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New Russian laws: no chance of a drink or a smoke
Throughout Russia's history its rulers have attempted to curtail the consumption of alcohol and/or tobacco. Gorbachev had little success in the 1980s; will this year's new laws have any more success, asks Mikhail Loginov?
Mikhail Loginov
The town of Vologda is a regional administrative centre in the north of Russia. 15 years ago a 24-hour shop appeared in an outlying area on the edge of town with apartment blocks built in the early 1960s, during Khrushchev's time. The residents were delighted, though it was just an old railway carriage, wallpapered, with a counter and a sign outside the door '24 hours'.
The sign is still there, but there's a paper on the door telling customers that 'From 1 March the shop will be open from 9am to 9pm.' There's a very simple reason for this. As shop assistant Elena explains, most of the night time visitors only bought beer, but from 1 March 2013 the sale of alcoholic drinks between 11pm and 8am is prohibited throughout Russia. The toughest anti-tobacco laws ever seen in Russia came into effect at the same time.
Winter without vodka and spring time without cigarettes
At New Year people give each other presents. The Russians are no exception to this rule, but this year the gift was an unpleasant one. The regulations concerning the sale of spirits have been tightened up from 1 January. Previously any spirits more than 15° proof could not be sold between 11pm and 8am. This varied across the regions: in some, Tula for instance, night time sales of spirits continued unabated, whereas in Chechnya President Kadyrov decreed that spirits could only be sold from 8am to 10am. In some regions the degree permitted was different: no more than 6° or, say, 8°. From 1 January every region or national republic is compelled to prohibit the sales of spirits from 11pm to 8am – including beer and light wine.
And it's not only the hours that are limited. The outlet selling spirits must be no less than 25 sq.m. in rural areas and 50 sq.m. in towns. Spirits may not be sold in any mobile shops, which has created a special problem in some villages.
It has become expensive and difficult to buy vodka. A considerable hike in duties levied on alcoholic drinks has increased the minimum price of a bottle from 125 to 170 roubles [$4 to $5.50].
People who like a drink have been having problems since 1 January, but smokers are facing a succession of miseries. On 1 January the price of cigarettes, papirosy [a hollow cardboard tube extended by a thin cigarette paper tube with tobacco] and cigars increased by about 25%. In May street kiosks will no longer be able to sell cigarettes and from 1 July the anti-tobacco law will come into effect in Russia. Smoking in public places (bus stops, stations, trains, stadiums, restaurants) will be forbidden. Russians have always smoked in these places and thought nothing of it.
'Don't listen to the smokers!'
Street kiosks in Russia's towns and cities are still selling cigarettes – to adults and to senior school children. They know they will only be able to do this until May and are somewhat anxious.
'What will happen?' asks Tamara, who has been selling cigarettes in a street kiosk for 12 years. 'Whatever the kiosk owner tells us to do, that'll be it. If he says to sell cigarettes, then we will and he'll pay the fine. If he decides not to, then the kiosk will close down and we shall have to look for other work. Some people do buy lemonade or chewing gum here, but…' The association OPORA Rossii [Rn. Support of Russia], which protects small businesses, agrees with Tamara. Its research shows that 40% of kiosks' revenue comes from tobacco sales and 40% from beer. Some kiosks are closing down already, but this will enormously increase in May.
The vendors may be worried, but the smokers don't know or don't want to think about the upcoming ban. In the square outside Vologda railway station 2 out of 3 men are smoking. They smoke on the platforms, at the bus station, at bus and trolleybus stops. Anyone getting on a train will certainly smoke on the enclosed platforms between the carriages. Half the tables in the station restaurant have ashtrays on them and the waiters can't believe that from 1 July they will have to take them off all the tables.
Russia is one of the few countries where tobacco companies have enjoyed growing profits over recent years. The new law was met with fierce resistance from such companies. photo (cc) Flickr
'They say we'll all have to smoke in the street,' says the doorman Andrey. 'It's quite nice in the summer, but what about the winter when it's -30°? I'm not going to be chasing smokers outside in temperatures like that.'
Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev is regarded as the initiator of this attack on smokers. 'The problem is so acute,' he said in the summer of 2012 'that it cannot be solved by health promotion alone. We should not defer to the smokers.' Meanwhile, the smokers themselves are not intending to pay any attention to the bans.
Vodka vans banned
When they were drawing up the law limiting the size of sales outlets permitted to sell spirits, its authors were no doubt thinking of a town or a large suburban settlement. Indeed, the Moscow region (also known as Podmoskovye) will have no problems with a ban on sales of vodka or beer in a small shop, because people can always go to a bigger shop. What the deputies failed to take into consideration is that in Russia, especially in the northern regions, there are many places with only a village shop selling lighters, soap, sweets and vodka. The nearest big shop is 30km away and most of the villagers don't own cars so can't therefore drive anywhere to buy these everyday consumer goods.
Deputies from the Leningrad region have tried to solve the problem. The region is bigger than Denmark and the Netherlands put together, but the area is much more sparsely populated. To ensure that the new law didn't mean people in distant villages would be left without vodka, the deputies proposed setting up mobile shops in all-territory vans or lorries. Shops on wheels were a feature of Soviet times and they still exist. The deputies proposed granting them the right to sell vodka, but central government thought otherwise.
Experts then put forward 2 suggestions. Villages where neighbours live peacefully side by side will be able to form a kind of 'vodka cooperative': a person with a car can collect money from his neighbours and go to buy a crate of vodka. As not many Russians are able to put vodka away 'for a rainy day', these shopping trips will no doubt be fairly regular. But the other suggestion is even less credible: villagers will start brewing their own moonshine, an art that never disappeared even when factory vodka was more freely available. In the past moonshine was brewed from grain, but now sugar is used. There are no restrictions on mobile vans bringing sugar to the villages.
Calculating the losses
Ivan Sokolov works in the finance department of the regional authority. He considers that villagers in some 20 distant villages drinking their own homebrew will not result in financial loss, but budget receipts from the regional centre and towns will be significantly reduced.
Over a 2-month period about 100 kiosks and 10 small shops have closed down, which will result in a loss of tax receipts. In the regional centre, a shop assistant from a small shop has a chance of finding other work, but in a small town he will no doubt end up at the Labour Exchange and extra funds will have to be found for his unemployment benefit.
According to Sokolov, the clampdown on smoking will also result in losses. Many restaurants and cafes struggle to make ends meet. If smoking in them is not allowed and the ban is enforced, then there will be fewer clients and the establishment will be forced to close. Night clubs are also emptying. In the autumn young people will cheerfully go out to smoke, but in the winter, when they've got really cold once or twice, they will prefer having a party and dancing at home, where they can smoke without leaving the table.
The Russian table - incomplete without a bottle or two. photo (cc) Flickr
Sokolov is naturally comforted by the fact that sales of spirits and cigarettes have not fallen away, but have actually slightly increased.
Gorbachev's dangerous reputation
'Hardly surprising,' says Valerii Stephanov, a journalist on the regional newspaper. 'People are buying spirits on a bigger scale than they did previously. They know they won't be able to pop to the shop at night time, even for low alcohol beer so they buy some in reserve. This applies to people buying for large parties and to individuals. A person on the way home from work who feels like a beer will buy a bottle in a kiosk. If he goes to the supermarket, then he'll buy at least 3 bottles or 1.5 litres in plastic packing. After all, who likes standing in line at the till?'
Stephanov started working on the paper at the beginning of the 1980s. He remembers Gorbachev's first attempts at dealing with the problem of alcohol consumption and sees a difference between the 2 strategies. 'The new measures are openly aimed at reducing the availability of alcoholic products, but this isn't happening. Or not yet. The main consumers of vodka and beer are men and they finish work long before 11pm, so they buy more spirits than they would have if they could buy more later on. The high price of vodka has not yet started to bite: anyone feeling like a drink or having guests in for a traditional dinner will be more likely to economise on the starters than the drink. Relations who are not alcoholics will probably forgive minimum food, but not a table with no vodka. A ban on vodka sales after 7pm would be a completely different thing. But that would be harking back to the Gorbachev bans.'
There are, however, some similarities between the 1985 and 2013 attempts to curtail the consumption of alcohol and tobacco.
'Deputies and government experts forget why people drink and smoke,' says Stephanov. 'Spirits and tobacco are primitive social anti-depressants. But they have proved to be effective and people in Russia – though more in the regions than in Moscow – are living in conditions of severe stress. Housing and utility payments regularly go up, as do prices. But not salaries. Budget cuts mean that people are being made redundant in the public sector and the person to whom this happens suddenly and unexpectedly will have a drink and a cigarette while he considers what to do. If the price of vodka has increased by 50% and he'll be fined for buying cigarettes in his usual place, then he could well react in an unpredictable way. I myself remember 1988, when there were no cigarettes in the town for 2 days. On the third day the crowd blocked off the central street.'
'Tobacco riots' have not been recorded in Russia yet, but at the beginning of 2013 Putin's popularity rating, according to various sociological surveys, was hovering around 30-35%. That's how much Russians trust their president. The politics of vodka and tobacco have played their part in this too. Although the main attack on smoking is thought to come from Dmitry Medvedev (whose popularity rating is less than 3%), it is traditional in Russia to consider that, for decisions affecting everyone in a major way, the buck stops with the head of state. Consumption figures for vodka and cigarettes may have fallen off since the end of the 20th century, but not by much.
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The Topp Twins
Television, 1996–2000
National treasures The Topp Twins (aka twins Lynda and Jools Topp) have performed as a country-music singing and yodelling comedy duo for more than 25 years. In the late 90s they created their own TV series which ran for three seasons and showcased their iconic cast of Kiwi characters, including Camp Mother, the Bowling Ladies and cross-dressing Ken and Ken. The series, travelling from a Highland Games to a Tauranga triathlon, won the twins - out-and-proud lesbians - several gongs at the NZ Film and TV Awards and screened on the ABC and Foxtel in Australia.
E Tipu e Rea
A flagbearer for Māori storytelling on primetime television, E Tipu e Rea (Grow up tender young shoot) was a series of 30 minute dramas touching on a range of Māori experiences of the Pākehā world — from rural horse-back riding and eeling, to urban hostility and cultural estrangement. It marked the first anthology of Māori television plays, and the first TV production to use predominantly Māori personnel. E Tipu e Rea's mandate and achievement was to tell Māori stories in a Māori way.

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ConAgra Foods: Trans-fat labeling is a matter for the FDA, not the courts…
ConAgra Foods: "The FDA has affirmed PHO's lawful status as a food ingredient for at least the next three years..."
Related tags: Partially hydrogenated oils, Trans fat
ConAgra Foods has urged a California court to throw out a lawsuit* alleging it misled consumers with the '0g trans-fat' claim on its Crunch 'n Munch popcorn, and stressed that the FDA's recent decision to revoke the GRAS status of partially hydrogenated oils doesn't change anything.
The claims in the lawsuit – one of a flurry of class actions filed by The Weston Firm against food companies making 0g trans-fat claims on products containing tiny amounts of partially hydrogenated oils (PHOs) – are pre-empted by federal food labeling laws, argued ConAgra Foods.
The FDA explicitly permits '0g trans-fat per serving' claims on products containing less than 0.5g trans-fat per serving, something judges handling similar lawsuits have acknowledged, it said.
And while the FDA has recently unveiled plans to revoke the GRAS (generally recognized as safe) status of partially hydrogenated oils, it has given the industry three years to phase them out, said ConAgra, noting the FDA had "affirm[ed] PHO's lawful status as a food ingredient for at least the next three years".
Food manufacturers will also have the opportunity to petition the FDA to permit specific uses of PHOs over that period, said ConAgra.
In other words, this is a matter for the FDA, not the courts, said the firm.
"ConAgra Foods moves in the alternative that the Court dismiss or stay this action under the doctrine of primary jurisdiction, so that the FDA may exercise its jurisdiction, in the first instance, to resolve issues falling within its unique expertise."
*The case is Troy Walker et al vs ConAgra Foods 4:15-cv-02424, filed in the Northern District of California.
Related topics: Regulation & Safety, Snacks
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ConAgra Foods to cut 1,500 jobs, move its HQ from Omaha to Chicago
FDA revokes GRAS status of partially hydrogenated oils; allows food industry to file petition to permit specific uses


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The Beat Hotel, documentary by Alan Govenar
Released in July 2012, The Beat Hotel (directed by Alan Govenar) is an 82-minute documentary that tells the story of a remarkable group of artists — including many of the prominent Beats writers — who in 1957 converged in a cheap Paris hotel, where some of their greatest works were born.
Hotel residents included Beat poets Allen Ginsberg and Gregory Corso, along with novelist William Burroughs. Ginsberg began his magnum opus, Kaddish, in the hotel, located in Paris's Latin Quarter, while Burroughs completed his most renowned work, the experimental novel Naked Lunch. Joining these Americans were artists from a variety of persuasions (photographers, painters, musicians, performance artists) who hailed from France, Britain, and other parts of the world.
The Beat Hotel tells the story of the power of art and the power of artists to influence one another in positive ways. Hotel owner Madame Rachou only allowed artists to reside in her establishment — and charged them next to nothing to live there. She felt that artists needed time and space to create — and this was her way of acting as a patron of the arts.
A good time was had by all in The Beat Hotel — and this documentary makes you feel as if you were part of it all. Eddie Woods, contributing editor for several Silver Birch Press anthologies, appears in the film — delivering a lively poetry reading outside the hotel.
Find the movie at Amazon.com.
Tags 1957, Alan Govenar, Allen Ginsberg, beat poets, beats, documentary film, Gregory Corso, Latin Quarter, Movies, Paris, The Beat Hotel, William Burroughs
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Ferlinghetti: A Rebirth of Wonder, documentary by Christopher Felver
October 10, 2013 //
FERLINGHETTI: A Rebirth of Wonder
A Film by Christopher Felver
SILVER BIRCH PRESS REVIEW (****)
Lawrence Ferlinghetti fans as well as people who've never heard of this iconic author, painter, publisher, and activist will enjoy Ferlinghetti: A Rebirth of Wonder – a documentary film by Christopher Felver released in June 2013 — thanks to the movie's "Wow! Did that really happen?" factor.
You might call Ferlinghetti "fate's chosen son" – judging by the incredible coincidences and strokes of luck that came his way. Granted, Ferlinghetti knew how to seize the moment – as in 1953 when he stopped at the just-opened Pocket Book Shop (the first all-paperback bookstore in the U.S.) at 261 Columbus Avenue in San Francisco and made a deal on the spot to go into business with the owner (Peter D. Martin), who also published a small literary magazine called City Lights. The renamed City Lights Bookstore – a nod to Charlie Chaplin and his character "The Tramp," who fought the system in the 1931 movie City Lights – became a magnet for artists and writers and reinvented the bookstore as cultural epicenter, meeting place, and hangout.
A few years later, in 1955, Ferlinghetti was again in the right place at the right time when he attended Allen Ginsberg's first reading of "Howl" at the Six Gallery in San Francisco. The next day, Ferlinghetti – by this time a publisher – sent Ginsberg a telegram offering to publish the poem ("I greet you at the beginning of a great career. When do I get the manuscript?").
The decision to publish "Howl" led to a 1957 obscenity trial where Ferlinghetti and co-defendant Shig Murao, City Lights manager, risked prison to defend First Amendment rights. When the presiding judge ruled that "Howl" was not obscene, a new chapter in American Arts & Letters opened – ushering in the publication of now-classic novels by William S. Burroughs, Henry Miller, D.H. Lawrence, and many other avant garde writers.
What I appreciated most about Ferlinghetti: A Rebirth of Wonder was the personal side of Ferlinghetti's story – again, with fate playing a starring role. In a range of interviews, Ferlinghetti shares aspects of his childhood, noting that much of his story is "out of Dickens." Yes, this is Dickens in overdrive – and I don't want to give away too much, because here the "Wow! Did that really happen?" factor is in full bloom. From his birth on March 24, 1919 through his WWII service in the U.S. Navy, Ferlinghetti leads a life that is alternately heartbreaking, charmed, blessed, harrowing, and sublime.
Still going strong at age 94 – on May 30, 2013 an exhibit of his paintings opened in San Francisco – Ferlinghetti shows us what it means to "live a life well lived."
Ferlinghetti: A Rebirth of Wonder is a loving portrait of the artist as both a young and old man – a celebration of an American icon who personifies what it means, and what it takes, to have the courage of your convictions and put it all on the line for your beliefs and your art. Today, everyone in the arts owes Lawrence Ferlinghetti a debt of gratitude – and watching this wonderful documentary is a place to start.
Ferlinghetti: A Rebirth of Wonder is available on DVD atAmazon.com.
Tags Art, Artists, Authors, beats, biographies, documentary film, famous authors, Films, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, memoirs, Movies, Poems, poetry, poets, Writers, Writing
Categories Memoirs, Movies
Ferlinghetti: A Rebirth of Wonder, Film by Christopher Felver
Ferlinghetti: A Rebirth of Wonder is available on DVD at Amazon.com.
Categories Beats, Memoirs, Movie Reviews, Movies
Released in July 2012, The Beat Hotel (directed by Alan Govenar) is an 82-minute documentary that tells the story of a remarkable group of artists — including many of the prominent Beats — who in 1957 converged in a cheap Paris hotel, where some of their greatest works were born.
Hotel residents included Beat poets Allen Ginsberg and Gregory Corso along with novelist William Burroughs. Ginsberg began his magnum opus, Kaddish, in the hotel, which was located in Paris's Latin Quarter, while Burroughs completed his most renowned work, the experimental novel Naked Lunch. Joining these Americans were artists from a variety of persuasions (photographers, painters, musicians, performance artists) who hailed from France, Britain, and other parts of the world.
I borrowed this DVD from my local library and found the film fascinating, riveting, and inspiring. It's a story about the power of art and the power of artists to influence one another in positive ways. The most amazing part of the story was Madame Rachou, the hotel owner who only allowed artists to reside in her establishment — and charged them next to nothing to live there. She felt that artists needed time and space to create — and this was her way of acting as a patron of the arts.
A good time was had by all in The Beat Hotel — and this documentary makes you feel as if you were part of it all. Highly recommended.
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Liepkalnis – where the winter lasts longer!
Our aim is to provide best skiing experience with high standards and friendly atmosphere. Moreover we want to create friendly skiers/snowboarders community where all kind of people would be happy: amateurs, veterans and professionals.
Ski lifts and tracks: all for the conveniece of our visitors!
There are 10 ski lifts and 10 tracks in Liepkalnis. The tracks are categorized according to their level of difficulty, therefore all skiers of different levels will find their favourite one. There is one green track - for begineers, four blue for more internediate skiers, tree red for more advanced skiers and one balck one for really advanced skiers and snowboarders. There are 10 ski lifts that help to access the tracks. This year a brand new belt lift in the beginners track is installed. It will surely make all the learning process more easier and enjoyable.
As of today there is no need for dramatic minus temperatures, the snowmaking process can start when the minus temperatures hit the termometers. Thanks to big snowmaking infrastructure under the mountain and 12 snowmaking machines, the winter in Liepkalnis can really last longer. Moreover, by employing this innovative snow making system we can adapt to quick weather changes and maintain high quality track conditions as long as possible.
In order to maintain high quality snow in the track we have 3 retracks for, which enables to compress the snow and make the depth of it 30cm. and more.
It is used that Liepkalnis snowpark has 20 to 30 different obstacles for different level extreme lovers. Also, every season ther eis a competition held and everybody can roll in.


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Leja Jurišić, slovenska plesalka, koreografinja in perfomerka, * 1978, Ljubljana.

Pri svojem delu se pogosto udejstvuje na področju performativne in politične umetnosti. Kritična je do ekonomskega in političnega izkrivljanja osebnih in kolektivnih svoboščin. Človeško telo dojema kot močno emancipacijsko orodje pri ustvarjanju izkušenj odpora. Njene uprizoritve črpajo iz telesa, ki ga avtorica razume kot politični stroj, pri čemer ostajajo hkrati zavezane tako raziskovanju osebnega oziroma intimnega kot tudi (bio)političnega.

Šolanje
Od leta 1984 do 1994 je trenirala vrhunsko športno gimnastiko in prejela številne nagrade. Med drugim je leta 1991 prejela naslov (zadnje) jugoslovanske državne prvakinje v športni gimnastiki in nato v samostojni Republiki Sloveniji še tri zaporedne naslove državne prvakinje. Po končani Gimnaziji Poljane se je vpisala na Pravno fakulteto Univerze v Ljubljani, kjer je leta 2008 tudi diplomirala cum laude.

Delo
S sodobnim plesom se je  pričela intenzivno ukvarjati na začetku drugega tisočletja. Leta 2004 je ustvarila svoj prvi samostojni projekt, ki je prejel posebno omembo mednarodne žirije na festivalu Gibanica 2005. Od takrat je svoje delo predstavila na več prizoriščih po Evropi, ZDA in Mehiki. Kot plesalka je sodelovala s koreografi in režiserji, kot so Tim Etchells/Forced Entertainment, Meg Stuart, Janez Janša. Ustvarila je številne odmevne plesne oziroma odrske produkcije; njen zadnji odmevnejši projekt je predstava Skupaj, ki jo je leta 2018 ustvarila z Markom Mandićem, Semiro Osmanagić in Bojanom Jablanovcem in zanjo poleg izvrstnih kritiških odzivov prejela tudi več uglednih nagrad, kot je Borštnikova nagrada po presoji žirije (2018) in nagrada Ksenije Hribar (2019). Za isti projekt sta z Mandićem prejela tudi nagrado slovenskega plesnega bienala Gibanica za najboljšo plesno predstavo (2019) in pa nagrado Društva gledaliških kritikov in teatrologov Slovenije za najboljšo gledališko predstavo sezone 2017/18 (2018). Starejše nagrade Leje Jurišić obsegajo še nagrado Ksenije Hribar za perspektivno koreografinjo (2013).

Leja Jurišić ustvarja tudi koreografije za gledališke predstave v Prešernovem gledališču Kranj, za SNG Nova Gorica, SNG Trst in SNG Drama. V filmih Jana Cvitkoviča, Tomaža Gorkića, Nejca Sajeta ter Jeffrya Younga se je preizkusila tudi kot filmska igralka in koreografirala za filme Jana Cvitkoviča, Tijane Zinajić in Martina Turka.

Bibliografija
2015 Divji zahod: Trajanje v umetnosti,  Dialogi, 9/2015, Aristej, Maribor.

Umetniška dela

Predstave (izbor)

 2019 De facto, Pekinpah, Cankarjev dom
 2018 Skupaj, Pekinpah, Via Negativa, Kino Šiška
 2017 Najlepši trenutki so najkrajši, otvoritev 32. Grafičnega bienala
 2015 Ideal, Bunker, Pekinpah, Festival Spider, SMEEL
 2014 I Fear Slovenia, Pekinpah, Kino Šiška
 2014 Kralj Lear– Izjava o pravi ljubezni, Pekinpah, Cankarjev dom
 2013 Druga svoboda, Bunker, Pekinpah, SMEEL, Ljubljana
 2012 Balet upora, Pekinpah, Tanzquartier, Hellerau, Dansens hus, Kino Šiška, Tanzquartier Dunaj
 2010 Zofa, Pekinpah, Tanzquartier Dunaj, Avstrija
 2009 Med nama, Exodos, Pekinpah, Maska, Bunker, SMEEL
 2004 R'z'R, Exodos, PTL

Koreografija za gledališče (izbor)

 2017 – Ronja, razbojniška hči, a. Astrid Lindgren, r. Juš A. Zidar, SNG, Nova Gorica
 2016 – Kako ostati lepa in svobodna, a. Deja Crnović, Eva Krašovec, Milan Marković Matthis, Maja Sever, Mija Špiler, Tina Vrbnjak, KUD S.N.G., SNG Drama
 2016 – Še vedno mame, a. Jera Ivanc, r. Uroš Fürst, SiTi Theatre BTC
 2015 – Lepa Vida,  a. Ivan Cankar, r. Miha Nemec, Prešernovo gledališče Kranj, SNG Nova Gorica, SNG Trst
 2014 – Hotel Modra opica, a. M. Nemec, N. Valenti, r. Miha Nemec, SNG Drama
 2009 – Pot v jajce, a. Horvat, Kopač, Lampič, r. Sebastijan Horvat, SNG Drama
 Koreografija za film

 2019 Ne pozabi dihati, r. Martin Turk

Sodelovanja – ples (izbor)

 2019 Runaway / r. Delgado Fuchs
 2018 Izumitelj na zemlji / b. Anton Podbevšek, r. Bara Kolenc
 2015 Zraka! / Janez Janša, Narat, Preda, Tomažin
 2013 The Last Adventures / Forced Entertainment, Tarek Atoui
 2010 Bliss / Mala Kline, Vania Rovisco, Leja Jurišić, Mike Winter, Max Cuccaro
 2010 Utopija 2 / Sebastijan Horvat
 2009 Utopija 1 / Sebastijan Horvat
 2007 Fake it! / Janez Janša
 2006 It's not funny / Meg Stuart

Dodelovanja v filmu - igra (izbor)

 2019 Prekletstvo Valburge / Tomaž Gorkić
 2017 Družinica / Jan Cvitkovič
 2014 Vsak pravi poet – Portret Tomaža Šalamona / Jeffrey Young & Nejc Saje

Sodelovanja v likovni umetnosti - performans (izbor)

 2013 Galentarie Mécanique / Meta Grgurčevič & Urša Vidic
 2012 - Življenje [v nastajanju] / Janez Janša

Ostali projekti – igra / ples (izbor)

 2019 Slavnostna akademija ob 100. letnici Univerze v Ljubljani / s. Primož Vitez, r. Mare Bulc
 2019 Državna proslava ob 100. obletnici združitve prekmurskih Slovencev z matičnim narodom / r. Primož Ekart

Skupinske razstave (izbor)

 2013 U3 – 7. trienale sodobne slovenske umetnosti / projekt Zofa / kuratorica Nataša Petrešin-Bachelez
 2013 Online Biennale, Art+ New York / projekt Zofa / kurator Jan Hoet

Nagrade in priznanja

 2019 Nagrada za najboljšo predstavo 9. Bienala slovenske plesne umetnosti Gibanica – performans Skupaj
 2019 Posebna nagrada Ksenije Hribar za predstavo Skupaj in sodelovanja v različnih projektih v zadnjih dveh letih
 2018 Borštnikova nagrada po presoji žirije - performans Skupaj
 2018 Nagrada Društva gledaliških kritikov in teatrologov Slovenije za najboljšo uprizoritev pretekle sezone – performans Skupaj (2017/2018)
 2013 Nagrada Ksenije Hribar za perspektivno koreografinjo, DSPS
 2005 Posebna omemba žirije, Gibanica – za predstavo R'z'R

Viri

 Združenje dramskih umetnikov Slovenije. Nagrade 53. Festivala Borštnikovo srečanje. Poročilo strokovne žirije.
 Društvo gledaliških kritikov in teatrologov Slovenije. NAGRADA DGKTS 2018 ZA NAJBOLJŠO UPRIZORITEV V MINULI SEZONI.
 Gibanica. Nagradi gibanice 2019
 Sigledal. Portal slovenskega gledališča. Nagrade Ksenije Hribar (obrazložitev).

Slovenski plesalci
Slovenski koreografi

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Tommy Wiseau adds himself to the cast of The Suicide Squad
By Riya Singh September 18, 2019No Comments
Thomas Wiseau, best known for writing, producing, directing, and starring in the 2003 film The Room, which has been described by many critics as one of the worst movies ever made and that which has gained cult film status has added himself into the cast for the upcoming movie The Suicide Squad.
Last week, James Gunn unveiled the official cast list for The Suicide Squad and while production is already gearing up, it appears Tommy Wiseau would like the join the ensemble.
In a post on his official Twitter account, Tommy Wiseau added his name to The Suicide Squad cast list photo James Gunn previously shared on social media. Curiously, Tommy Wiseau billed himself third in place of Jai Courtney, though an explanation was not provided in the post.
This ain't the first time he tried to be in a superhero movie
Tommy Wiseau Wanted To Play a Marvel or DC character way back in 2017
This isn't the first time Wiseau has tried to express his interest to join a superhero franchise. Over the past couple of years, Tommy Wiseau has been campaigning to play The Joker in a DC film.
The ensemble cast for the first Suicide Squad included Will Smith as Deadshot, Margot Robbie as Harley Quinn and Jared Leto as The Joker. James Gunn is expected to deliver on the fresh take on the super-villain team in his upcoming movie. It is likely that The Joker will not play a part in The Suicide Squad. Although the character is key to Harley Quinn's back-story, he has never been a key part of The Suicide Squad in the comics, and the Jared Leto Joker who appeared alongside Margot Robbie's Harley in Suicide Squad was controversial among many comic-book readers.
No joker in The Suicide Squad
A Joker-less Sucide Squad
So, after seeing Jared Leto was absent from the teaser poster for James Gunn's The Suicide Squad, it probably should not be surprising that the brash and colorful writer/director/actor has posted a modified version of that poster in which Wiseau's name is Photoshopped into the cast list.
Now that it seems pretty unlikely that any Joker will show up in this movie, Wiseau apparently keeps hoping against hope that Gunn's history as a micro-budget filmmaker would give him some sympathy for the guy behind The Room.
Written and directed by James Gunn, The Suicide Squad stars David Dastmalchian, John Cena, Jai Courtney, Joaquín Cosío, Nathan Fillion, Joel Kinnaman, Mayling Ng, Flula Borg, Sean Gunn, Juan Diego Botto, Storm Reid, Pete Davidson, Taika Waititi, Alice Braga, Steve Agee, Tinashe Kajese, Daniela Melchior, Peter Capaldi, Julio Ruiz, Jennifer Holland, Viola Davis, Idris Elba, Margot Robbie, and Michael Rooker.
The Suicide Squad will be released in theaters on August 6, 2021.
Sources: ComicBook, Heroic Hollywood
Tags •CastJokerThe Suicide SquadTommy Wiseau


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Arrivals These are all the flights arriving at SFO on April 15, 2020 / See all the flights or just the departures for this day / or browse all the flights
UA724 (HNL-SFO)
This United Airlines flight traveled from Honolulu International Airport to San Francisco International Airport, on April 15, 2020. It arrived at gate F13. Passengers were flying aboard a Boeing 777-200. See all the flights for UA724.
NZ9152 (HNL-SFO)
This Air New Zealand flight between Honolulu International Airport and San Francisco International Airport, on April 15, 2020, was operated by another airline. It arrived at gate F13. See all the flights for NZ9152.
UA2584 (HNL-SFO)
This United Airlines flight traveled from Honolulu International Airport to San Francisco International Airport, on April 15, 2020. See all the flights for UA2584.
B61715 (JFK-SFO)
This JetBlue Airways flight traveled from John F Kennedy International Airport to San Francisco International Airport, on April 15, 2020. See all the flights for B61715.
QF4121 (MIA-SFO)
This Eastern Australia Airlines flight between Miami International Airport and San Francisco International Airport, on April 15, 2020, was operated by another airline. It arrived at gate D10. See all the flights for QF4121.
AA2280 (MIA-SFO)
This American Airlines flight traveled from Miami International Airport to San Francisco International Airport, on April 15, 2020. It arrived at gate D10. See all the flights for AA2280.
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This JetBlue Airways flight traveled from Gen E L Logan International Airport to San Francisco International Airport, on April 15, 2020. See all the flights for B6333.
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This American Airlines flight traveled from Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport to San Francisco International Airport, on April 15, 2020. Passengers were flying aboard an Airbus A321. See all the flights for AA446.
AV560 (SAL-SFO)
This Avianca Airlines flight traveled from El Salvador International Airport to San Francisco International Airport, on April 15, 2020. See all the flights for AV560.
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This Southwest Airlines flight traveled from John Wayne Airport to San Francisco International Airport, on April 15, 2020. See all the flights for WN2189.
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Celiac Baby!: My Mother-in-Law is Here!!
My husband's mom is here visiting from El Salvador for the week, to celebrate my son's 3rd birthday. My son's party isn't until Saturday and he's already been spoiled with gifts from his relatives in El Salvador. A new backpack, cars, pyjamas, puzzles, a soccer ball and several other fun things that should keep him busy long after his abuelita leaves.
He spent the whole day home with her, playing games, singing songs, and trying to get better from the cough that's been plaguing him for the last two days. I'm so excited that she's here for his birthday because it will be the first one he'll get to celebrate with her. Can't wait!


Eastern Sierra Feed is excited to host Ruby Rose Cowgirl Clothes in store Nov 20 -22 for a little Cowgirl Winter Fashion Event.
Many local cowgirls know Kim from here days at the Ruby Rose Cowgirl Store on HWY 395 in Gardnerville or from the Genoa Cowboy Festival where she sets up her road show fashion trailer each year.
We had Ruby Rose in store last August and our customers seemed to really enjoy the experience, so we asked Kim to come back for a Winter Fashion Sales Event. Ruby Rose Cowgirl Clothes will feature her latest winter fashions and offer some incredible shopping deals while you shop.
To celebrate the event Eastern Sierra Feed is also offering a 10% store wide discount on all inventory Nov 20 -22 Only!
Hope you will stop by enjoy the fashion event and pick up your winter pet supplies.
I was recently reading an article while on vacation in regards to supplements and saw a interesting fact that involved one of the line of products that we carry at Eastern Sierra Feed. I know this years Derby had special meaning in The Carson Valley because of the local connections in the field.
The Article made reference to Dr.Gary Pusillo DVM, PH.D, a forensic Veterinarian and Animal Nutritionist, that accomplished a truly amazing statistic in this years Derby. Nine Horses in this years field were on Dr. Puillo's nutrition plan that included the following lines of products. Calm Balance EQ, Immediate Response and Pro-balance, and of the top five horses, three were on his program: Danza, Wicked Strong and Samraat.


In January of 2001 the Village of Solvay, located on the northwestern edge of the city of Syracuse, approached the Center for Community Design Research (CCDR) requesting assistance in formulating a master plan. After several discussions about how the CCDR could assist residents of Solvay, the CCDR agreed to conduct a bootstrapping session with village representatives. The bootstrapping session, held in April 2002, was a workshop for a small group of community leaders from Solvay to freely brainstorm with experienced professionals from the CCDR about ways to identify and address issues and concerns facing their community.
In a series of three workshops held over the fall of 2002, residents and business owners of the Village shared information on village characteristics, including strengths, valued places, underutilized resources and desired changes. They evaluated and revised draft vision statements, and developed and prioritized the critically important initial implementation steps. Based on the comments, the final vision statement was developed and design proposals were revised to reflect community desire and vision.
The following six goals contribute to the overall vision and are supported by proposed actions involving community organization, continued citizen participation, and projects: 1) strengthen the existing village center and establish strong and visible internal connections between this center and the wider community, 2) develop a new vision for Milton Avenue, rethinking its traditional role and image in light of societal and village changes, 3) encourage and support a range of housing choices and residential neighborhoods, 4) improve the major gateway corridors along Bridge Street, West Genesee Street and Milton Avenue, 5) strengthen and increase civic opportunities for community members of all ages, and 6) identify and celebrate the historic resources that represent the rich industrial and civic foundations upon which the village was developed and which continue to be valued.
During the spring of 2003 the CCDR prepared a Vision Plan handout and project report that summarizes the Solvay Visioning Planning process.
Another outcome of the vision planning process was the Milton Avenue Design Study, a more detailed investigation of the Milton Avenue corridor by Masters in Landscape Architecture student Rob Mooney.


Jake comes with his wonderful airplane, a toolbox, and his leather flyers helmet, jacket and scarf.
Jake is available without the airplane for $290.
Closeup of Jake playing in his airplane.
Here is a detailed view of the front of the plane.
You can see all the found objects that Jake used to build his airplane; red wagon, crates, siding, shutters, wash basin, soup cans, corrugated tin, and many other objects!
Here is the back of the plane.


Self reflection is like looking into a mirror and describing what you see. It is a way of assessing yourself, your ways of working and how you study. To put it simply 'reflection' means to think about something. Reflecting and composing a piece of self reflective writing is becoming an increasingly important element to any form of study or learning.
Why is self reflection important?
In any role, whether at home or at work, reflection is an important part of learning. You wouldn't use a recipe a second time around if the dish didn't work the first time would you? You would either adjust the recipe or find a new and, hopefully, better one. When we learn we can become stuck in a routine that may not be working effectively. Thinking about your own skills can help you identify changes you might need to make.
Strengths – What are my strengths? For example, am I well organised? Do I remember things?
Weaknesses – What are my weaknesses? For example, am I easily distracted? Do I need more practise with a particular skill?
Skills – What skills do I have and what am I good at?
Problems – What problems are there at work/home that may affect me? For example, responsibilities or distractions that may impact on study or work.
Achievements – What have I achieved?
Happiness – Are there things that I am unhappy with or disappointed about? What makes me happy?
Solutions – What could I do to improve in these areas?
Although self reflection can seem difficult at first, or even selfish or embarrassing, as it does not come naturally. you will find it becomes easier with practise and the end result could be a happier and more efficient you.
Learn about self awareness on the OU website, Skills for study. See Be aware of your habits.
Find out about reflective learning in the OpenLearn unit Learning how to learn, the section on Learning how to become a reflective learner.
Read the OpenLearn unit looking at reflection at work in Working life and learning.
Manchester University also have some useful help on reflective learning.


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Ruby's Enumerable is, by far, one of the greatest examples of how modules should be made. It offers a large collection of methods that are useful for those handling data structures and only requires you to implement a single method, each. So, any class that could behave like a collection and implement an each method can be used as an Enumerable.
A nice exercise to understand how Enumerable works is implementing it's main methods. By implementing each method ourselves, we understand better what each one of them is doing and how it was possible to build this much functionality requiring only a single method to be implemented.
Not much here, it includes CustomEnumerable (our own Enumerable implementation) and is basically a wrapper around an Array. The == method is also implemented here just so we can easily use the eq RSpec matcher when implementing our solution, it is not a requirement for a functional Enumerable implementation.
Returns a new array with the results of running block once for every element in enum.
This will be a pattern for almost all the methods we will be creating, create the destination array, call each on itself and then do the actual work. It's important to notice that our implementation knows nothing about where it is being included, the only expectation it has is that there is an each method implemented that yields to a block with an object.
First we setup the variables that will contain the result if we find it and a signal variable if we have really found the value. Why don't we just use result with nil to signal that we have not found anything? Because nil might actually be what the user is looking for!
So we really need to know if we have found something (whatever it is) or not before returning. And if we don't find anything, we call ifnone and use it's result as the result of the operation, if ifnone is nil we just return it.
This is useful if you always want to return a value back, even when nothing was found by our search.
While useful, find returns once it matches the first value inside the collection, what if I wanted to return all values inside the Enumerable that match a criteria?
Returns an array containing all elements of enum for which the given block returns a true value.
Since find exits at the very first match, we can't really reuse it here, the method has to be built on top of each from scratch. We build an array, then traverse our enumerable checking every item, once an item matches the block, we add it to the result. Once we're done, we return the collection of items that match.
Even in the case of no matches, an array (albeit empty) is returned so the code that uses find_all needs to remember that it has to consider this option and verify if the array has items or not (instead of checking for nil as it would be done with find).
reduce or inject (also known as foldLeft in other languages like OCaml and Scala) is a method that applies a function to an accumulator and an item inside the Enumerable and produces the accumulator object at the end of the run. While it sounds weird, it's actually a very useful function whenever you need to perform a function that aggregates data inside a collection.
If you do not explicitly specify an initial value for memo, then the first element of collection is used as the initial value of memo.
So, this is pretty simple, we just call block with accumulator and element and the next accumulator is whatever the block call produces. Pretty simple implementation, but this abstraction is incredibly powerful and available on all functional programming languages for aggregations (the reduce here is the reduce from the map-reduce paradigm!).
Now, let's include the first optional parameter, the operation symbol that serves as the operation to be applied instead of a block.
raise ArgumentError, "you must provide either an operation symbol or a block, not both"
raise ArgumentError, "the operation provided must be a symbol"
The actual implementation here does not change much, we have included a couple validations to make sure the values are the expected ones and when provided a symbol, we build a block to be used ourselves that just uses send to call the method defined by the symbol given as a parameter. The actual loop doesn't change.
First, the basic usage, calling reduce with a symbol that will be applied to the accumulator and every value. This is the same as our first reduce example, but now it uses very little code.
Not a Symbol? Sorry, can't use it.
Why get these two tests here first?
Look at them, they are actually the same case, which is the case without an accumulator, the only difference is that one provides a block and the other doesn't, but both will have to pull the first item inside the collection and then run the reduce operation.
How do we build this? Most of the code will be handling the parameter juggling. Since reduce was declared long before ruby had named parameters, there is no magic way to decide if the accumulator is an operation or not, we will have to manually check this.
The second spec, that expects nil to be returned when the collection is empty, fails. Why? Because each returns the collection itself once it runs, since the code was never executed (the collection is empty!) each just returns itself and not nil as our spec expects. So, that's why we need to explicitly declare our return value instead of relying on the iteration.
if accumulator.nil? && operation.nil? && block.nil?
raise ArgumentError, "you must provide an operation or a block"
Given we don't know exactly how the parameters will be provided or the collection structure, we can't really optimize this call (not unless we duplicate the code a bit, for instance, streamlining the implementation if there is an accumulator). But since we want this code to work for all cases, we will hope classes that include this module will provide implementations more aligned with their structure.
The code starts by verifying all parameters, if no parameters were provided, give it up, there's nothing to do here. Then it starts checking which case we're taking about here, the first check if operation and block are nil, if both are, it means the accumulator field will have to be the operation and that we don't have an accumulator.
Then we have the operation validation we had before and we reach another new piece, the check for the accumulator. If the accumulator is nil, we must pull the first item of the collection and we must also instruct the method to ignore the first iteration (as we have manually navigated to it).
Our new each loop now checks these special variables for the empty accumulator case so we can safely process the collection without duplicating the values. This would be a nice place for an optimization were we have the same loop we had before if there is an accumulator, you can definitely improve this method by including this change yourself.
And this concludes the reduce implementation, see if you can come up with better or faster solutions for this, there are definitely better options.
Our min and max implementations don't even have to care about it, all they have to do is to provide a block that does the comparison and returns the highest or smallest value found, all the looping and special case handling is done by the reduce function we wrote before. Quite powerful, isn't it?
There are many other Enumerable methods you can implement just using reduce, like each_with_index, each_with_object, count, max_by, min_by and others, give it a try and complete the enumerable implementation using reduce whenever you can.
And here we end our Enumerable overview by implementing it in Ruby. The full source code for this example is available on github.


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Animals And Us : TED Radio Hour Our relationship with animals is complicated: we love and fear them; hunt, consume and protect them. In this hour, TED speakers explore what happens when humans and animals interact.
What can animals teach us about ourselves?
Our relationship with animals is complicated: we love and fear them; hunt, consume and protect them. In this hour, TED speakers explore what happens when humans and animals interact.
Jon Mooallem: Why Do We Care About Some Animals More Than Others?
Ian Dunbar: Are We Training Dogs All Wrong?
Are We Training Dogs All Wrong?
Laurel Braitman: What Does Animal Madness Teach Us About Our Own?
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Frans de Waal: Do Animals Have Morals?


CHICAGO (AP) — If the St. Louis Blues somehow find a way into the playoffs in their final 10 games, they definitely will remember this weekend.
Defensemen Alex Pietrangelo and Vince Dunn each had a goal and three assists for the Blues (39-28-5), who also trailed 3-2 after two periods in Saturday night's 4-3 overtime victory against the Rangers. Alexander Steen had a goal and an assist, and Vladimir Sobotka also scored.
St. Louis is hoping to earn one of two wild cards in the tough Western Conference, but it trails Colorado, Anaheim and Dallas heading into the final stretch of the season.
"It's been a couple of really good days for us," Berglund said.
The Blues were trailing 4-3 with 1:22 left in regulation when Pietrangelo drove a long slap shot past a screened Jean-Francois Berube for his 15th of the season. Berglund then got the winner when his shot from near the right circle trickled through Berube's legs in OT.
"A couple of really big come-from-behind wins, but tonight was another level playing back-to-back games," coach Mike Yeo said.
Alex DeBrincat scored three times for last-place Chicago (30-34-9), which has dropped five of six, including its first loss to Buffalo since December 2009 on Saturday. David Kampf also scored, and Berube made 36 saves.
"Inconsistency's a word we've used too often this year," coach Joel Quenneville said.
DeBrincat gave the Blackhawks a 4-3 lead when the rookie completed his third career hat trick at 16:47 of the third, beating Jake Allen with a one-timer off a nice pass from Artem Anisimov.
But St. Louis rallied one more time while playing without star forward Vladimir Tarasenko, who leads the team with 27 goals. He is day to day with an upper-body injury after he got hurt in the first period against New York.
"It's fun to watch. This group is resilient," Pietrangelo said.
The Blues almost had the go-ahead goal with 1:57 left in the second when Jaden Schwartz's shot squeezed by Berube and came tantalizingly close to crossing the line before Blackhawks defenseman Jordan Oesterle knocked it back into his goaltender. The on-ice call of no goal was confirmed by a replay review.
Kampf then got a pass from Vinnie Hinostroza and drove to the net for his fourth of the season, making it 3-2 with just 1.4 seconds to go.
"I feel like we've played well and came up a little bit short. That's been the theme of this whole season," DeBrincat said.
DeBrincat scored twice in the first period, stopping a 13-game drought. But the Blues responded with two power-play goals in the second after beginning the night with one of the worst power-play units in the league.
Dunn was involved in each play. First, he had a big slap shot from the high slot go off Steen and past Berube at 2:02. Then he tied it at 2 with a one-timer from the right circle for his fifth goal at 5:14.
NOTES: Allen finished with 26 saves. … It was the first meeting between the teams since St. Louis' 5-2 victory on Oct. 18. They play two more times during the final week of the regular season. … Blackhawks C Matthew Highmore left in the second period after he was hit by Blues forward Brayden Schenn and went hard into the boards. He skated off with towel on his face for a cut on the side of his mouth. … Quenneville had no update on G Corey Crawford (upper-body injury) and F Anthony Duclair (lower body). Crawford hasn't played since Dec. 23, but the Blackhawks are leaving open the possibility he could play again this season.
Blues: Host the Boston Bruins on Wednesday night.
Blackhawks: Host the Colorado Avalanche on Tuesday night.


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Monsoon Raaga Kannada Film OTT release date confirmed
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After getting a positive response from its theatrical run, Dhananjaya starrer Monsoon Raaga, which is directed by S. Ravindranath. The film is the Kannada remake of Venkatesh Maha directorial and Subba Rao starrer Telugu film C/o Kancharapalem, which won critical acclaim, won several awards, and was also screened at the prestigious Indian Film Festival of Melbourne.
Monsoon Raaga is a slice-of-life anthology film featuring four different love stories of people of different age groups, and each story has something for everyone.
Rachita Ram in the female lead role alongside Daali Dhananjaya. Along with these two, it also features Yasha Shivakumar, Achyuth Kumar, Suhasini Maniratnam, Nihal, Suchitra, etc. Rachita has played a sex worker in the film, and it is the first time she plays such a character.
Now you can easily watch Monsoon Raaga Kannada Movie online sitting at home by taking Zee5 OTT subscription. The flick will begin streaming on Zee5 from December 9, 2022.
IMDB Rate: 8.5/10


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Alternative/Indie Rock, Experimental Electronic
Indie Pop, Twee Pop
Dance, Doom Metal, Finnish, Finnish Pop, J-pop, Pop
There are multiple artists with this name. 1) The Finnish Europop band Aikakone used the name Aika several times in their history.Typically Aika has English lyrics and Aikakone Finnish. There are the same four members in both bands: Alex, Vera, Maki and Sani. The music is mainly soft dance music where Alex, Sani and Vera are singing in harmony and Maki plays various instruments. 2) Aika is a solo project hailing from England in the underground of the metal scene, specialising in progressive metal of a darker nature.
1) The Finnish Europop band Aikakone used the name Aika several times in their history.Typically Aika has English lyrics and Aikakone Finnish. There are the same four members in both bands: Alex, Vera, Maki and Sani. The music is mainly soft dance music where Alex, Sani and Vera are singing in harmony and Maki plays various instruments.
2) Aika is a solo project hailing from England in the underground of the metal scene, specialising in progressive metal of a darker nature.
3) In the 80's there was a short-lived band named Aika. Aika was a new romantic-band from Pori. They released only two singles; Uni, Rakkautta / Ilman yst?v??, N?hd??n taas -maxi single and Musta Timantti "7-single which was written by Neumann from Dingo.
4) For the Japanese rock artist Aika see ??.
5) aika, daughter of legendary saxophone player Makoto Hirahara (Columbia Records Japan) and sister of Japanese pop star ???? , aika (Aika Hirahara) began playing the saxophone while growing up in Tokyo. aika?s love for music led her to pursue a Music Degree at Berklee College Of Music in Boston.
While at Berklee, aika discovered that singing and songwriting were her true passion and shortly after completing her degree, she released her debut album ?Ai-Wo? from EMI records, which reached the top 10 Japanese radio charts, to thunderous reviews.
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Lake Effect: Segments Podcast
'Cars Are Disappearing': GM Plants Close As Sedans Get Phased Out
By Mark Savage,
Dan Harmon, Audrey Nowakowski
Published December 13, 2018 at 11:58 AM CST
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GM said it would end production at five North American plants including in Lordstown, Ohio, and cut 15 percent of its salaried workforce. The Lordstown Plant assembles the Chevy Cruz.
General Motors announced in November that it's closing five plants in the U.S. and Canada and stopping production of several of its passenger cars. That will result in thousands of job losses as GM works to turn its financial picture around.
Analysts say GM has not adjusted to changing consumer tastes fast enough, which is why the company will now discontinue the once-popular Chevy Cruze and Volt lines, along with some Buick and Cadillac models.
"What's going on in the car world right now, is that cars are disappearing, sedans in particular," says auto contributor Mark Savage. "The car sales are just dropping right now."
Ford cars are down 20 percent this last month and down 18 percent for the year. Toyota sales are down 17 percent for the month and its two best selling cars, the Camry and the Accord, are down roughly 30 percent this last month, according to Savage.
GM's SUV, crossovers, and pickups are its most profitable lines, which runs counter to other companies that have had success with smaller hybrids and other fuel-efficient passenger cars. And what's profitable is what they're going to make more of, notes Savage.
"It doesn't make sense for the carmakers to keep making as many as they were making. I'm a little shocked that so many are disappearing so quickly," he admits, "but I'm an old guy and I expect cars to be out there on the road."
Savage says that foreign carmakers have clearly been able to fill niche markets more effectively and economically compared to American companies, but he hopes these sweeping changes will correct the course for General Motors.
"I hope that what this means is that they will have better products down the road, that something else will come out," he says. "In a perfect world, one of these plants at least is refurbished and you put some money into it and start building another vehicle and employ those people."
Savage joined fellow Lake Effect auto contributor Dan Harmon to breakdown what led to GM's sweeping changes, which models will no longer be on sales lots, and what the trend of larger vehicles could mean in a future potentially filled with electric and self-driving cars:
Mark Savage writes the auto review column, Savage on Wheels, for the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel and Savageonwheels.com. He is also editor of Scale Auto magazine, part of Kalmbach Media in Waukesha.
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by Kyle SullivanUS and PRC government officials have been paying closer attention to US companies' business activities in China, as regulators in both countries have stepped up anticorruption measures in recent years. Officials from the US departments of Justice and State and the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) traveled to China this summer to meet with their counterparts from the PRC Ministry of Supervision to strengthen bilateral cooperation in the battle against corruption. The discussions focused on how the United States has implemented and enforced the US Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) and encouraged the PRC government to improve enforcement of its own rules and regulations that govern corruption.
Amid these bilateral discussions, the PRC government has been improving China's anticorruption rules. In February, the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress revised the PRC Criminal Law to prohibit PRC-based companies and individuals from bribing foreign government officials. Loosely modeled after Article 16 of the United Nations Convention against Corruption and the antibribery provisions of the FCPA and UK Antibribery Law, the amendment forbids the act of giving "money or property" to any foreign government or public international organization official in exchange for receiving an improper commercial benefit. PRC judicial opinions—including the 2008 Opinions on Application of the Law in Commercial Bribery Cases—have defined "property" as any tangible or intangible good that can be quantified with a monetary value, such as gift cards, travel expenses, and meals. Penalties for violating the PRC Criminal Law's antibribery provisions can include imprisonment or detention of up to three years, depending on the amount paid in bribes, as well as financial penalties.
The US Department of Justice (DOJ) and the SEC, the regulatory bodies that enforce the FCPA, have initiated more investigations of US companies in China in recent years. Though it is difficult to quantify the increase in cases levied against US companies in China, DOJ and SEC have charged 25 companies and more than 50 individuals worldwide since 2009, according to statistics compiled by law firm Paul, Hastings, Janofsky and Walker LLP. Those figures starkly contrast with the number of convictions during the first 20 years after FCPA's enactment in 1977. During that time, only 17 companies and 33 individuals were prosecuted for FCPA violations. Investigations increased in China because of several factors, including greater interaction between US and PRC law enforcement agencies, increased use of reporting hotlines by Chinese citizens, and more voluntary disclosures from US companies.
US agencies recently concluded several cases involving US-based or US-listed companies in China. For example, DOJ and SEC closed a case this year against a subsidiary of US-based Maxwell Technologies, Inc. for violating the FCPA's antibribery provisions. DOJ and SEC collectively levied fines against Maxwell that amounted to roughly $15 million.
To avoid PRC legal action against China-based entities, their employees, suppliers, or downstream vendors, US companies that operate in or sell to China should familiarize themselves with the FCPA as well as China's Criminal Law and PRC anticorruption legislation. Greater understanding of these measures will allow companies to educate their employees about China's efforts to prevent corruption and bribery and to better inform internal compliance staff. Companies should conduct pre-emptive due diligence on potential business partners, suppliers, or agents prior to entering any contractual agreement with such parties. Finally, companies should be cognizant of red flags such as unusual payment patterns and whether a government official strongly encourages a potential partnership.


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The Voelker Orth Museum is available as a venue for weddings, parties, and group meetings. The setting can accommodate up to 60 guests. Please call to make an appointment to see our facilities.
Enjoy the colorful and fragrant atmosphere of the Voelker Orth Museum's prize-winning Victorian garden as the setting for your next event. The lush backdrop of flowers, berry-bearing bushes and trees bordering a central lawn provides an intimate haven for small wedding receptions, anniversary parties and other special events. Wedding ceremonies may take place under the trellis arch by the koi pond or in the parlor of the period house throughout the spring, summer and autumn seasons.
Space rental for a garden party includes use of the museum's annex building as a caterer's station. Restrooms are also located within the annex for your guests' use. The fee for renting the garden and annex is $160 per hour, a 2 hour minimum and a 4 hour maximum.
The Garden rental includes access to the annex building, use of tables and seating for 30, and driveway (parking for up to 3 cars). Additional seating is available for $1.25 per seat.
The fee for use of the house for events is $160 per hour, a 2 hour minimum and a 4 hour maximum. This provides first floor access to your guests (note: refreshments are restricted to the dining room and kitchen). Driveway access is included. Up to 20 people can be comfortably seated in the parlor.
A special Wedding Ceremony rate of $300 is available, covering a 2-hour rental for ceremonies in either the garden or house. Additional time is charged at $160 per hour.
The Victorian garden and the period rooms of the Voelker Orth museum are also available year-round as an exclusive venue for wedding photography and for wedding rehearsals. The fee is $125 for up to 90 minutes.
Reservations are required. For further information please contact us at 718-359-6227.
The Annex (the former carriage house of the Voelker Orth home), may be rented for use as a classroom, meeting, or lecture space for one-time or on-going programs. The space can accommodate up to 25.
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Items South view of Lowther Castle, seat of the Earl of Lonsdale
South view of Lowther Castle, seat of the Earl of Lonsdale
Allom, Thomas, 1804-1872
Thomas, J.
Fisher, Son, & Co.
Castles -- England
Allom, Thomas, 1804-1872 (Artist)
Thomas, J. (Engraver)
Fisher, Son, & Co. (Publisher)
Place: London
Shelf locator: PC CAST-Eng
Castles & palaces -- England
Lowther Castle (Lowther, England)
Castles & palaces -- England -- Lowther (England)
Estates -- England -- Lowther (England)
Extent: Plate mark 15 x 23 cm (5 3/4 x 8 3/4 in.)
Universal Unique Identifier (UUID): 30f8d900-c53d-012f-ecc2-58d385a7bc34
The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Picture Collection, The New York Public Library. "South view of Lowther Castle, seat of the Earl of Lonsdale" The New York Public Library Digital Collections. 1844. https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/510d47e2-eda9-a3d9-e040-e00a18064a99
The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Picture Collection, The New York Public Library. "South view of Lowther Castle, seat of the Earl of Lonsdale" New York Public Library Digital Collections. Accessed January 27, 2023. https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/510d47e2-eda9-a3d9-e040-e00a18064a99
The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Picture Collection, The New York Public Library. (1844). South view of Lowther Castle, seat of the Earl of Lonsdale Retrieved from https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/510d47e2-eda9-a3d9-e040-e00a18064a99
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Q: Mock non static method of a class I am trying to write a test with stubbing but mocking one of the methods does not happen as expected.
class A {
 public static getInstance(){
  return new A();
 }
 public String getConn(){
 return "Hello";
 }
}

class B {
 public String createConn(){
  A instance  = A.getInstance();
  return instance.getConn();
 }
}

My Test class:
@RunWith(PowerMockRunner.class)
@PrepareForTest(A.class)
public class TestClassB{

  @Spy
  B classB = new B();

  @Test
  public void testConn(){

      PowerMockito.mockStatic(A.class);
      given(A.getConn()).thenReturn("Welcome");
      assertEquals("Welcome", classB.createConn());
  }

I want to create a test on Class B, createConn method, and when I get the connection, instead of "Hello", I want to receive "Welcome" using mockito?

A: I found the solution of the problem.
  PowerMockito.mockStatic(A.class);
  PropertyManager mock = PowerMockito.mock(A.class);
  given(A.getInstance()).willReturn(mock);
  given(mock.getConn()).willReturn("Welcome");
  assertEquals("Welcome", classB.createConn());

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Why Do We Need an Ethical Framework for AI?
Why Do We Need an Ethical Framework for AI?Jean-François GagnéJune 18, 2018 August 16, 2019
Next week I'm headed to Brussels to be confirmed as a member of the European Commission's High-Level Expert Group on AI (you can check the link for the mandate and full list of members). Non-European representatives are incredibly rare occurrences in the EC's HLGs and I'm honored to have been accepted as we'll be acting as the steering committee for the European AI Alliance's work. It is an incredible initiative to support broad collaboration across domains of expertise, industry, society, and nationality. I applied to join because Europe has been setting the example for creating the much-needed frameworks for cooperation and regulation locally and as a bloc. It is critical that we do not overcomplicate these frameworks, and create something that the rest of the world can build on.
Ethics is a topic of conversation everywhere in the AI community. Many organizations are flaunting the ethical standards that they've created or revamped for their organizations trying to show that they are on the right side of history. But while it's clear to most people machines should follow ethical rules, I don't think we've done a good job of explaining the limitations of implementing those rules and why we still need to develop an ethical framework for machines. After all, don't we already have ethical frameworks to use? Yes, we do, but for the behavior of people in society, not machines automating our world. A productive conversation about regulating AI will depend on us figuring out how we even translate our stated values, whatever they may be, into a language that machines can understand.
How we currently shape our ethics
As people, we are born into a framework, a training system that starts with our parents teaching us their values and shaping the fundamental structures for our behavior. After only just a few years of development, we mix in another, a broader set of instructions at school. There we are taught how to engage in social relationships, learning stories about what's right and wrong—starting out as simple nursery rhymes and evolving into detailed histories of the ongoing debate of Right vs. Wrong.
Eventually, our values are more or less set in stone and we become full adults responsible for applying them, though the training is not yet done. Our businesses and institutions impose long-standing agreements for how those values are applied in day-to-day life. Through codified rules and objectives, we have a long list of explicit ethics of what one should do as a citizen. But, also embedded throughout society we have checks and balances on behavior—subtle cues or outright whistleblowing—that enforce implicit ethics we have not yet formalized.
We have this gray area because some things are still up for debate, whether the behavior is as old as time or newly possible thanks to technology. We don't always see how actions can accumulate harmfully or have carry-on effects that are bad for society. Thankfully, we have this robust system of checks and balances that keep the debate going and act as certain guardrails against runaway behavior as we figure it out, an extension of the role our parents and teachers. Our overall ethical framework as people is ultimately a dialogue; it is constantly evolving, updating with new generations of people and the continuing debate of Right vs. Wrong.
The void of an ethical framework for machines
When we create models of the world to automate tasks, we isolate those tasks from our framework of evolving values. We use AI to encode models of the world by training the machine on data. It's very useful because it creates models we as people are not able to fully understand (otherwise we would have coded them ourselves). These models are becoming exponentially cheaper and more accurate, but also more complicated and less easy to understand as they continuously improve using feedback loops of more data. We cannot comprehend all the possibilities, and therefore cannot preemptively set all of the needed rules for its behavior.
This is OK if we are able to set guardrails, but right now we don't have those either. While the machine's model of the world may capture the ethics from the moment that the training data was captured and the intent was set (consciously or unconsciously), it can run without any further dialogue and effectively operates in a void of any ethical framework. That is because the language of our ethical framework as people (social relationships, institutions, words) is not the same as the language the machine operates in (data).
If we want to apply the power of these tools to certain areas, we will need to introduce new levels of hygiene to our data, and even ethics as people. A hospital can perform incredible feats of healing but requires a sterile environment to perform. We can perform great feats of societal cohesion with AI but will need to practice good hygiene with our data, regularly scrubbing for bias or for behavior that will never do well to be automated. It is in engaging with the feedback loops of training data that we will be able to create levers to extend our ethical framework into the machine's model.
We must extend our ethical dialogue as people to machines. It is by adding more and more of these touchpoints throughout the machines' development and use that we can speak the same language and become sure they will respect our laws and values. This conversation is going to be very challenging both with the machines, but also amongst ourselves to determine how to build the new framework. It will force us to become more conclusive about some debates we've allowed to stay gray for too long.*
This beginning in Europe is encouraging, though. We are off to the right start by bringing to the table experts who have deep knowledge of our institutions, laws, social relationships and debates. As technologists, we will need to do our part to build the means of translation and not avoid the certain hard questions to come.
*While AI has lots of potential for automating harmful bias, it can also highlight it in a powerful way. Right now, the lack of explainability in algorithms used in the justice system prevents them from rationalizing biased decisions, letting the pattern of bias speak more plainly. This has helped fuel the debate on overall bias in the justice system and put the breaks on the deployment of algorithms while these very difficult conversations (hopefully) get worked out.
You can also find these posts on Medium and LinkedIn.
Photo by Joakim Honkasalo.
Designing for the Humans in the Loop – Part IIIJean-François GagnéDecember 1, 2021 December 14, 2021
December 1 December 14 Designing for the Humans in the Loop – Part III
"F*** the Algorithm", It's Time to Get Our Agency Back – Part IIJean-François GagnéJuly 14, 2021 December 14, 2021
July 14 December 14 "F*** the Algorithm", It's Time to Get Our Agency Back – Part II
AI Regulation is a Chance to Fix Deeper Problems – Part IJean-François GagnéJune 23, 2021 December 14, 2021
June 23 December 14 AI Regulation is a Chance to Fix Deeper Problems – Part I
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The broadest definition of ethics is outdated. What is needed is a new definition to begin with. This could be done as a call for whitepapers. These fresh ideas for a new definition of ethics would lead to the sweet spots that aren't visible, yet. Find the sweet spots; find your new definition of ethics. Then Jean-Francois's vision could be transformed into all kinds of things and understood in a framework that everyone understands clearly. This is the best strategic way going forward. Thank you, Michael Pokocky.
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AMANA, Iowa – Hillary Rodham Clinton's dominating performance in the race for the Democratic nomination hasn't yet won over this state's farmers, retirees and health-care workers still nursing doubts about her – from her politics to her personality – making Iowa the ultimate Democratic battleground this fall.
While Clinton's lead in national polls has held at 20 percentage points, and she leads in almost every critical early voting state, Iowa is locked in a three-way dead heat, and represents the best chance Clinton's opponents have to knock her off.
John Edwards has blanketed Iowa since he came in second here in the 2004 primary.
While Edwards trails Clinton and Barack Obama nationally, he's made Iowa the centerpiece of his strategy, and continues to draw strong support here.
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At a Johnson's County Democrats BBQ last night, where Obama sent actor Forrest Whitaker in his stead, Clinton focused on middle American issues.
Clinton is rolling out a bus tour featuring a series of small events that will let her use personal contacts to try to cast aside some of the charged impressions Iowans may have formed about her.
She's also rolled out a new ad for Iowa voters, showing her at Ground Zero wearing a protective mask and touting her health-care efforts.
Also, in the 21 field offices set up around Iowa, the former first lady has pumped up staffing and shelled out more than $1 million for ads.
But the New York senator's strong debate performances, compelling TV ads and hefty fund-raising so far haven't dispelled many Democratic voters' personal reservations about her.
"I think she needs to be more real," said Sister John Thomas Hackett, 85, a retired nun from Sioux City who ranked the Democrats during lunch at the Stone Hearth Bakery in Amana.
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Q: How to change component places on click? What i want when user click on some button to change place for that component. I want to put some component on first place. Can i achive that? Any suggestion?
So if i have something like this:
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So on click to be like this:
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Is that possible to do?

A: create one variable for that and display like that.
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Cannabis Credited for Toddler's Radiation Recovery
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Cannabis Credited for Toddler's Radiation Recovery
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Source: Continuous News Service
The parents of a Missoula 3-year-old say that if they had listened to the doctors their son would've died.
Cash Hyde is now cancer-free for a second time and his parents say marijuana is his best medicine.
"Cashy went through 30 rounds of radiation without one nausea or pain medication besides medical cannabis,"
Cash's dad, Mike Hyde said.
When Mike and Kalli Hyde learned Cash's brain cancer returned in October, doctors told them he had a 30% chance of surviving five years. They said recurring brain tumors have a rare chance of shrinking, and at best, they could only stop it from metastasizing further.
The Hyde's switched Cash to an all-vegan diet, alkaline-adjusted water and cannabis oil and the tumor's growth slowed by 55% buying them time to wait for proton radiation.
The radiation shrunk the tumor. Now it's gone, and Cash is returning to a normal life laughing with his older brother, Colten, and playing with Play-Doh. But it wasn't easy for the Hyde's to get back to this normalcy. Mike Hyde said:
"I've had to break state and federal laws just to keep Cashy alive,"
The Hyde's don't look at cannabis oil the same way as some of Montana's lawmakers.
"I know that I'm not a criminal,"
Mike said.
"I know that I saved my son's life, and if I have to go sit in jail for that, that's way better than a pediatric oncology floor."
Cash takes hydrocortisone and cannabis oil twice a day in his gastronomy tube. It's a formula the Hyde's say works even though they're going against doctors recommendations of different pharmaceutical drugs- drugs that the Hyde's believe have much worse side effects.
"Most cancer patients, especially second-time remission cancer patients, most of them are on liver and kidney transplant lists, waiting for new kidney or livers,"
Mike Hyde said.
"Cashy's not; Cashy's playing with Plah-Doh."
The Hyde's are now looking forward to more family time as Cash will become a big brother in a couple months. Mike Hyde said:
"You know we just live our life three months at a time," Kalli Hyde said. "His scans are every three months and we just continue with our protocol that we had him on and just hope and pray that the cancer doesn't come back again."
"Why is Cashy alive? Because he's blessed. Because he's pioneering a better way to fight cancer, I would say."
The Hyde's are inviting the community to celebrate Cash being cancer free for the second time at the Elbow Room at 1855 Stephens Avenue in Missoula on Friday, March 30 at 7 p.m. A raffle will benefit The Cash Hyde Foundation, which supports families fighting pediatric cancer.
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