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namespace HelixToolkit.Wpf.SharpDX
{
    using System.Collections.Generic;
    using System.ComponentModel;
    using System.Linq;
    using System.Windows;
    using global::SharpDX;
    using global::SharpDX.Direct3D;
    using global::SharpDX.Direct3D11;

    using HelixToolkit.Wpf.SharpDX.Extensions;
    using HelixToolkit.Wpf.SharpDX.Utilities;

    using Color = global::SharpDX.Color;

    public class PointGeometryModel3D : GeometryModel3D
    {
        protected InputLayout vertexLayout;
        protected Buffer vertexBuffer;
        protected EffectTechnique effectTechnique;
        protected EffectTransformVariables effectTransforms;
        protected EffectVectorVariable vViewport;
        protected EffectVectorVariable vPointParams;

        public override int VertexSizeInBytes
        {
            get { return Geometry3D.PointsVertex.SizeInBytes; }
        }

        [TypeConverter(typeof(ColorConverter))]
        public Color Color
        {
            get { return (Color)this.GetValue(ColorProperty); }
            set { this.SetValue(ColorProperty, value); }
        }

        public static readonly DependencyProperty ColorProperty =
            DependencyProperty.Register("Color", typeof(Color), typeof(PointGeometryModel3D),
                new UIPropertyMetadata(Color.Black, (o, e) => ((PointGeometryModel3D)o).OnColorChanged()));

        public Size Size
        {
            get { return (Size)this.GetValue(SizeProperty); }
            set { this.SetValue(SizeProperty, value); }
        }

        public static readonly DependencyProperty SizeProperty =
            DependencyProperty.Register("Size", typeof(Size), typeof(PointGeometryModel3D), new UIPropertyMetadata(new Size(1.0, 1.0)));

        public PointFigure Figure
        {
            get { return (PointFigure)this.GetValue(FigureProperty); }
            set { this.SetValue(FigureProperty, value); }
        }

        public static readonly DependencyProperty FigureProperty =
            DependencyProperty.Register("Figure", typeof(PointFigure), typeof(PointGeometryModel3D), new UIPropertyMetadata(PointFigure.Rect));

        public double FigureRatio
        {
            get { return (double)this.GetValue(FigureRatioProperty); }
            set { this.SetValue(FigureRatioProperty, value); }
        }

        public static readonly DependencyProperty FigureRatioProperty =
            DependencyProperty.Register("FigureRatio", typeof(double), typeof(PointGeometryModel3D), new UIPropertyMetadata(0.25));

        public double HitTestThickness
        {
            get { return (double)this.GetValue(HitTestThicknessProperty); }
            set { this.SetValue(HitTestThicknessProperty, value); }
        }

        public static readonly DependencyProperty HitTestThicknessProperty =
            DependencyProperty.Register("HitTestThickness", typeof(double), typeof(PointGeometryModel3D), new UIPropertyMetadata(4.0));

        public static double DistanceRayToPoint(Ray r, Vector3 p)
        {
            Vector3 v = r.Direction;
            Vector3 w = p - r.Position;

            float c1 = Vector3.Dot(w, v);
            float c2 = Vector3.Dot(v, v);
            float b = c1 / c2;

            Vector3 pb = r.Position + v * b;
            return (p - pb).Length();
        }

        /// <summary>
        /// Checks if the ray hits the geometry of the model.
        /// If there a more than one hit, result returns the hit which is nearest to the ray origin.
        /// </summary>
        /// <param name="rayWS">Hitring ray from the camera.</param>
        /// <param name="result">results of the hit.</param>
        /// <returns>True if the ray hits one or more times.</returns>
        public override bool HitTest(Ray rayWS, ref List<HitTestResult> hits)
        {
            PointGeometry3D pointGeometry3D;
            Viewport3DX viewport;

            if (this.Visibility == Visibility.Collapsed ||
                this.IsHitTestVisible == false ||
                (viewport = FindVisualAncestor<Viewport3DX>(this.renderHost as DependencyObject)) == null ||
                (pointGeometry3D = this.Geometry as PointGeometry3D) == null)
            {
                return false;
            }

            var svpm = viewport.GetScreenViewProjectionMatrix();
            var smvpm = this.modelMatrix * svpm;

            var clickPoint4 = new Vector4(rayWS.Position + rayWS.Direction, 1);
            var pos4 = new Vector4(rayWS.Position, 1);
            var dir3 = new Vector3();
            Vector4.Transform(ref clickPoint4, ref svpm, out clickPoint4);
            Vector4.Transform(ref pos4, ref svpm, out pos4);
            Vector3.TransformNormal(ref rayWS.Direction, ref svpm, out dir3);
            dir3.Normalize();

            var clickPoint = clickPoint4.ToVector3();

            var result = new HitTestResult { IsValid = false, Distance = double.MaxValue };
            var maxDist = this.HitTestThickness;
            var lastDist = double.MaxValue;
            var index = 0;

            foreach (var point in pointGeometry3D.Points)
            {
                var p0 = Vector3.TransformCoordinate(point.P0, smvpm);
                var pv = p0 - clickPoint;
                var dist = pv.Length();
                if (dist < lastDist && dist <= maxDist)
                {
                    lastDist = dist;
                    Vector4 res;
                    var lp0 = point.P0;
                    Vector3.Transform(ref lp0, ref this.modelMatrix, out res);
                    var pvv = res.ToVector3();
                    var dst = DistanceRayToPoint(rayWS, pvv);
                    result.Distance = dst;
                    result.PointHit = pvv.ToPoint3D();
                    result.ModelHit = this;
                    result.IsValid = true;
                    result.Tag = index;
                }

                index++;
            }

            if (result.IsValid)
            {
                hits.Add(result);
            }

            return result.IsValid;
        }

        protected override void OnRasterStateChanged(int depthBias)
        {
            if (this.IsAttached)
            {
                Disposer.RemoveAndDispose(ref this.rasterState);
                /// --- set up rasterizer states
                var rasterStateDesc = new RasterizerStateDescription()
                {
                    FillMode = FillMode.Solid,
                    CullMode = CullMode.None,
                    DepthBias = depthBias,
                    DepthBiasClamp = -1000,
                    SlopeScaledDepthBias = -2,
                    IsDepthClipEnabled = true,
                    IsFrontCounterClockwise = false,
                    IsMultisampleEnabled = true,
                };

                try { this.rasterState = new RasterizerState(this.Device, rasterStateDesc); }
                catch (System.Exception)
                {
                }
            }
        }

        private void OnColorChanged()
        {
            if (this.IsAttached)
            {
                /// --- set up buffers
                this.vertexBuffer = Device.CreateBuffer(BindFlags.VertexBuffer, VertexSizeInBytes, CreateVertexArray());
            }
        }

        /// <summary>
        ///
        /// </summary>
        /// <param name="host"></param>
        public override void Attach(IRenderHost host)
        {
            renderTechnique = host.RenderTechniquesManager.RenderTechniques[DefaultRenderTechniqueNames.Points];
            base.Attach(host);

            if (Geometry == null)
                return;

            if (renderHost.RenderTechnique == renderHost.RenderTechniquesManager.RenderTechniques.Get(DeferredRenderTechniqueNames.Deferred) ||
                renderHost.RenderTechnique == renderHost.RenderTechniquesManager.RenderTechniques.Get(DeferredRenderTechniqueNames.GBuffer))
                return;

            // --- get device
            vertexLayout = renderHost.EffectsManager.GetLayout(renderTechnique);
            effectTechnique = effect.GetTechniqueByName(renderTechnique.Name);

            effectTransforms = new EffectTransformVariables(effect);

            // --- get geometry
            var geometry = Geometry as PointGeometry3D;

            // -- set geometry if given
            if (geometry != null)
            {
                /// --- set up buffers
                vertexBuffer = Device.CreateBuffer(BindFlags.VertexBuffer, VertexSizeInBytes, CreateVertexArray());
            }

            /// --- set up const variables
            vViewport = effect.GetVariableByName("vViewport").AsVector();
            //this.vFrustum = effect.GetVariableByName("vFrustum").AsVector();
            vPointParams = effect.GetVariableByName("vPointParams").AsVector();

            /// --- set effect per object const vars
            var pointParams = new Vector4((float)Size.Width, (float)Size.Height, (float)Figure, (float)FigureRatio);
            vPointParams.Set(pointParams);

            /// --- create raster state
            OnRasterStateChanged(DepthBias);

            /// --- flush
            Device.ImmediateContext.Flush();
        }

        /// <summary>
        ///
        /// </summary>
        public override void Detach()
        {
            Disposer.RemoveAndDispose(ref this.vertexBuffer);
            Disposer.RemoveAndDispose(ref this.vViewport);
            Disposer.RemoveAndDispose(ref this.rasterState);

            this.renderTechnique = null;
            this.effectTechnique = null;
            this.vertexLayout = null;

            base.Detach();
        }

        /// <summary>
        ///
        /// </summary>
        public override void Render(RenderContext renderContext)
        {
            /// --- do not render, if not enabled
            if (!this.IsRendering)
                return;

            if (this.Geometry == null)
                return;

            if (this.Visibility != System.Windows.Visibility.Visible)
                return;

            if (renderHost.RenderTechnique == renderHost.RenderTechniquesManager.RenderTechniques.Get(DeferredRenderTechniqueNames.Deferred) ||
                renderHost.RenderTechnique == renderHost.RenderTechniquesManager.RenderTechniques.Get(DeferredRenderTechniqueNames.GBuffer))
                return;

            if (renderContext.IsShadowPass)
                if (!this.IsThrowingShadow)
                    return;

            /// --- since these values are changed only per window resize, we set them only once here
            if (renderContext.Camera is ProjectionCamera)
            {
                var c = renderContext.Camera as ProjectionCamera;
                // viewport: W,H,0,0
                var viewport = new Vector4((float)renderContext.Canvas.ActualWidth, (float)renderContext.Canvas.ActualHeight, 0, 0);
                var ar = viewport.X / viewport.Y;
                this.vViewport.Set(ref viewport);
            }

            /// --- set transform paramerers
            var worldMatrix = this.modelMatrix * renderContext.worldMatrix;
            this.effectTransforms.mWorld.SetMatrix(ref worldMatrix);

            /// --- set effect per object const vars
            var pointParams = new Vector4((float)this.Size.Width, (float)this.Size.Height, (float)this.Figure, (float)this.FigureRatio);
            this.vPointParams.Set(pointParams);

            /// --- set context
            this.Device.ImmediateContext.InputAssembler.InputLayout = this.vertexLayout;
            this.Device.ImmediateContext.InputAssembler.PrimitiveTopology = PrimitiveTopology.PointList;

            /// --- set rasterstate
            this.Device.ImmediateContext.Rasterizer.State = this.rasterState;

            /// --- bind buffer
            this.Device.ImmediateContext.InputAssembler.SetVertexBuffers(0,
                new VertexBufferBinding(this.vertexBuffer, VertexSizeInBytes, 0));

            /// --- render the geometry
            this.effectTechnique.GetPassByIndex(0).Apply(this.Device.ImmediateContext);

            this.Device.ImmediateContext.Draw(this.Geometry.Positions.Count, 0);
        }

        /// <summary>
        ///
        /// </summary>
        public override void Dispose()
        {
            this.Detach();
        }

        /// <summary>
        /// Creates a <see cref="T:PointsVertex[]"/>.
        /// </summary>
        private Geometry3D.PointsVertex[] CreateVertexArray()
        {
            var positions = this.Geometry.Positions.Array;
            var vertexCount = this.Geometry.Positions.Count;
            var color = this.Color;
            var result = new Geometry3D.PointsVertex[vertexCount];

            if (this.Geometry.Colors != null && this.Geometry.Colors.Any())
            {
                var colors = this.Geometry.Colors;
                for (var i = 0; i < vertexCount; i++)
                {
                    result[i] = new Geometry3D.PointsVertex
                    {
                        Position = new Vector4(positions[i], 1f),
                        Color = color * colors[i],
                    };
                }
            }
            else
            {
                for (var i = 0; i < vertexCount; i++)
                {
                    result[i] = new Geometry3D.PointsVertex
                    {
                        Position = new Vector4(positions[i], 1f),
                        Color = color,
                    };
                }
            }

            return result;
        }

        public enum PointFigure
        {
            Rect,
            Ellipse,
            Cross,
        }
    }

}


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The Movie industry does not want to look at anybody with a disability now if your black or another minority you are really invisible.in the old days (black and White movies)every disabled role happened to either crazy or helpless. In the modern era the disabled role have become super human over compensating for example Mommy Dearest, The Hunchback of Notre Dame etc… the question should be asked why cant they find disabled actors to play the part.and why cant we be human . I know of two Reggie Green from Georgia played a role in the movie Boyz in the Hood but the rest have been non-disabled actors playing the role starting with Porgy and Bess in 1958.
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The Duchess of Newcastle or the Duchess of Newcastle-upon-Tyne usually refers to the wife or widow of a Duke of Newcastle. The dukedom became extinct in 1988.

Duchesses of Newcastle-on Tyne and Newcastle

1st creation (1665)
 Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle-upon-Tyne (1623–1673) (née Margaret Lucas), English aristocrat, writer and scientist, 2nd wife of William Cavendish, 1st Duke of Newcastle
 Frances Pierrepoint (1630–1695), wife of Henry Cavendish, 2nd Duke of Newcastle

2nd creation (1694)
 Margaret Holles, Duchess of Newcastle-upon-Tyne (1661–1716) (née Margaret Cavendish), wife of John Holles, 1st Duke of Newcastle

3rd creation (1715)
 Harriet Pelham-Holles, Duchess of Newcastle-upon-Tyne (1701–1776) (Lady Harriet Godolphin), wife of Thomas Pelham-Holles, 1st Duke of Newcastle
 Catherine Pelham-Clinton, Countess of Lincoln (1727–1760), wife of Henry Pelham-Clinton, 2nd Duke of Newcastle
 Lady Anna Maria Stanhope, wife of Thomas Pelham-Clinton, 3rd Duke of Newcastle
 Georgiana Mundy (d.1822), wife of Henry Pelham-Clinton, 4th Duke of Newcastle
 Henrietta Hope, wife of Henry Pelham-Clinton, 6th Duke of Newcastle
 Kathleen Pelham-Clinton, Duchess of Newcastle (1872–1955) (née Kathleen Candy), conformation show judge and dog breeder, wife of Henry Pelham-Clinton, 7th Duke of Newcastle
 Olive Muriel Thompson, wife of Francis Pelham-Clinton-Hope, 8th Duke of Newcastle
 Lady Mary Montagu-Stuart-Wortley (1920–1997), 2nd wife of Henry Pelham-Clinton-Hope, 9th Duke of Newcastle
 Sally Ann Wemyss, 3rd wife of Henry Pelham-Clinton-Hope, 9th Duke of Newcastle

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Bow Thruster and Bulbous Bow of Disney Wish Arrive at Meyer Werft Shipyard
by Laughing Place Disney Newsdesk | Feb 25, 2021 3:28 PM Pacific Time
Tags: Disney Cruise, Disney Cruise Line, Disney Cruise Ship #5, Disney Dream, Disney Fantasy, Disney Magic, Disney Wish, Disney Wonder, New Cruise Ships, Parks
Thanks to a new video, we know that the fifth ship in the Disney Cruise Line fleet is definitely making some progress, as we see the Bow Thrusters and Bulbous Bow of the Disney Wish arrive at the Meyer Werft shipyard.
Yesterday, Ems-Dollart Media posted a video of sections of the keel, bulbous bow, and bow thrusters traveling through a canal on their way to the Meyer Werft shipyard in Germany where they will be installed and become part of the Disney Wish.
The Disney Wish is set to be the fifth ship in the Disney Cruise Line fleet, and will be powered by clean burning liquefied natural gas.
The ship was originally set for a late 2021 delivery, but due to the global pandemic, has been delayed with a maiden voyage set for Summer of 2022.
Last month, the funnel of the ship arrived at the Meyer Werft shipyard for installation, signifying that progress is coming along nicely for the new ship.
It was on Christmas Day that we were gifted with images of the new main lobby/atrium of the ship, and also learned that a statue of Cinderella would grace the area.
Three new ships for the Disney Cruise Line were announced in 2016 as part of a new class of ship, "Triton class," which would be larger than the previous Disney Dream and Disney Fantasy. Though three ships were announced, we only really know specifics about one of them, including the name of the ship, the "Disney Wish."
Meyer Werft is responsible for the manufacture of the two most recent ships in the fleet, the Disney Fantasy and the Disney Dream. The Disney Dream also features a sports bar known as Pub 687, named after the keel number (or "yard" or "hull" number) assigned to the ship by Meyer Werft.
Funnel of the Disney Wish Arrives At Meyer Werft…
Disney Cruise Line Shares Disney Wish Construction Update
Disney Cruise Line Announces Captain Minnie Will Be…
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Gary Clark Jr.: This Land [Album Review]
Brian Q. Newcomb | December 9, 2019 February 22, 2019 | Headphone Approved Music, Reviews
Warner Bros. [2019]
Fire Note Says: "Guitar Man," Gary Clark Jr. shows that he can do it all on his third major label album, This Land, from the traditional blues to rock & roll, pop, R&B, hip-hop and soul.
Album Review: Near the end of Gary Clark Jr.'s latest album, This Land, his third studio recording for the major label Warner Bros, the beloved Austin guitar hero strips it all the way back to the basics. For "The Governor," Clark goes old school, playing a National Standard Steel guitar, like the one you see him playing on the porch at the very end of the "This Land" video. It's a traditional blues, similar in feel and tone to the album closer, "Dirty Dishes Blues," this one with Clark solo on electric guitar, doing an original song that may be a tribute to the original song of that name by the Lonesome Pine Fiddlers, or a similar song from Albert Collins, "Too Many Dirty Dishes." These are the kind of blues songs that a veteran guitar hero of Clark's pedigree could lay down all day, but here at the conclusion of his stylistically wide-ranging album, having proven he's far more than any one trick pony, Clark seems content to keep it simple and revisit his roots and let the guitar do the talking.
And to be clear, there's no doubt that Clark is first and foremost an able and willing guitarist, This Land is stock full of raw, fiery guitar theatrics. He delivers the goods, for which we should all be grateful. But as an artist, Clark clearly wants to be seen and heard as a songwriter with more than the predictable irons in the fire. No doubt, Clark could throw down blues rock guitar songs all day, like Robert Cray, Buddy Guy, and a host of others, not that there's anything wrong with that approach, but like on his 2012 major label debut, Blak and Blu, Clark incorporates pop & rock and hip-hop into his songwriting, pushing beyond the traditional, often simplistic formulas.
Check out, "Pearl Cadillac," which finds Clark singing the quieter verses in a falsetto that recalls some of Prince's biggest hits, while the choruses explode with a big pop rock hook, and throughout we hear that stunning blues guitar melodicism, that few can match. Clark's eclecticism makes the point that he won't be limited to one single style or musical format, he's willing and able to tap all his musical influences from pop songs on the radio, to hip-hop and a variety of R&B approaches.
The album opens with the dark, angry title track, which takes on Clark's experience of racism in America in the most of direct of terms: "Paranoid and pissed off/Now that I got the money/50 acres and a Model A/Right in the middle of Trump country/I told you "there goes the neighborhood," before recounting the way white folk look suspiciously, calling the police on folk eating in the park, saying "go back where you come from." Clark turns around Woody Guthrie's assurance that "This Land Is Your Land," with the bold proclamation that "I'm America's son/This is where I come from/This land is mine." Using even more explicit language to echo the racist rants he's heard and his own angry response, Clark goes on to play a noisy, fuzz-pedal driven five-alarm, guitar solo that recalls Jimi Hendrix at full throttle.
"What About Us" a rocker with a funk feel follows, in a similar vein, dealing with societal changes as folk migrate in and out of neighborhoods, but for "I Got My Eyes on You" he leans back into a jazzy pop song groove, closer to something you'd expect from George Benson, but again Clark and his band of solid players turn up the heat for a big, rockier chorus. For "Feeling Like a Million," they create a reggae pop feel, but on "Gotta Get Into Something" the dig into some serious rock & roll, with Clark taking his Chuck Berry chops to the next level, while the fast rhythm locks down a beat that would fill any dance floor. "Got To Get Up" plays with a big chant-along hip-hop chorus, while interfacing his bluesy guitar licks with a tight horn section. On "Feed the Babies," he goes back to his R&B roots, again supported by horns, while Clark's falsetto floats over a grooving Hammond organ riff. Clark refuses to limit himself to any one musical style for very long, and it's more than a little impressive that he's able to pull off so many different sounds over the course an album.
Clark's bandmates prove as dexterous as the main attraction, adept in a variety of sounds and emotions, but especially strong on those bold and dynamic pop rock choruses. He's supported ably by two Johnny's in the rhythm section, Bradley on bass and Radelat on drums, Jon Deas on keys, and King Zapata on rhythm guitar. For all the intensity heard on much of This Land, it's surprising that Clark leads them into a soulful pop song for "Guitar Man," which is a nice fit with "When I'm Gone," a fun, old school sing-along pop melody.
If Clark's goal this time out is to prove he's more than just a guitar slinger for hire, he's more than succeeded. This Land makes a strong case for Clark as an artist who can play in lots musical genres, and the results are artful, engaging, and pleasantly surprising if you've suspected he was going to settle in and play blues rock songs for the duration. Gary Clark Jr. does it all, and does it well. This Land more than makes the case that there's little he cannot do musically if he sets his mind to it.
Key Tracks: "This Land" / "Pearl Cadillac" / "Feeling Like a Million"
Artists With Similar Fire: Prince / Eric Clapton / The Black Keys
Gary Clark Jr. Website
Gary Clark Jr. Facebook
– Reviewed by Brian Q. Newcomb
Brian Q. Newcomb
Brian Quincy Newcomb has found work as rock critic and music journalist since the early 80's, contributing over the years to Billboard Magazine, Paste, The Riverfront Times, and The St. Louis Post-Dispatch.
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"These benefits will be put at risk if politicians attempt to meddle with the decision.
"The Fair Work Commission's 550-page decision on penalty rates followed two years of rigorous assessment, 140 witnesses, and more than 28,000 paragraphs of transcript. This was one of the most extensive evidentiary cases in the Commission's 113-year history. It would be absurd and damaging for anyone to seek to overturn this ruling in pursuit of perceived political advantage.
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"This allows the Fair Work Commission to make decisions that are in the national interest rather than motivated by political considerations. Any attempt to legislate to alter the penalty rates decision would put the Commission's independence at risk.
"Both sides of politics have previously expressed support for the independence of the Commission in setting minimum wages and penalty rates.
"Employment Minister Michaelia Cash yesterday emphasised that 'the setting of penalty rates are a matter for the independent Fair Work Commission to determine, not Government'.
"As Workplace Relations Minister in 2012, Bill Shorten spoke glowingly of 'the tradition of an independent industrial umpire for our great nation – a notion that goes to the heart of the Australian ethic of a fair go'.


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This course on oxygen is based on a large number of clinical and research observations made in the fields of pathology, toxicology, microbiology, environmental medicine, clinical nutrition, and cellular energetics. Following is a list of important articles of the course most suitable for individuals without science background.
I marshaled scientific evidence for my view and explained the cellular pathology of bloating of cells with rancid fats and obesity in a large number of articles, monographs, and books.
Everyone child in school is taught that people cannot live for more than ten minutes without oxygen in drowning accidents. This makes oxygen the primal nutrient for people and oxygen-breathing life forms. How many children in schools are taught this simply and clearly.
On May 12, 2014, one of the front page stories of The New York Times told us that only four percent of students of Middle School for arts and Philosophy had passed state exams in math in 2013.
How many American doctors would pass the test of oxygen literacy if the main criteria was their use of oxygen therapies in their office practices?
cDoes eNo one is taught that this makes oxygen the primal nutrient for people and oxygen-breathing life forms.
American medicine is a massive growth industry of mystery maladies, fibromyalgia, chronic fatigue, psoriasis, sarcoidosis, scleroderma, lupus, rheumatoid diseases, collagen diseases, polymyaglia, neuropathy, and others. Ask a doctor what causes any of these disease and she or he will shrug and stare at you with blank eyes. All medical discussions start with the name of a disease and end with a name of a drug. In 1980s, I coined the term N2D2 medicine for it (N2D2 = Name of a Disease X name of a Drug).
What is the root of all the mystery pandemics that are treated with drugs that block healing pathways of the body? My simple answer: 'oxygen illiteracy."
I coined the term oxygen illiteracy to sharply highlight the fundamental failure in medical education: ignorance of crucial issues of failing oxygen signaling, oxygen's detergent functions, oxygen's cellular detox roles, and oxygen's central roles in cellular regeneration. Doctors are oxygen-illiterate. Oxygen literacy begins with a clear-eyed view of history of oxygen on the planet Earth.
Here is a profound iron of this is: Everyone child in school is taught that people cannot live for more than ten minutes without oxygen in drowning accidents. No one is taught that this makes oxygen the primal nutrient for people and oxygen-breathing life forms.
The profound iron of this is: Everyone in school is taught that people cannot live for more than ten minutes without oxygen in drowning accidents.
The story of the origin of life, as well as of the origin of diseases, cannot be told well without an outline of how nature chose oxygen to drive human evolution. The ability of primordial energy systems to split water and release oxygen into the ambient air was the seminal event which set the stage for the evolution of oxygen-driven and oxygen-orchestrated cellular energetics. I present this vast subject in a series of companion tutorials, most notably one entitled "The History of Oxygen on planet Earth."
k Hydrogen peroxide therapies: Recent Insights into oxystatic and antimicrobial actions.


Cambridge, Mass., February 13, 2017 – Decibel Therapeutics, a company focused on discovering and developing new therapies to protect, repair, and restore hearing, today announced the presentation of data from advancements in its end-to-end technology platform. The data are being presented at the 40th Annual Midwinter Meeting of the Annual Association for Research in Otolaryngology (ARO) in Baltimore, MD.
"Knowing the array of different cell types in the inner ear and understanding how these cell types are transcriptionally regulated —and why different cell types are susceptible to damage—will help with the discovery of drugs that will one day fulfill Decibel's mission of protecting and restoring hearing," said Michael Su, chief scientific officer of Decibel Therapeutics. Decibel researchers employed cutting-edge genomics tools to map all of the genes that are on or off within individual cells. This allowed the groups to find significant molecular-level differences between all the known major cell types in the adult cochlea, encompassing 40 unique classifications. Particularly important for translational studies, Decibel scientists were able to devise methods for performing this technique on the adult cochlea, which has traditionally been challenging to work with due to its intricate structures.
Single-cell transcriptional profiling has emerged as a powerful, unbiased tool for dissecting cellular heterogeneity at the molecular level.
Given the relatively small size of the mouse inner ear, recent improvements in throughput and sensitivity of technology permit organ-wide profiling of all the cell types in the cochlea in a single experiment.
Single-cell RNA-Seq technology has advanced sufficiently that all the major cell types in the cochlea can be profiled in a single experiment.
Decibel scientists have systematically compared new RNA-seq methodologies for profiling of transcripts in dissociated single cells of newborn mouse cochlea.
Decibel Therapeutics seeks to create a world in which the benefits and joys of hearing are available to all by discovering and developing new therapies to protect, repair, and restore hearing. Founded by the world's preeminent experts in impaired hearing, Decibel Therapeutics was launched in 2015 by Third Rock Ventures and is headquartered in Cambridge, Mass. For more information, please visit www.decibeltx.com.
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    using Kephas.Model.Construction;
    using Kephas.Model.Runtime;
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Announcements, Dialogues
Al-Mutanabbi Street: Start The Conversation
written by Hend Alawadhi
Right now al-Mutanabbi street starts somewhere on a small street in Gaza, and in Damascus, on a small street in Beijing, a small street in Tehran. It starts in Baghdad, Beirut, and Cairo, it starts in Dublin, Calgary, Halifax, London, Exeter, and Bristol, and here in San Francisco, Santa Fe, Boston, Los Angeles, Omaha, New York City, Washington D.C.,Cambridge, Mass. or Detroit, Michigan. It starts at the Rochester Central Library, and at Goddard College in Vermont. It starts wherever someone gathers their thoughts to write towards the truth, or where someone sits down and opens a book to read. Wherever the free exchange of ideas is suppressed or attacked, wherever writers and artists are silenced, or risk their lives to speak the truth through their work, there will be a place for them on al-Mutanabbi Street. – Beau Beausoleil, July 2014
In March 2007, a suicide bomber exploded his car in Al-Mutanabbi Street in Baghdad, Iraq, killing thirty people and injuring more than a hundred. The street, named after Abu at-Tayyib Al-Mutanabbi, a renowned classical 10th century Arab poet, was home to hundreds of bookstores, publishers, printers, bookstalls and cafes. The attack directly targeted the intellectual and cultural hub of Baghdad.
Some 7000 miles away from the tragedy, Beau Beausoleil, a poet and second hand bookshop owner, felt an immediate connection to the victims of the bombing. He expected and waited for an international uproar condemning the attack. When it was clear that the event would go unmarked in history, he decided to take matters into his own hands. Beausoleil put forth a call for artists to create 130 artist books and that would attempt to "re-assemble" and reconstruct the books and materials that were lost in Baghdad. The carefully created books that were submitted from multiple places across the globe are indeed a painful but bittersweet reminder of what once existed in Al-Mutanabbi street. Arabic script, scraps of newspapers, poems, names of victims, drawings and numbers all come together to create a moving tribute to the books, stalls and souls that were lost that day.
The project soon became a traveling exhibit titled Al-Mutanabbi Street: Start the Conversation. The Central Library of Rochester & Monroe County is currently hosting this exhibit in several locations throughout Rochester libraries. The entire collection of artist books and broadsides are on display until early September. In light of the most recent events in Iraq, with militia taking control over several cities, this exhibit could not have been more timely.
Although the artistic submissions created for this project were all responding to the same call, they are by no means homogeneous. Some of the artist books offer an immediate visual and textual response to the events, such as Helen Allsebrook's work entitled "It Is What It Is" where she uses a child's toy car and trailer, and burnt pages from an 'unwanted book' to literally represent the events of March 2007.
Helen Allsebrook (2012)
In contrast, Jennifer Caine's work "Chronotope" takes on a metaphorical quality as she attempts to visualize the encapsulated sense of time that often becomes suspended in the aftermath of traumatic events.
Jennifer Caine (2012) Edition of 5 Laser-cut Arches Paper in a Cherry Wood Box Each page 7″x10″ – Box dimensions 7.5″x10.5″x2.5″
Jennifer Caine (2012) Edition of 5 Laser-cut Arches Paper in a Cherry Wood Box Each page 7″x10″
Other works included in the exhibition draw their inspiration from the events in Baghdad as well as the artists' personal histories. For example, Laurie Alpert utilizes the image of a kneeling soldier from a photograph she took during her visit to the Golan Heights in 2007. She also incorporates Arabic verses of poetry from Al-Mutanabbi and music notes from her mother, who is a professional violinist into a visually striking work.
What started out as a memorial poetry reading in San Francisco has now become an remarkable international project that consists of more than 250 artists books and broadsides. Similar to many memorials created to commemorate the victims of traumatic events in concept, the exhibition takes on a collaborative, participatory nature that many of the "tourist-trap" memorials seem to be lacking. The books and broadsides will eventually be donated to the Iraq National Library in Baghdad.
Hend F. Alawadhi
PhD Student, Visual and Cultural Studies, University of Rochester
*** The exhibit will run in Rochester through September 2, 2014 at various locations throughout the City of Rochester and Monroe County. For more information click here. The exhibit is free and open to the public.
*** To see the Elcin Marasli's artwork "Controlled Detonations" that was featured in the 20th issue of Invisible Culture and is a part of the Al-Mutanabbi exhibit click here.
*** All images are courtesy of the artists and Beau Beausoleil.
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Posted By John Ross On August 18, 2003 @ 12:00 am In article,articles 2014 onward | Comments Disabled
A traveler motoring through southeastern Chiapas these days is apt to encounter neatly-lettered road signs advising that one is now entering "Autonomous Zapatista Rebel Territory". Several such notices are posted along the two-lane black-top that winds through the highlands up to Oventic, the site of one of five recently inaugurated "caracoles" (literally "spirals") from which the Zapatista Army of National Liberation (EZLN) is building regional autonomy.
But as one nears Oventic, other road signs pop up in the nearby cornfields. "EUSKAL PRESOAK! EUSKAL HERRIA!" reads one announcement, against which a Tzotzil-speaking Zapatista militia man leans, casually puffing on a cigarette. The sign, however, is not written in Tzotzil but in an equally esoteric lingo, Euskara, or the language of the Basques, and when translated demands "Let the Basque prisoners return to their homeland!" The road sign in Euskara is a forceful reminder of the odd bond between the largely Mayan EZLN and those who struggle for the independence of the Basque Country ("Pais Vasco" or "Euskadi.")
"Gora Euskadi!" (Long Live the Basque Homeland!) greeted a ski-masked Indian comandante, Zebedeo, at the recent Oventic inauguration festivities, "that this cry will never be extinguished even in the prisons and torture chambers of the Spanish government!" The comandante then explained that the EZLN supports "the political and cultural struggle" for Basque independence but not the terror tactics of the notorious ETA ("Euskara Ta Askatasuna" or Basque Homeland and Liberty.)
Indeed, a bitter epistolary conflict has erupted between the EZLN's quixotic spokesperson Subcomandante Marcos and that homicidal terrorist band–at one point in the angry colloquy, Marcos even feared that he could be ETA's next victim.
Last November, after 18 months of frozen silence, the Subcomandante broke his word fast with a rambling, cheeky comunique addressed to Zapatista supporters at a Madrid conclave. The screed lacerated Spanish king Juan Carlos ("a constipated old man") and right-wing prime minister Jose Maria Aznar (a "pipsqueak" and a "donkey") but reserved special vitriol for National Audience judge Baltazar Garzon for his persecution of supporters of Basque independence.
Garzon, often mentioned as a candidate for the Nobel Peace Prize, is best known for his flawed attempts to extradite ex-Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet to Spain to answer charges of human rights atrocities during his tyrannical regime (1973-89.) The Judge has been more successful in obtaining the extradition of accused Argentinean torturer Ricardo Cavallo from Mexico–Cavallo is charged with the disappearance of at least 5000 Leftists during the "dirty war" (1976-83) in that southern cone nation.
Garzon, whose judicial position allows him ample investigative powers, first won public attention in Spain when he revealed that former Socialist prime minister Felipe Gonzalez had sponsored a counter-terrorism unit, the GAL, deemed responsible for the killings of 27 Basque independence fighters in Spain and France, a disclosure that helped bring down the Gonzalez government.
But Judge Garzon soon turned his legal guns upon the Basque independence movement itself. Hundreds were taken prisoner and tortured (as substantiated each year by Amnesty International), newspapers have been shuttered, and political parties proscribed–Batasuna, outlawed late last year as alleged "apologists for terrorism", won 11% of the Basque vote in the last elections and held seats in both the national and local parliaments.
In his stinging November note, Marcos labeled Garzon "a grotesque clown" who demonstrates "his true fascist avocation" by persecuting the Basques. The Judge, the dyed white streak in his ample head of hair bristling like a bantee rooster, immediately fired back. The rebel leader was "a ridiculous figure with his pipe", and "a miserable coward who insults" the nearly 900 victims of ETA terrorism by bad-mouthing Garzon's crusade. Baltazar Garzon also threw down the gauntlet, challenging the Subcomandante to a debate "without masks or disguises where and whenever you like."
Not to be daunted, the unflappable Zapatista mouthpiece immediately set a date and a place, April at Lanzarote in the Canary Islands near the home of Nobel Prize-winning author Jose Saramago, a great fan of the rebels. Marcos also summoned ETA and Batasuna and the Aznar government to Lanzarote for a "Festival of the Word" and implored the ETArras to declare a 177-day truce until the talks could be entabled.
Suggesting that the Subcomandante was "mentally unbalanced" and suffering from delusions of grandeur, Spanish authorities turned the invite hands down. ETA was even less diplomatic, tagging the proposed talks "a pantomime" and expressing the suspicion that Marcos was just trying to get his picture back "on the front pages of the newspapers and the popular tee-shirts." Moreover, by asking for a truce, the Zapatistas were intervening in the internal dynamic of the Basque independence movement. The aspersions put a quick damper on "The Fiesta of the Word" and the fracaso soon faded from public visibility.
Then this past August 8th, as the EZLN was preparing to inaugurate the new "caracoles" with their regional autonomous authorities, who should show up in Chiapas but Judge Baltazar Garzon himself. He was on vacation, Hizzoner insisted to reporters at the airport in Tuxtla Gutierrez, the state capitol, but did not miss the opportunity to diss the Zapatistas' "caracoles" as being "Illegal" because they do not conform to the Mexican Constitution. Marcos was a charlatan who was bamboozling the Indians the Judge insisted, and soon disappeared into the foliage "on vacation."
The unexplained absence of Subcomandante Marcos at the Oventic ceremonies August 8th-10th has led to wild speculation that the two adversaries had finally conducted their long-awaited debate–in private.
More probably, Garzon's mystery trip to Chiapas obeyed his obsession with ETA and not the EZLN–although he may well have had an eye ou the ties between the two groups. The Judge's touch-downs in Mexico City and Tuxtla came at a moment when President Vicente Fox–with whom Garzon met in July–has ordered a crack-down on suspected ETA terrorists and sympathizers living in Mexico. In most cases, detention and extradition orders have been crafted by Garzon's office.
Since 1996, when then-presidents Ernesto Zedillo and Felipe Gonzalez inked an extradition treaty that was finalized under Aznar (the agreement opened the door to Spanish support for a free trade pact with the European Union), 36 Basques have been detained and expelled from Mexico into the waiting arms of the Spanish police. One deportee died under suspicious circumstances during a 1997 round-up in which Spanish police officials directly participated in violation of Mexican law.
Now Fox is eager to demonstrate to Aznar and the diminutive prime minister's big boss, George Bush, that he too can be tough on terrorism.
Item: in late April, Lorenzo Llona, a naturalized citizen, was detained on his way to work in the central Mexican city of Zacatecas and held for extradition to Spain on allegations that he had participated in a triple murder in the Basque province of Guipuzcoa on June 24th, 1981 (Basques picked up in Mexico are increasingly charged with crimes dating back to the 1980s.) The only problem with this scenario is that Llona had already emigrated to Mexico when the murders were committed and had the paperwork to prove it. Nonetheless, Garzon pushes ahead with the extradition claim, a process that could take years while Llona remains behind bars. Item–On July 4th, Miguel Ebxanda, a Basque who may have been in Mexico illegally, was nabbed by immigration agents, driven to the Mexico City airport, and deported to Madrid where Spanish police took immediate custody, before anyone even knew he was missing. Such summary deportations of Basques have become common practice here when the suspect's papers are adjudged to be not in order.
Item: On July 18th, in a muscular show of force with Judge Garzon in country, Federal Investigation Agency (AFI) robo-cops broke down doors in four Mexican cities and arrested sic Basques and three Mexicans for allegedly laundering ETA moneys (another Garzon investigation.)
All of the Basques arrested were prosperous middle-aged business men and women, some of them naturalized or married to Mexicans. At least one of the arrestees was so confident of his legal status in Spain that he had bought a ticket to move back to Pais Vasco. He and his wife were reportedly waiting for the moving van in front of their Monterrey home when he was collared by the AFI.
The morning after the July 18th raids, code-named "Operation Donasti", Aznar phoned Fox to congratulate the Mexican president for his tough stance in the War on Terror.
Basques first came to Mexico with the Conquest–Hernan Cortez carried eight Vascos in his crew. The Franciscan missionary Vasco de Quiroga evangelized western Mexico. Basques and their descendants have assembled immense fortunes here and are captains of industry and commerce (one example: the Azcarriaga family, principle owners of the Televisa conglomerate.) Basque names are ubiquitous–an Echeverria has been president and an Arizmendi a bishop.
Basque refugees from the Spanish civil war (1936-39) were welcomed to Mexico by a sympathetic president Lazaro Cardenas. They established businesses and social centers like the Centro Vasco in the old quarter of the capital, for decades a venue noted for conviviality and fine dining. But now the Centro Vasco has fallen on dark days. The AFI and Spanish police are thought to surveil its elegant quarters–the six accused money launderers often met there.
"Being Basque in Mexico these days is a lot like being an Arab in the U.S. right after 9/11" observes Javier Elorriaga, a Mexican of Basque descent and a civil Zapatista leader.
Why Garzon was dirt-digging in Chiapas has not yet emerged from the mud but there is little doubt that he kept tabs on the Zapatista celebrations up at Oventic. Despite its astringent relations with ETA, the EZLN is routinely attacked by his detractors for backing the terrorists. In a paroxysm of xenophobia, ex-president Zedillo once accused the rebels of harboring ETArras in peace camps established by the civil society in the jungles and mountains of Chiapas, and immigration agents in the region continue to zealously pursue possible Basque visitors.
But the coincidences between the Indians and Basque country has less to do with terrorist plots than it does with the essential nature of their struggles. Both are nations within nations–fourth world nations if you will–and both fight for meaningful autonomy from what they regard as the "mal gobierno: (bad government.)
JOHN ROSS was a resident of Pais Vasco during the late 1970s, the most explosive years of the struggle for Basque independence.
Article printed from CounterPunch.org: https://www.counterpunch.org
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Here is a favourite blogger's take on the short video with which I started the above blog entry.


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MECHANIC'S LIEN LITIGATION PRIVILEGE ABSOLUTE
THE LITIGATION PRIVILEGE FOR THE RECORDING OF A MECHANIC'S LIEN IS AN ABSOLUTE PRIVILEGE
In the recent decision in RGC Gaslamp, LLC v. Ehmcke Sheet Metal Co., Inc. (2020), the Fourth Appellate District held that a trial court properly granted an anti-SLAPP motion because the recording of a mechanic's lien is protected by the litigation privilege under Civil Code Section 47(b). The holding is consistent with prior cases dealing with the protection afforded to mechanic's liens under the litigation privilege. What makes the holding in RCG Gaslamp important is the fact that the party recording the mechanic's lien admittedly had no valid claim to enforce the mechanic's lien.
The right of a contractor, subcontractor or material provider to record a mechanic's lien is confirmed by the California constitution (Cal. Const. Art. XIV, § 3.) As provided therein: "Mechanics, persons furnishing materials, artisans, and laborers of ever class, shall have a lien upon the property upon which they have bestowed labor or furnished material for the value of such labor and material furnished…" In that regard, a mechanic's lien gives a contractor or supplier a security interest in real property to secure the right of payment for work performed or materials delivered. Civil Code sections 8000 to 9566 set forth a detailed statutory framework to file and enforce mechanic's liens.
The recordings of a mechanics lien "may severely hamper [the owner's] ability to sell or encumber that property." (Connolly Development, Inc. v. Superior Court (1976) 17 Cal.3d 803, 812.) To allow an owner to contest the validity of a mechanic's lien without leaving in place the lien against the property, Civil Code section 8424 allows an owner to record a mechanic's lien release bond in the amount of 125% of the lien claim. "On the recordation of the bond, the real property is released from the claim of lien and from any action to enforce the lien." (Civil Code section 8424(c).)
The recording of a mechanic's lien is a privileged act because it is a necessary act to enforce the constitutional lien created in the California constitution. In that regard, Civil Code 47(b) protects acts taken in the course of litigation and it applies to the recording of a mechanic's lien because the act of recording a mechanic's lien is a prerequisite to a foreclosure action to enforce the lien.
In RCG Gaslamp, the subcontractor first recorded a mechanic's lien to recoup payment it contended was due for sheet metal fabrication and installation work done on a hotel project in San Diego. The owner then secured a mechanic's lien release bond to release the lien. Thereafter, the subcontractor recorded three more mechanic's liens, each identical to the first. In response, the owner filed a lawsuit against the subcontractor for quiet title, slander of title and declaratory and injunctive relief. The subcontractor filed a motion to strike the lawsuit under the anti-SLAPP statute (Code Civ. Proc. §425.16) on the basis that the recording of the mechanic's liens was protected under the litigation privilege.
The Fourth District Court of Appeal upheld the decision of the trial court to strike the owner's complaint. As noted by the Court in RCG Gaslamp, even the filing of an admittedly invalid lien is protected under the litigation privilege of Civil Code section 47(b). Not only did the subcontractor successfully strike the owners complaint, but as authorized under the anti-SLAPP statute, the subcontractor was awarded attorneys' fees and costs in excess of $30,000.
RCG Gaslamp is an important decision to lien claimants. There now exists case law holding that the recording of a mechanic's lien is absolutely privileged, even if it is invalid or unlawful.
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Ole Miss head coach Mike Bianco knows the history well. "Very well," he said. Bianco and the Rebels have not been able to get to the College World Series under his command, but now his team is one win away from reaching its unattainable goal.
Ole Miss head coach Mike Bianco knows the history well.
Bianco and the Rebels have not been able to get to the College World Series under his command, but now his team is one win away from reaching its unattainable goal.
The Rebels got the timely hits and the strong pitching that they failed to get Saturday, and were able to even the Lafayette Super Regional series at a game apiece after beating UL 5-2.
The win forces a third and deciding game this evening at 6 with a berth in the NCAA College World Series on the line.
The Rebels took the lead by scoring three runs in the eighth inning, one coming on a ball that was dropped by Ragin' Cajuns centerfielder Seth Harrison that allowed Austin Anderson to score underneath the tag of catcher Michael Strentz. Then pinch hitter Colby Bortles hit an RBI single that scored two runs to put the game out of reach.
"I was looking for a fastball and I drove it to right-center," Bortles said.
But the key for Ole Miss was the pitching of left-hander Christian Trent, who kept the Cajun bats off-kilter with his fastball instead of his breaking stuff. He scattered four hits in his seven innings of work while striking out seven.
Then reliever Aaron Greenwood came in and also kept UL off-balance in his two innings of work. He held the Cajuns to only two hits and one run.
Ole Miss (45-19) scored first on a RBI double by Will Allen in the first inning to take a 1-0 lead. Then in the seventh with the game tied at one, Preston Overbey hit a pitch that Baranik hung over the plate deep to left field for a solo homer to put the Rebels up 2-1.
Bianco said he will go with Sam Smith, a junior righty from Lake Charles who is 5-4 with a 3.39 ERA. Even with so much on the line, Bianco is confident his team will focus on the game and not the history.
"To play a very good team at their park with a great crowd, we're looking forward to coming out and playing real hard," he said.


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Where Were Our Leaders Before The NYTimes Exposed A Chasidic Schools Scandal?
For years, state officials and Jewish organizations looked the other way; one young man spoke up loudest.
Reaching out to Yiddish readers: The New York Times published its investigative report in Yiddish, too.
Remember the line in "Casablanca" when Louis, the corrupt Vichy France
police captain, feigns surprise at what's taking place in his friend Rick's cafe,
exclaiming: "I'm shocked, shocked to find that gambling is going on in here."?
I was reminded of that classic scene when reading comments by several New
York officials on Monday, a day after an open secret -– chasidic schools'
decades-long failure to provide basic secular education to tens of thousands
of young male yeshiva students – was exposed in meticulous detail by a New
York Times investigative report.
Based on two years of research and reporting, including interviews with
more than 275 people and reviews and analysis of of hundreds of documents
and financial reports, the article offered a devastating portrait of schools that
receive hundreds of millions of government-funded dollars while, it would
appear, flagrantly violate a state law requiring all private schools to provide
a basic secular education "substantially equivalent" to what public schools
offer.
Some of the students complete high school unable to read or write English. And The Times report included allegations of students being slapped and hit by their rebbe teachers.
On Monday, Rep. Jerrold Nadler, whose district includes a large segment of
the chasidic community, observed that some of their schools were "utterly
failing," and stated: "It is our duty to all New York students to ensure that the
law is enforced." And fellow Democrat Rep. Hakeem Jeffries, who also
represents parts of Brooklyn, called for "a rigorous inquiry" into the problem.
Where have they been all these years, and particularly the last decade when
Yaffed (Young Advocates for Fair Education), a non-profit devoted to
systemic change within chasidic yeshivas, has been aggressively lobbying city
and state officials to comply with and strengthen the law?
Late as they were to the game, at least Nadler and Jeffries spoke out on the
issue, in contrast to other state officials who either chose not to comment
(including Senators Chuck Schumer and Kirsten Gillibrand), tried to pass the
buck (Gov. Kathy Hochul said the issue is "outside the purview of the
governor" ) or defended the chasidic schools and/or the right of parents to
choose where their children are educated.
New York City Mayor Eric Adams said, "I'm not going to read a story," but asserted that his administration was continuing to investigate
chasidic schools. He did not say why the investigation has been delayed for
A charge of neglect can also be leveled at mainstream Jewish organizations
that have remained silent in the face of growing evidence over the years that
chasidic schools were willfully ignoring the law. No doubt Jewish groups were
fearful of offending the powerful and politically well-connected chasidic
community and worried that calling attention to the dismal state of affairs in
chasidic schools would spur anti-Semitism.
So instead, a crisis that should have been addressed within Jewish society has
been exposed for all to see – and may, indeed, foster ill feelings toward the
wider Jewish community, not just chasidim. There is little doubt that The
New York Times, already viewed by many in the community as anti-Israel,
will be blamed by its critics for pursuing this story and giving it major
exposure. But all indications from reading the article is that it was reported
and presented with great care and tells a story that was known – if not in all
its details – by too many for too long.
It seems clear that The Times' report, which was also posted in Yiddish on
the paper's website, was timed to have maximum impact by appearing on the
eve of a key meeting of the Board of Regents of the New York State Education
Department dealing with substantial equivalency in non-private schools.
After months of bitter controversy over the issue, with the chasidic
community and its allies opposing any tightening of the regulations, the
Board unanimously voted this week to adopt regulations seeking to enhance
oversight and accountability of non-public schools. Those regulations
include a mandate to teach English, math, science and social studies in high schools. Many of the chasidic high schools for boys do not teach any secular subjects.
Public attention, deservedly, has focused on the article by Times staff reporters Eliza Shapiro and Brian Rosenthal, which brought these issues to the fore. But the one person most responsible for calling out a broken chasidic educational system and taking action to effect reform was relegated to one fleeting reference in the Times article.
Near the end of the lengthy piece, it notes that "warnings about the Hasidic yeshivas have circulated for years… One yeshiva graduate, Naftuli Moster, even formed an advocacy group in 2012 to press the issue."
In fact, it was Moster, 35, a native of Borough Park and one of 17 children in a Yiddish-speaking family, who founded and led Yaffed for the last ten years after his own experience as a student attending Belz schools. He had received minimal secular education – and no secular studies in high school – and felt "embarrassed and ashamed" in realizing how limited his education was. He persevered, though, graduating from Touro College and receiving a master's degree in social work from Hunter College.
In founding Yaffed and working tirelessly to spotlight the crisis, he was marginalized, if not demonized, by elements of the chasidic community.
Readers may recall that in May, I wrote here about Moster and his effort to enlist the organized Jewish community to speak out for the legal right of yeshiva students to basic educational tools and skills. He wanted organizations to make public statements on behalf of Yaffed and have leaders beside him to show support at press conferences he held. (https://garyrosenblatt.substack.com/p/the-one-jewish-advocacy-issue-our)
Unfortunately, he was unsuccessful.
It's too late now to keep this embarrassing story from universal scrutiny, but it's not too late to do the right thing: insisting on a basic Jewish tenet to obey the law of the land and give children their right to basic education.
Flo Eckstein
Gary, you may wish to adapt this to a letter to The New York Times, or perhaps offer an op ed. The failure of elected and appointed officials with the power to take action is unconscionable — a dereliction of duty. The failure of Jewish organizations to influence public decision makers is deeply disappointing.
Anita Altman
Gary Rosenblatt, thanks so much for your outstanding, outspoken voice on the shameful and unlawful educational neglect that many tens of thousands of male Hasidic yeshiva students have experienced over many years. The silence of the organized Jewish community leadershipon this issue, which you rightly point out they had full knowledge of, makes them complicit in this shanda. Will this expose finally give them the courage to do what needs to be done? For one, they need to make clear that the criticism and mandate to change are not anti-Semitic; that these Jewish children must be provided the secular education they are entitled to by law! Naftuli Moster has played a heroic role in his dogged pursuit of justice for these children, and now it is time for the rest of our communigty to step up to the plate and do the same! Anita Altman, Board President, Yaffed


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Persistent Deputy Doesn't Give Up, Catches Three Juvenile Burglars, MEMORIAL POINT, September 15, 2012 - Detectives with the Polk County Sheriff's Office have completed the investigation of one residential burglary and one vehicle burglary in the Memorial Point subdivision with the arrest of three juveniles who live in the area.
On September 2, 2012 at approximately 6:10am the Sheriff's Office received a call from a newspaper delivery person advising he had seen three to four suspicious juveniles running through the neighborhood.
Deputy Rey Davalos responded to the call and after several minutes patrolling through Memorial Point, was unable to locate the juveniles. Deputy Davalos then began canvassing the surrounding area and located a witness who observed the juveniles earlier in the morning. The witness was able to identify one of the juveniles and advised Deputy Davalos where he lived.
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Akatsuki no Kuruma
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FictionJunction YUUKA
Akatsuki no Kuruma (暁の車; Wheels of the Dawn)
2013.05.08 (Reissue)
VICL-35715
VTCL-35152 (Reissue)
Akatsuki no Kuruma ~piano version
Akatsuki no Kuruma ~acoustic version
Akatsuki no Kuruma ~without vocal
"Akatsuki no Kuruma" is the third single released by FictionJunction YUUKA. The title track was used as an insert song for the anime Mobile Suit Gundam SEED and the ending theme for Mobile Suit Gundam SEED Special Edition II Harukanaru Akatsuki. The song was first released in "Mobile Suit Gundam SEED SUIT CD vol.4 MIGUEL x NICOL" on June 21, 2003 but was later re-released as a single on September 22, 2004, Gundam SEED first anniversary due to the its popularity. The single reached #10 on the Oricon charts and charted for 45 weeks, selling 109,777 copies. The single was released again in 2013. The cover and the tracklist remained the same. The reissue edition did not chart on the Oricon weekly charts.
Kajiura Yuki
Arrangement: Kajiura Yuki
Chorus: Nishina Kaori
There are six known versions of "akatsuki no kuruma" on FictionJunction YUUKA's discography:
Found on "Akatsuki no Kuruma" single as track #1 and "Destination" album as track #4. Originally found in "MOBILE SUIT GUNDAM SEED SUIT CD vol.4 MIGUEL x NICOL" as track #1, later recompiled on Gundam 30th Anniversary Box: Gundam Songs 145 compilation album as track #11 of disc 7. This is the standard version of the song.
Found on "Akatsuki no Kuruma" single as track #4. Originally found in "MOBILE SUIT GUNDAM SEED SUIT CD vol.4 MIGUEL x NICOL" as track #5. This is the standard version except without vocals from YUUKA but includes the chorus works of Nishina Kaori.
Found on "Akatsuki no Kuruma" single as track #2. This is the piano version of the song performed by Kajiura Yuki.
Found on "Akatsuki no Kuruma" single as track #3. This is the acoustic version of the song.
akatsuki no kuruma (piano supplement version)
Found on "機動戦士ガンダムSEED~SEED DESTINY THE BRIDGE: Songs from Gundam SEED & SEED DESTINY" as track #3.
Found on "2008-2010 The Best of Yuki Kajiura Live" as track #9 of disc 1. This is the live version of the song with chorus works of Kaida Yuriko and HIKARU.
Oricon Profile
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Anime Theme Song
Anime Insert Songs
FictionJunction YUUKA Songs