EDITOR'S NOTE: As I write this tonight, I am on Day 14 of dealing with a devastating bout with the flu. My fevers and chills have finally subsided, but I am left with a relentless, nagging cough and a much lowered level of energy. It was so bad that for the first time in nearly 9 years, I could not write daily articles for this site for almost a week. Gloria Copeland, con-artist wife to Prosperity Gospel con artist Kenneth Copeland, says that "Christians don't get the flu" because "Jesus is our flu shot". The sad part is that millions of their deluded, Bible deficient followers will go around believing that mess and repeating it. Christians are never promised anywhere in the Bible that we will not get sick just like the unsaved, and indeed we die in equal numbers as the loss on a daily basis. Our home is in Heaven, not here. Our reward is at the moment of death or rapture, but in the meantime our physical bodies have no more special protection than anyone else has. The Prosperity Gospel is a lie from the pit of Hell, designed to appeal to people who reject Bible teaching in favor of false teaching that appeals to our innate sense of greed and laziness. And when the phony "faith healers" get sick, where do they go? To the doctor and the hospital just like everyone else. Shame on you, Gloria Copeland, you're a liar. Of course, you don't have to worry about getting the flu because you're holed up in your 24,000 square foot mansion and don't come in contact with the 'common people' whose money put you there.
Public health experts immediately panned the remarks while some other members of the evangelical board distanced themselves from the comments.
Here we have Word of Faith televangelist Kenneth Copeland's wife, Gloria, claiming the ability to control the weather. These charlatans our inundating our airwaves with this nonsense. If Gloria actually has this ability then why won't she fly over in her private jet to some of the most afflicted areas of our planet and control the weather for them?
The White House declined to comment and referred flu-related questions to the CDC, which did not respond to requests for comment.
Copeland and her husband co-founded Kenneth Copeland Ministries in Fort Worth, Texas. Both were members of Trump's evangelical advisory board, which disbanded after Trump took office. Other members included former Republican Rep. Michele Bachmann and Liberty University President Jerry Falwell Jr.
[Exodus 20:7] Thou shalt not take the name of the LORD thy God in vain; for the LORD will not hold him guiltless that taketh his name in vain.
So through out the Old Covenant, the LORD GOD is known by the name YHVH (YEHOVA) or as some other rendering of the same abbreviation as YHWH (YAHWEH).
YESHUA is a combination of YEHOVA-SHUA or YEHOVA SAVES!
Then, we fast forward to the NEW TESTAMENT period, the era of the birth and short ministry of the Lord YESHUA.
[John 16:23] And in that day ye shall ask me nothing. Verily, verily, I say unto you, WHATSOEVER YE SHALL ASK THE FATHER IN MY NAME, HE WILL GIVE IT YOU.
Why did the disciples had to pray to the Father in His Son's Name?
Because He said in John 10:30 "I AND MY FATHER ARE ONE" which re-affirmed further the truth of: I AM come in MY FATHER'S NAME [John 5:43a; Exodus 3:14].
The Father will act if we ask in YESHUA's Name, which is none other than His own name!
After the Lord's sacrificial mission, and YESHUA's reclaimed His heavenly throne and becomes our High Priest [Hebrews 3:1], we address the LORD GOD, by His accomplished "saving mission's" NAME YESHUA or YEHOVA-SAVES!
So, we have read how holy and sacred is the name of the LORD GOD which He had declared to the world; YESHUA which is known in the scripture as JESUS CHRIST.
Chris Rosebrough of Fighting for the Faith (http://www.fightingforthefaith.com) answers a listener email regarding the Biblical evidence for Jesus being God in human flesh.
The prosperity gospel . Is it of God, or is it a false gospel leading people to destruction?
THE KUNDALINI SPIRIT HAS INVADED THE CHURCH MASQUERADING AS THE HOLY SPIRIT !!! BE VIGILANT!
[2Pe 3:9-17] THE LORD is not slack concerning his promise, as some men count slackness; but is longsuffering to us-ward, NOT WILLING THAT ANY SHOULD PERISH, BUT THAT ALL SHOULD COME TO REPENTANCE. But the day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night; in the which the heavens shall pass away with a great noise, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat, the earth also and the works that are therein shall be burned up. SEEING THEN THAT ALL THESE THINGS SHALL BE DISSOLVED, WHAT MANNER OF PERSONS OUGHT YE TO BE IN ALL HOLY CONVERSATION AND GODLINESS, Looking for and hasting unto the coming of the day of God, wherein the heavens being on fire shall be dissolved, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat? Nevertheless we, according to his promise, look for new heavens and a new earth, wherein dwelleth righteousness. Wherefore, beloved, seeing that ye look for such things, be diligent that ye may be found of him in peace, without spot, and blameless. And account that the longsuffering of our Lord is salvation; even as our beloved brother Paul also according to the wisdom given unto him hath written unto you; AS ALSO IN ALL HIS EPISTLES, SPEAKING IN THEM OF THESE THINGS; IN WHICH ARE SOME THINGS HARD TO BE UNDERSTOOD, WHICH THEY THAT ARE UNLEARNED AND UNSTABLE WREST, AS THEY DO ALSO THE OTHER SCRIPTURES, UNTO THEIR OWN DESTRUCTION. YE THEREFORE, BELOVED, SEEING YE KNOW THESE THINGS BEFORE, BEWARE LEST YE ALSO, BEING LED AWAY WITH THE ERROR OF THE WICKED, FALL FROM YOUR OWN STEDFASTNESS.
I shared the truth concerning non-imputed sin before the Law was established.
Who were the imprisoned souls the Lord Jesus ministered to in the here and after then?
When we refer to two ancient books; the Book of Enoch and the Book of Jasher, we are given the descriptions of who these imprisoned souls were.
Enoch 10:7 And give life to the earth which the angels have corrupted. And he will proclaim life for the earth: that he is giving life to her. AND ALL THE CHILDREN OF THE PEOPLE WILL NOT PERISH THROUGH ALL THE SECRETS OF THE ANGELS, WHICH THEY TAUGHT TO THEIR SONS.  And the whole earth has been corrupted by Azaz'el's teaching of his own actions; and write upon him all sin.
Note: In the above verses, God imputed no sin upon the people of the world for following the teachings of the angels (Nephilim) in Enoch time.
That was one of the groups of people that the Lord forgave and the Lord Jesus ministered to the so called imprisoned spirits when He was buried for three days and three nights before His resurrection.
1Peter 3:20 Which SOMETIME WERE DISOBEDIENT, when once the long-suffering of God waited in the days of Noah, while the ark was a preparing, wherein few, that is, eight souls were saved by water.
This represents a contingent of righteous people who sinned, confessed and repented from wrong doing!
Where were they when the flood covered the whole world? If the population of the world during the Days of Noah were also about seven billions strong, and among them, the scripture said were only SOMETIME DISOBEDIENT, where as the Law then was NOT as yet been established, why did they have to perish by the flood which represented the wrath of GOD upon the sinful world? Or did they drown and perish?
 And the Lord said, I will blot out man that I created from the face of the earth, yea from man to the birds of the air, together with cattle and beasts that are in the field for I repent that I made them.  AND ALL MEN WHO WALKED IN THE WAYS OF THE LORD, DIED IN THOSE DAYS, BEFORE THE LORD BROUGHT THE EVIL UPON MAN WHICH HE HAD DECLARED, FOR THIS WAS FROM THE LORD, THAT THEY SHOULD NOT SEE THE EVIL WHICH THE LORD SPOKE OF CONCERNING THE SONS OF MEN.
Note: Then, we come up with another mystery; if the Law had not been established as yet, how could they know how to walk the ways of the Lord?
 And Enoch then again ordered a voice to be proclaimed, saying, Where is the man who delighteth to know the ways of the Lord his God, LET HIM COME THIS DAY TO ENOCH BEFORE HE IS TAKEN FROM US.  And all the sons of men assembled and came to Enoch that day; and all the kings of the earth with their princes and counsellors remained with him that day; and Enoch then taught the sons of men wisdom and knowledge, and gave them divine instruction; and he bade them serve the Lord and walk in his ways all the days of their lives, and he continued to make peace amongst them.
These souls walked in righteousness and in accordance with GOD's standard and were in fact should be considered as the prototype of the present "Holy Spirit-filled, born again" believers like you and I (I hope)!
In Jasher 4:20 testified that God spared those souls by putting them to "SLEEP" before He poured His wrath upon the sinful world!
THIS CONFIRMS THE PRE-TRIBULATION "FLY AWAY" UNDERSTANDING WHICH MOST SCHOLARS ACCEPT AS TRUTH!
You too, can use the above two verses as the litmus test of your walk with GOD!
Before we are raptured, just like Enoch, it is incumbent upon us to spread the true gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ, not the deceiving Prosperity and other gospels from the pit of hell!
Then we come to the unpardonable group of people which existed throughout the world in the Days of Noah.
15. And Noah and his household, and all the living creatures that were with him, came into the ark on account of the waters of the flood, and the Lord shut him in.
16. And all the sons of men that were left upon the earth, became exhausted through evil on account of the rain, for the waters were coming more violently upon the earth, and the animals and beasts were still surrounding the ark.
18. And they called to Noah, saying, Open for us that we may come to thee in the ark–and wherefore shall we die?
19. And Noah, with a loud voice, answered them from the ark, saying, HAVE YOU NOT ALL REBELLED AGAINST THE LORD, AND SAID THAT HE DOES NOT EXIST? and therefore the Lord brought upon you this evil, to destroy and cut you off from the face of the earth.
20. Is not this the thing that I spoke to you of one hundred and twenty years back, and you would not hearken to the voice of the Lord, and now do you desire to live upon earth?
21. And they said to Noah, WE ARE READY TO RETURN TO THE LORD; only open for us that we may live and not die.
22. AND NOAH ANSWERED THEM, SAYING, BEHOLD NOW THAT YOU SEE THE TROUBLE OF YOUR SOULS, YOU WISH TO RETURN TO THE LORD; why did you not return during these hundred and twenty years, which the Lord granted you as the determined period?
23. BUT NOW YOU COME AND TELL ME THIS ON ACCOUNT OF THE TROUBLES OF YOUR SOULS, NOW ALSO THE LORD WILL NOT LISTEN TO YOU, NEITHER WILL HE GIVE EAR TO YOU ON THIS DAY, SO THAT YOU WILL NOT NOW SUCCEED IN YOUR WISHES.
Verse 19 above talks about people who said GOD "does not exist" or what we call atheists. Furthermore, the above passage tells us very vividly that THE NOTION OF REPENTING AT THE LAST MINUTE DOES APPLY FOR THOSE WHO DENIED GOD OR HIS SON!
Let us define atheists as excerpted from an article which link is provided below.
Atheism is a complex term to define, and many definitions fail to capture the range of positions an atheist can hold. Perhaps the most obvious meaning to many people now is THE ABSENCE OR REJECTION OF A BELIEF IN A GOD, or gods. However, it has been used through much of history to denote certain beliefs seen as heretical, particularly THE BELIEF THAT GOD DOES NOT INTERVENE IN THE WORLD. More recently, atheists have argued that atheism only denotes A LACK OF THEISTIC BELIEF, rather than the active denial or claims of certainty it is often associated with. This is held to follow from its etymology: it stems from the Greek adjective atheos, deriving from the alpha privative a -,'without, not', and 'theos', 'God'. It is not clear, however, that this could not equally mean 'godless' in the earlier sense as meaning a heretical or immoral person.
The exact meaning of 'atheist' varies between thinkers, and caution must always be shown to make sure that discussions of atheism are not working at cross purposes. Michael Martin, a leading atheist philosopher, defines atheism entirely in terms of belief. For him, negative atheism is simply the lack of theistic belief, positive atheism is the asserted disbelief in God, and agnosticism is the lack of either belief or disbelief in God. This suggests that negative atheism, the minimal position that all atheists share, divides neatly into agnosticism and positive atheism. It is worth noting that the 'positive atheist' need not have certainty that God doesn't exist: IT IS A MATTER OF BELIEF, NOT KNOWLEDGE.
4. IT IS A MATTER OF BELIEF, NOT KNOWLEDGE.
1. Not all monotheistic religion can be considered as true believer in the One True God. The scripture gives us the true character of God in the one popularly memorized verse: FOR GOD SO LOVED THE WORLD, THAT HE GAVE HIS ONLY BEGOTTEN SON, THAT WHOSOEVER BELIEVETH IN HIM SHOULD NOT PERISH, BUT HAVE EVERLASTING LIFE. (John 3:16) This one verse alone preclude the religion of Islam as well as Judaism. They all claim to be believing in one God, but both of them reject the Redeeming and Son-ship of the Lord Jesus Christ!
Within the denominational diversities of the Christian faith, we have to eliminate Roman Catholicism since they have added Mary, the earthly mother of the Lord Jesus whom they venerate as divine and co-redeemer of mankind.
This article, of course, purposely eliminated all other cultist group purporting to be Christians such as Mormonism, Christian Science, and those claiming to be evangelicals who are practising aberrant gospels; Prosperity, Feel Good, and those who brought in kundalini spirit into their ministry such as Benny Hinn, Kenneth Hagin, Rodney Howard Brown, or Rick Warren who holds hybrid church service by bringing in Christian faith merged with Islam or ChrisLam.
2. If you believe that God is no longer involved in the world affairs following the end of His Creating Days, think again! Even the birth of new babies, He still busily knits everyone of them to this very day!
David testified concerning this: I WILL PRAISE THEE; FOR I AM FEARFULLY AND WONDERFULLY MADE: MARVELLOUS ARE THY WORKS; and that my soul knoweth right well. (Psalms 139:14) Thus, every baby conceived in the womb, whether resulting from rapes or adulterous relationship and especially as fruits from legal marriages, should not be aborted for he or she is a gift of life from God! This one of the example how involved God in individual and world affairs!
3. A LACK OF THEISTIC BELIEVE is no different that not believing in God.
4. IT IS A MATTER OF BELIEF, NOT KNOWLEDGE! Yes, it is a matter of believe, but it is not WITHOUT (BLIND) KNOWLEDGE!
Romans 1:16 For I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ: for it is the power of God unto salvation to every one that believeth; to the Jew first, and also to the Greek.  FOR THEREIN IS THE RIGHTEOUSNESS OF GOD REVEALED FROM FAITH TO FAITH: AS IT IS WRITTEN, THE JUST SHALL LIVE BY FAITH.  FOR THE WRATH OF GOD IS REVEALED FROM HEAVEN AGAINST ALL UNGODLINESS AND UNRIGHTEOUSNESS OF MEN, WHO HOLD THE TRUTH IN UNRIGHTEOUSNESS;  Because that which may be known of God is manifest in them; for God hath shewed it unto them.  FOR THE INVISIBLE THINGS OF HIM FROM THE CREATION OF THE WORLD ARE CLEARLY SEEN, BEING UNDERSTOOD BY THE THINGS THAT ARE MADE, EVEN HIS ETERNAL POWER AND GODHEAD; SO THAT THEY ARE WITHOUT EXCUSE:  Because that, when they knew God, they glorified him not as God, neither were thankful; but became vain in their imaginations, and their foolish heart was darkened.  Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools,  And changed the glory of the incorruptible God into an image made like to corruptible man, and to birds, and four-footed beasts, and creeping things.  Wherefore God also gave them up to uncleanness through the lusts of their own hearts, to dishonour their own bodies between themselves:  Who changed the truth of God into a lie, and worshiped and served the creature more than the Creator, who is blessed forever. Amen.
Romans 1:26 For this cause God gave them up unto vile affections: FOR EVEN THEIR WOMEN DID CHANGE THE NATURAL USE INTO THAT WHICH IS AGAINST NATURE:  And likewise also the men, LEAVING THE NATURAL USE OF THE WOMAN, BURNED IN THEIR LUST ONE TOWARD ANOTHER; MEN WITH MEN WORKING THAT WHICH IS UNSEEMLY, AND RECEIVING IN THEMSELVES THAT RECOMPENSE OF THEIR ERROR WHICH WAS MEET.
Every 24 hours, an estimated 7,000 people are infected with HIV, and more than 1 million contract a sexually transmitted infection (STI). Currently, an estimated 33.3 million people are living with HIV, and in Sub-Saharan Africa—the region hit hardest by the pandemic—the majority of 15- to 24-year-olds living with HIV are female. Today, 23% of all people living with HIV are under age 24, while 35% of all new infections happen among people between 15 to 24 years of age. Clearly, the need for quality HIV, AIDS, and STI services is more important than ever.
Romans 1:28 And even as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge, God gave them over to a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not convenient;  BEING FILLED WITH ALL UNRIGHTEOUSNESS, FORNICATION, WICKEDNESS, COVETOUSNESS, MALICIOUSNESS; FULL OF ENVY, MURDER, DEBATE, DECEIT, MALIGNITY; WHISPERERS,  BACKBITERS, HATERS OF GOD, DESPITEFUL, PROUD, BOASTERS, INVENTORS OF EVIL THINGS, DISOBEDIENT TO PARENTS,  WITHOUT UNDERSTANDING, COVENANT BREAKERS, WITHOUT NATURAL AFFECTION, IMPLACABLE, UNMERCIFUL:  WHO KNOWING THE JUDGMENT OF GOD, THAT THEY WHICH COMMIT SUCH THINGS ARE WORTHY OF DEATH, NOT ONLY DO THE SAME, BUT HAVE PLEASURE IN THEM THAT DO THEM.
The last verse above warned about partakers and those that approve all of the above!
He's on record supporting homosexuality,abortion,his disbelief in a literal hell,supports practice of infant baptism to save children, supports Catholic church Mary Worship. Yet he calls himself a Christian.
HERE'S A GREAT LINK.Part Transcript of his Schuller interview and other Quotes.
He has repeatedly praised infidels and apostates as great Christians. He actively supported the American government policy to fight the Vietnam War. He would not challenge the idea that the Bible is mythology, when directly questioned. The deception doesn't stop with the Protestants, Catholic supporters have been kept in the dark about his abortion views. The deception goes way beyond Protestant, Catholic beliefs.
You have been shown how God proves the truth of His Word, time and forever. He shows us the "End" from the "Beginning." Are you not amazed at the Almighty God?
the voice of one crying in this darkened world.


Dear Mark & Deb, just a brief note to thank you again for the sale of our "beloved" lake property….many blessed & happy years there. It all happened in the Lord's timing… Have a Blessed Christmas & New Year.
Mark & Deb, thank you so much for all you've done for us.
Mark, thank you for a very professional job-well done!!! Hopefully, the new owners will be as happy living in the house as we were!
Deb & Mark, We want to thank the "Malcolm Team" for making this move possible for us. You went out of your way in many ways to make this happen. We are adjusting to the new home. We have wonderful neighbors, and a quiet neighborhood. The deer abound.
Good Morning, Mark, We thank you for all the cooperation and the pleasure that you and Deb have given us for this rather difficult procedure. It took a lot of time and patience selling it for us. Because this process was so new to us, and because we lived out of town, we greatly appreciated dealing with you.
Hi Mark, Is there anything I can do to publicly express your talents and Professionalism? Cindy and I truly appreciate your services and friendship. You know your stuff, and it is worth every dollar you earn. My best to you, and Deb. Give her my best.
Hi Mark, thank you for everything you have done to sell the cottage. We have enjoyed working with you.
Mark & Deb-Thank you again for all your time and efforts on our behalf! They are truly appreciated! Wishing you and yours a most joyous holiday season!


The Superman Fan Podcast: Episode #384 Part III: Superman Comic Book Cover Dated July 1965: Action Comics #326!
I vividly remember having read "The Legion of Super-Creatures" as a boy, and I still enjoy it now. I do find it odd that the Phantom Zone projector didn't work against the creatures. Usually, such a failure of the projector was explained by interference due to sunspot activity or the like, but here, it simply didn't work. It was also an amazing stroke of luck that the orange Giantite followed him back to Earth. Apparently, large planets under a red sun turn into a radioactive element deadly to life native to that planet, once the planet explodes. Silver Age science, I guess.
As for Superman's costume, it was generally explained in the Silver Age, as you surmised, that Kryptonian material of any sort (metal, cloth, etc.), that left Krypton before it exploded (thus avoiding the transformation into kryptonite), would become indestructible under the influence of a yellow sun, but not under red solar radiation, as when Superman visited Kandor. I find it interesting that Superman was so fashion conscious that, even though he expected that Earth would be destroyed by the unstoppable creatures, and nothing he could do would stop that, he took the time during his trip back to Earth, to mend his costume. I guess if you expect to be the last living man on Earth, you might as well look good.


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Failures of Capitalism
"Beyond Market Dystopia, Socialist Register 2020"
Edited by Leo Panitch and Greg Albo
Monthly Review, 294 pages
To define a workable socialism, it's best first to lay out what's wrong with capitalism. Nancy Fraser's excellent essay in "Beyond Market Dystopia" does just this, and these wrongs are three: injustice, irrationality and unfreedom. Injustice inheres in the exploitation of labor and theft of its surplus value. Irrationality exists in capitalism's built-in economic crises. Unfreedom derives from social inequality and class power and also from tyranny in the work-place.
Capitalism, Fraser argues, "is no mere economy…It is an institutionalized social order." The economic conditions on which it depends reveal this. There are four: unwaged social reproductive labor (cooking, cleaning, child and elder care, etc.); wealth expropriated from subjugated peoples (mostly in the Global South); free gifts from non-human nature (arable land, breathable air, potable water, etc.); public goods supplied by states (legal orders guaranteeing property rights, contracts and free exchange, transport and communication etc.). So capitalism takes from these four conditions but scarcely acknowledges them at all, indeed irrationally, compulsively and dangerously undermines them.
"Reduced to a tap and a sink, non-human nature is open to brute extractivism," by capitalism, as the terrifying evidence of climate change demonstrates all around us. Capital tends to "erode or destroy or deplete…its own presuppositions – which is to say, to eat its own tail." It does so with all four of the conditions it relies on. "If socialism aims to remedy capitalism's wrongs," Fraser writes, "it faces a very big job," because "socialists need to turn things right-side up: to install the nurturing of people, the safeguarding of nature and democratic self-rule as society's highest priorities, which trump efficiency and growth." Any moderately pessimistic onlooker would doubtless say "good luck."
But we have reached a point where moderate pessimism is not acceptable. Capitalism has "so callously trashed" all the conditions it depends on that it endangers humanity's future. If not now for socialism, when? Because in the end, socialism is the only governance that can "deinstitutionalize the growth imperative hard-wired into capitalist society." Capitalist growth is a cancer, one that has metastasized over the face of the earth, even as it robs billions of people of any life beyond mere subsistence.
"Beyond Market Dystopia" presents 14 essays organized around this theme of what comes after the destructive cyclone that is capitalism. It contains essays on migrants, socialized housing, precarious work, communism in the suburbs and much more. Editors Leo Panitch and Greg Albo have used their theme to reach into society's various realms and to illuminate the possibilities for a better, socialist future. A certain necessary optimism suffuses the whole. But beneath this, in many of these essays, simmers the very realistic anxiety that capitalism has gone too far.
Indeed, "Inside Climate News" recently reported that the oceans have absorbed warming caused by anthropogenic climate change equivalent to the explosion of over a billion Hiroshima-sized bombs. That's just what capitalism has done to earth's oceans. What it has done to the air, earth and nature's creatures is equally horrifying. But, as Barbara Harriss-White's essay quotes Chomsky: "We have two choices: to abandon hope and ensure that the worst will happen, or to make use of the opportunities that exist and contribute to a better world. It is not a very difficult choice."
In the world of work, Michelle Chen reports that most labor will be freelance by 2027. "In rich and poor nations alike," she writes, "technological innovation will disrupt the role of the state and the power of the labor movement." The gig economy will only expand. Chen advocates countering it with a global crowd-workers' guild or an app-based collective-bargaining agreement. These would be welcome developments, helping technology, she argues, to become a force against capital's consolidation of power "over the emergent global infrastructure" and against capital's "capture of more of our public sphere."
Gig workers, Chen argues are in a "constant state of dislocation [that] breeds constant instability." There have been some legal wins: in New York, uber drivers are now entitled to unemployment benefits and in some countries are recognized as employees. Drivers have led wildcat strikes, and they have rioted. Their fight against capital is a fight for life. They are on the front lines of the twenty-first century's class war, in which the billionaire class arrogantly asserts its privilege: to control the lives and bodies of workers, to wring out every last cent, everywhere, just as it pillages the planet, everywhere.
The face of that predatory class is Donald Trump. He and his reactionary Republican backers chant that the U.S. will never be socialist, that that is not in our future. He is wrong. It may only come in bits and pieces, one policy at a time, but without that in our future, we likely won't have one.
"Lessons of the Spanish Revolution"
Vernon Richards
Long after 1936, when the Spanish voted in a leftist government, many Latin American countries followed suit – Cuba with Castro, Chile with Allende, Brazil with Lula, Venezuela with Chavez and Maduro, Nicaragua with Ortega, Bolivia with Morales and others. Vernon Richards' "Lessons of the Spanish Revolution," reprinted some months back, makes one miserable inference very clear: the only people who've learned the lessons of the Spanish revolution are fascists in places like Bolivia and the U.S. government. Certain basic, obvious steps – like replacing reactionary military officers – are rarely taken. As a result – coups; and leaders like Evo Morales have to run for their lives.
One problem, however, has become less pronounced – certain internecine battles on the left. At the time of the Spanish civil war, anarchists and communists were at each other's throats. The Latin American left's divisions get less attention today, perhaps because over the decades it became clear that the enemy, backed by the U.S., is so strong that all leftists are targets for elimination. The counterrevolution has been busy, with one assault after another – most recently, with the attempted overthrow of the Maduro government, the imprisonment of Lula on trumped up charges in Brazil and a right-wing military coup in Bolivia. There's little point in communists murdering anarchists when death squads, like those currently busy in Honduras, fill mass graves anyway with students, peasants and every leftist they can find.
"Lessons of the Spanish Revolution" anatomizes divisions on the left, and what emerges is a picture of how truly destructive of the revolution they were. From the anarchist perspective – and this book, originally published in the 1950s, is written from the anarchist perspective – the Spanish civil war led to repeated betrayals; betrayal of the anarchist revolution by the communists and by the anarchist leaders themselves. By the end, according to Richards, the revolutionary press was nothing but "the mouthpiece of the government and the 'revolutionary' chauvinists."
This book attempts "to counter the enthusiasm on the left for the Popular Front and its communist partners." For Richards and other anarchists, Stalinist Russia was as deadly as Franco – though in fact, it's easy to see why any leftist who fought in the Spanish civil war might have become a Stalinist. The Spanish republicans received no arms from abroad from any leader except Stalin. No country beside the Soviet Union supplied this desperately needed weaponry. This is not to mute Stalinist crimes. They are multitudinous and well documented. And Richards justly calls out the murders committed by Russian secret police in revolutionary Spain. He argues, correctly, that the leftist government should never have dismantled the workers' militias, but his opposition to any government, while principled – on the grounds that government of necessity kills the fighting spirit of any social movement – could well have led to an even swifter defeat by Franco.
The two issues for Richards and his fellow anarchists were the social revolution and the armed struggle against fascism. He argues that "it was Moscow's intention to destroy Revolutionary Catalonia," and devotes many pages to proving this point. Nowadays leftist have no such problems. The Soviet Union ceased to exist thirty years ago, and with it vanished all the support, betrayals and internecine left battles that it generated.
So things are simpler now, though without the threat of a communist superpower, fascism rises again. Leftist Mexican president Lopez Obrador, for instance, need not worry about Russian communists infiltrating his base. But he does have to worry about the U.S. empire fomenting a military coup against him. Reactionary U.S. forces have gone into hyperdrive – promoting regime change all over the world, while fascist wannabe Trump proclaims any available neoliberal imbecile the true president of any socialist country he wants to abolish. Leftists everywhere lack the very real strength of being able to threaten overpowering retaliation. They cannot count on China. Chinese socialism, led by billionaire party members, so far appears reluctant to play the role its Soviet predecessor played. China has been slow to aid besieged Venezuela, Bolivia, Nicaragua or Cuba. As a result, splits between anarchists, syndicalists, communists and socialists matter less than in the past, so even do splits between varieties of feminism. To a certain extent, one can argue that the only thing that matters is whether a person is on the left or not. The enemy is far too strong to waste time on niceties of doctrinal difference. Death squads kill indiscriminately.
If Richards were writing today, it is doubtful that he would support any Latin American governments. He might encourage the Zapatistas in Mexico, though it's hard to extrapolate from his book's account of the byzantine, internecine battles of leftists in revolutionary Spain. One thing "Lessons of the Spanish Revolution" clarifies: though the world has changed since then, and radically, for leftists, for fascists it has remained much more static. They still overthrow socialist governments and murder leftists. But leftists are being forced to become less violently concerned with their splits or isms, and more pragmatically concerned with what always should have been the focus: survival. I guess that's progress.

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Former Obama Aide Indicted for Lying to DOJ
April 13, 2019 April 12, 2019 Minnesota Sun Staff
by Paul Ingrassia
Former Obama White House counsel, Greg Craig, was indicted Thursday on two charges of lying to federal investigators about consulting work his former firm did on behalf of Russia-backed ex-Ukrainian president Viktor Yanukovych.
Craig was accused of lying to the Department of Justice for allegedly making false statements and concealing "material facts," which were revealed in a settlement announced Thursday. Craig's former firm, Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom, was hit with a $4.6 billion fine for working with Paul Manafort in 2012 on behalf of Ukraine.
The federal investigation began as an offshoot of the Mueller probe that was later handed off to Manhattan federal prosecutors. It was transferred to D.C. prosecutors in March, who leveled Thursday's charge on Craig.
Craig's indictment stands as a violation of the DOJ's Foreign Agents Registration Act (FARA) unit, the agency in charge of enforcing foreign lobbying laws. Craig is the first Democrat to be indicted in connection to the Mueller investigation.
This prosecution comes amid reports that the DOJ, facing pressure by the Trump administration and top Republican lawmakers, is now considering investigating Obama-era abuses.
South Carolina Sen. Lindsey Graham, the chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, signaled in March a desire to investigate allegations of Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act abuse, as well as separate probes into former FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe and Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein.
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functions of sound in theatre
What is Musical theatre and what makes it different than any other theatre with music forms, especially Opera? ( Log Out / This band reached the pinnacle and forever left their mark not just in the Rock and Roll scene but in the whole music industry. As Fagin tries to save him, Oliver decides that all he wants now is go to his newly discovered uncle, and live a good life. Posted on August 10, 2016 December 7, 2016 by technicaltheatreportfolioblog. From there you can use all 48 inputs and 15 outputs that the digital soundboard has to offer- controlling where sound is projected, the frequency, etc. Catwalk: A catwalk is an elevated platform from which many of the technical functions of a theatre, such as lighting and sound, may be manipulated. BFA–Theatre, Sound Design major The Design & Production programs prepare talented and committed students for careers in the professional world of theatre and related entertainment media. When you stop and think about it, you'll realize just how commonplace sound is in our everyday lives. Start studying 7 Social Functions of Theatre. Visibility is the primary function of stage lighting: making sure the audience can see the part(s) of the stage that the director and/or the lighting designer want them to see. Kerman, J. This background or scenic noise you hear is oftentimes described as 'soundscapes' in the theatrical setting. Music and drama have the capability of not only integrating to create spectacular visual and aural events in theatre, but they have a distinct capacity to support each other – to heighten one-another to innovative, intrepid and even excessive levels. Learn vocabulary, terms, and more with flashcards, games, and other study tools. A scene later in the film shows General Hein, (the villain of the film) in his office speaking of how his wife and child were killed by the aliens. A humorous contrast is provided here in this scene – where Dodger sings the lines "Consider yourself at home, consider yourself one of the family" whilst at the same time, both he and Oliver are being scrutinized by policemen and chased by merchants as they weave and bob their way through the immeasurable stream of dancing butchers, grocers, paperboys, fishmongers, etc. Theater 101 Exam 3 UIUC Fall 15. We use cookies to give you the best experience possible. Sound effects can either be atmospheric or situational. The use of recorded preshow and intermission music to help set the mood of the production became fairly commonplace. Essay, 3 pages. I wanted to treat the character's emotional interactions, for example, as one would treat them in normal drama, with a lyrical sweeping melody.' (Goldenthal, 2001). Led by a strange repeating dream, Dr. Aki Ross may be the only one who can save the human race from extinction. A podcast with a general guide to the role of Sound Operator in theatre, recorded to help Theatre Production students. Throughout the earlier scenes of the movie, the General is composed in a gloomy light, but in this particular scene, he is viewed musically in a sympathetic light. The music in this scene is lighthearted and comedic but offers many subtleties to be investigated, such as the deep brass used to convey the sense of danger, the sense of capture or discovery, but the underscore of flutes happily tooting away at Oliver's new found conception that the art of thievery is all just a game – not something evil or punishable at least. Although the music analyzed in this report can be easily disregarded by the audience as 'backdrop' music, there is a much deeper and arousing basis to the composer's production of this music, which is there for much more than Change ), You are commenting using your Google account. The music steadily builds in pitch, volume and intensity as the timer next to the operating table nears 0:00, but the tempo remains the same due to the fact that the time on the clock cannot speed up or slow down. There are rarely ever complete moments of silence, and if they are, they are usually few and far between. The hip hop subculture is a way of life tethered to and popularized by the widespread practice of rap music. It can transform the acoustics from a small room to a large cathedral by eliminating/extending the reverberations of a sound wave. Learn vocabulary, terms, and more with flashcards, games, and other study tools. History of Sound in Theatre Early Sound. Inside a full-range speaker cabinet, you'll often have tweeters (small sp… Her ship touches down on the desolate, empty streets of New York, and the music instantly stops in a parallel with the apocalyptic emptiness of the long-dead city. Don't waste Your Time Searching For a Sample, Get Your Job Done By a Professional Skilled Writer. (1989) Opera as Drama, London: Richard Clay Limited. 2. (309). music can convey in just a few notes, and music can ridiculously hope to fulfill all the needs of a script without any real actions or dialogue, but in the end, the two combined provide an infinite array of possibilities and interpretations to be searched. Elliot Goldenthal was provided the challenge of bringing the synthetic characters to life through his musical composition. Unlike reverb, which is a blend of different sounds, Please contact the blog's author if problems arise. In Twentieth Century Theatre from the time of the Renaissance on, theatre seemed to be striving for total realism, or at least for the illusion of reality. Working Period 1. Arts and Humanities. 15 terms. Have you at any point tuned in to or caught a rap melody and contemplated how disgusting it was and consider how something to that effect at any point made it to the general population? Although many sound effects were still produced live, some directors began in the 1930s to make use of prerecorded material. A brass fanfare erupts in unison with Oliver's eruption from the basket and strongly accompanies the other sounds of the city such as the hustle and bustle of loaded carriages, trains blasting their whistles, people rich and poor alike scurrying about busily like ants – oblivious to the music unlike Oliver. As sound editor Marvin M. Kerner says in The Art of the Sound Effects Editor, "the function of sound effects is three-fold": To simulate reality. They tend to take sound in as a whole, despite its actually being deliberately constructed from many pieces. Oliver premiered on Broadway in January of 1963 and ran for 774 performances. She wakes from the dream and finds herself on her spacecraft, revolving across the surface of the earth. Since the 1930s, however, use of recorded sound has been a possibility in the theatre. The first thing you need to consider when buying speakers is what frequencies you want the audience to hear. Further on in the movie, Aki's love interest Gray Edwards becomes critically infected by one of the aliens and is given only a matter of minutes to live unless treated immediately. Actors and their bodies can construct effective sound in performance. Most of the time, a good choice is to get speakers which are full-range, meaning they can reproduce sounds (reasonably) across the frequency spectrum. The theatre sound system is designed to help this process through devices like the sound board,microphones, constellation, etc. Dimmer room: The room backstage which contains the dimmer racks which power the lighting rig in the theatre. Type: Lippman, E. A., Hatch, C. (1999) The philosophy & Aesthetics of Music, Nebraska: University of Nebraska Press. Type: My definition of sound: Modern theatrical practice relies on sound to assist in a number of ways. First Assistant Director The first assistant director (1st AD) assists the production manager and director. Often dimmer racks may not be housed in dedicated room, instead they may be in a mechanical room, control booth, or catwalk, or even on the … The introduction of the accompanying piece is led by the sound of a glass harmonica to convey the potential sensitivity and fragility of Aki's character. While all viewers call tell apart the various objects in a picture - an actor, a table the walls of an room, listeners barely ever perceive sound so analytically. (2016, Mar 21). If there were would be one band that achieved fame more than any other else, this band is on the top of the list. The story of 'Final Fantasy' is set in the year 2065 where the remaining inhabitants of earth are locked in a battle to take back the Earth from marauding alien invaders. J Sound and Sound Effects Sound, if required, is now generally recorded during the pre-production period. It can be useful in creating atmosphere or mood. Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within, New York: Marca Registrada. Although Oliver is a high-spirited production, there are strong hints of the dilemmas of poverty and violence brought into three dimensions with song, but more contemporary dramatic works have required more than these fundamental methods to bring the characters and scenes to life – literally. Essay, 7 pages. Having proper governance in place will make the next two board functions much easier to manage. Its content is intended for educational purposes only. This scene captures almost every conceivable aspect of the city from Oliver's eyes and packs it tightly into song with The Artful Dodger's swift introduction, reception and invitation in the song "Consider Yourself", at which point he takes Oliver on an excursion around the busy city. ... theatre experience final exam. In conclusion, if the composer is faced with the challenge of creating music to accompany drama, there is no unambiguous method of composition that one has to follow, but the impartiality between the two elements requires a strong correspondence at every point where they meet, or else the implication, sensation or meaning you are trying to convey will become caught in some redundant crossfire and the audience will lose the chance of gaining something extra from a piece of theatre capable of reaching outside of it's three dimensions. Is the focus upon the unity of the two, or their distinctions? Essay, 6 pages. Below are some of the features/functions of dialogue in a play. This feature however was different to any other as the entire film was animated. Firstly, it may be used to convey information, as a … Around 3000BC, China and India accompanied their theatrical productions with incorporated music and sound, and we know of examples of sound usage throughout the history of theatre. Soon after this scene, Fagin gives Oliver a lesson on how to "Pick a Pocket or Two". Reti, R. (1961) The Thematic Process in Music, London: Faber and Faber Limited. They oversee day-to-day management of the cast and crew scheduling, equipment, script, and the set. In the next scene, she descends to earth accompanied by an almost military fanfare of brass and strings coming together on a strong Eb chord, giving a feeling of purpose and decision to this descent. Change ), You are commenting using your Twitter account. Essay, 8 pages. Subjects. 45 terms. This report will focus upon the use of music in theatre as an amplifier. The function of this music being strategically used in drama is for the benefit of the audience not only because it has the ability to paint a scene, but it also opens up the dialogue and opens up the characters and lets the audience see what is going on inside of them. The function of this music being strategically used in drama is for the benefit of the audience not only because it has the ability to paint a scene, but it also opens up the dialogue and opens up the characters and lets the audience see what is going on inside of them. 'Music is created from sound as life is created from matter' (Reti, 1961). Large theatres also required louder sound effects, larger devices, and more employees. For more information on microphones as a portion of the theatre sound system, see Types and Uses of Microphones. This seems obvious, but it is important that the designer has ensured that all areas of the stage and all actors on that stage can be seen when the lights are at full. Change ). As it reached that goal in the late 19th century, a multifaceted, antirealistic reaction erupted. It is this conception, not the bare text itself that is authoritative in defining the ultimate meaning of the work.' (Kerman, 1989). meeleemoo. also offered here. Most acoustic panels come in various thicknesses, 2-inch being the most common. First developed for the burgeoning radio market, sound libraries were soon adopted by theatre technicians. Sound penetrates the porous panel causing the inner fibers (semi-rigid glass wool) or membranes (open cell foam) to vibrate, converting excessive acoustic energy into heat. Change ), You are commenting using your Facebook account. 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Many animal farmers are cruel to the animals. Animals are given steroid injection so that they grow fatter and produce more meat. They are often confined in gestation crates and carried away to slaughterhouses for a violent death. Less meat means saving the lives of innocent animals.
There are many long-term benefits of cutting down meat consumption. Less meat means decreased chances of incurring severe and complex lifestyle disorders like obesity and heart disease.
One can contribute towards saving the environment from further air pollution, global warming and scarcity of water. Turning vegan is a great way to save animal lives from cruel demise.


I certainly feel your frustration. We are just as frustrated by it, this is a city wide problem and not specific to your neighborhood . I don't know why people feel we are doing nothing? We are arresting kids right and left, in fact we arrested 5 more of them this morning. The problem is that the criminal justice system is doing very little with them and they are usually quickly released. This is something that must be addressed through elections of judges. I have also heard with the closure of Lincoln Hills, there are few places that kids can even be sent anymore.
As far as video goes, we send out video from homeowners all the time. If suspects can be identified they are charged. We are doing everything we can with this and it is very frustrating to our officers to see the same kids they arrested for stealing cars out on the street again a few days later doing the same thing.
I also fear something very bad is going to happen over someone trying to defend their property. I have begged and pleaded with citizens to keep things locked up and still many people don't. I think a strong neighborhood watch program helps and citizens need to be vigilant about what is going on in their neighborhood then call us. I can set you up with a person who can help with good neighbor (neighborhood watch) ideas but he does not take over his spot for a couple of weeks yet. Our current person in that position is in the process of transferring to a training position.
It has been reported that some residents in District 1 are already putting their sandbags at the curb. Please DO NOT remove your sandbags yet! There is still the threat of rain over the long weekend and it is important to protect your property during this time period. Storm sewers can still be overwhelmbed and overflow onto your property.
It is important to keep those sandbags in place!


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Q: Populating tables in Heroku with base data for application I'm working on an application which uses data from db which has to be populated prior to the application being able to run.  What I have to do is to populate few tables with few thousand rows but I'm not sure how I would do that in heroku because I have limited access to db for loading data.
What is the preferred way to do this?
Regards,
Johann

A: You can populate a Postgres database locally and then push it to heroku with heroku db:push see heroku help db:push

A: You may want to look into seeds, there's also a Railscast. I've never used this before, so you may alternately want to…
Create a rake task to suit your specific need. That way you can add the task to your Rails application and run heroku rake mytask. Here's a rake tutorial, and a Railscast on rake tasks to help get you started.

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Q: Twig default filter overrides defined template variables? I have the following construction in twig templates to create XML:
{# insuranceNode.xml.twig #}
<insurance>
    <description></description>
    ...

    {% if dOptions|default(true) %}
    <options>
        {% for option in insurance.options %}
        {% include 'optionNode.xml.twig' with {
            'option': option,
            'dInsurances': false
        }%}
        {% endfor %}
    </options>
    {% endif %}

</insurance>

{# optionNode.xml.twig #}
<option>
    <description></description>
    ...

    {% if dInsurances|default(true) %}
    <insurances>
        {% for insurance in option.insurances %}
        {% include 'insuranceNode.xml.twig' with {
            'insurance': insurance,
            'dOptions': false
        }%}
        {% endfor %}
    </insurances>
    {% endif %}

</options>

As you can see the two template partials include each other by default ({% if dOptions|default(true) %} and {% if dInsurances|default(true) %}). If not stopped properly it will cause an infinite loop and the application breaks with a maximum nested level fatal error.
When partial optionNode is included in insuranceNode, the template var dInsurances is set to false which should set the var dInsurances in optionNode to false. Yet for some reason optionNode still prefers the default(true) for dInsurances over the template variable set by insuranceNode.
If the default() filter is removed from dInsurances in the optionNode, it works as expected. Also when dInsurances is set to true, it crashes as expected.
Am I misunderstanding the mechanics of the default() filter? Or should the variable passed through the include directive be inherited in the template?
Any help is much appreciated. Thanks in advance :)

A: From Twig documentation:

The default filter returns the passed default value if the value is undefined or empty, otherwise the value of the variable

So, if you pass false, twig will take default value.
There are 2 fixes:

*

*Use "not" with negative values
{% if not skipOptions %}
...
'skipInsurances': true

*Use "defined" test: http://twig.sensiolabs.org/doc/tests/defined.html
{% if dOptions is not defined or dOptions %}

A: The 3rd fix is to use the null-coalescing operator:
{% if dOptions ?? true %}

Introduced in version 1.24.0.


Made within 48 hours during the Nordic Game Jam 2010.
Every Viking loves a good mushroom. Collect the most but be alert as some mushrooms grant amazing strength allowing the Viking that ate it to bash the other Vikings so they drop their mushrooms. All Vikings however, need to be extra careful that the innocent roaming donkey, with an immense appetite for mushrooms doesn't beat me to their snack – and who knows what happens should it consume a super mushroom.


José Luis Merino at his studio. Photo by Beatriz Schulze.
Josep Cunillera at work. Photo by Martin Roberts.
José Luis Merino is a hero of mine. Educated at Barcelona's prestigious design school Eina and now based in the fashionable neighbourhood of Gràcia, he illustrates for the New York Times, Elle, Newsweek, Forbes and Harper's Bazaar. And his graphic design—a delightful mesh of Tetris pixels and luxury damask—is both award-winning and highly solicited. But this is not why I like José Luis Merino. My admiration comes from the fact that here is a man who took a giant leap, shelving a glittering and hard-earned career to learn to make leather shoes from scratch.
The history of cobbling in Spain is a long and diverse one. It is assumed that the oldest human rendering of shoes is in a cave painting near the city of Santander, dated by scientists as being between 14,000 and 17,000 years old. As civilisations began to develop, sandals were more often worn, particularly by the conquering Romans, who as they extended their empire into the Iberian Peninsula spread the message that footwear was necessary in a civilised world. By the 13th century, a casual shoe in Catalunya appeared called the alpargata made from esparto grass, one that is still produced in the region today. Around the same time, the Confraternity of Master Shoemakers of Barcelona was founded, suggesting that cobbling in the city had become active and important enough to merit an official status as early as 1202. And in the 15th and 16th centuries, shoes were a luxury consumer item, propelling Spanish women 10 centimetres off the ground in the earliest-known version of a platform shoe—the exquisitely decorated chopine. Even Queen Elizabeth I commissioned her personal shoemaker to craft a pair for her.
Today, with high fashion cobblers like Canary Islands' native Manolo Blahnik making global headlines, the focus now is how shoes can lend charisma to the wearer. Yet even in the face of fame and fortune, Blahnik remains solitary, continuing to sketch and create each shoe himself, ensuring that his work is as much an expression of the maker as the wearer. Another example of shoemaking as self-realisation is the charismatic Olga Berluti, whose Paris-based cobbling legacy borders on theatricality. Her leather is washed in the lagoons of Venice, buried in the Alpine snow of Cortina then bleached by moonlight "for transparence." The construction of a Berluti shoe involves more than 250 individual manoeuvres, "as many as for building a cathedral," Olga suggests, and as for upkeep, she recommends that the wearer bathes it in dry champagne, "on the rocks, and preferably vintage"—since the fizzy bubbles remove wax and restore a shiny finish.
Eager to see more deeply into this intriguing world, an apron was handed to me and I took up my own shoemaking apprenticeship at the Raval-based atelier of maestro Josep Cunillera. My first lesson involved observing a drawing of a cow, to understand where the skin for each part of a shoe is taken from, and being shown a series of sample skins, some in the complete form of the animal, and others even bearing the marks of where the skin once hugged a spine. It demonstrated how primitive and unchanged this craft is, how a handmade shoe is, at its essence, the skin from the neck or back of an animal that fits around a human foot, skin on skin. No wonder then, that craftsmen who work with leather have throughout the ages considered St Mark, St Crispin and St Bartholomew as their patron saints. All three martyrs had their skin flayed from them as punishment for their beliefs.
During my time at Josep Cunillera's workshop, I have begun to notice other idiosyncrasies, such as how artisans drop their tools. They tap nails, sand wood, slice leather and then the implements clatter to the ground or are tossed to one side, their service no longer required. But as soon as a new nail needs affixing or there is a something to carve, these makers reach to retrieve their fallen hammers and knives with care.


A method that sorts a list in place, changing the contents of the list. It return None, not a new list.
A function that returns a sorted list, without changing the original.
If True, the sorting is done in reverse order.
If a value is specified, it must be a function object that takes one parameter. The function will be called once for each item in the list that's getting sorted. The return value will be used to decorate the item with a post-it note. Values on the post-it notes are used to determine the sort order of the items.


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void HSA_APITrace_hsa_queue_create_PostCallHelper(hsa_status_t retVal, hsa_agent_t agent, uint32_t size, hsa_queue_type32_t type, void(*callback)(hsa_status_t status, hsa_queue_t* source,
                                                  void* data), void* data, uint32_t private_segment_size, uint32_t group_segment_size, hsa_queue_t** queue);

/// interception helper function for hsa_executable_get_symbol
/// see HSA runtime spec for parameter descriptions
void HSA_APITrace_hsa_executable_get_symbol_PostCallHelper(hsa_status_t retVal, hsa_executable_t executable, const char* module_name, const char* symbol_name, hsa_agent_t agent, int32_t call_convention, hsa_executable_symbol_t* symbol);

/// interception helper function for hsa_amd_memory_async_copy
/// see HSA runtime spec for parameter descriptions
void HSA_APITrace_hsa_amd_memory_async_copy_PreCallHelper(void* dst, hsa_agent_t dst_agent, const void* src, hsa_agent_t src_agent, size_t size, uint32_t num_dep_signals, const hsa_signal_t* dep_signals, hsa_signal_t& completion_signal, unsigned long long asyncCopyIdentifier);

/// interception helper function for hsa_amd_memory_async_copy_rect
/// see HSA runtime spec for parameter descriptions
void HSA_APITrace_hsa_amd_memory_async_copy_rect_PreCallHelper(const hsa_pitched_ptr_t* dst, const hsa_dim3_t* dst_offset, const hsa_pitched_ptr_t* src, const hsa_dim3_t* src_offset, const hsa_dim3_t* range, hsa_agent_t copy_agent, hsa_amd_copy_direction_t dir, uint32_t num_dep_signals, const hsa_signal_t* dep_signals, hsa_signal_t completion_signal, unsigned long long asyncCopyIdentifier);

/// interception helper function for hsa_executable_get_symbol_by_name
/// see HSA runtime spec for parameter descriptions
void HSA_APITrace_hsa_executable_get_symbol_by_name_PostCallHelper(hsa_status_t retVal, hsa_executable_t executable, const char* symbol_name, const hsa_agent_t* agent, hsa_executable_symbol_t* symbol);

/// interception helper function for hsa_executable_symbol_get_info
/// see HSA runtime spec for parameter descriptions
void HSA_APITrace_hsa_executable_symbol_get_info_PostCallHelper(hsa_status_t retVal, hsa_executable_symbol_t executable_symbol, hsa_executable_symbol_info_t attribute, void* value);

/// interception helper function for hsa_system_get_extension_table
/// see HSA runtime spec for parameter descriptions
void HSA_APITrace_hsa_system_get_extension_table_PostCallHelper(hsa_status_t retVal, uint16_t extension, uint16_t version_major, uint16_t version_minor, void* table);

/// interception helper function for hsa_system_get_major_extension_table
/// see HSA runtime spec for parameter descriptions
void HSA_APITrace_hsa_system_get_major_extension_table_PostCallHelper(hsa_status_t retVal, uint16_t extension, uint16_t version_major, size_t table_length, void* table);

#endif // _HSA_TRACE_INTERCEPTION_HELPERS_H

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English News Shows BBC World
Home Day Schedule Shows Premier
BBC World | English News Shows (Page: 2)
Find what are unique English News programs scheduled to show in BBC World channel by start time. Note: In this view duplicate programs are not shown.
Shows are listed in increasing order of upcoming show time for channel BBC World.
4.0 of 5 based on 2 votes Cast Your Vote:
Tue, 4:30 AM 31 Jan
Newsday is a news programme on BBC World News that was first broadcast on 13 June 2011. The programme is co-hosted by Babita Sharma and Kasia Madera in London, with Rico Hizon and Sharanjit Leyl in S
Know More Watched Notify
The Travel Show (2011)
You won't believe your eyes! For the first time ever, Dorothy will have her own plane to travel around the world in search of the perfect rose!
Tue, 3:30 PM 31 Jan
BBC News is an operational business division of the British Broadcasting Corporation responsible for the gathering and broadcasting of news and current affairs.
Wed, 8:25 AM 1 Feb
Thu, 8:25 AM 2 Feb
Thu, 2:00 PM 2 Feb
Wonders Of Albania
Romans & Blood Feuds: The presenter, Professor Bettany Hughes, scouts through ancient spots in Albania, famously known as the secret treasure of the Balkans. The town is known for its fortresses and rich heritage.
Fri, 2:00 PM 3 Feb
ourWorld is a virtual world containing a range of online games and activities. It was developed by FlowPlay, and is aimed at the teen and tween demographic.
While we try to be as accurate as possible, sometimes the schedule information may be in correct due to human error or change of schedule at the channel side.
This website must be only used for the purpose of information and we are certainly not responsible if any information on our website is found incorrect, please notify us for any issue and we will take action as soon as possible.


Following Trevor Ncube's tweet concerning what he perceived to be the leading online news publications, we thought it best to make a more inclusive list that has more publications.
The list has different statistics that paint a clear picture on the followership of the 27 sites, covering their website viewership numbers as well as their followership on popular social media platforms, Facebook and Twitter.
Apart from being an interesting read, we also think the list will help inform readers/businesses on the sites on which to advertise their products and reach the widest number of heads locally. This list will be updated on a monthly basis and can be a useful resource to discover new content and also track how your favourites sites are performing.
In our efforts to make this list we tried to be as thorough as possible but if there are any sites that you are aware of that didn't make the cut please notify us and we will continue to update the list. This month's list now contains a previous ranking from the last time we released a list.
We added a single site (zimbabwesituation.com) this time around but if we missed any news publication you can always tell us in the comments below and we will add them.
Thank for your feedback. Yeah, it is perfectly fine because the traffic from Pindula is ranked according to perfomance so I don't understand how a disclaimer would affect the list and there 23 other publications that are not affiliated with Techzim or Pindula so I'm sure those are being 'advertised' by the very same article.
A list with no NewZimbabwe.com, how did you miss the biggest online platform?
newzimbabwe.com should not be left out – are you sure you have not mixed up with newsday?????
Number 14 seems incomplete, guessed it to be ".co.uk" and I was right….
Thanks for you feedbackSagittar. You might have been right to say 14 cause we recently added two publications, lol!
Oh and thezimbabwean.co is actually a site.
Thanks for your feedback. The list will continue to grow and diversify so we will look into adding more diverse stats as well.


Andy suffocated on a sleep positioner. He was two months old.
"Andy was born first on November 11, 2001. He was born 2 minutes before his brother Jake. They were two beautiful boys with such great lives ahead of them.
Sleep positioners are extremely dangerous. Tell anyone you know with a newborn not to use it.
What's Happened Since Andy's Death?
Between 1997 and 2010, CPSC received 12 reports of infants between the ages of 1 month and 4 four months who died when they suffocated in sleep positioners or became trapped and suffocated between a sleep positioner and the side of a crib or bassinet. Andy was one of these fatalities.
In September 2010, the CPSC and FDA issued a strongly worded warning urging parents to stop using sleep positioners. They asked caregivers to rely on tested methods to reduce the risk of SIDS — back sleeping, bare crib, non-smoking household among others. After the warning in September 2010, manufacturers stopped making the product and retailers stopped selling them for the most part. Still, despite the death toll, sleep pillows or positioners are commonly sold online. Here at KID we are dedicated preventing online purchases of hazardous products through family education. It's also up to brave families, like Andy's family, to take action against these harmful products by sharing their stories and advocating against harmful products.
Similar to sleep positioners, bumper pads pose a similar risk to an infant's sleep space. They can pose suffocation, strangulation, and choking hazards. They pose a suffocation risk if a baby's face is pressed against the bumper or wedged between the bumper and the crib side or mattress. Between 1990 and 2016, the CPSC reported 107 fatal and 282 non-fatal incidents involving bumper pads. Following the report, CPSC commissioner released a statement calling bumper pads "deadly clutter" in our nation's cribs. Kids in Danger recommends removing bumper pads and other soft items from your child's crib.
Don't be fooled by marketing that claims some crib bumper pads are safer or "breathable" – even bumper pads that meet industry standards have been known to result in injury or death. For more information, visit our product hazard page on crib bumper pads.
Ask your state legislator to sponsor a bill to ban the sale of crib bumper pads.
Crib bumpers, or bumper pads are not safe for infants. They can pose suffocation, strangulation, and choking hazards. They pose a suffocation risk if a baby's face is pressed against the bumper or wedged between the bumper and the crib side or mattress. Additionally, bumpers have been recalled because the strings used to attach them to the crib can pose a strangulation hazard, or detach and pose a choking hazard. The bumper may also restrict the movement of fresh air in the crib.


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Adoption is a unique area of family law in that it adds to a family or formalizes a relationship with a stepparent. However, an equal amount of dedication and diligence is required to ensure a smooth process. At Stern & Edlin Family Law, P.C., the firm's attorneys attend to every detail, starting with the termination of parental rights. Disputes may arise as legal complexities combine with emotional elements.


Inc. instead of a common carrier or a courier?
Our knowledge and experience of the shipping and exhibition industries as well as our efficiency, commitment, reliable partners and on time service are a few reasons why WINN should be your carrier of choice. Many carriers who do not specialize in the exhibitions industry may not be as knowledgeable with union regulations for targeted move-in and out of show venues. Most show decorators will levy heavy penalties if freight is delivered off target. With WINN, your show cargo will be our main priority for the day and we will do what it takes to make the delivery within the show guidelines.
Does WINN ship for International events?
Yes, we are familiar and continually educating ourselves of the ever changing import laws of foreign countries to insure that your shipment complies with those foreign laws and all necessary paperwork are provided and certified by proper authorities. We work with a reliable network of partners oversea, most of whom are the actual official contractor for the particular events, to insure that your freight meet customs deadlines, clear in time and deliver directly to your stand. Unlike most US shows that are regulated by a union decorator, we coordinate all on-site handling oversea, including the storage and return of empties.
When is a good time to send freight to a show?
the origin of the freight and mode of transportation, via ocean or air. One of our professionals will assess your freight and the show guidelines before advising you of the best option.
Can WINN handle perishable products?
to insure that they take full advantage of tax exemptions on food products and privileges granted solely to the official freight forwarder. We would love to have all your business; however, we feel it is our obligation to advise you of the best solutions in order for your freight to be properly handled.
per pound or $50 minimum per piece.
Do you have any packing advice to reduce risk of damage during transit?
Packing materials should be strong enough to sustain possible bumping during transit, weatherproof and be suitable for repacking after the exhibition. Consult with your packing company for different options of packaging such as fiber/metal cases or wooden crates.
We are certain that you may have many other unanswered questions and one of our dedicated professionals is always available to assist. Please give us a call with any questions or for a cost estimate. We look forward to hearing from you.


Movie Coming to America sequel is coming soon!
There's only one Eddie Murphy movie I want to see a sequel to - The Tree That Kept Him From Talking Or Something.
Frankly, I'd rather see Tarantno cast him in a dramatic role as a disgruntled tenant in a dispute with his co-op board.
Hilarious, and all too prescient to today's political scene.
Maybe due to the fact that Eddie just sired like his 15th kid.


Competition: Win a Madredeus Vinyl Bundle!
Portuguese band Madredeus have been recording their unique mix of fado and modern folk music since 1985. Now you can own four of their iconic albums – Os Dias da Madredeus, O Espírito da Paz, Electronico and Antologia – on vinyl, which were recently reissued by Parlophone Portugal.
The competition closing date is January 5, 2o18 and the winner will be contacted by email. To enter, simply click here!


In the presence of pure low-frequency fatigue, force generation in response to high-frequency stimulation is unimpaired, indicating that the contractile proteins are capable of generating maximal force provided that sufficient calcium is released by the sarcoplasmic reticulum (SR). As a result, impaired force generation at submaximal frequencies of stimulation may represent either a reduced level of calcium availability due to alterations in SR function or a reduction in the calcium sensitivity of the myofilaments at submaximal calcium concentrations. Both changes have been demonstrated experimentally (16, 17). Reduced myofilament calcium sensitivity can be produced experimentally by increasing hydrogen and phosphate ions (18). The explanation for impaired calcium release by the SR during contractions is less well understood, and a number of theories have been proposed to account for this phenomenon (16, 19-21).
Low-frequency fatigue has been demonstrated in the diaphragm and sternocleidomastoid muscles of normal subjects breathing against high resistive loads (17, 22). Low-frequency fatigue has also been shown to develop in the diaphragm of normal subjects asked to sustain maximum voluntary ventilation for 2 minutes (23).


Personalised based on Rob's newest recommendation, the UK RDA values, and my own needs.
I'm not sure why the UK RDAs are lower than those from Rob (or maybe the US). However I trust them to be reasonable, and it makes getting hold of a multivitamin a heck of a lot easier...!


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Tierney calls for urgent fuel...
Tierney calls for urgent fuel poverty strategy
fuel poverty brian tierney Energy costs action plan
SDLP Derry councillor Brian Tierney has called on Sinn Féin Communities Minister Deirdre Hargey to urgently publish a fuel poverty strategy.
It comes after the SDLP launched its energy costs action plan this week.
Included in the plan is a demand that the Department for Communities urgently publish a plan to tackle fuel poverty affecting people across the North.
The North's last fuel strategy was published in 2011.
Councillor Tierney said:
"It's inconceivable that while people across the North have been plunged into fuel poverty this winter that immediate support has not been forthcoming from Minister Hargey. While we have heard warm words and talk of bidding for funding that will do nothing to actually heat people's homes with the cold snap already well underway.
"I know from my work as a councillor the impact that fuel poverty has on people. Parents are forced to go without food to keep their children warm, pensioners are forced out of their homes because they simply can't afford to heat them. Cold and damp living conditions also have a serious effect on people's mental and physical health.
"It has been ten years since the last fuel strategy was published for the North and at that time fuel poverty was estimated at 22%, already a disgraceful figure. With the recent spiralling energy bill costs, the cost of living crisis, national insurance rises and the £20 weekly cut to Universal Credit, overseen by Minister Hargey and her Sinn Féin colleague Conor Murphy, I fear the situation could now be much worse.
"We need Minister Hargey to produce an updated fuel poverty strategy that establishes the number of people in the North currently struggling to heat their homes and introduces measures to combat this in both the long and short term. While the Joint First Ministers and relevant Executive Ministers have abandoned people suffering from fuel poverty this winter the SDLP has stepped up to produce our plan and it must be implemented before its too late."