It may be cold and dark outside, but indoors brightly coloured flowers and berries create a warm atmosphere. Around the time when the days start to get longer again, warm colours gradually make way for fresh tones - a symbol of the approaching spring. That's also something to look forward to.


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To avoid plumbing mix-ups, EPA wants "lead free" fixtures stamped as such
Michigan Radio | By Lindsey Smith
Maialisa
Brass fittings and faucets not used for drinking water can have lead in them. The EPA wants the parts to stamped so people can easily tell the difference.
The U.S. EPA is proposing rules that would require plumbing manufacturers to mark pipes and fittings for drinking water as "lead free."
Back in the 1980s, Congress banned lead in plumbing pieces, solder and pipes used for drinking water. Now the EPA wants manufacturers to do a better job labeling these "lead free" fixtures so people don't accidentally mix them up with similar products that don't have to be lead free.
Until 2014, "lead free" brass fittings could have up to 8% lead.
In January 2014, all new faucets and valves that come into contact with drinking water had to meet a stricter standard mandated by a new law. From that point forward, the standard dropped to .25% lead allowed for "the wetted surface" of brass in drinking water faucets and valves.
Do you have lead in your pipes and faucets? Here's how you can find out
People have until April to give the EPA feedback on the proposed rule.
Environment & Climate Change lead exposureplumbing
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Lindsey Smith helps lead the station's Enterprise Team. She previously served as Michigan Radio's Morning News Editor, Investigative Reporter and West Michigan Reporter.
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No action yet on changing Michigan's "action level" for lead in drinking water
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Researchers from Virginia Tech announced the results of their fourth round of water testing in Flint today.The tests show that lead levels continue to…

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00:03:36 666 - The No. of the Beast - Antichrist...???
When will be the year when the 666 number implantation begins to every human being?
WATCH OUT BECAUSE YOU HAVE NO IDEA OF WHAT YOU ARE DOING TO YOUR OWN CHILD YOU ARE TRAINING THEM TO BE WICKED.
ماذا سوف يحدث إذا اتصلت على الرقم 666 ؟ مرحبا بكم، ماذا يحدث لو أجرينا إتصال بالرقم 666 يقال اننا لو اتصالنا.
00:22:22 Entramos na seed 666 (FOI ASSUSTADOR) veja o que aconteceu!!!!!
Am sunat la 666. Tot nimic. Nu mai sunati, copii-copaci!
00:06:45 WE CALLED (666)-666-6666 AND THEY ANSWERED!
00:11:08 Satanic World 666 Warning! 666 Everywhere You Look!!!! ILLUMINATI 666 !!!!


Tradional cousin from the region Romagna is particulary care of, and offers vegetables' buffet for lunch and dinner. Buffet at breakfast . For hotel's custormers is reserved free parking inside hotel's courtard. In Ghibli's Hotel will come as customer and will go as friends!


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package org.apache.commons.jcs.auxiliary.javagroups;

import org.apache.commons.jcs.auxiliary.AuxiliaryCache;
import org.apache.commons.jcs.engine.CacheConstants;
import org.apache.commons.jcs.engine.CacheElement;
import org.apache.commons.jcs.engine.behavior.ICacheElement;
import org.apache.commons.jcs.engine.behavior.ICacheType;
import org.apache.commons.jcs.engine.control.CompositeCache;
import org.apache.commons.logging.Log;
import org.apache.commons.logging.LogFactory;
import org.javagroups.Address;
import org.javagroups.Channel;
import org.javagroups.MembershipListener;
import org.javagroups.Message;
import org.javagroups.View;
import org.javagroups.blocks.GroupRequest;
import org.javagroups.blocks.MessageDispatcher;
import org.javagroups.blocks.RequestHandler;
import org.javagroups.util.RspList;

import java.io.IOException;
import java.io.Serializable;
import java.util.Set;
import java.util.Vector;

/**
 * Auxiliary cache using javagroups. Expects to be created with a Channel,
 * the {@link JavaGroupsCacheFactory} is responsible for creating that channel.
 * To do so it uses configuration properties specified by an instance of
 * {@link JavaGroupsCacheAttributes}.
 *

 * At creation time the provided channel is connected to a group having the
 * same name as the cache / region name this auxiliary is associated with.
 * update / remove / removeAll operations are broadcast to all members of the
 * group. A listener thread processes requests from other members of the group,
 * and dispatches to appropriate methods on the associated CompositeCache.

 *

 * Calls to get are currently ignored.
 *

 * Messages are sent to peers asynchronously. Synchronous messaging could be
 * added using MessageDispatcher or RpcDispatcher. Combined with a get
 * implementation this could provide much higher cache consistency (but with
 * a substantial speed penalty).
 *
 */
public class JavaGroupsCache
    implements AuxiliaryCache, RequestHandler, MembershipListener
{
    private final Log log = LogFactory.getLog( JavaGroupsCache.class );

    private String cacheName;
    private int status;

    private boolean getFromPeers;

    private CompositeCache cache;

    private Channel channel;

    private MessageDispatcher dispatcher;

    public JavaGroupsCache( CompositeCache cache,
                            Channel channel,
                            boolean getFromPeers )
        throws Exception
    {
        this.cache = cache;

        this.cacheName = cache.getCacheName();
        this.channel = channel;

        this.getFromPeers = getFromPeers;

        // The adapter listens to the channel and fires MessageListener events
        // on this object.

        dispatcher = new MessageDispatcher( channel, null, this, this );

        // Connect channel to the 'group' for our region name

        channel.setOpt( Channel.LOCAL, Boolean.FALSE );

        channel.connect( cacheName );

        // If all the above succeed, the cache is now alive.

        this.status = CacheStatus.ALIVE;

        log.info( "Initialized for cache: " + cacheName );
    }

    public void send( ICacheElement<K, V> element, int command )
    {
        Request request = new Request( element, command );

        try
        {
            dispatcher.castMessage( null,
                                    new Message( null, null, request ),
                                    GroupRequest.GET_NONE,
                                    0 );

        }
        catch ( Exception e )
        {
            log.error( "Failed to send JavaGroups message", e );
        }
    }

    // ----------------------------------------------- interface AuxiliaryCache

    /**
     * Sends the provided element to all peers (connected to the same channel
     * and region name).
     *
     * @param ce CacheElement to replicate
     * @throws IOException Never thrown by this implementation
     */
    public void update( ICacheElement<K, V> ce ) throws IOException
    {
        send( ce, Request.UPDATE );
    }

    /**
     * If 'getFromPeers' is true, this will attempt to get the requested
     * element from ant other members of the group.
     *
     * @param key
     * @return
     * @throws IOException Never thrown by this implementation
     */
    public ICacheElement<K, V> get( K key ) throws IOException
    {
        if ( getFromPeers )
        {
            CacheElement element = new CacheElement( cacheName, key, null );

            Request request = new Request( element, Request.GET );

            // Cast message and wait for all responses.

            // FIXME: we can stop waiting after the first not null response,
            //        that is more difficult to implement however.

            RspList responses =
                dispatcher.castMessage( null,
                                        new Message( null, null, request ),
                                        GroupRequest.GET_ALL,
                                        0 );

            // Get results only gives the responses which were not null

            Vector results = responses.getResults();

            // If there were any non null results, return the first

            if ( !results.isEmpty() )
            {
                return ( ICacheElement<K, V> ) results.get( 0 );
            }
        }

        return null;
    }

    /**
     * Sends a request to all peers to remove the element having the provided
     * key.
     *
     * @param key Key of element to be removed
     * @throws IOException Never thrown by this implementation
     */
    public boolean remove( K key ) throws IOException
    {
        CacheElement ce = new CacheElement( cacheName, key, null );

        send( ce, Request.REMOVE );

        return false;
    }

    /**
     * Sends a request to remove ALL elements from the peers
     *
     * @throws IOException Never thrown by this implementation
     */
    public void removeAll() throws IOException
    {
        CacheElement ce = new CacheElement( cacheName, null, null );

        send( ce, Request.REMOVE_ALL );
    }

    /**
     * Dispose this cache, terminates the listener thread and disconnects the
     * channel from the group.
     *
     * @throws IOException
     */
    public void dispose() throws IOException
    {
        // This will join the scheduler thread and ensure everything terminates

        dispatcher.stop();

        // Now we can disconnect from the group and close the channel

        channel.disconnect();
        channel.close();

        status = CacheStatus.DISPOSED;

        log.info( "Disposed for cache: " + cacheName );
    }

    /**
     * Since this is a lateral, size is not defined.
     *
     * @return Always returns 0
     */
    public int getSize()
    {
        return 0;
    }

    /**
     * Returns the status of this auxiliary.
     *
     * @return One of the status constants from {@link CacheConstants}
     */
    public int getStatus()
    {
        return status;
    }

    /**
     * Accessor for cacheName property
     *
     * @return Name of cache / region this auxiliary is associated with.
     */
    public String getCacheName()
    {
        return cacheName;
    }

    /**
     * Not implemented (I believe since get is not supported, this should also
     * not be).
     *
     * @param group Ignored
     * @return Always reurns null
     */
    public Set<K> getGroupKeys( String group )
    {
        return null;
    }

    // --------------------------------------------------- interface ICacheType

    /**
     * Get the cache type (always Lateral).
     *
     * @return Always returns ICacheType.LATERAL_CACHE
     */
    public int getCacheType()
    {
        return ICacheType.LATERAL_CACHE;
    }

    // ----------------------------------------------- interface RequestHandler

    /**
     * Handles a message from a peer. The message should contain a Request,
     * and depending on the command this will call localUpdate, localRemove,
     * or localRemoveAll on the associated CompositeCache.
     *
     * @param msg The JavaGroups Message
     * @return Always returns null
     */
    public Object handle( Message msg )
    {
        try
        {
            Request request = ( Request ) msg.getObject();

            // Switch based on the command and invoke the
            // appropriate method on the associate composite cache

            switch ( request.getCommand() )
            {
                case Request.GET:

                    return cache.localGet( request.getCacheElement().getKey() );
                    // break;

                case Request.UPDATE:

                    cache.localUpdate( request.getCacheElement() );
                    break;

                case Request.REMOVE:

                    cache.localRemove( request.getCacheElement().getKey() );
                    break;

                case Request.REMOVE_ALL:

                    cache.localRemoveAll();
                    break;

                default:

                    log.error( "Recieved unknown command" );
            }
        }
        catch ( Exception e )
        {
            log.error( "Failed to process received JavaGroups message", e );
        }

        return null;
    }

    // ------------------------------------------- interface MembershipListener

    public void viewAccepted( View view )
    {
        log.info( "View Changed: " + String.valueOf( view ) );
    }

    public void suspect( Address suspectedAddress ) { }

    public void block() { }

    // ---------------------------------------------------------- inner classes

    /**
     * Object for messages, wraps the command type (update, remove, or remove
     * all) and original cache element to distribute.
     */
    static class Request implements Serializable
    {
        public static final int UPDATE = 1;
        public static final int REMOVE = 2;
        public static final int REMOVE_ALL = 3;
        public static final int GET = 5;

        private ICacheElement<K, V> cacheElement;
        private int command;

        public Request( ICacheElement<K, V> cacheElement, int command )
        {
            this.cacheElement = cacheElement;
            this.command = command;
        }

        public ICacheElement<K, V> getCacheElement()
        {
            return cacheElement;
        }

        public int getCommand()
        {
            return command;
        }
    }
}

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William James was a better, more interesting, writer than Henry James.
These are, as my friend Margaret Toth pointed out, "fighting words." But of course, as I noted in response, "That's why I put them in a status. To get one started." An entertaining and edifying one so far.
Now, one aspect of a philosopher's wisdom may be found in their work; another may be found in what they themselves found to be influential and important in their intellectual and psychological development.
There is a simple and acute wisdom here, one that might be discerned quite clearly even as we disregard the predestinatory note, and Ruskin's belief–expressed elsewhere–about the great men being able to do great things "without effort." For the injunction here is clear, one we find expressed in modern homilies too: do your work as best as you can; put the hours in; be steady and steadfast in your efforts; care not for rewards or recognition; do not torment yourself with anguish about whether your work was meant to recognized or valorized. The doing of it–and the staying with it, and enjoying the time spent on it–is ample reward.
Note: All quotes other than the ones from Ruskin are taken from Becoming William James, pp. 108-110.
[A] biography is…a handshake….across time, but also across cultures, across beliefs, across disciplines, across genders, and across ways of life. It is an act of friendship.
It is a way of keeping the biographer's notebook open, on both sides of that endlessly mysterious question: What was this human life really like, and what does it mean to us now? In this sense, biography is not merely a mode of historical inquiry. It is an act of imaginative faith.
[T]he serious biographer must physically pursue his subject through the past. Mere archives were not enough. He must go to all the places where the subject had ever lived or worked, or traveled or dreamed.
To acknowledge that difficulty note that Holmes adds a variety of physical emulation to the task of the biographer: we must be where our subject has been in order to assess what his experiences there might have been like, and thus evaluate what their contribution to his life's work were. Thus the Nietzsche biographer must make the hike to Sils Maria and ascend the heights that surround it. There, perhaps, one might investigate what Nietzsche had in mind in his constant invocations of the 'clean air' he experienced there, and wonder about the sordid life he might have left behind. Because we are not disembodied intelligences, but rather embodied beings in constant interaction with our environments–physical, mental, and emotional–Holmes' injunction is a wise one. The biographer who writes of Jack Kerouac without undertaking a long road-trip on American highways, and does not wonder about what effect the sights seen therein–big skies, the black asphalt stretching to the horizon, the lonely houses and farms, the lives of fellow travelers–could have had on an endlessly restless and fertile imagination is crippled, fatally, in his task.
By the time I had finished my eight-hundred-page biography of Percy Bysshe Shelley in 1974, I was nearly thirty.
With only the rarest of exceptions…each author is presented as simply the most gifted and well-meaning of writers, while their behavior, however problematic and possibly outrageous…is invariably described in a flattering light…special pleading is everywhere evident, as if biographers were afraid that the work might be diminished by a life that was less than noble or not essentially directed toward a lofty cause.
[B]iographers apparently feel a need to depict their subjects as especially admirable human beings, something that in the end makes their lives less rather than more interesting and harder rather than easier to relate to their writing. It is so much clearer why the books were written and why they had to be the way they are if the life is given without this constant positive spin.
[O]ne can only assume that they are satisfying a general need to reinforce a positive conception of narrative art, thus bolstering the self-esteem of readers, and even more of critics and biographers, who in writing about literature are likewise contributing to the very same good causes.
I would have thought the answer to Parks' puzzlement was staring him right in the face (he flirts with it above in the line emphasized) . Biographies of writers are written by, er, writers. To write quasi-hagiography rather than biography, to suggest that the personal and the artistic can be so divorced is to also give oneself a free pass: judge me on my writing, and my writing alone. Here, the personal is not treated as political; instead, it becomes an autonomous sphere, one whose influences on a writer's writing are not permitted to be viewed and whose consideration is not allowed to enter into any judgment of the writing, now viewed as an act radically divorced from the life that led to it. Writers are not embedded in their actions and circumstances and relationships; they are merely conduits for the expression of their art, which they bring to life by dint of their unstinting labors.
This is an exalted view to hold of others; it becomes even more pleasurable to profess such views when they lead to an exalted vision of oneself. Writing quasi-hagiographies of writers is then best understood as equal parts self-glorification and anticipatory protection of oneself against future critiques. To suggest the writer is essentially noble and virtuous despite well-known personal failings is to act to ensure a similar view of one's own life. It is an act of writerly solidarity, an insurance policy taken out against any criticism that peeks under the hood.


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Deze lijst van voetbalinterlands is een overzicht van alle officiële voetbalwedstrijden tussen de nationale teams van Ivoorkust en Tanzania. De landen hebben tot op heden vier keer tegen elkaar gespeeld. De eerste ontmoeting, een groepswedstrijd tijdens de Afrika Cup 1980, vond plaats op 15 maart 1980 in Lagos. Het laatste duel, een kwalificatiewedstrijd voor het Wereldkampioenschap voetbal 2014, werd gespeeld in Dar es Salaam op 16 juni 2013.

Wedstrijden

Samenvatting

Tanzania
Ivoorkust

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Q: Is there a mistake in the sympy fourier_series? Good morning,
I am trying to compute the Fourier series of f=x (periodic in 0<x<1).
I am looking at the example here:
https://docs.sympy.org/latest/modules/series/fourier.html#sympy.series.fourier.fourier_series
at the bottom of the page there is the following code as example
   from sympy import fourier_series, pi
    from sympy import *
    from sympy.abc import x
    s3 = fourier_series(x, (x, 0, 1)).truncate(10)
    p = plot(x, s3, (x, -5, 5), show=False, legend=True)
    p.show()

Now when I copy and paste the exact same code as that in the example I am getting a different result as that shown in the picture in the sympy manual. I am getting a series that does not follow at all the function f=x in 0<x<1.
Why is this?
Thanks

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Also an unpainted Kalitta Air 747-400?
Probably a holding pattern? That's what it looks like to me.
KLM coming to Boston?? Correct me if I'm wrong - but that's new.
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Party Of Justice And National Revival Holds Constituent Congress In Moscow
The Party of Justice and National Revival has opened its constituent congress in Moscow. Sergei Baburin, the leader of the Russian National Union who chairs the congress, urged all radicals, conservatives and socialists present to "create a harmonious union that could ensure the triumph of justice and national revival of Russia." According to Baburin, the ideology of the new party is based on three principles, namely national revival with simultaneous preservation of the Russian civilization and world outlook, recognition of democracy and separate forms of liberalism, administrative and territorial division of Russia in accordance with due consideration to the cultural autonomy of each nation. Baburin also announced the party's political credo /sovereignty of the people in the form of local self-government/ and suggested a short name for the party /Narodnaya Volya, or People's Freedom/. The new party is being co-founded by the Russian National Union, the SPAS movement and the Union of Realists. In all, the congress gathered 284 delegates from different regions of Russia.


The project in Longford, Tasmania involved the de-commissioning of the original Turret Clock mechanism and the installation of a GPS Intelligent Clock system. The clock has two dials and a large bell. The clock now strikes the hours and half hours, 24 hours a day.


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Loren Bliss: Dispatches from Dystopia
(formerly Outside Agitator's Notebook)
DISPATCHES FROM DYSTOPIA, dispatchesfromdystopia.net, which evolved during the past eight years from the less sharply focused "Outside Agitator's Notebook," has become precisely what this blog's new title and domain name describes. It is an ongoing anthology of reports, analyses, commentaries, photographs and other anti-Capitalist testimony from the Dystopia that Capitalism has made of our world. It's epicenter is the post-humanitarian United States of America: our species' self-inflicted Moron Nation and its empire of global-conquest malevolence, the de facto Fourth Reich, the true birthdate of which will eventually be recognized – if indeed our species somehow miraculously survives the present era – as 22 November 1963. ¶Dispatches thus chronicles our relentless subjugation by Capitalism as it (inevitably) reverts to its traditional might-makes-right savagery and – just as Capitalism previously transformed itself into Italian Fascism and German Nazism – as it now matures into a Nazism of uniquely USian form and content. By examining the details of what is occurring, DfD shows how ours is a Dystopia characterized as much by the mindlessness of Moron Nation's Zieg-Heil-equivalent chanting of "USA! USA! USA!" as by the brutality such chanting invariably celebrates – the genocidal, ultimately ecocidal atrocities the Capitalist Ruling Class perpetrates in the name of "profit," "growth" and USian "Exceptionalism." ¶Why "USian" rather than American? Because to call this exceptionally fascist empire "America" is to slander as fascists or Nazis all humanitarian-minded peoples of North and South America who valiantly and often fatally resist USiaNazi enslavement. And, yes, "humanitarian" versus "anti-humanitarian" are the only terms that adequately differentiate the two now eternally hostile subspecies into which Capitalism has finally divided Homo sapiens sapiens. On one side are those of us who cling to the so-called Golden Rule and its variants, "do unto others as you would have them do unto you," the ultimate form of which is Marxism's "from each according to ability, too each according to need." On the other side are the moral imbeciles – Nazis, fascists, Ayn Rand disciples and all the other psychological zombies that are Capitalism's unique and uniquely apocalyptic spawn. ¶But what then is Capitalism? Though traditionally defined as economics, it is in fact the quintessential patriarchal ethos, the diabolical methodology of building a global empire by conquest and genocide both obvious and clandestine, with post-conquest world governance originally patterned after the despotic management of antebellum slave plantations. Capitalism is thus the forefather of fascism and Nazism, its only possible offspring. Behind its seductive cloak of euphemisms and Big Lies ("manifest destiny," "easy credit," "economic freedom," "self-made man," "entrepreneur," "no down payment," "rugged individualist," "you too can be rich," "free will," etc. ad nauseam), Capitalism is the stench of burning flesh and rotting corpses; the shrieks of napalmed children; the despair of families evicted into the permanent degradation, filth, deadly danger of untreated disease and constant fear of enslavement by arrest or kidnapping that defines USian homelessness; the final agonies of maliciously abandoned patients condemned to death by the deliberately genocidal costs of health care. ¶Ultimately Capitalism is the boundless Evil of global dictatorship by the Christian white male One Percent, a tiny, ruthless cabal of Capitalist aristocrats for whom infinite greed is ultimate virtue and for whom the snuff-film sadism of class warfare provides the ultimate entertainment. Under Capitalism's Fukushima-deadly, Ayn Rand credo of serial-killer moral imbecility – absolute power and unlimited profit for the One Percent and its Ruling Class vassals, zero-tolerance oppression and bottomless poverty for all the rest of us – these obscenely wealthy despots now impose on us their increasingly overt paradigm of Nazi governance. Not that We the (formerly exempt) People should be surprised; the merciless regimen that is now ours is how the Capitalists have always tyrannized our sisters and brothers in America's First Nations, in the USian ghettos and in all the Capitalist victim realms abroad. ¶Moreover our plight is of our own making. We the People long ago surrendered to our Capitalist overlords. We submit to denial of health care that is everywhere else on this planet deemed a human right; we submit to enslavement by debt; to the outsourcing of our jobs; to bankruptcy; to foreclosure; to eviction and homelessness; to imprisonment in numbers hitherto unequaled in human history; and most of all to the biggest Big Lie of all – the suicidal delusion we somehow remain free despite the Capitalists' no-longer-deniable theft of our liberty and their snickering revocation of the few prefaces to economic democracy our now-powerless unions had once managed to win. Our confinement is ensured, not just by our cowardice but by the invisible but inescapable cage of total surveillance: the electronic barbed wire that has reduced our entire planet to a monstrous concentration camp. ¶Cast off as "surplus human capital" when we are deemed no longer exploitable for profit, we are then methodically exterminated. We are slaughtered as cannon-fodder in the empire's endless wars of profit and conquest; we are murdered by the bullets and truncheons of the federalized and militarized local police; we are fatally poisoned by Capitalism's malignant toxification of our environment; we are slain by denials of health care and social services that are in fact deliberate, euphemism-cloaked policies of slow-motion genocide. ¶Meanwhile our overlords pornographically multiply their own wealth by knowingly destroying the planetary conditions upon which all sentient life depends. More recently – as if to demonstrate the infinite magnitude of their Evil by provoking unsurvivable thermonuclear apocalypse (and not coincidentally in fulfillment of a malevolent scheme by Adolf Hitler himself) – they have imposed on the Ukraine the anti-Russian war-mongering and anti-Jewish violence of an avowedly Nazi puppet government. And now, in the person of Donald Trump and his appointees, the USian tyrannosaur has come home to gorge on its final and terminally ironic meal, the denizens of Moron Nation itself, the people who by their prideful ignorance and hatefulness loosed this demonically insatiable monster on the entire world. But in these times our ability to effectively resist is obstructed not only by the USian regime of inescapable surveillance, but by the dreadful undertow of Moron Nation's intellectual and psychological paralysis: the deliberate deceptions and outright ignorance fostered by the Capitalist "education" system; by Capitalism's "mainstream media" propaganda machine (which is owned by the same smirking plutocrats whose vassal politicians so gleefully oppress us); and by the physical and psychic terrorism of Capitalism's manufactured crises. ¶Yet resist we must. As always, art – sometimes even unwittingly – depicts our present circumstances and so foretells our future. And as it says in a breathtakingly apt, wrenchingly poignant anthem grown increasingly popular far beyond its video-game origin, "shadows fall and hope is gone; steel your heart; the dawn will come."
For More Information...
A far more complete and autobiographically detailed version of "Introduction"
was published as a regular blog post – its substantially larger type also making it much more easily readable – on 23 March 2017 under the title "New Name, New Urgency as Capitalism Bares Its Nazi Fangs."
Links relevant to Introduction
"Moron Nation...the de facto Fourth Reich, the true birthdate of which will eventually be recognized – if indeed our species somehow miraculously survives the present era – as 22 November 1963."
The late Mae Brussell was perhaps the world's most diligent researcher into the assassination of President John Fitzgerald Kennedy, whose (technically unsolved) murder marks the beginning of the USian descent into neo-Nazism.
"...our relentless subjugation by capitalism..."
We the People have been reduced to slavery and serfdom by Capitalist governance -- absolute power and unlimited profit for the One Percent and their Ruling Class vassals, zero-tolerance oppression for all the rest of us -- and the CIA's Operation Chaos exemplifies Capitalism's darkest and most malevolent aspects.
"Shadows fall and hope has fled; steel your heart; the dawn will come..."
Whether wittingly or not, composer/poet Trevor Morris has in this piece come closer than any human bard to answering an ancient riddle: "what song do the Birds of Rhiannon sing, and to what quest are we thereby summoned?"
Fire Survivors
These are some of the very few photographs that survived the 1983 fire that destroyed my life's work, not just most of my pictures but nearly all my writing including three books in progress and all the associated research. Some of these photos shown here escaped the flames because they were with me in my portfolio case; others were produced digitally from negatives dug out of the rubble a year later. The images of obvious print-quality were made on DuPont Varilure paper, which had the highest silver content of all commercial papers and thus produced such intense tonalities, they often seemed illuminated by their own internal light sources. But that sort of photographic quality is now forever beyond our common reach, either gone like Varilure or so prohibitively expensive it is available only to the obscenely pampered dilettantes who produce the aesthetic pabulum favored by the One Percent. Photography as I knew it is dead -- as dead as my career was after the fire and its ensuing clinical depression -- but this body of work provides a glimpse of what was lost and what might have been. All photos copyright Loren Bliss.
Sandwiches for Mind and Spirit
In photography, a sandwich is a collage made by printing two or more negatives simultaneously. Collage is a medium that has fascinated me for as long as I can remember -- probably since I was a child experimenting with finger paints, glue and newspapers -- but I never took it seriously until, sometime in my early 20s and still thinking myself a painter-to-be, I discovered the works of Jasper Johns. Now it seems to me making sandwiches is to conventional photography what poetry is to prose: not just an intellectual exercise, but the opening of a doorway to the Mysterious Otherness I know as the Muse, from whom (sometimes in fulfilment of that McLuhanesque notion of art as prophecy) the currents of real creation invariably flow, whether swift and startling as a lightening strike or slow and soft as cottonwood seeds adrift on subtle summer air. (Collage and photographic sandwiches copyright Loren Bliss 2009-2012.)
Graffiti: a Sampler
When I returned to New York City in 1965 I was immediately impressed by the contrast between the graffiti I had encountered "out in America" -- the South and Middle West -- and what I saw in Manhattan. While the form and content of graffiti is sociologically important – possibly a semiotic indicator without peer -- I found the graffiti of Manhattan singularly appealing, the intellectual and aesthetic equivalents of a long-overdue breath of fresh air, and within a few days I had begun documenting it with 35mm and 120 film. (The opening photograph of this series was obviously made far from Manhattan, but I included it to establish an essential contrast.) Many more details about this particular body of work, which I briefly resumed when I went back to the City again in 1983, then abandoned after that year's career-terminating fire, are in my post of January 7, 2010. Yes I regard the best urban graffiti as genuine art, but too much of it, alas, is nothing more than a human variant on the mammalian practice of marking territory with spurts of urine: "I wuz here." All photos by Loren Bliss, copyright dates as noted.
Faces of the Fight
Supporters of health care reform and a much smaller number of health care reform's opponents -- each faction identified by its picket-signs -- gathered for the "town hall" meeting called by U.S. Rep. Adam Smith (D-WA) in Lakewood on August 25, 2009. Originally set for Lakewood City Hall, the event was rescheduled and moved to Lang Stadium to accommodate an unprecedented mobilization of pro-reform people. Cops estimated the crowd at about 2500. Photos by Loren Bliss copyright 2009.
A vital website that is often our only source of accurate information about the terrifying effort to impose zero-tolerance Christian theocracy on the United States.
Best Site for Suppressed Assassination Facts
The late Mae Brussell was our most relentless researcher into the murder of President John Kennedy and many other such outrages. Her legacy is a damning list of the USian Empire's darkest secrets.
Best, Most Thorough Documentation on the CIA's Destruction of the 1960s Counterculture
Ms. Brussel outdid herself in her nobody-dares-publish-it investigative report exposing how the CIA's Operation Chaos destroyed the 1960s Counterculture. (My assumption is the Agency, with its Ivy-League analysts and their knowledge of pagan mythology, recognized the Counterculture's anti-patriarchal, resurrection-of-the-Goddess direction, understood it as a far greater threat to Capitalism than Marxism and responded with the murderous efficiency inherited from Gestapo predecessors.)
Communist Labor Party
Communism as it is evolving in the United States after the murder of the American Dream and the slaying of the U.S. experiment in representative democracy.
Communist Labor Party's Harry Bridges Club (Facebook)
Communism as it is evolving in Tacoma, Washington.
Superb reporting and analysis. Founder/Editor Robert Parry exposed Reagan's Iran-Contra scheming and has been persecuted by the capitalists ever since.
Mainstream German newspaper that is often a valuable source of news about Western European politics.
A genuinely independent news site -- neither definitively Left nor Right -- that often covers stories suppressed by U.S. Mainstream Media, which (let us never forget), is owned by the same One Percenters who own the Democratic (sic) and Republican parties and thereby control all U.S. governance at every level.
Fanatically hard-Right (and often ChristoFascist as well), it is nevertheless the best source for information about the One Percent's efforts to forcibly disarm the U.S. 99 Percent.
International Marxist Archive
All of Marxism's defining texts defiantly uploaded to the Internet by the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics as its final contribution to humanity's eternal struggle for economic democracy -- without which there is no democracy at all.
A daily newsletter featuring essential tactical and strategic analysis plus vitally informative reports of news suppressed by the "mainstream media" propaganda machine.
Probably the most in-depth coverage of women's issues, LGBTQ issues and general human rights issues available on the U.S. Internet today, bolstered by decidedly professional reportage and editing.
Formerly "Russia Today," it accurately covers U.S. news the "mainstream media" propaganda machine routinely suppresses. Its notable work includes the nation's best coverage of the Occupy Movement (2011-2012), and the ongoing struggles of Black Lives Matter, Water Protectors and other such groups against the Empire's now-openly-fascist policies of homeland governance.
Unmistakably conservative, it is also the best source on legal action in defense of our right to keep and bear arms.
An informative Marxist website in the United States, with news reporting and analysis that is usually far superior to anything fed us by capitalism's "mainstream media" propaganda machine.
Best source of information on the burgeoning plague of Nazi, ChristoFascist and KuKluxKlan-type hate groups in the USian imperial homeland.
TASS, the Russian Wire Service
Vital reading, especially now that the USian Empire's plans for global conquest have rekindled the so-called Cold War.
Cornell University's in-depth source on the escalating campaign to impose zero-tolerance Christian theocracy on the USian Homeland. It is flawed only by its refusal to recognize the Democratic (sic) Party's mostly clandestine collaboration with the openly theocratic Republicans -- a collaboration revealed in frightening detail by Jeff Sharlet's "The Family: the Secret Fundamentalism at the Heart of American Power" (Harper: 2008).
Generally reliable crowd-funded news site sometimes featuring cogent sociological analysis by Henry Giroux. Discussion thread's potential limited by Discus, which discourages posting of comments written off-site.
Perhaps the most powerful racially integrated gender-equality organization in the United States.
The day's news, typically with the most in-depth Marxist analysis available on the U.S. Internet -- this despite constant interference by the Empire's privatized, for-profit censorship apparatus.
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Forget the Impeachment Charade; Here's a Taste of Real News
NO I DIDN'T STUTTER; yes I regard "impeachment" as an archetypal Neoliberal crusade, infinite noise and zero action, intended to preserve the ecogenocidal Big Lie of USian "democracy" by protecting the perpe-traitors whether governmental or cor-pirate while providing sufficient circuses to distract Moron Nation from its ever-worsening lack of bread whether edible or spendable.
(For detailed elaboration of my views about impeachment -- which thus far is the Democratic (sic) Party's scam of the century -- go to comment threads here, here and here. )
Now on to an anthology of reports I recommend as essential to our understanding of the ever-more-nightmarish era in which we Working Class folk abide (upper and lower case -- "upscale" and "downscale" in newsroom parlance -- as in originals) :
Dangerous Levels of Warming Locked In by Planned Jump in Fossil Fuels Output
As I concluded last year and have been saying ever since -- no doubt why I am the target of (thus far) low-intensity electronic harassment -- the ever-more-blatantly obvious explanation for such deliberately ecogenocidal policies is that our Neoliberal Masters have weaponized terminal climate change to serve their Shock-Doctrine agenda of perpetuating their technological omnipotence by radical population reduction. Which if you read their ideological sequels to Mein Kampf is to be by elimination of 90 to 95 percent of the present global population: thus to (A)-exterminate all so-called "surplus" humans and (B)-position the survivors for easy reduction to inescapable slavery by their omnipotent Masters. Indeed it is not hyperbole to state the Masters' long-term goal is to transmogrify the entire planetary economy into a modern variant of the antebellum slave plantation, policed of course by the highest-tech, most viciously zero-tolerance slave-patrol surveillance ever known. (Cheap, too -- especially with all-seeing airborne drones that kill on sight.)
Patriot Act extension concealed in funding bill passed by House Democrats
The party of Barack the Betrayer and the Clinton War-Crime Family continues its real-world function as the Fifth Column of the party of Ronnie the Nazi and Gerald the Pardoner. (And yet Moron Nation is brain-warped-ignorant enough to continue believing the Democratic (sic) Party, like Jesus or Santa Claus, will rescue it from Neoliberal ecogenocide.)
Under Trump, LGBTQ Progress Is Being Reversed in Plain Sight
A core part of Abrahamic religion's misogynistic agenda is exterminating human sexual freedom and (again) reducing all women to chattel by keeping them barefoot and pregnant and otherwise effectively burka-ed on the outskirts of town and beyond the Pale of society. (This of course is but a subset of the inbred misogyny by which all three Abrahamic religions -- Judasism, Christianity, Islam -- justify their ecogenocidal hatred of our Mother Earth.) (Disclosure: I have lesbian and gay kinfolk, hence am acutely conscious of how this often-deadly malevolence already wracks their lives.)
Unprecedented 'Architecture of Surveillance' Created by Facebook and Google Poses Grave Human Rights Threat
As I have pointed out more times than I can count, what else might one expect when the computer as we know it is a product of IBM's collaboration with Nazi Germany to facilitate the Holocaust, and the Internet itself is the purposeful creation of the USian imperial war machine?
Half of American Men Can't Handle the Prospect of a Woman President
Misogynists R Us. See also New Trump Advisory Board Member: 'Men And Women Are Not Equal'
A Miscarrying Woman Nearly Died After a Catholic Hospital Sent Her Home Three Times
Christianity as USian state religion: yet another of the innumerable atrocities piusly inflicted.
The US Is Not 'Losing' Its Democracy, It's Already Long Gone
As I said on the comment thread, "However if the Capitalists are to be properly caged and controlled, we must first recognize that they are all -- every patriarchal one of them -- quite literally the deadliest predators ever to prey on this planet."
Virginia labor targets 'right to work'; governor may stand in the way
Again, the party of the Betrayer in definitive Fifth Column action.
Michael Bloomberg Formalizes Anti-Gun, Climate Crisis Campaign Agenda
Exactly as I predicted, with Bloomberg's tyrannical intent camouflaged by instigating fearful hatred against legal firearms owners and pretending to cope with the climate-crisis. In truth the climate-crisis part is still more Obamanoid "change we can believe in," political sleight-of-hand as maliciously deft as anything I have yet seen. Meanwhile ask yourself why -- if not to clear the way for final imposition of zero-tolerance Neoliberal tyranny -- would our Masters be imposing forcible disarmament on legal, law-abiding firearms owners? (Alas, Moron Nation is ignorant enough -- and therefore gullible enough -- to fall for Bloomberg's lies.)
Trump administration food stamp cuts spell hunger and destitution for millions
As I said in the comment thread of an earlier story on this atrocity: "Again, genocide by any other name: the defining policy of Neoliberalism, the rationale for which is given by Adolf Hitler in Mein Kampf (NSDAP Printing Office, Munich: 1930; Ford Translation, Elite Minds Inc., U.S.A.: 2010). See especially page 247: The struggle for daily bread conquers the weak, sickly and undecided...If any other process were the choice of Nature, all development and evolution would cease and the progress so far achieved would reverse...Given equal opportunities for survival and reproduction, the worst part of a species would increase so much faster than the smaller numbers of quality members...A correction that favors the dominance of the better individual must take place. Presumably I need not point out that slashing food-stamps for nearly 700,000 hopelessly impoverished humans is just such a 'correction.'" The earlier story is here.
"Booming" Economy Means More Bad Jobs and Faster Race to the Bottom
The core intent of the Neoliberals writ in homeless camps and permanently destroyed human lives.
Responses of African-American Women to Washington's Paid Family & Medical Leave Program
Recognizing the intensifying sadism of Moron Nation's resurrected racism, Black women say they're terrified of being fired should they dare claim the benefits to which in Washinghton state they are now legally entitled -- a modern variant on minority-peoples' old-as-the-Empire fear of being lynched merely for asserting their rights.
Here -- because whenever possible I like to end these periodic preachments with less-pessimistic reports -- is further evidence dogs (and canines in general), are this planet's true apex species: Loyal sheepdog tries to hunt down truck transporting his flock to the slaughterhouse
LB/8 December 2019
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Loren Bliss: Outside Agitator's Notebook


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A couple of weeks ago I was very lucky to attend Bar Soba in Leeds, a restaurant offering South-East Asian cuisine, made with the finest, freshest ingredients. Originating in Scotland, there are also 3 restaurants in Glasgow and 1 in Edinburgh.
You know when you arrive somewhere (late, may I add, I couldn't find it!) and you just instantly fall in love? That is what happened here – the venue is absolutely stunning, very blogger friendly! Look for yourself…..
I am beginning to see these kind of lights EVERYWHERE, but that's okay…. I really want some in my bedroom! After taking lots of photos of the fabulous venue, because yano, photos come before food in blogger world, it was time to take our seats for our meal! We were trying out a brand new menu, that should be available for you to wolf down now!
It was great to step out of my comfort zone with the food and drink choices here. I call myself quite a fussy eater, and I am the kind of person that doesn't really enjoy experimenting new things. But all the menu choices below were things that I just wouldn't pick myself, however I absolutely loved ALL OF THEM!
Let's just say, if you had to ask my two least favourite foods, they would probably be egg and bananas, so just keep this in mind for the rest of the post…..
I was set to spend the evening with the lovely Rhianna and Joe, third wheeling as per! But that's okay, I love love love their company. The chef began to talk us through the starter which was Beef War Tip Dumplings in a Red Bean Sauce, with Crispy Shallots and he asked for some people to assist him in making them.
I won't lie. I freaked out inside, like a lot.
If I am honest, they weren't even on my plate for like more than two seconds. YUM. SO so SO flavoursome, boy do Bar Soba know their flavours.
Bar Soba are not only credible for their fantastic flavours (so proud of my alliteration, gold star please) but they are also cocktail masterminds. The cocktail specialist told us about his cocktail creation that he had developed to match perfectly with the starter.
The Coconut and Chilli Daiquiri was our first one. See that orange rim around the glass? That is CHILLI, and wow, it had a KICK to it, and I love love love spicy food! The drink itself was lovely, even for someone that isn't a fan of coconut at all, after a terrible teen experience with Malibu, but we don't need to discuss that.
Next up was the main, and if it was anything like the starter, Rhi, Joe and I were so excited! The main was a Thai Red Sauce Duck Leg Confit with asian greens, lotus root crisps and crispy rice squares, (woaaaaah that name is long) accompanied with another cocktail of course, the Japanese Plum Sour.
Let's begin with the duck. SWEET LORD. This was absolutely incredible and cooked to utter perfection, because yano, I'm an expert with duck and I know these things. I'm totally kidding, I wouldn't ever pick duck in a restaurant as my main, and now I am wondering why not. It's not a meat that I am particularly familiar with, but this was like the most perfect main ever. The flavours alongside all of the meal components just made it for me, the crunchiness and the mixture of textures against the duck was divine.
The rum cocktail….. I was quite apprehensive at the thought of egg white being in it. (Even when the guy said that lots of people are put off by egg white in cocktails and that you can't taste it) I should have trusted him, since he seriously knows his stuff when it comes to drinks, but I was still scared. I feel silly now, because the drink was deliciously sweet, and probably my favourite drink of the night!
It was a deep fried banana in a coconut batter, with a salted peanut ice cream. Let me tell you, I don't remember the last time I have been able to eat a banana, obviously this is different to eating a standard banana, the batter certainly helped… BUT I ATE IT ALL, and I am so proud of myself – it was pretty damn tasty if you ask me! It matched perfectly to the beautiful ice cream! Everybody knows I have a soft spot to peanut flavoured things.
I have had to borrow some food photos from Bar Soba and Independent Leeds, since the food area was unfortunately rather dark. They are watermarked, just so you know which, thank you guys!
Hope you enjoyed this post lovelies! Gosh I am hungry. I know I spent the majority of the post saying 'oh no it had x in which I don't like' but I honestly had such an amazing experience here, and loved all of the food I was kindly given – I didn't leave anything, success! I am proud, and it makes me just want to experiment with my foods more, after all, our tastebuds do change as we grow up!
MORAL OF THE STORY GUYS: Be brave, try new foods!
Bar Soba is such a lovely little hidden gem that I hadn't heard of before. Experiencing lovely places like this is just one of the amazing things about blogging, and I am so grateful for all of my opportunities! May I finally add, the staff were WONDERFUL, thank you so much for having me!
If you are ever in Leeds (or Scotland for that matter) but Leeds particularly… since you can go with me, I would 100% recommend checking this place out! The flavours are out of this world! It is amazing how much flavour they pack into their cuisine, makes me really want to get better at seasoning my own foods…. anyway, I am rambling now, love you lots!
I went to Bar Soba the other day for lunch and it was fantastic! I had some kind of a roast pork with plum sauce … delicious! It was late lunchtime so we didn't get to sit upstairs unfortunately but from what I saw it looked fantastic – I'd love to go there for an event or something!
Looks amazing, exactly the kind of place I love! Shame I'm so far from Leeds, I don't think I can really justify going all that way just for some delicious food and drinks, even if they do look incredible!
I'm a fussy eater so I feel your pain, I'd be proud of trying stuff too! It looks really delicious, those cocktails look amazing and the venue is beautiful!
EVERYTHING looks and sounds delicious! I used to be such a fussy eater but now I will try anything! I love food like this, full of flavour and photo-worthy to boot! The place itself looks stunning and so bright!
Oh my god! The decor is perfect! And the food! Wow! May have to pop in next time I'm eating out in Leeds!
Oh my god I really need to come here, the interior is gorgeous and the menu sounds like my kind of food! So pleased that you tried/enjoyed everything, and your photos are gorgeous!


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thanks allot for these inspirational words. I really needed this.
Thank you for this I really needed to hear this. By the way you have some serious talent.
You're a true artist, not just your work... but the way you see through life. These words are not just inspirational, but a guide, as you said, some may know it from instinct, those of us with such luck must be a light for those who are looking for it. Thank you for reminding me of it. Big fan.
This is so wonderfully true and I love it, the key really is your perspective. Our beliefs shape our reality, it's amazing when you start noticing those little negative thoughts and self-doubt, and over come them with faith and believing. awesome!
"I feel a rage ...and infact if I don't become the most fantastic artist by the age of 20 ...I will destroy myself "
You are a very uplifting person Warren. I need to make a sick portfolio soon. Luckily I feel like I'm on the verge settling on a style. Thats whats been keeping me back.
BTW whats that font u used for "believe in yourself" ?
It is my pleasure to feature this amazing message in my journal "New Features for January - February 2012 [link] If you wish it to be removed, please note me and I shall do so.
That's some straight up stuff with a lot of truth.
To put it more simply, we are what we think. However, keeping yourself motivated long-term is difficult for most people, myself included.
Okay, so I've heard of this law of attraction from The Secret and now I've heard it from you.
1. In The Secrte they mention visualisation a lot, so do you think I could visualise my art being better? Will that help too?
2. I've been trying to use the LoA to become more popular and loved; but I can't help but have a lot of negative thoughts like "this is impossible" etc. How'd you advise me?
Yup, visualization is very important, although there is another part to visualizing that completes it... you gota feel good about what you are thinking/visualizing. For example, before an artwork I visualise just being very happy with the result and that no matter what it ends up looking like, it'll look great. That sets a solid foundation to giving me the drive I need to get there. So just imagine feeling amazing about the artwork that you want to create and that will start you off in the right direction.
You've got a lot of wisdom for a young man, keep it up, you seem to be able to say what we need to hear.
Ah, yes, I need this right now.
Dude these messages are getting taped up on my wall. So inspiring!
truly TRUULY inspiring! thanks a lot!
Fantastic message! It's a little like "The Secret".
I know how difficult and hard oftentimes not to be overcritical of myself. The self-doubt and self-imposed limitations. The feeling that I am not good enough and just deluding myself that at best, I'll be marginally good - not only in art but with most of the things in my life. It's like the universe pointed at me and the worst is it's not that I have a very crappy life but for the most part I'm always near my goals when everything falls apart and that's heartbreaking. Anyway, you made a good point and thank you very much.
so true, and thanks for the reminder.
this was much needed. thank you for posting it.
This is really cool. Thanks Warren for all the motivation and inspiration!
I'm reading between the lines! Brilliant thank you Warren!!!!
Hell yeah..sure motivate me in someway..
Good buff, the so called "secret" isn't harder to grasp. Well put.
Very true! Very well said.
Yet lets the apple be.
Yet ne'er to become We.
Against the cold hard glass.
A link to her past.
Was the hate and despise.
A cage with no bars.
At a dark sky without stars.
The world she let grow grey.
That was all but pitch black.
She put her hands against the hard cold glass.
Walked out of the past.
Out of the past and into the day.
Like A Damn Pirate (usuk)Alfred advanced, the look in his eyes purely predatory – making Arthur quite tense. He was slowly being backed up to a wall – one he couldn't escape from in a fix.
The SiegeThe first mile is always the easiest.
storming the shores of Normandy.
trenches, up bluffs, under ruptured drays.
storm on the shores of Normandy.
of his legs, his elbows' grand flail.
its breath. Be wary of the sea's affray.
Shooting star.The glass made a tinkling sound.
They seemed to jump with happyness.
And send one single one.
It lay in the earth.
A ghostly rage filled it.
As it stared at its own above it.
And it cursed to its own.
Up in that inky blackness.
Is Reference Bad?I feel like I've addressed this before at some point, in some other journal, but I find myself either discussing this with people a lot, or coming across people who on their work proudly claim to have "used no reference."
The biggest problem, and misconception, regarding references is that people feel like it's cheating or that it somehow cheapens their work. While I can understand the sense of accomplishment coming from using no reference to finish a painting or drawing, people who consistently do it are only hurting themselves in the long run. So in short, no, reference isn't bad.
Artists have been using reference since the days of the old masters. They would reference life, whether it be landscapes, objects on a table, or models standing in a studio. They would even reference their own sketches or other people's work in order create convincing paintings.


When studying the comparison of education in different countries, it is clear that some countries have figured it out and their students are benefiting on a global scale.
This type of evaluation really lends itself to some very clear conclusions.
The Third International Mathematics and Science Study (TIMSS) sponsored by the Associate for the Evaluation of Educational Achievement was conducted in the 1990s and is considered to be the most important international study of the times.
This comparative survey addresses 9 year olds, 13 year olds, students in the last year of secondary school, their teachers and administrators.
It evaluates textbooks, curriculum guides, instructional practices, and curricular influences on student learning. The results of this study largely influenced the rankings in a comparison of education in different countries. This study is certainly not the only source of information, but it is the newest and most comprehensive.
Having said that, certain countries do rise to the top of the list over and over. Sadly, the USA is not one of them. Some of the other countries ranked above the USA are Finland, Germany, Denmark, Sweden, Japan, Canada, Taiwan, Korea, and Estonia. It would appear that the US has not moved forward with education as much as we would have hoped. In a comparison of education in different countries, we find that many countries not only have a longer school day, but a longer school year. This gives teachers more opportunity to present new material.
The countries with highly successful education systems tend to spend less money per student than the US, but require a great deal more from students and teachers.
In the comparison of education in different countries, Finland comes out as #1. Finland recruits its teachers from the top 10% of their respective college classes. In this highly competitive environment, teachers must have a Masters degree. Students in this country are not grouped by ability but, by learning style. Additionally, each community, whether poor or affluent, is funded equally. Finland says that it does not invest money in standardized testing, but in teacher education. Some countries, like Japan and India, require students to take other classes after normal school hours.
In the US, students spend equal amounts of time on outdated material as relevant material. The textbooks also invest chapters on material students won't necessarily be able to apply. The curriculum may be in need of an overhaul.


Cherry Hills Village was incorporated in 1945 and is one of the most affluent zip codes in not only in Colorado, but the country. The city's most recognizable landmark is the Cherry Hills Country Club which was founded in 1922. The club has played host to many golf tournaments in its day, most notably the Men's PGA Championship in 1941 and 1985 and more recently the US Women's Open in 2005. The club will host the BMW Championship in September 2014. Legend has it that pro golfer Arnold Palmer's famous drink of iced tea and lemonade, the appropriately titled "Arnold Palmer" was first poured at the club.
While only single family homes are permitted in Cherry Hills Village, many of the pristine estates list in millions. The Highline Canal offers residents of Cherry Hills Village an escape to hiking, biking and even horse back riding.


Shovel ready, permit issued for major upgrade to this 20-unit with active motel license. Renovate as budget or high-end, motel or apartments. Rare opportunity across the street from Hard Rock Hotel and the ocean, and on beach access road, 1/2 mile north of Ocean Center.


The Argentine Air Force continues to make a great effort to keep up to date and improve their logistics processes related to materials management. It is a permanent intention to reduce not only risks in the operation of various aerial systems, but also the direct and indirect costs associated with maintenance, in order to achieve maximum utilization of scarce resources. This thesis is sponsored by the Direction General of Material with the aim of reinforcing the importance of predictive maintenance, motivated by the daily urgencies of shortages of materials, and lack of awareness of data recorded to achieve and predict events and unfavorable conditions for the organization. With information provided by the engine user of PTA6-25, the School Technical Group of Maintenance, and the Materials Testing Laboratory, an analysis of oil sample results and testing procedures was performed to predict and/or improve the predictive maintenance system used in the Air Force.


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Tropicália: ou Panis et Circensis ("Pan y circo") es un disco lanzado en 1968 en Brasil y realizado en colaboración con varios artistas como Gilberto Gil, Caetano Veloso, Tom Zé, Os Mutantes y Gal Costa. Es considerado uno de los discos más importante del movimiento Tropicália y de la historia de la música brasilera. Rogério Duprat colaboró en el disco en los arreglos y Torquato Neto participó como letrista.

Portada
La foto del grupo de músicos que aparece en la portada es un tributo a la portada del álbum de The Beatles: Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band. Sentado en el suelo, Gilberto Gil sostiene la foto de graduación de Capinan. A la izquierda, bebiendo de un orinal, está Rogério Duprat. A la derecha, Gal Costa, con un vestido amarillo, está al lado de Torquato Neto, con gorra. Caetano Veloso está a la izquierda de ambos sosteniendo una foto de Nara Leão. Detrás de ellos están Tom Zé, a la derecha, y Os Mutantes, a la izquierda (de izquierda a derecha: Arnaldo Baptista, Rita Lee y Sérgio Dias).

Influencia
Se considera el manifiesto del movimiento Tropicalismo. Es el número 2 en la lista de Rolling Stone de los 100 mejores álbumes brasileños de todos los tiempos. La canción "Baby" y la canción principal fueron votadas por la edición brasilera de Rolling Stone, respectivamente, como la trigésima [7] y la séptima canción brasileña más grande. En septiembre de 2012, fue elegido por la audiencia de Radio Eldorado FM, de Estadao.com e de Caderno C2 + Música (ambos pertenecen al periódico O Estado de S. Paulo) como el noveno mejor álbum brasileño de la historia [9]. En el momento del lanzamiento del álbum, el periódico también lo consideró uno de los mejores álbumes lanzados ese año en Brasil.

Temas


State and local authorities in the U.S. started regulating the selling of marijuana in the late 1800s. A number of the states confined the medication farther in 1906 by tagging it as a toxin. Most nations illegal marijuana altogether from the 1920s, around precisely the exact same time as a national prohibition on alcohol has been written to the constitution. Prohibition was repealed from the 1930s; bud has continued to be illegal throughout the USA ever since.
Some countries are now passing legislation to permit using marijuana for medical reasons, but for which proponents say the medication has many strong advantages. There are merits and pitfalls to think about on each side of this debate.
Proponents of marijuana legalization frequently adhere to the fight for medical marijuana, instead of fighting costume legalization for many users. Other people say it needs to be controlled and taxed like alcohol and cigarettes, therefore anyone within a certain age would have the ability to buy it legally.
• Individuals driving under the influence may cause accidents, like drunk driving.
There is no denying bud has detrimental side effects, which explains the reason why it had been criminalized in the first location. The question remains: Is that sufficient to make it prohibited?


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Peter Davis NZ
New Zealand Sociologist
Comment/Analysis/Perspective
Morningside-Eden Park
Eden Terrace – Karangahape
Karangahape Station
Newton – Arch Hill
April 11, 2021 October 22, 2021 Peter Davis NZ
'Dealing with the health effects of our harmful consumption patterns'
Published in The New Zealand Herald, 5th April 2021
New Zealand, like other affluent societies, is suffering the health consequences of our harmful consumption patterns. Thus, a recent report from Diabetes New Zealand shows that nearly 5% of the population suffers from diabetes and close to 20% are at a pre-diabetic stage. These numbers are likely to double over the next 20 years, with associated heath costs rising to nearly 10% of GDP and a quarter of Pacifika people suffering from the condition. The rising level of obesity, and our consumption patterns particularly sugar, lie behind these trends.
On the face of it, our system is not well geared to dealing effectively with this emerging health scenario; not only are we failing to make a sufficiently determined attempt to arrest or slow down this apparently inexorable rise in illness and disability associated with our harmful consumption patterns, but also, as the request for funding from the Diabetes New Zealand report shows, we are up for some major costs, and these will have to compete with many other demands on the taxpayer's dollar. We see this every day at the Auckland District Health Board.
However, there is one feature of our system that is ripe for development and adaptation in dealing with these issues, and that is the Accident Compensation Corporation (ACC).
ACC is coming up to its 50th. anniversary. It is a social insurance scheme built on the insight that injury sustained at work – later extended to other areas of life – was a cost of employment inflicted on workers in industries such as forestry, farming, manufacturing, and construction, the burden of which they had to bear, rather than the industries that employed them. This was seen as unjust. It also provided no incentive for industries to improve their injury track record. Out of these key insights was born our current ACC levy and compensation system which attempts to cover the costs associated with injury, whether suffered at work or elsewhere.
Since the time of ACC's founding the great change in the health profile of developed (and even developing) countries has been the shift from infectious diseases to conditions largely associated with our way of life, such as cancer, heart disease and stroke, and diabetes. These are in major part associated with our lifestyle, which includes the consumption of a range of potentially harmful products such as alcohol and tobacco and items containing sugar, salt, and saturated fat.
While these consumption patterns are obviously enjoyable and to an extent willingly engaged in, they are also encouraged and promoted by the industries that profit from them. In other words, as with ACC 50 years ago, the food and beverage industries are, through the promotion of consumption lifestyles, laying a major burden of harm on the community by way of illness, disability and premature death, a burden that is not internalized into the cost structure of these industries but is instead carried by the taxpayer through the health system.
It would be perfectly possible to extend the ACC levy system from industry-specific injury risk profiles to risk profiles for different illnesses like diabetes, both to fund the treatment arising from these consumption patterns, and to help modify them by incorporating the real costs of community harm in the prices of these products. As with the current ACC system, this would perform a double duty: it would cover treatment costs for illness, and also help reduce the health impacts of these harmful features in our consumption patterns.
But there are possible downsides. For example, the most disadvantaged sections of the population, as represented in the bottom 20-40 percent of the socio-economic distributions, are likely to be consuming more harmful products, and those products are likely to be a higher proportion of their disposable income than for higher-income people. Thus, any levy on these products could be seen as regressive in its impact. However, there are alternative less harmful products, and lower-income people are more likely to switch because they would be more susceptible to the income effects of levies on these products; in other words, they would be less able to afford these products and would in time switch to cheaper equivalents that escaped the impost.
And levies on harmful products do not necessarily rebound to the disadvantage of manufacturers either. The British government imposed a sugar tax on beverages in the United Kingdom. A recent review of this initiative in the British Medical Journal shows that, while sugar consumption declined by ten per cent, volumes of sales did not, since manufacturers reduced the sugar content of their products rather than suffer a downturn in sales.
As with ACC in its current format, this extension could work for all stakeholders. Above all, we might at last deal with a feature of our lifestyle that, on its present trajectory, could in future generations roll back many of the great gains in health we have achieved over the last century.
Elected member, Auckland District Health Board, and Emeritus Professor of Population Health and Social Science, University of Auckland
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Erin Pizzey, founder of the first modern refuge for battered women, was target of death threats and defamation campaigns from feminists because her studies revealed that most domestic violence is reciprocal, and women are as violent and likely to sexually abuse children as men are.
2015 is the destined year for Chris Chan to realise one of his most ambitious prophecies: the creation of his "HOMO VACCINE."
Also, he is in court next week. :[
The distinctive box art for the original Macintosh computer, designed by Tom Hughes and John Casado, is popularly known as "Mac Picasso", as it was assumed to be inspired by Spanish artist Pablo Picasso. That is a mistake, however: Casado says the actual inspiration was French artist Henri Matisse -- who was a close friend and inspiration to Picasso himself.
Posted: Thu Aug 13, 2015 12:40 am
Even most metalheads don't know that Iron Maiden's only UK hit single, "Bring Your Daughter... To The Slaughter", is in fact a cover song. It was originally recorded solo by Bruce Dickinson for the soundtrack of the movie A Nightmare on Elm Street 5: The Dream Child.
Specineff
Location: Ari-Freaking-Zona!
BIL wrote:
Didn't he get yet another delay in the case?
"Again, I can't be mad at you because your thought process has been hijacked by a mind virus." -Quash, Feb 9, 2018.
Be a chump,
donate to Trump!
See ya' later,
Filthy Traitor!
Ya, now it's October or some shit. Meh. CWC lost his balls, now he's just another spergy, deluded chump!
Leonard F. Shaner Jr is where it's at for lolcow voyeurism ATM.
Stormwatch wrote:
Iron Maiden's only UK hit single, "Bring Your Daughter... To The Slaughter"
It's their only #1, but they've had a handful of top five/three/twos since then. "Be Quick Or Be Dead" was blasting on the radio in Subway the other day, regaling me and some old granny with Bruce's awful early 90s laryngitis.
Wikipedia's list of longest novels ever has 25 novels longer than half a million words.
Meanwhile, FIMFiction.net's list of longest My Little Pony fan fictions has 59 stories longer than half a million words.
Akumajō Dracula, "Devil's Castle Dracula", did not get the tamer title Castlevania in the West due to Nintendo-imposed censorship. The decision to get rid of the devil came from Emil Heidkamp, a born-again Christian, and senior vice-president at Konami of America at the time.
Oh NES-era Konami localisers. You sucked, but always memorably so. Archie comics 4 life.
Contra/Jackal one is a classic :O I can almost smell that crummy ol' comic paperstock *snif snif*
I've grown to like the title "Castlevania" in recent years. AFAIK it would roughly equate to "the castle beyond the forest" ? (someone non-monolingual pls do correct) Nice elegant and accurate. I do mostly call the games by their JP titles these days, but that's because I almost invariably own and play the JP versions.
1 YEAR LATER: anyone remember those ol HOW 2 WIN @ NINTENDO VHS tapes from bitd? Lord how I'd rewatch them longing to play some of those games. Anyway Donn Nauert (team captain!)'s daughter grew up to do hairy pussy fetish porn. 3: When I saw her name in the news today I thought "oh lawd no, that surname, it cannot be" and wouldn't you know, it was! :O I think she kinda cute! She got socked in the mouth by a Hitler and is now making good cash @ gofundme. Sure beats making shitty VG tapes! ^_~
PC Engine Fan X!
It's been said author J.K. Rowling was turned down a whopping 25 times before her current book publisher published her first Harry Potter book. She's mentioned to others "to not be discouraged and keep at it".
PC Engine Fan X! ^_~
Deer like to eat bananas.
Soleil Moon Frye (star of "Punky Brewster") and Meeno Peluce (star of "Voyagers!") are half-siblings.
In River Raid, you can't fly over land because the original design had the player controlling a boat instead of a plane.
The Intellivision version is the only version that lets you fly over land.
If John Lennon hadn't been murdered, he would have played Professor Falken, the mysterious computer scientist in the film WarGames.
The initials of J.C. Denton, the hero of Deus Ex, truly stand for Jesus Christ. But that's not necessarily religious symbolism. Producer Warren Spector is friends with science fiction writer Bradley Denton, who is an extremely nice and helpful guy. So Spector often found himself saying: "Jesus Christ, Denton, don't be so helpful."
egg_sanwich
GG Allin's real name was also Jesus Christ. When they were kids his brother couldn't pronounce it yet, and just called him "jee jee", hence GG.
Retrogaming youtuber David Murray, aka The 8-Bit Guy, is second-cousin to late Pantera guitarist Dimebag Darrell.
Neat coincidence, Dave Murray is also the name of Iron Maiden's longest-serving guitarist.
FinalBaton
Location: Québec City
lol, yes.
Almost spit my drink when he mentionned that in that episode
you know it DAMN WELL bud
-FM Synth & Black Metal-
They would had changed the title anyway for the overseas release anyway, considering the Japanese title was, well, in Japanese. And it's not like like Konami weren't already changing the titles for their arcade games prior to Castlevania (e.g. Hyper Olympic to Track 'n Field, Green Beret to Rush 'n Attack, Gradius to Nemesis, Jackal to Top Gunner). Interesting that Mr. Heidkamp (someone from Konami of America) was the one who came up with the title though. I always wondered why they didn't went with the more edgy VAMPIRE KILLER name used for the MSX2 version.
PFG 9000
Kind of. Castlevania is just Castle + Transylvania. Transylvania itself is a combination of "Trans" (Latin for across) and "Sylva" (Latin for forest). When you substitute "castle" for "trans," it doesn't really have any meaning since you're combining English and Latin in an awkward mishmash, but it does sound cool. And that's probably all Konami was going for.
There is no Nobel Prices for mathematicians, supposedly because Alfred Nobel's wife had an affair with a mathematician. When he created his prices, Mr Nobel so decided to punish all the mathematicians.
The Medal Fields has since been created, and is only delivered every 4 years.
Bravo jolie Ln, tu as trouvé : l'armée de l'air c'est là où on peut te tenir par la main.
Xyga
Location: block
Finland is now officially the happiest country on Earth.
Is it because France finally gets its shit together and will (soon?) finalize the fucking nuclear money pit that came close to ruin Finland's economy?
Because Lennu is so cute?
Or did marq's OSSC shot up the GDP by two figures?
Anyway my own country is now about as happy as Mexico, probably because we've become more serious about raping and selling drugs lately *transatlantic brofist*
Ok that strange list is the work of Canadian and Chinese researchers, who might as well apply their method to other animals and why not other planets...
edit; does it work with gaming communities?
Strikers1945guy wrote:
"Do we....eat chicken balls?!"
IBM's famous 'ThinkPad' notebook line has this name because the very first model was not a notebook at all, but a tablet.
http://www.thinkwiki.org/wiki/Category:700T
The cliché that rabbits love carrots comes from Bugs Bunny, which in turn was just making a reference to a scene in the 1934 comedy It Happened One Night, in which Clark Gable eats carrots while talking quickly with his mouth full. In fact, rabbits do like carrots, but that's somewhat unhealthy due to their high amount of sugar, and must be given only as an occasional treat.
Weak Boson
guigui wrote:
In addition to being awarded only once every four years, in order to be eligible you also have to be young (defined by mathematicians as less than 40 years old) which arguably makes it even more even harder to obtain.
Sadposting: The first female awardee Maryam Mirzakhani died of cancer aged 40 : (
IRL Death Adder. I always assumed it was just a name Sega cooked up for Golden Axe.
Sega always stealin' shit for Golden Axe!
The other enemy characters in Golden Axe are all named after alcoholic drinks. Like the Hammer-swinging twin giants are the Bud Brothers and the armored knight is General Heineken.
Posted: Wed Jul 18, 2018 11:12 am
On a certain level it wouldn't surprise me if Death Adder was their more distinctive stand-in for Cobra, although the beer and game's release dates are a bit too close together for that. NIGHT TRAIN and THUNDERBIRD would make cracking brawler enemy names too!
edit: this page encompasses a full three years' worth of posts! I'm feelin' old! Between the top of the page and now, somebody convinced Chris Chan they have a laser on the moon trained on CWCville, and extorted six grand from him not to fire it and blow up Sonichu's house! We are truly a long way from the ambitious days of the HOMO VACCINE.
Location: Brooklyn NY
Funny you should mention that -
https://hg101.kontek.net/tracing/tracing2.htm
Alllllllll the way down at the bottom of the page there is an interesting story about Sega, Boris Vallejo, and the cover art for GA III.
Not the first time I've posted that link round' these parts. If you haven't read it yet the entire article is very much worth the time.
I'm glad you made it.
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Dedicate a seat in ICTC's intimate Andrews Theatre with a beautiful brass commemorative plaque, engraved with your name or to honor a relative, friend or organization of your choice.
The Irish Classical Theatre Company is pleased to announce the start of our Dedicate A Seat campaign.
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