The nutrition of all children and seniors in York County is improved through healthy food and improved eating habits.
Children with access to healthy nutritious foods perform better on tests, are more focused in class, behave better, are absent less, and have higher self-esteem. Their overall cognitive performance is improved as demonstrated through their levels of alertness, attention, memory and problem-solving skills.
Many children are consuming diets high in calories but low in nutrients, which can leave them overweight and undernourished. Childhood obesity is at an all-time high, making early intervention on adopting healthy patterns of nutrition and physical activity behaviors a priority.
Seniors with access to healthy nutritious foods are more likely to live longer, healthier lives.
Food insecure seniors have lower nutrient intakes and are more likely to suffer from a wide array of health outcomes.
Access to food for seniors can be difficult due to a lack of transportation, income limitation, functional or cognitive limitation, or health problems.
Provide clear and informed messages to key stakeholders and community members to support the efforts around hunger prevention to generate positive outcomes for individuals, families, and the community as a whole.


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Q: Vue-cli-service serve build completion callback? I'd like to fire up a vue-cli dev server, then run a command from node once this build has completed.
Is there a way to run vue-cli-service serve from a node script so that I can receive a callback once the dev server is up and running?

A: vue-cli-service.js does not return the service promise (which would've allowed you to setup a completion callback), but you could make a copy of the script (25 lines) to do so:
my-vue-cli-service.js:
#!/usr/bin/env node
const semver = require('semver')
const { error } = require('@vue/cli-shared-utils')
const requiredVersion = require('@vue/cli-service/package.json').engines.node

if (!semver.satisfies(process.version, requiredVersion)) {
  error(
    `You are using Node ${process.version}, but vue-cli-service ` +
    `requires Node ${requiredVersion}.\nPlease upgrade your Node version.`
  )
  process.exit(1)
}

const Service = require('@vue/cli-service')
const service = new Service(process.env.VUE_CLI_CONTEXT || process.cwd())

const rawArgv = process.argv.slice(2)
const args = require('minimist')(rawArgv)
const command = args._[0]

module.exports = () =>  // <--- add this line to return the service promise
  service.run(command, args, rawArgv).catch(err => {
    error(err)
    process.exit(1)
  })

Then, you could create another script that consumes this copy, adding a then callback to be invoked when the server started successfully:
my-service.js:
#!/usr/bin/env node
const service = require('./my-vue-cli-service')

service().then(result => {
  if (result && result.server) {  // <--- server started successfully if result.server exists
    const {server, url} = result;
    console.log('ready');
  }
})

Be sure to update package.json to use the new script:
package.json:
{
  "scripts": {
    "serve": "./my-service.js serve"
  }
}

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Q: Prove that $L^2(\mathbb{R})\to L^2(\mathbb{R}) $ by $Vf(t) = f(t-1),$ is an isomorphism we define $V:L^2(\mathbb{R})\to L^2(\mathbb{R}) $ by $$Vf(t) = f(t-1).$$
Then I'd like to show that $V$ is an isomorphism
Here's what I've got so far:
$$\left \langle vf(t), vf(t)\right \rangle=\int_{\mathbb{R}}f(t-1)\overline{f(t-1)} dt=\left \langle f(t), f(t)\right \rangle$$
so we have$$\|Vf\|=\|f\|$$ indeed, $V$ is one-to-one
and we can easily show that $V$ is linear

How can I prove $V$ is surjective and $V^{-1}$ is continuous?

Thanks in advance.


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2. Practice\Section H
Section H (current)
Section H. Areas of land
Australia's Defence Force Manual (1994) includes among military objectives "areas of land which are of direct use to defending or attacking forces, eg land through which an adversary is likely to move its forces or which may be used as a forming up point preceding an attack".
Australia, Manual on Law of Armed Conflict, Australian Defence Force Publication, Operations Series, ADFP 37 – Interim Edition, 1994, § 527(h); see also § 916(b) ("areas of land which armed forces use or which have military significance such as hills and bridgeheads").
Australia's LOAC Manual (2006) provides as an example of military objectives "areas of land which are of direct use to defending or attacking forces, eg land through which an adversary is likely to move its forces or which may be used as a forming up point preceding an attack".
Belgium's Regulations on Armoured Infantry Squads (1972) defines the objective of a mission as "a vital area of land to be conquered or defended".
Belgium, Le Peloton d'Infanterie Blindée, Règlement G 176, Ministère de la Défense Nationale, Etat-Major Général, Force Terrestre, Direction de l'Infanterie, des Paras-Commandos et de la Police Militaire, 1972, p. 3.
Belgium's Regulations on Tank Squadrons (1982) states that the objective of a tank squadron in attack is "an area of land whose capture requires the enemy's destruction or withdrawal".
Belgium, L'Escadron de Chars, Règlement G 287, Ministère de la Défense Nationale, Etat-Major Général, Force Terrestre, Ecole des Troupes Blindées, 1982, § 537(b)(2); see also §§ 536(b)(2) and 539(b)(2).
Benin's Military Manual (1995) considers "an area of land of tactical importance" as a military objective.
According to Canada's LOAC Manual (1999), a "specific area of land may constitute a military objective".
Canada's LOAC Manual (2001) states in its chapter on targeting: "A specific area of land may constitute a military objective."
Canada, The Law of Armed Conflict at the Operational and Tactical Levels, Office of the Judge Advocate General, 13 August 2001, § 406.2.
Côte d'Ivoire's Teaching Manual (2007) provides in Book IV (Instruction of heads of division and company commanders): "A specific sector of land can constitute a military objective."
According to Croatia's Commanders' Manual (1992), military objectives include "tactically relevant points of terrain".
Ecuador's Naval Manual (1989) states: "Proper naval targets also include geographic targets, such as a mountain pass."
France's LOAC Summary Note (1992) includes "areas of land of tactical importance" among military objectives.
Italy's IHL Manual (1991) states that "areas of land that would be useful to capture or deny to the enemy in order to achieve a military operation" are military objectives.
Italy's LOAC Elementary Rules Manual (1991) includes "areas of tactical importance" among military objectives.
Madagascar's Military Manual (1994) states that military objectives include "areas of land of tactical importance".
The Military Manual (1993) of the Netherlands notes that the Government of the Netherlands has declared that "an area of land can constitute a military objective as long as it fulfils the conditions thereof".
The Military Manual (2005) of the Netherlands states that "[t]he [Dutch] Government has also declared that a given piece of terrain may also form a military objective".
An area of land may be a military objective, provided that the particular area offers a definite military advantage to the defending forces or those attacking. This would include a tract of land through which the adverse Party would be likely to move its forces, or an area the occupation of which would provide the occupant with the possibility of mounting a further attack.
The capture or preservation of a specific area of land constitutes a military objective when it meets all the requirements laid down in Article 52 of Additional Protocol I and it confers a concrete military advantage taking into account the circumstances ruling at the time.
Spain, Orientaciones. El Derecho de los Conflictos Armados, Publicación OR7-004, 2 Tomos, aprobado por el Estado Mayor del Ejército, Division de Operaciones, 18 March 1996, Vol. I, § 4.4.d; see also § 2.3.b.(1).
Taking or holding a certain area of land is considered a military objective, when all the requirements laid down in article 52 of [the 1977] Additional Protocol I are met and it provides a concrete military advantage, taking into account the circumstances prevailing at the time.
Spain, Orientaciones. El Derecho de los Conflictos Armados, Tomo 1, Publicación OR7–004, (Edición Segunda), Mando de Adiestramiento y Doctrina, Dirección de Doctrina, Orgánica y Materiales, 2 November 2007, § 4.4.d; see also §§ 2.3.b.(1) and 4.2.b.
The definition [of military objectives contained in Article 52(2) of the 1977 Additional Protocol I] is intended to apply only to property or objects. Thus, for example, areas of land cannot be included; but this does not prevent an area objective if it is a matter of hindering an enemy advance by means of artillery fire or mining. Attacks on an area are permitted as long as the attack cannot be classified as indiscriminate.
Togo's Military Manual (1996) considers "an area of land of tactical importance" as a military objective.
The UK LOAC Pamphlet (1981) states that military objectives include "areas of land which either have military significance such as hills, defiles or bridgeheads or which contain military objects; or … minefields".
The US Naval Handbook (1995) states: "Proper naval targets also include geographic targets, such as a mountain pass."
The US Naval Handbook (2007) states: "Proper objects of attack include, but are not limited to, such military objectives as … geographic features, such as a mountain pass".
The Report on the Practice of Spain (1998) notes that the fact that a particular zone may be considered a military objective provided it fulfils the requirements of Article 52(2) of the 1977 Additional Protocol I is consistent with the possibility provided for under Spanish law of establishing zones of interest for national defence, comprising "expanses of land, sea, or airspace declared as such because they constitute or may constitute a permanent base or an effective aid to offensive action necessary for such purpose".
Report on the Practice of Spain, 1998, Chapter 1.3, referring to Zones and Installations Law, 1975, Article 2.
In an explanatory memorandum submitted to the Belgian Parliament in 1985 in the context of the ratification procedure of the 1977 Additional Protocols, the Belgian Government stated:
The notion of "military objective" must be understood as meaning that a specific zone, as such, which by its location or other criteria enumerated in Article 52 makes an effective contribution to enemy military action, can be considered a military objective.
Belgium, House of Representatives, Explanatory memorandum on a draft bill for the approval of the Additional Protocols, 1984–1985 Session, Doc. 1096-1, 9 January 1985, p. 10.
At the CDDH, Canada stated:
A specific area of land may also be a military objective if, because of its location or other reasons specified in Article 47 [now Article 52 of the 1977 Additional Protocol I], its total or partial destruction, capture or neutralization, in the circumstances ruling at the time, offers a definite military advantage.
Canada, Statement at the CDDH, Official Records, Vol. VI, CDDH/SR.41, 26 May 1977, p. 179.
It is the understanding of the Government of Canada in relation to Article 52 that: a. a specific area of land may be a military objective if, because of its location or other reasons specified in the Article as to what constitutes a military objective, its total or partial destruction, capture or neutralization in the circumstances governing at the time offers a definite military advantage.
Canada, Statements of understanding made upon ratification of the 1977 Additional Protocol I, 20 November 1990, § 8(a).
In a declaration made upon ratification of the 1977 Additional Protocol I, France stated:
A specific zone may be considered as a military objective if, due to its location or for any other criteria mentioned in Article 52 [of the 1977 Additional Protocol I], its total or partial destruction, capture or neutralisation in the circumstances governing at the time offers a decisive military advantage.
In an interpretative declaration made upon ratification of the 1998 ICC Statute, France stated:
The Government of the French Republic declares that a specific area may be considered a "military objective" as referred to in article 8, paragraph 2 (b) as a whole if, by reason of its situation, nature, use, location, total or partial destruction, capture of neutralization, taking into account the circumstances of the moment, it offers a decisive military advantage.
France, Interpretative declarations made upon ratification of the 1998 ICC Statute, 9 June 2000, § 6.
At the CDDH, the Federal Republic of Germany stated that it had been able to vote in favour of Article 47 of the draft Additional Protocol I (now Article 52) on the basis of the understanding that:
A specific area of land may be a military objective if, because of its location or other reasons specified in Article 47 [now Article 52 of the 1977 Additional Protocol I], its total or partial destruction, capture or neutralization, in the circumstances ruling at the time, offers a definite military advantage.
Germany, Federal Republic of, Statement at the CDDH, Official Records, Vol. VI, CDDH/SR.41, 26 May 1977, p. 188.
Upon ratification of the 1977 Additional Protocol I, the Federal Republic of Germany stated:
Article 52 of Additional Protocol I is understood by the Federal Republic of Germany to mean that a specific area of land may also be a military objective if it meets all requirements of Article 52, paragraph 2.
Germany, Federal Republic of, Declarations made upon ratification of the 1977 Additional Protocol I, 14 February 1991, § 7.
Upon ratification of the 1977 Additional Protocol I, Italy stated:
A specific area of land may be a "military objective" if, because of its location or other reasons specified in Article 52, its total or partial destruction, capture or neutralisation in the circumstances ruling at the time, offers definite military advantage.
Italy, Declarations made upon ratification of the 1977 Additional Protocol I, 27 February 1986, § 7.
At the CDDH, the Netherlands stated that it interpreted Article 47 of the draft Additional Protocol I (now Article 52) to mean that:
Netherlands, Statement at the CDDH, Official Records, Vol. VI, CDDH/SR.41, 26 May 1977, p. 195.
Upon ratification of the 1980 Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons, the Netherlands stated:
1. With regard to article 2, paragraph 4, of Protocol II: It is the understanding of the Government of the Kingdom of the Netherlands that a specific area of land may also be a military objective if, because of its location or other reasons specified in paragraph 4, its total or partial destruction, capture, or neutralization in the circumstances ruling at the time, offers a definite military advantage;
4. With regard to article 1, paragraph 3, of Protocol III: It is the understanding of the Government of the Kingdom of the Netherlands that a specific area of land may also be a military objective if, because of its location or other reasons specified in paragraph 3, its total or partial destruction, capture, or neutralization in the circumstances ruling at the time, offers a definite military advantage.
Netherlands, Declaration made upon ratification of the 1980 Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons, 18 June 1987, §§ 1 and 4.
Upon ratification of the 1977 Additional Protocol I, the Netherlands stated:
It is the understanding of the Government of the Kingdom of the Netherlands that a specific area of land may also be a military objective if, because of its location or other reasons specified in paragraph 2 [of Article 52 of the Protocol], its total or partial destruction, capture, or neutralization in the circumstances ruling at the time, offers a definite military advantage.
Netherlands, Declarations made upon ratification of the 1977 Additional Protocol I, 26 June 1987, § 7.
Upon acceptance of the 1996 Amended Protocol II to the 1980 Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons, the Netherlands stated with regard to Article 2(6) of the Amended Protocol:
The Government of the Kingdom of the Netherlands takes the view that a specific area of land may also be a military objective if, because of its location or other reasons specified in paragraph six, its total or partial destruction, capture, or neutralization in the circumstances ruling at the time, offers a definite military advantage.
Netherlands, Declaration made upon acceptance of the 1996 Amended Protocol II to the 1980 Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons, 25 March 1999, § 3.
Upon ratification of the 1977 Additional Protocol I, New Zealand stated:
In relation to Article 52, it is the understanding of the Government of New Zealand that a specific area of land may be a military objective if, because of its location or other reasons specified in the Article, its total or partial destruction, capture or neutralisation in the circumstances ruling at the time offers a definite military advantage.
New Zealand, Declarations made upon ratification of the 1977 Additional Protocol I, 8 February 1988, § 4.
Upon acceptance of the 1996 Amended Protocol II to the 1980 Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons, Pakistan stated:
It is understood that an area of land can itself be a legitimate military objective for the purposes of the use of landmines, if its neutralisation or denial, in the circumstances ruling at the time, offers a definite military advantage.
Pakistan, Declaration made upon acceptance of the 1996 Amended Protocol II to the 1980 Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons, 9 March 1999, § 5.
Upon ratification of the 1977 Additional Protocol I, Spain stated:
It is the understanding [of the Spanish Government] that the capture or holding of a specific area of territory constitutes a military objective when all the conditions set out in this paragraph [paragraph 2 of Article 52] together offer a concrete military advantage taking into account the circumstances at the relevant time.
Spain, Declarations made upon ratification of the 1977 Additional Protocol I, 21 April 1989, § 7.
At the CDDH, the United Kingdom stated:
A specific area of land might be a military objective if, because of its location or for other reasons specified in Article 47 [now Article 52 of the 1977 Additional Protocol I], its total or partial destruction, capture or neutralization, in the circumstances ruling at the time, offered a definite military advantage.
United Kingdom, Statement at the CDDH, Official Records, Vol. VI, CDDH/SR.41, 26 May 1977, p. 169, § 153.
Upon signature of the 1977 Additional Protocol I, the United Kingdom stated in relation to Article 52 of the Protocol:
In relation to Article 52, that a specific area of land may be a military objective if, because of its location or other reasons specified in the Article, its total or partial destruction, capture or neutralisation in the circumstances ruling at the time offers definite military advantage.
United Kingdom, Declaration made upon signature of the 1977 Additional Protocol I, 12 December 1977, § f.
Upon ratification of the 1980 Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons, the United Kingdom stated with respect to Protocol II, Article 2 and Protocol III, Article 1:
A specific area of land may be a military objective if, because of its location or other reasons specified in this article, its total or partial destruction, capture or neutralisation in the circumstances ruling at the time offers a definite military advantage.
United Kingdom, Declaration made upon ratification of the Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons, 13 February 1995, § (b).
Upon ratification of the 1977 Additional Protocol I, the United Kingdom stated:
It is the understanding of the United Kingdom that a specific area of land may be a military objective if, because of its location or other reasons specified in this Article 52, its total or partial destruction, capture or neutralisation in the circumstances ruling at the time offers a definite military advantage.
United Kingdom, Reservations and declarations made upon ratification of the 1977 Additional Protocol I, 28 January 1998, § j.
At the CDDH, the United States expressed its understanding that:
United States, Statement at the CDDH, Official Records, Vol. VI, CDDH/SR.41, 26 May 1977, p. 204.
In 1992, in a review of the legality of extended range anti-armour munition, the US Department of the Air Force stated:
An area of land can be a military objective if by its nature, location, purpose or use it makes an effective contribution to military action and its total or partial destruction, denial, capture or neutralization offers a definite military advantage, in the circumstances ruling at the time. Most areas which would be mined in war would meet this definition.
The opinio juris of the U.S. government recognizes the definition of military objectives in Article 52 of Additional Protocol I as customary law. United States practice gives a broad reading to this definition, and would include areas of land … as military objectives.
Upon acceptance of the 1996 Amended Protocol II to the 1980 Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons, the United States stated:
The United States understands that an area of land itself can be a legitimate military objective for the purpose of the use of landmines, if its neutralization or denial, in the circumstances applicable at the time, offers a military advantage.
United States, Declaration made upon acceptance of the 1996 Amended Protocol II to the 1980 Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons, 24 May 1999, § 4.

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Martin, Florence 4/19/1928 - 3/28/2019 Bloomingdale Passed away March 28, 2019 in Allegan. Florence was born April 19, 1928, the daughter of Arthur and Mabel Goodrich. Florence had lived in the Grand Junction area for many years before moving to Bloomingdale in 1956. She was a 1946 graduate of Bloomingdale High School and had worked for Dickerson Greenhouses for many years. She was a longtime member of the Grand Junction Congregational Church. Surviving are her husband, Reed Martin; children, Linda (Nelson Showers) Augustyniak, George (Linda) Clark, Jill (Glen) Gibson, Jo (Joe) Aernie, Jack (Barb) Clark, Jim (Melissa) Clark, Joy Blanchard; 18 grandchildren; numerous great grandchildren; sister, Donna (Doug) Fleck; many nieces and nephews. She was preceded in death by her husband, George Clark; a son, John; and four grandsons. The family will meet friends Sunday, March 31, 2019 from 2-4 and 6-8 PM at the Bloomingdale Chapel, D. L. Miller Funeral Home, www.dlmillerfuneralhome.com, where funeral services will be Monday at 11 AM. Interment will follow in Grand Junction Cemetery.


Price list - Hotel dla psów "Pchełka"
Hotel night starts from leaving a dog in the hotel and ends the next day at the same time. In case of esceeding hours of the hotel night, extra charge as for another day of stay will be collected.
In the period from October to March hotel is heated by tiled stove (extra charge for each dog 5 zł).
For dogs staying at the hotel, the payment is adjusted on the day of the arrival the dog do the hotel.


BEING BOTH an instructor and student of the game, I am fully aware there are plenty of ways to learn the game. Sometimes, you just need to get to the table to work things out by yourself. Other times, it�s a great help to have a friend or coach work with you � to offer outside perspective and/or advice from someone who has plenty of experience with the game.
There�s also a nearly infinite amount of knowledge you can glean from reading books or magazines. And when it comes to watching others play, you can pick up useful information from being a spectator, whether the match is between two Joe Schmoes or Efren Reyes and Francisco Bustamante.
It�s important to be actively watching any match. If it�s a game of 8-ball in your weekly league, after every break shot, ask yourself, �What would I do here?� Try to guess what your teammates will do � and try to follow up with them afterward. If there�s one player who seems especially knowledgeable, try to pick his brain after matches. Try to remember specifics so you can improve your game, even when you�re not playing.
Along those same lines, identify a player�s strengths and weaknesses. If you can see what someone else does well (or not so well), you will be a little more self-aware when you�re at the table. You may also see how to include a certain approach into your own game.
No matter what you see in others, though, you should always be comfortable with your own game. If you perform better when you shoot slowly, shoot slowly. If two position plays are relatively similar in difficulty and outcome, go with what makes you feel more confidently. It�s important to play within yourself, no matter what skill level you are at.


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Kazakh Leader Signs Bills To Reduce Presidential Power
By Vusala Abbasova November 7, 2022
The package of laws was adopted following the national referendum on amendments and additions to the constitution held this June.
Kazakhstan's President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev has signed a series of bills that will limit the powers of the head of state.
The move is supposed to transform Kazakhstan's political model of development.
"The constitutional reform marked the beginning of a new era in the history of Kazakhstan," President Tokayev said at the public signing ceremony held on Saturday.
"It allowed us to consolidate the political transformations of the last three years and lay a solid foundation for the further strengthening of our statehood. From now on, the principles of justice, transparency, and solidarity will be strictly observed," he added.
The legal changes endorsed by the parliament and signed by the president envisage the reduction of certain powers of the president in relation to local executive authorities and the Supreme Judicial Council. The so-called "presidential quota" in parliament is being reduced, and certain restrictions are being introduced during the term of office of the president.
In addition, the document bans the President from membership in political parties, while close relatives of the head of state are prohibited from holding political positions and leadership positions in the quasi-public sector.
Kassym-Jomart Tokayev believes that the constitutional amendments have a clearly expressed humanistic and human rights orientation.
"The referendum has convincingly shown that we can withstand unprecedented external and internal challenges. We have started the practical implementation of the constitutional reform," he stressed.
The reforms are said to transform Kazakhstan from a "super-presidential" system to a "presidential system with a strong parliament."
In addition, from January 1, 2023, the Constitutional Court will be re-established in Kazakhstan, meaning that every citizen will be able to directly defend their constitutional rights and freedoms in this body. Kazakhstan had a Constitutional Court until the adoption of the 1995 constitution that was pushed by former president Nursultan Nazarbayev. Nazarbayev further consolidated his personal powers with constitutional amendments in 1998, 2007, and 2011.
The constitutional reform is part of a drive for a "New Kazakhstan" spearheaded by President Tokayev who was elected president in 2019 with the backing of his predecessor Nursultan Nazarbayev. That year, Nazarbayev resigned after running Kazakhstan for 30 years but retained sweeping powers until recently.
Nazarbayev gave up his remaining powers as the head of the Security Council and the leader of the ruling party during and after violent unrest in early January, and his relatives have since lost a number of influential positions in government and state companies.
Read more: constitutional changes, Constitution, Kassym-Jomart Tokayev, law, bill, Central Asia, Caspian News, President, Nursultan Nazarbayev, Kazakhstan, Caspian


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Hijabbery in Minneapolis
BBC3's Free Speech denies censoring debate about being gay and MuslimÂ
Esmerelda Weatherwax:
From the Guardian. Watching liberal lefties champion gays and women, while protecting anti-gay misogynist Islam is one of the more amusing sights in the UK today.
Diversity Means No Whitey Allowed
Tim Blair – WHITE BAN
This is perfect:
An event meant to celebrate diversity and combat racism at a Washington state community college has been cancelled after a flier emailed to guests said white people weren't invited.Â
Daniel Greeenfield
Minneapolis Lesbian Police Chief Dons Hijab for "Hijab Day"
  Feminists Feminazis have been taken in by the false campaign against "Islamophobia," (which does not really exist), and have backed President Hussein Obama's approach to the Muslim world: Appeasement, flattery, a refusal to back the bravest Muslim dissidents who are fighting against barbaric totalitarian regimes, and a wholesale acceptance of Muslim women's subordinate status in the United States. (Phyllis Chesler)
When the left finally cracks up, the few survivors will have a really good laugh.
According to a Facebook post, Somali staffers that work at Minneapolis City Hall declared February 28 "Hijab Day" at City Hall and convinced the police chief and female city council reps to wear hijabs on the job.
Pictures include: Minneapolis police chief Janee Harteau (who recently married her favorite female sergeant – not very hijab like), city council members Elizabeth Glidden and Lisa Bender as well as other staffers.
There's nothing like a lesbian feminist authority figure who boasts of being the first female police chief in Minneapolis donning a symbol of male ownership in a patriarchal tribal society to express the deep schizophrenia of the left in its enthusiastic enabling of Islamists.
But I'm sure now that Janee donned the hijab, she thinks everything is going to be okay. Spoiler alert; it's not.
Two women accused of having a lesbian relationship have been sentenced to death by a court in the self-declared autonomous region of Puntland in northern Somalia. In the first case of its kind in Somalia, a culturally conservative and Muslim nation, the two — whose names were not revealed — were found guilty of "exercising unnatural behaviour".
The relationship between the two women was discovered after one of them sued her partner, who had lived in the United States, for infecting her with a sexually transmitted disease.
Hundreds packed the court in the northern coastal town of Boosaaso earlier this week to hear the case. They cheered as the judge handed down death sentences on the two women. The pair are reported to have been tried under Somali Criminal Punishment Law, which is loosely based on Islamic Sharia law.
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Since the late 1980s, the obsessive and visionary artistic practice of Yuji Agematsu has included daily walks through Manhattan's streets, during which the artist documents and collects the flotsam and jetsam that, though often unnoticed, comprises much of our urban experience. The Whitney commissioned Agematsu to survey the Museum's new building and its surrounding neighborhood during the second half of 2014. The products of these investigations are highly choreographed sequences of timed 35mm slides. These sequences map three routes the artist followed, labeled as A, B, and C. Collectively, they form an extensive durational portrait of the Meatpacking District, the Hudson River, Gansevoort Peninsula (Pier 52, currently operated by the NYC Sanitation Department), West 14th Street, the High Line, Chelsea, and Hudson Yards.
In these images, Agematsu explores both extreme surface details and wide open spaces. He deliberately avoided photographing people, finding instead an animate quality in places and things in order to produce what he thinks of as a form of urban portraiture. Shot with a range of lenses including a microscope and telescope, the images are at once generic and specific. Buildings, flowers, construction materials, water, pavement, traffic, discarded objects, and sky coexist and interact. Some images are meticulously collaged or superimposed, and at times include actual dirt or objects found in the street. Agematsu's schematic drawings, printed in an accompanying brochure, trace his routes and detail how they have been mapped onto the space of the Whitney's theater, where images are projected onto freestanding wooden screens that recall public kiosks, subway maps, and temporary construction walls. Walk On A,B,C, considers the boundaries between design and nature, the qualities of administered public space, and the exigencies of a neighborhood and city in active redevelopment and fundamental flux.
During the run of the show, Agematsu will perform live sound improvisations, manipulating field recordings made by the artist in his native Japan.
The artist would like to give special thanks to Robert Snowden and Mark Lewis at Yale Union; Artspeak, Vancouver; Ben Manley and Woramon Jamjod; James Cleveland; Real Fine Arts.
Installation on view: Enter the theater anytime during Museum Hours to see the installation.
Artist activation: At scheduled times, Agematsu will perform live sound improvisations. Walk-ins are welcome.
Performance: Evening performances by the artist are free and entry is available on a first-come, first-served basis. Please note: entrance for the May 6 performance is at 555 West Street.


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An Inside Peek at Ellen DeGeneres's New Line for Pets
Photo: Courtesy of Petsmart / ED by Ellen DeGeneres
"After I launched my line for humans I realized that I was leaving a whole species out," said Ellen DeGeneres on the launch of her brand ED by Ellen's extension into the pet market. Working with PetSmart, DeGeneres is shrinking her playful designs to accommodate four-legged friends with more than 250 pieces starting at $4 (for a flat dog toy) and topping out at $50 (for a dog carrier). The star was eager to add this to her ever-growing resume, explaining, "Dogs deserve nice things too." But how did DeGeneres, who currently has three dogs with wife, Portia de Rossi, test out the line? "I brought the products home to my pets, had them play around to see which ones they liked, and then we had an honest discussion about it. How else would I do it?" posed the talk show host.
The collection mimics DeGeneres's human line; now dogs can benefit from the television star's sleek aesthetic, too. "I love the Love collection," mused DeGeneres, adding, "It matches some pieces from my human collection [and] that means you and your pet can dress alike. That means you're living your life to its fullest potential." Four motifs, including the aforementioned Love line, make up the debut collection, but of course DeGeneres's pups had their own opinions. "They love everything with the nautical theme because they are very into sailing," said DeGeneres, adding that the designs were inspired after "I ate a whole bunch of catnip!" DeGeneres kids but did ensure each piece was fit for the market by "playing fetch with all the different toys from the collection. Who knew I could jump that high?"
DeGeneres has plans to expand the collection beyond canines. "My cat collection is coming out this fall [and] we're doing something really fun for the holidays. I've been really busy working on a line of raincoats for goldfish." While we wouldn't put it past DeGeneres to make this a reality, it's refreshing to see her approach her latest venture with the same humor and elegance as her mainline label. However, even DeGeneres suffers from the same pressure as runway regulars. "It's a vicious cycle," said DeGeneres, adding, "because now I feel bad that I don't have a line of collars for humans. I know some of you people would like that."
Here, a look at the collection in stores and online now, with more pieces trickling in through March.
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Claire Antonia Forlani (born 17 December 1971) is an English actress. She became known in the mid-1990s for her leading role in the film Mallrats, and in the Jean-Michel Basquiat 1996 biopic Basquiat. In 1998, she achieved wide recognition for starring in the fantasy romance film Meet Joe Black (1998). Other notable films include Boys and Girls (2000), Antitrust (2001), The Medallion (2003) and In the Name of the King (2007). Forlani also has appeared in numerous TV films and series, including her starring role on the historical-fantasy-drama series Camelot, and her recurring roles on the CBS action series CSI: NY, NCIS: Los Angeles, and Hawaii Five-0. She has recently played the role of Meredith Newman in the 2019 film Five Feet Apart.
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Early Tesla Model S gets 'Autopilot' retrofit and it works surprisingly well
(Credit: Bjorn Nyland/YouTube)
George Hotz of comma.ai sees his open-sourced driver-assist system openpilot as the Android of the full self-driving market. While Tesla's Autopilot system is much like Apple's iOS in the way that it is confined to the electric car maker's parameters, openpilot allows owners to dig deeper into their vehicles, and this results in some cars, including a pre-Autopilot 2014 Tesla Model S, gaining capabilities that are nearly comparable to AP1 cars.
A demonstration of the system in action was recently shared by Tesla owner-enthusiast Bjorn Nyland on his YouTube channel. In it, Daniel Billing, the 2014 Model S owner, showcased how the aftermarket driver-assist system allows his vehicle to gain Autopilot capabilities. After a brief introduction of the open-sourced driver-assist system's hardware, Billing took his pre-AP Model S to the highway and showcased how his vehicle behaves when it's operating on its own.
Remarkably, the 2014 Model S was incredibly smooth as it steered itself and followed other vehicles on the road. The interface of openpilot is even fully integrated with the Tesla Model S' infotainment system, thanks to root access to the all-electric sedan. With this setup in place, openpilot looks very much like the part it is intended to play — a more accessible, affordable alternative to the Apple of driver-assist systems, Tesla's Autopilot.
The performance of the pre-AP Model S in Nyland's video is quite admirable considering that the vehicle does not even have a radar installed. comma.ai does offer a radar for openpilot, but the Model S owner noted that he has not gotten around to having the additional hardware installed yet. Once a radar is installed on the vehicle, it would not be surprising if Billings' pre-AP Model S ends up performing comparably with an AP1 Model S, at least on the freeway.
That being said, there are some drawbacks with such a system. For one, openpilot does not feature Tesla's Autopilot "nags," which means that drivers could keep their hands off the steering wheel for extended periods of time. It is evident in Nyland's video that the Model S owner is very cautious with the system, but with no nags in place, openpilot may end up fostering careless behavior from inattentive drivers. The system also appears to operate outside Tesla's Neural Network, which means that its improvements will likely not follow the pace of newer vehicles in the electric car maker's fleet.
But for what it's intended for, openpilot seems like a solid solution. The demonstration of the system's capabilities in Nyland's video may be brief, but it does show a pretty good idea of just how well the Android of driver-assist systems works in the real world.
Watch a Pre-AP Tesla Model S use Autopilot features in the video below.
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Q: Why does the following function gets stuck when I hit it from postman? I am trying to update a record in MongoDB in the following function but sometimes it gets stuck when I hit the endpoint from the postman and I don't know why does it happen? Help me identify the problem here
update: (req, res) => {
    let id = req.params.id;
    let image = req.file.path;
    let newPost = {
        title: req.body.title,
        slug: req.body.slug,
        body: req.body.body,
        image: image
    };
    Post.findOne({_id: id}, (err, post) => {
        if(err)
        {
            return res.status(403).json({
                errors: err.errors
            });
        }
        else
        {
            if(!post)
            {
                res.status(404).json({
                    message: "Post not found"
                });
            }
            else
            {
                let oldImage = post.image;
                Post.updateOne({_id: id}, newPost, (err, post) => {
                    if(err)
                    {
                        return res.status(403).json({
                            errors: err.errors
                        });
                    }
                    else
                    {
                        if(oldImage)

                            fs.unlinkSync(oldImage);
                        return res.status(200).json({
                            post
                        });
                    }
                });
            }
        }
    });
},

A: Basically, your code looks fine (I have only read it, not tested it!). But there might be problems when e.g. an exception is thrown synchronously. This could happen, for example, in the call to fs.unlinkSync (please note that I'm not saying there the problem is in this line, this is just an example).
If this happens, then further execution of this route is stopped, and you will never receive a result. The same could happen at other places as well, so maybe a try/catch around everything which results in sending a 500 would be a good idea.


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Gay News Photographic Archive
Bookmark:https://archiveshub.jisc.ac.uk/data/gb372-gnpa
Bishopsgate Institute Special Collections and Archives
GB 372 GNPA
Photographs of cinemas, theatres, personalities and events, and miscellaneous images published in Gay News (1972-1988)
Gay News was a fortnightly newspaper in the United Kingdom founded in June 1972 in a collaboration between former members of the Gay Liberation Front and members of the Campaign for Homosexual Equality (CHE). At the newspaper's height, circulation was approximately 18,000 copies. The original editorial collective included Denis Lemon (editor), Martin Corbett - who later was an active member of ACT UP, David Seligman, a founder member of the London Gay Switchboard collective, Ian Dunn of the Scottish Minorities Group, Glenys Parry (national chair of CHE), Suki J. Pitcher, and Doug Pollard, who later went on to launch the weekly gay newspaper, Gay Week (affectionately known as Gweek). Amongst Gay News' early "Special Friends" were Graham Chapman of Monty Python's Flying Circus, his partner David Sherlock, and Antony Grey, secretary of the UK Homosexual Law Reform Society from 1962 to 1970. Gay News was the response to a nationwide demand by lesbians and gay men for news of the burgeoning liberation movement. The paper played a pivotal role in the struggle for gay rights in the 1970s in the UK. It was described by Alison Hennegan (who joined the newspaper as Assistant Features Editor and Literary Editor in June 1977) as the movement's "debating chamber". Although essentially a newspaper, reporting alike on discrimination and political and social advances, it also campaigned for further law reform, including parity with the heterosexual age of consent of sixteen, against the hostility of the church which treated homosexuality as a sin, and the medical profession which treated homosexuality as a pathology. It campaigned for equal rights in employment (notably in the controversial area of the teaching profession) and the trades union movement at a time when left politics in the United Kingdom was still historically influenced by its Nonconformist roots in its hostility to homosexuality. The paper and it's editors were often in the courts, being charged with obstruction (1972), obscenity (1974) and blasphemy (1976). Despite this, a successful campaign was launched by various gay groups to force WH Smith, who largely controlled newspaper distribution in the UK, to distribute and sell the paper. Gay News Ltd ceased trading on 15 April 1983.
The Gay News Photographic Archive is divided into the following four sections:
GNPA/1 Cinema
GNPA/2 Theatre
GNPA/3 Personalities and Events
GNPA/4 Miscellaneous
Deposited at Bishopsgate Institute with the Lesbian and Gay Newsmedia Archive (LAGNA) which was transferred from Middlesex University in 2011. GNPA may have been previously held by London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) Library.
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Entry compiled by Grace Biggins
Photocopying and digital photography (without flash) is permitted for research purposes on completion of the Library's Copyright Declaration form and with respect to current UK copyright law.


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Q: How to exclude a category from a magento getCollection this might be a silly question, but well. I have the following code that retrieves all the products on my shop.
$products = Mage::getModel('catalog/product')->getCollection();
$products->addAttributeToFilter('status', 1);
$products->addAttributeToFilter('visibility', 4);
$products->addAttributeToFilter('type_id', 'simple');
$products->addAttributeToSelect('*');
$products->addStoreFilter($storeId);
$prodIds = $products->getAllIds();

Im aware of the:
$category = Mage::getModel('catalog/category')->load(9);
$products->addCategoryFilter($category);

to filter by a category ID, but how to get all products except one specific category ID ? (Magento 1.6.2)

A: I think this should work, presuming you know what category ID you want to filter out, but I can't test it right now
$catId = 9;

/* I'm almost positive 'e' is the alias used for catalog_product_entity, check your
   query with echo (string) $products->getSelect(); if it doesn't work */
$products->getSelect()->join(array('cats' => 'catalog_category_product'), 'cats.product_id = e.entity_id');
$products->getSelect()->where('cats.category_id', array('neq' => $catId));

A: This is what I used:
$_productCollection = Mage::getModel('catalog/product')
        ->getCollection()
        ->addAttributeToSelect('*')
        ->addUrlRewrite();

Mage::getSingleton('catalog/product_status')->addVisibleFilterToCollection($_productCollection);
Mage::getSingleton('catalog/product_visibility')->addVisibleInCatalogFilterToCollection($_productCollection);

$_productCollection->load();
$_productCollection->getSelect()->join(array('cats' => 'catalog_category_product'), 'cats.product_id = e.entity_id');
$_productCollection->getSelect()->where('cats.category_id not in (41)');

A: Here is the logic I came up with to resolve this problem.
Note: Should work in Magento 1.X

*

*It dynamically pulls table names so that it would work in any installation.

*It validates that it is a correct catalog/category entity ID.

*It uses a unique table alias by category ID when performing the MySQL LEFT JOIN. This allows us to exclude the collection from multiple category IDs.

*It validates that we do not attempt to exclude the collection from the same category id twice.
public function addCategoryExclusionFilter(Mage_Catalog_Model_Resource_Product_Collection $collection, $category_id)
{
    /* @var $resource Mage_Core_Model_Resource */
    /* @var $category Mage_Catalog_Model_Category */
    $resource = Mage::getModel('core/resource');
    $category = Mage::getModel('catalog/category')->load($category_id);
    $select   = $collection->getSelect();
    $tblccp   = $resource->getTableName('catalog_category_product');
    $tblAlias = $tblccp.'_'.$category_id;

    if (! $category->getId()) {
        Mage::throwException("Invalid `{$resource->getTableName('catalog/category')}`.`entity_id` value ({$category_id}).");
    }

    if (strpos($select->__toString(), $tblAlias) !== false) {
        Mage::throwException("Category (ID: {$category->getId()}) already excluded from collection");
    }

    $select->joinLeft(array($tblAlias => $tblccp), "(`{$tblAlias}`.`product_id` = `e`.`entity_id` AND `{$tblAlias}`.`category_id` = '{$category->getId()}')", array());
    $select->where("`{$tblAlias}`.`category_id` IS NULL");
}

Example of the MySQL query afterwards:
SELECT
    `e`.*
FROM
    `catalog_product_entity` AS `e`
LEFT JOIN
    `catalog_category_product` AS `catalog_category_product_28` ON (
        `catalog_category_product_28`.`product_id` = `e`.`entity_id` AND
        `catalog_category_product_28`.`category_id` = '28'
    )
WHERE
    (`catalog_category_product_28`.`category_id` IS NULL)

What we are doing here is performing a join on the table which holds the relationship between product entities and category entities, BUT only where the record's category_id is equal to the category id which we are looking to exclude. This is important because the catalog_product_entity table has a 1:M relationship to the catalog_category_product table (at the time of posting this answer, I do not see the other answers here addressing this). Then, we add a WHERE declaration that we only want to select records where the category_id column for the joined table IS NULL (because there exists no record in the joined table, for product entities which we wish to select).


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The White Stripes were an American alternative rock band from Detroit, Michigan. The band was formed in 1997 and consists of vocalist, multi-instrumentalist, and songwriter Jack White and drummer Meg White, who also occasionally provides vocals. The duo released their first two albums, The White Stripes (1999) and De Stijl (2000), to limited success; it was their third album, White Blood Cells (2001), that pushed the band into the public eye. The album's success was boosted by the single "Fell in Love with a Girl" and its subsequent music video, which won three awards at the 2002 MTV Video Music Awards.

White Blood Cells was followed by Elephant (2003), which earned the band four Grammy Award nominations, and won them the Best Alternative Music Album and Best Rock Song awards. Elephant produced four singles and went double platinum in the United Kingdom. The White Stripes' later albums, Get Behind Me Satan (2005) and Icky Thump (2007), both won the Grammy Award for Best Alternative Music Album and charted in the top five of the Billboard 200. Overall, The White Stripes have won 19 awards from 54 nominations.

American Music Awards
The American Music Awards are awarded for achievements in the record industry. The White Stripes have one nomination.

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|  ||rowspan="1"| The White Stripes || Favorite Alternative Artist ||
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Billboard Music Awards
The Billboard Music Awards honor artists for commercial performance in the U.S., based on record charts published by Billboard. The awards are based on sales data by Nielsen SoundScan and radio information by Nielsen Broadcast Data Systems. The award ceremony was held from 1990 to 2007, until its reintroduction in 2011.

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| rowspan="2" | 2003
| rowspan="2" | "Seven Nation Army"
| Top Rock Song
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| Modern Rock Track of the Year
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Brit Awards
The Brit Awards are the British Phonographic Industry's annual pop music awards. The White Stripes have won one awards.

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| rowspan="2" | 2003 || rowspan="2" | The White Stripes || International Breakthrough Act ||
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| International Group ||
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| rowspan="2" | 2004 || Elephant || International Album ||
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| rowspan="3" | The White Stripes || rowspan="3" | International Group ||
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| 2006 ||
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| 2008 ||

Grammy Awards
The Grammy Award are awarded annually by the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences. The White Stripes have won six awards from eleven nominations.

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|align="center" rowspan=4| 2004
|rowspan="2"| Elephant
| Best Alternative Music Album
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| Album of the Year
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|rowspan="2"| "Seven Nation Army"
| Best Rock Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocal
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| Best Rock Song
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|align="center" rowspan=2| 2006
| Get Behind Me Satan
| Best Alternative Music Album
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| "My Doorbell"
| Best Pop Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocals
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|-
|align="center" rowspan="3"| 2008
| Icky Thump
| Best Alternative Music Album
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|-
|rowspan=2| "Icky Thump"
| Best Rock Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocal
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| Best Rock Song
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|-
|align="center" rowspan=5| 2011
|rowspan=2| Under Great White Northern Lights
| Best Boxed or Special Limited Edition Package
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| Best Music Film
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|}

International Dance Music Awards

The International Dance Music Award was established in 1985. It is a part of the Winter Music Conference, a weeklong electronic music event held annually.

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| 2004
| "Seven Nation Army"
| Best Alternative / Rock Dance Track
|

Meteor Music Awards
The Meteor Music Awards are distributed by MCD Productions and are the national music awards of Ireland. The White Stripes have won one award from two nominations.

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|rowspan=2| 2004 || Elephant || Best International Album ||
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| The White Stripes || Best International Group ||
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| 2006 || The White Stripes || Best International Group ||
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MTV Awards
MTV Video Music Awards
The MTV Video Music Awards were established in 1984 by MTV to celebrate the music videos of the year. The White Stripes have won five awards from eighteen nominations.

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| rowspan="4" | 2002
| rowspan="4" | "Fell in Love with a Girl"
| Video of the Year
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| Breakthrough Video
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| Best Special Effects in a Video (Special Effects: Twisted Labs and Sebastian Fau)
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| Best Editing in a Video (Editors: Mikros and Duran)
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|rowspan="4"| 2003
|rowspan="4"| "Seven Nation Army"
| Best Group Video
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| Best Rock Video
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| Best Special Effects in a Video (Special Effects: BUF)
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| Best Editing in a Video (Editor: Olivier Gajan)
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|-
|rowspan="4"| 2004
|rowspan="4"| "The Hardest Button to Button"
| Breakthrough Video
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| Best Direction in a Video (Director: Michel Gondry)
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| Best Special Effects in a Video (Special Effects: Richard de Carteret, Angus Kneale and Dirk Greene)
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| Best Editing in a Video (Editors: Charlie Johnston, Geoff Hounsell and Andy Grieve)
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|-
|rowspan="3"| 2005
|rowspan="3"| "Blue Orchid"
| Best Direction in a Video (Director: Floria Sigismondi)
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|-
| Best Art Direction in a Video (Art Director: Sue Tebbutt)
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| Best Cinematography in a Video (Cinematographer: Chris Soos)
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|-
| 2007
| The White Stripes
| Best Group
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|-
|rowspan="2"| 2008
|rowspan="2"| "Conquest"
| Best Art Direction (Art Director: David Fitzpatrick)
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| Best Cinematography (Cinematographer: Wyatt Troll)
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|}

MTV Europe Music Awards
The MTV Europe Music Awards is an annual awards ceremony established in 1994 by MTV Europe. The White Stripes have won one award from eight nominations.

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| 2002 || "Fell in Love with a Girl" || Best Video ||
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|rowspan="4"| 2003 ||rowspan="2"| The White Stripes || Best Rock ||
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| Best Group ||
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| Elephant || Best Album ||
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| "Seven Nation Army" || Best Video ||
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| 2004 || "Hardest Button To Button" || Best Video ||
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| 2005 || The White Stripes || Best Alternative ||
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| 2007 || The White Stripes || Artist's Choice ||
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NME
Founded by the music magazine NME, the Shockwaves NME Awards are awarded annually. The NME Awards USA were introduced in 2008 as an annual alternative for American audiences. The White Stripes have won one award from nine nominations.

Shockwaves NME Awards

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|rowspan="2"| 2002 ||rowspan="2"| The White Stripes || Best Band ||
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| Best New Act ||
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|rowspan="4"| 2004 || "Seven Nation Army" || Best Single ||
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| The White Stripes || Best International Band ||
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| Elephant || Best Album ||
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| "Hardest Button To Button" || Best Video ||
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NME Awards USA

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|rowspan="3"| 2008 || The White Stripes || Indie/Alternative Band of the Year ||
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| Icky Thump || Indie/Alternative Album of the Year ||
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| "Icky Thump" || Indie/Alternative Track ||
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References

External links
 The White Stripes official website

Awards
White Stripes

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Thought Leadership / Journal / Philanthropy, Markets and Transparency
Philanthropy, Markets and Transparency
by Bradford K. Smith
Philanthropy is one of the most important, but least understood, features of our market economy. America has more than 87,000 private foundations that collectively control $798 billion in assets and make close to $55 billion in grants each year. Foundations are the result of the grand public policy bargain that makes institutionalized philanthropy possible: wealthy donors are given significant tax incentives to create and maintain private foundations in exchange for providing a demonstrable, long-term contribution to the public good. Part private, part public, philanthropic foundations live in a twilight world in which their desire to have impact while keeping a low profile increasingly collides with growing public expectations for transparency. How this tension is negotiated will be crucial to the future of how private wealth contributes to the public good in America and around the world.
Foundations Matter
The assets and giving of foundations might seem relatively insignificant when compared to the hundreds of trillions of dollars flowing through global capital markets. But philanthropic giving, in particular, has a unique advantage when it comes to executing a mission: it is one of the last sources of capital left on earth that is not earmarked. The vast majority of foundations are endowed, and thus free from the pressures of raising money, selling products in a highly competitive marketplace, or chasing after votes to remain in office. They have only to invest their assets and earn a reasonable return in order to pursue their missions. This gives them an enormous degree of freedom to support controversial causes (same-sex marriage), take risks on new discoveries that have the potential to solve world problems (the Green Revolution) or stick with seemingly intractable challenges over the long-term (civil rights in America and the anti-apartheid struggle in South Africa). Many foundations choose not to work on such risky or long-term challenges, but the important thing is that they are free to do so.
The Beginnings of Foundation Transparency
In the 1950s, two sets of McCarthy-era Congressional hearings investigated private foundations over their alleged support for "un-American activities." Believing that the best way to prevent such suspicion in the future was to prove they had nothing to hide, foundation executives led by John W. Gardner, then President of the Carnegie Corporation, created a remarkable institution, called quite simply "Foundation Center," as a public information service for American philanthropy. In 1956, when Foundation Center opened its doors, that meant some 8,000 paper documents arrayed in file cabinets for public inspection. In 1960, Foundation Center published the first directory of American foundations, which numbered some 4,000; the buzz was all about this giant new institution that dwarfed all the others — The Ford Foundation. In 1999, Foundation Directory Online was launched — the first searchable database of American foundations, with profiles for each institution and detailed information for all of their grants. Today, Foundation Center is the leading source of information on philanthropy worldwide.
The Limits to Transparency
Historically, the primary source of the information on foundations has been their 990-PF tax returns, which they are required to file with the IRS. When Foundation Center first gained access to those documents in the 1960s it required opening an office in Washington, DC so that staff could physically visit the IRS and hand-copy information from the forms, which at the time could not even be photographed. Today they are available from the IRS on request, but as image (TIFF) files stored on CD-ROMs, that must be converted to searchable PDFs and optically scanned when possible, so that information from them can be keyed into databases. Filing periods, extensions, bureaucratic delay, and the labor-intensive processing required conspire to make American philanthropy a $798 billion industry that relies on trend data that can be as much as three years old. This is beginning to change, however, with the Government Data Act, which will phase in mandatory electronic filing of Forms 990 by all non-profits and foundations and their public release as machine readable open data by the IRS. In the case of foundations, however, the 990-PF remains a form designed for compliance rather than data collection, and the quality of information it provides ranges from good to extremely poor, with a high volume of mistakes and omissions.
Greater Transparency Is Inevitable
When it comes to transparency, what used to be a bilateral relationship between private foundations and government has now become a triangle with the digitally literate public. People expect to be able to get information on virtually everything — government, corporations, stores, products, celebrities, friends, enemies and themselves — instantly through their smartphones, tablets or watches. The modern version of the old motto "trust but verify" has been updated to "trust but Google." There is no reason that foundations, because they are private and like to have a low profile, should imagine they are somehow exempt. You say your mission is to: "to improve the quality of life for present and future generations"? Great, I'm going to find how you're doing it! And increasingly, philanthropists who try to fly under the radar get detected: when Sean Parker of Napster and Facebook fame came under criticism for holding a lavish wedding under the canopy of Northern California's protected Redwoods, he tried to defend himself with all the good work his foundation was doing. The only problem was, nobody knew he had a foundation because he hadn't gone to the trouble of telling anyone by creating a website.
Voluntary Transparency Is Growing
Foundations are beginning to realize that you can't make a difference in the world without being more transparent. Having an impact requires fully understanding the problem you are trying to solve, learning what other foundations already know, and identifying foundations with similar interests with whom you can partner to work at scale. None of this is possible unless foundations openly share information about their work, their grants, and lessons learned. More and more foundations are experimenting with social media, open data, open licensing of research, blogging and other forms of transparency, realizing that the knowledge they and their colleagues possess may be as valuable as the money they have to give away. So prevalent is this trend that Foundation Center has devoted a special website to document and share innovations in foundation transparency entitled Glasspockets. Its name comes straight from the testimony of Russell Leffingwell, a Republican Banker and Foundation Trustee, who boldly told his Congressional inquisitors during those McCarthy era hearings mentioned earlier: "We think that the foundation should have glass pockets."
Two Cheers for LLCs and Impact Investing
The two biggest trends in American philanthropy are the rise of Silicon Valley philanthropists and the concept of impact investing. The Facebook billionaires and other tech entrepreneurs are amassing very large fortunes far earlier in their lives than previous generations of philanthropists and are bringing their confidence, innovation and spirit of disruption with them as they decide just how to go about their charitable giving. Many are determined to do it differently than the big, historical foundations like Ford, Rockefeller, or even the much newer mega-foundation, Gates. In fact, much of this cohort questions the very notion of setting up a formal foundation, because they see it as slow, bureaucratic and limited primarily to the making of grants. Mark Zuckerberg and Priscilla Chan made a big splash when they recently announced that they would use 99% of their Facebook shares to create an LLC "… to advance human potential and promote equality for all children in the next generation." Though critics immediately pounced on them for using an LLC rather than a traditional foundation for its potential tax advantages, the Zuckerbergs claimed that the real reason was to give them full flexibility to make equity investments, loans and grants to further their vision.
This notion of using equity investments is commonly called impact investing. The appeal is immense: imagine if the $798 billion in foundation endowments and some portion of those trillions in the capital markets could be put to use to save the world while making a profit for investors. This is the classic "win-win" that we all desire and there is clearly something to it. If your charitable mission is to reduce global warming, why not make market-rate, equity investments in alternative energy instead of fossil fuels? It is less clear how impact investing can be applied to some areas of philanthropic focus such as racial discrimination, human rights or bullying, but clearly impact investing is here to stay and an industry is fast developing around it.
For all their promise, there is one important caution when it comes to these new forms of philanthropy and impact investing, and that is their lack of transparency. Traditional foundations are required by government to disclose each and every grant they make to fulfill the requirement to spend the equivalent of 5% of their assets for their charitable purpose each year; LLCs are not. This means that whatever we know about Mark Zuckerberg's philanthropy going forward will be precisely what he chooses to tell us. The same is true of impact investing, for which the only data trail is we have today relies on voluntary disclosure by the investors themselves. The irony is that Silicon Valley entrepreneurs, who have amassed enormous fortunes by harvesting data from hundreds of millions of users, and impact investors, who rely on open access to reliable information to make their decisions, should show such little concern when it comes to the transparency of their own efforts to make the world a better place.
If markets functioned perfectly, there would be no poverty, pollution and injustice. But they don't and never will, which is why we need to be compassionate, idealistic, pragmatic, and flexible in using all the tools at our disposal to meet the challenges of our time. That so much poverty persists alongside such massive accumulation of wealth is unacceptable and dangerous for the long-term prospects of our increasingly global society. While philanthropy, made possible by accumulated wealth, is a product of those contradictions, it also has the means and a responsibility to do something about them. Whether it be through traditional foundations, experimentation with LLCs, or impact investing, philanthropy is vital to the future of our market-driven world. And like it has with markets, transparency and the open access to information it provides can only make philanthropy stronger.
Bradford K. Smith is President of Foundation Center, the leading source of information about philanthropy worldwide. Mr. Smith has devoted his entire career to the philanthropic and nonprofit sectors.


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We are very pleased to partner with the Sensorimotor Psychotherapy® Institute of the USA to offer this extensive and practical course for welfare, education and health professionals interested in enhancing their practice beyond talk-based interventions.
This course has been run by the Sensorimotor Psychotherapy® Institute in locations around the world, including USA, Canada and Europe. The Australian Childhood Foundation and the Sensorimotor Psychotherapy® Institute have partnered to offer this course in Australia since 2010. This partnership has stemmed from a long-term connection with Dr Pat Ogden, including her keynote speaking engagements at the Australian Childhood Foundation's Child Trauma Conferences in 2014, 2016 and 2018.
There are three levels of training that ultimately enable participants to be recognised as Sensorimotor Psychotherapy practitioners.
Affect Dysregulation, Survival Defenses, and Traumatic Memory. The Level I is being offered in Perth and Brisbane in 2018.
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Advanced Skills. The next Level III course is currently being planned to start in 2019.


I was born in Lagos, Nigeria and from a very young age I have always been politically conscious. I think my biggest source of political awareness came from listening to my mum, uncle and Dad debate politics in our living room every weekend. These conversations made me read Newspapers and watch the news because I wanted to understand the things they said, I therefore always excelled in Social Studies and Current Affairs in primary school. I followed these interests through high school and college as I confronted and experienced in real time Nigeria's struggle with development.
I completed College with a First Class in Economics and was lucky to get a full scholarship to study International Development at the London School of Economics (LSE) – one of my best experiences till date. Studying at the LSE provided me with great exposure and made me understand the interactions between social, political and economic factors which affect development. It should therefore come as no surprise that this blog was launched after I handed in my dissertation at the LSE, I became more intellectually curious and I needed an outlet to articulate my views on critical development issues and also engage others. Needless to say, this blog has served this purpose and has also become a platform where I share valuable career information for those in the field of International Development.
The geographic scope of issues on the blog has also expanded to include non-Nigerian issues because having lived and worked in various cities in Ghana, Nigeria, the UK and the US and visited many others, I see myself as a global citizen. As such, I try to analyse critical global issues especially the extent to which they affect Africa.
Since the LSE, I have spent my career working with global organisations focused on private sector development in Africa and my experience has been nothing short of eye-opening. In my short life time, I am yet to learn of any country that achieved real economic growth and long-term development through foreign aid or natural resource dependence; however, there are tons of empirical evidence- from China to Singapore to South Korea – of countries that have managed to eliminate poverty and build prosperity through a vibrant private sector. This explains why I have dedicated my career to understanding how the private sector in Africa can be development to create economic prosperity and social wealth.
In September 2018, I begin an Mphil in Development Studies at the University of Oxford, England. My goal is to engage more deeply with some of these issues I already discussed with a particular focus on 'Innovation Policy and Industrialization'. The world is currently undergoing the fourth industrial revolution and there is no reason why Africa should be left behind like it has always been. I want to use my research to re-imagine new and improved ways through which African countries can leverage innovation policy to achieve industrialization.


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Chris Bartosik, owner of the award-winning wedding DJ and event production company Raptor Productions, has cultivated a lifetime of experience throughout the music industry from a young age. Chris had an active childhood and spent his time pursuing both music and athletics, including soccer, track, and basketball. He grew up in several states across the eastern seaboard, including Virginia, South Carolina, Georgia, Missouri and Alabama.
While attending University of Alabama, Chris got his start in disc jockeying as a DJ at the college radio station, where he eventually hosted his own 80's-themed radio show called "Reagan Rock". Since the early 90's, Chris has worked professionally as a disc jockey, performing for weddings of all shapes and sizes, as well as high school proms, private parties, and corporate events. WeddingWire has named Chris a Couple's Choice winner for several years running due to his reputation in the wedding industry as a top-notch disc jockey and for consistently receiving top marks from his clients.
When it comes to being a DJ, Chris' focus has always been on providing a unique, superior experience for every couple and client. His love of music has shone through from an early age, as he learned to play various instruments and performed with student ensembles at numerous venues, including the famous Carnegie Hall. Chris firmly believes that his musical knowledge has helped to shape his work as a disc jockey, treating each opportunity as a performance rather than "just another gig". His expertise allows him to seamlessly blend multiple tracks and layers into thoughtful musical works, which creates a flow of energy and instantly brightens the atmosphere at any type of event.
Chris is an active member of numerous professional organizations and trade associations, including serving as the President of the Baltimore Area Disc Jockey Association (BADJA). Chris is also a founding member of the United States Disc Jockey Association (USDJA), and is an active member of American Disc Jockey Association (ADJA) and Performing Entertainer and Event Professionals (PEEP). He regularly attends conferences and trade shows, including the DJ Expo, Mobile Beat DJ Conference, and Wedding MBA in order to stay current on new technology and industry trends.
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LIVE: Rain on a Conga Drum: The Songs of Townes Van Zandt @ Caffe Lena, 3/4/17
By Greg Haymes On Mar 30, 2017
Review by Steven Stock
This tribute concert to legendary troubadour Townes Van Zandt was held three days prior to what would have been his 73rd birthday. Sadly, Van Zandt didn't even make it to age 53, dying of cardiac arrhythmia on January 1, 1997, 44 years to the day after his idol Hank Williams. It doesn't appear that Townes' ghost made it to the concert either: the joint didn't come close to running out of booze, and none of the lovely ladies in attendance ditched their respectable dates to take home a lanky, dark-haired, dashing stranger.
His songs live on, as do a litany of tall tales, plausible stories and unprintable jokes. A contradictory character, Van Zandt could be clinically depressed or irresistibly charming, withdrawing to indulge multiple addictions or stepping out as the life of the party. A near-capacity crowd at the refurbished Caffe Lena was given glimpses of all these facets and more, courtesy of the evening's host Michael Eck, John & Orion Kribs, Cloud Lifter, The Sea The Sea and Van Zandt biographer John Kruth.
Eck performed a song with each line-up before turning the stage over to them, a device that proved effective in lending some continuity and coherence to the proceedings. Eck and the father-and-son Kribs duo opened with a lovely version of "Tecumseh Valley," then Kruth on harmonica joined the trio for an ebullient (blue)grassed-up version of "White Freight Liner Blues." The crowd sang along during the chorus of "Pancho and Lefty" transforming this outlaw country staple into something of a hymnal. The Kribs' set concluded with "Waitin' Around to Die" and "None But the Rain."
Next up was Cloud Lifter, a trio that sounded simply spectacular. After years of listening to Townes' songs on guitars hearing Chris Carey's piano arrangements was refreshing and revelatory, while James Gascoyne's upright bass resounded through Caffe Lena like thunder in a canyon. Though just a trio, Cloud Lifter conjured a majestic grandeur reminiscent of Nick Cave or Tindersticks as they reinvented "Buckskin Stallion," "Lungs," "Snow Don't Fall," "No Place To Fall" and "Loretta."
The Sea The Sea are a husband-wife duo who create some of the loveliest harmonies since Gram Parsons nodded off this mortal coil at Joshua Tree, leaving Emmylou Harris and the rest of us behind. "I'll Be Here in the Morning" was Eck's most affecting contribution of the evening, and The Sea The Sea followed with sublime renditions of "Don't Take It Too Bad," "Nothin'," "The Rake" and the breathtakingly gorgeous "If I Needed You."
Townes' biographer John Kruth closed the set with a mixed bag of readings and performances. His own tune "Nobody's Safe" was the evening's only misstep, failing to match the caliber of Van Zandt's songs, and it was a little disconcerting to see Kruth's carefully-placed bookmarks fluttering to the stage as he read. Fortunately, he's a very engaging raconteur, and the liveliness of his readings more than compensated for an occasional loss of momentum. All in all it was a very enjoyable evening filled with lovely new renditions of classic songs.
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Greg Haymes founded Nippertown, along with his wife Sara Ayers, in 2009. Greg was a musician, journalist, and ambassador to the Capital Region arts community. Greg passed in April of 2019, but his legacy continues.
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The Christian is to be a life-giver. By faith a believer seeks "lost" individuals and shares with them the Gospel. Jesus came to earth to be the gift of salvation. Christians are to share this gift with others. Believers must not only pray by faith, "Lord, use me" but also "Lord, make me useable."
The formation of SMS was introduced to the world in 1933 by a man who wanted to share his faith with his native people in the former Soviet Union. That man was Ivan Neprash, and God filled him with His Spirit to accomplish spiritual fruit in his homeland. Through SMS (formerly known as Russian Missionary Service), Ivan gathered funds to reach the Slavic world with the Gospel...
The stability and structure of families are very important to the Creator. One must remember that marriage and the family were instituted long before the church or the government. God is interested in strong and spiritual families that unite to worship and work for Him.
Children must be shown the reality of true religion at an early age. Christian values and principles must start in the home. When Jesus Christ is given preeminence in the responsibilities, ritual and routine of home life, then each member of the household recognizes the reality of Christianity. The first examples of faith must be seen in the lives of the parents...
The foreign missionaries of Slavic Missionary Service are fulfilling the Great Commission: "Go therefore and make disciples" (Matthew 28:19). The Great Commission of Jesus Christ entails the task of making disciples through evangelism and exhortation. What had been the work of Jesus in the world is now the work of His disciples. "Peace be with you; as the Father has sent Me, I also send you" (John 20:21).
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Sooo I'm stuck between a rock and a hard place. My face is constantly irritated (Daniel says this is bad) but its irritated because it is super dry. (Thank you BP) Since it is ALWAYS irritated, especially around my eyes OMG they are so raw! they are so wrinkly and red most of the time and sting whenever my eyes water. My face is so irritated that I find my self always scratching/rubbing/touching my face. (I know Bad girl) I would back off on the BP but I'm still having crazy breakouts and kind of feel like I should be using more. I only use one finger section full of BP but that covers my entire face (I have a small face). I was super juiced to start the AHA and jojoba to cure my dessert face but my breakouts increased a lot with using the Jojoba oil so I stopped. So I'm 3 months in and I'm DRY, and ITCHY, and PIMPLY, and miserable. Any suggestions?
Severe dryness is very common...and no fun! I'm sorry you're feeling so miserable but it's understandable. Moisturize as often as you need to to get your skin feeling more comfortable. At the same time, slowly start ramping up the BP treatment. I know that seems impossible right now, but you do need to get up to the full finger of BP to see better results. So just do your best and muscle through the dryness. It's a baptism by fire few people escape but the results are worth it!
It wouldn't be a bad idea to schedule an appointment with your derm to check you out and determine the severity of your acne. They may have other recommendations for you as well.


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1335 – Extra Ordinary (2019)
timespace coordinates: 90's (?) rural Ireland
Extra Ordinary is a 2019 Irish tea-cosy "Ghostbusters" horror comedy film written and directed by Mike Ahern and Enda Loughman. The film stars Maeve Higgins, Barry Ward, Will Forte, Claudia O'Doherty, Jamie Beamish, Terri Chandler, Risteárd Cooper and Emma Coleman. (wiki)
A horror/rom-com hybrid that somehow manages to blend its ingredients without losing their flavor, Extra Ordinary more than lives up to its title. (rottentomatoes)
1255 – Brightburn (2019)
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timespace coordinates: 2006 – 2018 Brightburn, Kansas
Brightburn is a 2019 American superhero horror film directed by David Yarovesky and produced by James Gunn and Kenneth Huang. It stars Elizabeth Banks, David Denman and Jackson A. Dunn. The film is a horror take on the Superman origin/mythos.
(Superman traditionally stands for "truth, justice and the American way". The essay Caitlyn is writing when she's visited by Brandon is "The Decline of Truth and Justice in the Modern World", identifying Brandon as a twisted, dark version of Superman born from the death of the values that the original one embodied.)
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1218 – Noah (2014) +
Noah is a 2014 American epic Biblical drama film directed by Darren Aronofsky and inspired by the Biblical story of Noah's Ark from the Book of Genesis. Noah, which was co-written by Aronofsky and Ari Handel, stars Russell Crowe as Noah, along with Jennifer Connelly, Emma Watson, Ray Winstone, Logan Lerman, Douglas Booth, and Anthony Hopkins.
This vintage illustration features Noah's Ark and the animals in a scene depicted from the Bible.
The Deluge 1920 Winifred Knights 1899-1947 Purchased with assistance from the Friends of the Tate Gallery 1989 http://www.tate.org.uk/art/work/T05532
The Deluge ?c.1840 Francis Danby 1793-1861 Purchased 1953 http://www.tate.org.uk/art/work/N06134
Noah was praised for its direction and acting, but generated controversy, primarily due to its lack of racial diversity, its perceived left-leaning political messages and its extensive use of non-biblical sources for inspiration such as the Book of Enoch. It was banned in China for "religion-related reason". Also, it was banned in several Muslim countries because it was seen as contradicting the teachings of Islam. Christian blogger Michael Snyder claims that the film "promotes the Luciferian Gnostic belief that the Creator of this world is evil". (wiki)
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Rudolf Steiner – OCCULT SIGNS AND SYMBOLS:
"Think vividly back into the end of the Atlantean epoch. Man still had a kind of clairvoyance; the air was saturated with water vapour. In this dense watery air, sun and stars could not be perceived; a rainbow could never have come into being; thick, heavy mist masses covered the earth. Hence it is that the myth speaks of Niflheim, of a mist-home. Then the waters that were so much spread out in the air, condensed. They covered Atlantis. The Flood signifies the mighty condensation of the mist masses into water. When the water separated itself from the air, our present kind of perception came about. Man was only then able to see himself when he saw other objects around him.
The physical body shows many regularities that have a deeper meaning. One of these is the following. If one were to make a chest the height, width, and length of which were in relation of three to five to thirty, the length corresponding to a body length, then the height and width would also correspond to the body's proportions. In other words, herewith the proportions of a normally organized human body are given. [Here, length = depth. – e.Ed] When man emerged from the Flood of Atlantis, the proportions of his physical body corresponded to these measures. This is expressed in the Bible in a beautiful way in the following words:
"And God commanded Noah to build a chest three hundred ells long, fifty ells wide, and thirty ells high." (I Moses, 6-15). [Meaning, the first book of Moses, Genesis. e.Ed] In these measurements of Noah's Ark we have stated exactly the measurements for the harmony of the human body."
read more: The Symbolic Meaning of Noah's Ark and the Gothic Churches.
(…) human beings gradually transform themselves since, as a matter of fact, they lived in vessels, under the influence of great initiates, which had been built according to these measurements. Before the time of our present humanity there was a kind of water or sea-life that was lived in vessels, in which humanity gradually accustomed itself to life on land. The life of the Atlanteans was for the most part a life in vessels. Not only were they surrounded by a watery, misty air, but a large part of Atlantis was covered by the sea. This is the deep mystery of Noah's Ark. What is to be found in the original religious documents has an immense depth. A radiance of wisdom and limitless sublimity surrounds these primal records when we immerse ourselves deeply in them.
1195 – Red Riding: The Year of Our Lord 1974 / 1980 / 1983 (2009)
timespace coordinates: Yorkshire 1974 / 1980 / 1983
Red Riding (2009) is a three-part television adaptation of English author David Peace's Red Riding Quartet (1999–2002). The quartet comprises the novels Nineteen Seventy-Four (1999), Nineteen Seventy-Seven (2000), Nineteen Eighty (2001) and Nineteen Eighty-Three (2002) and the first, third, and fourth of these books became three feature-length television episodes: Red Riding 1974, Red Riding 1980, and Red Riding 1983. They aired in the UK on Channel 4 beginning on 5 March 2009 and were produced by Revolution Films. The three films were released theatrically in the US in February 2010.
Set against a backdrop of serial murders from 1974 to 1983, including the Yorkshire Ripper killings, the books and films follow several recurring fictional characters through a bleak and violent world of multi-layered police corruption and organised crime. Although there are allusions to real-life crimes, the plot is fictional rather than a documentary or factual account of events. Both the books and films mix elements of fact, fiction, and conspiracy theory – a confection dubbed "Yorkshire Noir" by some critics – and are notable for a chronologically fractured narrative and for defying neat or trite endings and resolutions. The name of the series is a reference to the murders and to their location, the historic county of Yorkshire being traditionally divided into three areas known as ridings.
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1185 – Serenity (2005)
timespace coordinates: In the 26th century, humanity has left an overpopulated Earth to colonize a new solar system. The central planets formed the Alliance and won a war against the outer planet Independents—those who resisted joining the Alliance.
Serenity is a 2005 American science fiction action film written and directed by Joss Whedon and stars Nathan Fillion, Alan Tudyk, Adam Baldwin, Summer Glau and Chiwetel Ejiofor.
It is a continuation of Whedon's short-lived 2002 Fox television series Firefly and stars the same cast, taking place after the events of the final episode. Set in 2517, Serenity is the story of the captain and crew of Serenity, a "Firefly-class" spaceship. The captain and first mate are veterans of the Unification War, having fought on the losing Independent side against the Alliance. Their lives of smuggling and cargo-running are interrupted by a psychic passenger who harbors a dangerous secret. (wiki)
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many of the products of mankind — not only machines, but also cultural works (such as great works of art, ceremonial actions, and rituals) — attract elemental beings. "Out of the interaction between these creations of humanity and the elemental beings which live with man are formed the foundations of the kingdom of Future Jupiter. That, then, is comprised by the term the occult atom."
(…) in that time in which the soul was not yet living in such substantiality (in the Polarean and Hyperborean times), the Spirit World, which is now our inner world, surrounded us as our outer environment; in the future, that which is now outer nature and that which is "constructed" by man will become our inner world. This again is a reference to one of the occult expressions connected with Freemasonry, and it was taken for granted that the listeners would understand what was meant. They knew that the old church builders constructed churches not for themselves, nor to bring their own names into the world, but rather for others. "It was the task of all secret brotherhoods to bring the spirit into the outer world."
it was said in 1904: "We are approaching a time in which — as I have already indicated — comprehension can reach even as far as the atom. Even lay people will recognize that the atom is nothing other than coagulated electricity. Thought itself is of the same substance; even before the Fifth Cultural Epoch comes to an end, man will come so far that he will be capable of working right into the atom."
On Nuclear Energy and the Occult Atom
by Georg Unger, 1978 (online)
1179 – The Atomic Cafe (1982)
timespace coordinates: 1940s, 1950s and early 1960s United States, the Marshall Islands
The Atomic Cafe is a 1982 American documentary film produced and directed by Jayne Loader, Kevin Rafferty and Pierce Rafferty. In 2016, the film was selected for preservation in the United States' National Film Registry by the Library of Congress, being deemed "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant".
The film covers the beginnings of the era of nuclear warfare, created from a broad range of archival material from the 1940s, 1950s and early 1960s including newsreel clips, television news footage, U.S. government-produced films (including military training films), advertisements, television and radio programs. News footage reflected the prevailing understanding of the media and public.
Though the topic of atomic holocaust is a grave matter, The Atomic Cafe approaches it with black humor. Much of the humor derives from the modern audience's reaction to the old training films, such as the Duck and Cover film shown in schools.
The Atomic Cafe was released at the height of nostalgia and cynicism in America. By 1982, Americans lost much of their faith in their government following the Vietnam War, the Watergate scandal, and the seemingly never-ending arms race with the Soviet Union. The Atomic Cafe reflects and reinforces this idea as it exposes how the atomic bomb's dangers were downplayed and how the government used films to shape public opinion.
Bob Mielke, in "Rhetoric and Ideology in the Nuclear Test Documentary" (Film Quarterly) discusses the release of The Atomic Cafe: "This satire feature was released at the height of the nuclear freeze movement (which was in turn responding to the Reagan administration's surreal handling of the arms race.)"
Patricia Aufderheide, in Documentary Film: A Very Short Introduction touches on the significance of The Atomic Cafe as a window into the past of government propaganda and disinformation during the years following the advent of the Atomic Bomb. "Propaganda, also known as disinformation, public diplomacy, and strategic communication, continues to be an important tool for governments. But stand-alone documentary is no longer an important part of public relations campaigns aimed at the general public." (wiki)
Because the site bears direct tangible evidence of the nuclear tests conducted there amid the paradoxical tropical location, UNESCO determined that the atoll symbolizes the dawn of the nuclear age and named it a World Heritage Site on 3 August 2010.
Bikini Atoll has conserved direct tangible evidence … conveying the power of … nuclear tests, i.e. the sunken ships sent to the bottom of the lagoon by the tests in 1946 and the gigantic Bravo crater. Equivalent to 7,000 times the force of the Hiroshima bomb, the tests had major consequences on the geology and natural environment of Bikini Atoll and on the health of those who were exposed to radiation. Through its history, the atoll symbolises the dawn of the nuclear age, despite its paradoxical image of peace and of earthly paradise.