We all aspire to be healthier. Who doesn't aspire to lose weight and exercise more as an annual New Year's resolution?
Yet well-intentioned aspirations and actions are not the same thing. To lose weight, you need to burn off more calories than you consume on a daily basis.
Unfortunately, too many people mistake paying for a gym membership as a prime motivation for losing weight, instead of actually using their gym memberships.
Gym owners and fitness club businesses know this fact very well. One in 10 current private gym members signed up around New Year's day, ostensibly out of a commitment to a resolution.
Yet most then stop attending entirely in a little over three to four months. This self-defeating mindset is then exploited by gyms and fitness clubs, which offer more memberships than they realistically accommodate.
If they are, the con is willingly enabled by at least 70% of their customer base.
To better understand how and why the local gym owner financially benefits from member procrastination, let's take a better look at the industry as a whole.
The American private gym and fitness industry is the largest in the world. There are more private gyms in the United States than in Mexico and Brazil combined.
Almost half a million people are employed by gyms in the United States.
There are over 36,000 membership-required gyms and fitness clubs located throughout the United States. Moreover, membership has increased appreciably in just a few years.
In 2015, over 55 million Americans paid for a gym membership. That number increased to about 60.9 million Americans in 2017.
The American fitness industry is valued at about almost $26 billion dollars. The fitness industry is one of the largest industries in the United States.
Planet Fitness generated over $1.5 billion dollars in 2015. The company also boasts over seven million members and 800+ facilities in the United States.
Anytime Fitness has over 2,000 facilities in the United States and over 1,000 located around the world.
It is an understatement to say that going to the local gym is big business on a regional and local scale.
And it's a big business because most people who pay for the privilege of using a gym don't even bother to go.
The problem is that well-intentioned people confuse their motivation to exercise with willingness to pay for gym membership.
It's an expensive motivation to have. Besides the base membership there are also various equipment fees, initiation fees, and amenities fees that can be added into the cost of membership, depending on the facility.
The average American gym membership fee is about $60 a month. Such fees can be as high as $150 a month for smaller, exclusive, and popular gyms.
Still, at the average monthly cost, that means that most Americans pay anywhere from $700 to $800 a year on gym membership fees.
It would be a mistake to believe that no one goes to the gym. If you live a population dense metropolitan city, chances are that such gyms are usually full to capacity.
Most gyms however are lucky to meet a significant percentage of their capacity on a daily basis. The fact is that most gyms estimate their potential profits based on the amount of people they know will never show up.
Since gym owners know that 70% to 80% of their members will never show up they almost always solicit more members than their facilities can actually accommodate.
It is no mistake that you see TV advertisements for gym memberships during New Years and other major holidays. These are the times of year when people overeat, obsess over weight gain, and aspire to lose weight. Then, they sign up for gym memberships that they won't use.
Most people who procrastinate when it comes to working out usually pledge to work out another day. Or another month. Gym owners use this mindset to their advantage.
If you pay for a gym membership via credit card, there is likely a monthly auto-renewal of membership you may not be aware of. A lot of people aware of the auto-renewal function still may not opt out for months.
While vacillating every month over actually going to the gym, hundreds of dollars are wasted in the meantime.
Most gyms also have a pay-per-use option. As in, you can pay to use the gym per visit instead of paying for a monthly membership. Most gyms never advertise a pay-per-use option and encourage people to buy monthly memberships.
After all, it isn't in their financial incentive to do so. While it can be easy to vilify the gym industry for such practices, they are not wholly to blame. They are voluntarily enabled by people who willfully waste their membership.
Wasting $700 or more annually on auto-renewed gym memberships is a lot of money to waste for no other reason than to enrich the local gym owner.
Instead, inquire if you your gym has a daily pay-per-use option. Many gyms offer a free trial membership for a predetermined period. Or, try to sign up with a friend for added motivation.
You also have many other options to get healthier and fitter besides paying for a gym membership you likely won't use.
Look up free exercise programs and classes located throughout your city. Invest in a modest home gym and work out at home. Manifest your motivation to lose weight with action instead of procrastination and just lighting money on fire.


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Benito González Ribadavia, más conocido como Benito Rivadavia (Monforte de Lemos, Galicia, 7 de febrero de 1747 - Buenos Aires, 28 de septiembre de 1816), fue un abogado y comerciante español establecido en el Virreinato del Río de la Plata, que ejerció cargos públicos y actuó como militar ante las Invasiones Inglesas.

Biografía
Se trasladó joven a Buenos Aires, y estudió en la Universidad Mayor Real y Pontificia San Francisco Xavier de Chuquisaca, recibiéndose de abogado en 1775.

Su apellido original era González, pero cuando se casó el 18 de marzo de 1776 en Buenos Aires con su prima-hermana, María Josefa de Jesús Rodríguez de Ribadavia y Rivadeneyra, adoptó el apellido Rivadavia como su segundo apellido. Su hijo Bernardino Rivadavia eliminaría el González y transformaría Ribadavia en Rivadavia. Lo mismo haría su hijo Santiago Rivadavia.

Al quedar viudo, Benito se casó el 17 de enero de 1788 en segundas nupcias con Ana María Salvadora de Otálora y Ribero, hija de uno de los hombres más acaudalados de la ciudad, el coronel José Antonio Gregorio de Otálora.

Fue juez de bienes de difuntos, tesorero de la Catedral de Buenos Aires, miembro del cabildo porteño y del Consulado de Comercio. Llegó a adquirir una respetable fortuna como abogado y socio de varios comerciantes, especialmente traficantes de esclavos; pero llevó una vida austera, sin ostentación alguna. Estudió en la escuela de náutica fundada por Manuel Belgrano, y se dedicó a la navegación y la construcción de embarcaciones de cabotaje. Sus barcos recorrieron el Río de la Plata hasta que le fueron robados cuatro buques, tras lo cual abandonó esa actividad.

Logró un importante ascenso social para su hijo cuando éste se casó con la hija del fallecido virrey Joaquín del Pino y Rozas.

Cuando se produjo la primera de las Invasiones Inglesas se unió al grupo de conspiradores dirigido por Martín de Álzaga y luchó en la Reconquista. Fue el segundo en el mando del Tercio de Gallegos, con el cual combatió en la Defensa de Buenos Aires en 1807. También se destacó en el cabildo abierto que depuso al virrey Sobremonte a principios de ese año.

Su regimiento fue disuelto como consecuencia de la Asonada de Álzaga, en enero de 1809, y se opuso firmemente a la Revolución de Mayo. Su hijo Bernardino fue secretario del Segundo Triunvirato, el gobierno que con más constancia persiguió a los españoles, pero González Ribadavia fue respetado. No obstante, no volvió a tener participación pública alguna.

Falleció en Buenos Aires el 28 de septiembre de 1816.

Bibliografía
 Cutolo, Vicente, Nuevo diccionario biográfico argentino, 7 volúmenes, Ed. Elche, Bs. As., 1968-1985.
 Roberts, Carlos, Las invasiones inglesas, Ed. Emecé, Bs. As., 1999.
 Scenna, Miguel Ángel, Las brevas maduras. Memorial de la Patria, tomo I, Ed. La Bastilla, Bs. As., 1984. ISBN 950-008-021-4
 Lozier Almazán, Bernardo, Martín de Álzaga, Ed. Ciudad Argentina, Bs. As., 1998. ISBN 987-507-043-2

Militares de España del siglo XVIII
Militares de España del siglo XIX
Militares de la provincia de Lugo
Emigrantes gallegos hacia Argentina
Militares de las Invasiones Inglesas al Río de la Plata (españoles)
Alumnado de la Universidad Mayor Real y Pontificia San Francisco Xavier de Chuquisaca
Familia Rivadavia
Nacidos en Monforte de Lemos

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ANTHRAX Guitarist SCOTT IAN Creates Soundtrack For 'Black Knight: Sword Of Rage' Pinball Machines
ANTHRAX's Scott Ian and DETHKLOK's Brendon Small have composed and performed the legacy sound package for the third game in Stern Pinball, Inc.'s Black Knight franchise, Black Knight: Sword Of Rage.
Says Ian: "Metal and pinball? Yes please. Soundtrack to this killer machine by me."
The iconic pinball character the Black Knight returns to entertain a new generation of pinball players with Black Knight: Sword Of Rage.
For the first time ever, players will explore, discover, and unlock the secrets of the Black Knight universe. Navigating through these dark, mysterious, and twisted realms, players will uncover foes, demons, riches, and secrets in their quest against the Black Knight. Black Knight: Sword Of Rage pinball machines will be available in Pro, Premium, and Limited Edition models.
"There's nothing more iconic in the pinball universe than the Black Knight character," said Gary Stern, chairman and CEO of Stern Pinball, Inc. "Created by game designer Steve 'The King' Ritchie, the Black Knight has always taunted and antagonized players to battle him and now, for the first time, players will be able to fight back."
Stern's Black Knight: Sword Of Rage Pro, Premium, and Limited Edition models feature stunning and distinctive hand-drawn art in homage to this pinball icon. Each game features a custom sculpted, interactive, and multi-functional Black Knight bash toy. This interactive Black Knight toy features a bi-directional motorized flail, a glowing RGB helmet with individually controllable expressive lighting to interact and taunt players with custom speech, and a sliding coil-driven shield that will bash and block your shots.
All models include the distinct "Magna-Save", a player-controlled magnet used to prevent a ball from draining, and timed resetting drop targets. In addition, Black Knight: Sword Of Rage features a custom speech by Ed Robertson of BARENAKED LADIES.
The Premium and Limited Edition models both feature a transparent upper playfield with a distinct 3-ball lock mechanism, giving players the ability to achieve a 6-ball multiball.
The Limited Edition — 600 units globally — includes additional unique features such as an exclusive mirrored backglass, anti-reflection pinball glass, shaker motor, exclusive custom art blades, a custom autographed bottom arch, a sequentially numbered plaque, and exclusive battle art custom themed cabinet artwork.
Complementing the immersive theme and exciting gameplay experience, Stern Pinball's powerful SPIKE electronics hardware system enables high-definition graphics and innovative animations on the high-definition video display. SPIKE reduces system complexity and energy usage resulting in enhanced reliability and simplified servicing. The state-of-the-art electronic system also powers a high-fidelity 3-channel audio system that is three times more powerful than audio systems of previous generations.
Pricing and Availability:
Manufacturer's Suggested Retail Price:
MSRP for sales to USA end-users, before any VAT, GST, Sales Tax, Duties, or other taxes.
Pro Model: U.S. $5,999
Premium Model: U.S. $7,599
Limited Edition Model: U.S. $8,999
Black Knight: Sword Of Rage pinball is available through authorized Stern Pinball distributors and dealers around the world.
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Watch: HOT 97 Summer Jam 2019 with Cardi B, Meek Mill, Migos & More (Live Stream)
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The biggest Hip-Hop radio concert is here as HOT 97's annual Summer Jam returns for its 26th year. The 2019 edition is headlined by Cardi B. Meek Mill, Migos, Tory Lanez, Rich the Kid, A Boogie Wit Da Hoodie, City Girls, Davido, Casanova, Kash Doll, Melii, and Megan Thee Satllion make up this year's lineup. Music lovers not able to make it to MetLife Stadium in East Rutherford, New Jersey, can live stream the main stage performances starting at 6:30 p.m. EST courtesy of TIDAL.
Live stream HOT 97 Summer Jam 2019 below.
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Kanye West Brings His 'Sunday Service' to Coachella 2019 (Full Set)
Kanye West brings in Easter Sunday in a major way. The multi-talented creator brings his popular weekly 'Sunday Service' to the Coachella Music & Arts Festival. Hours before artists like Ariana Grande, YG, H.E.R., Khalid and more close Day 3, West kicks off the final day with a special early morning performance outdoors on top of a mountain built in the middle of a field on the Empire Polo Club grounds in Indio, California. The one-time public show can be watched via Coachella's YouTube live stream, which can be watched below. West's 'Sunday Service' is set to start at 9 a.m. PST/12 p.m. EST.
Click here to watch Kanye's surprise appearance during Kid Cudi's Coachella set on Saturday night (Apr. 20).
Watch: Coachella 2019 (Day 3) with Ariana Grande, YG, H.E.R., Playboi Carti, Pusha T
Music lovers have made their way to Indio, California for the 2019 Coachella Music & Arts Festival. Childish Gambino, Tame Impala, and Ariana Grande serve as headliners this year.
The three-day festival, which spans over two weekends, kicks off on Friday with Childish Gambino, Janelle Monáe, Anderson .Paak & The Free Nationals, Diplo, dvsn, Ella Mai, Tierra Whack, Jaden Smith and ROSALÍA. Tame Impala, Kid Cudi, Wiz Khalifa, Juice WRLD, SiR, and J Balvin highlight Day 2 on Saturday, while Ariana Grande, KAYTRANADA, Pusha T, YG, Dillon Francis, Playboi Carti, Khalid, Blood Orange, and Bad Bunny will appear during Day 3 on Sunday.
Those who couldn't make their way to the California Desert can stream all the moments live courtesy of YouTube, set to start at 7:15 p.m. EST. Watch all the action below.
Sat 6 Apr 2019
Watch: Dreamville Fest with J. Cole, SZA, Big Sean, 21 Savage, Nelly & More (Live Stream)
J. Cole reps brings many of today's stars to his home state, for the inaugural Dreamville Fest. Set to take place in September 2018, the festival was cancelled and rescheduled due to Hurricane Florence. Now, the one-day event makes its debut in 2019 headlined by Cole Wold. Taking place at Dorothea Dix Park in Releigh, North Carolina, the festival starts at 12:30 p.m. EST. SZA, Big Sean, 21 Savage, Nelly, Rapsody, 6LACK, Teyana Taylor, Saba, Mez, and Dreamville Records artists Bas, J.I.D, EARTHGANG, Ari Lennox, Omen, Lute and Cozz make up the lineup.
Music lovers who couldn't make the trip, the festival can be live streamed exclusively via TIDAL. The streaming service currently has a 90-day free promo for worldwide viewers by clicking here. A sold-out crowd of 40,000 fans are expected to be in attendance. Watch the first-ever Dreamville Fest below.
Camp Flog Gnaw 2018 (Day 2): Kids See Ghosts, Lauryn Hill, Post Malone (Live Stream)
Curated by Tyler, the Creator, the 2018 Camp Flog Gnaw Festival is taking place this weekend at Dodgers Stadium in Los Angeles. This year's two-day event is stacked, headlined by Kanye West and Kid Cudi performing for the first-time as Kids See Ghosts. SZA, A$AP Rocky, Post Malone, Ms. Lauryn Hill, The Internet, Raphael Saadiq, BROCKHAMPTON, Virgil Abloh, Pusha T, Majid Jordan, Playboi Carti, Little Dragon, Jaden Smith and more are set to hit the various stages down in sunny California over the next two days. Music lovers who couldn't make the trip to L.A. for this year's festival can live stream select performances.
Sets by Tyler, the Creator, A$AP Rocky, Playboi Carti, Pusha T, Majid Jordan and Raphael Saadiq make Saturday night's webcast (Nov. 10). On Sunday night (Nov. 11), Kids See Ghosts, Ms. Lauryn Hill, Post Malone, Earl Sweatshirt, BROCKHAMPTON and Flatbush Zombies will be a part of the live webcast. Stream all the action below.
Watch: Mac Miller's 'A Celebration of Life' Tribute Concert (Live Stream)
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Its been nearly two months since the sudden death of Mac Miller. The beloved Pittsburgh rapper, who passed away in early September, is being honored with a tribute concert on Halloween night. Organized by Miller's family, "A Celebration of Life" is a benefit show celebrating the life of Malcolm James McCormick with a star-studded list of performers that had ties to the 26-year-old. Chance the Rapper, John Mayer, ScHoolboy Q, SZA, Travi$ Scott, Thundercat, Ty Dolla $ign, Vince Staples, Miguel, Anderson. Paak, Action Bronson, Earl Sweatshirt, J.I.D, Domo Genesis, Njomza and more are set to hit the stage at The Greek Theatre in Los Angeles on Wednesday night (Oct. 31).
Fans of Mac Miller who could not make the trip to L.A. can enjoy the tribute concert via live stream on YouTube, Twitter, Facebook and TIDAL. Benefitting the Mac Miller Circles Fund, which supports youth arts & community-building programs in Mac Miller's memory, donations can be made by clicking here. Set to start at 9:30 p.m. EST, watch the emotional show below.
Thu 14 Jun 2018
Watch Nas' 'NASIR' Album Listening Session In NYC
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Six years have passed since the release of Nas' last studio LP, Life Is Good. As a part of a daunting five week collection of releases executive produced by Kanye West, the Queens MC's long-awaited new album is near. First announced by West back in June, Nas is celebrating his new project titled NASIR, with a listening session steps away from where he grew up in Queensbridge, New York City. Fans can get their first listen of the album via a live stream courtesy of Mass Appeal Records and YouTube.
NASIR is the 4th consecutive project in as many weeks executive produced by Kanye West. It follows Pusha T's DAYTONA, Kanye's ye, Kid Cudi and Kanye's joint album KIDS SEE GHOSTS. The final project to drop is Teyana Taylor's untitled sophomore LP, due June 22.
Thu 7 Jun 2018
Watch Kanye West & Kid Cudi's 'Kids See Ghost' Listening Session
After albums from Pusha T and Kanye West, its now time for Kid Cudi to unleash his Kids See Ghost joint project with Mr. West. A week after Kanye hosted a star-studded event in Wyoming prior to the release of ye, the rapper/designer and Cudi are hosting a listening event in Los Angeles on Thursday night (Jun. 7).
Just moments before the album is available everywhere, fans can get their first listen of Kids See Ghost. Click below to watch the listening session, live streamed via the Wav Media app starting at 11 p.m. EST.
Shia LaBeouf Launches Anti-Trump Livestream, Which Will Run For the Next Four Years
Posted by Andy B. under Life Beyond Rap , Livestream , LOL
Shia LaBeouf has built a reputation for staging, shall we say, interesting live performances in recent years, but his latest project is his most ambitious yet.
Tue 6 Dec 2016
Miss Info Talks Music, Politics & Culture on Public School NYC WNL Radio
Posted by Andy B. under About Miss Info , Interviews , Livestream
Our very own Miss Info is down in Miami for this year's Art Basel, and she's co-hosting a special instalment of Public School NYC's WNL Radio this weekend. She'll be talking politics, culture and, of course, music alongside the likes of Stretch & Bobbito, Ronnie Fieg, Fonzworth Bentley, Akinyele, Heron Preston, Uncle Luke and many more.
The broadcast runs between noon and 8pm EST today and tomorrow (December 3). Tune in below!
Update: Mos Def is debuting new music now and announced 2 new albums (one with Mannie Fresh).
Update 2: Nahright posted footage of Mos performing at Art Basel.
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On Ohio State's "Consent is Sexy" Posters
August 11, 2015 Character Morality, Moral philosophykielkopf1
As an emeritus faculty member, I regularly swim and work out in The Ohio State University's Recreation and Physical Activity Center (RPAC). At Ohio State, and throughout the country, there is serious concern about the problem of frequent, to put it mildly, less than fully consensual sexual activity amongst university students. Posters in RPAC proclaiming "Consent is Sexy" address the concern. One poster showing the heads and bare shoulders of an attractive couple looking into each other's eyes tells us "When you look into each other's eyes and see that you really want each other, now, that's sexy!" On another we read "When you both tell each other what you want to do, now, that's hot!"
I came to Ohio State in the early sixties as an assistant professor of philosophy In those days, the university explicitly accepted the role in loco parentis in governing student life in accordance with middle class morality. Indeed, I once served as a chaperone at a student dance! In the sixties the sexual revolution was beginning. In the second decade of the twenty first century, the revolutionaries are in control. They are finding that it is far easier to control public opinion than the strong sexual inclinations they have unleashed. The sexual morality of the revolution is no longer revolutionary. It is middle class morality. With words "sexy" and "hot" in the "Consent is sexy" posters, the university in its in loco parentis capacity is preaching the new permissive sexual morality. The new morality is preached not only to students. During Parent/Student orientation, RPAC is proudly shown to both parents and students. With the word "consent" the revolutionaries are conceding that the new sexual morality has not produced a garden of earthly delights.
These posters and the new sexual morality make me sad. Middle class morality is telling its children that this is what your life is all about and it is not much: getting pleasure. Your sexual inclinations are too strong for you to avoid promiscuity but at least we can avoid coercion and give you moresexual pleasure thereby.
There is a sexual morality at work here! By implication coercive sexual acts are morally condemned and hot sexy consensual acts are extolled as a great human good not to be inhibited and actively sought. Call hot sexy consensual acts voluptuous.
I argue in my Confronting Sexual Nihilism for a fundamental principle of traditional sexual morality which, is obviously, contrary to the new progressive morality. I am assuming that the typical sexual activity celebrated in the posters is between university students who are not married to each other nor committed to a long term relation. What might be a fundamental principle for sexual morality which would morally justify, and indeed celebrate, these acts because consensual? A statement of this principle which could be the principle underlying these progressive moral judgments might lead to questioning of these judgments by those accepting the "Consent is Sexy" sexual morality. The principle will seem so obviously wrong about the significance of human sexuality.
I write of a principle which could underly these progressive moral judgments. I use 'could' because particular moral judgments may not be based on any principle and a variety of principles could lead to the same judgment. But I want to propose a line of thought that leads to the progressive judgments and which is a very plausible principle if you think about morality being to promote what could be called the natural end of a system. (If you are uninterested in philosophical reasoning, skip down to Formulation of the Progressive Principle.
To uncover this fundamental principle, I shall stipulate a distinction between 'function' and 'purpose' to mark 'function' as a descriptive term and 'purpose' as a moral term. Human sexuality is that wide variety of behaviors constituting human courting, mating and bonding which a behavioral zoologist "from another planet" would pick out as the human reproductive behavior.
Human sexuality has several functions, or conditions it regularly brings about. Let us focus on three. Of course, one function is to lead men and women through courtship to mate for procreation and bond monogamously for care of the children and mutual support. In my book, I take the moral stance that this parental function is the purpose of human sexuality. I pay little attention to it here.
Another function of sexuality typically leads men and women, but not necessarily men and women, to form those intense relatively long-lived bonding relations we call 'being in love.' I cannot add anything to that complicated and incomplete answer to "what is this thing called love?" except to say that a fundamental moral stance about sexuality is to hold that the purpose of sexuality is to produce, promote and protect romantic love. Let us here note romantic love as a possible purpose of sexuality as a reminder that there are alternatives to procreation and parenting vs. genital sexual pleasure as the purpose of sexuality.
A third function of sexuality is to produce those unforced hot, sexy,viz., voluptuous matings, but not necessarily heterosexual, extolled in Ohio State's "Consent is Sexy" posters.
To regard a function F of a system S as the purpose P of S is to hold that S and other systems are to be used to promote P and that no systems, especially not S, are to be used to inhibit P.
What would it mean to regard procreation and parenting as the purpose of sexuality? It would mean that we should control our sexuality to promote them and should not use our sexuality, especially in its functions of producing pleasure and love, to work against procreation and parenting. Of course, when pursuit of pleasure and romance promote procreation and parenting, they are to be encouraged. The progressive stance regards voluptuous matings as the purpose of sexuality. What principle follows from the progressive stance?
Fomulation of the progressive principle: we ought to promote voluptuous matings and not let any other function of sexuality such as love or marriage stand in their way. Of course, when love or marriage happen to go along with voluptuous sex, that is good fortune.
Why did the awareness that these peak sexual experiences were being promoted as the purpose of sexuality make me sad? There are costs associated with promotion of these hot sexy matings. There is need for contraceptives and education in their use along with backup abortion services. Constant vigilance needs to be exercised so that opportunities for these matings do not slide into occasions for less than consensual sex. Most of all, though, it was because a person's sexuality is inseparable from who and what that person is. These posters, with their underlying sexual morality, are telling students that the best in their lives are short lived periods of intense sexual pleasure and that is not much. Girls are boy toys and boys are studs.
In my book, I argue that this trivialization of sexuality for young people when generalized to hold for all people leads to nihilism. See below how to purchase my book.
My book arguing that sexual neutrality leads to nihilism is Confronting Sexual Nihilism: Traditional Sexual Morality as an Antidote to Nihilism was released by Tate Publishing on March 11, 2014. See Book Web Page for information about the book. The publisher's listed price is $26.99. Printed copies can be purchased here by credit card for $12.99, plus $3.71 for shipping and handling.
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NIMSAT offers extensive planning, training, and exercises in emergency response, ensuring your organization and community are safe in the midst of a crisis.
Thank you to Congressman Clay Higgins for visiting Abdalla Hall to learn more about our latest research and tools for emergency management including a tour of the Louisiana Business Emergency Operations Center.
NIST and US Ignite have created the Global City Teams Challenge (GCTC) to serve as a platform for local government representatives and technology solution providers to develop solutions designed to address vexing municipal problems with smart city applications.
Michael Dunaway is the chairman for technology development and integration for the Smart Public Safety national super cluster connected to communications and the Internet of Things. The challenge is what will public safety look like in the future?
The NIMSAT Institute showcased the NextGen Business Emergency Operations Center, a customizable version of the successful Louisiana Business Emergency Operations Center that was established in 2010.
Louisiana National Guard Brigadier General Lee Hopkins and members of his team visited Abdalla Hall on February 24, 2017 to learn more about UL Lafayette's research portfolio.
NextGen BEOC Project Named "Most Likely to Have a Big Impact."
Dr. Michael Dunaway, Ph.D., Director, NIMSAT Institute accepts an award for the NextGen BEOC project named "Most Likely to Have a Big Impact" at the US Ignite Smart Cities Innovation Summit in Austin, TX.
Major General Glenn H. Curtis, Adjutant General, Louisiana National Guard visited UL Lafayette's Abdalla Hall to learn more about ongoing research projects in the areas of disaster management and cyber security. He also visited a an architecture class that is working on a Camp Beauregard project. He is responsible for the deployment and coordination of programs, policies and plans affecting the more than 11,500 members of the Louisiana Army and Air National Guard.
Dr. Ramesh Kolluru, Vice President for Research, Innovation and Economic Development accepted the US Ignite Smart Community award at the Smart Cities Innovation Summit in Austin, TX in June. Lafayette is one of 15 charter members of the Smart Gigabit Community. The project will jump start a growing and sustainable testbeds and corresponding applications delivering new advances in health care, education, disaster management and other national priority areas.
The National Incident Management Systems and Advanced Technologies (NIMSAT) Institute is a homeland security and emergency management center part of the Informatics Research Institute at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette.
The Institute focuses on the development of public-private partnerships and the application of advanced information technologies to enhance the resiliency of the US to all-hazards, and to the mission of saving human lives. The NIMSAT Institute seeks to enhance national resiliency to a full range of potential disasters by conducting research leading to innovative tools and applications that empower the homeland security and emergency management community through education, training, outreach and operational support. The NIMSAT Institute is staffed with experienced first responders, academic researchers, and technology experts connecting for a resilient America.
The LABEOC is a joint partnership between the Louisiana Governor's Office of Homeland Security and Emergency Preparedness, Louisiana Economic Development, and the NIMSAT Institute at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette.
Founded in 2010, the LABEOC supports the coordination of activities and resources of businesses and volunteer organizations in Louisiana and across the nation as well as with the public sector to improve response, improve self-sufficiency, reduce reliance on FEMA and other federal assistance in order to maximize business, industry and economic stabilization, returning the business environment to normal operations as quickly as possible.
Currently, the NIMSAT Institute is creating a Next Generation Business Emergency Operations Center (Next Gen BEOC) with funding through the National Institute of Standards and Technology and US Ignite.
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On resistance, black joy, disability and work to do by #DisabledAndCute creator Keah Brown.
With his crude, false, defensive, insulting and threatening tweets to and about "Saturday Night Live" cast members, leaders of other countries, actresses, reporters and press outlets — and now to a federal judge who ruled against his unchecked, anti-American, anti-immigrant and anti-refugee travel ban — the president spends far too much time concerned with how he is seen by other people and too little time concerned with people themselves and the devastating national and international harm he is causing. Instead, he is focused on a proposed investigation into voter fraud of the election that he won (despite the fact that he lost the popular vote). Instead of denouncing the the Ku Klux Klan, he downplayed the importance of the Jewish people on Holocaust Remembrance Day and gave an uninformed appreciation to former slave and abolitionist hero Frederick Douglass on the first day of Black History Month. He is tone-deaf and dangerous.
The truth is, the election of our current president drudged up the ugliest parts of American history and championed them. A spike in hate crimes almost immediately followed the announcement that Trump had won the presidency. America, despite its many faults, should be a place for and of all people. Instead, America is a place that punishes black and brown people at alarming rates for doing almost anything and has a known white supremacist, Steve Bannon, playing a significant advisory role in the White House. News shows now feature politicians and their spokespeople calling outright lies "alternative facts." We stopped having the luxury of ignoring politics, of trusting the process and hoping for the best, on Election Night. We can no longer sit idly by while America tears itself apart, from the inside out, while its "leader" boasts about ratings and crowd sizes.
First, resist. Allow yourself room to say, "No, this is not OK and I will not stand for it." Resistance happens in protest — make your voice heard and your opinions known as well as lifting up the voices of those outside your community.
Second, support reputable news organizations, the same ones that Trump and his supporters have waged war against: The New York Times, the Washington Post and Teen Vogue. Let them know that you value the work they are doing, that in choosing to spread the truth and call racism, xenophobia and hatred by their true names, they are leading the resistance, too. We cannot let facts become alternative or exchange the truth for lies. We must be smarter and remain critical of the new administration.
Finally, we must make the time to take care of ourselves. We can't fight and resist if we are not at our best, and being at our best means taking breaks and finding joy amid all of this.
Speaking of joy, as we enter February, it is important to give black people the space to have and feel joy. We get only 28 days to celebrate ourselves and our people and now, more than ever, we deserve that.
While letting black people have our joy, we must all also remember that the fight is far from over. If anything, it has just begun, and while the women's marches across the country were important and necessary, there was an erasure of black women's voices, a dismissal of our stories and the wars we have already been fighting. Attending the Women's March was a step in the right direction, but it is important to spend Black History Month raising and championing the voices of all black women and people. In order to push the movement forward, it is imperative that we go beyond women's marches, that we show up for Black Lives Matter protests — that we care about black lives before they are taken. If you are an ally who can't attend protests due to physical or invisible disability, you can donate to causes that support the Black Lives Matter movement; talk to your friends, family and acquaintances who are perpetuating stereotypes about the movement and amplify our voices using your platform.
The same support should be extended to our Muslim brothers and sisters and everyone affected in the seven countries on the ban list, whose families have suffered, regardless of whether they had legal visas — even though no known terrorist has come from any of the countries on the list.
The time is now to fight and work toward an America that aims to be "The Dream," that allows black and brown people the right to live freely and well. The America that ends the wage gap and affords every woman and gender-nonconforming person access to healthcare and does not infringe on our reproductive rights. The America that treats people with disabilities like people, not stories of inspiration or pity. People with disabilities in all our intersections deserve the right to healthcare that will not only allow us to live but to live full and long lives. Throughout history, the American dream has only truly been accessible to white, able-bodied people, and it is time to change that.
Yesterday, justice won when Federal Judge James L. Robart temporarily halted the president's travel ban and lifted restrictions, starting immediately. Today is Rosa Parks' birthday and the freedom rider would be proud. She stood up by sitting down. But there are still miles to go in this fight. How will you stand up?
There is a choice we must make: the choice to be on the right side of history or the wrong one, to say, "I fought in the face of fascism" or "I just went along for the ride." I have made my choice. Will you?
Keah Brown reads a lot of books and watches far too much TV. Music is her third favorite thing after cheesecake and pizza, of course. Her work has appeared in Teen Vogue, Literary Hub, Catapult and Lenny Letter, among other publications. She is the creator of the #DiabledAndCute hashtag, promoting visibility and self-acceptance for people with disabilities. Her debut essay collection, THE PRETTY ONE, is forthcoming from Atria Books. Follow Keah on Twitter: @Keah_Maria.
Image: Detail from "More Than Love" featured with permission by Haitian-American artist Watson Mere, creator of "My Brother's Keeper." Learn more about his work at his website, artofmere.com, and follow him on Instagram at @artofmere_.


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            Y = single;
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PostDontLie.com's Mike Miller reacts to offseason moves.
With the Knicks making a series of big moves in the offseason after their playoff exit, PostDontLie.com's Mike Miller joined me to talk about New York's most recent efforts to catch the Heat and Pacers at the top of the Eastern Conference.
Even selecting the great Iman Shumpert was received negatively by the New York faithful two years ago.
Two days removed from the 2013 NBA Draft, Kenny Ducey chatted with ESPN New York's Jared Zwerling (@JaredZwerling) about New York Knicks free agents JR Smith and Chris Copeland, and who the Knicks may have their eye on Thursday night. Hear which of the aforementioned players he thinks is more likely to stay, plus who may be on the board when New York picks at #24.
Three days away from the NBA Draft, Tom Lorenzo (@TomLorenzo) joined Kenny Ducey to discuss what the Nets may do with the 22nd pick in the NBA Draft, and what Tom himself decided to do with the Nets' pick in SBNation's Mock Draft. According to him, Brooklyn needs a bigman, or at the very least, a wing player. Hear what Jason Kidd said to Tom when asked which of the pre-draft workouts he liked.
Ray Allen's game tying three pointer in Game 6 of the NBA Finals changed everything for the Miami Heat. The image of the Big Three went from failure to success and LeBron James joined an exclusive group of Hall of Famers by winning back to back Finals MVPs.
ESPN New York Radio Host and Nets PxP Man Ryan Ruocco joined Kenny Ducey and Jake Kring-Schreifels to chat about the new Brooklyn Nets Head Coach, as well as his impressions of the NBA Finals thus far. Hear what he had to say on the future of the Heat's big three and who he has taking Game 5.
New York Post writer gets more than two questions on One on One.
After finishing media availability in Miami between games one and two between the Spurs and Heat, Marc Berman of the New York Post joined One on One to talk about the NBA Finals.
"Heat Index" Sabrematician talks to the crew on One on One.
Tom Haberstroh is one of the many people that was impacted by LeBron James' infamous decision to head to South Beach in 2010. Having never taken a journalism class, Haberstroh was hired by ESPN.com as an analytics writer for ESPN's Miami Heat Index.


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Aisy-sous-Thil ist eine französische Gemeinde mit  Einwohnern (Stand: ) im Département Côte-d'Or in der Region Bourgogne-Franche-Comté. Die Gemeinde gehört zum Arrondissement Montbard und zum Kanton Semur-en-Auxois.

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Aisy-sous-Thil liegt am Nordostrand des Morvan. Der Fluss Serein begrenzt die Gemeinde im Osten. Umgeben wird Aisy-sous-Thil von den Nachbargemeinden Montigny-Saint-Barthélemy und Bierre-lès-Semur im Norden, Précy-sous-Thil im Osten, Vic-sous-Thil im Südosten und Süden, Juillenay im Süden, Lacour-d'Arcenay im Südwesten sowie Dompierre-en-Morvan im Westen.

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XELO and the Border Blasters
As most readers of this blog know, south of the U.S. border were radio stations that broadcasted far beyond the 50,000-watt limit assigned to U.S. clear-channel stations like KAAY.
These "border blasters" typically operated at 150,000 watts and directed northwards their mix of music with relentless ads for dubious medical cures and cosmetics.
Here is a short intro from the Modesto Radio Museum web site (http://www.modestoradiomuseum.org/border%20index.html):
Many radio broadcasters in the 30's moved South Of The Border to avoid Broadcasting regulations and liability. So-called Mexican "Border Blasters" were licensed commercial radio station that transmitted at very high power to the United States of America from various Mexican cities near the border beginning in the 1930's and continuing into the 80's. There were many such stations licensed by Mexico's Secretary of Communications and Transport (SCT) using transmitters with an output far in excess of licensed commercial stations located within the USA. The primary reason for the high powered stations was to escape United States regulations regarding power and frequency assignments.
As was the case between the 1930's and the 1970's, some border blasters in areas near larger American border cities such as San Diego are leased out by American broadcasting companies and air English-language programming targeting American audiences. The American side leases the station from the Mexican station owners/licence holders and feeds programming from their American studios to the Mexican transmitters via satellite.
Perhaps the most famous personality from the Border Blasters was Wolfman Jack, who broadcasted from XERB. You can read about the Wolfman's colorful life south of the border at these links:
http://www.modestoradiomuseum.org/wolfman%20and%20the%20blasters.html
http://www.modestoradiomuseum.org/wolfman%20howls%20across%20the%20border.html
There is a great book by Gene Fowler and Bill Crawford, Border Radio (Univ. Texas Press 2002); see http://www.utexas.edu/utpress/excerpts/exfowbor.html
But the topic of this post is XELO, one of the historic Border-Blaster stations.
XELO was originally in the Tijuana/Rosarito area of Baja California, Mexico. Later, it moved to Juarez. It was notable for its mix of music and those aggressive advertisements, and perhaps its most famous presenter was Woody Guthrie, who spent three tumultuous weeks at the station:
Woody was arrested and expelled from the country by Mexican police, who misunderstood his jest, after receiving some fan mail from Canadian listeners, that "he smuggled some songs into Canada"! See this link at Google books for the details.
XELO had a huge broadcast range, as shown by this graphic:
XELO's listeners included Gary Wegner and Ron Henselman in Chicagoland. Gary recorded these clips, of XELO's "Record Roost" show: (There's quite a cast of characters here!)
(click here to download)
(or click here to download)
Gary also requested and received a Record Roost poster:
Wow --- 150,000 Watts for this cast of characters! This was not at all unusual in the glory days of the Border Blasters.
XELO still broadcasts these days, emphasizing Spanish-language programming.
Thanks to Ron Henselman for forwarding this material!
---Dave S.
P.S. Ron has more stories about Border Blaster stations, to come....
P.P.S. The photo and XELO graphic are from a Google Books page documenting the Fowler and Crawford text. It is not my intention to violate anyone's copyright, so these will disappear if the authors request that I remove them. (In the meantime, I suggest you buy their book! :-)
I remember, as a kid, "logging" XELO and listening to them. In fact, I still have those sheets of notebook paper with all the stations I heard. KAAY was down the log a bit. Thank you, Ron & Dave! Bud S., Mobile, AL
Any truth to the rumor that the U.S. imposed secret signals onto the XELO broadcast to communicate with subs at sea during WWII? Thus hiding the signal from the German and Japanese navies.
i have a friend who has been trying to find a copy of "along the santa fe trail" by Ben Light trio. i understand that this version was used to open some of the shows on XELO radio in 1948. any idea where i could find this?
off topic - but does anyone reading this know anything of a Dr. Jazzmo who was on XERF in the late 50's or mid 60's?
Mike Nicholson May 30, 2018 at 12:18 PM
Yes. And he was either followed or replaced by the Wolfman, who was probably later Wolfman Jack. I'm talking 1959-60.
Dennis Romo December 9, 2014 at 8:53 PM
In the 1960s I had sent a letter to: Cousin Billy, Care of XELO's Record Roost, Post Office Box 188, El Paso, Texas, 79942 and received an antenna topper. I was using an Unelco Electronics Corp Model 1914, Shortwave receiver with 4 coil sets, 1 - 0.54-1.6 MHz, 2 - 1.4-3.3 MHz, 3 - 3.3-5.6 MHz, 5 - 9.4-17.8 MHz. I mainly did AM DXing and still have it and all the memories. It was a Christmas present that I had chosen out of the Sears Wishbook and still cherish it.
73, Dennis KA7HQP
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"Where Are They Now?" Phil North!!!
Audio Frequency Response, From Dave M.
Detuning Water Towers, Etc.
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Behind the scenes with John's Jeans
The Emperor Holiday Button
Dick Downes: the "Broadcasting Yearbooks"
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A KAAY "FM Sister Station"?
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Dave M. on KAAY's ground system
Is KAAY For Sale?
KAAY And The Cuban Missile Crisis
One Millon Bogus Bucks
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'60's Memories
What Was The #1 Song For....
September 11: A Day Of Rememberance
Nick's & Dave's Adventures
Deejay Identified!
Can You Identify This Deejay?
SINCERE THANKS TO YOU ALL !
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Celebrities from Bollywood attended the premiere event of the film Nirdosh on January 18, 2018. The premiere event saw the presence of Arbaaz Khan, Manjari Phadnis, Maheck Chahal, Ashmit Patel and others.
The film is directed by Pradeep Rangwani and Subroto Paul and has hit the theatres on January 19, 2018. The story of the film is about a murder after which Shinaya Grover, played by Manjari gets arrested as the prime suspect. Arbaaz Khan is seen playing the role of a cop who takes the charge of further investigations.
The film is produced by Pradeep Rangwani under the banner of UV films. Some of the initial reviews of the film have said that an amateur plot of the film has messed up the murder mystery. The film also stars Mukul Dev, who was not seen at the premiere event of the film.


Married At First Sight's Martha has revealed her plans to leave the country after being relentlessly bullied online.
The 30-year-old told TV Week that she has received 'thousands' of hateful messages as a result of her portrayal on the reality program.
"I'm trying to deal with it but I'm definitely struggling," Martha said, adding that she plans to spend time overseas until things blow over.
The trolling allegedly began when she started supporting her friend Jessika during her affair with Dan on the show.
"My phone was blowing up. I received about 1,000 messages. I was about to throw it against the wall. People forget it's entertainment. They take it so seriously," she told the publication.
"I've had death threats, people commenting... I just cant wait for [the drama] to end."
The news comes just days after a source close to the show told NW Magazine that Martha was actually one of the show's villains, and received a quite favourable edit.
"Martha is the biggest pot-stirrer I've ever met," the source said.
"She would gossip non-stop just to get attention, and because she was so bored in her own relationship [with Michael].
"Martha would try to pry into everything and cause problems."


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Filed Under: Big Government Fat Taxes
The Maine Problem: Food Cops Run Amok
A state known for its rich and delicious lobster now faces the draft report of an anti-obesity plan straight out of the food cops' playbook. The Commission to Study Public Health in Maine, created by state Representative Sean Faircloth, recently released 28 anti-obesity policy recommendations. Last year, Center for Science in the Public Interest (CSPI) nutrition director Margo Wootan spoke at a press conference praising Faircloth's wide-ranging anti-obesity legislative efforts, which included CSPI-favored mandatory nutritional labeling on restaurant menus. But the links don't stop there, and neither does this off-the-wall report.
In addition to requiring chain restaurants with 20 or more nationwide locations to provide caloric information for foods on their menus or menu boards, the Maine commission recommended:
Taxes: Placing special taxes on food advertisements to children, when those foods aren't on a list of "health foods and beverages" (France recently adopted a similar plan);
"Treat Bans": Forbidding the time-honored tradition of teachers occasionally using food as a reward for learning in school;
Milk Restrictions: Allowing only one-percent or skim milk on school campuses (CSPI has proposed something similar, going so far as to say that two-percent milk is of "poor nutritional quality"); and
Fat "Report Cards": Forcing schools to annually assess a student's Body Mass Index and notify parents whose children are above or below "normal."
How would such a costly plan be implemented? "It is recommended that funding for these initiatives be derived from sources that are determined by the Legislature to be causes of obesity," the report noted. Translation: A "Fat Tax." That's music to the ears of Twinkie tax creator Kelly Brownell, who lauded Faircloth's previous proposals as "among the most innovative of the country." Calorie cop Marion Nestle notes: "I am already referring to Rep. Faircloth's work in my writing and presentations." Not surprisingly, Faircloth was a speaker, along with Brownell and Nestle, at a 2003 conference "intended to encourage and support litigation against the food industry."


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STORY: The ongoing clashes between protesters and police in Peru over its political crisis killed at least one person over the weekend and saw others hospitalized in Lima.Protesters demanding the resignation of President Dina Boluarte are seen here. The fatality brings the total death toll to near 60 over eight weeks.Some protests escalated as demonstrators armed with rocks and makeshift shields clashed with police, who deployed gas and rubber bullets.The violence began in early December after the impeachment and arrest of former President Pedro Castillo, on charges of rebellion. He was also embroiled in multiple corruption investigations.Supporters are demanding his release.Initially focused in Peru's rural, mountainous south, the protests have since gained steam in the capital.Boluarte expressed regret early on Saturday after Congress refused to speed up the timeline for a presidential election amid the unrest.Lawmakers had given an initial green light to moving elections from 2026 to 2024, but on Friday voted down proposals to hold the election this year.Meanwhile, Boluarte has maintained she will stay on as president until elections are held.
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New French protests, strikes target Macron pensions plan
French President Emmanuel Macron on Tuesday faced a new wave of anger over his plan to reform pensions, with nationwide strikes and protests causing widespread disruption in transport, schools and other public services.Union-led protesters came out for mass demonstrations for the second time in less than two weeks, hoping to force Macron to drop his plan to raise the age of retirement from 62 to 64, a flagship reform of his second mandate in power.A police source said the authorities were bracing for up to 1.2 million people to take to the streets across the country.If confirmed, the number could exceed the 1.1 million who came out on January 19 against the proposed shake-up -- already the largest protests since the last major round of pension reform in 2010."We hope to be at least that many again," the boss of the hard-left CGT union, Philippe Martinez, told media Tuesday, adding there would be 250 protest marches.But Macron has shown no sign of stepping back, insisting on Monday that the reform is "essential" to "save our system" of pensions distribution.Some 11,000 police were mobilised, with 4,000 deployed in Paris where several hundred extremist troublemakers were expected, according to the interior ministry.The first marches kicked off at 10:00 am (0900 GMT), with several prominent opposition politicians taking part.- 'Certain to lose' -"Mr Macron is certain to lose," said Jean-Luc Melenchon, a figurehead for the far left and former presidential candidate, as he marched in the southern port city of Marseille.Millions had to find alternative means of transport Tuesday, work from home or take time off to look after their school-age children, with workers in transport and education sectors among those staging walkouts."This is about more than pensions, it is about what kind of society we want," 59-year-old university professor Martine Beugnet told AFP.Paris metro and suburban rail services were severely restricted, as was intercity travel.In the southwestern city of Bordeaux, Cheikh Sadibou Tamamate, 36, arrived at the train station in the small hours of Tuesday, hoping to catch a train to Paris after the one he was booked on around 5:00 am (0400 GMT) never left."Unfortunately it was cancelled," he said.Air travel appeared to be less affected, and there were only minor disruptions on international train services including the Eurostar. Around half of all nursery and primary school teachers were on strike. France's oil industry was mostly paralysed, with the CGT union at energy giant TotalEnergies reporting between 75 and 100 percent of workers on strike.- 'The less they support it' -High school and university students also joined the movement, with a few dozen students at the prestigious Sciences-Po university occupying its main building overnight."It's important to get young people involved in the pensions debate," Jean-Baptiste Bonnet, a student there, told AFP."Obviously this is young people's business," said Colin Champion, a student leader at the Lycee Voltaire in Paris, one of several schools blockaded by pupils in the capital.Even a prison, in the southwestern city of Nimes, was blocked by staff protesting, a union source said.Sixty-one percent of French people support the protest movement, a poll by the OpinionWay survey group showed on Monday -- a rise of three percentage points from January 12."The more French people find out about the reform, the less they support it," said Frederic Dabi, a prominent pollster at the Ifop institute."This is not good at all for the government," he told AFP.The most controversial part of the overhaul is hiking the minimum retirement age.But the changes are also to increase the number of years people have to make contributions before they can receive a full pension.France has the lowest qualifying age for a state pension among major European economies. The government has said the changes are necessary to guarantee the future financing of the pension system, which is forecast to tip into deficit in the next few years.But opponents point out that the system is not in trouble, insisting pension spending is not out of control.The government has signalled there could be wiggle room on some of the suggested measures, but Prime Minister Elisabeth Borne has declared raising the age of retirement "non-negotiable".Parliament committees started examining the bill on Monday.Macron's centrist allies, short of an absolute majority, will need votes from conservatives to push through the new legislation.burs-jh/sjw/bp
Dems urge Biden to halt aid to Peru over protest crackdown
A group of House Democrats is urging the Biden administration to suspend all U.S. security assistance to Peru over a "pattern of repression" of antigovernment protests that has resulted in more than 50 civilian deaths. The letter, sent Monday and a copy of which was shared with The Associated Press, urges the Biden administration to halt all security assistance until it can confirm that the crackdown has ended and the Peruvian officials responsible for human rights abuses are being held accountable. Peru's foreign minister is in Washington this week seeking international support for President Dina Boluarte's increasingly besieged government.
Demonstrators Gather in Berlin to Support Protesters in Peru
Protesters gathered in front of the Peru Embassy and the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin, Germany, on Saturday, January 28, in support of protesters who have been staging demonstrations in Peru since December 2022.Demonstrations erupted across Peru last year following the impeachment and arrest of former President Pedro Castillo, after he attempted to dissolve congress due to corruption. Peru's congress voted to impeach Castillo, and he was detained that day for "rebellion and conspiracy," according to Peru's Public Ministry.The organizers of the Berlin protest called on people to "show solidarity with the struggle of the indigenous and rural peoples of Peru."The organizers also said they support the demands of protesters in Peru, including the immediate resignation of President Dina Boluarte and the Bureau of Congress.Footage filmed by Twitter user @JoanImitola, who told Storyful the protest was intended to raise awareness on the "tremendous repression exercised by the Peruvian government against the protesters," shows people dancing, playing musical instruments, and holding signs in front of the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin. Credit: @JoanImitola via Storyful
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During the 2020 season, Dalvin Cook has proved himself to be a top running back in the league. I am here to say why I believe that Dalvin Cook is the best running back in the NFL. From rushing the football to being a receiving back, from running through defenders to being too quick for anyone to catch, Dalvin Cook can do it all.
Dalvin Cook has proven in the 2020 season that he is the number one rushing running back in the NFL. Through week 10, Dalvin Cook leads the NFL in rushing yards with a racked up total of 954. Some may say "Well Derrick Henry is not far behind with 946 rushing yards," well Derrick Henry has 37 more rushes and another game played than Dalvin. Dalvin also is leading the league in yards per game with 119 and a total of 12 touchdowns on the ground. He is on pace to rush for a total of 1830 yards and 25 touchdowns, now if that doesn't strike you as the best rushing back in the NFL, then I do not know what will.
As a running back that does not catch very many passes, he is still a very lethal threat in the passing game. With the small sample size of 20 catches this season, he still has 189 receiving yards through week 10. You may be thinking that does not seem very impressive but he is averaging 9.5 receiving yards per catch with most of his targets being screens. With a running back rushing the ball as much as he does you can not count him out to get a few catches a game and get you that first down.
In terms of Fantasy Football, many may think that it is an irrelevant topic for top backs in the NFL but I believe Dalvin Cook Fantasy owners will agree with me about Dalvin Cooks' greatness. Dalvin Cook is averaging 27 points per Fantasy performance with even a few outbreaks in games. In 2 consecutive games against the Packers and Lions, Dalvin Cook had a total of over 200 yards in both games capping off with 48 points against the Packers and 39 against the Lions. Dalvin is the man every Fantasy owner wants on their team due to his consistency and the number of touchdowns that he gets per game. Now, Dalvin Cook may be the number two running back in Fantasy behind Alvin Kamara, but Kamara is not as true of a running back as Dalvin Cook is. Dalvin averages over 100 rushing yards per game to Alvin Kamaras at just over 50, I would personally take Dalvin over Kamara every single day of the week.
With the dominance shown by Dalvin Cook this year and leading the Viking's offense back from a rough start to the season he needs to be seen as the best back in the game.
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Guthrie Ramsey's creative journey of healing, collaboration, and persistence
The Penn music professor's latest album was prompted by his cancer diagnosis and influenced by the coronavirus pandemic and racial injustice protests.
Music Professor Guthrie Ramsey has released a new album of songs, "A Spiritual Vibe, Vol. 1," meant to pay homage to his many musical partnerships. (Image: NJR2 Photography)
Diagnosed with cancer last year, Professor Guthrie Ramsey instinctively knew that creating music would be important to his healing. What he didn't know is that his composing and recording project would unfold during a global pandemic and an uprising against racial injustice.
"Everything I'm working on right now is so pertinent to what we are all feeling right now," says Ramsey, the Edmund J. and Louise W. Kahn Term Professor of Music in the School of Arts & Sciences.
Ramsey's new album, "A Spiritual Vibe, Vol. 1," is filled with songs that pay homage to musical partnerships throughout his career, from interpretations of hymns and spirituals he has sung since he was a child to a new original composition.
Published in July, Ramsey edited, wrote the forward, and managed the publication of a book written by Rae Linda Brown, a mentor and friend.
And publishing this month is a book he edited and wrote the forward for, "The Heart of a Woman: The Live and Music of Florence B. Price," a first-ever biography of a pioneering African American composer. The book was researched and written by Rae Linda Brown, a mentor and friend of Ramsey's who died before completing the work, so he managed the publication.
The album and book are the latest in Ramsey's body of work, which includes previous music albums, music videos, books and articles, art exhibitions, as well as a podcast series that is part of the Musiqology blog he founded.
"More and more what this moment is about for me is legacy, recovering the American Black histories that have not been told. This goes for the book and for the spirituals that have managed to be so durable through the years," he says.
Music as education
This year, Ramsey, a professor at Penn since 1998, was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Letters. That election is "perhaps no better measure of his stellar career," says Timothy Rommen, chair of Penn's Department of Music. "We are all so fortunate to have been able to work, think, and teach alongside him these past years.
"Guy's career at Penn has seen him establish himself within the broadest possible range of music studies. He has also been a consistently supportive colleague and interlocutor across multiple departments here at Penn."
Ramsey often teaches the American music history course he taught in the spring semester, although it wasn't until the last meeting that he shared with the 17 students that he was going through a cancer treatment.
"A lot of what we talk about is what music means and how it expresses sentiments for us when words fail," says Ramsey. "So, for them to be in the midst of a pandemic—the entire semester moved online—they could really relate to the role of music in keeping their souls together, keeping their minds together, keeping them connected to one another because of the music we share."
Music as healing
"A Spiritual Vibe" brought Ramsey, a pianist and a baritone, back to his roots as a performer. He threw himself a birthday party at a recording studio two days before surgery last August. Family, friends, musical partners were all there, and he started laying some tracks.
Ramsey's latest album is "A Spiritual Vibe, Vol. 1." (Cover design: Mikel Washington Cover art: Candace Ramsey-Brown)
The period of radiation treatment and recovery he decided would be the perfect time to think about the music.
"I know my process. I knew I would be listening to things and figuring out what to add while I was down. It was a gift to occupy myself," he says. "If I couldn't be teaching or writing a book, I would write my own music."
Although he was also gathering material for an eventual book about the experience. Every time he went for one of his 39 radiation treatments, he kept a log, listening to the random Pandora playlist piped into the room. He already has a working title: "39 Days of Black Radio."
The course of treatment ended in February, and just as he was gearing up to finish the album the pandemic restrictions went into place, followed by the Black Lives Matter protests. With social distancing required, he had to take a new approach to the unfinished tracks.
He reworked the song "Motherless Child" as a solo piece instead of the planned performance by four singers and a full band. He created the piano accompaniment on his home computer with music software. A solo vocalist, Vince Anthony, who has been a main musical collaborator and is featured in several songs on the album, laid his track in a recording studio. A sound engineer pulled it all together.
"The traces of the pandemic are in that piece. It was one of the last I was going to record, and when we shut down I could no longer do that," he says. "We worked out a way in real time for me to hear what they were doing. They sent the final track back, and I loved it."
Music as relationships
The album is deeply personal. "I wanted to document my musical partnerships," Ramsey says. "Music is about our human desire to feel social relationships, and music is one of the ways we experience that."
Ramsey (center) often collaborates with his daughter Bridget Ramsey (right), a soprano, and musician Vince Anthony. They perform several tracks on his new album. (Image: Nadia Henry)
His relationship with his daughter Bridget, a trained classical soprano, is central to a signature piece on the album, "Oh, What a Beautiful City," a song Ramsey says is special to him because "it was the first song I heard as a child that made we want to go to heaven."
And the song also includes his son Robert, a tenor. "I've done music with my family from day one. Even now I direct my granddaughter's choir at church. It is a family and relational thing with me," Ramsey says. "It's very spiritual. It's who I am and who we are as a family."
The music video features Ramsey wearing a mask, driving alone in his car and stopping to take photos of historic locations throughout Philadelphia—Girard College, Uptown Theater, Temple University's McGonigle Hall—and juxtaposing photos from protests in the 1960s and 1970s. "I wasn't comfortable being the only one in front of the camera, and it wasn't my first choice, but it is a pandemic, and we had to do a socially distanced video," he says.
The music video for the song "Oh What a Beautiful City" features Ramsey driving through Philadelphia, stopping at murals and historic sites to take photos and write in a journal.
His original composition, "Think on These Things," featuring vocals by his daughter with him on the keyboard, is a musical response to a line of scripture, Philippians 4:8, sent to him from a friend who knew about his health challenges. "Everything becomes significant," he says. "So, I set it to music."
The track "Wade in the Water" he describes as "my favorite Negro spiritual, one I heard as a child as a choir student in high school." The 12-performer arrangement is based on a live performance featuring singers, poets, and dancers interpreting the first three chapters of a book he is writing about the history of Black music in America titled "Soundproof: Black Music, Magic, and Racial Intimacies." He created the performance as the Provost's Lecture on Diversity he gave at Penn in 2018.
St. Paul's Baptist Church in North Philadelphia is a community central to Ramsey's life, led by Pastor Leslie Callahan, a former assistant professor of religion at Penn. While putting together a virtual church service during the pandemic, Ramsey reached out to several musicians, including his roommate from Northeastern Illinois University, Rod McGaha, a trumpeter who has been his friend for 40 years. The solo of "Amazing Grace" is the centerpiece of Ramsey's interpretation.
Music as inspiration
The "Spiritual Vibe" album, Ramsey says, represents persistence. And Volume 2 is already in the works. "It represents that I am as of March cancer free. It represents total victory for me," he says.
"I love that it is speaking to people at a moment where nerves are frayed, and people feel hopeless, and people need reasons to fight for freedom, and they are listening to my music and looking at the videos and getting strength and inspiration. It is all I could have asked for and more."


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Springboard – Brighton & Hove Performing Arts Ltd
Working Together To Safeguard Children
Implemented from: 1 July 2021 to 30 June 2022
Full name of organisation:
Springboard – Brighton & Hove Performing Arts Ltd (hereinafter called the Festival)
C/O Spofforths now Kreston /Reeves
Kreston Reeves Brighton Office
Plus X Innovation Hub
Lewes Road
BN2 4GL
admin@springboardfestival.co/uk
Chair: Jannet King
Company Secretary: Sue Goodacre
Treasurer: Ali Hamie
Safeguarding Officer: Kathy Palmer
Venues: Brighton Girls GDST, Montpelier Road, Brighton BN1 3AT; Lancing Prep, The Droveway, Hove BN3 6LU; Church of the Good Shepherd, 272 Dyke Road, Brighton, BN1 5AE; St Luke's Church, Queen's Park Road, Brighton BN2 9ZB
Dates: 4 March – 27 March 2022
1. The main objective of the charity is:
To advance, promote and encourage generally, and in particular by means of competitive festivals, the study and practice of the arts of Music, Speech and Drama in all their branches; the Festival provides a platform for amateur performance combined with an educational element from professional adjudicators in the relevant discipline.
2. Virtual festival
Parents/guardians/carers and teachers are responsible for the suitability of the content of the videos of performers under the age of 16. They should bear in mind that the videos will be viewed by the adjudicator, Springboard personnel and those attending the virtual class. The videos will be deleted from the Springboard system directly after the festival.
3. To Whom Does This Policy Apply?
The policy relates to children (any person under the age of 16 years) and those vulnerable adults of any age who are identified to the organisers prior to their arrival at the Festival. This should be done by contacting the relevant Section Secretary or Festival Administrator at the address or telephone number above at the time of booking. Later notification may result in us being unable to meet individual needs, when with more notice we could have done so. The Festival needs notification of these needs by parents/guardians/ and/or teachers ('Carers') beforehand in order to prepare support where possible and practicable. Carers must read the policy and confirm this by ticking the relevant box on the online entry system. This acknowledges the part they play in partnership with the Festival Organisers in the implementation of the Child Protection Policy.
4. Non-discrimination policy
The Festival follows a strict non-discrimination policy and all entrants are treated equally irrespective of race, gender, religion, physical/mental disability, sexual orientation, age or ethnic origin.
5. Festival Personnel
a. Where Festival Personnel will be supervising children or in one-to-one contact
with children at our Festival, where they will be holding children's records or making decisions about how people interact with children then they will be required to undertake a voluntary disclosure through the Disclosure and Barring Service prior to the start of the Festival. Those disclosures will be processed through the umbrella body which supports Springboard – The British & International Federation of Festivals, or such other body that the organisation may deem appropriate.
b. We will ensure that all volunteers working at the Festival will be required to submit contact details and references, which we will hold on file and keep to
hand during the Festival. A self-declaration form is filled in by volunteers each year.
c. All Festival Personnel will be identified by badges, which will include their name and job description. In case of a problem, anyone wearing a badge may be approached at any time and will be able to take you to someone who can help.
d. A private area, if appropriate, will be made available for the discussion of concerns. This will be the Administrator's Office on site at the Venue. All problems will be dealt with discreetly, documented and dated, where necessary.
e. All badges will be issued on a daily basis and will be signed in and signed out.
f. We will keep a copy of this register to hand at all times during the festival.
6. Preparation for Attendance at the Festival
A responsible adult (18 years or over) must accompany any child attending the Festival at all times. Where Carers are not personally attending the Festival with their child(ren), this Policy requires them to ensure that their child(ren) will be accompanied to, and adequately supervised at, the Festival by a responsible adult (18 years or over), acting on their behalf, at all times. This will be set out clearly as a condition to entry to the Festival.
You are supplied with a copy of this Policy so you become partners in the
implementation of the Springboard Child Protection Policy. You will be sent an email
copy of the Policy following your online entry or a hard copy of the Policy in
response to your paper entry.
7. Practice Rooms and Toilet Facilities
a. The Festival Organisers do provide (a) practice room(s) during the Festival at Brighton Girls GDST. It is the responsibility of all Carers to ensure that a responsible adult (18 years or over) accompany any child using a practice room.
b. There are assigned male and female toilets with the entrance clearly visible from the main foyer.
8. Photographs, Video and Press Photography
a. No photography, video or sound recording by the general public is allowed at any time during performances or adjudication at the Festival, except by prior arrangement and for a specific purposes (e.g. an audition).
b. Press and Commercial Photography may be arranged during the Festival for use in Springboard publicity. Whenever this occurs the public will be notified. At this time, should anyone not wish their child(ren) to be included, then it will be their responsibility to inform the Section Secretary. There is also an option for parents to decline permission during the entry process. Please note that official images may be published in print, on the Festival website and social media by the Festival organisers, who ensure that performers are shown in a positive light and are not identified by name.
9. The Legislation and Guidance that Supports this Policy
The Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974: The Children Act 1989; The Police Act 1997; The Data Protection Act 1998; The Human Rights Act 1998; The Protection of Children Act 1999; The Criminal Justice and Court Services Act 2000, The Children Act 2004, The Protection of Vulnerable Adults Act 2006 and any further legislation/amended legislation that may become law during the currency of this policy.
10. Policy Review
The Festival Organisers will constantly review their policy, improving and enhancing it as necessary. In doing so they will look to The British & International Federation of Festivals for support and that body will in turn look to other agencies for good practice, most notably the Arts Council of England and the NSPCC policy guidelines. This document is annually reviewed and updated as required.
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The new Papua New Guinea High Commissioner to New Zealand Brigadier General Francis Agwi presents his credentials on behalf of the Papua New Guinea government to the Cook Islands Prime Minister Henry Puna at the Office of the Prime Minister yesterday.
The Cook Islands Revenue Management Division (Tax and Customs) will investigate the Cook Islands individuals and companies whose names are revealed in the Panama Papers leak.
Cook Islands is mentioned several times in the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ) database which contains information on almost 320,000 offshore entities that are part of the Panama Papers and the Offshore Leaks investigations.
Cook Islands Revenue Management Division senior tax advisor Philip Eyre said they would investigate the taxpayers who appear in the Panama Papers, to ensure they had complied with taxation laws.
He said those found guilty of fraud could face penalty tax of up to three times of the amount of tax that had not been declared.
"Like all tax administrations, one of Revenue Management's goals is to achieve voluntary compliance from all taxpayers, which includes the honest disclosure of income from overseas sources," Eyre said.
Eyre said their investigation would identify any potential income from overseas and the extent to which it was taxable in the Cook Islands in the hands of Cook Islands tax residents.
"The Cook Islands complies with international standards on taxation and works hard to provide a transparent taxation system.
"To that end, the government has committed the country to the Automatic Exchange of Information (AEOI) in 2018.
"AEOI requires that data be supplied both in and out of the Cook Islands to ensure that income from foreign sources is being correctly disclosed and declared.
The "Panama Papers" is a cache of 11.5 million electronic files containing information on companies and individuals linked to large international law firm Mossack Fonseca, a specialist in offshore companies formed in Panama and other countries.
Several international names including heads of states, sporting personalities and entertainment stars have been linked to the Panama Papers leak.


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Liquidation firms buys Carson's parent company, closings imminent
by: By IVAN MORENO, Associated Press
Posted: Apr 19, 2018 / 04:28 PM EDT / Updated: Apr 19, 2018 / 04:28 PM EDT
The Bon-Ton Stores, which operates 260 department stores in the U.S. including Carson's, is expected to go out of business after two liquidation firms became the highest bidders at an auction for the bankrupt company's assets Tuesday.
A bankruptcy court hearing was scheduled Wednesday to approve the sale and liquidation details, but a statement from the company's CEO suggested the end for The Bon-Ton Stores Inc. is certain.
"While we are disappointed by this outcome and tried very hard to identify bidders interested in operating the business as a going concern, we are committed to working constructively with the winning bidder to ensure an orderly wind-down of operations," said President and CEO Bill Tracy.
Carson's has 15 Indiana stores, including those in Fort Wayne, Warsaw, Marion, Muncie and Kokomo, and 20 Ohio stores including a Defiance location.
The 160-year-old company has survived economic recessions and depressions, but like several other brick-and-mortar retailers in recent years it couldn't survive the shift toward e-commerce, led by Amazon.com Inc.
Liquidation firms Great American Group and Tiger Capital Group were the highest bidders for the company's assets and no one else was willing to outbid them to continue store operations.
The Bon-Ton Stores was operating 260 stores in 24 states, largely in the Northeast and Midwest, when it filed for bankruptcy in January. The stores operate under different names, including Younkers, Boston Store and Carson's.


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L4-Starter
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This is my starter kit for Laravel 4 applications.

### What It Includes

  * [Sentry](https://github.com/cartalyst/sentry): for authentication & authorization system.
  * [Intervention Image](https://github.com/Intervention/image): for image manipulation needs.
  * [Bourbon](http://bourbon.io/): Although most cases are already covered with Autoprefixer, this is still a very good Sass mixin library to have.
  * [Bootstrap](http://getbootstrap.com/): I really should not use CSS frameworks but I work faster with Bootstrap, so...
  * [jQuery](http://jquery.com/): Still #teamjQuery.
  * [Gulp](http://gulpjs.com/): I find it much faster than Grunt.
  * [FontAwesome](http://fortawesome.github.io/Font-Awesome/): I might load it from CDN on production though.

### Get Started

  * Change `AppName` in `composer.json`, `app/start/global.php`, `app/AppName/Services/Validation/Validator.php` and the `AppName` directory in app folder to your application name.
  * Change `username` in `app/database/seeds/SentrySeeder.php` if you want.
  * Run `composer install` in `/app` root.
  * Run `php artisan key:generate`.
  * Run `npm install` in `/public` folder to install Gulp and its plugins.
  * Run `chmod -R 777 app/storage`.
  * Optionally, run `chmod -R 777 public/uploads` if you want to have an upload folder for user-generated-content.