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Will Turkish became the lingua franca of Central Asia?
Russian, Turkish and English are probably the three languages used most often in Central Asia for communication between peoples, and at the moment none of them could be considered to be the definite lingua franca of Central Asia. During the Soviet era Russian was definitely the language to use in the region, but since independence a number of countries have begun to forget the language, such as Uzbekistan, but 70% of the population according to that article remains fluent in Russian which is still quite sizable.
The general linguistic approach taken by countries in Central Asia now is three-fold: a national language, plus Russian and English as foreign languages. This is the approach taken by Kazakhstan, which wants to 1) strengthen the role of the national language throughout the country; 2) maintain fluency in Russian to benefit from having Russia as a next-door neighbour; and 3) speak English in order to have a voice on the international stage as well. Maintaining Russian fluency is a much easier task though that becoming fluent in English, given that there is no real English minority in any of the countries. English is a language encountered most often in the classroom and online, whereas Russian is encountered in real life.
Turkish: Turkish really does have an enviable position in its own linguistic family tree. Romance languages, for comparison, are each entrenched in their own independent country or group of countries, and though some are stronger than others there is no clear winner in all areas. French is stronger than Spanish in Europe, but Spanish has more influence in Central and South America, Portuguese has Brazil and a number of other countries throughout the world. Let's compare that to the position Turkish has to some other Turkic languages throughout the world.
Turkish: Official language of Turkey, NATO member, strong regional player, population 75 million, population increase 1.31% per annum (= almost 1 million more per year), may eventually become member of the EU.
Azeri/Azerbaijani: Official language of Azerbaijan, population 8.8 million, plus regional language in Iran, for total of almost 30 million. Azerbaijan has a rapidly growing economy due to its vast (compared to its size) oil reserves. But Azeri, along with Turkmen, is part of the Oghuz group of Turkic languages, making it so similar to Turkish that many refer to it as simply a different variant of Turkish rather than a different language. Azerbaijan has recently passed a law that television shows must be dubbed into Azeri, but the problem has always been what to do with shows that are in Turkish that people can already understand. For a while Turkish was made an exception, but apparently a few months ago it was decided that Turkish shows would have to be dubbed into Azeri as well, but there was a lot of debate over that since most like the Turkish shows as is and don't enjoy hearing something they already perfectly understand be dubbed over by a voice actor they have no attachment to. Azeri probably has the strongest position of any Turkic language besides Turkish itself, but it is so similar to Turkish that this only strengthens it rather than acting as a competitor.
Turkmen: same as Azeri above, but with a smaller population: 5.1 million. Turkmenistan has recently begun opening up after the death of its former mad president (Niyazov) that died in 2006. With Berdimuhammedow as president it has begun to resemble a normal country again, and given its similarities to standard Turkish this benefits Turkish as well.
Kazakh, Uzbek, Kyrgyz: Spoken by 12 million, 23 million, and 5 million respectively. We are now moving east, and these Turkic languages are not quite as similar to standard Turkish as the other two. These three countries are also in a similar situation in that though they achieved independence at the same time as the others, they are still quite attached to Russia and Russian, and only one of them (Uzbek) has finally made the switch to the Latin alphabet. Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan intend to do so eventually, but logistics and maintaining good relations with Russia mean that they haven't quite gotten around to it yet. Uzbek would seem to be the most linguistically stable here given that it has been a while since it adopted the Latin alphabet, but it has next to no economic clout per capita ($1,026 per capita compared to $11,426 for Kazakhstan).
Besides this, there are many Turkic languages that are spoken in various autonomous regions throughout Central Asia and nearby. Uyghur is spoken by 10 million in northwest China (also called East Turkestan), and is similar to Uzbek. Tatar is spoken by 8 million in Russia, to the south of that is Bashkir spoken by another 1.8 million (also in Russia), and then getting a bit away from Central Asia we see many other small Turkic languages that have little influence of their own such as Gagauz in Moldova (150,000), Crimean Tatar in the south of Ukraine (almost half a million), and then of course there is Cypriot Turkish, not to mention large Turkish minorities in other countries such as Bulgaria (800,000), Syria, Iraq, etc. etc.
It's easy to see that Turkish is the only Turkic language that is capable of projecting itself, and it does so through a variety of ways. Here's an article on training Turkey gives to the gendarmie in Kyrgyzstan, here's another on a library in Gagauzia set up with Turkish aid. Turkey's international broadcaster TRT (Turkish Radio & Television) is available in just about every Turkic language, and most of them have a podcast to learn Turkish, such as this one in Tatar.
Besides this though, Turkey really is in an enviable position in that it doesn't really have to do anything besides work on its own progression as a country in order to promote its language to other Turkic peoples, much in the same way that the US doesn't have to have a specific agenda to promote English in order for Hollywood movies to be seen around the world. Turkish programs like Avrupa Yakası are enjoyed outside the country as well:
There is probably not enough information available to make a conclusion on whether Turkish will be able to become the lingua franca of Central Asia, but demographics alone seems to point to at least a continued stronger role in the future.
How will we be able to tell when one language has established itself as the lingua franca in the region? That will depend on the actions taken by non-English countries located outside the region. Here in Korea there is quite a bit of cooperation between Korean companies and those in Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan, and the languages used between the two is almost always English and Russian. Interviews from documentaries filmed in the area by Korean television crews are also almost always done in those two languages, not Turkish. It will probably not be possible to call Turkish the lingua franca of the region until it becomes the language of intercommunication not just between Turkic peoples but also those from outside the region as well.
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Royal Manas National Park is located in the southern part of Bhutan just east of the indent in the country's border with India. The park covers an area of 408 square miles (1,057 sq km), creating the fourth largest national park in the country.
Royal Manas is the oldest protected area in Bhutan and it is affectionately referred to as the Conservation Showpiece of the Kingdom. The park is adjacent to Jigme Singye Wangchuck National Park, Phrumshingla National Park (formerly Thrumshingla), as well as Manas National Park in India and collaborating together to protect the wilderness and wildlife that calls the region home.
The national park is comprised of multiple habitats including cold broadleaved forests, warm broadleaved forests, lowland tropical forests, subtropical forests, and tropical monsoon forests. The park is named after the Manas River which flows through the heart of the park.
The streams that feed in from the mountains into the river create dense riverbeds and surrounding grasslands along with rich vegetation. The vegetation gives way to an abundance of wildlife. The various forests blanket much of the park's terrain which features 348 different species of big trees.
The national park gives way to their own unique "Big 5" which is traditionally ascribed to Africa. The Bhutan Big 5 include the Bengal tiger, Indian rhinoceros, Asian elephant, clouded leopards, and Asiatic water buffalo or the gaur. Other wildlife includes leopard, civets, pygmy hog, golden langur, and many others.
There are over 425 species of birds nesting and migrating through the park boundaries making this a haven for birdwatching. You may not be interested to know, but there are over 10,000 species of insects. The river is home to the Ganges river dolphin and many different species of fish.
Royal Manas National Park Photo Gallery
The varied ecosystems and habitats give way to a variety of landscapes and experiences with nature. The wildlife is one of the main highlights of the national park. Many people will engage in an elephant safari to experience the park.
Bhutan has its own version of the Big 5. The African Big 5 includes lion, leopard, elephant, rhino, and Cape buffalo. Bhutan delivers a slightly different take including Bengal tiger, elephant, one-horned rhinoceros, leopard or clouded leopard, and the gaur or water buffalo.
You have two different ways to check off the Bhutan Big 5 list or you could expand it and call it the Big 7. A visitor would have to consider themselves extremely blessed to see all seven.
Royal Manas National Park Trails
Hiking in the park is a special treat and is primarily accomplished through the multiday Gomphu-Manas-Norbugang Eco-Trail.
Gomphu-Manas-Norbugang Trail
This is a trail that treks through the jungle and amongst the mountains. It is a four-day trek spending approximately 4 hours each day hiking between the eco-friendly camps.
Park Protection
Royal Manas National Park was created as the first protected area in Bhutan. It is the most biologically diverse protected area in the country and protects many different endangered species of both flora and fauna.
It is recognized as one of the world's most significant biological conservation sites. The park also links to Jigme Singye Wangchuck National Park as well as Phrumshingla National Park in India creating a continuously protected region for both the wilderness and wildlife.
Royal Manas is a UNESCO World Heritage Site as a reflection of its rich biodiversity. There are 30 mammalian species that are vulnerable or worse with two of those being critically endangered.
Royal Manas Highlights
Bhutan's Big 5
Striking landscapes
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Bhutan Government, Royal Manas National Park, http://www.tourism.gov.bt/uploads/attachment_files/tcb_HxwCl0oZ_gHr4_royal-manas.pdf, retrieved November 2020.
Bhutan Travel, Royal Manas National Park, https://www.bhutan.travel/national-park/royal-manas-national-park, retrieved November 2020.
Department of Forests and Park Services, Royal Manas National Park, http://www.dofps.gov.bt/?page_id=296, retrieved November 2020.
Little Bhutan, Royal Manas National Park – Bhutan's Natural Treasure, https://www.littlebhutan.com/blogs/royal-manas-national-park-bhutans-biological-treasure.html, retrieved November 2020.
Travel Triangle, Royal Manas National Park, https://traveltriangle.com/blog/royal-manas-national-park/, retrieved November 2020.
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World Wildlife Fund, Royal Manas National Park, https://www.wwfbhutan.org.bt/projects_/bhutan_biological_conservation_complex/royal_manas_national_park__/, retrieved November 2020.
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Go Fast! was created with athletes in mind, and includes a number of additional ingredients such as Milk Thistle, Ginseng and honey.
The drink is available worldwide in various sizes.
There is also a Go Fast Light - that is sweetened with Sucralose (Splenda).
(Go Fast original 11.9 oz) Australian Honey, Taurine (1400mg), Ribose (700mg), Ginseng(350mg), Vitamin B-6, Vitamin B-12, Ginkgo Biloba, Guarana, Riboflavin, Niacin, Milk Thistle Herb (70mg), Caffeine (120mg), Sucrose.
Sugar content: 25 grams (per 11.9 ounces).
How Does Go Fast Energy Drink Compare?
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Why Billie Eilish's 'Your Power' Music Video Has Fans Talking
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By Lindsay Barton/April 29, 2021 3:06 pm EST
If you're a Billie Eilish fan, you'd know that she's been keeping a low profile, gone blonde — and that people are counting down the days (make that minutes!) until she releases her sophomore album "Happier Than Ever," which is set for a July 30 release, per Billboard. The rising megastar knows her fans literally cannot wait, so she dropped the song "Your Power," along with a dreamy music video for the track, on April 29.
Eilish offered a glimpse behind the song's meaning on Instagram the day of its release. "This is one of my favorite songs I've ever written. I feel very vulnerable putting this one out because I hold it so close to my heart. This is about many different situations that we've all either witnessed or experienced," the artist wrote. "I hope this can inspire change. Try not to abuse your power," she closed, referencing the song's title. Fans were quick to congratulate Eilish in the comments, and it's clear they are more than ready for more new tunes (or maybe they're so overwhelmed they're not). "OMG I'm not ready love u billie," one wrote. "THERE ARE TEARS STREAMING DOWN MY FACE," another added. A third chimed in with, "ITS SO GOOD." The excitement is real!
Yet, there's one reason Eilish's new video is making the (reptilian) rounds, in particular. Keep on reading for why, specifically, "Your Power" has everyone talking.
Billie Eilish fans can't stop talking about the snake
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Billie Eilish's "Your Power" music video is pure serenity, visually and musically, as Eilish mesmerizes the listener as she sings aside a cliff. And then ... a snake appears? Around the 2:30 mark, a large, black snake enters the frame, and literally slithers around Eilish's body. It's ... a moment. Fans took to Twitter to figure out why Eilish is serving us "exile from the Garden of Eden realness," and there was a general scaly consensus.
"Lyrically it defines the reality of a lot of people, and how the power of 'love' (as the snake) can turn into an abusive kind, changing, and suffocating them. Thank you for sharing it," one fan tweeted. Another wrote, "The entire music video is a snake suffocating her, snake as the harassing person, and suffocating as the girl by the situation." Others were quick to not only praise the metaphor, but the song's pointed lyrics about a difficult relationship Eilish seems to have grown from.
But back to the snake. Is it real? Twitter says yes, so excuse us as we run for the hills. As one user wrote, "The snake was real!" alongside photos of Eilish posing with the slithering sweetie while filming the video. "hope her young fans don't try this with any snakes around," wrote another. It's obvious that Eilish has struck a chord with her metaphoric snake, and fans are slithering into the symbolism — even if they are slightly terrified!


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Blog: Topic: Case studies
Dos and don'ts on designing for older people (POSTER)
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Older people could be your web site or app's most underserved audience. Turn them into customers with our poster of tips from our Digital Accessibility Experts Live webinar last week...
By Jonathan Hassell
Accessibility while you're racing – Digital Accessibility Experts Podcast 8
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To include accessibility without slowing down when you're pivoting to digital or accelerating your digital roadmap, try: asking your customers what's most important for them, using "little and often" expert…
BBC case study: proving Return on Investment (ROI)
Our founder, Jonathan Hassell, when he was BBC Head of Usability & Accessibility, was tasked with proving the value of digital accessibility to the BBC, and to sustain and grow…
What success in embedding accessibility looks like – video interview with GAAD's Jennison Asuncion
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Global Accessibility Awareness Day (GAAD) has arrived again. To celebrate, we're publishing a video interview with Jennison Asuncion - one half of the team who created the idea, and a…
Scope website case study: Train-Support-Test strategy – spend your money on training not audits
Scope, the disability equality charity in England and Wales, asked us to help them make sure their new site worked for every single one of their users, and to demonstrate…


TEHRAN, Jun. 20 (MNA) – Iranian MP announced the arrest of some ISIL terrorists in a number of cities in West Azerbaijan province.
Nader Ghazipour, an Iranian MP who represents Urmia electoral district, announced the arrest of 40 agents of ISIL terrorist group by the West Azerbaijan's Intelligence Office in the cities of Piranshahr, Sardasht, Mahabad, Bukan and Takab.
He also added that the vast amount of weapons and ammunition has been discovered from ISIL elements in several operations.
They were plotting to carry out terrorist operations at Nights of Decree on 19th, 21st, 23rd of Ramadan and were timely strangled by the vigilance of West Azerbaijani intelligence services, he added.
Ghazipour noted that the ties of these terrorist elements abroad are being pursued and the Ministry of Intelligence will continue its vigilant activities to arrest their heads as well.


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Q: What Linux version does CircleCI use? Can it be modified? We've connected our node.js app with CircleCI. I understand how to control which services are running on the machine, but not how to identify the OS version, or whether there's a way to change it, so that the unit tests will run on the same OS version as the production machine.

A: Per the documentation, CircleCI currently uses Ubuntu 12.04.
You can check for yourself by running a build with ssh enabled and examining one of the build instances:
$ ssh -p 64538 ubuntu@54.205.50.104 cat /etc/os-release
NAME="Ubuntu"
VERSION="12.04.5 LTS, Precise Pangolin"
ID=ubuntu
ID_LIKE=debian
PRETTY_NAME="Ubuntu precise (12.04.5 LTS)"
VERSION_ID="12.04"

The question of whether you can use a different OS has already been answered here. The answer is that you can use a Docker image with a different OS, but you can't replace the build container's base OS.

A: Another way to detect OS version, other than via ssh, is adding the same command to the circle.yml file. For example:
machine:
  pre:
    - cat /etc/os-release

That way, the OS version will show in the log of every build.

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I'd like to share a resource I recently found that archives podcasts related to literacy. On the Voice of Literacy site, Dr. Betsy Baker (Associate Professor of Literacy studies at the University of Missouri) posts bi-weekly podcasts of interviews of researchers as they discuss the implications of their literacy research. Most podcasts range from 10 to 12 minutes long, and are archived back to 2008. I can't believe I am just finding out about this resource!


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KEY FUEL ISSUES NEED TREATMENT IN STORAGE
by Sue Terpilowski | Jun 17, 2020 | bunkering, fuel, Maritime, Online releases, Press releases, shipping, Sulphur2020 | 0 comments
Low sulphur fuels held in storage and used in the maritime world are still at risk from five key issues, which is further exacerbated due to the lockdowns and restricted trade leading to longer storage periods according to Aderco – one of the world's leading fuel treatment technology suppliers.
The IMO low sulphur fuel cap introduced in January 2020 has not eradicated the potential threats from cat fines, sludge, compatibility issues, asphaltene and stability and this is becoming even more important with fuel that can degrade over long periods in storage as we are currently experiencing.
Aderco has released a new report which highlights the five key issues that have been found in their research which are particularly detrimental to fuel held in storage tanks.
The report has been released following a series of tests conducted in both Belgium and Singapore. These tests, carried out over the past few months on low sulphur fuels, have demonstrated that Aderco 2055G helps to reduce fuel incompatibility within storage tanks, preventing sludging and easing filtration, purification and injection.
Olivier Baiwir, CEO of Aderco, says the latest report demonstrates the overall benefits of using fuel treatment technology in these key issues of concern.
"The new low sulphur fuels are still prone to the five issues that can cause not only degradation but also the instability of stored fuel. The tests we have conducted with our own fuel treatments prove that the damaging issues of cat fines, sludge, corrosion, contamination and fuel stability can be reduced and eliminated with a fuel treatment.
Furthermore, we have found, that reducing the sulphur content in ULSMGO fuels can see a marked increase in microbial growth that has the possibility to generate corrosive reactions. The use of biodiesel in the blending process can generate a high water content which is the ideal breeding ground for bacteria and this poses a real risk in stored fuel. However, by using a fuel treatment, this eradicates any biological damage.
Bulk fuels are at risk from oxidation, emulsions, bacterial and fungal infestations resulting in serious fuel instability and we know these issues have not disappeared with the introduction of the new blended fuels in 2020. By using a fuel treatment any stored fuel can be treated for sludge which is one of the main causes of blocked filters and pipes resulting in unpumpable sludge at the bottom of storage tanks."
The new guide – VLSFO Fuel Guide: How Aderco 2055G improves the five key fuel oil issues – is available now from Aderco.
For interviews with Olivier Baiwir, high resolution images or further information about this press release please contact Sue Terpilowski, Image Line sue@imageline.co.uk +44 207 689 9009
About Aderco
Aderco – ensuring better efficiency, smoother operations and fewer emissions through fuel treatments technology.
Aderco is dedicated to increasing the performance and efficiency of operations using petroleum fuels while reducing environmental impact. We achieve this
by outperforming existing formulas and through our commitment to continuous R&D and constant innovation in additive technology.
Aderco products are 100% vegetal-organic, 100% ashless and 100% metal-free. As such they set the benchmark for greater performance, efficiency and sustainability in fuel-powered operations in the marine/maritime, mining, power generation and transportation sectors worldwide.
Founded in Montreal, Canada, in 1981, Aderco develops, manufactures and distributes specialized fuel additives. Over the years, combining effective and reliable products with dedicated and proactive customer service has made Aderco a trusted brand in key industries. We have earned a sterling reputation as professionals when it comes to problem solving and prevention with residual and distillate fuels.
With strategic offices in Montreal, Sao Paulo, Brussels, Conakry, Singapore, Hampshire and Sydney, Aderco is able to respond quickly and effectively to evolving customer and market demands. In addition, we work through a network of local agents in over 50 countries around the globe to provide outstanding technical, sales and customer support.
For more information, please visit www.aderco.com.


As a DONA trained birth and postpartum doula, I offer non-medical, emotional and physical support and coaching for a soon-to-be mother, new mother, mother again and her family during the third and fourth trimester of pregnancy. I provide, assistance, companionship, and serve as a resource on the variety of challenges that new mothers encounter during the beginning of their new journey.
"I can't think of a better qualified and a more loving person to be a doula." -Barbara W.
"Thank you so much for the good grub and great advice so soon after Milo was born! The Wonder Weeks book recommendation has been so great regarding Milo's development." -Lena, Brent, Milo + Co.
As a mother and DONA trained doula, I'm honored to be a part of your nurturing process. I provide unconditional acceptance and support for the entire family. My goal is to help parents recognize their intuitive abilities, serve as a resource for newborn care, provide resources to assist in the creation of more time for bonding and family growth, and relieve some of the responsibilities of daily household tasks.
As a DONA trained doula, I provide non-medical, emotional and physical support as well as coaching for parents and their families. I serve as a caring resource for the variety of challenges that everyone encounters during their long journey into parenthood.
Birth is one of the most transformative experiences a woman and her family can share. The journey of pregnancy through birth is a blessing and profoundly life changing. Here you will find stories of families that I've supported as well as relevant news and resources.
Part of my role as your doula is to provide you with information to make conscious pregnancy, birth and postpartum decisions. I've compiled a list of recommended books and online articles. If you are in the Philadelphia area, you will also find local resources.


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Q: Error in conversion to swift 3 syntax for an existing cocoapods integrated project I've recently upgraded to xcode 8 and did a conversion for my xcode project. While every other swift files checks out fine, there seems to be issues with this particular swift file.

I suspect it could be a result of cocoapods not being updated and thus I did a repo update to the latest pre version before doing a pod install on the project again but still to no avail.

A: Hmmm ok I found a way to fix this, apparently just going to product>clean will solve most of the problems. This is for anyone out there converting to swift 3. Now on to solve some other problems...


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March 15, 2018 March 15, 2018 mceste
Over spring break, I had the opportunity to watch New York City Ballet perform an evening of George Balanchine's work set exclusively to Igor Stravinsky's music. The program featured four works and lasted about two and a half hours.
New York City Ballet is one of the foremost ballet companies in the world. They're known for their speed and neoclassical style, and the majority of their company members train at the School of American Ballet before joining the company. Being able to watch them perform was breathtaking. With each step they took, they exuded lightness, brightness, and virtuosity.
So often, concert dance proves to be inaccessible to most mainstream audiences. The dance doesn't always have a narrative or an easily understood meaning or moral. Often times, there are no words, leaving movements up to the interpretation of each audience member. Coming to terms with this kind of ambiguity and lack of a "right" answer can be difficult for new dance audiences. However, I think that New York City Ballet did a great job of bridging the gap between new and old audiences. Their work was both accessible to a first time viewer (my mom) and complex. Their casts featured well established and prominent ballerinas such as Tiler Peck and Megan Fairchild, as well as several corps de ballet members and soloists.
This concert made a big impact on me because it was so heart warming to be sitting in the audience of a sold out Koch Theater in Lincoln Center. It gave me a feeling that no matter the political environment, the arts were still alive. There are still people willing to do the work as well as people who are invested in supporting the arts. There was still a community of people who believed in the arts, in the hope and joy they provided, and that was the best part of the concert. The dancers transcended the outside world-they gave hope and happiness to the audience.
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No offensive to either of you but this thread has already been derailed many times. If you happen to want to discuss the pro's and con's of DJ in GN'R again, please just start a thread in the Civil War section to do so. Thanks!
Not sure when this interview took place, most likely last year as it sounds like NITL was not over yet, but stilI worth sharing.
I hate to say but can it be translated?.
I don't need it translated. I don't even speak French, but I'll tell you what it says. "We'd love to make an album. We all want to do it, I mean I think we all want to do it. We've been focused on touring for 3 years, but it's something we'd all like to do, uhh, you know, once we settle down and start looking into what we'd like to do. Axl has a ton of material"
So the idear is that this interview was made in Paris so...(Download ?) . Hope the French journalist translate weel what Slash said because he said that he and Axl have the best relationship they ever had. He said they want all want to be again (NITL band) to work on a new album. for the fan but also for them.
here it it a traduction of a traduction of French bad translator !!!
Will there be a new Guns N' Roses album?
I have to be really careful with what I say because when people quote me, it's not always my words. We're having fun with Guns, we're working well together. I never got along so well with Axl. When the tour is over, we'll want to meet. It's the next step. That's what we all want. It will make people happy but we'll do it firstly for ourselves.
Another project that could see a release was the 2016 Show at Dodger Stadium that I believe they announced was being filmed for future release as a DVD, Blu Ray.
Did they ever actually announce this ? or was it just speculation.
The gig was filmed but they never announced anything.
It almost certainly meant "I've never gotten along so well with Axl [more than I do now]". A little detail lost in translation perhaps.
Exactly....that's how I took it anyways.
Can't wait not to hear the new album again!
Did't they film every show in the past?
Wasn't Toronto 2016 was also professionally filmed?
Who said anything about an announcement?


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Lewis Lapham, Art and the Money Exchange
These days, when I stop at my local newsstand to pick up the New York Times, I almost invariably think about the 1950s sci-fi film, The Incredible Shrinking Man. In it, a fellow on a vacation in the Pacific passes through an irradiated mist — assumedly from U.S. atomic tests — and subsequently shrinks down to doll size, then to nothing at all. Now, the newspaper of record seems to be doing the same thing. In August 2007, it literally shrank, losing an inch and a half in width, and has been thinning ever since, while only its price has grown. Its almost ad-less magazine section is now a wisp of its former self. As the paper dwindles, it increasingly puts the news on a starvation diet. And it's in good company, if you've been paying attention to other papers nationwide (the Wall Street Journal excepted), to the newsweeklies which are shadows of their former selves, or to so many other magazines.
It's strange that, when it came to the Internet challenge, the print editions of newspapers generally reacted like deer in the headlights. To take an example, you might think that, faced with the "voicey-ness" of the online world, newspapers, which already had a near monopoly on reporting, might have transformed their op-ed pages into far wilder, more expansive, more inviting places. But no such luck. Most have, in fact, done next to nothing in print that might be considered a response, other than committing hara-kiri by gutting themselves and their newsrooms. The major move of the Times in this regard was to create a two-page, expanded table of contents (of the paper you were about to read!) in 2008, a forlornly useless feature which it axed a year or so later.
All of this has revealed just how mistaken most of us were about what a newspaper was. We thought it was a medium for the news, but it turned out to be, above all, a vessel for the distribution of ads. And once those ads began to flee (mainly online), the news has had little choice but to curl up and prepare to die. How surprising then to run across one fat, confident new publication, filled with strangenesses and wonders: Lapham's Quarterly. Run by the famed former editor of Harper's Magazine, Lewis Lapham, it picks a single topic four times a year — recently, "Medicine" and "Religion," and this week, "Arts and Letters," mixing what it calls "Voices in Time" with original work. In other words, it ransacks history for gems and so, like the poker game in Star Trek involving the android Data, Albert Einstein, Isaac Newton, and Stephen Hawking, you can find Doris Lessing, Mikhail Bulgakov, Barbara Ehrenreich, George Orwell, Hammurabi, and Atul Gawande all discussing "doctors and patients" or "remedies and treatments" in LQ's pages. To say the least, it's invigorating, so much so that I gave asubscription to my son-in-law this Christmas.
Lapham, who wrote an essay introducing every Harper's issue, has transferred that habit to his new publication and, in an experiment for both LQ and TomDispatch, has agreed to let this website release the March "Arts and Letters" essay online. So just remember, you read it here first. (And if you have an extra moment, don't miss Timothy MacBain's latest TomCast — in which Lapham discusses art, money, and his magazine — by clicking here, or, if you prefer to download it as a podcast, here.) Tom
The Great White Whale in San Francisco Bay
Or How the "Lively Arts" Became "the Media"
By Lewis Lapham
[This essay appears in the March 2010 issue of Lapham's Quarterly and is posted at TomDispatch.com with the kind permission of that magazine.]
Art as a medium of exchange is the gift in the hand of its creator, alive in the mind of its beholder, converting the private to a public good, and thereby adding it to the common store of human energy and hope. It's the embodiment of the spirit in the flesh to which Leo Tolstoy refers as "a means of communion among people… the capacity of people to be infected by the feelings of other people," by "feelings, the most diverse, very strong and very weak, very significant and very worthless, very bad and very good."
The supposition that art is a gift as opposed to a collectible, something that doesn't try to sell you anything, runs counter to our contemporary notions of what constitutes a meaningful exchange. If I couldn't deduce that fact from the price paid for Damien Hirst's shark afloat in formaldehyde, I was reminded of it some months ago when asked by the 92nd Street Y in Manhattan to mount a discussion about the role of the artist in postmodern American society.
The Y's auditorium serves as a trendsetting display case for the city's high-end cultural merchandise, and the booking agent requested participants — an author, an actress, possibly a musician or a film director — deserving the cost of ad space in the New York Times. I offered the names of several individuals apt to say something of interest on the topic, but none was deemed fit to print. What the participants said or didn't say was of no consequence. What was important was the magnitude of their celebrity, and the names on my list were rated as low-burning flames unable to convene a gathering of moths.
I can't say I was surprised. To a young writer who had asked for advice about advancing his literary career in the late 1960s, Gore Vidal had provided clear directions to Mt. Parnassus. "Never miss a chance," he said, "to have sex or appear on television." Forty years have passed, and these days a young writer applying for consultation with the muses assembled on East 92nd Street probably would be better advised to combine the two initiatives.
Not Learning to Read Finnegans Wake
The record shows that, throughout most of the country's history, the circumstances haven't been much different. John Adams associated the arts with "despotism" and "superstition." "To America," said Benjamin Franklin, "one schoolmaster is worth a dozen poets, and the invention of a machine or the improvement of an implement is of more importance than a masterpiece of Raphael." The Nobel Prizes awarded almost every year to American chemists and economists suggest that the inspired play of the American mind takes place in the theater of the sciences and the concert halls of money.
My own great expectation of the arts is an accident of birth, in San Francisco in 1935 in a household filled with books. At the age of six, attracted to the Rockwell Kent illustrations in the Lakeside Press edition of Moby-Dick, I persuaded my mother to read the novel aloud by agreeing that, if on any subsequent evening I couldn't remember where it was that the story had been left off — Queequeg sharpening his harpoon, Ahab steadfast in his quest for vengeance — she would close the book and move on to the travails of Peter Rabbit. The reading took the better part of the same year in which the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor, and by the time we'd come to the end of it — the Pequod sunk, Ishmael tangled in the shroud of the Pacific Ocean — I could imagine, sometimes almost see, if not the great goddess on the page, the looming of the great white whale in San Francisco Bay.
My early meeting with Melville's prose dates the formulation of my idea of what was to be construed as literature. Both at home and at school in the 1940s, I kept company with authors in whose writing I could hear the music in the words, in the novels of Joseph Conrad, Edward Gibbon's history of the Roman Empire, the poems of Coleridge and Kipling. I'm still subject to the predisposition.
On first opening a book that I'm not obliged to read for professional reasons, I'm content to let it pass by unless I can hear some sort of melodic line, even if the author offers to name the man who shot Jack Kennedy. With authors of great reputation, I blame myself for whatever fault can be found, and after a decent interval of years I return to the book in question in the hope that I've learned to hear what is being said. When I was 20 I didn't know how to read Ford Madox Ford or George Eliot. By the time I was 50 I no longer could read J. D. Salinger or Ernest Hemingway. I've yet to learn how to read Finnegans Wake.
Regarding myself as neither art historian nor literary critic, I escape the chore of having to discern zeitgeists and deconstruct paradigms. At liberty to indulge my enthusiasms without apology or embarrassment, I'm free to take as much pleasure from the novels of Raymond Chandler and John le Carré as from the poetry of Wallace Stevens. Because I look for the value of the human currency ("very strong and very weak … very bad and very good"), I don't much care whether an author chooses for her mise en scène the court of Henry VIII or the roof of a Harlem tenement, whether the artist draws a bandit on the beach at Yokohama or paints an angel on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel.
In Goya's etchings of the Napoleonic Wars, I discover an enlarged state and sense of being of the same order as the one met with in the second movement of Beethoven's Piano Sonata no. 27 or in the sequence of images on exhibition in Auden's "Musée des Beaux Arts." "Feelings, the most diverse" follow from the awakening of more than one mind to the excitement of simultaneous discovery, which is the means of communion that distinguishes the making of a work of art from the passive and single-minded consumption of a camera angle or an applause track.
To the generation coming of age in the forties and fifties, the distinction was important, maybe even bearing on what was to become of the American future. It was a generation infected with the idea that the arts were serious business, sharing with the late Walker Percy his novelist's belief that all fiction can be used as an instrument of exploration and discovery, that "the novelist or poet in the future might be able to go further, to discover or rediscover… how it is with man himself, who he is, and how it is between him and other men."
During the years of the Eisenhower administration, the portraits of novelists decorated the covers of Time magazine, the views of Saul Bellow and Norman Mailer accorded the deference now placed at the feet of Warren Buffett. New plays on Broadway from Arthur Miller and Tennessee Williams were as eagerly received as the musicals by Rodgers and Hammerstein.
Under the aegis of the Congress of Cultural Freedom, the CIA was deploying American art as a Cold War weapon of mass instruction. Although the Allies had won the war against Hitler (won it in the name of democratic freedom and Western civilization), they appeared to be losing the peace to Stalin and the systems of totalitarian repression, and what was afoot in the 1950s was a contest for the good opinion of mankind. The communist agitprop on offer in Europe in 1947 pictured the United States as a materialist wasteland inhabited by gum-chewing shoe salesmen, lynchers of negroes ignorant of the works of Gramsci and Lukács.
The CIA undertook to suppress the rumors, directing the tactical movement of art exhibits to Venice, music festivals to Rome. Not satisfied with the wholesale distribution of wholesome texts, the agency pressed forward into the no man's land of the avant-garde, seeking to show its prospective friends in Bremerhaven and Marseilles that American art was something more than a provincial reflection of European decadence.
No, by God, America was a great country, as rich in artists as it was in steel or corn, and here to prove it on the wall in Paris is the Abstract Expressionism of Jackson Pollock — a real American from Cody, Wyoming, not a Hungarian refugee or a Princeton homosexual; virility incarnate, reckless and heavy-drinking, a fountain of acrylic orgasm; just the sort of fellow to represent the virtues of free enterprise, and whose paintings, nonfigurative and incoherent, embodied the antithesis of Soviet socialist realism. The aesthetic stamped with the seals of government approval matched the one embraced by the Beat poets howling in the California wilderness, marking out the road into an ecstatic future unregulated by death and taxes.
Imperial Art
As trickled down to the undergraduate elements of the avant-garde at Yale College in the 1950s, questions about the uses of art (its place in society, its promise of a career) resolved into a "pandemonium" of words like those described by Stefan Zweig as a "collective, eager, competitive curiosity." Usually I found myself on the wrong side of the critique, in some quarters regarded as an obsolete romantic, in others as a trivial bourgeois. Introduced to the modernist doctrines of alienation and despair, I took the notes but didn't learn the lesson. The Bauhaus architecture I thought better suited for a barracks or a penitentiary; in the paintings of Mondrian and Kandinsky I could recognize little else except the surface of a decorative design. Nor in the works of Berg and Shostakovich could I identify the sound that from seventeenth-, eighteenth-, and nineteenth-century composers I'd learned to recognize as music.
The apparatchiks in the English department employed the techniques remarked upon by Billy Collins — "tie the poem to a chair with rope / and torture a confession out of it," beat it with a hose "to find out what it really means." I was less interested in what it really meant than in A. E. Housman's definition of poetry as that which raises the hair on the chin while shaving. Despite four years of being told that art was somehow sacred, divorced from all sakes other than its own, I never learned to prefer the comprehension of the theory of the thing to a naive delight in the thing itself.
But in what was then the spirit of the times, the side of the argument on which anybody came down, against Haydn and for Stravinsky, with the early or the late Picasso, mattered less than the shared belief among all the voices in the room that it was art and literature that were to be looked to for the light on the far and fair horizon. This certainty was in line with the generous idealisms expressed in President Franklin D. Roosevelt's Second Bill of Rights as well as with the intent to furnish the newly emergent American empire with the trophy of a civilization.
America's victories in World War II had established its military and economic predominance. In the 1950s, it was thought that a determined courting of the arts would bring forth works of genius of a match with the arriviste hegemon's spiritual and moral grace. Other empires had done so, most notably Periclean Athens, Elizabethan England, France during the reign of Louis XIV. Surely the United States could produce something equally impressive. Was not America richer than any other country known to history? Were not its weapons more terrible, its virtues more abundant? How then could its painting not be more luminous, its literature more profound, its music more sublime?
These fond hopes and great expectations didn't survive the epistemological shift during the 1960s to political and commercial sets of reference. The locus of advanced artistic opinion moved from the Greenwich Village bars to the pages of Women's Wear Daily; Andy Warhol discovered a market for portraits of Campbell's Soup cans, and the several forms of expression previously known as the "lively arts" were melted down into the alloy of the "media." By the time President Ronald Reagan danced onto the White House stage in 1981, politics was fashion, news was entertainment, celebrity was art, literature a regional dialect spoken only in the universities.
It isn't that the country now lacks for painters painting pictures or poets writing poems, nor is it to say that stores of human energy and hope aren't to be found in the novels of Elmore Leonard or the songs of Bruce Springsteen. It is to say that with the dawn of Reagan's bright new morning in America, the notion of art as the way into a redemptive future had withered on the vine. Once again, as had been customary throughout most of the country's history, art was seen as an embodiment of the good, the true, and the beautiful only to the extent that it could be exchanged for money.
If, in the 1950s, the young and aspiring writer hoped to become a novelist or a playwright, 30 years later that ambition had been replaced with the thought of becoming a critic, a journalist, or a policy intellectual, possibly even a television talking head. The conversations revolved around the names of Hollywood agents and the grooming of resumés fit for the favor of a foundation grant.
The generation of writers weaned on Cold War propaganda and CIA subsidy adopted the trade craft of literary realpolitik to variant doctrines of political correctness, the combatants on both the left and right construing culture as ideology, the frivolous adjective modifying the sober noun — cultural identity, cultural diversity, cultural policy-objective. The love of language once inherent in a distinctive literary style not only fell out of favor but was placed under suspicion as an un-American activity. Among New York editors it was assumed that a writer who clogged the data streams with arresting turns of phrase could not be trusted to impart the truth.
At the downtown exhibitions of conceptual art in the early nineties, the gallery walls served as bulletin boards on which to post a syllabus of moral lessons imbedded in twisted steel and fluorescent neon light. Ugly was a show of virtue, and so was the lack of talent, the bombast recurring in the explanatory notes ("imperialism," "otherness," "void," "difference") pointing as garishly as road signs to the injustices of gender, race, wealth, and social class.
It was not enough merely to look at a battered rubber woman or a pair of gold-plated tennis sneakers. What was important was the theory of the thing, not the thing itself, the knowing that beauty was reactionary and that the artists labeling the merchandise had come to think of history as a "dysfunctional idea." The message brought with it the great good news that the arts, when not otherwise employed as political agitprop or commercial advertising, offered refuge from a dysfunctional grasp of reality with welcome escapes into the prison of the self. Novels that in the 1950s set out to discover how it is with man in the company of other men gave way in the 1980s to the writing of memoirs intent upon discovering that, when one really had a chance to think about it, the world and its troubles were really all about me. The authors who would be king placed stylish gestures of self-loathing on the altar of self-promotion.
Art in Formaldehyde
The United States Census Bureau now counts almost two million Americans working in the arts, many of them under the impression that the occupation designates them a law unto themselves, granted the equivalent of the "moral waivers" that the U.S. Army bestows on those of its sorely needed recruits burdened with a chronic illness, poor test scores, or a prior record of criminal assault and felony arrest. Never before in the history of the known world have so many people trooped through so many museums, been provided with so many handsome reproductions, dance recitals, string quartets, lectures, libraries, postcards.
The opinion polls report two-thirds of the citizenry defining art as a necessity, but for the most part it is a constituency in the market for distraction, more interested in what Van Gogh's deranged hand did to his ear than what his incomparable eye saw in the sunlight at Arles. This constituency was likened by Jack Tworkov to a circle of spectators watching a sidewalk artist sketch portraits of Scottish terriers — what they admire having "nothing to do with art, but everything with performance: even costume plays a role (beard, beret, smock)."
This preference has shaped the framing of the American mind since its inception in the colonial wilderness. It's a sensibility noted by Benjamin Franklin as being most attracted to the invention of a machine or the improvement of an implement, as being more apt to make communion with objects that move and do things than with those that merely stand there waiting to be spoken to or heard. Not the kind of audience likely to object to the processing of the lively arts into the machine-made product distributed as media, the metamorphosis similar to the one visited upon the livestock in a Nebraska meat-packing facility. The songs and dances come with a factory-inspected guarantee that the commodity in the hand of the manufacturer will remain dead in the mind of the consumer.
The country continues to turn up individuals making works of art — among those in the literary theaters of operation I can think of many — but they traffic in a medium of exchange on which the society doesn't place a high priority. Maybe it never did; maybe the way I remember the forties and fifties is a tale told, if not by an idiot, then by a trivial bourgeois or an obsolete romantic trapped in the dream of a lost golden age.
The existence of a civilization presupposes a public that has both the time, and the need, to draw sustenance from the high-wire acts of the artistic imagination. The United States never has produced such a public in commercial quantity, a fact remarked upon by the art historian Robert Hughes in The Shock of the New, who also wrote: "Art discovers its true social use, not on the ideological plane, but by opening the passage from feeling to meaning — not for everyone, since that would be impossible, but for those who want to try. This impulse seems to be immortal."
Happily so. What blocks the passage from feeling to meaning is the replacing of the thing itself with the price or theory of the thing, which is the difference between money and art as the universal medium of human exchange proposed by Arthur Schopenhauer: "Money is human happiness in abstracto, consequently he who is no longer capable of happiness in concreto sets his whole heart on money." The dictum accords with the twentieth century's wars and devourings of the Earth, accounts for the modernistic expressions of alienation and despair, speaks to the price paid for the shark in formaldehyde.
Although it's frequently said that the truth shall make men free, the precept is almost as frequently misunderstood. Truth as synonym for liberty isn't a collectible. It is the joyous discovery of the enlarged sense and state of being that is the change of heart induced by the presence of a work of art.
Lewis H. Lapham is editor of Lapham's Quarterly. Formerly editor of Harper's Magazine, he is the author of numerous books, including Money and Class in America, Theater of War, Gag Rule, and, most recently, Pretensions to Empire. The New York Times has likened him to H. L. Mencken; Vanity Fair has suggested a strong resemblance to Mark Twain; and Tom Wolfe has compared him to Montaigne. This essay introduces the March "arts and letters" issue of Lapham's Quarterly. You can listen to Timothy MacBain's latest TomCast — in which Lapham discusses art, money, and his magazine — by clicking here or, if you prefer to download it as a podcast, here.
Copyright 2010 Lewis Lapham
Lewis Lapham
Lewis H. Lapham is editor of Lapham's Quarterly. Formerly editor of Harper's Magazine, he is the author of numerous books, including Money and Class in America, Theater of War, Gag Rule, and, most recently, Pretensions to Empire. The New York Times has likened him to H. L. Mencken; Vanity Fair has suggested a strong resemblance to Mark Twain; and Tom Wolfe has compared him to Montaigne.


Character from the world famous Astérix series from Les Éditions Albert René.
In 2011 I was asked to create several iconic characters from this brand for a browsergame. The intended resolution was about 80-100 pixles high, so the models didnt need to be too detailed.


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What Is This Act About?
Myths and Facts About the Forest Rights Act
An "Unbroken History of Broken Promises" – Govts Violate Forest Rights from 2002 to the Present
Democratic Protection of Forests – Community Management
REDD: A New Danger for Adivasis and Forest Dwellers
The Afforestation Scam
The Scam of Joint Forest Management
Correspondence with Conservationist Organisations
Tiger Conservation: A Disaster in the Making
Large Projects and Forest Land
The POSCO Project
Timeline of Events Relating to Forest Rights in POSCO Area
Timeline of Attempts to Sabotage Forest Rights for Large Projects
Responses to the Arguments in Court
The Forest Rights Act
A Weapon of Democracy in the Forests
Home » Uncategorized » National Convention Against Illegal Grabbing of Forests and Forest Lands – May 4th, 2016
National Convention Against Illegal Grabbing of Forests and Forest Lands – May 4th, 2016
Indian Social Institute, New Delhi
As you know, across the country, the Central and State governments are engaged in a massive, illegal takeover of forest land, often in connivance with big private companies. This giant land grab is resulting in the impoverishment and illegal displacement of lakhs of people, and the loss of livelihood for many more. Some forms of this illegal land grab include:
Diversion of forest land without recognising forest rights and without taking the consent of gram sabhas, or forging gram sabha resolutions giving consent, despite the requirements of the Forest Rights Act.
Continuous sabotage of rights recognition under the Forest Rights Act and denial of recognition for both individual and community rights.
Use of para military forces to arrest, terrorise and kill those resisting take over of their lands and forests.
Declaration of new reserved forests, protected areas and other state-controlled forests without respecting either prior forest laws or the Forest Rights Act. Forced relocation of people from tiger reserves in violation of the Wild Life (Protection) Amendment Act, 2006, and the Forest Rights Act.
State governments acquiring land without respecting the requirements of the Land Acquisition Act, 2013, the Forest Rights Act or the PESA Act.
State governments, such as Gujarat, Rajasthan, Tamil Nadu and others, amending their laws or planning to amend their laws to bypass consent when acquiring land for projects.
All of these steps have the same basic objective: grabbing of resources without respecting the powers of the gram sabha and people's democratic rights. The intent is always the same – to autocratically seize people's lands and resources for the eventual benefit of private capital.
To oppose this brutal and criminal attack on the rights of the people and on the natural environment, a national convention will be held on May 4th in New Delhi.
In this national convention, representatives from at least ten States will be attending, discussing the struggles in their States and their plans for ongoing protests. In the run up to the Convention, mass protests have already been held in Gujarat, Rajasthan, Uttarakhand, Tamil Nadu, Maharashtra, Chhattisgarh and other States raising these issues.
We hope you will be able to join us at this important convention. The convention will be held at the Indian Social Institute, Lodhi Road, New Delhi. The convention will begin at 1030 am.
By forestcampaign in Uncategorized on April 27, 2016 .
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Rock-like in appearance but scone-like to eat this easy to make recipe was the sort of fun we were up to this morning.
With a special auntie's birthday party today preceded by a thoughtful email with this Rock Cake recipe in it from Spud's "GrandMary" (the very same that made him this awesome Harry Potter bookmark!) we decided to do some Sunday morning baking.
When I showed Spud the recipe for Rock Cakes reportedly made by Mrs. Weasley he remembered that he had Hagrid's version in his very own Harry Potter Cookbook. Chef Spud was all over it .... I performed some sous chef duties.
The only modification we made was subbing out half the raisins with dried peaches. I soaked the dry fruit in hot water before Spud added them to the dough. Finally, to appease his cries (I hate raisins!) we "accidentally" dropped some chocolate chips into the dough as well. Oops.


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Matthews Exchange was a transit exchange located on Highway 99 at the Ladner Trunk Road interchange. Opened on April 20, 1987, the exchange is primarily served by the 351 to Richmond and South Surrey. On September 7, 2020, the exchange closed and its designation was dropped, but buses that used to serve this exchange continue to do so.

Stops 54876 and 54878 are located on the north side of Highway 99 while stops 54877 and 55179 are located on the south side.

Routes

See also
List of bus routes in Metro Vancouver

References

External links
Matthews Exchange map (PDF file)

TransLink (British Columbia) bus stations


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Android News / All News / Huawei G8 Is Official; Metal Body, Snapdragon 615 In Tow
Huawei G8 Is Official; Metal Body, Snapdragon 615 In Tow
By Kristijan Lucic
Huawei had a great 2014 as far as profit goes, and it seems like the company continued their growth this year as well. This Chinese smartphone OEM has reported a 30% revenue growth in the first half of 2015. The company has unveiled a number of devices in the first half of this year, including several high-end devices like the Huawei P8 and Honor 7, and some mid-range smartphones and tablets. That being said, we've recently seen yet another Huawei-branded device certified in China, what seemingly looked like the Huawei G7 successor, and it turns out our assumptions were spot on.
The Huawei has unveiled the Huawei G8 handset in China. The phone sports a 5.5-inch 1080p (1920 x 1080) display, and is powered by the Snapdragon 615 64-bit octa-core SoC, while an Adreno 405 GPU is here for graphics rendering. The device actually comes in two different variants, the 2 and 3GB ones. The 2GB model comes equipped with 16GB of internal storage, and the higher-end 3GB variant ships with 32GB of in-built storage. Both of these variants support microSD card expansions, you'll be able to expand the internal storage for an additional 64GB this way. The 13-megapixel camera (PureCel sensor) is located on the back of the G8, and same can be said about the dual-LED, dual tone flash which is located next to the camera. The 5-megapixel snapper is available up front, and a rear-facing fingerprint scanner is also a part of this package. Android 5.1 Lollipop comes pre-installed on the G8 with Huawei's Emotion UI (EMUI) installed on top of Google's OS. The 3,000mAh battery is also included here, and same can be said about the 4G LTE connectivity. It is also worth mentioning that this is a dual SIM device, in case you were wondering.
The Huawei G8 sports a metal unibody design, and is available in White, Black and Gold color options. The 2GB model of this smartphone is priced at the equivalent of $370 in China, and the 3GB variant will set you back $434. We still don't know when / if Huawei intends to make this handset available outside of China (keep in mind that this is a China Telecom model), we'll let you know when additional info pops up, stay tuned.
Huawei G8 3
Kristijan Lucic
Kristijan has been writing for Android Headlines since 2014 and is an editor for the site. He has worked as a writer for several outlets before joining Android Headlines, and has a background in writing about Android and technology in general. He is a smartphone enthusiast that specializes in Android applications, and that platform in general. Contact him at [email protected]


CGB Dance Center will be closed the week of August 6th – 11th, 2018 for Summer Break as we prepare for our upcoming Fall/Spring year of dance!
We will be open for Registration/Uniform Week, the week of August 13th, 2018, 4 – 8pm. The week of August 13th we will have some adult classes, please check our schedule online.
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BioCatalogue has undergone a major upgrade to Rails 3 and Ruby 1.9, in addition to a number of bug fixes. Some of the new features include: a new and faster search engine, exporting services as a spreadsheet for curation and UI tweaks.
The soaplab emboss service-set from the EBI will be decommissioned from Feb 1st 2013 (see here for more details: http://www.ebi.ac.uk/Tools/webservices/soaplab/overview). Some of these services have been reimplemented as part of the main EBI web services collection (http://www.ebi.ac.uk/Tools/webservices/about/webservices). If you use other soaplab emboss services, you may want to consider hosting your own set.
The BioCatalogue will be unavailable from 0830 BST on August 14th 2012. This downtime is required so that we can install a major upgrade to the BioCatalogue software. We will endeavour to keep the disruption to an absolute minimum but the upgrade is likely to take several hours. Please consider the service to be at risk until at least 1500 BST on that day. We apologise for any inconvenience caused and thank you for your understanding. The BioCatalogue Team.
We have been advised that many of the WSDL web services hosted by the DNA Databank of Japan (DDBJ) will be unavailable until further notice. Details can be found on the DDBJ website.
Due to urgent maintenance needed in the data centre hosting the BioCatalogue, the website and services provided by the BioCatalogue will not be available from Friday, January 7th 16:30 GMT and until Monday, January 10th 12:00 GMT. We apologise for the late notice and inconvenience.


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In this image provided by the U.S. Army, U.S. Air Force Tech Sgt. Deundre Bryant, right, a medical administrator, checks up on Tech Sgt. Rony Castaneda-Zamora…
In this image provided by the U.S. Army, U.S. Air Force Tech Sgt. Deundre Bryant, right, a medical administrator, checks up on Tech Sgt. Rony Castaneda-Zamora a medical technician, while supporting the COVID response operations at University of Rochester Medical Center, Rochester, N.Y., Feb.16, 2022. (Spc. Khalan Moore/U.S. Army via AP)
Pentagon plans for next pandemic as COVID mission ends
Posted: Apr 11, 2022 / 09:30 AM EDT
Updated: Apr 11, 2022 / 08:34 AM EDT
WASHINGTON (AP) — A COVID-19 patient was in respiratory distress. The Army nurse knew she had to act quickly.
It was the peak of this year's omicron surge and an Army medical team was helping in a Michigan hospital. Regular patient beds were full. So was the intensive care. But the nurse heard of an open spot in an overflow treatment area, so she and another team member raced the gurney across the hospital to claim the space first, denting a wall in their rush.
When she saw the dent, Lt. Col. Suzanne Cobleigh, the leader of the Army team, knew the nurse had done her job. "She's going to damage the wall on the way there because he's going to get that bed," Cobleigh said. "He's going to get the treatment he needs. That was the mission."
That nurse's mission was to get urgent care for her patient. Now, the U.S. military mission is to use the experiences of Cobleigh's team and other units pressed into service against the coronavirus pandemic to prepare for the next crisis threatening a large population, whatever its nature.
Their experiences, said Gen. Glen VanHerck, will help shape the size and staffing of the military's medical response so the Pentagon can provide the right types and numbers of forces needed for another pandemic, global crisis or conflict.
One of the key lessons learned was the value of small military teams over mass movements of personnel and facilities in a crisis like the one wrought by COVID-19.
Many Americans can now get a 4th COVID shot – but should they wait?
In the early days of the pandemic, the Pentagon steamed hospital ships to New York City and Los Angeles, and set up massive hospital facilities in convention centers and parking lots, in response to pleas from state government leaders. The idea was to use them to treat non-COVID-19 patients, allowing hospitals to focus on the more acute pandemic cases. But while images of the military ships were powerful, too often many beds went unused. Fewer patients needed non-coronavirus care than expected, and hospitals were still overwhelmed by the pandemic.
A more agile approach emerged: having military medical personnel step in for exhausted hospital staff members or work alongside them or in additional treatment areas in unused spaces.
"It morphed over time," VanHerck, who heads U.S. Northern Command and is responsible for homeland defense, said of the response.
Overall, about 24,000 U.S. troops were deployed for the pandemic, including nearly 6,000 medical personnel to hospitals and 5,000 to help administer vaccines. Many did multiple tours. That mission is over, at least for now.
Cobleigh and her team members were deployed to two hospitals in Grand Rapids from December to February, as part of the U.S. military's effort to relieve civilian medical workers. And just last week the last military medical team that had been deployed for the pandemic finished its stint at the University of Utah Hospital and headed home.
VanHerck told The Associated Press his command is rewriting pandemic and infectious disease plans, and planning wargames and other exercises to determine if the U.S. has the right balance of military medical staff in the active duty and reserves.
During the pandemic, he said, the teams' make-up and equipment needs evolved. Now, he's put about 10 teams of physicians, nurses and other staff — or about 200 troops — on prepare-to-deploy orders through the end of May in case infections shoot up again. The size of the teams ranges from small to medium.
Dr. Kencee Graves, inpatient chief medical officer at the University of Utah Hospital, said the facility finally decided to seek help this year because it was postponing surgeries to care for all the COVID-19 patients and closing off beds because of staff shortages.
Some patients had surgery postponed more than once, Graves said, because of critically ill patients or critical needs by others. "So before the military came, we were looking at a surgical backlog of hundreds of cases and we were low on staff. We had fatigued staff."
Her mantra became, "All I can do is show up and hope it's helpful." She added, "And I just did that day after day after day for two years."
Then in came a 25-member Navy medical team.
"A number of staff were overwhelmed," said Cdr. Arriel Atienza, chief medical officer for the Navy team. "They were burnt out. They couldn't call in sick. We're able to fill some gaps and needed shifts that would otherwise have remained unmanned, and the patient load would have been very demanding for the existing staff to match."
Atienza, a family physician who's been in the military for 21 years, spent the Christmas holiday deployed to a hospital in New Mexico, then went to Salt Lake City in March. Over time, he said, the military "has evolved from things like pop-up hospitals" and now knows how to integrate seamlessly into local health facilities in just a couple of days.
That integration helped the hospital staff recover and catch up.
"We have gotten through about a quarter of our surgical backlog," Graves said. "We did not call a backup physician this month for the hospital team … that's the first time that's happened in several months. And then we haven't called a patient and asked them to reschedule their surgery for the majority of the last few weeks."
Appeals court OKs Biden federal employee vaccine mandate
VanHerck said the pandemic also underscored the need to review the nation's supply chain to ensure that the right equipment and medications were being stockpiled or to see if they were coming from foreign distributors.
"If we're relying on getting those from a foreign manufacturer and supplier, then that may be something that is a national security vulnerability that we have to address," he said.
VanHerck said the U.S. is also working to better analyze trends in order to predict the needs for personnel, equipment and protective gear. Military and other government experts watched the progress of COVID-19 infections moving across the country and used that data to predict where the next outbreak might be so that staff could be prepared to go there.
The need for mental health care for the military personnel also became apparent. Team members coming off difficult shifts often needed someone to talk to.
Cobleigh said military medical personnel were not accustomed to caring for so many people with multiple health problems, as are more apt to be found in a civilian population than in military ranks. "The level of sickness and death in the civilian sector was scores more than what anyone had experienced back in the Army," said Cobleigh, who is stationed now at Fort Riley, Kansas, but will soon move to Aberdeen Proving Ground in Maryland.
She said she found that her staff needed her and wanted to "talk through their stresses and strains before they'd go back on shift."
For the civilian hospitals, the lesson was knowing when to call for help.
"It was the bridge to help us get out of omicron and in a position where we can take good care of our patients," Graves said. "I am not sure how we would have done that without them."


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Q: Stata / Event Studies I am currently running several event studies with a sample of 2836 companies. I regress each company's return on several factors (compiled by FF). Thus, I wrote the following loop:
 gen predicted_return4=.
 forvalues i = 1(1)2836 {
 l id acq_company_id if id==`i' & dif==0
 reg ret ${ff} if id==`i' & estimation_window==1
 predict p4 if id==`i'
 replace predicted_return4 = p4 if id==`i' & event_window==1
 drop p4
 }

The loop works fairly well. However, after a few regressions an error arises (see below).
          +---------------+
          | id   acq_co~d |
          |---------------|
   48818. | 21          8 |
          +---------------+

  Source |       SS       df       MS              Number of obs =     220
 -------------+------------------------------           F(  3,   216) =   53.77
   Model |  .012074753     3  .004024918           Prob > F      =  0.0000
Residual |  .016167584   216   .00007485           R-squared     =  0.4275
 -------------+------------------------------           Adj R-squared =  0.4196
   Total |  .028242337   219   .00012896           Root MSE      =  .00865

  ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
     ret |      Coef.   Std. Err.      t    P>|t|     [95% Conf. Interval]
-------------+----------------------------------------------------------------
   mktrf |   .9786525    .119806     8.17   0.000     .7425141    1.214791
     smb |    .201586    .172118     1.17   0.243    -.1376599    .5408319
     hml |  -.1526954   .2606448    -0.59   0.559    -.6664282    .3610374
   _cons |   .0004081   .0005981     0.68   0.496    -.0007708     .001587
------------------------------------------------------------------------------
(option xb assumed; fitted values)
(5800880 missing values generated)
(5 real changes made)
**no observations**
r(2000);

After checking the data, I did not find any missing observations. Is there anybody who already dealt with the same problem? Is there a way to avoid missing values respectively to ignore missing values?

A: If you have enough missings, you will get error 2000. You should want to trap that. Try something like
gen predicted_return4=.
forvalues i = 1(1)2836 {
    l id acq_company_id if id==`i' & dif==0
    capture noisily reg ret ${ff} if id==`i' & estimation_window==1
    quietly if _rc == 0 {
        predict p4 if id==`i'
        replace predicted_return4 = p4 if id==`i' & event_window==1
        drop p4
    }
}


The council took the unusual step of hearing public comment at its work session Thursday night. Council members said they share concerns about unresolved issues, from stormwater and economic benefit to how to pay for districtwide improvements.
Booker Creek, which runs under Eastgate shopping center, should be restored, Council member Maria Palmer said.
"We want, 20 years from now, for somebody with vision to say, OK, we're going to daylight the creek and put these amazing apartments and fancy restaurants and a little park. It's going to be a focus and a place where people want to go on a Sunday afternoon," Palmer said.
Council member Ed Harrison said softer transitions could ease some "pretty abrupt" changes in building heights – from a 45-foot maximum near existing homes to 90 feet in the core.
The town might be able to offer incentives for amenities it can't require, such as affordable housing and energy-efficient buildings, he and others said. Everyone wins with energy-efficient projects, resident Tom Henkel said.
"The owners of the buildings, because they have a better building, can charge higher rents, but because the operating costs are lower, the tenants will end up with net lower costs," he said.
Council member George Cianciolo joined critics in calling for more information about how the town would pay its debts and get more benefits from redevelopment. Resident Ken Larsen gave the council a lengthy table of residents' concerns and recommendations.
Landscape architect Scott Murray said he supported the draft code after trying it out on different clients' projects.
"Is it perfect? No, it doesn't have to be, but it does work in the real world, and it's time to get on with it," he said.
Council member Matt Czajkowski said he visited two vibrant cities with form-based code, but Chapel Hill residents are right to worry about how the district could look and whether it will be only a few huge apartment buildings, he said.
Developers might do residential projects first, but the town will get out of the code what it puts into it, said Code Studio consultant Lee Einsweiler.
Czajkowski said that's why it's vital to work with the schools to figure out how many families with school-age students could be coming.
If "we've got to build another school or two, we could create another economic scenario that is significantly worse for the town than better," he said.
Critics have said the town is rushing the changes. Town Manager Roger Stancil said the June flood that damaged Town Hall presented a unique opportunity to pay for $10 million in stormwater and road projects that will make the district work.
The town is using Town Hall as collateral for a $10 million loan to renovate the building, do smaller projects and help pay $8.8 million for new Ephesus-Fordham streets, sidewalks and roads.
The plan also includes $1.2 million in districtwide stormwater improvements.
Business management director Ken Pennoyer said higher tax revenues from redeveloped parcels would help repay the debt. The town also could use bond money, development fees and revenues from a new stormwater district tax on commercial property.
The town could borrow from its debt fund in a pinch, Pennoyer said.
Ward also suggested a transit tax. Chapel Hill Transit will start to wither under increased pressure and without new money, he said.
"At the same time I say that, it's a critical piece of infrastructure that the university's counting on and a large number of people in our community, not affiliated with the university, are counting on. Our whole land-use plan counts on it," he said.


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Notable Role: Eric Molson in 21 Jump Street (2012)
It's easy to look past Dave Franco's brotherly connection to James Franco, especially while watching the 27-year-old, multi-talented actor's hilarious, scene-stealing work in 21 Jump Street, the 2012 comedy hit that's currently playing nonstop on cable. The funny business is by now second nature for Franco, whose brief appearances in Superbad and Ben Stiller's indie flick Greenberg prefaced his memorably clever, self-made Funny or Die viral videos, including "You're So Hot."
This year, Franco is getting his character-actor on with a pair of supporting roles in two high-profile movies: the Twilight-meets-Zombieland comedy Warm Bodies and the magician heist thriller Now You See Me (also starring Jesse Eisenberg, Morgan Freeman, and Woody Harrelson). As 2013 progresses, don't be surprised to see Franco's name announced as the leading man in future projects. A good-looking dude who's both funny and able to produce his own material? You'd be a fool to bet against someone like that. —JM
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I lived in Fort Collins, CO for 13 months and had a total blast exploring trails along the Front Range. During that time, I was a volunteer naturalist for Larimer County. The following list is static and will only change if and when I have an opportunity to visit. Check out our Colorado Trails Map for a statewide view.


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Across the River: Life, Death, and Football in an American City
Kent Babb (Author)
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On the west bank of the Mississippi lies the New Orleans neighborhood of Algiers. Short on hope but big on dreams, its mostly poor and marginalized residents find joy on Friday nights when the Cougars of Edna Karr High School take the field. For years, this football program has brought glory to Algiers, winning three consecutive state championships and sending dozens of young men to college on football scholarships.
Although he is preparing for a fourth title, head coach Brice Brown is focused on something else: keeping his players alive. An epidemic of gun violence plagues New Orleans and its surrounding communities and has claimed many innocent lives, including Brown's former star quarterback, Tollette "Tonka" George, shot near a local gas station.
In Across the River, award-winning sports journalist Kent Babb follows the Karr football team through its 2019 season as Brown and his team--perhaps the scrappiest and most rebellious group in the program's history--vie to again succeed on and off the field. What is sure to be a classic work of sports journalism, Across the River is a necessary investigation into the serious realities of young athletes in struggling neighborhoods: gentrification, eviction, mental health issues, the drug trade, and gun violence. It offers a rich and unflinching portrait of a coach, his players, and the West Bank, a community where it's difficult--but not impossible--to rise above the chaos, discover purpose, and find a way out.
Coaching - Football
Sociology of Sports
KENT BABB is a reporter for The Washington Post and author of the acclaimed Not a Game: The Incredible Rise and Unthinkable Fall of Allen Iverson. His writing examines the intersection of sports and culture, and three of his stories appeared in The Best American Sports Writing. The Associated Press Sports Editors have three times honored his features as the nation's best, and Not a Game was shortlisted for the PEN/ESPN Award for Literary Sports Writing. He lives in the Washington, DC, area with his wife and daughter.
This is the story the country needs to read--raw, expertly told, stripped of political agendas and preconceived notions. This is not a story about football, but about what football can mean.--MICHAEL ROSENBERG, senior writer, Sports Illustrated
"Babb takes us to a place most of us would never go, telling us a story we'd never know. This book is so important."--PETER KING, NBC Sports
"At the Karr High School introduced to us by Kent Babb there is the expression, 'Give Em The Real.' This book is 'the real.' It's as real as birth and death and all the heartache in between. Through Babb's eyes, the story of Karr football is so much more than a sports book. This is the other America that too many people don't know - or care to know - exists."--DAVE ZIRIN, sports editor, The Nation
a literary masterpiece. Lyrically written and deeply reported, Across the River reads like a gripping, can't-put-it-down novel."--LARS ANDERSON, New York Times bestselling author of The Mannings and Chasing the Bear
"This spectacular book carefully fuses voice and tone to transport the reader into a world few can imagine and transforms the tales of disparate individuals into a narrative that is both touching and tragic."--DeMAURICE SMITH, executive director, NFL Players Association
"This is an essential American read and an intimate look into the soul of New Orleans."--WRIGHT THOMPSON, ESPN senior writer and author of Pappyland
" Masterful . . . an equal parts heartbreaking and life-affirming look at a city, a school, and a football team whose players and coaches spend as much time fighting for survival as they do grid triumph."--JEFF PEARLMAN, New York Times bestselling author of Three-Ring Circus
A moving and evocative portrait of football and life--Publishers Weekly
"There is no better storyteller in the country than Kent Babb. Period. I've never learned more about the fabric of one of America's greatest cities than I did in this book."--IAN RAPOPORT, NFL Network Insider
"In Across the River Kent Babb keeps it real as he deftly and eloquently negotiates the sidewalks, the sidelines, and the streets of New Orleans."--GLENN STOUT, editor, The Year's Best Sports Writing
I've always thought the best books are those that combine great reporting and great writing. That's exactly what Kent Babb's Across The River does. It combines deeply detailed inside reporting with a wonderfully told story.--JONATHAN FEINSTEIN, New York Times Bestselling author of A Good Walk Spoiled
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NORTHERN TERRITORY CENTENARY OF EXPLORATION, 1860 - 1960. Souvenir Booklet.
Publisher: A.C.T., Publ. by the Dept. of Territories, Comm. of Australia: .
Claremont Yacht Club : 100 years of history 1905-2005.
A Residence of Eleven Years in New Holland and the Caroline Islands.
By: O'CONNELL, James F. : edited by Saul H. Riesenberg.
THE PROSE AND VERSE OF DOWELL O'REILLY.
Fuzzy, Wuzzy and Buzzy. For children ages 8 to 9 years.
H.M. Bark Endeavour: her place in Australian history. With an account of her construction, crew and equipment and a narrative of her voyage on the east coast of New Holland in the year 1770.
A Journal of a Voyage to the South Seas.
A Short Account of a Voyage Round the Globe in H.M.S Calcutta.
By: PATESHALL, Nicholas (edited with an Introduction by Marjorie Tipping).
A Short Account of a Voyage round the globe performed in fifteen months by H.M. Ship Calcutta.
By: PATESHALL, Nicholas : edited with notes, by Richard Cotter.
Islands of Incarceration. Convict and quarantine islands of the Australian coast.
By: PEARN, John & Peggy Carter (eds).
BRITAIN AND AUSTRALIA: Economic Relationships in the 1950s.
A Tolerable Good Success : economic opportunities for women in New South Wales 1788-1830.
The Discovery of Australia : the charts and maps of the navigators and explorers.
The Voyage of Governor Phillip to Botany Bay. Compiled from authentic papers.
By: PROUT, Denton and Fred Feely.
Oliver's Diary : an 'andkerchief of eirth.
The Floating Brothel : the extraordinary story of the Lady Julian and its cargo of female convicts bound for Botany Bay.
Bush Songs of Australia for Young and Old.
By: RENTOUL, Annie R. (words) & Georgette Peterson (music). Illustrations by Ida Rentoul-Outhwaite.
George Augustus Robinson's Journey into South-Eastern Australia, 1844, with George Henry Haydon's Narrative of part of the same journey.
The Hatch and Brood of Time : a study of the first generation of native-born white Australians 1788-1828. Volume One.
THE NATIONAL EUCHARISTIC CONGRESS. Melbourne, Australia, December 2nd - 9th, 1934.
WONDERS OF THE GREAT BARRIER REEF.
Index to the Australian Dictionary of Biography, Volumes I & 2 (1788-1850).
For Better or Worse : convict lives shaped by transportation.
Governors' Wives in Colonial Australia.
STUD BOOK AND FLOCK BOOK OF REGISTERED POLWARTH FLOCKS.
By: SINGLETON, C.C. & David Burke.
Australia's Birthstain : the startling legacy of the convict era.
The Pacific since Magellan. [I] The Spanish Lake. [II] Monopolists and Freebooters. [III] Paradise Found and Lost.
Proud Intrepid Heart : Leichhardt's first attempt to the Swan River 1846-1847. Special issue of 25 numbered & signed copies.
Proud Intrepid Heart : Leichhardt's first attempt to the Swan River 1846-1847.
That Odd Mr Sprod: cartoons by George Napier Sprod.
Leichhardt's Expeditioners : in the Australian Wilderness 1844-1845.
When I Survey the Wondrous Cross. Sydney's King's Cross ancient and modern.
The Australian and Californian Gold Discoveries, and their probable consequences.
The Australian Journal of William Strutt, A.R.A. 1850-1862.
Victoria the Golden: scenes, sketches and jottings from nature. Melbourne, Victoria, 1850-1862.
Two Expeditions into the Interior of Southern Australia, during the years 1828, 1829, 1830, and 1831: with observations on the soil, climate and general resources of the colony of New South Wales.
Four Letters from Charles Sturt, on a proposed exploration of the Australian continent, addressed to Lord Stanley during 1843 & 1844.
Proceedings of an Expedition into the interior of New Holland in 1829 and 1830.
An Expedition into the Northwestern Interior of New South Wales 1828.
The Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser. A facsimile reproduction of Volumes I to IX, 1803-1811.
Publisher: Sydney, Public Library of NSW & Angus and Robertson / Roebuck: 1963-73.
The Sydney Herald. A facsimile reproduction of the first thirty-eight issues from April 18, 1831 to January 2, 1832.
The Journal of Ensign Best 1837-1843.
By: TAYLOR, Nancy M. (ed).


So yesterday dh weeded my rhubarb and we decided that we'd make some rhubarb jam this morning. Well that didn't pan out as someone had made off with about half of my rhubarb plants, I'm still pissed off about this. There have been a LOT of things disappearing out of our lawn of late, pots, flowers, grapevines and now my rhubarb.


I'll tell you another thing I've lost patience for: whining about "bad luck" and "tough breaks" when people are accepting defeat in other areas of life. I don't think most people realize how they sabotage themselves on a larger scale when they accept something bad in life "because that's the way it is." It's sad, because you don't realize how those little things keep you in places you don't want to be and, worse yet, prevent you from achieving victory in your life. It's counter-productive, it's lazy, and at it's very root, it's wrong, plain and simple. Really, how can you expect to achieve victory in the big matters if you refuse to conquer the pesky irritants that drag you down every day?
It confounds me how people refuse to correctly deal with toxic relationships, bad habits, and manageable health situations and then not understand why their life is a mess. Saying you don't want to seek treatment or take medication for fear of "stigma" or addiction to pills to get through your day is actually telling the universe that you want to suffer and be sick. Refusing to kick an addiction or an unhealthy habit because "it's not that big of a deal, and besides, so many other people are doing it," is telling the universe that you don't value your life and want to hasten your demise through a long, drawn out medical battle that will steal years you could be enjoying. Saying you don't want to terminate a bad relationship because "they need me and maybe my good influence can save them" is telling the universe that you want to be mistreated and abused. Refusing to do the right thing or to take the time to do things the best you can "because I don't have time for that" is painting a bullseye on you for the devil to take his best shot – and believe me, he always takes that challenge.
Stop fooling yourself into believing that you've being prudent, gracious, or forgiving – just tell the truth and say that you don't want to fact the problem, so you're making excuses and running. When you say "that's just me," you're inviting defeat into every area of your life. When you say "oh, that's just them. That's just how Jack/Jane is," then you're cheating them and sentencing them to further defeat when in fact, standing up to them could very well save them. Accepting bad things is nothing more than an excuse to stay settled in a comfortable rut, and guaranteeing that the world will shovel the dirt over you when it's ready to bury you. What you allow not only continues, but compounds.
I've heard a lot of people telling me that I expect too much out of life, myself, and other people. I've been told I'm too hard on myself and others. I've been railed as an idealist with no concept for the realities of life. I've been told my ideas are too post-modern. Do you know where every one of these people are? Exactly in the same place they were when they said those things five, ten, or fifteen years ago, which happens to be in my past, because I've moved on. They're buried in their comfort and I've moved on multiple times in come cases because I'm not afraid to ask the hard questions, make the best of what I had, take advantage of opportunities, correct wrongs, set boundaries about what I will and won't allow in my day to day life, and embrace change. They accepted excuses and remained. I didn't, and built a bigger life. By all rights, I have no right to be where I am, according to these people. What separates me from them is the audacity to actually do what they said shouldn't or couldn't be done.
It's time to chuck the excuses and accept this reality: you can't win the war when you refuse to fight any battles. How are you going to run a company when you allow one person to run all over you? How are you going to get well if you don't do what your doctor says to do? How can you enjoy your retirement when you won't work now? How can you write the novel, start the project, take on the hobby, or go on your mission when you crash out in front of the television every night because you're "tired and not feeling it." How do you plan to get the promotion, the nomination, the title, the respect, the award, or the friends if you're angry, bitter, jealous, and walking around with a two-ton chip on your shoulder? If you don't reap it, you can't sow it. And you usually get back more than you invest, whether it's seed or whirlwind. That can be encouraging or disturbing, depending on what you're allowing in your life right now.
Folks, there's no excuse for accepting less than the best in your life. Don't shoot yourself in the foot and then scream because you're hurt and bleeding. Goodness sake, how many times have I told you to read The Secret? And if you say "I don't do that new age stuff," then read Me and My Big Mouth, by Joyce Meyer. Same message surrounded by scripture, and written ten years earlier. We live in an age of information, and the secrets to making the best of life aren't secrets anymore. Take advantage of this age of information and use it to make a better life.


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What's up with this guy? Are the missiles coming through? Is the world already scared of his threats? Kim Jong-un, I got one advice for you, wear your mustache! If you have to scare everyone, do it! Look at Adolf Hitler, he's got that style, Bro! Or wear a Mexican hat! Carry your nuclear missiles inside a guitar case like Antonio Banderas!
You know, with your round face, you really look like a pancake! Do we have to fear you? We think about providing you yeast to help you grow! Maybe if you shave your head and wear T-shirt, you would look like a fetus.
Stop threatening people! There is God who protects us. Your nuclear missiles are but firecrackers, boy! One earthquake with tsunami would blow up your nuclear facilities. You are building them for your own destruction! Do not let military hardware or technology feed your arrogance. Do not let people say to you, "This boy is on fire!"
Russia's Vladimir Putin showed us his Judo skills and we believe him. America's Barack Obama let us hear his Jive Talking and we have confidence in him. Now I show you my Testicles Burning, I hope it is sufficient for you to develop faith in God! (See KUNG KAILANGAN MO AKO at Links Section).