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(Jeff Wilde)
Role: Character (possible antagonist for both heroes and villains)
These are verrrry old notes about an obscure Marvel character, who appeared in 1989-1992 in Moon Knight stories. He later returned, but that well after this profile.
As it happened I had his early appearances and his Marvel Advanced Super-Heroes Role-Playing Game, so I threw something together. These notes will thus have to be replaced by a full-bore profile one day.
Real Name: Jeff Wilde.
Known Relatives: Anton Mogard (aka the Midnight Man, father, deceased), Ms. Wilde (mother).
Group Affiliation: Partner of the Moon Knight, later agent for the Secret Empire.
Base Of Operations: New York.
Height: 5'10" Weight: 145 lbs.
Eyes: Gray Hair: Light brown.
Midnight II is an excellent thief, as well as a professional-level athlete and martial artist.
He later was turned into a superhuman combat cyborg – see the game stats section for more about his capabilities.
Jeff Wilde is the son of the Midnight Man, Anton Mogard, an old opponent of the Moon Knight. He knew who his father was, but he never saw him during his early life. However, Mogard would send checks with no return address to support the raising of his son. Although his mother disapproved, Jeff began collecting press clippings about the exploits of the Midnight Man, whom he considered to be a genius.
When Wilde was 16, he finally met his father – but in an hospital. The chemicals which had altered the Midnight Man's face had given him cancer, and he was dying. During the time they could spend together, Mogard told his son everything. He even taught him his secret techniques and transmitted his experience as a master criminal.
Wilde chose to wear the costume of the Midnight Man as the second Midnight (Midnight I being the now-deceased master of kung fu called M'Nai), but not as a villain. While he started by committing numerous burglaries in high-security Spector holding, his goal was too attract Spector's attention. Wilde knew from his father that Marc Spector was actually Moon Knight.
After narrowly escaping the Moon Knight during a pursuit; Midnight II showed up at Spector's home. He offered to become his partner in adventure.
Spector was less than enthusiastic at the idea. He mostly treated Wilde as an idiotic, bumbling kid whom he hoped would get out of his way but couldn't manage to keep down.
After a week or so, despite Moon Knight's warning, Wilde got involved in his investigation into the Secret Empire. During a battle with this dangerous conspiracy, Jeff took a force blast from a Secret Empire power dagger. The impact destroyed much of his body and nearly killed him.
Moon Knight sought to rescue Jeff. Eventually he captured the Empire's head man, code-named Number One. He insisted that Midnight had died as a result of his injuries. Thus, Moon Knight stopped his search for his friend.
In fact, Wilde had not died. He had been made the subject of a cruel experiment. The Empire wanted to construct an army of cyborg super agents and Wilde was to be the prototype. He was used as a Guinea pig to see how much he could endure both physically and mentally. He also served as a test bed for more and more powerful weaponry.
A pain-inducing device was wired to Wilde's spinal cord to insure his cooperation and modify his behavior should the need arise. Wilde did not wish to serve the Empire at first. But eventually, seeing their open aggression as more honest than what he had come to view as Moon Knight's false professions, he relented.
His first assignment for the Empire was breaking physicist Elliot Franklin out of jail. Franklin's services had been retained by the Empire to provide them with more advanced weaponry and to better enhance cyborgs like Midnight. It was while freeing Franklin that Midnight first encountered the super hero, Darkhawk.
During a battle which also involved Spider-Man, Midnight was temporarily captured and unmasked. Spider-Man had known Midnight briefly before his conversion, but believed he had been killed. Distracted by both Wilde's story and a sneak attack by Franklin, the heroes allowed Midnight and the doctor to escape.
Spider-Man contacted his fellow Avenger Moon Knight and informed him that his former partner was still alive.
We serve the Secret Empire
Midnight's second assignment was to recruit for the Empire the superhuman adventurer called Nova (Richard Rider). When an attempt at conning Nova failed, Midnight took him captive. This abduction brought Nova's New Warrior teammate Night Thrasher onto the case. Spider-Man, Moon Knight, and Night Thrasher tracked Midnight to an Empire outpost.
Here they met up with the Punisher. Together the four battled upwards of 15 standard Empire soldiers, three armored hired-guns called the Seekers, and Midnight. After a brief exchange, the Empire's forces pulled out.
But eventually, Spider-Man, Moon Knight, Night Thrasher, and Punisher were able to track Nova's helmet transceiver signal. This is how they breached the Secret Empire's main headquarters located on Manhattan's Upper West Side.
Meanwhile, a conspiracy within the Secret Empire, fronted by one Lynn Church, enlisted Wilde. They also neutralised his pain-inducing compliance device. In the ensuing coup attempt, Number Seven was killed.
Fall of an empire
The Council of the Secret Empire was forced to flee, but not before the Punisher had overpowered Number Three and hidden on-board their escape rocket. Disguised as Number Three, Punisher found Nova and sabotaged the power shackles which were holding him. This allowed the heroes to regroup and attack anew.
Meanwhile, Lynn Church revealed that she was the first of the Empire's cyborg soldier and headed the Empire's last stand. Church, Midnight, the Seekers, Eliot Franklin in his new Thunderball armor, and a slew of heavily-armed Empire thugs faced off against a team of heroes. These included Spider-Man, Darkhawk, Nova, Night Thrasher, Punisher, and Moon Knight.
When Midnight learned that Church allowed herself to be turned into a cyborg voluntarily, he became disillusioned and quit the fight. Church then revealed that she had not removed Midnight's pain-inducer, but had merely changed the frequency. Seeing a chance to grab some power for himself, Thunderball tried to get the pain-inducer away from Church.
Midnight decided he would rather die than continue being a slave to pain, or to anyone who could control that pain. Thus, he started smashing the building's support columns.
Church attempted to stop him while the heroes gathered up their fallen allies and enemies alike and head for safety. Thunderball and the two cyborgs appeared to have been crushed to death under tons of debris.
However, Thunderball had been spared by a support column. He managed to hammer his way out of the wreckage using Midnight's and Lynn Church's robotic arms, still locked in their"death grip. Spider-Man delivered Midnight's epitaph, but as his body was never recovered, Midnight may not be gone for good.
See illustrations.
At first Midnight was an overenthusiastic kid. He had uncertain morals, but a lot of confidence in himself and his worth. He was out to have fun and be a costumed guy, but wasn't clearly a hero. Even early on he was starting to be tempted by the easy money of villainy, such as his father's.
Wilde tended to take irresponsible, exuberant risks as if living in some cheap action movie. He tried to deliver his best one-liners as a cool, funny tough guy. A number of those were pop culture, slightly geekish references.
As a cyborg, Midnight was distraught and brooding the loss of his humanity. He hated Moon Knight for his perceived betrayal and somehow came to accuse him of the death of his father.
(Noticing that his car is being tailed) "This is gonna be great ! Warp speed, Mister Sulu !"
Midnight II
Dex: 05 Str: 04 Bod: 05 Motivation: Thrill
Int: 05 Wil: 04 Min: 04 Occupation: None
Acrobatics (athletics, climbing, dodging): 05, Martial artist: 05, Vehicles (land): 05, Thief: 07
Midnight drove a black Corvette with a MIDNITE vanity plate and had a swing line [BODY 06, Note : 3 APs long].
Midnight II as a cyborg
As a cyborg super-agent of the Secret Empire, Wilde had the following stats :
Dex: 07 Str: 07 Bod: 09 Motivation: Revenge
Claws: 11, Flash: 06, Flight: 04, Glue: 06, Ice production: 08, Laser beam: 09, Lightning: 10, Stretching: 03
Flash is against equilibrium, not sight (-1).
Flash and Glue can and must be Combined.
Flash and Glue can have a 1 AP Are of Effect – but each lose 2 APs if the AoE is used.
Ice production has Ammo: 06.
Lightning is Diminishing, with double the usual drop rate (-1 – Diminishes by one AP is the range is 0 APs but not touch).
Stretching has no defensive bonus – in fact the BODY of the arms is diminished by the APs of Stretching (-1).
Minor Rage, SPR (Midnight II has a remote-controlled pain implant from the Secret Empire to ensure his obedience).
Source of Character: Moon Knight (comics) Marvel Universe.
Helper(s): Jay Myers.
Marc Spector: Moon Knight comics (1989 series)
Before becoming a cyborg :
Ant-Man aka Giant Man Owen Hart


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La SEIU y su colonialismo síndical
Puerto Rico, 28.05.2008 19:10
La SEIU Practica un Sindicalismo Corporativo
Stop Rape: Breaking the Silence and The UCLA Clothesline Project
LA, 28.05.2008 19:09
Quintu / Museos / Bolivia
Argentina, 28.05.2008 16:09
Comienzo del Juicio a Luciano Benjamin Menendez
Les LLego la Hora
Día de Acción por la Salud de las Mujeres
"Ni un día más sin Derechos"
The ghosts of summit-protests-past: Seeking justice after Genoa at the Grassroots Gathering
Ireland, 28.05.2008 10:39
The events of Genoa 2001 are still going through t ...
The Other America: Interviews with Anarchists in the United States
Santa Cruz, CA, 28.05.2008 10:09
Andrew Flood spent the last several months traveling around the USA on a 45 city speaking tour about anarchism in Ireland. Andrew recorded interviews with anarchists, edited audio on bus rides, and posted articles to indymedia ireland once he accessed a wi-fi signal. Together, all those interviewed give an impression of 'the other America.'
Six Surveillance Cameras Destroyed at UC Santa Cruz
anarchists write, "Over the last week, we took out six surveillance cameras from the exteriors of four different buildings on the University of California in Santa Cruz campus. This was an act of rebellion to the social control in our daily lives. These cameras are the eyes of the police. This task was easy to accomplish, and would be easy for anyone to reproduce."
Por la escuela pública canaria
Canarias, 28.05.2008 00:09
Dimisión de Paulino, Soria y Milagros Luis
DIALOGO, NEGOCIACION Y CALIDAD
HOMOLOGACION (ES LEY)
MANIFESTACION por la homologación y la calidad de la enseñanza convocada por Comité de Huelga de Enseñanza
Miércoles, 28 mayo, 18 horas,
Parque S. Telmo (Las Palmas)
Plaza Militar (S. C. Tenerife)
Plaza de la Iglesia (Pto Rosario)
Oficina Insular (Arrecife)
Parque de la Torre del Conde (La Gomera)
Plaza de España (S.C. La Palma)
Frente Cabildo (El Hierro)
NO A LA PRIVATIZACION DE LOS SERVICIOS PUBLICOS
ComunSanjose
Colombia, 27.05.2008 23:40
Comunidad de paz de San José de Apartadó
Wobbly Bard, Storyteller, Railroad Tramp Utah Phillips Dead at 73
DC, 27.05.2008 20:10
Utah Phillips, a seminal figure in American folk music who performed extensively and tirelessly for audiences on two continents for 38 years, died Friday of congestive heart failure in Nevada City, California, a small town in the Sierra Nevada mountains where he lived for the last 21 years with his wife, Joanna Robinson, a freelance editor.
INTERPOL In Colombia 3 + 3 = 8
Miami, 27.05.2008 19:38
Bolivia: Fascismo racista neoliberal
What's new at the 123 Community Space
NYC, 27.05.2008 15:39
This past May, things have been heating up at the 123 Community Space, with all sorts of new projects and events, and of course with a little help from global warming.
June 3 Event Features Sy Hersh, Jeremy Scahill, Laila Al-Arian and Chris Hedges
Invading Iraq was a mistake. Most Americans now accept this as truth. But little is known about the true scale of the devastation that the U.S. has wrought on a land where civilization dates back more than 5,000 years. On Tuesday June 3, independent journalists Seymour Hersh, Jeremy Scahill, Laila Al-Arian and Chris Hedges will appear at New York's Town Hall to pull back the veil on the U.S. occupation while also looking at what lies ahead as the war moves into its sixth year and the Bush administration threatens to expand the conflict to Iran and beyond.
Fisherman shot at Sea Lion
Portland, 27.05.2008 15:39
Is was reported by someone that a fisherman shot at a sea lion last Thursday morning on the Lewis River. The National Marine Fisheries Service is said to be investigating the incident.
I want to know who saw the fisherman do it. It has been said that the Sea Lion went to eat the fish that was on the fisherman's line so he/she shot the Sea Lion.
What they do not say in any of the 2 articles is who saw the fisherman do it and why was he not caught? There is so little info about this. I encourage everyone to pick up the phone and call The National Marine Fisheries Service at 206-526-6150. Ask them what is going on and then post it here. We need more information.
Student Sit-In at TESC, 100 Hours
an update on the going ons of the sit in going on in Olympia.... A student sit-in at the Evergreen State College (TESC) has now surpassed its 100th hour and is heading into its fifth day. The sit-in is in support of reinstatement of the banned student group Students for a Democratic Society (SDS).
The student protesters have peacefully occupied the Seminar One building and have renamed it People's University. This sit-in is a part of a struggle for Free Speech on campus and an effort to put to a halt to the trend of deteriorating student rights on campus.
On Friday, May 23 an Evergreen student lost her job as a result of her participation in the demonstrations. Kelly Beckham, 20, was fired from her job at campus Parking Services after being deemed by a "security threat" by Evergreen Chief of Police Ed Sorger. She was notified directly by the police of her termination, rather than by the proper chain of command of her employment. Kelly Beckham, a member of banned student group SDS, was a speaker at the SDS Free Speech rally that preceded the sit-in. The loss of her job was a direct result of her involvement with the sit-in.
Olympia SDS and their supporters intend to stay in the occupied building until SDS is reinstated as a student group. Olympia SDS is requesting support and solidarity in all forms. All Power to the people. Student Power. ~ Olympia SDS
Popular High School Teacher Obain Attouoman Deported by Federal Government
Boston, 27.05.2008 15:08
BOSTON/Fenway - Obain Attouoman, a popular math teacher at Fenway High School, was deported yesterday to his native country of Ivory Coast. Details are sketchy. Parents were alerted to the teacher's deportation through an automated phone call that was transmitted to all student's homes. LISTEN: David Goodman's radio report on Free Speech News Radio: http://www.fsrn.org/content/teacher-deported/2226 [Reposted from Open Media, a new online alternative news group: www.openmediaboston.org]
Photos-Veterans For Peace Memorial Day Observance--End The Wars Now
Veterans For Peace, Iraq Veterans Against the War, Military Families Speak Out, and Gold Star Families observed Memorial Day in Boston, calling for an end to the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan now; no more civilian and military deaths; and adequate care for veterans when they return home.
¿Qué hicieron con Guillermo Rivera?
¡Devuélvanlo Ya!
"The Empire's Hypocritical Politics": Reflections of Fidel (on Obama)
"The Empire's Hypocritical Politics": Reflections of Fidel (on Obama)
Brutal represión marroquí contra lxs estudiantes saharauis en Marrakech
Desde el 6 de abril de 2008 los estudiantes saharauis en la universidad de Marrakech sufren múltiples ataques consecutivos por milicias armadas que, según fuentes de los estudiantes saharauis, se preparaban para el ataque desde los comienzos del curso actual, es decir, desde septiembre del 2007. Estos grupos, según las mismas fuentes, tienen como objetivo defender la tesis de Marruecos para la solución del conflicto del Sahara Occidental mediante la autonomía, y al mismo tiempo cerrar el paso a todos aquellos que están a favor de la independencia.
El que se ocupa actualmente de este equipo es el jefe supremo del cuerpo de inteligencia (DEST) en Marrakech, Mohamed Mahdi Tayar (agente marroquí desde 20 años), y de origen saharaui, implicado en la intervención brutal contra los estudiantes saharauis en enero de 1999 en la universidad de Rabat. Tres años mas tarde fue trasladado hacia la ciudad de El Aaiun ocupado para vigilar los miembros del Foro por la Verdad y Justicia –Sección Sáhara. En el año 2004 fue trasladado hacia Agadir para ocuparse de las infiltraciones en los estudiantes saharauis en la universidad de Agadir. En el año 2007 fue nombrado jefe supremo de la DEST en Marrakech).
Solo desde el 6 de abril de 2008, las milicias armadas con armas blancas (espadas bien filadas, cuchillos, cadenas, etc.) atacaron los estudiantes saharauis. Y estos son los primeros resultados:
- el día 6 de abril en la puerta principal de la universidad un estudiante saharaui Baladí Cherif fue atacado por estos grupos armados. Le causaron una lesión en la mano por una cuchilla.
- el día 7 de abril, mientras dormía en su casa, Hasan Stiti fue sorprendido por cinco personas armadas, durante la noche. Le causaron heridas graves: una cicatriz en la cara de unos 8 cm, lesiones en el pie, en la mano y en uno de los hombros.
- en el mismo día 7 de abril los grupos armados atacaron cuatro casas de estudiantes saharauis: la casa de Abdelfatah Aragdal, la casa AliSalem Abalagh, la casa de Mahmoud Bouchantouf y la casa de Sidahmed Bouchalga, destruyendo todo el mobiliario e incluso los libros.
- el mismo día el grupo armado atacó a los estudiantes saharauis en la residencia de la universidad y saquearon las habitaciones de los siguientes estudiantes saharauis: Moulud Rachad y Naama Bouchama.
- el día 12 de abril, el estudiante saharaui Naji Charbala fue objeto del ataque del grupo armado frente un locutorio. El grupo armado se componía de seis hombres armados con espadas y cuchillas, quienes le causaron una herida en la espalda y otra en el brazo derecho.
- el día 13 de abril a las 5 de la madrugada policías marroquíes vestidos de paisano detuvieron al estudiante saharaui Jalihena Abu Alhasan en una avenida mientras iba camino hacia su casa. Jalihena según sus compañeros había estado en la permanencia de alerta que vigilaba los estudiantes saharauis en la residencia de la universidad para evitar los ataques imprevisibles de los grupos armados. Cuando acabó su turno tomó esa avenida hacia su casa sin saber que los policías le esperaban en la misma. Y según sus amigos Jalihena estuvo desaparecido varios días.
- el mismo día 13 de abril a las tres y media de la tarde un profesor saharaui llamado Lahbib Latif fue atacado por 30 armados con armas blancas solo por impedirles entrar en la residencia de la universidad . Tres lesiones en la cabeza, otras tres en la espalda, un pincho de cuchillo le toco el pulmón y cuatro lesiones en el vientre. Estuvo en urgencias en estado muy crítico hasta el día 15 de abril.
Este es un resumen de la situación de los estudiantes saharauis en las universidades de Marruecos.
Unconventional East Coast Convergence Registration and Schedule Now Available
The Unconventional East Coast Convergence, a weekend of trainings to prepare people to mobilize for the upcoming Republican National and Democratic National Conventions in the fall, is happening in DC June 13th-15th. The schedule for the weekend as well as online registration are now up on our website.
Earth First! Radio News for May 22, 2008
Earth First! Radio News is a no compromise weekly radio program produced at Free Radio Santa Cruz. Focussing on direct-action and bio-diversity, EF! Radio provides eco-action and activist news, calls-to-action, updates and commentary on current events worldwide. Stories from Earth First!, Sea Shepherd International, Earth Liberation Front, Animal Liberation Front, Greenpeace, Canopy Action Network and actions by many other movements and local groups that defend Mother Earth are included with news about endangered animals, plants and ecosystems.
Business of Detention
Houston, 27.05.2008 05:09
Busines of Detention: Corections Corporation of America's 'Growth Industry'
First Tree Sit Erected on I-69 Construction Site!!!
United States, 27.05.2008 05:07
In the waning hours of Sunday May 18th, dedicated community members in resistance to I-69 set up a defensive encampment high in the trees above the farmland that INDOT [the Indiana Department of Transportation] and Mitch Daniels [Indiana Governor] consider the future site of the NAFTA Superhighway. Police immediately arrived to harass the treesitters and their supporters, but withdrew without making any arrests. They are now claiming that they will leave the treesit alone, and that road construction is not expected to reach that site in the near future.
Clearing for the first 1.77 miles of I-69, the NAFTA Superhighway, in Southern Indiana began in mid-March. If completed, the highway will stretch over 1700 miles from the Canadian border crossing of Port Huron, Michigan to the Mexican border crossing of Laredo/Brownsville, Texas. In Indiana alone, 450 families stand to be dislocated and nearly 10,000 acres of forests and farms are slated for destruction. The road is widely unpopular, with 94% of public comments to the INDOT opposed to the new terrain route. Concerned residents have vowed to never let them build this road. Press Release | coverage on WFHB Community Radio (Bloomington, IN) | Root Force report | pics from stopi69 blog | roundup of media coverage
TOHONO O'ODHAM CHAIRMAN: GRAVES DESTROYED IN BORDER CONSTRUCTION
Arizona, 27.05.2008 04:38
Chairman testifies that border wall construction violates federal law, destroyed graves
Press Conference Outside of Detained Immigrant Workers' Court Appearance
San Francisco Bay Area, 27.05.2008 03:09
Thousands of immigrants and their supporters around the country and in San Francisco marched in favor of a more just immigration policy for the US on May 1st. The next day, 63 immigrant workers from El Balazo Taquerias were raided and detained by ICE. Immigrant rights groups, labor, faith-based groups, and many others will gather for a press conference and rally to denounce the Bay Area raids, and to support the taqueria workers on the day of their first court hearing. They will gather on Tuesday, May 27th at 10 am outside of the Homeland Security Building at 630 Sansome St., in downtown San Francisco.
Dubliners demand Housing as PPP developers put on poor mouth
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Evergreen Student Sit-In Reaches 100 Hours
Seattle, 26.05.2008 23:38
A student sit-in at the Evergreen State College (TESC) has now surpassed its 100th hour and is heading into its fifth day. The sit-in is in support of reinstatement of the banned student group Students for a Democratic Society (SDS).
The student protesters have peacefully occupied the Seminar One (SEM 1) building and have renamed it People's University. On Memorial Day while regular classes are out, the People's University will be in session and holding its first classes. The event will start at 6pm. All classes are free and are open to the entire Evergreen Student Body as well as the Greater Olympia Community with free food and beverages provided and as always children are welcome.
Weinheim: Von "Pimmeln" und Fackeln - der WSC marschiert auf
Germany, 26.05.2008 20:08
Alljährlich zu Christi-Himmelfahrt tagt der Weinheimer Senioren Convent (WSC), ein corpsstudentischer Dachverband, auf der Wachenburg in Weinheim. Der Ereignis des rechtskonservativen, pflichtschlagenden Verbandes gipfelt schließlich in einem Fackelmarsch an dem dieses Jahr rund 1.000 Corpsstudenten und Alte Herren teilnahmen.
Um an dem, sich über Jahrzehnte gefestigten, Bild eines, ja nur seine Traditionen pfelgendem Verbands zu rütteln und das Augenmerk auf grundsätzliche Kritik an studentischen Korporationen zu legen, fanden im Vorfeld mehrfach korporationskritische Aufkleberaktionen statt. Während des Fackelmarschs am Samstag, den 3. Mai fanden diverse direkte Aktionen gegen die Veranstaltung statt, wie das Zünden von Rauchbomben auf die sich am Marktplatz versammelnden Corps.
Das Autonome Medienkollektiv Rhein-Neckar nahm das Ereignis als Anlass um im Anschluss ein Email-Interview mit Stephan Peters, einem korporationskritischen Akademiker aus Heidelberg, zu führen.
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stephanpeters.com | Themespecial des Antifa AK an der Uni Heidelberg | SWR TV-Bericht vom 22.5.2007 zur Weinheimtagung
May 28th Action: Iraqi Oil Workers Tell Chevron "Hands Off Iraq"
In a letter to Chevron executives and shareholders (and to ExxonMobil, who meet the same day), Iraqi oil workers unions called on Chevron to end the occupation and stop pushing for the "Iraq Oil Theft Law." This message will be delivered by an alliance of environmental justice, human rights and international solidarity groups converging on Chevron's annual shareholder meeting, Wednesday, May 28th at 7:00AM at Chevron corporate headquarters in San Ramon.
Arroces del Mundo 2008
Euskal Herria, 26.05.2008 19:08
Reclamar, ocupar, recuperar las calles y los barrios; festejar la interculturalidad y el mestizaje y conectarse y hermanarse entre barrios de diferentes lugares bajo una misma iniciativa es el objetivo que un a�o m�s mueve a la celebraci�n de Arroces del Mundo 2008
Diferentes grupos sociales y vecinales, llaman por quinto a�o consecutivo a participar en un concurso gastron�mico de car�cter festivo, intercultural y reivindicativo que tiene al arroz como elemento central. El a�o pasado participaron m�s de 3000 personas en diferentes ciudades de Euskal Herria. Arroces del Mundo 08 se celebrar� el s�bado 14 de junio simult�neamente en Bilbao e Iru�a y el 21 de junio en Gasteiz y Donosti.
M�s informaci�n: |Convocatoria de Arroces del Mundo en Bilbao 08|, |Perkusio Eguna. Calentado motores para arroces del mundo en Bilbo|, |Cr�nicas de Arroces del Mundo 2007: [1], [2]|, |Evoluci�n de Arroces del Mundo|.
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Netherlands, 26.05.2008 12:39
In de nacht van vrijdag op zaterdag werden 16 etagewoningen aan de Eerste Oosterparkstraat in Amsterdam met een smoes over geluidsoverlast, tijdens een door zowel buren en aanwezigen als "vrij rustig" omschreven feestje, in 1 van de woningen ontruimd. De meeste bewoners werden in hun slaap verrast door de politie-opbouw en zaten ingesloten. In tegenstelling tot wat de politie beweerde stonden de panden nog nog niet op de nominatie om ontruimd te worden. Woningcorporatie de Key heeft de vergunningen niet rond en er lopen nog juridische procedures.
Omdat de politie de wet bewust overtrad door id te vragen vagen buiten de publieke ruimte creëerden ze een situatie die door aanwezigen als een "opzetje" omschreven wordt.
De krakers zijn nog steeds ontzettend boos. Op zaterdagavond was er een grote lawaaidemo. Vooral nadat bleek dat Mevrouw Tammes, de OVJ, de panden 93hs en 93/1 tegenover de advocaat als "niet ontruimd" verklaarde en de politie dit straal bijft negeren. Op zondagavond 25 mei volgde een demonstratie uit protest tegen de volgens de krakers, illegale ontruiming. In de rand van deze demonstratie sneuvelden een aantal ramen bij de stopera.
De politie volhardt in de boosheid, ook op maandagochtend bleven ze dwarsliggen door de onderhandelingen tussen de (ex-)bewoners en woningcorporatie De Key te dwarsbomen.
Local activist announces her candidacy for Supervisor of Elections, Broward County
Dispatch from the Sit-in At Evergreen
Not too many personal accounts have been posted online about the sit-in/occupation at The Evergreen State College for the reinstatement of Olympia Students for a Democratic Society (SDS). It started Wednesday, May 21st around 4pm and has continued since. Just before the sit-in started, 150 students, staff and faculty gathered in Red Square for a planned Free Speech Rally where speakers from SDS, MEChA, CISPES and the Evergreen Animal Rights Network spoke about the free speech fight at Evergreen and made connections to political repression in the Green Scare, against MEChA in the Southwest and the FMLN.
Greenlake Motel Residents Will Not Be Quietly Denied Their Rights
It's about challenging cost-shifting, systemic mercenary capitalism, and evading the spirit of the law. It's about righting the wrong. Due to health violations, the Greenlake Motel is closing. The remaining tenants are taking a stand.
From the Newswire
Perth, 26.05.2008 04:09
National Sorry Day 2008
Support Chip now!
Romaine Chip Fitzgerald, the longest held U.S. political prisoner is due for a parole hearing in the next few months. We are asking all comrades to support Chip by signing a petition on his behalf.
Chip is a former member of the Southern California Black Panther Party. He has been incarcerated since 1969 for altercation that took place with a CHP officer during a traffic stop. Chip and several Panthers defended themselves against an officer who later admitted he had orders to shoot and kill any and all Panthers. During the altercation, the officer was
shot and Chip managed to flee.
Please support our comrade, sign the petition:
http://www.freechip.org/sign-petition.html
Mass death of bees in Germany: Pesticide approvals suspended
The cause of mass bee deaths has been established: pesticide products from chemical companies Bayer and Syngenta. They have been removed from sale in Germany. We should now pressure Bayer and regulators to remove them from sale elsewhere...
{Posted on the UKIMC) "Bayer must withdraw Gaucho and Poncho from the market worldwide"
The German Office for Consumer Protection and Food Safety (BVL) has ordered the immediate suspension of the approval for eight seed treatment products due to the mass death of bees in Germany's Baden-Wuerttemberg state. The suspended products are: Antarc (ingredient: imidacloprid; produced by Bayer), Chinook (imidacloprid; Bayer), Cruiser (thiamethoxam; Syngenta), Elado (clothianidin; Bayer), Faibel (imidacloprid; Bayer), Mesurol (methiocarb; Bayer) and Poncho (clothianidin; Bayer). According to the German Research Centre for Cultivated Plants 29 out of 30 dead bees it had examined had been killed by contact with clothianidin. Also wild bees and other insects are suffering from a significant loss of population.
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Benefit Concert for Iraq Vets Against War
Monday, May 26 - Memorial Day
Benefit concert at Mt. Tabor Theater, 4811 S.E. Hawthorne
"NO MORE MEMORIAL DAYS" - 5 - 10 p.m. Featuring Dave Rovics, Grant Remington, Loose Change and Will Campbell on the amazing washtub bass
(over 21 only)
March to Peace Memorial Park (North Interstate and North Oregon) for a Peace Picnic: Veterans for Peace Chapter 72 will be commemorating Memorial Day, May 26, again at the "forgotten" walls of the Memorial Coliseum. This will be the fifth year that Veterans for Peace Chapter 72 has stepped away from the traditional militaristic ceremonies and rhetoric to honor their fallen brothers and sisters in arms, for as General Ulysses S. Grant, eighteenth President of the United States, said, "The one thing I never want to see again is a military parade."
http://www.vfpchapter72.org
Utah Phillips, a seminal figure in American folk music who performed extensively and tirelessly for audiences on two continents for 38 years, died Friday of congestive heart failure in Nevada City, California a small town in the Sierra Nevada mountains where he lived for the last 21 years with his wife, Joanna Robinson, a freelance editor. Born Bruce Duncan Phillips on May 15, 1935 in Cleveland, Ohio, he was the son of labor organizers. Whether through this early influence or an early life that was not always tranquil or easy, by his twenties Phillips demonstrated a lifelong concern with the living conditions of working people.
He was a proud member of the Industrial Workers of the World, popularly known as "the Wobblies," an organizational artifact of early twentieth-century labor struggles that has seen renewed interest and growth in membership in the last decade, not in small part due to his efforts to popularize it.
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The occupation at Evergreen continues.
Shortly after the rally started, SDS's last appeal with the college took place elsewhere on campus. When the rally ended students marched toward Vice President of Student Affairs Art Costantino's office in the Sem 1 building. He was outside of the building instead of in his office. Students confronted him and chanted "Free Speech!" and "Reinstate SDS!". Students attempted to have a discussion with him, but Art refused and walked away. The students then decided to march up the stairs in the Sem 1 building and sit-in outside of his office. Around 60 students started the sit-in.
Students, both SDSers and supporters, have kept a continuous presence outside of Art's office, rotating in shifts where 5 to over 20 students will be there at any given time. People continue to donate food and other needed supplies for the sit-in.
KBOO Monday Morning Talk Radio
Honor the Dead, But Save the Living
On this day of grief and remembering, listen to voices of some who are working to end war, ensure that those who return receive care and support, and stand as heroes of the force for peace.
KBOO, 90.7 FM Monday Morning Talk Radio
At 7:30, Ret. Col. Ann Wright, co-author of Dissent: Voices of Conscience will discuss the cost of war to women soldiers-PTSD, sexual assault, rape and murder.
At 8, Michael Marceau from D.C. Veterans for Peace will join us to tell how DC VFP was dis-invited from marching in the Memorial Day Parade there.
And at 8:30, Chanan Suarezdiaz of Seattle Iraq Vets Against the War will talk about next weekend's NW Winter Soldier event in Seattle.
Then at 10:30, Chris Andrea will talk with Malcolm Chaddock, VF72, about local events this day.
Listen up, OK?
Tre Arrow Update - 5/23/08
A Message from Tre: "Blessings to all of you.
Perhaps you've heard that I'm set to take a plea bargain on June 3rd. In the aftermath of Briana Waters' and Eric McDavid's trials, I have weighed the options and decided that I don't want to take the risk of potentially being convicted and spending the rest of my life in prison.
I want you all to know that this is a non cooperation plea agreement: I am in no way selling my soul just to receive a sweet deal from the prosecution. By this I mean I am not giving them any information about anyone or any thing which could lead to others being prosecuted. They offered me a deal I couldn't refuse, which takes into account the time I served in Canada. For those who supported me through all of this, I thank you deeply.
I continue to stand firm in my commitment to being a voice for the Earth. I speak for the trees, for our fellow co inhabitants, and for the voices commonly ignored. This is our home, our one and only Earth Mother. Just as I will protect my birth mother from violation and harm, I am dedicated to being a force to stop the unnecessary and egregious assault on this precious planet. To this end I devote my music, my passion, my life. I look forward to seeing everyone on June 3rd.
Namaste, ~ Tre"
www.trearrow.org
West Papuan Rainforest defender and land rights activist touring Aotearoa
Aotearoa, 26.05.2008 02:10
National speaking tour: Septer Manufandu, West Papua: Tuesday, 27 May to Wednesday, 4 June 2008 Septer Manufandu is the leader of FOKER: the NGO Cooperation Forum in West Papua - the umbrella agency for 64 NGOs working for cultural and human rights in West Papua, which has partners internationally. He formerly worked for Yalhimo, the Humeibou Environment and Indigenous People Foundation, which has been involved in campaigns to protect indigenous land rights and to combat illegal logging. Septer brings a first hand perspective on the devastation and suffering caused when tropical forests are logged for their valuable kwila wood. His visit comes at a time when the Ministry of Forestry is considering its policies concerning illegal logging and the import of kwila, and of growing public concern about deforestation and its impact on climate change. Septer will be speaking at public meetings in Christchurch, Wellington, Auckland and Whangarei, illustrating his talks with a documentary compilation 'Save the People and Forests of Papua' made by local NGOs. Indonesia closely restricts the visit of journalists and humanitarian workers to West Papua so this visit offers a window of information about a 'hidden' region which has been subject to massive human rights violations by the Indonesian Military. The speaking tour is hosted by the Indonesia Human Rights Committee and Pax Christi. Public Meeting Dates
Marxism 08 Conference this Weekend
The Workers Party is holding their annual Marxism conference this Labour Weekend. Over the course of the weekend there will be a number of interesting talks and discussions from both local and international speakers. Highlights Include Babu Maharjan from Nepal talking about the mass movements for change and the struggle of the Maoists. A panel discussion on resistance to imperialism in the Philippines, South Africa, Afghanistan and Cuba. A discussion with a former member of the Polynesian Panthers. Building a mass movement to fight redundancies. Work. Workers resistance in New Zealand and Australia. A talk on sex and socialism. [Full Conference Programme] Venue: Grey Lynn Community Centre, 510 Richmond Rd, Grey Lynn Auckland. Start Times: Friday 30th May 7pm, Sat 31 May 10am, Sun 1st June 12:30pm. Admission free, all welcome! Links: The Spark Workers Party paper| Preview for Marxism 08 talks| Recordings of Talks from Marxism 07| Marxists Internet Archive
Clean, Green, and Cruelty Free? The true story of animals in New Zealand
Rebel Press is pleased to announce the re-publication of Clean, Green, and Cruelty Free? The true story of animals in New Zealand. This comprehensive guide to the state of the animal population in Aotearoa New Zealand was compiled by Catherine Amey for the Animal Protection Society. Aotearoa New Zealand is often promoted as a peaceful land of blue skies, pure streams, and rich pastures — a "clean and green" paradise. In reality, our society is based on the sounds, smells and blood of the slaughterhouse. Every year New Zealanders kill over a hundred million animals for food or profit. Over two million battery chickens are crowded into tiny, stinking cages, and thousands of pregnant sows endure boredom and frustration in cramped dark stalls. Animals suffer for our amusement in circuses, zoos, racetracks and rodeos, or are bred and hunted for sport. Hundreds of thousands of animals endure pain in laboratory experiments every year, while many more are trapped, shot, or poisoned because they have been defined as pests. Clean, green and cruelty-free? explodes the myth of New Zealand as a pristine and animal-friendly environment. Designed as a resource for animal advocates, it will be of interest to anyone concerned about animal suffering. Rebel Press Publications | Meat Free Media
Status of ICC construction
Inter-County connector construction has clearcut a path from Shady Grove Road all the way to Cashell Estates at Redland Road. At present most work seems to be on building a bridge over Shady Grove Road, though that has not stopped massive "access" clearcutting. YOUTUBE VIDEO: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yMbgfEcXp94

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A.F. Branco Cartoon – It's In the Bag
Schiff ignores the obvious Biden quid pro quo while trying to fabricate a fake Trump quid pro quo to facilitate Impeachment. Political cartoon by A.F. Branco ©2019.
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Newton polls his guests on what they want to eat, whether its Mexican food, pizza, wings, burgers, you name it. A favorite of the team? Price's Chicken Coop.
"Seventy wings and five apple pies," running back Brandon Wegher said. "It gets demolished. And that's just the running backs."
Added cornerback Cortland Finnegan: "We probably laugh more than we eat."
Tight end Greg Olsen is one of the funniest, Finnegan added, as is cornerback Lou Young.
"Lou can impersonate anybody. You give him two more minutes talking to you and he's gonna impersonate you," Finnegan said.
Nobody's safe from being made fun of, long snapper J.J. Jansen said.
"Doesn't matter if its Cam or the long snapper. Were all targets to be attacked. Even the head coach," Jansen said.
And there's very little talk of work, players say.
"That's our personal time for ourselves to get away from it a little bit," Whittaker said.
Instead, there's a lot of basketball and Thursday night football watching. The guys say they play spades, Uno, dominoes and lots of video games.
"When we get together, it's basically like a big Madden tournament," fullback Mike Tolbert said.
Its not just Cam's parties, though, said safety Tre Boston. Players also often end up bowling or going to another player like Thomas Davis's house.
"Not only are we close in the locker room, but when we get off the field and into the world ... we're a big family," Boston said.
Their fun has continued on the road. Some of the players took a break Tuesday to venture north from their hotel in San Jose up to San Francisco. They did some sightseeing – Alcatraz, the Golden Gate Bridge, Union Square – shopped and ate at Ruth's Chris.
"We bought disguises. We all bought sunglasses, I bought a hat, everybody wore hoods. Nobody really recognized us," Tolbert said.
Head coach Ron Rivera says the teams chemistry and goofiness (Newton's notorious end zone dancing, for example) has helped them in games this year and is helping them stay focused amid the circus of Super Bowl week.
"We're able not to be distracted. I think that's part of keeping your personality and making sure that you are who you are. That's helped us and I'm not going to have our guys change now,"
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In an advanced, multi-planetary empire replete with advanced technology and magical mysticism, Captain Kel Cheris finds herself resorting to heretical tactics to save her troops when she puts down a sacrilegious rebellion. Unfortunately, her superiors in Ninefox Gambit (2016) aren't quite sympathetic to her play, choosing to use her as a tool to revive and serve as a bodily host to the immortal spirit form of General Shuos Jedao to save the Fortress of Scattered Needles, a religious stronghold that's critical to the civilization's magics. It would be a difficult enough task for Cheris since the rebels have taken and are now defending what was supposed to be an impregnable fortress — but did I mention that Jedao is utterly, completely insane?
In the second installment of Yoon Ha Lee's MACHINERIES OF EMPIRE series, Raven Stratagem (2017), Captain Kel Charis finds herself possessed by the 300-odd year old General Shuos Jedao. Naturally, Jedao's existence isn't good news for anyone nearby, which a Kel fleet soon discovers when Jedao (posing as Charis) takes command of the fleet for reasons unknown. Though Jedao has promised to carry out the fleet's original mission, fighting the heritical Haftn whose exotic technologies mysteriously function in calendrical space, Jedao's plans are never that simple. Who knows what a rogue traitor-general could do with a Kel fleet?
"Soulcatcher," the opening story in the May 2013 issue of Clarkesworld, is one of James Patrick Kelly's best stories. His protagonist, Klary, is the owner of an art gallery who has lured xeni-Harvel Asher, the ambassador from the Four Worlds, into her establishment. The xeni is "embodied" as a human male, but he retains the charisma that causes some to liken his species to the human legend of faeries; he is nearly irresistible. But Klary has been on a regimen of emotion, and besides, this xeni ruined her life, we learn in the second paragraph. This tale of revenge embodies the alien beautifully. More than that, though, Kelly imagines new forms of art, most especially a rug known as a soulcatcher, with especial vividness.
Issue 142 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies is a special double issue for BCS Science-Fantasy Month 2, which, according to the magazine's website, features "stories that combine the awe-inspiring fantastical settings of BCS fiction with futuristic details like spacecraft, laser rifles, and advanced scientific concepts." It makes for the best issue of the magazine so far in 2014.
I want to thank Tadiana for bringing this story to my attention. I probably wouldn't have found it on my own, and it's a stunner.
Short Fiction Monday: Our weekly sampling of free short fiction available on the internet. Here are a few stories that caught our attention this week.


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Seiichi Furuya
First Trip to Bologna 1978 / Last Trip to Venice 1985
Book review by Alex Merola
A poetic chronicle of the first and last trips with his late wife, Seiichi Furuya's latest synthesis of photography and narrative probes the photobook's potential to reimagine the archive ad infinitum, writes Alex Merola.
Invoking Sigmund Freud's idea of melancholia as unresolvable mourning, Susan Sontag, in On Photography (1977), describes photographs as melancholy objects that express the 'vulnerability of lives heading toward their own destruction'. Yet, in the partaking of nostalgia, the fascination with death that photographs exercise is, as Sontag warns, 'also an invitation to sentimentality'.[i] Few knew this better than Roland Barthes, who found a premonitory suggestion of an open wound in every indexical mechanical trace. His own Camera Lucida (1980) is of course a meditation on absence, compounded by his decision to withhold publication of the very photograph at the core of his musings: his deceased mother as a child in a winter garden.
Sentimentality might be too cloying a word to use in relation to Seiichi Furuya's Mémoires, but it isn't too wide off the mark either. Haunted by guilt ever since that catastrophic Sunday of 1985 – the "dull thud", the strewn sandals by the open window – Furuya has revisited, over and over again, the vast archive of photographs made during the life he shared with his late wife, Christine Gössler. The resulting synthesises of photography and narrative are amongst the most powerful reflections on love, death and memory we have seen, and, indeed, few artists of our time have booked as faithfully as Furuya has. The Mémoires series was actually said to have been laid to rest on two occasions: the respective publications of the 2010 and 2020 editions. The fact that Furuya has returned with another book, however, should be unsurprising considering the sentiments he expressed at the end of Christine Furuya-Gössler: Mémoires, 1978–1985 (1997): 'The more one blows on a fire trying to put it out, the larger the flame becomes. One stops blowing. The cold blue of the flame changes to a soft red. Why is that I tried to extinguish that warm, gentle fire?'[ii]
A beautiful volume containing a gorgeously varied narrative fabric, First Trip to Bologna 1978 / Last Trip to Venice 1985 is Furuya's second collaboration with Chose Commune, and arguably his most experimental yet. It is divided into two chapters which literally bookend his and Christine's seven-year-long relationship. The first, entitled First Trip to Bologna 1978, is comprised of stills extracted from rolls of Super 8 film which Furuya shot during his and Christine's trip less than one month after they met. (The films were subsequently forgotten in Furuya's attic, lost within the depths of memory.) Across black-paged spreads which open completely flat courtesy of the otabinding, the stills are laid out in spontaneous grid and linear arrangements, expanding upon the cinematic sequencing sporadically at work in Mémoires 1983 (2006). Furuya does not so much record a blossoming romance as remake it, the presence of Christine, ever insouciant in her grace, fluttering in and out of view like a soft red flame.
If the stills – which have been extracted with extreme precision, often to the extent that their lapses in time are almost imperceptible – represent the artist's attempt to integrate moments both registered in the imagination and archived in memory, the black spaces that border them represent the abyss against which they compete. Measured irregularly in width and scale, they unravel like the fragmented rhythms of (mis)remembrance. 'Despite this more than sufficient evidence, I cannot remember a single moment of the events', Furuya's words conclude the chapter's climactic episode: Christine getting out of bed, in reverse. With the vertical strips resulting in lovely, undulating flickering effects, the filmic debt is strong. However, where, in cinema, the succession of frames is jointed by the vision and continuity provided by spectator's nervous system in order to attain the flow of time, here, the stills are indefatigable in their stasis. Whilst one is reminded that these are indeed images, bearing, as Barthes articulated, a 'lacerating emphasis' on the that-has-been,[iii] the reversal speaks to something even more profound altogether: that they conform to what we think we remember, or want to.
At the book's mid-way point, one realises that the strategy of reversal is essential to the book's formal manifestation, too. The "second" chapter reads back-to-front, requiring the reader to flip the book in order to view the photographs their right way up. There's a sparser, celestial quality here, the result, perhaps, of the shift to white paper (then again, the end is always in mind). The couple appear in a photobooth portrait: the intensity of Christine's gaze – the evidence of her advanced schizophrenia – is more pointed. What follows is a revised sequencing of Last Trip to Venice (2002), a small, modest book chronicling the couple's time in Venice, one week after Christine was discharged from hospital in 1985. 'The destination did not matter', Furuya wrote in a text in the original, recalling the wishes of Christine: "Somewhere far away… Just the two of us."
The imagery of Venice derives from two rolls of accidentally re-exposed film overlapping photographs from that trip and Furuya's subsequent shots of East Berlin. Whilst some of these "accidents" bear a surreal aesthetic charge – the light flares scattered across the canal bridge, the luminous starfish drifting into a dissolving sky – most are at odds with the technical and compositional sharpness of Furuya's previously published photographs. That said, the artist's motivation has never been to show great photographs – though there have been many – but to probe or renew their effects under the accumulative weight of time and human destiny. Following the arc of Mémoires, one can observe the ways in which Furuya has gradually relinquished his authorial command. Where Face to Face (2020), his previous book, credits Christine as a co-author, this book has been independently (re)edited by Chose Commune's director, Cécile Poimboeuf-Koizumi, whose soft, considered hand can be felt throughout. Furuya's next book, he has said, will go one step further and compose, in some 650 pages, photographs made by Christine: a total fulfilment of the aspiring actress' ambitions.
Although Furuya has always considered Mémoires a collaboration with Christine, its tragic motif is that they can never coexist; she is here because he has turned to her. And because Furuya's troubled wife, in 1985, chose not to be, the risk has always been that she might serve as a tragic heroine. Some readers have, for example, conflated personal loss with collective loss, made all the more convenient by way of the fact that it was during the television broadcast of the parade celebrating the 36th anniversary of the soon-to-collapse German Democratic Republic that Christine threw herself from the apartment window. Indeed, the spatiotemporal paradoxes – the 'anterior futures'[iv] – invariably feel like poetic fate: Christine, in Venice, superimposed by the bleak cityscapes of East Berlin, an environment yet to be experienced; a catastrophe that has already occurred.
However, Mémoires, in its entirety, is less a premonition of loss than it is an exercise in how Furuya actively remembers – or (re)constructs – the world. After all, Christine was not the always the centre of the photographer's eye, even if she was his "I". Take, for instance, Mémoires 1995 (1995), which laces alternate impressions of the couple's stays in East Berlin and Dresden with views of flowers, plants and portraits of Bosnian war refugees, or indeed the inaugural Mémoires (1989), which moves through displays of architecture, animals, streets, ephemera, landscapes and portraits. Likewise, his latest book finds Christine floating within a sea of disparate images: of East German architecture; Venetian church façades; political demonstrations; city squares; mountains; shop interiors. Despite Furuya's photographic compulsions, there is no sense of possession here – as there is, for example, in Masahisa Fukase's photographs of his wife Yoko – but, rather, of being possessed. The arbitrary superimpositions of Venice embody Christine's literal entanglement within the author's perception of his past, further materialised in the book's vulnerably-thin, translucent jacket, on which montaged frames overlap with alternating degrees of opacity: the stuff dreams are made of.
Resisting the sentimental even as he invokes it is Furuya's quiet triumph, for the books of Mémoires are ultimately meditations not in the past tense but the eternal present. In response to Furuya's Last Trip to Venice, Sally Stein suggested that Furuya's compilation of "accidents" – supposedly salvaged from the 'bottom of the archival barrel' – indicated that he may have reached the end of his 'archival possibility'.[v] Yet, this book, with its innovative visual strategies and anti-chronologies, attests, perhaps even more eloquently than its precursors, to the ways in which the archive can be reimagined to infinity. The destination did not matter… To my mind, a subtle metaphor for Furuya's life's work – his ultimate journey – for mourning can never know closure. Christine was, and will never cease being, the start of everything. ♦
All images courtesy the artist and Chose Commune © Seiichi Furuya
Alex Merola is Assistant Editor at 1000 Words.
[i] Susan Sontag, On Photography (New York: Dell Publishing, 1977), pp. 70–71.
[ii] Seiichi Furuya, "Adieu Wiedersehen" in Christine Furuya-Gössler: Mémoires, 1978–1985 (Kyoto: Korinsha Press, 1997).
[iii] Roland Barthes, Camera Lucida: Reflections on Photography, trans. Richard Howard (New York: Hill and Wang, 1981), p. 96.
[iv] Ibid., Barthes, p. 96.
[v] Sally Stein, "Seiichi Furuya: Last Trip to Venice" in Camera Austria #81 (2003), p. 14.
1>5-Seiichi Furuya, Bologna, 1979
6>9-Seiichi Furuya, Venice, 1985
10-Christine Furuya-Gössler, Venice, 1985
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British Aerospace Jetstream (Jetstream 31/32) — лёгкий двухмоторный турбовинтовой пассажирский самолёт, разработанный и производившийся британской авиастроительной корпорацией British Aerospace. Является модернизированной моделью самолёта Jetstream 1, выпускавшегося компанией Handley Page.

История создания
После банкротства британской авиастроительной компании Handley Page права на её патенты и выпуск самолётов перешли к Scottish Aviation, которая в 1978 году вошла в состав национальной корпорации British Aerospace (ныне BAE Systems). 5 декабря того же года BAE приняла решение провести модернизацию модели 19-местного турбовинтового лайнера HP.137 «Jetstream», выпускавшегося с середины 1968 по 1969 годы. Новый проект получил рабочее название «Mark 3 Jetstream».

Предсерийный самолёт «Jetstream 31» с необорудованной кабиной впервые поднялся в воздух 28 марта 1980 года. Машина была оснащена более мощными турбовинтовыми двигателями Garrett ТРЕЗЗ1 (760 кВт при термодинамическом пределе в 820 кВт) с увеличенным интервалом капитального ремонта по сравнению с прежними двигателями компании «Turbomeca Astazou». Первый серийный экземпляр модели был выпущен 25 января 1982 года и совершил первый полёт 18 марта того же года. 29 июня 1982 года Jetstream 31 был сертифицирован в Великобритании, а в ноябре месяце получил сертификат и в Соединённых Штатах Америки.

К 1993 году было произведено 386 самолётов серии Jetstream, включая 161 лайнер Jetstream Super 31 с 14-местными пассажирскими салонами. Super 31 известен также, как Jetstream 32 или Jetstream 32EP и отличается от базовой модели большим по размеру багажным отсеком и более мощными двигателями TPE331-12 (по 1020 л. с. каждый).

Из 386 выпущенных самолётов Jetstream к декабрю 2008 года в эксплуатации оставалось 128 машин. Основными операторами серии к концу 2008 года являлись авиакомпании Pascan Aviation (11 ед.), Direktflyg (7 ед.), Vincent Aviation (4 ед.), Jet Air (4 ед.), Blue Islands (4 ед.), Sun Air of Scandinavia (3 ед.) и AIS Airlines (3 ед.). Более 40 других авиакомпаний имели в своих парках один или два самолёта данной серии.

В июле 2008 года несколько авиастроительных компаний во главе с BAE Systems провели ряд испытаний со специально оборудованным самолётом Jetstream 31 (регистрационный G-BWWW), в ходе которых лайнер совершил полётов в общей сложности на расстояние 1290 километров без какого-либо вмешательства человека в управление самолётом.

Варианты Jetstream
 Jetstream 31 — самолёт для местных авиалиний вместимостью 18 или 19 пассажиров
 Jetstream 31 Corporate — самолёт для бизнес-авиации, пассажирские салоны на 8 и 10 мест
 Jetstream 31EP — 31-я модель с более мощными двигателями
 Jetstream 31EZ — оснащён РЛС кругового обзора, выпускался для целей морского патрулирования государственных границ
 Jetstream Executive Shuttle — самолёт бизнес-авиации с 12-местным пассажирским салоном
 Jetstream 31 Special — самолёты для выполнения специфических задач (санитарная авиация, калибровка радионавигационных систем аэропортов, перевозка срочных и особо опасных грузов, тренировочным полёты пилотов и др.)
 Jetstream 32EP — 31-я модель с более мощными двигателями, багажным отсеком большей вместимости и пассажирским салоном на 19 мест
 Jetstream QC (Quick Change) — самолёт с быстро переоборудуемым салоном (из пассажирского в грузовой и обратно)
 Jetstream 41 — лайнер с пассажирским салоном на 29 мест.

Технические характеристики (Jetstream 31)

Эксплуатанты

Текущие гражданские операторы

 Aerolínea de Antioquia
 SARPA
 Horizontal de aviación

 Transmandu

 Pascan Aviation
 Starlink Aviation
 East Coast Airways
 Northwestern Air Lease
 InfinitAir

 Aerochaco

 Aeropelican Air Services

 United Airways

 Avies

 Aerolineas Sosa

 Flugfélagið Ernir

 Skylan Airways

 Aero Pacífico

 AIS Airlines

 Vincent Aviation

 Helitrans

 Mid-Sea Express

 Barents Airlink
 Direktflyg

 Amber Airways
 Blue Islands
 Manx2

 Proflight Commuter Services

 Pan Am World Airways Dominicana

 Briko Air Services

 RyJet

Прежние гражданские операторы

 Coast Air

 Blue1

 SALSA d'Haiti
 Sunrise Airways
 Tortug' Air

 Origin Pacific Airways

 Jet Air

 Angel Airlines

 Brymon European Airways

 Corporate Airlines
 Mid Pacific Air (под брендом Reno Air Express)
 Pan American World Airways
 Trans States Airlines
 Express I Airlines
 Express II Airlines
 Atlantic Coast Airlines

 O'Connor Airlines
 Skywest Airlines

Военные

 Королевские военно-воздушные силы Саудовской Аравии

Прежние военные операторы

 Королевский военно-морской флот Великобритании — выведены из эксплуатации в 2011 году.

Авиапроисшествия и несчастные случаи
 26 сентября 1989 года, регулярный рейс 2415 авиакомпании North Pacific Airlines под брендом United Express. При выведении на посадочный курс аэропорта Трай-Ситиз (Вашингтон, США) экипаж самолёта British Aerospace BAE-3101 (регистрационный N410UE) получил от диспетчера неверный курс, затем принял фатальное решение продолжить нестабилизированную инструментальную посадку в условиях обледенения. Лайнер потерял скорость и разбился неподалёку от взлётно-посадочной полосы аэропорта, погибли оба пилота и четверо пассажиров.
 12 марта 1992 года. Самолёт British Aerospace BAE-3101 (регистрационный N165PC) авиакомпании CCAir под брендом USAir Express разбился при посадке в аэропорту Макги Тайсон (Ноксвилл, Теннесси). При заходке на посадку пилоты не выполнили чек-лист и забыли выпустить шасси. Погибли оба пилота, лайнер выполнял перегоночный рейс, поэтому пассажиров на борту не было.
 01 декабря 1993 года. Самолёт Jetstream 31 (регистрационный N334PX) авиакомпании Express Airlines под брендом Northwest Airlink, следовавший регулярным рейсом 5719 из международного аэропорта Миннеаполис/Сент-Пол в аэропорт Хиббинг (Миннесота), при заходе на посадку в аэропорту назначения столкнулся с деревьями и упал на землю в трёх милях от взлётно-посадочной полосы. Погибли все 18 человек на борту. Причиной катастрофы стала ошибка командира корабля, вовремя не принявшего решения о начале снижения самолёта, дальнейшая потеря экипажем ориентировки по высоте при нестабилизированном выведении на посадку в условиях тёмного времени суток, тумана и ледяной изморози.
 13 декабря 1994 года, рейс 3379 авиакомпании Flagship Airlines под брендом American Eagle международный аэропорт Роли/Дарем—муниципальный аэропорт Гринсборо, самолёт Jetstream 32 (регистрационный номер N918AE). Лайнер потерпел крушение в районе города Моррисвилл в 11 километрах к юго-западу от международного аэропорта Роли/Дарем в режиме инструментального выведения на посадку (ILS). Командир корабля истолковал показание индикатора включенного зажигания левого мотора как его отказ, посчитав, что произошёл помпаж двигателя. Было принято решение прервать процедуру посадки, а дальнейшие ошибки в пилотировании привели к потере самолётом скорости и его столкновению с землёй. Из 20 человек на борту самолёта погибло 15, остальные пятеро получили серьёзные травмы.
 12 мая 2000 года, чартерный рейс авиакомпании East Coast Aviation Services международный аэропорт Атлантик-Сити-международный аэропорт Уилкс-Барре/Скрентон (Пенсильвания), самолёт Jetstream 31, регистрационный номер N16EJ. В заходе на посадку на взлётно-посадочную полосу 04 аэропорта назначения вследствие низкой облачности и густого тумана экипаж принял решение об уходе на второй круг. При выполнении набора высоты возникли проблемы с двигателями. Пилоты доложили диспетчеру об обстановке обоих двигателей лайнера, после чего самолёт упал в лесу в девяти милях от ВПП и взорвался. Погибли все 19 человек, находившиеся на борту. Причину катастрофы установить не удалось, поскольку из-за неверной конфигурации питающего напряжения на самописце отсутствовала запись полёта на ленте.
 8 июля 2000 года. Самолёт Jetstream 32EP (регистрационный N912FJ) авиакомпании Aerocaribe, выполнявший регулярный рейс 7831 из Тустла-Гутьерреса в Вильяэрмосу, упал в лесистой местности в 42 милях к югу от аэропорта назначения. Лайнер потерпел крушение вскоре после того, как пилот сообщил на землю о смене курса в обход плотных кучевых облаков. Погибли все 19 человек, находившиеся на борту самолёта.
 19 октября 2004 года, рейс 5966 международный аэропорт Ламберт Сент-Луис (Миссури) — региональный аэропорт Кирксвилл (Миссури), Jetstream 31 (регистрационный N875JX). При заходе на посадку в ночных условиях самолёт шёл ниже глиссады, зацепил деревья и разбился перед взлётно-посадочной полосой аэропорта. Из 15 человек на борту погибло 13 человек. Наиболее вероятной причиной катастрофы считается ошибка экипажа, связанная с неспособностью пилотов провести визуальную ориентировку в ночных условиях.
 18 ноября 2004 года, регулярный рейс 213 Эль-Вигия — международный аэропорт имени Симона Боливара авиакомпании Venezolana, Jetstream 31 (регистрационный YV-1083C). При совершении посадки на взлётно-посадочную полосу 09 аэропорта назначения самолёт врезался в пожарную станцию. На борту находился 21 человек, погибло четверо пассажиров.
 8 февраля 2008 года. Самолёт British Aerospace Jetstream (регистрационный ZK-ECN) рейса 2279 авиакомпании Air National под брендом Eagle Airways. Спустя 10 минут после взлёта пассажир-сомалиец напал на пилотов и потребовал лететь в Австралию. Второй пилот сумел обезвредить нарушителя, экипаж благополучно посадил машину в международном аэропорту Крайстчерча. В результате инцидента пострадали оба пилота и ещё один пассажир самолёта.

См. также
 BAe Jetstream 41

Примечания

Самолёты British Aerospace
Пассажирские самолёты

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A STRICKEN warships collection went into liquidation last night despite an 11th-hour attempt to save it.
Community leaders said it would now be difficult to keep the vessels on the Mersey after the Warships Preservation Trust went into insolvency.
Wirral Borough Council and the North West Development Agency (NWDA) threw the trust a lifeline funding package of £162,000 last week, but it was not enough to keep the attraction on Birkenhead docks going.
Now the council says it hopes to keep the fleet together on Merseyside - but the collapse of the Trust has made this a difficult task.
Council leader Steve Foulkes said: "We offered as much assistance as we could. We were hoping the trust would not go into insolvency until a solution had been found, but the board members had to make that decision themselves at the end of the day."
Cllr Foulkes said if the council bailed the Trust out, it could add 1% to council tax.
He said: "It is difficult to offer any more financial assistance because we would be using public money, but we want the ships to stay on the Wirral."
The warships are being forced to move from their current location in Birkenhead after 15 years because of development plans for nearby warehouses.
Mersey Docks and Harbour Company (MDHC) have offered a temporary home for the warships on the East Float, but the site is not big enough for the collection's star attraction, the U534, which is the only German U-boat to have been raised from the seabed.
It is owned by a Danish company, Den Bla Avis, and unless a new home can be found for the U-boat it will be returned to Denmark. Trust chairman Sir Philip Goodhart said the crippling cost of the move and the expiry of the Trust's berthing agreement meant insolvency was the only option - despite the offer of £50,000 from the council and £112,000 from the NWDA.
He said: "This would not cover the cost of moving the ships.
"A new berthing agreement would also be very expensive. It is too soon to say exactly what will happen with the ships. I very much hope they will stay in Wirral. It is up to the liquidator to say who will now have responsibility of moving them.
"It looks as though the future of the collection depends upon the MDHC and with Wirral Borough Council."
Council said: "Wirral Council regrets the Warship Preservation Trust's decision to go into voluntary liquidation.
"We have worked closely with the Trust, particularly over the last six months, to try and address some of the internal financial issues they faced.
A spokesman for MDHC said: "We offered the trust an alternative location but it declined."


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hoakley May 8, 2017 General, Language, Life, Painting
Chinese Narrative Painting: The Second Ode to the Red Cliff
Wen Zhengming 文徵明 (1470-1559), Copy of Zhao Bosu's Second Ode to the Red Cliff 仿趙伯驌後赤壁圖 (detail) (1548, original c 1132-1182), ink and colours on silk handscroll, 31.5 x 541.6 cm, National Palace Museum 國立故宮博物院, Taipei, Taiwan. Wikimedia Commons.
My second example of Chinese narrative painting, drawn from Cédric Laurent's study, is, at first sight, another exquisitely beautiful handscroll painting of a landscape, with its forests, rugged hill country, and rivers.
It was painted in 1548 by Wen Zhengming 文徵明 (1470-1559), and at the end of the scroll his son Wen Jia (1501-1583) has written an account of the background to this painting. It is apparently a copy of an original by Zhao Bosu (c 1123-1182, not to be confused with his brother Zhao Boju). The owner of this original, a friend of Wen's, was concerned because a local official wanted to present that handscroll to the son of the powerful Grand Secretary, to curry influence. Wen therefore made this copy, which was presumably presented by the official in lieu of the original.
This painting is based on the text of Su Shi 蘇軾 or 苏轼 (Su Tungpo, 1037-1101) in his Second (or Latter) Ode to (or on) the Red Cliff, which describes Su and his friends visiting the Red Cliff.
Wen Zhengming 文徵明 (1470-1559), Copy of Zhao Bosu's Second Ode to the Red Cliff 仿趙伯驌後赤壁圖 (1548, original c 1132-1182), ink and colours on silk handscroll, 31.5 x 541.6 cm, National Palace Museum 國立故宮博物院, Taipei, Taiwan. Wikimedia Commons.
Viewed overall, there are no clues that this is narrative in nature. The scroll consists of a series of quite different landscape sections, which are integrated into a series of islands dissected by stretches of water. Those do not show any obvious division between scenes, either.
Wen Zhengming 文徵明 (1470-1559), Copy of Zhao Bosu's Second Ode to the Red Cliff 仿趙伯驌後赤壁圖 (detail) (1548, original c 1132-1182), ink and colours on silk handscroll, 31.5 x 541.6 cm, National Palace Museum 國立故宮博物院, Taipei, Taiwan. Wikimedia Commons.
Late one evening in the late autumn, Su left for a walk with two friends. He realised that he had no food or wine for them, but one of his friends said that he had been fishing that night, and had caught a large fish. In this first scene, that friend is shown fishing on the river. The deciduous trees have already lost their leaves for the coming winter, and there are small groups of waders at the water's edge.
The second scene shows Su with his two friends discussing their journey, the food and wine.
Su decided to return home and speak to his wife about the wine. She had kept a bottle for this occasion, which they collected, and the three set off on their walk. This third scene shows Su taking the bottle (shown prominently in red, in the centre of this view) from his wife.
The fourth scene shows Su and his friends using a boat to cross the river, where they started the steep ascent to the Red Cliff.
After climbing the steep path among dense vegetation, the three reached the Red Cliff, from where Su thought he could see the palace of the god of the river. By this time, he was alone, as his friends had not followed him that far. The fifth scene shows Su on a narrow path winding its way above the Red Cliff. Below, the waves are dashing against its foot.
Su and his companions then boarded their boat, and proceeded out into mid-river to view their surroundings. It was almost midnight, and everything was silent. A crane flew above them and emitted a loud cry before heading off to the west. The sixth scene shows the group being taken out to the middle of the river, and the crane flying far above them (to the upper right).
They returned home, and Su Shi slept. He had a vivid dream that night about their walk to the Red Cliff. The seventh scene shows him asleep in his house, with a distant reminder of the Red Cliff.
The following morning, Su Shi got up, went to his door, and looked out at the landscape. This final scene in the handscroll shows him stood at the door of his house (lower right).
Laurent identifies four slightly different copies of this painting, which presumably each derive from Zhao Bosu's original.
The basic form of narrative uses a series of frames, similar to those used in 'comics'.
However, there are some important differences here. Most obvious is the fact that the same location, such as Su Shi's house, is not shown consistently between frames. Compare scenes 3, 7, and 8, which apparently all show the same house, and the building appears quite different, as do its surroundings.
Scene 7 has a background which has most probably been altered deliberately, to refer to the Red Cliff, but scenes 3 and 8 should appear identical. It is only by reference to Su Shi's original text that that is apparent: visually there are no clues that they are the same place.
Another important link to the verbal narrative is the passage of time. Scenes 2 to 7 are set at night, by the light of the moon, but there is no indication that they are. Scene 8 does feature a filled red circle, bearing text, which may be the rising sun, but otherwise there is no indication as to the time of day.
In effect, Wen Zhengming, and presumably Zhao Bosu in the original, have told the story primarily in the figures, setting them into frames which reflect limited aspects of the story, but which assemble into a handscroll resembling a single synchronous landscape. This is quite different from normal Western frame-based narrative, as seen in 'comics'.
Wikipedia on Wen Zhengming, in French.
Laurent, Cédric (2017) Voyages Immobiles dans la prose ancienne, la peinture narrative sous la dynastie Ming (1368-1644), Les Belles Lettres. ISBN 978 2 251 44520 5. (In French, with copious original Chinese.)
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There haven't been many Sunday Stash posts lately! Mainly because I joined the Stash Pact 2011 group on Flickr which has made me much more conscious of my fabric buys. But sometimes you need fabric, to finish something you are working on for example. So I needed to buy some fabric and because I already was paying for the shipping I could not resist to add the Tammis Keefe Cat Fabric(by Michael Miller) to the lot. I also bought some solids and the pink dot fabric, which I thought would coordinate nicely with the Cat Fabric. I think the Red and the Pink fabric are a pretty good choice but I'm not sure about the Charcoal. The other fabrics were already in my stash and I think especially the Newspaper print would be awesome to use with the Tammis Keefe fabric.
Love the pink and the charcoal together! (In fact, I'm wearing a charcoal T-shirt with a large, hot pink heart on it at this very moment!) Your fabric choices are just lovely.


...fadeless day of light and eternal deliverance!
Title ...fadeless day of light and eternal deliverance!
Sermon Text 2 fadeless day of light and eternal diliverance! The darker the night the brighter the light [dawn.] "We reckon that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory that shall be revealed in us" "If this earthly house of this tabernacle were dissolved we have a building of God, a house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens". Christ can change Human nature. He can give the worst man a new heart. He has a new world in His Plans.


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Exhibition: (Mis)Identifying the Prophet
(Mis)Identifying the Prophet
Works of art by Domenico Ghirlandaio, Pieter Bruegel I, and Moretto da Brescia
Commentaries by Jennifer Sliwka
19 And this is the testimony of John, when the Jews sent priests and Levites from Jerusalem to ask him, "Who are you?" 20He confessed, he did not deny, but confessed, "I am not the Christ." 21And they asked him, "What then? Are you Eliʹjah?" He said, "I am not." "Are you the prophet?" And he answered, "No." 22They said to him then, "Who are you? Let us have an answer for those who sent us. What do you say about yourself?" 23He said, "I am the voice of one crying in the wilderness, 'Make straight the way of the Lord,' as the prophet Isaiah said."
24 Now they had been sent from the Pharisees. 25They asked him, "Then why are you baptizing, if you are neither the Christ, nor Eliʹjah, nor the prophet?" 26John answered them, "I baptize with water; but among you stands one whom you do not know, 27even he who comes after me, the thong of whose sandal I am not worthy to untie." 28This took place in Bethany beyond the Jordan, where John was baptizing.
29 The next day he saw Jesus coming toward him, and said, "Behold, the Lamb of God, who takes away the sin of the world! 30This is he of whom I said, 'After me comes a man who ranks before me, for he was before me.' 31I myself did not know him; but for this I came baptizing with water, that he might be revealed to Israel."


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Q: Change Radio Button Value Dynamically I have a radio button value(amount) and checkbox value(amount)
when someone click the checkbox button amount has been added to radio button value amount.
<input type="checkbox" value="500"> Include Fare (Rs.500/-)

<input type="radio" name="optradio" value="4700">Price : 4700

If customer check the checkbox radio button value will shows as 5200

A: I have no much information in your question for help you but I created this exemple
<!DOCTYPE html>

<form>
  <input  onclick="check1()"   type="radio" name="check1">check1

  <input  onclick="check2()"  type="radio" name="check2">check2
</form>

A: New Update
HTML:
<input onclick="increasePrice(this)" type="checkbox" value="500"> Include Fare (Rs.500/-)

<input onclick="increasePrice(this)" type="checkbox" value="800"> Include Other Fare (Rs.800/-)

<input class="price-input" type="radio" name="optradio" value="4700">Price : 4700

<input class="price-input" type="radio" name="optradio" value="2000">Price 1: 2000

Javascript:
function increasePrice(checkbox) {
  var increase = parseInt(checkbox.value);
  debugger;
  var price_inputs = document.getElementsByClassName("price-input");
  var price_span = document.getElementsByClassName("price");
  for(var i = 0; i < price_inputs.length; i++) {
    var price = price_inputs.item(i);
    var newValue =  parseInt(price.value);
    if(checkbox.checked){
      var newValue = newValue + increase;
    } else {
      var newValue = newValue - increase;
    }
    price_span.item(i).innerHTML = newValue;
    price.value = newValue;
  }
};

It updates the text and the value of the radio and goes one way and then the other, if the checkbox is unchecked it will decreased the price accordingly. Plus, it works with multiple checkboxes and radio buttons without having to change the Javascript.
You can test it out here.
Here it is all together:
<!DOCTYPE html>

<form>
  <input onclick="increasePrice(this)" type="checkbox" value="500"> Include Fare (Rs.500/-)
  <input onclick="increasePrice(this)" type="checkbox" value="800"> Include Other Fare (Rs.800/-)
  <input class="price-input" type="radio" name="optradio" value="4700">Price : 4700
  <input class="price-input" type="radio" name="optradio" value="2000">Price 1: 2000
</form>

A: Here you go with a solution

function handleClick(cb) {
  var cb_val = parseInt(cb.value);
  var price = parseInt(document.getElementById("radioPrice").value);
  if (cb.checked) {
    document.getElementById("radioPrice").value = price + cb_val;
    document.getElementById("priceText").innerHTML = "Price : " + (price + cb_val);
  } else {
    document.getElementById("radioPrice").value = price - cb_val;
    document.getElementById("priceText").innerHTML = "Price : " + (price - cb_val);
  }
}
<input type="checkbox" value="500" onclick='handleClick(this);'> Include Fare (Rs.500/-)

<input id="radioPrice" type="radio" name="optradio" value="4700">Price : 4700

Hope this will help you.

A: I've used unobtrusive principles to bind even listeners to the check boxes with a common name attribute.
The calculateFare function then loops through the checked checked boxes and add their values to the base price. The base price is held in a data attribute that I have added to the radio button. This revised price is then used as the value for radio button and the display price is updated.
Using this technique you can add/remove checkboxes without having to update your script.

var fareBoxes = document.querySelectorAll("[name='cbAdditional']");

//Add event listener to the check boxes
for(var i = 0; i < fareBoxes.length; i++)
{
  fareBoxes[i].addEventListener("click", calculateFare);
}

//The function attached to the event listener
function calculateFare(){
  var basePrice = parseInt(document.getElementById("price-input").dataset.baseprice, 10);
  //get selected boxes
  var checked = document.querySelectorAll("[name='cbAdditional']:checked");

  //Interate our checked boxes and add to the price
  for(var i = 0; i < checked.length; i++){
    basePrice += parseInt(checked[i].value,10);
  }

  //Set Value and display
  document.getElementById("price-input").value = basePrice;
  document.getElementById("price").innerHTML = basePrice;

  console.log(document.getElementById("price-input").value);
}
<form>
  <input  type="checkbox" value="100" name="cbAdditional"> Weekend Rate (Rs.100/-)
  <input  type="checkbox" value="200" name="cbAdditional"> Junior Fare (Rs.200/-)
  <input  type="checkbox" value="500" name="cbAdditional"> Include Fare (Rs.500/-)
  <input  type="checkbox" value="800" name="cbAdditional"> Include Other Fare (Rs.800/-)
  <input id="price-input" type="radio" data-baseprice="4700" name="optradio" value="4700">Price : 4700
</form>

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What pants do I wear with a blue denim shirt?
It is a fitted snap shirt. I don't think I can bring myself to wear jeans with it.
Khakis look adorable with denim shirts!
Dont do all denim, you will look like you are going to an 80s theme night. Khaki or chino coloured dockers will work but you will look as if you are going to a 90s theme night. Dont wear actual chinos because if they are fitted you will look deeply preppy and if they are baggy you will look like you want to be in a hispanic gang. DO wear a white T-shirt, men look great in a clean white t-shirt. Dont wear a wife beater.....ever.
Try white sequined Flares, and get your Gentleman friend to wear Pink.
A pair of khakis is a great choice.
You could wear "khaki" pants, and shade or black slacks...Please wear nice shoes.
kahkis but i reccomend that you doint wear a denim shirt.
What pants w/ blue denim shirt?
Should I wear denim blue jean pants or a denim skirt for our second wedding?
What pants should I wear with a denim shirt?
What kind of pants do you wear with chambray shirts? Can you wear blue denim jeans?
At what age does the chin line become less pronounced, the face getting wider and the eyes becoming bulgier in men?
The box says the are real short but still long for my nails. They are french tip what do I do. Also I'm a first timer at doing this.?


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FDA Approves AI-Based Diagnostic System for Detecting Diabetic Retinopathy
Friday, April 13, 2018 12:18 AM
CORALVILLE, Iowa—IDx, a privately-held artificial intelligence (AI) diagnostics company based here, reported this week that the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved the company's AI-based diagnostic system for the autonomous detection of diabetic retinopathy, a leading cause of blindness. The IDx-DR system is the first autonomous, AI-based diagnostic system authorized for commercialization by the FDA, according to the company's announcement. As an autonomous, AI-based system, IDx-DR is unique in that it makes an assessment without the need for a clinician to also interpret the image or results, making it usable by health care providers who may not normally be involved in eyecare, the announcement noted.
"The FDA's authorization to market IDx-DR is a historic moment that has the potential to launch a transformation in the way U.S. health care is delivered," IDx founder and president Dr. Michael Abràmoff, MD, PhD, said in the announcement. "Autonomous AI systems have massive potential to improve health care productivity, lower health care costs and improve accessibility and quality. As the first of its kind to be authorized for commercialization, IDx-DR provides a roadmap for the safe and responsible use of AI in medicine."
In its announcement, IDx noted that the new diagnostic system can be used to provide "an immediate, reliable assessment for diabetic retinopathy, including macular edema, during a routine office visit in a primary care setting. The exam is performed on site in minutes and produces a diagnostic interpretation and associated report, including care instructions that are aligned with the American Academy of Ophthalmology preferred practice pattern for diabetic retinopathy. This enables primary care providers to counsel patients regarding follow-up care while they are still in the office."
IDx-DR, which is available for immediate installation, the company noted, was reviewed under new FDA regulations designed to speed to market some devices seen as low- to moderate-risk and for which there is no prior legally marketed device.
The FDA, in announcing the approval, noted that early detection of retinopathy is an important part of managing care for the millions of people with diabetes. "Yet many patients with diabetes are not adequately screened for diabetic retinopathy since about 50 percent of them do not see their eye doctor on a yearly basis," Malvina Eydelman, MD, director of the Division of Ophthalmic, and Ear, Nose and Throat Devices at the FDA's Center for Devices and Radiological Health, said in the FDA's announcement. "Today's decision permits the marketing of a novel artificial intelligence technology that can be used in a primary care doctor's office."
More than 30 million Americans have diabetes, and an estimated 24,000 lose vision each year from diabetic retinopathy, a complication of diabetes, IDx noted in its announcement. If diabetic retinopathy is caught in its early stages, vision loss and blindness are almost entirely preventable.
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