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Google asks court to ax book-scanning suit from Authors Guild
In its latest brief, the search giant argues that the matter should be decided on a per-book basis rather than as a whole.
Lance Whitney
Nov. 12, 2012 9:49 a.m. PT
Google is trying to convince the courts to throw out a book-scanning lawsuit filed against it by the Authors Guild.
In a brief submitted to the U.S. Second Circuit Court of Appeals last Friday, Google argued that a suit filed on behalf of all authors whose books have been scanned shouldn't be allowed because most authors support the scanning.
Backing up its claim, the company yet again cited a survey that found 58 percent of the authors polled approved of Google scanning their books so the content could be searched online. A full 45 percent said they had already seen or expect to see higher demand for their books as a result of the scanning. And 19 percent said they've benefited financially from the scanning.
Instead of a lawsuit that lumps all authors together, the seach giant has argued that the case should be decided on a per-book basis, according to PaidContent.
Google has been embroiled in a lawsuit with the Authors Guild since 2005 over allegations that the company's book scanning constitutes copyright infringement. In 2008, the two sides reached an agreement whereby Google would have paid authors and publishers $125 million in return for scanning and selling their copyrighted works.
But that settlement was thrown out last year by New York federal district court Judge Denny Chin, who ruled that it would have given Google an unfair advantage over its competitors. In May of this year, Judge Chin gave the Authors Guild the legal go-ahead to proceed with its class-action suit. In August, however, the U.S. Second Circuit Court of Appeals found that Google could appeal Chin's ruling.
Authors Guild sues Google over library project
Google reaches $125 million settlement with authors
Court rejects Google Books settlement
Judge says authors can sue Google
Authors guild says 'one big step closer to justice'
Last month, Google settled a similar long-running suit with the Association of American Publishers. But the case filed by the Authors Guild drags on.
In its latest brief, Google continues to rely on its main argument -- that its scanning of books constitutes "fair use" since the scanned portions don't compete directly with the actual books.
The Authors Guild maintains that the scanning violates copyright and is looking for a payment of $750 per "infringed" book.
A spokesperson for Google issued the following statement to CNET: "We do not believe this case warrants class action status. Google Books is fully compliant with copyright law and is a transformative product that helps users access the great pool of knowledge contained within millions of books."
CNET contacted the Authors Guild for comment and will update the story if we receive any information.
(Via PaidContent)
Updated 11:00 a.m. PT with response from Google.
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A multiservice access node is a broader term that refers to a group of commonly used aggregation devices. These devices include digital subscriber line access multiplexers (DSLAMs) used in xDSL networks, optical line termination (OLT) for PON/FTTx networks, and Ethernet switches for Active Ethernet connections. Modern MSANs often support all of these connections, as well as providing connections for additional circuits such as plain old telephone service (referred to as POTS) or Digital Signal 1 (DS1 or T1).
The defining function of a multiservice access node is to aggregate traffic from multiple subscribers. At the physical level, the MSAN also converts traffic from the last mile technology (for example, ADSL) to Ethernet for delivery to subscribers.
Layer–2 MSAN—This type of MSAN is essentially a Layer 2 switch (though typically not a fully functioning switch) with some relevant enhancements. These MSANs use Ethernet (or ATM) switching to forward traffic. The MSAN forwards all subscriber traffic upstream to an edge router that acts as the centralized control point and prevents direct subscriber-to-subscriber communication. Ethernet Link Aggregation (LAG) provides the resiliency in this type of network.
Layer 2 DSLAMs cannot interpret IGMP, so they cannot selectively replicate IPTV channels.
Layer–3 aware MSAN—This IP-aware MSAN can interpret and respond to IGMP requests by locally replicating a multicast stream and forwarding the stream to any subscriber requesting it. Layer 3 awareness is important when supporting IPTV traffic to perform channel changes (sometimes referred to as channel zaps). Static IP-aware MSANs always receive all multicast television channels. They do not have the ability to request that specific channels be forwarded to the DSLAM. Dynamic IP-aware DSLAMs, however, can inform the network to begin (or discontinue) sending individual channels to the DSLAM. Configuring IGMP proxy or IGMP snooping on the DSLAM accomplishes this function.
Layer–3 MSAN—These MSANs use IP routing functionality rather than Layer 2 technologies to forward traffic. The advantage of this forwarding method is the ability to support multiple upstream links going to different upstream routers and improving network resiliency. However, to accomplish this level of resiliency, you must assign a separate IP subnetwork to each MSAN, adding a level of complexity that can be more difficult to maintain or manage.


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Marvel Brings Back Amazing Fantasy, Emphasis on the Fantasy
Rob Bricken
All art by Kaare Andrews.
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In 1962, Marvel Comics released Amazing Fantasy #15, an unassuming comic that happened to debut Spider-Man. The title was canceled immediately afterward so Spidey could move on to bigger and more titular series, but had brief revivals in 1995 and 2004. Now Spider-Man: Reign's Kaare Andrews is bringing Amazing Fantasy back for the fourth time—and yes, those are indeed frog people trying to cook Spider-Man alive.
Apparently, the new Amazing Fantasy is going to truly be fantasy, evidenced by Andrews' incredible cover for issue #1:
The five-issue series will feature three time-displaced heroes—Captain America, Black Widow, and Spider-Man—who are mysteriously deposited in a Conan the Barbarian/Dungeons & Dragons-esque fantasy land.
Here's the official description from Marvel: "Red Room Black Widow, teenage Spider-Man, World War II Captain America—the most iconic versions of your favorite Marvel characters from across time and space all wake up on an island of intrigue, darkness and...Amazing Fantasy.
"Are they dead? Are they dreaming? Or have they truly been transported to another fantastical realm? And is there any way for them to return home? This isn't just a love letter to your favorite Marvel eras, it's a reinvestment in the seminal characters you've always loved, plucked from their quintessential timelines."
I love reinvesting in characters! Seriously, though, these four preview pages have me absolutely hooked.
Captain America fighting orcs to save a somewhat-scantily-clad elf maiden is nice, if potentially regressive. But I'm absolutely here for eagle men hitting Spider-Man in the face.
You'll be able to own your own copy of an eagle man hitting Spider-Man in the face when Amazing Fantasy #1 is released on July 28. I very much look forward to finding out what Black Widow is up to—is it too much to ask to pit her against a cartoonishly evil wizard?
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LT. GOVERNOR'S NEWS RELEASE: After-school programs for middle and intermediate schools expands with R.E.A.C.H.
HONOLULU — As the new school year gets underway, Lt. Governor Shan Tsutsui today announced the participants in the statewide R.E.A.C.H. (Resources for Enrichment, Arts, Culture and Health) Initiative for the 2016-2017 school year. Nearly 5,000 middle and intermediate public school students at 28 schools across the state will be part of the program.
R.E.A.C.H.'s mission is to ensure all public school students in grades 6 to 8 receive the academic and community-based support they need to stay on track toward high school graduation by engaging them in a broad-base of programs and activities, outside of regular instructional hours, in the areas of academic enrichment, arts and culture, and athletics.
The initiative, spearheaded by Lt. Governor Tsutsui in collaboration with state Department of Education (DOE) Superintendent Kathryn Matayoshi, provides an organizational framework for public middle and intermediate schools to offer students expanded learning opportunities during after-school hours.
Studies have shown that after-school programs not only keep students safe and engaged in learning, but also help improve their academic performance, school attendance, behavior and health.
Selection of the schools was based on criteria, which included: strong student interest and/or participation for the after-school program and established relationships with key stakeholders.
The applications were also evaluated on its readiness to achieve the goals and student outcomes set forth by the initiative. Some schools apply for the grant every year and are selected based on the criteria. This year, 14 of the 28 schools are returning R.E.A.C.H. participants.
Since the initiative was launched in 2013, 39 public middle/intermediate schools (including this year) from across the State have benefited from R.E.A.C.H. funding. To date, along with its partners in the business sector, the Initiative has awarded $2.25 million to middle and intermediate schools statewide.


Poetry is much on my mind these days. It is my intention to complete a book-length manuscript of my poems, and to have found a publisher for the book by year's end. I'm deep into the processes of polishing and organizing 70+ poems, and of researching potential publishers.
So, as I say, poetry is much on my mind, and today it led me on a brief detour, a little sentimental journey that I'd like to share with you.
Sometime in the early '70s I fell in love with the nature art prints of Gwen Frostic. She carved block prints, some of them four- or five-colors (each color requiring a separate carved linoleum block), but most of them simple two- or three-colors. Each image seems to distill the essence of what Gwen was looking at: a wild iris; a gnarled tree limb; or a great blue heron in flight, her signature icon. Most images were printed on fine textured papers with deckled edges, and sold as stationery and card collections with matching envelopes.
One fine summer day I decided it was time to see Gwen Frostic's Michigan studio. I packed up our family and drove along the eastern shore of Lake Michigan to the town of Benzonia, south of Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore. With a population of around 400, the town was too crowded for Gwen, who was a hermit at heart. She purchased 40 acres of isolated sand dunes outside Benzonia, and built a single-story home/studio/shop constructed of native stones, wood, and glass. It looked as if it had emerged organically from the sand it sat on. I especially remember the gently sloping roof covered in soil that supported native grasses and whatever other plants found their way there. In the cool interior of the display room were the lovely prints I expected, plus a mammoth stone fireplace and a natural fountain, both in keeping with Gwen's sense of natural beauty.
But just beyond that room was a whole other world that I didn't expect: a huge room crammed full with tons of exotic paper, and twelve hulking Heidelberg platen printing presses. Most of those presses were at work, with steady deliberate movements, imprinting Gwen's collections of beautiful images along with the illustrated packaging and envelopes to go with them.
Another thing I didn't expect: when she was less than a year old Gwen contracted an unknown illness, similar to cerebral palsy, that left her with physical difficulties for the rest of her life. When I met her that day she walked with a cane; instead of struggling to inscribe her work and sign her extensive correspondence, she had commissioned a special machine that held a pen and wrote Gwen's distinctive signature over and over again. She still designed and hand-cut her original linoleum block images, however, and oversaw the work of all those massive presses. Her physical limitations did not stop her from her lifelong creative expression, nor from making her artistic career so financially viable that at her death in 2001 she left a thirteen-million dollar bequest to Western Michigan University to benefit students of the arts and creative writing.
But her compromised health wasn't the biggest surprise for me that day. How could I not have known that Gwen Frostic was also a poet? And that her books of poetry were self-published gems illustrated with her art and poetry printed on a melange of beautiful papers, some of them tissue-thin so that the poetry was visible through the prints, or vice versa.
I own four of her books of poetry. I confess that I haven't read them in decades, but poetry is much on my mind these days. So this morning I dug out the Frostic poetry from my library to show to a friend who also writes poetry. His poetry is often more complex than mine, and I thought he'd appreciate something that I remembered about Gwen's poetry: in her desire to praise the wonders of creation that she saw in the simplest of natural things, she apparently ran out of everyday words, couldn't find adequate substitutes, and so (I believed) made up words that expressed her awe. Thanks to today's Google, I've learned that those were "real" words, just not everyday ones, nor ones listed in my Webster's Pocket Dictionary at the time. She used "omnity" where I might choose to use "divinity" or "God." "Eternity" wasn't forever-enough for her, so she used "diuturnity" and "indesinency" and "olamic" instead. There was something mesmerizing about these words, like reading a foreign language in which the meaning looks almost familiar – but you trust that the author knows what they mean, and that's good enough.
Knowing Gwen must have been like befriending a philosophy nerd high on ecstasy. Her poetry reads as if a philosopher/theologian were translating Mary Oliver from simple to complicated. Yet Gwen had a way of infusing the very ordinary with a mystical word-serum that, once you get used to living with the unknowable ("enigmatical"), makes the whole universe ("multiverse") glow.
What more can anyone ask of a life?
Last night I thumbed through the August 2014 issue of Scientific American. I stopped at an article entitled "The Black Hole at the Beginning of Time" (by Afshordi, Mann and Pourhasan), which postulates a cosmic black hole that preceded the Big Bang.
For all that I comprehended, the article could have been written in early Cyrillic instead of English. Nevertheless, I was mesmerized by the exotic words and phrases that I didn't understand.
And there were longer, denser full-bore paragraphs that made my head spin.
Structured like that it's fascinating and lovely, and, like a John Berryman poem, it makes me feel as if I'm teetering on the verge of understanding whatever it means.
As a wordsmith, I treasure words. I find pleasure in the arrangements of words that convey an idea or a story (or a theorem) to others.
However much I'd like to understand that article in Scientific American, there is simply not enough time (or motivation) for me to learn all I'd need to know in order for that to happen.
Nevertheless, I can delight in the beauty and the mystery of the words. I am content that SOMEONE understands them. Someone thrums and thrills with that understanding, and that fills me with awe and gratitude.


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Changes in iOS 13 may force major redesign of VoIP apps
Malcolm Owen | Aug 06, 2019
Major messaging app services that offer calls, such as Facebook's Messenger and WhatsApp, will have to make major changes to their code base to work properly in iOS 13, a report claims, due to fears from Apple that existing methods used by the apps could be used for data collection purposes.
Announced as part of a session on the background execution of apps during WWDC 2019, Apple is forcing apps that perform background processing when not in use to cut down on what they do, for the purposes of saving battery power and improving performance. Rather than keeping apps running, Apple instead wants to restrict the background processing as much as possible.
For apps with a VoIP component, like WhatsApp and Facebook Messenger, they attempt to keep running in the background as much as possible to allow calls to connect quickly. Under Apple's updated system, such apps will have to rely on a new "VoIP push notifications," a type of low-data push to a device that can open the relevant app and perform functions to open the call up.
Developers have until April 2020 to make their apps comply with the requirements.
Citing sources familiar with the matter, The Information claims that both the named apps will force a major redesign, as the background app technique performs a number of functions. Specifically named as a feature needing mass alteration is how WhatsApp handles end-to-end encryption.
The change may also prompt other refinements, as apps were able to take advantage of the background task for internet calls to keep the app in memory, allowing it to launch quicker than entirely from scratch. By switching to VoIP push notifications, this eliminates the benefit of having the app poised and ready to run.
Aside from power and performance, another reason Apple may be closing the function is due to the possibility of the background app collecting data about the user, something which may be seen as a privacy issue.
A Facebook spokesperson insisted to the report it was not using the calling feature to collect data. "To be clear - we are using the PushKit VoIP API to deliver a world-class, private messaging experience, not for the purpose of collecting data."
Facebook also advised the changes are "not insignificant, but we are in conversations with Apple on how best to address" the alterations.
The background processing for VoIP calls in relation to Facebook's apps has been an issue for some time, with former Apple app review team chief Phillip Shoemaker noting Facebook's splintering of Messenger into a standalone app in 2014 didn't end Facebook's use of the feature in the main social network app. While Shoemaker advises Facebook was stopped from using the system in its main app, the VoIP background mode is still actively used in both Messenger and WhatsApp.
"Messenger can still use [VoIP background] mode, and does," Shoemaker said. "What they do in the background, whether it be accept calls, listen in all the time or update the content of the main app, it's all unclear to Apple, but could be happening."
Facebook is not the only app producer to be using the technique, with Snapchat and WeChat cited as using it to run in the background for reasons other than voice calling. The lack of knowledge of what the apps are explicitly doing during those periods has been a potential cause for alarm.
The social network has been caught in a number of compromising situations relating to user privacy over the last few years. Aside from the Cambridge Analytica scandal that cost it $5 billion, the company has also used its now-banned Research VPN app to acquire data on 187,000 users since 2016, which led to Apple temporarily pulling Facebook's enterprise certificate.
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Personally, I don't ever use these apps for VoIP - but I do use the Ooma app on my iPhone to receive calls made to our home phone. I hope there are workarounds to keep apps like this (and Skype, for those who don't mind the suck that is Microsoft) from being totally neutered.
caladanian
I really appreciate Apple is setting the standard for privacy here which others would never do (because they don't want or are not capable of).
sflocal
I have zero problems with this. I hate how power-hungry apps like Facebook are.
mobird
Anything that negatively impacts (in Facebook's perception) any and all Facebook and it's associated platforms is OK with me.
There are going to be collectively millions of people that someday look back and wonder and ask how they ever allowed themselves to forfeit so much of their respective personal information just to be able to post "what's for dinner", high school yearbook pictures, along with cute and funny looking animals while at the same time unbeknownst to themselves reading volumes of deceiving and fake news.
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The new technique is outlined in the article.
Documents 8.3.3 review: File manager best for PDF and MP3
The Documents app by Readdle is a self-proclaimed super app to organize files across devices and cloud-based platforms, but its strength may also be its weakness.
App Store prices set to increase in United Kingdom, others
Apple has announced that, due to changes in foreign exchange rates, it will raise prices of both apps and in-app purchases made in several countries starting on February 13.
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Timothee Chalamet is back again with another Apple TV+ in which he continues to pine for his own show on the platform.
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Now that the 57th Antigua Charter Yacht Show is in full swing — and we're refreshed by warm sun and cool breezes — the Nicholson team turns its full attention to the key reason we endured pre-dawn flights to the Caribbean.
Stepping aboard these beautiful and spotless yachts, meeting the crews, inspecting the accommodations, and asking about cruising itineraries helps us pick the best charter vacations for our clientele.
And let's not forget one more chore: tasting the fare. Food and drink make or break a charter, plain and simple. That's why we leapt at an invitation to afternoon tea aboard ODESSA, a 164-foot motor yacht built by Proteksan in 2007.
From papaya scones to Coronation Chicken finger sandwiches, the "snack" was sumptuous in every way. And the company, ranging from friendly central agents to knowledgeable brokers from around the globe, represented a fascinating range of perspectives on marine and non-marine issues.
From there, team Nicholson dashed off to a nearby marina to meet with crew of AQUILA, a beautiful 82-foot Swan that's a member of the fleet. They momentarily put aside tools and polishing clothes to chat about the busy charter season ahead.
After the sun set over Shirley Heights, Team Nicholson attended the show's annual Welcome Cocktail Party at The Copper & Lumber Store Hotel. It proved a smashing success — we can forgive the DJ for playing HOT HOT HOT again.
The full charter team was present: Karen Kelly Shea, president; Georgia and Joe Byrd, brokers from the Nicholson Charleston, S.C., office; Elaine Lembo, charter manager and communications director; and Julia Towne, charter and sales associate.
We'll have more details for you about what makes a crewed charter the best vacation ever, when associate Julia Towne heads off after the show for a week of sailing around Antigua aboard THE DOVE, another top-flight monohull in the Nicholson fleet. Stay tuned!


Inspiration for renovations, custom homes and commercial construction comes from many sources. But planning and executing all the activities needed to RENEW. REBUILD. RENOVATE. RE-CREATE a home or business requires more than creative thought = it takes a team of professionally trained and skilled workers to get the job done to perfection.
Inspired to do a dramatic expansion, an epic renovation, increase floor space, a short-term re-sale value or embark on a total tear down and rebuild? We've got you covered.
Whether you're looking for a timeless design, classic trends, traditional features or a distinctive look and feel we'll make your vision a reality.
During the PRE-CONSTRUCTION PHASE, we use a systematic Value Engineering process to maximize the value of your investment while minimizing costs to you. By reviewing the functions of products and services against the costs, we can form a cost-efficient quote designed to meet your construction needs. This process takes place during many phases of a project, even if you already have a design, and involves an in-depth diagnosis of your specific needs and budget. The Value Engineering process also includes budgeting, site evaluation and status reporting.
During the CONSTRUCTION PHASE, we conduct daily on-site quality control visits, perform cost management tasks, access shop drawings and records, monitor safety management procedures and manage the sub-contractors.
Our CONSTRUCTION MANAGEMENT SERVICES keep your costs in check and provides you with the flexibility to retain our services on a flat-fee basis, not an open-ended contract.


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Cheryl Phillips
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Director, Big Local News
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Phillips specializes in data journalism and investigative journalism that uses data.
Cheryl Phillips has been teaching journalism at Stanford since 2014. Most recently, she founded Big Local News. She also is co-founder of the Stanford Open Policing Project, a cross-departmental effort to collect police interaction data and evaluate racial disparities. And she is a founding member of the California Civic Data Coalition, an effort to make California campaign finance data accessible.
Previously, Phillips worked at The Seattle Times for 12 years in a variety of reporting and editing roles with the investigations team and across the newsroom. In 2014, she was involved in coverage of a landslide that killed 43 people, which received a Pulitzer Prize for breaking news. In 2009, she was the lone editor in the newsroom when four police officers were shot at a coffee shop and was integrally involved in the subsequent coverage, which received a Pulitzer Prize for breaking news. She has twice been on teams that were Pulitzer finalists.
Phillips has worked at USA Today and at newspapers in Michigan, Montana and Texas. She served for 10 years on the board of Investigative Reporters and Editors and is a former board president. Twitter: @cephillips
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Southwest Virginia Residents Sought to Direct Region's Battle Against Cancer
UVA Cancer Center is partnering with community health centers to expand access to cancer screenings, including for breast cancer.
A new University of Virginia Cancer Center initiative will empower Southwest Virginia residents to lead projects to better detect and prevent cancer in the region. The effort has earned $244,589 in funding from the Eugene Washington Engagement Award Program at the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI).
With the funding in hand, the UVA Cancer Center Without Walls team is now seeking Southwest Virginia residents who will be trained to guide these cancer research projects.
Their goal is to address two cancer disparities in the Appalachian counties of Southwest Virginia:
the lack of early screening and detection
high death rates (between 15 and 36 percent higher compared with urban non-Appalachian residents) caused by later detection and lack of access to treatment and support programs
Building Community Involvement
This new initiative grew out of a community advisory board formed in 2013 for the UVA Cancer Center Without Walls, which works to improve cancer care for residents of Southwest Virginia. "The advisory board has been a sounding board for researchers," said Jamie Zoellner, PhD, RD, co-director of the Cancer Center Without Walls. "We hadn't sat down at the table with [the advisory board members] and said, 'What are your research priorities?'"
So over the past year, UVA Cancer Center team members met with the community advisory board to determine the board's priorities – which ended up centering on early detection and prevention – and to refine the application for funding through a PCORI contract.
"Mountain Empire Older Citizens is excited to serve on the Cancer Center without Walls Community Advisory Board and provide to leadership for the Early Detection Community Action Team, said Michael Wampler, executive director of Mountain Empire Older Citizens, Inc. "We are eager to help identify cancer-related priorities in southwest Virginia and expand community-based research opportunities."
The UVA Cancer Center Without Walls is seeking residents from the counties of Bland, Buchanan, Carroll, Dickenson, Grayson, Lee, Russell, Scott, Smyth, Tazewell, Washington, Wise and Wythe, along with the cities of Bristol, Galax and Norton, to join the existing advisory board members in forming community action teams. The initiative is specifically seeking to add patients with cancer, cancer survivors and caregivers for cancer patients to the community action teams. The initiative also aims to involve more oncologists, clinicians, researchers and policy makers who serve this region.
To learn more about the initiative, please contact Betsy Grossman at elg6y@virginia.edu or 276.376.3437.
About PCORI
PCORI is an independent, nonprofit organization authorized by Congress in 2010 to fund comparative effectiveness research that will provide patients, their caregivers, and clinicians with the evidence needed to make better-informed health and healthcare decisions. PCORI is committed to seeking input from a broad range of stakeholders to guide its work.
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mouse on the keys announces Spring 2017 European Tour with Mutiny On The Bounty
Following the release of their new record "Out of Body", which came out at the start of 2017 via Topshelf Records, Japan's mouse on the keys have announced an 11 date EU/UK tour with Mutiny On The Bounty.
European Tour Dates 2017:
28.04 - Rotondes - Luxembourg (LUX)
29.04 - KulturA - Liège (BEL)
30.04 - Patterns - Brighton (UK)
01.05 - Rich Mix - London (UK)
03.05 - Cairo - Würzburg (GER)
05.05 - Vera - Copenhagen (DK)
06.05 - Molotow - Hamburg (GER)
08.05 - Underdogs Ballroom - Prague (CZ)
09.05 - Kantine am Berghain - Berlin (GER)
11.05 - Grammatikoff - Duisburg (GER)
12.05 - Schon Schön - Mainz (GER)
Formed in 2006 and combining elements of classical, jazz and electronic with the urgency of math-rock, hardcore and heavy metal, Japanese instrumental trio mouse on the keys defy categorization. Based in Tokyo, the group consists of two former members of influential Japanese underground band, Nine Days Wonder: Akira Kawasaki and Atsushi Kiyota, as well as Daisuke Niitome, who has played drums and composed music for countless jazz‐funk and hip hop bands. Their unique sound, comprised of two minimally phrased pianos, two keyboards and dynamic drumming - amalgamated with the pursuit of a live experience composed of visual and audio expression - sees the trio stand at the forefront of the Japanese music scene.
mouse on the keys are well-known for blurring genres and their forthcoming release "Out of Body" is no exception, traversing dark and avant-garde electronica, minimalist neo-classical, whilst also continuing to develop on their math-rock tendencies with rapid-fire time signature changes, angular rhythms and melodic yet frenetic piano work. The new record sees mouse on the keys take a darker turn and carries a more sombre atmosphere than that of previous releases, as each track is centered on the macabre theme of near-death experiences.
Speaking on the concept behind the new record, Akira Kawasaki said: "After the disaster of Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant in 2011 and through my experience of suffering from asymptomatic brain infarction, I came to feel death familiar. I have been influenced by the book 'Near-death experience' by a Japanese journalist Takashi Tachibana and the documentary TV program about it".
"Out of Body" is as dark as it is beautiful and its seamless transmutation between styles and genres is something that mouse on the keys become more confident on with every release. "Out of Body" is a journey through the bands emotional and mental condition on both dark and incredibly touching subjects, which evokes feelings of empathy and also attainment. This is a record that requires attention and concentration, and is one that rewards you more and more with every listen.
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Herders from Urad Middle Banner petition in front of the Ministry of Agriculture building in Beijing, Nov. 2013.
Chinese authorities have expelled a group of Inner Mongolian herders from Beijing after they persistently petitioned officials over the loss of their grazing land in a landmark case, a U.S.-based rights group said Monday.
The 17 herders from the Urad Middle Banner (in Chinese, Wulate Zhongqi) of Inner Mongolia's Bayannur city in northern China have now been confined to their home communities to prevent them from staging further protests, the Southern Mongolian Human Rights Information Center (SMHRIC) said.
The herders had been protesting for several years over the occupation of their grazing lands by local officials, a military base, and Han Chinese miners, SMHRIC said, calling them a rare example of ethnic Mongolians from across a wide area working together to bring their land rights grievances to central authorities.
"This is new because it's very difficult for Mongolian communities to get together to raise issues, but they were able to do this," SMHRIC President Enhebatu Togochog told RFA on Monday.
The group was rounded up in Beijing and brought home on Nov. 30 after 12 days of submitting appeals to the State Council Letter and Visitation Bureau and the Ministry of Agriculture, the SMHRIC said in a weekend statement.
"This time our 17 herders' representatives went to Beijing and tried to appeal to the Central Government for a just solution to our grievances," said one of the petitioners, identified as Burenzayaa.
"Unfortunately our appeals are still ignored and the government of Urad Middle Banner shows no sign of returning our lands or compensating us for our losses," she said.
The 17 protesters come from different areas in the 9,000 square-mile banner—the administrative equivalent of a county—where herders have been embroiled in various long-running disputes.
Togochog said the 17 herders' case was "totally different" from other reports SMHRIC has received about herders protesting the loss of their land because it involved members from different communities from across a vast area.
"Previously most of the reports we heard were about more specific cases, usually about specific villages. But this is about people from all across the area uniting together," he said.
All 17 are believed to remain under "strict" surveillance and restrictions since they were last reached on Saturday, he said.
While in Beijing, the petitioners had protested to central government authorities against expropriation and sale of their land by local government officials to Han Chinese buyers, the destruction of their grazing land, and failure to provide adequate redress and compensation to affected herders.
Petitioners from the banner have been detained and beaten in recent years for their efforts to protect the grazing lands, they said.
In August, one member of their group, Erdentuyaa, was killed by a car while the group was walking across the street.
Petitioners said they believed her death was an intentional killing rather than an accident, and that authorities had tried to silence her family, who was given 930,000 yuan (U.S. $153,000) in compensation for her death.
Petitioners told SMHRIC that this year alone, herders have staged multiple protests and sit-ins near the banner government building in Haliut township, prompting a crackdown by riot police and security personnel.
In July and August, hundreds of herders carried out days-long of sit-ins to demand redress over their grazing land and dozens of them were beaten and detained, they said.
Ahead of the ruling Chinese Communist Party's Third Plenum in November, authorities tightened surveillance on their communities and detained two herders, Davharaa and Tsetsengaa, for several days without explanation, they said.
Petitioner Ondongerel, who has been jailed multiple times in recent years for organizing protests, told SMHRIC the group would not let up on their protests since being rounded up in Beijing.
Gansukh, a herder from the banner in his 70s, said ethnic Mongolians in the area were becoming "outsiders on our own lands" as their grazing areas were taken over by Han Chinese settlers.
"This is our land. We have lived here for generations and generations as herders. Now all of a sudden, our ancestral lands are taken away by outsiders," he told SMHRIC.
Ethnic Mongolians, who make up almost 20 percent of Inner Mongolia's population of 23 million, frequently complain of environmental destruction and unfair development policies in the region.
In August, herder Bayanbataar from Uushin Banner was beaten to death by Han Chinese railroad workers while protesting the occupation of grazing lands in Inner Mongolia's Uushin (Wushen) Banner.
In 2011, the death of herder Murgen, who was run over by a worker driving a coal-hauling truck while protesting the destruction of grazing lands by a mining company, triggered weeks of demonstrations by herders and students across Inner Mongolia.


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Scotland international Christophe Berra has signed a new three-year deal with Ipswich Town.
The 29-year-old is Town's top scorer this season with three goals and will remain at Portman Road until 2017.
The former Wolves centre-half, who was set to be out of contract this summer, has played 51 times since joining Mick McCarthy's side last summer.
"I'm delighted to see Christophe commit to a new contract here," McCarthy told the club website.
"It's great news for Ipswich Town, as he's been absolutely fantastic for us since he first walked through the door."


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This lovely apartment is located in an old, beautiful property on the third floor. The apartment consists of 228 square meter and offers seks rooms, where as there is three nice bedrooms, a spacious dining room and two beautiful living rooms en suite.
Then there is a large kitchen with room for a small dining table, a nice bathroom and a guest toilet.
The apartment is rented fully furnished.
Washing machine, dryer, dish washer, oven, stove, hood, microwave oven, fridge and a freezer.
Kastelsvej is located in the lovely embassy neighbourhood at Østerbro. The apartment is located just beside the popular Classensgade and Østerbrogade, where you find a lot of shops, restaurants and nice cafés. There is a short distance to green areas by Østre Anlæg, Kastellet and Langelinje, as well as pier and beach by Nordhavn and Svanemøllen.
Public transport is just five minutes away at Østerport train Station, as well as busses from Østerbrogade.


In the past decade, bed bug infestations have been increasing worldwide. Historically, studies have failed to provide evidence for the transmission of human diseases through bed bugs, but recent evidence is lacking. Although physical reactions to bed bug bites continue to be documented, evidence regarding the mental health effects arising from bed bug infestations is limited to anecdotes and case reports. This report provides an update and summary of the bed bug management strategies discussed during a workshop at the 2010 Canadian Public Health Association Conference. ''Best practices'' regarding prevention, identification, and treatment options are presented, using evidence from existing evaluative studies. Awareness of bed bug behaviour and proper building maintenance can prevent transfer of bed bugs from belongings, including second-hand items, and reduce entry points and harbourage sites. In addition to inspection by trained professionals, early recognition of clinical symptoms and environmental signs of an infestation are important to avoid further spread of bed bugs and to allow implementation of safe and effective treatment options. Early findings may indicate a need for special support for vulnerable individuals with mental health issues potentially exacerbated by bed bug infestations. Preparing units for treatment, including the removal of clutter, is essential. However, physical and financial limitations are challenges for managing bed bug infestations, especially for vulnerable populations. Current treatment options such as application of heat or pesticides can be effective when properly implemented,but there are concerns with pesticide resistance. An Integrated Pest Management approach is recommended and should include ongoing monitoring and prevention that are essential for positive treatment outcomes. Regulatory officials, building management, and pest management professionals are encouraged to collaborate using a systematic approach to address bed bug infestations.


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A team from South Florida Dental Care recently volunteered their services at Florida Mission of Mercy. The goal of the mission is to serve the uninsured and underserved Florida residents without access to regular dental care. To this end, they offer free dental care to the less fortunate by organizing large-scale dental clinics around the state.
Our team was proud to participate in a two-day intensive clinic in Fort Myers in early March.
How does it work? Why do we believe it's so important?
The 2018 Florida Mission of Mercy in Fort Myers treated over 1,900 patients with free dental services valued at over $1.75 million.
Dr. Leonardo Frydman, along with dental hygienist Amy Reyes and dental assistant Sofia Karachalios, represented South Florida Dental Care at the event, which has been held in Florida since 2014. They performed cleanings, extractions, and root canals on both children and adults.
Clinics like these are incredibly valuable, because one in five Americans can't afford dental care, and half don't get treatment until serious problems develop. Medicaid in its current form isn't the answer either.
For one, there are a huge number of people who fall through this safety net because they earn too much to qualify – but still not enough to pay for regular dental care. Somewhere around 40 percent of Florida residents cannot afford quality dental care.
Secondly, even the 20+ percent of Florida residents receive Medicaid insurance do not receive adequate dental coverage. How so? While the program covers regular dental checkups for children, adults only qualify for emergency care and once-per-lifetime dentures. Procedures like cleanings and fillings aren't covered at all.
These individuals often end up visiting the emergency room for dental care, which is not equipped to handle oral health problems like dental offices. Emergency room workers only treat an infection with antibiotics, which prolongs the problem.
Simply put, this is an insufficient system. Regular preventive care – like twice per year cleanings – has been shown to ward off the majority of dental problems.
Organizations like Mission of Mercy seek to fill in some of the gaps in our system by treating as many people as possible who otherwise wouldn't get help until there was some kind of emergency – making the problem more difficult and more expensive to treat.
Sadly, organizations like Mission of Mercy and large-scale dental clinics such as the one we volunteered at in Fort Myers are not enough to solve the problem on their own. That's why South Florida Dental Care seeks to make things a bit easier for patients by offering different payment arrangements for those who need them.
Our CareCredit program allows people who can't afford the entire cost of the treatment they need right away to make payments with no interest. Available plans give patients the ability to pay off their balance in three, six, 12, or 18 months. You need a minimum of $300 in dental care to qualify for plans that last longer than three months, minimum monthly payments are required, and other restrictions may apply as well.
We also offer an extended payment plan with a 13.90% APR. This plan has fixed minimum monthly payments for 24, 36, or 48 months for balances of $1,000 or more, or 60 months for balances of $2,500 and up.
For more information, contact our team to discuss which payment plan is right for you.
Don't let finances interfere with your oral health. Reach out to us for a consultation, and we'll come up with a treatment plan that's right for you.


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Review: Carly Rae Jepsen – Dedicated
May 20, 2019 by itsalldead Leave a Comment
Four years is a long time to wait between albums. While fans clamor for new music, artists risk losing cultural cachet. This is, of course, inherently dumb because time is a flat circle and, also, art doesn't work on a schedule. Nevertheless, the antiquated expectation is a real thing. Just maybe not so much for Carly Rae Jepsen.
You can buy or stream Dedicated on Apple Music.
In the four years since the one-time one hit wonder reinvented herself with 2015's Emotion (my personal favorite album of the decade so far), Jepsen has become meme-able in the best of ways. Her newfound niche fanbase has found community in her quirky pop and personality, often inciting viral moments to spread the good news.
It helps that Jepsen has offered up appetizers in the form of 2016's Emotion: Side B, 2017's summer single "Cut to the Feeling" and last year's new-album-primer "Party for One". Even when she was on hiatus, it never really felt like she was gone.
But here we are – finally – with a new full-length album called Dedicated. To cut right to the chase, Dedicated does not match the masterful execution of Emotion, but it's a hell of a fun pop record. Whereas Emotion found synchronicity in theme and sound, Dedicated reads more as a collection tried-and-true tactics and delightful experiments. When you write more than 100 songs leading up to a record, they may not all live in harmony, but the best of the crop are fairly certain to be good.
Unsurprisingly, Jepsen has already shared the obvious singles to quench our expectations – light, bubbly pop anthems with big hooks. "Now That I Found You" is the "I Really Like You" of Dedicated, an easy anchor to draw us in. Similarly, "Too Much" and "No Drug Like Me" fit the bill for heart-on-her-sleeve Jepsen material, equally catchy and eccentric. Where Dedicated really excels, though, is when she leans into experimentation and allows herself to get a little weird.
"Want You in My Room" is a great example, proving that the Jepsen/Jack Antonoff partnership is just as fresh as when it began. A track that wouldn't have sounded out of place on the last Bleachers record, "Want You in My Room" matches deep bass and organic instrumentation with Jepsen's breath-y delivery of lines like, "I'll press you to the pages of my heart". It's everything fans of Carly already love about her, freshened up with new sounds and tempos that sound specifically built for Summer 2019.
Similarly, "Happy Not Knowing" uses the sonic building blocks of Emotion to achieve something new, coupling shoegaze guitar licks with the synth sounds we've come to know so well. It's also peak CRJ in the best way, honing in on those feelings of longing and the insecurities that keeps us from acting on them: "I don't have the energy / To risk a broken heart / When you're already killing me".
"The Sound" lays a tinkling piano behind the synthesizers while "Automatically in Love" finds Jepsen experimenting with pitch and pace to create a fantastic chorus to match the most Carly Rae song title in history. All of the new pieces seem to come together on "Feels Right", where the partnering of Jepsen and Electric Guest results in one of Dedicated's highlights.
On the whole, Dedicated feels like the output of an artist who has earned the opportunity to test some new waters without losing even one iota of who she is, allowing her to stay firmly in her own wheelhouse while still creating something new. What a treat for fans that identify so deeply with her penchant for leaning hard into her feelings.
At a time when it feels more enticing than ever to disengage, Jepsen invites us to do the opposite without ever sounding forced or cheesy. Just listen to the lyrics of "Too Much" and try not to smile: "So be careful if you're wanting this touch / 'Cause if I love you, then I love you too much". At every step, Jepsen reminds us that it's good to feel completely and without shame or fear. It's likely what keeps her from ascending back into the upper echelon of pop music, but it's something that makes her music so much better and refreshing.
by Kiel Hauck
Kiel Hauck is the editor in chief at It's All Dead. Over the past decade, he has been a contributor for multiple online and print publications and was most recently an editor at PopMatters. Kiel currently resides in Indianapolis, IN with his wife and their imaginary pet, Hand Dog. You can follow him on Twitter.
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Noble Bread is moving from their previous location at the Uptown Saturday and will now be sold with McClendon's Select. Look for the two gold Noble Bread tents at the entrances. Along side Noble's wonderful organic breads, McClendon's Select will have beautiful Little Gem Red and Green Lettuces, Meyer Lemons, Butterkin and Delicata squashes, Tuscan Kale, and both Cheddar and White Cauliflower, along with all of your other favorite organic fruits and vegetables from the farm. We will have all of these at both the Uptown Saturday market and the Old Town Scottsdale farmers markets.


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BENGALURU: Paytm has launched peer to peer payment system for merchants, a week after the digital payments company withdrew its point-of-sale (PoS) app feature over security issues raised by the industry.
The relaunched the feature in a new format that will enable merchants to send a payments link to the customer via text message, the company said on Thursday.
Paytm had faced criticism for its original POS app that had required merchants to take customers' card details on their own phones, thus posing a security concern.
Payment card companies including MasterCard and Visa had raised concerns with the Alibaba-backed Paytm, which withdrew the feature within 24 hours of its launch last week.
Under the updated feature, merchants can choose the "Accept Payment" option on the Paytm app and enter the customer's mobile number and amount details. This will trigger a secure link sent by SMS to the customers so they can enter their credit or debit card details on their own mobile phone.
Paytm's competitors such as PayU India and Razorpay have also recently launched similar payment features that send a payment link to customers' phones.
While announcing the relaunch on Thursday, Paytm said its POS app will soon also enable UPI inter-operable payments.


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Carmine screeches about charter schools
By Carmine Santa Maria
It is no secret that the Community Education District 21, of which I am a former member and maintain close ties with, is fighting a losing battle against the Department of Education and the Bloomberg Administration over charter schools. The city is determined to shoehorn the Coney Island Prep charter school into a Department of Education building, sharing precious space and resources with one of our public schools, and it's not going to stop until it gets that job done. Its latest target is IS 303.
This is a copy of the press advisory that was sent out regarding this issue on Monday April 4, 2011:
"Expecting a huge turnout of disgruntled parents to protest democracy not in action. The Community Education Council (CEC) District 21 met with Tweed officials and tried to explain its position why Coney Island Prep should not be placed in IS 303 building. A dangerous learning environment will result due to extreme overcrowding of the shared facilities which is currently housing three schools: IS 303, Rachel Carson High School, and District 75 P771K. This disregards the children's safety and is something the CEC cannot ignore or tolerate.
"As per CEC21's resolution, which was sent and ignored, the current construction of the IS 303 facility is not designed to safely support the existence of four separate school populations. IS 303 implements a unique instructional model that includes self–contained classes on the sixth and seventh grades to meet the academic, social and emotional needs of its students. Co-location would force the removal of this model.
"The current fifth grade parents of the incoming students are victims of fraud perpetrated by the Department of Education. The school that these parents visited and approved is far different from the school their children will be attending. This contradicts the mayor's and chancellor's vision of empowerment for school principals."
Whether you are a proponent of charter schools or not, the true issue is that charter schools, with much smaller classes, and the fact that they are not totally under the direction of the Department of Education, have much more leeway in educating.
The Bloomberg Administration has changed the education system twice; re-naming it the Department of Education and dividing it into regions, and now taking power away from principals when it claims to be empowering them.
Everything stems from Tweed — a stone's throw from the mayor's clutches. If every school were to be a charter school, where every child was to be educated equally, we would have no problems with charter schools.
But by the nature of the beast, charter schools only serve the elite.
As of this writing, I do not know what occurred at Lincoln High School, but based on previous encounters, parents that support the district schools versus the parents that support charter schools have proven to be a never ending battle.
Will the mayor win?
Screech at you next week!
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A prova dos 200 metros rasos masculino do Campeonato Mundial Júnior de Atletismo de 2014 ocorreu entre os dias 24 e 25 de julho em Eugene, nos Estados Unidos.

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Antes desta competição, os recordes mundiais e do campeonato nesta prova eram os seguintes:

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Qualificação: Os 2 primeiros de cada bateria (Q) e os 6 tempos mais rápidos (q).

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Semifinal
Qualificação: Os 2 primeiros de cada bateria (Q) e os 2 tempos mais rápidos (q).

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Final
A prova final foi realizada no dia 25 de julho às 20:10.

Campeonato Mundial Júnior de Atletismo de 2014

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Hey folks, hope all is well! I have resolved the stepper motor code issue that I was stuck on most of yesterday and today.
The issue ended up being a two sided problem. One being a misconfiguration while using the AccelStepper Arduino library and the second being an intermittent shorting on one of the JST connectors between the stepper and L298N motor controller.
I have only completed a small subset of my required tests. Realistically, I need another two full day shifts to get through them.
I feel like the majority of the stepper testing was covered in the troubleshooting I was doing over the last 24 hours so I will be moving over to heating and water flow tomorrow. I do want to add the pour over cone control endpoint to the Decaf API before that, I will have that deployed by lunchtime.
The next update will be in 24-48 hours and we should have a good idea on where we are at with shipping at that point.


How Much money Walter Christensen has? For this question we spent 23 hours on research (Wikipedia, Youtube, we read books in libraries, etc) to review the post.
:How tall is Walter Christensen – 1,73m.
Walter Christensen is an actor, known for Tren gaucho (1989).


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Concurrency's Johnathon Biersack Named Microsoft MVP for Enterprise Mobility
Concurrency, Inc. consultant Johnathon Biersack was named a Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) for Enterprise Mobility technologies as of July 1, 2016.
Biersack was awarded for his contributions to Microsoft's Enterprise Mobility Suite (EMS) product line. Over the past year he gained wide recognition in EMS technical communities for scripts he wrote and shared publicly to benefit others working in the EMS area. These scripts, which enable convenient configuration of Wi-Fi pre-shared keys on iOS and Android devices, came to be regularly referenced by Microsoft's own Intune support team and were later formally incorporated into official Microsoft Product Support documentation. In addition, Biersack contributed blog and forum posts and participated in TechNet documentation reviews to benefit the wider EMS community.
"Johnathon's accomplishment is the gold standard for rapid career progress while genuinely making a difference to clients and our firm," said Kate Weiland, Vice President of Human Capital at Concurrency. "From Concurrency University to Microsoft MVP in under two years is an incredible accomplishment."
Concurrency is home to 10 Microsoft MVPs, an elite group of experts in Microsoft technologies who are recognized both for their knowledge and active involvement in related technical communities.
Biersack's accomplishment is highly unusual given the short period of time from beginning to learn the technology to being named an MVP. After joining the Concurrency University training program two years ago—coming from a corporate IT systems support job elsewhere and wanting to move to the leading edge of technology—Biersack seized an opportunity to become the firm's go-to expert in the emerging area of EMS technologies.
"I came to Concurrency wanting to see new things and figure them out when no one else has," Biersack said on July 1 after being notified about the MVP award. "I wanted a chance to put a puzzle together without having a picture to work from. EMS gave me an opportunity to do something new, at the intersection of cloud services and many other Microsoft platforms."
Concurrency, with offices in Brookfield, Wisconsin, Chicago and Minneapolis, is a Microsoft Partner of the Year-winning professional services firm serving mid-market to enterprise-sized organizations throughout the Midwest. The firm has been named to both Redmond Channel Partner's new list of "Microsoft's Top 200 U.S. Partners" and CRN's "2016 CRN Solution Provider 500" list.
About Concurrency
Founded in 1989, Concurrency, Inc. envisions, architects, and integrates across all Microsoft enterprise platforms to bring business value to its customers. Clients choose Concurrency for its team approach, top talent, project-scoped work plans and business value.
Across all technologies and business needs, Concurrency focuses on helping clients realize more value from their IT investments through creative solutions that consider people, process, and technology needs. Microsoft has recognized Concurrency with multiple partner-of-the-year awards, including 2014 Microsoft Partner of the Year Finalist in Management and Virtualization; 2012 Microsoft Content Management Partner of the Year; 2012 Microsoft Central Region Partner of the Year; and 2012 & 2011 Microsoft Midwest Area Partner of the Year.


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Reiner Steinweg (* 29. Juni 1939 in Pähl) ist ein deutscher Friedens- und Konfliktforscher sowie Theater- und Erzählpädagoge, der zunächst als Brecht-Forscher bekannt wurde.

Werdegang
Steinweg verbrachte seine frühe Kindheit in Schlesien. Kurz vor Kriegsende floh die Mutter mit ihm und seinen drei jüngeren Geschwistern über Böhmen nach Ostwestfalen-Lippe. Sein Vater – promovierter Jurist bei der Reichsbahn – starb als Soldat Anfang Mai 1945 auf dem Balkan. Nach dem Abitur 1959 in Lemgo studierte er an verschiedenen Universitäten, u. a. in Paris, Literaturwissenschaft und Geschichte, machte 1965 in Kiel das Staatsexamen und promovierte dort 4 Jahre später über "Brechts Theorie der Lehrstücke. Ein Theorie-Praxis-Modell". Ab 1969 war er als Deutschlehrer in der Heimvolkshochschule Hesbjerg bei Odense/Dänemark tätig und zugleich Mitglied im Kollegium des Peace Research College Hesbjerg. 1971 begann er ein Zweitstudium der Politikwissenschaft und Soziologie mit Schwerpunkt Friedens- und Konflikt-forschung in Frankfurt am Main mit einem Stipendium der gerade gegründeten Berghof Stiftung für Konfliktforschung.

Bereits während der Studienzeit wurde er Mitglied im Hamburger Aktionskreis für Gewaltlosigkeit und nahm 1961 von Osnabrück bis Moskau am "San-Francisco-Moscow March for Peace" (Unilateral Disarmament) teil, organisiert vom Committee for Nonviolent Action (Abraham Muste / Bradford Lyttle), organisierte er im Auftrag des Komitees gegen Atomrüstung den Ostermarsch in München und der Region Süd, gemeinsam mit Carl Amery (1962), war er tätig als Kantor der Christengemeinschaft in Kiel und führte "Das neue Jerusalem" von Klaus Harlan auf (1967) und verfasste gemeinsam mit Jens Ihwe ein Memorandum zur Gründung eines deutschen Instituts für Friedensforschung (1968).

1971 Ehe mit Erica von Wrangell, Tochter Gisela geb. 1975; zweite Ehe mit Ulrike Breitwieser, Sohn Felix geb. 1986.

Leben und Werk
Steinweg verband Forschungs- und Lehrtätigkeiten, Gremienarbeit und politische Praxis. Aufbauend auf seine Dissertation (1969) über die Lehrstücke Bertolt Brechts entwickelte er in den 1980er Jahren einen Ansatz für selbstreflexive friedenspolitische Bildungsarbeit, der auch Ausgangspunkt der Forschungsprojekte "Jugend und Gewalt" (1980–1986), "Gewalt in der Stadt" (1989 bis 1994 im Auftrag des Grazer Büros für Frieden und Entwicklung), "Vorbereitung auf existentielle Konflikte in Ausbildung, Gruppe und Beruf" (1994–1997, gemeinsam mit Eva Maringer) und "Arbeitsklima und Konfliktpotential" der Arbeiterkammer Linz (1997–1999) war, die er mit einer Reihe von Publikationen abschloss. Seit 1996 engagierte er sich für die Umsetzung des Konzepts der gewaltfreien Kommunikation nach Marshall Rosenberg durch Trainings und Veröffentlichungen. 2011 veröffentlichte er einen Sammelband "Gewaltfreie Aktion. Erfahrungen und Analysen" (gemeinsam mit Ulrike Laubenthal).

1972 bis 1974 organisierte Steinweg Tagungen und Kongresse der Arbeitsgemeinschaft für Friedens- und Konfliktforschung (AFK), einer Wissenschaftsvereinigung aus allen akademischen Disziplinen. 1972 bis 1980 organisierte er mehrere Veranstaltungen in Frankfurt am Main als Mitglied des Sozialistischen Büros. 1974 bis 1988 war er Redakteur der "Friedensanalysen" in der edition suhrkamp als Mitarbeiter der Hessischen Stiftung Friedens- und Konfliktforschung, 1976 bis 1984 erhielt er einen Lehrauftrag an der Universität Frankfurt am Main. zu Fragen der Gewaltfreiheit, der Bürgerinitiativen-Bewegung, sozialpsychologischen Aspekten von Krieg und Frieden, u. a. zum Zusammenhang von Männlichkeitswahn und Krieg, sowie zur Theaterpädagogik; ferner übte er eine Lehrtätigkeit an der Fachhochschule Frankfurt am Main zur Theater- und Erzählpädagogik aus.

1979 bis 1986 war er Mitbegründer und Beiratsmitglied, später für drei Jahre Mitvorsitzender der Bildungs- und Begegnungsstätte für gewaltfreie Aktion / Kurve Wustrow bei Gorleben. 1984–85 Organisator der Kampagne "Produzieren für das Leben. Rüstungsexporte stoppen" (Pax Christi, Ohne Rüstung Leben, Versöhnungsbund). 1985 bis 1994 war er Redakteur des jährlichen "Friedensberichts" des Österreichischen Studienzentrums für Frieden und Konfliktlösung (ÖSFK). 1987 bis 2004 war er Leiter der Außenstelle Linz des ÖSFK.

1989 bis 1992 war Steinweg Lehrbeauftragter an Universitäten in Sao Paulo, Innsbruck, Salzburg und Wien, seit 2009 auch an der Fachhochschule Osnabrück / Theaterpädagogisches Institut Lingen, und seit 2012 an der "European Peace University" (EPU) in Stadtschlaining im Burgenland. 1998 bis 2000 leitete er den Aufbau der Abteilung "Wege aus der Alltagsgewalt" des "Europäischen Museums für Frieden" in der Friedensburg Schlaining. 2001 bis 2002 war er kommissarischer Leiter des Berghof-Forschungsinstituts für konstruktive Konfliktbearbeitung in Berlin.

Als Berater der Friedensstadt Linz entwarf er seit 1988 die jährlichen "Friedenserklärungen" der Stadt Linz und initiierte 1993 eine Linzer Delegation in den Kosovo sowie daran anschließend 1999 den "Linzer Appell für Friedenspolitik", aus dem 2003 der Vorschlag einer United Nations Commission for Peace and Conflict Prevention (UNCOPAC) und das Forum Crisis Prevention hervorgingen. 2006 war er nach dem Libanonkrieg einer der Autoren des "Manifests der 25" für eine veränderte deutsche Nahost-Politik und vertrat dieses Konzept 2008 auf Einladung der Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung in Israel.

Seit 2017 ist er Ehrenmitglied der Friedensakademie Linz.

Schriften (Auswahl)
Neben der hier angeführten Auswahl seiner Monografien und Sammelbände veröffentlichte Steinweg viele Aufsätze in zahlreichen Periodika und Sammelbänden
als Herausgeber
 Erzählen was ich nicht weiß. Die Lust zu fabulieren und wie sie die politische, soziale und therapeutische Arbeit bereichert. Schibri-Verlag, Berlin 2006, ISBN 3-937895-14-0
 Erziehung zum Kritischen Denken. Texte und Wirkungen des Lehrers Heinz Schultz. Brandes & Apsel,  Frankfurt/M. 1993, ISBN 3-86099-109-4 (zusammen mit Volkhard Brandes)
 Friedensanalysen. Für Theorie und Praxis. Suhrkamp, Frankfurt/M. 1976–1999 (24 Bde.)
 Friedensbericht. Friedensforscher zur Lage. Österreichisches Studienzentrum für Frieden und Konfliktlösung, Stadtschlaining, 1984–1993 (10 Bde.)
 Bertolt Brecht: Die Maßnahme. Suhrkamp, Frankfurt/M. 1972 (mit Spielanleitung von R. S.)

als Autor
 Arbeitsklima und Konfliktpotential. Erfahrungen aus oberösterreichischen Betrieben (WISO-Dokumente; 45). ISW-Verlag, Linz 1999
 Gewalt in der Stadt. Wahrnehmungen und Eingriffe, das Grazer Modell. Agenda-Verlag, Münster 1994, ISBN 3-929440-22-9 (zusammen mit der "Arbeitsgruppe Gewalt in der Stadt")
 GewaltAuswegeSehen. Anregungen für den Abbau von Gewalt. (Edition Lex Liszt; 12). Oberwart 2000, ISBN 3-932444-08-6 (zusammen mit Eva Maringer)
 "Textband"
 Ausstellung "Wege aus der Alltagsgewalt" (1 CD-ROM)
 Konstruktive Haltungen und Verhaltensweisen in institutionellen Konflikten. Erfahrungen, Begriffe, Fähigkeiten (Berghof-Report; 3). Berghof-Forschungszentrum für Konstruktive Konfliktbearbeitung, Berlin 1997 (zusammen mit Eva Maringer)
 Das Lehrstück. Brechts Theorie einer politisch-ästhetischen Erziehung. Brandes & Apsel, Frankfurt/M. 1995, ISBN 3-86099-250-3
 Stadt ohne Gewalt. Verminderung, Vermeidung, Vorbeugung. Die Grazer Vorschläge. Agenda-Verlag, Münster 1994, ISBN 3-929440-20-2
 Weil wir ohne Waffen sind. Ein theaterpädagogisches Forschungsprojekt zur Politischen Bildung. Nach einem Vorschlag von Bertolt Brecht. Brandes & Apsel, Frankfurt/M. 1986, ISBN 3-925798-22-6 (zusammen mit Wolfgang Heidefuß und Peter Petsch)

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Friedensforscher
Konfliktforscher
Gewaltfreiheit
Hochschullehrer (Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main)
Person (Linz)
Deutscher
Geboren 1939
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Caitlin Moran has taken Stylist back to 1995, here's five reasons to get nostalgic
Caitlin Moran has taken Stylist back to the mid-Nineties, when everyone was drunk, everyone was sexist, everything was awesome and you could have an epic night out for £1.50. Read on to find out more.
To celebrate our 10th birthday this year, Stylist is handing over 10 issues of the magazine to 10 very special guest editors. So far, we've been lucky enough to welcome the likes of Oscar-winning Captain Marvel star Brie Larson, model and activist Adwoa Aboah and singer Lily Allen, to talk about everything from their favourie recipes to the treatment of sex workers and the politics of make-up.
Now, it's Caitlin Moran's turn. As an author, journalist and founding mother of modern feminism, Moran embodies much of the Stylist way of life, so we were more than happy to let her run wild with the pages of our magazine and explore her chosen theme: the Nineties.
Because Moran's latest novel How to be Famous is set in 1995, and so our latest issues is all about nostalgia and looking back to this year and the mess of alcopops, Britpop and the cult classics that shaped many a youth.
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Here's five things you can look forward to reading in our Caitlin Moran-created issue, either in print this week or online, right now.
1. Six band T-shirts you absolutely need in your life
"Shorts, tights and a band T-shirt is an astonishingly durable look that I still rock 30 years later," says Caitlin. "Unexpectedly, there is no better outfit for fell-walking." Our fashion team has scouted out six effortlessly cool band t-shirts, from Friends to the Spice Girls, so you can dress like the best version of your Nineties self.
2. A love letter to Nineties Brighton
Here Moran pens her love for Brighton then and now, in all its glory of vintage clothing, nudist beaches and slap-up teas.
3. Caitlin's book club: 10 books from 1995 that are still pure gold
Is there a better person to take book recommendations off than an acclaimed author? Probably not. Moran shares her favourite tomes from 1995 and why each one is pure magic.
4. Eight Nineties cult classics you have to watch this summer
"Comedy was the new rock 'n' roll on TV with Vic & Bob and Newman & Baddiel, while films all had pumping soundtracks: Pulp Fiction, Trainspotting, Do The Right Thing," says Moran of Nineties cinema, and she's not wrong. This era was home to some of the best films ever created, here's a list of those you need to re-watch.
5. How much has life really changed for women since the Nineties?
Here Moran gets real about the progression in how women are viewed and treated since the Nineties, focusing in on the love young girls have for their idols.
We have no doubt that this little teaser at wet your appetite for more of Moran, so click here to see the whole take over.
Megan Murray is a digital journalist for stylist.co.uk, who enjoys writing about London happenings, beautiful places, delicious morsels and generally spreading sparkle wherever she can.
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Will NCLB's restructuring wonder drug prove meaningless?
This past spring, the U.S. Department of Education released data showing that approximately 1,700 public schools across the country were eligible for "restructuring" under the No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB) for 2005–06. That's up 42 percent since 2004–05, and the numbers are likely to continue to surge. After all, some 25,000 schools did not make adequate yearly progress (AYP) under the law last year; those that miss the mark for five years running will also find themselves facing an overhaul. Assuming a steady rate of growth in the failing category, there could easily be as many as 5,000 of these schools in need of restructuring, or at least eligible for it, by 2008–09, the earliest date that most observers believe the federal law will be reauthorized.
One of the greatest frustrations for reformers so far has been the government's eagerness to put these failing schools on life support rather than forcing them to radically change their ways. According to Center on Education Policy case studies in California and Michigan, officials are using an NCLB loophole, opting for superficial interventions—such as hiring improvement "coaches" or changing the curriculum—over implementing the bold reforms envisioned by the law's crafters.
Which bold reforms? Two strategies are particularly attractive: reopening these schools as charter schools, or contracting with a for-profit or nonprofit manager to run their day-to-day operations. A combination of the two could be especially powerful. Imagine a school district shuttering a failing school for a year. Meanwhile, a company such as Edison Schools or a nonprofit such as KIPP applies for a charter to run a replacement school out of that very facility. A new, effective school has been transplanted into an old, failing one.
Of course, there are numerous impediments to that sort of fresh-start approach. Districts jealously guard their facilities, even when they are underused or decaying. Teacher unions fight to block new charters, especially the vast majority that do not fall under collective bargaining. And neither the feds nor the states are forcing districts to head down this promising but politically painful road.
But the biggest impediment may be that there aren't enough school-management organizations to go around. Not by a long shot. Over the past five years, the number of schools operated by for-profit education-management organizations (EMOs) grew at an annual rate of about 9 percent. Nonprofit charter-management organizations (CMOs) are just now scaling up; the sector increased 30 percent over the past two years. With similar growth trends going forward, only 250 additional privately managed schools will come online by 2008–09, while more than 3,000 schools will likely enter restructuring.
Can philanthropy help close that gap? The Charter School Growth Fund, seeded by the Pisces and Walton foundations, among others, aims to create 100,000 seats in high-performing charter schools by 2015. Still, assuming 400 students per school, that only works out to another 250 schools—and not for almost a decade.
Although transplants for failing schools should be attempted and then perfected, reformers are going to need to come up with Plan B for the vast number of schools in restructuring; they are going to need to get healthy on their own.


homes of native Palestinians, killing those who get in their way.
unequal distribution of money and power, the rest of us suffer too.
is not antisemitism, this is a dangerous conflation.
tenants had no say in what filled the space in their building.
from blueprint to building overnight.
planned events at the space.
antisemitism, and all forms of oppression.


The taste and the texture can vary as such.
I could have had two – I loved it so much!
a giggle of a tourist day.
Magnifying glass, Baskerville hound and pipe.
Dealer of antiques; Victorian era her favourite!
To create a character as longlasting as Holmes!
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Fancy dress he'll use it for the hype.
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Audio, I could listen while driving … couldn't I?? Bluetooth?
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