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CONCERT!
LAUREN ALAINA, MATT BOMER, LEWIS BRICE, TERRI CLARK, BILLY GILMAN, MICKEY GUYTON, DENNIS QUAID, KALIE SHORR, & RITA WILSON JOIN CONCERT FOR LOVE & ACCEPTANCE LINEUP SET FOR JUNE 30
Jun 12, 2020 | Concert For Love, Live, Music, News, Press Release
Online charity event hosted by Kristin Chenoweth, Ty Herndon, and CMT's Cody Alan will benefit ACM Lifting Lives® and GLAAD
>LINK TO ORIGINAL ARTICLE HERE
(NASHVILLE, TN) The Academy of Country Music's charitable arm ACM Lifting Lives®, CMT, GLAAD, and country music star and philanthropist Ty Herndon today announced new appearances and performances for the upcoming 2020 Concert for Love and Acceptance, set to take place as an online event amid the ongoing COVID19 crisis. Musicians Lauren Alaina, Lewis Brice, Terri Clark, Billy Gilman, Dennis Quaid, Kalie Shorr, and Rita Wilson will join the lineup, which already includes two-time 2020 Grammy® winner Tanya Tucker, who is set to open the show. REDRAFT FOR APPROVAL: Musicians Lauren Alaina, Lewis Brice, Terri Clark, Billy Gilman, Dennis Quaid, Kalie Shorr, and Rita Wilson will join the performance lineup, which already includes two-time 2020 Grammy® winner Tanya Tucker, who is set to open the show. In addition, singer Mickey Guyton will make a special appearance, as will actor, producer, and director Matt Bomer, who will introduce Wilson. The event will be live streamed on YouTube, Facebook and at www.F4LA.org/concert, with additional appearances and performances to be announced.
"This show just gets better and better each year, and while we would rather be doing it as a live event in Nashville, we know that we have the opportunity to reach so many more people with our message of love and acceptance through this one-time online format. And, of course, our message takes on an especially elevated meaning this year in light of all that is happening around us. Our hope is that on this night we can all stand together in unity as one," said Herndon.
ACM Lifting Lives® is a first-time event partner in 2020 and will be allocating proceeds to its initiatives.
"ACM Lifting Lives is honored to join forces with Ty and the Concert for Love and Acceptance," said Lyndsay Cruz, Executive Director of ACM Lifting Lives. "We're honored to support the message of creating a more accepting environment and jumped at the opportunity to help inspire awareness, and healing, through the power of music."
For the third consecutive year, CMT returns as Presenting Partner of the event, with Cody Alan serving as co-host, a role he's held for the past four years. A well-known and respected veteran personality, producer and programmer in the broadcast industry, Alan is a past recipient of the ACM National On-Air Personality of the Year award, and host of CMT Hot 20 Countdown, CMT's flagship music TV show, delivered to over 90 million homes weekly, as well as host and executive producer of CMT After MidNite and CMT Radio Live, heard on 220+ stations, with nearly 8 million monthly listeners.
"This event has become one of the most meaningful events of the year for me, not only for the vital causes the show supports, but also because of generosity of the talent who support inclusion in the Country community. I'm thrilled to be back representing CMT, with the added bonus of bringing the show into country fans' living rooms. Proud without the crowd!" said Alan.
GLAAD and Herndon created the first Concert for Love and Acceptance in 2015 shortly after Herndon became the first male country artist to come out as gay. Event appearances and performances have included Vince Gill, Tanya Tucker, Reba McEntire, Lee Brice, Tyler Rich, Michael Ray, Rita Wilson, Chris Daughtry, Terri Clark, Chris Carmack, Gavin DeGraw, Crystal Gayle, Billy Gilman, Cassadee Pope, Calum Scott, Mickey Guyton, Levi Hummon, Cam, Cale Dodds, Tayla Lynn, Runaway June, Chely Wright, Billy Dean, Hunter Hayes, Brandon Stansell, Meghan Lindsey, Thompson Square, WWE Superstars, Meghan McCain, and more.
"GLAAD is proud to have been Ty Herndon's partner in this groundbreaking endeavor since 2015, and as we press on through this very difficult moment in the health and safety of our nation, LGBTQ Americans are especially vulnerable – including LGBTQ youth who may be isolating in homes that are not accepting of them. Many of them – and their families – are country music fans, and this event will send affirming messages of support and encouragement around the globe," said Sarah Kate Ellis, President & CEO of GLAAD.
Herndon will also serve as executive producer of the 2020 Concert for Love & Acceptance, alongside returning executive producer Zeke Stokes, who has been in that role since the Concert began in 2015. Stokes is President of ZS STRATEGIES and a former Vice President of GLAAD.
For more information and ongoing updates, as well as to RSVP for the live online event, visit the Foundation for Love and Acceptance at www.F4LA.org.
About ACM Lifting Lives®: ACM Lifting Lives® is the philanthropic arm of the Academy of Country Music dedicated to IMPROVING LIVES THROUGH THE POWER OF MUSIC™. Through partnerships with artists and strong ties in the music industry, ACM Lifting Lives® funds music health programs while also serving members of the music community who face unexpected hardships through its Diane Holcomb Emergency Relief Fund. With generous donations and the support of artists and fans, ACM Lifting Lives® has funded national music therapy programs serving various mental and physical health organizations. Some of the recipients have included patients at children's hospitals and other healthcare facilities, recovering veterans, people with Williams syndrome, and individuals suffering with mental illness. For more information, please visit www.ACMLiftingLives.org.
About CMT: CMT is the leading authority on country music and lifestyle, offering a mix of original series, music events and specials. CMT is everywhere its fans are including two cable channels (CMT and the 24-hour music channel, CMT Music), radio (CMT Radio), digital (CMT.com) and social (CMT on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter and YouTube). CMT is a unit of ViacomCBS Inc. (Nasdaq: VIACA, VIAC) ("ViacomCBS"). For more information, please visit cmtpress.com.
About The Foundation for Love & Acceptance: Founded by Grammy nominated and Dove Award winning country music artist and philanthropist Ty Herndon, the Foundation for Love & Acceptance uses the power of music and media to support the country music community and raise vital funds to support LGBTQ youth and families. For more information, visit www.F4LA.org.
About GLAAD: GLAAD rewrites the script for LGBTQ acceptance. As a dynamic media force, GLAAD tackles tough issues to shape the narrative and provoke dialogue that leads to cultural change. GLAAD protects all that has been accomplished and creates a world where everyone can live the life they love. For more information, please visit www.glaad.org or connect with GLAAD on Facebook and Twitter.
ACM LIFTING LIVES®, CMT, GLAAD & TY HERNDON ANNOUNCE PARTNERSHIP ON 2020 CONCERT FOR LOVE & ACCEPTANCE
Jun 1, 2020 | Concert For Love, Live, Music, News, Press Release
Emmy and Tony Award Winning Actress and Singer Kristin Chenoweth and CMT's Cody Alan will join Herndon to co-host online charity event set for June 30
Two-time 2020 GRAMMY® winner and original female outlaw Tanya Tucker will kick off online event, additional appearances and performances to be announced
>LINK TO ORIGINAL ARTICLE
(NASHVILLE, TN) The Academy of Country Music's charitable arm ACM Lifting Lives®, CMT, GLAAD and country music star and philanthropist Ty Herndon today announced Tuesday, June 30, as the date for the 2020 Concert for Love and Acceptance, set to take place as an online event amid the ongoing COVID19 crisis. Produced by Herndon's newly formed charitable foundation, The Foundation for Love & Acceptance, the event will be co-hosted by Emmy and Tony Award winning actress and singer Kristin Chenoweth and CMT's Cody Alan, who has hosted the event alongside Herndon since 2017. ACM Lifting Lives® and GLAAD are the beneficiaries of event proceeds.
Two-time 2020 GRAMMY® winner and original female outlaw Tanya Tucker will open the show at 8:00 p.m. ET. The event will be live streamed on YouTube, Facebook and at www.F4LA.org/concert, with additional appearances and performances to be announced.
"Now more than ever, it's so important that young LGBTQ people see the artists and musicians they love standing up for them. Since we began this event in 2015, it's only been about love and acceptance, and we're not about to let this COVID virus distract us from sending a message loud and clear to LGBTQ youth: you're perfect just the way you are," said Herndon.
BWW Review: TY HERNDON Gives Life at Joe's Pub
Sep 3, 2019 | Live, News, Review
by Stephen Mosher Sep. 3, 2019
The stage at Joe's Pub was bare, except for three mic stands. As the lights dimmed, a nearly full house adjusted their seats to prepare for something special: 90 minutes of country music. Wait. Country music… in New York City? At Joe's Pub nightclub? This isn't something that happens every day of the week. Is there a market for country music in New York's nightclub and cabaret scene? Judging by the crowd at Joe's Pub on August 31st, there is. Or maybe there is just a market for Ty Herndon because this writer has been anxiously awaiting the chance to see the country star live, for several weeks, and apparently so have a lot of other people. Finally, happily, the announcer came over the loudspeaker with a warm welcome for Grammy award nominee Ty Herndon.
An unassuming and handsome man stepped through the curtain and up onto the stage. Dressed simply in blue jeans and a henley, he walked to the center mic stand and stood. He looked at the mic stand. He looked at us. He looked at the mic stand. He looked at us. He pointed to the mic stand. There was no microphone. He looked at the other two mic stands onstage. There were no microphones. Bemusedly, he said "We'll do that all over again!" and darted offstage, at which point a tech sheepishly ran out with three mics and set them up while a laughing crowd applauded. The Joe's Pub announcer, again, gave a warm welcome to Grammy award nominee Ty Hendon.
And the show was on.
In a gutsy move some singers would avoid, Herndon started the evening acapella, his two guitarists joining him after a couple of minutes, filling Joe's Pubwith a classic country singing voice, bold, resonant, the kind of voice that makes you smile, but you really want to cry, such is the emotional trip it takes you on. Out of the gate, he had his audience right where they wanted to be: gazing lovingly at this man who has, for years, moved them with his acts of musical marvel. Looking around the room, all night long, a club full of urban cowboys, middle-aged good-old-boys, Ladies both Southern and Northern, gay men and new fans could be seen either beaming at the charmer or singing along (not mouthing away, singing right out loud), happy, content, satisfied. It was a sight to behold, one that bears witness to the fact that Ty Herndon has still got it.
Mr. Herndon is a funny dude. Laidback and unpretentious, he has nothing to hide, so he opted for humble honesty throughout the night, confessing he had, for days, been in bed with a high fever but, desperate to not miss his Joe's Pubgig, he chose to perform anyway – and that high fever touched not a note in his head, for Herndon was in prime voice, even stopping once or twice to say he could do that better, and then he DID do it better (once, after three glorious tries). The man's range is astonishing and the power with which he howls high notes for periods of time that would make a wolf nervous is positively eye-popping. Whether singing the songs that made him famous (and always thanking the fans for making it number one, two or five on the charts), tunes from his new cd "Got it Covered", or the ones that paid off ("This song bought me a barn") Mr. Herndon gave his all to the appreciative crowd that had no qualms about getting their phones out to record this special moment in time.
When not engaged in the acts of singing or wrestling with his mic stand, the seemingly shy but contrarily playful Herndon talked lovingly about his Grandmother ("If Jesus ain't in it, don't do it"), about being on Star Search with (SS winner) Sam Harris, about the time his mother chimed in from the other room about a song he passed on singing ("You're an idiot!") and about the experience of finally coming out of the closet five years ago. Very at home with the crowd, this true troubadour showed genuine appreciation for the audience, confessing he had always wanted to play Joe's Pub, admitting "I was just hoping people would show up". Owning up to being a "silly man" who loves to have fun, Herndon poked fun of his fame by referring to himself using the names of other country stars and joking about which of his friends' hit records kept his singles from reaching number one on the charts.
And he dances, too – wow, the moves on this guy.
Ty Herndon is so free with his physicality, dancing about the stage with pure joy that makes you feel joyful too, that this writer wondered if he were this buoyant before coming out, or if this freedom of movement is something that showed up after he had broken free of the chains, to live in the light. Whatever the cause of this terpsichorean bliss, every bit of Ty Herndon's happiness spilled off of the stage and into the arena where fans willingly succumbed to his charms, and those of his special surprise guest, Kristin Chenoweth, who gifted us with a stunning version of "Desperado" as an adoring Herndon stood by, watching, pride and love gleaming from his eyes. It turns out, Herndon shared with us, that Ms. Chenoweth is going with his phenomenal guitarist, Josh Bryant, (his other brilliant guitarist, it turns out, is his cd producer Erik Halbig) — proving that which show business people have, long, known: making art with family is where the good stuff comes from.
Among the songs Herndon sang were "Loved Too Much", "A Man Holding On", "I Have to Surrender", "Living in a Moment" and "Hands of a Working Man" but the biggest two highlights (in an evening of many) were when he hilariously applied "I Want My Goodbye Back" to his coming out and his subsequent divorce, and when he sang his hit song "What Mattered Most" using pronouns he was not able to use when he first released it in 1995. It was, surely, difficult to become the first major male country singer to be openly gay, but the experience has obviously informed Mr. Herndon's work because the person we saw at Joe's Pub is living his best life, as an artist, as a role model, as a man; and that man who has wanted to play Joe's Pub for a long time but was worried people might not show up should consider coming back to NYC and Joe's Pub, and often, because it is very clear that people will show up again and again, their hearts filled with love and devotion for an artist who not only earned it but deserves it.
Ty Herndon Performs Outstanding Rendition of "America The Beautiful" and "God Bless America" at 2018 White House Correspondents' Dinner
Apr 30, 2018 | Aristo PR, Live, News
Award-winning artist Ty Herndon was recently invited to perform at the 2018 White House Correspondents' Dinner where he sang an exceptional rendition of "America The Beautiful" and "God Bless America."
The event, hosted by the White House Correspondents' Association (WHCA), featured comedian Michelle Wolf (Comedy Central's Daily Show With Trevor Noah) on the entertainment line-up.
The Association, founded in 1914 to represent the White House press corps, works to maintain independent news media coverage of the president, advocating for access, handling logistics for pools of reporters who stay close to the president and those who travel with him and providing scholarships to journalism students.
The annual dinner has been attended by U.S. Presidents and First Ladies for decades as well as many other senior government officials and members of the press corps. Proceeds from the dinner support the association's year-round work as well as scholarships for aspiring journalists and awards recognizing excellence in the journalism profession.
The WHCA represents the White House press corps in its dealings with the administration and advocates for journalists' ability to see and report on the president and his staff. Herndon attended the event with the intention of raising awareness for the "Beyond I Do" campaign which is working to bring attention to the discrimination of the LGBTQ community in the U.S. This campaign is raising awareness of this discrimination by giving real Americans a platform to tell their stories of being fired from their jobs, evicted from their homes, or denied basic services because of their sexual identity.
About Ty Herndon: Ty Herndon's career has produced more than four million in album sales, a Grammy nomination, Dove Award and multiple No. 1 singles on the Country charts, including "What Mattered Most," "Living in a Moment" and "It Must Be Love." Among his nine studio albums and 17-charted singles are the Top 10 hits, "I Want My Goodbye Back," "Loved Too Much," "A Man Holding On (To a Woman Letting Go)" and "Hands of a Working Man." Most recently, Herndon debuted his most ambitious album to date, titled House on Fire. He made history when he hosted the first-of-its-kind country music event, The Concert For Love and Acceptance. The event, designed to bring attention and support to at-risk youth, has received national attention from Boston Globe, Rolling Stone, Entertainment Tonight, and more.
GLAAD and country star Ty Herndon set to bring third Concert for Love & Acceptance to Nashville this June in partnership with CMT
Mar 29, 2018 | Concert For Love, Live, Music, News
Music legends and newcomers from across genres will take the stage at LGBTQ-affirming concert taking place during CMA Fest
New York, Tuesday March 27, 2018 – GLAAD, the world's largest LGBTQ media advocacy organization, today announced the 2018 Concert for Love and Acceptance set for June 7 at the Wildhorse Saloon in Nashville. The show, taking place the night after the "2018 CMT Music Awards," and on the opening night of CMA Fest, will feature a coalition of artists and celebrities appearing and performing to accelerate acceptance for the LGBTQ community. Ty Herndon and CMT's Cody Alan will host, and the event will feature performances by Herndon, as well as Terri Clark, Cassadee Pope, Michael Ray, Calum Scott, Brandon Stansell, and more. Additional appearances and performances to be announced. CMT will return as the event's media sponsor and will amplify the event and line-up across its radio and social platforms. Additional support for the event is provided by Nissan.
For more information or to purchase tickets, visit: http://www.glaad.org/nashville
"Music has the power to uplift, empower, and change hearts and minds across the country," said Sarah Kate Ellis, GLAAD President and CEO. "GLAAD is honored to present the third Concert for Love and Acceptance to help drive forward acceptance with an amazing lineup of talent and messages of support for the LGBTQ community."
"We're proud to once again lock arms with our friends at GLAAD to lend our voice and support to an event that champions love and acceptance through the power of music," said Frank Tanki, General Manager of CMT and TV Land.
The inaugural Concert for Love and Acceptance was held in 2015 to kick off GLAAD's Southern Stories Tour and the second iteration was held in 2017. The event has been supported by artists like Reba McEntire, with a lineup of performances has included Chris Carmack, Crystal Gayle, Billy Gilman, Dana Goldberg, Kree Harrison, Mickey Guyton, Levi Hummon, Runaway June, Ryan Kinder, Meghan Lindsey, Street Corner Symphony, Thompson Square, and Trent Harmon. GLAAD's Southern Stories initiative tells the stories of LGBTQ people and their allies in the South to create a cultural shift towards LGBTQ acceptance and understanding in the region.
"I'm thrilled to partner with GLAAD once again for this show that has broken so much new ground and started so many important conversations over the past three years ," said Herndon. "Letting our LGBTQ friends, family, and neighbors know they are accepted and loved just as they are isn't just making the world a better place – it's literally saving lives – and I'm so proud to be a part of it."
In recent years, country music has become a more affirming environment for the LGBTQ community with chart toppers like Luke Bryan and "Most People are Good" following in the footsteps of Garth Brooks, Kasey Mugraves, and The Dixie Chicks sharing inclusive messages through their lyrics. Furthermore, CMT host Cody Alan came out publicly in late 2016 in People Magazine with the help of GLAAD and received an outpouring of support and love from the country music community and his fans. Stars like Carrie Underwood, Toby Keith, and Dierks Bentley all voiced their support on social media. Ty Herndon, a Grammy nominated and Dove Award winning artist with album sales of more than 4 million, was the first major male country music star to come out, when he shared his story with the world in 2014.
"As we fight attempts to roll back equality and compromise the ground we have gained for acceptance, it is important for our community to continue to tell our stories and for allies to stand up and be counted," said Ellis.
The 2018 Concert for Love and Acceptance occurs during the legendary CMA Music Festival, running from June 7-10 in Nashville.
Concert for Love & Acceptance 2018 | VIP Pre-Sale is on now!
Feb 14, 2018 | Concert For Love, Live, Music, News
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Hosted by CMT's Cody Alan
Thursday, June 7, 2018 | 7PM
Wildhorse Saloon | Nashville, TN
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Register now for Chamber's dinner, raffle, auction Oct. 18
By Staff Writer on October 4, 2016
Tickets are now available for the Pike County Chamber of Commerce's 2016 annual fundraiser. The dinner, auction and gun raffle will be held Tuesday, Oct. 18 at Sunny D Farms, 1412 Hutchinson Road in Williamson. Event tickets are $30 and gun raffle tickets are $20. Tickets for the event and gun raffle can be purchased at the Chamber office on the courthouse square or from any board member, including Alicia Gibson of McLeRoy Realty, Jason Brisendine of First Bank of Pike, Shep Marsh of United Bank, Wynn Trice of Edward Jones, Sallie Barker of Upson Regional Medical Center, Kathleen Smith of Spalding Regional Hospital, Steve Hendrix of Southern Crescent Technical College, Erin Cook of Southern Rivers Energy, Aaron Paschal of Georgia Power Company, Matthew Peeler of United Bank and Katheryne Fields of Southern Crescent Technical College. Tickets to the dinner must be purchased by Oct. 10. For more information, call the Pike County Chamber at 770-567-2029 or email info@pikecountygachamber.com. The guns to be raffled include a Ruger 380 w/CT Laser, a S&W 38, a Browning 20 Gauge, a Winchester 12 Gauge, a Marlin 35, a Tikka T3 and a Browning Abolt III Hunter. Winning tickets will be re-entered into the drawing. Raffle participants do not need to be in attendance to win. Winners will be announced on the Chamber's facebook page and online at pikecountygachamber.com. Ticket owner must provide proof of identification, must be 21 years of age or older, a U.S. citizen and must be capable of passing all applicable background checks. All guns must be claimed within 30 days of the winning drawing date at Barrow's Guns at 29 S. Broad Street in Butler.
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History of the Science-Religion Interaction in the West – A Summary
| Essays, News
By H.D.Goswami
To explore the topic of consciousness in science, I begin with a simple, and hopefully uncontroversial, dictionary definition of science: " Science is an intellectual and practical activity encompassing the systematic study of the structure and behavior of the physical and natural world through observation and experiment. Scientists tend to assume that the physical world follows discoverable natural laws and thus behaves within causal relations that are quantifiable, deterministic, and thus predictable." Apart from this, the vlog, "livescience.com," adds that "anything considered supernatural does not fit into the definition of a science." Indeed, the dictionary defines supernatural is as "a manifestation or event attributed to some force beyond scientific understanding or the laws of nature."
Thus, to be a science in the "normal" sense of the above definitions, a science of consciousness must focus on deterministic, predictable laws governing consciousness. Here, however, a problem arises: most of us are convinced that we conscious beings possess free will – that human life is not fully deterministic like the life of a machine. This is the exact reason that those branches of science which study unconsciousphenomena are called "hard" or "precise," whereas those that study human behavior and consciousness, such as psychology and sociology, are considered "soft," or only approximate.
One thing that philosophy, history and our own consciousness show us, however, is that neither a hard nor soft science – as science – can ever fully describe reality, including the reality of consciousness itself. This is because science, by its own rules, can only study the physical dimension of an irreducibly bi-dimensional universe that is both physical and metaphysical. Thus, if consciousness ultimately proves to be a metaphysical entity, then neither hard sciences like neurology nor soft sciences like psychology can provide a complete explanation of consciousness. I am to provide clear evidence that a metaphysical realm exists. If it does, what is the metaphysical realm – life's dimension beyond the physical realm?
Guy Kahane, who teaches philosophy at Oxford, asks: "Does God exist? Do we have free will? Are there subjective moral facts? These are familiar metaphysical questions." The Encyclopedia Britannica tells us that "metaphysics was a term used by early students of Aristotle to refer to the contents of Aristotle's treatise on what he himself called 'First Philosophy'… which Aristotle had also referred to as 'theology' (because God was the 'unmoved mover' in his system)."
Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy accepts as a metaphysical issue the question of "whether mind is a material mechanism, subject to deterministic laws, or whether it is something else that entails free will." It further notes that the problem of free will (or the problem of the mental and the physical) is among the philosophical problems now considered to be metaphysical in nature, and then makes a key logical point: "Ancient and medieval philosophers might have said that metaphysics was the science that studies being as such, or the first cause… A philosopher who denied the existence of those things would now be considered to be making thereby a metaphysical assertion."
In other words, to affirm or deny a claim or proposition in a particular field of knowledge is to locate oneself – i.e., make a claim – within that particular field. For example, regardless of whether an algebra teacher marks an equation right or wrong, the teacher is making a claim about algebra; regardless of whether one considers a proposed cause of the American Revolution to be correct or incorrect, one is making a claim about history.
Analogously, were a professor at a public university to seriously claim that Zeus is the god of sky and thunder, they would likely be fired for preaching religion. On the other hand, should that same professor claim that Zeus is not the god of sky and thunder, and that there are various neurological and historical reasons that people believed such nonsense, she would be considered a scholar – even though by denying that Zeus is the god of sky and thunder she is equally making a religious claim. Thus, in public universities – and basically all non-religious universities – you are free to preach metaphysical religious positions so long as they are negative, even though both positive and negative claims are within the same domain. This is just one logical point that is routinely overlooked in our incredibly brilliant philosophical age!
Similarly, to claim that consciousness is wholly material is to make not a scientific, but rather a metaphysical claim. One cannot scientifically claim that consciousness is wholly physical because the claim itself is metaphysical in nature. And, by the way, I have nothing against real science; indeed, when scientists are really doing science, I'm actually a great fan. Certainly, rational persons are deeply grateful for all the pain and suffering that science has alleviated. And from a purely intellectual point of view, science has enriched our lives immeasurably and actually saved us from very dangerous, violent forms of religious fanaticism; although sometimes, science itself becomes a dangerous form of religious fanaticism.
In this regard, I will attempt to show that what is called philosophical materialism entails inescapable philosophical and historical problems of great magnitude. This bears on the topic of consciousness since the key issue concerns whether consciousness is simply matter – e.g., a neural epiphenomenon of the brain – or a different kind of thing that is essentially metaphysical.
The highly influential Declaration of Independence declares: "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their creator with certain unalienable rights." Now Jefferson was very intelligent; while once hosting a White House dinner for Noble Laureates, John Kennedy remarked that this was "the greatest gathering of intelligence at a White House dinner since Thomas Jefferson dined alone." Here we focus on the term "self-evident," which is a key epistemological term, more or less introduced by Aristotle. The idea is that if you make a claim about anything – history, science, God, whatever – people can demand proof; and they can demand that you show proof of the proof. In other words, if one claims that water boils at 100 degrees Celsius and someone doubts this claim, one can place a pot of water on a stove, stick in a thermometer, and allow the doubter to watch as the water boils at 100 degrees. But then that person can question the purity of the water or whether the mercury in the thermometer is real. One must then test the water, then, the water-testing chemicals, and so on and so forth. In this way, one can be pushed into an infinite regress of proofs. To escape this regress, Aristotle teaches that we must take an earnest stand and declare that something is self-evident – that it proves itself.
An example of a self-evident truth that cannot be empirically verified is the claim that there is a real world outside our brain. Now there are certain things that logic forbids. For example, if one claims to have seen a round square, there is no need to empirically test that claim. We know by the meaning of the words that there cannot be a round square; logic forbids it. Descartes, however, raised the point that one can make apparently absurd claims without contradicting logic. For example, the claim that we are simply brains controlled by an evil genius that makes us imagine there is a real world outside of ourselves is certainly very eccentric and difficult to believe, but it does not contradict logic. This shows that without contradicting the rules of logic, one can radically doubt that there is a real word outside one's mind. In modern philosophy, this is called the "brain in a vat" problem: you might be a brain in a vat, being kept alive and hooked up to a super computer.
The fact that we can doubt that there is a real world outside our mind without contradicting logic indicates that in order to do science, one must make a "foundational assumption" (another key epistemological term): one must assert as a self-evident fact that there is a real world outside the mind and that the laws of nature operate more or less uniformly throughout the universe. This assumption serves as an epistemological foundation for empirical science.
However, why do most people, including scientists, assume that there's a real world outside our minds? Because the quality and nature of of our experience of the world convinces us that there is no other reasonable explanation. While dreaming, we are absolutely convinced that we are experiencing the "real world," but when we wake up we make a quick comparison conclude that our waking consciousness is ontologically superior to our dream consciousness. In other words, we consider it to be more real. How do we do that? Why do we do that? There is no way to empirically prove that the world of our waking consciousness is more real than the world of our dream, but we make that assumption because it is self-evident to us that this is indeed the case.
And this is true for every field of knowledge: one must begin with a foundational assumption that something proves itself. Now, of course there are anti-foundationalists; because, in academic philosophy, no one has ever made a claim that at least nine-thousand people didn't try to problematize. But, every anti-foundationalist theory I've seen is itself foundational. Certain forms of philosophical postmodernism, for example, claim that there are no "great truths" – which, of course, is itself a "great truth." Indeed, one of the hallmarks of postmodern philosophy is its great capacity for self-contradiction. Their foundational great truth is that there are no foundational great truths. Ultimately, foundationalism seems to be all-pervading, even among anti-foundationalists, when one closely examines what they are saying.
Here I want to emphasize that just as we make the foundational assumption that there is a real world outside our minds, we also have certain metaphysical views that we hold to be self-evident as well. One such self-evident metaphysical view is that all persons are created equal – an empirically unprovable assumption that forms the basis of democratic society, despite the fact that it is completely contradicted by all empirical science. Democracy, at least in its modern form, is based on the notion of equality, yet science shows that we are not at all equal in terms of beauty, intellectual ability, artistic giftedness, athletic prowess, and so forth. One cannot imagine any empirical test that would prove everyone to be equal. And yet, we have founded our society on this unscientific principle. Why? Because equality is for us a self-evident, foundational metaphysical assumption. And we reject as irrelevant, all empirical scientific evidence to the contrary. Indeed Jefferson himself, in response to Hume's radical skepticisms, declared as self-evident truth that we are all created equal.
Now, one of the main things that David Hume explained, and that basically still stands, is that one cannot derive an "ought" from an "is," meaning that one cannot derive a metaphysical fact from a physical fact. Let's say, for example, that someone commits a non-controversially evil act, such as killing an innocent person with no extenuating circumstances. Analyzing that physical act in terms of forensic evidence, the physiology of the killer and victim, and every other empirical angle will never reveal to us the evil of the act; and yet we hold the act to be evil, one that would traumatize almost anyone that witnessed it for the remainder of their lives. So when we say that such things as murder, genocide, slavery, rape and so forth are evil, we certainly do not mean that blind physical laws of nature and evolution have neurologically wired us to believe in fairy tales. Think of the logical moral implications of such an evolutionary view: genocide is not really wrong; it's just a fairy tale that blind evolution has neurologically wired us to believe. To call an evil act evil is like teaching children about the tooth fairy. In fact, we live in a solely material world in which there are no metaphysical realities. So once we transcend fairy tales, once we stop believing in the tooth fairy, once we stop believing that genocide is wrong, what kind of world will we get?
In his critique of pure reason, Kant attempted to defend metaphysics against the onslaught of Hume's skepticism and the powerful, almost hegemonic, rise of science. Unfortunately, his defense basically threw metaphysics under the bus, more or less killing it within the academic world. But even Kant, with his tragic epistemology, believed that our moral intuitions are self-evidently true and cannot be rationally denied. Thus our understanding that genocide is bad, that racism is bad, that it is wrong to murder innocents, is just as epistemically grounded and self-evident as our understanding that we live in a real world, that our senses give us reliable information (something that has been more philosophically contested, and at times refuted, than our moral instincts).
Therefore, in regard to epistemic structure, physics and metaphysics are epistemically parallel. Empiricism has a self-evident foundation upon which we build science. Otherwise, as Aristotle showed, we are pushed into an infinite regress of proofs or we descend into circularity. In parallel fashion, we have a self-evident metaphysical foundation upon which we build our metaphysical systems, such as a national constitution or the laws of the land. Thus, for example, there can be a profound objective sense in which we are equal, and conversely there is a true and objective sense in which racism, sexism and violence toward innocentsentient creatures is wrong. If we want to give that up and claim that the only reality is matter – that murder, rape, thievery and so forth are not objectively wrong – then at least we're being honest materialists. And if we claim that such things are objectively wrong, but still remain materialists, then we're being philosophical hypocrites (apparently not a problem these days).
Previously, I mentioned Darwinism – a theory that has become extremely important in the world. I want to explore just what happens in the real world when you put forward a powerful physical theory while living in a world in which scientists claim that there are no objective metaphysical facts. As I will show, that toxic mixture throws the world out of balance, and leads to disaster. And, by the way, the same thing happens when imbalance occurs on the metaphysical side of the equation, as the history of religion demonstrates.
Looking, first, at the ancient Greco-Roman world, one finds that it was very much syncretistic in its metaphysical views. The Greeks and Romans strongly believed that when encountering other cultures with a different religion, you should do a comparative study and see that the other group is basically saying what you're saying, but with different language, different names for the same metaphysical deities and so forth. The Roman Pliny the Elder, who probably wrote the first encyclopedia, noted long ago that there is actually one reality, but it takes different names. The same view is found in verse 1.164.46 of the Ṛg Veda, the earliest Sanskrit text and perhaps the oldest book in the world: "Truth is one, but sages describe it in many ways."
The earliest Sanskrit text and perhaps the oldest book in the world. So into this syncretistic, tolerant world (much like our own, with exceptions) enters an extremely fanatical group, which claims that only they worship a living God, whereas everyone else worships dead gods, only they have a true religion, whereas everyone else has a false religion (we've all heard that preaching before). The Romans, as seen in the writings of Tacitus, one of the greatest Roman historian, believed that this type of fanaticism posed an existential threat to culture and civilization. None of this, of course, is meant to justify the cruel persecution of Christians by Romans, which tended to be sporadic and local. In contrast, we have the Christian persecution of pagans after Constantine, which was incessant, categorical and ubiquitous. It continued into the middle ages and even up to the renaissance. The great Renaissance scientist Giordano Bruno said the wrong thing, and was burned at the stake; and Galileo had to make a retraction in order to avoid an attack on both his work and his person.
This violent fanaticism continued into early modernity, and its role in two neighboring countries in the 17th and 18th centuries, France and England, explains much about the course of Western intellectual history. England was often moderate, while France swung to the far right with an absolutist monarchy and church that forbade dissent. For example, in 1685, Luis XIV revoked the Edict of Nantes, which allowed French Protestants to remain in France without being slaughtered.
In England, on the other hand, Elizabeth I (1533-1603) had declared a type of religious tolerance that was quite new in Europe at the time. The Glorious Revolution of 1688 established the rule of parliamentary government over English monarchy. Newton (1643-1727), both the best scientist of his day and deeply religious, played a key role in establishing an independent role for science that was impossible in France. With the Newtonian synthesis – a balance between the physical and the metaphysical – the relative freedom of science and religious both flourished in England.
Back in France, a metaphysical fanaticism – the tyranny of church and divine right monarch – led to an equal and opposite anti-religious fanaticism in the form of Diderot's hugely influential Encyclopedie, and the murderous French Revolution
In both England and France, we see the clear workings of a dialectical epistemological process, in the well-known form of thesis, antithesis, synthesis. The process is also known as the pendulum effect, or Newton's third law of motion: "for every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction."
Throughout the West's intellectual history, which is deeply affected by political, economic, sociocultural, and military forces, we find that the Western world is merely swinging between two positions. What basically set the pendulum swinging was this intrusion of murderously fanatical metaphysics into what had been in ancient times a syncretistic, tolerant, super-multicultural Europe. During that more tolerant European phase there was a balance between the physical and the metaphysical, and thus most people did not tend to be fanatical in one way or the other. In other words, scientists (or proto-scientists) didn't feel that in order to do their science they needed to bash religion or become philosophically atheist or agnostic; nor did they see religion as the enemy of rational thought, nor insist on strict methodological atheistism. For example, the great philosoher Plato rejected the irrational religion of Homer but offered in its place a rational metaphysics. Physics and metaphysics basically worked together to explore different dimensions of reality.
Looking back at the scientific revolution, we find that leaders like Copernicus, Brahe, Galileo and Newton were all religious people. Even Galileo saw the Bible as authoritative in metaphysical matter, i.e.telling how to go to heaven, but not how the heavens go. Many forget that Descartes made an enormous contribution. Today, he is largely remembered as the person who wrongly taught substance dualism – ironically a view that is now making a comeback among a growing number of philosophers.
Historically, when murderous metaphysical extremism arose after Emperor Constantine, civilization collapsed before a full antithetical reaction could manifest. At that time, Shortly after Constantine (within 100 years), the Roman Empire collapsed and people were fighting to survive in very dark, chaotic times. At any moment, one could be invaded, raped, or murdered, and there was little time for philosophical pursuits. Europe plunged into the Dark Ages – literacy almost vanished. In the High Middle Ages, however, Europe began to emerge from the darkness and move toward the Renaissance. Ironically, one of the seeds of the renaissance was planted by the crusades, which are generally not appreciated. The crusades produced the first major contact that Europe had had with the outside world in a long time.
For example, at the time that Vasco Da Gama landed on the shore of southwest India in 1498, Europeans believed that India was Christian, converted by an apostle of Jesus who miraculously converted the entire population.
The Rennaisance actually began in the Islamic world, which the crusaders were basically trying to annihilate. Inevitably Crusaders brought back information and culture from this hostile contact with a more advanced culture.
Then, the invention of the printing press stimulated growing literacy, because prior to its creation only the rich could own a book, not to speak of a library, since books were expensively hand copied.
Then the Protestant Reformation did much to democratize religious belief. This dividing and conquering of religion in the West greatly facilitated the rise of secularism, not least as an antidote to endless brutal European religious wars.
Luther was the most unwilling, inadvertent promoter of modernism one could ever imagine. Rejecting science and philosophy, he had mottos like sola scriptura, "only scripture" and sola fide, "the only faith." And yet Luther promoted epistemological egalitarianism. Indeed, it was Luther who wanted to get back to the Bible's affirmation of a priesthood of all believers. With the advent of the printing press and Luther's production of a Bible in the German vernacular, all persons could directly read the scripture without having to go through a priest. Prior to that, no ordinary person was able to read the Bible. The first person to make an English translation of the Bible, Willian Tyndale, was executed in 1536 by Henry the Eighth for revealing a "state secret" (i.e., the Bible).
So with the rise of egalitarian epistemology, people start to read, different opinions arise, and this enormously contributes to an explosion of science – also stimulated by the age of exploration when nations needed faster boats, better weapons, better cartography and so forth. Also, as people read the Bible, many thought, "Wait a second, the priests tell us this, but it is not in the Bible; they have all these mystic sacraments that look like the very same magic for which witches were killed." Thus the search was on for a real science beyond magic, either pagan or Church magic.
This leads to the dramatic rise of science. And when science gets enough power, it goes go on the offensive against religion. It's payback time – time for the intellectual, academic persecution of religion.
Thus Gibbons reasons that the Roman Empire fell because it became Christian. Marx adds that religion is a drug that makes people stupid and delusional. To this Freud adds that religion is a serious emotional disorder – basically psychopathology. I have a list that goes on and on and on – a war on religion.
And then, of course, science ran into a brick wall in the form of quantum mechanics, with all its problems and weirdness. Quantum physicists routinely describe the most advanced physics as strange, weird, mysterious and so on – the exact language that science used to denigrate magic and religion! And, of course, this admission unleashed a resurgence of magic and religion, as exemplified by 60s books such as The Dancing Wooly Masters, The Tao of Physics, and so on.
I compiled a great deal of logical, historical and philosophical evidence for all these points; unfortunately, there's no time to present most of that information here. I will conclude by saying that what's really needed today is an epistemological balance – the restoration of the classical balance between physics and metaphysics. As much as I admire the physical sciences and benefit from their findings in thousands of ways, they are not the absolute gatekeepers of objectivity. They may be the gatekeepers of a certain realm of objectivity and knowledge, but they are not the gatekeepers of all knowledge. Indeed, it is self-evident that we live in a bi-dimensional universe. Even the greatest Western skeptic, Hume, acknowledges that! It is in our Declaration of Independence; it is the foundation of our political system; and it is the foundation of our moral views against sexism and racism. Even prominent atheist philosophers have said, "If there actually are objective moral facts then there must be a supernatural explanation."
My argument is that, given all the facts, it is not possible to be a fully rational materialist; and it is equally impossible to be a rational religious fanatic – religious fanaticism being clearly irrational. We need to get away from fanaticism – whether it pretends to be science or religion. Working together, we should restore the balance between the physical and the metaphysical. The scientific revolution was conducted by scientists that derived essential ideas from their religion. And religious people benefit greatly from reason and science. Let us move forward together along those lines.
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WHAT'S UP IN WILMYWOOD 04/10/13 – Tammy, Wild Blue, Under the Dome, and more!
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Under the Dome will be filming in Southport today.
Tammy, the big budget flick starring Melissa McCarthy, Susan Sarandon and Kathy Bates is still in pre-production. But if you are looking to be an extra on this comedy, they will begin taking submissions within the next two weeks. I, of course, will give you the info you need when I am allowed to tell you.
Plus, I've got more scoop for ya on this movie, really really big news actually, but I will reveal that tomorrow. Wow, I totally did a Ryan Seacrest on ya there, didn't I? I will tell you…after the break!
The lovely Cassie Foss at the Star News solved the mystery yesterday, about the pilot looking to shoot here in June. It's coming from the Fox network. Wild Blue is about a group of men and women working aboard a U.S. Navy aircraft carrier. So far they have been scouting the Coty Inc. plant in Rocky Point. It stars Mykelti Williamson (Bubba of Forrest Gump) as Master Chief Donald Bowman along with Josh Salatin, Will Rothhaar, Alano Miller and Gina Rodriguez.
The show will follow a group of young working sailors aboard a battleship. Hey Fox, we got one of those! Just sayin'! No word whether a location scout have been to the USS North Carolina.
Still not counting out Dolph Lundgren's Rescue 3 coming here yet.
UNCW Seahawks one more day to win a contest that would bring actors Seth Rogen and Craig Robinson to campus for an advanced screening of the comedy This is the End, which will hit theaters in June.
The web site Eventful is hosting a contest for the celebs to show up at the college with the most online demands
The contest ends tomorrow. VOTE HERE. UNCW is in second place, only behind the University of California, Santa Barbara.
Tickets are officially on sale! Ironman 3 – filmed right here in Wilmington and the surrounding area will open in local cinemas on May 3 in three different formats, including 3D and IMAX. Of course they will have the midnight showings as well. Purchase your tickets now from Fandango!
At Regal Cinemas, you can see the film in IMAX for $15.75 or in 3-D for $13.75. Or, do the marathon! Watch all three Iron Man films back-to-back for $35.
That just about does it for me; I will have more Wilmywood updates for you tomorrow morning and every morning (Monday-Friday) at 8:30am. Post your comments below or if you got some scoop, send it my way: sheila@1045sunnyfm.com. Until then, that's a wrap!
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Q: Orientation of ortho camera on scene In the center of the scene is the object in the upper right corner is the orientation cube1. The camera rotates around the scene freely. At the same time I need to rotate the cube and show the user from which side the camera is looking at the scene.
The essence of the problem: I calculate the angle of the camera from:
var pLocal = new THREE.Vector3(0, 0, -1);
var pWorld = pLocal.applyMatrix4(this.camera.matrixWorld);
var dir = pWorld.sub(this.camera.position).normalize();
console.log(this.graduse(dir.x), this.graduse(dir.y), this.graduse(dir.z));

I made a small table depending on the angle[2].

In practice, it turns out that while the camera moves around the cube, the angles of Y and Z change. It is impossible to make the angle of rotation of the orientation cube along the Y axis calculated accurately and smoothly. This is especially noticeable when moving from the front side to the back side.

I tried to set the proportional change law with coefficients:
[private tableCubeViewRotateCalc: number\[\]\[\] = \[\[-1.58, 90.6\], \[1.58, 0.6\], \[1.58, 0.6\]\];

    var vector = new THREE.Vector3(0, 0, 0);
    this.camera.getWorldDirection(vector);

    result_angle.y = this.tableCubeViewRotateCalc\[2\]\[0\] * (this.graduse(vector.x)) + this.tableCubeViewRotateCalc\[2\]\[1\];
    if (this.graduse(vector.z) < 0) {//for view back
      if (result_angle.y > 0) {
        result_angle.y += this.tableCubeViewRotateCalc\[0\]\[0\] * (this.graduse(vector.z)) + this.tableCubeViewRotateCalc\[0\]\[1\];
      } else {
        result_angle.y -= this.tableCubeViewRotateCalc\[0\]\[0\] * (this.graduse(vector.z)) + this.tableCubeViewRotateCalc\[0\]\[1\];
      }
    }]

however, this method does not provide the desired accuracy.

I read a lot of articles about vector geometry in games, however, I did not find a solution to the problem there.
need some kind of trigonometric relation between Y and Z that would accurately calculate the camera angle

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'Shang-Chi' & 'Thor: Love And Thunder' Expected To Film In Australia
Marvel Studios will be returning to Australia with two back to back film productions going into 2020, according to Variety.
Shang Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings and Thor: Love and Thunder will be filmed in Sydney. Marvel Studios is no stranger to Australia as Thor: Ragnarok was the first Marvel production film there. They shot in Gold Coast, Queensland, but will move the productions over to Sydney at Disney's recent acquisition, Fox Studios.
Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings will be the first of the back to back productions to shoot. Thor: Love and Thunder will begin pre-production in March of 2020, then production starts in August. Check out what Marvel Studios Vice President David Grant had to say about the back-to-back productions:
"Shooting Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings and Thor: Love and Thunder back to back will provide local crews with sustained [and] continuous employment opportunities. We will be working with local educational institutions in creating internship opportunities."
NSW communications director David Fletcher revealed what Marvel will bring to Australia:
"Thor: Love and Thunder [and Shang-Chi are] expected to invest more than A$178 million ($124 million) in our economy, create up to 2,500 jobs and use the services of around 1,650 businesses."
Are you excited that Marvel Studios is returning to Australia to film? Let us know in the comments below!
Shang-Chi and the Legend of Ten Rings will be in theaters on February 12, 2021.
Thor: Love and Thunder will be in theaters on November 5, 2021.
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With emphasis now on dual-core chips, manufacturer reduces cost of single-core processors by 20 percent or more.
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Intel also has begun seeding servers with dual-core Xeon processors, which initially were scheduled for general availability early next year. However, Intel announced Monday that its dual-core Xeon MP processor—code-named "Paxville"—will come out later this year.
The seeding program enables potential customers to evaluate the dual-core processors in advance of the official release.
Rival Advanced Micro Devices Inc., of Sunnyvale, Calif., already has launched dual-core capabilities in its server Opteron processors and PC Athlon 64 chips.


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The Light Fantastic – The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug & The Secret Life of Walter Mitty
The middle part of Peter Jackson's Hobbit trilogy, The Desolation of Smaug, is terrifically enjoyable, and its two hours and forty minutes move with alacrity. It's the ideal Christmas entertainment, though it's now fashionable to deride Jackson, who was – justifiably – everybody's hero between 2001 and 2003, when he turned out the three Lord of the Rings pictures. The general feeling seems to be that he returned to Tolkien with his tail between his legs because his two intervening movies, King Kong and The Lovely Bones, were disasters and it was the only thing he could do – as if nearly-three-hour fantasy adventures with enormous casts were so easy to pull off that they no longer merited any respect. And then it turns out that The Hobbit movies are piddling achievements because they're not in the same class as The Lord of the Rings.
Well, backlashes don't make sense except as expressions of envy, but I feel duty bound to correct the record. The Lovely Bones was indeed a disaster: Jackson didn't have the sensibility or the style for Alice Sebold's delicate novel, which is the damnedest coming-of-age story I've ever read (the heroine, who narrates it, has been murdered by a predatory neighbor). Jackson compensated by overproducing it in a kind of storybook lushness probably meant to mimic Maxfield Parrish or maybe the 1940s output of the English filmmaking team Powell and Pressburger. And it was all wrong – the way Spielberg's The Color Purple was all wrong. Talented directors sometimes fall flat on their faces. But King Kong was another story. Yes, it went on for hours, but there were splendid things in it right alongside the scenes that fumbled, and if you stuck around for the last section, in New York, which focused on the love story between the ape and Naomi Watts, your patience was rewarded. A former student of mine theorized cannily that it was way too long because Jackson loved the material so much he couldn't bear to let it go – a charge that might be made about his Lord of the Rings movies, too, if it weren't for the fact that there was nothing in them you'd want to cut (and that includes the roughly half an hour of additional footage he restored to each for the director's-cut DVDs). You can call King Kong a folly, but it's hardly fair to call it a waste.
When Magic Isn't Magical: Lev Grossman's The Magicians
Lev Grossman's The Magicians was described to me as "a grown-up Harry Potter," and while that makes for glib description in retrospect, that's pretty much what it is: a team of teenagers attend a magical college called Brakebills, with plenty of colourful characters and adolescent debauchery to populate it. It's an easy sell. Here's what was missing from the Harry Potter universe: copious sex and drinking.
The Magicians is in reality an odd duck, a novel which confused me not through plot intricacy, difficult language, or even authorial incompetence, but through a mismatch between my expectations and reality – namely, the expectation that had been bred in me that The Magicians was going to stand up to scrutiny against Harry Potter. Oddly fitting, too, considering that the protagonist, a young Brooklyn wizard named Quentin Coldwater, struggles with this very dichotomy in what becomes the novel's major theme. Quentin is unwittingly enrolled in a secret school of magic, which fulfills his every escapist fantasy. He comes to learn, however, that fantasies aren't necessarily much better than reality. In its handling of these so-called "mature themes" – what it calls "the horror of really getting what you think you want" – The Magicians is canny, providing more than a few moments of hungover cynicism that struck rather too close to home. But though I'm inclined to say that its angsty insight trumps Harry Potter's storybook naiveté, The Magicians' fundamental storytelling is where the comparison falls flat.
Gutter Balls: Martin Scorsese's The Wolf of Wall Street
Leonardo DiCaprio as Jordan Belfort in The Wolf of Wall Street.
Martin Scorsese's three-hour, head-crushing The Wolf of Wall Street stars Leonardo DiCaprio as Jordan Belfort, a stockbroker who loses his job with a big Wall Street firm after the 1987 crash and re-invents himself as a dealer in penny stocks, making a fortune (and soon setting up his own firm) by pitching shares of virtually worthless businesses to strangers on the phone. There is a real Jordan Belfort; the screenplay, by Terence Winter, takes it title and many of its characters and events from Belfort's autobiography, which describes his rapid rise in the 1990s, his party-hearty lifestyle, and his eventual arrest for stock fraud. At the end of the movie, he has remade himself, yet again, as a motivational speaker. It's easy to imagine a worse outcome for a guy like this, but when DiCaprio is standing in front of a roomful of shmucks, half-heartedly inviting them to show them what they've got and handing around a pen to use as a prop, he has the same dead-eyed, cast-out-of-Eden look as Ray Liotta's Henry Hill at the end of GoodFelllas.
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Malfunction: Spike Jonze's Her
Joaquin Phoenix and Scarlett Johansson (on table) in Her
He's only directed four features in all since his 1999 debut with the startling and brilliant Being John Malkovich. But nothing in Spike Jonze's oeuvre, which also includes the clever and witty Adaptation (2002) and the moving Where the Wild Things Are (2009), prepared me for his latest film, Her (2013), a failure on pretty much every level but also a science fiction movie singularly lacking in originality, thought or vision. Considering it's Jonze's solo debut as a screenwriter, he may want to consider letting others write his movies for him. He certainly displays no facility for crafting screenplays on his own that entice and reward the viewer.
Set in the near future, Her revolves around one Theodore Twombly (Joaquin Pheonix), an introverted man still reeling from the breakup of his marriage to his childhood sweetheart Catherine (Rooney Mara). He spends his days in a job that involves writing love letters for people who lack the facility or time to do so but he is lonely himself, resorting to Internet porn to get through his nights. But one day, he's told about a new invention, a particularly intelligent Operating System (OS) that is all the rage. He buys one and soon the OS (voiced by Scarlett Johansson, Don Jon), who has chosen her own name, Samantha, becomes a permanent fixture in his life, first as a friend and then as something much more, a girlfriend with whom he falls deeply in love. It's not the worst idea for a movie but it's also not the revelatory concept Jonze and many critics – the film has (inexplicably) received its share of awards, including being picked best movie of 2013 by the National Board of Review – seem to think it is.
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Past as Prologue: Patty Griffin's Silver Bell and American Kid
Patty Griffin on NPR
Last year Patty Griffin released two albums that could be considered long, lost companions reunited. Even though the releases span 13 years, they offer insight into Griffin's maturity as a singer and songwriter.
In the brief liner notes to Silver Bell, Griffin writes about this previously unreleased record as "the last of many things". But to my ear it's as much a "beginning" as an "ending" because Silver Bell is a fine album of transition, from Griffin's edgy rock sound to her current recording, American Kid [New West] that is refined and inspired from her past. To me, Silver Bell is the gateway to American Kid.
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A Hopeless Mess: The Commons of Pensacola
Blythe Danner and Sarah Jessica Parker in The Commons of Pensacola (Photo by Joan Marcus)
The actress Amanda Peet has an earthbound vivacity and an unpredictable way of attacking a line; I loved watching her on Aaron Sorkin's TV series Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip and as Mark Ruffalo's wife in a terrific little movie called What Doesn't Kill You that went straight to DVD (when the company that produced it went bankrupt on the verge of its intended release). But her playwriting debut, The Commons of Pensacola, which the Manhattan Theatre Club is producing off-Broadway at MTC Stage I at City Center, is a hopeless mess. It's set in a retirement condo in Pensacola, Florida, where Judith (Blythe Danner), the wife of a Bernie Madoff-like Jewish financier who victimized Holocaust survivors, now lives on the restricted income allowed her. It's Thanksgiving, and she's visited by her daughter Becca (Sarah Jessica Parker), an actress on her uppers who arrives with a younger boyfriend (Michael Stahl-David), self-described as a guerilla journalist. On their heels come sixteen-year-old Lizzy (Zoe Levin), Judith's granddaughter, and finally Lizzy's mother, Ali (Ali Marsh), who hasn't spoken to Judith for a year but flies down when a fall lands her, unconscious, in the hospital.
It's a good assumption that the subject of a play with this plot premise is the fallout from a front-page scam for the family of the sociopath who engineered it, but Becca's financial desperation – when her agent calls, it isn't to offer her work but to find out if she's available New Year's Eve to babysit her daughter – is unrelated to what her father did, and so is her boyfriend Gabe's having sex with Lizzy while Becca is at the hospital with her mother. The narrative feels as though Peet thought it up, episode by episode, on a caffeine jag. There are individual scenes that don't make sense on their face. Left alone with Judith hours after meeting her for the first time, Gabe pitches the idea of a documentary series he and Becca have conceived that would allow her to talk about her husband's crime and show some sympathy for the people he bankrupted. When she finds the idea repugnant, he makes it clear that he doesn't believe she could possibly have been ignorant of what her husband was up to. It's a fact about notoriety, like any other kind of celebrity, that complete strangers feel emboldened to proclaim their point of view, but is it likely that a man meeting his girlfriend's mother for the first time, a guest in her home, would insult her?
What I Did Last Year!: 2013 Concerts in Review
Stephen Fearing performed at The Pearl Company in Hamilton on April 19, 2013.
Do you remember the assignment you had back in school? Write an essay called 'How I Spent My Summer Vacation'? I'm sure you wrote several such essays. Well, at the end of a year I like to look back over the past 12 months and just see what happened. Where did I go, what did I see, how many CDs and books did I buy? A complete list would take up more space than I have today, but I thought it might be interesting to look back at the concerts I attended.
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Pattern Energy begins operations at New Mexico wind projects
Clean energy generated by Western Spirit Wind projects will be supplied to California and New Mexico.
Construction of the Western Spirit Wind projects employed more than 1,300 people. Credit: © 2022 Pattern Energy Group.
US-based renewable energy firm Pattern Energy Group has completed and begun commercial operations at its Western Spirit Wind suite of power projects in New Mexico.
With more than 1GW of capacity, the Western Spirit Wind suite comprises four wind facilities located in Guadalupe, Lincoln and Torrance Counties respectively.
When combined, the four wind facilities feature 377 GE wind turbines, each ranging between 2.3MW and 2.8MW in capacity.
Construction engineering company Blattner Energy served as the construction contractor for the projects.
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Clean energy generated by the four wind farms will be supplied to California and New Mexico under power purchase agreements (PPAs) with the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power, San José Clean Energy, East Bay Community Energy, California Choice Energy Authority and member cities.
The renewable energy will also be supplied to energy company Uniper Global Commodities under a PPA signed last year.
In addition, the project will supply power to New Mexico municipalities through the Uniper Global Commodities PPA.
Pattern Energy CEO Mike Garland said: "Western Spirit Wind is a groundbreaking megaproject that demonstrates large-scale renewables can be developed and built in the US.
"Western Spirit brought more than 1,100 construction jobs to New Mexico, generated local spending, tax revenue and landowner payments in a remote area of New Mexico, and is now delivering enough renewable energy to meet the electricity needs of more than 900,000 Americans.
"This is just the beginning for New Mexico – Pattern Energy has committed to $6bn in upcoming wind energy and related infrastructure projects in the state over the next decade.
"Together, we are building a cleaner and more sustainable future in New Mexico."
Last month, New Mexico Renewable Energy Transmission Authority (RETA) and Pattern Energy completed the 155-mile Western Spirit Transmission line, allowing the Western Spirit Wind projects to be connected to the regional electricity grid.
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MathKit combines games and hands-on learning experiences to help children from kindergarten through third grade master addition and subtraction facts up to 20. Designed for families, it can be used with one or more children. MathKit creator, Leslie Gilbert, encourages parents to make the learning activities enjoyable and relaxing rather than stressful. Many activities will naturally lead to silliness and fun while others will depend upon the style of the parent's oversight and direction.
MathKit consists of ten games and learning tools, although they can be used in more than ten ways. The entire kit comes in a reclosable cardboard box. The Game Guide has detailed instructions and suggestions for using the kit as well as tips for parents as they interact with their children. You can read through the tips or jump right into the games. You can use the games in the order suggested or jump around—whatever you prefer. Many of the games can be revisited as children progress in their skills since you can make them easier or more difficult. Suggestions for some games even include ways to include children beyond third grade level.
The largest item in the MathKit is a Rekenrek which is similar to an abacus. An uninflated beach ball that comes with the kit is even larger once it's inflated. (The beach ball comes with a set of numbers to stick onto the surface in a prescribed pattern.) In addition, MathKit includes a "folder" game board, a set of playing cards, a large set of "question cards" (math fact cards for addition and subtraction), wooden counter chips with numbers, sidewalk chalk, bean bags, spinner, a hundred chart, 2 ten frames (7" x 3" laminated, rectangular cards), a number line, linking cubes, a small wipe-off Write-It Board, and a dry-erase marker.
In another game, players toss the beach ball to one another adding up numbers (determined by where the right thumb lands on the ball) until they reach a total of 10. (You can make it 20 or higher to make it more difficult.) Going past 10 rather than getting exactly 10 means starting all over.
Gilbert has created similar inventive activities for other MathKit components.
While instructions are fairly comprehensive, you will have to adapt to your situation making activities simpler or more challenging depending upon each child's needs. You'll also need to find practical ways to play some of the games. Placing question cards on a sidewalk on a blustery day obviously won't work. Placing question cards on a thick, pile carpet then walking on them in the Hot Lava game is likely to destroy your cards.
Some items—the hundred chart, the number line, and the wipe-off "board," in particular—seem a little small for young children and the ways they are used in MathKit, but you can easily substitute larger versions of these items on your own if needed.
MathKit is totally interactive. A parent can play games with a child or children can compete against one another. Chance elements incorporated into some of the games help level the playing field for players at different skill levels.
MathKit incorporates many different strategies that help children master math facts, strategies such as learning visual patterns, counting objects, connecting similar facts, using the number line or counting on fingers. Activities require students to then practice math facts within games so acquiring math-fact fluency is a far more positive experience than completing work sheets or drilling students with flash cards.
If you're not sure you want to invest in the complete kit that I have described, called MathKit's Full Learning System, you can try out MathKit Essentials, a partial kit with some of the games and activities. If you like it, you can then upgrade to the complete kit.


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A history of canning, the derivation of 'can', sardines, pilchards, herrings and sprats, the great nations and the Great Sardine Litigation
The initial imperative that led to canned food was military. As C.L. Cutting points out in Fish Saving (1955), Marlborough's army at Blenheim in 1704 numbered only 54,000 men, who could almost live off the land. Napoleon invaded Russia in 1811 with over a million, and a highly organized food commissariat was required.
Nicholas Appert
In 1795, a prize of 12,000 francs was offered by the French Directory for a means of preserving not just food, but a significant proportion of original taste and texture. Nicholas Appert won the award in 1809 for a bottling process.
The Book for All Households, or the Art of Preserving Animal and Vegetable Substances for Many Years, which he published in 1810, was translated into English the following year. Appert was supplying the French government by 1814 and preserved fish was among the products.
The Dutch were already selling salted, juniper-smoked potted salmon in tinned-iron boxes and in 1810, the British merchant Peter Durand speculatively patented a tin-plate container, which could be adapted for Appert's new technique.
When applying for an American patent in 1818, Durand coined the term tin canister, from the Greek word κάναστρου, meaning a basket of reeds – something regularly used for holding foodstuffs in the early C19th.
The Americans & the French
From 1819 Thomas Kensett and Ezra Dagget began preserving seafood in New York, later extending the business to Baltimore. They patented an improvement to the canning process in 1825. From the early 1820s William Underwood was preserving salmon, lobster and other products in Boston.
Canisters became cans in 1839, an abbreviation introduced by Underwood's book-keepers.
The Maine or Brunswick Sardine, first successfully canned in 1876 by Julius Wolff and Herman Ressing in Eastport, Maine, is an immature Atlantic herring, just as European sardines are immature pilchards. All sardines from the North American Atlantic coast are herrings that were renamed in order to break into the market developed from the 1820s by Joseph Colin in the French Atlantic port of Nantes.
The French sardine canneries spread to Brittany, but then, in search of more reliable supplies, to Portugal and Morocco. Wolff and Ressing's breakthrough led to a rapid expansion of canneries along the coasts of Maine, New Brunswick and Nova Scotia.
In 1871 immature menhaden, a gastronomically unpopular species of the Clupeidae, were marketed in New Jersey as shadines, but it didn't catch on.
In 1874, A.K. Shriver of Baltimore had come up with a steam kettle, using superheated water, which by maintaining pressure outside the can prevented bursting. In 1900, Joseph Sutton Clark invented the can opened with a key, but it wasn't until 1932, in Blacks Harbour, New Brunswick, that Henry T. Austin developed the iconic sardine tin with a detachable key.
Ring-pulls have now superseded this wonder of twentieth century technology, but Blacks Harbour is home to Connors Bros, the largest sardine cannery in the world, a business begun with fruit, clams and scallops in 1885. It was the Brunswick Sardine and a commitment to mechanisation that transformed the fortunes of Lewis and Patrick Connors.
When is a Sardine Not a Sardine?
The Norwegians moved into booming market for tinned sardines, creating a product using smoked juvenile herring and sprats. Early on, they developed a relationship in the UK with the Tyneside grocery entrepreneur Angus Watson.
Watson had been shown a can that had been sent to his employer at the time. He doesn't date the incident, but it seems to have been in the late 1890s. The fish, though crudely packed, were dainty and attractive, he wrote later. They were cheaper than French or Portuguese sardines. Watson suggested that it might be worth going over to see the Norwegian canners, but his employer wasn't keen. Watson bought a frock coat and a silk hat and went himself.
Helping the Norwegians develop their production capacity, by the early 1900s he had his own Tyneside business and was putting his mind to marketing the tins for which he was the sole international representative. Together with a colleague he hit upon Skipper as a brand name and, on a visit to London, saw what was to become the brand image in a photographer's window in Oxford Street.
The fisherman who became 'Skippers'
Meanwhile, in Stavanger, the Norwegians were developing their production for the international market – King Oscar, Bjelland & Co, Atlas, Saga and many other brands. The Norwegian Canning Museum in Stavanger has a collection of over 30,000 different sardine can labels.
Everything was going swimmingly. Too swimmingly. The French went to court in a number of countries to insist that a canned sardine could only be a pilchard (Sardina pilchardus). The Great Sardine Litigation lasted from 1911 to 1915 and though the position has its illogicalities (see Sardines) the decisions went their way. They tried to extend their success beyond Europe, but gave up – North American East Coast sardines are still herrings. Elsewhere they can be a range of other clupeid species. But in Europe, since 1915 Norwegian canned juvenile herrings have been sold as Sild (herring) or Brisling (sprats).
More recently, following EU guidelines, anything of a sardine-type can be sold as a Sardine if labelled with its actual species – so John West, which was formed in 1961 out of a merger of three companies including Angus Watson & Co, is now labelling its product Sardines (Sprattus sprattus). But not in Australia, where they are Wild Scottish Sardines.
Seen in a supermarket at Katoomba in Australia's Blue Mountains
Canned Herring
Adult pilchards are still canned as pilchards, although they've never really achieved the popularity of sardines. And on the slab at the fishmongers, they're mostly now called sardines, letting the Great British Public know that this is what they were eating from the grill at that Portuguese beach restaurant. But you rarely see canned adult herrings these days. Another North East England firm, Tyne Brand, was quite active in production, but again, they never really captured the public imagination.
Tyne Brand advertisement from 1922
In its Have Herrings post-war promotional recipe leaflets, the Herring Industry Board were clearly pushing canned herrings, giving feature pages for them. Having lost the huge Russian and German markets that had sustained the heyday of the British herring fisheries, there was an increasing desperation in their attempts to encourage a compensatory home market. The housewife wanted convenience. What could be more convenient that a tin of herrings? They are just as tasty as fresh herrings, they assured their June readers. But they weren't buying fresh herrings either.
December's Canned Herring recipes from Have Herrings
Meanwhile, the Norwegian Canning Museum in Stavanger is one the world's truly beautiful museums and well worth a visit. It's been closed for a while as part of a Stavanger cultural redevelopment, which is going to see a new printing museum, too – an interesting pairing, given their sardine label extraordinary collection. It reopens in June 2021!
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Betty White is on a mission to prove that animals are a lot smarter than we ever realised. From a farm yard animal that's even smarter than a dog, to a dog who knows a thousand words. Betty tests the smartest animal on earth and gets a cuddle from her favourite three hundred pound gorilla. America's comedy sweet heart is going to show you animal intelligence in a way you've never seen it before.
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Last week, I went out with Bruce Whitelaw of the Wooden Boat Museum of Newfoundland and Labrador to the town of Arnold's Cove to look at a boat they are hoping to save. The Winnie and Eric, a jack boat with a long history with the area, has been donated to the Town. Bruce had a preliminary look at the vessel, and we are planning on heading back to Arnold's Cove to do detailed measurements, and some oral history interviews on the history of the boat.


Pastor Davidson Ambris has left an indelible mark on his parishioners and the many villages where he ministered the Word of God in his unique style. Not only was he an effective, down-to-earth practical preacher, but he was also a tireless farmer. He worked with the St Vincent Banana Growers Association as a 'grader' from which he derived the name "First-hand".
This devoted Christian was a principled, uncompromising, Holy Ghost filled, faithful Pastor, Father, Brother and friend. His wise council and practical advice will live on in the lives of many. He was destined to serve God with zeal, passion and commitment. Pastor Ambris was one of twenty-five young men and women who were baptized and joined fellowship with the Diamond New Testament Church of God in a historical revival under the leadership of Evangelist Sister Questelles.
He married Eileen Pearlina Benn (now deceased) on 11th August 1963 and thirteen children were produced from that union.
When Pastor Sarah Butler migrated to Curacao in 1963, Davidson Ambris was promoted to the rank of Pastor of the young congregation. Bishop Urel Williams and other members of the local church remember Pastor Ambris as a vibrant Pastor with the zeal of the Holy Ghost and that he believed in praying and fasting. In fact, he described him as very brief in his message delivery, but that his sermons were always to the point and full of spiritual substance. Others also described him as a straightforward, uncompromising, faithful servant of God whose short sermons were sweet and full of spiritual nuggets. Pastor Ambris truly displayed an uncompromising attitude, steadfastness in what he stood for and his willingness to use the Bible as his only guide and measuring rod. He literally frowned on Pastors going to Bible School, poking fun at it sometimes for he believed with all his heart that total reliance on the Holy Spirit was all that really matters. Pastor Ambris' zeal, energy and faithfulness is also recounted by his daughter Annette, who remembers that "rain or shine did not stop him from leaving for church, no matter the downpour, and that he would awake them from their sleep for devotion, as he was uncompromising and seemingly tough on the things pertaining to God." Brother Felix Jack remembers him zealously proclaiming that "my business is to put the devil out of business!" Pastor Davidson Ambris was indeed a man on a mission!
This faithful and devoted Servant of God was dearly loved by the brethren of the Georgetown and Chester Cottage New Testament Church of God where he served. Several of those members continued to visit with him up to his dying days, while scores of community members constantly kept vigil at his house. It was not strange in his days of pastoring that persons would become convicted of their need to surrender their lives to the Lord even before services began. Members of his congregations recalled that during his era there was an absence of idle talks in churches, and that those who arrived first (earliest) would place themselves at the altar or stayed in their seats praying, worshipping and singing praises to the Almighty God. It was the time when brethren looked out for each other, which caused the church to grow and flourish.
prayer/psalm which he shared regularly. Pastor Ambris was not afraid to die; for he said he was only on a vacation here and he was not going to die, so when he goes home we were not to sing any funeral songs. In fact he saw death as transfer from this earthly life to be in the presence of the Lord. His desire to be distinguished, even in death caused him to request that "I do not want a dead funeral, I want a true Home Going celebration." Pastor Ambris also requested a ban on the song "it is well with my soul" at his funeral since it was a norm to sing it at every unsaved funeral whose souls he thought were not well with the Lord.
Pastor Davidson Ebenezer Ambris will be dearly missed, but fondly remembered as a true Servant of the Lord, a friend, community member, and church brother.
His soul will rest in peace!


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The Chinese government has gained full control over the country after implementing the Social Credit System. Because of this strict social credit system, people of China will less rely on fiat money and will move their attention to Bitcoin.
The government keeps controlling its people and now it has gained access to credit and online transactions. People will be able to get access to financial benefits on the basis of their social scores.
According to the report of XinhuaNet, in this updated social credit system, the Chinese government will take into consideration some of the factors in order to allow people with social scores. These factors include fake divorces, defaults on paying bank loans and acquiring multiple loans from several banks at the same time.
The Primitive Ventures founder Dovey Wan says in a Tweet that the administration will restrict people's access to credit.
Authority to increase Surveillance and Censorship
After updating the social credit system, the Chinese government has enabled the authority to increase its censorship and surveillance.
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The Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT) will use Artificial intelligence in order to monitor all internet users in the country. All online transactions will have to go through facial recognition. The government will use AI system to cross-reference the faces of users. In this way, the government will be monitoring the whole online activity.
Bitcoin to play its role
The need of the world's leading digital asset has increased after the implementation of the Social Credit System by China. Chinese people cannot rely on fiat money therefore Bitcoin will play its role as a medium of exchange for Chinese people.
While using bitcoin, people will remain anonymous. Therefore, the government will not be able to keep its eye on them. So, it is expected that people will direct themselves toward the leading digital asset.


Mahalingam, T.; Guruge, B.M.A.; Somachandra., K.P.; Jayasekara, E.A.E.S.S.; Rajapakse, C.S.K.; Attanayake, R.N.
Sclerotinia sclerotiorum is a cosmopolitan, necrotrophic and soil borne plant pathogen, capable of infecting many economically important crops. Although it is a well-studied pathogen elsewhere, there is no research conducted in Sri Lanka. The objectives of the current research were to study the phenotypic variations among isolates within the pathogen population in the upcountry commercial cabbage fields in Sri Lanka and to determine their sensitivity to a commonly applied fungicide, Mancozeb. Forty-six isolates obtained from infected cabbage heads were identified as S. sclerotionun based on its unique morphological characteristics. Colony diameter was measured on potato dextrose agar (PDA) plates at 23 °C and mycelia' colour was observed after two-week incubation. All the isolates were grown in pH indicator media to determine their add producing abilities. Sensitivity of the isolates to Mancozeb was assayed in vitro. There was a significant difference in colony growth among the isolates and sensitivity to Mancozeb. Two isolates showed abnormal mycelia' growth characteristics; a slower growth rate on PDA and reduced pathogenicity on cabbage leaves. Two levels of mycelia' pigmentation were observed on PDA. All the isolates were acid producers, inferring that all of them were pathogenic. In summary, the upcountry S. sclerotiorton pathogen population was found to be diverse for selected phenotypic traits, especially for mycelia( growth, and fungicide sensitivities inferring that the pathogen population is capable of adapting to changing environmental conditions. Therefore, disease management will be challenging if an epidemic occurs, and it is recommended that a proper management system should be identified before further expansion of upcountry cabbage cultivation.


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Q: GCM 3'rd party server API key and registration Id I'm investgating GCM push issue.
In my scenario, i want to send push message to multiple apps.
For example i have a App A,B,C
I want to send push to App A,B,C
As i know to send push from 3'rd party server to client, it needs APIKey and registration key. (Is that all?)
To send the push to different client. Do i have to use different API Key or same API key?
Let's assume that developer account for App A,B,C are different

A: You can check out the Credentials section in the Key Concept of GCM overview page.
If you have only one 3rd party server, but multiple client applications, you will need one sender ID for your 3rd party server, one API key for your 3rd party server to access the Google services, and multiple application IDs for your client applications.
Also to note that the registration ID is tied to a particular Android application running on a particular device.


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Dublin Fringe Festival 2017 is a heartstopper. An uproarious sixteen days of thrilling, provocative events that will consume and inspire the city.
Fringe 2016 is the boldest, wildest and most spectacular yet. This edition is going to be fabled – you'll want to say you were there. It's a knockout sixteen days full of events that will give you indelible, powerful and magical experiences.
Fringe is 21 and we're giving you all the birthday presents. First off, we're bringing back a long-lost favourite friend of the festival, the legendary Spiegeltent! Right in the heart of the city at Wolfe Tone Square, the Spiegeltent is the place to catch the dazzling, the wonderful and the daring.
This year we're looking out upon unidentified horizons. We reflect on our past and imagine what's ahead over yonder. We're embracing the tensions between ambiguity and fact, the personal and the private, between real and fantasy. Intrepid, fearless and powerful artists are our guides.
This year's festival celebrates activists, whistle blowers, outsiders, women, children and industry in a jam packed programme of the best new Irish and international arts.
2012 marks a very special 18th birthday celebration for the festival. Far from taking on the responsibilities of adulthood with sobriety and meek submission, our 18th birthday sees us dreaming big, living large and losing the keys to this glorious city of Dublin.
Since late last year, we have been having animated conversations with artists around the ideas expressed on the page overleaf. We formed a provocation, a manifesto of sorts, and asked artists to respond. What they came back to us with surprised and later energised and propelled the festival forward.