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Anadyr (; Chukchi: , Kagyrgyn, ; Southern Chukchi: Въэӈын, V"èňyn) is a port town and the administrative center of Chukotka Autonomous Okrug, Russia, located at the mouth of the Anadyr River at the tip of a peninsula that protrudes into Anadyrsky Liman. Anadyr is the easternmost town in Russia; more easterly settlements, such as Provideniya and Uelen, do not have town status. It was previously known as Novo–Mariinsk (until 1923). Population:

History

Early history
Although the town itself has only been in existence for just over a century, the origins of the name Anadyr are much older. The name initially derives from the Yukaghir word "any-an" meaning "river". When Semyon Dezhnev met Yukaghir people in the area, the indigenous name was corrupted to form "Onandyr", later Anadyrsk, the name of the ostrog (fort) upstream of the present-day settlement, from which the current name is derived. The ostrog was the only Russian settlement east of the Kolyma River on the Chukotka Peninsula for most of the 18th century, though this original settlement was situated further up the Anadyr River, nearer to Markovo than the site of the current town.

Pyotr Baranov (brother of Alexander Andreyevich Baranov) established a trading post near the present town site in the early 19th century. The Chukchi settled around it and formed the village of Vyon in 1830.

The present settlement was founded in 1889 as Novo–Mariinsk by L. F. Grinevetsky, who sailed into the Anadyrsky Liman on July 9, 1889. The town's first building was completed twelve days later and as it was the name-day of Tsaritsa Maria Feodorovna the town was named Mariinsk. Since this was not the first time that a town had been named Mariinsk in Russia, the name was swiftly changed to Novo–Mariinsk.

Early 20th century
The Kamchatka Revkom sent the first Bolsheviks—Mikhail Mandrikov and Avgust Berzin—to Anadyr to set up an underground organization to undermine and eventually overthrow the resident White Army forces stationed in the town. These two, along with a small group of other Russian immigrants and a handful of Chuvans, established the First Revolutionary Committee of Chukotka. Their presence initially went undetected, although it did arouse suspicion. However, just before they were about to be discovered by the resident White Army troops, they launched an attack against them on the night of December 16, 1919. They intended to free the local indigenous people from their debts to the Russian incomers and dismantle the capitalist infrastructure that had been established in the town. Their attempts at seizing the property of the merchant class in Anadyr were successful, but they were unable to seize control of the armory and ammunition supplies within the town. The merchants used this opportunity to reassert themselves, and by January 30, 1920, they surrounded the Revkom's offices and attacked. One of the leaders, Vasily Titov, was killed and a number of others were wounded. Mikhail Mandrikov himself surrendered. Although the survivors were initially imprisoned, the merchants decided to eliminate them permanently. Under the pretense of transferring them to another site, they led them out of the town and executed them out on the tundra. The merchants' and White Army's success had been aided by the fact that a number of the Revkom members had been out the town visiting the village of Markovo. When these people returned, they were ambushed and all survivors eventually killed.

The merchants set about reestablishing the status quo, all the while pretending to the Kamchatka Revkom that they themselves were socialists when inquiries came as to the whereabouts of their colleagues, going as far as to set up a fake Anadyr branch of the Russian Communist Party of Bolsheviks. Unfortunately for the merchants in Anadyr, members of the first Revkom had already managed to establish branches in Markovo and Ust-Belaya, who were not convinced by the claims coming from Anadyr and, whilst establishing the Second Revolutionary Committee of Chukotka in Markovo pressed the Kamchatka Revkom for assistance. The Kamchatka Revkom responded by sending a party to investigate. A number of those involved in the overthrow of the First Revolutionary Committee either ceased their political activity in the hope of blending into the background, or fled Chukotka for Alaska. However, the merchants fared worse eighteen months later when the Bolsheviks returned and began to reorganize urban life. Struggles continued for some time in the Russian Far East, and it took until early 1923 before communications were sent from Kamchatka by Red Army commanders indicating that all White Army forces in Chukotka had been eliminated.

Monuments to those members of the First Revolutionary Committee were erected in Anadyr on 5 July 1921. It was only in 1969 that an elderly man said he remembered where the bodies had been buried, having seen them being interred in a cemetery in Tavayvaam. Following this tip, the remains were recovered and then paraded solemnly through Anadyr to the monuments, where they were buried with full honors.

In 1923, Novo–Mariinsk was renamed Anadyr.

WWII and the Cold War
During World War II, an airfield was built here for the Alaska-Siberian (ALSIB) air route used to ferry American Lend-Lease aircraft to the Eastern Front.

During the 1960s, Anadyr was home to an R-12 Dvina (SS-4 Sandal) medium-range ballistic missile (MRBM) complex, which targeted American military installations in Alaska.  The base was located 23 km (14 miles) northeast of Anadyr and was the USSR's only remote missile site.

Anadyr was granted town status in 1965, around which time it had a population of 5,600.

The Hope Sled Dog Race was run between Anadyr and Nome, Alaska for more than a decade.

Modern history

It is claimed that the town of Anadyr annexed the neighboring "ethnic village" of Tavayvaam in May 1994, and that this was done by then governor Alexander Nazarov with a view to saving money from the autonomous okrug's budget. If the village had indeed been absorbed into the town of Anadyr then there would have been no obligation for the autonomous okrug to allocate specific funds for the indigenous population there.

In 2011, Paul Steinhardt led a group of scientists that landed in Anadyr en route to an expedition into the Koryak Mountains to search for naturally occurring quasicrystals. Three quasicrystals have been found to date from the material gathered on that expedition, including icosahedrite, decagonite, a yet unnamed third natural quasicrystal, which (unlike icosahedrite and decagonite) is unlike anything ever previously synthesized in a laboratory.  Steinhardt's team established that the natural quasicrystals were embedded in a meteorite that had hit Earth about 15,000 years ago.

Geography

The town of Anadyr is situated at the tip of a large cape, to the north of which is the mouth of the Anadyr River and to the east the estuarine part of that river, the Anadyrsky Liman, which empties into the Gulf of Anadyr. The town itself is situated on a gentle slope rising up from the sea, on the other side of the Anadyr River are mountains, but to the west, beyond the town are large expanses of flat tundra.

It is on a similar parallel as Fairbanks, Alaska; Skellefteå, Sweden; and Oulu, Finland. Apart from those cities, the population at such northerly parallels is normally sparse.

Administrative and municipal status
Anadyr is the administrative center of Chukotka Autonomous Okrug and, within the framework of administrative divisions, it also serves as the administrative center of Anadyrsky District, even though it is not a part of it. As an administrative division, it is, together with the selo Tavayvaam, incorporated separately as the town of okrug significance of Anadyr—an administrative unit with the status equal to that of the districts. As a municipal division, the town of okrug significance of Anadyr is incorporated as Anadyr Urban Okrug.

Demographics

Transportation

Anadyr is an important sea port on the Bering Sea and is connected to almost all major Russian Far Eastern seaports. Anadyr's Ugolny Airport serves major and minor cities in the Russian Far East with connections to Khabarovsk, Vladivostok, and Moscow, while Bering Air provides charter flights to Nome, Alaska in the United States. The airport is on the other side of the Anadyrsky Liman, and from January to May, transportation from the airport to Anadyr is by ice road. In the summer there is a ferry which transports passengers across the Anadyr River to the airport, but during spring and autumn when the river ice is melting and full of drifting ice floes, the only means of transportation to the airport is via helicopter.

Although there is a network of roads between Anadyr and Tavayvaam, the town is not connected to any other settlement via road. Construction of the Anadyr Highway was started in 2012, to link the town to Magadan, a distance of .

Climate
Anadyr experiences a subarctic climate (Köppen climate classification: Dfc). Winters are long and frigid; summers are pleasant and short. January is the coldest month with an average temperature of . July is the warmest month with an average temperature of . Temperatures above  are rare. The lowest temperature ever recorded was  recorded on January 3, 1913. The highest temperature recorded was  on July 7, 1956. The weather changes easily with heavy storms often being brought in from the Anadyrsky Liman and the Bering Sea. This coupled with strong southerly winds in the autumn often brings flooding to the area. May is the driest month while January is the wettest.

Politics

Results of Russian legislative elections

Notable people
Roman Abramovich, oil oligarch, former owner of Chelsea FC and the former Governor of Chukotka Autonomous Okrug
Diomid Dzyuban, former bishop of Anadyr

International relations

Twin town and sister city
Anadyr is twinned with:
 Bethel, Alaska, United States

References

Notes

Sources

T. Armstrong. Russian Settlement in the North (1965) Cambridge University Press.
Н. Н. Диков (N. N. Dikov). "История Чукотки с древнейших времен до наших дней" (The History of Chukotka from Ancient Times to the Present Day) (1989) Moscow
P. A. Gray. The Predicament of Chukotka's Indigenous People: Post-Soviet Activism in the Russian Far North (2005) Cambridge University Press
Н. А. Жикарев (N. A. Zhikarev). "Очерки Истории Северо-Восточной РСФСР" (Sketches of the history of Northeast RSFSR) (1961) Magadan
А. И. Крусданов (A. I. Krusdanov). "Советы на северо-востоке СССР (1962–1982): Сборник документов и материалов, часть 3" (The Soviets of the Northeast USSR (1962–1982): Collection of Documents and Materials, Part 3) (1986) Magadan

External links

Official website of Anadyr
Directory of organizations in Anadyr
Unofficial website of Anadyr
Flickr photos tagged Anadyr
Clipper Ship Razboinik which helped found Novo Mariinsk
Anadyr Photo Gallery
Panorama of Anadyr
More photos of Anadyr
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Making Her Self Up
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On Kahlo's death, her husband, Diego Rivera (1886–1957), ordered that her most private possessions be locked away until 15 years after his death. The bathroom in which her belongings were stored in fact remained unopened until 2004. Through this incredible archive, Frida Kahlo: Making Her Self Up gives readers a unique window into Kahlo's life. It will focus on the personal, combining her prosthetics, jewelry, and clothes with self-portraits, diary entries, and letters to build an intimate portrait of the artist through her possessions, setting this in the context of her political and social beliefs.
Claire Wilcox is senior curator in the department of furniture, textiles and fashion at the Victoria and Albert Museum and professor in fashion curation at London College of Fashion, University of the Arts, London. Circe Henestrosa is an independent curator and Head of the School of Fashion at LASALLE College of the Arts, Singapore.

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Design Pataki > The Design Pataki Art & Design Guide to Dubai
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As an international tourism hub, it was only a matter of time before Dubai opened its borders to visitors. With a jam-packed events calendar and extensive cultural programming, venues in Dubai are all set to welcome old and new tourists and travelers to the city. From new galleries opening in Alserkal Avenue to exciting new immersive art experiences, a pop-up collaboration between a global art gallery and stunning hotel, there's a lot on the cards for those planning a trip to the city of glass, sun, and luxury. Whether you have a mild interest in art or are an ardent connoisseur, this list has your appetite for art and design covered.
Anish Kapoor at the Burj Al Arab, Photographs by Adham Almalla, Images courtesy the artist and Galleria Continua
Pop-Up Exhibition at the Burj Al Arab with Galleria Continua featuring works by Anish Kapoor
The Italian exhibition space, Galleria Continua, makes its way to Dubai through a partnership with the luxury hotel Burj Al Arab, situated near Jumeirah beach. With a presence in Habana, Beijing, Les Moulins, San Gimignano, São Paulo, and Rome, it continues to build a global community around contemporary artists. The pop-space in Burj Al Arab will be open until April 2022, but the show featuring works by Anish Kapoor is only on view until January 31st. The collaboration is Continua's first temporary exhibition space in the Middle East.
The British-Indian artist Anish Kapoor showcases new works that explore materiality and colour. The alabaster sculptures, the highly pigmented golds and reds against the light in the gallery create a sense of being suspended in time. Access to Burj Al Arab Jumeirah is by registration only.
Immersive art experiences at TODA, Image courtesy Theatre of Digital Art
Theatre of Digital Art
Theatre of Digital Art or TODA abbreviated, offers visitors an immersive and interactive way to experience digital art. A walk-through space, TODA's programming combines high-end technology with classical art, visual effects, surround sound, and the occasional NFT art installations. Currently, their offerings include two digital art shows for visitors in December titled – Dreams and Winter Wonderland.
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The roof terraces at XVA Art Hotel, Image courtesy XVA Art Hotel
XVA Art Hotel in Al-Fahidi
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The Arts Club
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Artwork by Genesis Tramaine, 'Mother is that You,' 2019. Interiors of The Arts Club Dubai, Image courtesy The Arts Club
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Alserkal Avenue
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Herpes-Like Virus Emerges in Stressed-Out Coral Reefs
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An example of a bleaching event on the Great Barrier Reef. (Credit: Oregon State University) Long-term stress may trigger herpes outbreaks in humans, and the same could be true in the Great Barrier Reef. While examining samples taken from the Great Barrier Reef in Australia, researchers from Oregon State University happened to observe coral as it went through a bleaching event. The team noticed that viral populations on the coral multiplied after samples had turned white. One of viruses described by researchers in the journal Frontiers in Microbiology is morphologically similar to the herpes virus that affects humans and other animals. The study serves as evidence of another potential threat to an ecosystem that is already hanging in the balance.
An Endangered Ecosystem
Brightly colored algae and coral form a mutually beneficial relationship in the ocean. The coral provides algae with a safe environment and compounds needed for photosynthesis. In return, the algae produce oxygen and help the coral remove wastes. Bleaching occurs when beneficial algae are forced out by factors that aren't entirely understood. The bleaching process slows down the growth rate of coral, and can be fatal if it progresses long enough. The world's oceans are currently undergoing the third recorded global bleaching event, according to the NOAA. The last such event occurred just two years ago — a sign that bleaching events are becoming more common. Coral reefs are particularly vulnerable to environmental changes. Rising ocean temperatures, pollution, ocean acidification, rainfall changes, exposure to ultraviolet light and viral outbreaks are all thought to affect coral reef health. Viruses are the most abundant biological entity in the ocean, and finding them in a coral colony isn't surprising. However, during their observation period, researchers detected virus levels two to four times higher than any level previously recorded.
Explosion of Viruses
Researchers identified retroviruses and megaviruses in their samples. A virus similar to herpes was particularly abundant. Herpes viruses are are found in a wide range of mammals, marine invertebrates, oysters, corals and other animals. And although herpes viruses may belong to the same family, the strains that affect corals don't necessarily affect humans. The key finding, said co-author Rebecca Vega-Thurber, is that bleaching events are correlated with viral outbreaks, something that was previously unknown. What remains a mystery is whether these viral outbreaks caused the bleaching event, were a symptom of it, or if both events occurred simultaneously. "This research suggests that viral infection could be an important part of the problem that until now has been undocumented and has received very little attention," Rebecca Vega-Thurber, an assistant professor of microbiology in Oregon State's College of Science, said in a news release Wednesday.
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Review: Svalbard 'When I Die, Will I Get Better?'
22nd September 2020 26th October 2020 Lee Beamish Church Road Records, Hardcore, Shoegaze, Svalbard, Tokyo Jupiter Records, Translation Loss Records
Picture the scene, its two thousand and eleven, and the music gods breathe their first breaths into Bristol quartet Svalbard. Those breaths are loaded with turmoil, rage, and angst, by the bucket load. The breaths push forth in to the world an animal, dripping in anger, with a desperate need to pour this on to an unsuspecting audience, and leave them feeling the catharsis that comes from giving your all-encompassing vitriol to the universe.
Now, fast forward nine years, to twenty twenty, and Svalbard are back, on the verge of releasing their third full album, When I Die, Will I Get Better? It's a good question, and it's an even better album.
As for the question, who knows, maybe I will, and maybe I won't, but either way, I won't know until I get there. In relation to the album, and my previous statement, let me elaborate…
When I Die, Will I Get Better? is the follow up to two thousand and eighteen's It's Hard To Have Hope, and on the basis of the previous album, the bar has been set extremely high for this new album to either mirror, or excel. After a last minute label change to the newly formed Church Road Records (who've risen from the ashes of blighted Holy Roar), Translation Loss Records (North America) and Tokyo Jupiter Records (Japan) to insure the September release date is still possible. This is the best outcome possible, and also means there's no delay in getting it out to the hardcore legion of Svalbard fans. Disaster avoided.
Several terms get thrown around when trying to describe Svalbard's sound, from post-hardcore and post- metal, to a new term for me, melodic hardcore, quite an oxymoron, if ever I heard one. Yet in this context, and for this band, it makes complete sense, that's exactly how they manifest. The elements of hardcore contradict the more shoegaze moments, but both are equally as relevant, neither forces the other in to submission, and the juxtaposition really creates something unique, and other worldly.
Charismatic front woman Serena Cherry is an absolute joy to listen to, the vocals are often ethereal, and distant, while Liam Phelan's share of the vocal is abrasive, and heartfelt.The mix of the two shouldn't work, but it does. Alex Heffernan is the newbie in the band, assuming bass duties, while Mark Lilley's drumming is absolutely next level, the range is phenomenal, and the passion displayed is imperative to the sound that is Svalbard.
As for the subject matter on the album, its completely relevant to modern culture, the cesspool that life can be, and throughout this opus, the issues are hard hitting, raw, and emotional. Above all, they come from a place of reality, no stone is left unturned, and the true heartfelt outpouring of honesty is truly a revelation to behold.
Right from opener Open Wound, the clash of styles is obvious, the ambient shoegaze feel is so reminiscent of label mates Slow Crush, that's hard to not draw comparison. This is quickly destroyed, replaced with an outpouring which is far harsher, and heavier in content. As Open Wound plays through, this up/down wave of sound continues, and instantly defines where our journey is going.
It's light and airy, and by complete parallel it's uncompromising and aggressive…
A personal favourite of mine, track two, Click Bait, obviously gets its title from a relatively new concept, and if you're over forty, then it's quite possibly a completely alien phrase to have heard. It is, however, something we are all very aware of, even if you don't know the correct term for it. Its sole purpose is to get your attention, and take you on to something else, not so much a distraction, as a detour. Well, the track plays in the same way. We're led in by the softer vocal, and once invested, the calm is replaced by the intensity of the shift in gear to face melting overdrive. It's abrasive, urgent, and overwhelmingly emotional. In another setting you would sway toward a comparison with black or death metal in sensibilities, the pace of drumming, coupled with the vocal delivery definitely resonate on that level.
There are tracks which literally make me feel claustrophobic in their unnerving intensity, and I believe it's the mix of shoegaze and full on hardcore dynamic that achieve this. Tracks like Listen To Someone show the versatility of Svalbard, as when they need to, they can combine the vocal, intertwine them, and produce something both destructive and beautiful at the same time.
As is the feeling throughout the whole album, lines like 'I'm sick of feeling like a burden', from Silent Restraint, really drive home the inner turmoil, and outpouring of emotion, sending shivers down my spine. This isn't just a collection of songs, this is diary additions, it's a look inside the very essence of the songwriter, and it's so personal, you feel it a little more every time you catch something new, with every listen.
Titles like What Was She Wearing? and The Currency Of Beauty really help give an insight in to subject matter. It lets us inside twenty-first century judgmental behaviours, and to just how shallow our lives have truly become, while in the belief that we're in the pursuit of being better people.
By the time album closer Pearlescent comes round, I feel a little car sick, it's been quite a ride, but it isn't quite over yet. Again, the synonymous shoegaze beginning pulls me in, but as the co-vocal descends, this time it's accompanying, and not overwhelming. It helps guide me on, mostly to hit the 'restart' button on the stereo once it ends…
The one thing I take from this, and can say unequivocally is this; when this album hits, it hits hard. Its uncompromising, and goes against the grain of everything else that's been doing the rounds. It's light and airy, and by complete parallel it's uncompromising and aggressive. It goes from a gentle breeze in the back of the car, to being trapped in a blender at the flick of a switch. In a world where we're all going slightly crazy, this is the perfect antidote to really make us stop, sit back, and have a little think about just what role we're playing in the scheme of things.
If you already know of Svalbard, and like them, I believe you are going to embrace this album, and pull it in to your hearts from the very first listen, and if you aren't, and you are looking for something abrasive, but heartwarming, and anarchic yet emotional, then this is the album for you. Hell, if you just enjoy old school indie, and all its sensibilities, this could well be your next favourite album of all time.
Label: Church Road Records | Translation Loss Records | Tokyo Jupiter Records
Band Links: Facebook | Bandcamp | Twitter | Instagram
Scribed by: Lee Beamish
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Odenton Volunteer Fire Company competing in 9/11 stair climb
By Melissa Driscoll Krol
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Senior firefighter John Kraft prepares for the Pelican Products 9/11 Memorial Stair Climb in Baltimore Oct. 13 by climbing Arundel High School's Football stadium bleachers multiple times in full firefighter gear. (Melissa Driscoll Krol / Correspondent)
Senior Firefighter John Kraft is leading the way for the Odenton Volunteer Fire Company in training and raising funds for the Pelican Products 9/11 Memorial Stair Climb at M&T Bank Stadium in Baltimore Oct. 13.
Participants will climb the equivalent of 110 stories during the event to honor the 343 New York City firefighters killed when the World Trade Center towers collapsed Sept. 11, 2001. Proceeds benefit the National Fallen Firefighters Foundation.
"It's designed to mimic the 110 stories which firefighters were able to reach before the towers collapsed," Kraft said. "The event requires roughly 2,000 steps."
This is Kraft's second year competing in the event.
"What we do is finish our steps and then return to find the rest of our brothers and sisters of the firehouse and make sure we finish together as a team," Kraft said. "I don't want anyone to quit. I'll carry their gear, whatever it takes. Last year, I climbed about 4,000 steps."
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The trek includes climbing up and down each section of the lower level of M&T Bank Stadium until participates complete the stadium's circumference.
"Last year, firefighters and EMT's from this station were the top fundraisers Baltimore's 9/11 M&T Climb," Kraft said.
Kraft has been with the Odenton Volunteer Fire Company for eight years.
Recently a nine-member team from the fire company raced in the Tunnel to Towers Delmarva 5K in Lewes, Del. The fire company members competed firefighter gear.
Running in a fire-repellent suit and helmet that weighs, on average, over 70 pounds, the Odenton Volunteer Fire Company won the Siller Cup at the 5K for the Top First Responder Team. Many Odenton Volunteer Fire Company firefighters compete with air packs on their back for a total weight of over 100 pounds.
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Firefighter's thermal gear is designed to keep the heat out while fighting fires. It also keeps the heat in. Firefighters wear cotton shirts under their gear, as sweat-wicking technical shirts and clothing are flammable.
Many members of the fire company will be climbing M&T Bank Stadium in their full gear.
Last Saturday, Kraft, Lt. David Johnson and firefighter Zach Zwicker of the the fire company and Cadet Nathan Berger partnered to prepare for the competition by climbing the bleachers at Arundel High School's football stadium.
Johnson, Zwicker and Kraft wore their fire gear. They completed five laps of climbing back and forth across Arundel's bleachers. The trek is a total of 3,560 steps.
While Kraft is raising funds individually, he is also team captain of the company's M&T Bannk Stadium Climb team, which has 18 members. The team is comprised of firefighters and civilians.
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"These events allow me to bring groups of people together to complete a physical task and raise money for charity," Kraft said. "It is a bonding and teamwork situation."
Kraft competes in these physical challenges to help him stay in shape.
"The number one problem we have as firefighters is we become complacent," he said. "The number one killer of firefighters is heart disease.
"If I get in a bad spot (during a fire) I want to make sure I'm not a burden to another firefighter. If someone else in my crew needs me, I want to be in the best physical shape to help them."
Kraft cares about his community and fellow firefighters.
"I've done work for the American Cancer Society, Wreaths Across America and now Zach (Zwicker) and I are doing the "Tunnel to Towers 5K" in New York City next weekend to honor fallen firefighter Stephen Siller."
The firehouse is selling pink, OVFC T-shirts through October to raise awareness for breast cancer. The shirts are $15 and all proceeds to to the Tate Cancer Center in Glen Burnie.
Shirts are available for purchase at Food Truck Thursdays at the firehouse, 1425 Annapolis Road in Odenton.
The fire company hosts rotating food trucks every Thursday, 5-8 p.m.
"We do big things," Kraft said. "We don't take being a small-town fire department to heart. Odenton is part of something bigger."
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"I take the OVFC flag with me (to competitions) because I want Odenton and our fire company to be represented at these events."
The firehouse will post on the wall each event the OVFC flag has been carried to.
"The goal of the flag is so someone will see the value and keep the legacy and tradition (of charitable competition) going," Kraft said.
Kraft volunteers at the firehouse three days a week. On average he is there 20 to 25 hours a week.
"The best thing about being a volunteer firefighter is being a part of something bigger than myself," he said.
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For more information on how to donate or become a member of M&T Bank Stadium Climb team, visit www.OVFC28.org.
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Pentagon launches next phase of spectrum-sharing program
DARPA researchers are looking for ways to more efficiently use radar and communications systems in order to reduce congestion.
Mark Pomerleau
Networks and Spectrum
Tactical Communications
By Mark Pomerleau
Proposals are due on April 27 and the BAA closing date is Sept. 11.
The electromagnetic spectrum is an increasingly contested domain, particularly in the frequencies the military most wants to use, so researchers are looking for new, efficient ways to share the spectrum.
In lieu of work conducted in Phase 1 of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency's Shared Spectrum Access for Radar and Communications program, DARPA is now asking for proposals regarding Phase 2.
The SSPARC program – which at its initial inception, in concert with the Advanced RF Mapping program, sought to "fine-tune spectrum use and develop ways of sharing bandwidth" under the Defense Department's Electromagnetic Spectrum Strategy – is aimed at improving spectrum sharing capabilities among military radars and military communications systems and military radars and commercial communications systems.
According to DARPA's broad agency announcement for Phase 2 proposals, "Proposed research should investigate innovative approaches that enable revolutionary advances in science, devices, or systems. Specifically excluded is research that primarily results in evolutionary improvements to the existing state of practice."
DARPA wants to ameliorate spectrum congestion as it "limits operational capabilities due to the increasing deployment and bandwidth of wireless communications, the use of net-centric and unmanned systems, and the need for increased flexibility in radar and communications spectrum to improve performance and to overcome sophisticated countermeasures." Since radar and communications take up most of the spectrum below 6 GHz, the most highly desired portion, DARPA wants to develop technologies to better enable sharing across the spectrum.
In Phase 1, the AN/SPY 1 radar, used in the Aegis Combat System, and the AN/TPS-80 radar were studied. Phase 1 used simulation and analysis to demonstrate if spectrum sharing would be feasible while simultaneously preserving radar and communications performance. Four organizations performed work under Phase 1: Michigan Technological University, SAZE Technologies, Lockheed Martin Advanced Technology Laboratories and Science Applications International.
The spectrum-sharing challenge research proposals for Phase 2 should focus on the S-band, in the range of 2 GHz to 4 GHz. In terms of radar research, DARPA is interested in ground or naval-surface, electronically steered phased array and multifunction, which combines air surveillance, air tracking, non-cooperative target, identification, and optionally, weather monitoring. Communications system research should focus on ground or naval-surface, military Mobile Ad-hoc Network (MANET) and commercial small-cell broadband.
The technical approach and challenge has not changed from Phase 1 of the SSPARC program.
Interested parties looking to submit proposals for work on Phase 2 must be capable of performing research on sharing system design and separation mechanisms, analysis and simulation to assess feasibility and performance of the approach, implementation of a prototype test system, laboratory testing of the prototype system, preparation of a transition plan for the sharing system and produce a base effort final report, according to the BAA. Additionally, interested parties may also conduct field data collection and a limited-scale demonstration, and write an option effort final report, though these measures are optional.
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PINK SKY
ABOUT PINK SKY
photo by Hwa-Jeen Na
on meditations . . .
"The band's latest [album], meditations, is built on the collective socio-political unrest, uncertainty, and current global crisis, but through an empathetic lens that does not aim to overwhelm the listener, likely already inundated with media and information. But Meditations isn't necessarily meditative in the traditional sense, either. Though the duo describe the practice of performing improvisationally live as feeling euphoric . . . meditations is deceptively jarring" - Jerilyn Jordan
— Detroit Metro Times
Photos by Hwa-Jeen Na © 2018 PINK SKY
PINK SKY is an instrumental electronic band and collaborative art project created by husband and wife artists, Ryan and Angelica Hay. Pink Sky channels their turbulent personal stories of trauma and loss into immersive audio-visual beauty, which is resonating in clubs, galleries, and non-traditional public spaces. Pink Sky creates and performs emotional electronica & instrumental art-rock without laptops, using hardware synths, drum machines, samplers, electric pianos, and live visuals, which allow them to craft dynamic, unique live sets for each performance.
In September 2019, Pink Sky released their second LP, meditations. The album release was featured the Detroit Metro Times, and in Bizzarre with the premiere of their first music video for the single, "when we exist."
In November, Pink Sky surprised fans with the release of their third LP, meditations II, the sister-album to meditations recorded during the same session.
Meditations is available on all major streaming platforms, cds, and vinyl. Meditations II is currently available to download for free, and stream on all major platforms—vinyl coming February 28th!
These conceptronica albums about trauma form part of a larger interdisciplinary project the band is currently working on, which also includes a collection of visual artworks, meditations [on the end of the world]. The project reflects the band's fears, anxieties, hopes, and visions of the future—particularly in a world that is facing environmental and human crises.
In a more personal note, Ryan recently wrote about his near-death experience after being hit by a semi-truck while stopped on the highway. You can read about it here: the accident.
Pink Sky's self-released debut album, FORMS, was released on vinyl and all major platforms on August 25th and hit #13 on the NACC Electronic Chart. FORMS was the #5 Most Played Album on WYCE 88.1FM in 2018 and won a Jammie for the Best Electronic Album.
Upcoming and recent shows include performances at The Grand Rapids Art Museum, The Pyramid Scheme, Spacebar, Corktown Tavern, Cafe Mustache, Nice Place Detroit, Langlab South Bend, Studio Anatomy, Bell's Eccentric Cafe, Riverscene Music Festival, The Loving Touch, Hamtramck Korner Bar, Mexicains Sans Frontieres, Funky Buddha Yoga Hothouse, The Grand Rapids Public Library, Lions and Rabbits Art Gallery, The Witch House, Green Acres (house), GRLIVE, In The Clouds Music Festival, Lamp Light Music Festival, and Blue Bridge Music Festival.
PINK SKY hosts an art and music series (HAY YAH House Shows) that features two synth-based artists and two visual artists each month during the spring and summer. Pink Sky also hosts Synth Night, a regional showcase of synthesizer-based artists, at The Pyramid Scheme.
In 2019, Pink Sky donated 10% of profits to local charities that advocate for social justice and environmental issues. Donations to date include Kids' Food Basket, Center for Women in Transition, Wellhouse GR, International Rescue Committee, Dogtown Studios, and Planned Parenthood.
PERSONAL BIOS
Formerly a microbiologist, Angelica Hay received a fellowship to Kendall College of Art and Design where she recently completed an MFA in Painting and an MA in Visual and Critical Studies.
Ryan has an MA in English and formerly taught college composition and rhetoric.
Both are now working as Pink Sky full-time.
CREDITS & THANKS to Hwa-Jeen Na for the photos.
"Local electronic duo Pink Sky turns trauma into art on debut LP"
— Eric Mitts, REVUE WM
"Electronica band Pink Sky paints colorful music"
— Dessi Gomez, South Bend Tribune
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U.S. oil futures settle above $70 for first time in nearly 2 weeks
Crude Oil WTI (NYM $/bbl) Front Month (CL.1)
By Myra P. Saefong and Mark DeCambre
Crude-oil futures climbed on Tuesday, with U.S. prices settling above $70 a barrel for the first time in about two weeks, as concerns that the omicron variant of the coronavirus will reduce demand over the winter eased.
"Traders view the omicron variant of COVID as a less virulent threat, and expect global economic growth to be only marginally impacted," said Marshall Steeves, energy markets analyst at IHS Markit.
West Texas Intermediate crude for January delivery /zigman2/quotes/211629951/delayed CL.1 -2.38% picked up $2.56, or 3.7%, to settle at $72.05 a barrel on the New York Mercantile Exchange, following a 4.9% advance on Monday. Based on the front-month contract, the U.S. benchmark marked its highest value since Nov. 24, according to Dow Jones Market Data. That's the day before the omicron variant's emergence prompted a sharp drop in stocks and commodity prices.
February Brent crude , the global benchmark, rose $2.36, or 3.2%, to end at $75.44 a barrel on ICE Futures Europe, for a fourth straight gain. The contract logged its highest finish since Nov. 25.
Gains for crude have been aided by a confluence of factors, including stalled nuclear disarmament talks between Iran and other Western countries, reducing the chance of Iranian crude returning to the market, while fears about the omicron variant also subsided.
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The argument for a strong future outlook for oil demand is supported by Saudi Arabia's decision to raise prices for crude oil it sells to Asia and the U.S., and OPEC+'s judgment to stick to its plan of pumping 400,000 barrels a day into the markets in January as well, said Aslam, in a market update.
In addition, China's imports increased 31.7% on year in November, while its exports gained 22%. Data showed that imports of oil from the world's largest crude importer rose 14.3% to 10.17 million barrels per day in November, up from 8.9 million bpd in the month before, although still below the 11.04 million bpd from the same period last year.
Traders will get an update on U.S. petroleum supplies from the Energy Information Administration early Wednesday. The American Petroleum Institute will release its own data ahead of that late Tuesday.
On average, analysts expected the EIA to report a drawdown of 1.2 million barrels in U.S. crude stockpiles for the week ended Dec. 3, according to a survey conducted by S&P Global Platts. They also forecast U.S. supply increases of 1.4 million barrels for gasoline and 900,000 barrels for distillates.
On Nymex Tuesday, January gasoline tacked on 2.8% to $2.10 a gallon and January heating oil added 2.5% to $2.225 a gallon.
In a monthly report released Tuesday, the EIA lowered its 2021 and 2022 forecasts U.S. and global benchmark oil prices . It forecast this year's WTI crude prices at an average $67.87 a barrel, down 1.7% from the November forecast. Brent crude is expected to average $70.60 this year, down 1.4% from the previous forecast.
The EIA also cut its oil forecasts for 2022 by 2.7% to $66.42 for WTI and by 2.6% to $70.05 for Brent.
"This is a very complicated environment for the entire energy sector," said EIA Acting Administrator Steve Nalley, in a statement. "Our forecasts for petroleum and other energy prices, consumption, and production could change significantly as we learn more about how responses to the omicron variant could affect oil demand and the broader economy."
Natural gas for January delivery settled at $3.708 per million British thermal units, up 1.4%, after forecasts for milder U.S. weather prompted a more than 11% drop on Monday.
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Q: AngularJS Restangular: How to remove default request param from base url       EC2Restangular.setBaseUrl('localhost:9000/');
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Is there any way to remove default query params from baseUrl in Restangular?

A: To remove the parameters you can just pass an empty object:
EC2Restangular.setDefaultRequestParams({});
If you want to remove the request parameters from a single request, you can add the empty object to the method call like so:
Restangular.all("widget").getList({})
Update: To remove a specific paramter from the default parameter set is a little trickier.
We can grab the parameter list from the Restangular object, and then use that to remove the parameter we don't need, and then use that new parameter object to pass to the new request:
var params = Restangular.all("projects").reqParams;

delete params['parameterNameYouWantToRemove'];

var projects = Restangular.all("projects").getList(params);

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Andrew Luk, Haunted Salvaged, 2020, Polystyrene, steel, spray foam, concrete, sea glass, bamboo, polyurethane
Andrew Luk, Dipole Antenna, 2020, Polystyrene, cement, concrete, stainless steel, expanding spray foam, PU plastic, sea glass
Andrew Luk, Soft Gray Belly, 2020, Spray foam, drywall, drywall screws, pigment, wood frame, 125 x 245 x 3 cm
de Sarthe is pleased to announce Shifting Landscapes, a presentation of artwork by the contemporary Hong Kong-based artist Andrew Luk (b.1988) and the Post-war master Chu Teh-Chun (1920-2014). The artworks were respectively intended for the Encounters sector and Galleries sector at the canceled Art Basel Hong Kong 2020. In Shifting Landscapes, these works are reconsidered within the gallery's own context during the Covid-19 crisis.
Redeveloped for the gallery space, Andrew Luk's large-scale installation Haunted, Salvaged is a giant suspended mobile with disfigured orb-like objects hanging from steel branches that stretch outwards above a sea of expanding spray foam. Constructed using layers of carved and corroded extruded polystyrene foam, the orbs are arranged to compose an artificial constellation of imagined psycho-geographic entropic accumulation. Underneath the swiveling orbs, cement totems rise from a an eight-by-five-meter bed of stainless steel mesh, each of which is interjected with copious amounts of exposed, cactus-like, tumorous blobs of dried spray foam. Closer inspection also reveals that many of the protrusions are built using concrete artifacts of recently antiquated devices, such as Walkmans and Gameboys––remnants of civilization embedded within a futuristic past-present wasteland.
In aggregate, the installation is a floating, fictitious representation of an urban landscape filled with anthropogenic contamination. The installation binds the natural and the man-made together, owing to the artist's realization that not only is humanity a part of the natural world, the entities and forces of humanity are as well. For example, despite culture and technology being implements for contemplation and actualization, their organic development acts biologically with inherent needs. They exert effects as well as create byproducts. Contained in these entities is also the capacity for self-destruction, an inevitable stage in the cyclical progression of nature and evolution. As humans, we are both participants and subjects of this process.
On the other side of the gallery, Chu Teh-Chun's broad expressive brush strokes elicit vast unexplored landscapes that are illustrated through a deeply rooted consideration of the traditions of Chinese painting and calligraphy. Nature unfurls within Chu Teh-Chun's canvases by distorting the viewer's expectation of horizon and perspective. His poetic expression of natural expanse uncovers realms of the abstract form and in doing so conjures an alternative interpretation of the medium and its capabilities. His artwork is immersed in the core of nature and landscape while remaining true to abstraction.
For the online catalogue, please click here.
For more information on Andrew Luk, please click here.
For more information on Chu Teh-Chun, please click here.
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Q: Convert a correlation matrix to a Pajek input file in R I need to convert a correlation matrix to a Pajek input file for networks analysis.
More specifically I'm trying to use R to convert a matrix of correlation p-values to a list of "rowname columnname" for the significant correlations. That is a list of each of the significant correlations between quite a lot of variables.
If I have variables a,b,c,d and a,c; b,d and a,d were correlated, I'd like a list as follows:
a b;
b d;
a d

So far my inadequate R skills have enabled me to generate a correlation p-value matrix, to insert NA on and below the diagonal (to avoid meaningless and duplicated correlations) and to substitute the p-values with FALSE/TRUE if the p-value is non-significant/significant.
But now I am stuck and have not been able to google my way out of it.

A: Here's an example that may help with some basics:
#Create a matrix
m <- matrix(1:16,4,4)
rownames(m) <- letters[1:4]
colnames(m) <- letters[1:4]
m
  a b  c  d
a 1 5  9 13
b 2 6 10 14
c 3 7 11 15
d 4 8 12 16

#Identify the indices for entries in m
# that are greater than 10
m1 <- which(m > 10, arr.ind = TRUE)

#Row and column names of those entries
# greater than 10. Notice the use of subsetting
# via [.
cbind(rownames(m)[m1[,1]],colnames(m)[m1[,2]])
     [,1] [,2]
[1,] "c"  "c"
[2,] "d"  "c"
[3,] "a"  "d"
[4,] "b"  "d"
[5,] "c"  "d"
[6,] "d"  "d"

As with anything in R, there are many ways to do stuff like this, but this should give you some useful tools to work with.


no , when I was in the book trade , I questioned some of the companies about editing and was told that it had been scaled down enormously over the past few years and about all they checked for now was anything with legal ramifications.
The new checking process must still use the 'don't doubt Dylan' approach then.
Most definitely. Even if he recalls the right names, he clearly does not always check them for spelling... neither, apparently, did anyone else.
I would respond that for your information I followed up my answer with some more information in a PM to the questioner - not that the nature of my response is any of your business. I would suggest in turn that given the initial hint Johanna Parker is sufficiently intelligent and adept at following up references to be able to find out about the significance of "Lucy" for herself.
Guys... let's just work on this together.
Yes, on reconsideration my somewhat sharp response to your well intentioned and informative post was wholly unnecessary. I'm sorry, scottw.
Thanks for the contribution, scottw.
And, yes, I always imagine it's got to be harder -- maybe just much more work or maybe impossible -- for non-Americans to fully engage this part of Dylan's work. Annotations and explanations like those Johanna suggests are a good bridge, at least.
This stuff surely requires a group effort.
"Sang nothing but these folk songs, and they gave me the code for everything that's fair game, that everything belongs to everyone."
I can rember Australia and England and possibly Canada and South Africa and New Zealand relied heavily on American culture in the that period.
^ Yes, it's still a hegemonic culture, but influenced by and really understanding aren't quite the same. Doesn't mean no understanding -- that's daft. Just a different one.
1. You're a native speaker of the same language as Dylan. I'm not.
2. I suppose you are closer to him in age than I am.
It's not like we don't get a lot of US things over here, incl. TV series etc. but of course they get translated... retitled... character names may change, etc etc.
Johanna , I understood why you did not get or had trouble understanding the references , my comments were certainly not directed to you . I was pointing out to MND that it was not only Americans , but English speakers from the lands that I mentioned who would or should understand the references. Your English is far better that my German .
It may still (partly) be a generational thing even for English speakers?
Whatever. More questions coming your way soon.
Maybe , but in the early days of Australian television we got mostly American shows , and even though I am 10 years younger than Dylan I absorbed a lot of the culture he seems to have absorbed.
p.46, Hal Waters... very little information available online.
He was a blues singer , did a version of ST James Infirmary , It is believed Dylan was a fan.
I guess it's a brand name, but I can't find anything about it.
Bulova is a brand of watch. "America runs on Bulova time" was their slogan for a long time.
I wonder if Bob is mis~spellin' (again ) and means Bulova watches?
EDIT: Scott was posting while I was typing! and his post answers the question completely!
Thank you both. He must have been thinking Bolivia or something.
Page 50 and 51 are based on passages from Raised on Radio by Gerald Nachman. Nachman responded with a partially tongue-in-cheek essay titled "Where Have All the Credits Gone: How Dylan Became a Star by Ripping Nachman Off"
Kristofferson bio plundering Chronicles (p.96)?


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The life of Blessed Oscar Romero is being remembered nationwide as a 'Witness to Freedom' – along with other men and women of faith from all over the world – during the Fortnight for Freedom. Declared a martyr by Pope Francis in February 2015 and beatified in May of last year, Bl. Oscar Romero advocated for Christian love, reminding the people that they were loved by God and that fighting back with Christian charity was the way to victory during the 12-year long civil war in El Salvador.
Fortnight for Freedom, a two-week period organized by the USCCB, leading up to Independence Day, when dioceses nationwide highlight the importance of defending religious freedom and liberties, and raise awareness of religious persecution all over the world.
On Friday, July 1, Archbishop José H. Gomez will welcome the relics of Bl. Oscar Romero and Saints Thomas More and John Fisher, two 16th-century martyrs who exemplified courage and conviction in the face of persecution, to the Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels during a special Mass at 12:10 p.m., followed by a presentation from the curator from 12:50 p.m. to 2 p.m.
The two relics of Blessed Romero include a handkerchief with his blood from the day that he was assassinated on March 24, 1980, while celebrating Mass in the chapel of the Hospital of Divine Providence in San Salvador; and a microphone that he used to celebrate Mass every Sunday at the Metropolitan Cathedral in San Salvador. The relics of Bl. Oscar Romero will be available at the Cathedral for public veneration only on July 1, after the noon Mass until 2 p.m.
The faithful will have the opportunity to veneratethe relics ofthe 16th-century Englishmartyrs,St. Thomas More (a small bone of the finger or toe) and St. John Fisher (a ring worn by the saint), after the Masson Fridayuntil 2 p.m. On Saturday, July 2, the relics of the English martyrs will be on display for veneration from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. in one of Cathedral's chapels. Then, they will be transported to Washington D.C.for the tours' closing Mass before returning to their home at Stonyhurst College in England.
St. Thomas More was Lord Chancellor in England in the early 1500s. He resigned his post and refused to approve King Henry VIII's divorce and remarriage, break from the Pope, and establishment of his own church, the Church of England. More was beheaded on Tower Hill in London for his faith.
St. John Fisher was a Bishop in England during the time of King Henry VIII and was initially asked to look at the validity of the King's marriage to Queen Catherine. He upheld the validity of the marriage and refused to give into the King's demand for divorce or recognize the King's new church. He was executed two weeks before St. Thomas More.
The "Witnesses to Freedom" also include St. John the Baptist, Sts. Peter and Paul, Blessed Miguel Pro, St. Maximiliano Kolbe, St. Edith Stein, St. Kateri Tekakwitha, Sts. Felicity and Perpetua, Fr. John Bapst, SJ, the Martyrs of Compiegne, Ven. Henriette Delille, the Coptic Martyrs, and the Little Sisters of the Poor.
For more information, visit archla.org/fortnight4freedom.
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Playing is my way of thinking, talking, communicating.
Lionel Hampton's quotes
Playing gives me as much good feeling now as it did when I was a bitty kid.
Music was our wife, and we loved her. And we stayed with her, and we clothed her, and we put diamond rings on her hands.
Working with Benny was important for me and for black musicians in general.
Black and white players hadn't appeared together in public before Teddy Wilson and I began working with B.G.
Seemed to me that drumming was the best way to get close to God.
I think I love it more as I get older because I keep getting better on drums, vibes and piano.
I feel honored to have been a part of that dramatic change.
I worked hard learning harmony and theory when I was growing up in Chicago in the 1920s.
Gratitude is when memory is stored in the heart and not in the mind.
The secret is keeping busy, and loving what you do.
So I always figured I'd still be playing at this age.
Every day I look forward to getting with my instruments, trying new things.
The difference between talking on your cell phone while driving and speaking with a passenger is huge. The person on the other end of the cell phone is chattering away, oblivious.
Marilyn vos Savant
If we're talking about masculinity and tenderness, I don't look at Clinton.
I don't know where the stock market is going, but I will say this, that if it continues higher, this will do more to stimulate the economy than anything we've been talking about today or anything anybody else was talking about.
There's nothing worse than talking about yourself to find out that you're not that interesting.
Colonel Parker asked Henry and me to come to Elvis' suite and have breakfast. There were at least five policemen stationed up there. He was talking on the telephone.
Minnie Pearl
I'll be helping them getting suited up, getting them in the airlock, getting the airlock prepared, and getting them out the hatch, and then talking them through these three spacewalks.
Mark Kelly
I don't see this planet being... they're talking about how they're turning around the environmental problems here, but I think it's already too late.
Over and over again, financial experts and wonkish talking heads endeavor to explain these mysterious, 'toxic' financial instruments to us lay folk. Over and over, they ignobly fail, because we all know that no one understands credit default obligations and derivatives, except perhaps Mr. Buffett and the computers who created them.
Richard Dooling
I don't know how much influence we really had, because we never put our pictures on the albums or anything and we never really promoted the Talking Heads connection, because we wanted to keep it separate from Talking Heads.
Chris Frantz
I do not believe that I have had an interview with anybody in twenty-five years in which the person to whom I was talking was not annoyed during the early part of the interview by my asking stupid questions.
Harry Stack Sullivan
I never took my SAT's. I never applied to college. I moved right out here and jumped into the thick of things. Whether that was the smart move or not, I'm sitting here talking to you now, so it paid off.
But let's be clear. We're talking about a country where there's no opposition. As leader he can ignore Parliament and - sorry that's Tony Blair isn't it? Um, so he doesn't even have to ask the country before he goes to war - sorry that's still Tony Blair.
Rory Bremner
It was impossible to get a conversation going, everybody was talking too much.
We need people out talking about the President, explaining, agreeing with and praising his actions.
Robert Teeter
I was on Oprah's show recently talking about the people who impacted me the most. One was a teacher and one was my soccer coach. I didn't even go into my family, who had the most influence.
I love talking about women because they are a constant study and you're always learning.
When people screamed novelty the first time around talking about an ugly video and stuff I was really insulted because, hold on a minute, everyone you see in the video are real life.
Bubba Sparxxx
We all laughed. It was more like that whole thing that I was talking about earlier. You go to training camp and after the season is over, you might not see the guys for six months until you go back to training camp.
Bubba Smith
If you watch the show and the characters don't look at each other while they're talking, the actors probably aren't getting along.
Victoria Pratt
An ostentatious man will rather relate a blunder or an absurdity he has committed, than be debarred from talking of his own dear person.
A politician should have three hats. One for throwing into the ring, one for talking through, and one for pulling rabbits out of if elected.
Some day, somebody is going to have to start talking about what happens to us all a decade from now if we let these North Koreans and the Iranians go forward with their nuclear weapons program.
Lawrence Eagleburger
I'm talking like 10, 12 years old. Either junior brings Mom and Pop or Mom and Pop bring the kids. I'm talking young here, not a college drinking crowd.
The people who make policy decisions should damned well know what they are talking about before they make the decisions. There is nobody who is an expert on cloning who would be afraid after seeing Attack of the Clones.
You meet new people. We just spent two hours with people we didn't know before, just talking about the Badgers.
Steve Bartlett
I have thought about the next steps, and you know, they still don't know that I can dance. They don't know it, and it's frustrating me because I feel that it's an edge that I have, and I'm not talking about I took this hip hop class, I'm talking about this is how people actually know me.
Naima Adedapo
There's probably a way to use that great content and to live under the radar now and then in order to reach a new audience. That's the thinking I'm talking about.
When you're talking with a person at this level of the government, at the very highest level, I think you have to be very discreet because he, President Clinton, is very aware that anything he says publicly can have a profound impact on American politics and on world politics.
Lee H. Hamilton
The English press treated the world premiere of my first talking picture as a major event.
I don't mind snakes. Growing up in South Africa there were a couple a snakes around... and I'm not talking just about the government!
If anyone was talking about journalism in the '50s - it was Edward R.Murrow.
No matter how calmly you try to referee, parenting will eventually produce bizarre behavior, and I'm not talking about the kids. Their behavior is always normal.
If you are talking about terrorism, you need to sit down and understand what is making these people put dynamite around their waists and blow themselves up.
Lakhdar Brahimi
But I try not to become preoccupied with that because with whatever direction I follow, with whatever advice I've followed or not followed, It's landed me in New York, in a very beautiful hotel, talking to people about something that I love. So I ain't that far off.
Although there exist many thousand subjects for elegant conversation, there are persons who cannot meet a cripple without talking about feet.


....Approximately 15 years ago, I began using the naming conventions of ku and civilized ku to differentiate between my "pure" natural world pictures and those which include evidence of humankind. However, in both labels, the operative word is "ku".
1. "EMPTY". When I make pictures I do so with an "empty" mind. That is, I rarely seek out something to picture. Rather, in most picture making cases, a referent pricks my eye and sensibilities-in a sense, a referent has found me. It feels rather like a referent is seeking me and I am able to see/hear it because no other thoughts get in the way.
In addition, when a referent pricks my eye and sensibilities, my mind is always empty of technical / technique picture making thoughts - it's a simple act of; see the referent, camera (95% of the time, same camera, same lens) to eye, frame the referent (guided by what feels "right") and make the picture.
FYI, I view pictures, mine and those made by others, with an equally empty mind.
This paper presents a design project that explored the practice of "noticing". Noticing is a way in and through which we are able to understand and create our relationship to space and place. The practice of noticing can facilitate awareness, reflection, learning and transformation. Noticing is a practice that enables us to engage with the concept of Ku˜, meaning "space", in Japanese. In this project context, Ku˜ is interpreted as a space of potentiality rather than emptiness or nothingness. Engaging with Ku˜ through the practice of noticing can enable a transition from abstraction to meaning. Ku˜ can also be an expression of the ambiguous potential of design investigations (ed: I will substitute "picturing making" for "design" throughout the rest of this excerpt) : including knowing and the unknown, the limitations and the challenges. To practice picture making in this way is to step outside of the confines of certainty and embark on an exploratory path of discovery. Just as picture making is a way of engaging with space – to enunciate the unknown, to create meaning from the abstract – so too is noticing as a temporal practice of discovery and place making. Through the act of noticing the ambiguous openness of space is transformed into the connectedness of place.
If I had encountered Yoko Akama's excerpt prior to adopting ku as my naming convention, I might have adopted the word noticing in its place inasmuch as, re: reason #1 above, my empty mind-"to step outside of the confines of certainty (ed: picture making wise) and embark on an exploratory path of discovery-allows me to "notice" things which incite me to make pictures. That is, things (aka: referents) I might not have noticed if my picture making mind was focused (pun?) on other things.
With an empty state of mind, ku, I am able to experience the act of noticing the ambiguous openness of space and transforming it into a connectedness of place.


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Question: Lyman Wight is mentioned in three sections of the Doctrine and Covenants. Was Lyman Wight in Liberty Jail with the Prophet Joseph and his brother Hyrum?
Answer: Lyman Wight was born 9 May 1796 in New York. He enlisted in the military during the War of 1812. He moved to Ohio about 1826, and by 1829 had joined the Campelite-based group on the Isaac Morley farm. Like others in this group, he discarded these teachings in favor of the truths preached by the missionaries from The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. He was baptized by Oliver Cowdery on November 14, 1830.
At the fourth general conference of the Church, he was ordained by the Prophet Joseph Smith to the office of high priest, the first man so designated in this dispensation. A few days later he was called to serve a mission to Missouri. He then went to Cincinnati, Ohio, where he was so powerful in his discourses that a hundred people were baptized.
Lyman then moved to Jackson County, Missouri, until the mobs forced him to flee to Clay County. He later wrote: "I was chased by one of these gangs [mobs] across an open prairie five mile ... and lay three weeks in the woods, and was three days and three nights without food. In the mean time, my wife and three small children, in a skiff passed down Big Blue river a distance of fourteen miles and crossed over the Missouri river, and there borrowed a rag carpet of one of her friends and made a tent of the same, which was the only shield from the inclemency of the weather during the three weeks of my expulsion from home.... Here on the bank of the Missouri river were eight families, exiled from plenteous homes, without one particle of provisions, or any other means under the heavens to get any only by hunting in the forest. I here built a camp twelve feet square, against a sycamore log, in which my wife bore me a fine son on the 27th of December.... I saw one hundred and ninety women and children driven thirty miles across the prairie, with three decrepit men only in their company, in the month of Nov., the ground thinly crusted with sleet, and I could easily follow on their trail by the blood that flowed from their lacerated feet!! on the stubble of the burnt prairie" (Times and Seasons 4: 263–264).
On November 13, 1833, the Saints camped along the Missouri River witnessed a meteorite shower---the Leonid meteor shower---a glorious display of heavenly lights which they interpreted as a sign from heaven that God was with them.
He volunteered to go and inform the Prophet in Kirtland of the suffering of the Missouri Saints, although he had only three days' provisions for the journey. The answer was to raise a potential military force, Zion's Camp, to march from Kirtland to Missouri. Lyman journeyed to Pennsylvania, New York, Indiana, Illinois, and Michigan mustering volunteers for Zion's Camp. He marched as second only to Joseph Smith in the camp, walking from Michigan to Clay County, Missouri, without stockings on his feet.
He moved to Northwestern Missouri and opened a ferry across the Grand River. Joseph visited and named the village Adam-ondi-Ahman and a small town was built. On June 28, 1838, Lyman was appointed second counselor to John Smith, president of the Adam-ondi-Ahman Stake.
Four months later he was a captive of the mob militia and was charged with treason and murder. Missourian General Wilson offered to spare his life if he would denounce Joseph Smith. Lyman defiantly replied, "Joseph Smith is not an enemy to mankind, he is not your enemy, and is as good a friend as you have got. Had it not been for him, you would have been in hell long ago, for I should have sent you there by cutting your throat, and no man but Joseph Smith could have prevented me, and you may thank him for your life." Wilson responded, "Wight...if you will not accept my proposal, you will be shot tomorrow morning at 8." Lyman said, "Shoot and be damned." Lyman's life was spared, but he was chained to the Prophet in the squalor of Richmond Jail and then confined with him in inhumane conditions in Liberty Jail for four months.
In October 1839, Lyman served as a counselor to John Smith in the Zarahemla Stake presidency. On April 8, 1841, Lyman was ordained to the apostleship. His first assignment was strengthening the Saints in the East and collecting funds for building the Nauvoo Temple and the Nauvoo House. He successfully fulfilled these assignments and in the process baptized about two hundred individuals in Kirtland and brought many of them to Nauvoo. From Nauvoo he journeyed up the Mississippi River to Black River, Wisconsin, in February 1844, to help supervise the cutting of timber in the pineries for the temple and the Nauvoo House. Lyman was a trustee of the Nauvoo House Association.
After the martyrdom of Joseph Smith, Lyman claimed that the Prophet Joseph had called him to establish a mission in Texas among the Lamanites. Lyman could not bring himself to follow Brigham Young. He took about 150 Saints with him to Texas and founding the colony of Zodiac, Texas. After being flooded out, they moved a few miles and established Mormon Mill. Lyman resided in Texas for the remainder of his life. He joined with William Smith for a time, but by 1851 his religious leanings had turned to thoughts of Joseph Smith III taking his father's place.
He and his followers were on their way to Jackson County, Missouri, when he died suddenly on March 31, 1858, having been sick only five hours. Many of Lyman's early followers joined the RLDS (Now Community of Christ) Church. He is buried in Zodiac Cemetery, which no longer exists.