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Paraeducators in New London Schools Win Union Recognition; "Ready to Work Together"
New London — Paraprofessionals, teaching assistants and tutors who support the education of students in New London Public Schools (NLPS) are reacting to officials' support for their free choice to form a union. Board of Education (BOE) members last night voted unanimously to approve an agreement creating a new labor-management partnership with the district's 160 classroom and school support staff.
"Forming our union was about winning respect," said Elijah Singer (at far left in photo above), a special education teachers' assistant who supports students with Autism in the Early Childhood Center at Harbor Elementary School. "The key to every relationship is communications, and we wanted healthier communications with management. We're ready to work together toward a better future for our students and ourselves," added Singer, a member of the committee of paras that spearheaded the organizing effort.
Singer's comments refer to the desire for an improved relationship with district administrators shared by his colleagues who more than a year ago joined him in seeking union representation. The BOE's approval of a recognition agreement with AFT Connecticut paves the way forward for negotiations on wages, working conditions and other terms of employment for paraeducators in the district.
"The organizing drive has already made positive change," said Marie Gravell (above, third from right in middle row), a paraprofessional who provides one-on-one support for students with special needs at New London High School. "It's shown us how we have a voice and can use it to look out for each other. As paras, we see what we can accomplish by working together as a team," added Gravell, who also served on the organizing committee.
Gravell's comments refer to the steps she and her colleagues have taken to win voluntary recognition of their union, and the gains made as a result. The organizing committee secured a neutrality agreement with district administration, empowering them to conduct a drive free from the hostility and intimidation that often afflicts unionization efforts. They also mounted a successful petition campaign to move school leaders to extend the period for paras to meet their annual re-certification requirements.
"I am so proud of these hardworking women and men for showing what it means to be union," said AFT Connecticut President Jan Hochadel. "We all know that paras are too often dismissed or overlooked when administrators and school officials make decisions that affect them. By working with each other, fellow educators and their community, they moved their board to treat them as true partners," added Hochadel, who previously taught in the state's technical high schools.
Hochadel's comments refer to the strong support shown over the past year for the paraeducators' unionization efforts by district colleagues, local social justice advocates, and members of the school board. Leadership of the Greater New London NAACP and the New London Education Association were among those who stepped forward to offer direct assistance and solidarity for the schools' support staff.
Following last night's recognition agreement vote by the BOE, the Connecticut State Board of Labor Relations (SBLR) is expected to certify AFT Connecticut as the paraeducators' exclusive representative for collective bargaining. The organizing committee will next meet to assemble a team to represent their colleagues in first-ever contract talks with district officials, which could begin later this summer.
Click here to watch BOE members cast their vote and meet several paraeducators on the organizing committee.
AFT Connecticut represents more than 29,000 professionals across the state, including PreK-12 teachers, paraeducators and student support personnel in 29 local and regional school districts. For more information, visit www.aftct.org or follow the labor federation on Twitter at @AFTCT and on Facebook at www.facebook.com/aftct.


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Para el término de la mitología nórdica, véase Ragnarök

Ranarop: Call of the Sea Witch es el primer álbum del grupo finés de folk nórdico Gjallarhorn, lanzado en 1997 por Warner Music Finland.

La versión remezclada y remasterizada incluye una canción adicional, y se lanzó en noviembre de 2002. El disco fue elegido "Grabación musical folclórica del año 1997" en Finlandia.

La revisión de Allmusic de Heather Phares premia el álbum con 4 estrellas y afirma que "La cantante / violinista Jenny Wilhelms lidera el cuarteto en bailes y baladas tradicionales de la gente de habla sueca de Finlandia, junto con evocadores instrumentales escritos por la banda".

Lista de canciones

Formación
 Jenny Wilhelms - voz, fiddle
 Christopher Öhman - voz, viola, fiddle, mandola
 Tommy Mansikka-Aho - didgeridoo, percusión
 David Lillkvist - percusión

Referencias

Enlaces externos
 Discogs

Álbumes de 1997
Álbumes de rock de Finlandia
Álbumes de música folk
Álbumes de folk rock
Álbumes de Gjallarhorn
Álbumes en sueco

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Wizardry was built by Nigel Waller for Howard Stevenson around the same time as he built Punkerella for himself.
It was a tortured ply one-planker different in shape from Punka by having hip darts to eliminate Punka's "Coke bottle" waterline shape.
A quick varnished boat but never sailed as light as Punka.
Howard probably still has it.


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Welcome to the August 1, 2018 edition of ACM TechNews, providing timely information for IT professionals three times a week.
Beyond Silicon: $1.5-billion U.S. Program Aims to Spur New Types of Computer Chips
Amazon Face Recognition Falsely Matches 28 Lawmakers With Mugshots, ACLU Says
U of T Student Part of Team That Wins Imagine Cup Over 40,000 Other Students With Design of Prosthetic Robotic Hand
The Ethics of Computer Science: This Researcher Has a Controversial Proposal
South Korea to Invest $1.34 Billion in Next-Gen Semiconductor Tech
New Spectre Cyberthreat Evades Patches
CSAIL Launches New Initiative for Financial Technology
Same Web-Based Vulnerabilities Still Prevalent After Nine Years
Reprogrammable Braille
A Tech Test to Keep Seniors in the Homes Longer
Tennessee Approves First-Ever Computer Science Standards for K-8 Schools
Software Cuts Through Costly Hospital Pharmaceutical Procurement
Using Machine Learning to Detect Software Vulnerabilities
Robert F. Service
The U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) has announced $75 million in new grants to revitalize the computer chip industry via fundamental research into new designs and materials. The program is expected to grow to as much as $300 million in grants per year, or $1.5 billion over five years. One grant recipient is the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Max Shulaker, who is researching carbon nanotube-based transistors incorporated into three-dimensional (3D) chips. His team is developing 3D chips with features 10 times larger than state-of-the-art silicon chips, boasting a 50-fold upgrade in speed and energy efficiency. Another focus of the DARPA program is flexible chip architectures, with Arizona State University's Daniel Bliss using a grant to improve wireless communications with chips capable of on-the-fly reconfiguration for specialized tasks. Bliss envisions his work on radio chips that blend and filter signals using software instead of hardware enabling interference-free, multi-device signal transmission and reception. Stanford University's Subhasish Mitra says DARPA's program has the potential to "completely revolutionize how we design electronics."
A test of Amazon's facial recognition software incorrectly matched the faces of 28 U.S. legislators to images in a mugshot database, with people of color misidentified disproportionately, according to the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU). The organization assembled a face database and search tool from 25,000 public arrest photos, then cross-referenced that data with public photos of every member of Congress. Eleven of the misidentified lawmakers were people of color, representing nearly 40% of those wrongly matched, even though minorities comprise only 20% of those in Congress. Says the ACLU Foundation of Northern California's Jacob Snow, "Our test reinforces that face surveillance is not safe for government use." Amazon said the test's results could "probably be improved" by increasing "confidence thresholds."
Nina Haikara
A student from the University of Toronto (U of T), working with a colleague at the University of Ontario Institute of Technology (UOIT) in Canada, received a global award at Microsoft's 16th annual innovation competition, which included more than 40,000 student competitors and 49 teams qualifying for the Imagine Cup World Finals in Seattle, WA. The winning team was recognized for its smartARM, a prosthetic robotic hand. The students also received a mentoring session with Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella, $85,000, and a $50,000 Microsoft Azure grant to continue developing smartARM. The smartARM is equipped with an embedded camera that recognizes objects and calculates the necessary grip for a task using computer vision, machine learning, and cloud storage technologies. SmartARM is the first "service" prosthetic, with an algorithm that learns and improves with continued use, and stored data that can be downloaded to future prosthetic devices.
Elizabeth Gibney
In an interview, Brent Hecht, chair of ACM's Future of Computing Academy, proposes the computer science community revise its peer-review process to guarantee that scientists report any potential negative societal consequences of their published work. Hecht says the idea is to have reviewers contact researchers with the appeal that, as good scientists, they should fully describe possible outcomes of their research before they will be allowed to publish. Hecht says panels that decide on research funding "might want to have different rules, and consider whether to fund a research proposal if there's a reasonable suspicion that it could hurt the country." He also says the proposal appears to be gaining favor in the computer science community, because "we're moving towards a more iterative, dialogue-based process of review, and authors would need to cite rigorous reasons for their concerns."
Cho Mu-Hyun
South Korea's Ministry of Trade, Industry, and Energy will invest $1.34 billion to develop next-generation semiconductor materials and devices and make the country a global semiconductor nexus. Minister Paik Un-gyu says investment priorities include developing new materials and devices in memory chips, cultivating logic and contract chipmaking businesses, and enticing global semiconductor materials and equipment manufacturers to set up production lines in South Korea. Paik also says South Korean manufacturers' proficiencies in dynamic random-access memory and non-volatile flash NAND memory production are unmatched, but integration is reaching its limit and new materials and devices need to be developed. South Korea is also concerned about China's rival memory semiconductor investments, a key focus of the Made in China 2025 initiative.
UCR Today
Holly Ober
Researchers at the University of California, Riverside (UC Riverside) have found a variant of the Spectre bug that could defeat currently available software patches. They say SpectreRSB appears to be unhindered by known defenses against other Spectre iterations, including Google's Retpoline patch for shielding branch predictors. The UC Riverside team warns SpectreRSB exploits the return stack buffer, which retains addresses the processor needs to return to once it has completed an operation. The variant inserts the wrong return address, or deletes addresses, in the buffer, and it can manipulate the speculation addresses, directing them toward secret information. This point of penetration could foil available patches, and the researchers urge all processors to embed the RSB refilling patch, which inserts a dummy address into the stack buffer to thwart SpectreRSB.
Adam Conner-Simmons; Rachel Gordon
The Massachusetts Institute of Technology's (MIT) Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) recently launched a research-industry collaboration focused on creating financial technologies that will produce business models, provide new data insights, and boost security. The [email protected] initiative will include research into artificial intelligence, cryptocurrencies, blockchain foundation and applications, machine learning, multi-party computation for superior security and privacy, data management and analytics, natural language processing, and cyber risk management. Says MIT's Andrew Lo, who is co-leading the new initiative along with Silvio Micali and Shafi Goldwasser (co-recipients of the 2012 ACM A.M. Turing Award), "We need theories and algorithms on how people actually behave, and larger datasets where we can find meaningful trends and patterns." Lo's research focuses on using computational tools to make better financial decisions, while Micali and Goldwasser's efforts will center on enhancing information security and the privacy and correctness of computation and data.
Help Net Security
The threat of common Web-based vulnerabilities has not been significantly mitigated over the past nine years, according to a study by the U.K.-based NCC Group. The cybersecurity firm cites cross-site scripting vulnerabilities as the most frequent bug encountered, comprising 18% of all bugs logged. NCC Group's Matt Lewis says, "We should have seen a significant fall in these types of vulnerabilities, but this hasn't been the case, which highlights the need for better education around security within the software development life cycle." The study found growing numbers of bugs targeting complex applications and hardware, including deserialization flaws and exploitation of multiple low-risk issues in a chain across a complex Web application. However, NCC Group also says certain vulnerability classes have all but disappeared, including format string flaws, certain memory-related flaws, and bugs permitting exploitation of XML applications and services.
Harvard University School of Engineering and Applied Sciences
Leah Burrows
Researchers at Harvard University's John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences have developed a framework to encode memory—in the form of Braille-like dimples and bumps—onto a blank, lattice-free material. The framework demonstrates how an otherwise featureless curved elastic shell can store elastic bits (e-bits) that can be written and erased at will anywhere along the shell. The thin elastic shell is initially compressed by force on each end, and then indents are made using a simple stylus, similar to the way that pages of a traditional Braille book are printed. The shell will "remember" the indent when the force is no longer applied and the indent can be erased by stretching the shell back out. This marks the first time researchers have demonstrated mechanical memory in a system with no inherent lattice.
Sumathi Reddy
The Collaborative Aging (In Place) Research Using Technology (CART) Initiative, led by Oregon Health and Science University, is a national study involving the monitoring of seniors' daily activities using motion sensors and other technology installed in their residences. The sensors feed real-time data on participants' movements throughout the day, measuring how often they enter different rooms, how often they enter and exit their home, their computer use, and their walking speed. CART's purpose is to determine whether researchers can monitor and detect health changes in older adults so they can live independently longer. Participants have software set up to measure how much time they spend on their computers, while sensors are placed under their vehicles' dashboards to monitor how often participants drive. Aging in Place Technology Watch founder Laurie Orlov says CART has significant potential for managing people sent home from the hospital who need monitoring.
Chalk Beat
Marta W. Aldrich
The Tennessee Board of Education has given final approval to the state's first computer science standards for elementary and middle schools. The benchmarks will be used in classrooms in the fall of 2019, replacing standards last revised in 2011. State officials say the old standards failed to capture the critical components of computer science. For elementary schools, the new standards will focus on introducing students to the basics of computer systems and programs. Middle school students will study computer science-related calculations and information processing skills used to create computer programs. In addition, older students will discuss "digital citizenship," which focuses on how to interact safely with people and content online. With the exception of coding and computer programming, which will be taught as a standalone class, the skills outlined in the standards will be integrated within existing core classes in English, math, science, and social studies.
Trevor Watson
Researchers at the University of Sydney in Australia have developed a software program that they say could significantly reduce the amount spent by Australia's hospitals, currently estimated at more than $3 billion per year. The new system can replace a laborious, time-consuming process of selecting the most cost-effective pharmaceuticals by manually comparing spreadsheet information on thousands of products. The university's Erick Li says, "Our system is able to organize all the information from the wholesaler's price books, quickly run the data for a particular medication, and determine the lowest price on the market." The program serves as an example of how data can be better utilized in hospitals for the benefit of patients and staff.
Ingrid Fadelli
Researchers at Boston University, working with colleagues at Cambridge, MA-based R&D company Draper, have developed a large-scale vulnerability detection system that could help to discover software vulnerabilities faster and more efficiently. The tool, which relies on machine learning for automated detection of vulnerabilities in C/C++ source code, has shown promising results. The researchers compiled a large dataset with millions of open source functions and labeled it using three static analysis tools—Clang, Cppcheck, and Flawfinder—designed to identify potential exploits. The dataset included millions of function-level examples of C and C++ code drawn from the SATEIV Juliet Test Suite, Debian Linux distribution, and public Git repositories on GitHub. The researchers said the results of tests on real software packages and the NIST STATE IV benchmark dataset demonstrate that deep feature representation learning on source code is a promising approach for automated software vulnerability detection.

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Psychiatric medications and lactation: Informing clinical decisions
By MGH Center for Women's Mental Health|2015-08-24T15:55:44-04:00January 27th, 2014|Comments Off on Psychiatric medications and lactation: Informing clinical decisions
December 2013, ObGyn News, Lee S. Cohen, M.D.
Over the last 2 decades, abundant data on the reproductive safety of medications used to treat psychiatric disorders have become available, filling in many gaps with respect to our knowledge about the safety of commonly used psychiatric medications during pregnancy. But the availability of such safety data with respect to the use of these agents during breastfeeding is less complete.
Because of fears of potential adverse effects on infants associated with psychotropic drug use during lactation, many women with a psychiatric disorder who are treated with a range of psychiatric medications are advised not to breastfeed; or if they choose to breastfeed, they are counseled to avoid taking the essential medication that has made them well. This has been a somewhat intuitive, cautious approach. However, in my 25 years of clinical experience taking care of pregnant and postpartum women with a range of psychiatric disorders, one sad scenario I have frequently witnessed is the woman who decides to defer pharmacologic treatment for severe postpartum psychiatric illness after being counseled to defer treatment given a wish to breastfeed. Those women often have been psychiatrically ill for months while breastfeeding after having decided to defer their own treatment because they do not want to expose the baby to even scant amounts of medication secreted into breast milk associated with use of a needed medicine during lactation.
In a recently published clinical report from the American Academy of Pediatrics committee on drugs, authors suggest that advice not to breastfeed or to uniformly avoid medications while nursing because of possible adverse effects in the infant is often not evidence based and may not be necessary in many cases. The committee states that most drugs do not pose a risk to the mother or infant who is nursing, and that "the benefits of breastfeeding outweigh the risks of exposure to most therapeutic agents via human breast milk" (Pediatrics 2013;132:e796-e809).
The report points out that for certain drugs, a careful risk-benefit analysis is needed, especially for drugs that are concentrated in human milk, those with unproven benefits, and those with long half-lives. Importantly, the report notes say that decisions about the use of medications during lactation have to be made on a case-by-case basis. A concrete example would be exercising appropriate vigilance about the use of these medicines in premature infants with immature metabolism.
The report, published on-line in Pediatrics in August 2013, includes a section on antidepressants, anxiolytics, and antipsychotics. As a resource for clinicians, the report highlights LactMed, part of the National Library of Medicine's toxicology data network (TOXNET), which provides real-time updated scientific information on the excretion of drugs into breast milk.
The report makes the important distinction regarding the range of clinical decisions that get made in the context of different clinical situations. For example, at our center, patients frequently present with questions about whether to use psychiatric medications while breastfeeding when these women have already been taking the medication during pregnancy for treatment of underlying psychiatric disorder. Others make queries about introduction of pharmacologic therapy in the early postpartum period in the context, for example, of new-onset postpartum depression. Specifically, a woman with a history of psychiatric disorder who is treated with antidepressant during pregnancy may continue that medication across the postpartum period to attenuate risk for postpartum depression, particularly if she has a history of recurrent disease, or depressive relapse when medication has been discontinued. That is clinical scenario differs from that of a woman who develops new onset of depression during the postpartum period.
One part of the AAP report addresses use of certain psychiatric medications in the context of available information from the literature regarding extent of excretion of these medications into breast milk. This section states that many antianxiety drugs, antidepressants, and mood stabilizers are excreted in low concentrations into human milk, with the estimated infant doses under 2% of the weight-adjusted maternal dose. However, the authors also cite small series or case reports where infant plasma levels of some drugs were reported to exceed 10% of maternal plasma concentrations. They list 13 such drugs, which include selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs), antipsychotics, anxiolytics, and mood stabilizers. It is important to keep in mind that the number of these cases is small and represent a very small proportion of cases, when the total denominator of reports in the literature of psychotropic drug use during lactation is considered. For example, olanzapine, a second generation antipsychotic is highlighted as an agent of concern based on one case report (J. Psychopharmacol. 2010;24:121-3).
The take-home message for the clinician is that all psychotropics are excreted into breast milk, even if quantification of the agents in breast milk or infant plasma reveals relatively scant concentration (J. Clin. Psychiatry 2003;64:73-80). If mom takes the medicine coincident with lactation, baby is exposed. At our center, we are usually reluctant to discontinue a medication such as an atypical antipsychotic to treat bipolar disorder in the postpartum period even if the mom chooses to breastfeed considering the extent to which women with bipolar disorder are at a high risk for relapse during the puerperium.
Ironically, we probably have more information regarding the excretion of antidepressants and drugs such as lamotrigine, used as a mood stabilizer, into breast milk than most medicines women take during the postpartum period, with data over the past 15 years suggesting that these medications, like other medications, are excreted into breast milk and are present in infant plasma in extremely sparse concentrations. It is noteworthy that cases of frank newborn toxicity directly associated with mothers who breastfeed on psychiatric medications are extremely few and far between, and are anecdotal at best. For some context, the literature on the effects of SSRI use during pregnancy is vast and prevalence of use of these medications during pregnancy and the postpartum period is substantial; that being said, reports of adverse effects reported in the babies of women who breastfeed while taking an SSRI are scant and thus at least somewhat reassuring.
And yet, consistently, I have witnessed that psychiatric medications are highlighted in the literature as particular agents of concern when it comes to lactation, compared with other medicines, for which only sparse data are available. Whether this reflects a bias about the necessity of treating psychiatric disorders during the postpartum period is unknown. Certainly, the long-term implications for the infant of exposure to low concentrations of psychiatric and nonpsychiatric medications in the context of breastfeeding exposure have yet to be clarified.
Whether a woman treated with a psychiatric medication during the post partum should breastfeed is a prime example of a clinical scenario in which there is no perfect decision, and we need to make the best decision possible, taking into account the available data, and the mother's psychiatric disorder and her wishes. Some women may be extremely committed to breastfeeding and may choose to breastfeed, acknowledging some of the unknowns regarding these medications during lactation, while other women consider some of the ambiguity associated with the long-term effects of exposure while lactating and may choose not to breastfeed.
It is noteworthy that the AAP committee on drugs concluded the benefits of breastfeeding outweigh the risk of exposure to most therapeutic agents via human milk. And those at our center would certainly suggest that this is the case for psychiatric medications, particularly those used to sustain postpartum maternal psychiatric well-being, which is so critical. As is the case with any clinical decision, and certainly with respect to the use of psychiatric medications during pregnancy and lactation, the decision to treat is contingent on a careful risk-benefit analysis, where the risks of exposure to a medicine is weighed against the risk of untreated psychiatric illness. Even with the well-documented benefits of breastfeeding, nothing should trump the treatment of postpartum psychiatric illness, even if the cost is deferring breastfeeding. Treatment cannot be deferred because of the impact of untreated maternal psychiatric illness on maternal morbidity and on the development of children.
Dr. Cohen is the director of the Center for Women's Mental Health at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston, which provides information about reproductive mental health at www.womensmentalhealth.org. To comment, e-mail him at obnews@frontlinemedcom.com. Dr. Cohen has been a consultant to manufacturers of antidepressants and antipsychotic medications.


The Inn Room - Soul Pattern Project Live!
6 p.m. to 11 p.m.
Show time is from 8 p.m. to 10 p.m.
Over 400 pictures were taken and all had spirit activity, but I am only going to include the above pictures as a sampling...I may add some more at a later time. I also took 9 video files which I have yet to review...so stay tuned.
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the published author members of the local Branch, who will do short talks about their books.
Part One - "How to Write a Pitch" presentation was well received by approximately 80 people, of which, 18 were guests.
Part Two - "How to Write a Pitch" Workshop was attended by approximately 30 people... and ended up going until 5pm!
"How to Write a Pitch"
a specific pitch of their own. The presentation will be conducted by A.B. Fowler, author of The Jesuit Papers, and Mary D. Scott, author of "Spirit Driven Events" and "How To Market Your Book". There is no charge to attend, and the workshop is open to the public.
A pitch is a vital tool to help individuals sell their works. Whether fiction, non-fiction or a script for screen or TV, this workshop will take each individual through the basic steps necessary to develop and write his or her own pitch.
If you want to write a pitch, come prepared. Bring a pad of paper, writing implement, and know your book, screenplay, and/or TV Series' genre, theme, and story.
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Marine Le Pen calls President Macron "an imposter" and "a pyromaniac"
French President Emmanuel Macron called Yellow Vest leaders 'hateful' in his televised New Year's speech.
Macron promised that his reform agenda would continue despite the 'hateful' Yellow Vests continued protests against him and his government.
Marine Le Pen, who has strongly overtaken Macron in voter polls, hitted back at 'pyromaniac' Macron on Twitter.
Le Pen was unimpressed by his un-appeasing attitude toward those protesting his reforms agenda, calling him an "imposter" and a "pyromaniac" on Twitter.
Her party, the French National Rally Party, on Facebook replied in depth. "At a moment when the nation is in need of conciliation, of a sublime and fraternal vision, of a president who is once again presidential, that is to say, an arbitrator, the French listened during this new year's address to the speech of a clan chief, an ideologue of globalisation and an impudent professor of morality".
With his popularity following the trajectory of a lead balloon, Macron's choosing such an adjective as "hateful" was obviously met with criticism from the protesters. One protester spoke to Agence France-Presse (AFP) describing Macron's speech as "rekindling the fire" of the protests.
The protester, Mark, saying that it was a sign "that he would not do anything more to help us". Another protester, Fabien, lamented that "it seems that [Macron] himself still does not understand that he is moving toward dictatorship".
Jean-Luc Melenchon who leads the leftist Unsubmissive France party bemoaned that the president and his "preachy tone" is detached from the people: "We don't know why, but everything he says falls flat. And when we do understand, we would prefer not to have heard it".
It seems that only members of Macron's government and his En Marche! Party sympathised with his address.
Whilst En Marche! MP Stanislas Guerini cheered, "During the speech, I saw a president who stands his ground, who believes in our country, for the way it is, with its strengths and weaknesses".


Brooklyn Nets head coach Jason Kidd has been fined $50,000 by the NBA for his actions during his team's 99-94 loss to the Los Angeles Lakers on Wednesday night.
Down two with 8.3 seconds left, out of timeouts, and the Lakers' Jodie Meeks at the free-throw line, the rookie head coach was bumped by one of his own players, Tyshawn Taylor. As a result, Kidd spilled his drink, which led to a stoppage in play for the cleanup. That delay was critical, allowing the Nets to draw up one final offensive play the coaches otherwise wouldn't have been able to do.
The problems stems from the fact that Kidd appears to be saying the words "hit me" to Taylor, prior to getting bumped and spilling the drink.
The NBA is going to have none of that. You're not going to be able to game the system and walk away unscathed.
However, the league isn't buying it.
Kidd has no doubt had his problems early in his coaching tenure. At 4-11, Brooklyn is tied with Cleveland for the third-worst record in the Eastern Conference. The high-priced roster has been one of the biggest disappointments this season.
This cup incident has at least given Nets fans a reason to laugh and forget about what's happening on the court.
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If your community association is located in or relatively near an area that is attractive to tourists, it is time for your board to start discussing the Airbnb phenomenon and what it might mean in the coming years. Sites like Airbnb, VRBO (Vacation Rentals by Owner), FlipKey, HomeAway, and Roomorama tout the fact that they are innovators in online vacation property rentals and market that their strengths lie in their community-based approaches. However, for volunteer boards and the managers who assist them, hotel-like lodging transactions in private residential communities can present security and privacy concerns, as well as constitute violations of a community's governing documents.
Social historians may look back and see today's Airbnb and Uber trends as defining moments in our connected, technological age. While private citizens may be celebrating their newfound ability to monetize assets they already own like their homes and vehicles, community association boards are scrambling to figure out whether or not their existing document restrictions on rentals are sufficient to stem the tide of owners jumping on the Airbnb bandwagon.
A recent study by the American Hotel & Lodging Association tracked Airbnb data from October 2014 through September 2015 in 14 major metro areas. This study revealed that South Florida joined Los Angeles, New York, and San Francisco as the areas with the largest number of full-time Airbnb operators. In 2015, 87,000 people visited Miami with Airbnb and stayed an average of 4.8 nights according to Airbnb spokesman, Christopher Nulty. The typical Airbnb host made $6,400 sharing their unit or home over 42 nights of the year. Not surprisingly, South Beach was one of the most active markets for Airbnb, but many other places in the Sunshine State, including our coastal areas and theme park tourist destinations like Orlando and Tampa, also are seeing an increase in listings of residences in private residential communities with these online rental companies.
There are five categories of Airbnb hosts: full-time operators who rent out their units 360 days or more per year; multi-unit operators who rent out two or more units; variable operators who rent out multiple units 360 days or more per year, mega operators who rent out three or more units; and occasional operators who rent out their units randomly, usually in connection with a local event such as the Miami Open tennis tournament, a wine and food festival, etc. In South Florida, 62 percent of Airbnb's revenue came from multi-unit hosts, who account for 30 percent of operators.
• Rental restrictions. Many communities have specific guidelines on leasing which include minimum and maximum lease terms. In the case of Airbnb, the exchange of money for the use of a residence does not easily fit within the typical example of a lease agreement but is more akin to a hotel lodging transaction. Even more problematic is that the guest occupancy is usually so brief that the violation is moot before the association can attain a successful result in arbitration in the case of a condominium or cooperative or in court in the case of an HOA.
• Nuisance restrictions. Every set of association documents I have reviewed over the last two decades has at least one thing in common—the existence of a nuisance provision. However, most of those provisions are fairly generic with little specificity when it comes to defining nuisance activity. Instead, we are left to debate if an activity interferes with the neighbors' quiet enjoyment of their property or increases the rate of insurance in the community overall. Again, the biggest issue with relying on the nuisance provision to limit or prohibit Airbnb activity overall is that the lodgers have typically vacated the property before an enforcement action can be completed and, in many cases, even commenced.
• Guest/Occupancy Restrictions. Airbnb customers can be construed as guests/temporary occupants in a community, but the typical guest/occupancy restriction requires that guests and occupants be screened, which is not easy to do when you have a customer arriving on a Friday and leaving the following Monday.
So What Can Your Association Do?
Based on the survey data discussed above, host operators often own and rent out more than one unit. As such, one way for associations to start managing the trend is to update their purchase applications to inquire if the potential purchaser currently or has previously listed property on an Airbnb or similar site within the last 24 months. Associations may also want to prohibit multiple ownership of units in the community as once an operator successfully rents out one property it is much more convenient to rent out a second or third property inside the same community.
Associations should consider amending their governing documents to specifically address Airbnb-type transactions and to clarify that the listing of a unit or home on such sites constitutes a violation of the governing documents.
Even if the association does not have rental/occupancy restrictions in its Declaration (usually this happens as a result of a difficulty in amending the documents), a board could pass a rule requiring owners to advise of the presence of an Airbnb guest and that they provide an ID when entering the community. That type of rule would give the association an idea of who is coming into the community, and that knowledge can help trace damage and other type of problems.
Fining for rules and covenant infractions is an enforcement option but not always a terribly effective one, especially in condominiums and cooperatives where fines cannot become liens. Suspension of use rights can be a more effective tool in terms of regulating the behavior particularly as negative reviews from customers who have not been allowed to use the common areas can impact future returns.
There are companies like STR Monitor that will monitor the Web for a monthly fee and report to your community if it finds any of your properties listed on these sites. In the absence of such monitoring, the association and/or manager often does not become aware that a unit has been listed on Airbnb until the "guests" show up in the lobby with their suitcases.
Airbnb and the other companies mentioned in this article want to ensure that the properties being listed on their sites are actually available for occupancy. If your community has valid restrictions against this type of lodging transaction, then contacting the company and advising that your community is not eligible for this type of activity can possibly head the problem off at the pass.
Lastly, communicating with your association members about the issue of Airbnb is also a good idea. Some residential property owners may not have considered nor do they fully understand that offering their residences for short-term occupancy exposes them to certain tax liabilities as well as to other laws which pertain to life safety as well as the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA). While making some extra money from an asset you already own may sound like a great idea, doing so in your community association requires a thorough understanding of what is and is not permitted as well as a thorough understanding of the pros and cons of such activity. For boards and managers, it is important to discuss this activity and decide on a course of action well before the Airbnb customers show up in your community.


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The Age of Deceit - Part 8
by Ron Matsen • November 1, 2022
Worldwide War
"Engage people with what they expect; it is what they are able to discern and confirms their projections. It settles them into predictable patterns of response, occupying their minds while you wait for the extraordinary moment — that which they cannot anticipate."
Sun Tzu, The "Art of War"
Deception by diversion has always been a tactic used successfully by military commanders. From the Trojan Horse employed by the Greeks in the 13th Century BC to the Japanese surprise attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941, tactical diversion has been a useful tool to gain an advantage on the battlefield. We can see an example of this type of deception in the Allied strategy for the invasion of Europe.
Deception by Diversion
"As early as 1942, Adolf Hitler knew that a large-scale Allied invasion of France could turn the tide of the war in Europe. To ready for an invasion, Germany began construction on the Atlantic Wall, a 2,400-mile network of bunkers, pillboxes, mines, and landing obstacles up and down the French coastline. From the start, the top candidate for an Allied invasion was believed to be the French port city of Calais, only 20.7 miles across the English Channel from Dover.
The reason Germany chose to double-down Nazi defenses along the Calais coast was not only because of its proximity to England but because Hitler fell hook, line, and sinker for one of the most successful military deception schemes since the Trojan horse. Codenamed Operation Fortitude, the Allies used deception by diversion to convince German intelligence that the D-Day invasion would absolutely occur in Calais.
To give the appearance of a massive troop buildup in southeast England, the Allies created a largely phantom fighting force, the First U.S. Army Group, headed by George Patton, the American general whom the Nazis considered to be the enemy's best commander and the logical man to lead a cross-channel invasion. They deceived Nazi aerial reconnaissance planes by fashioning dummy aircraft and an armada of decoy landing crafts, composed only of painted canvases pulled over steel frames, around the mouth of the River Thames. They even deployed inflatable Sherman tanks, which they moved to different locations under the cover of night and used rollers to simulate tire tracks left behind in their wake.
Thanks in large part to a brilliant Allied deception campaign of diverting attention away from the intended invasion site on the Normandy Beaches of France, the D-Day invasion of June 6, 1944, became precisely the turning point that the Germans most feared."1
A Question of Perception
Our senses are the window for our soul. They feed information to our mind, which in turn determines our actions. Jesus taught, "The lamp of the body is the eye. Therefore, when your eye is good, your whole body also is full of light. But when your eye is bad, your body also is full of darkness."2
Attention diversion is the key to illusion. Discerning the difference between helpful information and harmful illusions is key. It's all about managing our perceptions. Attention is like mental money; be careful how you spend it.
Therefore, if an illusion fools our senses, then our perception will be poisoned, and our subsequent understanding will be flawed. Constant acceptance of an illusion as true information can lead us to be complacent where our mind is comfortable with the repeated and predictable patterns of the deception we now hold as truth.
In other words, we only notice a change when it occurs within the field of our narrow focus. We do not detect change where you don't think a change should appear.
Just as the pickpocket relies on the victim being distracted, Satan also seeks to distract and destroy. We are all basically "single-processors" (one function at a time) which means that we will not notice a change in the peripheral areas outside our prime focus. As a result, we suffer from a kind of multiprocessing blindness, or as others call it, "change blindness."
According to a 2005 study published in the journal Trends in Cognitive Sciences, the term change blindness "refers to the surprising difficulty observers have in noticing large changes to visual scenes."3
This blindness leaves the victim vulnerable to illusion, misinformation, and outright deception.
Today, what are the major influences in the world that are constantly trying to gain influence over our hearts? What is the greatest source of input into people's minds today? The answer is entertainment.
The Opioid of Entertainment
Entertainment has become the opiate of the masses. From the Colosseum in Rome to the cinemas around the world today, people seem to crave diversion from rather than connection to real life. I constantly see people with their faces looking down at their mobile world rather than looking up to engage the real world they hardly acknowledge.
According to Future Source, global entertainment spending is to grow to $439 Billion USD the end of 2021 with SVOD (Subscription Video on Demand) surging. One of the most popular programs on an SVOD service was "Game of Thrones." During its 73 episodes from 2011 to 2019, it was awarded 59 Primetime Emmy Awards.
This is disturbing to me as Game of Thrones was heavily criticized for its depiction of women and sexual violence. Women are raped, forced into sexual slavery, or subjected to other gender-based violence. They rarely have a choice of who they marry, a situation all too common for women and girls in the real world.
Based on this terrible plotline, the series was incredibly popular. How can this happen in today's world where on the one hand, society champions the cause of women and then on another are entertained by their horrible mistreatment?
Violence is a popular theme in entertainment. It is the sad fruit of objectification by characterization, villainization, and ultimately dehumanization. As a prime entertainment element, it promotes the devaluing of human life.
Another means of soft-selling violence is to present it as a benevolent act of a superhero. Of the top 30 highest-grossing films of all time (as of end of 2019), 18 are about either aliens or superhumans saving the earth through violence.
The quest for entertainment reaches beyond the domain of TV and Movies. This is where viewers become participants in their own adventure through the virtual world of gaming.
According to NewZoo.com, 2020 saw an annual rise in video game revenue to $178B USD involving 2.81B Players. That is more than 1/3 of the world's population of 7.77B.
Statista.com reports the most popular games in USA are:
(War and Violence)
68M Players
(Action and Violence)
(Fighting and Violence)
(Augmented Reality Violence)
Do you see a pattern here with all these "entertainment portals"? In all formats, violence (in one form or another) is a dominant feature.
Psychology Today reports: "According to the market-research group Nielsen, adults spend over 11 hours per day interacting with media. That's up from 9 hours and 32 minutes just four years ago. Of those 11 hours, 4 hours and 46 minutes are spent watching TV."4
Psychology Today reports: "For kids ages 8-12, the same Common Sense Media survey report found that they spent 6 hours per day interacting with media. Kids ages 2-5 spend around 4 hours 35 minutes per day in front of a screen (e.g., watching TV, videos, gaming)."5
Therefore, the average person devotes 20% of their 24-hour day to some form of video entertainment.
What starts as fascination becomes an obsession to the point of captivating our minds. So let me ask again, what is the greatest source of input into people's minds today? By now, I believe you can see that the answer is entertainment.
Deception by Saturation (overwhelming input)
One of the most effective ways of neutralizing the detecting devices of the enemy is through sensor saturation. This covert countermeasure overwhelms the observer and blinds their defensive sensors.
"In the early hours of the Allied invasion of France, the RAF dropped around 500 dummy paratroopers far from the actual D-Day airborne landing zones as part of Operation Titanic. In addition, paper strips covered with aluminum were deployed along the French coast, which on German radar appeared to be a continuous blip that could be mistaken for an approaching fleet."
The blinding and binding effect of the global data deluge is taking its toll every day. We are witnessing the result of overstimulated ostrich-like humans who have their heads buried in a world of harmful self-indulgence—a world where they are blind to the real threats surrounding them.
The American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry (AACAP) reports, "Hundreds of studies of the effects of TV violence on children and teenagers have found that children may:
become "immune" or numb to the horror of violence,
begin to accept violence as a way to solve problems,
imitate the violence they observe on television; and
identify with certain characters, "victims and/or victimizers."6
We have seen plenty of evidence that in a wartime scenario, keeping a clear head is paramount.
The Sensibility of a Soldier
The apostle Paul warned his young apprentice,
"3 You therefore must endure hardship as a good soldier of Jesus Christ. 4 No one engaged in warfare entangles himself with the affairs of this life, that he may please him who enlisted him as a soldier."
What is the answer to this troubling trend? Is there a survival guide for the soul under siege? Please do not get me wrong here. I am not advocating that we run and hide in a cave somewhere. The Bible gives us all the answers we need to safely transit the minefield of the modern media onslaught.
King Solomon warned,
"19 The way of the wicked is like darkness; They do not know what makes them stumble. 20 My son, give attention to my words; Incline your ear to my sayings. 21 Do not let them depart from your eyes; Keep them in the midst of your heart; 22 For they are life to those who find them, And health to all their flesh. 23 Keep your heart with all diligence, For out of it [spring] the issues of life. 24 Put away from you a deceitful mouth, And put perverse lips far from you. 25 Let your eyes look straight ahead, And your eyelids look right before you. 26 Ponder the path of your feet, And let all your ways be established. 27 Do not turn to the right or the left; Remove your foot from evil."
The apostle Paul offers this encouragement,
"10 Finally, my brethren, be strong in the Lord and in the power of His might. 11 Put on the whole armor of God, that you may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil. 12 For we do not wrestle against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this age, against spiritual hosts of wickedness in the heavenly places. 13 Therefore take up the whole armor of God, that you may be able to withstand in the evil day, and having done all, to stand."
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1 https://www.history.com/news/d-day-hitler-germany-defenses-miscalculations
2 Luke 11:34
3 Simons DJ, Rensink RA. Change blindness: Past, present, and future. Trends Cogn Sci. 2005;9(1):16-20. doi:10.1016/j.tics.2004.11.006
4 https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/tech-happy-life/201812/how-much-screen-time-is-too-much
5 IBID
6 https://www.aacap.org/AACAP/Families_and_Youth/Facts_for_Families/FFF-Guide/Children-And-TV-Violence-013.aspx
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Learn a classic Jimi hendrix style guitar lick similar to what Hendrix plays at the end of his classic 'Hey Joe' solo. This lick uses many classic Jimi Hendrix style moves and is a cool addition to your guitar lick bag. So let's jump in and check out the this Jimi Hendrix lick!
0:12 Here's the Jimi Hendrix lick you'll learn in this guitar lesson.
0:24 The lick comes from the E minor pentatonic scale played up around the 12th fret. Here's the scale pattern Jimi Hendrix is using for this particular lick.
0:34 Jimi Hendrix Licks – chunk 1. Here's how to play the first part of the lick.
1:07 Jimi Hendrix Licks- chunk 2. Here's how to play the second part of this guitar lick. Notice all the cool bends…take 'em and make sure you're using these in your own playing.
1:50 Jimi Hendrix Licks- chunk 3. Here's how to play the next part of this guitar lick. Remember why we learn guitar licks: to gather together 'structures' and ideas to use for making up our own licks and solos! Take these and experiment with making up your own guitar licks using these as a starting point!
2:25 Here's the complete lick played slowly.
2:40 Here's the Jimi Hendrix lick played over the backing track now.
As always take this and see how you can use it to make up cool licks of your own. Have fun and catch you next time!


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S5 E25 | FULL EPISODE
Wayfinders
Elizabeth Strout: Steady As She Goes-author Elizabeth Strout, spent decades finessing her own unique narratives, often using her own upbringing as a touchstone; Pamela Frank: Fit As A Fiddle-celebrated violinist Pamela Frank was at the height of her career when she suffered a life-altering injury; The Very Moving Rennie Harris-pioneer of hip-hop dance theater, but it took a while...
AIRED: March 27, 2020 | 0:26:46
(soft music)
- Welcome to "Articulate," the show that explores
the useful truths that art explains so well.
I'm Jim Cotter and on this episode, wayfinders.
Before she was a Pulitzer Prize winning author,
Elizabeth Strout spent decades
finessing her own unique narratives,
often using her own upbringing as a touchstone.
- My parents came from Puritan stock.
That's an entirely different culture.
Which of course I didn't know
because I was brought up in it.
They're not particularly demonstrative.
- [Jim] The celebrated violinist, Pamela Frank
was at the height of her career
when she suffered a life altering injury.
After nearly a decade, she's playing again
but now with new found purpose.
- I was in complete agony and I just thought,
you know, just help me.
You know, and I will do what anybody says now.
- [Jim] Rennie Harris and hip hop dance grew up together.
Today the choreographer is celebrated
for the unique way he's pushed the form forward.
- It's a difference than just making a salad or soup.
You know that that's a pepper
and what the pepper's gonna do.
You know what the tomato's gonna do.
With bodies, with spirits, you know,
you don't know what you're gonna get.
- [Jim] That's all coming up on "Articulate."
(orchestral music)
(contemplative music)
Today, Elizabeth Strout is a literary powerhouse.
The author of seven novels,
six of them bestsellers, she won the Pulitzer Prize
for fiction in 2009 for her bestselling collection
of linked short stories, "Olive Kitteridge."
in 2014, it was turned into
an Emmy Award winning HBO miniseries.
And in 2019, the book's hugely popular sequel,
"Olive, Again" reunited readers with beloved characters.
So it's a good thing that Strout didn't give up
when she failed to get published by age 30
or even 40.
Her debut novel, "Amy and Isabelle" came out in 1998
when she was 42.
Many were surprised by her success,
but not her daughter, Serena.
- She had grown up, you know,
eating her breakfast off the tops of manuscripts.
She just always believed I was a writer.
She'd come home from school when she was really little
and she'd say, "Did you get an agent yet, Mommy?"
And I'd say, "No," and she'd say, "Oh, you will."
and she just believed in me.
It was very interesting and so sweet.
- [Jim] Despite her relationship with her own daughter,
Strout's stories often revolve
around strained parent-child relationships.
Her characters face
and work through discord and estrangement.
They get knocked sideways by events that test
or reveal their love.
In 2016's "My Name Is Lucy Barton" for example,
filial ties bind but also cut.
- Or called to me,
and when I called them it was always hard.
I felt I heard in their voices anger,
a habitual resentment,
as though they were silently saying
you are not one of us.
As though I had betrayed them by leaving them.
I suppose I had.
- [Jim] Elizabeth Strout was raised in rural Maine
by parents she has described as skeptical of pleasure,
true to their Puritan roots.
But encouraged by her mother,
the young Strout filled notebooks
with sharp eyed observations about daily life
in small town New England.
She was interested not only in outward appearances,
but in the hidden, inner lives
of the people she encountered.
- It is just about one of my earliest memories
of just watching.
Just watching people.
We didn't have a television,
we lived in a very isolated areas,
both in New Hampshire and in Maine.
So my sense of observing people goes back so far.
And it's not just observing them,
it's like I will look at somebody and think,
oh what does it physically feel like
to be in that pair of jeans?
So I've done that for so many years
that it's what my imagination does.
- [Jim] But putting her imagination to work
for money seemed at first unimaginable.
After getting an English degree from Bates College
in Maine, Strout spent a few years bouncing around
from waitress jobs, to temp work.
She even played piano in a bar.
Then she decided she wanted to be a legal aide attorney.
But almost as soon as she tried it,
she learned that practicing law was not for her.
So she got married, had her daughter
and for the next 16 years juggled fiction and family life.
Teaching at a community college while continuing
to quietly but doggedly write her own stories.
Strout and her husband would eventually part,
but still she says their union fundamentally changed
her understanding of relationships.
They're not particularly demonstrative,
there's not a lot of,
- Hugging and.
- Hugging or kissing or anything like that.
And then my first husband was Jewish.
And it was amazing.
It was like a whole barn door had fallen off
and I realized, wow!
You know there's this whole world out there.
Because they would talk about anything.
And they would hug and kiss and my father-in-law
would kiss my husband when he first saw him.
You know, it was just an entirely different culture
and it was so amazing to me.
And that's much more how my daughter has been raised.
- Was it frightening to you
or was it exciting to you, or both?
- Both.
At the beginning it was a little frightening.
Because I'd just never seen anything like it in my life.
And as time went on, I realized
this is a wonderful thing that's happened to me.
To be allowed to see this.
- Today, Elizabeth Strout lives with her husband,
James Tierney in New York City and in Maine.
The quiet seclusion of her home state
has always been her sanctuary.
She goes there to drop in on her old friends,
both real and imagined.
Because these characters feel so real to me,
- Yeah.
- I'm actually very interested in how real they feel to you.
- Oh they're so real to me.
- [Jim] Like relatives?
- Probably closer.
- [Jim] Really?
- Wow.
So therefore, do you miss them when they're written?
- Do their stories go on after you've written them?
- Sometimes they do.
And sometimes they don't.
Sometimes they're gone.
- Is that just because they,
- Because I love them, I just,
(laughs)
- [Jim] Really you have to bring them.
- I'm like oh yeah, let's you know,
let's see what they're up to.
- And when they came out,
then they still had been sitting there.
- Yeah, waiting.
(laughing) - Right, right.
It's interesting.
- Yeah, it is.
It's very interesting.
But, you know, I don't know ahead of,
I mean, I don't know until I do it
that they're gonna show up again.
And then I realize, oh yeah.
Absolutely, let's go.
- [Jim] Olive Kitteridge for one, insisted on an encore.
Strout's seventh novel, "Olive, Again" received rave reviews
and spent weeks in the upper regions
of the bestseller charts.
Now 64, Elizabeth Strout is today still faithful
to her Puritan roots.
Keeping her head down while marching steadily on
into her next chapter.
("Bach Sonata for Violin in C minor")
At the turn of the last century,
Pamela Frank was one of the brightest stars
in the classical firmament.
Earning rave reviews performing
with the world's greatest orchestras
and amassing a legion of loyal fans.
At age 32 she became the recipient
of one of classical music's highest honors.
But then, in 2001, the music stopped.
After hurting her hand in a household accident,
a botched acupuncture treatment made things worse.
- And so, I basically looked like a stroke victim.
My ulnar nerve had been injured.
I couldn't use this side for six months.
I couldn't drive, I couldn't write,
I couldn't do it, let alone play the violin.
Forget it, I couldn't hold anything.
- [Jim] Sidelined from performing,
Frank discovered how she could still be a musician
without picking up an instrument.
This revelation changed both how she thought about
and taught music.
- The thing that I hope to help my students the most with
is how to practice less and better.
People spend five, six, eight, 10 hours a day
in a practice room learning notes
but they're not thinking.
I'm trying to get them to think and therefore
to practice what matters.
Which is what are they saying,
not how are they playing.
- [Jim] But Frank missed performing.
So much so that she'd often play through the pain.
Until, in 2012 she suffered another debilitating injury.
This time to her neck.
- I was in complete agony
and I just thought, you know, just help me.
And I will do what anybody says now.
(mournful violin music)
- [Jim] It was then that she heard about Howard Nelson,
a physical therapist known for his pragmatic approach.
Helping patients change their pattern of movement
and posture to promote healthy, sustainable alignment.
- It was an empowering thought.
It was an empowering idea,
that you could actually influence
how your body works and feels.
And if you can harm yourself, you can also help yourself.
- [Jim] But at the time of their first appointment,
Frank was feeling anything but empowered.
Howard Nelson still remembers
the day they met eight years ago.
- She walks in the room
and she's got a cervical collar on
and she's cold and clammy.
And is very freaked out about doing anything
because the doctor had said
she probably would need surgical fusion of your neck.
- [Jim] But it never came to that.
Nelson put her firmly on the road to recovery
by altering the way she held her violin
and moved her body as she played.
It was a steep re-learning curve
but she says she was able and willing to climb it
because making music is all she's ever known.
It's in her DNA.
Her parents, Lilian Kallir and Claude Frank,
were both celebrated concert pianists.
- Oh, I think I was spoiled, genetically.
Nature and nurture, actually,
because they would always just be talking about
what the music means.
And it wasn't in any kind of academic, cerebral way.
It was just, they were always searching for more
and more content.
You know, when they would just talk about music
between themselves, and my father, of course,
he was so reverent of the composers.
He thought this was like God.
I know that he felt that he was the vehicle.
He was the middle man between the composer
and the listener.
And so he was totally selfless in that way.
And I think he accomplished that goal.
- [Jim] Throughout her early life,
Frank performed often with her dad,
and later they would record together.
When she got hurt, she found a silver lining
in the hiatus because it gave her more time
to spend with him and with her mother
in their final years.
But Frank too needed someone to lean on
and she soon came to rely on Howard Nelson.
Not only for physical therapy,
but more and more for friendship.
Nelson, who as a teenager
was a nationally ranked tennis player,
spent most of his life working with atheletes
and had no experience with classical musicians.
So Frank took him to concerts
where he could analyze performers' movements
and refine his approach to her treatment.
They'd debrief over dinners.
For five months it was all very business like
until it became something more.
("I'll Be Seeing You")
- He went to visit his mother in Florida
and he said something very uncharacteristic of him.
He said, "I think I'm gonna miss you."
And I thought about it for a second,
"Yeah, I think I'm gonna miss you too."
- [Jim] While he was in Florida,
serendipity brought Nelson's feelings to the fore.
- She texted me a picture of the moon
while I was looking at the moon
and we both realized that we were looking at the same thing
from New York and Florida.
And that was sort of a big moment of connection.
But when I got back to New York
I said let's meet for, let's go out to dinner.
And we went out to Pisticci in upper Manhattan
and we had some food or a drink
and I went over to the bench next to her
and I just said, "I love you,"
and I gave her a kiss at that moment
on the bench at this restaurant.
- The thing about Howard is that
it just seemed like he was in my life all along somehow
and it just took a long time to find him.
There was a rightness about him,
a familiarity about him almost immediately.
I mean it was just a different level
of comfort and trust that I had with him.
And I mean, of course I joke that, you know,
anybody that gets you back to playing you better marry
because that's the, you know.
But that ends up sounding like it's a gift to him.
You know, to marry him, it's not that.
I mean, he gave me my life back
and we happen to love each other.
- [Jim] Five years into their marriage,
Pam and Howard are now also partners in a venture
that helps others understand
how it's possible to make great music
without damaging the body.
- I think working together is exponentially fantastic
for me because when we look at a musician,
I mean yes, the analysis
is a big thing that we have in common.
But you see things in people that nobody does.
- How do you think you complement each other?
Conversely, what are the things you think
that she puts up with from you?
- I think we're perfect for each other
in the sense that I'm really fast about everything.
Fast thinking, fast speaking, fast acting,
I wanna get things done as quickly as possible
and not necessarily to the best that they can be
but just things need to be done.
But I think fast and speak fast
and expect speed from everybody.
And you are incredibly methodical
and you take your time and you think things through.
You don't do anything irrationally.
And you always say speed kills.
- That's a great answer, because,
no because I need to speed up.
- No you don't.
- I think I do.
- He's just asking for compliments.
- And you need to slow down.
- Yes and that is true.
- Not big problems then?
- No, not big problems.
- No, no.
♪ I find you in the morning sun ♪
♪ And when the night is new
♪ I'll be looking at the moon
♪ But I'll be seeing you
♪ Life is an eternal line
♪ It's what I want
♪ It's what I want, it's what I want, it's what I want ♪
- [Jim] Some people learn to dance.
Others, like Rennie Harris, pioneer of hip hop dance,
are born to it.
♪ Yeah
♪ God
♪ Do do do do, do do do do
♪ You are the strong and you are mighty ♪
- [Jim] Harris grew up in north Philadelphia
And from the very beginning he was constantly in motion.
- My mom would used to say, "Turn off that radio!"
It'd be like 6:30 in the morning,
I'd turn on the radio, start dancing,
dance into the bathroom, come back, you know.
Or I'm at the table, I'm dancing.
My mom would like, smack me
'cause I'm trying to animate what water
with a glass of water without trying to spill it.
You know, trying to.
And so, like, it's really a part of your day to day,
like, for those who are are like, who love,
who are just like (sighs)
for some reason we just have to move.
- You are a dancer, you don't just dance.
- Right, exactly.
- [Jim] Harris, the oldest of seven,
was raised in a Catholic home
and studied briefly for the priesthood.
But ultimately, religion didn't call to him
as powerfully as movement.
For him, dance binds body and spirit.
It has a unique power to heal.
At age 12, Harris formed his first dance group
with his brother and a friend
to compete in a church talent show.
By age 15, he had founded The Step Masters
and a popping crew called The Scatter Boys
who would go on to perform with the who's-who
of 1980s hip hop acts.
Including Salt 'N Pepa, Run-D.M.C.,
and Grandmaster Flash.
When he was passed over for the movie "Krush Groove,"
the last in a string of popular films
about street dancing, a discouraged Harris
headed back home.
In 1991, after a year of scraping by,
a Philadelphia based dance company
offered him $1500 to create a work
that would premier the following year.
He still remembers getting that call
from Michael Pedretti from Movement Theater International.
- It was the first time someone offered me
money ahead of time, a year before the gig.
And I told him, I said, "Hey man,
"I might not be here."
I said, you know.
He said, "What do you mean?"
I said, "Well, they just had a shoot out
"right out side of my room at my house.
"I could be not here."
I said, "Well, I'll take your money
"and I don't know if I'll show up
"but if I show up, we'll do it."
And so he gave me half the money,
and I was like, I showed up
and the company was born from that moment.
- [Jim] Today, Harris's touring company,
Pure Movement and his youth spinoff Rhaw,
short for Rennie Harris's Awe-inspiring Works
have been thriving for more than 25 years,
performing across the world,
in Europe, Asia, Africa, and beyond.
Major dance companies around the US
have also commissioned work from him.
Harris develops each piece on site,
based on the town at hand.
But since so much comes together organically
in rehearsals, it's often impossible for him
to make, let alone communicate the master plan.
- Almost every project that I've done,
whether with my company or another company,
I've always heard whispers of,
"I don't think he knows what he's doing."
And, you know, it used to hurt my feelings
but then I kinda got over it
because yeah, that's the part that you're expecting me
to create expression via a formula.
I don't approach it that way.
It's a difference than just, you know,
making a salad or soup.
With bodies or spirits, you know,
All right guys, we're back.
- So when it comes to like,
a normal recipe for what a choreographer
would normally do, their normal process,
Rennie just takes that recipe
and he just rips it all up
and scatter it all around.
And say okay, let me see what I can get outta this.
He trusts the dancers, and we trust him.
- Rennie allows for people to be themselves.
To be the individual.
So for me, I'm a breaker, I'm a complete b-boy.
I know how to different styles,
but he allows me to be me and shine as me
throughout his work.
- You gotta be willing to take it somewhere.
And he trusts that you can do it.
It's just that you also have to believe in him
and believe in his vision
and believe in yourself at the same time.
- [Jim] In the past few years, Rennie Harris
has had to learn to trust his dancers more than ever.
Now in his mid 50s, the choreographer
has had both his hips replaced.
He just can't move the way he used to.
- I can't really actually demonstrate the movement.
I have to, like convey the movement
to the dancer and like,
slowly process them through this movement.
So in that way, I don't know if the body
was sort of betraying me,
but sorta going through a transition to say okay,
I need to slow you down
and let's see what you, you know.
Let's hone the practice, let's hone what it is
that you're doing in a whole other way.
I feel like I have a completely different insight now.
- [Jim] And for many of his dancers,
Harris's work hits close to home.
His dances delve into the social,
the political, the personal.
Everything he brings to the stage an honest representation
of his own experiences and observations.
And this authenticity is what makes his dancers,
including eight year company veteran, Phil Cuttino Jr.
trust Harris's vision.
In 2019's "A Day In The Life," Cuttino closes the show
in a duet about two brothers
who, while hanging out in their own neighborhood,
become involved in a violent altercation
with the police.
It ends when a cop shoots Cotino's character dead.
(wailing music)
- The reason why that piece is so important to me
is because I got shot before, like.
It wasn't by a cop, but it was like,
through crazy street violence and all that type stuff.
So, it was just crazy to really see
all of these different dynamics
and ways of, he's being my real reality.
And to have to die on stage in front of like,
hundreds and hundreds of people sometimes,
that stuff is crazy.
To really like, live that moment,
and really like, tell that story
and help people understand.
(mournful music)
- [Jim] Harris has always been driven
by a desire to help people understand
both themselves and others.
To find catharsis
by pouring his deepest emotions into dance.
- Work is actually a relief
to get the thought out, process,
and then to watch it morph in the body to say,
you know, there's still breath in what you're saying.
I put this pain in this body
but that pain is not really radiating the pain
I'm really feeling, but it also there's a pain
and I begin to see the beauty in that pain,
the humanity in the pain
that I'm putting into the body, right?
And so then that effects me in a whole other way.
Like, it's almost, it kind of releases me
from that thing.
- [Jim] Present at its birth,
Rennie Harris continues to create dance
that reflects his life, the communities that shaped him
and the evolution of hip hop
from the street into an international cultural phenomenon.
(percussive music)
(cheering)
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MahaRERA tells Alamdar Infrastructure not to sell flats to protect tenant
According to the complaint filed by Pervin Bahadurji, she had surrendered her premises for the redevelopment of Marine Palace off Princess Street at Marine Lines and was allocated flat no. 2101on the 21st floor of the building with carpet area 1221.39 sqft by developer Alamdar Infrastructure Pvt Ltd.
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MUMBAI: After the representatives of a real estate firm repeatedly failed to appear before the Maharashtra Real Estate Regulatory Authority (MahaRERA), the company has been restrained from selling, accepting bookings or transferring any unsold flat in a project at Marine Lines till a complaint by a woman tenant of the redevelopment project is resolved.
As per an agreement signed on March 15, 2017, she was supposed to get possession within 42 months from the first commencement certificate. The developer had also agreed to pay rent to her for temporary alternative accommodation but the rent was stopped from March 19, 2019.
Advocate Avinash Pawar, appearing for Bahadurji, submitted that the commencement certificate (CC) issued by the planning authority showed 20th floor as the last floor in the building, which means that the developer was not permitted to construct the 21st floor where the flat has been promised. The complainant requested MahaRERA to direct the developer to execute a supplementary agreement for allotting her a flat on the 20th floor of the building.
According to the registration page of Marine Palace project, the completion date is November 11, 2025. Its latest CC, issued on September 25, 2019, and valid till May 11, 2020, mentions that the projection has permission to go up to 20th floor. Out of the 54 flats in the building, only 8 have been booked, as per data uploaded by the developer on the MahaRERA portal.
MahaRERA member Bhalchandra Kapadnis noted that despite several notices served on Alamdar Infrastructure Pvt Ltd, the developer has not appeared for hearings to inform whether any unsold flat is available in Marine Palace which could be allocated to Bahadurji. He also took note of Bahadurji's apprehension that unless the developer is prevented from selling flats, she won't be allocated a flat.
Kapadnis directed the developer to appear before the authority on April 29, 2020, to disclose its unsold inventory.
Advocate Pawar said, "My client is the original tenant of the old building. Despite three hearings being scheduled, the developer did not appear before MahaRERA. If the developer has already sold all the flats, where will she go? This MahaRERA order will serve as adeterrent to builders."
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by Madonna
Album: Confessions On A Dance Floor (2005)
Charted: 1 7
The music is based on ABBA's "Gimme! Gimme! Gimme! (A Man After Midnight)." Madonna wrote to ABBA members Bjorn Ulvaeus and Benny Andersson personally to get their permission to use the sample. This was the second time ABBA had granted such a request. Previously, Fugees were given permission to sample the bass and synthesizer from this for their 1997 hit "Rumble In The Jungle."
Bjorn Ulvaaeus explained to the Sunday Telegraph how they granted permission to the Queen of Pop: "Madonna wrote a very, very nice letter saying please, please we have had a wonderful idea which involves 'Gimme Gimme.' We said we would have to listen to it first, but after half a minute I knew it was brilliant. That is one of the few we have allowed. Five years earlier we said yes to the Fugees. But to everyone else we said no. I think the Madonna record shows that ABBA is part of the DNA set-up of Pop."
This was originally written for a musical that was going to be directed by French director Luc Besson. The musical was later abandoned, and Madonna decided to use it for the Confessions On A Dance Floor album instead.
On November 3, 2005 Madonna opened the MTV Europe Music Awards at the Pavilhao Atlantico in Lisbon (Portugal), performing this song live for the first time (always the perfectionist, she rehearsed it 30 times first). On February 8, 2006 Madonna opened the Grammy Awards at the Staples Center in Los Angeles with the animated band The Gorillaz, performing a medley of this and "Feel Good Inc." >>
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This became Madonna's best-selling single ever, moving more than 8.7 million copies worldwide in only seven months. It was a #1 hit in a record 41 countries, including Australia, Canada, France, Germany, and Japan. >>
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In England, the 2006 "Children In Need" appeal featured a parody of the music video - it was performed by the cast of the English soap opera Holby City. >>
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This is the first track on Madonna's 2009 compilation Celebration. Explaining why to Rolling Stone, she said, "Because it's a badass song."
This was featured on CSI: Miami in the episode "Felony Flight" and on CSI: NY in the episode "Manhattan Manhunt," both in 2005.
Madonna's daughter Lourdes, then age 9, was disgusted by this music video. The singer explained to Out magazine: "She watched the 'Hung Up' video, the part where I'm in the tunnel and dancing with all the guys, and she is like, 'Ugh, gross! This is disgusting, Mom. Why are you doing that?' And I am like, 'Because I am having fun. This is what people do: they go out, when they are grown-ups, and dance and have fun.'"
While filming the music video for this song, Madonna was still putting herself back together after a horse-riding accident left her with nine broken bones a few months earlier. The project proved to be a test of strength. She explained to Harper's Bazaar: "Forget about riding a horse again - I didn't know if I was going to be able to dance again. When I shot the video [for 'Hung Up'] none of the bones had gone together. Pharmaceuticals and my will got me through the shoot. So to come out of that, I felt so much inspiration and so much joy just to have my body back and to feel strong again."
Johan Renck ("Nothing Really Matters") directed the '70s-inspired clip over the course of six days in London and South Central Los Angeles after months of rehearsal for the dancers. At Madonna's request, some of the dancers were recruited from the 2005 documentary Rize about the "krumping" dance movement out of South Central. One of the London scenes took place at an abandoned tube station near Charing Cross, which was a mere 10 minutes from Madonna's home at the time.
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Leo from Westminster 1, MdFor Madonna, indeed time goes by so slowly. Hung Up is a Tearful Dance on her mother's grave and she cries the song with existential sadness. Most Dance/Disco songs are happy and upbeat. Not this one. In Hung Up, Madonna is Crying on her Sad Dance Floor! Hung Up is a timeless Dance/Rock art song/chanson! Madonna is Immortal!
Joey from Okanogan, WaMadonna is like a fine wine. She is currently 51 years old and she has gotten better at what she does with age, and she is still a very stunning lady
Theresa from Murfreesboro, TnGreat song, only Madge can pull off a disco record in this day and age.
Linc from Beaumont, TxHow many comedians out there don't let their children watch their shows? Bob Saget anybody? How many adults have kids who don't know their parents are closet-case party animals when they go out and leave them with the baby sitter? I think as a parent you separate your private and professional life, your family self, from your friends' self. For Madonna - I think this is harder for her to do since she is so famous for being a ranchy-sexual icon.
Sum Sum from New Delhi, -Dan, leave madonna in a desertland?? r u kiddin? do you know Madonna came up from almost nothingland and she s done it all the way here. Good Producers are not easily fallable. They found madonna talented so they agreed to do songs with her. its so simple.
Daniel from Rio De Janeiro, BrazilMadonna may be a lot of things: rich, old, powerful, talented
but the secret to her neverending success is that she's usually surrounded by good producers. For this album she picked Stuart Price (aka "Jacques LuCont", aka "Thin White Duck", aka "Les Rhythm Digitales")
Leave Madonna alone in a deserted island and she'll come up with nothing.
Sum Sum from New DelhiJoe, I really disagree with you. whats got to do with her being a mom and making music like that. i think its a talent and she just has it when no one else can do it. or may be u r just jealous...i m sorry if i hurt you but the whole world loves madonna.
Sum Sum from New Delhicheck out another video "sorry", my freind designed the jacket she s wearing in the video
Sum Sum from New DelhiMadonna is looking so young..i heard she doesnt even take botox injections. somepeople generally dont age with years i guess. Madonna is untouched by time....I love her.
Zach from Grand Rapids, MiWow, she's gotta be the most famous women in the World. If you say Madonna, whether you like her or not, everyone knows who youre talking about. I like her, and even though I don't like much modern music, this song is great.
Caitlin from Upper Township, Njhey joe, madonna isn' too old for anything! she's an amazing woman to be over 40 and still look that hot and make good music!
Amanda from Little Rock, ArDoes Madonna get better with age or what?
Kim from New Btunswick, NjTo the first commenter - love her or hate her (We've all done both), Madonna IS staying power. Really. I feel like with every new and successful album, I have more and more respect for her. The woman is strong, y'all!
Sebastian from Providence, RiI like the video and the music. I would loved to see Madonna actually "dancing" with the guys from Gorillaz at the Grammy Awards thou.
Joe from Chicago, Arthe video for this is kool but madonna sucks and i would absolutely hate to have her as a mom and she is way too old to still be making music like this