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Mogadishu marks its first peaceful Eid al-Fitr celebration in years
By Robyn Dixon
Aug. 19, 2012 12:24 PM PT
MOGADISHU, Somalia -- When Faisa Abdi Salad heard fireworks and gunshots in Mogadishu at the sighting of the new moon that signals the end of the Islamic holy month of Ramadan, she thought the city was under attack.
She said it took a while for it to sink in that the guns and explosions were marking a celebration, not violence.
A year ago, the Al Qaeda-linked militia Al Shabab still occupied a large part of the city; it has since abandoned the capital but still holds a large swath of southern Somalia and still launches regular attacks in Mogadishu, but its support there has sharply declined.
Mogadishu residents now live in an unusual state of peace, with businesses opening and members of the diaspora returning. On Monday, the term of the transitional government expires and a new president is due to be elected by a new parliament. Many Somalis hope that the change of government will usher in an era of peace, but some fear a return to clan violence that plagued the country in the past.
'I felt afraid when I heard heavy gunshots and thought that Al Shabab had attacked a nearby police station. But then I realized that it was only for bullets fired in the air in celebration,' said Salad, a mother of five.
'I nearly burst into tears of happiness,' she said, as Mogadishu celebrated its first peaceful Eid al-Fitr celebration, marking the end of Ramadan, in more than 20 years.
Posters and paintings covered the walls as Muslims celebrated with sweets and gifts of new clothes and toys for children.
Fanah Abdiasiis Mohamed, 32, a mathematics teacher, said he rose before dawn Sunday and got dressed in a new yellow sarong, a crisp white shirt and a red turban.
He went to the Adurahman Bin-Owf mosque in the Waberi district of the capital and laid a prayer rug on the deck of the mosque's first floor -- an area that has been out of use in previous celebrations due to the violence.
'Today I am very blessed to pray peacefully without fear of mortar shells and stray bullets,' he said. 'There is no doubt that Mogadishu faces a new era, and may Allah bring us peace and prosperity.'
Mohamed said he hoped the next Eid celebration would see Mogadishu so peaceful that residents could stay out celebrating until midnight -- 'if the upcoming government doesn't bring back the trauma of the past.'
Mohamed's 6-year-old son, Abdulkadir, proudly wore a new pair of blue jeans Sunday, and ran outside to play with the other boys in the neighborhood, many of whom had been given exactly the same gift as him: new toy guns.
The U.N. special representative of the secretary-general for Somalia, Augustine Mahiga, wished Somalis a blessed Eid.
'As this holy month [of Ramadan] comes to an end, Eid offers us the opportunity to reflect not only on the sacrifices made but also on the remarkable progress we have made, Mahiga said in a statement.
'August 20 is literally on our doorstep. The transitional period is about to end with the formation of a new parliament that will allow the elections of a new Speaker, Deputy Speaker and a President,' he said, adding that this would pave the way for democratic elections in the future.
'It is a difficult moment which has required hard and courageous decisions. We have come too far to fail when we are just hours away from the end of the transitional period.'
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Robyn Dixon was a foreign correspondent for the Los Angeles Times. She has reported from China, sub-Saharan Africa, Russia, the Caucasus, Central Asia and other parts of the former Soviet Union, as well as Afghanistan and Iraq. She left The Times in October 2019.


"We will deepen and broaden sanctions in Russia's financial, energy, and defense sectors. These measures will increase Russia's political isolation as well as the economic costs to Russia, especially in areas of importance to President [Vladimir] Putin and those close to him," US President Barack Obama said in a statement on Thursday.
"We are watching closely developments since the announcement of the ceasefire and agreement in Minsk, but we have yet to see conclusive evidence that Russia has ceased its efforts to destabilize Ukraine," Obama said. "If Russia fully implements its commitments, these sanctions can be rolled back."
While details officially remain unknown, a Reuters source has alleged that the US intends to sanction Russia's largest bank, Sberbank, and tighten restrictions on other Russian banks.
Previously, access to the US capital market was restricted for five Russian banks – VTB, Gazprombank, Bank of Moscow, Russian Agricultural Bank and Vnesheconombank (VEB). The Aug. 1 sanctions restricted Sberbank's activity in the EU.
As for the European Union, the bloc will list their new limitations in the official journal Friday, which will mean they will come into effect immediately. Brussels will add 24 individuals to the list which blocks travel to the EU and asset freezes. Russian leaders and businessmen, as well as politicians in Crimea and the Donbass, will be added to the blacklist.
According to the official document, the EU will halt services Russia needs to extract oil and gas in the Arctic, deep sea, and shale extraction projects.
Three of Russia's major energy companies and the country's three largest defense entities will be restricted from raising long-term debt on European capital markets, Van Rompuy said.
Five major Russian state-owned banks will also be banned from any long-term (over 30-day) loans from EU companies.
Major Russian defense companies will be barred from debt refinancing, and the EU will also ban the export of any technology considered military "dual-use" to nine Russian companies.
Meanwhile, an EU source told RIA-Novosti news agency that the fresh European Union sanctions won't affect the Russian gas sector.
"The energy sector affected by these sanctions is limited to the oil sector," the source said.
On July 16, the US blacklisted several defense sector companies include Almaz-Antey Corporation, the Kalashnikov Concern and Instrument Design Bureau, as well as companies such as Izhmash, Basalt, and Uralvagonzavod.
If the EU follows the US lead on hitting Russian companies that also supply the Russian military, the above mentioned will be blocked from debt financing.
The European Commission has agreed to amend or suspend the sanctions in accordance with progress in Ukraine. A ceasefire was agreed by the Ukrainian government and rebels in the East on September 5.
"Thus, if the situation on the ground can be trusted, the European Commission and the EU Foreign Service will request to amend, suspend, or cancel sanctions, either in part or in full," Van Rompuy said, as quoted by ITAR-ITASS.
Media sources suggest Gazprom Neft, Transneft, and Rosneft will all fall under Friday's sanctions.
Gazprom Neft is the oil subsidiary of Russian gas giant Gazprom.
Transneft is Russia's state-owned oil pipeline company that exports all of Rosneft's crude oil, and exports 56 percent of Russia's total crude exports.
Rosneft, Russia's largest oil producerwas put on the US sanctions list on July 16 and later added to the EU list on July 29. In July, Russia's largest independent natural gas producer, Novatek was also added to the blacklist which bans the export of hi-tech oil equipment needed in Arctic, deep sea, and shale extraction projects to Russia.
Russia said it will respond to Western sanctions with equal strength, and last week Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev said that closing Russian airspace to European airlines was an option being considered.
President Putin's spokesman, Dmitry Peskov, said that new EU sanctions make no sense, as they are being introduced when Russia is making vigorous efforts to stop the bloodshed in southeastern Ukraine.
"The EU doesn't see, or prefers not to see, the real state of events in [Ukraine's] Donbass and doesn't want to know about the efforts aimed at settling the conflict," Peskov said.
"We regret the EU's decision to impose new sanctions. We repeatedly expressed our disagreement and incomprehension about the sanctions that were implemented earlier, which we considered and will consider illegal," he added.
Russia's Foreign Ministry said Thursday that the EU was apparently very much against any peaceful resolution of the crisis in Ukraine.
"By taking this step, the European Union has de facto made its choice against a peaceful resolution of the inter-Ukrainian crisis," the ministry said in a statement.


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Faqolli har deltagit i flera musiktävlingar i Albanien, däribland Notafest, Polifest och Top Fest. Faqolli har även arbetat tillsammans med den rumänska musikgruppen Deep System. Under sommaren 2012 släppte hon låten "Lojrat që bën ti".

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Wife Can't Escape – Chapter 66
T/N: Grateful for Mary for doing an excellent job proofreading WCE even though she was about to give up on this novel for being too angsty LMAO. If anyone of you who's like Mary and wanted to stop reading, I advise that you don't! Zhao Nanyu will definitely get his retribution and the feeling will be so sweet! Ah I'm also really touch by a reader who asked me if I was okay…thank you so much for wanting to know if I'm still alive and well (๑′̥̥̥▵‵̥̥̥ ૂ๑) why are you guys so sweet! I'm definitely okay, just feeling the blues!
Song Luan was sitting beside the bed, but Zhao Nanyu ignored her, and only continued to practice his calligraphy calmly.
Even if Song Luan wanted to quarrel with him, he could stop her with just three or two words. As long as she didn't push his buttons, he wouldn't get angry, and would just watch her act mischievous like a fool.
A few days ago, Zhao Nanyu took care of her even when the situation in the capital was uncertain. Now that the overall situation was settled, he had already gotten the power that he wanted. How could he possibly let her go? The number of people guarding in the dark also hadn't decreased.
Song Luan took off her shoes and socks and tucked herself in the quilt. After sleeping for a while, she felt so hot that she stretched her bare feet out of the bed.
Zhao Nanyu knew that she couldn't sleep, so he didn't write nor read any words anymore. He went to the bedside and took off his clothes. Song Luan was still angry at him. After thinking about it, what should she do with this little pervert?
She turned around in silence and faced him. Her bright eyes were looking at him expectantly.
Before she could make a sound, Zhao Nanyu had already opened his mouth, and said, "I'll send someone to take you back at noon tomorrow, and you'll come back in the evening."
Song Luan's words were forced in her throat. She softened her voice and squeezed out a very sweet smile on her face. "How can this be enough? You can give me two more days. It's not that I won't come back."
Zhao Nanyu embraced her shoulders, and pressed her small head in his arms. He closed his eyes, hooked his lips, and said, "Then you can't go."
Song Luan swallowed her anger, and forced a smile, "You're my magnanimous husband."
Zhao Nanyu laughed and said, "Okay, I'll send you in the morning. Isn't that a long time? It will be enough."
"I'm so angry that I can't make sense with you."
It's useless reasoning with him.
It's strange that Zhao Nanyu could always guess what she's thinking. She arched out her arms, but was pulled back by the man behind her as soon as the quilt was covered.
That night, in Song Luan's long dream, there was a woman she had never seen before. She was wearing her familiar bright red dress, and her hair was decorated with flower ornaments.
She was gorgeous and exquisite.
She stood on the tower with her hair tied high. The cold wind swayed her dress. The expression on her face seemed very sad. No, it was not just sad, but it was a kind of despair.
The desperate smile on her lips seemed to show she didn't have any attachment to this world.
Her hands were tightly tied behind her, surrounded by a circle of armored soldiers, their sharp knives facing her. It's as if one single movement of hers would trigger the ten thousand swords in front of her to pierce her heart.
With the sound of 'zhu', a sharp arrow passed by Song Luan's ear, and the woman on the tower was shot directly. The person who shot the arrow was very skillful because it precisely pierced the center of her heart.
Song Luan couldn't tell whether it was a dream or not, but she could almost hear the sound of the arrow cutting through the cloth.
The arrow seemed to have been shot in her heart. Her chest was suddenly filled with severe pain. In betweens of being awake and being asleep, she saw the young taoist who she had met once. His expressionless face whispered faintly on her ear, "Did you see that? That is you."
Song Luan covered her chest, and was unable to stand straight.
She was woken up by Zhao Nanyu.
When she woke up, her head was covered with sweat and her face was pale. Zhao Nanyu's dark eyes looked at her motionlessly, and his eyes were even more worried. He asked, "Why are you crying?"
He gently wiped her tears, as he sighed, "If you really want to stay with your mother for a few more days, it's not impossible."
In the dream, although the sharp arrow that penetrated the heart disappeared, her chest still felt a little dull, and there was a kind of stagnant air hovering above it.
She suddenly stretched out her hand and hugged Zhao Nanyu's waist. She desperately looked at him and said, "My chest hurts."
Who was that young taoist? He obviously knew more than she did. What was this weird dream? Why was the woman who was pierced by an arrow on top of the tower in her dream familiar?
Zhao Nanyu's face changed slightly, and the blood color of his lips faded a little. He said, "I'll ask Zhao Chao to come and see you."
This time he invited not a doctor, but Zhao Chao.
Zhao Nanyu's face was as white as paper. With his eyes closed, he could still remember the symptom of tianqing.
At first, it would start with only a trivial pain, but slowly, the ache would gradually deepen, corroding her internal organs step by step, and the person under this poison would die slowly in great pain.
Song Luan looked up at him and said, "Can you call someone else? Your brother still hates me."
"He dares not."
Zhao Nanyu moved, and was planning to get up and dressed, but Song Luan's chest was stuffy, and she was still very uncomfortable, so she held his waist and refused to let go. "Don't go. Stay with me for a while."
Holding him could make her feel at ease.
Zhao Nanyu was shocked, but he nodded, and said gentle words to her, while his fingers gently brushed her hair. "Do you want to sleep for a while? Don't worry, I won't go."
"I'll just hold you. I don't want to sleep." She wrapped her hands and legs around him, clinging closely to his lead body, rubbing every inch, "You are so comfortable."
Fragrant, warm.
Zhao Nanyu's mood gradually changed by her constant rubbing, his eyes became dark, "Don't move."
A man who hadn't had sex for two months couldn't stand the slightest provocation.
His ferociousness could leave her half dead.
Zhao Chao's marriage meetings came one after another, but his mother had no way to force him. His parents were in a hurry, but he himself was not, so he didn't take it to heart.
When his second elder brother invited him to live in Huai Shui Residence, Zhao Chao was happy in his heart, because he didn't need to listen to his mother's thoughts.
After he arrived, Zhao Chao found that his second brother's face was not very good, and the air pressure around him was heavy. He unfolded his fan and half jokingly said, "Second brother can get angry in the morning?"
Zhao Nanyu pursed his lips. "I don't have the heart to laugh with you. You carefully check the pulse of your second sister-in-law."
Zhao Chao's fingers stopped, and he began to show his upright smile, "What's the matter?"
Zhao Nanyu took a deep breath. His throat was hoarse, and his original voice couldn't be heard. He said, "Are you sure that the amount of poison I took before is not enough to kill her?"
In fact, he stopped the drug early summer last year.
Before Zhao Nanyu fell in love with Song Luan, he still wanted her to die.
Song Luan's temperament began to change obviously. At that time, he thought she was pretending, so he still didn't show mercy.
It was when spring had passed that he completely put off his killing intention. He stopped the poison in the early summer.
Zhao Chao was silent, and could only say, "My master is eccentric. He only makes poisons, not antidotes. But last time when I checked sister-in-law, I didn't see any signs of poisoning."
Either the time was short, or the quantity was insufficient. Zhao Chao was not clear which one it was.
"Go and see her," Zhao Nanyu said.
In any case, he would not let her die.
Zhao Nanyu pulled up the corner of his mouth and laughed. He couldn't let her die in his own hands.
Song Luan came out of the house, her clothes were light and flowing. It showed her full waist.
She stood in the sunlight, the golden light poured down, and it evenly sprinkled on her body. Her skin looked fair and beautiful.
Zhao Chao shook for a moment. He quickly retracted his eyes, stepped back two steps, and said, "Second sister-in-law."
Song Luan pretended to smile at him. "Third brother."
She didn't want to get angry with Zhao Chao, fortunately, he didn't look at her with eyes full of scorn.
The two didn't have much to talk about, so Song Luan took the lead in saying, "I heard from my mother that you have been meeting with a lot of girls these days. Is there anyone you like?"
Zhao Chao frowned. "You don't have to worry about it."
Song Luan had no intentions of worrying about it. She just had nothing to say. The atmosphere was too awkward, so she just picked up a random topic. She didn't know that it would irritate him.
"My mouth talks a lot." Song Luan said.
Zhao Chao asked, "I heard from second elder brother that second sister-in-law is not feeling well these days?"
Song Luan put on her make-up, so he couldn't see how she looked. "It's the old symptoms."
Zhao Nanyu knew that she didn't want to see Zhao Chao, but he was not willing to let her see a doctor, so he held her hand and said, "Let the third brother check your pulse first."
Song Luan didn't want to make trouble, so she sat down and stretched out her hand.
She had a speculation in her heart that before she fainted, the pain in her heart was only just a prelude.
At present, there was no way to change the ending of the plot directly related to the original owner. The days of the original owner's poisoning would not change.
It would be one day this spring.
Maybe it was today.
He put his finger on her pulse and held his breath. After a while, Song Luan found that Zhao Chao's face gradually became ugly. He gave her a deep look, and hesitantly spoke, "Second sister-in-law…"
Zhao Chao found that Song Luan's heart had been eroded very badly.
It's clear that there was no diagnosis last time.
"What happened to me? I feel very good. Both my waist and legs do not ache. I can eat and drink. I can also jump."
Why did Zhao Chao look at her with that expression that she was dying? Didn't he know it's bad and unlucky?
She hated this kind of look that made her believe she would die!
Zhao Chao did not know how to make a sound for a moment, so he had to shut his mouth.
He only gave her a silent response.
It took Zhao Nanyu a long time to find his voice. His bones turned white, as he asked, "How is she? Please tell the truth."
"Not so good."
Zhao Chao didn't want to say those words in front of Song Luan. He once hoped that Song Luan would die. But now, he couldn't bear to, what should his second brother do?
Killed the woman he loves? He couldn't stand it.
Song Luan looked at Zhao Nanyu dead-white face. His lean body seems like it would be blown by the wind. He was really worried about her.
Song Luan took Zhao Nanyu's arm and said, "I'm really good. These are all old problems. Don't make a fuss about it. Oh, I'm in a hurry to see…poof.."
Before she could finish talking, Song Luan's throat was filled with blood, and the corners of her mouth slowly oozed with blood, which accidentally got on Zhao Nanyu's clothes.
Truly.
The original book was now retaliating against her!!! Not a single thing.
[The dazzling sunshine was a little bright. The wind in early spring was cool. The magnolia flowers on the branches and the petals were swinging with the wind. Song Luan held the tree trunk, and a mouthful of blood spurted out from her lips.]
Song Luan looked at the magnolia flower blooming in the yard. She was very sure that she was poisoned. She slowly moved her eyes to Zhao Nanyu's face and wanted to tell him that he didn't need to be sad.
Save your energy and wait for me to die.
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Archaeology museum opens on campus
April 11, 2017 | College of Bible and Ministry |
A grand opening for the Linda Byrd Smith Museum of Biblical Archaeology took place during Spring Sing weekend, April 13-16. The museum is located on the first floor of the McInteer Center for Bible and World Missions.
"We live in a time when people assume the Bible is fairytales, but the truth is, the Bible is grounded in history, historical events and cultural context," said Dr. Monte Cox, dean of the College of Bible and Ministry. "We don't believe what we believe because archaeology has proven it, but there are so many times when skeptics question some biblical fact and then archaeology affirms it."
Dr. Dale Manor, museum coordinator, is the field director for the Tel Beth-Shemesh dig site in Israel. For more than 20 years, he has collected artifacts and replicas from Israel.
"I look for artifacts that enrich the understanding of the larger cultural setting," Manor said. "Clearly the Bible is a narrative focusing on a particular point, but it unfolds within the lives and culture of people, and in my opinion, the more we know about that culture and those lives, the more we recognize that we are more alike than we are different from the standpoint of our passions, frustrations, and trying to figure out what life is all about."
Linda Byrd Smith ('67) donated the initial funds to begin the museum. She teaches Bible classes for Arkansas jails and prisons, her home church, and other religious organizations. Smith has also produced videos for the Center for Christian Broadcasting about women in the Bible. Several weekends a year, she helps lead women's retreats and conferences.
"As I taught classes about Bible history, it was clear that an understanding of the culture of the time helped us to understand God's message," Smith said. "I've always been fascinated with history of our country and the world but even more fascinated with 'His-story' — God's story — and how it gives meaning to our stories."
Smith said she visited Manor one day to borrow some of his artifacts for upcoming presentations when she noticed the other artifacts and replicas that he kept in his office. She wished others could see them as well and mentioned the idea of displaying the pieces on campus. Smith said she mentioned the idea to Cox, President Bruce McLarty and architect Mike Steelman, and she started asking other professors if they would contribute their archaeological findings.
"Dr. Manor was so willing to help organize the effort, and now I'm excited it's happening," Smith said. "As he talks about his work in Beth-Shemesh— his research in archaeology — the Bible comes alive."
In addition to providing assistance for building plans by Steelman, who has designed several campus buildings on, Megan Valentine ('11), a curator and registrar at the Alexandria Museum of Art, is the curatorial consultant for the archeological museum. She has provided design and content advice.
Cox said the museum will be a resource for students to better understand their biblical studies.
"I think the museum is a nice add-on feature for when we are teaching something in the Old and New Testaments," Cox said. "I think it will be a living resource for teachers to take their classes through there."
According to Manor, dues from student archaeology club members were once taken in hopes for purchasing a display cabinet but now have been used for the new exhibit as well as an artifact from Barakat Antiquities in Jerusalem.
Junior Evan Pratt, an archaeology club member, is interested in ancient culture and said the archaeology museum will help students gain a better understanding.
"The museum is definitely an educational opportunity in that they can go and see the artifacts that were used by people from that time period could have affected their lives and way of thinking," Pratt said. "If we see what their world consisted of and the objects they interacted with, we get a better understanding of how the biblical story is true in normal life and normal people and how the objects we interact with, the artifacts we have around us change our perspective on the world, ourselves and everything else."
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Appellate Practice Employment & Labor
Seventh Circuit: Self-Serving Statements Best Served with a Side of Factual Support
Kyle Engelke
Whitaker v. Wisconsin Department of Health Services, 849 F.3d 681 (7th Cir. 2017), recently served up a refresher on the role of self-serving affidavits in summary judgment proceedings. In Whitaker, the plaintiff alleged that she was fired by a state agency as a result of intentional discrimination based upon her disability. Whitaker suffered from chronic back pain and was granted repeated and consecutive leaves over the course of several months. After the third consecutive request for leave, her employer granted another leave, provided a date to return to work, and informed the plaintiff her leave was otherwise exhausted for the year. After Whitaker failed to return to work on the designated date, the agency fired her.
Whitaker brought suit under the federal Rehabilitation Act, claiming she was illegally terminated due to her disability. The Wisconsin Department of Health Services sought summary judgment on multiple, independent grounds. The district court granted summary judgment for the agency, finding that Whitaker failed to provide evidence that she could perform the essential functions of her position, a pre-requisite of a valid claim.
On appeal, the Seventh Circuit affirmed. The court explained that while Whitaker was disabled within the meaning of the statute, regular attendance was an "essential function" of her employment and she failed to provide evidence regarding the effectiveness of her course of treatment or the medical likelihood of her recovery. Because the medical notes provided by Whitaker stated nothing other than "medical leave," Whitaker needed to rely upon her own affidavit to survive summary judgment on this issue.
Here, the Seventh Circuit reiterated that "self-serving" statements like a party affidavit can and will be used as "perfectly admissible evidence through which a party tries to present its side of the story at summary judgment." Id. at 686. Thus, Whitaker's affidavit declaring she would have been able to return to work if only granted additional leave before her termination could have been a "legitimate method" to challenge summary judgment. Id. at 685. However, the Seventh Circuit found Whitaker's affidavit failed to provide a sufficient evidentiary foundation for this statement—namely, evidence that medication improved her condition, or the medical likelihood that she would be able to return to work on a regular basis.
The take-away? Self-serving assertions on the ultimate issue in a case can be acceptable, but must include an evidentiary basis for those assertions.
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Virginia congressman says women are up 'in my grill' about ACA repeal
He insists women are 'being paid to go around and raise havoc.'
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Jaya Saxena— 2017-01-31 11:47 am
To an audience of conservative groups on Saturday, Rep. Dave Brat (R-Va.) said he was recently surprised to discover that his constituents are on and appreciate the Affordable Care Act and would like to keep it. In fact, women are up "in my grill" about it, he said.
"Since Obamacare and these issues have come up, the women are in my grill no matter where I go," Brat said. "They come up—'When is your next town hall?' And believe me, it's not to give positive input."
Brat dismissed these women's concerns, though, saying he believes anyone who disagrees with him is paid to do so. "I had one woman on my Facebook say she was going to get up in my grill," he said. "There's paid protesters … paid activists on the far left, not my Democratic friends I go to church with. They're being paid to go around and raise havoc."
The women who have been bothering him, however, insist they are not being paid.
"Nobody is being paid or put up to this by an outside organization," Karen Conley told the Richmond Times-Dipatch. "Everybody is putting in their time and effort because they're dissatisfied with the representation. They feel dismissed, and that their concerns aren't valid because they're not being responded to."
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Jaya Saxena
Jaya Saxena is a lifestyle writer and editor whose work focuses primarily on women's issues and web culture. Her writing has appeared in GQ, ELLE, the Toast, the New Yorker, Tthe Hairpin, BuzzFeed, Racked, Eater, Catapult, and others. She is the co-author of 'Dad Magazine,' the author of 'The Book Of Lost Recipes,' and the co-author of 'Basic Witches.'
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Morning Brief: Vaccine Requirements, Water Theft, and Stinky Flowers
By Jessica P. Ogilvie
Published Jul 21, 2021 5:00 AM
Illustration of the COVID-19 vaccine.
(Chava Sanchez
LAist)
Good morning, L.A. It's July 21.
As coronavirus cases rise rapidly in L.A. County, Pasadena will become the first city in the region to require COVID-19 vaccinations for its workers.
My colleague Monica Bushman reports that the policy comes amid a 240% increase in coronavirus cases in Pasadena since the beginning of July. Announced at Monday's city council meeting, the regulation will apply to approximately 2,000 people.
The requirement won't go into effect until the FDA gives final approval to at least one of the three available COVID-19 vaccines, which are currently being used through an emergency authorization.
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City spokesperson Lisa Derderian said the move is partly a response to residents who are concerned about possibly needing to call emergency services, but being unsure that first responders are vaccinated.
"[Some] members of the public have commented that if they need to call for emergency services, they want the personnel that respond to be vaccinated," she said. "At this point, we can't guarantee that."
About 60% percent of Pasadena city workers have self-attested to being fully vaccinated, compared to about 80% of all eligible residents.
Pasadena is also instituting an indoor mask requirement, following the lead of L.A. County health officials.
Announcing the county mandate last week, public health officer Dr. Muntu Davis emphasized the seriousness of the current situation. Every day for more than a week, L.A. County health officials have reported more than 1,000 new COVID-19 cases. Young people between the ages of 18 and 29 made up the biggest increase, and nearly four million people in L.A. County remain unvaccinated.
"This is an all-hands-on-deck moment," Davis said. "We're seeing the rates go up too high. We all need to do our part to try and prevent the need to do something else."
Keep reading for more on what's happening in L.A., and stay safe out there.
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Before You Go ... Why Do We Love Stinky Flowers?
Visitors gather to smell the Corpse Flower's foul stench at The Huntington during an August 2014 bloom.
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This week, the Huntington Library and Botanical Gardens in San Marino is inviting plant enthusiasts to "ooh" and "ahh" — and maybe gag — at two giant corpse flowers when they bloom.
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As interactive and gaming technologies develop and mature (and companies find success in the marketplace), they will inevitably face intellectual property issues raised by stakeholders, competitors, and even patent trolls — each of them seeking a toll for use of their IP. In just the past few years, a number of high-profile competitor lawsuits and patent-troll cases have been filed against gaming companies and other participants in the interactive marketplace. Recent court decisions give companies substantial guidance on litigating the key issues. This panel of in-house counsel from the gaming industry and distinguished trial lawyers lays out the roadmap for crossing these bridges before the issues arise.
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Fred I. Williams' practice focuses on complex litigation and counseling, with emphasis on intellectual property, antitrust, class action, and white collar disputes. The majority of his practice is devoted to representing industry-leading companies in cases involving patent infringement, trade secret, competition, trade regulation, and consumer protection claims. He is the assistant group leader of the firm's global intellectual property practice.
Mr. Williams prepares and tries cases to judges and juries across the country. He has extensive experience in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas and in representing technology companies and financial institutions nationwide. He has represented clients in diverse proceedings in 26 different states, as well as in the U.S. Court of Federal Claims. He also maintains an active pro bono practice focused on civil rights and consumer-protection litigation.
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LEAN is the name of the game these days, especially in the realm of industrial manufacturing. With an increasing number of competitors in the global playing field plus a considerable upsurge of information flow, streamlining the production process is vital to maximizing value and staying in the lead.
Much has already been done in terms of automation to achieve alignment with the principles of LEAN manufacturing. Yet, there remains a lesser-explored opportunity that can make a considerable difference– namely, the automation of technical documentation.
Whether placing an order for a ship engine, drilling device, production module, or an entire assembly line, both the customer and the vendor want to be certain that what ultimately gets delivered is what is actually needed, and that it's delivered on time. If either of these elements were to fail it would cost an enormous amount of resources, both time and production related.
Unfortunately such resource wastage is quite common, and has much to do with inefficient and lengthy technical documentation systems, which up the risk for inaccuracy, and delays as production teams stand still, in waiting for the appropriate documentation which often takes weeks to be produced and delivered. But it doesn't have to be this way. This is where the automation of technical documentation can be instigated to create significant LEAN results.
Take, for example, one of our clients who produces complex engines and drivelines for large ships. When one of their customers, a product engineer who is designing a ship, has decided upon a specific engine and driveline, they indicate their preferences by simply ticking a number of boxes on a web interface, enabling the immediate publication of preliminary, customized, documentation. The actual publication takes less than two minutes and uses data from a number of internal systems to produce a preliminary 200-page manual on the fly.
The fact that the customer can receive this documentation before the engine and driveline have even been delivered gives them a distinct advantage. Production doesn't have to be halted just because some of the pieces aren't yet on site. They can begin building their ship well ahead of time, with complete confidence that the engine and driveline they will later receive will be a perfect fit.
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Soul Knight is a pixel shooter with a top-down view, where players explore procedure-generated underground. They have to fight crowds of enemies including mighty bosses, look for weapons and deal with different side quests.
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Soul Knight is a roguelite game openly inspired by Enter the Gungeon. In this game, you will have to navigate the darkest depths of a dungeon full of dangerous threats… and weapons. There are more than a hundred different weapons that you can use to kill the monsters that you meet along the way.
Soul Knight Tips and Tricks
1. Don't forget to take items from chests appearing after you cleaned-up rooms. Destroy wooden boxes to get energy if it's necessary.
2. Try to use a type of weapons that doesn't consume energy or consumes a minimum amount of it (1 unit per shot). On the other hand, weapons that consume a lot of energy (as the elite rocket launcher – 5 per one volley) cause a great damage. It's very useful in battles with bosses.
3. Don't forget to use the unique abilities of your character. They have a cooldown but they recover for free. There is no point to save it.
4. Try to choose one of the characters and play him for a long time leveling up various levels.
5. Visit the right room of the main screen to receive weapons for TV viewing.
6. Watch the TV near traders during the walkthrough to get gold.
7. It's better to spend gold on the recruitment of followers, bonuses from statues and various potions. Buy weapons as a last resort, because enemies drop it in quantity, or you can find it in chests.
8. Before taking an item from platforms in a room, think, do you need it? You have to fight one or two turrets if you take it.
9. Use different obstacles as covers including trees, statues, metal boxes which allow hiding from shells. This is particularly true for boss battles because bosses fire a lot of shots at once.
10. Enter the game every day to get gems as bonuses.
11. Interact with the fridge from time to time, visit the gems shop, and watch a video to get gems for free.
12. Don't forget to enter gift codes for Soul Knight, which grants you 10-12 thousands of gems from the very beginning of the game and allows to level up the Knight to 5th (next to last) level.
13. It's advisable to go to the Settings and click on the «cogwheel» symbol. There will be several buttons, but you need to find the image of the left stick which is used to control a character. Put the «lock» symbol on it to make this element fixed. In this case, it will not move outside the screen, as it could be in the case of a movable joystick.
14. There's no need to clean up all the rooms on the level – you can reach a portal and move to the next level.
15. Destroy boxes if you don't have enough energy. It's preferable to use weapons which don't consume energy.
16. Before a shot, enemies often have a "red exclamation mark" symbol. Use it to defend yourself.
17. Your pet is not just a decoration. First, it distracts enemies from you, secondly, it damages them. However, if your pet gets too much damage, it will be injured and become worthless.
18. Study information about bonuses at the end of levels carefully and choose truly useful ones. For example, there is no reason to use the bullets bounce bonus if you use a rocket launcher or melee. In the latter case, it's better to take the bonus, which allows reflecting shells using melee.
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Three films from the highly acclaimed exhibition, From Bento to Mixed Plate: Americans of Japanese Ancestry in Multicultural Hawai'i.
Contains: Plantation Roots reveals how so much of Hawaii's current-day community and culture stems from the sugar plantation system of the turn-of-the-century.
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A Latina muralist brings walls to life in the Kansas City area and inspires young artists along the way
Artist Vania Soto is a prolific muralist and art teacher who was born in Juarez, Mexico. She now lives and works in Kansas City, Kansas. Lately she's been making an impact around town — and not just on the walls she paints.
A Kansas City ceramic artist is inspired by a 350-year old mermaid to create holiday ornaments
Artist Irma Starr designs ornaments using a centuries-old technique known as slipware, but she adds a modern twist. The snowflakes, Santas, Christmas trees and menorahs she dreams up decorate homes across the metro.
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The Kansas City Museum will reopen to the public on Oct. 21, after a $22 million renovation project. The Beaux-Arts style mansion was the scene of a fundraiser last month hosted by the Kansas City Museum Foundation to celebrate its new look.
Kansas City Welcomes Back Plaza Art Fair, 'A Great Big Fun Art Party,' After A Yearlong Delay
After being canceled due to COVID-19 concerns last year, the Plaza Art Fair returns this weekend. The 90th annual event is a celebration that covers nine blocks of the historic shopping center. Three local artists have spent months working in their studios to prepare.
Famous Kansas City Printmaker Gives Away Artwork, Saying Art Isn't Just For 'People Who Can Afford It'
Internationally known printmaker Hugh Merrill shared some welcome news on Facebook: He was gifting artwork to anyone who showed up at his door. Merrill's work is in collections at the Museum of Modern Art, the Harvard Art Museums, the Cranbrook Museum and the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art.
With Civil War-Era Photo Process, Kansas City Photographer Takes 'Timeless' Pictures Of Big Boy
Kansas City was one of the stops for Big Boy, the world's largest operating steam locomotive and the train has rolled into Union Station twice during the past few weeks. Photographer Steve Wilson captured the train with a 19th-Century photographic process used to document the American Civil War.
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Kids go free to CPL for St. Lucia Zouks first home game
[www.inewsguyana.com] – The Government of St. Lucia has today delivered some fantastic news for young cricket fans in the country after partnering with the Limacol Caribbean Premier League to give children under the age of 12 free access to the St. Lucia Zouks first home game against Barbados Tridents on Thursday 31st July at Beausejour.
The initiative will allow the next generation of cricketers to watch their heroes in action, with global superstars including Darren Sammy, Kieron Pollard, Roelof van der Merwe and Dwayne Smith all set to be on show.
At 8pm on Thursday, the Zouks face a rematch against the in-form, Barbados Tridents, before taking on the Trinidad and Tobago Red Steel on Saturday at 4pm and the Antigua Hawksbills on Sunday at 4pm.
Minister for Youth Development and Sports the Hon. Shawn Edward, said: We're delighted to be able to offer young St. Lucians the opportunity to watch the Zouks opening home game free of charge. The CPL is a fantastic, vibrant tournament and hopefully this will help inspire the next generation of St. Lucian cricketers.
Damien O'Donohoe, CEO, Limacol Caribbean Premier League, said: It's really important to us that the CPL plays a role in the future of West Indies cricket, so when the Minister came to us with this initiative we were on board straight away. Fans can be guaranteed thrilling cricket and a great atmosphere, so I'd urge everybody to show their support at the three games.
Kids must be present at the stadium box office on match day to redeem their ticket, and they will then be directed to their designated stand.
The Limacol Caribbean Premier League runs from 11 July to 16 August, with 30 matches taking place over 37 days. In addition, the final week of the tournament, in St Kitts and Nevis, will host Beefy's Bash, an all-star charity match featuring Sir Ian Botham, Brian Lara and Piers Morgan, as well as a concert by hip-hop megastar, Rick Ross. (CPLT20.com)
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As a surface low drifted across northern Missouri, I was figuring by around mid-day that if we get could enough clearing and heating behind the precipitation that moved through IL in the morning, there could be a decent chance of rotating storms over parts of IL and possibly IN and extreme eastern MO. The models were predicting CAPE around 1000-2000 (which easily verified) and there was both directional shear and divergent upper winds, although the lower and mid-level winds were rather weak. But with the RUC predicting temps as high as 85 in east central MO by late afternoon, I thought that it might be enough to get things going. I waited at home in Edwardsville, ready to head out if anything interesting popped up. I figured that, based on where the clearing and heating were occuring, west-central IL looked like it might be the best bet, which would make it a local chase for me.
When I took this picture, I really thought that this might be about to produce; I had noticed a little rotation by now (though it was never all that pronounced) and I thought the lowering under the center of the wall cloud might be a developing funnel. However, that is as far as it got, and within less than 5 minutes, the wall cloud was gone.
I thought this looked large and dangerous enough that I called it in to the St. Louis NWS. This picture was taken looking north from just southeast of Rockport, IL. Unfortunately, the position of the bluffs blocks the view of the bottom of the wall cloud. As the storm was getting away from me, I decided to return back to route 54 and take it northeast from where it crosses route 96. When I got to the top of the bluffs and a place where I had a clear view, the wall cloud was still there, but it was looking less organized, and it clearly did not reach near the ground. Over the next 10 minutes or so, it completely morphed into a shelf cloud, spreading east along the leading edge of the storm and with precip filling in behind it to its NW. Clearly, this storm no longer appeared likely to produce, and in any case, since it was now past 7:00 p.m., it was getting dark. I decided to take 54 to Pittsfield where I could go east and get back on 100 or 67 to return home, and was hoping the road would turn east before I reached the leading edge of the storm. It did not, so I was in driving rain and gusty wind until I got to route 100 where I could turn south.
The only warning ever issued for this storm was a flash flood warning around 7:30, which verified with radar indications of 3-5 inches of rain in a narrow band from just northeast of Rockport to near Pittsfield. I did, however, notice some large tree branches down in Pittsfield and east of there, so the storm did produce some fairly strong wind. Had it been anywhere except right over the Mississippi River bluffs, it would have been easy to chase, since with the backbuilding and cycling it was only effectively moving 5 or 10 mph. All in all, a nice fall chase, even though the dyamics just weren't quite enough to get any tornadoes out of this storm or any of the others in the line, though one farther northeast in Fulton Co. did have a couple TOR warnings.
Total chase distance: approximately 220 miles.


KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia – Several dozen Chinese relatives of passengers on Flight 370 have arrived in Malaysia to demand to meet top officials for more information about what happened to the airliner that has been missing for more than three weeks.
Two-thirds of the 227 passengers aboard the Malaysia Airlines plane that disappeared March 8 en route to Beijing from Kuala Lumpur were Chinese, and Beijing has urged Malaysia to be more open about the investigation.
Malaysia Airlines commercial director Hugh Dunleavy says 29 Chinese family members flew to Kuala Lumpur on Sunday. They were ushered through a VIP area at the airport onto two large buses that drove them to a hotel about half an hour away.


A closer look at the Moscow-funded Russia Today television channel, whose host, American Adam Kokesh, was arrested after a disruption last Saturday at the Jefferson Memorial, reveals some interesting and disturbing corporate and foreign intelligence connections.
As AIM reported , Kokesh, who hosts the show, "Adam Vs. The Man ," joined with pro-Marxist agitator Medea Benjamin to disrupt Memorial Day weekend activities. "I had to spend 4 hours in jail," whined Kokesh. Now he is threatening to do it again this coming Saturday.
Under pressure from false media reports that Kokesh was just "dancing" and had been unfairly roughed up by police, U.S. Park Police officials are now saying that they are investigating whether officers were "too aggressive" in handling Kokesh and other demonstrators.
As we explained in a column , what happened at the memorial was a deliberately designed provocation, planned in advance by Kokesh, Benjamin, and their comrades. The video shows officers warning them to stop and arresting them when they didn't. They were arrested because the law prohibits activities that interfere with the solemn atmosphere at the memorials.
Subsequently, the article said, a Marine Corps three-person review board found "significant negative" conduct on the part of Kokesh and recommended a "general discharge under honorable conditions" for him.
A website for the group, American Patriots Against Kokesh , which opposed his run for office, accused him of working with several different Marxist groups.
This may be why Russia Today, which regularly features Marxist groups on the air, gave Kokesh a show on its English-language affiliate. RT treats fringe characters such as Gloria La Riva of the Party for Socialism and Liberation as major political figures, even using her  to defend Castro's spies jailed in the U.S.
But Kokesh is just one part of this growing propaganda operation. Russia Today has various "partners " in the media business, including the Huffington Post, which is now part of AOL, and What REALLY Happened , a website that features such stories as "Israel's Whores in Congress" and "Reflections of Comrade Fidel." The website mostly features articles about a number of conspiracies, with a focus on the "inside job" theory that the 9/11 terrorist attacks were staged by the U.S. Government.
Other RT "partners" include Izvestia, which was the official publication of the old Soviet regime, and Trud, the mouthpiece for Soviet labor unions.
A partnership with RT means that the channel runs articles from those "news" organizations.
The acquisition of the Huffington Post by AOL produced a media group claiming to reach 117 million Americans and 270 million globally. For its part, Russia Today is one of the foreign networks, along with Al-Jazeera, carried by the American taxpayer-supported MHz Networks, into various U.S. media markets.
But the focus on Kokesh has missed the addition of another American to the line-up. Thom Hartmann, who describes himself as the leading "progressive" radio talk-show host in the U.S., is hosting a show called "The Big Picture " on the Russian channel.
The embrace of the channel by the liberal-left, which regularly criticizes Fox News, a private media company in the U.S., is shocking. The relationship demonstrates that the liberal media have no real objection to government sponsorship or funding of media companies, even when the money comes from authoritarian regimes such as Vladimir Putin's in Russia. But the controversy goes beyond the simple matter of progressives sharing a political ideology with those, including Putin, a former KGB intelligence officer, behind the Russian channel.
"America is enjoying euphoria of victory over Communism in the Cold War, but Russians say the war is still going on," notes Konstantin Preobrazhensky, a former Soviet KGB officer. He says the channel is serving the interests of the Kremlin, especially its intelligence agencies, by spreading disinformation about Russian intentions in domestic and foreign affairs.
During the Cold War, it was customary for the Soviet intelligence services, led by the KGB, to use American and Western news outlets and personnel in operations against the United States. Preobrazhensky says nothing has really changed, except that Russia Today television is a more overt way of carrying out the aims of the Kremlin.
It is so overt that RT hired an alleged Russian spy , Katia Zatuliveter, who is in the process of being deported from Britain. Oleg Gordievsky, the KGB's former London station chief, directly accused  the Russian of spying, saying the 25-year-old woman was working undercover for the Russian foreign intelligence, the SVR, and gathered information about British naval bases around the world.
Nevertheless, RT now features her as a "contributor," where she criticized  the West and its "double-standard" on protests and demonstrations. This is the basic Kremlin propaganda line, which is designed to inhibit Americans from criticizing human rights violations in Russia.
RT covered a conference I sponsored at the National Press Club to deal primarily with the influence of Al-Jazeera. A minor focus was Russia Today's anti-American programming. Out of courtesy, I agreed to be interviewed on camera. But I was not surprised to discover that the finished product , reported by Kaeyln Forde , ignored all of the points I made about the channel's links to the Russian intelligence service.
The answer, quite clearly, is to mask the hand of Moscow and its intelligence agencies about what goes on the air.
This was the apparent purpose of the provocation launched by Kokesh and Medea Benjamin of Code Pink at the Jefferson Memorial last Saturday. By breaking the law against demonstrations and disorderly conduct at the memorials, they knew they would be arrested and then be able to charge that they were victims of a "police state"—just the sort of propaganda that Moscow wants, in order to divert attention away from the Kremlin's human rights record. Not surprisingly, RT covered the demonstration extensively.
"Several journalists at the channel have told The Independent that while some coverage of problems in Russia and sensitive issues is allowed, any direct criticism or questioning of Prime Minister Vladimir Putin or President Dmitry Medvedev is strictly prohibited," Walker reported.
Like Al-Jazeera, RT has hired a number of Western and American faces, many of them attractive females.
RT's on-air talent  includes a number of Americans, including Staci Bivens, a former CNN producer; Lindsay France, formerly with CNN and ABC-TV affiliate KAPP; Lindsay Garfield, formerly with NBC's "Meet the Press;" and Sean Thomas, who worked for the NBC affiliate, KSEE in Fresno, California.
The bio for Kaelyn Forde, the RT reporter who covered my conference, notes that she "comes to RT from Spanish-language news network teleSUR." The bio fails to disclose that teleSUR was launched by Marxist Hugo Chavez of Venezuela.
This was, of course, the Hugo Chavez line. Chavez wanted the world to believe that the overthrow of his ally, Manuel "Mel" Zelaya, was a dangerous military coup. In fact, elements of the Honduras government directed the military to oust him from power after he committed illegal and unconstitutional acts.
A "journalist" from teleSUR would seem to be a natural fit for Russia Today television.
Exhibiting some of the provocative behavior that Kokesh would demonstrate at the Jefferson Memorial last Saturday, Forde was arrested by police last November as she was "covering" a leftist demonstration against the Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation , where members of foreign militaries are trained by U.S. forces. The institute, once known as the Schools of the Americas, has been a long-time target of Marxist forces. An entire organization, SOA Watch , is devoted to trying to close it down.
Forde, insisting she was a member of the press, was nevertheless charged with unlawful assembly, demonstrating without a permit and failing to obey a police order to disperse.
Columbus (Georgia) Solicitor General Ben Richardson was quoted as saying, "She does comply with police officers, but she does it after some time. The question was whether that constituted reasonable substantial compliance to police. We see why they arrested her, but we have a bigger burden of reasonable doubt." Hence, charges were ultimately dropped.


When we talk about women achieving success in any field and specially the culinary industry, my eyes glow & become bright as at that very moment, I feel extreme joy & great pride. It is definitely a big challenge to make a place for yourself in today's highly competitive world, to ensure that you get noticed and to get the people follow you, this itself is a huge task which only a few lucky ones can achieve. Today we very proudly present one such lady chef who has managed to conquer all odds & come out as a true winner and a great master chef.
Meet Nina Tarasova, incredibly gorgeous, extremely humble, iron willed Russian artist-patissier, who is an Ambassador of the Cacao Barry French chocolate Brand and also ambassador of "the Life Is a Game"- chefs' uniform producer, she is a consultant in pastry skills and a columnist in numerous pastry journal, conducts master classes in Russia & various well-known European culinary schools.
Nina came to Paris for a Bon Jovi concert & ended up buying a pastry book by the name PH10 pâtisserie by Pierre Herme, which changed her life for ever. Without knowing French language, she started to google the recipes, which led her to follow her first teacher & put her on a never ending journey of becoming a master pastry chef. Her first and basic education was at ENSP (Ecole Nationale Supérieure de la Pâtisserie) château de Montbarnier, Yssingeaux. School under the direction of Alain Ducasse and Yves Thuriès. After that she has been going back to France every year to improve her skills and experience. She has also studied at Ecole Gastronomique Bellouet Conseil Paris; Ecole Ferrandi Paris; The National College of Marzahn- Hekkersdorf, Berlin; School of Alain Ducasse Paris; The School of Gaston Le Notre Paris, where every day she learnt something new in the amazing pastry world which ultimately helped her excel and reach far ahead of many others in this field currently.
She has been mentored under some of the most famous names like Franck Geuffroy (Head Pastry chef from school Alain Ducasse), Richard Hawke (Chef from school ENSP in Yssingeaux), Nicolas Pepan (her first chef from Pastry Shop "Nicolas Pepan" in Lyon, where she worked for the first time), The Bellouet Conseil team – Jean-Michel Perruchon, Johan Martan, David Bonet. She feels overwhelmingly grateful to each of these chefs, for supporting and believing in her always.
Nina is a truly gifted French pastry chef, which is her main stream, which she follows & where she is completely comfortable with, she loves to work & play with European style of pastry with fresh ingredients, all natural ingredients, good quality chocolate, best of fruits and berries. She is highly creative in combining pastry flavours, which is her strength too & she loves to work with sugar craft, it is simply amazing to watch her work. Inspite of being one of the best, she still keeps attending professional classes at top European schools to constantly enhance her skills.
What really impressed me about this super cool chef was that, she takes her inspiration from practically everything – her travel, nature, wonderful new meetings, flowers, sun, wind, stones! She says she can see new vision of dessert from everywhere and every thing around her irrespective of them being bold or even crazy, she imagines the combinations in her mind first, tries the blended tastes & then gives it a final form.
She is a firm believer of balancing both the perfect taste & perfect plating / dressing. She strongly feels that without good looking dessert, one will not to want to eat it. For the first of your feelings, your eyes must to be hungry. Second – without good flavors you can never enjoy your desert. For creating a perfect dessert, appearance, design, decor, smooth glaze, shiny chocolate has to be in coordination with flavor, sugar, combination with textures and lights. She is an absolute master of artistic patisserie.
Nina has worked around the world, not only in Russia, this wonder chef travels a lot, takes inspiration from other places & people she meets, conducts master classes all over Europe & in Russia. We are looking forward to Nina coming & conducting some master classes in India too soon. If you wish to get an insight into how she conducts her master classes then either visit her website & view the videos or check out her videos on youtube.
Nina has earned a name for herself in the patisserie world with her strong passion, absolute dedication, hard work & incredible patisserie & artistic skills and she is a big inspiration to all the new pastry chefs who would dream of following her path & making it big in the pastry world. Cheers Chef Nina Tarasova!
You can check out her videos as well! Have a look at her creativity come to life!
I know Nina from last few years. She is my inspiration and teacher too. She is a very good human being and as a chef she is very much dedicated towards her work. I always want her to conduct her class in India and soon my this wish going to convert into reality. I have one thing to tell about her and that is " She is the best " .
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The Questions Posed by Google Stadia
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The future is in the cloud. That is becoming more clear as we finish out this generation of game consoles with the next machines from Microsoft and Sony potentially being the "last consoles". This brave new world is exciting and also scary for people who have lived our entire lives with a big box that plays games in our living rooms. However, that future is a long way off from the present. That being said it is becoming more clear with each passing day and Google Stadia is raising issue consumers need to be aware of.
Google Stadia is not the first cloud based gaming streaming system (RIP OnLive) however, it is the first that by all metrics seems to actually do what it says. That being said, the devil is indeed in the details and Google Stadia have a duty to inform consumers about what is different about their product.
The first issue and likely the largest technical roadblock to Stadia's mass market appeal is its reliance on the internet. Now, let us assume that Googles claims its own "Stadia Internet" actually works and has the ability to transmit the amount of data that is required to make the system work. After all it has been tested out in the wild before and consumer testimonials seem to say it works. Unfortunately for potential Stadia users this is only half the equation: the other half being your own personal connection to the internet.
Testing my own internet speed out of curiosity it clocked in at 29.9 megabits per second. Which is good enough to play at 1080p 60 fps, though it may struggle to play at 4k 60 fps. Which is perfectly reasonable for a middle range Canadian internet package which I have. As such I do not foresee, in the initial launch regions, speed limitations on Stadia.
The same cannot be said for download restrictions. Right now using myself as an example I have a 400 gigabyte bandwidth limits before I start incurring additional charges. Despite streaming nearly all my media, I have never hit the data cap. It has been an effectively unlimited package, Stadia would change that.
As PC Gamer reported 65 hours of Stadia's top end 4K streaming would take 1 terabyte of data. This would blow peoples data caps out of the water as they currently stand. For the United States where unlimited data plans are relatively common this may not be a major issue. For Canada that has a very restricted and effective oligopoly on our internet by big telecommunication. These unlimited plans are prohibitively costly. My knowledge of the UK and Europe's internet landscape is spotty, however I have a feeling those consumers would feel the pinch as well.
Furthermore, regional variation is huge within these jurisdictions. Whereby rural customers even in the launch regions would likely be cut out by the lack of suitable internet. Leading me to believe Stadia will primarily be marketed towards urban individuals due to the fact they are the only people who will have access to the infrastructure required to make the service work.
Beyond that there is the fact that Stadia is not a product like a PlayStation, Switch, or an Xbox. It is decidedly a service and one that you have no ownership over. As gaming moves more and more digital players are becoming aware we "own" less and less, This is explicitly stated if you actually read those terms and service agreements on all the digital stores, take Steam for example:
Steam and your Subscription(s) require the download and installation of Content and Services onto your computer. Valve hereby grants, and you accept, a non-exclusive license and right, to use the Content and Services for your personal, non-commercial use (except where commercial use is expressly allowed herein or in the applicable Subscription Terms). This license ends upon termination of (a) this Agreement or (b) a Subscription that includes the license. The Content and Services are licensed, not sold. Your license confers no title or ownership in the Content and Services.
Stadia takes this to the next level. As unlike Steam or other digital storefronts like the PSN you do not even have the software download onto your hardware as you have no hardware to begin with. Your games on Stadia will forever be tied to Stadia's well-being, which in turn binds you directly to Google, which is good for Google but not great for the consumer, Leading my more suspicious side to think that is the entire point of the venture.
To be fair this is not an issue that Stadia has alone, indeed the entire idea of ownership in the digital economy is one consumers will have to grapple with. Stadia just takes it to its logical conclusion, whereby you no longer have any ownership what so ever. Even your actions when using Google Stadia becomes the property of Google, as your inputs go through Stadia servers. It is a trade off I do not know how many people actually understand we are making in the name of convenience.
One issue Stadia does have and Google will need to answer for is Googles own legacy. To be blunt, Google has a habit of making flashy entrances into different digital spaces, promising transformational change, and then promptly leaving that space within a couple of years.
As we saw with Microsoft's push into the gaming space. It takes two things: money and persistence. There is no doubt in anyone mind that Google has the cash flow to be able to do it. There is doubt if they have the willpower to see it through. This is an issue that must be addressed as unlike other failed consoles such as the Sega Saturn when Sega pulled out the Saturn and all its games still existed in your home. If Google shuts down its Stadia servers everything goes with it.
Including everything you may have purchased on Stadia. Remember you own nothing. Google does. They make the choices regarding the future of the service, the service which includes "your" games.
This is a pressing issue as right now as it is still unknown how Stadia and Google will fit into the gaming landscape. Nothing at this scale has been attempted previously. In tech the term "disruption" is spoken in hallowed voices, where a product or service disrupts a previously stale status quo and opens new markets. Sometimes it works, sometimes it does not, it is a big gamble - Stadia is a big gamble.
While its clear Googles emergence as a player in the gaming market has prompted action from Sony and Microsoft. It is not clear how the players will respond or people from outside the gaming marketplace will as well. As from where I stand I do not really know yet how Stadia fits into everything.
For the past decade the games industry has been in a rather simple formation. Dedicated PC gamers do their own thing, Sony and Micosoft duke it out, while Nintendo continues to mine its dedicated fan base and often picks up "Second Console" sales as the generation moves on. In many ways it has worked which is why it has been stable.
Google aims to disrupt that. How though is the question. Will it try to find new players like the Wii did over a decade ago? Will it try to convert more dedicated players to games by streaming and target Microsoft and Sony's playerbase, or perhaps convert mobile gamers into Stadia players? All of the above? Who knows, it is all rather exciting I will admit from a business perspective however charting a new path is always a difficult task.
This is a big question as it involves the very pertinent question of how Stadia will make money. Knowing Google, they have a lot of monetization strategies beyond the obvious. After all information is worth a mint in the current world and Stadia will be brilliant at collecting, compiling, and presumably selling data.
The final question I find myself pondering is how does the established game developers react to Stadia. Stadia has revealed they have big new(ish) games lined up like Final Fantasy XV and Assassins Creed: Odyssey and will presumably continue to get releases as they come out. However, will there be Stadia exclusives? What will the pricing model be on Stadia?
As we have seen from the recent slugfest that is Valve and Epic, these are real questions that have real world implications for consumers. The upcoming Borderlands 3 timed exclusivity is proof of that. Other minor issues is compatibility with other hardware options like third party Bluetooth game pads or even a Duel Shock and Xbox One controller themselves.
I would be lying if I said it was not an exciting time in the games industry. There is a lot of unknown and the potential of a lot of money to be made. However, Google Stadia poses fundamental questions about the future of the industry and how consumers relate to the developers and platform owners. As of right now, those questions remain up in the air and quite frankly unanswerable.
On the question of ownership I do not think there is any good answers. As the industry continues to move towards becoming fully digital, ownership will almost certainly become a thing of the past, and we will have to learn to live with it - or not. Stadia just brings this issue into sharp focus for many people and I do not know if we are ready. Regardless, Stadia launches in November and if it succeeds or fails Pandora's box is open for good.
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Los Angeles, CA – Fans of Showtime's engrossing hit series, Ray Donavan could be shocked that the fractured "Bunchy" is actually a poised MC by the name of Dash "Diz" Mihok.
For his new, RealStreetRadio-premiered single, "Fire" (alongside crooner Desi Valentine), the provocative lyricist aims to bridge all societal disconnects. The emotionally driven record was directly inspired by the heinous actions of white supremacists in Charlottesville in May of 2017.
Despite his elevated platform, Diz isn't a Johnny-come-lately when it comes to musicianship. His love for the culture was literally instrumental in quelling his Tourettes Syndrome at just eight-years-old and he's been looking to convey his message through sound ever since.
Watch the "Fire" video up above and follow Diz & The Fam @dizmihok for more music updates this year.


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DEFINE_string(resman_port, "1645", "resman listen port");
DEFINE_int64(sched_interval, 50, "scheduling interval (ms)");
DEFINE_int64(container_group_gc_check_interval, 30000, "container group gc check interval (ms)");
DEFINE_string(nexus_root, "/galaxy3", "root prefix on nexus");
DEFINE_string(nexus_addr, "", "nexus server list");
DEFINE_int32(agent_timeout, 30 , "timeout of agent, in seconds");
DEFINE_int32(agent_query_interval , 5, "query interval of agent, in seconds");
DEFINE_int32(container_group_max_replica, 100000, "max replica allowed for one group");
DEFINE_double(safe_mode_percent, 0.85, "when agent alive percent bigger than this, leave safe mode");
DEFINE_bool(check_container_version, false, "by default, AM will handle that");
DEFINE_int32(max_batch_pods, 12, "max batch pods per agent");

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We've all seen it happen. Someone reviewing a novel by stating, "There's romance in this, and I don't like romance. One star."…on a romance novel. Or someone attacks a book because they don't agree with the content…and when you read it, you can't find that content. Book reviewing is a tricky (and sometimes) confusing place, and today, Desirable Purity is discussing when criticizers criticize wrongly.
There are some scenes, meetings and happenings in fiction that seem a bit far from reality and some criticizers are very specific about it. Now, let me divide this post into three parts.
Difference between Unrealistic Sequences and Unique Moments.
In this post, I'll criticize the criticizing of new criticizers. Fine! You've never seen it happening. It's illegal. It's nasty. It's immoral. Guys don't talk like that. Girls don't wear that stuff. Mothers don't do that. People! That's why it's a story. What do you want to read all the time? Cliches? If these kinds of plot twists aren't there that make you go, "What the hell?", what good is the book doing to you? It's fiction. Things ought to turn out that way. And let me tell you, these things do happen in real life. It's just that you haven't seen it yet.
There is a fine line between Unrealistic and Unique. Why do the new, young criticizers think that by saying that the scene didn't look realistic, make them "professional"? I swear, some people think that.
You're allowed to say that the scene was far from reality when a guy is walking down the path, steps on a snake, snake hisses, the guy apologizes and presents it chocolates, the snake accepts them and says, "Thank you! But be careful before stepping on us or you'd have to spare some more chocolates." Okay, now that was unrealistic. It doesn't happen in real life.
A fine line between unrealistic sequences, and unique moments. Remember!
Let's talk about Genres now. If the scene about the snake that I described above happens in Fantasy, it is acceptable. (Maybe not, because the scene is pretty stupid.) But the scene of a mother and her child can be in Romance, as well as Tragedy. You're allowed to say that the scene was far from reality when the snake hisses and asks for Chocolate in the Genre of Romanticism.
In Fantasy, anything can happen. Looking out is necessary for genres other than Fantasy.
So, people! Before criticizing someone, think twice, because no matter how novice he is, the person has worked on it and asks for an honest review. If a moment in a genre other than Fantasy shocks you, it's unique, not unrealistic!
Wikipedia says, Suspension of disbelief or willing suspension of disbelief is a term coined in 1817 by the poet and aesthetic philosopher Samuel Taylor Coleridge, who suggested that if a writer could infuse a "human interest and a semblance of truth" into a fantastic tale, the reader would suspend judgement concerning the implausibility of the narrative. Suspension of disbelief often applies to fictional works of the action, comedy, fantasy, and horror genres. Cognitive estrangement in fiction involves using a person's ignorance or lack of knowledge to promote suspension of disbelief.
It's the reader that has to belief what the author is making him belief. The writer has created something. He thinks that it's different and so he made it into a story. Now, it's the reader's job to belief what is, not the writer's job to keep giving him reasons. That one person, who's criticizing, should be of objective thinking, and not support projection. That's one of the rules. Subjectivity and Projection can cloud one's judgement.
There can be scenes where something doesn't look right, but that can be a part of "Show don't tell". Just because the criticizer doesn't think that a person exists doesn't mean he's an unbelievable character. In fact, his deeds might be a part of building his character as something not shown just yet.
Then again, the reader has to be willing to suspend disbelief.
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This past Wednesday, my content disclosure tree for Minutes Before Sunset released by Clean Teen Publishing. What is a content disclosure tree? Well, I'll leave that up to my publisher to define on their website. (Click here to read the definition. Click here to read my full content disclosure tree.) I suggest reading both before continuing, but I'm going to write the article as if the links are broken.
First, as a writer who has written about controversial topics—particularly with violence and language in November Snow and The Timely Death Trilogy, and drug use in Take Me Tomorrow—I would – by no means – want a reader to pick up one of my works and accidentally be triggered by something. Speaking from personal experience, my mother died from a drug overdose when I was eleven, which is why I wrote Take Me Tomorrow, but through years of counseling, I met many kids like me who reacted very differently than I did. Reading Take Me Tomorrow would be extremely upsetting for them, and knowing what they went through, I would never want to cause them distress about such a personal topic. As a fellow reader, I would also rather find them something else they might like to read.
Granted, I understand the "just put it down" argument, but—at the same time—why can't we prevent readers from picking up a book they definitely won't like in the first place? This isn't about ratings or reviews. This is about caring about your readers' feelings and time. Now . . . here is where I hear the "but that ruins the surprise" argument . . . which I don't understand, because—if done correctly—the content disclosure will say the topic, not which character and on which page. Take my full disclosure for example (if you click on this link, it's at the bottom of the page). Clean Teen Publishing lets us know that Minutes Before Sunset talks about a parent's suicide. It doesn't say which one. It doesn't say how it happens or when it happens. It doesn't even say how much it is discussed. If anything, I've given away SO MUCH more on my website about the topic of suicide in The Timely Death Trilogy and November Snow.
I know I write about controversial – and often violent – topics in my stories, and I, by no means, have an issue with readers knowing that up front, especially because my novels fall under the YA genre, and genres alone don't warn about the insides. TV and movies have had ratings for a long time, and while I understand that it's much easier to be surfing channels and accidentally comes across a movie (and a book takes much more time to get into), I think content disclosures can help a large portion of readers find more suitable books that they will enjoy.
Content disclosures can help those that feel like they need it, and those who feel they don't need content disclosures can ignore them. If you want to be surprised about all the topics, for instance, don't read the disclosure. It's as simple as that. At this point, I will say that I don't think it needs to be an industry standard but rather something that is up to an author and their publisher (and of course, the reader). Personally, I love them. I see too many benefits coming from them for me not to love them. Content disclosures can help those avoiding triggering topics and even help parents choose books for their children that they deem appropriate. Disclosures can help readers find exactly what they're looking for, maybe even a controversial topic they've struggled to find. Everyone who wants them can read them, and everyone who doesn't want them doesn't have to use them, but as an author, I'm glad my novels now have one.
P.S.S. I reviewed Ex Machina and talked about robots during my latest YouTube video on Coffee & Cats!


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