performance. Messi scored a goal and made an assist to help Argentina beat Mexico 2-0 on Saturday (November 26) at the Lusail Iconic Stadium. With the brilliant finish against Mexico, Messi equalled football legend Diego Maradona's goal tally in the FIFA World Cup history for Argentina.
The 1986 World Cup winner, Diego Maradona has 8 goals in the World Cup for Argentina and Messi equalled his record with a much-needed goal against Mexico.
Argentina manager Lionel Scaloni lavished praise on Lionel Messi after the Albiceleste captain scored one goal and set up another in a 2-0 win over Mexico in their World Cup Group C duel on Saturday. Messi put his side ahead with a sublime long-range strike just after the hour before providing the final pass for Enzo Fernandez`s curling effort three minutes from time, reports Xinhua.
"The first half wasn't a good one for either team but we started to play better in the second and Messi did what he does," Scaloni told a post-match news conference.
Lionel Messi has scored 13 goals for Argentina in 2022, the most ever by an Argentine in a calendar year. The previous record, 12, was held by Lionel Messi and Gabriel Batistuta. Messi had scored 12 in 2012 for Argentina. pic.twitter.com/5uYGavTgKL
— Roy Nemer (@RoyNemer) November 27, 2022
"The group is able to support him and knows the importance that he has."
Scaloni made three changes early in the second half, replacing Guido Rodriguez, Lautaro Martinez and Gonzalo Montiel with Nahuel Molina, Julian Alvarez and Fernandez. But the 44-year-old refused to take the credit for his side`s change of fortunes.
"We got through a difficult period in the first half … and the game changed," Scaloni said.
"That (the change) wasn't because of the substitutions. It was because we have good players and we have Leo, and that's what's important."
The result followed Argentina's surprise 2-1 loss to Saudi Arabia in their opening match of the tournament and averted the prospect of elimination in the World Cup group stage for the first time since 2002.
A victory, and possibly even a draw, in their final Group C match against Poland on Wednesday will secure the Albiceleste a place in the round of 16. Scaloni predicted another stern test for his forwards against the European side.
"It's going to be difficult because everybody plays differently (against us), not only because of Leo but because of other [attacking] players that we have. That makes the game more difficult. We will try to play the game that everybody is hopping for and if it doesn't eventuate we will leave everything on the pitch like we did today."
Scaloni suggested the media had overreacted to his team's defeat to Saudi Arabia, insisting his players had not been deflated by the result.
"You have to have more common sense and realize that you are playing a game of football," Scaloni said.
"It's difficult to convince people that tomorrow the sun will rise and the most important thing is how you go about doing things. That's what we try to keep in mind."
He added: "We are happy because we won. Maybe you will call me crazy but it`s no more than that. We'll celebrated but tomorrow we have to think about the next game and maintain an equilibrium." (With IANS inputs)
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The mushrooms in this group have pink spore prints, gills that are attached to the stem, and spores that are angular, warted, or ribbed. For the most part they are saprobes that help decompose forest litter, which means that they usually grow on the ground. The pink-spored mushrooms in Pluteus, by contrast, are wood-rotting saprobes found on decaying logs (additionally, their gills are free from the stem and their spores are ellipsoid). At least one Entoloma species, Entoloma abortivum, can be a parasite on another mushroom, Armillaria mellea.
Recent research (Co-David and collaborators, 2009) supports treating Entoloma as a large and diverse genus that includes what some mycologists have separated into the genera Alboleptonia, Claudopus, Inocephalus, Leptonia, Nolanea, and Pouzarella, along with the funky, gastroid genera Richoniella and Rhodogaster. The researchers also determined that the closely related Rhodocybe and Clitopilus, which are similar to Entoloma but differ on sporal morphology (warted, rather than angular, spores in Rhodocybe; longitudinally ribbed spores in Clitopilus), must be rearranged because DNA results nested Clitopilus within Rhodocybe; since "Clitopilus" is the older of the two names, species of Rhodocybe were transferred to Clitopilus. However, authors of a more recent study (Baroni and collaborators, 2011) caution that "too little sampling has been done and too few species examined so far to make such large-scale taxonomic recombinations."
Some North American species of Entoloma are quite distinctive, well established, and easily recognized. Many others, however, are hard to distinguish, even with extensive microscopic examination. Would-be Entoloma identifiers need, above all else, patience and the ability to Keep Calm and Carry On when their Entoloma collections do not match a described species very precisely. Since "patience and cool-headedness" are not likely to make the Top Ten List for anyone who knows me and is asked, "What are Michael Kuo's personality traits?" it probably goes without saying that I despise Entoloma and everything about it.
Seriously. Every time I decide to bite the bullet and identify my Entoloma collections, my herbarium winds up with fewer, rather than more, identified collections. So perhaps you should not listen to me at all when I rehearse for you some of the crucial morphological features for the genus: the shape of the cap, the color of the young gills (before they turn pink), the odor and taste, and the color of the stem when fresh. Micromorphological features, which almost always have to be assessed in this God-forsaken genus, can usually be observed by removing a gill section (one that includes the edge of the gill, oriented in such a way that you do not forget which side is the true edge) and mounting it in phloxine-stained KOH--and by making a radial section of the cap (rather than the traditional Roman aqueduct section) and mounting it in 10% ammonia. Microfeatures include spores, hymenial cystidia, the presence or absence of clamp connections, and the pileipellis elements (especially with regard to whether the pigmentation is, or is not, encrusted on the hyphal walls).
Don't get your hopes up. North American Entoloma literature is replete with synonymies, poorly described species, species that were named long ago and for which type collections have been lost, and so on. The two most comprehensive treatments, David Largent's 1994 treatment of entolomatoid mushrooms in the western states, and Lexemuel Hesler's 1967 treatment of Entoloma in the southeastern states, are both hard to obtain and expensive--and in the case of the Hesler monograph, frankly, not likely to help you much. Because of these realities, one strategy used by a considerable number of North American Entoloma identifiers is simply to pretend that one is in Europe, and to use one of the very good keys to the European species (see especially Noordeloos, 1988 and 2008; Moser, 1983; Breitenbach & Kränzlin, 1995; full citations below). This strategy is often particularly useful for discovering which species group your collection might belong to--and many North American entolomas are currently going under European names. But North America is not Europe, and it is debatable whether many of our entolomas really do match European entolomas under contemporary, DNA-based species concepts. And, anyway, don't you have some nice, red russulas you need to identify? Surely that would be more productive . . .
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Baroni, T. J. & D. L. Largent (1989). The genus Rhodocybe: New combinations and a revised key to Section Rhodophana in North America. Mycotaxon 34: 47-53.
Baroni, T. J. (1990). Entolomataceae in eastern North America I: new species of Claudopus and Rhodocybe from the southern Appalachian Mountains. Mycotaxon 36: 313-323.
Baroni, T. J. & Horak, E. (1994). Entolomataceae in North America III: New taxa, new combinations and notes on species of Rhodocybe. Mycologia 86: 138-145.
Baroni, T. J. & Lodge, D. J. (1998). Alboleptonia from the Greater Antilles. Mycologia 90: 680-696.
Baroni, T. J. & R. E. Halling (2000). Some Entolomataceae (Agaricales) from Costa Rica. Brittonia 52: 121-135.
Baroni, T. J., V. Hofstetter, D. L. Largent & R. Vilgalys (2011). Entocybe is proposed as a new genus in the Entolomataceae (Agaricomycetes, Basidiomycota) based on morphological and molecular evidence. North American Fungi 6: 1-19.
Brietenbach, J. & Kränzlin, F. (1995). Fungi of Switzerland: A contribution to the knowledge of the fungal flora of Switzerland. Volume 4 agarics 2nd part. Transl. Walters, V. L. & Walters, J. F. Lucern: Verlag Mykologia. 368 pp.
Co-David, D., D. Langeveld & M. E. Noordeloos (2009). Molecular phylogeny and spore evolution of Entolomataceae. Persoonia 23: 147-176.
Czederpiltz, D. L. L., Volk, T. J., & Burdsall, H.H. Jr. (2001). Field observations and inoculation experiments to determine the nature of the carpophoroids associated with Entoloma abortivum and Armillaria. Mycologia 93: 841-851.
Halling, R. E. & T. J. Baroni (1985). Rhodocybe pulchrisperma (Entolomataceae): A new species from North America. Brittonia 37: 182-185.
Hesler, L. R. (1963). A study of Rhodophyllus types. Brittonia 15: 324-366.
Hesler, L. R. (1967). Entoloma in southeastern North America. Germany: Cramer. 245 pp.
Hesler, L. R. (1974). Name corrections in Entoloma. Mycologia 66: 715-717.
Horak, E. (1976). On cuboid-spored species of Entoloma (Agaricales). Sydowia 28: 171-236.
Largent, D. L. & Benedict, R. G. (1970). Studies in the Rhodophylloid fungi II: Alboleptonia, a new genus. Mycologia 62: 437-452.
Largent, D. L. & Benedict, R. G. (1971). Studies in the Rhodophylloid fungi I: Generic concepts. Madrono 21: 32-39.
Largent, D. L. (1971). Rhodophylloid fungi of the Pacific Coast (United States) I: Type studies and new combinations of species described prior to 1968. Brittonia 23: 238-245.
Largent, D. L. (1977). The genus Leptonia on the Pacific Coast of the United States, including a study of the North American types. Vaduz, Germany: J. Cramer. 286 pp.
Largent, D. L. (1994). Entolomatoid fungi of the western United States and Alaska. Eureka, CA: Mad River Press. 516 pp.
Moser, M. (1983). Keys to Agarics and Boleti (Polyporales, Boletales, Agaricales, Russulales). Ed. G. Kibby. Transl. S. Plant. London: Roger Phillips. 535 pp.
Noordeloos, M. E. (1979). Type studies on Entolomatoid species in the Velenovsky Herbarium�I. Persoonia 10: 245-265.
Noordeloos, M. E. (1980). Entoloma subgenus Nolanea in the Netherlands and adjacent regions with a reconnaissance of its remaining taxa in Europe. Persoonia 10: 427-534.
Noordeloos, M. E. (1981). Introduction to the taxonomy of the genus Entoloma sensu lato (Agaricales). Persoonia 11: 121-151.
Noordeloos, M. E. (1981). Entoloma subgenera Entoloma and Allocybe in the Netherlands and adjacent regions with a reconnaissance of their remaining taxa in Europe. Persoonia 11: 153-256.
Noordeloos, M. E. (1981). Entoloma subgenus Nolanea--Additions. Persoonia 11: 257.
Noordeloos, M. E. (1981). Entoloma in North America. Stuttgart: Gustav Fischer Verlag. 164 pp.
Noordeloos, M. E. (1982). Entoloma subgenus Leptonia in northwestern Europe--I. Introduction and a revision of its section Leptonia. Persoonia 11: 451-471.
Noordeloos, M. E. (1988). Entolomataceae. In Bas et al., eds. Flora Agaricina Neerlandica; Critical monographs on families of agarics and boleti occuring in the Netherlands. Volume 1. Rotterdam: A. A. Balkema. 77-177.
Noordeloos, M. E. & A. Hausknecht (2007). The genus Entoloma (Basidiomycetes, Agaricales) of the Mascarenes and Seychelles. Fungal Diversity 27: 111-144.
Noordeloos, M. E. (2008). Entoloma (Fr.) P. Kumm. In Knudsen & Vesterholt, eds. Funga Nordica: Agaricoid, boletoid and cyphelloid genera. Copenhagen: Nordsvamp. 433-494.
Noordeloos, M. E. & O. V. Morozova (2010). New and noteworthy Entoloma species from the Primorsky Territory, Russian Far East. Mycotaxon 112: 231-255.
Ovrebo, C. L. & T. J. Baroni (1988). Three new species of Rhodocybe from Costa Rica. Mycologia 80: 508-514.
Singer, R. (1979). Clitopilus. In: Keys for the identification of the species of Agaricales II. Sydowia 31: 235-237.


The dicotyledons, also known as dicots (or more rarely dicotyls), are one of the two groups into which all the flowering plants or angiosperms were formerly divided. The name refers to one of the typical characteristics of the group, namely that the seed has two embryonic leaves or cotyledons. There are around 200,000 species within this group. The other group of flowering plants were called monocotyledons or monocots, typically having one cotyledon. Historically, these two groups formed the two divisions of the flowering plants.
The following lists show the orders in the Angiosperm Phylogeny Group APG IV system traditionally called dicots, together with the older Cronquist system.
In the Dahlgren and the Thorne systems, the subclass name Magnoliidae was used for the dicotyledons. This is also the case in some of the systems derived from the Cronquist system. For each system, only the superorders are listed. The sequence of each system has been altered to pair corresponding taxa, although circumscription of superorders with the same name is not always the same.
^ "Dicotyl". The Free Dictionary. Retrieved 2 January 2016.
^ a b "Monocots versus Dicots". University of California Museum of Paleontology. Retrieved 25 January 2012.
^ Stuessy, Tod F. (2010). "Paraphyly and the origin and classification of angiosperms" (PDF). Taxon. 59: 689–693.
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Deadpool 2 (2018). Film review of the wise-cracking, sweary superhero sequel.
Film review by Claire Durrant of Deadpool 2, the Marvel comic based action film about the wise-cracking, potty mouthed superhero. Starring Ryan Reynolds and Josh Brolin.
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After years of being a lone wolf mercenary, Deadpool (Ryan Reynolds) brings together a team of mutants to help stop the time traveling Cable (Josh Brolin) from murdering child mutant Russell (Julian Dennison.)
Review by Clare Durrant
It could be argued that the success of Deadpool as a franchise is due to the star quality of Ryan Reynolds. Mr Reynolds has enough charm and charisma to reduce the strongest man to a giddy schoolgirl. We root for this fella to succeed, and rightly so.
The marketing for the sequel has also been hugely successful, from the initial Bob Ross teaser trailer to Reynolds constant use of social media. The team definitely knew how to hype the sequel up. Did the maximum effort of the marketing team match the success of the film? Well the general consensus is that the sequel is on a par with the first, if not better.
What Deadpool 2 does better than the first is to add an emotional core to the title character, which gives the film a touch more gravitas. The sequel also brings in new characters, such as the lucky Domino (Zazie Beetz) and Cable (Brolin – who is having quite a good year) and they act brilliantly against Reynolds both on the camera and behind it on press tours.
The action scenes are also better choreographed which is due to the stuntman turned director, David Leitchpreviously, working on John Wick (2014) and Atomic Blonde (2017). My returning favourite character, the CGI Colossus (voiced by Stefan Kapičić) also gets a lot of screen time, which means I get to enjoy more quips with Deadpool.
All this is great but, however, I will say that I believe the first one is better than its sequel, due to one important aspect – the comedy. The original film simply made me laugh more, and felt so much more like a passionate project.
The problem with Deadpool 2 is that because they try to cram so much in, I feel the writers often confuse pop culture references as a punchline for a joke. Sometimes these reference fail to make sense, for instance in the car chase scene, in which Cable is trying to kill Russell and Deadpool is trying to save a kid. Deadpool refers to Cable as "John Connor."
Funny, right? Terminator 2 reference, right?! Wouldn't the joke make more sense if Deadpool called Cable 'Robert Patrick' since in both scenarios they are time travelling killing machines. That's lazy writing for you, Deadpool 2 writers!
Despite my nitpicking, Deadpool 2 is still a successful comedic film and when the jokes land, they are uproariously funny. The briefness of the X Force team; Deadpool getting a new pair of legs; and a great use of the 9 to 5 song are just some of the highlights. I will also admit that a particular group of cameos and imagining that every superhero's mother is called Martha got a good chuckle out of me.
The word is that two scenes from the film were so dark that they were cut; one about Hitler, the other about Disney. Now, from trying to sleuth on the internet to what these jokes could have been, I can only assume that these two jokes were connected in some way. A potential dig at Walt being Anti-Semitic and a Nazi sympathiser, perhaps?
With Disney and 20th Century Fox starting to merge, I understand why the companies forced the jokes to be cut. However, the offensively dark humour would have given Deadpool 2 the levity it needed. I don't need another reference to the Green Lantern, Avengers or Wolverine, I wanted bigger jokes on a wider scale.
Deadpool 2 will of course be successful, as Reynolds and his mercenary alter-ego will always have die hard fans, and I wouldn't be surprised if it overtakes Avengers: Infinity War's box office gross.
With an X Force film already confirmed, I'm sure it won't be long before the third Deadpool instalment is also announced in the upcoming days. I hope the writers branch out more with the jokes, as well as developing Cable more as a character.
My biggest concern thought is how strong a domineering voice Disney will have on Deadpool's future. Deadpool had better enjoy his smokes while he still can.
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Music: Tyler Bates.
Sets: David Scheunemann.
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Clockwise from top left: Portraits of Socialist Milwaukee Mayors Daniel Hoan, Emil Seidel and Frank Zeidler; Eugene V. Debs addresses a socialist meeting as president of the American Railway Union. His 1912 Socialist Party presidential campaign included Seidel on his ticket. (Illustration by Ryan Olbrysh)
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How a Sewer Socialist City May Push Democrats Left in 2020
When presidential hopefuls arrive in Milwaukee for the 2020 Democratic National Convention, they must choose whether to embrace the city's socialist history, or run from it.
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Candidates vying for the nomination will have to ask themselves: Will they embrace socialism, or run from it?
Milwaukee Mayor Tom Barrett announced March 11 that, for the first time in its history, the city will host the 2020 Democratic National Convention.
In some ways, the choice was obvious. Wisconsin is a swing state whose demographics—in terms of race, ethnicity, income, education and neighborhood composition—closely reflect those of the United States as a whole. And the memory of Hillary Clinton's 2016 snub is still fresh in the minds of many Midwesterners: During Clinton's presidential campaign, her team (led by Robby Mook) decided that Wisconsin was such a safe Democratic stronghold, Clinton wouldn't need to visit. She lost Wisconsin by around 23,000 votes.
The Democratic Party has clearly learned from this 2016 mistake as it considers strategies to turn battlegrounds like Wisconsin blue. But one can also make the case that, in choosing Milwaukee, the party is honoring the city's unique political history. Milwaukee is the only major U.S. city to have elected three socialist mayors: Emil Seidel, Daniel Hoan and Frank Zeidler. They held office for a collective 38 years (between 1910 and 1960) and helped earn Milwaukee a reputation for being, as Time magazine reported in 1936, "perhaps the best governed city in the U.S."
Mark Jefferson, executive director of the Republican Party of Wisconsin, seized upon this history as an opportunity to redbait: "No city in America has stronger ties to socialism," he said in a statement about the 2020 Democratic convention. "And with the rise of Bernie Sanders and the embrace of socialism by its newest leaders, the American Left has come full circle. It's only fitting the Democrats would come to Milwaukee."
Jefferson was being snarky, but he's arguably correct. Nearly all the Democratic presidential candidates have included policies in their campaign platforms that harken back to the city's legacy of "sewer socialist" mayors (a phrase coined in 1932 that refers to the superlative public works projects created by Milwaukee socialists). Milwaukeeans didn't seem particularly bothered by the term, though. "Yes, we wanted sewers in the workers' houses," Mayor Emil Seidel wrote in his 1944 memoirs, "but we wanted much, oh, so very much more than sewers. We wanted our workers to have pure air; we wanted them to have sunshine; we wanted planned homes; we wanted living wages; we wanted recreation for young and old; we wanted vocational education; we wanted a chance for every human being to be strong and live a life of happiness."
Tom Perez, chair of the Democratic National Committee, seemed to suggest that Milwaukee's progressive politicians embodied the party's best impulses, stating at the March 11 press conference, "Where you hold a convention is a very strong statement of your values … of who we are as a party, and who and what we're fighting for."
Perez, whose wife grew up in the Milwaukee suburbs, is likely well aware of the city's socialist history. His own politics around socialism are less clear: A well-respected labor secretary under President Barack Obama, Perez beat out the Left's preferred candidate for DNC chair, Congressional Progressive Caucus co-chair Keith Ellison, who was endorsed by the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA), the Progressive Democrats of America, Friends of the Earth Action, Unite Here and many other progressive organizations.
The Milwaukee chapter of the DSA, for its part, intends to leverage the city's history to elevate democratic socialists—in particular, Bernie Sanders. They're even thinking of leading a series of socialist history tours for politicians and delegates, with stops at local landmarks such as Turner Hall and the Riverwest Public House. In the meantime, residents continue to express interest in joining the chapter, which has seen its membership surge since the 2016 election.
As more and more Democratic voters, especially millennials, identify as democratic socialists, it feels momentous that Milwaukee, with its proud "sewer socialist" past, will be hosting the Democratic convention. Candidates vying for the nomination will have to ask themselves: Will they embrace socialism, or run from it?
The socialist movement in Milwaukee has its beginnings in the mid-1800s, when German immigrants began moving to the city in droves. Many of them had been vocal supporters of the revolutions of 1848—a series of failed uprisings led by middle-class people who wanted to bring democracy to Europe's remaining monarchies—and they brought their liberal ideas with them as they settled in Brew City. Yet those ideas may never have gained real traction if it weren't for German-born Milwaukee socialists, such as the socialist newspaper editor Paul Grottkau, who helped spearhead a citywide strike in the spring of 1886.
In 1886, Grottkau was among the founders of Milwaukee's Eight-hour League, a group of workers dedicated to shorter workdays. That same year, Polish laborers began meeting at a local church to organize a general strike in protest of their 10-hour workdays. Together, they recruited thousands of people to join their cause.
On May 2, around 14,500 protesters marched through the streets of Milwaukee, chanting and waving banners. Tens of thousands of spectators turned out. According to a 1910 article in the Milwaukee Free Press, "Reports came in thick and fast that in all parts of the city uprisings were taking place and that large bodies of laboring men were marching toward the manufacturing plants intent on rioting and destruction."
Afraid that the local police would not be able to control the crowds, Wisconsin Gov. Jeremiah Rusk dispatched the state militia to subdue them. By the time his troops reached the city, protesters had shut down every major factory in the metro area, save for the Bay View Rolling Mills, whose managers had insisted on keeping it open. On May 5, around 1,500 protesters—including many women and children who had joined the strikers—marched toward the factories, intent on convincing the workers there to shut them down.
When the marchers neared the militia, they stopped. But Major George P. Traeumer, anticipating violence from the protesters, ordered the soldiers to fire at will. At least five people were killed, including a 13-year-old, and many more injured. The bloody retaliation brought the 1886 strike to an abrupt end. In the months that followed, the public began to empathize more with the socialists who helped organize the strike.
When Grottkau was convicted of inciting a riot and sentenced to a year in prison, he leveraged all the media attention he was receiving to announce a run for mayor of Milwaukee. He didn't win, but he helped popularize working-class causes like public ownership of utilities and the elimination of graft in local government, leading the way for the successful electoral campaigns of other socialists.
In 1904, Emil Seidel became one of nine socialists to join Milwaukee's city council as an alderman. In 1910, Seidel became the first socialist to win a mayoral race in a major U.S. city, with about 6,500 more votes than the next candidate. That same year, socialists carried 14 of the city's 23 wards.
Seidel became interested in progressive politics and Marxism while studying woodcarving in Berlin. From 1910-12, he established the first public works office in the city. Seidel also closed many of Milwaukee's gambling parlors and brothels and created a public parks system. And he infuriated both Democrats and Republicans by cracking down on political corruption.
Dems and the GOP collaborated to beat out Seidel in 1912 by jointly endorsing a different candidate, but many other socialists managed to hold onto public office and continued to push for progressive reform. One of them was Daniel Hoan, who was elected Milwaukee's city attorney in 1910. While holding that office, he pushed the country's first worker's compensation law through the state legislature and helped Seidel reduce corruption in the local government by making their processes streamlined and transparent. Hoan gained enough popular support to mount a successful mayoral campaign in 1916 and held the office for 24 years.
Hoan established a public bus system and the nation's first public housing project and successfully steered Milwaukee toward public ownership of its stone quarry, streetlights, sewage disposal system and water purification system. Hoan created a program to make textbooks free for local students and another to administer free vaccines. He is still widely considered one of the most altruistic mayors in American history.
The most recent Milwaukee mayoral socialist, Frank Zeidler, held office from 1948 to 1960. His biggest achievement as mayor was incorporating many suburbs into the city, nearly doubling Milwaukee's size and tax base (which forestalled the urban blight that had begun to plague cities that failed to incorporate their suburbs, like St. Louis, around the same time). Zeidler was also a staunch advocate for civil rights legislation and helped push for the establishment of the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.
Near the end of his time in office, Zeidler released an "Inner Core Report," a study describing Milwaukee's inner-city conditions with a detailed plan to improve the city's increasingly strained race relations. The suggestions, which could have helped prevent much of the redlining that would eventually transform Milwaukee into one of the most segregated cities in the United States, were largely ignored by his successor.
The greater legacy of Milwaukee's socialist politicians is still palpable today. Milwaukee's public parks system is one of the most extensive in the country. Its public beaches (in the early 1900s, wealthy Milwaukeeans bought up most of the city's lakefront property—socialists then poured sand and soil into the harbor in front of their land to create several public beaches) draw crowds every year.
Milwaukee's socialists also seem to have influenced later generations of progressive politicians, such as Robert La Follette, a left-wing Republican who became governor of Wisconsin and founded The Progressive magazine.
Current members of Milwaukee DSA certainly see themselves as present-day sewer socialists. Member Brandon Payton-Carrillo, 35, says he draws inspiration from the pragmatic approach to local government adopted by Seidel, Hoan and Zeidler. Payton-Carrillo hopes his chapter can leverage the 2020 DNC convention to shine a spotlight on DSA campaigns like Get the Lead Out, a coalition formed to pressure Milwaukee politicians to remove lead from the city's drinking water. "That bottom-up grassroots experience is the foundation of Milwaukee socialism," he says.
When Bernie Sanders and the rest of the Democratic candidates arrive in Milwaukee in July 2020, the world will be waiting to see how they articulate their vision for a better future. If any of them point to Milwaukee's sewer socialists, and the way they governed their city, the world will be listening.
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