Key discoveries about breast cancer, Parkinson's disease and the body's handling of defective proteins have earned prestigious medical awards for five scientists.
The Albert and Mary Lasker Foundation announced the winners Monday. Each prize includes a $250,000 honorarium. The awards will be presented Sept. 19 in New York.
The Lasker award for clinical medical research will be shared by Drs. Mahlon DeLong of Emory University in Atlanta and Alim Louis Benabid of Joseph Fourier University in Grenoble, France, for developing a surgical treatment for Parkinson's disease. In work that began in the late 1960s, DeLong traced Parkinson symptoms to overactivity in a specific part of the brain. Benabid, following up on that research independently, showed in 1995 that stimulating this area with a surgically implanted electrode could ease some Parkinson symptoms.
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved that approach for treating advanced Parkinson's disease in 2002. More than 100,000 people worldwide have received the therapy, the Lasker foundation said.
The award for special achievement in medical science will go to Mary-Claire King of the University of Washington in Seattle. In 1990, King identified a region of human DNA that contains the BRCA1 gene, which gives a heightened risk of developing breast cancer if mutated. That led to the isolation of the gene itself, paving the way for identifying women who've inherited a mutated version so they can be monitored and counseled.
King also came up with a way to screen women for a number of other genes that predispose women to breast or ovarian cancer, or both. She also used her genetic expertise to help find children in Argentina who'd been kidnapped as infants or born while their mothers were in prison during the military regime of the late 1970s and early 1980s. Her work has also been used to help identify victims of mass disasters and soldiers who were missing in action.
The Lasker award for basic medical research will be shared by Peter Walter of the University of California, San Francisco, and Kazutoshi Mori of Kyoto University in Japan. They made key discoveries about how cells detect and deal with their proteins that have not been folded correctly, which can make them harmful. The research has shed light on certain inherited diseases, including cystic fibrosis, the foundation said.
The Lasker foundation was established in 1942. Albert Lasker was an advertising executive who died in 1952. His wife Mary was a longtime champion of medical research before her death in 1994.


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Players – Will Abbas Mustan deliver in their Thriller Style?
Suraj Bangera / January 3, 2012
So 2011 comes to an end, near about 107 films were released in 2011, that includes several critically and commercially successful films. Khans delivered us the most brainless blockbusters of all time and on the other side was disappointment as some of the anticipated films didn't live up to expectations. Nevertheless we have entered 2012 where a lot of interesting films are lined up for release. Some of the films I am really looking forward to in 2012 are Shanghai, Kahaani, Agent Vinod, Ishaqzaade, Rock The Shaadi, Talaash, Jannat 2, Paan Singh Tomar, Barfee, Ek Tha Tiger etc.
Let's have a look at the first big release of 2012, Abbas Mustan's Players (I know not many are interested here even to talk about this film). It's an official remake of a successful film "The Italian Job", that deals with a gold heist where a group of people come together to pull off an impossible task. Some quick questions that came to my mind about Players like-those who have watched The Italian Job, will they will be still interested in watching Players? Is there any solid reason to watch Players even though we have already seen the original film? And the answers for me was a big NO.
Players is a multistarrer film in Abbas Mustan thriller style and with not so interesting starcast comprising of Abhishek Bachchan, Bipasha Basu, Sonam Kapoor, Neil Nitin Mukesh and Bobby Deol. Somewhere it doesn't interest me to watch these actors as compared to their Hollywood counterparts in the original. By the way this is the first time Abbas Mustan have accepted of making an remake, all of their earlier films were mostly inspired (read copied) works.
The film's trailer and posters states Players a Abbas Mustan thriller style film. "Ye Abbas Mustan thriller style film kya hai bhai?". Now what exactly is a Abbas Mustan thriller style film. The Abbas Mustan Duo are renowned for taking inspiration from hollywood films and presenting them in a stylish way to Indian audiences. They mostly rely on same formula for their plots its usually about murder / money / jealousy / revenge laced with glamorous foreign locations, stylishly shot songs. Be it with Baazigar, Badshah, Ajnabee, Humraaz, Aitraaz they have always made the desi versions of Hollywood flicks.
Their last release Race was about double crossing games in South Africa. Laced with cheap twists after twists (I think they should have named the film 'Twist' instead of Race). I don't know about others but while watching it I got completely irritated at a time thinking ab bas bhi karo. Whatever I say despite of that Race was a hit. Abbas Mustan love to keep their audience guessing the plot till the last minute with twists and thrills in the plot. This is what their Thriller Style is actually and that works well most of the times. After Race Abbas bhai and Mustan bhai are in good form.
This time for Players they played it safe as they got rights of a successful film and attempted it in an Indianised way. What I meant by played safe means for the first time they brought rights of a film and then made it, and not like their earlier films which were exact copies of Hollywood flicks. I can't understand why no one sues them for plagiarism?
Players does not looks much promising and with not so interesting starcast, with the plot already known to us. One more major disappointment with Players is its music. Pritam's music doesn't work. None of the songs are a chartbuster or even familiar. Usually in bollywood atleast having hit songs can attract audiences to cinema halls. With not much hype surrounding Players (Except Bipasha brought some publicity to film with her bikini skills) we will have to wait and watch what masala Abbas Mustan has served to keep the audience still interested in the film despite having watched The Italian Job. Going by the trailers it seems that they have made it fast paced stylish thriller and shot on exotic locations. I'm going with least expectations, come on Abbas bhai and Mustan bhai surprise us.
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so what is this article about?
Ajay Nair says:
At first I thought MAM is really going one up on Taran Adarsh with regards to his early bird reviews as Don 2 was well ahead before most Indian websites and this one.
Welcome to MAM and Players seems a Flopiya re-union Part 3, with the first two being Fight Club & Speed. Nevertheless will be watching it on Friday night and its a refreshing read…Cheers…

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Wars among the Greek poli were common in the fifth century before the Common Era, but the city-states united to defend themselves against Persia, the most powerful empire in the world at that time. The victorious Greeks developed a sense of confidence that led to an era we now call the Classical Age of Greece.
The Persian Empire conquered Ionia. Ionia is east of the Greek peninsula in Asia Minor, land that is now part of the modern nation of Turkey. In 499BCE, Athens sent its army to aid an Ionian rebellion against the Persians.
Athens used a battle formation called a phalanx. In a phalanx, heavily armed soldiers held overlapping shields that protected the combatants on either side. The phalanx required soldiers to depend on one another for their safety, so Athenian warriors fought as a unit instead of as individuals. The well-trained Athenian phalanx helped repel the Persians from Ionian land.
King Darius of Persia swore revenge on Athens. In 490BCE, Persian ships carried about 20,000 warriors to Marathon, a flat plain twenty-six miles from Athens. The Persians planned to use Marathon as a base from which to attack, but a spy alerted Athens. The Athenian army was outnumbered by about two to one, but they marched through the night to make a surprise attack on the Persian forces at dawn. The frightened Persians fled to their ships and retreated from Greece.
A messenger named Pheidippides ran to Athens without stopping to announce Athens' surprise victory at Marathon, but the runner died from exhaustion shortly after gasping out his news. A modern marathon is a footrace that is named in honor of Pheidippides' run. Modern marathons are exactly 26 miles, 385 yards, exactly the distance Pheidippides is believed to have run.
Ten years after the Persian retreat at Marathon, Darius' son, Xerxes, prepared for another invasion of Greece. Xerxes sent about 200,000 soldiers and 800 ships to fight the Greeks at the Battle of Salamis in 460BCE. The Persian king watched from a mountaintop as the Greeks managed to destroy the Persian fleet. Xerxes was so enraged by Persia's loss that he beheaded the few Persian captains who were able to escape the wrath of the Greek armies.
Athens had twice resisted the most powerful empire in the world, but Athens was certain that Persia would make another attempt to conquer Greece. Athens asked all of the Greek poli to meet on the island of Delios where the poli formed an alliance known as the Delian League. Each member of the Delian League contributed soldiers, ships and money to fight the Persians.
The Delian League used its powers first to punish the poli that supported Persia in the past. Then, the combined forces of the league conquered the remaining Persian territories in Ionia. The united Greeks no longer feared the Persians because the Greeks had enough military power to fend off the powerful empire in the world.
Historians call the period the followed the Greek victories over the Persians the Classical Age of Greece. During the classical age, artists, poets, sculptors and architects developed a culture that was unique to Greece. Sparta and Athens were the two most powerful poli of the Classical Age. Sparta was a disciplined military power that discouraged traveling and visitors. Athens was a port city whose merchant ships traveled throughout the Mediterranean Sea. In time, the rivalry between Sparta and Athens would lead to the end of the Classical Era.
View a Powerpoint presentation of this lesson. Listen as Mr. Dowling reads this lesson.
The Greeks destroyed the Persian fleet in battle of Salamis in 460BCE.
Ionia is east of the Greek peninsula on land that is part of the present-day nation of Turkey.
The Athenian soldiers used a battle formation called a phalanx to defeat the powerful Persian Empire.
Herotodus wrote that Xerxes ordered the sea to be whipped by his soldiers when a storm kept the Persian emperor's navy from crossing the Hellespont.
Athens sent its army to aid an Ionian rebellion against the Persians.


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Virgil Abolh Honored With Own Day In Hometown
FLORENCE, ITALY - JUNE 13: Virgil Abloh attends the CR Runway x LuisaViaRoma Event during Pitti Immagine Uomo 96 on June 13, 2019 in Florence, Italy. (Photo by Claudio Lavenia/Getty Images for LuisaViaRoma)
Virgil Abolh is being honored with his own day in his hometown of Rockford, Illinois.
A rep for the City of Rockford, IL told TMZ that they are making Wednesday, Dec. 1, Virgil Abolh Day. The day has no particular significance to the designer other than that the city wanted to honor him as soon as possible.
The rep told the outlet that Mayor McNamara will make the official announcement Wednesday (Nov. 30). Rockford wants to honor Virgil and his pronounced influence on the community, especially the youth.
Virgil's family has been notified and is excited about the news but they have not confirmed whether they will attend the ceremony per the outlet.
As we previously reported, Virgil died Sunday after his private battle with cancer. His passing sparked an outpour of tributes from fans and celebrities. He was 41.


Flavasum participated in London's 'Peace Week' in 2009 by funding, with Haringey Council, a free public performance of 'Boy X' on Thursday 24 September at Jacksons Lane in Highgate, north London. It was well attended and the play received a good response. This was one of very few performances outside of schools.
Haringey's 'Peace Week' organisers also funded performances of 'Boy X' in two schools that week: Hornsey School for Girls, and Park View Academy.


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Q: laravel sql group this is how i fetch my data;
$order_piece = CollectionOrder::select('collection_order.id', 'collection_color.color_name', 'collection_color_size_barcode.size', 'collection_color_size_barcode.id as ccsb_id', DB::raw('SUM(order_piece.piece) As piece'))
        ->join('order_piece', 'order_piece.order_id', '=', 'collection_order.id')
        ->join('collection_color', 'collection_color.id', '=', 'collection_order.collection_color_id')
        ->join('collection_color_size_barcode', 'collection_color_size_barcode.id', '=', 'order_piece.collection_color_size_barcode_id')
        ->where('collection_order.cut_id', $request->cut_id)
        ->groupBY('collection_color_size_barcode.size')
        ->groupBY('collection_order.collection_color_id')
        ->get();

blade code;

          size
          piece

    @foreach($order_piece as $op)

           {{$op->size}}
           {{$op->piece}}

    @endforeach

the data is like this;

[{"id":12,"color_name":"\u00c7ok Renkli","size":"34","ccsb_id":29,"piece":"82"},{"id":11,"color_name":"K\u0131rm\u0131z\u0131","size":"34","ccsb_id":24,"piece":"82"},{"id":13,"color_name":"\u00c7ok Renkli","size":"36","ccsb_id":30,"piece":"123"},{"id":10,"color_name":"K\u0131rm\u0131z\u0131","size":"36","ccsb_id":25,"piece":"123"},{"id":13,"color_name":"\u00c7ok Renkli","size":"38","ccsb_id":31,"piece":"123"},{"id":10,"color_name":"K\u0131rm\u0131z\u0131","size":"38","ccsb_id":26,"piece":"123"},{"id":12,"color_name":"\u00c7ok Renkli","size":"40","ccsb_id":32,"piece":"82"},{"id":11,"color_name":"K\u0131rm\u0131z\u0131","size":"40","ccsb_id":27,"piece":"82"},{"id":12,"color_name":"\u00c7ok Renkli","size":"42","ccsb_id":33,"piece":"41"},{"id":11,"color_name":"K\u0131rm\u0131z\u0131","size":"42","ccsb_id":28,"piece":"41"}]

I want to list this data by color. but it didn't occur to me. I want to list the size of each color regularly. like the example in the picture, can you help?

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Background: Accurate estimates of body segment inertia parameters (BSIP) are important for many biomechanical analyses. BSIP have been estimated using techniques such as those based on proportional scaling, geometric modeling and medical imaging techniques. However, these methods are limited by being either, for example, not specific to the individual, time consuming, hard to access, or subject to ethical constraints. Laser scanning methods have also been used to obtain BSIP but the equipment required is often very expensive. Recently, Wicke and Dumas (2010, Journal of Applied Biomechanics, 26, 26–31) suggested that structured light scanning techniques would be suitable for obtaining individual specific BSIP. Microsoft recently released a peripheral capable of structured light scanning – costing *£100 – offering the possibility of obtaining individual specific estimate of BSIP using commodity hardware.
Special issue containing abstracts from BASES Conference 2011.


For ShoutMeLoud, I use Facebook as a social Media station to connect with Shouters. To assist me with this procedure, I use various Facebook programs and apps.
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Freedom - Immortality - Social Life
[ Lecture: S-3442: 30th November, 1917 | Bern | GA0072 | Anonymous ]
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Spiritual-Scientific Results about the Ideas of Immortality and the Social Life
Bern, 30 November 1917
Somebody who hears something about anthroposophy forms an opinion very often from this or that which he hears about the matter, that he has to deal with a sect or something similar. In particular since the building has been tackled in Dornach, one has considered this building and spiritual science stereotypically as a sectarian movement. It is hard to cope with such prejudices. I would almost like to say, the more one combats them, with the bigger fierceness they appear and the more they find belief.
Today I would only like to note that the bases of spiritual science do not have anything to do with a sectarian trend or purpose. This spiritual science has not developed from any religious impulse, but it takes the point of view that that which it intends is a necessary attempt of our time, just considering the great achievements of scientific thinking. If one proves the scientific thinking proves more precisely, it seems to be incapable to tackle the riddles of humanity concerning the area of the spirit. A historical necessity is that beside these natural sciences with the same seriousness spiritual-scientific research places itself in the recent time.
Well, I only wanted to point to the fact that someone who pursues the origin of the spiritual-scientific attempts detects that it has originated in straight development from demands that the really understood natural sciences themselves put. However, going more into such requirement, as we have discussed it the day before yesterday here, it becomes apparent that this scientific direction must be insufficient by that with which it has become great just for the questions of the moral-social life I want to treat today.
One often hears from this or that side: that what natural sciences have performed must be also made fruitful for the consideration of the moral ideas.
I would like to take my starting point from something that one hears very often. Today the judgement of the human beings is challenged by the tragic, catastrophic events that concern the whole humanity in manifold way. The one needs, because of his position and occupation, to form an opinion about this or that what the sad events bring; the other will do it out of the sympathy with the destiny of the whole humanity. Just from these drastic events, it became necessary to some people to form an opinion about the social life of humanity.
There one hears very often: what can one think about this and that? How has one to judge these or those things under the influence of the today's sad events? Then one hears as answer: history teaches this and that. History is, in the end, nothing but the enumeration of that what the human beings believe to know about the course of events of the social life up to now. History is understandably that for many people from which they want to form their opinion.
Someone who experiences the events of our time with heart and head has to say to himself that these events do not have that effect on many people that they have to learn something quite new that they need in many respects not to stop at the opinions which they had four, five years ago.
Someone who stands wholeheartedly in these events has to retrain. This is maybe just one of the saddest symptoms that most people have not yet realised that they must retrain, although these sad events take place for so long time that they believe that they can just still judge certain things as well as four or five years ago. Just the signs of the times could teach much in this respect.
I would like to bring in an example of our time and another of the past. Those who deal with contemporary history know that so-called experts believed to be able to forecast when this war broke out that it could last no longer than for four to six months on account of the general economic and social conditions.
In which way the events themselves have disproved such an apparently appropriate judgement! However, one is not yet inclined to say to himself, such appropriate judgements have been disproved, and one has to retrain. In such things, one has to retrain. — One must not simply stop at the prejudice that history teaches this and that. History has taught that the war could last no longer than for four to six months; but reality has taught how little history is applicable to reality!
Another example is: in 1789, Schiller (1759-1805) as professor of history held his inaugural speech What Is and to What Purpose Does One Study Universal History?. In this speech, he said the following: the European community of states seems to have changed into a big family; the housemates may be hostile to each other, but they do no longer tear each other to pieces as I hope. — Somebody pronounced that sentence who attempted to penetrate with ingenuity into that what history teaches. He said this, briefly before the French Revolution broke out with everything that it had as result.
Well, if one even envisages longer periods which followed — how does Schiller's quotation look? Something has to follow from that what today the signs of the times teach. This is that one learns something really from them.
What forms the basis of the sentence that history teaches this? — Above all, one has to be clear in his mind that one cannot judge life after outer symptoms. Spiritual science just wants this: penetrating away from the surface into the deeper undergrounds of life. The scientific way of thinking has originated from the habitual ways of thinking of the last centuries.
This is the expression of these impulses of thought. Not only the scientific thinking, but any thinking of humanity was involved in these habitual ways of thinking, so that these habitual ways of thinking work beneficially not only in natural sciences, but that they have also to work in other areas of life. One may say, one has taken great pains to bring also that what has made natural sciences great, as line of thought into other areas of the human life. Today the sociological moral impulses should mainly occupy us. Nevertheless, the impulses have worked different there. That who can pursue the contemporary history in deeper sense knows how intimately the effects of those impulses are associated with the catastrophic events in which we live today.
Excellent thinkers have attempted to transfer the scientific way of thinking to the sociological field. I would like to mention one example of many. The great English philosopher Herbert Spencer (1820-1901) tried to apply biological concepts to the social living together. The concept of development has been applied to everything. Rightly, it has been applied also to the life of human beings.
Herbert Spencer said, one realises development in the life of the animals, of the human being; the single living being originates from the zygote and then forms the so-called ectoderm, mesoderm, and endoderm. The different organs develop from these three cell layers. Spencer now tries to apply this way of grasping a scientific process to the historical-social life, too. He transfers all those organic systems that belong to the ectoderm to the work of those human beings who belong to the military class; the human beings of the working class develop from the social endoderm, and those human beings who merchandise develop from the mesoderm. Then it is only logical if the great philosopher Spencer says, because from the ectoderm the nervous system and the brain develop, the best develops from the social ectoderm. — Of course, I will not defer to this hawkish view of the philosopher Spencer; if he says, the ruling circles of any state would have to arise necessarily from the military class because, otherwise, the state would have no nervous system, no head system.
This only as an example of directly transferring the scientific way of thinking to the social-historical life.
Someone who has a feeling for such things will realise that all these attempts show only that one cannot at all approach that which is effective in the social life with such scientific mental pictures. Why is that?
I have now to take my starting point from something that is far away and then to lead our considerations to the moral-social field. Spiritual science has just to fetch many a thing that is far away.
I would like to point out at first that people are little inclined to involve the whole life in their knowledge. What is involved in their knowledge is the wake day life. From the spiritual-scientific viewpoint one has to stress that the whole life consists of that which the human being experiences in the wake day life, and of that which positions itself in this life during sleep and dream, in which chaotic pictures surge up and down. One has formed the strangest views concerning the scientific images of sleeping and dreaming. It would be very interesting once to go into that, too. Nevertheless, I must be brief concerning these things that I would like to adduce briefly. Above all one has rather strange mental pictures of sleep. I have to bring this to your attention.
Today one is also convinced as a scientist that sleep originates from tiredness that the human being is just tired and then sleep has to come. Everybody can convince himself of the opposite if he observes a pensioner who anyhow visits a concert or a talk and falls asleep after few minutes that he does not at all fall asleep because of tiredness, but because there quite different reasons must exist.
Someone who more exactly investigates these things notices that tiredness originates more likely by sleep than sleep by tiredness. Sleeping and waking are a rhythm of life; they must alternate because one is as necessary as the other is.
I would not like to characterise this life rhythm further; but it is important that spiritual science has really to pursue this other side, the sleep with the dreams, and on the other side to note that sleep and dream extend more in the human life than one normally assumes.
Spiritual science does not at all want to take over old superstitious prejudices, for example, that dreams have any prophetic meaning for something future. However, in such old superstition a reasonable core is contained sometimes. However, one has to understand it not in such a way as one normally considers it. Recently I have pointed out in a cycle of talks how spiritual science has to envisage the problem of sleep, of dream. Against that, one has argued from psychoanalytic side that spiritual science speaks of a certain higher knowledge that one can probably compare concerning its strength with the dream images present in the consciousness that, however, psychoanalysis does the proper thing in this respect. Since it uses the dreams for investigating the human nature only in such a way that it regards the dreams, the so-called subconsciousness, only as symbolic; while , for example, I as a representative of spiritual science regard that what appears, otherwise, in the subconsciousness as real.
This is a big misunderstanding. Since it will occur to no spiritual scientist to regard the immediate contents of the dream even as symbolic. Spiritual science considers the contents of the dream not as reality, but it even shows that the contents of the dream do not have any real meaning. Against it, it says, what lives in the dream what is active in the dream, is associated with the everlasting essence of the human being.
If the human being works in the dream — if one may call it work —, a surplus of his usual consciousness works in the dream, that surplus which proves to be coherent with the everlasting essence of the human being that enters into the spiritual life after death. What lives in the dream is also that which works into our future. However, the images that the human being experiences in dream have nothing to do with that reality forming the basis of dreams.
Hence, the spiritual researcher never considers the dream in such a way that he disregards the following: if anybody dreams anything, a spiritual fact forms the basis of the dream, but the dream images may be quite different. A human being can experience the same as another in dream; but he can tell the dream quite different because his dream images have quite different meaning. What is important of the dream to the spiritual researcher? Not the dream images as those — whether one grasps them in their reality or in their symbolism — but the inner drama of the dream: how an image follows the other whether an image replaces the next, so that there is something relaxing or something frightening and the like. This inner subconscious drama makes known itself to the usual consciousness only while the subconscious experience dresses in the memories of the everyday life. That dresses in images what works there in his subconsciousness as the soul drama.
The same experience can appear in hundreds of different images. Hence, someone who gets to know a dream as a spiritual researcher knows that he does not see any contents, but the way in which the images surge up and down. In that are the essentials.
I mention this because I have to say in the context with it that — if with soul exercises the human being can behold his everlasting essence — he recognises what is real in sleep and dream. These things are processes of consciousness, and they have to be also recognised within the consciousness. The spiritual researcher who explores the consciousness in such a way, as I have given it the day before yesterday, understands that that which is so often misjudged in the recent time which no scientific way of thinking can understand is just confirmed by such psycho-physiologists like Ziehen (Theodor Z., 1862-1950) and others: the fact that the human being can have the ego-experience only because he is fixed in the life rhythm of waking and sleeping.
If one learns to recognise the soul, one also learns to recognise that the human being knows of his ego only because he is not always awake between birth and death. Imagine hypothetically the wake life extended to the whole human life between birth and death, that one could never sleep: then one would never have that abutment by which the ego becomes aware of itself in time. Because one can exchange the day consciousness with a consciousness between falling asleep and awakening that distinguishes nothing because it is vague, one has his ego-consciousness. The human being would not learn to say to himself "I" if he were not fixed in the rhythm of sleeping and waking.
It is strange how little one is inclined to go into such things. The great aesthetician Friedrich Theodor Vischer (1807-1887) got involved with a consideration of dreams. He criticised the interesting book about dream imagination by Johannes Volkelt (1848-1930) and wrote a treatise about it. There one was inclined swiftly to call him a spiritist, although he did not get involved with such things in the wrongly mystic sense. Well, what does one not do if one wants to harm a human being? However, Vischer knew that people might say long, what expresses itself in the dreams is fantastic stuff. — Indeed, it is a fantastic stuff, but in it lives the everlasting essence of the human being. If the human being is not ready to develop mental pictures of such strength with his beholding consciousness as the dream has it only, then he cannot at all behold into the everlasting of the human soul. If anyone wants to do that, he must be able to raise that what works in the dream involuntarily into the free consciousness.
Nevertheless, Vischer brought something to our attention in very interesting way that casts intense light on the human life. He showed carefully that someone who cannot understand the dream properly does also not properly understand the human affects, passions and feelings generally. Why is that? Since Vischer completely found the proper thing! Just as the soul is active in the dream, save that it lives it up in images which are memories of life, the soul is during the wake day life active in the feelings, affects, and passions. We dream in them. Somebody who can really pursue the soul life knows: the same degree of intensity and the same quality of the soul life that expresses itself in the dream expresses itself during the wake day life in all human feelings. Spiritual research shows just because it really observes the soul with its methods that the human being has his wake day life only for the outer sensory observation and imagining.
Only concerning the sense perception and imagining, we are awake, while the dream penetrates into the wake day life, so that the emotional impulses are dreamt. We keep on dreaming while we are awake and, above all, we keep on sleeping while we are awake.
We dream in our feelings while being awake. We are not more aware of that which lives in our will in our wake day consciousness than the vague sleeping consciousness is. Just, therefore, philosophers have always argued whether the will can be free or not because they cannot look into the soul activities with the usual consciousness, even if they are ever so enlightened philosophers, if the soul expresses itself in the will just as little as they look into that what the soul experiences during the deep dreamless sleep. Since the will life is not only dreamt away, it is overslept in the usual consciousness.
We do not know more about any action that we commit than what reaches from the sense perception to imagining. You can convince yourselves of the fact that scientifically thoroughly thinking psycho-physiologists have already come on this thing. Study the very significant book about psychology by Theodor Ziehen: the fact that one has to stop at the mental picture with the will impulse, and that one cannot advance farther. Then only the ready action appears which enters into the imagining again. What is between the ready action and the mental picture is dived in darkness like that which the human being has experienced between falling asleep and awakening if no dream is there.
Thus, we dream and keep on sleeping during our wake day life. The emotional impulses arise from our dream life that penetrates the waking state, our will impulses arise from our sleeping life that penetrates the wake state. That which expresses itself in the social life, in history arises from our dream life and sleeping life.
However, if one investigates these things, one needs cognitive faculties which activate the soul quite different from the usual consciousness is able to do, and which enables someone to behold the soul life as such with the soul.
I would also like to insert something today that the consciousness has to do with itself to get to the view of these things. Since the misunderstanding emerges repeatedly that the spiritual researcher does not prove his things. He proves them by the fact that he shows what the soul accomplishes to get to the view of these things. However, one cannot get to the view of the things if one applies the usual consciousness only.
Nevertheless, I would like to emphasise one thing that can be essential just for this consideration: the way of imagining which is fully justified for the scientific thoughts must become different if the human being wants to envisage what I have said now and will still say. One cannot grasp that with such a formed thinking as one applies it rightly in the usual day life. There one does not reach down, for example, to the areas in which the impulses of the social, moral, juridical, ethical life are. One needs concepts there that are much more intensely related to reality than the scientific concepts are. These distinguish themselves just by the fact that they do not at all depend on immersing in the object, in the objectivity. With these concepts, one cannot penetrate into spiritual science.
For that, it is necessary that the concepts grow together with life that they immerse in life, so that they have such experience in themselves as it proceeds in the things inside. One can attain this only while one detaches himself from the way in which one is normally related with his mental pictures to the things. However, rightly this usual consciousness has extended over the whole view of nature because only thereby the great progress of natural sciences can be reached.
If the human being enters into the spiritual-scientific consideration, his mental pictures become something else. If one looks at a tree from four sides, takes a photo from four sides, these four sides are completely different from each other and, nevertheless, you will always have the same tree. From one photograph, you cannot see how the tree is real.
In the usual life, the human being is pleased if he has one concept as a copy of any process or any being if he can pronounce a physical law purely. In spiritual science, one has to apply concepts like these photographs from four sides. One can never get a mental picture of a being or a fact of the real spiritual world if one forms one concept only. You have to form your concepts in such a way that they envisage the thing from different sides if possible, although this word is meant only symbolically. In the outer life, the human beings are pantheists, monadists, or monists or some other "ists." One believes to investigate something of reality with such a mental picture so surely. The spiritual researcher knows that that is not possible. If it concerns the spiritual area, it is not possible that you do research pantheistically, that you look at the tree only from one side. You have to form your concepts internally versatile.
However, thereby you attain the possibility to immerse really in the full life. Thereby you become realistic in your concepts as I have shown in my book The Riddle of Man. You have to become more and more realistic in your concepts. The spiritual researcher aims at this. I would like to clarify this with an example.
The naturalist is completely right if he remains with his concepts in the sphere of the usual consciousness. He will just reach something significant in his field if he takes these concepts in such a way as the usual consciousness takes them. Since there they are appropriate to grasp the sense-perceptible facts. However, if then the naturalist wants to extend these concepts beyond the sense-perceptible facts, and then he must be aware that he does no longer remain in reality.
In this context, the following example is interesting. The physicist Dewar (James D., 1842-1923) has described from that what the researcher can observe today as processes, how the final state of the earth will be after millions of years. One can develop views even as a good physicist how in the course of short periods certain relations change and then he makes a projection how after millions of years the thing looks. There the professor describes in a very interesting way that then a time may come where, for example, the milk will be solid. — I do not know how the milk will originate; this is another thing! — He describes that one coats the walls of a room with the milk protein; the milk will be such solid. Indeed, then it will be colder many hundred degrees than now. All these things are thought with great scientific astuteness, and nothing at all is to be argued against such hypotheses on scientific basis.
The spiritual researcher conceives another idea straight away because he thinks vividly, really and not in the abstract. One can take the example of a human being of fourteen years as he has changed up to the eighteenth year, and then assemble these small changes after the method of Dewar and calculate how this human organism has to be after 300 years. It is completely the same method. However, the human being does no longer live after 300 years as a physical human being. Dewar's approach is quite right, makes use of all scientific-physical chicanes. One must not consider it as wrong, but it is not realistic, does not penetrate into the real. One could also start from the changes that the human organism experiences and then ask himself, how was this 300 years ago? One will get out something very nice — but the human being did not live 300 years ago. Nevertheless, that who forms theories forms his examples after this pattern.
The fundamental idea of the Kant-Laplace theory of the primeval nebula is a wrongful thought for the spiritual researcher because the earth did not exist in the time for which the Kant-Laplace theory was established; the solar system did not exist. I have brought in this only as an example that mental pictures may be quite right, may be derived from correct bases that, nevertheless, they are not be realistic.
The spiritual researcher reaches this just with his exercises to get to realistic mental pictures with which he grasps that what one can only grasp if one immerses in reality. By such immersing one learns to recognise how the ego would be in the usual consciousness if the human being could not sleep. Just the ego-consciousness would not exist at all if the human being did not live in the temporal rhythm of sleeping and waking. One also learns to recognise by immediate view that the emotional qualities are dreamt, actually, as the will qualities are slept, actually.
However, I would now still like to touch the other side of the human consciousness briefly. What happens, if with the mentioned inner processes the human being really raises that into his consciousness what remains, otherwise, always in his subconscious what is dreamt away what is overslept If he becomes aware of that, then the human being gets to know really, for example, that what he oversleeps otherwise in his will impulses. Nevertheless, as one learns to recognise that the ego-consciousness is dependent on the sleeping life, one learns to recognise, in another way, by raising the will life into the consciousness that one would have another consciousness if one did not oversleep the will life, it is that consciousness which really the spiritual researcher develops in a way. That which wills in us and in certain respect also that which corresponds to our feeling which lives in the emotional impulses, this would work if the human being faced it like his imagining life, on him like a second person whom he has in himself. The human being would walk around with a second human being.
One may say: the developmental plan full of wisdom has arranged that the uniform consciousness is enabled which the human being needs for his life between birth and death because the will life is pushed down into sleep, and the human being is not split into two because he has to face the other constantly who wills, actually, in him. On the other side, this other human being is connected with the everlasting essence of the human being.
Hence if the spiritual researcher is really successful in bringing up the will life and the emotional life into consciousness if he strengthens his inner activity so that he cannot only enliven the sensory life and the imagining life, but also the feeling life and willing life, the world is complemented with the other side, with the spiritual side;. Then the human being experiences as a reality that we are separated from those souls that have lost their bodies by death only by our sensory life and by our imagining life. When we consciously enter into our feeling life and willing life, we enter into the same region where the dead live.
Spiritual science builds a bridge between the living souls and the dead souls in quite exact way. However, the soul life must be transformed by a quite exact approach. If in this area into which the human being enters real percepts should be done — dreams appear involuntarily — if the human being wants to bring something into his consciousness that really comes from the area of the dead, then he must face the objects in the spiritual world with arbitrary but higher mental pictures than those of the wake day consciousness are as one faces, otherwise, the objects of the sense-perceptible world. In the usual dream one cannot distinguish that what induces us to imagine and ourselves. This distinction exists if the spiritual researcher approaches the realm of the dead.
Hence, dreams that arise involuntarily have always to be taken with a grain of salt, even if they apparently bring messages from any supersensible world. The spiritual researcher can only acknowledge that as his real observation, which he causes with full arbitrariness. Hence, if the researcher wants to contact any soul that is maybe dead long since, he can thereby contact it while he causes that with his will what he experiences with the concerning soul, but not in such involuntary way, as it happens by the dream.
You see, spiritual research induces us to acknowledge that another world projects in our world that has a deep meaning for our world because our emotional and our will life belong to this world. For the world at which natural sciences looks the abstract images of the usual consciousness are sufficient. For the world of the social-moral life one needs realistic mental pictures. Mental pictures, like the Kant-Laplace theory, like those of the final state of the earth can lead to error. They may be reasonable mental pictures if one remains in the area of theoretical discussions. When one adopts abstract but not realistic scientific mental pictures in the social life, in the political structure, one works destroying, one causes disasters within this reality. Now it becomes apparent — if one wants to look at that which impels the historical life further — that one cannot look at it with scientific imagination; since the human being with wake mental pictures does not stimulate the whole history, but it is dreamt. One has to envisage this important matter even if it sounds paradoxical.
The social life does not originate from such an impulse as we grasp it with natural sciences, but it is dreamt. The human being dreams the social life. It was always interesting when Herman Grimm repeatedly said in a conversation with me, if one applies the usual concepts, the scientific concepts to history, so that they should be suitable, one does not make any progress. If one wants to grasp it, if one wants to look into the impulses that work in it, then one can do this only with imagination. Herman Grimm was not yet a spiritual researcher, he rejected these things; but he meant, one could grasp this historical life only with imagination. However, with imagination one cannot grasp it, too. Nevertheless, Grimm was at least a person who knew that one could not enter the historical life with the usual concepts.
Nevertheless, just spiritual science can do it, while it adds the Imaginative consciousness, the Inspired consciousness, and the Intuitive consciousness, the beholding consciousness to the usual consciousness. Spiritual science generates awareness of that what is dreamt away, otherwise, what is overslept.
In former centuries and millennia, people had a certain instinctive consciousness of spiritual facts — I have mentioned this already the day before yesterday. However, this instinctive consciousness had to get lost. It got lost and will get lost more and more, the more the brilliant achievements of natural sciences prove themselves in their area.
From the other side that must come again what the instinctive consciousness has lost. Hence, one may say, during the human instinct life the moral-social ideas, the ethical ideas, the juridical ideas were able to flow into the historical and social life which are dreamt; and thus humanity can still wear that out what has originated from the instinctive consciousness. However, the age has entered in which humanity must attain the consciousness in which humanity has to attain full freedom. There the old instinctive consciousness will no longer be sufficient.
We live in that epoch in which one has to bring up those forces spiritual-scientifically which are effective in the social structuring of the society, in the ethical structuring of the society, in the political life. One can never grasp what lives in the social life with the concepts that are taken generally only from the usual consciousness.
Herman Grimm was completely right — but he knew half of the matter only — if he said, why is the English historian Gibbon so significant describing the first Christian centuries especially if he describes that what perished? Why does one find in his historical representation nothing of the significant growth and becoming which the Christian impulses caused in the human development? Because Gibbon just takes the usual concepts, too. However, they can even grasp that what perishes, they can grasp the corpse only.
That which becomes which grows is dreamt away and overslept. Only spiritual science can recognise this. Because the political impulses must become conscious because they can no longer be only instinctive, they must be understood spiritual-scientifically in future.
One has just to recognise that from the signs of the times in an area which is deeply associated with the human soul; even from outer things, one can recognise such things. We take an example very widespread today. While I speak of this example, one may not believe that spiritual science wants to be one-sided, wants to side with any direction, but it takes seriously that one lights up a matter only unilaterally with any concept and hence that one does something wrong if one wants to apply this concept directly to reality. I take, for example, the materialist, the historical-sociological view most evident to some people that Karl Marx and others have given about the social and historical life of humanity. If one pursues this social-democratic approach, one pursues with Marx how he really wants to show with a certain astuteness that everything that happens in history becomes manifest by certain class conflicts that material impulses determine the structure of the historical life. One can understand what Karl Marx says in this field only if one knows that he describes realities unilaterally. However, which realities does he describe? He describes the realities which were past at that time when he wrote his books!
Indeed, from the sixteenth century on the European life begins in such a way that beside that what one tells as history class conflicts are there, material impulses are there. What appeared until the age where Karl Marx attempted to apply concepts of the usual consciousness to it, humanity had already ceased dreaming. What was reality at that time when humanity has dreamt is grasped with usual concepts. Now it becomes apparent: if the realistic method of spiritual science is not applied, one finds nothing applicable to live on from that what one wants to grasp with the usual consciousness. Karl Marx's portrayal is right for a certain one-sidedness of life, for the last centuries.
It is no longer applicable, after humanity has dreamt away, has overslept what he describes. It is actual in such a way: if one wants to attain realistic concepts, one cannot deduce them from outer experience, as natural sciences have to do. Someone who has to intervene in any position of life in the social structure must have realistic concepts. However, you cannot deduce them from life. One can deduce that only from life what the usual consciousness can grasp.
One has to live in the social life if one wants to be concerned with living concepts. One has to know the laws that prevail, otherwise, only in the subconscious, and must be able to implement them in life. All those concepts that can be effective in future in the social structure arise from the Imaginative knowledge. That is why the social attempts have remained so hopeless; they have evoked so many real mistakes because one believed to be able to understand the social concepts like the scientific ones. From Imagination, from immersing in that which is experienced, otherwise, only like in the dream those impulses can be only fetched which someone needs who has to pronounce social ideas.
Any time is a transition period. Of course, that is a trivial truth, it matters what does transition. In our time, the instinctive consciousness transitions into that consciousness in which freedom prevails. The old impulses of the instinctive consciousness — the Roman Law still belongs to it — have to be superseded by that which arises from Imagination for the social life, from Inspiration for the ethical-moral life, from Intuition for the legal life. That is not so comfortable as if one constructs legal concepts and knows because one is a clever person how the whole world should be designed. One knows this!
As a spiritual researcher, one cannot do this; everywhere one has to penetrate into reality. Today one knows very little how this happens. One does not know, that, for example, the western peoples of Europe — as peoples, not as single persons! — have certain soul characteristics, the peoples of Central Europe, of East Europe, of Asia have certain other soul characteristics that these soul characteristics are associated with that what these peoples are. Today in this catastrophic time, we see a sad event that one cannot understand with the outer consciousness. It takes place in the world in which humanity can only find its way if it looks for realistic concepts. Realistic concepts are not those, which are formed after the pattern of natural sciences or after the pattern of the wake day consciousness if it concerns the social, the moral, and the legal life.
Here in Switzerland somebody made a beginning concerning legal concepts, he tried to get out the concepts of the usual contractual relationships from the concrete reality. For the first time Roman Boos (1888-1952) attempted this in his excellent book The Whole Employment Contract According to Swiss Law.
This has to progress if we want to search the realistic concepts. There is a simple means — there would be a simple means — which would be very helpful if it were tried in its radical form to show somewhere how the concepts of the usual consciousness cannot intervene in the moral-social life. One had only to attempt to assemble a parliament whose members are just great in the area of philosophical reflection with the concepts of the usual consciousness. Such a parliament would be most suitable to delete the community in shortest time because it would see the impulses of decline only.
Those belong to the creative life who can realise what only dreams, otherwise, in the outer life and in history what has dwindled down in sleep. Hence, utopias are also so hopeless. Utopias are real in such a way, as if one wanted to apply a thoroughly thought out chess match, without considering the partner. Designing utopias means to grasp that what should live with abstract intellectual forms. Hence, a utopia must always delete a community. Since what can build up reality, works only in living Imaginations and is related to, but not the same — I asks this expressly to note — as artistic creating. One becomes aware of manifold if one just looks at this social, this moral life from the viewpoint of spiritual science.
Above all, if that what develops as social-moral ideas, as juridical ideas this way penetrates life, it can always culminate in the human freedom. You can never understand this human freedom scientifically because natural sciences do not consider the human being as a free being. However, spiritual science shows the everlasting essence of the human being about whom I have said that he is like another human being in the human being. Natural sciences show only the one, not the other human being; however, the other is the free human being and lives in the human being. However, the social-moral life, the political life, the ethical life get out the free human being. Modern approach drives out freedom, actually, everywhere already in theory.
At the end let me state the following. There have always been in the recent time such considerations of the social-moral and the state and political life that compare the state, for example, to an organism. By an excellent researcher (Rudolf Kjellén, 1864-1922, Swedish historian and politician), a sensational book has appeared, The State as Form of Life (1917). It is just an example of that what one has to overcome. Some people have attempted to compare the state with an organism. One can compare everything. Nevertheless, it matters that the comparison is a realistic one.
Well, because of the shortness of time I cannot explain the matter in detail. However, if one really compares the social-moral life to the organic life, then the comparison applies only in this respect that one must compare the single state, the single community to a cell. If one wants to compare an aggregation of cells, as it is the organism, one can only compare the whole life earth to the organism. However, one can compare if one compares properly the single state to the cell and the entire earthly life on earth possibly to an organism built up from single cells.
Then that is not at all included in this organism what develops as soul, as mind in it. However, it matters very much that spirit is added to the whole life on earth. Only such a social structure of the earth is properly thought out which considers the entire human being and not only his outer nature. As little one can enclose soul and spirit in the organism, as little one can enclose that, even if one extends the organic consideration to the whole earth, in the mere state life in which human freedom is rooted. Since human freedom overtowers the organisation.
This can produce evidence that even the reflection that brings the usual abstract consciousness in the consideration of the state life must exclude the freedom concept. Spiritual science, which envisages that life which is free of anything bodily that one cannot compare with an organism, will only be able to implement the concept of the free human soul in life.
I have made a start already in 1894 with my Philosophy of Freedom, while I tried to show how the human being really develops a free soul life that breaks away from the causal concept that thereby the human being can realise his freedom. As long as one does not realise that natural sciences completely rightly denies freedom in their area because they only deal with that where no freedom exists, one also does not realise that one cannot grasp that with natural sciences to which freedom refers. However, spiritual science reaches this, which shows that the human being has his spiritual beside his body that is an expression of his soul and his mind that one can be only grasp with the beholding consciousness.
It is still rather paradoxical today if one says that sleeping and dreaming impulses exist in history, in the social life, in the moral life, in the juridical life, in the freedom life and one can only find it with spiritual science. Nevertheless, I have to mention repeatedly that that which spiritual science has to bring as a paradox for our time one can just compare with the paradoxical view of Copernicus when people still believed that the earth is stationary, the sun, and the stars move round it. He replaced this view with the opposite.
Finally, in 1822 the Catholic Church already permitted to accept the Copernican view! Well, how long it will last, until the scholars and the so-called sophisticated people will permit or will no longer be ashamed to accept that spiritual science explains life, extends it with realistic concepts, one has to wait for that. However, the signs of the times speak so intensely that one wished it could soon happen.
Nevertheless, outstanding spirits have always beheld the truth, even if only in single flashes of inspiration. Spiritual science is nothing new. It summarises that only systematically and with realistic looking what the flashes of inspiration of the most excellent personalities have always lighted up.
Yesterday I have mentioned Goethe. He also dealt with history. He felt, although he did not yet know spiritual science at that time: in that what pulsates in the historical life is not included what can be brought into the usual concepts. He felt: what lives in history contains impulses that are different from the abstract mental pictures of the usual spiritual life.
That is why Goethe said: "The best what we have from history is the enthusiasm which it excites", a feeling which it excites if one can immerse in the historical becoming and one brings out something that does not speak only to the imagination and sensory percipience, but speaks to that which is dreamt in the emotional impulses which is even overslept in the will impulses. Then one has that which lives in history and not the corpse of history.
With reference to the social-moral life, with reference to freedom and the juridical life, one would like to say, humanity has to realise that it has to get to such a conception of the reality of these things in which the whole human being engages, also that what sleeps, otherwise, in the wake consciousness because the area of the social and moral life remains generally unaware as a rule.
Thus, it will concern that just that is stimulated which is similar to enthusiasm that works like art. Thus, one will probably have to pronounce the words at the end of this consideration which summarise in a way what I could inspire with this short consideration, the summary of that about which one has to speak — as I believe — inevitably under the influence of the signs of times. It matters that the human being finds the whole human being in order to work in the social-moral life in an appropriate manner in order to play a part in the creation of the social-moral structure and the political life. It matters that the human being gets not only to abstract ideas, not only to physiological views, but also gets to enthusiastic forces, to realistic forces. This sad time of hardship waits for that!
Spiritual science wants only to give the answer from that viewpoint that wants to form the right basis of this enthusiasm, and spiritual science is convinced that if humanity finds the way again to its everlasting, to its immortal, to that part of the human life from which the impulse of freedom arises, then humanity will also find the right ways to come out of the chaos not only by make-believe.


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Major League Baseball announced on Thursday that it has renewed its partnership with YouTube TV, making YouTube TV the "presenting sponsor" of the 2018 and 2019 World Series. This means that everywhere you see the World Series logo, you'll also see the YouTube TV logo. But YouTube will also be able to use MLB players in more of its advertising going forward, not just around the World Series.
More importantly, the extended deal will bring the entire MLB postseason to YouTube TV subscribers for the first time. (YouTube TV launched in April 2017 and costs $35 per month, increasing to $40 on March 13.) YouTube TV already offered Fox, which has the rights to the World Series, but MLB Network airs some of the League Division Series games, and MLB Network will hit YouTube TV this week. Add Fox and MLB Network to TBS, which YouTube TV announced in February, and that's the full MLB Playoffs on YouTube TV. The platform now also gets every nationally broadcast Spring Training game and regular season game.
In addition, MLB.tv will be available to YouTube TV subscribers for an extra fee—news that was included (though somewhat buried) in YouTube's announcement of a slew of new sports content back in February. MLB.tv would allow a YouTube TV subscriber to watch regular season out-of-market games.
Of course, YouTube isn't the only place that has MLB streaming. Dish Network's Sling TV offers regular season out-of-market games of 20 MLB teams. AT&T DirecTV Now shows any MLB games that air on Fox or Turner channels like TBS. And both DirecTV Now and PlayStation Vue have MLB Network.
And just this week, one day after announcing the YouTube TV extension, Major League Baseball finalized a deal with Facebook to stream 25 afternoon games; Bloomberg reports the deal was worth $30 million to $35 million.
Consider the sponsorship extension a win for YouTube in its close race with Amazon for sports streaming. MLB has a tech relationship with Amazon (AWS powers MLB Statcast) but does not stream any of its games on Amazon Prime. Last month, YouTube TV added Turner channels and MLB Network, while Amazon Prime announced it will start selling UFC fights. The two giants are going toe for toe in signing new deals with a whole host of leagues, small and large, in an effort to win over cord-cutting sports fans.


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Summer Concerts at Kendall Square
Originally a salt marsh on the Charles River between Boston and Cambridge, Kendall Square is now a growing 10-acre community. Join us this summer for a farmer's market, food trucks, and Berklee artists performing on Tuesdays at lunchtime. (View Map)
Mar Fayos
Tuesday / August 27, 2019 / 12:00 pm
300 Athenaeum Street
Mar Fayos is a jazz singer from Barcelona, Spain. She performs jazz-fusion music with Latin, Mediterranean, and soul influences. For this performance, she will present a new formation, her quartet, and will offer a special repertoire designed for this performance.
Fryderyk Hoang Dong
Fryderyk Hoang Dong, born in Poland to Vietnamese parents, began studying classical music at age 6. Majoring in piano performance at Berklee College of Music, he is working on an original repertoire that draws from jazz, soul, fusion, and minimal music.
Sophia Gripari
Sophia Gripari, a native of London, is a singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist based in the United States. She focuses primarily on her voice, songwriting, guitar playing, and electronic digital instrument skills.
John Michael Bradford
Tuesday / August 6, 2019 / 12:00 pm
John Michael Bradford presents a showcase of jazz and funk music, as well as original compositions and arrangements. Like so many before him, his passion for music was sculpted by the spirit, sounds, and fate of New Orleans, Louisiana.
Sheila del Bosque
Tuesday / July 30, 2019 / 12:00 pm
Born in 1994 in Havana, Sheila del Bosque is one of the most in-demand young flutists in Cuba. Her music features contemporary and traditional Afro-Cuban music with the influence of European and jazz ingredients.
Anastassiya Petrova
Anastassiya Petrova is a jazz pianist and organist from Kazakhstan and a participant in many international festivals.
Tyson Jackson
Tyson Jackson first discovered his love of music at age 3 in his hometown of West Palm Beach, Florida, and has studied with world-renowned artists including Ron Blake, Nona Hendryx, and Terri Lyne Carrington.
Stacey Kelleher
Tuesday / July 9, 2019 / 12:00 pm
Stacey Kelleher is an indie-pop singer-songwriter who is unafraid to say what she wants in her music. Blending electronic elements reminiscent of Dua Lipa and Halsey with acoustic guitars similar to those of Fleetwood Mac and Joni Mitchell, Kelleher fuses genres to create her own unique sound.
Martín Guas
Tuesday / June 25, 2019 / 12:00 pm
Argentinian multi-instrumentalist and songwriter Martín Guas presents original music that combines influences from genres throughout the world.
Mestiza
Mestiza is a female group specializing in a fusion of flamenco, Latin, and jazz genres, with an extended repertoire of covers and originals.


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Q: VSCode Extension Clipboard Images I'm trying to learn VSCode Extension development, I found that VSCode Extension doesn't seem to provide the function of Clipboard Read
https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/blob/9a21b536639c2d986c50fb51b7da67bafdb50c9b/src/vs/vscode.d.ts#L8292-L8308
Because I want to try to implement the Extension for pasting and uploading pictures in VSCode
What should I do if I want to paste and upload pictures stored in Clipboard?


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Freda Love Smith
Visit Freda Love Smith's Web Site.
Author: Freda Love Smith
I am a writer, drummer, and Northwestern University advisor, lecturer, and faculty-member-in-residence. I write a monthly column for Paste Food, interviewing musicians about eating on the road and at home, and my food memoir, Red Velvet Underground, is forthcoming on Agate in October 2015. I was a founding member of the Boston band the Blake Babies, with Juliana Hatfield, and have since played with Antenna, The Mysteries of Life, Gentleman Caller, and Some Girls, among other bands. At Northwestern University I advise students in Radio/TV/Film and I teach a seminar in Communication Studies titled, "Food, Communication, and Culture." As a faculty-member-in-residence, I mull apple cider every Sunday night for 200 undergraduates.
Red Velvet Underground - A Rock Memoir, with Recipes
Genre: Mainstream
Tags: Biographies & Memoirs, Food, Home, Style and Travel
Publisher: Agate Midway
Part memoir, part cookbook, Red Velvet Underground tells the story of how Smith's indie-rock past evolved into her domestic present—and how food played a significant role in both.
Freda Love was a 19-year-old college dropout who'd escaped Indiana for Boston when she became the drummer for The Blake Babies in 1989. Twenty-five years later, she's the suburban mother of two teenaged sons, teaching at a prestigious university, and thinking about restarting her last band, the Mysteries of Life. Her oldest is getting ready to head to college, and she realizes one of the best things she can do for him is teach him to cook.
Red Velvet Underground tells the story of how Smith's indie-rock past evolved into her domestic present. Loosely framed around cooking lessons she gives her older son, her story moves back and forward in time as she recollects how she got started in music, and how her career in rock eventually dovetailed with her passion for cooking and, later, the growth of her family. The book intersperses forty-five recipes with personal stories about her music career, cooking, eating, and family.
Throughout, she reflects on how food and music have intersected throughout her life, from the time The Smiths' ?Meat is Murder" inspired her to become vegetarian, to vigorously beating dough at her college bakery job to The Velvet Underground, to seeing her musician son through his one-month experiment with veganism.
As she compares her son's experiences to her own, Smith plumbs the deeper meanings behind the role of cooking in her life, her experiences starting and playing in different bands (in one of which?Antenna?she met her future husband, Jake Smith), going on the road, and pursuing work in and out of music as she raises her sons.
Smith tells her story with characteristically Midwestern warmth and grace. Red Velvet Underground is a charming exploration of the ways food and music have informed identity through every stage of one woman's life.
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Deloitte to liquidate dodgy Australian diamond miner
Consultants from Deloitte have been tapped to oversee a third high-profile administration in weeks. In the firm's latest restructuring win, Deloitte Financial Advisory has been appointed by the Federal Court of Australia as a provisional liquidator of Merlin Diamonds.
The appointment comes after the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC), an independent Australian government body that acts as Australia's corporate regulator, asked the Court to wound up Merlin Diamonds, which is the parent of Merlin diamond mine in the Northern Territory, about 80 kilometres south of Borroloola.
The Merlin diamond mine was discovered more than 25 years ago, and first went into operation in 2000. Shortly after opening, the site yielded Australia's largest diamond, a 104.73-carat stone back ten valued at over half-a-million US dollar's. In 2017, the site also yielded a 35.26-carat rough brown diamond – believed to be the fifth largest stone discovered in the country.
Under the ownership of Merlin Diamonds – previous owners include Ashton Mining, Rio Tinto and North Australian Diamonds – the mine's total production however never reached the targets set. The Merlin diamond mine is currently one of only three diamond mines in Australia, and was set to become Australia's last operating diamond mine when the Argyle mine in Western Australia ceases operation next year.
In October, ASIC kicked off a probe into a $13 million-loan from the mining group to a private company associated to the diamond producer's owner. The owner of Merlin Diamonds, mining magnate Joseph Gutnick, had in recent years completed a number of such loans and has proven unwilling or incapable of repaying the loans.
The instigation came shortly after an arbitration was started in Western Australia and the Northern Territory by former contractors and employees of Merlin Diamonds, who claim that they are owed more than $1.2 million in payments. Shares of Merlin Diamonds were suspended from trading last year after its management failed to file a quarterly report with the Australian Securities Exchange.
Provisional liquidation
Based on ASIC's claim that there is a "justifiable lack of confidence in the directors' conduct and their ability to manage Merlin's affairs in the best interests of its shareholders and creditors", the Court has pushed Merlin Diamonds into provisional liquidation.
Deloitte Financial Advisory has been tasked with assessing the financial situation, shedding light on the status of the loan portfolio, and drafting a plan on how to redeem stakeholders. Meanwhile, future options for the Merlin Diamonds and the Merlin diamond mine will be explored.
Earlier this month, restructuring experts from Deloitte were tapped to manage the wind-down of Karen Millen in Australia. The firm's consultants further played their part in completing the sale of collapsed SME lender Axsesstoday.
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Petroleum exploration in Kimberley national parks
Windjana Gorge National Park is one of the areas that could be explored for oil and gas. (Supplied: Hugh Brown)
Buru Energy signs native title deal with Kimberley Indigenous groups
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Oil and gas exploration could be allowed in some of the Kimberley's best-loved national parks after the Department of Mines and Petroleum gave the green light for petroleum exploration in four of them.
One of six recently released petroleum tenements covers the Kimberley's Windjana Gorge National Park, Tunnel Creek National Park, Devonian Reef Conservation Park, and Brooking Gorge Conservation Park.
Oil and gas exploration within the national parks and conservation parks would only be possible after a petroleum company had come to an agreement with native title holders and gained government approval according to the Department of Mines and Petroleum's (DMP) acting executive director for the petroleum division, Denis Wills.
"They do not have an automatic right to go and start petroleum activities in these areas until they have gone through a rigorous approval process that involves a whole of government approach," Mr Wills said.
He said exploration within national and conservation parks had to be assessed for environmental impacts if they triggered an agreement with the Environmental Protection Authority (EPA).
"We have a memorandum of understanding with that authority that any activities within 500 metres of an environmentally sensitive area, such as wetlands or threatened ecological communities … have to be referred to the EPA," Mr Wills said.
"If through that referral process it was decided by the EPA, and by the Department of Mines and Petroleum, and by the Department of Water that there was minimum environmental risk, or zero environmental risk for that petroleum activity, then yes, we would probably assess that as being an acceptable activity to undertake."
Exploration within the national parks and conservation parks would only be possible after a petroleum company had come to an agreement with native title holders and gained government approval according to the Department of Mines and Petroleum's (DMP) acting executive director for the petroleum division, Denis Wills.
Tunnel Creek is a popular tourist destination in the Central Kimberley and has cultural importance to the Indigenous Bunuba people. (Triple J Road Trip Relay: Dylan and Karlee)
Need for fracking uncertain
The Kimberley's environmental organisation director Martin Pritchard said the possibility of oil and gas exploration within these national parks and conservation parks smacked of a decision made from afar.
"There's no way on earth that anyone with any kind of understanding of the Kimberley would put a fracking lease on Windjana Gorge and Tunnel Creek National Park," Mr Pritchard said.
Fracking has been used in other parts of the Canning Basin, the massive geological structure that the new tenements also fall within.
But the DMP's Denis Wills said the new tenements would not necessarily lead to fracking.
An image created by environmentalists showing the location of national park and conservation parks dicated with yellow pins, within a petroleum exploration lease indicated by the shaded area. (Supplied: Environs Kimberley)
"Until that exploration's undertaken we're not sure whether there would be a need for fracture stimulation or not," he said.
Fracture stimulation or fracking is a controversial process of pumping high pressure liquid and chemicals into coal, shale or sandstone to release trapped natural gas.
Mr Wills acknowledged that this kind of resource could be found in the new tenements.
"We would probably see it possibly being tight or shale gas, but there could be the potential for just normal conventional gas too," Mr Wills said.
The Windjana Gorge and Tunnel Creek are popular Kimberley destinations for visitors and locals, and Mr Pritchard said they were not appropriate areas for petroleum tenements.
"That area is incredibly important both from a tourism perspective, environmentally and culturally, and it's obvious that the Department of Mines and Petroleum have not taken that into consideration at all, otherwise they wouldn't have put a fracking lease there," he said.
Fracking was conducted in the Kimberley by Buru Energy in 2010 and 2015 as part of the company's evaluation of tight gas resources.
Mining entrepreneur Andrew Forrest recently took an interest in the area when he entered into a joint venture with Goshawk Energy and announced applications to explore 220,000 square kilometres of the Canning Basin in November 2016.
Bidding on the six petroleum leases released by the DMP, which include national parks and conservation parks, are open until March 2017.
The ABC contacted the Bunuba native title holders over Windjana Gorge National Park, Tunnel Creek National Park, Devonian Reef Conservation Park and Brooking Gorge Conservation Park for this article, but they declined to comment at this stage.
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