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Peter Ruzicka: Final Version of "CLOUDS 2" [Linz Version] Receives World Premiere
The world premiere of the final version of Peter Ruzicka's "CLOUDS 2" (Linz version) for string quartet and orchestra will be presented on 20 June 2015 during the course of the "Festival Neue Musik" in Linz (16 to 21 June 2015). The Minguet Quartet and the Bruckner Orchestra Linz directed by the composer, chief music director and conductor Ruzicka will present the complete version of 2013 in the Great Hall of the Brucknerhaus.
Another performance of this version is planned for the George Enescu Festival in Bucharest on 3 September 2015. On that occasion, the Solartis Quartet together with the George Enescu Philharmonic Orchestra will perform under the direction of Peter Ruzicka.
The composer has supplied the following commentary concerning the final version of "CLOUDS 2":
"'CLOUDS 2' is a 'work in progress'. The performance in Linz is the world premiere of the third, substantially extended version, in which a string quartet, as soloists, stands opposite the large orchestra. After the purely orchestral version, the world premiere of which took place at the 2012 Rheingau Music Festival, my concern was to put an additional musical level into the musical architecture of the piece. This consists of moments of self-observatory contemplation and of developing variation. My music is searching for a remote, imaginary sound, which it approaches without ever completely reaching it. The path leads through sound clouds: crystalline musical shapes that seem to block the view in various formations and densities. Multiple vehement outbursts of the entire orchestra cover up the sonic discourse. Finally, one enters areas of memories of past events. Increasingly fragile, musically over-painted shapes line the path. And the music gradually appears to return…"
Ruzicka concerts will also take place at this festival on 19 and 21 June 2015. The soprano Sarah Maria Sun and the Minguet Quartet will present Ruzicka's 6th String Quartet with soprano solo "ERINNERUNG UND VERGESSEN" (Brucknerhaus, Middle Hall) on 19 June. On 21 June listeners will be able to hear performances of the works "JE WEITER ICH KOMME, UM SO MEHR FINDE ICH MICH UNFÄHIG, DIE IDEE WIEDERZUGEBEN" for chamber ensemble, the concerto "... ÜBER DIE GRENZE" for violoncello and chamber orchestra as well as "... DER DIE GESÄNGE ZERSCHLUG" for baritone and ensemble during the course of a Ruzicka portrait concert. The performers here will be the cellist Peter Sigl, baritone Dietrich Henschel and the "oenm. österreichische ensemble für neue music" under the direction of Johannes Kalitzke.
Brucknerhaus, Great Hall, 7:30 PM
World premiere: Peter Ruzicka
"CLOUDS 2" for string quartet and orchestra (Linz version)
Minguet Quartet
Bruckner Orchestra Linz
Peter Ruzicka (direction)
Frid, Grigori
SYMPHONY NO. 3 for string orchestra and timpani
Tavener, John
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Chappell, Herbert
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The Smith Center for the Arts and DSP Shows welcome Scott Bradlee's Postmodern Jukebox to the Smith Opera House on Wednesday, Feb. 20 at 8 p.m. The performance is part of the time-twisting musical collective's Welcome to the Twenties 2.0 World Tour.
The tour is meant to prepare the world for a new decade, one that Postmodern Jukebox creator Scott Bradlee hopes will see a return to the style and craftsmanship that typified the music of past generations.
The Postmodern Jukebox, Welcome to the Twenties 2.0 Tour, will host official Twenties 2.0 initiation performance parties in nearly 250 cities, including Geneva.
Started by Bradlee in 2009, Postmodern Jukebox (PMJ) has gone on to amass over 1 billion YouTube views with 3.5 million subscribers, and have chalked up more than 1.7 million fans on Facebook. For the past half decade, PMJ has toured the world, playing hundreds of shows to sold-out houses on six continents. They've also performed on shows like "Good Morning America," topped iTunes and Billboard charts, and caught the attention of NPR Music, NBC News and a wide array of celebrity fans. You can learn more at http://postmodernjukebox.com/.
Reserved seating tickets for Postmodern Jukebox are on $68.50, $48.50 and $38.50 plus service fees. There are also a limited number of VIP Gold and Silver packages available for $168.50 and $118.50 plus service fees. Both VIP packages include premium seat locations and exclusive tour posters. The Gold package also includes a meet and greet with member of Postmodern Jukebox.
Tickets can be purchased at the Smith Opera House Box Office or online at www.thesmith.org.


The Shenendehowa Classic NYSSRA Championship Qualifier on Sunday, February 16, 2014, came off without a glitch. I don't ever remember better conditions than today. The race went off smoothly and safely with the results posted and awards ceremony promptly after the last finish even without a computer! Great teamwork by all concerned.


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UN peacekeeper killed in attack on military convoy in eastern Congo
UNITED NATIONS – The United Nations says a U.N. peacekeeper was killed in an attack on a military convoy in eastern Congo.
U.N. spokesman Martin Nesirky said late Tuesday that the convoy was attacked by unidentified assailants in South Kivu. No other details were immediately available.
Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said the attack killed a Pakistani peacekeeper and condemned it "in the strongest terms," Nesirky said.
The secretary-general called on the Congolese government to bring the perpetrators to justice and reiterated that the killing of U.N. peacekeepers is a war crime that can be prosecuted by the International Criminal Court, Nesirky said.
The U.N. peacekeeping mission has launched an investigation into the attack, he said.


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Droppin' Warheads on Foreheads
July 17, 2011 Clay Chastain
Getting lunch on the beach at Isle of Palms
Well, I'm back in touch with technology and finally at my command here in beautiful, swampy Charleston, SC (or more specifically Naval Weapons Station in Goose Creek, SC). So far, it's been really nice, but I haven't done anything yet class wise, so who knows.
Boot camp in Great Lakes, IL was pretty interesting as an experience. The first few days (and specifically, the first 40 hours) were intense and I just kept thinking to myself, "What the hell am I doing here?" It slowly got better after that, but overall I would say it sucked pretty hard. I spent most of my day standing at attention or sitting awkwardly on the ground cross-legged. My back hurt so much and even at taps (when we get in bed) the racks we slept in had about a 2 inch mattress.
For the most part, I stood around thinking, "Well, this is annoying…" and "When is chow?" — boot camp is a mental thing and much less of a physical thing, though beatings were pretty common. Beatings, if you haven't figured out, are punishments for making mistakes that involve you doing a lot of eight-count pushups and mountain climbers (and sometimes doing it to Miley Cyrus' "Another Mountain"!). Google them to see how fun they look. In general, I avoided getting beaten and managed to stay back. But, on one of my four hour compartment watches, I accidentally called a Chief a Petty Officer. The result was not good. I ended up getting dropped for about 30-40 minutes. I'm not sure how long it was, but it felt like hours. I was not a fan.
Liberty with my Dad
A lot of it was fun looking back, though not particularly while I was doing it. The RDCs (Recruit Division Commanders — basically drill instructors) were pretty much the funniest guys I could imagine. The things they said were hilarious, but we weren't allowed to laugh for the first few weeks, and that proved to be a problem for some. After a while, it became less strict and we were able to laugh freely. Probably the most memorable saying was
I don't give a fuck. Shit ain't real!
Although personally, the best thing the RDCs told me was
Chastain, I hope you die in a fucking fire.
That's pretty awesome. At first stuff like that bothered people, but by the end, we knew it wasn't really serious. It's just a part of the job, and it can be funny in itself.
Besides boot camp, I've been here in Charleston for a week or so. The weather is humid and gross, and running in it feels like you're drinking water when you breathe. But besides that, I have very little complaints. The rooms are nice and cold, the food is incredible (this command has the Navy's only five star galley), and we get liberty on the weekends free from doing watches, which is really good news. The schooling is supposed to be pretty hard, but I'm coming from graduating with a 3.5 from a hard college, so I'm not too worried. Math isn't my strong point, but I'm sure I can push through.
I'll go into more detail later, but right now I really need a few hours of sleep.
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Samsung Galaxy S3 S Voice app tested: The first worthy Siri competitor?
By Ryan Whitwam on May 23, 2012 at 7:30 am
It didn't take long for Samsung to block the leaked version of S Voice from the Galaxy S3 over the weekend, but now we've got a new version of that Android APK file to play with. Seeing as the app is running on the Samsung Galaxy Nexus with stock Android, there are a few functions, like note taking and voice recording, that don't work because the Samsung TouchWiz apps are missing. Everything that is not connected directly to a TouchWiz app seems to work correctly, though.
From voice dialing, to inane requests for information, to hardware control… Samsung's S Voice software has some serious skills. There are times I can see the foibles of the Vlingo technology that backs S Voice peeking through but it seems fairly polished, even in its current pre-release state.
What we see in the video is probably a fair estimation of what S Voice will be able to do at launch. It hits most of the points, but misses the occasional word. More complicated queries are more likely to be misinterpreted as well. I quite like the ability to toggle hardware features on and off, and launching apps by voice is handy too. There are apps in Google's Play Store that claim to do this, but I have always found them to be sub-standard.
Because I was not running this app on a Galaxy S3, S Voice can't be called up from any screen via the voice command, "Hi Galaxy." I believe this is what's going to make the service useful in some situations. If you want to do a Twitter update, for instance, you don't even have to touch the phone. You can also start and stop timers, or change hardware settings without lifting a finger — just start talking to your phone like a crazy person.
I was more impressed with S Voice than I thought I would be. Most of the queries I tried work, and it is integrated well with core Android services. I would like a little more of the witty banter that made Siri famous, but that's just for the immediate entertainment value. You shouldn't be too broken up that S Voice won't tell you where to hide a dead body — it's good at things that matter.
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This should be a really good week. It will only be a really good week if you make it a good week. It's not going to be a good week if you stay in your seat acting like a computer geek.
You can make it a good week by getting up and moving around. You should be like a bumblebee on a pollination mission. You're here. You're there. You're everywhere.
You can't just flap your little wings in place and think someone's gonna sell a car. You have to move around.
You have to create the buzz. You have to go from being weak and meek in order to make it a good week.
I don't like things to be all about you, but this is all about you. This week is all about you. It's about you making things happen.
It's about you contributing as much in a week as you sometimes do in a month. It's not about you giving 100 or 110%. It's about you giving 200%.
It's not about asking others to do it. It's about you doing it. You sometimes think you're important. Well, you are important. You're even more important than you think. At least this week you are.
You may have to sting a few people this week. That's ok. Some of your team could probably use a sting or two. A little stinging pain for a whole lot of car selling gain.
1. How's the plan coming?
2. Have you presented the plan?
3. Has the team talked about the plan?
4. Is the team sold on the plan?
5. Have you even started on the plan?
6. What happens when the plan falls apart?
7. What's plan B? Plan C?
8. Is it a new plan with the same tired and worn out players from last year's team?
9. Is it time to change the head coach?
10. What about the assistants?
11. Does the plan include the same selling process from 2002?
12. Are you sold on your own plan?
13. Are you planning for the sake of planning?
14. Is your plan a pie-in-the-sky forecast and not really a plan at all?
15. Did the plan come together for you because you put a bunch of numbers on an Excel spread sheet?
16. Since you think you have a plan, do you have a strategy in place to execute the plan?
Most would say "Of course I have intent. I intend to sell this unit and make some money." That makes total sense, but the problem is it's far too general.
That's like saying you're going to drive from NY to LA without a plan on how you intend to get there. How many of you have ever heard the saying, "Every used car has to stand on its own?" If you've been around long enough you understand the term and can probably agree with the statement.
That being true, how can you give them all the same shelf life? How can you not have a specific intent for each unit? Most dealers don't think "What's my intent" when a unit comes into their inventory. It makes no sense to paint them all with the same broad brush.
Intent starts with the appraisal and is finalized during the trade walk where the "final intent" is determined. If dealership managers would look at each unit and clearly state their intent they would have fewer inventory problems, turn would improve, and average gross, volume and ROI would go up.
I'm not going to go into the details here in this newsletter, but my life cycle management process gives you the disciplines to determine and carry out your "intent." I will be making my life cycle app available to a limited number of dealers in early 2015.
My intent with this article is not to try to sell you something. My intent is to get you to think harder about what your own intent happens to be when you bring units into your inventory.
If you read Automotive News and other related publications then you know the value of used cars has started to head south.
For some of you it's no laughing matter. And for some of you, you're sitting there with a smile on your face. You might even be using the secret code LOL.
Those that are smiling are smiling because they have the dis ciplines in place to make sure units don't go over 60 days. Others are frowning because they have a lot of stuff sitting out on the used car lot way over 60 days.
They know they have a ton of water and with values dropping the water is moving up to flood levels. Might be panic time.
It's very, very simple. If you are turning your inventory then you don't really care what happens in the market. That's because you're always buying and selling in the same market.
Think about it; if you have units in stock that are aged, then you are not in today's market. There are other dealers bringing those same units in the inventory today, for less money than you have in yours.
And, they can sell them for less and make more money than you can.
Have you ever been around incompetent people? Maybe you've actually worked with some or even worse they were your supervisors.
Here's the thing about incompetence. It carries the same sort of momentum that working with competent people does.
When you're surrounded with competent people, you tend to become more competent yourself. And of course the opposite is true.
If you surround yourself with incompetent people you become incompetent and "incompetent momentum" takes over the organization. The "Peter Principle" is when someone gets promoted above their competency or ability level.
Too often in business, people get promoted based on how they have performed in another position or who they are related to. It happens all the time in the car business.
Either you need to surround yourself with competent people or go someplace else that actually has competent people.
Always putting out fires? Such a shame. So much time wasted. Non-productive time on those darn fires.
Think about a real fire. Most fires are started due to carelessness. The fires you fight are the same way.
Someone is careless and thus, you get to fight the fire.
Fighting fires takes away from time that could be so much more productive. Productive building your team. Productive building your business. Productive building your bottom line. If you're to be more productive you have to eliminate the fires.
The fires you fight are more often than not a result of someone either not knowing or not doing.
If someone doesn't know, that's your fault. If someone isn't doing what they know how to do, that's also your fault.
You're creating your own fires. I'm thinking that's called arson. It's not about putting out the fires. It's about fire prevention so that the fire alarm never goes off.
That's not going to happen until you take responsibility for fire prevention training.
Fire prevention is about coaching and teaching your team on the "why and the how" and then setting expectations.
Dealers all over the country have a big push on buying cars from the public.
Many are spending thousands of dollars on advertising, marketing and software in an effort to find more and better cars at their front door.
Some dealers have even started an "exchange program" offering the customer a new or newer car for the same payment that they currently have.
But wait, stop the presses! It's a waste of time. Yes, it's a waste of time if you haven't put meaningful processes in place that are customer friendly and effective for you, your team and the customer.
Mistake #1: The tendency when someone says "Yes I'd like my car appraised" is to drop them off at the used car manager's desk and leave. The person making contact with the customer needs to remain the contact. Though somewhat modified, there needs to be a "full routine" presentation by the contact person to each and every customer that says yes.
Mistake #2: Most dealerships only want to buy what they know they can retail. If the program is going to be effective you have to be willing to buy anything from a stone piece of junk to a very expensive luxury car. CarMax has built the reputation that they will buy anything. Bring it to us-get a number. That should be your mantra.
Mistake #3: You try to steal it. What are you thinking? Get real. Get the unit. You will pay far more for it at the auction than you will at your own front door. Step up. Don't be stupid. You need to own that unit.
Mistake #4: Giving verbal or handwritten appraisal quotes. Whatever you hand the customer needs to be computer generated in the most professional manner possible.(Appraisal Form) The quote should be good for a minimum of 7 days.(Voucher) The very brilliant Mike Porro of the Swope Auto Group even gives them a free CarFax report.
Mistake #5: Not paying the sales person or contact person based on the acquisition. If you want staff members to give the "full routine," then you need to pay them just as if they sold a car. The full routine might actually inspire the seller to buy a car from you today or months down the road. Think about how much more efficient and cost effective it is when you can buy a car at the front door. The savings on the auction fees and transportation cost alone make it more than worthwhile for you to pay a reasonable commission.
Mistake #6: Someone hands them the appraisal and says, "Just let us know what you want to do." The manager and the contact person need to do a complete review/presentation of the appraisal, answer questions and ask for the business.
Mistake #7: No one follows up with the customer. There should be a system in place to follow up within 24 hours, 1 week, etc. even if it means upping the ante $500 or so to acquire the car. There's an old and very useful saying in the car business, "Follow them till they buy or die." That saying applies to you buying their car as well.
University of Alabama's head football coach, Nick Saban, is part owner of Mercedes-Benz of Birmingham and Infiniti of Birmingham in Birmingham, AL.
I don't know what he knows about the car business but he's a pretty darn good football coach. At this point, he's won four national titles at two different schools, which is unheard of.
Based on the team's current status there's a good chance he's going to get a shot at a fifth one.
Just think of the possibilities, if you could instill that thinking in your team. Advertising expenses would go way down. CSI scores and profits would go way up.


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The 'Stache
In celebration of No Shave November, The Greatest Blog Of All Time presents a series on facial hair.
No topic in today's society is as polarizing as the 'stache.
No other individual fashion statement has generated as much disdain, then respect, then disdain over the years like the 'stache has.
Once respected. Now feared.
And it's also worth noting this month, because of the re-dubbing of November as "Movember". People taking part in Movember grow 'staches throughout the month for the purpose of raising prostate cancer awareness.
Please check out that site. It's a good cause.The only real ground rule of 'staches was very eloquently stated in this video (check the 3:37 mark): Nobody under the age of 35 should seriously sport a 'stache.
Ta-da!
(Note to our hipster friends: Wearing something ironically means that you wear it seriously. There is no entertainment value here. Therefore, it is not funny. Therefore, it is a sin against facial hair.)
It wasn't always like this. A few short decades ago, they were commonplace.
Just sometimes overshadowed
Throughout history, facial hair has stood as a mark of manhood. As time went on, it became less and less important to have facial hair. The 'stache actually stood as the last bastion against clean-shavenness in the fight for manliness.
But the 'stache was doomed to be a tragic hero. No matter how hard it resisted, it didn't stand a chance, and today is viewed as a villain.
For those who fit the criteria for an acceptable 'stache, there are a few major varieties to be considered.
You must ask yourself: What Does My 'Stache Say About Me?
It should be noted, however, that this list only covers three major styles of 'stache. There are many styles that either aren't popular enough to be detailed, or will never, EVER be popular.
Someone with a handlebar 'stache is most likely a cowboy. Either that, or Snidely Whiplash.
Either way, you're probably trying to tie somebody to railroad tracks RIGHT NOW
While The Handlebar doesn't automatically mean that the bearer is evil, it certainly means that they are in the wrong time period.
As far as 'staches go, The Horseshoe has the most deceptive name. At no point should a 'stache EVER come in contact with the hoof of a horse.
It is also the most dangerous 'stache. While a Handlebar has a pretty solid chance to be absolutely ridiculous, rarely does it come across as disgusting as a Horseshoe.
Glenn Hughes sees his reflection for the first time
What does The Horseshoe say about you? It's that you are likely a biker or Hulk Hogan, but ultimately, you're trying too hard.
It's hard to name a regular 'stache by itself. There is no textbook identification. But why not name it after the one and only Magnum, P.I.?
Take a quick look at the men who sport the Magnum:
Ron Swanson, who may not be real, but WHATEVER
Jason Giambi, who was a tough dude. You know, despite playing baseball.
NEED I SAY MORE
Simply put: the Magnum is a badge of honor. It is not something that somebody grows halfheartedly. You have to earn it.
Someone with a Magnum is someone to be respected.
When they haven't done enough with their manliness to earn it? Well….
It comes out creepy
The moral of the story? Don't ever take a 'stache lightly.
What's your favorite 'stache? Do you have a better name than the Magnum?
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16 responses to "The 'Stache"
Knox McCoy says : November 9, 2011 at 9:43 am
What about "The Nuclear Option?"
The Joseph Craven says : November 9, 2011 at 10:20 am
The Bipartisan System?
G Fresh says : November 9, 2011 at 9:56 am
What? No Fu Manchu?
I gave a lot of serious consideration to the Fu. Sadly, it's just not as commonplace as the others.
But this is your chance to let yourself be heard, Matt! Give a defense of the Fu.
G Fresh says : November 9, 2011 at 3:06 pm
Eh, I have no defense of it. As far as I can tell, they were really only ever worn to let you know who the bad guy was in kung fu movies.
Burrill Strong (@sgtwolverine) says : November 9, 2011 at 10:23 am
Is it even possible for Tom Selleck to grasp the depth of the influence he's had on the mustache? It's downright astounding.
I have to be honest: until I read this post, I thought Movember had something to do with exercise. Maybe they should have worked a little harder on the name. But then again, I'm not a fan of awareness campaigns ( http://www.someblogsite.com/archives/1285 ), so maybe it doesn't matter. The only reason I enjoy No-Shave November is because it encourages men to let their faces do something they do naturally anyway, so it doesn't get annoying like a certain other awareness campaign (PINKPINKPINKPINKPINKPINKPINKPINK*).
*(Please don't consider me a heartless jerk about breast cancer. Consider me a heartless jerk only about the awareness campaign. These are not the same things. Conflating them does a disservice to the disease and those who have it.)
Nah, you're just a jerk.
Burrill Strong (@sgtwolverine) says : November 9, 2011 at 12:15 pm
I prefer "curmudgeon". Or, as my siblings call me, "grumpy old man". (I'm the youngest.)
Mandie Marie says : November 9, 2011 at 11:11 am
My father had a horseshoe when he was 17. Clearly amazing.
All I could grow when I was 17 were mutton chops, and you know what? I'm not ashamed of that.
Oh, and here's one I forgot; the Starter 'Stache.
Ignore the writing on the picture. It's from a post for a really old Xanga blog of mine.
Well crap. Apparently that didn't work. How about this?
The Joseph Craven says : November 10, 2011 at 11:18 am
YESSSSSSSSSSS
Jamie says : November 13, 2011 at 10:11 pm
I so wanted Orlando's mustache to be the exception. But you're right…creepy.
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Philippines Government 2011
https://theodora.com/wfb2011/philippines/philippines_government.html
conventional long form: Republic of the Philippines
conventional short form: Philippines
local long form: Republika ng Pilipinas
local short form: Pilipinas
name: Manila
geographic coordinates: 14 35 N, 121 00 E
time difference: UTC+8 (13 hours ahead of Washington, DC during Standard Time)
80 provinces and 120 chartered cities
provinces: Abra, Agusan del Norte, Agusan del Sur, Aklan, Albay, Antique, Apayao, Aurora, Basilan, Bataan, Batanes, Batangas, Biliran, Benguet, Bohol, Bukidnon, Bulacan, Cagayan, Camarines Norte, Camarines Sur, Camiguin, Capiz, Catanduanes, Cavite, Cebu, Compostela, Davao del Norte, Davao del Sur, Davao Oriental, Dinagat Islands, Eastern Samar, Guimaras, Ifugao, Ilocos Norte, Ilocos Sur, Iloilo, Isabela, Kalinga, Laguna, Lanao del Norte, Lanao del Sur, La Union, Leyte, Maguindanao, Marinduque, Masbate, Mindoro Occidental, Mindoro Oriental, Misamis Occidental, Misamis Oriental, Mountain Province, Negros Occidental, Negros Oriental, North Cotabato, Northern Samar, Nueva Ecija, Nueva Vizcaya, Palawan, Pampanga, Pangasinan, Quezon, Quirino, Rizal, Romblon, Samar, Sarangani, Siquijor, Sorsogon, South Cotabato, Southern Leyte, Sultan Kudarat, Sulu, Surigao del Norte, Surigao del Sur, Tarlac, Tawi-Tawi, Zambales, Zamboanga del Norte, Zamboanga del Sur, Zamboanga Sibugay
chartered cities: Alaminos, Angeles, Antipolo, Bacolod, Bago, Baguio, Bais, Balanga, Batac, Batangas, Bayawan, Bislig, Butuan, Cabadbaran, Cabanatuan, Cadiz, Cagayan de Oro, Calamba, Calapan, Calbayog, Candon, Canlaon, Cauayan, Cavite, Cebu, Cotabato, Dagupan, Danao, Dapitan, Davao, Digos, Dipolog, Dumaguete, Escalante, Gapan, General Santos, Gingoog, Himamaylan, Iligan, Iloilo, Isabela, Iriga, Kabankalan, Kalookan, Kidapawan, Koronadal, La Carlota, Laoag, Lapu-Lapu, Las Pinas, Legazpi, Ligao, Lipa, Lucena, Maasin, Makati, Malabon, Malaybalay, Malolos, Mandaluyong, Mandaue, Manila, Marawi, Marikina, Masbate, Mati, Meycauayan, Muntinlupa, Munoz, Naga, Navotas, Olongapo, Ormoc, Oroquieta, Ozamis, Pagadian, Palayan, Panabo, Paranaque, Pasay, Pasig, Passi, Puerto Princesa, Quezon, Roxas, Sagay, Samal, San Carlos (in Negros Occidental), San Carlos (in Pangasinan), San Fernando (in La Union), San Fernando (in Pampanga), San Jose, San Jose del Monte, San Juan, San Pablo, Santa Rosa, Santiago, Silay, Sipalay, Sorsogon, Surigao, Tabaco, Tacloban, Tacurong, Tagaytay, Tagbilaran, Taguig, Tagum, Talisay (in Cebu), Talisay (in Negros Occidental), Tanauan, Tangub, Tanjay, Tarlac, Toledo, Tuguegarao, Trece Martires, Urdaneta, Valencia, Valenzuela, Victorias, Vigan, Zamboanga (2009)
12 June 1898 (independence proclaimed from Spain); 4 July 1946 (from the US)
Independence Day, 12 June (1898); note - 12 June 1898 was date of declaration of independence from Spain; 4 July 1946 was date of independence from US
2 February 1987, effective 11 February 1987
based on Spanish and Anglo-American law; accepts compulsory ICJ jurisdiction with reservations
18 years of age; universal
chief of state: President Benigno AQUINO (since 30 June 2010); Vice President Jejomar BINAY (since 30 June 2010); note - president is both chief of state and head of government
head of government: President Benigno AQUINO (since 30 June 2010)
cabinet: Cabinet appointed by the president with consent of Commission of Appointments (For more information visit the )
elections: president and vice president elected on separate tickets by popular vote for a single six-year term; election held on 10 May 2010; Benigno AQUINO declared winner and took office on 30 June 2010; next election to be held in May 2016
election results: Benigno AQUINO elected president; percent of vote - Benigno AQUINO 42.1%, Joseph ESTRADA 26.3%, seven others 31.6%; Jejomar BINAY elected vice president; percent of vote Jejomar BINAY 41.6%, Manuel ROXAS 39.6%, six others 18.8%
bicameral Congress or Kongreso consists of the Senate or Senado (24 seats - one-half elected every three years; members elected at large by popular vote to serve six-year terms) and the House of Representatives or Kapulungan Ng Nga Kinatawan; the House has 287 seats including 230 members in one tier representing districts and 57 sectoral party-list members in a second tier representing special minorities elected on the basis of one seat for every 2% of the total vote but are limited to three seats; a party represented in one tier may not hold seats in the other tier; all House members are elected by popular vote to serve three-year terms
note: the constitution limits the House of Representatives to 250 members; the number of members allowed was increased, however, through legislation when in April 2009 the Philippine Supreme Court ruled that additional party members could sit in the House of Representatives if they received the required number of votes
elections: Senate - elections last held on 10 May 2010 (next to be held in May 2013); House of Representatives - elections last held on 10 May 2010 (next to be held in May 2013)
election results: Senate - percent of vote by party - NA; seats by party - Lakas-Kampi CMD 4, LP 4, NP 4, NPC 2, PMP 2, LDP 1, PRP 1, independents 5; note - there are 23 rather than 24 sitting senators because one senator was elected mayor of Manila; House of Representatives - percent of vote by party - Lakas-Kampi CMD 38.4%, LP 20.3%, NPC 15.4%, NP 11.5%, independents 7.1%, others 7.3%; seats by party - Lakas-Kampi CMD 104, LP 45, NPC 31, NP 26, others 17, independents 7, party-list 56
Supreme Court (15 justices are appointed by the president on the recommendation of the Judicial and Bar Council and serve until 70 years of age); Court of Appeals; Sandigan-bayan (special court for hearing corruption cases of government officials)
Laban ng Demokratikong Pilipino (Struggle of Filipino Democrats) or LDP [Edgardo ANGARA]; Lakas ng EDSA-Christian Muslim Democrats or Lakas-CMD [Gloria MACAPAGAL-ARROYO]; Liberal Party or LP [Manuel ROXAS]; Nacionalista Party or NP [Manuel VILLAR]; Nationalist People's Coalition or NPC [Frisco SAN JUAN]; PDP-Laban [Aquilino PIMENTEL]; People's Reform Party [Miriam Defensor SANTIAGO]; Puwersa ng Masang Pilipino (Force of the Philippine Masses) or PMP [Joseph ESTRADA]; United Opposition or UNO [Jejomar BINAY]
ABONO [Robert ESTRELLA]; AKBAYAN [Anna Theresia BARAQUIEL]; An Waray [Florencio NOEL]; Anak Mindanao [Mujiv HATAMIN]; ANAKPAWIS [Rafael MARIANO]; ARC [Narciso SANTIAGO III]; Association of Philippine Electric Cooperatives (APEC) [Ernesto PABLO and Edgar VALDEZ]; A TEACHER [Mariano PIAMONTE]; Bayan Muna [Satur OCAMPO and Teodoro CASINO, Jr.]; Black and White Movement [Vicente ROMANO]; BUHAY [Rene VELARDE, Carissa COSCOLLUELLA, and William TIENG]; BUTIL [Leonila CHAVEZ]; CIBAC [Emmanuel Joel VILLANUEVA]; COOP-NATCO [Jose PING-AY]; GABRIELA [Liza MAZA and Luzviminda ILAGAN]; KABATAAN [Raymon PALATINO]; Kilosbayan [Jovito SALONGA]; YACAP [Carol LOPEZ]
ADB, APEC, APT, ARF, ASEAN, BIS, CD, CP, EAS, FAO, G-24, G-77, IAEA, IBRD, ICAO, ICC, ICRM, IDA, IFAD, IFC, IFRCS, IHO, ILO, IMF, IMO, IMSO, Interpol, IOC, IOM, IPU, ISO, ITSO, ITU, ITUC, MIGA, MINUSTAH, NAM, OAS (observer), OPCW, PIF (partner), UN, UNCTAD, UNDOF, UNESCO, UNHCR, UNIDO, Union Latina, UNMIL, UNMIS, UNMIT, UNMOGIP, UNOCI, UNWTO, UPU, WCO, WFTU, WHO, WIPO, WMO, WTO
chief of mission: Ambassador Willy C. GAA
consulate(s) general: Chicago, Honolulu, Los Angeles, New York, Saipan (Northern Mariana Islands), San Francisco, Tamuning (Guam)
chief of mission: Ambassador Harry K. THOMAS Jr.
embassy: 1201 Roxas Boulevard, Ermita 1000, Manila
mailing address: PSC 500, FPO AP 96515-1000
telephone: [63] (2) 301-2000
FAX: [63] (2) 301-2399
two equal horizontal bands of blue (top) and red; a white equilateral triangle is based on the hoist side; the center of the triangle displays a yellow sun with eight primary rays; each corner of the triangle contains a small, yellow, five-pointed star; blue stands for peace and justice, red symbolizes courage, the white equal-sided triangle represents equality; the rays recall the first eight provinces that sought independence from Spain, while the stars represent the three major geographical divisions of the country: Luzon, Visayas, and Mindanao; the design of the flag dates to 1897
note: in wartime the flag is flown upside down with the red band at the top
name: "Lupang Hinirang" (Chosen Land)
lyrics/music: Jose PALMA (revised by Felipe PADILLA de Leon)/Julian FELIPE
note: music adopted 1898, original Spanish lyrics adopted 1899, Filipino (Tagalog) lyrics adopted 1956; although the original lyrics were written in Spanish, later English and Filipino versions were created; today, only the Filipino version is used
NOTE: The information regarding Philippines on this page is re-published from the 2011 World Fact Book of the United States Central Intelligence Agency. No claims are made regarding the accuracy of Philippines Government 2011 information contained here. All suggestions for corrections of any errors about Philippines Government 2011 should be addressed to the CIA.


Duterte reveals fascist narrow-mindedness in his oft-repeated demand for NPA fighters to surrender, accept amnesty and be recruited as regulars in the AFP. By doing so, he treats Red fighters with extreme contempt, choosing to ignore the social realities of oppression and exploitation and the aspiration for national and social liberation which continue to drive thousands, especially peasant masses, to join and support the NPA.
Duterte's repeated demand for NPA fighters to surrender is empty bravado. Same thing with his declaration that the AFP will concentrate next on the NPA after Marawi. He obscures the fact that the AFP has long mounted a nationwide all-out war and imposed martial law in Mindanao but could not stop the NPA from advancing across the country. The AFP could not even complete its war in Marawi without inciting widespread Moro indignation and will likely face greater armed resistance in the coming months.
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Challenges and opportunities for Indonesian–Australian maritime cooperation
15 Nov 2018|Desi Albert Mamahit
Indonesia and Australia share one of the longest maritime boundaries in the world. They also share a unique bond as neighbours at the maritime crossroads of the Indian and Pacific Oceans. The relationship between the people of Indonesia and Australia started many centuries ago when Makassan seafearers and other Indonesian islanders began trading with the Aboriginal people of northern Australia. Our relationship strengthened when Australia supported the Indonesian struggle for independence in 1940s and was reinforced by the 2006 Lombok Treaty for addressing traditional and non-traditional security challenges.
Recent agreements will further enhance maritime cooperation. During Indonesian president Joko Widodo's visit to Australia in February 2017, the leaders of both countries committed to boost maritime cooperation. The Joint Declaration on Maritime Cooperation was signed in the same month by the Indonesian and Australian foreign ministers. An implementation plan, the Maritime Cooperation Plan of Action, was signed in March this year. The plan of action sets an ambitious agenda to strengthen and expand maritime engagement between two countries.
The visit of Scott Morrison to Indonesia in August, just a few days after he became prime minister, resulted in the Joint Declaration on a Comprehensive Strategic Partnership between Australia and Indonesia. The joint declaration rests on five pillars.
Importantly, the fourth pillar is maritime cooperation, under which both countries will seek to realise our shared vision of a peaceful, secure and stable maritime domain where people, commerce and the environment can flourish. Both countries will promote maritime trade and the sustainable development of the blue economy by:
combating transnational crime at sea and illegal, unreported and unregulated (IUU) fishing
collaborating on marine science and technology
promoting our maritime cultural heritage.
The question is how to implement pillar four. Responsibilities must be made clear. However, each country's system of government is different, and the names, structures and functions of their government agencies are different. So it could be quite difficult to identify the appropriate partners in both governments to address a particular issue.
Implementation of maritime trade and the sustainable development of the blue economy touches on numerous agencies on the Indonesian side alone, including the Coordinating Ministry of Maritime Affairs and Natural Resources, the Coordinating Ministry for Economic Affairs, the Ministry of Trade, the Ministry of Maritime Affairs and Fisheries, and the Ministry of Energy and Mineral Resources.
All of these agencies will need to work with each other and with the appropriate Australian agencies to address questions such as what kind of maritime trade and blue economy we would like to develop and how we will do it.
A key area for enhanced trade and cooperation is the maritime defence industry. Under the government's 2016 defence industry policy statement and 2017 naval shipbuilding plan, Australia is developing its maritime defence industries. And under the 2018 defence export strategy, Australia is seeking to export maritime defence equipment and services abroad. While Indonesia already has a shipbuilding industry, it still needs modern equipment and material for building and maintaining ships, which could be met by more advanced technologies from Australian industries.
In Indonesia every two years the Ministry of Defence organises the Indonesian Defense Exposition, and in Australia every two years there's the Sea Power Conference, including the Naval Exposition. Those events could be used as opportunities for Indonesian and Australian defence industries to develop business relationships.
The task of combating transnational crime at sea and IUU fishing will also involve many government agencies. There are multiple maritime law enforcement organisations on the Indonesian side, such as the navy, the sea and coast guard, the Maritime Security Agency (Bakamla), the maritime police, the Ministry of Finance, the Ministry of Maritime Affairs and Fisheries, and the National Narcotics Agency. To tackle IUU fishing, the Indonesian government has already set up Task Force 115, led by the Ministry for Maritime Affairs and Fisheries and supported by the navy, Bakamla, the maritime police, the attorney-general and other government organisations. However, the picture is complicated by the fact that some agencies don't have the legal authority to combat certain types of transnational crimes at sea.
On the Australian side, there are also a number of relevant organisations, such as the navy, army and air force, the Australian Border Force, the Maritime Border Command, and the Australian Fisheries Management Authority.
So how can the maritime law enforcement organisations from both countries find their right counterparts and work together? And at what level should they cooperate?
Until now, most cooperation has been service-to-service engagement between counterpart agencies. The Indonesian and Australian navies have worked together for many years conducting cooperative activities, such as officer exchanges, training and education, exercises, and coordinated patrols. Bakamla works closely with the Australian Border Force and Marine Border Command, including engaging in regular meetings and exchange visits. The Indonesian Ministry for Maritime Affairs and Fisheries works with AFMA, and information-sharing to reduce IUU fishing along the maritime border is going well.
But, unfortunately, there's no joint services approach to combat transnational crime at sea yet. In the future, we need to establish joint engagement between our maritime law enforcement agencies to achieve better outcomes.
Similarly, in the fields of marine science and technology and maritime cultural heritage, there are a large number of relevant agencies on both sides, but so far the two countries lack an approach that coordinates cooperation between them.
The comprehensive strategic partnership will open a new chapter in the relationship between Indonesia and Australia. It provides the two countries with a robust policy framework to both deepen existing relationships and support new initiatives for maritime cooperation. But, as always, the challenges will be in implementation. The links must be established between the right counterparts and be coordinated in a joint way. To ensure the partnership's potential is realised, the relevant ministers will need to meet on a regular basis, to consult and resolve challenges, and report annually on progress.
Desi Albert Mamahit is a retired vice admiral who served in the Indonesian navy in various roles and was the first head of the Indonesian Maritime Security Agency (Bakamla). He was a visiting fellow at ASPI in September and October 2018. Image courtesy of Joko Widodo on Twitter.
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You are here: Home1 / Articles2 / General3 / Highlights4 / Book Review: 'The Mastery Of Time' By Dominique Fléchon
Book Review: 'The Mastery Of Time' By Dominique Fléchon
by Elizabeth Doerr
I have known historian Dominique Fléchon for a while now. We have both been on the steering committee and cultural council of the Fondation de la Haute Horlogerie (FHH) for several years, and we have shared time on the jury of the Grand Prix d'Horlogerie de Genève.
Dominique Fléchon, horological historian and author of 'The Mastery Of Time'
Fléchon, who has worked for the Richemont Group since 1994 and the FHH since 2006, is a quiet achiever. If you have visited watch fairs and seen various exhibitions organized by the FHH, you have more than likely seen work he has curated but didn't know it.
Thus, it should not come as a huge surprise that Fléchon would author such a comprehensive book on the history of watchmaking as The Mastery of Time.
'The Mastery of Time' by Dominique Fléchon
This is a detailed oeuvre tracing the steps of how mankind "captured" time, and it proudly explains why horology can be viewed as a cultural good.
Watchmaking: a tie between luxury and culture
Likely the most comprehensive historical watch book ever written, this 456-page tome on the history of watchmaking almost reads like a story – an entertaining historical novel imparting myriad culture.
The Mastery of Time's prologue was written by Franco Cologni, founder of the FHH, which sponsored the creation of this ponderous reference work. In it, Cologni explains that watchmaking is "a tie between luxury and culture."
From 'The Mastery of Time': a magnetic dial for latitude mounted on a compass, approx. 18th century (photo Dominique Cohas)
As is this book "a tie between luxury and culture": the interesting illustrations, comprising a mix of images ranging from current horological masterpieces to vintage snapshots and artistic photos make the book a visual treat all by themselves.
Fléchon begins his treatise with a look at the development of astronomy in ancient cultures, which is absolutely the right place to start, though less comprehensive books do not necessarily include this.
Building on what must have been years of research, and one of many examples throughout the book of the author's thoroughness, Fléchon describes the earliest known sites used for astrology, astronomy, and crude timekeeping.
From 'The Mastery of Time': a 55 mm chronographic double-faced pocket watch signed Alfred Dunhill, France, approx. 1910 (photo Dominique Cohas)
Fluidly, the book moves on to explain the progression of sundials, water clocks, hourglasses, and early solutions to telling time at night or during cloudy weather.
Passing through the invention of gear wheels (some 1,800 years before the first mechanical clocks came into being) and the Julian and Islamic calendars, Fléchon informs us that Arabian astronomy was mainly developed to calculate the start of Ramadan.
From 'The Mastery of Time': a double-faced artillery pocket watch with curvimeter and compass in a silver case, approx. 1914 (photo Dominique Cohas)
In fact, as he often points out in the first two (of a total of six) sections entitled "Horology, a Child of Astronomy" and "From Clock to Watch," religion was an important catalyst for the overall development of watchmaking.
Modern timekeeping
The real birth of modern timekeeping occurred in medieval Europe, which Fléchon points out on page 107: "The true mechanical clock emerged only after a long period of experimenting with the measurement of time required by monastic life in the Christian Western world."
Dominique Fléchon signing a copy of 'The Mastery Of Time' at the book's launch in 2011 (image courtesy FHH)
Section 2 follows the transformation from clock to watch (fourteenth through sixteenth centuries), while the third section, "Achieving Precision," takes a closer look at the progression of the pendulum and escapement. It additionally looks at the implementation of the equation of time, as well as the question of longitude and the appearance of the second hand from the sixteenth through the eighteenth centuries.
Section 4, entitled "During the Industrial Revolution," explores clock- and watchmaking in the New World, the Black Forest, and even the keyless era. Chronographs, chronometers, world time (thanks to increased travel), and fashion – which includes wearing time on the wrist or other parts of the body – all make an appearance.
From 'The Mastery of Time': the Vacheron Constantin Mercator wristwatch produced in 1994 in honor of cartographer G. Mercator, 36 mm, automatic movement (photo Dominique Cohas)
Wristwatches and quartz timing from 1920 through 2000 constitute the fifth section, which begins by explaining the profound influence that aviation has had on the subject. Naturally, the Swatch watch takes up four full pages, a worthy homage to this important chapter in watchmaking's modern history.
The final section, "Precious and Technical Fine Watchmaking" takes a look at the last twelve years of the luxury industry, a moving era that focuses on the mechanical watch as an art form, including tourbillons. "The favorable context for the return of the mechanical watch was reinforced by the fact that certain connoisseurs and aesthetes loudly rejected the industrialized watch . . . they saw the electronic module as having no design or character and no potential for arousing emotion."
From 'The Mastery of Time': the Vacheron Constantin Tour de l'Ile from 2005, a double-sided wristwatch with 16 complications commemorating the Genevan brand's 250th anniversary (photo Dominique Cohas)
Though Fléchon wrote this masterpiece in his native French, the English translation flows as if it were freshly written. Obviously, no expense was spared for good copyediting, a luxury in publishing today.
This lavish hardback book comes highly recommended for both casual and expert levels of interest, thanks in great part to an extensive fourteen-page glossary of terms.
To see live interviews with Fléchon on this subject, you have a choice of three Watches TV videos: A History of Time, SIHH 2012 Interview With Dominique Fléchon, Watch Historian, and Mastery of Time Exhibition at SIHH 2013.
The Mastery of Time makes for the perfect gift for the horophile in your life and is available to order online at Watchprint or Amazon.
Author: Dominique Fléchon
Publisher: Flammarion
Book style: 230 x 275 mm, hardcover, comes in a slip box
Number of pages: 456, including 400 color illustrations
Languages available: English, French, Italian
Price: $100 / € 79 / 99 CHF
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Funeral arrangements for Ordinariate member and former Forward in Faith stalwart. Lindsey Worley.
EWTN feature by Catherine Uttley: "The glory of St Mark's, Venice, brought to a Portsmouth slum..."
On Thursday 24th November 2016 the first of the 2016/2017 series of Anglo Portuguese Ensemble concerts took place at the Church of Our Lady of the Assumption and St Gregory, Warwick Street, home of the Central London Ordinariate group and the Ordinariate central church. Among the guests of Mgr Newton and Fr Eliot Smith were Fr Marcos Pinto, who is Chaplain to the Portuguese community in London, and the new Portuguse ambassador to the UK Manuel Lobo Antunes.
The 2017 Ordinariate Calendar is now available.
A concert of music inspired by British literature will be presented by the Anglo-Portuguese Ensemble at Our Lady and St Gregory, Warwick St, at 7:30pm on 24th November.
The Ordinariate church of Church of Our Lady of the Assumption & St Gregory, Warwick Street, London W1B 5LZ, is to host a free Concert on 11 November featuring the enCanto countertennors. The Concert is described as "Chants and Enchantments a Luso-Hispanic twist to music and song down the centuries".
The Ordinariate's first pilgrimage to the Shrine of Blessed John Henry Newman took place on the 7th/8th October. Evensong and Benediction at St Chad's Cathedral on Friday was followed on Saturday by a wonderful Pilgrm Mass at the Birmingham Oratory.
Tickets are now on sale for this year's Catholic Women of the Year Luncheon.


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KASAMA Vol. 20 No. 1 / January-February-March 2006 / Solidarity Philippines Australia Network
Police attack women's march on the way to Mendiola
Dispersal Of Women's Rally: Sign Of Gma's Extreme Paranoia!
MANILA – MARCH 8, 2006 – The women members of the Alliance of Progressive Labor (APL) and Akbayan Citizen's Action Party with other fraternal organizations rallied at the Sto. Domingo church to march towards Mendiola to commemorate International Women's Day.
They got no further than the Welcome Rotonda where police blocked their way. After an hour of negotiation, the police, without any provocation, began clobbering the activists ruthlessly with their batons and truncheons and arrested Akbayan Rep. Risa Hontiveros, Josua Mata, APL secretary general and dozens of other activists. Many were hurt and injured during the scuffle.
"The police has no right to disperse the activity and arrest its leaders since the APL and other groups were just exercising their fundamental right to peacefully assemble as enshrined in the Constitution, " Tess Gurion, chair of APL-Women said.
"Gloria Arroyo has only proven that she is really determined to destroy democracy in our country. She has not only turned her back on the will and interests of the Filipino people but is using brute force to stifle our legitimate rights and democratic demands to perpetuate herself in power," Gurion added.
"It is not a sign of might and determination to protect and defend democracy. Rather, it is a pathetic attempt of a president to do anything to "legitimize" her cling to power. What happened clearly indicates that Gloria Arroyo is now in an extreme state of paranoia for she knows that her time is up and is already at the brink of being ousted from Malacañang. Martial Law is definitely here again and she is now using the coercive powers of the state to create a climate of fear and unrest," Fatima Cabanag, Kapatiran ng Manggagawang Obrero (KAMAO-APL) said.
"The continued dispersal of peaceful demonstrations held in the exercise of the constitutional right to hold assemblies and petition the government for redress of grievances is a basic sign that Gloria Arroyo will really not listen to the demands of the people and will continue to stifle legitimate political dissent that would only result to more violations of human rights. Unfortunately for her, Gloria has no time left to retract and amend. The people are disgusted and soon, her time would be finally over," Cabanag added.
Rep. Risa Hontiveros says that her arrest is meant to harass anti-Arroyo forces. Police officers in Camp Caringal claimed that she was only invited to accompany them and not arrested.
"I was dragged and forcibly taken to the police car. Halos buhatin nila ako. That is not an invitation. If that is not an arrest, then I don't what it is," stressed Rep. Hontiveros countering the claims of the police. She pointed out that her arrest was intended to show the strong resolve of the administration to go after groups critical of Pres. Arroyo.
She said that her arrest is proof that despite the lifting of Proclamation 1017, the President is bent on violating civil liberties to silence those who simply wish to have the truth exposed. "It is not enough to say that women are ashamed of Gloria Macapagal Arroyo. Her underhanded draconian tactics betray her capacity to be the next Marcos. Does this arrest mean that protesting against her anti-women policies is tantamount to rebellion?"
Hontiveros challenged Congress to speak out against this blatant disregard for the independence of its members. "That a member of this institution had been arrested despite parliamentary immunity shows the disregard of GMA with the independence of Congress. The government now feels that it may pluck out members of the opposition from Congress, prevent them from performing their duties to their constituents, and silence whatever democratic opposition there is in the country."
Hontiveros said that "Under the Revised Penal Code, this arrest is already in violation of parliamentary immunity. They are overstepping their boundaries already, and this is precisely why we are saying that the unconstitutional and illegal draconian measures from Malacañang are giving the police a sense of impunity."
FROM: ALLIANCE OF PROGRESSIVE LABOR AND AKBAYAN PARTY PRESS RELEASES – MARCH 8, 2006
ARROYO DECLARES STATE OF NATIONAL EMERGENCY
NOT JUST ANOTHER RALLY
AKBAYAN AND ALLIANCE FOR PROGRESSIVE LABOR FILE CHARGES AGAINST PHILIPPINE NATIONAL POLICE BEFORE QUEZON CITY COURT, THE OMBUDSMAN AND COMMISSION ON HUMAN RIGHTS
Military Intervention: Definitely a Cure Worse than the Disease by Walden Bello
The Daily Tribune


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Q: Ipywidgets are not displayed with JavaScript error we are currently using JupyterHub for our team. When I try to use ipywidgets in JupyterLab I get tis JavaScript error (https adress is cutted out)
The Code
import ipywidgets as widgets

slider = widgets.FloatSlider(description='$x$')
text = widgets.FloatText(disabled=True, description='$x^2$')

def compute(*ignore):
    text.value = str(slider.value ** 2)

slider.observe(compute, 'value')

slider.value = 4

widgets.VBox([slider, text])

The error from the notebook:
[Open Browser Console for more detailed log - Double click to close this message]
Failed to load model class 'VBoxModel' from module '@jupyter-widgets/controls'
Error: Module @jupyter-widgets/controls, version ^1.5.0 is not registered, however,         2.0.0 is
    at f.loadClass (/lab/extensions/@jupyter-widgets/jupyterlab-manager/static/134.bcbea9feb6e7c4da7530.js?v=bcbea9feb6e7c4da7530:1:74977)
    at f.loadModelClass (/lab/extensions/@jupyter-widgets/jupyterlab-manager/static/150.3e1e5adfd821b9b96340.js?v=3e1e5adfd821b9b96340:1:10729)
    at f._make_model (/lab/extensions/@jupyter-widgets/jupyterlab-manager/static/150.3e1e5adfd821b9b96340.js?v=3e1e5adfd821b9b96340:1:7517)
    at f.new_model (/lab/extensions/@jupyter-widgets/jupyterlab-manager/static/150.3e1e5adfd821b9b96340.js?v=3e1e5adfd821b9b96340:1:5137)
    at f.handle_comm_open (/lab/extensions/@jupyter-widgets/jupyterlab-manager/static/150.3e1e5adfd821b9b96340.js?v=3e1e5adfd821b9b96340:1:3894)
    at _handleCommOpen (/lab/extensions/@jupyter-widgets/jupyterlab-manager/static/134.bcbea9feb6e7c4da7530.js?v=bcbea9feb6e7c4da7530:1:73393)
    at b._handleCommOpen (/static/lab/jlab_core.c53d87cd566b4851041c.js?v=c53d87cd566b4851041c:2:1203616)
    at async b._handleMessage (/static/lab/jlab_core.c53d87cd566b4851041c.js?v=c53d87cd566b4851041c:2:1205606)

This is the error in the browser console (https://i.stack.imgur.com/E9wJS.png)
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I have already tried both versions of this solution ipywidgets==7.6.5 or ipywidgets==7.7.2 ipywidgets < 8 e.g. 7.7 cannot be installed with pip · Issue #3558 · jupyter-widgets/ipywidgets · GitHub
The individual environment for each user (from Zero to JupyterHub solution) starts with ipywidgets==8.0.2. The problem is that we may need another version <8, due to your problem with voila Nbconvert and voila no ipywidgets - General - Jupyter Community Forum
Cross-post https://discourse.jupyter.org/t/ipywidgets-are-not-displayed-with-javascript-error/16958


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R.I.T.: "High School Nights"
Today's R.I.T. is Dave Edmunds 1985 hit single, "High School Nights," off the Porky's Revenge soundtrack. The song peaked at #95 on the U.S. charts. Dave Edmunds scored his biggest hit, "I Hear You Knocking," in 1970 (going to #4 in the U.S. and #1 in the U.K.) and recorded with Nick Lowe as Rockpile in 1980. He assembled and produced the aforementioned soundtrack that included songs by George Harrison, Jeff Beck, Carl Perkins, The Fabulous Thunderbirds, Willie Nelson, Clarence Clemons, himself and The Crawling King Snakes (made up of Robert Plant and Phil Collins.) It's hard to believe it but, despite what film it came from, this is a soundtrack you need in your collection.
Posted by Rantings Of An 80s Nut at 1:43 PM
R.I.T.: "Diggin' In"
R.I.T.: "Satellite"
R.I.T.: "Silver"
R.I.T.: "A Woman In Love"
R.I.T.: "That's My Impression"
R.I.T.: "One Night Love Affair"
R.I.T.: "Burning Desire"
R.I.T.: "The Curly Shuffle"
R.I.T.: "Melodie"
R.I.T.: "Tiny Daggers"
R.I.T.: "Suddenly"
Airrace - Back To The Start
R.I.T.: "Church Of Logic, Sin, And Love"
R.I.T.: "Red Red Wine"
R.I.T.: "Russian Roulette"
R.I.T.: "I Want Her"
R.I.T.: "If She Knew What She Wants"
R.I.T.: "Billy's Got A Gun"
R.I.T.: "Stand"
R.I.T.: "Don't Go Jumping With Frogs"
R.I.T.: "Be With You"
The Power Of Siblings
R.I.T.: "The Voice"
R.I.T.: "Tonight It's You"
R.I.T.: "Sick Boys"
R.I.T.: "Falling To Pieces"
R.I.T.: "Alone"
R.I.T.: "Useless"


Throughout its 107-year history, The Progressive has always been a voice for peace and against militarism and war. Our November 2001 issue included many writers who spoke out against the doctrine of endless war. One of the most powerful of these voices was historian Howard Zinn, who wrote a column for the magazine. His essay, reprinted below, reminds us of powerful lessons yet to be learned by our country's leaders.
We can all feel a terrible anger at whoever, in their insane idea that this would help their cause, killed thousands of innocent people. But what do we do with that anger? Do we react with panic, strike out violently and blindly just to show how tough we are?
So now we are bombing Afghanistan and inevitably killing innocent people because it is in the nature of bombing (and I say this as a former Air Force bombardier) to be indiscriminate, to "make no distinction." We are committing terrorism in order to "send a message" to terrorists.
We have done that before. It is the old way of thinking, the old way of acting. It has never worked. Reagan bombed Libya, and Bush made war on Iraq, and Clinton bombed Afghanistan and also a pharmaceutical plant in the Sudan to "send a message" to terrorists. And then comes this horror in New York and Washington. Isn't it clear by now that sending a message to terrorists through violence doesn't work, that it only leads to more terrorism?
Haven't we learned anything from the Israeli-Palestinian conflict?
Car bombs planted by Palestinians bring air attacks and tanks by the Israeli government. That has been going on for years. It doesn't work. And innocent people die on both sides.
We need to imagine that the awful scenes of death and suffering we were witnessing on our television screens have been going on in other parts of the world for a long time, and only now can we begin to know what people have gone through, often as a result of our policies. We need to understand how some of those people will go beyond quiet anger to acts of terrorism. That doesn't, by any means, justify the terror. Nothing justifies killing thousands of innocent people. But we would do well to see what might inspire such violence. And it will not be over until we stop concentrating on punishment and retaliation and think calmly and intelligently about how to address its causes.
Land mines and a "missile defense shield" will not give us security.
Yes, lets find the perpetrators of the awful acts of September 11. We must find the guilty parties and prosecute them. But we shouldn't engage in indiscriminate retaliation. When a crime is committed by someone who lives in a certain neighborhood, you don't destroy the neighborhood.
Yes, we can tend to immediate security needs. Let's take some of the billions allocated for "missile defense," totally useless against terrorist attacks such as this one, and pay the security people at airports decent wages and give them intensive training. Let's go ahead and hire marshals to be on every flight. But ultimately, there is no certain security against the unpredictable.
True, we can find bin Laden and his cohorts, or whoever were the perpetrators, and punish them. But that will not end terrorism so long as the pent-up grievances of decades, felt in so many countries in the Third World, remain unattended.
We cannot be secure so long as we use our national wealth for guns, warships, F-18s, cluster bombs, and nuclear weapons to maintain our position as a military superpower. We should use that wealth instead to become a moral superpower.
We should take our example not from our military and political leaders shouting "retaliate" and "war" but from the doctors and nurses and medical students and firefighters and police officers who were saving lives in the midst of mayhem, whose first thoughts were not violence but healing, not vengeance but compassion.
Howard Zinn, who was an early member of Veterans for Peace, was right in 2001 and his comments are still timely and relevant to the current state of perpetual war the US has adopted. "Perpetual War -- for Perpetual Profit?"
Had we used a third of the money blown in the middle east on the war machine, and we instead used it to drop assistance on the people of the middle east, they'd be our allies and friends. This nonsense has nothing to do with the sovereignty of the United States, and it most certainly has nothing to do with respecting the sovereignty of other nations.


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