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Academy O/Modernt
Everything is alive; everything is interconnected
Interconnected Musicking
O/Modernt is the hub not only of a core group of very special musicians but also artists and thinkers from many fields. Academy O/Modernt is an educative platform where young artists musicians are mentored not only by world-class professionals in their respective instruments but also by the leading thinkers of our time: historians, philosophers, ecologists, theologians, monks, poets and more. With its aesthetic ideals echoing those of the ancient Greek academies, the O/Modernt Academy will nurture the artists of tomorrow to become what the citizens of Ancient Greece called 'musicians'—honest, responsible, tolerant, cultured, intellectually open and creative members of society. The curriculum will reflect this philosophy in a musical tutelage grounded in a thorough knowledge of the Humanities: INTERCONNECTED MUSICKING.
Musicking (described by Christopher G. Small in his book of the same title) is participating in music in any capacity. It is an active way in which we relate to the rest of the world and establishes a set of non-hierarchical relationships not only between those organized sounds which are conventionally thought of as being the stuff of musical meaning but also between the people who are taking part, in whatever capacity, in the performance. At the heart of Musicking is the loosening of hierarchical structures in the ecosystem of music and the barriers that divide the different 'actors' (composer, performer, listener, technician etc.). O/Modernt believes that removing these barriers between the different roles in musicking is vital to the livelihood of the artform.
Interconnectivity is a concept used in numerous fields and signifies that all parts of a system interact with and rely on one another simply by the fact that they occupy the same system, and that a system is impossible to understand through analysis of its individual parts alone. O/Modernt believes that exploring and fostering the interconnectedness of the musical ecosystem is vital for the aspiring musician to develop their practice in a way that is intimately related to the world we live in.
At the heart of the new academy are three guiding pillars
HOLISTIC: An approach to education which fosters the development of free, morally responsible, compassionate and well-rounded individuals
PERSON-CENTRED: Teaching starts from where the individual pupil is, both in terms of ability and psychologically; the creative and artistic personality of each pupil is nurtured on a one-to-one basis.
SPONTANEOUS AND CREATIVE: A pedagogy that guides each pupil's own creativity through his or her spontaneous engagement with the materials at hand.
Every day is a surprise. There are confirmations of an interconnectivity and synchronicity which inspire, titillate and confirm the inherent comedy of the universe Billy Zane
The act of musicking establishes in the place where it is happening a set of relationships, and it is in those relationships that the meaning of the act lies. 'Musicking' by Christopher Small
Richard Taruskin Musicologist
Richard Taruskin
Musicologist
Richard Taruskin (born 2 April 1945, New York)[1] is an American musicologist, music historian, and critic who has written about the theory of performance, Russian music, 15th-century music, 20th-century music, nationalism, the theory of modernism, and analysis. As a choral conductor he directed the Columbia University Collegium Musicum. He played the viola da gamba with the Aulos Ensemble from the late 1970s to the late 1980s. Taruskin received his B.A. magna cum laude (1965), M.A. (1968) and Ph.D. in historical musicology (1976) from Columbia University.
Anthony Gormley Artist
Anthony Gormley
Sir Antony Mark David Gormley, OBE (born 30 August 1950), is a British sculptor.His works include the Angel of the North, a public sculpture in Gateshead in the North of England, commissioned in 1994 and erected in February 1998, Another Place on Crosby Beach near Liverpool, and Event Horizon, a multi-part site installation which premiered in London in 2007, around Madison Square in New York City, in 2010, in São Paulo, Brazil, in 2012, and in Hong Kong in 2015–16.
In 2008 The Daily Telegraph ranked Gormley number 4 in their list of the "100 most powerful people in British culture".
Dick Harrison Historian
Dick Harrison
Dick Walther Harrison (born 10 April 1966) is a Swedish historian who was born in Huddinge, Stockholm County, Sweden and spent much of his youth in Staffanstorp in Skåne. He is currently a Professor of History at Lund University.
His main areas of interest are the European Middle Ages, including the medical history of the period, and the history of slavery. Harrison regularly writes articles for the Swedish journal Populär Historia (Popular History). He has also written popular historical works and, during Spring 2010, a blog covering the history of monarchs and monarchies with emphasis on the Swedish monarchy. Harrison regularly gives lectures to the general public on a broad range of historical topics.
Harrison is the editor-in-chief of a comprehensive series about Swedish history published by Norstedts with the first volume released in September, 2009. The Swedish TV channel TV4 has made a companion television series for which Harrison is the historical consultant and co-host along with Martin Timell. The TV series has 12 episodes of which the first six aired on TV4 during spring 2010. The second set of six episodes aired spring 2011.
In addition to his historical writing, Harrison has written three historical novels about Ulvbjörn Vamodsson, a 7th-century (fictitious) warrior: Ofärd, Niding and Illdåd.
Nora Bateson Educator
Nora Bateson
Nora Bateson, is an award-winning filmmaker, writer, facilitator and educator, as well as President of the International Bateson Institute based in Sweden. Her work asks the question "How we can improve our perception of the complexity we live within, so we may improve our interaction with the world?"
Irving Finkel Philologist & Assyriologist
Irving Finkel
Philologist & Assyriologist
Irving Leonard Finkel is a British philologist and Assyriologist. He is currently the Assistant Keeper of Ancient Mesopotamian script, languages and cultures in the Department of the Middle East in the British Museum, where he specialises in cuneiform inscriptions on tablets of clay from ancient Mesopotamia.
Simon Tandree Musician & Qi-Gong Teacher
Simon Tandree
Musician & Qi-Gong Teacher
As an internationally recognised soloist and chamber musician Simon Tandree has performed in the world's leading concert halls including the Wigmore hall,Concertgebouw,Berlin Konzerthaus, Vienna Konzerthaus and Library of Congress in Washington. Simon also plays regularly in festivals around the globe including Maputo,Sidney,New York and Bratislava.
As a member of the world-renowned Doric String Quartet Simon won numerous prizes including 1st prize Osaka International Chamber Music competition, 2nd prize Borciani Competition in Italy as well as having two Gramophone nominations for CD's recorded with Chandos. Simon has collaborated with some of the world's leading artists including Alexander Melnikov,Mark Padmore, Chen Halevi, Anthony Marwood and Laurence Power.
As well as being in demand as Principle Viola, appearing regularly with orchestras such as Britten Sinfonia,Aurora orchestra ,ENO, Manchester Camerata and Porto Sinfonica Simon is passionate about teaching and has given master-classes in institutions and courses in Spain,India,Indonesia and Mozambique where he is part of the Xiquitsi project helping to bring classical music to young children. Simon studied at the Guildhall in London,in Detmold,Germany and in Basel,Switzerland.
Ian Jenkins Curator
Ian Jenkins
Ian Dennis Jenkins OBE is a Senior Curator at the British Museum who is an expert on Ancient Greece and specializes in Ancient Greek sculpture. Jenkins has published a number of books and over a hundred articles. He leads the British Museum's excavations at Cnidus and has been involved in the debate over the ownership of the Elgin Marbles.
Gareth Lubbe Harmonic Singer
Gareth Lubbe
Harmonic Singer
Gareth Lubbe is professor of viola at the Folkwang University of the Arts in Essen, Germany. For several years,he was principal violist in the Gewandhaus Orchestra of Leipzig under Riccardo Chailly, while teaching at the Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy Conservatory. Garethappears as a soloist and chamber musician throughout Europe, America, Africa and Asia. As an overtone singer he performs and gives interactive lectures around the world, interpreting the phenomenon of multiphonic singing to demonstrate the possibilities of sound production on one's own inner instrument. Born in Johannesburg, Gareth received his first musical education on piano and violin at the age of four, and made youthful debuts as soloist and conductor. In 1994 he performed at the presidential inauguration of Nelson Mandela in Pretoria. After finishing school, he went to study in Germany but continues to nurture his love for the mother continent, performing and teaching there on a regular basis.
David Hykes Harmonic Singer
David Hykes
David Hykes (born March 2, 1953, Taos, New Mexico) is a composer, singer, musician, author, and meditation teacher. He was one of the earliest modern western pioneers of overtone singing, and has developed since 1975 a comprehensive approach to contemplative music which he calls Harmonic Chant (harmonic singing). After early research and trips studying Mongolian, Tibetan, and Middle Eastern singing forms, Hykes began a long series of collaborations with traditions and teachers of wisdom and sacred art, including the Dalai Lama and the Gyuto and Gyume monks.
Hykes founded the Harmonic Choir in 1975, and has performed and taught Harmonic Chant and the related Harmonic Presence work in America, France, Germany, Italy, Switzerland, Japan, Australia and many other countries.[2] Of overtone singing and his own study of the form, music theorist Charles Madden writes, "David Hykes has done everything I had hoped to do, and more." His choir incorporates both basic overtone signing as well as additional advanced forms.
His work is organised within The Harmonic Presence Foundation.
His song "Rainbow Voice" is featured in the films "Blade: Trinity" (2004), "Blade" (1998), "Baraka" (1992), and "Dead Poets Society" (1989).
Michael Grab Rock Balancer
Michael Grab
Rock Balancer
Michael Grab is an artist specializing in rock balancing, photography, and videography. He was born in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada and currently based in Boulder, Colorado, United States, and has worked professionally since 2008, creating precarious, short-lived works of art, usually in natural and often remote settings.
Grab began practicing his craft in Boulder Creek and he still considers it his home base, though he has given live performances of rock balancing in Switzerland, Sweden, Scotland and Germany and he has balanced rocks in Croatia, Italy, Belgium, and France.
Much of his work is installed in remote natural settings, such as near river or ocean shorelines, and in other natural rocky settings. He has balanced rocks on the shores of Loch Ness. Some work has also been installed in urban settings, such as on street sidewalks. He has installed at least one short-lived underwater rock balance sculpture. Grab often disassembles his work when leaving the site to "close the cycle" and also to adheres to the "leave no trace" principle of trail ethics. Or, he knocks them down, sometimes videographing them as they collapse.
Grab has a degree in sociology which he attained in 2007 from the University of Colorado. Grab considers meditation a part of the practice of successfully balancing rocks. Grab explains that the focus involved in finding points of balance for rocks causes a shutting down of the "excessive mind chatter that usually goes on in people's heads". His work has been popularized by his own photography of the finished, balanced rocks, which he posts to his website.
Simone Kotva Philosopher
Simone Kotva
After receiving my Ph.D. in Divinity from Emmanuel College I spent the spring semester of 2016 teaching philosophy of religion and systematic theology at the Institute for Literature, Intellectual History and Religion at the University of Gothenburg. In Michaelmas 2016 I returned to Emmanuel College as a research fellow.My first book, Effort and Grace: On the Spiritual Exercise of Philosophy (London: Bloomsbury, 2020), tackles the importance of Simone Weil's concept of attention for critical theory and practice today, and situates it within the history of French reflexive or 'spiritualist' philosophy. I have also published widely on attention and environmental ethics, and am currently working, with Dr Alice Tarbuck, on a co-authored monograph addressing attention as a spiritual technology for the transformation of earth: Spellwork for a Damaged Planet: Magic and Ecology.
Robin Simon Artist
Robin Simon
Robin Simon (born 23 July 1947) is a British art historian and critic, editor of the British Art Journal.
Simon was a tenured academic at the University of Nottingham, teaching both English Literature and Art History, and was then Director of the Institute of European Studies in London before becoming editor of Apollo magazine in 1990. He has written and lectured extensively on Italian art of the fourteenth century and on British art, especially of the eighteenth century, on theatre and music, and on the history of cricket. He has been art critic of the Daily Mail since 1987. From 2007 he has been Visiting Professor in the Department of English at University College London and since 2018 Professorial Research Fellow in Art History at Buckingham University. In January 2013 he was outspoken about the first Portrait of Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge, calling it "rotten".
Teresa Monachino Designer
Teresa Monachino
Born in England in 1968, Teresa Monachino is a graphic designer whose work touches many design disciplines from exhibition and branding to books, packaging and digital media. She studied at the Chelsea School of Art in London, graduating in 1990, and now runs her own independent studio where she has established a worldwide reputation as a designer with a natural affinity for type. Teresa has a love of language, word play and graphic wit. As the author and designer of Words Fail Me, published by Phaidon, she uses imaginative typography to highlight tricky words, illogical spellings, misleading pronunciation and other quirky characteristics of the English language. The book is a witty and amusing celebration of contradictions and inconsistencies. Teresa has won many design awards including two D&AD. While her work has been featured widely in both the national and international design press. She has also written for a number of design publications, is a visiting lecturer and has worked and collaborated with the sculptor and Pop Artist Sir Eduardo Paolozzi, graphic design giant Alan Fletcher and actor Sir Sean Connery. Studio Monachino has produced a number of award-winning typographic publications, which have been championed and supported by the Design Museum and Tate Galleries in London.
Debbie Loftus Artist
Debbie Loftus
Reinventing my studio as a laboratory, I borrow scientific techniques and take an experimental approach to materials, colour and light. An underlying structure of design and observational drawing informs each image. Employing diverse materials and found objects, I construct, deconstruct and reconstruct to extend the potential of the work and blur the boundaries between drawing and photography. The interplay of analogue and digital techniques, RGB and CMYK, are key to the creation of the final image. Text harvested from the media and from literature provides inspiration and bridges the gap between viewer and artwork.
Seeking to create order from chaos, Loftus explores human consciousness, ideas about infinity, and the fabric of our universe with a critical yet playful eye, obliquely referencing western cultural history. With a background in design and fine art, Loftus cultivates a versatile, non-hierarchical approach to materials and concepts that embraces analogue/digital, intellect/emotion.
Susannah Ticciati Theologian
Susannah Ticciati
Susannah Ticciati is Lecturer in Systematic Theology at King's College London. She previously studied mathematics and theology at Peterhouse, Cambridge. She has also studied at the University of Göttingen and is an active member of the Society of Scriptural Reasoning.
Johan von Schreeb Global Disaster Medic
Johan von Schreeb
Global Disaster Medic
Johan von Schreeb defended his dissertation in 2007 on a thesis on international humanitarian health efforts in the event of disasters. He is an associate professor at Karolinska Institutet in Solna and heads the Knowledge Center for International Disaster Medicine. He is one of three doctors who in 1993 started the Swedish section of Doctors Without Borders. He has 25 years of experience working as a surgeon in disaster areas abroad.
He was named Swedish 2014 of the Year with the motivation: "With concrete efforts for people affected by natural disasters, epidemics and wars, Johan von Schreeb gives hope where the dreams of a better world collide brutally with reality. By founding Doctors Without Borders in Sweden he has paved way for many followers who with great risk-taking alleviate suffering around the world ". In December 2014, he was awarded the Prince Carl Medal for his outstanding international humanitarian efforts.
Kasper Holton Stage Director
Kasper Holton
Kasper Holten is a Danish stage director. From 2011 until 2017 he was Director of Opera for the Royal Opera House in London. He is Vice President of the Board of the European Academy of Music Theatre.
Ben Quash Theologian
Ben Quash
Ben Quash grew up in County Durham and Monmouthshire. He read English as an undergraduate at Cambridge, and then (as a second degree, whilst in training for ordination at Westcott House) theology. Doctoral work on the theological dramatic theory of Hans Urs von Balthasar combined these literary and theological interests. He was Chaplain and Fellow of Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge, and a lecturer in the Cambridge Theological Federation from 1996-1999, then returned to Peterhouse as Dean and Fellow until he came to King's as Professor of Christianity and the Arts in 2007. From 2004-2007 Ben Quash was also Academic Convenor of the Cambridge Inter-Faith Programme in the University of Cambridge's Faculty of Divinity, developing research and public education programmes in Judaism, Christianity and Islam and their interrelations - and indulging a delight in Scriptural Reasoning.
Stephan Nachmanovitch Educator
Stephan Nachmanovitch
Stephen Nachmanovitch is a musician, author, computer artist, and educator. He is an improvisational violinist, and writes and teaches about improvisation, creativity, and systems approaches in many fields of activity.
Camilla Lundberg Music Critic
Camilla Lundberg
Music Critic
Camilla Lundberg is one of Sweden's most esteemed cultural writers. She was a music critic in the Expressen 1977-98 and has also written regularly in Modern Times. Many people know her as a radio voice in P2, where she has worked in numerous programs for several decades. Since 1999 she has been Music Director at Sweden's Television.Camilla Lundberg was born in 1950 in Stockholm. After studying at the School of Journalism and in Musicology, she quickly established herself as a cultural writer, with an emphasis on classical music in the broadest sense. She has been called folk educator, but also acts as a debater on cultural policy issues.Camilla Lundberg is married to concert pianist Janos Solyom. She is an active and versatile musician herself. She plays string quartet (cello), piano and sings in chorus.As a writer, she has published the children's book The Wings of Music and has participated in several anthologies. Myths of Music is her first major book. A highly personal music history that in 2000 was nominated for the literary August Prize.
Henry Marsh Neurosurgeon
Henry Marsh
Henry Thomas Marsh CBE FRCS is a leading English neurosurgeon, and a pioneer of neurosurgical advances in Ukraine. His widely acclaimed memoir Do No Harm: Stories of Life, Death and Brain Surgery was published in 2014.


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'Her heart is not in the Bronx': Ocasio-Cortez's constituents turn against her
By Isabel Vincent
March 30, 2019 | 9:49pm | Updated April 1, 2019 | 9:25am
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Amid her zeal to save the world with the Green New Deal, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has ignored residents in her own Bronx back yard.
"I thought AOC would be our savior, but that's not the case," complained Roxanne Delgado, a local activist who said she has tried for months to get in touch with the congresswoman for help saving an animal shelter and to clean up parks in the district.
Delgado, 40, says she has made numerous calls to Ocasio-Cortez's offices in Washington and Queens and sent a barrage of tweets after the freshman lawmaker encouraged residents during a recent visit to a Bronx public library to hit her up on social media.
But she's heard nothing back.
"NO email or contact on @AOC's page except DC number which has full #voicemail and no one picks up," Delgado tweeted on Monday.
The Post made several calls to both the Washington and Queens offices last week. The same recording at both numbers gives Ocasio-Cortez's website and doesn't allow callers to leave a message.
The website includes a "scheduling request" form that visitors can fill out to ask for a meeting.
Another Bronx constituent told a community gathering last month that they needed Ocasio-Cortez for a sitdown with post office officials to sort out difficulties he was having with mail delivery.
"I want AOC or a representative from AOC to be there," Anthony Vitaliano, a former cop and Community Board 11 member, said at a Feb. 28 board meeting.
Vitaliano, 78, also wants Ocasio-Cortez to pressure Amtrak to clean up graffiti at property it owns on Tremont Avenue.
"You know, I appreciate what she's doing, but she has to represent us," he told the board gathering, where other elected officials — from the city and state but not AOC's office — sent staffers.
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Vitaliano told The Post: "She has to address these local issues. Her district is everywhere else in the US. Her heart is not in the Bronx."
By contrast, he said, residents' needs received much more attention under Rep. Joe Crowley, whom Ocasio-Cortez unseated in a surprise primary upset last year.
The longtime congressman's Bronx district representative, Thomas Messina, regularly attended community board meetings, according to Vitaliano.
"Tommy cared about us," Vitaliano said.
Although Ocasio-Cortez tweeted about improving mail service in the Bronx this month, Vitaliano said he was still experiencing problems and waiting for her office to arrange a meeting with post office management.
And although a Bronx community rep for Ocasio-Cortez visited the graffiti site, nothing has happened, he said.
Meanwhile, Delgado noted the animal shelter site was spared — thanks to help from the City Council and the mayor's office.
Making access all the more challenging for her constituents, Ocasio-Cortez has yet to open an office in the Bronx.
A rep for her told a Bronx community board meeting in January that the congresswoman was having difficulty finding space.
"If you have any leads, please send them our way," said Naureen Akhter, a deputy district director for Ocasio-Cortez's office.
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The advertising budget for the Geauga Park District has ballooned from $22,147 in 2013 to a whopping $244,100 projected for 2018.
That is an increase of over $220,000 in five years.
All this with no public input. The public is no longer allowed to comment or ask questions at the public meetings. Surveys from 2008 and 2015 where more than 80 percent of respondents favoring passive recreation have been ignored.
Waste on ads is not all. The board spends more than $1.5 million to develop the new (liability land) "adventure" park at Claridon Woodlands this year. Then suddenly at the June park board meeting the board noticed that the park budget will be in the red by 2022. This not a surprise to those of us who have been tracking the spending and the "spend down" of the fund once set aside for land acquisition. But evidently the board did not choose to look at those numbers before spending the $1.5 million to create this boondoggle. Still to be counted are the costs of employees to supervise and guard the equipment plus the ongoing maintenance.
Hmmm, I wonder how long it will take before they start justifying the sale of park land to developers?
During my tenure at GPD, the District granted a conservation easement to NRCS on portions of Big Creek Park. Lands purchased with the assistance of State or Federal grants, or mitigation funds (Bass Lake, Spring Brook, Woodie Brook, others?) frequently include conditions on land use as well. Details like these tend be forgotten over the years,but can seriously impact any plans for developing, leasing or (gasp), selling park lands. If you have not done so already, I strongly recommend requesting and compiling all records of conservation easements and other land use restrictions that may apply to Park lands.


Thanksgiving Eve in Upstate New York: Where the Party at?
Thanksgiving Eve has become known as one of the biggest party nights of the year, with the day after being one that nearly everyone has off from work to enjoy and eat all day with loved ones. With the holiday season upon us, it's that time of the year to reflect on all the people, places and things in your life that you are thankful for. Upstate New York is fortunate to have a diverse music scene across the state, with plenty of home grown talent as well as artists visiting from all over the world, to enjoy our beautiful scenery, unique concert halls and our states deep appreciate for good music.
This Thanksgiving Eve go out and support our local venues and musicians because we can all be grateful for a good time!


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One of the most experienced and renowned Numerological and Vastu Consultant in India.
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Neppure quando è notte
Ancona, 2003
Vita precaria e amore eterno
Arnoldo Mondadori Editore
Mailand, 2006
Il paese delle spose infelici
Foto di classe. U uagnon se n'asciot
Rom/Bari, 2009
Zementfasern
Wagenbach
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Mario Desiati [ Italy ]
Mario Desiati was born in Locorotondo, Apulia, in 1977, and grew up in Martina Franca in the Province of Tarent. After graduating from his studies in law in Bari in 2000, he was employed by a law firm and published a series of essays on civil law topics. He moved to Rome in 2003, where he worked for the literary magazine »Nuovi Argomenti«, which had been co-founded by Alberto Moravia in 1953. In spite of a small circulation, the historic journal is an important publication in the Italian literary industry. At the time, Desiati was also an editor with Arnoldo Mondadori Editore, the biggest publishing house in Italy.
In 2003, he published his first novel »Neppure quando è notte« (tr.: Even at night), followed by a collection of poems »Le luci gialle della contraerea« (2004; tr.: The yellow lights of the flak). His novel »Il paese delle spose infelici« (2008; tr.: The country of unhappy wives) deals light-heartedly with the lives of young people in the 1980s and the friendship of two boys and a mysterious girl. It was turned into a film in 2011, which had its premiere at the Film Festival of Rome. Desiati's most recent book »Ternitti« (2011; tr.: Cement fibres) is based on facts which he investigated for a period of four and a half years and reconstructed for this work of fiction. In doing so, he sheds light on a tragic and often ignored chapter in the history of the Italian labour migration in the 1970s: Many migrant workers were contaminated in a Swiss asbestos factory near Zürich, without knowing what happened to them. Mimi, the protagonist of the story, was born in a small village in Apulia and moves to Switzerland with her parents in the mid-seventies. Her father works in a factory, which produces construction materials, which the workers call »Ternetti«. He, too, is exposed to the dangerous blue asbestos. In seven episodes, which cover almost four decades until present times, Desiati tells the story of migration, factory work, the health hazards and the victims of these, and about the often sobering attempts of the victims' families, who are fighting for justice and compensation for their misery. The novel is also a portrait of a powerful woman, the story of Mimi's first love, her return to her home in Southern Italy, and of her own daughter.
For his literary oeuvre Desiati has received the Premio Mondello and the Premio Vittorio Bodini. »Ternitti« was listed for the renowned Premio Strega in 2011.
Since 2008, Mario Desiati has been an editor with the Fandango publishing house, and has written articles for the dailies »La Repubblica« and »L'Unità«. He lives in Rome.
MATCHES AND MOMENTS OF HAPPINESS: MARIO DESIATI [I] ON A VILLAGE OF MIGRANTS WHERE ONLY WOMEN AND CHILDREN LIVE


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Skandinavisk Aero Industri A/S var en dansk virksomhed der byggede fly fra 1937 til 1954. Stiftet af Viggo Kramme (1905-1984) og Karl Gustav Zeuthen (1909-1989), og i starten kendt som Kramme & Zeuthen, byggede firmaet omkring 200 fly fordelt på 11 forskellige typer frem til lukningen i 1954.

Tidlig historie

Viggo Kramme var uddannet flytekniker i Marinens Flyvevæsen, og havde i 1935 oprettet et flyværksted ved Københavns Lufthavn i Kastrup. Det første egentlige fly han byggede, var en Pou de Ciel ("Himmellus"), som var et hjemmebygget minifly efter fransk design. Flyet var bestilt af Berlingske Tidende, og blev da også bygget og fløjet, men Kramme var ikke tilfreds med maskinen og den blev senere destrueret.

På samme tid var Karl Gustav Zeuthen, som var uddannet civilingeniør, i gang med at lære at flyve i Kastrup. De to lærte hinanden at kende i flymiljøet, og Zeuthens baggrund som ingeniør fik ham til at påbegynde tegningerne til en flyvemaskine af eget design. Kramme og Zeuthen´, samt en række af deres venner, byggede denne første KZ I i deres fritid, og opnåede første flyvning i februar 1937.

Skandinavisk Aero Industri
Kramme og Zeuthen fik hjælp af en anden flyinteresseret, civilingeniør Gunnar Larsen der dengang var administrende direktør og storaktionær i FLSmidth & Co. A/S. Den 1. august 1937 blev firmaet Skandinavisk Aero Industri stiftet med Kramme og Zeuthen i spidsen. Samme år blev næste projekt, KZ II Kupé, sat i gang og året efter blev en åben variant – KZ II Sport – sat i produktion.

Grundet Gunnar Larsens indflydelse hos F. L. Smidth, blev produktionen en overgang flyttet til dette firmas faciliteter i Aalborg, men i 1943 flyttede man tilbage til København. Først til nogle midlertidige lokaler i Tuborg Havn, og senere til egen fabrik i Sydhavnen. Anden Verdenskrig havde gjort produktionen besværlig under besættelsesmagten, som forbød privat luftfart. SAI konstruerede i 1943 en prototype til en svæveflyver, KZ G-I, der dog ikke kom i produktion. Året efter blev to eksemplarer af ambulanceflyet KZ IV, der var specialdesignet til redningskorpset Zonen, færdiggjort, og de kom i brug fra maj 1944. Sideløbende blev der lavet planer for konstruktionen af KZ III, et nybrud i ingeniør Zeuthens designs, da III´eren var højvinget.

Danmark manglede ressourcer under krigen. FLSmidth ønskede lokalproduceret energi, og bestilte vinger til sine omkring tyve styk FlS-Aeromotorer á 50-70 kW hos SAI. Desuden producerede SAI en Elektrovogn med 50 km rækkevidde, som idag står på Danmarks Tekniske Museum.

Produktionen af KZ III havde været forberedt længe, og med afslutningen af krigen blev der i løbet af 1946 produceret 63 maskiner (ved siden af prototypen fra krigens tid). KZ III var en traditionel lukket flyver til to personer side om side, og blev videreudviklet til KZ VII, der brugte samme krop og vinger, men med en kraftigere amerikansk motor, så den kunne befordre fire personer - dog kun hvis man reducerede benzin-lasten, da fuldvægten ellers ville blive overskredet. Af i alt 56 producerede eksemplarer blev 10 styk blev leveret til det danske militær, der brugte dem frem til 1977.

Fra og med 1947 kom Skandinavisk Aero Industris glansperiode imidlertid til en ende. KZ VII var blevet konstrueret med en del udenlandske dele (især motoren), der skulle betales i hård valuta. Da det danske marked for fly samtidig var begrænset skulle 80% af produktionen afsættes til udlandet, så man kunne tjene hård valuta nok hjem til at betale de udenlandske dele. Med den økonomiske udvikling i 1947 kunne mange udenlandske kunder imidlertid ikke få fat i hård valuta til at betale købene med, så eksporten af flyet standsede. Samtidig var Skandinavisk Aero Industri udsat for en brand, hvor 22 ufærdige KZ VII-fly blev flammernes bytte. Resultatet var, at F. L. Smidth, der havde støttet produktionen økonomisk siden starten, trak støtten.

En specialopgave på et kunstfly blev til KZ VIII. Flyet fløj for Sylvest Jensens Luftcirkus, og der blev kun bygget to eksemplarer. Det andet blev dog først samlet i 1959 – efter fabrikkens lukning.

KZ IX er ikke et Kramme & Zeuthen design, men en replika af Jacob Ellehammers Standard fra 1909, dog med visse modifikationer.

Det sidste fly lavet på fabrikken var KZ X. Flyet var lavet efter bestilling fra hæren som artilleriobservationsfly. 12 styk blev leveret i 1952-1953, men i den efterfølgende tid oplevede typen en række uheld, hvoraf tre havde dødelig udgang for piloterne. Tilliden til flyet blev aldrig genetableret og de resterende maskiner blev ribbet for reservedele.

Svag afsætning af maskinerner de foregående år og fiaskoerne med KZ X gjorde, at Kramme og Zeuthen ikke længere syntes flyproduktion var rentabelt i Danmark. Fabrikken blev lukket i 1954 efter produktion af omkring 200 fly.

Veteranfly og museer
Mange KZ-fly, især fra den store produktion af III og VII modellerne, er stadig luftdygtige og kan ses ved diverse flyshows og på museer. Den første KZ I forsvandt under Anden Verdenskrig, og først i 1988 blev en replika konstrueret.

KZ IV, det eneste to-motorede fly, findes som hovedattraktion på Danmarks Flymuseum i en bemaling som ligner den originale Zonen-fremtræden.

Den sidste model, KZ X, findes nu kun i ét eksemplar, som er den oprindelige prototype. Alle andre fly af typen er destruerede.

Kramme & Zeuthen ses ofte som de eneste flyproducenter i Danmark nogensinde, men det bør dog nævnes, at maskinfabrikken Nielsen & Winther byggede seks fly til hæren under 1. verdenskrig i deres aeroplanafdeling.

Liste over KZ-fly

Referencer

Eksterne henvisninger

 Flyindustriens danske ildsjæle  DR dokumentar, 2016

Flyproducenter i Danmark
Tidligere virksomheder i Danmark
Etableret i 1937
Ophørt i 1954
Luftfart i Danmark

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A Brief History of Student Loan Discharge in Bankruptcy
by Devin Sawdayi
Under the federal Bankruptcy Code, certain debts are not eligible for discharge by a bankruptcy court at the end of a case. Nondischargeable debts include certain tax debts, 11 U.S.C. § 523(a)(1); spousal and child support, id. at § 523(a)(5); and debts that resulted from fraud, theft, and other deceptive or unlawful acts, id. at §§ 523(a)(2), (4), (6). For many, perhaps most nondischargeable debts, a rationale based on public policy seems clear. This might not be the case, however, with regard to student loans, including both public loans, which are backed by the federal government, and private loans. Rather than attempting to deduce a public benefit from making student loans nondischargeable, it is worth looking into how they became nondischargeable in the first place.
Student loans are only subject to discharge in bankruptcy if a debtor proves that continuing to make payments would cause an "undue hardship" to them and their dependents. 11 U.S.C. § 523(a)(8). No single legal standard applies throughout the country for determining whether a debtor has established "undue hardship." The Ninth Circuit, which includes California, has adopted a three-part test known as the Brunner test, found in Brunner v. N.Y. State Higher Educ. Serv. Corp., 831 F.2d 395, 396 (2d Cir. 1987). Other circuits have adopted a test known as the "totality of the circumstances," first developed in In re Andrews, 661 F.2d 702, 704. (8th Cir. 1981). Both tests require a court to examine a debtor's financial situation and determine whether it is possible that conditions might improve enough to allow the debtor to continue paying the loans. In other words, bankruptcy courts must attempt to predict the future.
Student loans therefore differ in at least one important way from other nondischargeable debts because there is an exception provided in the statute itself. As noted earlier, most nondischargeable debts have some obvious justification, such as the fault of the debtor in the case of a debt incurred through fraud, or the need of a dependent in the case of child support. Student loans, as it turns out, became nondischargeable quite incrementally.
Prior to the 1970s, student loan debt was generally dischargeable in bankruptcy. Congress has gradually chipped away at student loan dischargeability since then. In 1976, it added a provision requiring proof of "undue hardship" for student loans that were less than five years old. Pub. L. 94-482 § 127. It expanded this waiting period to seven years in 1990, Pub. L. 101-647 § 3621, and eliminated it altogether in 1998, Pub. L. 105-244 § 971. In the Bankruptcy Abuse Prevention and Consumer Protection Act of 2005, Congress added private student loans, which have no backing from the federal government, to the list of loans that are not subject to discharge. Pub. L. 109-8 § 220.
For the past 20 years, Los Angeles bankruptcy lawyer Devin Sawdayi has represented individuals and families in Chapter 7 and Chapter 13 bankruptcy cases. We help our clients rebuild their finances and get a fresh start with dignity and respect. Contact us today online or at (310) 475-939 to schedule a free and confidential consultation to see how we can help you.
Ninth Circuit Affirms Partial Discharge of Student Loan Debt in Chapter 13 Bankruptcy, Los Angeles Bankruptcy Lawyer Blawg, April 9, 2015
Ninth Circuit Bankruptcy Appellate Panel Considers "Good Faith" Requirement for Discharge of Student Loans, Los Angeles Bankruptcy Lawyer Blawg, April 9, 2014
Bankruptcy Court Grants Discharge of Student Loans, Finding that Debtor's Mental Illness Constitutes "Undue Hardship", Los Angeles Bankruptcy Lawyer Blawg, March 24, 2014
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President Trump's aides reportedly have begun looking for evidence that the legal team assembled by special counsel Robert S. Mueller III has conflicts of interest. As part of their search, aides are looking at the legal team's political donations. Based on evidence that at least seven of the 15 lawyers have previously given money to Democrats, it appears, the administration is gearing up to make the argument that Mueller's team is biased and thus unable to reach impartial legal conclusions.
But it's hardly remarkable that most of Mueller's investigators appear to be Democratic donors. It would be shocking if they weren't.
Justice Department rules prohibit taking political affiliation into account when filling career positions at the agency, including those in the special counsel's office. These rules are designed to ensure that legal investigations aren't partisan affairs. When the rules were ignored by George W. Bush's Department of Justice, it was a national scandal.
Political contributions to Democrats are exactly what we would expect from a group of top-tier lawyers.
If Mueller followed the law and hired lawyers without taking their political ideology into account, the odds are that he would hire mostly Democrats. The reason for this is simple: Lawyers tend to be liberal. Our research has shown that 68% of lawyers who have made any political contributions have given more money to Democrats than to Republicans.
This liberal slant is even more extreme among elite lawyers. Of attorneys who graduated from the country's most selective law schools — the "Top 14," as they're often called — 76% of those who make political contributions have given more money to Democrats than to Republicans.
Any employers, therefore, who seek to hire the most qualified attorneys, would typically end up hiring many liberals. Mueller presumably falls into that category.
So does President Trump. The veteran Washington lawyer he hired to represent him in the Russia investigations, Ty Cobb, has donated thousands to Democrats over the past decade, including to Sen. Al Franken, President Obama and Sen. Bernie Sanders.
Consider the law clerks of the U.S. Supreme Court. Every year, the Supreme Court justices all hire four young lawyers to work as their clerks. Since 1960, 70% of the clerks who have made political donations have leaned to the left. And this is despite the fact that — unlike Mueller — Supreme Court justices can and do take ideology into account when hiring clerks. They simply end up hiring a lot of Democratic donors because the justices seek out the country's most exceptional young lawyers.
That members of Mueller's team may have given money to Democrats isn't proof that they are biased against President Trump, either. Many people donate to candidates for a variety of reasons and are still capable of conducting their work fairly.
Plenty of key members of the Trump administration — Ivanka Trump, Jared Kushner, even Trump himself — have given to Democrats, including to Hillary Clinton. Trump clearly doesn't feel that such donations should bar members of his family from working in the White House. It seems only fair that the same standard be applied to Justice Department employees.
It would be perfectly reasonable to make the case that the nation's elite lawyers should include more conservatives. Indeed, in a recent paper, we showed that the legal academy is even more liberal than the legal profession and argued that the ideological imbalance could be a problem.
But when it comes to whether Mueller's investigation is biased, this is beside the point. According to the Justice Department's own rules, campaign donations do not create a conflict of interest. Just as importantly, political contributions to Democrats are exactly what we would expect from a group of top-tier lawyers.
Adam Bonica is a professor of political science at Stanford University. Adam Chilton is a professor at University of Chicago Law School. Maya Sen is a professor of public policy at Harvard University's John F. Kennedy School of Government.


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Uttar Pradesh Special Task Force in a joint operation with CBI on Wednesday arrested one of the main accused in the Vyapam scam Ramesh Shivhare, who has been absconding, from Kanpur.
Shivhare allegedly acted as a middleman and arranged for the impostors and dummy candidates to appear in the examination carried out by Madhya Pradesh Professional Examination Board commonly known as Vyapam for a certain amount.
A resident of Uttar Pradesh, Shivhare has been evading any questioning by authorities probing the case.
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Fujifilm Announces New Acuity Ultra R2 Superwide Format Printer
The successor to Fujifilm Acuity Ultra is part of the company's strategy to create 'the new blueprint' for wide format – redefining print ROI, versatility, value and ease-of-use
Hanover Park, Ill. – FUJIFILM North America Corporation, Graphic Systems Division, today announces the launch of the Acuity Ultra R2, as part of Fujifilm's strategy to create the new blueprint for wide format.
Available in 3.2m and 5m versions, the Acuity Ultra R2 features the same high levels of quality and reliability as its predecessor, but offers a vast amount of design improvements to benefit both ease-of-use and overall productivity.
The new, contemporary enclosed design eliminates stray UV light, removing the need for a light curtain, while from a functional point of view, the R2 is designed with both maintenance and ink supply on the same side, giving operators easier access and more room in which to work when performing routine tasks. An external visual light also quickly alerts operators of low ink levels without the need to look inside the printer.
The Acuity Ultra R2 also features larger ink tanks to ensure that all the ink from a standard can is used when refilling, eliminating the clutter and mess of opened, half-used ink cans. The ink tanks have also been designed for easy access for refills.
Maintenance-free ink pumps have also been integrated into the new Acuity Ultra series to increase up-time, and a unique new print viewing window allows the operator to check on the progress of a job without leaving the workstation. The workstation itself has also been redesigned, now featuring desktop space, a handy drawer for tools or personal items, integrated lighting, and a larger monitor for ease-of-use and better display of print jobs.
Another significant design benefit is that the separate chiller unit that accompanied the original Acuity Ultra has now been fully integrated into the design of the new R2 series. This frees up considerable workspace and reduces clutter.
The Acuity Ultra R2 also features a crash detector with increased sensitivity and dual way activation, helping to identify and address potential problems early. Additionally, it also features a new low scratch surface platen and new automated meniscus control, offering even greater precision and consistency in ink droplet placement.
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Q: Thousands of OkHttp related issues reported daily (connection, unknown host, dns, etc) Setup
I have an app in production used by thousands of users daily.
I'm using retrofit2 version 2.9.0 (latest)
My build.gradle below.
def retrofitVersion = '2.9.0'
api "com.squareup.retrofit2:converter-gson:${retrofitVersion}"
api "com.squareup.retrofit2:converter-scalars:${retrofitVersion}"
api "com.squareup.retrofit2:adapter-rxjava2:${retrofitVersion}"
api "com.squareup.retrofit2:retrofit:${retrofitVersion}"

I integrated Firebase Crashlytics and made it so that app would report any API related exceptions in try-catch blocks.
e.g.
viewModelScope.launch {
    try {
        val response = myRepository.getProfile()
        if (response.isSuccessful) {
            // continue with some business logic
        } else {
            Log.e(tag, "error", RunTimeException("some error")
        }
    } catch (throwable: Throwable){
        Log.e(tag, "error thrown", throwable)
        crashlytics.recordException(throwable)
    }
}

Knowns
Now in Crashlytics, I get THOUSANDS of reports daily saying there were some errors.
Before I get to those errors, I want to assure you that users ARE connected to internet with proper network permissions. I see logs that users are opening other contents at the time. So these errors seem to be really random.
Erros

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*UnknownHostException

Non-fatal Exception: java.net.UnknownHostException: Unable to resolve host "my-host-address.com": No address associated with hostname
       at java.net.Inet6AddressImpl.lookupHostByName(Inet6AddressImpl.java:156)
       at java.net.Inet6AddressImpl.lookupAllHostAddr(Inet6AddressImpl.java:103)
       at java.net.InetAddress.getAllByName(InetAddress.java:1152)
       at okhttp3.Dns$Companion$DnsSystem.lookup(Dns.java:5)
...
Caused by android.system.GaiException: android_getaddrinfo failed: EAI_NODATA (No address associated with hostname)
       at libcore.io.Linux.android_getaddrinfo(Linux.java)
       at libcore.io.ForwardingOs.android_getaddrinfo(ForwardingOs.java:74)
       at libcore.io.BlockGuardOs.android_getaddrinfo(BlockGuardOs.java:200)
       at libcore.io.ForwardingOs.android_getaddrinfo(ForwardingOs.java:74)
       at java.net.Inet6AddressImpl.lookupHostByName(Inet6AddressImpl.java:135)
       at java.net.Inet6AddressImpl.lookupAllHostAddr(Inet6AddressImpl.java:103)
...

*ConnectionException

Non-fatal Exception: java.net.ConnectException: Failed to connect to my-host-address.com/123.123.123.123:443
       at okhttp3.internal.connection.RealConnection.connectSocket(RealConnection.java:146)
       at okhttp3.internal.connection.RealConnection.connect(RealConnection.java:191)
       at okhttp3.internal.connection.ExchangeFinder.findConnection(ExchangeFinder.java:257)
       at okhttp3.internal.connection.ExchangeFinder.findHealthyConnection(ExchangeFinder.java)
       at okhttp3.internal.connection.ExchangeFinder.find(ExchangeFinder.java:47)
...
Caused by java.net.ConnectException: failed to connect to my-host-address.com/123.123.123.123 (port 443) from /:: (port 0) after 10000ms: connect failed: ENETUNREACH (Network is unreachable)
       at libcore.io.IoBridge.connect(IoBridge.java:142)
       at java.net.PlainSocketImpl.socketConnect(PlainSocketImpl.java:142)
       at java.net.AbstractPlainSocketImpl.doConnect(AbstractPlainSocketImpl.java:390)
       at java.net.AbstractPlainSocketImpl.connectToAddress(AbstractPlainSocketImpl.java:230)
       at java.net.AbstractPlainSocketImpl.connect(AbstractPlainSocketImpl.java:212)
       at java.net.SocksSocketImpl.connect(SocksSocketImpl.java:436)
       at java.net.Socket.connect(Socket.java:621)
...
Caused by android.system.ErrnoException: connect failed: ENETUNREACH (Network is unreachable)
       at libcore.io.Linux.connect(Linux.java)
       at libcore.io.ForwardingOs.connect(ForwardingOs.java:94)
       at libcore.io.BlockGuardOs.connect(BlockGuardOs.java:138)
       at libcore.io.ForwardingOs.connect(ForwardingOs.java:94)
       at libcore.io.IoBridge.connectErrno(IoBridge.java:173)
       at libcore.io.IoBridge.connect(IoBridge.java:134)
...

*SocketTimeoutException

Non-fatal Exception: java.net.SocketTimeoutException: timeout
       at okhttp3.internal.http2.Http2Stream$StreamTimeout.newTimeoutException(Http2Stream.java:4)
       at okhttp3.internal.http2.Http2Stream$StreamTimeout.exitAndThrowIfTimedOut(Http2Stream.java:8)
       at okhttp3.internal.http2.Http2Stream.takeHeaders(Http2Stream.java:24)
       at okhttp3.internal.http2.Http2ExchangeCodec.readResponseHeaders(Http2ExchangeCodec.java:5)
       at okhttp3.internal.connection.Exchange.readResponseHeaders(Exchange.java:2)
       at okhttp3.internal.http.CallServerInterceptor.intercept(CallServerInterceptor.java:145)
...

*Another SocketTimeoutException

Non-fatal Exception: java.net.SocketTimeoutException: SSL handshake timed out
       at com.android.org.conscrypt.NativeCrypto.SSL_do_handshake(NativeCrypto.java)
       at com.android.org.conscrypt.NativeSsl.doHandshake(NativeSsl.java:387)
       at com.android.org.conscrypt.ConscryptFileDescriptorSocket.startHandshake(ConscryptFileDescriptorSocket.java:234)
       at okhttp3.internal.connection.RealConnection.connectTls(RealConnection.java:72)
       at okhttp3.internal.connection.RealConnection.establishProtocol(RealConnection.java:52)
       at okhttp3.internal.connection.RealConnection.connect(RealConnection.java:196)
       at okhttp3.internal.connection.ExchangeFinder.findConnection(ExchangeFinder.java:257)
       at okhttp3.internal.connection.ExchangeFinder.findHealthyConnection(ExchangeFinder.java)
       at okhttp3.internal.connection.ExchangeFinder.find(ExchangeFinder.java:47)

And lastly, what makes me think it's not my server issue is that I get this kind of error when I request banner ads to Google server as well.
I get thousands of reports of the following
{   "Message": "Error while connecting to ad server: Failed to connect to pubads.g.doubleclick.net/216.58.195.130:443",   "Cause": "null",   "Response Info": {     "Adapter Responses": [],     "Response ID": "null",     "Response Extras": {},     "Mediation Adapter Class Name": ""   },   "Domain": "com.google.android.gms.ads",   "Code": 0 }

from Google ads SDK's onAdFailedToLoad listener.
Attempt
I tried to find some solutions in Retrofit2/OkHttp3 github issues, SO community, and everyone says there may be some network permission issues or network connection problem itself. But I know users are connected to internet and not using some sort of proxy. I worked with customer service team and they walked through with users, and they did not find any network issues.
Any insight would be helpful. Thank you in advance!

A: About 2 years earlier I faced an issue like this. The previous answer was not my case fortunately (I tried after clearing DNS cache). I talked to my ISP about this problem they said something about caching request and response. They also told me to wait for 24 hours the server/ISP will release the cache then try. I waited and it worked. I don't know how this happened or why it worked.

A: I had these issues too. After a long time, I have realized most of these problems are related to the SSL certificate validation by android in different devices. Some devices are not able to validate your certificate because it does not exist in their pre-installed system CA certificates. You need to put the certificate in your app to avoid this issue. You can do this in the following steps:
Export your SSL certificate to a file. (There are different ways to do this for example using a browser). Rename it to a simple name for example mycert.
Put this file in the raw folder in this path res > raw.
Make an XML file called network_security_config.xml in the xml folder at this path res > xml.
Paste this lines in it:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<network-security-config>
    <domain-config>
        <domain includeSubdomains="true">my-host-address.com</domain>
        <trust-anchors>
            <certificates src="@raw/mycert"/>
        </trust-anchors>
    </domain-config>
</network-security-config>

change the my-host-address.com in the domain tag to your desired API address.
Add this line:
android:networkSecurityConfig="@xml/network_security_config"

to the application tag in your manifest file like so:
<application
    android:allowBackup="true"
    android:icon="@mipmap/app_ic_luncher"
    android:label="@string/app_name"
    android:theme="@style/AppCompatTheme"
    android:networkSecurityConfig="@xml/network_security_config"
    ...

Make a new build and hopefully, it works for you.

A: Having the same issue with dns resolution for certain users. The url works if they for example tries to access it from a browser. Implementing an alternative DNS resolution, like DnsOverHttps using Cloudflare could work, if it doesn't make sense to invest more time finding a root cause.
val bootstrapClient = OkHttpClient.Builder().build()
val dns = DnsOverHttps.Builder().client(bootstrapClient)
        .url("https://1.1.1.1/dns-query".toHttpUrl())
        .includeIPv6(false)
        .build()
val httpClient = bootstrapClient.newBuilder().dns(dns).build()

Alternatively wrapping that in something first trying the system one and then DnsOverHttps as a fallback if the system one doesn't behave as expected.

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Scottish Referendum
Professor Anthony Glees-Right Wing Expert on Terrorism
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Professor Anthony Glees is an extreme right-wing British academic considered an expert on, "terrorism" and "radicalization". He is currently head of the Buckingham University Centre for Security and Intelligence Studies at Britain's only private university. He is affiliated to the, "Henry Jackson Society" a project for democratic geopolitics which is a British neo-conservative think tank and political action committee (PAC) which is supported by important US neo-cons and by two of Prime Minister David Cameron's closest advisers and ministers, (Michael Gove and Ed Vaizey).
David Haines – The Scottish Aid Worker Held Captive in Syria
Professor Anthony Glees, is convinced ISIS sense an opportunity to weaken the UK via their brutal campaign of terror. He expressed fears Islamic extremists are deliberately threatening to behead David Haines, a Scots aid worker, using the dad-of-two in a propaganda drive as the Scottish independence referendum approaches to break up the UK. Last night highly-placed intelligence sources revealed it is "extremely likely" ISIS terror chiefs believe beheading Haines will make Prime Minister David Cameron appear, "weak", fueling anti-English sentiment among referendum voters.
http://www.sundaypost.com/news-views/scotland/isis-targeted-scot-to-force-a-yes-vote-in-referendum-1.562793
Islamic State Executioners are British
Professor Anthony Glees, of the Centre for Security and Intelligence Studies at the University of Buckingham, told Britain's, "The Independent" that political correctness had helped provide a fertile breading ground for Islamism in the UK. "Why are there Brits there? In my view this is because Islamist extremist ideologies have been able to be spread with relative ease in our country under the cover of "religion", "free speech" and "multiculturalism"." "A small number of British Muslims have been brainwashed by so-called preachers and convinced that they must kill to create a global caliphate," he added.
http://www.virtualjerusalem.com/news.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=14007:islamic-state-executioner-of-james-foley-john-from-london&catid=1:headlines&Itemid=14007
Islamic Hit Squads Target Sunnis Living in the UK
Professor Anthony Glees, of the Centre for Security and Intelligence Studies at Buckingham University, said to the Daily Mail, "The US is worried about the British situation. They fear there might be a knock-on effect for them", "The throat-cutting between Sunnis and Shias in Iraq and Syria has not yet spread to the UK, but it is a real threat". "It is conceivable you could see Shia, "hit squads" in Britain targeting Sunnis preparing to go out to the conflict zones to fight." "The Americans regard the UK as a disaster because of our lax stance on immigration which has allowed this militancy to take hold," Glees added. "Frankly, they would not be doing their jobs properly if it did not do this – forming an objective view of the situation outside of the reports they get from MI5 and their officers at the US Embassy in London".
http://rt.com/usa/169508-cia-radical-islam-spread-britain/
Pupils in Schools in England Pushing Radical Islamic Agenda's
The Home Office, which is responsible for the police and security forces, argues that it is counter-productive to clamp down on legal but extreme views. "It's the difference between firefighting and fire protection," said Professor Anthony Glees, who contributed to the parliamentary Homeland Security Group. "The government is split between libertarians and the law-and-order Conservatives."
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2014/06/10/inspectors-uncover-uk-schools-pushing-radical-islamic-agendas.html
Al Qaeda Sleepers in London
Anthony Glees, wrote, in an article for the Wall Street Journal that, "Britain has become, al Qaeda target No. 1" He also stated that intelligence sources now believe that the activities of the "homegrown" jihadists in Britain are in fact, trained and sponsored from Pakistan.
http://gatesofvienna.blogspot.co.uk/2006/10/not-your-fathers-college-campus.html
Ebola Virus Danger to UK from Foreign Students
Anthony Glees, Professor of Politics at Buckingham University, called for West African students to be held in their home countries until they have been declared clear of Ebola and the 21-day incubation period has passed.
http://theeagleonline.com.ng/fear-grips-uk-as-21000-african-students-return/
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European Market – To Withdraw or Not That is the Question?
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UKIP policy on an in/out vote on Europe is rumored to be more hardline than the Tory proposal and it appears to be nearing inclusion in the UKIP 2015 General Election Manifesto;
"In the event UKIP hold the balance of power after the next election, (increasingly likely) the party will insist that an in/out referendum be held before the end of 2015, (this will require a change in the rules pertaining to the fixed term of a government. Should the referendum result indicate the will of the people is to withdraw from the EU, parliament would be dissolved and a general election held in May 2016". The government elected will negotiate the withdrawal of the UK from the European market.
Now that's what I call a spoiler!! The wind will be well up the tails of the Tory, Labour and Liberal party's.
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Alan Hansen- A man for All Seasons
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Alan Hansen for the, "Blether together" Scotland team of the past. A read of his autobiography revealed his disdain of the Scotland team. His long and extremely well paid sojourn in England has clearly clouded his judgement but I was not at all surprised he came out in support of a no vote in the referendum. After all he has been extremely well cared for financially , (still is through BT)
I remember Hansen well. He was a Liverpool stalwart but his Scotland career never really got going due to recurring injury call offs. Surprisingly he seemed to be fit to play for Liverpool a few days afterwards.
He played for Scotland in the 1982 World Cup in Spain. The team failed to progress beyond the the qualifying group due to a disastrous draw with the USSR. A collision worthy of a, "Charlie Chaplin" movie between a ball watching Hansen and his central defensive partner Willie Miller allowed USSR striker Ramoz Shengelia through to score.
He became a bit injury prone and was increasingly ignored by a number of Scotland managers throughout the eighties. Alex Ferguson, (in temporary charge after the sudden death in 1985 of Jock Stein) controversially dropped Hansen from the Scotland squad for the 1986 World Cup in Mexico, Stating that he shared Stein's reservations about Hansen's commitment to Scotland, poor international form and reluctance to play international friendly games in the warm up to the World Cup. He won the last of his 26 Scotland caps in 1987.
Hansen is no stranger to controversy, earning an incredible £1.5 million a year for his one-day-a-week job with the BBC, yet who still used to claim huge expenses bills to take him from his home in Southport down to London for filming. It seems that Hansen's gravy train has stopped for good. His current contract with the BBC expired this summer, but it seems he has landed on his feet once more taking up a job with BT Sport.
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Michelle Mone & the Ups & Downs of her Business Life.
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1. Recurring threats by Michelle Mone to transfer her business to England should Scotland become independent are simply, "hot air" since she no longer has a controlling stake in her new company, (Ultimo Brands International) which incidentally is registered for business in london.
2. MJM International morphed into, "Ultimo Brands International" in January 2014 and is registered with Companies House in London. It has Ms Mone, Anthony Caplan, Eliaz Poleg and Ajaykumar Amalean as its directors. Mr Caplan is Ms Mone's lawyer with Mr Poleg and Mr Amalean both board directors at MAS Holdings. MAS Holdings a, (Sri Lanka based company) is thought to have 51% ownership of UBI with Ms Mone in control of 49%. Mr Poleg, chairman of UBI, said, "We are delighted that we will soon be operating under a new company name, "Ultimo Brands International". The name-change reflects the resurgence of the brand and our ambitions for growth beyond the UK." The spokeswoman for UBI said the Ultimo range was being overhauled and relaunched in early 2014 .
3. Michelle Mone, the new poster girl for British Airways, (Boldly modelling a swimsuit of her own design)in yet another eye-catching twist in the career of one of Scotland's best known business figures said, 'I have absolutely no problem with people expressing an opinion, but if you are going to be disrespectful, I don't want to hear it. 'I've been called a "****", a "cow", a "slut", as well as being told "I'm going to get it", "we'll come and get you" and they're "going to throw me across the border". 'I'm not a murderer, a thief or a rapist. I'm a good person who employs a lot of people in Scotland, both Yes and No supporters, and we all get on. 'We should all be able to live in a country where you can express views and not be vilified for it.' But Ms Mone says her commercial experience tells her that 'Alex Salmond's business plan is flawed'.
http://www.heraldscotland.com/news/home-news/michelle-mone-bas-poster-girl-in-an-ultimo-swimsuit.1395878309
4. Kate Hopkins, in her column for the, "Sun" labelled the Scottish lingerie tycoon an, "asylum seeker" after Mone pledged to move to England if Scotland became independent. Hopkins said, "If you are part of Scotland and have the opportunity to vote, you should remain in the country where you exercised your democratic right. "The last thing we need is more asylum seekers in England. She went on, "Even if they are wealthy and have norks like Marilyn Monroe.
http://www.express.co.uk/news/showbiz/504797/Katie-Hopkins-lays-into-Michelle-Mone-for-moaning-about-Scottish-independence
5. Michelle Mone has revealed she suffers from obsessive compulsive disorder. In general, sufferers experience repetitive, intrusive and unwelcome thoughts, images, impulses and doubts which they find hard to ignore. The thoughts push them to perform repetitive acts as a way to alleviate the symptoms.
http://www.scotsman.com/news/health/i-m-obsessive-sufferer-admits-bra-tycoon-1-1037728
6. She has been criticised in the past for fronting a campaign backing Scottish manufacturing when her own products were being made overseas in China.
http://www.scotsman.com/business/transport-industry/mone-hits-back-at-chinese-whispers-1-1393283
http://www.scotsman.com/news/world/underwear-tycoon-denies-sweat-shop-reports-1-523506
7. she got into another ruck with the press over claims that her business would be worth 100m just months before it had to be rescued by fellow entrepreneur Tom Hunter.
10. Michelle Mone, appoints a 'fantastic' new model – er, Ms Mone. The mistress of spin rarely passes an opportunity to step into the spotlight. Having dispensed with Jordan's services after a single day, firing Peaches Geldof for alleged drug taking and insisting she only hired Penny Lancaster because she was cheap, Michelle Mone has finally found a model she can work with: herself.
http://www.scotsman.com/news/ultimo-run-by-ms-mone-appoints-a-fantastic-new-model-er-ms-mone-1-806942
11. Michelle Mone clenched her fist and spat venom about lingerie models who were refusing to stalk the catwalk in her skimpy thongs. "F***ing neurotics," says Mone, creator of the Ultimo bra, which has boosted cleavages worldwide with its stitched-in sacs of silicone gel. "I think they're bloody prima donnas. They're getting paid fortunes, and they're in there moaning their arse off. I feel like punching every one of them."
http://www.scotsman.com/news/the-ultimo-sacrifice-1-605796
http://www.scotsman.com/news/scotland/top-stories/bra-queen-mone-gets-it-off-her-chest-for-bbc-1-1360771
http://www.scotsman.com/news/undies-with-a-capital-u-1-1357321
http://www.scotsman.com/business/finance/beauty-business-under-her-skin-1-524960
12. The number of tribunals, and the amount of protection available to workers, has "gone way over the score".
http://www.scotsman.com/news/scotland/top-stories/mone-hits-out-at-workers-rights-after-start-of-tribunal-1-719678
13. A Former employee, (at a tribunal), Miss Woods claimed, "Mrs Mone asked women at job interviews if they planned to start a family and did not seem to appreciate staff taking time off for family reasons."
http://www.scotsman.com/news/scotland/top-stories/i-was-forced-out-of-job-by-bra-tycoon-1-716430
14. Michelle Mone, the bra tycoon, has pledged her support to Labour's election campaign. The Scot extolled Labour's economic and jobs record, yesterday, when the party outlined its plans for workers.
http://www.scotsman.com/news/politics/top-stories/mone-lift-for-labour-1-705286
15. Michelle Mone branded Chancellor Alistair Darling's 50p rate "a disgrace" and likened it to "Monopoly money". She confessed she might also now be considering a move to Hong Kong to continue her successful Ultimo business.
http://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/97173/Darling-s-Budget-tax-hike-may-force-Michelle-Mone-to-uproot-for-Hong-Kong
16. Mone was branded a, "manipulative cow" by Rod Stewart over her decision to drop Penny Lancaster, his 34-year-old girlfriend, for his ex, after Lancaster was deemed not well enough known. The 60-year-old rocker said: "I hope she [Mone] chokes on her profits." Ms Mone, 33, also received offensive e-mails over the move. But the real reason why Mone and Lancaster went their separate ways appears to be the usual culprit: money. It has come to light that when Lancaster's 200,000-a-year contract to promote Ultimo ended, Mone asked if she could continue using the model's image for another five months for free. The 'offer' was rejected as "ludicrous.
http://www.scotsman.com/news/bra-firm-thanks-ditched-model-rachel-hunter-for-her-support-1-1110684
http://www.scotsman.com/news/storm-in-a-d-cup-1-1298380
http://www.scotsman.com/news/not-a-penny-more-1-507786
17. Michelle Mone has bought out investors Sir Tom Hunter and Ian Grabiner in a deal understood to be worth £800,000. The Scots billionaire and the chief operating officer of fashion group Arcadia had invested in Mone's lingerie company, Ultimo, when the business nearly collapsed after its launch in 1999. The firm has since prospered.
http://www.scotsman.com/business/mone-buys-out-ultimo-investors-1-1079065
18. Entrepreneur Michelle Mone is considering moving to the United States to further her television career. A regular guest on, "The Apprentice – You're Fired" she revealed on social networking site, "Facebook" that she was torn between staying in Scotland and uprooting her children, to live in the US. "Decisions to make, offered a huge opportunity in LA but have to live there for a lot of the time," she wrote. "Don't think I can leave my home … wish I wasn't such a home bird. "It would initially be for a year but huge decision as I would have to take kids out of school."
http://www.scotsman.com/news/celebrity/lingerie-tycoon-michelle-mone-unveils-her-ultimo-dream-house-1-799642
19. In March 2002, Mone was 15 minutes from bankruptcy, salvaging the company only by putting up her house and her life-savings and borrowing 100,000 from the millionaire entrepreneur, Tom Hunter.
http://www.scotsman.com/news/a-model-of-diplomacy-over-lingerie-switch-1-519684
http://www.scotsman.com/news/15-minutes-of-pain-1-1299292
20. She may only have been two thirds of the way through her contract, but it seems that Abbey Clancy is no longer the face of Ultimo. The 28-year-old WAG has been sacked by Michelle Mone after the two fell out following another campaign which Abbey has recently fronted wearing next to nothing.
http://www.express.co.uk/news/showbiz/478227/Michelle-Mone-terminates-Abbey-Clancy-s-Ultimo-contract-after-model-stripped-off-for-Veet
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This is Westminster- MPs' 9% Pay Rise to be Implemented
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MPs elected to Westminster in nxt year's general election will start their tenure with a 9% pay rise. The Chief Executive of the Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority (Ipsa), Marcial Boo said the proposal was not excessive, arguing politicians should not be paid a "miserly amount". Their pay will be increased from £67,000 to £74,000. The proposed £74,000 figure was seen by some as being "at the low end", he claimed, adding that pay needed to be fair to attract good candidates. Other quotes attributed to Boo;
a. "They are there to represent us all – to form laws, to send young people to war,"
b. "It is not an easy job to do. We want to have good people doing the job and they need to be paid fairly."
c. "Now, that's not paid in excess but it's not being paid a miserly amount either."
It is disgraceful and obscene that the Westminster system finds it acceptable to increase the salaries of MP's whilst there are so many Scot's on the breadline. Many have had no pay rise in years and the, incapacitated, unemployed and elderly are about to be hit with another round of Osborne's austerity cuts. Surely this must be the, "straw that breaks the camel back". Enough is enough. Scot's need to send a clear message to Westminster that we have no interest in remaining with a political system that punishes the poor and enriches the rich. Vote, "Yes" in the referendum. Take Scotland back. Let us manage our own affairs.
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Ed Miliband and Scotland England Border Controls
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1. Ed Miliband issued, yet another, "scare story" threatening an independent Scotland with border controls. I expect he might be referring to the shambolic £1billion computerized system, (commissioned by the last Labour government) and recently written off by the Con/Dem government.
2. Rather than perpetuating mischievous myths Ed would be better advised to address his concerns addressing the intention of the, Irish government to embrace, in full the, "Schengen" open borders scheme, should Scotland vote, "yes" to independence.
3. The, "Common Travel Area" (CTA) "Schengen" opt out, allowing the UK & Ireland to maintain border controls was only useful to Ireland so long as decisions impacting on it were mutually agreed. Introduction, without consultation of the, "botched scheme" now requires Irish citizens to travel with photographic identification and current passports together with other means of identification.
4. The, "Common Travel Area" is no more but any move by the UK government to introduce border controls between Ireland and Northern Ireland would be strenuously resisted by the Irish on both sides of the border. In any event there are in excess of 260 road traffic crossing points on the border so policing it would be impossible.
5. I expect the UK will shortly review it's decision to remain out of, "Schengen" since parts of the agreement have been adopted over the last 4 year's.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2746369/We-ll-guards-Scottish-border-Ed-Miliband-reveals-incendiary-plan-new-poll-reveals-vote-knife-edge.html
The UK Border Controls Fiasco
1. Launched seven years ago by Labour and further developed by the Con/Dem government the, "e-Borders" computerized system touted by the government as the definitive solution to the perceived problem of insecure border controls has , "hit the deck", (in polite terms a fiasco) at a cost to the taxpayer of £500million, (excluding a botched cancellation penalty of £230million). In total, including staff costs the writes off is around £1billion.
a. 20% of trips were not counted in and out of Britain or checked against terror and criminal watchlists.
b. 20 million travelers avoided full screening due to recurring catastrophic IT failures and management blunders.
c. 6 million travelers arriving by train, including Eurostar were not subject to advance immigration checks.
d. 10 million sea travelers, subject only to cursory checking slipped through the net without having their personal details compared against lists of killers and dangerous fanatics.
e. 4 million air passengers are subject only to cursory checking meaning that officials were denied full use of the system, a vital weapon in the fight against terrorism
f. The system proved to be incapable of producing an accurate, "headcount" of travelers moving, "in and out" of the UK, leaving officials in the dark about the true scale of illegal immigration.
g. Government ordered to pay £230m of taxpayers' money to giant US firm behind disastrous border control scheme.
2. The Labour government's promise to the Nation
a. The UK border will be, "exported" to other countries, forcing anyone attempting to get into Britain to reveal their personal information in advance.
b. The information gathered and passed to the UK border controls agency will be extensively checked against watchlists, security databases and then, logged on a vast database.
c. Extremists, criminals and wanted criminals would either be arrested at the airport or turned away. Alternatively, they could be placed under surveillance to identify terrorist plots.
3. From the outset, the system soon developed into a shambles.
a. It was delayed by EU countries who refused to participate on the grounds that the system breached Brussels directives, including on data protection.
b. There are still six airlines on the continent who are refusing to participate.
c. Technical problems meant people arriving on ferries, Eurostar trains, cruise ships and small planes were not screened in advance.
d. Even when known criminals and illegals were, "flagged" by the system, airports were not phoned in advance providing warning about their impending arrival.
4. Tory MP Philip Davies branded the project an absolute disgrace stating, " The failures of the system should be attributed to the previous Labour government who had signed off a, disastrous, catastrophic contract". The Chief Inspector of Borders, John Vine, confirmed in his report to Theresa May, (The Home Secretary)that the, 'electronic borders' project had started off badly and descended into a shambles. Theresa May cancelled the contract and the government was sued and lost.
5. The Expose Report
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2728359/A-new-fiasco-Britains-open-borders-20-million-people-arrive-leave-year-without-proper-checks-against-terror-criminal-watchlists.html
David Cameron Acting Tough
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2728359/A-new-fiasco-Britains-open-borders-20-million-people-arrive-leave-year-without-proper-checks-against-terror-criminal-watchlists.html#v-3702456951001
Teresa May Pledging Change and Improvements
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6 Owenia Cct, Bilambil Heights, NSW 2486
Be Quick, Won't Last!
Substantial Family Entertainer Ideally situated on a flat block in a boutique estate overlooking the Tweed Valley and Mt Warning, this family residence has a lot to offer for the discerning purchaser....
11 Banora Tce, Bilambil Heights, NSW 2486
Affordable "Million Dollar Views"
Seeing is believing! Commanding a premium position in a tightly held locale, this elevated residence is full of character and charm. Boasting extensive Northeast lake, valley, coast, city lights and ocean views that are impossible to capture on film....
302 Mcallisters Rd, Bilambil Heights, NSW 2486
Price Guide $1.5 Million to $1.6 Million
Prime Ocean View Subdivision Site - Zoned General Residentia
Located less than 20 minutes to the Gold Coast's beaches and Gold Coast Airport lies this extremely rare 5 acre site which is currently zoned general residential....
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