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Practicing culture
Craig Calhoun, Richard Sennett
Practicing Culture seeks to revitalize the field of cultural sociology with an emphasis not on abstract theoretical debates but on showing how to put theoretical sources to work in empirical research. Culture is not just products and representations but practices. It is made and remade in countless small ways and occasional bursts of innovation. It is something people do - and do in rich variety and distinctive contexts as engaging case studies from the book reveal. For example: • in Russia's most Western city, Kaliningrad, residents dig for artifacts symbolizing a German past - even though their parents only migrated to what was once Konigsberg after WWII • in the USA, fans of professional wrestling pride themselves on being smart enough to know how much is trickery and how the tricks work yet still believe in the contest. Practicing Culture will reshape and invigorate the sociology of culture, not only through internal development, but through enhanced connections to the interdisciplinary social theory and to related fields like the sociology of knowledge and ethnography. It will prove an essential tool for students and researchers of cultural theory, contemporary social theory and cultural sociology.
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Calhoun, C., & Sennett, R. (2007). Practicing culture. Routledge Taylor & Francis Group. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203944950
Practicing culture. / Calhoun, Craig; Sennett, Richard.
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Calhoun, C & Sennett, R 2007, Practicing culture. Routledge Taylor & Francis Group. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203944950
Calhoun C, Sennett R. Practicing culture. Routledge Taylor & Francis Group, 2007. 238 p. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203944950
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Kind of grain cultivated since prehistoric times; grown for forage and grain.
A grain of barley; SYN. barleycorn.
Cereal belonging to the grass family (Gramineae). It resembles wheat but is more tolerant of cold and drafts. Cultivated barley Hordeum vulgare comprises three main varieties—six-rowed, four-rowed, and two-rowed.
Barley was one of the earliest cereals to be cultivated, about 50BC in Egypt, and no other cereal can thrive in so wide a range of climatic conditions; polar barley is sown and reaped well within the Arctic Circle in Europe. Barley is no longer much used in bread-making, but it is used in soups and stews and as a starch. Its high-protein form finds a wide use as animal feed, and its low-protein form is used in brewing and distilling alcoholic beverages.
An investor with a pessimistic market outlook.
In business, a speculator who sells stocks or shares on the stock exchange expecting a fall in the price in order to buy them back at a profit, the opposite of a bull.
In a bear market, prices fall, and bears prosper.


Clayton Kershaw, raked for four home runs. Corey Kluber, clubbed. Chris Sale, swatted. Luis Severino, slammed.
This is October, right? The time when All-Star aces excel?
"I mean, I really don't know. You kind of have seen it with every game," Arizona lefty Robbie Ray said Friday.
Add Zack Greinke and Drew Pomeranz to this week's early exit club, too.
"I've noticed," said Dodgers lefty Rich Hill, set to face Ray and the Diamondbacks in Game 2 Saturday.
Not everyone has been adversely affected.
Stephen Strasburg took a no-hitter into the sixth inning of Washington's opener. Kyle Hendricks was sharp for the Cubs and Astros teammates Justin Verlander and Dallas Keuchel did well enough to give Houston a 2-0 lead in its AL Division Series matchup against Boston.
But Kluber, Sale and Severino — the top three AL pitchers in ERA this season — have been erratic in these playoffs. Their combined totals in three starts: eight innings, 16 earned runs on 20 hits.
Sale led the majors in strikeouts this year and was chomping at the chance to make his postseason debut. Facing the high-powered Astros, the Boston lefty was tagged for three homers, three doubles and seven runs over five-plus innings in Game 1.
Kluber, favored by many to win a second AL Cy Young Award, was rocked for six runs and seven hits by the Yankees on Friday. The Cleveland righty was chased in the third inning.
"Kluber finally looking like he's human," Indians star Francisco Lindor said after a 9-8 win in 13 innings.
Severino had the roughest start of them all. Picked to pitch the AL wild-card game for the Yankees, the 23-year-old gave up two quick home runs to Minnesota and was pulled after getting only one out.
And then there's Kershaw, the three-time Cy Young winner and five-time ERA champ. He became the first Dodger and the eighth pitcher in baseball history to give up four home runs in a postseason game. He left after 6 1/3 innings in a 9-5 win over the Diamondbacks.
"Hopefully, when you give up hits, maybe one or two would stay in the ballpark, but tonight it didn't seem like that was going to happen," Kershaw said.
Aces in the hole, for sure. And unexpected in a postseason featuring 11 Cy Young Award winners.
"I can't really put, obviously, a theory to why pitchers are getting out or it's just not going the way for starting pitchers," Hill said.
Twins starter Ervin Santana also got bounced fast in the wild-card loss to the Yankees.
"That's the great thing about this game though, it's just so unpredictable," he said.
To Arizona manager Torey Lovullo, a lot of credit goes to Paul Goldschmidt, Jose Altuve and other top hitters. Especially when they're facing pitchers who might be a bit tired.
"October baseball is the best thing in the world, as far as I'm concerned. I think these players feel it for so long that maybe they walk out on the mound, give what they can, and their tank is emptied a little sooner than later," Lovullo said.


Jason Miciak is an author and attorney who splits his time between the Mississippi Gulf Coast and the Pacific Northwest. He has a wife, daughter and the most self-centered and smug dog to ever walk the Earth. Miciak's novels use science fiction to explore themes of morality and our current political environment.


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Aleksandra Sergueïevna Merkoulova (en , transcription anglaise : Alexandra Merkulova) est une gymnaste russe, née le .

Biographie
Aleksandra fait partie d'une fratrie de cinq enfants ; deux sœurs plus âgées (Olga et Natasha) et deux frères cadets (Savva et Vassia). Son père voulait que sa fille fasse du sport, et sa mère de la danse ; de sorte que la gymnastique rythmique est un mélange des deux disciplines, Aleksandra commence la gymnastique à l'âge de 3 ans.

Merkulova en tant que junior
En 2010, pratiquant toujours dans la catégorie junior, elle remporte la coupe du monde à Saint-Pétersbourg, toutes les médailles du Grand Prix de Innsbruck, et trois médailles d'or sur cinq lors des championnats d'Europe de 2010 à Brême (par équipe, au ballon et à la corde), avant d'être titrée première championne olympique au concours général individuel de gymnastique rythmique des premiers jeux olympiques de la jeunesse d'été se déroulant à Singapour. Elle rappelle par sa souplesse et son physique la championne de gymnastique rythmique Alina Kabaeva à ses débuts.

Jeux Olympiques de la jeunesse d'été 2010

Les épreuves de gymnastique rythmique aux jeux olympiques de la jeunesse d'été de 2010 ont eu lieu au Palais des sports de Bishan de Singapour du 24 au . Dix-huit gymnastes individuelles se sont confrontées pour les premières médailles olympiques de la jeunesse.

Dès les qualifications Aleksandra Merkoulova et la Biélorusse Arina Charopa se démarquent du lot de gymnastes. Elles se qualifient en première et deuxième position et ont toutes les cartes en main pour conserver leur place lors des finales.

En effet, après la première rotation, à la corde, aucune surprise, Merkoulova et Charopa retrouvent leur place  et . Pourtant Merkoulova reçoit une pénalité de 0.5.

Seconde rotation : le cerceau, l'engin de prédilection d'Aleksandra. Elle atteint la plus haute note de la journée (26.250) et confirme sa position de leader. Quant à Arina Charopa, elle commet une grosse erreur qui la rétrograde en troisième position, elle perd le contrôle de son engin et le laisse sortir en dehors du praticable. Lee Wan Nin récupère la seconde place provisoire du concours.

À la suite de la troisième rotation au ballon, Merkoulova conserve sa position et Charopa récupère sa place initiale.

La dernière rotation aux massues sera déterminante. Aleksandra Merkoulova confirme sa suprématie en prouvant un très haut niveau du point de vue difficulté et artistique. Elle atteint la note de 25.500 aux massues, et un total de 103.500, à plus de 3 points devant Arina Charopa, elle repart médaille d'or en poche, et un gros sourire sur les lèvres. La deuxième place revient à Charopa, et la troisième à l'Allemande Jana Berezko-Marggrander.

« Je rêvais de ça depuis si longtemps, j'étais tellement heureuse que j'ai failli hurler. » déclare la jeune championne olympique.

Entrée dans la compétition senior

Saison 2011
Elle fait son entrée dans la compétition senior en 2011, et participe aux Championnats du monde de gymnastique rythmique 2011, se déroulant à Montpellier. Elle réalise sa routine aux massues, atteint la troisième place aux qualifications, avec la note de  28.05 (et perd 0.5 points de pénalité pour avoir fini sa routine après l'arrêt de la musique), mais ne participe pas à la finale, car les deux premières places sont occupées par deux autres membres de l'équipe russe, Evgenia Kanaeva et Daria Kondakova.

Sasha a marqué une nette progression entre le début de l'année (Grand Prix de Moscou, Grand Prix d'Holon) et la fin (Grand Prix de Berlin, Coupe du Monde de Sofia).

Saison 2012
Début 2012, la jeune gymnaste âgée de 16 ans a présenté 4 tout nouveaux enchaînements: au ballon, sur la musique de Pretty Woman, au ruban, sur une musique slave joyeuse, au cerceau sur Carmen et aux massues, sur "Peter Gumm Theme" du film "Blues Brothers".

Lors de Baltic Hoop 2012, en Lettonie, elle présenta un nouveau ballon, sur un style différent.

La même année, elle a également participé aux championnats d'Europe se déroulant à Nijni Novgorod. Elle remporte la médaille d'argent au concours général individuel accumulant un total de 116.425, juste derrière sa compatriote russe Evguenia Kanaïeva et devant Aliya Garaïeva.

Aleksandra devait concourir devant les anneaux olympiques, en août dernier, mais elle se fit remplacer à la dernière minute par sa compatriote de 19 ans, Daria Dmitrieva, pour cause de blessure.

Saison 2013
Après six mois d'arrêt pour cause de blessure, et seulement un mois d'entraînement, Aleksandra commence la saison avec le Grand Prix de Moscou. Elle y présente 4 nouveaux enchaînements, dont un qui diffère un peu du style qu'elle a l'habitude de nous montrer : il s'agit de son ballon. La jeune gymnaste, que certains s'attendaient à voir prendre la tête de l'équipe russe après la prise de retraite de certaines gymnastes, comme Evguenia Kanaïeva, obtient cependant des résultats inférieurs à ceux de sa compatriote, Margarita Mamun. On sent que la gymnaste n'est pas complètement en forme après le cours mois d'entraînement dont elle a disposé. Elle termine  du concours général, et gagne la médaille d'argent de la finale au ballon.

Au Grand Prix de Thais, la gymnaste décroche la  du concours général. Elle présente lors de cette compétition un nouvel enchaînement au ruban, engin avec lequel elle a eu quelques soucis, plus tôt dans la saison.

Lors de la Coupe du Monde de Lisbonne, Aleksandra termine deuxième, derrière Mamun. Elle est cependant contrainte de se retirer des finales, car blessée.

Pour son retour à la compétition, pendant le Tournoi International de Corbeil-Essonnes, Merkulova présente un nouveau ruban, le troisième de l'année. Elle finit  du concours général.

La gymnaste ne participe pas aux Championnats d'Europe de Vienne, les gymnastes engagées pour la Russie étant Margarita Mamun, Daria Svatkovskaya et Yana Kudryavtseva.

Aleksandra remporte l'or lors d'une compétition se déroulant à Barcelone, devant l'ukrainienne Alina Maksymenko. Lors de cet événement, elle présente une fois de plus une nouvelle routine au ruban, utilisant sa musique aux massues de l'année précédente.

La jeune gymnaste est choisie par Irina Viner pour représenter son pays lors des Universiades d'été de Kazan en compagnie de Margarita Mamun. Elle termine deuxième, derrière sa compatriote. Pendant la compétition, on a pu constater que Merkulova avait progressé, notamment au niveau de la propreté, ainsi que concernant son exercice au ruban. Elle gagne la finale ballon et empoche l'argent en finale ruban.

Aleksandra termine la saison avec une blessure et des problèmes de poids.

Saison 2014
Cette nouvelle saison débute sur de bien meilleures bases que la précédente ; Merkulova a pu s'entraîner suffisamment, n'étant pas blessée sévèrement comme l'an passé. La jeune fille, s'entraînant toujours à Novogorsk, participe cependant peu aux événements internationaux, les meilleures gymnastes de l'équipe étant Margarita Mamun et Yana Kudryavtseva. L'arrivée dans la catégorie sénior de nombreuses athlètes lui fait également de l'ombre. Elle ne participe pas au Grand Prix de Moscou, se déroulant en février, mais y effectue tout de même un gala. Elle fait quelques apparitions lors de compétitions en Russie pour faire des démonstrations.

Elle ne parvient cependant pas à obtenir des résultats satisfaisants lors de compétitions comme les Championnats de Russie à Penza ou encore les Jeux d'été de Kazan. Des rumeurs circulent depuis ce dernier événement: la gymnaste aurait en effet quitté l'équipe nationale. Rien n'a été pour l'heure confirmé par Alexandra ou par la fédération de gymnastique rythmique russe.

Palmarès

Jeux olympiques de la Jeunesse
 Singapour 2010
  médaille d'or au concours général individuel.

Championnats du Monde
 Montpellier 2011
  médaille d'or au concours général par équipe.

Championnats d'Europe
 Brême 2010
  médaille d'or au concours général par équipe (catégorie junior).
  médaille d'or à la corde (catégorie junior).
  médaille d'or au ballon (catégorie junior).

 Nijni Novgorod 2012
  médaille d'argent au concours général individuel.

Notes et références

Liens externes

Naissance en novembre 1995
Gymnaste rythmique russe
Naissance à Kemerovo

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Yangon Regional Court on June 18 dropped charges relating to possession of firearms against accused conspirator Aung Win Zaw in the assassination case of lawyer Ko Ni.
Aung Win Zaw is a co-conspirator of gunman Kyi Lin who is alleged to have assassinated lawyer Ko Ni, a law adviser to the NLD, at Yangon International Airport.
Moreover, the court has decided to continue initial charges against Kyi Lin and another accused conspirator Aung Win Tun.
The charge against another suspect Zayar Phyo was changed from conspiracy to commit the crime (section 34) to assisting an offender (section 109).


Taken aback by Aaricia's disappearance, Thorgal is only a shadow of his former self.
Eaten away with remorse, the young Shania accompanies him and protects him, hoping to find his pardon. Approached by two strangers, Worgan and Galathorn, they discover that Aaricia is still alive but held captive in the court of Brek Zarith. Ready to do anything to keep himself in power, the illegitimate master of this kingdom, Sharder, uses and abuses his evil powers. Despite all this, Thorgal will try, alone, to penetrate the impregnable fortress of Brek Zarith to save his wife and his son, Jolan.


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Armando, de son vrai nom Armando Gallop, est un compositeur et DJ de musique électronique né à Chicago le  et décédé le  d'une leucémie. Il est considéré comme l'un des pionniers de l'acid house.

Notes et références

Liens externes

Naissance en février 1970
Naissance à Chicago
Décès en décembre 1996
Musicien de musique électronique de Chicago
Décès à 26 ans
Mononyme
Mort d'une leucémie


It has been my custom for the past four years to write a public message to give seasonal greetings and to say few things of accomplishments.
However this year greetings will be different, back in 2014 I used to write about my academic success, the love with my classmates and then in 2015 I wrote about skateboarding when I and my friends Usam Ahmed and Gideon Lyimo travelled to South Africa for the first African Skateboarding Championships organized by the WSF under Mr. Tim McFerran .
In 2016 it was a bit downfalls year and again in 2017 I visited South Africa and Ghana in February and December respectively because of Skateboarding and special thanks to the Chris Van Der Merwe and Everyone at Christian Skaters Africa.
2018 began with me venturing into tourism an idea pitched to me by Richaela from Skaters Chick when we visited Bagamoyo in 2017 December. So when I came back from Ghana, I opened a travel blog and started publishing cool articles and many of which were read by many people 5000+ so far.
As am writing today I have worked with more than 30 friends as I like to call them from United States, United Kingdom, India, Spain, Italy, Germany, Poland, Israel, France, Switzerland, Mexico, South Africa, Egypt, Brazil and fellow Tanzanians.
This might sounds inspiring to some and yet brag to others. I am happy of this success because they made who I am. I met great people because of writing about Tanzania and loving my country. Now this all idea is on transformation to become a Business brand by January 2019.
But this doesn't mark my successful achievement yet! Well you should know as I am pro believer in Children and Youth. I was able to be part of @TEDxOysterbay as a speaker and my talk on "Social Media and Tomorrow World" is on TEDxTalk YouTube Channel. Thanks to Nancy Iraba and Jerry Mang'ena for the Opportunity and to Rebecca and Catherinerose for their curation energy and am bowing down to all men and women who were revolutionists part of the program.
Pretty much 2018 has been about me and travels. Met friends whom we became family; my brother Natty and Festo Caspian. There are so many peoppe to mention along the way; Juma Carlos, Khamis, Arnold Tibaijuka and everyone I met because of what I do.
Into personal life, there is nothing to write.
Into leadership I was among Presidential Candidate and later I agree to become Prime Minister under University Students' Government. I am proud of the team I have been working with. We have accomplished great things together.
And now am sorry to the people I purposely or unaware hurt, disappoint, betrayed or broke their heart. I am not Angel, so I fell into the temptations of being fresh human. 2018 has been a long year to everyone and these differences were part of it all, lets spearhead into 2019 with our head high.
Finally, I would like to wish each and everyone of you nice Christmas Celebration and Happy New 2019.
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A 17-year-old Russian girl, accused of being the mastermind behind the infamous Blue Whale Game, has been arrested.
The game has provoked a number of children worldwide to commit suicide through this suicidal game, the world over.
The girl allegedly threatened her victims to kill themselves or their family members, if they failed to obey orders or complete tasks assigned to them in the game. She also asked the gamers to cut themselves with razor blades and other acts related to self-harm.
A 21-year-old man was also arrested near Moscow and was also accused of inciting adolescent girls to take their own lives.
The Russian state investigators said that the female "death group administrator" used threats against family members of her victims and used to add pressure on them to obey her and commit suicide, mirror.co.uk reported.
"This administrator was sending particular tasks - often life-threatening - to each of several dozen members of the group," said Colonel Irina Volk, of the Russian Interior Ministry.
"In contrast to similar groups, teenagers in this group were blackmailed with death threats against them or their relatives for not completing the tasks."
The accused set 50 tasks for victims aimed at "creating psychologically traumatising situations", demanding the victims to commit suicide in the final stage.
The "brainwashing" ranges from watching horror movies to waking in the middle of the night and also self-harming.
The unnamed suspect told alleged victims that she "was a man".


If you have ever uncovered the painful truth that the person you feel you love is cheating on you, you probably asked yourself: What am I supposed to do now? What should my response be to this betrayal? There is no doubt a wide range of confusing emotions flooding through you.
Infidelity is difficult to handle.


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Dutton camp presses for quick second leadership ballot
The Dutton forces mounted a push on Wednesday night to get a quick second vote on the leadership, seeking names to petition Malcolm Turnbull to call a meeting.
Peter Dutton and his supporters do not want Liberal MPs to disperse late Thursday without a vote, fearing a loss of momentum for his campaign.
Having to wait until after a fortnight's break for the next pariliamentary sitting could put Dutton under much more scrutiny over policy, and risk negative feedback when MPs return to their electorates.
Delay could also possibly see the emergence of other contenders, such as Treasurer Scott Morrison.
But on Wednesday night the government whip's office said there was no special meeting planned and "there never has been any special meeting".
Rumours circulated during the evening about the number of names that had been gathered for the petition for the meeting, which requires 43 signatures.
Turnbull supporters accused the Dutton camp of generating "fake news".
As the Dutton forces ramped up the pressure, frontbencher James McGrath, assistant minister to the Prime Minister, announced he had met Turnbull to "insist" he accept the resignation offered by McGrath on Tuesday.
McGrath was one of multiple frontbenchers who offered their resignations after voting for Dutton on Tuesday.
McGrath said his resignation had now been accepted. "Like Peter Dutton has said, we must do everything in our power to stop Bill Shorten ever becoming Prime Minister," he said.
His Tuesday letter said: "The people who have for all their lives counted on us to look after them and their families are now questioning our commitment to them. Our people feel forgotten, ignored and spoken down to. As a Liberal National Party senator for Queensland, this is an intolerable situation."
This takes the actual frontbench resignations to three – the others being Dutton and a junior minister Concetta Fierravanti-Wells.
Turnbull on Wednesday told a news conference that a number of frontbenchers had offered to resign and "I've had discussions with all of them.
"Look, what I'm endeavouring to do is to obviously ensure that the party is stable, to maintain the stability of the government of Australia. That's critically important," he said.
"And so, the cabinet ministers, apart from Peter Dutton of course, who came to me and told me that they had voted for Mr Dutton in the leadership ballot, have given me unequivocal assurances of continuing loyalty and support."
In parliament a number of ministers who voted for Dutton on Tuesday – Greg Hunt, Michael Keenan, Angus Taylor, Alan Tudge and Steve Ciobo – were asked whether they retained enough confidence in the prime minister, the government and its policies, to remain a minister.
All eyes have been on Senate leader Mathias Cormann, who had not been in the Dutton camp. A switch by Cormann would be fatal for Turnbull. Sources believed he was concerned about the impact a switch would have on business confidence.
Another complication for Dutton is the attention that has come on questions around his eligibility to sit in parliament.
Labor in the House of Representatives pursued the suggestion that he could be ineligible under the constitution's section 44 on pecuniary interests. This says a person is incapable of sitting if they have "any direct or indirect pecuniary interest in any agreement with the Public Service of the Commonwealth".
Dutton through a family trust has an interest in child care centres that receive Commonwealth funding. The key question is whether it involves an agreement with the public service.
Dutton maintains his legal advice is that he has no constitutional problem. Turnbull told parliament he had not seen the advice and the Solicitor-General had not been asked for an opinion.
Subsequently Attorney-General Christian Porter said in a statement that given the matter had been raised in question time and in the media "I determined to seek advice from the Solicitor-General on the issues raised."
Peta Credlin, Tony Abbott's former chief of staff said this week: "it's well known about his interests in childcare centres … he recused himself from any conversations we ever had in policy terms."
Craig Laundy, a junior minister and a Turnbull supporter, said Dutton should release the advice "just to allay any concerns".
Labor released advice from Bret Walker SC and James Mack that argued Dutton was incapable of being chosen for the parliament and therefore not entitled to continue to sit. They said if the issue were referred to the High Court there was a "reasonable prospect" he would be disqualified.
Dutton on Wednesday started to be tested on policy, after he proposed the GST should be taken off electricity bills.
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Morrison said this would cost some $7.5 billion over four years. "That would be a budget blower, an absolute budget blower", Morrison said. Dutton also favoured a royal commission into power companies.
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US BAPTISTS ENDORSE PROPOSED CONSTITUTIONAL MARRIAGE AMENDMENT
The executive board of the California Southern Baptist Convention unanimously endorsed the state's proposed constitutional marriage amendment during its meeting Sept. 11-12 and encouraged Southern Baptists in the state to do the same, reports Baptist Press.
The amendment, known as Proposition 8, will appear on the Nov. 4 ballot and would define marriage as between one man and one woman, thus overturning a May decision by the California Supreme Court legalizing "gay marriage." The board passed a resolution acknowledging the Bible as the "Word of God" and the "standard by which all human conduct and religious opinion should be measured." (See the full text of the resolution at the bottom of this story).
The resolution acknowledges: "The Bible also teaches that marriage was the first institution ordained by God at the beginning of creation when it was established between Adam, a male, and Eve, a female, as the pattern for all time."
The resolution calls on California Southern Baptists to pray about the issue and conduct voter registration drives through Oct. 20, the cutoff date for voter registration. The resolution urges pastors to inform their congregations of issues related to the ballot measure and encourages them to participate in the grassroots effort.
Additionally, the resolution encourages California Southern Baptists to financially support Proposition 8. The resolution points to Internet resources such as those at www.csbc.com/protectmarriage, www.ProtectMarriage.com and www.protectmarriageca.com .
In presenting the recommendation to the executive board, Don Fugate, communications committee chairman and pastor of Foxworthy Baptist Church in San Jose, said the resolution is something all California Southern Baptists should support, and that he believes it is at the core of what Baptists believe about the family.
Following is the complete text of the resolution supporting Proposition 8:
"WHEREAS, The Bible is the Word of God, written by men, but divinely inspired, the Bible also is God's revelation of Himself to man. It is God-breathed and inerrant, and all Scripture is true and trustworthy. It is the standard by which all human conduct and religious opinion should be measured; and
"WHEREAS, The Bible teaches that God loves all people and commands us to do likewise; the Bible also teaches that marriage was the first institution ordained by God at the beginning of creation when it was established between Adam, a male, and Eve, a female, as the pattern for all time. Since the beginning of time societies, cultures and religions have endorsed marriage as the union between one man and one woman for a lifetime. Marriage provides the framework for intimate companionship, the avenue of sexual expression according to biblical standards, and the means for procreation. It also is God's unique gift to demonstrate the relationship between Christ and His church; and
"WHEREAS, The family unit that God intended — a father, a mother and children — has fallen into disarray while the divorce rate in our state and nation is at an all-time high, and the percentage rate of divorce in the general population is reflected in the church; and
"WHEREAS, California voters in 2000, by more than 61 percent of the vote, approved Proposition 22 which reads, 'Only marriage between a man and a woman is valid or recognized in California;' and
"WHEREAS, The California Supreme Court, in a 4-3 decision, disregarded the will of the people on May 15, 2008 by striking down Proposition 22, thereby granting marriage privileges to 'same-sex' couples; and
"WHEREAS, Same-sex marriage is legally unnecessary since homosexual couples in California already are entitled to all the legal rights and privileges of marriage, short of the name; now, therefore be it
"RESOLVED That the California Southern Baptist Convention Executive Board, meeting September 12, 2008, endorse Proposition 8, a California constitutional amendment that states, 'Only marriage between a man and a woman is valid or recognized in California;' and be it further
"RESOLVED That California Southern Baptist Convention churches and members are urged to pray about this important issue, and that at least 7 million Californians will vote for traditional, biblical marriage; and be it further
"RESOLVED That churches are encouraged to conduct voter registration drives between now and October 20 since as many as 50 percent of Christian eligible voters are not registered to carry out this civic privilege; and be it further
"RESOLVED That California Southern Baptist Convention pastors are urged to inform their congregations of the issues and encourage them to participate in the grassroots effort; and be it further
"RESOLVED That California Southern Baptists be encouraged to financially support Proposition 8 by making donations to ProtectMarriage.com by Oct. 10; and be it finally
"RESOLVED That California Southern Baptist Convention church leaders are urged to avail themselves of resources provided on the World Wide Web at www.csbc.com/protectmarriage , www.protectmarriage.com , and www.protectmarriageca.com ."
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This tune is also quite often played as just a normal jig as part of a set.
It's fairly compact in the left hand, only going up to the high G on the first string, and of course even though called a march it should be treated as a jig without ornamentation, although you may wish to go the whole way and just play it as a jig, in which case you would of course include some ornamentation.
In the podcast, Tony emphasises the importance of getting the timing exactly right when accompanying tunes. Chords are G, D, C and Am.


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La musique slovaque est intimement liée aux musiques hongroise et tchèque ; la Slovaquie a connu en effet des périodes où son territoire faisait partie de pays limitrophes à la culture différente. Elle trouve son origine au Moyen Âge dans la musique sacrée chrétienne, mais aussi dans le riche folklore populaire slave. Ce n'est qu'au  que la musique classique y acquiert un caractère national proprement dit. Comme beaucoup de musiques d'Europe centrale, elle est aussi fortement imprégnée de tradition et de musique tziganes. La musique traditionnelle, d'essence rurale et pastorale, est quant à elle riche de diverses expressions régionales dépendant du relief et du hasard des implantations humaines d'origines ethniques multiples. Enfin, les tribulations récentes de l'histoire ont beaucoup affecté les styles et les genres de musiques rencontrés dans un pays libéré du joug de l'idéologie.

Musique classique

C'est au , dans la Grande-Moravie, qu'on retrouve les premières traces d'une musique de liturgie en slavon qui se dissocie du choral latin et du chant grégorien instaurés par les bénédictins. À l'influence des Empires franc et byzantin, s'ajoute celle de la Hongrie (où Allemands, Autrichiens, Français et Italiens officient déjà) qui annexe le territoire au  et fait de Bratislava (alors Presbourg) sa capitale. La musique sacrée s'y développe jusqu'au , qui voit le début de l'invasion destructrice des Ottomans (après celle des Tatars au ).

Ce n'est qu'à partir du  que la vie musicale reprend son cours avec le compositeur Ján Kusser notamment. Le  voit à la faveur d'une paix durable, le développement du classicisme grâce à une nouvelle génération de compositeurs tels Pantaleón Roskovsky, Anton Zimmermann, Juraj Druzecky, Johann Matthias Sperger, Franz Paul Rigler, Josef Chudy et František Xaver Tost, mais aussi du fait de l'instauration d'une pédagogie musicale, de l'installation de facteurs d'instruments et de l'ouverture au public des concerts. Les compositeurs Johann Nepomuk Hummel, Franz Schmidt et Alexander Albrecht parviennent à la renommée internationale.

Au , la venue de compositeurs européens majeurs tels Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart et Joseph Haydn couronne cette évolution. Ludwig van Beethoven et Franz Schubert séjourneront en Slovaquie ; ils seront bientôt suivis par Franz Liszt, Anton Rubinstein et Béla Bartók... Le Tchèque Bedrich Smetana reste néanmoins l'influence majeure de cette époque dont les compositeurs romantiques ont pour noms : Ján Levoslav Bella, Viliam Figuš-Bystrý, Mikuláš Schneider-Trnavský, Frico Kafenda et Mikuláš Moyzes.

Ce n'est qu'au début du  qu'une véritable musique classique nationale se développe sous l'auspice des compositeurs inspirés par le folklore slovaque et la musique tchèque : Eugen Suchoň ( slovaque), Ján Cikker et Alexander Moyzes. Après guerre, la musique contemporaine reçoit un vrai plébiscite  si bien qu'une nouvelle génération de compositeurs suivront leurs pas dans les années 1960 à l'orée du dodécaphonisme, de la musique sérielle, de l'atonalité et de la musique électroacoustique : Roman Berger, Jozef Malovec, Pavol Šimai, Ilja Zeljenka, Miro Bazlik, Ivan Parik, Peter Kolman, Ladislav Kupkovic et Ľudovít Rajter. Cette avant-garde disparaîtra lors du Printemps de Prague malgré les protestations de nombreuses personnalités. Depuis la fin de l'ère communiste et de ses interdits, les années 1980 ont vu de nouveaux noms émerger : Vladimír Godár, Peter Machajdik, Martin Burlas, Iris Szeghy et Peter Breiner.

Musique traditionnelle

La musique populaire a pour source des évocations magico-religieuses chez les anciens peuples slaves. Couplée aux chants de travail hra pre seba (« jeu pour soi-même ») des bergers des Carpates et des paysans des plaines ainsi qu'à leurs danses variées, la pratique instrumentale est attestée depuis le  ; elle trouve diverses expressions régionales.

 à l'ouest, la région de Skalica, citadine, riche de polyphonies vocales et de chants liés aux festivités calendaires. Le répertoire date du  et est interprété sur de petits ensembles à archet (violon, alto, contrebasse) autour du cimbal ; on retrouve beaucoup de musiques à danser (verbunk) à caractère bourgeois. Par ailleurs, plus au nord, autour de Kelčov, se situe une zone d'influence de musique inspirée de jeux d'enfants. On retrouve aussi dans cette région beaucoup de brass bands.
 au centre, la région de Polana ou Detva, rurale et montagnarde, riche de 160 types d'instruments : flûtes traditionnelles et cornemuses de bergers (accompagnant le chant à danser odzemok), ensembles à cordes de villageois d'influence tzigane (pour le jeu) et hongroise (pour la forme – csárdás – et le répertoire), jouant des chants de commandement notamment. On distingue la vrchárska muzika (musique instrumentale des plateaux) d'avec les chants de bergers, de brigands (dont font partie les chants de commandement rozkazovacky) ou de courtoisie (piesen). C'est un genre proche des haïdouks roumains avec la valachka. Les chants et les danses accompagnent les cérémonies de la vie (mariage, deuil, etc.). Dans le nord, le trio vrchárska trojka est constitué originellement de deux violons (prim et kontra) et d'une contrebasse (bas) ; les Tziganes l'ont augmenté d'un cimbal et d'autres cordes, parfois d'une clarinette ou d'un accordéon afin d'interpréter les Ciganske piesne (chants tziganes).
 à l'est, la région de Zamutov ou Zemplin, où l'on trouve des chants responsoriaux féminins accompagnés de danses en rond avec battements de pieds ; des polyphonies masculines interprètent des chants de recrue et de courtoisie avec également des battements de mains ou des claps sur des parties du corps. Beaucoup de styles de danses rythmées se retrouvent ici tels le marhaňská, le bašistovská et le verbunk.

La flûte fujara est l'instrument typique de Slovaquie ; elle a été reconnue comme patrimoine culturel immatériel de l'humanité par l'UNESCO en 2005.

Grâce au remarquable travail de collecte de Béla Bartók, 4 500 pièces musicales ont été transcrites dans le recueil Les Chants populaires slovaques.

Deux ensembles officiels (fondés en 1948) de musique folklorique traditionnelle se démarquent aujourd'hui : Slovenský ľudový umelecký kolektív (SĽUK) et Lúčnica.

Instruments de musique

Vents
Akkordeon
Drumbla
Dvojacka
Fujara
Gajdy
Handrarska pistalka
Hélicon
Koncovka
Mrmlàk
Pistalka
Tárogató
Valaska pistalka

Cordes
Cimbal ou csymbalum
Korytkové husle ou zlobce
Ninera
Oktavka
Shlopcoky
Violon

Percussions
Dob
Ozembuch

Musique actuelle
La musique actuelle a été fortement influencée par une invention de John Dopyera. Luthier à Dolná Krupá, après avoir construit des violons et des banjos traditionnels il émigre en 1908 aux États-Unis où il ouvre un magasin d'instruments et invente le système de résonateurs dobro appliqué à de nombreuses guitares depuis.

Le chanteur Richard Müller domine depuis des décennies la scène pop slovaque.

Les musiques actuelles sont très en vogue depuis la chute du régime communiste. Depuis 2014, le groupe de black metal Malokarpatan commence à se faire parler de lui en Europe occidentale. Le groupe originaire de Bratislava est connu par sa musique orienté black metal première vague et des thèmes abordés dans les chansons (folklore, légendes), chantant en slovaque.

Références

Annexes

Articles connexes
 Culture de la Slovaquie
 Musique tzigane
 Compositeurs slovaques de musique classique de la période moderne

 Conservatoire de Bratislava

 Philharmonie d'État de Košice

Liens externes

Folklore du centre
 Ensemble folklorique
 Ensemble folklorique
Promotion de la fujara par l'Unesco
 Flûtes


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Today, at Connect() the Office 365 Unified API was made generally available, and now has a new name, Microsoft Graph.
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void ThreadBody(void* v) {
  ThreadState* thread = reinterpret_cast<ThreadState*>(v);
  SharedState* shared = thread->shared;

  if (shared->ShouldVerifyAtBeginning()) {
    thread->shared->GetStressTest()->VerifyDb(thread);
  }
  {
    MutexLock l(shared->GetMutex());
    shared->IncInitialized();
    if (shared->AllInitialized()) {
      shared->GetCondVar()->SignalAll();
    }
    while (!shared->Started()) {
      shared->GetCondVar()->Wait();
    }
  }
  thread->shared->GetStressTest()->OperateDb(thread);

  {
    MutexLock l(shared->GetMutex());
    shared->IncOperated();
    if (shared->AllOperated()) {
      shared->GetCondVar()->SignalAll();
    }
    while (!shared->VerifyStarted()) {
      shared->GetCondVar()->Wait();
    }
  }

  thread->shared->GetStressTest()->VerifyDb(thread);

  {
    MutexLock l(shared->GetMutex());
    shared->IncDone();
    if (shared->AllDone()) {
      shared->GetCondVar()->SignalAll();
    }
  }
}

bool RunStressTest(StressTest* stress) {
  stress->InitDb();

  SharedState shared(db_stress_env, stress);
  if (FLAGS_read_only) {
    stress->InitReadonlyDb(&shared);
  }

#ifndef NDEBUG
  if (FLAGS_sync_fault_injection) {
    fault_fs_guard->SetFilesystemDirectWritable(false);
  }
#endif

  uint32_t n = shared.GetNumThreads();

  uint64_t now = db_stress_env->NowMicros();
  fprintf(stdout, "%s Initializing worker threads\n",
          db_stress_env->TimeToString(now / 1000000).c_str());
  std::vector<ThreadState*> threads(n);
  for (uint32_t i = 0; i < n; i++) {
    threads[i] = new ThreadState(i, &shared);
    db_stress_env->StartThread(ThreadBody, threads[i]);
  }
  ThreadState bg_thread(0, &shared);
  if (FLAGS_compaction_thread_pool_adjust_interval > 0) {
    db_stress_env->StartThread(PoolSizeChangeThread, &bg_thread);
  }
  ThreadState continuous_verification_thread(0, &shared);
  if (FLAGS_continuous_verification_interval > 0) {
    db_stress_env->StartThread(DbVerificationThread,
                               &continuous_verification_thread);
  }

  // Each thread goes through the following states:
  // initializing -> wait for others to init -> read/populate/depopulate
  // wait for others to operate -> verify -> done

  {
    MutexLock l(shared.GetMutex());
    while (!shared.AllInitialized()) {
      shared.GetCondVar()->Wait();
    }
    if (shared.ShouldVerifyAtBeginning()) {
      if (shared.HasVerificationFailedYet()) {
        fprintf(stderr, "Crash-recovery verification failed :(\n");
      } else {
        fprintf(stdout, "Crash-recovery verification passed :)\n");
      }
    }

    now = db_stress_env->NowMicros();
    fprintf(stdout, "%s Starting database operations\n",
            db_stress_env->TimeToString(now / 1000000).c_str());

    shared.SetStart();
    shared.GetCondVar()->SignalAll();
    while (!shared.AllOperated()) {
      shared.GetCondVar()->Wait();
    }

    now = db_stress_env->NowMicros();
    if (FLAGS_test_batches_snapshots) {
      fprintf(stdout, "%s Limited verification already done during gets\n",
              db_stress_env->TimeToString((uint64_t)now / 1000000).c_str());
    } else {
      fprintf(stdout, "%s Starting verification\n",
              db_stress_env->TimeToString((uint64_t)now / 1000000).c_str());
    }

    shared.SetStartVerify();
    shared.GetCondVar()->SignalAll();
    while (!shared.AllDone()) {
      shared.GetCondVar()->Wait();
    }
  }

  for (unsigned int i = 1; i < n; i++) {
    threads[0]->stats.Merge(threads[i]->stats);
  }
  threads[0]->stats.Report("Stress Test");

  for (unsigned int i = 0; i < n; i++) {
    delete threads[i];
    threads[i] = nullptr;
  }
  now = db_stress_env->NowMicros();
  if (!FLAGS_test_batches_snapshots && !shared.HasVerificationFailedYet()) {
    fprintf(stdout, "%s Verification successful\n",
            db_stress_env->TimeToString(now / 1000000).c_str());
  }
  stress->PrintStatistics();

  if (FLAGS_compaction_thread_pool_adjust_interval > 0 ||
      FLAGS_continuous_verification_interval > 0) {
    MutexLock l(shared.GetMutex());
    shared.SetShouldStopBgThread();
    while (!shared.BgThreadsFinished()) {
      shared.GetCondVar()->Wait();
    }
  }

  if (!stress->VerifySecondaries()) {
    return false;
  }

  if (shared.HasVerificationFailedYet()) {
    fprintf(stderr, "Verification failed :(\n");
    return false;
  }
  return true;
}
}  // namespace ROCKSDB_NAMESPACE
#endif  // GFLAGS

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Lucia felt stuck, so she started looking outside her comfort zone. It being the Bay Area, tech was everywhere, and she started to think about learning programming. It was a new field, but Lucia was curious. She took some free programs, learned a few basic skills, and was quickly hooked. At the same time, Udacity announced its new Grow with Google Scholarship, offering the opportunity to earn a full scholarship to Udacity's Front-End Web Developer Nanodegree program. Lucia applied immediately and was ecstatic when she got accepted.
Half a year later, Lucia is a Nanodegree program graduate, and she has landed a Front-End Developer role in the San Francisco Bay Area! We spoke with Lucia recently to hear how she successfully navigated the experience of transitioning careers.
In the first of our three-part series on career change, we look at the principle of "walking the walk," and explore how demonstrating the skills you've learned can differentiate you from the crowd.
We recently had the opportunity to explore the topic of career change with two Udacity alums, and learn how they were able to successfully move into new careers. Over the course of three articles, we're going to draw on these discussions to cover three principles behind making a successful career change: Walking the Walk, Talking the Talk, and Networking with your Network.


In celebration of Summer Reading, let's go on an Adventure. These books can take you to faraway places without you having to leave your comfiest chair.
A travelogue composed of essays about presidential assassinations and their locales, you say? If this sounds dry and stuffy, think again! Sarah Vowell is a wonderfully funny and engaging guide and also a hilarious reader—the audiobook is great and has guest stars.
Weber, an obituary writer for the New York Times, chronicles his solo bicycle trip from Oregon to New York which gives him a lot of time to contemplate life, relationships and growing older. This breezy, entertaining book will invigorate your cycling aspirations.
Martin's adventure takes place in her kitchen. Using food as a way to reconnect with her mother and recover from her difficult past, she decides to cook a meal from every country over the course of 195 weeks. Moving and heartwarming with recipes included.
After he was president, Theodore Roosevelt pursued adventure in the form of a trip down an unexplored tributary of the Amazon. Filled with suspense and science, River of Doubt is an engrossing and thrilling story.
Hey, another historical adventure that will keep you reading well into the night! In1879, Lieutenant George De Long led an expedition to the North Pole in hopes of finding an open-sea passage. When the ship gets stuck in the ice, the crew faces a terrifying and deadly situation. Praised for its writing and use of firsthand documents, Sides' telling is vivid and dramatic.
When James Campbell's daughter Aiden turned 15, it was time to fulfill a promise to take her to Alaska. They help family there build their cabin and come to love the hard work and open spaces, leading them back two more times. Not only a humorous and sweet chronicling of this exceptional father/daughter time but also an informative look at the nature and wildlife of Alaska.
In post-apocalyptic southern California, Lauren Olamina lives in a walled community safe from the terror outside. But as things worsen, Lauren is forced to leave and helps lead a group of other refugees heading north. A science fiction classic that seems prescient now. If you have never read Octavia Butler, it is time to start!
You do not have to be a teen to enjoy Lyra, her shape-shifting daemon, and their adventures as they try to save her best friend, outrun the evil Ms. Coulter, and figure out the truth about a possible alternate universe. Philip Pullman creates an amazing universe and readers will keep turning the pages with each chapter ending cliffhanger. Another great audio book that is read by a full cast. Also adapted as a graphic novel.
Sammy, a Chinese-American orphan who is wanted by the law, and Annamae, a slave girl, take to the Oregon trail to escape their dire situations. But they must disguise themselves as boys to even have a chance. This western with a twist has history, adventure and romance - a little something for everybody.
Yee-haw! It's another non-traditional western. This time about a young Swedish boy in the 1840s who ends up alone in California. He begans a journey through the American Frontier to find his brother. Experimental and stereotype defying, this may not be for everyone but it just might be for you.
Okay one more, sorta, kinda western (what can you say? Westerns are all about adventure) but also sorta, kind of a zombie book. Daisy sets off across the harsh landscape of Texas, leaving behind her safe enclave and exposing herself to the flesh eating "shakes", to find her father. Adventure or horror? You be the judge.
In this sci-fi graphic novel, Earth has been covered by a shield to protect it from aliens. Rebellious Uma and her techie buddy DewyDD plan to escape by hijacking a spaceship. This fun space adventure is a thrill ride for readers of all ages.


This thread is for post BB news, updates, and photos of what is going on with Br/Rachel!!
PLEASE NOTE: NO SPOILERS HERE.
Big Brother's Rachel & Brendon will guest star on The Bold and the Beautiful! Tune in October 28th & 31st!
I don't watch Soap Operas anymore, but I'm thinking I gotta watch my favorite Reality couple!!!
Its very good news. I am very excited to see them.
Look at what I just found on EBAY!!
BRENCHAL fans definitively should go look!!
Yes people have bought tons of stuff that was autographed by them and others. In fact this season Brendon & Rachel were talking about a guy who has a monster collection of BB stuff..
guess what I know him he's a really nice guy and his collection is HUGE!!
I love BB so I can't even judge someone who has a collection of BB, lol ! I miss the show so much!
Or perhaps they are just smiling for the picture.
Brendon & Rachel is doing a meet and greet at the RARE Steakhouse Bar & Grill in Miami on New Year's Eve from 9pm to 11:30pm.
How did Brendon's cast switch arms?
That was the first thing I noticed. I guess one of those pics were posted in reverse.
If you mirror this one it puts his cast back on the left arm but it is not the way the photo was taken because the words are mirrored.
Same with this one, the words are wrong. So I don't think either was mirrored. He must have changed it out. It isn't really a cast but a wrist brace so it is removable. But why switch arms?
Good job, Prophet. I think he may be trying to mess with us, lol! We now have wristgate to deal with.
About the wrists...to me, in the picture I posted of them in the airport, it looks like a different type of wrist/hand brace, more like the left wrist was bandaged or there's some gauze (maybe a cheap wrist band). His right hand can't be seen.
I just have to say Brendon definitely looks better with more hair!
The Miami Keys? There ain't no such animal.
Brendon, Rachel, Elissa & her fiance on the boat they used today.


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In both TV and also Films, there's a subject that has done positively in the last decade: Zombies. This idea makes for numerous extremely delightful, majorly outstanding, and award-winning programs as well as blockbusters. However it's entirely fiction, right?
When you have lived for virtually any period of time, it's no doubt you have heard someone explain to you how necessary sleeping is. It's very likely that you've discovered this lesson for your own benefit, and it's also possible that you've already heard from many people who have understood it too. Without rest, we truly feel like… well, zombies.
Just as if feeling worn-down isn't already a sufficient amount of a predicament, there's a lot more to the case. Any time we have been lacking sufficient rest, our human brain essentially malfunctions. That basically indicates that our human brain does not function properly. As a matter of fact, our human brain actually begins shutting down specified areas and also operations that are not required for survival. For that reason staying lacking sleep is not merely a feeling, it is really a physically impaired condition of life.
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NECTAR hasn't only just produced a breakthrough mattress that creates extraordinary comfort. They've at the same time designed a prime mattress that is definitely made of only the best materials. There are absolutely no ozone depleters, PDDEs, TDCPP, mercury, or even lead. And not only are they significantly more healthy, but also for the earth too. They are already without difficulty recycled, and world friendly!
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It certainly is common for comfort as well as quality to go hand in hand. However they are produced with a cost. Well, typically. But not right now.
NECTAR provides comfort and support consistent with mattresses that charge $3,000-5,000+. With that high quality, you may be sincerely hoping that they may be half that asking price, at around $2,000. Or it could be you might have your fingers crossed specifically wishing that they might be only $1,500. Yet don't quit reading here. Because you won't even be spending that.
They really do not cost $1,500 . They will not cost $1,000 . All NECTAR mattresses get started in the $300's . They are all under $1,000 , even for a California King ! At that price tag , absolutely everyone inside your home could slumber far better for the cost of just one traditional mattress .
We inhabit a world that is definitely always changing. NECTAR is a paradigm shift in the strategy a mattress is created. You see, mattresses have been in existence years and years. And like autos as well as homes, the manner in which one is designed now a days is different than it was generations ago. Across almost all industries, people are endlessly studying as well as making cutting edge discoveries. From working on and making use of new innovative materials used, to improving on a design or even unveiling a whole new one, the process where we accomplish things transforms with time.
Traditional mattresses comprise of a set of box spring together with a mattress. The box springs go underneath the mattress, offering an additional layer of support to the mattress. The mattress is created with columns of coils all throughout to supply support. Then on top the coils is some sort of "topper". In the old days, this topper was filled with numerous sorts of stuffing or cushioning, and in more recent years various layers of foam. There are lots of manufacturers which have been manufacturing mattresses for many years such as Serta, Sealy, Jamison, Sleep Number, as well as Amerisleep.
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| Technology | September 13
Presented by Global AI Summit
Aramco is channeling Saudi's AI Revolution at the Global AI Summit
Aramco's CEO, Amin H. Nasser starts off the first day of the Global AI Summit with an insightful discussion on AI's role in energy and the environment.
Photograph: Getty Images
THE GLOBAL AI SUMMIT has kicked off this morning with the first day's topics of artificial intelligence and its impact on the private sector. Keynote speaker Amin H. Nasser, CEO of Aramco, leads the way with a discussion on 'Empowering Opportunities with AI,' across industries of energy, environment and cities.
One of the world's largest integrated energy and chemical companies, Aramco, is a commercial behemoth, with interests across a wide range of industries. With dealings at every step of the hydrocarbon production chain, to delivering wide-ranging social and economic impact across the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and further afield, the company's impact on economic development across the MENA region cannot be understated.
Aramco has long worked to integrate the latest technologies into its businesses and to ensure the smooth operation of a wide range of companies. Alongside the petrochemical business, the company also strives to create a sustainable environment, create economic growth and to improve standards of life for all within the Kingdom.
Aramco has leveraged the power of artificial intelligence (AI) throughout its operations in order to improve the efficiency of the company's core businesses. "Our aim is to explore and utilize AI solutions that are sustainable, while enhancing the national digital ecosystem," says Nabil Al-Nuaim, Aramco's Chief Digital Transformation Officer, "Whenever we see the potential to deploy AI in an operational area, we will seek out the latest enabling technologies." The result of these efforts has been the deployment of state-of-the-art solutions that make use of AI and machine learning to process vast quantities of real-time data regarding hydrocarbon discovery, recovery, and production efficiency and reliability.
Nabil Nuaim, EXEC DIR Community Services, poses for a portrait in his office on May 7, 2019
"One such platform on one of our offshore drilling rigs uses machine learning to detect drilling anomalies in real time and provide crews with automated notifications to help avoid damage to equipment," says Al-Nuaim. Another is GeoDRIVE, an AI solution that gives geoscientists the ability to create high-resolution, high-fidelity interactive models of the earth, allowing the company to enhance its hydrocarbon recovery efforts in regions that might prove challenging thanks to complex local geology.
From detecting anomalies to geology and beyond, Aramco's use of AI is widespread. For example, the company has also used machine learning alongside predictive and prescriptive analytics to optimize the fuel gas used in the boilers at its Khurais facility, "The application contributed to significant annual fuel gas savings and an 8% reduction in carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions," says Al-Nuaim.
On the surface, Aramco's AI strategy, and the investments which go along with it, is simple. The growth of systems which result in data generation and the increasing ability to capture that data and to leverage it across ever more processes has led to seemingly endless possibilities for AI systems. Huge numbers of processes can be made more efficient and data-driven and the company fully intends to continue investing in AI.
As part of this process, Aramco takes full advantage of Fourth Industrial Revolution (4IR) technologies to support business needs across its entire value chain, from operational efficiency, cost avoidance, cost saving, customer satisfaction, and revenue generation through commercialization. 4IR technologies include concepts such as AI, Big Data and analytics, unmanned vehicles (UVs), blockchain, the Internet of Things (IoT) and more. "Successfully deploying these 4IR technologies is no longer optional. In today's digital economy, companies must demonstrate the ability to leverage this technology to improve operations and adapt their businesses – to meet shifting market dynamics and maintain competitive advantage," says Al-Nuaim. While AI solutions can often lend themselves to fully supporting a certain process within the value chain, there are often times where there is no obvious application for AI within a business process, "In such circumstances, we try to identify where AI can support these business cases to maximize value," according to Al-Nuaim.
Photograph: Global AI Summit
Perhaps the most potentially impactful of Aramco's AI projects is the creation of the Global AI Corridor. The company officially launched the Global AI Corridor in order to facilitate, accelerate and support the Kingdom's ongoing transformation in terms of competitiveness through the adoption of AI across Saudi Arabia's industries, "The Corridor is a program that aims to enable Saudi Arabian industries to fully embrace and integrate the latest AI technologies to help outperform regional and global competitors, grow the economy, and keep the Kingdom at the forefront of industrial innovation," Al-Nuaim says.
The end result is a cohesive, AI-driven strategy that includes Aramco's various internal systems, and the Saudi-wide AI Corridor. The AI Corridor itself will provide Saudi industries with competitive advantages across a wide spectrum of business activities, "It will develop AI solutions, generate and commercialize high-impact IP, grow human capital through a series of talent development programs, and nurture AI startups," says Al-Nuaim.
The AI Corridor Center of Excellence will form a central hub of collaboration between Aramco and other key partners, driving innovation and facilitating the delivery of the AI Corridor's programs, "Partners include Caltech and Beyond Limits, targeting the development of solutions for global challenges while streamlining the innovation process in the Kingdom, and globally," Al-Nuaim says. The AI Corridor project aims to bring together global AI hubs to collaborate in solving mankind's universal, global problems and "attract talent, capital, ideas and IP to KSA and the region, and enable an environment for nurturing AI innovation," according to Al-Nuaim.
An AI-inspired vision of the future? It appears that Aramco and Saudi Arabia are well on track. Through the leveraging of data, analytics, new technologies and more, the future is indeed bright for the Kingdom and its inhabitants. A vision such as Aramco's is novel, indeed revolutionary and the only question is "Where will it lead and what marvels will it create?"
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Erin Rose Kelly (* 21. August 1981 auf Point Loma, San Diego, Kalifornien) ist eine US-amerikanische Schauspielerin.

Leben und Karriere
Erin Kelly wuchs in Boulder, Colorado auf. Ihr jüngerer Bruder Jason Kelly ist Sänger. Kelly schloss 2000 das New Yorker Marymount Manhattan College im Fach Schauspiel erfolgreich ab. Außerdem studierte sie nach ihrem Umzug nach Los Angeles an der Meisner Technique School.

Kelly arbeitete in vier Filmen mit der US-Regisseurin Katherine Brooks zusammen. So spielte sie die Hauptrollen in Brooks' Filmen Finding Kate und Loving Annabelle. In Brooks' Film Waking Madison spielte Kelly neben Sarah Roemer, Imogen Poots und Elisabeth Shue die Rolle der Grace.

Filmografie (Auswahl)
 2004: Finding Kate (Kurzfilm)
 2006: Loving Annabelle
 2006–2007: Beyond the Break (Fernsehserie, 6 Folgen)
 2008: Process (Kurzfilm)
 2008–2011: Feed (Fernsehserie, 6 Folgen)
 2010: Abnormal Abduction (Kurzfilm)
 2010: Waking Madison
 2011: Hippie Go Yuppie (Kurzfilm)
 2012: Bizarre Love Triangle (Kurzfilm)
 2014: Girltrash: All Night Long
 2021: Trouble in Suburbia (Fernsehfilm)

Weblinks

 Offizielle Website von Erin Kelly
 Kelly auf TV.com

Einzelnachweise

Filmschauspieler
US-Amerikaner
Geboren 1981
Frau


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Please Stop Predisposing Amaras to Continue Perishing in Cities and Rural Areas!
By Belayneh Abate
It is with a deep grief that I watched the body of a toddler slaughtered with a spear that penetrated his belly and passed out through his lower back in Metekel. This tragedy tests our humanity, brotherhood, sisterhood and parenthood. We are becoming parents, sisters and brothers who cannot protect our children, sisters and brothers. Even birds and chickens do whatever it takes to protect their chicks from predators. The Amara people must protect its community from predators that bite more bizarrely than the rabid beasts.
As we know, the Amaras have been massacred and displaced in every corner of Ethiopia for the last 42 years. The massacre and the displacement of Amaras has continued in greater magnitude, but many including some impotent Amara elites blame ethnic politics and the newly established defendant Amara groups for these atrocities. Because ethnic politics and the victimized Amaras are always blamed for these atrocities, no one is held accountable for the tens of thousands of lives perished, and the millions of innocents tortured, sterilized and displaced for 42 years.
I do not think anyone can adequately defend the feasibility of Ethnic politics in any society. However, preaching about the harmful effects of Ethnic politics has never halted the massacre, torture and displacement of Amaras for the last 42 years.
Christianity has been preached for more than 2000 years, but only a few (if any) strictly follow the routes of the faith. Similarly, we have been preaching about the catastrophic effects of ethnic politics for decades. Despite our preaching, the cyclones of ethnic politics covered the Ethiopian sky and fractured the land and the people in ethnic lines. Recovering from the cyclones of ethnic politics cannot be achieved within decades even when there is a firm determination to ban ethnic politics.
Banning ethnic politics today may have significant impact after decades, but it has little immediate effect to protect Amaras who have been the prime targets of Ethnic politics for decades. Thinking that ethnic politics will fade like summer fog if it is banned today is a gullible thinking that lacks the knowledge and the understanding of how cultural and behavioral changes come into effect. It took us more than 123 years to immerse our bodies into the quagmire of ethnic politics: It will take us decades, if not centuries, to come out of it.
After the glorious victory of Adwa, the Europeans designed Ethnic politics for us because our forefathers decisively defeated and embarressed them in their first attempt of colonization. The wounded and humiliated colonizers drew the maps of Ethnic administrations and attempted to put them in place during their second invasion in late 1920's. This futile attempt was defied by our gladiators, but it was unfortunately materialized in the mid 1980's by the bandas they baptized.
In other words, ethnic politics started to walk on its foot in 1980's after it was borne from the wombs of bandas that delightfully received the European sperms of ethnic politics 123 years earlier. The sperms these bandas received had anti-Amara codes in their DNA chains. Slicing these anti-Amara genomes is not an easy task as it has been shown for the last 60 years. It would take decades of unwavering effort to take out this cursed genes and reverse the course of ethnic politics.
Dictated by the anti-Amara genome, the affected groups preached anti-Amara ethnic politics to the non-Amara segments of the Ethiopian people for many decades. As a result of this unholy preaching, a cursed fig trees of anti-Amara ethnic politics were planted in the minds of the non-Amara youth. These cursed fig trees have grown long roots and numerous braches in the minds of the non-Amara youth. It needs strong effort and the help of God to uproot these cursed trees from their minds. These cursed trees cannot be removed just by performing radical mastectomy on sculpture of "Annolle" or below knee amputation on the monument of "martyrs".
Similarly, this cursed tree cannot be destroyed immediately by cursing ethnic politics non-stop or placing a beautiful Jano on the shoulders of the addicted "Lemma Team" or praising and bowing below the knees of the spy and the criminal "messiah".
Some shallow thinkers believe that ethnics politics will vanish if the former servants of the Tigre People Libration Front(TPLF) declare that ethnic politics is banned. They relentlessly beg the unborn again spy pastor to ban ethnic politics that he was baptized with. They think Ethnic politics can be treated like addiction of tobacco , opiates or street drugs in 3-9 months. However, treating addiction of Ethnic politics requires extraordinary effort and decades of rehabilitation treatment.
The addiction of ethnic politics has been endemic in certain families since the time of the colonization era. This endemic ethnic politics became epidemic when a mafia group sponsored by the West and Arabs replaced the unitary central government. This mafia group shared its Anti-Amara manifesto to other proponents of ethnic politics.
Eradication of ethnic politics require rehabilitation programs for the promoters of anti-Amara ethnic politics, who are dictated by anti-Amara gene codes, and convincing the West that encoded the genes in these promoters in the first place. It takes decade(if not centuries) to complete the rehabilitation treatments and to convince the West that Amara is not a threat for their interests. Lately, understanding these facts, the Amaras started to come together and defend themselves from the habitual promoters of anti-Amara politics.
As we know, the Amara people was predisposed to ethnic cleansing because it refrained from organizing itself in ethnic line unlike others. It refrained organizing itself in ethnic line because it understood the culprits of ethnic politics. On the other hand, the promoters of anti-Amara ethnic politics strengthen their ethnic organizations established within the last 60 years.
Although these 40-60 years old organizations continued to massacre and displace the Amaras in direct or indirect way, many including the traitor Amaras are blaming the newly formed defendant Amara groups. It is upsetting to see opportunists and traitors that always sing for the powerful blame the newly formed defendant Amara groups for the current massacre and displacement of Amaras.
Would these opportunists blame the newly formed Amara organizations for the atrocities committed on Amaras for the last 42 years as well? Would the traitors blame the newly formed defendant Amaras for the massacre and displacement of Amaras in wolkait and Raya for the last 42 years? Would these opportunists blame this newly formed defendant Amara groups for the Amaras thrown in the deep canyons of Bedeno*? Would these unjust people blame these newly formed defendant Amara groups for the lives slaughtered in Arba Gugu, Arsi Negele, and Wolega decades ago**? Would these opportunists blame these newly formed defendant Amara groups for the thousands of Amaras displaced by Legesse Zenawi and Shiferaw Shigute years ago***?
Blaming the victim and empowering the victimizer is not only unjust but also an encouragement to perpetuate and promote horror. The Amara people has been the prime victim of the victimizers for at least 42 years. As facts on the ground demonstrate, the Amara people has been marginalized from political, social and economical participation for almost three decades. It has been systematically excluded from educational opportunities and accesses to healthcare.
This 42-years ethnic cleansing of Amara has to stop! This ethnic cleansing can be halted only by the Amaras supported by the power of God who condemns penetrating the belly of a toddler by a long and sharp spear. The Amara Ethnic cleansing can be halted only by Amara People supported by the power of God that reproaches throwing innocents in to the grand canyons, shooting children with ammunition, amputating genitalia with knives, and displacing infants and pregnant mothers from their homes.
Those of you who relentlessly blame defendant Amaras, please unwind and revise the massacre and displacement of innocents for the last 42 years. Ask yourself about what the Amara people should do when it continues to experience massacre and displacement although it waited with patience for three decades defying ethnic politics? Ask yourself what the Amara resistance groups should do when they see their kin get killed with spears, ammunition and menchas like wild animals everywhere?
It is saddening to see many websites, radios, news papers, magazines and televisions ( the one time ardent critics of EPRDF), now giving deaf ears to the massacre and displacement of Amaras in every corner of the country. Websites, news papers, radios, televisions, magazines, individuals, please use your voices to halt the misery of the victims and to seek justice instead of throwing the guilt to the victims' defendants. Please be conscientious and stop blaming the defending Amaras and predisposing the Amaras to continue perishing in every cities and rural areas. Thank you.
*Amara Genocide in Bedeno Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EcZJIfUkx9M
**Amara Masscre in Arba gugu video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A3v9jcDAmDI
***Amaras displaced from everywhere ESAT Radio https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BMw4dzDFRvU
The writer can be reached at abatebelai@yahoo.com