What is genuine travel? Travel is fundamentally about experiencing life in the shoes of others. That means that those who seek refuge in airline lounges and western hotel chains fail to experience the essence of what it means to travel, right? Absolutely wrong. Here's why.
This story takes places over one day, as I traveled from India to France. I was staying at the Grand Hyatt Mumbai, just a few minutes from Mumbai Airport. What a way to "experience" India, right? Nothing like becoming "cultured" from an American chain airport hotel (said no one ever)! But while eating my western food from the friendly confines of the hotel's club lounge, I struck up a conversation with an Indian businessman from Delhi named Sanjeev. He was in town to check up on a plant that made tires. We struck up a conversation when he saw that I was taking pictures of the lounge food (for this blog) and was curious why.
Sanjeev was a Senator on Lufthansa and had his sights on HON Circle, Lufthansa's top-tier status that requires either living on plane if buying cheap fares or several very expensive tickets in order to qualify. Travel is the great ice breaker among cultures and after exhausting miles and points he moved on to Indian politics and griped about his son marrying an "impoverished gold digger" (his word choice was actually coarser). This was a pretty connected guy and over the course of about an hour I got an inside look into Indian national politics, the unofficial caste system that lingers on, and an idea for how upper class Indians approach marriage. It was a fascinating conversation and Sanjeev was keen to learn about how I approached marriage and my view on a number of political issues. It was a deep and substantive talk that gave me more insight into India and Indians than all the sights of Mumbai.
The next day, I took Uber to the airport, where my driver began talking about his strong Roman Catholic faith. We ended up in a spirited theological discussion for the 45-minute, 2.5 mile journey to the airport (you've got to love Indian traffic). Not what I would have expected. The first time I stepped into India was 2009 and I had assumed, quite wrongly, that the whole country was Hindu. Nope – there are Muslims, Christians, and Buddhists in India as well. Even an Uber trip to the airport helped me understand the diversity of this land.
In the Al Mourjan lounge in Doha I met a chef in the dining room who was one of the most enthusiastic people I have ever met. He was so happy to do his job and so happy to work for Qatar Airways. Originally from Sri Lanka, he shared of his ability to travel the world and listed off several exotic destinations he had recently visited.
But then the conversation got deeper.
He was part of the persecuted Tamil minority in Sri Lanka and began talking about the oppression he escaped in coming to Qatar. Giving up his passport and living in what some describe as a concentration camp (charitably a "company town") of fellow workers, he vividly described his life in Colombo and that his own brother had been killed. Wow, this conversation just got deep.
And you know something? I suddenly had more insight, true insight, on a geopolitical situation without ever setting foot outside the opulent lounge.
Finally, the connecting flight to Paris. First Class with Krug, a fancy a la carte menu, and FAs fawning all over me. That was fun, but what was interesting was the conversation I struck up an Iranian FA (paradoxically?) serving as bartender in the onboard bar. She was incorrigibly friendly and after another corroboration that working for Qatar may not be heavenly but that the good far outweighs the bad, I got to hear about growing up in Iran as a woman, the religious pressure (actually, lack thereof in her family), and about the close-knit family life that seemed almost idyllic. I was invited back to Iran and promised that she would sponsor my visa and I could stay with her family (and in case you are wondering, she told me to bring my wife as well…).
So there you have it. One trip, one example, but a prime example of how the notion that luxury travel is not real travel is actually a sophomoric and flawed presupposition.
From a business perspective, writing about these epiphanies come at a great opportunity cost as time is limited and people prefer to read about the first class lounges and seats than about conversations with airline employees. But do not ever let anyone think you cannot experience life in the shoes of others from a first class seat or hotel lounge. I just did. You just have to talk to the people around you.
Read more about my flights and hotels mentioned above in my latest trip report.
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1. You may consider to publish a book regarding those interesting conversation. The late Anthony Bourdain share his enjoyment in travel with food as language. You can have another exciting language.
2. I understand you travel a lot and enjoy the diversity of culture and social norms across the globe. It baffles me in one of your late article that you complained the lack of wifi for a flight on working hours based on USA timezone. US timezone as standard. Really?
James, let me clarify your second point. My point was not that Air France should offer wi-fi because the flight took places during U.S. banking hours. Instead, I tried to reason that in 2018, when so many other carriers offer it, Air France should also offer Wi-Fi. This flight was particularly difficult for me because it took place during the U.S. work day.
At least you now understand the potential ambiguity in some of the sentence written, to avoid confusion in future.
While what you are experiencing is interesting and helps you become a more insightful person, it isn't experiencing a destination. For example, you could have met that Indian executive in a Chinese Hyatt lounge and had the exact same experience. True, it is traveling. But if you were to say you experienced Mumbai because of your Hyatt lounge experience, I would disagree.
That's a fair point, a good point actually, though I think in this case I learned more about Indian culture than I would have spending days wandering the streets of Mumbai.
I think that the conversations you've had are great, and you should absolutely continue to have them. However, the experiences you describe do not sound like travel to me.
You travel to a place to go experience the place. But you go to an airport lounge or a hotel chain because it is almost the same anywhere. In fact, these locations are almost devoid of place, with the exception of deviations for color and food, to some extent.
You travel to a place to interact with the locals in particular. But when you go to an airport lounge or corporate hotel you interact with anyone who is sufficiently global to be there.
This isn't meant as an insult because I love airport lounges, and I'm pretty shy, so I'm not trying to say that I have superior or more authentic experiences when I go somewhere.
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Wow! Well written and completely relatable (I'm a road warrior based out of Mumbai part of the year). This sort of things is rarely covered by bloggers and should be.
Frankly, I think the whole notion of "genuine travel" is quite overbearing and condescending. What's "genuine" anyway?
I was born and raised in one country, but moved to another (for ~12 years now). Whenever I visit my birth country (whose language I speak daily with my family, whose culture I was *born in*), people still know that I am "foreign" and treat me accordingly. It's ridiculous to expect or to demand "experiencing life in the shoes of others," because others know and treat you differently. In fact, they kinda need to. If you are in, says, France and don't speak French fluently, you can't bargain or ask for direction like a local. So, the locals have to accommodate. You can't be local when you are not local.
However, as you pointed out, a traveler can observe, converse, and take notes. Maybe such are the limits of being in a foreign zone. You can't be locals, but you can see and seek understandings. That sounds like loads of fun.
Or, maybe, just maybe, just throw the whole "genuine" thing into the wind and enjoy. I have stopped looking for "authentic food" and "authentic culture," including my birth culture. Either the food is enjoyable and flavorful, or it's not (ok, there is a whole range; but the range should be about enjoyment and flavor, not supposed "authenticity"). Similarly, when I travel, I seek to enjoy myself. Sometimes, it's losing my little self in the grandeur of the setting (be it mountains or buildings); some other times, it's looking at people doing things strangely (relatively speaking); some other times, it's finding interesting tidbits.
All that said, I would highly recommend *against* talking politics. IMHO, not all countries and cultures are as open. Just sayin'.
Your last point is a good one. I will never bring up politics, especially in the Trump era, unless asked.
"The Point of the Journey is not to arrive", as "Happiness is the Road".
It's all about the random occurrences and people that you meet, whether it be on the streets or in a lounge – and making the most of those situations.
Given the inherently more relaxed environment of a lounge (as opposed to the hustle & bustle of a main terminal), folks may tend to be less guarded. If one is open to others, the time can pass quickly. Even in coach, I've had 6hr flights that seemed to be over in 20min as the conversation was fluid & enjoyable. I imagine this would translate to premium cabins as well – too bad many of the reviews across these travel blogs tend to whinge about the "lack of privacy since there is no closing door" around their First Class cocoon.
I agree that lounges make speaking to strangers easier. Thanks for your comment!
One of the most interesting and culturally enlightening conversations I ever had while traveling was with two 20-something male salespeople at the Gucci in Baku. They were obviously interested in (and successful at) making a sale but the store was otherwise empty on a weekday afternoon, we all had time to spare, and they offered me tea and we just shot the breeze about student life in Baku, global pop culture, Azeri pop culture (Eurovision anyone?) and whatever else came to mind. They were two of the coolest guys I've ever met. The fact that we were in a pagan temple of conspicuous consumption added to the fun, and having traveled fairly extensively in this part of the world, I never thought for a minute I was anywhere other than the shores of the Caspian.
These two experiences were "enabled" by the economic privilege that put me in those settings in the first place, but were no less authentic to me than trying to strike up a conversation while waiting on line to buy a subway token or buying some fast food from a street vendor.
I've been in similar situations before but I am a terrible conversationalist. So many missed opportunities because of being shy and not dexterous with people. After reading your article I'm resolved to improve my social skills, there's a whole lot of travel experiences (and business) that I'm missing.
I loved this article. Personally, I believe that your experience was great, and I'm very happy you had it, but its not travel. You were eating a western meal in India, thats perfectly OK, but what about ordering from that Indian restaurant at the Grand Hyatt and trying something authentic? Also, are you going to take her up to go to Iran? That, to me, sounds like an absolutely incredible experience that I really hope you do, and then publish a trip report about (forget the trip you took almost a decade ago)!
Frankly, few things irk me more than the concept that some forms of travel are more "genuine" than others. Or for that matter, that you have to "fundamentally experience life in the shoes of others" for something to qualify as "travel". That is one element of what we call travel, more important to some travelers than others, but I think some also spend way too much time criticizing others for not "living enough like a local" for their trip to count as travel. (And as another commenter suggested, that really isn't even possible, since you, I, and everyone else traveling away from home will immediately be identified as an outsider, whether we realize it or not.) I could nitpick and tell you that since Delhi is very different culturally than Mumbai, you didn't really "experience life in the shoes of others" in your conversation with Sanjeev since his perspective isn't truly local. But that would be a silly criticism, because you enjoyed your conversation and believed that you learned valuable insights.
This seems like a long-winded way to justify how you travel. I mean, not that there is anything wrong with spending time in lounges and/or hotels, but it doesn't hurt to remember that it is only one POV. I'm sure if you walked the streets of Mumbai and struck up a conversation with someone selling food from a outdoor street stall, his views on India would differ greatly from Sanjeev's.


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SCIENCE IS CAPABLE TO HAVE ESSENTIAL IMPACT ON THE INNOVATION-DRIVEN REVIVAL OF THE COUNTRY. Interview of the President of the NAS of Ukraine, Academician B.Ye. Paton to the Journal "Science and Science of Science"
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R&D Intensive Development Strategy for Ukraine: National Features in the Context of the Global Trend
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Problems of Science and Technology Potential
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Priorities of Financing of Science and Technology Activities in Ukraine by Business Enterprise Sector. Part II
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Feb 17 Movie Review: Nic Cage Breaks Through the 'Looking Glass'
Movie Reviews, ★★½
A married couple looking for a new start after the death of their young daughter purchase (what else?) a deserted freeway motel frequented by truckers and prostitutes in Looking Glass, a new thriller starring the overworked Nicolas Cage and the under-utilized Robin Tunney.
Ray (Cage) quickly discovers things might not be all they seem when he shows up to set up shop and discovers the previous owner has disappeared, leaving only a key under the might and a good luck note.
Digging deeper into his new property, Ray discovers a secret tunnel in the maintenance room that leads to a corridor and a one-way mirror looking into room #10 - where he can watch the motel's only guests, a sex-addicted trucker (Ernie Lively, father of Blake) and a lesbian dominatrix (Kassia Conway) - both of whom always insist on the same room.
Soon there's a dead pig in the swimming pool, strange happenings at the gas station across the street, and stories about a mysterious death at the motel some months back. Meanwhile, a local cop (Marc Blucas) keeps popping up to ask questions about the previous owner.
From a script by Jerry Rapp and Matthew Wilder, Looking Glass has all the makings of a sleazy low-rent thriller but none of the conviction: there's no nudity and little violence throughout the film, despite the obvious suggestions of lurid goings-on.
Instead, director Tim Hunter injects the movie with a kind of offbeat aura that verges on humor: the kind of tone that David Lynch is known for. It's no accident: Hunter made the '80s classic River's Edge, and later worked with Lynch on Twin Peaks.
Every conversation is stilted and awkward, a highlight coming during a conversation between Cage and Blucas that repeats the same line no less than ten times ("Did you do it?" "Did I do what?") and threatens to become the new version of The Wicker Man's "How did it burn?!"
Cage's performance uneasily merges grief with surliness, and barely resonates while the character actors that surround him steal away the film; Bill Bolender, as the paranoid former owner who would seem more comfortable in a tin foil hat, is a standout.
Tunney, star of '90s thrillers like The Craft and Vertical Limit, has only fleetingly been seen on the big screen over the last decade, during which she's starred on TV in The Mentalist. She's a charismatic presence here and a more relatable character than Cage's oddball lead, and I wish the script gave her more to do.
Looking Glass never amounts to much, and the perfunctory conclusion seems to leave a whole lotta loose ends. But there's a strange fascination that surrounds much of the film that kept me interested, if never fully engaged, bolstered by by proficient work behind the camera that includes a Drive-influenced synth score by Kristin Gundred and Mark Adler (whose credits include Blue Velvet).
Among star Nicolas Cage's most recent work, which includes films like Arsenal and The Humanity Bureau, Looking Glass may not be great - or even good - but it isn't without interest.
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Diamonds may claim ownership of the nickname "ice," but rock crystal is actually named for that frozen substance. Pliny the Elder called it krystallos—Greek for "ice." It's an appropriate name: Rock crystal quartz does look a lot like ice. But did Pliny actually believe that rock crystal was ice, frozen so hard it would never melt again? Pretty vivid imagination, considering that quartz really isn't that cold to the touch.
Rock crystal has been carved into ornaments such as candlesticks, chessmen and chessboards, eggs, and bowls as well as thousands of other objects of delight. And because it is found in such large crystals, sometimes weighing hundreds of pounds, you can find large sculptures made of rock crystal as well.
Rock crystal has a place in the world of science, too: It has been polished to exact proportions for use as standards in weights and measures. But probably one of the most recognized forms that rock crystal takes on is that of a crystal ball. One of the largest and most perfect crystal balls resides in the Smithsonian's gem and mineral collection, sans fortuneteller.
Rock crystal is used to create timepieces in computers and, of course, watches. It is a piezoelectric mineral, which means that physical pressure causes it to release electricity, and electricity causes it to vibrate. Here's how it works: The watch battery causes the quartz crystal to vibrate. A microprocessor converts that vibration to a much slower electrical pulse. The pulsing current activates a magnet, which switches rapidly back and forth, turning a small pinion that drives the gear train.
Many crystals are believed to have healing properties for various areas of the body, and rock crystal quartz crystals are considered particularly effective. Quartz is said to have the ability to correct a chaotic energy flow—i.e., if you're feeling stressed out, the crystal can balance your energies and revitalize you. As a universal conduit, it can remove negative energy while amplifying, focusing, storing, and transforming other energies.
Rock crystal is colorless, transparent, and has crystal-clear clarity. The specific gravity/density of quartz is listed at 2.70. Compared to a diamond—which has a specific gravity of 3.52—a 1-ct. rock crystal will look 25% larger.
Major sources for the gem material are found in Brazil, Madagascar, China, the United States (Arkansas), and Canada; however, rock crystal is found virtually on every continent.
Today, the phrase "genuine crystal" can mean two different things—rock crystal or leaded glass. However, a few hundred years ago, there was only one genuine crystal, and one of the great examples hangs within the original Chateau de Versailles, official residence for the court of France. Built in the 15th and 16th centuries, the magnificent halls and rooms of Versailles were—and still are—lit by thousands of crystal chandeliers. Each piece of rock crystal quartz was formed and polished by hand by craftsmen in Idar-Oberstein, who today still maintain the original quality of each chandelier, replacing broken crystals with new ones cut to original specifications.
Large synthetic quartz crystals, grown by a hydrothermal process, are produced in enormous quantities to satisfy the industrial demand. Identification is sometimes impossible.
Because both natural and synthetic crystal quartz is so abundant, it can be very cheap. But this also means that for unsuspecting jewelers, synthetic quartz as well as glass can easily be substituted for the real thing, so price alone is no guarantee of authenticity. Always check the merchandise. The cost will ultimately reflect the quality of the material as well as the workmanship employed to create the piece.


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» Cook County's New Qualified Protective Order Imposes New Hurdles for Defendants
by Mallory Sanzeri | Nov 29, 2021 | Firm News
The Illinois Supreme Court recently decided the HIPAA Qualified Protective Order ("QPO") previously used in Cook County must be modified due to the insufficiency of privacy protections under the current order. The Court held liability insurers are now prohibited from using or disclosing protected health information (PHI) for any purpose other than litigation. Any PHI received during the course of litigation must be destroyed following the conclusion of the litigation. Haage v. Zavala, 2021 IL 125918. The Haage decision brings Illinois closer to a uniform order for acquiring medical records. The decision, which affects virtually all Cook County cases involving bodily injuries, will make fact investigation and damages substantiation significantly more difficult for defendants.
As a result of the decision in Haage, the Cook County-Law Division issued General Administrative Order 21-3 ("GAO"), with a corresponding QPO on November 5, 2021. The QPO follows the holding in Haage by requiring that parties and their attorneys to either return or destroy the plaintiff's PHI within sixty days after the conclusion of the litigation. Defense counsel must provide proof of destruction by filing an affidavit with the Court and opposing counsel. However, the new QPO also imposes additional restrictions on how defendants can utilize subpoenas, including the following:
(a)Prevents defendant from using a subpoena for "any and all" records.
(b)Requires that a subpoena be specifically restricted to five years prior to the incident.
(c)Requires that a subpoena relate to the condition(s) and portion(s) of the plaintiff's body complained of.
(d)Requires 14 days' notice to plaintiff before subpoenas can be issued.
(e)Requires defense counsel provide a copy of all records received in response to any subpoena within 7 days of receipt of records.
These additional restrictions go beyond that decision in Haage by placing burdensome obstacles for defendants. For example, due to the use of electronic medical records and inconsistencies between providers, it is necessary to use "any and all" language so a provider produces a complete set of records. The use of "any and all" also does not appear to conflict with current Illinois discovery rules which explicitly reiterate the importance of full disclosure of relevant information to a case.
The second restriction places the burden on the defendant to argue the relatedness to a particular condition. Medical records beyond five years are necessary in cases involving underlying diseases from alleged occupational exposures to asbestos, benzenes, and herbicides. In these cases, it is particularly necessary to obtain a full medical history for the lifetime of the Plaintiff. The third restriction places the burden on the provider to determine if the particular record relates to the body part in question. The process for reviewing and redacting medical records will unquestionably result in a delay in receiving the records.
In conclusion, the revised QPO will undoubtedly change the discovery process for all Cook County bodily injury cases. The updated restrictions require a new level of participation from providers to review, divide, and redact certain medical records. Moving forward, Defendants should preserve objections to the standard QPO pursuant to Illinois Supreme Court Rule 201(C), arguing that discovery restrictions should be considered on a case-by-case basis at the discretion of the trial judge.


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Nexus 6 vs Galaxy Note 4: Size Comparison
Now that we've received the Nexus 6 and posted our initial hands-on and impressions video, we're getting a lot of questions from potential buyers regarding the sheer size of the device. It's a big phone, and here we'll quickly compare it to the new Samsung Galaxy Note 4.
Google's new Nexus 6 is a whale of a smartphone, a phablet if you will, coming in with a massive 5.96-inch Quad-HD display and some stunning features to accompany the new Android 5.0 Lollipop. And while we can't show you everything just yet, below we'll compare it to Samsung's latest phablet.
Read: Nexus 6 Release Date Mysteries Remain
In our video below you'll see a side by side comparison of the new Nexus 6 compared to the Samsung Galaxy Note 4. They both have huge screens, impressive specs, and will be available from all five major carriers in the United States. The Nexus 6 release date hasn't arrived yet, but hopefully this will help prospective buyers have a better idea of what it's about before they buy.
Last month Google announced the all new Nexus 6 smartphone along with the Nexus 9 tablet, and Android 5.0 Lollipop. Later, it confirmed a Nexus 6 pre-order date for October 29th. Right on time, the Nexus 6 went up for pre-order as expected, but sold out in less than 5 minutes by my count.
The Nexus 6 went up for pre-order last week but didn't last long. Many buyers were angry with the pre-order problems, but rest assured, all five carriers will be offering it soon and you'll have a chance to get one. For those who've ordered, or plan to, read on and watch our video below showing off the sheer size of this impressive new flagship Google smartphone.
Samsung's Galaxy Note 4 is one of the biggest and most impressive smartphones released in 2014. Featuring a big 5.7-inch 2560 x 1440 Quad-HD display, and is a phablet just like the previous versions. The Nexus 6 though, is even bigger with a 5.96-inch Quad-HD display and front facing speakers. All that said, it's only a hair longer than the Galaxy Note 4, and about the same size elsewhere.
Buying a phone is a big decision, especially when it's one of this size. The Nexus 6 is the biggest Nexus ever released, and it came as a big surprise for many potential buyers. We've received a lot of questions regarding this exact thing, and received countless comments from Nexus users looking for a new phone, as the Nexus 6 isn't for them. The video above was made to show you exactly that. Software and features aside, these phones are quite similar in size, and will make any user extremely happy.
5.96-inch 2560 x 1440 Quad-HD Display
2.7 GHz Quad-Core Snapdragon 805 processor with 3GB of RAM
32GB/64GB internal storage
13 Megapixel camera with OIS, 2.1 front camera
Ring Flash similar to Moto X
Dual Front Facing Speakers
Aluminum frame around device like the new Moto X 2014
3,200 mAh battery
Galaxy Note 4 Specs
5.7-inch 2560 x 1440 Quad-HD AMOLED Display
32GB storage (micro-SD support up to 128GB)
Android 4.4.4 KitKat (will see Android L eventually)
16 Megapixel OIS camera, 3.7 front camera
Fingerprint scanner, heart rate monitor, UV sensors
Aluminum design around edge
S-Pen stylus
Google's new Nexus 6 won't be available in the United States until later this month, with T-Mobile up first offering the phone on November 12th. We've yet to hear from any other carriers, but it's coming to AT&T, Sprint, US Cellular and Verizon all later this month, or possibly in December.
The Note 4 however, is readily available from all carriers. Hopefully this video helped you decide which device is right for you, and if you're set on the Nexus 6 feel free to head into a carrier store and use the Note 4, as it's a similar experience in the hand.
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I have been asking at retailers for the release for the Note Edge. Every employee in there is clueless of when the Edge is being released. Can this article clarify if it is going to be released on the 14th. I' m anxious for this new thing. I am a big Samsung fan, and this is getting hard to be waiting on not really knowing when.


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Sensing their moment, Florida students balance school and activism planning the March for Our Lives
Cameron Kasky and Jaclyn Corin address fellow Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School students before they board buses on Feb. 20 to Tallahassee, Fla., to speak with legislators about gun control.
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By Jenny Jarvie
Reporting from PARKLAND, FLA. —
A self-confessed "secret huge nerd," Jaclyn Corin admits she is freaking out on the inside as she tries to balance political activism with schoolwork.
The 17-year-old junior class president has six essays to write for her advanced-placement language and composition class. But after a gunman rampaged through her high school, killing 14 students and three staff members, she is mostly focused on Saturday's March for Our Lives.
"It's very hard to juggle," Jaclyn said one evening last week as she slipped into a booth at Panera with fellow activists David Hogg and Sarah Chadwick and sipped a strawberry banana smoothie.
"We're teenagers and we're leading a national movement," said David, also 17, a wiry, intense senior who has put on the back burner memorizing his 50 psychology vocab words and his environmental science project on mammals. "That's a lot of stress."
The goal of the student-led march in Washington is simple: to demand that Congress pass a comprehensive bill to address gun violence.
While the House last week passed the STOP School Violence Act, which authorizes $50 million a year to bolster school security, students say it does nothing to restrict gun access. It does not even mention the word "gun."
"We need a mass mobilization of the American public on a huge scale," said David, a budding filmmaker who became a key voice of the movement after recording video of his classmates huddling in a small dark closet during the Feb. 14 shooting.
About 1,000 students from Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland — and hundreds of thousands of supporters from across the country — plan to march on the nation's Capitol. More than 800 marches are planned worldwide — in Los Angeles and Paris; Buenos Aires and Tokyo; Sydney, Australia, and Mumbai, India.
"In the period of one month, we have shaken up the world," said Jaclyn, a small blonde with a chirpy, singsong voice. "But I feel like the adults keep pressing the snooze button. At some point they're going to have to wake up."
Trying to persuade politicians to enact gun legislation, David said, is about as frustrating as instructing adults how to use smartphones.
"You know, when they're like, 'I can't figure out how to take a selfie…,'" he said dryly. "And then five minutes later, you finally take the phone and you just press the button… You just need to go into the settings!"
"That's perfect," Jaclyn said, giggling.
"That's what we're doing with our government," David continued. "'Goddammit, just give it to me!'"
Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School students, from left, Emma Gonzalez, David Hogg, Cameron Kasky and Alex Wind participate in a panel discussion about guns Tuesday at the Harvard Kennedy School's Institute of Politics in Massachusetts.
(Steven Senne / Associated Press )
Already, the students have raised more than $3.3 million via GoFundMe to stage the event, bringing in major donations from celebrities such as Oprah Winfrey, Steven Spielberg and George and Amal Clooney. A string of pop stars — Ariana Grande, Miley Cyrus, Jennifer Hudson and Demi Lovato — agreed to perform at their rally.
For the organizers, the march is a way to channel their grief and anger as well as send a strong message to President Trump and Congress.
"We know this is what's going to help us heal," said Delaney Tarr, a 17-year-old senior. "But it's also bigger than us.… I think everybody, they want to make the world a different place, and that's what we're working on right now — we have an opportunity to do something."
The students feel a sense of urgency in getting their message out, a fear that the public will lose interest.
Sarah, a wry 16-year-old junior who has become celebrated for her adept use of social media, went on Twitter hours after the shooting with a raw, pointed message for Trump. "I don't want your condolences you...," she wrote, adding an obscenity for emphasis. "My friends and teachers were shot."
Around the same time, Jaclyn, who lost her friend Joaquin Oliver, made a plea on Instagram: "PLEASE contact your local and state representatives, as we must have stricter gun laws IMMEDIATELY."
As Jaclyn urged students to join her in Tallahassee, the state capital, to lobby for new gun laws in Florida, her friend Cameron Kasky, a 17-year-old junior and theater kid, pulled the activists together by creating the #NeverAgain hashtag and coming up with the idea of a march.
In a matter of days, the teenagers had created a national movement with a goal of tighter background checks for gun buyers. After delivering a powerful "We call B.S." speech at a rally in Fort Lauderdale, Emma Gonzalez, 18, amassed 1.25 million Twitter followers.
Within just three weeks, they pushed Florida's largely Republican Legislature to pass, and Republican Gov. Rick Scott to sign, a landmark $400-million school safety bill. It didn't go as far as students wanted, but included provisions long opposed by the National Rifle Assn., such as increasing the minimum age to purchase a firearm from 18 to 21.
Some critics dismiss the teenagers as telegenic, overly emotional mouthpieces for adults, yet the students are quick to reject the idea that anyone is steering them.
"Nobody is setting our agenda for us," said David, who adds that he has worried from the start that adults would try to take over. "If they try to, Cameron, Emma and I verbally eviscerate them."
Still, the students have happily left much of the day-to-day planning of the march to sympathetic parents, teachers, alumni, legislators and nonprofit groups.
Deena Katz, co-executive producer of "Dancing With the Stars" and co-executive director of the Women's March Los Angeles Foundation, is working on permits and organizing the route, Jumbotrons, generators, porta-potties and security. A public relations firm is coordinating the students' speaking engagements and fielding media requests.
A batch of 200 students and faculty will travel to the capital for a four-day trip sponsored by Giffords, the gun violence prevention organization founded by Gabrielle Giffords, the Democratic former Arizona congresswoman who survived a 2011 assassination attempt. An additional 550 students will fly up for the day, boarding predawn flights provided complimentary by Delta Air Lines.
The teens accept that they are having an impact partly because they have resources that other shooting victims do not; Parkland is an affluent, predominantly white community, with a median household income of around $128,000.
Sarah Chadwick speaks at a news conference at the Capitol in Tallahassee, Fla., in February.
(Colin Abbey / EPA/Shutterstock )
"If we can use our white privilege to amplify the voice of minorities, we have to," Sarah said. "It's not just us experiencing violence. We experienced it once, and it was horrible and traumatizing. But people in neighborhoods in inner-city communities experience shootings every single day."
As activists, the students are not in lockstep on every policy issue. They differ on whether teachers should be armed or whether to push for an outright ban on assault weapons. When prosecutors announced last week they would seek the death penalty for the shooter, Nikolas Cruz, Emma indicated on CBS' "60 Minutes" she would be happy to see him put to death, while Cameron and David said they would prefer he spend life in prison.
Some, like Jaclyn, admit they were not politically active before the shooting. Many of the others, however, say they have long followed politics and news. After last year's Las Vegas shooting that left 58 people dead, Sarah tweeted messages calling for more gun control.
"I've always been opinionated, but now people are listening," she said, noting her parents set up Twitter accounts after the shooting at her school to check up on her.
"Every day, politics is used to suppress you," said David, who says he learned most of what he knows about the NRA and special interest groups from watching comedian John Oliver on HBO's "Last Week Tonight." "I always felt this way. Now I have the platform to speak out."
As if on cue, a man waves at David — one of a string of starstruck adults who approach the teens every few minutes to give high-fives, thank them and wish them luck.
Already, the teenagers worry about how they will keep up momentum after the March for Our Lives is over.
"I'm going to be BoJack Horseman," David deadpanned, referring to the jaded, washed-up, alcoholic horse and eponymous hero of Netflix's animated adult comedy. "What we really need to figure out is what the hell is going to happen on March 25 and the day after that and the day after that."
"We don't want people to forget about us," Sarah agreed. "But I think that's going to be hard to do. We now have a massive following, especially Emma."
Considering how to push their agenda forward, David referred to German novelist Gustav Freytag's pyramid of storytelling.
"We have the exciting incident, we have the buildup, and we have the climax, but there's no resolution," he said. "The resolution is the thing that we're fighting for, and that's our lives."
Jarvie is a special correspondent.
Jenny Jarvie
Jenny Jarvie is a national reporter for the Los Angeles Times based in Atlanta.


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2009 All Star Coach West
1st Assistant Geoff Stewart
Big Rapids High School
Jeff is a 1971 graduate of Muskegon High School. He attended Hope College and played defensive end and guard and earned a degree in political science. Jeff holds a master's degree in educational administration from Central Michigan University.
Coach Stewart has taught for thirty-three years at Big Rapids High School. He is currently employed as a social studies teacher. After graduating from Hope, Jeff took a position as an assistant football coach at Big Rapids. In 1980, he became the head football coach. In thirteen years, he compiled a 78-40 record and won three conference titles. He coached a 9-0 team in 1982. He was honored as a Regional Class B Coach of the Year in 1982. Coach Stewart was diagnosed with leukemia in 1992. Later that year he suffered a stroke. He then served as an assistant in Newaygo for one year and as an assistant at Reed City for twelve years. He was honored as an Assistant Coach of the year in 1995. In 2009, he will be teaching and coaching at Big Rapids again. Jeff also coached boy's tennis for ten years. Coach Stewart has been electedas a Regional director of the MHSFCA five times. Stewart was inducted into the MHSFCA Hall of Fame in 2004.
Jeff has been married to Anne for thirty-three years. Jeff said, "She is the best filmer in the state and has been a tremendous asset. Without her support, coaching wouldn't be possible." The Stewarts have three children: Edward, Joanne and Brian. He said, "I am honored to be selected by my peers to coach in the All Star Game. I love teaching and coaching. I get to work with kids every day and in the fall, on Friday night there is no place I'd rather be than coaching football."


Ohio voters thwart Republican efforts to destroy collective bargaining by two-to-one margin.
As anyone knows who has followed national politics for any amount of time, Ohio represents one of the most important battle grounds in determining who the POTUS will be. Ohio voters cast their ballets yesterday and said "no" to Republican efforts to take us back to a simpler time when workers didn't have any rights and were open to inhumane abuse by their employers. Is this a sign that Ohio voters will lean in favor of Obama in 2012, and give him four more?Here's the story from NPR.
Ohio voters have overturned Senate Bill 5, the controversial law that stripped public employees of their rights to collectively bargain, by a nearly two-to-one vote. The law, which was the centerpiece of Republican Gov. John Kasich's legislative agenda and passed by a GOP-dominated state legislature this spring, will no longer be on the books after Tuesday night's referendum vote.
This was the most closely-watched off-year election in the nation, as the repeal vote is being viewed as an important barometer in the struggle between unions and pro-business budget cutters headed into 2012. After organized labor and their Democratic allies suffered a string of defeats in states like Wisconsin and Indiana earlier this year, the Ohio campaign was an all-out battle for survival.
This hard-earned and expensive victory for unions represents a momentum shift in their direction at a crucial time. Ohio will likely be a key electoral battleground in the coming presidential election, and supporters of the repeal say this win signals that the sweeping, Republican-led efforts to curb the power of public employee unions may have gone too far.
Sorry Peggy! Good post! Good vote!! I'm not a big union supporter, as I think too many of them ask for too much all the time, but it strikes a blow at the Right, and for the moment that's my priority.
Peggy is referring to the fact that yesterday I actually voted for a Republican, for the first and probably last time in my life, in our municipal elections. I also voted to make municipal elections non-partisan, which passed. It's different at the local level. Yes, I feel a little defensive and slightly ashamed.


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SUPER-SENSOR
Thomas B. W. Bailey
Born To Corrode – In Conversation with Scott Konzelmann aka Chop Shop
A New High in Low – Adventures in Lo-Bitrate Audio
Doing by Not Doing Minimal Packaging and Design in Techno Music
I Am The Others – CM von Hausswolff review
John Gray's Silence of the Animals
Lemurs Over Laptopia
O'callaghan Sounds A Primer
Our Presence Together in Chaos – John Cage vs Glenn Branca Revisited
Roc Jimenez de Cisneros The State of Radical Computer Music
No More The Other Shore – Yan Jun interviewed
The Speed Of Sleep (2007, 2:00)
The text material I've contributed to this inaugural issue of «Super Sensor» comprises a variety of both unpublished and previously published texts, spanning a period of 2009-present. This is roughly the same time period in which I began publishing my audio-related writings in book form, so readers who are familiar with my previous books MicroBionic and Unofficial Release (and the forthcoming To Hear The World with New Eyes) will notice some thematic similarities with those works. I don't intend for this collection to be a «greatest hits» or a eulogistic retrospective, but rather to make a good deal of my material more conveniently accessible than it has been.
Some of the pieces included in this folder did not originally appear in the English language, being written for the Czech-language periodicals His Voice and A2. Others were research papers written without a specific home in mind, which have languished on my hard drive until now. Lastly, many of these pieces were commissioned by, or submitted to, online journals that have ceased activity, and which might not devote server space to archiving these pieces in the near future.
In more recent years, I've been taking my research into areas well beyond the study of audio and sound arts. However, as will probably become clear after reading these selections, sound remains one of the most reliable exploratory tools available to me for making sense of both human activity and life in general.
©Thomas Bey William Bailey 2015. All text content made available via a Creative Commons Attribution / Non-Commercial / Share Alike / 4.0 International license: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by- nc-sa/4.0/
Thomas Bey William Bailey
Is an author, sound artist and educator. He has spent his creative life exploring the extremes of information as well as the anomalies of human consciousness and perception. His published works to date include a survey of unothodox electronic music (Micro-Bionic, 2009 & 2013) and Unofficial Release (2012). His forthcoming work, To Hear The World With New Eyes will deal with the cultural history of synesthesia and will be offered via SONM in Spain. A restlessly 'transitional' and uncategorizable artist, TBWB has performed, recorded, and taught in several different countries, sharing with others the joys of chaos and of the valuation of creative process over end product. With a minimum of outside assistance and with little more than a shoestring budget, he is gradually forging a path as an iconoclastic (yet insightful) creator and thinker in an otherwise conformist era.
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Despite having faced decades of adversity, particularly with Left-Wing Extremism (LWE), one area that the state has given focus to over the last 18 years has been Education.
Various path-breaking schemes and initiatives have been deployed by the state government to steer rural and tribal communities of Chhattisgarh from the evils of poverty, illiteracy and violence by identifying and applying intensive developmental measures provide quality education.
To understand how the state has fared in its persistent efforts, we can start with the literacy rate of Chhattisgarh. At the dawn of the millennium, this rate stood at 30.2 per cent (as per the Human Development Report of Chhattisgarh 2005 report).
The national average at that time had been 64.7 per cent! The latest available report shows Chhattisgarh's literacy rate at 70.28% (source: Census 2011).
The development deficit was due to many underlying factors such as accessibility, issues faced by villages, lack of basic infrastructures like roads and bridges, and weak penetration of communication technology.
An even greater deterrent were Left-Wing Extremists, whose attacks claimed the lives of many innocent villagers. Along with the gruesome murders, planned efforts were made to destroy schools and education centres frequently.
According to a 2014 report, nearly 86 primary and residential schools in the district of Dantewada catering the tribal communities were destroyed over the years as a result of these attacks.
Another related reason included the absence of teachers in such volatile regions, despite the provision of infrastructure as well as resources, owing to obvious risks to one's life.
The state government formulated a series of meticulously planned initiatives – centred on not just taking educational opportunities to every corner of Chhattisgarh, but more importantly, help Naxal-hit region's access facilities that were crucial to their subsistence and sustenance.
Starting from the Prayas programme to the innovative Porta Cabin model, the plans have triggered a steady rise in the attendance of children in tribal regions as well as a reduction in the dropout percentage over the last few years.
Launched in July 2010, Prayas identified meritorious students from districts affected by LWE and other tribal areas and placed them in tribal hostels in Raipur, where they were imparted coaching alongside their regular studies at the higher secondary level.
The project was a definite success, and many students from the schools began to crack competitive exams like IIT JEE and were placed in top-tier colleges across the country.
'Porta-Cabins' a.k.a portable classrooms, can be attributed as one of the most successful initiatives unfurled by the Chhattisgarh government so far.
The scheme has managed to achieve significant breakthroughs in areas that were once considered out of bounds for the state. Since concrete structures were regularly attacked, the administration decided to install these cabins across all LWE districts in 2011 – with each having 500-seater capacity initially.
The advantage here was that these residential schools were made of prefabricated materials such as bamboo and plywood and could be dismantled in no time during dangerous situations. These also prevented the use of schools as hideouts or armed camps.
Besides providing a haven to stay and learn while drawing kids away from a life of violence and a problematic existence, these schools offer healthy and nutritious food to students.
Today, there are about 60 such schools successfully functioning across Chhattisgarh. The per-unit seating capacity has been brought down to 250 to reduce congestion.
An interesting aspect is that these schools have supposedly managed to ease the tension in certain LWE areas and the scheme has found acceptance from all sides.
Among the measures taken by Chhattisgarh towards reducing the skewed gender ratio among students, a significant one includes setting up numerous Kasturba Gandhi Balika Vidyalayas (KGBY) along with hostels for girls across the state, particularly in educationally backward blocks (EBB).
Undertaken by the Rashtriya Madhyamik Shiksha Abhiyan (RMSA) since 2009, each of these hostels has a vacancy of 100 students and has played a significant role in taking the literacy rate of women from an initial 51.7 per cent as per the 2001 Census, to 60.59 per cent in 2011.
Another scheme that is bringing more girls to schools and colleges is the Saraswati Cycle Yojana, under which girl students from class 9 to 12 hailing from SC/ST and tribal communities as well as wards of BPL card holders have been provided with free cycles.
The main objectives of this scheme had been to ensure that these students continue their education beyond the level of primary classes, increase enrolment of girl children and reduce dropouts, especially in the age bracket of 14-18 at the secondary and senior secondary school levels.
The School Education department of Chhattisgarh is also actively pilot testing and implementing Information and Communication Technology (ICT) based Digital classrooms across government school. The objective is to make learning more engaging, intuitive and personalised through adaptive learning solutions.
The school education department is also gearing up to launch a Unified Digital System a few months from now, which aims to use technology to strengthen school management processes. It also plans to ease the accessibility of crucial data to every stakeholder at all critical levels of policy and decision making, besides creating learning platforms for both teachers and children.
More recently, the State had also launched a biometric-based school monitoring and data collection system through tablets under the banner 'Shaalakosh' across 47,000+ schools.
With the inclusion of such well conceptualised schemes and initiatives by the state, especially for marginalised communities, things have begun to look up for Chhattisgarh – especially in districts like Surguja, Koriya and Jashpur – which are now no longer classified as LWE districts.
The children of Chhattisgarh certainly seem to be leaving no opportunity behind, making the maximum from the opportunities being provided.


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Band Events Calendar
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Forms and Rules
Drum Major Training Guides
2021 State Band Championships
2019 State Solo & Party Championships
2016 Salisbury Slow Melody Competition
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Above: Cliff in the 70s, outside Tanunda Show Hall
Above: Salisbury Band at the Adelaide Band Festival, 1990
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Above: Salisbury Band, Melbourne Nationals 1985
Cliff Amor
If ever there was a survey done about the most reliable people on this planet, Cliff Amor would make it into the top 1%.
He is always there.
Apart from the times when his partner has dragged him off to Alaska or Switzerland or a selection of other exotic tourist destinations, which happened during a five year flurry of intense travelling post retirement, and that one sad night when his dog died, Cliffy is always there.
Cliff Amor has a warm heart, a very giving nature, a sociable outlook and makes everyone feel comfortable. He also has a cheeky, impish "G" rated bawdiness, a sense of humour that is "rude", but safe enough to be unleashed in the presence of your grandchildren and grandmother!
Over his 43 years in the Salisbury Band's trombone section, there have been a succession of female accomplices who have all aspired to be his slave. Sorting out his music, telling him what letter we're going from, making sure he knows the time and location of the next engagement, etc, etc. He makes them laugh, and in return they look after him, holding him in their collective metaphorical bosom. They love it and Cliff seems to feel right at home there as well!
Cliff Amor is a fine example of a success story in Community Banding. He has given unreservedly, both in terms of his musicianship and his contribution to running the band.
I invite you to take the time to read Cliff's reminiscences. I promise you that you will feel better for doing so.
Geoff Meikle 2020
Clifford F. Amor
Just after my birth on 13th January 1943 in Reading Berkshire U.K., the air raid siren sounded. The District nurse then herded everyone down a flight of stairs, out to the back garden and down some steps into a small Nissen Hut being used as an Air Raid shelter. When my parents, brother, sister and nurse were settled someone said "where is the baby?" By then the Anti Aircraft guns at Caversham Heights were firing, so no one was brave enough to go back to the house. This is my excuse for sometimes being insecure or making a mess of things when playing in the Band. I think it is always good to have an excuse!
In 1962 Maureen and I married and over the next few years had our 3 sons, Damion, Gary and Darren.
We made the decision to emigrate to Australia and arrived on the ship "SS" Australia in April 1973. We lived in Modbury, Salisbury East and eventually settled in Hillbank.
I did not have any hobbies at that time, apart from taking the boys to soccer and footy, so I began to look for another interest. We all attended the Edinburgh Air show, while we were there the Airforce Brass Band marched through the crowd. I thought how fantastic they sounded, which gave me my first interest in Brass Bands.
Sometime later I was reading the local Messenger when I saw a local band was asking for players of all ages wishing to learn to play a brass instrument. So at the age of thirty four I turned up at the Salisbury Institute in January 1977 and had my first introduction to the Salisbury Brass Band.
The first person I met was a well known lady around the Brass Bands of Adelaide, Pam Pickett. A short time later I was introduced to Ken McMahon, who was then my tutor for the next couple of years at the Institute or in his home. Monday evening trombone lessons often ended having a drink from a small wooden wine barrel, the wine got thicker and thicker over the years.
It must have sent the family crazy listening to my attempts on the trombone, while they tried to watch the T.V.
After Easter that first year I came to play in with the Band, the Band had just competed at Wagga Wagga National Championship. I sat next to Greg Pursche who was the first trombone player. I managed a few notes that evening and thought how well the rest of the Band played, I went home feeling on top of the World.
The following month was the first year of the Salisbury City Band's Slow Melody competition, which was organized by Greg Pursch & Ken McMahon, and has continued for over forty years.
The first contest I took part in was later that year at Tanunda, in the tin shed on the oval. Our uniforms being old black ex army with white peak caps. Like most people at their first contest it seems to be a blur, I can't remember what we played.
Over the next few years my three sons came to the Band, Damion percussion, Gary cornet and Darren tenor horn, at that time Salisbury Band had a competitive Junior Band conducted by Adrienne Meikle. The two youngest sons gave it away after about two years. Damion played for the ten years. As always people come and go.
I have served on the Committee for many years and have become extremely competent in the art of doodling on the back of the minutes! We can't all be academics.
As I look back, I start to wonder how many people have had embarrassing moments while in the Band. I clearly remember one of mine (only one of them mind you), a number of years back, the touring English Rugby team were on the Adelaide Oval before playing, there were about 6 Brass Bands, we were all to start at different angles and all join together and march forward and come to a halt in the centre of the oval, where the Opening Ceremony was to take place including the National Anthem sung by Julie Anthony. As we all approached the Centre, the lyre on the bell of my trombone slipped round a bit. Without thinking I grabbed at it with my right hand and my slide flew off a number of feet in front, as I got close to it I bent down quickly grabbed at it and missed, I retrieved it on the second grab, as I did this the band person behind bumped into the back of me and the person behind into him we all came to a halt in front of everyone. I could not get my slide back in and had to stand there with two pieces of my trombone, while the Anthem was played. I now know what a hot flush feels like, I went hot from the top of my head to the tip of my toes. Afterwards I thought this could happen to anyone, I'm sure everyone else would agree.
I have been retired from work for 10 years and at an age where I sometimes reflect, and like other people say "where have all the years gone"? Looking back over all the Contests and Events, but most of all the wonderful people who you were with on these occasions, many of them now no longer with us but never forgotten, also the band camps, seminars at places like Tungkillo and the fellowship and camaraderie that brought us all together. Going on camping trips, dragging the net for fish at Pt Gawler, drinking Pam Picket's potato wine, climbing over sand dunes looking for firewood for the camp fire in the evenings.
When it comes to choice of music, to me you can't find better than the late 1950's and 60's with people such as Buddy Holly, Eddie Cochran, Rod Stewart, Neil Diamond, Creedence Clearwater and even Shirley Bassey, so at my age I am allowed to say, they don't make "em" like they used to, but to me playing in a Brass Band is still something special, no matter what type of music we are playing.
I suppose some things I have written could be considered irrelevant to banding, but I believe the social events over the years have cemented our Band together and can only hope that we carry on doing the same in the future years. I know sometimes we worry about the future of Brass Bands, but when Band numbers are low people seem to appear at the right time to once again boost numbers, so at this time I remain optimistic about the future of Brass Bands.
As for what lies ahead for me, I am a little age challenged but hope to carry on for some time yet.
Cliff Amor


Colombia elects an authoritarian policy wonk.
Álvaro Uribe's triumph in Colombia's presidential election Sunday was widely interpreted as a mandate to crack down on guerrilla and paramilitary violence. His unprecedented margin of victory—by taking 53 percent of the votes, 22 percent more than his closest rival, Uribe eliminated the need for a second-round run-off—was remarkable for a politician who only months ago was seen as a long-shot candidate. According to Colombia's El Espectador, he was running a distant third in November, but as violence and lawlessness increased and the peace process between the government and FARC guerrillas broke down, voters were drawn to Uribe, who ran on the slogan "Firm hand, big heart." Uribe's father was murdered by FARC in 1983 during a botched kidnapping, and the president-elect has survived 15 assassination attempts—including one in April that kept him off the campaign trail in the month leading up to the election.
El País of Cali said Uribe's consistent and coherent position on security tipped the scales in his favor, but it identified eight other reasons for his triumph, including: the breakdown of party politics (a former leader of the Liberals, Uribe split from the party and ran as an independent), political goofs by his opponents, his skillful use of the media (especially important since he was unable to attend campaign rallies), and a widespread desire to avoid a second round of voting.
Several papers noted that the president-elect, who studied at Harvard and Oxford, is somewhat lacking in charisma. The Financial Times described him as "an earnest, bookish provincial governor" with no sense of humor, and Britain's Daily Telegraph observed, "Uribe does not dance, a rarity in a nation where salsa is taught before walking, but he is a man of iron discipline (he is up at five doing yoga every morning), with a sense of duty, say aides, last seen in 19th century Britain." Colombia's El País said that his "extreme seriousness" was a point in his favor: At a time of political crisis, voters want a policy wonk in the presidential palace.


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Herbert von Petersdorff (Berlijn, 21 maart 1881 - Darmstadt, 5 juli 1964) was een Duits zwemmer.

Herbert von Petersdorff nam een maal deel aan de Olympische Spelen; in 1900. In 1900 maakte hij deel uit van het Duitse team dat goud wist te veroveren op het onderdeel 4x200 m vrije slag. Hij nam tevens deel aan het onderdeel waterpolo.

Von Petersdorff speelde voor de club Deutscher Schwimm-Verband Berlin.

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The chopper knife on a Wolf Harvester is one of the hardest working parts on your machine. An aggressive rotation is required to chop the incoming hop bine and string into rough mulch a few inches in length. Over time, the rigid edges of the blade become rounded and no longer properly chop the hop bine and string material.
A full replacement requires two knives. Listed prices are for a single chopper knife.
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otto baumberger (1889 – 1961) was one of the first swiss who can be correctly described as a poster designer, even though his personal desire for artistic recognition would remain unfulfilled. as an employee of the wolfensberger AG in zürich he acquired a sound knowledge of lithography techniques, and used this knowledge to advance and renew the medium, designing over 200 posters. baumberger was ahead of his time in recognizing important aspects of consumer advertising. without creating a style of his own, he sought the most appropriate way of conveying a message. his original, inventive images led to a reduction that reached towards abstraction, as image and lettering elements gradually formed an increasingly striking synthesis. the diversity of baumberger's work exemplarily embodies the history of swiss poster art in the first half of the twentieth century, showing the development from the painterly artist's poster to corporate design shaped by graphic art.
200 of otto baumberger's posters, made during 40 years of his career, are currently shown in the exhibition 'otto baumberger – advertising pioneer' at the museum of design zürich, plakatraum. the exhibition runs only until sunday february 1st, 2009.


More than half (58 percent) of pediatric research project grants from the National Institutes of Health awarded during a five-year period were given to senior-level physicians from a relatively small number of institutions, according to a study published in JAMA Pediatrics Jan. 16.
For the study, researchers from several academic medical institutions culled the NIH database on pediatric research project, or R01, grants awarded to scientists at medical institutions and hospitals from 2012 to 2017. Researchers learned 2,471 individual pediatric R01 grants were awarded to 1,593 scientists during the time frame. Of those, 907 were awarded to pediatric physician-scientists.
More than half (58 percent) of the pediatric R01 grants awarded from 2012 to 2017 were given to senior-level physician-scientists.
A total of 15 institutions received more than half (63 percent) of the pediatric R01 grants awarded during the time frame.
Pediatric physician-scientists specializing in hematology-oncology received the most R01 grants, followed by pediatric physician-scientists specializing in general academic pediatrics and infectious diseases.
The majority of recipients were male, had obtained full professorship status and held leadership roles such as chief or dean of their organizations.
"The paucity of awards for junior scientists raises concern about the ability to motivate and develop young trainees to become pediatric physician-scientists," said James Wynn, MD, associate professor of pediatrics at Gainesville-based University of Florida Health and the study's senior author.


You've drank the Egg Nog, ripped open the packages and even stood beneath the Mistletoe hoping for the best. Why not fulfill your grandest dreams at The Motor Pool with our Annual After Christmas Sale? From Monday, December 25th, until Sunday, January 21st, you can take 15% off of any item we have in stock simply by entering our latest coupon code at the bottom of your shopping cart just prior to final checkout. Please enter discount code "TMP174" in the coupon box just prior to final checkout. Note: The following lines are excluded from this promotional offer: Air Force 1, Calibre Wings, Hobby Master, Luft-X and Wings of the Great War. Sale ends midnight, Sunday, January 21st, 2018. May not be combined with any other sales discount.
Well, its that time of year again when we'd like to wish everyone a merry Christmas, happy Hanukah and a joyous new year. This past year was especially good for us for any number of reasons and, as usual, we look forward to working with our customers, suppliers and everyone else connected with The Motor Pool in the coming year. Stay safe and sound.
You've spent hundreds, perhaps even thousands on your priceless possessions, putting together a vast, irreplaceable collection that has become the envy of enthusiasts world over. Why not shell out a few more bucks and take out some insurance should something happen to them?
That's where Sure comes in. Sure offers collectibles insurance that will protect your investment against all sorts of hazards, and let's face it, who couldn't use a bit of added protection in this chaos-filled world. If you're the least bit curious about their policies, we suggest you pay a visit to their web site: Sure.com. Consider it money well spent.
Modelcollect knows a good thing when they see it, following up on their recent pair of FLaK guns with yet another pair of anti-aircraft artillery. Expected some time in early 2018 is this German Flak40 128mm Zwillingsflak Anti-Aircraft Gun with Bettung 40 Platform (AS72087), a solid looking model that seems begging for a crew to man her.
Also in the works is this battery of two German Rheintochter 1 Surface-to-Air Missiles (AS72088), which are designed for point defense around an important stationary structure. Any way you look at it, you cannot fault this Company for lack of imagination, continually thinking outside the box to garner greater attention.
A couple of months ago, we created a blog post explaining why Waltersons, the new owners of the Forces of Valor brand, was running behind schedule getting a number of eagerly-awaited projects out the door. To recap, they were confronted by three critical issues: the first was reinventing the brand by offering revamped tooling that boasted more metal, removable engines and opening compartments previously overlooked in the original models. The second was obtaining new replicating machinery to create the molds for the new products as well as the training of new workers to operate the machinery. Third, and the most vexing problem they encountered,was that the manufacturer ran into an issue with the property owner who promised to turn over the keys to a new manufacturing facility, which ended up in court so that they could resolve the situation. Back in October, the manufacturer said as much on their Facebook page, apologizing for the delays and asking everyone to be patient a bit longer.
It is now mid-December, and we are just weeks away from the opening of the 2018 Hong Kong Toy Show, which throws open its doors to the public on January 8th. We are willing to bet that the manufacturer has remained mum of late so that they could use this venue to display their latest wares, new and re-imagined product that cuts across a great many categories and sub brands. So, hang in there a few more weeks and we're sure there's loads of incredible new products just waiting for a happy new home.
We've had incredible success with the Aventine, a previously convention exclusive starship from Eaglemoss that was broadened for general distribution and arrived over a week or so. For those of you unfamiliar with the replica, The Aventine (STCON03) came about as a result of a write-in petition from Trekkies worldwide, and is now part of the manufacturer's expanded universe series.
Another ship previously released in limited numbers and only available at Comic Con is the USS Titan (STCON02), which we hear will also be nade available in larger numbers and is expected some time in January. We're going to do our best to maintain inventory on the Aventime so that the two can be shipped out together but cannot guarantee this strategy will work given current demand. So, if you are interested in amassing every single ship in the collection, we strongly suggest getting the Aventine now and placing a pre-order for the Titan which we will process and ship out the moment we receive them.
Admittedly, we're a bit rusty when it comes to speaking or reading Russian, although it looks as if we better bone up on the language real fast. According to DeAgostini's web site, the Company will soon be offering a wide range of 1:43 scale Russian battle tanks, one that cuts across all epochs and eras. As you can see by the accompanying photo, at least four vehicles are in the hopper, with more in trail following close behind.
Five replicas are already shown on the site and, according to the literature, the range will purportedly include the following vehicles: Т-34, Оbject 279, КV-1, Т-64, Su-122, Т-72B, Т-54-1, Т-34-85, IS-2, ISU-152, КV-2, Т-80M, Т-90, and the Т-26.
Even though we haven't quite made it to the end of the year, that doesn't mean several manufacturers aren't already looking ahead to the following year to ply their craft. In the case of Hobby Master, the Company has announced several new items for a May/June release, upping their game in the process and further cementing their role in the aviation market.
As you can see by the accompanying illustration, Hobby Master feels it can finally address some of the more intricate patterns that adorn a number of aircraft, tackling some of the more difficult camouflage patterns as well as some of the more detailed artwork. This particular scheme was employed by the Oregon Air National Guard on their F-15Cs in 2016. Further down-the-road, we will likely see some of the beautiful patterns the Japanese Air Self Defense Forces apply to their F-15s, as well as a number of mottling camouflage patterns that were used on the Luftwaffe's night fighters.
In any event, we have listed all of the latest Hobby Master aircraft announced yesterday and expect others to be added as we near the New Year!


Congratulations to our youngest performer!
Congratulations to our youngest performer, 5 year old Dorothy on her beautiful performances at our Spring 2018 Recital! She started learning music and the recorder only 6 months ago and prepared 4 difficult pieces for this concert!


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Q: How to access Github through firewall playing man-in-the-middle when using https? I need to access Github for read and write access. Earlier I just used plain http protocol which worked fine. But today this does not seem to work anymore.
My problem: I am behind a firewall where only http access is possible. https access seems to be quite tricky because the firewall acts as a man-in-the-middle: It decrypts all SSL traffic from/to the internet and encrypts it again with its own certificate for the user. This certificate can be extracted from the installed web browsers.
Is there a way to setup a working connection to GitHub under these conditions? If yes, how can it be done?
Kind regards,
Marcus

A: Finally got it work with https by setting git config --global http.sslVerify false so the company certificate is ignored.

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Cool Device. JKonTheRun writes "At the gym MP3 players practically outnumber people. As useful as music is for motivation during a tough workout, nothing can kill your mood faster than a poorly chosen song. This BODiBEAT mp3 player uses an acceleration sensor and an ear clip pulse monitor to sense your workout pace and matches the song."
While I think it's a cool idea, 512MB is too small for me and the price is expected to be over $200 so I guess I'll continue using the workout playlists that I create using Beats Per Minute customized to my various workouts.


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Tommy Hilfiger bring instant classics this season as they continue their impressive year with more youthful pieces which ooze their signature American essence. They bring this 3-Pack of Boxer Shorts which arrive in a blue, grey and red colourway featuring Tommy Hilfiger branding to the waistband. Details: blue, red and grey colourways, stretch cotton fabric, elasticated waistband, 3D shaped crotch for comfort, fitted style and Tommy Hilfiger branded waistband.


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State Department Issues Report On Iran's 'Destructive Behavior' At Home And Abroad
U.S. State Department released a report on Iran titled as "Outlaw Regime: A Chronicle of Iran's Destructive Activities". Screenshot from State Department Website.
The State Department has released an extensive report on the scope of the Iranian regime's "destructive behavior" at home and abroad on the eve of the Islamic Revolution's 40th anniversary.
The report Outlaw Regime: A Chronicle of Iran's Destructive Activities begins with a letter by US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, and details the Iranian regime's destructive behavior under seven headings, detailing Iran's support for terrorism, its missile program, illicit financial activities in Iran, threat to maritime security, threat to cybersecurity, the abuse of human rights in Iran and environmental exploitation.
In his introductory letter, Secretary Pompeo explains the reasons for the US withdrawal from the nuclear deal with Iran as well as the consequences of the withdrawal from JCPOA for Iran.
Pompeo then explains President Donald Trump's Iran policy, arguing that "the Islamic Republic of Iran is not a normal state," explaining that "Normal states do not attack embassies and military installations in peacetime; fuel terrorist proxies and militias; serve as a sanctuary for terrorists; call for the destruction of Israel and threaten other countries; aid brutal dictators such as Syria's Bashar al-Assad; proliferate missile technology to dangerous proxies; conduct covert assassinations in other countries; and hold hostage citizens of foreign nations."
He added that normal states do not squander their own natural resources, do not violently suppress legitimate protests, jail their own citizens or those of other countries on specious crimes, engage in torture, and impose severe restrictions on basic freedoms.
Pompeo characterized the report as "a full record of the Islamic Republic's hostile behavior abroad and its repression at home beyond the continued threat of its nuclear program."
Major Nuclear Facilities In Iran
The State Department report documents the long history of the Islamic Republic's support for terrorism, primarily driven by the IRGC. Stressing that "Since 1979, Iran has made it a policy of state to actively direct, facilitate, and carry out terrorist activity globally."
According to the report, the Islamic regime in Iran has supported terrorism within its own military and intelligence apparatuses including the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps and its Qods Force as well as the Ministry of Intelligence and Security (MOIS).
"Today, the IRGC-QF is active across the Middle East and has plotted or carried out terrorist attacks in five out of seven continents. Where it is unable or unwilling to act directly, the Iranian regime has mastered the use of terrorist proxy groups like Lebanese Hizballah, Palestine Islamic Jihad, the Bahraini Al- Ashtar Brigades and the Iraqi Kata'ib Hizballah to conduct terrorist attacks," the report observed.
The report maintains that by developing ballistic missiles, the Islamic Republic poses "a critical threat to regional security," adding that the tough limitations imposed by UN Security Council on Iran's proliferation activities rolled back following the 2015 nuclear agreement with Tehran and that Iran has been developing long-range missiles ever since.
Meanwhile, Tehran's "opaque and fraudulent financing activities" to fund its proxies and support its proliferation of ballistic missiles and other weapons have undermined the integrity and security of the global financial system, the report says, adding that in the last year, "the IRGC-QF has been exposed for using front companies to move funds, procure restricted materials and technologies, exploit currency exchange networks in neighboring countries, and produce counterfeit currency."
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The report also outlines Iran's threat to maritime security in the Persian Gulf and Red Sea, observing that Iran has been threatening freedom of navigation in international waters, and its forces have "engaged in numerous unsafe and unprofessional incidents with naval vessels and have a history of illegally detaining U.S. and U.K. sailors." The report also notes that Houthi rebels backed by Iran have made navigation in the Red Sea unsafe for international shipping.
Infographic: Strait Of Hormuz Shipping Lanes
Elsewhere, the report gives an overview of how Iran has been threatening cybersecurity, illustrating the spread of the Islamic Republic's malign behavior in cyberspace, and outlining how Iranian cyber-attacks have affected critical infrastructure, financial and commercial entities and other institutions in various countries.
Iran has always denied that it supports terrorism, interferes in the affairs of regional countries or engages in any illegal activities. Often, the denials take the form that the groups it supports are fighting for a just cause.
The State Department report also documents "repeated and systemic abuse of human rights" by Iran in violation of international conventions. This includes harassment and marginalizing of religious minorities, and denying citizens of due legal process. According to the report, Iran's prisons are "notorious for mistreatment and torture, and its use of capital punishment is excessive and extends to minors."
The report further observes that violations of human rights by the Iranian regime extend beyond the country's borders as "its proxies have committed numerous human rights abuses, including targeting innocent civilians in Syria and arbitrarily detaining Sunnis in Iraq."
In its final chapter, the report explains the environmental "tragedy" and "crisis" in Iran which is an outcome of misguided agricultural policies, and IRGC-driven dam projects that have brought about serious water shortage in the country that has forced the migration of millions of Iranians in the absence of a proper government response to the worsening environmental condition.
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Secretary Pompeo says at the end of his introduction, "Iran is a society with so much greater potential. We want to reach a new agreement with Iran that ensures its nuclear activities are peaceful and that its role in the Middle East is constructive. We seek a deal that ensures Iran does not support terrorism around the world and provides for greater opportunity to its own people. We are prepared to work with the Iranian regime, but only if it makes major changes. Until then, the Iranian regime can rest assured of our firm resolve to counter their destabilizing activities. Given the record we have published today, they should expect nothing less."


I made some onesie and carriage cookies for a baby shower for Kelly -- a family friend who I grew up across the street from! Kelly is expecting a BOY and has already picked out a great name -- Quinn Michael Bunch. Here's Kelly at 30 weeks looking adorable. (Photo borrowed, er stolen, from Facebook!) I just know she is going to a wonderful (and HILARIOUS) mom.
Kelly's mom, Laurie, got in touch with my mom and I about surprising Kelly with some cookies for her shower. OF COURSE I was very excited and happy to make them something special. Laurie liked the idea of putting the baby's monogram on a onesie cookie and having baby carriages to be individually wrapped as the baby shower party favors. Cole helped to sketch out a monogram for me to copy onto the cookies. I loved the double line thingy he did on the letters. It matches with the onesie "stitching" pretty well, don't you think?
I shipped the cookies to Charlotte, NC from SF and I'm told they arrived in perfect shape, which makes me very happy. I have been hoarding all the bubble wrap and boxes from our engagement presents for just such a cookie-shipping-occasion.
I'm so happy for Kelly and can't wait to see photos of Quinn soon! Thanks again, Laurie, for asking me to make these cookies! Oh, and P.S., Kelly -- Georgia would be happy to help you cook up Quinn's birth announcement for Facebook like the one she did for April. Seriously, she's pumped about this. Just look at her.
Also, she dabbles in babysitting.
**Update!** Here are some pictures from Kelly's baby shower!