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Review: Cock & Swan – Secret Angles
Hush Hush Records # HH011 CD: About 38 minutes
Band: http://www.cockandswan.com/ and http://dandeliongold.bandcamp.com/
Label: http://www.hushhushseattle.com/ and http://hushhushrecords.bandcamp.com/
Tracks: 1) Following, 2) Secret Angle, 3) Animal Totem, 4) Night Valley, 5) Looking Out, 6) Red Touch, 7) Inner Portal, 8) Kicking In, 9) Melt Down, 10) I've Got A Feeling, 11) Night Rising, 12) Myself Inside
I'm thrilled that Cock & Swan have a new album. With each release it's apparent that their confidence is growing, and even better, they're still experimenting. From their earliest albums like Drawing From Memory (2007) and Unrecognize (2010) their sound ranged from rough synthesized foundations, tape and microphone experiments to nearly extreme lo-fi acoustic recordings. The 2012 album Stash (I reviewed early last year) had moved their sound from more electronic towards "…a record focused on acoustic instrumentation…" For their forthcoming album (to be released on September 10th) Secret Angles they are combining the acoustic instrumentation with more of their electronic roots—the sound is fuller, rhythmically engaging and more up-beat. Secret Angles moves between many different genres: progressive, electronica, acoustic and electric folk, house, dance and many others—it doesn't dwell in one realm for long, but the album is not at all disjointed—it's quite cohesive.
The acoustic and analog roots of Cock & Swan are still strong, and they appear as Following begins with the sound of tape mechanisms and immediately a seductive pulse, electric guitar riffs and Ola's soft voice initiate their hypnotic spell. By contrast the title track shifts to a darker, looped and gritty electronic foundation (and we are awakened briefly from our pastoral spell). Animal Totem is quite reminiscent of the latter day Everything But The Girl's track Before Today from their album Walking Wounded, when ETBG's music shifted from coffee house to a darkened house vibe, but C&S's Animal Totem is earthier and more acoustic with broad clarinet washes added by Hungerford.
With Night Valley, the album shifts to an even glitchier more experimental sphere where Ola's voice and some of the instrumentation are bent and shifted and the sound enters a mysterious territory. Looking Out continues with electronic, vocal loops, an almost Mellotron Brass sound and what I call "heavy drums." As I noted with their album Stash—tracks like these are reminiscent of King Crimson's earlier work as on In The Wake of Poseidon. The album also contains some short instrumental and vocal links (Red Touch and I've Got A Feeling) which are samples disguised elsewhere in other tracks.
Tracks often start with samples and a vibe that are then absorbed into the mix of a song; Inner Portal illustrates this with Ola's vocal and breath loops coupled with what almost sounds like a ship's steam-powered horn and it's woven together with a heavy dub beat and coarse under-pinnings. The chorus adds an acoustic guitar (a contrast of the heavy with the delicate). This is a great track and one of my favorites on the album, along with the first three. By comparison Kicking In is quite stark in its percussion and rhythm section before gathering momentum into the vocals. Melt Down is the most electronically layered of the songs, and Ola's vocals calm the mood and fill the spaces.
Only once did I feel like I had a sense of some monotony drifting in during the track, Night Rising—after a while it didn't really take me anywhere…a bit like some of Edgar Froese's (Tangerine Dream) solo work of the late 1970s. It's a vocal and rhythm-section drone. The album closes with Myself Inside, which harkens back to Cock & Swan's stark early work—an acoustic guitar (in the character of a child's toy piano), a simple rhythm and Ola's vocals layered with deep breathing.
Since I'm working with a promo recording, I don't have access to the lyrics or the personnel list for the album, so I'm not sure if there are other musicians on the album besides Johnny Goss and Ola Hungerford. It's also worth noting that Johnny Goss provides engineering and recording support for other Seattle-based musicians, including one band that recently caught my attention, La Luz (absolutely infectious 60s surf-pop) fronted by Shana Cleveland.
After Secret Angles, I'll be very interested in hearing where Cock & Swan takes us next. Don't miss this album, and seek out a copy of their last, Stash too.
Cock & Swan – Ola Hungerford and Johnny Goss – Photo by Angel Ceballos
This is a solicited review
August 16, 2013 | Categories: Uncategorized | Tags: AffordableAudio, Audiokarma.org, Cock & Swan, Cock and Swan, Daily Audiophile, Drone, ElectroAcoustic, Electronica, Guitar, HifiZine, Hush Hush Records, Hush Hush Seattle, HushHushSeattle, Instrumental, jazz, Johnny Goss, La Luz, Music, Ola Hungerford, Progressive, Review, Shana Cleveland, Vocal | Leave a comment
Cock and Swan – Stash
CD #LTS0011: Total Time: 43:25
Artist Website: http://www.cockandswan.com/
Record Label: http://losttribesound.com/
Recorded by: http://dandeliongold.com/
Soundcloud Samples:
Tracks: 1) Sneak Close; 2) Stash; 3) Raging Chisel; 4) Sympethizer; 5) Happy Thoughts; 6) Unrecognized; 7) Unserious; 8) Clear Sighing; 9) Remember Sweet; 10) I Let Me In; 11) Orange and Pink; 12) Walking Up Dandelions
Bonus MP3 EP: 1) Comfort Zone 2 (acoustic); 2) Raging Chisel; 3) Stash (Part Timer Remix); 4) End Sinister; 5) Random tracking; 6) Soft Setting; 7) Stash (Vieo Abiungo Remix)
Not so long ago I took a chance on purchasing an album based on a brief write-up and it turned out to be a real gem— Will Samson's Hello Friends, Goodbye Friends. It has happened again with Cock and Swan's Stash. I read a summary, and I also noticed the great care that Lost Tribe Sound had put into their limited edition release (cloth binding with mixed hand made papers). I could not resist, and what an enchanting surprise this album is.
Cock and Swan are Johnny Goss (bass, guitar, percussion, vocals and production) and Ola Hungerford (vocals, piano and clarinet). Supporting musicians include, Adam Kozie (drums), William Ryan Fritch (vibraphone, marimba, saxophone, flute and cello). Paintings are by Robert Klein and photography by Angel Ceballos.
Photo courtesy of Cock and Swan
There is something delightfully ancient and psychedelic about Stash. I won't dwell for too long on what other albums I am reminded of—the percussion (including deep bass drums), woodwinds, soft and dreamy vocals. First, the ballads feel like they are drawn from the same cloth as Comin' Back to Me from Surrealistic Pillow by the Jefferson Airplane (1967). Second, the drums—rough, full and sometimes behind the beat are very close to Michael Giles on both Cadence and Cascade from In The Wake of Poseidon by King Crimson (1970) and the alternate lyric version (by B. P. Fallon instead of Peter Sinfield) Flight of the Ibis from the eponymous album McDonald and Giles (also from 1970).
Some of the tracks on this album are acoustic remakes of more obscure electronic versions from their two prior albums (Unrecognized, Unserious, Sympethizer, I Let Me In, Stash, Tectonic Plates). It is evident that Cock and Swan were searching for a sound to fit the songs and I think in this album they have found it—softer, comfortable and more accessible (and with a hint of the sadly departed Sparklehorse).
Sneak Close and Stash both have guitars sounding like dulcimers, drum sticks counting time, whispering woodwinds, Ola Hungerford's ethereal vocals and the overall sound of an old music box working against its well-used mainspring. Raging Chisel is an excellent combination of the obscure and edgy sounds of their earlier albums woven with melodic instrumental and vocal passages. Sympethizer is a short instrumental and Happy Thoughts moves slowly with a contrasting faster interlocking rhythm and subtle use of electronics. Tectonic Plates has a lush beat, sounds are layered (ambient and instrumental) and Ola's voice floats in between. It's easy to be drawn into this peaceful and dreamy realm.
The drums are strong, but never overpowering on Unrecognized and there is a charming mix with ambient sounds and solo acoustic guitar. The largely instrumental Unserious has a stately piano backdrop with woodwinds and soft percussion. Clear Sighing is a short instrumental percussion and woodwind link leading into the vocally and instrumentally beautiful Remember Sweet (with one of my favorite touches…a background of pin-piano during the choruses). I Let Me In has a rhythmically languid, but swaying vibe.
The standout piece on this album for me is Orange and Pink. Acoustic guitar, mallet-struck percussion and piano start with lightly teasing interplay until Ola and Johnny's vocals feather into the mix and then yield to a hovering piano counterpoint before fading—it's simply gorgeous. The album closes with the soft anthem Walking Up Dandelions, a combination of many of the sounds throughout the album.
While the arrangements are relatively simple throughout, the layering of the instruments, vocals and ambient surroundings give the album a lush quality. My only wish?—that a lyrics sheet were included. Other than that, this album is just wonderful.
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May 9, 2012 | Categories: Uncategorized | Tags: Ambient, Cock and Swan, Drone, ElectroAcoustic, Electronica, Folk, Johnny Goss, Lost Tribe Sound, Music, Ola Hungerford, Vocal | Leave a comment

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12 Photos Show a Side of North Korea You Haven't Seen
Published 31 Oct 2017, 16:44 GMT
According to Guttenfelder, there's a huge priority on performing arts for young children in North Korea. In this photo, a kindergarten student prepares to put on a play of a popular children's fable.
Photograph by David Guttenfelder, National Geographic
Whether he visited a school or a factory, Guttenfelder saw significant time and energy being invested in arts for children.
Kindergarteners practise riding unicycles in a Pyongyang gymnasium.
Supreme Leader Kim Jong-un has called for a resurgence of athleticism. One of the most popular forms of exercise among North Koreans is rollerblading. In this photo, skaters enjoy a park built just for this purpose.
An outdoor speaker plays popular local music while people of all ages gather to dance in a Pyongyang park.
Arcades and carnivals are popular all over North Korea. In this photo, youngsters fire toy guns in a carnival game.
At Kim Il Sung University in Pyongyang, students go swimming and enjoy massages from water jets in the pool.
A group of factory workers and their families take a day off at a new swimming pool in Pyongyang. "People were diving and belly flopping," Guttenfelder says. "They were just so happy even though they didn't know how to dive."
Schoolchildren clamber over a playground slide made to look like a North Korean airliner.
A young boy climbs up a slide while rollerbladers look on. Some icons of the West—like Mickey Mouse on the boy's backpack—are so pervasive, they've made it into the closed-off world of North Korea.
A drab apartment building in Pyongyang offsets colourful playground equipment. Guttenfelder says that despite the long work hours and tightly controlled personal lives, "people are trying to make the most of a pretty difficult situation."
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Q: Congruences mod p# Maybe the following can be done by induction or maybe there is some group-theoretical approach that I am unlikely to see. Thanks for any hints or thoughts.

$(\cdot)$ is an exclusive interval. Let $p\#$ be the product of primes not exceeding $p.$ Let $q=p\#-p^2.$
Claim. There is always an integer $n$ in $(1,2p)$ such that $n\not\equiv q $ mod $(2,3,...,p).$

To be clear, $n$ cannot have the same congruence as q mod any prime $\leq p.$ I am not sure what the term for that is and have been thinking of it as "co-mod" (comod). For example, 6 and 11 are coprime but both are congruent to 1 mod 5 hence not comod.
Example. Let $p=5. $ Then $q=(2\cdot3\cdot5)-5^2=5.$ Now $5\equiv (1,2,0)~$(mod $2,3,5).$ Because 5 is on the interval $(1,10)$ it is easy to check that $(5\pm1)$ both satisfy the requirement: $4\equiv (0,1,4)$ and $6\equiv (0,0,1)$  (mod $2,3,5)$ and both are $\not\equiv 5$ mod $2,3,$ or $5.$
Induction seemed like an approach that might work. In general we have a $q = (1,2,a,b,c,...,0)$ (mod $2,3,5,7,11,...,p$). Starting with 5 on the inteval $(1, 2p)$ we can imagine for small numbers how the position of $a,b,c,...$ can prevent non-congruence. For larger numbers the unknown quantities can begin to interact and so this seems obscure.
Group theory? There are probably group theoretical properties of comods that are beyond me. For example, coprimes to $5\#$ on $[1,5\#)$ seem to be a special case of comods in the sense that the comods to any number on $[1,30]$ give a partition of this interval into non-disjoint classes of 8 members, the comods/coprimes to 30 being the usual $(1,7,11,13,17,19,23,29).$ It also seems true that there are 8 natural groupings of these classes:(30,1), (2-7), (8-11), (12,13), (14-17),(18,19), (20-23), (24-29) but this is only meant as an indication of what I have looked at (without success).

A: This is equivalent to asking if there is always $m=n+p^2$ between $p^2$ and $(p+1)^2$ with $$m \equiv n+p^2 \not \equiv q+p^2 \equiv p\# \equiv 0 \pmod{2,3,...,p}$$
i.e. if there is always a prime $m=n+p^2$ between $p^2$ and $(p+1)^2$, which is Legendre's conjecture restricted to the primes. Seems true, but probably an open problem.

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As companies such as Google, Volvo, and Tesla begin to ramp up their production of self-driving vehicles, the legal community braces for an influx of litigation concerning a variety of issues, including data privacy and copyright disputes. There is one issue, however, which will be of particular and immediate interest to insurers across the country: Who will be held liable in the event of an accident involving a driverless car, and how will this affect the auto insurance industry?
According to Department of Labor statistics, of the more than 35,000 motor vehicle accident-related fatalities reported in 2015, over 90% of those accidents were at least partially attributable to human error.1 Self-driving car manufacturers claim that the vast majority of such fatalities are avoidable if the human element is removed from automobile operation.
Traditionally, litigation concerning motor vehicle accidents has primarily centered on theories of negligence – i.e. the reasonableness of a driver's actions in relation to an accident. We can anticipate that the connection between human error and car accidents will become murky with the implementation of driver aids such as software-assisted parallel parking, and even more so when full vehicular autonomy is achieved. At that point we can expect developments in the law concerning product liability.
According to the "crashworthiness doctrine" established by Larsen v. General Motors2 and its progeny, car manufacturers have a duty of reasonable care to design their products in a way that will minimize the effects of a collision. Product liability law encompasses causes of action asserted due to defects in both manufacture and design, as well as from failure to warn of the risks associated with a given product.
With human intervention no longer a factor in automobile operation, the question of driver negligence could become obsolete. The vast majority of states with statutes pertaining to self-driving cars currently require that drivers capable of taking control of vehicles maintain a presence in the driver's seat of such vehicles.1 However, Florida has passed legislation that allows autonomous vehicles to take to the roads without a driver behind the wheel.4 So how will all of this affect the insurance landscape?
Some driverless car manufacturers, such as Volvo, have claimed that they will accept "full responsibility" for accidents involving their vehicles, while other producers, such as Tesla, have indicated that they are not willing to do so.5 Ultimately, decisions regarding culpability will be determined by the courts who decide the cases which will inevitably be brought by plaintiffs who suffer bodily injury or property damage and initiate litigation.
What is clear is that autonomous car manufacturers, and their insurers, can expect an influx of product liability suits once their newest technology hits the consumer market. Accordingly, while individual auto liability policies will remain a necessary function of the driverless car ownership experience for the foreseeable future, insurers should expect to see an increase in demand from manufacturers for commercial policies with product liability coverage tailored to embrace autonomous vehicle claims.
2 Larsen v. General Motors Corp., 391 F.2d 391, (8th Cir. 1968).
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Q: Mercurial convert extension not able to pull from remote Git repository I'm trying to do a 'hg convert', to pull from a Git repo into an Hg one.
Now, I don't have Git installed on my Windows 7 machine; is that necessary? I'm using the TortoiseHG commandline, and I have activated the convert extension ('hg help convert' works fine).
Here's an example of the command I'm trying to use:
hg convert -s git -d hg https://github.com/mysticbob/glm.git gittest

That's a public repo on Github, so I should be able to convert from it. And the address is what Github says one should use for getting. What I get is the following message:
initializing destination gittest repository
https://github.com/mysticbob/glm.git does not look like a Git repository

Any ideas?

A: If I believe issue 1246, you need to have git installed for the hg convert extension to work.
Even with Git installed, you might experience some other issues with the import, in which case you could consider other alternatives such as:

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*converting the git repo to a svn one, and then importing that svn repo into a mercurial one

*or trying the hg-git mercurial plugin, which specifically mentions:

This plugin is implemented entirely in Python - there are no Git binary dependencies, you do not need to have Git installed on your system.

(But I don't know if hg-git works with recent 1.7+ Mercurial versions)


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Hard as diamonds! Man wanted for allegedly swiping jewelry from women after offering to clean the baubles
By Thomas Tracy
NYPD are seeking Ezequiel Ortiz regarding a robbery spree. (DCPI)
This guy has some stones!
Cops have identified a man they say swiped jewelry from eight women, one of whom is 94, after chatting up his victims and offering to clean their prized baubles, officials said Saturday.
Ezequiel Ortiz, 34, is being sought in connection with a robbery spree that began on May 4 in Queens when he allegedly swiped a ring from a 76-year-old woman he met at Myrtle and Cypress Aves. in Flushing.
Police said Ortiz approached his victim on the street and began talking to her and complimenting her ring. He offered to clean it for her, but when she handed it to him to examine, he allegedly ran off with it, cops said.
Since then, Ortiz has popped up in the Bronx, Harlem and Brooklyn allegedly scamming women ranging in age from 66 to 94, officials said.
In some cases, cops said, when he couldn't charm the jewelry away from them he simply ripped it off. The items cost a few hundred dollars each, but the sentimental value is priceless, cops said.
The most recent heist was on Monday when Ortiz allegedly snagged a $500 ring from a 94-year-old Bronx woman on East Fordham Road near the Grand Concourse in Fordham Manor, officials said.
No serious injuries have been reported.
Anyone with information regarding his whereabouts is urged to contact NYPD Crime Stoppers at (800) 577-TIPS.


Have you ever thought about how much your pest control team affects your business? Every day, your team comes face-to-face with your customers and deals with them directly as they work on their jobs from start to finish. They do so much more than just handling hazardous chemicals and filing reports – they also interact with your customers in the field every day. This could make or break your company as you could be on the receiving end of bad ratings both online and offline, especially when it comes to word-of-mouth referrals that your business relies on.
So what does this mean for you and your pest control team? Simple. Your team must have training and skills in both the technical and customer relations areas of your business. They need excellent communication skills, as they have to explain your pest control plan in detail to your customers. For instance, they need to identify what pests are to be controlled, the scope of the customers' pest control problem, as well as the active ingredients in the pesticide to be applied.
Your pest control team also has to explain to your customers the possible harmful effects to their health and the usual poisoning symptoms related with the active ingredients used during the 'pest control' activity. They must also tell your customers about the form of the pesticide and the application technique to be used and if there are available non-chemical alternatives. They need to provide your customers with special instructions to lower their exposure to the pesticide being used. Your team should also inform your customers of the various steps and measures they could do to avoid pest problems moving forward.
Your pest control team needs training for the simple reason that they need to respond to your customers' questions in a timely manner that is also convincing – they need to do their jobs right. They need the right information and the appropriate skills to 'pest control' and effectively convey this information to your customers. Proper training and effective communication will help you and your team stay on top of things and in sync with your customers' needs.
If you want your pest control team to deliver top-notch service to your customers, then they need to have technical and social skills. Not only do they have to 'pest control' but also remain 'social' the whole time they are with your customers. Your team needs to communicate the situation properly to your customers; otherwise, you might have a potential problem in your hands. Your reputation is not the only thing at risk here, so is the situation, which could escalate if not properly explained. Thus, your team needs a combination of technical knowledge and social skills. Your pest control team's training does not have to be complicated. Using mobile forms, you can share information among your team members and train them in the technical and social skills required for the job.
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Who Makes Sure Religion - Hospital Mergers Do No Harm? -- Pacific Standard (0)
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CBS and Paramount Kill Fan Films Dead.
And then they salted the earth.
By Romantic Heretic
Entertainment • 6/23/16 1:17:21 pm • Views: 1,447
CBS and Paramount announced their guidelines for fan made Star Trek™ films. The result is that there will be far fewer fan made productions. They will be amateurish and cheap.
This means excellent productions like Axanar are finished. As near as I could tell it broke every single one of the guidelines.
In my opinion this is really, really stupid of CBS/Paramount. Axanar had every indication of being an excellent film. Even if it didn't go to theatres, just Blu-Ray, DVD and streaming, it would have made good money. CBS/Paramount should have said, "For 15% of all profits you can use our trademark." It would have been free money for them. The Axanar people would have done all the work!
As I said on Facebook, "This is what happens when lawyers, accountants and managers make creative decisions. It is literally anti-creation."
I'm going to miss not seeing Axanar. It held such promise.
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Snarknado! Jun 23, 2016 • 2:47:13pm
Maybe it's just envy. They have infinite budgets and endless resources and all they can come up with these days is Star Trek: Into Darkness and other mediocrities.
Targetpractice Jun 23, 2016 • 6:08:58pm
Between this and CBS requiring subscription to watch their new series, it really does feel like the bad old days are back again. This emphasis of profitability over creativity is what killed Trek the first go around. And it seems the new iteration if following closely in the former's footsteps, putting a director in charge not because he has respect for the franchise and the fans, but because he's connected to a profitable film franchise that has absolutely nothing to do with Trek.
Berman and Braga are gone, but the stench remains.
Whack-A-Mole Jun 24, 2016 • 7:01:42pm
Damn. This really bums me out. I was really looking forward to Axanar.
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There's some irony in news that McDonald's and Tim Hortons are jumping into the high-end coffee business.
Starbucks, the omni-present purveyor of lattes and espressos was probably most responsible for raising the bar on what constitutes good coffee. But with a Starbucks practically on every corner, it's become the McDonald's of coffee in some people's minds, a mega corporation whose core product is getting mediocre reviews.
But what a lot of us aren't prepared to admit is the Seattle-based company changed the way we view our daily jolt. The evidence is in the fact two of Canada's biggest fast-food chains are moving into what the Toronto Star notes is a a $1-billion annual market.
Tim Hortons, home of the double-double, has announced it will install espresso machines in a thousand of its locations this month.
McDonald's which had already upgraded its brewed coffee and bolstered it with free promotions, launched a national media campaign for its McCafe espresso brand.
Tim's, the country's biggest fast-food chain, expects to have espresso machines in 2,500 of its 3,000 locations by mid-December. McDonalds is installing the McCafe setup in its 1,400 Canadian locations as part of a billion-dollar makeover.
Both plan to undercut Starbucks, with Tim's offering 10-ounce espresso-based drinks starting at $2, while McDonald's will charge $2.29, compared with $3.52 at Starbucks.
McDonald's is backing its effort with a major ad campaign that includes coupons for a free espresso mailed to almost every Canadian home.
The key to the expansion of espresso drinks has been the evolution in the way they're made. Espresso was once limited to exotic little coffee bars and Italian restaurants, prepared with big, shiny machines that hissed steam.
Starbucks popularized espresso drinks and their baristas manually made lattes and cappuccinos to order, even if the espresso itself was no longer hand-pressed. But new espresso machines are largely automated in preparing all drinks, making them viable for fast food restaurants.
The brewed-coffee landscape is also changing. Wendy's is introducing a new custom-roast, freshly ground brew at about 100 Canadian locations, the Globe and Mail reports.
In fact, a Globe blind taste test by a panel of coffee experts ranked Wendy's Redhead Roasters Coffee ahead of McDonald's, Tim Hortons and Starbucks. The endorsement of Wendy's coffee was half-hearted but Starbucks' brew got roasted, so to speak, with terms such as bitter, burnt toast and charred.


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WH Cheng
How should MPs behave in Parliament?
Our parliamentary system today still lacks the power to scrutinise the conduct and interests of the prime minister as well as his cabinet ministers, says WH Cheng.
The scandal surrounding state-owned 1Malaysia Development Berhad (1MDB) and the case of a RM2.6bn deposit found in the personal account of Prime Minister Najib Razak have not only become local headlines but have also gained international attention.
This is because this nation has become Umno's Malaysia where everyone must say yes and bow respectfully to the Umno president.
Our nation's three major organs – the executive, Parliament and the judiciary – are perceived to be all under his thumb. This is why he managed to bulldoze through many oppressive laws for use against his critics and opponents in order to stay in power.
In Malaysia, the position of the prime minister has become too powerful. Checks and balances on him are currently non-existent because the institutions themselves have made him so.
As for our parliamentary system, no doubt there are some checks and balances on matters pertaining to governance and budgeting, but not as far as delving into the prime minister's powers, or into the Prime Minister's Department.
So how do our members of parliament ensure that the prime minister rules with integrity and that he himself is free of corruption? The answer is… none, and if you do go any further, prison may await you.
Again, [there is] corruption and abuse of power in government.
[But] there is no oversight mechanism to check the prime minister's conduct in office under the current parliamentary system.
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In this case, as long as Najib is still the Prime Minister, he is immune from any kind of public inquiry.
It is time for us to have in place a mechanism of "decoronation" [impeachment] of a sitting [leader] of the government on suspicion of corruption, abuse of power or any other kind of scandal. How does Malaysia handle such a thing?
Look at how other nations deal with their scandalous leaders. How should we deal with it in the future?
Such measures, mechanisms or actions cannot be seen as unconstitutional because these efforts are part of the democratic practice where the people in particular possess the right to decide who should govern the nation, be it through general elections, parliamentary vote or peaceful street rallies.
Parliamentary scrutiny lacking
Our parliamentary system today still lacks the power to scrutinise the conduct and interests of the prime minister as well as his cabinet ministers.
In many parliament sessions, the prime minister and cabinet ministers were allowed to stay away to attend other "important functions" of their choice – a situation which rendered ineffective the question-and-debate sessions on governance and other crucial matters.
The rubber stamp nature of our legislature has indeed paved the way for top leaders to continue with their wayward ways without control, and if there are exposures, such information would be quickly suppressed.
To make matters worse, the supposedly 'independent' investigating agencies were placed under the direct purview of the Prime Minister's Department, which clearly shows that it is impossible for these agencies to act without fear or favour.
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Parliament and people should play their role
However, the only avenue left for the nation to exert some kind of pressure on the prime minister pertaining to his conduct is still Parliament, even if its checks and balances suffer from a lack of power.
Members of Parliament from both sides of the political divide need to be especially mature in such a situation where they should carry out their responsibilities based on conscience and not along their party lines.
The Dewan Rakyat Speaker had promised to carry out various parliamentary reforms he listed out last year. He also threatened to resign if these reforms were unsuccessful.
Where is he now? Why has he become voiceless recently? What more excuses could he give now that the deadline he set for his parliamentary reform initiative has passed?
So what should we, as the people of Malaysia, do? For starters, our priority should be for the good of the nation and not for any political parties.
Giving an overwhelming majority to the ruling party will not necessarily make things move. It will not ensure a clean and efficient government of the day. Instead, it will only allow politicians from the party to become more powerful and continue with their abuse of power and corruption.
We also need a strong opposition so that we can force it to move for more parliamentary reforms to develop stronger institutions and select committees to oversee both the prime minister and his government's conduct.
In a nutshell, we should put our nation above any political party. Our mind should Merdeka.
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Home Interest Accommodation Fun Around Mt. Fuji (3): Mt. Fuji By Sky!
Fun Around Mt. Fuji (3): Mt. Fuji By Sky!
Looking to enjoy Mt. Fuji from another angle? How about while speeding down the Takabisha ride above, with its world-record holding 121-degree drop, or while spinning upside down on one of its 7 inversions?
From sea to sky, let's get high at Fuji-Q Highland! With some of the world's tallest, fastest and steepest rollercoaster rides, just looking at some of these is enough to make one queasy.
Fujiyama, the park's centerpiece attraction, was the world's tallest and fastest roller coaster when it opened in 1996, and it continues to rank among the best coasters in the world. When climbing slowly up to the peak of 79 meters high, we couldn't keep our eyes off Mt. Fuji, which seemed even closer from such heights…that is until we started dropping at 130 km per hour!
But fortunately for the faint of heart, there's more than one way to soar here at this scenic theme park. We boarded a flight on the new Fuji Airways (Hikousha) ride – a "next generation movie theatre" – that gave us stunning aerial views of Mt. Fuji from the comfort of our carriage seats. Complete with forest scents and splashes from the lakes, this flyby around Mt. Fuji made for a full sensory experience.
Once our stomachs had settled from free-falling and flying, we couldn't resist the smell of fresh baked pastries at the Café Brioche, where we had tea and croissants with our new favorite French picture book duo, Lisa & Gaspard. With the sound of accordions playing as we walked along this character-themed town, we felt as though we'd been transported to Paris itself!
Having gotten our fill of panoramic views and pastries in the Highlands, join us as we go low next time, even underground, as we explore some natural beauty by the Lake Saiko Area.
Hotel Tip: The Highland Resort Hotel & Spa next door is certainly the most convenient place to stay when visiting Fuji-Q Highland, with re-entry in and out of the hotel allowed. Also, the Fujiyama Terrace on the 4th floor had the most dynamic view of Mt. Fuji from any dining facility we'd eaten at. A trip here for breakfast or lunch is a banquet for the eyes and stomach.
Access: A free shuttle bus is available from Fujisan Station.


Brand New performed at the Boston Calling Music Festival at City Hall Plaza over the weekend, along with Death Cab For Cutie, Modest Mouse, Bastille and more. Below, you can watch fan-shot footage of the band performing "Tommy Gun," "Sic Transit Gloria," "Degausser," "Jesus Christ" and "At The Bottom." Check out the band's performance, and let us know what you think.
BN were recently announced for Riot Fest Toronto and have also announced a three-date Florida tour in October. The band will also be on tour with Joyce Manor and Broncho in late August. You can check out the dates below the videos.


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Kumen Jones Home
Views of Kumen Jones home and current ruin
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The transition from stockade-style fort to two story homes, from encampments to the full-fledged town, did not take long. Homes like this one showcase the fine craftsmanship that typifies Bluff stonework. With the help of local stone masons and carpenters Nicholas Lovace, Ed Thompson, and H.T. Hibbs, the Kumen Jones house was built along with other large houses in the historic Bluff townsite. The house became a Victorian eclectic, cross-wing home with two stories. The foundation was stone with quarried Bluff sandstone walls.
In 1882, Kumen took a second wife, Lydia May Lyman, who had 10 children. Mary Jones also had a son. Mary studied midwifery, a valuable avocation in this remote area. Tragically, Lydia Lyman died in a fire in 1906. After this tragedy, Mary and Kumen ran a co-op store for many years. After devoting the majority of his life to the establishment and success of Bluff, Kumen Jones died in 1946.
Around 1975, a fire engulfed the Jones house destroying the entire interior and roof. The fire caused the collapse of several stone walls. The ruin seen at the Bluff Fort is all that remains of this once fine home. Sections still standing i nclude the north and east walls, parts of the west and south walls of the main wing, and the southeastern cornerwalls of the south wing. Some window openings are arched with stones cut in a quoin pattern on the side. Despite its now ruinous state, the elegant stone work is still visible.


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"Jackie Down the Line" is a song by Irish band, Fontaines D.C. The song is the lead single off of their third studio album, Skinty Fia and was released on 12 January 2022.

"Jackie Down the Line" is the band's first song to chart in the United States, reaching number 40 in the Billboard Adult Alternative Airplay.

Music and lyrics
The song is performed in a G major key and has a tempo of 135 beats per minute. It has a standard tuning.

Background and release
The song was released on 12 January 2022 in both physical, digital, and streaming content. It jointly announced as the lead single off of Skinty Fia, the third studio album by the band.

Critical reception
"Jackie Down the Line" received positive critical reception. Joe Taysom, writing for Far Out Magazine described "Jackie Down the Line" as a track that fits more in the darker sound of the band. Specifically, Taysom said: "Rather than being a dancefloor filler, the heartfelt track retains that sense of gloom associated with frontman Grian Chatten thanks to his confessional, self-loathing brand of lyricism which has made him emerge as one of the great modern-day songwriters."

In an interview with Pitchfork, the song was described as "remorseless misanthrope at the center of mesmeric" single.

Music video
The music video for "Jackie Down the Line" premiered on the band's YouTube channel on 11 January 2022. The music video was directed by Hugh Mulhern and produced by Alexander Handschuh, Kate Brady, and Laura Clayton. The music video features choreography from Blackhaine.

Live performance
Fontaines D.C. first performed the song live on 14 January 2022 on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon. Sam Moore with the New Musical Express described the performance as "surreal". Moore described the video and the performance as a "seemingly one-take video performing the track on stage, a strange set of events takes place around them which involves people dressed in pointed red hats, a bride and a crucifixion."

Credits and personnel

Song
Fontaines D.C.
 Grian Chatten – vocals, 12-string acoustic guitar, tambourine
 Carlos O'Connell – guitar, art direction
 Conor Curley – guitar
 Tom Coll – drums, percussion
 Conor Deegan III – bass guitar

Additional personnel
 Dan Carey – production, mixing, sonic manipulation, synthesizer
 Christian Wright – mastering
 Alexis Smith – engineering
 Aidan Cochrane – art direction, design
 Rory Dewar – design
 Ashley Willerton – lettering

Music video

 Director – Hugh Mulhern
 Producer – Alexander Handschuh
 Executive producer – Kate Brady and Laura Clayton
 Production company – Riff Raff Films
 DP – Eoin McLoughlin
 1st AC – Karl Hui
 2nd AC – Nina Mangold
 DIT – Ewan MacFarlan
 Key grip – Johnny Donne
 2nd grip – Simon Ward
 Choreography – Blackhaine
 1st AD – Daniel Castro Garcia

 Production assistant – Angela Mulhern
 Floor runner – Nicolay Milev
 Stylist – Celestine Cooney
 Stylist assistant – Honor Dangerfield
 Make-up – Alice Dodds
 Make-up assistant – Nik Paskauskas
 Production designer – Andy Hillman
 Designer co-ordinator – Saskia Wickins
 Design assistants – Rosie Gore, Laurel Sumner, Killian Fallon and Tonomi Kishimoto-Eley
 Editor – John Cutler
 Grade – Peter Oppersdorff at MPC
 Cast – Blackhaine, Gina Campone, Luca Bakos, Kaivalya Brewerton and Bianca Scout

Charts

References

2022 singles
2022 songs
Fontaines D.C. songs
Partisan Records singles

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The recent issue to have riled up a good number of Pakistanis — including jihadi networks — is the alleged blasphemy against Islam committed by the French magazine Charlie Hebdo. The imagined gatekeepers of the Ummah and the country in possession of an 'Islamic bomb' must protest against the 'degradation' and 'defamation' of the 'faith'. Nowhere in that discourse is mentioned how brutal murders by gunmen could be justified, let alone explained.
European societies must not be bailed out for their growing Islamophobia and the uneven integration of the 'Muslim' into secular societies. Nor can the double standards on free speech be condoned. Western Europe needs to introspect where it has gone wrong in breeding such alienation and discontent. But that is their problem.
For Pakistanis, and many Muslim societies to get outraged at the offensive material about their faith, is at best duplicitous.
In Pakistan, we grew up with Friday sermons and prayers that ended with calling for the defeat of Christians, Jews and Hindus. In some cases, there is an explicit invocation of divine help for their 'destruction'. The grievances that such sermons manifest are political, often real, but largely imagined. Mahsaal, a Lahore-based NGO, has compiled a few sermons and one of them dated 2010 advocates thus: "O Muslims, get up and take in hand your arrows, pick up your Kalashnikovs, train yourselves in explosives and bombs, organise yourselves into armies, prepare nuclear attacks and destroy every part of the body of the enemy. The Holy Quran instructs us but since we have not followed it the Europeans have published the cartoons …". This was perhaps said in the wake of the Danish cartoons saga where we only harmed ourselves by burning public buildings and getting innocent Pakistanis killed.
This phenomenon is not restricted to mosque leaders. Our textbooks are replete with references to kafirs or infidels. A distorted picture of other religions is presented. A major study by the National Commission for Justice and Peace published in 2012 said that Pakistani school textbooks view religions other than Islam "with contempt and prejudice". For instance, an Urdu grade five textbook has a lesson with a story about a selfish Jew who owned a well and never allowed Muslims to take water from it. Punjab textbooks are the most problematic. Some books also have material on "the Muslim world and colonialism" berating Western and Christian governments for narrow-mindedness and fanaticism. Let us not even talk about the Hindus as they are conniving, cunning and mean. Little wonder that Pakistani cricketer Shahid Afridi referred to Indians as small-hearted. He retracted the statement later but the textbooks spoke through his words.
The Shias in general and Hazaras in particular have been under attack. There are mainstream groups — violent and ostensibly non-violent — that castigate them to the extent of calling them infidels. Zikris in Balochistan are no longer safe either. The Ahmadiyya community is openly declared 'wajibul qatl' (fit for murder) on national television. There was some online protest against a leading televangelist doing this again and again, but nothing happened. Churches and Christian settlements have been attacked, killing hundreds; and working class Christians have been burnt alive. But we hardly witness protests against these atrocities, especially from clerics and faith-based networks that want to showcase Islam as a religion of peace. One of the key reasons for this is the subterranean brainwashing that has seeped into society — certain groups of people are fit for murder anyway.
Al Bakistan — as so many number plates in Lahore declare our country as such — identifies with Saudi Arabia, where churches and temples are not allowed to function. Many Gulf states — the unfortunate representatives of mainstream Islam globally — have limited freedoms for non-Muslims. Iran is no better with a repressive control over its population. Both these models present a version of state conduct that easily turns into a stereotype.
Protests against Charlie Hebdo have focused on blasphemy. Much has been said about our blasphemy laws and the way they are misapplied to settle scores. Our moment of shame continues: a few days ago, Mumtaz Qadri, the self-confessed killer of former governor of Punjab Salmaan Taseer, was represented by a large number of lawyers (more in number than the policemen), including two former judges of the Lahore High Court. Every person has a right to defence and the law provides for that. But the inclusion of two former judges in Qadri's legal team is symbolic. Earlier, it was thought that extreme ideas had only influenced the lower functionaries of the state. That is now proving to be a comfort-inducing fallacy. Radicalisation has made its way into the higher echelons of state. Being religious or pious is not the issue here, but imposing a worldview in secular dispensation of official duties is a problem.
The former chief justice is on record on having said that if parliament were to declare Pakistan a secular country, the judiciary would strike this down. Sadly, neither parliament, nor the courts or the people of Pakistan want that. And this is why the vicious cycle of hate and violence is not going to end anytime soon.
A faint glimmer of hope was kindled in the aftermath of the Peshawar attack. But that is also fading fast. The National Action Plan — a comprehensive way forward — is not too clear or committed on the mass-deradicalisation that Pakistan needs. This long-term detox project will only begin the day we decide that Pakistan is a nation-state, not an Ummah outpost; and a peaceful, pragmatic state, not an ideological one reeling under the contradictions of its identity.
Militancy in Sindh: End of our plural culture?
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Maine Breast Cancer Coalition
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About MBCC
Contact MBCC
October 26: Help MBCC While You Enjoy Delicious Fare at School Street Pub and Grill, Gorham
Mark your calendar! School Street Pub and Grill, 29 B School Street, Gorham is donating 10% of their Saturday October 26, 5:00-10:00 PM sales to the Maine Breast Cancer Coalition. Many thanks to owner Matt Troiano for the generous support of MBCC.
Please note: The events listed on this page are listed as a convenience for visitors to our website and are not necessarily sponsored by Maine Breast Cancer Coalition. Events sponsored by MBCC will be identified as such.
"Get Your PINK On" at Paws For the Cause Benefit Basketball Games
Waldoboro, Maine January 2, 2020 Press Release
The Medomak Valley High School Athletic Department, in conjunction with the Medomak Valley All Sports Boosters is proud to announce the Third Annual "Paws for the Cause" basketball game to benefit the Maine Breast Cancer Coalition. The event will be held on January 17, 2020, at Medomak Valley High School, when the Medomak Valley Panthers play host to the Oceanside Mariners.
The game is sure to once again this year, be a "full house," as back-to-back games featuring the varsity girls at 5:30 p.m. followed by the varsity boys at 7 p.m. attempt to "Pink Out" the Medomak Valley High School gymnasium.
For these special games, both of the Medomak Valley teams will be wearing unique, pink uniforms. Additionally, commemorative T-shirts will be available for students and fans of both schools to purchase leading up to the game, and on the evening of the games as well. Read more.
A Warm Welcome From Donor Darlene Gleba
Last week, Rosemarie (Ro) LeGasse, the Maine Breast Cancer Coalition's dedicated Support Service Fund program assistant, and Ro's uncle, Gene Moreau, had the pleasure of meeting long-term donor Darlene Gleba in Rockland.
Every year since 2011, Darlene and her husband John have been major donors to the Support Service Fund through fundraising at their annual Gleba Open golf tournaments. Click here to read about the 2019 tournament.
All of us at Maine Breast Cancer Coalition are so appreciative of the Gleba's generosity!
Photo: Rosemarie LeGasse (left), Darlene Gleba (right), and Gene Moreau
Thank you to Hannaford Supermarkets and Their Customers!
In recognition of "Breast Cancer Awareness Month" this past October, Hannaford supermarkets throughout Maine made it easy for their customers to help Maine residents with unmet breast cancer or breast health-related needs.
For the sixth consecutive year, during October, Maine Hannaford customers were able to donate $2 or $5 at the register of their local stores, raising $7,478.94 for the Maine Breast Cancer Coalition!
Earlier this year, Hannaford Supermarkets donated $2,500 worth of food cards to the Maine Breast Cancer Coalition. These are being awarded to qualified Support Service Fund applicants who need support for living expenses and nutrition while in breast cancer treatment.
Maine Breast Cancer Coalition is grateful to Hannaford Supermarkets for their support and to all the generous shoppers who made donations. These donations will make a difference in the lives of Maine residents in need.
Many Thanks to the Greater Bangor Women's Ski and Snowboard Club!
Our long-time supporters at the Greater Bangor Women's Ski and Snowboard Club presented representatives of the Maine Breast Cancer Coalition with an extraordinarily generous donation of $4,083.36 at a ceremony at the Ski Rack in Bangor. The money was raised at fundraisers the group held in 2019 to benefit MBCC. All of us at Maine Breast Cancer are thrilled, and we are so grateful to the women in the club. Thank you to all the club members for your continued support!
For more information about the club or to join, visit their Facebook page here.
Photo: front row, third and fourth from left, MBCC representatives Carol Beagan (MBCC treasurer and Support Service Fund Committee member); Ro LeGasse (Support Service Fund program assistant)
Dr. Susan Love Responds to Recent Breast Cancer Vaccine Media Reports
Dr. Susan Love, of the Dr. Susan Love Foundation for Breast Cancer Research, has provided excellent clarification on some recent breast cancer vaccine articles. Read her press release, "Behind the Hype: Breast Cancer Vaccine" here.
Click here to read about the National Breast Cancer Coalition's Artemis Project, which was referenced in Dr. Susan Love's press release.
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0:14Skip to 0 minutes and 14 secondsHi, welcome to the sum up of the second week of this MOOC. This week we have introduced the notion of heritage governance. By using this notion we wanted to emphasise that heritage is not only regulated by formal norms or specialised administrations. It relies on a wide variety of actors from the public and private sectors, from the international level, to the local level. First, we have used this notion of heritage governance in order to characterise the organisational framework of cultural heritage in different countries. For example, Peter Inkei in the case of Hungary explained that the existence of a long tradition for the protection of monuments in Hungary and explained that this tradition has survived despite the changes in political regimes.
1:19Skip to 1 minute and 19 secondsAfterwards, Nick Dines explained the evolutions of the heritage governance of Italy. He explained the change of decentralisation from the states to the local authorities, but also the rise of a more business oriented approach to cultural heritage. Then we moved on to analyse heritage governance at the city level. And we took especially the case of the archaeological site of Carthage, which has undergone numerous difficulties and dilemmas regarding to the management of the site. But looking at heritage from a local perspective enabled us to go beyond just the heritage sector, and look at issues such as transport, which is essential to go from the different points of interest within the site.
2:20Skip to 2 minutes and 20 secondsOr also tourism, which aims at generating local development thanks to the site. Looking at heritage governance is not only about how heritage is organised, but also how it can contribute more generally to the life of the city. And regarding this idea, the interview we made with Chiana de Cesari was quite illustrative. She explained in her case study on Hebron that a cultural heritage organisation in the context of local authorities that have limited capacities because of the Israeli occupation. This cultural heritage organisation can take care of very essential needs of the local population, such as street lighting for instance. Finally, we talked about the relation between cultural heritage and urban development.
3:23Skip to 3 minutes and 23 secondsWe talked about how local actors could organise in order to generate economic impacts on their city. Then we also talked about some industrial cities like Genoa that organised in order to create a new urban narrative in order to challenge their industrial crisis.
Well done! You have almost completed the second week of our course!
Watch this video to remember the main ideas that we have discussed about the governance of heritage.
We hope that what we have seen this week gave you a better understanding of the way heritage policies are organized, and how they can be part of urban strategies.
Next week, we will discuss the challenges and the tensions that urban change can represent for cultural heritage.


It is believed that the earth is approximately 4.5 billion years old.
From analysis of data collected by the Hubble telescope the age of the universe is estimated to be about 12 billion years.
When did life appear on earth?
is estimated that life on earth emerged about 3.5 billion years ago, thus 1 billion years after the formation of the planet.
What is the problem that the theory of evolution and its rival theories try to solve?
The problem that the theory of evolution, or simply evolution, and its rival theories try to solve is to explain how the different living beings that live on earth have appeared.
What is the main theory opposed to evolution?
The main theory that opposes the evolution theory on the explanation of how species emerged (phylogenesis) is fixism.


Jane Erin Carrey was born in 1987 to parents Jim Carrey and actress Melissa Wormer. Carrey and Wormer were married in 1987, the same year their daughter was born. Unfortunately, the marriage didn't last and the two split up seven years later.
Being raised by Jim Carrey must have been an absolute blast! As a kid, Jane was lucky enough to attend multiple red-carpet events with her famous dad. "It was definitely fun growing up with having him as a father," she said.
Though he's wild on screen and one of entertainment's most famous faces, Jim Carrey has always led a relatively private life, which definitely worked for his family. "He's not the most extravagant celebrity, so it was fairly normal growing up, fairly," she explained.
It must be hard pursuing a career in entertainment when your dad is super famous. But it seems like the talent for performing runs in the family. Jane's passion is singing, and she has even had a brief brush of fame with it.
Despite what some might perceive as a leg up into the industry, Jane has struggled to find her feet. "It is difficult growing up in the shadow of something and trying to find your place in the world underneath this huge shadow," she revealed.
It's not all bad when it comes to having a famous name. "The last name definitely helps and hurts. I feel like there's kind of this pressure to maybe be better, because if I make it somewhere, I run the risk of people saying, 'Oh you only got there because of this.'"
Ultimately, Jane Carrey wants to carve out her own life, separate from her father's fame. She is extremely down to earth and even worked as a waitress, despite the millions of dollars in the family. She saw the value in financial independence.
One of the ways Jane decided to strike out on her own was by auditioning for American Idol in 2012, when she was 24 years old. She performed for judges Steven Tyler, Jennifer Lopez, and Randy Jackson - and they were totally impressed!
Jane's audition song was 'Something to Talk About' by Bonnie Raitt. She made it very clear to the judges that she didn't want any special treatment because of her famous name. But she didn't need to worry, the judges loved her voice.
"I am a mom first, and a waitress on and off for like six years, probably. And a musician. My dad is Jim Carrey," she announced at her audition. She went on to say, "I think maybe that's why I'm here, to find my place in the world."
Based totally on merit and the quality of her singing voice, Jane was put through to the next round of American Idol. Unfortunately, she didn't make it through to the finals, but she still loves singing anyway. In fact, she even sang in her own band.
Jane and Jim Carrey have always maintained a very close relationship. Jane often visits her father on the set of whatever movie he happens to be filming that day. They take a walk, drink coffee, and chat about everything going on in their lives.
Jane has a son of her own, making Jim Carrey a very proud grandpa. She was married at a fairly young age when she was just 22 years old. Unfortunately for Jane, the marriage fell apart after only two years.
When his grandson was born, Jim Carrey couldn't contain his excitement. He Tweeted: "Jackson Riley Santana. My Grandson, Born today! This is what 7 lbs.11oz of California dynamite looks like!" He often says that Jane is the best mom to her son. Aww!
Joking about Jane's singing talent, Jim Carrey said, "It's all my talent, really. We sang together in the car a lot. But one day I heard her and I was like, 'Damn!" One thing is clear: they definitely have the same massive Carrey smile.


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It was gray and rainy when I went for my coffee and breakfast burrito this morning but by the time I finished and walk back to the hotel the rainraid abated somewhat and I decide to risk the walk down to the ferry terminal to catch my boat to Juneau.
The lady behind the counter assures me that walking to the terminal is impossible, it's to far, it could start raining again and more important no one ver walks. I put my pack on and set out.
The road is level and largely follows the coast line, it's grey and damp but otherwise stays dry. Once I get out of town the conifers rise up on the side of. The road and a sign warns that bears have been spotted in the area but they must have better things to do as they remain illusive. Occasionally a bald eagle flys over and a solitairy otter breaks the waves and briefly looks at me before disappearing again. Fog obscures my view from time to time but after two and a half hours the ferry terminal suddenly appears. The moment I step inside it starts raining again.


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Lindsay is een plaats (city) in de Amerikaanse staat Californië, en valt bestuurlijk gezien onder Tulare County.

Demografie
Bij de volkstelling in 2000 werd het aantal inwoners vastgesteld op 10.297.
In 2006 is het aantal inwoners door het United States Census Bureau geschat op 10.860, een stijging van 563 (5,5%).

Geografie
Volgens het United States Census Bureau beslaat de plaats een oppervlakte van
6,3 km², geheel bestaande uit land. Lindsay ligt op ongeveer 119 m boven zeeniveau.

Plaatsen in de nabije omgeving
De onderstaande figuur toont nabijgelegen plaatsen in een straal van 24 km rond Lindsay.

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module Fog
  module Parsers
    module AWS
      module IAM
        class GetGroupPolicy < Fog::Parsers::Base
        # http://docs.amazonwebservices.com/IAM/latest/APIReference/API_GetGroupPolicy.html

          def reset
            @response = { 'Policy' => {} }
          end

          def end_element(name)
            case name
            when 'GroupName', 'PolicyName'
              @response[name] = value
            when 'PolicyDocument'
              @response['Policy'][name] = if decoded_string = URI.decode_www_form_component(value)
                                  Fog::JSON.decode(decoded_string) rescue value
                                else
                                  value
                                end
            when 'RequestId'
              @response[name] = value
            end
          end
        end
      end
    end
  end
end


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I hadn't realised so much time had passed since my last update!
I just wanted to pop in and let you know that I am losing my current battle with the hair loss.
Did I stop taking my iron & Vit B supplements? Yes.
So this tells me that for me - holistic hair care is an integral part of my hair story, my battle cannot be won without a holistic approach and this is exactly what I tell people when they visit me.
So - here is the last photo of my hair since I am now bald again.
I have lost the battle but I have not lost the war. I will regroup and continue to fight - day by day.
I did it before and I have faith that by the grace of God I can do it again.
well said kittylocks, I second that!
We are all still reading and growing from your journey. You are a shining light to all of us!! Keep on keepin' on my sistar and hold up the LIGHT!!
I'm still reading and following your blog. I'm glad you updated us with your status, and love the smile you have as always. Stay blessed!
Yep. We're still here cheering you on!
Hey Bajan Lily...You definately have me in your cheering corner. I am so sorry that you are experiencing this. I must say though, you are truly beautiful my fellow queen. You don't need a crown to see that you are a beautiful queen. Your smile just shines through each photo. You are inspiring many people with your story. Stay Blessed and Stay in the Joy of the Lord. For the the Joy of the Lord IS our STRENGTH!!!