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NY Gov. Cuomo's Cannabis Policy Will Leave Black People Out of the Money
Tamika C. Franklin
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New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo answers a question during a debate with primary opponent Cynthia Nixon at Hofstra University August 29, 2018 in Hempstead, New York.
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If marijuana were legalized in New York, the state could potentially gain an additional $248 million to $678 million in tax revenue, yet during the gubernatorial debate against Cynthia Nixon, Gov. Andrew Cuomo said "I disagree with my opponent that tax revenue should go to reparations!"
He was referring to Nixon's comprehensive plan to restore black and brown communities decimated by the war on drugs, which includes funding public schools, job training, expunging the drug records of criminals with marijuana convictions, investing state tax revenue generated from dispensaries in poor communities, and providing financial assistance and small business support to black and brown people interested in owning a dispensary.
She even shouted out the successful reparation programs in Oakland, Calif., and Massachusetts as models and proof that as marijuana legalization spreads across the nation, and as white people become millionaires for selling the same drug that put black and brown people in cages, other liberal states are fulfilling their moral obligation to make sure minorities harmed by the drug war are not left out.
For Nixon, legalizing marijuana is a racial justice issue but for Cuomo that clearly isn't the case. "I don't think racial injustice starts with marijuana, it starts with lack of housing and lack of schools and lack of jobs," he said before making his reparations remark, clearly a dig at Nixon, who earlier this year had gotten some heat after saying cannabis tax revenue and granting dispensary licenses to people of color could be "a form of reparations."
Of all people, the governor of the state where Rockefeller drug laws and stop and frisk wreaked havoc on black and brown communities should know racial and criminal injustice starts with being black or brown and over-policed, which leads to arrests, sentencing and incarceration, which turns blacks and Latinos who possess small amounts of marijuana into criminals and permanent pariahs, rendering them ineligible for employment, public housing and education benefits for life.
In New York, 87 percent of those arrested in recent years have been black or brown, a proportion that has remained roughly the same for decades, (pdf). This state has separated more than 125,000 children from their incarcerated parent (pdf) and devastated poor communities while pouring billions into prisons. How is Cuomo so callous that he refuses to acknowledge the damage that state-sponsored terrorism has done to black people?
He's not even listening to his own party. In an interview with NPR, former Attorney General Eric Holder said, "The war on drugs is now 30, 40 years old. There have been a lot of unintended consequences. There's been a decimation of certain communities, in particular communities of color."
The cannabis industry is lucrative and is expected to grow to a more than $20 billion by 2022, but a felony conviction will prevent people of color released from prison on a marijuana-possession charge from getting a job at a dispensary, despite being experienced. And owning a dispensary will be even harder since it costs at least $250,000 in capital to start a marijuana business, money most black people don't have and cannot access. Nixon's plan to expunge criminal records, make dispensary licenses affordable and provide small-business loans to minorities would give black people a shot at the American dream. Cuomo's plan is a gold rush for white people.
Andrew Cuomo is a Trumpian law-and-order Democrat and a former prosecutor who, until two months ago, was staunchly opposed to marijuana legalization, calling it a "gateway drug" despite scientific evidence to the contrary. His ignorance about marijuana lends credibility to the speculation that his sudden support for marijuana legalization is not genuine and is because of Nixon's challenge to him from the left, along with his fear of losing the primary election on Thursday like his friend, Joe Crowley, who lost to Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.
Unfortunately, Cuomo's refusal to even consider using tax revenue for drug war reparations has support among black leadership. Black leaders were incensed when Nixon spoke of her plans to reverse some of the damage the war on drugs did to black and brown communities. Rev. Johnnie Green of Mount Neboh Baptist Church, Rev. Carl Washington Jr. of New Mount Zion Baptist Church, both in Harlem, and Rev. Troy DeCohen of Mt. Vernon Heights Congregational Church of Westchester said offering drug war reparations to black people "did a disservice to black people."
Black Lives Matter of Greater New York demanded an apology from Nixon, calling her comments "offensive and ignorant" and said that they played into "harmful stereotypes of African Americans as drug users and dealers."
Manhattan Democratic Party Chairman Keith Wright weighed in as well, telling the New York Daily News that Nixon's comment "lacks understanding of the greatest crime in history."
Fortunately for black people in Oakland, their black leaders embraced reparations for damage from the war on drugs and they have turned convicts into entrepreneurs in a multibillion dollar industry. And in Massachusetts, Ayanna Pressley, who won congressional nomination last week, has pushed her state to include minorities in the marijuana business and distribute licenses fairly.
I hope black and brown New Yorkers do not allow black leaders and their respectability politics to shut us out of America's profitable marijuana boom. Let's support the candidate with the morals and the courage to right unjust wrongs and elect Cynthia Nixon because weed should be lucrative for more than just white people.
Publicist and Founder of Friend of the Academy tamikacfranklin.com


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Colectica to Present Tools for Metadata Standards at AAPOR<E2><80><99>s 68th Annual Conference in Boston
Boston, MA April 30, 2013
Colectica will present advances in survey metadata and data documentation at the annual conference of the American Association for Public Opinion Research (AAPOR).
Colectica researchers Dan Smith and Jeremy Iverson will present at the annual conference of the American Association for Public Opinion Research (AAPOR) and will also be located in the exhibition hall at booth 309 during the conference. AAPOR's 68th Annual Conference, Asking Critical Questions: Toward a Sustainable Future for Public Opinion and Social Research, will focus on approaches that provide new analytic utility, improve efficiency, reduce costs, and address current methodological limitations.
Colectica will present "Colectica for Microsoft Excel: Increasing Transparency Using Open Standards" Friday May 17th at 3:15pm in the Commonwealth Complex A&B. Colectica for Excel is a free addin for Microsoft Excel and works with Excel 2007, 2010, and 2013. The software implements leading open standards including the Data Documentation Initiative (DDI) Lifecycle version 3 and ISO 11179. This additional metadata information is stored natively inside the workbook using open standards for data documentation. Colectica for Excel can export data documentation to an XML file in the DDI Lifecycle metadata format. These standard XML files can be opened and edited from Colectica Designer, Colectica Express, or other DDI applications. The software also allows users who do not have Stata or SPSS installed on their machines to open files saved in .sav and .dta formats directly in Microsoft Excel.
"The additional metadata, stored using the DDI-Lifecycle standard for data documentation, adds additional value and opportunities for harmonization to Excel workbooks." stated Jeremy Iverson, a Partner at Colectica. He continued "Allowing users to open Stata .dta and SPSS .sav files from within Excel is an added bonus for the user."
Visit Colectica at Booth 309 during AAPOR 2013
Additional software tools from Colectica enable documenting of data, data collection, survey methodologies, survey instruments, questions, variables, and datasets. Colectica Repository manages changes to the recorded information and allows multiple people and groups to work together on a shared system. Colectica Portal allows for publication of this recorded information on the web. All of these products use open standards to allow for interoperability with other tools. Colectica products, training on open standards, and customized software solutions are available through https://www.colectica.com. Visit Colectica at Booth 309 during the AAPOR conference for additional information and demonstrations.
Launched in 2010, Colectica(R) is the fastest way to design, document, and publish statistical research using Open Data standards. The Colectica Platform is an ideal solution for statistical agencies, survey research groups, public opinion research, data archivists, and other data centric collection operations that are looking to increase the expressiveness and longevity of the data collected through standards based metadata documentation. The company offers a range of highly specific products and services designed to give power to people through easy integration and access to data.

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België nam van september 1976 tot november 1977 deel aan de kwalificatiecampagne voor het EK 1976 in Joegoslavië. Onder leiding van bondscoach Raymond Goethals werden de Witte Duivels eerste in hun groep, waardoor ze het vervolgens in de kwartfinale mochten opnemen tegen Nederland. België verloor zowel de heen- als terugwedstrijd tegen Oranje. Omdat de kwartfinales van het EK in 1976 geen deel uitmaakten van het eindtoernooi in Joegoslavië wist België zich dus niet te kwalificeren voor het EK.

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De kwalificatiecampagne voor het EK in Joegoslavië begon op 8 september 1974 met een uitwedstrijd tegen IJsland. De Belgen wonnen het duel met 0–2 dankzij een doelpunt van Wilfried Van Moer en een late strafschop van Jacques Teugels en kwamen zo meteen aan de leiding in groep 7. Een maand later wonnen de Duivels in het Heizelstadion met 2–1 van Frankrijk. Maurice Martens bracht de Belgen al snel op voorsprong, maar slechts enkele minuten later maakte Frankrijk opnieuw gelijk. In de tweede helft sleepte François Van der Elst alsnog een overwinning uit de brand. Daardoor had het team van bondscoach Raymond Goethals al na twee speelrondes twee punten voorsprong op eerste achtervolger Oost-Duitsland (DDR). Op 7 december 1974 volgde in Leipzig het duel tegen de Oost-Duitsers, dat eindigde in een scoreloos gelijkspel.

In de terugronde wonnen de Belgen opnieuw van IJsland. Raoul Lambert zorgde net voor de rust voor het enige doelpunt. Enkele weken later kwam Oost-Duitsland op bezoek. De Duivels verloren het duel met 1–2, waardoor ze nog niet zeker waren van een plaats in de kwartfinale. Op 15 november 1975 had België in het Parc des Princes genoeg aan een scoreloos gelijkspel tegen de Fransen om de groepszege veilig te stellen.

In het voorjaar van 1976 mochten de Duivels het in de kwartfinale opnemen tegen Nederland, dat twee jaar eerder nog de WK-finale bereikt had. In de aanloop naar de Derby der Lage Landen verklaarde Gilbert Van Binst in de pers dat hij niet 'op zijn eigen portemonnee zou trappen'. De rechtsachter van RSC Anderlecht bedoelde daarmee dat hij niet van plan was om de Nederlandse linksbuiten Rob Rensenbrink hard aan te pakken aangezien die een belangrijke ploeggenoot van hem was bij Anderlecht, met wie hij begin mei 1976 de finale van de Europacup II zou spelen. Goethals schoof Van Binst door naar het centrum van de verdediging en liet vervolgens de net geen 22-jarige Eric Gerets starten als rechtsachter. Ook middenvelder Jan Verheyen, die op dat ogenblik voor derdeklasser Union Saint-Gilloise uitkwam, kreeg een basisplaats. In doel kreeg de niet helemaal fitte Christian Piot de voorkeur op Jean-Marie Pfaff. Goethals reageerde op de keeperskwestie met de woorden 'beter een halve Piot dan een hele Pfaff'.

De keuzes van Goethals pakten niet goed uit. De heenwedstrijd in De Kuip in Rotterdam werd met 5–0 verloren na onder meer een hattrick van Rensenbrink, die geen kind had aan Gerets. In de overbodig geworden terugwedstrijd mocht Pfaff wel starten. België kwam via Roger Van Gool op voorsprong, maar verloor uiteindelijk nog met 1–2 na onder meer een lobdoelpunt van Johan Cruijff. Na de uitschakeling werd Goethals als bondscoach vervangen door Guy Thys en ondergingen de Duivels een generatiewissel. Onder meer Paul Van Himst, Raoul Lambert, Jacques Teugels, Wilfried Puis, Christian Piot en Wilfried Van Moer verdwenen in de jaren na de EK-kwalificatiecampagne, al dan niet tijdelijk, bij de nationale ploeg.

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Past Events › Film
Lucia Joyce: Full Capacity at 14th Waterford Film Festival
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Lucia Joyce: Full Capacity will feature at the 14th Waterford Film Festival. The festival will take place virtually at Central Arts Waterford and it will run between Friday 20th November - Sunday 22nd of November 2020. The festival is a big supporter of independent films and emerging filmmakers.
Where Research Meets Creativity Webinar
20 November 2020 @ 10:00 am - 11:30 pm
I'm looking forward to sharing my experiences of where research meets creativity in my work with UCD undergraduate students.
Crowdfunding Webinar
9 December 2020 @ 7:00 pm - 8:00 pm
I'm looking forward to discussing my wonderful crowdfunding experiences via www.fundit.ie, with whom I have successfully funded several film projects, including, most recently "Lucia Joyce: Full Capacity". More details to follow soon.
'Lucia Joyce: Full Capacity' selected for MexIndex 2020 "Displacements" by Richard Ashrowan
14 December 2020 @ 8:00 pm - 10:00 pm
The MExIndex is an online searchable database of experimental moving image works classified as Irish either because their creator is Irish or the work relates to Irish culture and society. The works displayed on the MExIndex website have been selected by invited curators who have mined the extensive database for works they consider of particular relevance and merit. This process of selection takes place on a regular basis, allowing the MExIndex website continually to expand its offering of Irish-based works.
Lucia Joyce: FULL CAPACITY at Rejkavik Feminist Film Festival January 14 – 17 2021
Delighted to start 2021 with a screening of "Lucia Joyce: Full Capacity" in Rejkavik at RVK Feminist Film Festival! It will be available to view throughout the festival in the "SISTER" Award category! Thanks to our Icelandic sisters! I only wish we could be there in person! More info to follow soon..


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Міністерство внутрішніх справ Республіки Білорусь (МВС Білорусі) () — відомство уряду Білорусі, уповноважене здійснювати боротьбу проти злочинності, охорону громадського порядку і забезпечення громадської безпеки. Міністр внутрішніх справ та його заступники призначаються і знімаються з посад президентом. З 29 жовтня 2020 року посаду міністра обіймає Іван Кубраков.

Президентом також схвалюється склад колегії міністерства за участю міністра та його 5-ти заступників і начальників департаментів МВС, а також заступника державного секретаря Ради Безпеки Республіки Білорусь. Засідання колегії проводяться раз на три місяці та мають кворум в прийнятті рішень при наявності двох третин членів. Рішення ухвалюються простою більшістю голосів і здійснюються наказами та постановами міністерства.

Склад
 Центральний апарат — 4 департаменти, 11 головних управлінь, 11 управлінь і один відділ;
 7 управлінь виконавчих комітетів областей і Мінська;
 Установи забезпечення — автогосподарство, редакція, друкарня, лікарня, поліклініка, санаторій, проектна установа;
 Навчальні заклади — Академія МВС Білорусі, Могилевський вищий коледж, Центр підготовки, підвищення кваліфікації та перепідготовки кадрів

Міністри
 Єгоров Володимир Дем'янович (1990—1994)
 Захаренко Юрій Миколайович (1994—1995)
 Валентин Аголец (1995—1999)
 Сіваков Юрій Леонідович (1999—2000)
 Наумов Володимир Володимирович  (2000—2009)
 Анатолій Кулешов (2009—2012)
 Шуневич Ігор Анатолійович (2012—2019)
 Караєв Юрій Хаджимуратович (2019—2020)
Кубраков Іван Володимирович (з 2020)

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Посилання
 Сайт МВС Білорусі (рос.)

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Q: When is a Nursing Home not just a Nursing Home?
A: When it's Birtley House!
Providing excellent care and a great quality of life to all of our residents in the nursing home is the very heart of our business. However at Birtley House we are developing many activities which you would not normally associate with a Nursing Home. These activities provide our residents with a lively source of interest and involvement in the local community all of which helps to make Birtley House such a vibrant place to live.
The activities range from holding major events in the grounds and parkland such as an annual Sculpture Garden Exhibition; the Surrey Hills Wood Fair; a Rare Plants Fair and a Surrey Arts celebratory event for older people. We are actively into small-holder farming, raising pigs in our woodland and geese in the orchard and going into production of firewood, charcoal and our latest venture - Birtley Cider!
This is the first post in our new Birtley blog which will serve to keep you up to date with the vast range of activities here – both within and outside the home. Please bookmark the page and visit the blog on a regular basis for the latest news.


Cheesecake is a great go to dessert option for any dinner party you might be throwing this week – it can be made ahead and served up with no fuss.
Preheat the oven to 150C, gas 2 and butter 6 x 5cm metal rings. Line the open bases with proper cling film (not food wrap) and place in a deep-sided oven tray.
For the honeycomb: Place the sugar, honey, glucose and water in a saucepan and bring to a boil. Continue to cook until the temperature reaches 160C on a sugar thermometer. Remove from the heat and quickly beat in the bicarbonate of soda, stirring constantly.
Grease a baking sheet with a little oil, then line with silicone paper. Pour the honeycomb mixture onto the paper. Set aside until hard, then break into 1cm pieces.
and cornflour together in a food mixer or large bowl, then beat in the cream cheese. Continue until the mixture is smooth, then add the egg. Add the vanilla bean paste and cream and whisk until smooth, then spoon into the rings, filling them right to the top.
Fill the tray with enough hot water to come 1cm up the side of the rings and place in the oven. Bake for 25 minutes until just set.
Remove the cheesecakes from the oven and cool on a wire rack completely. Once cool, transfer to the fridge for about 30 minutes, or until ready to serve.
While the cheesecakes cool, blitz 50g honeycomb in a food processor to fine crumbs and place on a plate.
When you are ready to serve, remove the cheesecakes from the rings. To help you do this cleanly, warm each ring very quickly with a blow torch, or dip a cloth into hot water and run it around the ring. Dip the top side of the cheesecake in the crushed honeycomb to cover it then place, honeycomb-side up, onto the serving plate.
Arrange the balls of melon around each plate. Drizzle with some of the watermelon juices and garnish with pieces of honeycomb and some basil cress, if you like.


The Friends of Meadowridge Common annual Spring Wildflower Walk will be taking place on Saturday 17 September 2016. The walk is free, and open to anyone. Meet at the gravel road off Faraday Way near the soccer fields at 11h30. A list of flowers that may be in bloom can be seen here.
Moraea tripetala blooming on the Common.


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Mobile suits are the pinnacle of technology in the Gundam universe. But while they may look impressive in the anime, their Gunpla counterparts look rather cartoonish, don't you think?
While Gunpla are made of brightly colored plastic, the anime versions of mobile suits have a metallic sheen to them. They appear to be made of metal ore. What if I told you your Gunpla could look like that, too? I'll walk you through a simple method of giving your Gunpla what I call a "metallic candy finish," so it looks just as shiny and chrome as an anime Gundam.
There are many ways to achieve a metallic look, but for this tutorial, I will be using an Iwata Eclipse HP-CS airbrush with an Iwata Sprint Jet air compressor spraying at 12-15 PSI.
I'll be demonstrating this technique on the 1/100 Barbatos Lupus. The parts you will see in the photos will be the upper chest, V-fin, and chin. Now, let's get started.
First, apply a coat of primer to your parts. This will help the paint adhere to the surface. We're using gray as a happy medium, but you could also use black or white. Check out the Gunpla 101 Primer Guide to see why you might use gray over other colors.
Before you begin, make sure you have no contaminants on the part (hair, dust particles, etc.) because these imperfections will cast shadows and stand out like a sore thumb, and that would certainly not be groovy.
When priming, it's best to spray in thin coats, gradually making your way to full coverage. This way, you're less likely to overdo it.
Next, we'll be applying the gloss black base coat. This will add more depth to the eventual metallic outcome, giving it a more full-bodied sheen.
Like with primer application, it's best to spray in thin coats. Only this time, you want to make sure you don't underdo it. An even layer is important for a nice glossy finish.
On this step we will finally be adding the metallic shine, using chrome paint. We do this after applying a gloss black base coat to enhance the sheen of the paint, making the metallic colors shine quite nicely.
For Alclad II chrome, it's best to spray your coats lightly and slowly, taking your time to ensure satisfactory quality. Don't rush; you're building a Gunpla, not running a sprint. Use this as an opportunity to appreciate your kit coming to life.
Now it's time for the fun part: color! The whole purpose of making the chrome nice and shiny is so it will shine brightly through the transparent color on top. You can use any transparent colors you please, but for this tutorial, we're using blue, red, and yellow.
Simply spray the transparent color in thin coats over the chrome. Since we're using transparent color instead of opaque, you gain control over just how bold your colors turn out. Want a light metallic blue? Simply apply a thin coat of transparent blue. A stronger blue? Apply two coats. And so on. Metallic candy finishes can be quite versatile in this regard.
Lastly, seal it all in with a top coat. I like to use one of two top coats depending on what condition I want my Gunpla to look like. For a weathered or battle damaged look, I use Alclad II matte top coat. This dulls the sheen we just worked so hard on, but ends up with a more realistic metallic look, like of a machine that has been used a lot.
For a pristine look that makes the Gunpla look fresh off the assembly line, I like to use Alclad II aqua gloss top coat. Aqua gloss will give your metallic kit a high shine finish while also making the metallic colors a bit more vibrant. Of course, the choice is up to you.
The PG RX-78-2, built by Chris with a metallic candy finish.
With a nice metallic paint job, your Gunpla will look just as impressive as the mobile suits in the anime. As you practice your skills, you could even make your kit look hyperrealistic. The possibilities are endless! Happy building and stay groovy!
If you liked this tutorial, you can check out more of Chris's Gunpla builds on Instagram.


Today marks the 100th anniversary of the introduction of the first Labour exchanges set up to help people find work. There were just 62 Labour exchanges when they were first introduced on 1 February 1910. Each had separate entrances for men and women, the skilled and unskilled were kept apart and children as young as 11 were regularly seen in the queues.
We have come a long way since then. Labour exchanges have become Jobcentre Plus centres. We now have 750 newly designed centres around the country staffed by over 78,000 employees and with jobs that range from security guards to graphic designers and beyond.
The investment that your Labour Government has put into Jobcentre Plus along with other actions taken have ensured that we have avoided a recession like the 1980s and 1990s where millions of unemployed people - including hundreds of thousands of unemployed young people - were abandoned without the support they needed. Many communities experienced a generation of worklessness because of this negligence and many still bear the scars of long-term unemployment.
The values which drove the creation of the first Labour exchanges 100 years ago still motivate us today: the principle that people should be given a helping hand to enable them to get on; that we can't simply walk by on the other side of the road.
We have done everything possible over the last sixteen months in the aftermath of the financial crisis to keep unemployment down and to make sure every young person has the help they need to find work, training, skills and experience.
•Established the Young Person's Guarantee which gives every young person who is unemployed for six months a guaranteed the offer of a job, training or work experience.
•Worked with employers in our Backing Young Britain scheme to encourage them to bid for 100,000 jobs for young people in the Government's Future Jobs Fund, and to provide work experience, apprenticeship and internship places.
•Taken decisive action in the economic downturn by putting in the extra money which has kept unemployment 450,000 lower than expected and last month saw a fall in the levels of people out of work.
But we need to carry on helping people, not cut back on these schemes as the Conservatives want to do. Only by investing in helping people - as we have done for 100 years - can we make sure that people, and especially young people, do not suffer the scarring effects of long term unemployment like those who grew up in the 1980s and 90s did.


Before I get down to the details of each type of comb honey super, I want to discuss Varroa mites. In Honey in the Comb, Eugene Killion does not write a single word about these irksome creatures. This was not an oversight. In fact, the book was published in 1981, six years before Varroa appeared in the New World. Believe me, life was easier without them.
I began keeping bees because I could no longer find honey in wooden boxes. Since I couldn't buy it, I decided to produce it myself. But nowhere could I find information about controlling mites in a comb honey kind of world, so I devised a system that works for me.
The prettiest, whitest, and most tender comb is produced by bees in a rapidly expanding colony in the midst of a major nectar flow.
Although there may be several seasonal nectar flows, nectar from tree flowers is usually best for comb honey. There are exceptions, but most tree nectars are naturally high in fructose, so the honey they produce is slow to granulate.
Trees generally bloom early in the spring.
Taken together, these factors mean that you can produce slow-to-granulate honey in white and tender combs by building up your bees fast in early spring and getting those supers filled.
The downside is that your Varroa mites are loving spring as well.
If you use commercial miticides (which I don't recommend), the treatment must be completed a certain amount of time before supers are added. The amount of time varies with the product, but with some you must wait up to two weeks after the product is removed from the hive.
Some of the organic acid treatments require a lesser waiting time, but the treatment itself may require three to four weeks, which can pretty much demolish your spring.
Some of the newer organic acid treatments, including those based on hop beta acids, formic acid, or oxalic acid can be used while the honey supers are in place. Although I've read a lot of labels, I've never seen instructions that differentiate between comb honey and extracted honey, so I have to assume the recommendations are the same.
However, I would never let bees produce comb honey in a hive suffused with any of these products. As I mentioned earlier, wax quality is a major feature of comb honey. So legal or not, I would never subject my comb honey to chemicals. If nothing else, they all smell bad, so why risk infusing odors into a product that should smell like heaven?
Year after year I have managed my bees with autumn mite treatments alone. I usually remove my comb honey supers by June 30 and replace them with mediums for collection of winter stores. I use one of the organic acid treatments in autumn and call it good. Then, come spring, I'm ready to go without messing with mite treatments.
If the mite count seems high, I sometimes add drone frames in early, early spring, but I take them out before I add the comb honey supers. Once comb honey supers are in place, I don't like to disturb the bees more than necessary. No disturbance means no drone frames and no powdered sugar, unless you have a blower for your weekly treatments and can do it without opening the hive.
Your local conditions will be different, of course, so I'm not advocating you use my system. But I am presenting it as an example and suggesting that you think long and hard about Varroa control if you intend to produce comb honey in spring. Like everything else in beekeeping, having a plan is key.
Varroa destructor on honey bee pupa. Photo by Gilles San Martin.
Is it possible to remove the queen to a nuc for a couple of weeks to get a brood break, to help with the mite problem in spring? I'm hoping to do comb honey this spring and I'm hoping not to treat the mites with any synthetic chemicals.
Yes, you can do that, but it is antithetical to getting good comb honey production. You want the highest worker population you can get right when the heavy flow begins. If you remove the queen beforehand, you will have a significant drop in workers right when you need them most.
If I were to use that method, I would wait until after the main flow. If you think you can't wait that long, you can use powdered sugar for the weeks before the flow, and then remove the queen toward the end of it.
Do you have beevital hiveclean in America? I've been using it for several years with good results. I use no other mite treatments, hiveclean can be used as many times as you want, at temperatures from -5c to 25c. It's suitable for organic beekeeping and can be used at anytime of year.
I've never heard of it. What does it contain? Maybe it goes under a different name here? Sounds intriguing.
Water, citric acid, propolis extract, essential oils, oxalic acid, saccharose and is made in Austria by Beevital.
Hello – Is honey from mite infested bees safe for human consumption? And, is mite infested larvae from honey comb safe for chickens to eat (on a certified organic farm)?
Honey from a mite-infested hive is perfectly safe to eat. Most hives are infected by mites to some degree; it is nothing unusual. As long as the bees were raised organically, the larvae can be fed to organic chickens. The mites are not an issue for chickens in any case. Chickens naturally eat all types of invertebrates.
I am a first-year beekeeper and am planning to treat my hives in the fall, after the fall harvest, with Apilife Var. Around September/October. As I am planning to leave ample stores in the hive at that time for them to overwinter on, I am a bit concerned about the possible effects of Apilife Var on the comb or the honey, especially as I plan to harvest any remaining honey the following spring, as soon as a nectar flow starts coming in.
I would be interested in any suggestions on how to proceed as you are used to using this product. Not sure if you usually harvest in the fall though. Many thanks.
Apilife Var has an extremely strong odor which persists. I think I would take off the honey supers and then treat for the three weeks. At the end of the treatment, I would remove any remaining wafers and then put the honey supers back on for the winter.
Thanks for your prompt reply. I must say I am a bit concerned about taking off the honey supers and leaving them unattended for three weeks. I fear that without any bees around to keep them in check they might be a feast for wax moth.
How would you keep full supers safe for an extended period of time, off the hive?
I realize this is a bit off topic as this thread deals with varroa, not wax moth, but it comes in the sequence of your previous reply.
You could wrap them in plastic film and then freeze them overnight. This is a lot of work, I realize. However, if the honey supers have never had brood in them, wax moths are not likely to show up. It's a judgement call. Waxmoths are looking for cells were brood has lived and left cocoons and other debris behind. They generally do not like plain old honeycomb that has never seen brood. But, yes, occasionally some will break the rules. It is somewhat dependent on how bad your waxmoth problem is to start with.
Like all beekeeping, it's a give and take: You can go to the effort of freezing; you can keep an eye on the frames and freeze if you see waxmoth; you can have your honey taste/smell like thymol; you can forget harvesting the honey and just save it for the bees; you can harvest it and feed it back to the bees in a feeder. You just have to make a decision.
If it were me, and if the honey supers have never had brood in them, I would just put the supers in a place away from insects (like in the house). I would check them briefly every day. If I saw no waxmoths, I would do nothing. If I saw a moth larva, I would wrap and freeze the frames. In other words, I wouldn't do anything until I had to because I might not have to do anything.
Hi, Rusty! Loving your site and all the info. I'd love to get your thoughts on my situation.
I, too, will be starting a beehive in a few months just for the purpose of obtaining comb honey, bee bread, propolis, and whatever other magic I can find.
Unfortunately, we also have mites, I guess they get brought up with the new bees every year.
If you were me, what would be the best way to ensure the best comb honey from a new crop of bees every year?
If I were raising honey bees as an annual, I would not treat for mites. Even down here in miteville, I only treat in the fall because I don't want to contaminate my early spring comb honey with mite preparations of any type, including the essential oils.
This system has worked for me for years. Usually colonies collapse from mites in the fall when the level of mites per bee is highest, so if you are not going to overwinter, there is really no point in treating.
If later you decide to try overwintering indoors or whatever, you can always treat in the fall while they are putting away honey for themselves.
So, as an "annual crop," would the bees be expected to make all new brood comb every year or will that part of the hive remain for the new bees in the spring? Will mites over-winter in the empty comb?
On an aside, I just watched this incredible video by a renown mushroom expert who is devising a way to strengthen bee colonies with an anti-fungal mushroom.
Definitely save the empty comb for the new bees; you will get a lot more honey if the bees don't have to build all new comb every year. The mites cannot survive without the honey bees, so nothing to worry about there. However, you must protect your combs from predators and other insects.
Rusty – Thanks for your thoughtful answers. The bees will benefit! I've talked to quite a few beekeepers here in Alaska, and I'm afraid they may be doing things because 'that's how we've always done it.' I like to look at things with fresh eyes.
Have you ever harvested bee bread? Or know if it's even done? I see it for sale on the internet. I can't imagine how one would pluck the tiny 'loaves' from the cells.
Reading this makes me question the ingredients in Pollen Patties I've seen.
I haven't read the link yet, but just to answer your question, I have never harvested tiny bee loaves and have no idea how to do that. They stick in there pretty tight, until they dry out and hardened like marbles, then they fall out.
Hi Rusty, I lost 3 of 4 hives this winter in Eugene, OR. I did one OA dribble in November. My remaining hive I didn't treat but want to this spring. I don't want to jeopardize my only remaining hive, small colony, but at the same time, they probably are already with varroa. No oa vaporizer, top bar hive, suggestions?
which all applicable restrictions, precautions and directions for use can be followed.
broken into pieces as above. Repeat procedure again, 7-10 days later and leave last tablet for 12 days.
After 12 days remove residuals from colony.
Or you could try HopGuard (hop beta acids) or MAQS (formic acid). I've been using HopGuard in rotation with OA dribble. Any of these are okay, as long as you follow the guidelines. As you know by now, November is too late to treat because the bees likely already had viruses. It's good that one pulled through, though.
My hive died over the winter due to low numbers after a nasty hornet invasion. This month I'll be getting a new bee package. I have 2 questions if you don't mind.
1- I have a whole brood box full of honey from my last colony, may I leave that honey for my new bees?
2- I live in New Hampshire. A local beekeeper told me I should treat for mites by pulling 2 drones framed every 20 odd days, and freezing them or cutting them out, then returning the frames only to come back in 3 weeks and repeat. This seems like a lot of hive disruption to me. I noticed you said you only treat for mites once a year. Is the method that was recommended to me a decent method? And do you have a blog post I can read on how you manage to only treat once a year? I would love to only worry about it once a year! But I'm kind of blown away that your method works so well! Around here, people inspect their hives so frequently it's almost silly. How can you know that the mites aren't taking over your hive all spring and summer?
2. How often you have to treat will be different, depending on location, proximity to agriculture, nearness of other colonies, etc. All beekeeping is local. Drone trapping is part of IPM, usually used in combination with other varroa controls. It works very well in that way. The only way to know if mites are taking over or not is to do frequent counts, preferably with a sugar roll or alcohol wash.
Thank you. You mentioned you don't like opening up a hive very often, however drone culling is monthly. Do you personally only start drone culling when a mite test reveals the mite number is high and intervention is needed? The beekeeper advising me culls drones all year (except winter) no matter what. He just does, and doesn't bother testing for more numbers first.
I don't cull drones any longer, for that very reason. It's too easy for me to get behind, and then I end up raising scads of mites.
Okay thank you. I'm hoping to use oxalic acid, and have been reading your posts on it. You only do the dribble test once a year to prepare for winter? Or do you also treat during the warm months? Thank you!
The dribble is not a test, it's a treatment. I rotate treatments so I don't use the same one twice in a row.
How do I ask a question in this blog? I want to know if honey from a dead hive that has been treated for mites can be consumed by humans. Can you please let me know?
It depends on what the mites were treated with.
That's a strong commercial pesticide. I would not recommend eating the honey.
What do you recommend for treating mites? Is the one we use too strong? Is it killing the bees?
Back to the mite treatment we use… would it be ok for creamed honey where you have to pasteurize it?
First of all, you don't need to pasteurize honey to make creamed honey. If fact, pasteurization ruins honey without any benefit because is doesn't kill botulism spores. Pasteurization won't take poisonous chemicals out of the honey either. Pasteurization just warms up the honey and destroys taste and aroma components as well as some of the nutritional content.


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The last year was atracking year for Indy. I started tracking with him when he was 15 weeks old. After 9 months, he was so good on the track that I entered him in his first trackingexam (Anlagsklass). He completed the track with flying colors, as if he hadalways trained on it. I was so encouraged that only 4 months later, I enteredhim in 3 tracking exams. His work style was amazing for such a young dog and wereceived 3 first prizes in a row. Indy was Swedish Tracking Champion when hewas just one year one month old!
We also went to some shows with DRC CAC, and he got 3 excellentscores (or notes) and 2 very goods. It was very easy to show him in the ring.He always greeted the judge with a kiss, and walked very nicely in the circle.He is a light toller type, less heavy, and with a smaller head than a typical young toller boy. I'm very happy with hisdevelopment, which is perfect for a working dog: he is quick and fast andtypically has long endurance.
The next year we will try to compete in his first real huntingexams in Germany (JP/R), and in Sweden (Tolling). I am very curious about allthe new things I will learn about him in the meantime.
Indy is Mika's son. He is still 5 months old but he impresses me every day. He is very selfconfident and comfortable with all surroundings no matter if there are foreign people with strange clothes, new noises, other dogs or new places. Everywhere he settles in very fast.
It's seems for me that he thinks there is nothing to be scared or agitated of because everything will be fine. On the other hand he is very keen in working. We started with free search, whistle training, heelwork, lining etc. He is concentrated and quiet all the time. Even when Mika is working and Indy has to wait. In my opinion that's amazing for such a young dog.
Indy moved in with us when he was 15 weeks old because of the new rabies law in the EU. Johanna, her family and her dogs socialized him really well and I cannot give them enough thanks for their excellent work.
Johanna, Indy couldn't find a better place to start his life than your house. Thanks for all!


NSW has just toughened up its laws on disabled parking infringements with the announcement that offenders will now not only be fined, but also receive licence demerit points. Parkes, Forbes and Lachlan Shire Councils' Road Safety and Injury Prevention Officer, Melanie Suitor, says the new penalties are aimed at reducing the tendency of drivers to illegally park in disabled zones. "Some drivers selfishly deny vulnerable members of our community close access to buildings and sufficient room to get in and out of their vehicles by illegally parking in a disabled car park. "From 1 December, anyone caught parking in a disabled car park without a valid mobility parking sticker will not only get a $519 fine - the highest fine for this offence in the country - they will also receive a demerit point penalty. "Drivers who think about parking illegally in disabled car parks need to know the demerit point penalty can contribute towards licence suspension and also make the drivers ineligible for discounted driver's licence renewal fees and reduced insurance premiums. "It's hoped that the demerit point will encourage people to use their moral compass and think twice before choosing to park their vehicle illegally in a disabled car parking space," Ms Suitor said. The new rules impact areas wherever disabled parking offences are currently enforced, whether on a public road or in a car park. Parkes Shire Council's Manager of Regulation and Compliance, Howard Orr, says that these new rules and penalties apply state wide and will be enforced in both the Parkes CBD area and council public car parks. "With only a few shopping days left until Christmas, parking in the CBD and council car parks, is at a premium. "I'd like to remind locals to check the signs and ensure they are obeying all parking rules as our regular enforcement patrols will continue in the lead up to Christmas," Mr Orr said. NSW Roads and Maritime Services operate a phone service for residents to 'dob in' an offender breaching the NSW Mobility Parking Scheme. The number is 1300 884 899. Any enquiry in relation to the implementation of the parking enforcement operations should be directed to Council's Planning and Environment Department.
Parking officer, Greg Gordon shows the new parking signs now in place.
NSW has just toughened up its laws on disabled parking infringements with the announcement that offenders will now not only be fined, but also receive licence demerit points.
Parkes, Forbes and Lachlan Shire Councils' Road Safety and Injury Prevention Officer, Melanie Suitor, says the new penalties are aimed at reducing the tendency of drivers to illegally park in disabled zones.
"Some drivers selfishly deny vulnerable members of our community close access to buildings and sufficient room to get in and out of their vehicles by illegally parking in a disabled car park.
"From 1 December, anyone caught parking in a disabled car park without a valid mobility parking sticker will not only get a $519 fine - the highest fine for this offence in the country - they will also receive a demerit point penalty.
"Drivers who think about parking illegally in disabled car parks need to know the demerit point penalty can contribute towards licence suspension and also make the drivers ineligible for discounted driver's licence renewal fees and reduced insurance premiums.
"It's hoped that the demerit point will encourage people to use their moral compass and think twice before choosing to park their vehicle illegally in a disabled car parking space," Ms Suitor said.
The new rules impact areas wherever disabled parking offences are currently enforced, whether on a public road or in a car park.
Parkes Shire Council's Manager of Regulation and Compliance, Howard Orr, says that these new rules and penalties apply state wide and will be enforced in both the Parkes CBD area and council public car parks.
"With only a few shopping days left until Christmas, parking in the CBD and council car parks, is at a premium.
"I'd like to remind locals to check the signs and ensure they are obeying all parking rules as our regular enforcement patrols will continue in the lead up to Christmas," Mr Orr said.
NSW Roads and Maritime Services operate a phone service for residents to 'dob in' an offender breaching the NSW Mobility Parking Scheme. The number is 1300 884 899.
Any enquiry in relation to the implementation of the parking enforcement operations should be directed to Council's Planning and Environment Department.
Discuss "$519 fine, one demerit point; harsh penalties for disabled parking offences"


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Gold Star Spouses day will be observed on Monday, April 5, 2021.
The U.S. Army official site explains that the Gold Star is a tradition that begin during World War One. Service flags were flown by military families during this time, with blue stars for every family member serving in uniform.
Gold Star pins and colors are traditionally presented by an officer to the next-of-kin during funeral honors for the fallen military member.
The organization Gold Star Wives welcomes all Gold Star spouses, for example, but retains the original name. The organization welcomes membership applications from "Any surviving spouse of any person of the United States military who died while a member of the armed forces of our country, or who died subsequent to such service as a result of an injury or disability incurred during such service."
Gold Star Spouses Day is not a national holiday. Banks do not close, markets remain open, and it's business as usual on most military installations in terms of the day-to-day mission. But many installations have their own special observances of the day.
The Army isn't the only branch of the service doing Gold Star outreach. The Air Force offers Gold Star military ID cards for surviving family members, giving them unrestricted base access for common areas where base events are held, but more importantly it allows them easy access to Family Readiness Centers to get help and emotional support. The Navy and Marine Corps also have their own Gold Star programs.
Read more: https://militarybenefits.info/gold-star-spouses-day/#ixzz6rAgex64t


You will have a high degree of autonomy in tackling problems within the space of massively scaleable systems. You will take a TDD approach and apply the principles of SRE to build extremely robust, scaleable and reuseable microservices for client teams. You'll quickly ramp up on team responsibilities, initiatives and contribute to architectural discussions and decision making.
You'll join the server team comprised of talented and passionate software engineers focused on writing high availability golang microservices for client teams. Collaborating with game team members and engineers, you'll use golang, Docker and GKE to meet project and studio goals as we develop new, and support existing, games. This role supports studio wide initiatives and provides an opportunity to mentor less senior engineers.
You have 7 years of prior software engineering experience, fluency in multiple programming languages and experience developing scaleable systems to millions of MAU. You are proficient in core networking concepts, Infrastructure Services (AWS or GCP), Docker and NoSql and have familiarity with Kubernetes. You thrive in a collaborative, team focused environment. Self starting with great communication skills, you work hard to hit deadlines. It's a huge plus if you have golang experience and are a passionate mobile game player.
If you're passionate about helping us design, develop & distribute the world's best mobile games, we would love to hear from you.


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Q: Including a Ruby module before or after ActiveRecord associations I'm trying to define fetcher methods for Rails models depending on their associations:
module Fetchers
  extend ActiveSupport::Concern

  included do
    reflect_on_all_associations.each do |association|
      define_method "fetch_#{association.name}" do
        # do something
      end
    end
  end
end

and include this module in models:
class User < ActiveRecord::Base
  include Fetchers

  belongs_to :team
  has_many :projects
end

so that I can get methods such as User#fetch_team and User#fetch_projects.
But for the module to list the model's associations, it needs to be included after them, which leads to awkward code like this:
class User < ActiveRecord::Base
  include CoolStuff
  include CommonMethods

  belongs_to :team
  has_many :projects

  include Fetchers

  scope :something, ->{ where(something: true) }

  after_save :do_this

  ...
end

Is there a way to make the Fetchers module wait for the class associations to be defined first before generating the methods?

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Watch Riot play a game with the new runes
Phreak also interviews Riot Wrekz and Meddler of the new system.
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The Runes Reforged system is almost out. In fact, according to Riot's preseason site, it will be dropped into our excitable hands on November 8. In honor of the full Runes Reforged information being released today, Riot has sat down with Riot Wrekz and Riot Meddler to chat with them about the little, rocky updates coming soon.
This is our first look at runes in action, aside from the small clips and gifs that Riot has shown us in the past. Hopefully this gives everyone a better idea of what type of runes you might take in certain situations, as well as how the whole system works.
In addition to chatting up the developers, this stream will also show off some highly anticipated Runes Reforged gameplay. Phreak and the crew also go over several different rune builds, each of which might be useful for your main champion. You can watch it via the Twitch live stream above or the VoD after it has ended.


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'Candyman' box office win plays part in strides for Black female filmmakers
By: Forrest Sanders
A big box office haul last weekend is signaling a new milestone in film. Some are calling it a major win for underrepresented voices in the industry who long faced barriers with what's called the celluloid ceiling. Changes are happening right now for the diversity of names you see on posters directing a film.
Think back to the era of VHS. If you're talking about scary movies from then, it's often the work of great directors like John Carpenter and Wes Craven. Fast forward to today, a new name has entered the list of great scary movie directors.
Candyman is a franchise continuation that mixes very real horrors of racial injustice with the old urban legend of summoning a ghost by repeating a name into a mirror. Last weekend, the film earned $22 million, a solid box office in the era of the pandemic. It's also historic, as director Nia DaCosta becomes the first Black woman to have a number one film at the US box office.
"I just think it's about time," said Hazel Joyner-Smith, the founder and CEO of the International Black Film Festival. "The business of filmmaking has such power with it that men stayed in the position but no longer."
For 20 years, IBFF has been a place where people in the industry, people trying to get into the industry, and people who just love film, can take in the work of underrepresented voices.
Why did it take so long to start seeing the work of Black female filmmakers on your screen of choice?
"Gee, that's a long journey!" smiled Joyner-Smith. "Remember. Women's rights just took place in 1920. It's an evolutionary process for women to step into places where they're in charge fully."
While there actually is a history of Black women working in film even around this time, we'd have to return to that VHS era to see doors starting to finally open. It was 1989 when Euzhan Palcy became the first Black woman to have a film produced by a major U.S. studio. It was 1991 when Julie Dash became the first Black woman to have a film get a general theatrical release in the U.S.
So, how have things changed since then? According to the Center for Study of Women in Television and Film, in looking at the top 100 grossing films by year, numbers are moving up with 16% of films directed by women in 2020. Female directors are also becoming more prominently known in recent years like Black female directors, Kasi Lemmons and Ava DuVernay.
"When we overlook people because of their skin color, because of their gender, it's painful and it's harmful to the growth of who we are as human beings, right?" said Joyner-Smith.
Because of the pandemic, the International Black Film Festival is virtual this year, beginning on September 30. Joyner-Smith says the mission is the same. Give a platform to underrepresented voices.
"I'm just excited about what is yet on the horizon," she smiled. "If this is shaking people up, oh my gosh. I can't wait."


Earner Harris is no stranger to being recognized as the Holley-Navarre Fireman of the Year. This year marks the third time he has received the award. He also earned the honor in 2002 and 2005.
Harris has been at the Holley-Navarre Fire Department since 2002, starting out as a volunteer before becoming a paid firefighter in 2008. Prior to moving to Florida, he spent four years as a volunteer fireman in Alabama.


Senator Jon Tester today slammed a decision by the U.S. Justice Department to not defend the provision of the Affordable Care Act that guarantees health coverage for people with pre-existing conditions.
The Democrat called it a, "reckless decision," and said President Trump's administration "should be working to lower the price of insurance instead of playing political games."
Montana Insurance Commissioner Matt Rosendale issued a press release today praising Congress for repealing the Affordable Care Act tax penalty for people who don't buy health insurance. Insurance companies requested the requirement in return for the health care law mandating that they cover people with pre-existing conditions.
Rosendale, who is running against Tester as a Republican, says the law needs to be repealed entirely, and blames it for high health insurance premiums.


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Frank Carlberg Large Ensemle
Monk Dreams Hallucinations and Nightmares
Like snowflakes spinning through the universe, the ten tracks on Monk Dreams Hallucinations and Nightmares have their own individual signature, a texture precious to behold because of the feelings and shapes which emanate from this homage to the creative genius of Thelmonious Monk, in this the centenary of his birth.
The breadth of this recording, as an instrument of elucidating what modern jazz is capable of, is encyclopedic; you can discover how a metrically unsettled tempo returns with cascading figures in counterpoint (Dry Bean Stew); want to know how a few more sixths in mixed winds can end a harmonic piece in ritardando, check out International Man of Mystery, or if you are curious about what it means to mix reckless abandon with breathless woodwinds and relentless brass, spend time with You Dig.
Accompanying this attractively packaged CD is the most expository of insights into the genesis and execution of each track, all original bar the closing Round Midnight which, because of its enduring appeal and association with Monk, is given a very original interpretation here, with the changing of gears from a hush to a roar richly orchestrated by the large band.
At the helm is Frank Carlberg, who set out with Monk Dreams Hallucinations and Nightmares to come up with new perspectives on Monk's music and on compositions for large jazz ensemble in general, through balancing improvisational impulses with exciting orchestral and structural designs. Thus with Rhymes there are many allusions to Monk-like shapes in the music by the horn section, and Carlberg throws into the mix some poetry by Clark Coolridge read by Paul Lichter.
Monk Dreams Hallucinations and Nightmares is not intended by Carlberg as a tribute album, but rather as a celebration of the beauty and vitality of his music that has had the most impact on him as a musician: others have free scope here to make their mark, like Brian Landrus on clarinet on A Darker Shade of Blue Light, John Carlson on trumpet on Dry Bean Stew and Johannes Weidenmuller on bass on Rhymes.
Is the best kept for last? Not strictly true, but Round Midnight bookends the collection with Carlberg's 'compositional transformation' of the original, and is worth skipping to for Kirk Knuffe's solo on cornet, a wonderfully sustained breath of brilliance. If eleven minutes is too long and you only have half the time to sample the brilliance of Monk Dreams Hallucinations and Nightmares, then stick on You Dig when you hop out of bed. It ain't rocket science: you gotta dig this stuff.
From Blue Poles to Blue Posts
As is the norm with many of Jackson Pollock's paintings, the provenance tells a different story. So it is with Blue Poles, the stand out painting in the current exhibition devoted to American expressionism at the Royal Academy in London. Pollock was not in the habit of giving names to his drip technique paintings, so Blue Poles started out as Number 11 when it was conceived in 1952. Two years later, Pollock had a change of heart and it became Blue Poles. It was acquired by a museum in Australia in the early 1970's, and there it has remained until it popped up in this show, perhaps the most important in the Academy since the turn of the century. It's absolutely huge – five metres long – and is veined by every method of casting paint onto a canvas, a visual translation of a score inspired by, perhaps, Charlie Parker. This is one of those mercurial works that you simply don't look at, but look into, and breathes the essence of Pollock. And if you like Blue Poles, you should after skip across the road to the Blue Posts hostelry for a sundowner.
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School of Velocity
Unusually for me, I finished School of Velocity, all 224 pages of straightforward prose, where each word is as important as a note on a staff, in one sitting, a tribute to the author's dexterous handling of the potential minefield of music as overarching metaphor in fiction.
But Rubin wears his knowledge of classical music lightly, with the expertise of Tom Wolfe incorporating space technology in The Right Stuff, so that fiction is so deftly embroidered by fact that pianist Jan de Vries, who is in the prime of his career when a major setback occurs, could be mistaken for a genuine Columbia recording hopeful.
That he isn't is due to Rubin's skill in making the music and its colourful appendage of descriptions and definitions a slave to the story, which, though decades pass, is suffused by the presence, real and imagined, of the mercurial Dirk Noosen, whose walk-on role during Jan's lonely adolescence is a shadow which long outlives the light which spawned it.
Dirk, who gets the best dialogue, is not as fully fleshed out as Jan, for it is unlikely that the narrative arc, especially when the latter is crippled by auditory hallucinations and his career as a performing artist suffers, could have borne the weight of both. So we see the charismatic and mysterious Dirk through the eyes of Jan, with whom we are on intimate terms, because he is as self-revelatory as Karl Ove Knausgaard.
Brilliantly but tactfully, as we revisit the pianist's bitter-sweet memories of unresolved encounters with his adolescent soulmate, Rubin strips the gloss from Dirk for the reader long before Jan sees the woods for the trees.
Or does he? Is it the author's intention that the profligate Dirk is a Dutch Sebastian Flyte to the aesthetic Jan's Charles Ryder, where whatever once bound them together is never clearly defined. After all, one swallow does not a summer make.
Luminously unfolded until the surprising denouement, this is a novel about the repercussions of repression and a lifetime of regret, and the volatility of revisiting unanswered questions and unspoken passions.
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There is on Corea Change a glorious double bass run by Andrew Robb intertwined by the machinations of Konrad Wiszniewski's sax, brought to an abrupt conclusion by Euan Stevenson's piano, which in fact bookends the number, encapsulating all that is magnificent about this second release from New Focus.
Throughout there is pure jazz, both sax and piano trading blows while knitted by a phenomenally paced bass, with Wiszniewski playing out of his skin. Now listen to the tracks on either side of Corea Change, Ascension and Braeside.
Ascension opens with a funereal violin before it is elevated by The Glasgow String Quartet, a tune that wouldn't be out of place on an Ealing Studio soundtrack of the 1940's, plaintively atmospheric and distinct from Corea Change.
Braeside is quintessentially chamber music, not dissimilar in tone or pace to Ascension, but the hallmark of On Song, with 13 original compositions, with the String Quartet featured on eight, is the juxtaposition of many styles, predominantly jazz and classical, and the ebullience of the playing, which is always infectious.
You are not always gifted with a successful mix of the sombre and joie de vivre whenever a tenor sax and a quartet of strings get into the ring together, but here it works, time and again. Perhaps the reason is to be found in the almost sonata-like approach to the compositions:exposition, development, and recapitulation, in which the opening sequence is stated, then expanded, and finally restated.
On Song is an experience for the adventurous ear. Stevenson and Wiszniewski make for a chilled pairing, and the benefits of the collaboration are omnipresent: take Green Park where the flute and sax are gilded by the thrusting but evenly paced energy of the quartet. Destination Unknown follows and Stevenson's piano saves it from rambling into middle of the road turf, with Wiszniewski's swooping sax capriciously playful as a feather lost in rising thermals.
There is an articulate cohesiveness to On Song, a melting pot of jazz idioms and classical nuances, but what is finally memorable is the improvisatory freshness, the wellspring of familiarity, the coalition of many forces, a canvas which can accommodate both lightning speed bass and weightless sax, and which, to be frank, makes for a charming encounter.


Initially our aim was to defend the rights of British immigrants in Spain but we are now also vehemently supporting the rights of the Spanish residents in the UK. After the wonderful and unerring support from the Spanish here for us it is the least we can do and any agreements have to be reciprocal. We also actively support the campaign for dual nationality which will be of great interest to us and of benefit to Spain. We do not seek to overturn Brexit. In a nutshell, we just want the best for the UK and for the EU immigrants.
Given our financial limitations, everything we have done so far has been self-funded but we need to get out to other parts of Spain. We make no charge to our members and our funds are raised via donations. It is difficult to fund our many trips, presentations and satisfy the countless requests to travel to other parts of Spain and perhaps now, more than ever, we need to be a united force.
It would be foolhardy to rely on our own government to defend our acquired rights so we need to rely on the Spanish and we have now set up satellite offices of the association in other parts of Spain. We already obviously have our area Málaga and now have Valencia and the Canary Islands with probably the Balearics coming onboard shortly too.


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Inside the Endless Om
This year marks the 100th anniversary of the birth of Ravi Shankar, the Indian composer, sitar musician, and collaborator of artists like George Harrison. In honour of the milestone, folk-rock singer Johnny Irion has assembled a group of all-stars to record a new song for Shankar, "Inside the Endless Om."
"It was Alan [Kozlowski] who heard the vibe of 'Inside the Endless Om' in its infancy," Irion says in a statement. "Just the guitar hook and melody, and encouraged me to finish it."
Written by Irion and songwriter John Goodwin, the cosmic journey features contributions from Jeff Bridges, Stone Temple Pilots' Robert DeLeo, Wilco's Mikael Jorgensen, Tim Bluhm, Greg Loiacono, and Alan Kozlowski, a student of Shankar's. All of the musicians recorded their parts remotely in accordance with social distancing.
—Rolling Stone Magazine, June 5 2020
"Inside the Endless Om" has been released as a limited-edition vinyl and made digitally available by Blackwing Music.
Alan Kozlowski (IMDb) has been Creative Director for the filming of Imagine Clarity's content featuring Matthieu Ricard in English. The film set was in Southwestern France at Yahne Le Toumelin's beautiful art studio. Surrounded by a magnificent landscape, it was an extraordinary setting filled with wisdom and art.
My path of service and why I'm still doing these projects are because I want to give back to that and give more than I was given.
—Alan, in his artistic portrait, Finding the Moment
Photo: Everett/Shutterstock via RollingStone.
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How 'Warlord Democrats' Threaten Africa's Democratic Moment
There is some interesting reporting coming on this front from Democracy Digest:
In the 60-plus years since the countries of sub-Saharan Africa started becoming independent, democracy there has advanced unevenly. Even as some countries in the region have grown into success stories, most have failed to embrace true democracy, despite a deep hunger for it among their populations. Today, a mere 11 percent of Africans live in countries that Freedom House considers free, note analysts Judd Devermont and Jon Temin.
But change is afoot. Whereas from 2010 to 2014, the region experienced nine transfers of power from one leader to another, since 2015, the region has experienced 26 of them, they write for Foreign Affairs:
Some of these transitions amounted to one leader relinquishing his or her seat to a handpicked successor, but more than half featured an opposition candidate defeating a member of the incumbent party. Of the 49 leaders in power in sub-Saharan Africa at the beginning of 2015, only 22 of them remained in power as of May 2019. …….Africa's new set of leaders includes former military dictators turned democrats, party loyalists who steadily moved up the ranks, and a few political outsiders, among them a disc jockey, a business magnate, and a former soccer star. Five of them will prove especially pivotal: Abiy Ahmed of Ethiopia, João Lourenço of Angola, Cyril Ramaphosa of South Africa, Félix Tshisekedi of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, and Muhammadu Buhari of Nigeria.
See full story here.
Filed Under: International Democracy Tagged With: Africa, Angola, Democratic Republic of Congo, Dictatorships, Ethiopia, Nigeria, South Africa
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Identification and Characterization of the Contact Zone Between Two Species of Short-Tailed Shrew (Blarina) in Southwestern Iowa and Northwestern Missouri
Cody W. Thompson, Fort Hays State University
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Short-tailed shrews (Blarina spp.) are characterized by divergent karyotypes and can be distinguished genetically, but they are identical morphologically and similar morphometrically. Possibly as a result of this similarity, distributions of Blarina species tend to be parapatric along well-defined contact zones. The best studies contact zone separates the northern short-tailed shrew (B. brevicauda) and the Elliot's short tailed shrew (B. hylophaga) in Nebraska. However, an earlier study suggested that these species occur sympatrically where their ranges extend eastward into Iowa and Missouri. To evaluate this situation, 179 Blarina specimens were collected in southwestern Iowa and northwestern Missouri in the summers of 2004 and 2006. Total length and Karyotypes were used for field identification and to help locate the contact zone. Amplified fragment length polymorphism (AFLP) analysis was used to verify species identification at and to investigate the extent of hybridization based on comparison with reference samples from outside the contact zone. Field identification and AFLP analysis grouped 178 of the 179 specimens into either B. brevicauda or B. hylophaga. The unidentified specimen, despite having a B. brevicauda karyotype (2n=50, FN+48), did not group with either species in the AFLP analysis. In addition, the individual had all 4 fixed loci for both species, which indicated it as a potential hybrid. This specimen was trapped with specimens of B. brevicauda and just north of B. hylophaga locality. No locality yielded both species; however, both species were found approximately 3.71 km from each other at the narrowest point. Therefore, the one possible hybrid specimen indicates a low rate of hybridization and a parapatric contact zone between the 2 species.
Thompson, Cody W., "Identification and Characterization of the Contact Zone Between Two Species of Short-Tailed Shrew (Blarina) in Southwestern Iowa and Northwestern Missouri" (2008). Master's Theses. 3082.
https://scholars.fhsu.edu/theses/3082
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The innermost being is sometimes called the heart - the place of the new birth ... the place where the Holy Spirit lives in His people. When we live from the heart we are able to say no to things that are not good for us. When our heart is strong, through nourishment and exercise, we live disciplined lives. So I give thanks to God, for the the gift of a new heart, on this sixteenth day of November - the month of Thanksgiving!
I was given a new heart at the age of 10, when I invited Jesus to come into my life. The spiritual heart also needs exercise...that's what right living does for the heart. I'm so thankful I made that decision so many years ago. Yes, thankful for a New Heart!
I so agree Wanda. Like our outer being, our innermost being needs to be fed and exercised to keep it healthy.
Our five year old granddaughter asked Jesus into her heart 2 weeks ago. She told me she is reminding herself every day that Jesus lives there.
What a sweet story Connie! Thanks for sharing!


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Former Cox Headquarters Eyed as Major Redevelopment on Atlanta Perimeter
A partnership led by Dallas-based TriGate Capital purchased the 21-acre site once occupied by Cox Enterprises Inc. for approximately $13.3 million.
Crystal City Town Hall on Amazon's HQ2 Exposes Hope, Anxiety and Frustration
Crystal City Town Hall attendees split on whether Amazon HQ2 will be a good thing or a bad thing for the region.
Why an Atlanta-based Company Joined a $600M Bet on Workforce Housing
Carroll Organization and PGIM Real Estate are partnering on an acquisition of a multifamily portfolio in Raleigh-Durham, N.C., Ponte Vedra Beach, Fla. and Charleston, S.C.
Virginia Tech Making Quick Work of its Proposed Alexandria Campus
The university board of visitors at Virginia Tech gave unanimous approval for the creation of a $1 billion innovation campus in Alexandria, Va.
Lidl to Acquire Long Island-Based Grocer
The acquisition allows Lidl to expand its presence in New Jersey, where it currently has two stores, and to enter the Long Island and New York City markets.
PREIT Sells Exton Land on Which Apartments Will Be Built
The REIT sold four acres of land at Exton Square Mall to Hanover Co. for the construction of a mixed-use community with 300 apartment units.
FTC Seeks the Halt of a 'Massive' Real Estate Scam Based in Irvine
The FTC said the alleged scheme was led by Andris Pukke, a resident of Newport Beach, California, who, with the other defendants, cheated investors out of more than $100 million.
How Class A office Rates Are Evolving in the Triangle
Office vacancy in the market remains low, while average rents are rising.
Lowe's to Close 51 North American Stores, Including Two in Illinois
The retailer wants to focus on its most profitable locations and optimize its portfolio.
Google Spends $155M on Large North San Jose Office Buildings
The search giant has purchased two office buildings at 4300 and 4400 North First St. in San Jose for $154.4 million.


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Feedback loops — the most powerful force in the universe
Post author By Will Jackson
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(Originally written for Medium in Feb 2020)
Learning to write code has taught me a life-changing lesson about why fast feedback accelerates how and what we can learn.
Photo by Jossuha Théophile on Unsplash
Let me start by saying that until 12 months ago I hadn't written a line of computer code since dabbling with HTML in the late 1990s.
But over the past year, out of necessity, I have built up a working knowledge of HTML, CSS, SQL and Python, plus a little bit of Javascript and SwiftUI. I've been able to do this because of the patient tutoring of my dear friend and co-founder Alex Nunes, and because I've tapped into feedback loops — the most powerful force in the universe.
The amazing thing about feedback loops
Have you ever wondered why we can learn foreign languages so much faster when living in a country than when trying to learn them at home or in class?
Learning anything new takes motivation. But when we mangle our Mandarin so badly that we can't even order a bowl of noodles, then we run a real risk of starving on our backpacking tour of Sichuan. So we improvise — we point to food, with a hopeful look in our eye, and we listen attentively to the words we hear back. We nod cautiously as the vendor says something in response, and wait nervously to see what emerges from the kitchen.
Photo by GoodEats YQR on Unsplash
At last, when our steaming bowl of noodles arrives, we feel that warm glow of success and the quick hit of dopamine. We commit 'Miàntiáo tāng' to memory for the next time hunger strikes, and we search eagerly for other dishes to learn. The feedback loop of language acquisition through hunger has worked its magic.
Computers can serve you noodles. Instantly.
With coding, a computer server plays the role of our Sichuanese street vendor. Instead of cooking, our server is running code. And instead of a warm bowl of noodles, we get a beautifully rendered web page or application that looks exactly like we had hoped. But while our Sichuanese street vendor is quick to improvise and motivated to help, computers are stubborn and want things to be exactly how they should be, otherwise no soup for you.
Where computers beat street vendors is in the speed that they can, ahem, cook. The extreme of this is where every key stroke that you make is immediately compiled and rendered. Watching this unfold feels like magical voodoo, and is just the most perfect example of the power of immediate feedback.
When computers make you wait for noodles…
For my new company, mote, we're working on a Chrome extension that users install in their browser so that they can make voice comments on collaborative documents. It's really been fun to design and build, but the challenge is that the feedback loop is MUCH slower.
Unlike the website example shown in the video above, we can't immediately run the Chrome extension in a browser environment to see how it functions. Instead, we write the code, check for errors and then have to compile the code locally to create a 'build' folder that we install and run inside Chrome.
End to end, this take about 1 minute, which is about 50X slower than the feedback cycle that we get with the website. The impact is enormous: our ability to iterate and improve the Chrome extension is dramatically slower than with the website, and my ability to learn coding skills is similarly impacted.
As with computers, as with life
Zooming back out, this experience has taught me the power of feedback in every part of my life as I seek to be a lifetime learner.
The best way for me — or you! — to learn fast is to build faster feedback loops into everything that we do, so that every day we learn as if we're web-coding, not Chrome Extension coding.
Here's three ways that you can accelerate your feedback loops
Use collaborative apps that make it quick and easy for others to provide feedback. Our team uses Google Docs a lot, and we developed mote to make providing feedback through comments even easier by using voice notes.
Express gratitude for every piece of feedback received. Even the 'bad' feedback. All feedback, good and bad, is a form of human "training data", and all of it is valuable in some way. Learning to critically evaluate others' feedback is an essential step on the way to expertise.
Consciously think about finding ways to build feedback into your life. But always remember to be clear about what you're trying to learn, and what kinds of feedback are going to be most useful. Not everyone is qualified to give you feedback on your Chinese language skills, for example.
Thanks for reading, and please check out mote if you're interested in accelerating your feedback loops.
Tags Collaboration, Feedback, Learning, Learning To Code, Lifelong Learning
By Will Jackson
CEO and Co-founder at Mote
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Q: Php - Limit number of entries in database a specific type of field I'm using php. I have a form which contains 2 questions with 2 radio buttons. I limited the number of entries in my database for each radio button. So, for example the option 1 will became unvailable if the number of entries in database is = limit number I defined. When the user open the form it will appear like this:
Question1:

Option 1 - Unvailable
° Option 2
° Option 3

This works perfectly. But i have to do a second test before the user submits the form to test if the option he selected (for example the option 2) is still available.
The problem is that i don't know how i can get the value the user selected, without enter in a if statement the value "manually". I don't want to enter the value in the code because the form is created by a user through an interface. So, if he modify one value option, I have to modify the code to replace the value in the if statement.
When the user clicks on the submit button, i want that the program detects which button he selected and the value of the option and test if it is still available.
Can you please tell me how can I do this second test?
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Bill Cosby breaks silence on sex assault allegations
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NEW YORK– Embattled comedian Bill Cosby said in a convoluted interview Friday that the outpouring of sex assault allegations against him is unprecedented.
"I have been in this business for 52 years, and I've never seen anything like this," the 77-year-old comedian said on ABC's "Good Morning America." "And reality is the situation, and I can't speak."
GMA correspondent Linsey Davis asked Cosby how he'd respond to young people who would ask if the allegations were true.
"I think that many of them say well you're a hypocrite, you say one thing, you say the other," Cosby answered. "My point is okay listen to me carefully, I'm telling you where the road is out. Now, you want to go here or do you want to be concerned about who's giving you the message?"
Since November many women have accused Cosby of committing sexual assault, a crime which the well-known comedian has denied and has never been officially charged with.
However, the allegations have drastically changed Cosby's public image.
Projects with NBC and Netflix along with some of Cosby's tour dates have been scrapped due to the scandal.
Yet, Cosby believes that his life in show business is far from finished.
"I really know about what I'm going to do tomorrow," Cosby said when asked about his legacy. "I have a ton of ideas to put on television about people and their love for each other."
Cosby appeared on the morning show to talk about the "Black Belt Community Foundation," an organization whose goal is to help improve schools near Selma, Alabama.
More of Davis' interview with the former TV star will be shown on Friday night's "Nightline."


Slideshow is one of my favorite effects, and there are many Joomla! modules available to achieve this effect. For example, take a look at AJAX Header Rotator, which is available at http://extensions.joomla.org/extensions/photos-a-images/images-rotators/10036.


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'Resident Evil 7: Biohazard' Gold Edition, DLC Coming December 12
By Rexly Peñaflorida 2017-09-05T17:30:00Z
In April, Capcom delayed the "Not A Hero" downloadable content (DLC) for Resident Evil 7: Biohazard because its state at the time would have disappointed fans who enjoyed the base game. Now, the studio has an updated release date for the DLC, another piece of content, and a new collection called the Resident Evil 7: Biohazard Gold Edition.
The bundle includes the previously released "Banned Footage" DLC packs as well as "Not A Hero," which features series staple Chris Redfield. As Redfield, you'll enter the Baker estate once again to fight off the horrors within, which will include a new enemy. If you already own the game, you can download "Not A Hero" for free.
The Gold Edition also includes a newly announced expansion called "End of Zoe," which takes place after the main story and Redfield's journey. As the title suggests, the content will show you the "fate of the Baker's [sic] daughter." Capcom didn't reveal additional details about the DLC, but you can check out a teaser screenshot from the upcoming add-on below. "End of Zoe" is also available for Season Pass holders or as a standalone purchase.
Even though the studio made the announcement today, you'll still have to wait months to try out all of the new content. Both DLC packs will make their debut alongside the launch of the collection on December 12. A price for the new DLC and the collection weren't revealed. Capcom also said that the DLC will support PlayStation VR. If you're curious about Resident Evil 7: Biohazard's performance on the PC, check out our detailed performance analysis of the game, which also includes some benchmarks.
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HaB1971 05 September 2017 22:30
Looks like a game I will not bother with, read the article to see what it is and to be honest I don't like playing against other online
ErikVinoya 06 September 2017 01:46
Did we read the same article? nowhere in it was there a mention of online or multiplayer
DSpider 06 September 2017 11:25
You either clicked the wrong tab in your browser or scrolled down too much (since articles are now "stitched" together when you scroll).
PS: I don't like the new look of the site. I just now clicked the refresh button and the layout changed. And where's the edit button when clicking "Comment from the forums"? God damn it, Tom's!
PS #2: NOW there's an edit button. Even though it said I was logged in.
itsmedatguy 06 September 2017 13:56
Any news on official HTC Vive/Oculus support...?
I had posted from my phone, hit submit and it went back to the login process then jumped back to the article and my post was not there, it was for the playerunknown game... guess it went to the wrong section... then again I wouldn't play Resident Evil either, utter garbage
seregaminsk 07 September 2017 16:58
classic game. i have played all of them