Praise the Name of our Lord Jesus Christ—a very present help in trouble. I certainly appreciated His assistance before the Full Bench of the Federal Court this week. By grace alone He accomplished what I could not, being completely flummoxed having misplaced a piece of paper on which I had made some important points in support of our written submission.
I was as helpless as a kitten. The Lord saw to it that I was completely disempowered, for He will not share His glory with another. My hard work was to no avail but the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ did not leave or forsake us. He blessed us with three judges who were honest and fair: they ordered Bible Believers' Church removed as an appellant. Praise the Lord, and thank you for your effectual fervent prayer! For you who are unfamiliar with the situation, this matter commenced at least as far back as 1995 with religious persecution by associates of the Executive Council of Australian Jewry prosecuting us in accord with the policy of the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) of B'nai B'rith, as adherents of a religion we do not follow but expose as a Jewish hoax—even in Newsletter 242 which they want proscribed. Most of its articles were authored and published by Jews, while the main article, supported by links to Jewish sources, discusses political Zionism and Communism, the scourge of Jew and non-Jew alike. If you are familiar with Moses Maimonides (Rambam), the Frankists/Sabbatains, the Lurianic Kabbala, Chabad Lubavich and the Babylonian Talmud, you will realize their accusations project the shame of their own sinful teachings.
Since the Church is free you need not fear decapitation as recalcitrant Noahides—only my neck remains on their chopping block, but I trust the Lord will save even that, without which I should miss the treats at the Wedding Supper in the Sky. We I must lodge documentation and attend a hearing this Friday. Your continued faithfulness in prayer will be appreciated. May the Lord restrain our oppressors from continuing this thirteen-year persecution of me and the Church.
This long nightmare is no random happenstance. Job types the 144,000 elect Israelites persecuted by their uncle Esau, not the Bride of Christ; so what is the Lord's purpose in permitting it? First, it is our personal, experiential confirmation of the "evening time Light" of Zechariah 14:7 exposing the works of Lucifer and his children. "All hell is against this teaching. All hell is against this truth, but it is the truth. Jesus never said, "Now, Peter, you and John, and all the rest of the people, you've got the revelation now; the whole church is saved." No, it was to him personally. "I say unto thee ('thee,' not to them, to thee), thou art Peter, upon this rock I'll build My Church." And the word "Peter," means "a stone"; "stone" means "the confessed one, or the separated one" (William Branham, Christ is the Mystery of God Revealed, p. 65:491-493). Second it is to try my faith and bring the Token on display. Third, it is a sign of the closeness of Israel's Seventh Trump and the squeeze, warning that few within the circle of this Message have their lamps trimmed and clear.
Revelation 3:17, "Men say, I am rich, and increased with goods, and have need of nothing; not knowing that they are wretched, pitiable, poor, blind, and naked." This over-confident disinterested spiritual blindness in face of Esau's naked aggression worldwide is absolutely astounding, and reminiscent of Elisha, a type of Christ's end-time Bride with the double portion, for whom the Lord smote the Syrians with blindness. Christ has returned "as a thief in the night;" the unbelieving are being led astray, blinded by the world. Life goes on as usual "as it was in the days of Noah," but sudden destruction soon will take their world away, and that will be no secret.
This picture shows the Reichsmark being scrapped at the ragman's after the inflation in 1924: the German people were robbed and weakened by inflation. As a result of the international banksters' conspiracy, it took a billion-mark stamp (5 billion pre-war US dollars) to send one letter in Germany. One is reminded of this time, seeing the over-creation of fiat money today. Will it happen again? Green genocide in the USA?
November 16, 2007 — Reserve Bank [of Australia] board member Warwick McKibbin has just announced support for a carbon tax, combined with a carbon-trading scheme. Make no mistake: the "climate change" swindle run by the British financial oligarchy and supported by our complicit mainstream media, will tax us to death—no pun intended. This tax-and-trade scheme will shut down our farmers and manufacturers and ram up the price of petrol, gas and electricity—and it's all based on one big scientific scam. The London-centered financial oligarchy intends mass genocide, as the following quotes from their assets in the Green movement clearly demonstrate.
"If I were reincarnated I would wish to be returned to earth as a killer virus to lower human population levels." (Prince Philip, reported by Deutsche Presse-Agentur (DPA), August, 1988. Prince Philip, first President of WWF-UK from its foundation in 1961 to 1982, and President of WWF-International from 1981 to 1996, is now President Emeritus for WWF. He was a founder of the Australian Conservation Foundation and its President from 1971 to 1976).
One "human way to reduce the population might be to put something in the water, a virus that would be specific to the human reproductive system and would make a substantial proportion of the population infertile. Perhaps a virus that would knock out the genes that produce certain hormones necessary for conception. . . A triage approach will be necessary so that scarce medical resources go to those who can contribute most to the long-term viability of the planet. Consequently, many middle-aged-to-elderly people will die uncomfortable deaths. Not every problem is solvable" (Dr John Reid speaking with Robyn Williams on ABC radio, 10 December, 2006).
"Isn't the only hope for the planet that the industrialized civilizations collapse? Isn't it our responsibility to bring that about?" (Maurice Strong, Secretary-General of the UN Earth Summit, June 1992).
All world almanacs show that during WWII the number of Jews in Europe remained flat, but Britannica Book of the Year reports the number of Jews in the world increased by 600,000, or 4%. How could 6 million Jews (40% of all Jews and 64% of Jews in Europe) have died in the Holocaust if their worldwide population increased by 4%? In his book, The Holocaust Industry: Reflections on the Exploitation of Jewish Suffering, Professor Norman Finkelstein (whose parents were interned in Majdanek and Auschwitz) points out that the number of "Holocaust" Survivors would be around 40,000 if the Germans had murdered six million Jews, including all those too young to work. However, about a million were still alive sixty years later, according to a 1997 report of the Israeli government. And Jews were very much a minority of internees—Ed). War . . . has hitherto been disappointing in this respect . . . but perhaps bacteriological war may prove more effective. If a Black Death could spread throughout the world once in every generation, survivors could procreate freely without making the world too full . . . The state of affairs might be somewhat unpleasant, but what of it? Really high-minded people are indifferent to happiness, especially other peoples' . . ." (Lord Bertrand Russell, The Impact of Science on Society, 1953).
"This is a terrible thing to say. In order to stabilize world populations, we must eliminate 350,000 people per day. It is a horrible thing to say, but it's just as bad not to say it." (Jacques Cousteau, co-recipient in 1977 (with Sir Peter Scott) of the International Environmental Prize awarded by the United Nations for outstanding contributions in the field of the environment. Quoted from UNESCO Courier, November 1991).
"We, in the green movement, aspire to a cultural model in which killing a forest will be considered more contemptible and more criminal than the sale of 6-year-old children to Asian brothels (Carl Amery, Founding member of the German Green Party, quoted in Mensch & Energie, April 1983).
"I got the impression that instead of going out to shoot birds, I should go out and shoot the kids who shoot birds" (Paul Watson, founder of Greenpeace, as quoted by Dixy Lee Ray in her book Trashing the Planet - 1990).
"Childbearing should be a punishable crime against society, unless the parents hold a government license. . . All potential parents should be required to use contraceptive chemicals, the government issuing antidotes to citizens chosen for childbearing" (David Brower, first executive director of the Sierra Club; founder of Friends of the Earth; and founder of the Earth Island Institute).
"I suspect that eradicating small pox was wrong. It played an important part in balancing ecosystems" (John Davis, editor of Earth First! Journal).
"We advocate biodiversity for biodiversity's sake. It may take our extinction to set things straight" (David Foreman, co-founder of Earth First)!
[Cannibalism is a] "radical but realistic solution to the problem of overpopulation" (Dr. Lyall Watson, anthropologist, Commissioner for the International Whaling Commission, as quoted in the Financial Times, 15 July 1995).
"To feed a starving child is to exacerbate the world population problem" (Dr. Lamont Cole, Professor of Ecology, Cornell University, as quoted by Elizabeth Whelan in her book Toxic Terror).
"The world has cancer, and that cancer is man" (Merton Lambert, former spokesman for the Rockefeller Foundation, quoted from Harpeth Journal, December 18, 1962).
I Peter 5:5-9, "Put on the apron of humility—as the garb of a servant with freedom from pride and arrogance toward one another—so that its covering cannot possibly be stripped from you. For God sets Himself against the proud—the insolent, the overbearing, the disdainful, the presumptuous, the boastful, and opposes, frustrates and defeats them—but gives grace to the humble. Therefore humble yourselves under the mighty hand of God, so that in due time He may exalt you. Casting the whole of your care—all of your anxieties, all of your worries, all of your concerns, once and for all—upon Him; for His concern is about His elect and He watches over you affectionately. Exercise self-control, be on your guard at all times, because your adversary the Devil prowls around like a roaring lion in search of someone to seize upon and devour. Resist him by standing firm in the faith, aware that throughout the world, identical sufferings are imposed upon your Brethren".
The Lord God reveals Himself in humility to the untaught common people, hidden in the simplicity of His unchanging Word, unrecognized by the wise and prudent (Luke 10:17-24; John 7:15). The intellectual hypotheses of theological discourse are not THUS SAITH THE LORD and lead away from faith which is the mind of God in you. Revelation 1:1, "The Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave Him [after His ascension] to show to His bondslaves what must soon take place; and He communicated it in signs and symbols through the Message of His angel [William Branham] to His bondslave John: who bore record of the Word of God, and of the testimony of Jesus Christ, and of all things that he saw [in the visions]".
A bondservant or bondslave is one who gives himself up to the will of another. Metaphorically, those whose service is used by Christ in extending and advancing His cause among men are bondslaves devoted in disregard of their own interests and "faithful unto death." Beginning with Abel, millions of saints have died in martyrdom (Matthew 23:35). Stephen represented himself without a lawyer and was vindicated by a vision in which he saw the Son of man standing at God's right hand (Acts 7). He was brutally murdered by his brethren but that is what he was prepared for in his age, and in the time of "Jacob's trouble" his brother Esau will martyr 144,000 elect Israelites. However ours is not the age of the martyr but of the eagle. We will be persecuted and blessed, but no weapon formed against us will prosper. Lord, grant us the revelation of the honour it is to stand upon Your Word.
In 1963 Christ opened and revealed the Seven Seals to William Branham, the forerunner to His second or 'parousia' Coming. John was caught up into the same Spirit and saw the Prophet's post-Laodicean ministry in a series of visions which he signified as Old Testament symbols in the Book we know as The Revelation of Jesus Christ. It foretells two thousand years of our "wrestle against Spiritual ignorance and the accompanying ungodliness, immorality, amorality and consequent misery of persons in whom darkness becomes visible and holds sway; against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in heavenly spheres" (Ephesians 6:12). And except for the Voice of Seven Thunders or revelation of the unwritten Seventh Seal, it records what John heard.
Lucifer "opposes and exalts himself above all that is called God, or that is worshipped; so that (once he is cast down to earth at the Seventh Trump he will incarnate himself in the Pope) and sit in the temple of God [on the sides of the North] showing himself that he is God" (Isaiah 14:12-14; II Thessalonians 2:3-4). But Lucifer is a creation not the Creator; he cannot create a kingdom of faith in his children but perverts God's creation and seeks to destroy the faith of His children. By means of secret signs and symbols, he reveals his perverse secrets to his wise and prudent intellectual adepts, making merchandise of the simple and martyrs of God's elect.
Harkening back to I Peter 5:1, a white scarf or apron fastened to the belt of the vest distinguished slaves from freemen. Today's Freemasons are regarded by the self-chosen as their "lesser brethren." Unbeknownst to most Masons, their apron signifies servitude not freedom; likewise the "Liberty Cap," a shallow, limp cap, somewhat resembling a woolen ski cap that made its appearance on many official seals in America and in engravings of scenes of the American Revolution dating from the eighteenth century. Freed slaves would be given this sort of cap to wear as a sign of their freedom although absent from the head of the one standing in Ellis Island, New York. The symbolism indicates the wearer has been freed from some sort of slavery. Slavery to whom? To God? A modern equivalent would be the hammer and sickle or the broken cross peace symbol of the 1960's.
In Luke 10:18, Jesus said, "I beheld Satan fall from heaven as a flash of lightning." The non-elect can fall from grace as quickly as a thought, and thought travels faster than the speed of light. Lucifer was the seal of perfection, full of wisdom and perfect in beauty, blameless in his ways from his creation at the foundation of the world until iniquity was discovered in him. He was once was the greatest person in the heavens beside God. As the original archangel, he was God's right-hand man to fellowship, knowing His plan to build a kingdom for His Son Michael, who is Christ. But overcome by pride because of his beauty, Lucifer overreached himself, and corrupting the wisdom of his reason, devised a strategy whereby he might manipulate God's plans and deliver Michael's kingdom and all worldly splendor to himself (Ezekiel 28:1-17).
This internal decision made Lucifer the enemy of God, caused His fall from grace and sealed his destiny. His physical casting down to earth will take place at the close of the Gentile dispensation when two Hebrew prophets now in Israel are anointed to reconfirm God's New Covenant that will fulfill the sixfold purpose of Gabriel's instructions to Daniel (Daniel 9:24; Matthew 24:31; Revelation 12:7-17). The iniquity of Lucifer's counter-plan began to manifest when he seduced Eve's mind enabling the Serpent he had incarnate to defile her womb with the seed that became his vicarious son, Cain.
Thus began the manifestation of Satan's kingdom of wisdom and beauty—the lust of the eye, the lust of the flesh, and the pride of life. Such vanities are the substance of Hollywood illusions that distort imagination and snare foolish souls. His psychological bondslaves and vicarious offspring have compelled governments to take action in the direction favoured by his widely conceived plan, already approaching the desired consummation, by what they represent as public opinion, secretly promoted through the means of that so-called "Great Power"—the press, which, with a few exceptions that may be disregarded, is already entirely in their hands (Protocol 7:5 and Protocol 2:5). What began in Genesis 3 with the dragon, the beast and a false prophet, will end with the dragon, the beast and the false prophet as foretold in Revelation 16-20. He who founded his counter- kingdom upon deceit, adultery, miscegenation and death, is now on his final ride to perdition personified as Death, and the grave follows with him via lies and carnal sins including miscegenation, which is genocide to Adam's race even when it is dressed up in the guise of "multiculturalism" (Genesis 6:1-4; Matthew 24:37; Revelation 6:8).
God's law of reproduction requires every seed to bring forth after its own kind (Genesis 1:11). Therefore we put on the nature of our earthly parents, and "God brings upon the children of the third and fourth generation of those who hate Him the iniquity of their fathers" (Exodus 20:5). Thus we must be born again, and from above, that we may receive the nature of our heavenly Father.
All of Adam's descendants are potentially God's children, but since He has placed them on the basis of free moral agency their thoughts and actions will determine their destiny just as they sealed the destiny of Lucifer. The Book of Life is the genealogy of Adam's race, beginning with Abel and Seth. Those whose names remain in that Book are "saved" and will be granted into eternal Life at the White Throne Judgment where they will be judged by the saints, the elect of God beginning with Adam and Eve. The names of those regenerated by the Logos are also written in the Lamb's Book of Life, which is the genealogy of Jesus Messiah and they can never be removed as they are the Children of God and His eternal Attributes.
The children of the Devil are the physical descendants of his vicarious son Cain. Their names were never in the genealogy of the first Adam and cannot be redeemed by the last Adam as He is no kinsman of theirs. Added to this group are his spiritual children: those who have chosen to serve the world and the things of the world have been removed from the Book of Life and entered the kingdom of Lucifer.
Lucifer was God's original chief angel, and he fell when he was found planning to pervert and impersonate God's plan in order to usurp the global kingdom predestinated to Michael, His Son. Lucifer subsequently offered to give the kingdom to Jesus Christ in exchange for worship (Matthew 4:8-9). Esau was Isaac's firstborn and favourite son, who possessed the birthright, but he esteemed the world and the things of the world above his responsibilities, for the lineage of Michael should have passed through his offspring. Like his spiritual father, Lucifer, Esau marred his inheritance by miscegenation when he married into Cain's race, and he traded his birthright for a bowl of stew.
However, Isaac prophesied that Esau would one day break Jacob's yoke from off his neck and have the dominion. That day has come and "his widely conceived plan, already approaching the desired consummation" is preparing to impersonate God's millennial plan in which a global kingdom governed from Jerusalem will be restored to Israel (Isaiah 11:9).
Israel's first Prime Minister, terrorist David Ben Gurion knew the plans of the World Revolutionary Movement. Interviewed by Look Magazine, (January 16, 1962), he disclosed: "With the exception of the USSR as a federal Eurasian State, all other continents will become united in a world alliance, at whose disposal will be an international police force. All armies will be abolished and there will be no more wars. In Jerusalem, the United Nations (a truly United Nations) will build a shrine of the prophets to serve the federated union of all continents; this will be the seat of the supreme court of Mankind, to settle all controversies among the federated continents, as prophesied by Isaiah." Here we see Ezekiel 38 and 39 revealed as part of their long term plan and we see the identity of Gog, the chief prince or ruler of Magog (Isaiah 34:5-6; 63:1; Joel 3:9-21 and many academic references).
David Ben Gurion is no doubt correct; as Iran (then Medo-Persia) aided Zerubbabel's reconstruction of Solomon's Temple, Esau's United Nations Organization, Lucifer's totalitarian one world government (a truly United Nations) ruled by the head of the final Gentile world empire, Rome's then incarnate Pope, will "build a shrine of the prophets"—Abraham, Moses, Confucius, Buddha, Jesus Messiah, Mohammed, Sabbatai Zevi, Joseph Smith, Albert Pike, Menachem Mendel Schneerson and many others. The last Gentile world empire will confirm a covenant with many for seven years—her United States image enforcing "E Pluribus Unum." After three and a half years when the monetary system, commerce and manufacturing have been restored, Rome will break her agreement with the banksters and Esau will turn to another of Lucifer's totalitarian regimes, Judaeo-Communism. According to God's prophets, the city of Jerusalem and the sanctuary will be desolate of God, and as she is today, Israel will remain under Esau's dominion until the consummation (Genesis 27:40; Isaiah 14:12-16; Daniel 9:26-27; Matthew 23:39; Luke 21:24; II Thessalonians 2:1-12; Revelation 11:1-2, 8). Which goes to prove, "the things that the preacher (and David Ben Gurion) are liable to teach yer, ain't necessarily so".
Lucifer and his children are impersonating God's plan in order to preempt Christ's restored Kingdom of Israel with his worldly "Novus Ordo Seclorum," which is why the City of London is grasping control of all natural resources, even rainfall and the air we breathe. For the past several years America's sons have been dying to build US military bases that will guard the oil pipeline from Iraq to Haifa, Israel.
Jesus prophesied that throughout the Church Ages during the absence of the Bridegroom the mass of Christendom would slumber and sleep while their Enemy sowed tares among them. But at the end of the Laodicean Church Age He promised to send a vindicated prophet in the Spirit and power of Elijah, whose ministry would restore the apostolic faith, finish the mystery of God, and awaken the wise and foolish virgin with the "midnight cry" of Matthew 25:6, calling them out from Rome and her (once) Protestant daughters into the evening-time Light of the unity of the faith (Malachi 4:5-6; Revelation 10:7; I Thessalonians 4:16; Revelation 18:1-4; Zechariah 14:7; Ephesians 4:13) for the manifestation of the Sons of God and the translation (Romans 8:19; I Corinthians 15:46-57).
These Scriptures have manifested openly. The Supernatural has been reported in the world press, scientific journals and encyclopaedia year books. Nothing has been done in secret, yet the world is disinterested and unconcerned and those who possess and believe the letter of the Prophet's Message seem imbued with this lukewarm Laodicean spirit.
Jesus said, "I counsel you to buy of Me gold tried in the fire, that you may be rich; and white raiment, that you may be clothed, and that the shame of your nakedness does not appear; and anoint your eyes with eyesalve, that you may see. As many as I love, I rebuke and chasten: be zealous therefore, and repent" (Revelation 3:18-19).
Moses lamented at the Spiritual blindness of Israel who had witnessed the miracles in Egypt and the Lord's provision through forty years of wandering in the desert, yet "the Lord has not given you an heart to perceive, and eyes to see, and ears to hear, unto this day" (Deuteronomy 29). Isaiah, Jeremiah, Ezekiel, Jesus Messiah and Paul all remonstrated how "God had given Israel the spirit of slumber, eyes that they should not see, and ears that they should not hear . . . Blindness in part is happened to Israel, until the last Member predestinated to Christ's Bride has come in." The Gentile dispensation also terminates with the blindness of unbelief, and God will open the understanding of 144,000 elect Israelites (Romans 11:8, 25-32).


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Movie reviews: Gravity, Parkland, Muscle Shoals and Runner Runner - Macleans.ca
Movie reviews: Gravity, Parkland, Muscle Shoals and Runner Runner
What to see at the movies this weekend
by Brian D. Johnson
There's one movie everyone is dying to see this weekend, and that's Gravity. But if you want to avoid the date-night horde, it's not the only option. Of three other new releases I've previewed, I can recommend two: Parkland and Muscle Shoals. As for Runner Runner, unless you are a desperately craven fan of Justin Timberlake, Ben Affleck or both, stay clear.
Reviews of all four films:
Yes, it lives up to the hype. Gravity is an unadulterated blast, and I didn't even see it on an IMAX screen.This 3D space thriller about NASA astronauts who face a calamity while repairing a space station is quite unlike anything we've seen. Sandra Bullock—who is supported by George Clooney but spends much of the movie alone—gives a bravura performance that raises the bar for the female action hero and sends it spinning into a whole new orbit. I don't tend to use the word "awesome," but in the case of Gravity, it's oddly precise. Directed by Alfonso Cuarón—known for Y tu mamá también, Children of Men and the best of the Harry Potter movies—this is a funhouse ride that invents its own formula and cranks adrenaline to giddy heights. It also achieves moments of transcendence and beauty reminiscent of 2001: A Space Odyssey and The Tree of Life. It accomplishes this even though it's a whole-hearted popcorn movie, free of pretense.
Plot summary would be a crime—aside from the inciting incident in the early minutes of the film that gives us our first bungee-jump jolt. A catastrophic accident cuts a rookie astronaut (Bullock) loose from the hull of a space station 400 km above the Earth. Radio contact with Houston has been lost. She plunges into panic. She's losing oxygen. She's breathing fast and hard. Condensation forms inside her helmet, and behind the glass, her eyes are wide with fear. The rest of the crew are dead, but for a veteran astronaut (George Clooney), who's stuck in the void with her, and whose bedside voice is in her helmet, urging her to calm down before she drowns in her own carbon dioxide. They are a makeshift couple—in a romcom gone terribly wrong—clinging to each other by a tether, as alone in the world as two people possibly can be. That's just the start of a movie loaded with moments that literally take your breath away.
It's inspiring to finally see 3D space adventure with Hollywood stars that does not involve alien monsters or threats of apocalyptic doom. The 3D, by the way, is for once utterly appropriate, and so seamless we forget we're watching 3D; we're just lost in space. Gravity is a film without gravitas, a weightless entertainment. Not that there's anything wrong with that. For a movie about how terribly alone we are in a cold, empty universe, it's strangely uplifting.
Peter Landesman directs a crack ensemble in a breathless re-enactment of what went down in Dallas on Nov. 22, 1963—the day of John F. Kennedy's assassination—and the events leading up to his funeral. The title refers to the Dallas hospital where a young surgical resident (Zac Efron) fights to save Kennedy's life, then struggles to save his accused killer, Lee Harvey Oswald, two days later. As well as the surgeon, the film dwells on four other traumatized characters who are swept up in the action: Abraham Zapruder (Paul Giamatti), whose 8mm film becomes a historic document; Dallas Secret Service chief Forrest Sorrels (Billy Bob Thornton); James Hosty (Ron Livingston), an FBI agent investigating Oswald prior to the assassination; and Oswald's estranged brother, Robert (James Badge Dale). Shot in a style of handheld verité, intercut with archival footage, this is gripping drama. The camera lingers too gratuitously on a weeping Jackie Kennedy. Otherwise, the film finds its strength in the quintet of lesser known players, especially Zapruder and, oddly enough, Oswald's stoic brother, who's cast in a heroic, almost Kennedy-esque, light. For more on the film, here's my magazine interview with Landesman.
Jim Johnson (left) with Skynyrd in 'Muscle Shoals' / courtesy of Films We Like
It's an Alabama town of just 13,000 people on the Tennessee River, but Muscle Shoals has been an extraordinary wellspring of hit music. The Maysles brothers filmed memorable scenes of the Rolling Stones recording Wild Horses there in the classic 1970 documentary Gimme Shelter. Now novice director Greg "Freddie" Camalier enshrines this strange little music mecca in a documentary that shows just how incredibly far its influence has spread. For anyone who cares about the roots of R&B and rock'n' roll, it's a must-see. The father of the Muscle Shoals sound was, Rick Hall, an American dreamer who grew up literally dirt poor, in a country house with a dirt floor. His Fame recording studio—with its house band of local white boys called the Swampers— recorded a string of massive hits for the likes of Wilson Pickett, Etta James and Aretha Franklin. The fact that the heaviest black R&B of the 1970s was forged by white musicians in a state with one foot still in slavery was not lost on Pickett: "You could see the cotton fields from the studio!" Even Jimmy Cliff, the godfather of reggae, found his first groove with these guys, recording songs for The Harder They Come.
Meticulously researched, it weaves archival footage and fresh interviews with a pantheon of music legends —including Pickett, Franklin, Mick Jagger, Keith Richards, Percy Sledge, Alicia Keys, Greg Allman and Bono. The film recreates some electrifying moments of R&B history, notably Sledge's 1966 recording of When A Man Loves a Woman, the first track Hall laid down in his studio, and I Never Loved a Man the Way I Love You (1967), Aretha's breaththrough hit. And the vérité scenes from Gimme Shelter are timeless, especially the luxurious close-ups of the Stones basking in the playback of the freshly recorded Wild Horses.
Sledge and Pickett are the documentary's most engaging raconteurs. (For a glimpse of Sledge, go to Muscle Shoals video clip.) The film's narrative, meanwhile is anchored by Hall, a sad, stoical figure who lost his brother and his parents in various tragic circumstances—then lost his band, the Swampers, when they struck out on their own to create a rival studio across town, where the Stones came to visit. They would go on to record just about everybody, from Lynyrd Skynyrd to Paul Simon, Bob Seger to Bob Dylan.
If it's possibly to make a hagiography about a place, Camalier has done it. His filmmaking has the earnest, on-the-nose approach of someone doing it for the first time. He lingers on too many rhapsodic landscape shots, as he makes the case that the Muscle Shoals is a site of magic and magnetism—especially in the river, which the Native Americans believed was home to a singing female spirit. Yet it's hard to argue with his point. The place does seem to have an uncanny power. As well as producing two legendary recording studios, it also produced Sam Phillips, founder of Sun Studios and incubator of Elvis Presley. And it was Helen Keller's hometown. Maybe there is something in the water after all.
Ben Affleck and Justin Timberlake in 'Runner Runner' / Courtesy of 20th Century Fox
Maybe I've just been doing too much binge-watching of Breaking Bad. But after the quicksilver cut-and-thrust of its epic narrative about ordinary folk caught up in crime, Runner Runner just seems slow and dumb, a movie that's trying to act so cool it's afraid to break a sweat. Like a kid in a suit two sizes too big, Justin Timberlake seems lost in his underwritten role as Richie Furst, a Princeton student who has been financing his Master's degree with an online poker operation. After a disastrous loss, Furst discovers he's been swindled and flies to Costa Rica to confront gambling kingpin Ivan Block (Ben Affleck). Richie Furst, Ivan Block? Where do they get these names?
Dazzled by money and power, Richie get sucked into Ivan's orbit with unlikely naivete for someone who's supposed to be so smart. Affleck plays against type as a suave, glib psychopath who keeps crocodiles on hand to indulge his Dr. Evil impulses. Director Brad Furman (The Lincoln Lawyer) pushes the the sludgy narrative forward until, for lack of any real dramatic resolution, he shakes the camera to simulate excitement. The movie is idly watchable. Shot in Puero Rico (which allows the script to characterize Costa Rica as a corrupt haven for the underworld), the tropical settings have a low-rent James Bond decadence, complete with Gemma Aterton going through the motions as an ersatz Bond girl. The gambling jargon is nifty, with phrases like "I'll fade your action," and Affleck is amusing. But Timberlake, the hapless victim of a banal script, lacks the power and range to rise above it.
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A L2 visa is a dependent visa that is issued to the dependents of an individual who holds the L1 visa. The dependent can be the spouse or an unmarried child (below 21 years old). Applicants can apply for L2 visa along with the L1 visa applicant or later. When individuals apply for us visa, they have to go through an interview process, based on the result of which their visa application is approved.
Here, applicants have to tell the interviewer that they are applying for a L2 visa.
Why do you have to go to the US?
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Did you arrange for the interview on your own or did someone help you?
The interviewer wants to know whether you are aware of the procedures or if someone else helped you. In case you took someone else's help, name the person. For example – My husband (name) helped me or an agent helped me.
What action will you take once your visa expires?
Here, the interviewer is checking if you are aware of the expiry date and of the steps that need to be taken after your visa expires.
Have you ever visited the US before?
The visa officer wants to know if this is your first trip to the US or if you have been to the country before. Give the correct number as this information will be cross-checked.
What type of visa you had travelled on during your previous visit to the US?
Here, the applicants have to name the types of us visa that they had travelled on during their previous US trip.
What was the duration of your stay in the US?
Mention the time period of your previous US trip.
Have your visa been rejected before?
It is a simple yes or no question. If the answer is yes, the interviewer might ask you your reason for the same.
When did you last travel to the US?
Here, you have to mention when you last went to the US. You can mention the year and the date of the same.
When was the L1 visa of your spouse stamped?
Here, the interviewer wants to know when your spouse got his/her L1 visa stamped. Provide the relevant information.
Why have you applied for the L2 visa separately?
Here, you have to specify the reason for applying for a L2 visa separately and not at the time when your spouse applied for a L1 visa. Be precise and to the point.
Why have you not applied for a L2 visa when your spouse applied for a L1 visa?
This question is similar to the previous one. The interviewer is trying to ask you the reason for applying for a L2 visa later and not at the same time when your husband/wife applied for his/her L1 visa. Make sure your answers for both the questions do not contradict each other.
Since when is your spouse working in the US?
Mention the time period for which your spouse has been working in the US. The interviewer may verify your answer, so make sure that you are aware of the right answer.
What is the annual income of your spouse?
Here, the interviewer wants to know if you are aware of how much your spouse earns and also to verify the information with the one that has been mentioned in the financial statements.
Can you show the recent paystubs of your husband/wife?
Here, you have to show the interviewer the recent paystubs of your husband/wife. Make sure these are the correct ones as the officer is going to cross check them with the documents he/she already has.
Can you show the bank statements of your husband/wife?
Here, you have to show the bank statements of your husband/wife to the interviewer.
Has the company of your spouse applied for the green card petition?
You can answer this question with a yes/no. If you say a yes, the interviewer may ask questions related to green card.
Will you be working in the US?
Here, the interviewer wants to know if you plan to work during your stay in the US. If you have plans on working, you can say yes as L2 visa holders are allowed to work full-time in the country. If you do not already have an employment or are not sure, you can choose to say no. Children who apply for L2 visa are not permitted to work in the US.
Will you be studying in the US?
The interviewer wants to know if you plan to study during your stay in the US. The L2 visa holders are allowed to study in the country, so you can choose to say yes. If you do not already have an admission and/or are not sure, you can say no.
How will you spend your time the whole day when your spouse is at work?
Here, the officer wants to know how you plan to spend your time when your spouse is at work. Be precise while answering this question.
What is your education qualification?
Here, the interviewer wants to know your highest education qualification. Tell him/her the truth (Carry proof of the same with you in case he/she asks you for it).
Which college did you study in?
Provide the name of the college in which you studied.
You can answer this question with a yes or no. If you are employed, mention the name of the company you work for.
Do you plan to quit your job?
The officer is checking whether you plan to leave your current job to go to the US. So, if you plan on quitting, tell the true reason for the same.
What do you do at present?
Through this question the interviewer wants to get an idea about what you do. He/she wants to know whether you are employed or a student or a home maker.
Where do you stay at present?
Mention the name of the place and carry a document proving the same. It will help in case he/she asks for proof.
Who will pay for the expenses of your trip to the US?
Here, the visa officer wants to know who is going to pay of the expenses of your trip to the US. It is advisable to mention your or your spouse's name in this case.
Where will you stay in the US?
Through this question, the interviewer is checking if you are aware of the place you are going to stay in. It is advisable that you mention the name of the city and the state in your answer.
Do you have relatives or friends in the US?
The interviewer is trying to find out if you know anyone apart from your spouse in the US. If you have relatives or friends, mention some of their names along with how you are related to them in your reply.
When and where did you marry?
The visa officer wants to know your wedding date and place. Make sure you mention the correct date and place.
Can I see your wedding album?
The visa officer may ask you to show your wedding album for verification purposes. Make sure you carry some photos with you, if not the full album. These pictures should show the actual wedding ceremony.
Can I see the invitation card of your wedding?
Provide your wedding invitation card to the interviewer.
What are the names of your mother- and father-in-law?
To verify the information related to your marriage, the interviewer may ask you the names of your mother- and father-in-law. Provide the correct information.
The interviewer wants to know if you have any children. Provide details, if applicable.
Provide relevant details about the age of your children.
Are your children citizens of the United States?
Could I see the birth certificates of your children?
Provide the birth certificates of your children to the interviewer.
What is the date of birth of your spouse?
The interviewer wants to know the date of birth of your spouse. Provide the correct information.
What is the highest education qualification of your spouse?
What is the name of the company in which your spouse works?
Provide the name of the company.
For how long has your spouse worked for the company?
Mention the number of years/months for which your spouse has worked in the company.
What is the location of the company in which your spouse works?
Mention the place where the company is located. Also, provide the company's address.
There has been a 28% rise in the number of US visas given to Indians under the Donald Trump Presidency, as per recent reports.
This sudden increase was seen during March and April of this year as compared to same period in the previous year.
A representative from an international media house said that the demand for US visas do not remain the same all through the year. Sometimes there may be a rise in demand during certain peak seasons. Various local and international factors determine this trend according to the spokesperson.
The National Association of Software and Services Companies (Nasscom) has increased its spending on lobbying for favourable visa rules with American lawmakers. Overall, expenses on such campaigns have seen a one-third increase.
As per recent reports, it has come to light that Nasscom has spent nearly Rs.1 crore ie:$1,50,000 in the first quarter of 2017. In the last quarter that ended in December, spending amounted to $1,10,000.
The Lande Group was paid $50,000, while Wexler & Walker was paid $100,000. Lobbying was undertaken for issues pertaining to green cards, visa processing, US-India relations, high-skill immigration, among others.
As UAE is attempting to improve the economic, political, and trade relationship with India, the country has decided to offer visa on arrival for Indians that are in the US.
Based on the new rule, Indians who possess an Indian passport with a US visa for more than 6 months, and those who have a green card will get visa on arrival in the UAE.
Reports suggest that currently the bilateral trade between the countries remain at $60 billion, of which UAE exports over $27 billion worth of goods while India does the lion's share, i.e., $33 billion.
This latest move is designed to improve the relationship between the countries and in turn to increase the trade.


Gurugram district-level Local Complaints Committee (LCC) is going to ask for explanations from around 3,000 of the total 5,500 private firms in the city, on their failure to submit safety audit reports on prevention of sexual harassment to women at workplace. As per the Haryana Government's order, the Local Complaints Committee was established in December 2013.
The Committee chairperson Anuradha Sharma confirms to send them notices and seek their explanation.
LCC has served notices to all the registered companies, seeking their replies on various issues including establishment of internal complaint desk and panels, as mandated under the Sexual Harassment of Women at Workplace (Prevention, Prohibition and Redressal) Act, 2013.
Sharma has informed any company having more than 10 employees falls under the rule of LCC and should have an Internal Complaint Committee (ICC).
However the LCC chairman admits that Internal Complaint Committee is lacking in many of the small-scale industries. But they are in the process to find out such companies.


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Q: Check that a database file is valid and what the program is expecting? When connecting to an SQLite database from Python (using Python 2.6), what strategies are there to ensure that a program has opened a valid database file (where valid here means "matches what the program is expecting")?
I'd like to make sure that after some opening checks I can be (reasonably) sure that the program has opened a database file that will work as expected - ideally CREATEing everything if the file was new/empty and stopping/warning if the file is a database for something else, or otherwise broken.
I'm guessing the trick is to compare the opened file's schema to an expected schema in the program?
If so, how would you go about doing?
Otherwise, what else should be done?

A: In solutions where I want something similar, I tend to keep a .sql file located at the same directory as my code, containing the build instructions for the database, using constructs similar to the following:
# setup
PRAGMA foreign_keys=ON;
PRAGMA journal_mode=TRUNCATE;
PRAGMA locking_mode=EXCLUSIVE;
PRAGMA synchronous=NORMAL;

# Locations
CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS Locations (
    locID INTEGER PRIMARY KEY,
    locPath TEXT NOT NULL
);
# blah-blah
CREATE UNIQUE INDEX IF NOT EXISTS fldPath_idx
ON Folders(fldPath);
# and so on

just taking care that all SQL statements end with a semicolon as the last non-whitespace character of a line, since I have code like the following method that ensures the schema running every time my application starts:
def db_schema(self):
    cur= self._db.cursor()
    with io.open(self.SQLPATH, "r") as fp:
        sql_statement= ""
        for line in fp:
            line= line.rstrip()
            if line.startswith('#'): continue
            sql_statement+= line
            if line.endswith(";"):
                try:
                    cur.execute(sql_statement)
                except sql.OperationalError:
                    print("Failed:\n%s" % sql_statement)
                sql_statement= ""
    # file is done
    cur.close()

Note the use of CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS and CREATE INDEX IF NOT EXISTS.

A: SQLite has a pragma user_version that will store any arbitrary number in the database for you.  Normally you would use this for tracking your own schema version - eg first version of app is 1, and when you change schema three app versions later you set it to 2 to detect the schema upgrade has been done by your code.
However you could set it to any starting value.  eg start with 3656672354 and add to that for your internal version tracking.  The likelihood of any other database having a value within that range is virtually zero.

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Q: Properly set / match routes in routes.rb I've implemented basic tagging in my app, so posts can be filtered by tags.
There's a route in my routes.rb for that
get 'tags/:tag', to: 'links#index', as: :tag

However, I would like to have an URL /tags that lists all tags (triggers index action in the tag controller).
I've set this route up
get 'tags' => 'tags#index'

In my tag view i have index.html.erb
<% @tags.each do |tag| %>
    <div class="row">
        <%= link_to tag.name, tag_path(tag) %>
    </div>
<% end %>

The problem is that <%= link_to tag.name, tag_path(tag) %> leads to /tags/:id instead of /tags/:tag and thus doesn't work.
How do I properly set this up?

A: Add the following to_param method to your Tag model:
def to_param
  name
end

A: Assuming you are trying to match something like tags/tag-name, with tag-name being a field other than id on Tags; you can use friendlyId.


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Philippe Gavi est un journaliste français.

Biographie
Il fut, en 1973, l'un des fondateurs du journal Libération (avec Serge July, Jean-Paul Sartre, Bernard Lallement et Jean-Claude Vernier). Il est spécialisé dans les questions concernant les médias.

Bibliographie
 Che Guevara, Éditions universitaires, 1970
 Les Ouvriers, du tiercé à la révolution, enquête de Philippe Gavi, Mercure de France, 1970
 On a raison de se révolter, avec Jean-Paul Sartre & Pierre Victor, Paris, Gallimard, 1974
 La Couleur du ciel a changé, Éditions des Autres, 1979
 Les Français du coq à l'âme : histoire d'une révolution des mentalités, Plon, 1992

Liens externes

Notes et références

Journaliste français du XXe siècle
Date de naissance non renseignée (XXe siècle)
Collaborateur de Libération

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Mike Pence Is Still to Blame for an HIV Outbreak in Indiana—but for New Reasons
The avoidable Scott County epidemic may reveal a terrifying future for public health in America.
By Steven W. ThrasherTwitter
A syringe is pictured along West Main Street in Scott County, Indiana. (Christopher Fryer / News and Tribune via AP, File)
In late 2014, health officials belatedly became aware of an HIV outbreak in Scott County, Indiana. With fewer than 24,000 people, this rural county rarely saw a single new case in a year, according to The New York Times. But by the time government agencies tried to stop the transmission of the virus a few months later, some 215 people had tested positive.
One man seemed responsible for needlessly letting the situation get out of control: Indiana's then-Governor Mike Pence. In 2015, when the virus was seeming to rapidly move through networks of people who use intravenous drugs, even the reluctant local sheriff encouraged the governor to authorize a clean-needle exchange, a proven tool to reduce such an outbreak.
But, as the Times reported when he became Donald Trump's running mate, "Mr. Pence, a steadfast conservative, was morally opposed to needle exchanges on the grounds that they supported drug abuse." His opposition was based on an incorrect belief; while research has long shown that needle exchanges do reduce HIV and hepatitis, it has also shown that they do not encourage drug use.
Pence went home to "pray on it" before he decided to approve a limited needle exchange. Many observers believed that the program acted as a kind of public-health Hail Mary pass, staunching a catastrophic wound that would have gotten much worse.
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But as new research from the Yale School of Public Health published in the British medical journal The Lancet HIV shows, even that was marred by chaos and disorder, and the program likely had little effect on the outbreak. Indiana's needle program began "with police officers initially confiscating syringes," and it went into effect the same day the Pence "signed a bill that upgraded possession of a syringe with intent to commit an offence with a controlled substance from a misdemeanor to a felony charge, subject to imprisonment for up to 2.5 years." This law began immediately after the 30-day exchange.
The study was co-authored by Yale assistant professor of epidemiology (and one-time ACT UP activist) Gregg S. Gonsalves and associate professor of biostatistics, ecology, and evolutionary biology Forrest W. Crawford. And while it projects that the worst of the HIV outbreak in Indiana was avoidable, this was because of reasons not previously understood. Gonsalves and Crawford write that the needle program began well after the peak of the epidemic: "The number of undiagnosed HIV infections had already fallen substantially by the time a public health emergency was declared and syringe-exchange programmes implemented." Using mathematical modeling, the researchers estimate that the HIV infections had been rising since 2011 and had actually peaked in January 2015, "over 2 months before the Governor of Indiana declared a public health emergency."
This is not to say Pence hadn't erred in preferring prayer over science in 2015, but that he'd been failing to deal with HIV in his state for years. Gonsalves and Crawford's models estimate that instead of 215 infections in 2015, "a response on Jan 1, 2013, could have suppressed the number of infections to 56 or fewer, averting at least 127 infections" and that "an intervention on April 1, 2011, could have reduced the number of infections to ten or fewer, averting at least 173 infections."
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But those dates are years before Indiana knew there was an HIV epidemic underway. Because of funding cuts, the only HIV testing provider in southeastern Indian had closed in 2013. This, according to the study, "could have delayed the diagnosis of the initial case of HIV infection in Scott County."
The disaster in Scott County was not just a failure of clean needles or even just Indiana's long-time "abstinence stressed" sexual education. It was a disaster born of a total abdication of Indiana's public-health responsibility—and it's the kind of health disaster we could see nationally. Pence is now vice president in an administration that is gutting HIV/AIDS resources and further criminalizing drug use—two paths that will increase HIV prevalence across the country. Meanwhile, the twin crises of deindustrialization and rising opioid usage mean that the conditions for localized HIV epidemics are not unique to Scott County. Indeed, Gonsalves and Crawford write that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention believes there are "220 counties across the USA at risk of outbreaks of HIV" and hepatitis C.
As conditions favorable to epidemics spread across the country, the ability for public-health agencies to respond to such crises are being throttled. As NPR reported in 2016, 40 percent of health departments have reduced services, with one CDC official saying, "More than half of state and local STD programs have experienced budget cuts. In 2012, 20 health departments reported having to close their STD clinics." And, as local governments are turning away from STD and overdose-prevention efforts, they are also incarcerating more people on charges related to drug addiction and sex work—and even prosecuting individuals for harm-reduction work.
Austerity budgets that cut public-health resources are a predictor of certain health disasters, something I've seen in my own HIV research. For instance, St. Charles County, Missouri, has spent an enormous amount of money and resources prosecuting Michael Johnson, who is alleged to have exposed others to HIV. In the nearly five years I have been researching his prosecution, St. Charles County has repeatedly said it has pursued that case in the name of protecting public health, even though research has shown that prosecuting people does not reduce HIV rates. Meanwhile, St. Charles County shut down its only STD clinic, which had performed about 1,000 STD exams in 2017.
Lacking any ability to test for STDs, St. Charles County is primed to become another Scott County. I have reported in the St. Charles County courthouse for years, and nearly every case I have witnessed other than the HIV trial has been for drugs. Its opioid crisis is so bad, the county is suing drug manufacturers. The county spends money prosecuting people for using drugs, but not for monitoring or testing for the STDs that inevitably come with the epidemiology of opioid use. That's a disaster in the making.
With such a retreat from infectious-disease prevention, America could become the next Greece, a country where I am conducting my current research and where the relationship between gutted public-health budgets and rising HIV rates is well documented. "In 2009–10, the first year of austerity, a third of the street work programmes were cut because of scarcity of funding, despite a documented rise in the prevalence of heroin use," a 2014 study in The Lancet found. As condom and syringe distribution fell and prevention efforts declined In Greece, "the number of new HIV infections among injecting drug users rose from 15 in 2009 to 484 in 2012"—an increase of more than 3,000 percent in four years.
The epidemiology of HIV flourishes amid drug stigma, homophobia, poverty, and racism; in turn, government approaches that allow HIV to thrive also breed homophobia, racism, classism, and drug panic. In both Greece and America, there have been eerie parallels that suggest a worrying, violent future for queer people and people living with HIV. In Athens, on September 21, HIV-positive queer-activist Zak Kostopolous was kicked to death in broad daylight. One of the most horrifying things about the video of it is that many men watching do nothing to intervene. The same weekend, in New York, two gay men were beaten unconscious at my old neighborhood gay bar in Brooklyn.
It should be no surprise that in societies where resources and education regarding marginalized communities are decimated—whether regarding intravenous-drug users, people living with HIV, transgender people, Muslims, or immigrants—hate prospers.
Much of US society often doesn't care about HIV infections or AIDS deaths—or about hepatitis infections or overdose deaths—when they are perceived to be happening to people who are black, queer, and/or immigrant. Scott County tardily registered as worthy of limited government intervention because it had about one case of HIV for every 110 residents or so in a county which is 97 percent white. At the same time, the CDC projects that if current trends do not change, one in every two black queer men will become HIV positive—and yet, government agencies are not mustering any kind of robust plan for communities in which HIV may become 50 times more prevalent than it ever was in Scott County.
Gonsalves and Crawford's study of Scott County shows that preventable epidemics can happen anywhere where austerity is combined with theocratic, anti-science policies. As public-health approaches are abandoned throughout the United States, that applies to increasingly large swaths of the country.
Steven W. ThrasherTwitterSteven W. Thrasher, a doctoral candidate in American Studies at New York University, will join the faculty of Northwestern University in 2019 as the inaugural Daniel H. Renberg chair of media coverage of sexual and gender minorities.


Mumbai, May 15 (IANS) Amazon Internet Services Pvt Ltd (AISPL), an Amazon company, on Tuesday announced five Indian partners as winners who helped customers drive innovation and build solutions on Amazon Web Services (AWS) Cloud.
New Delhi, May 15 (IANS) Petrol price in the national capital touched Rs 74.95 per litre on Tuesday, a fresh high, since it hit Rs 76.06 a litre in September 2013.
New Delhi, May 15 (IANS) Facebook on Tuesday said nearly 10,000 people have marked themselves safe till now, using the social network's "Safety Check" feature that was activated on Monday following storms across India.
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San Francisco, May 15 (IANS) Two of the world's biggest smartphone makers -- Samsung and Apple -- have resumed a seven-year-old patent infringement dispute in the US.
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Chennai, May 15 (IANS) The central government's action against three top bankers in the country is a welcome move, said a top leader of All India Bank Employees' Association (AIBEA) on Tuesday.
Mumbai, May 15 (IANS) Expectations of a BJP victory in Karnataka assembly election lifted the key Indian equity indices during the mid-morning trade session on Tuesday.
United Nations, May 15 (IANS) The International Labour Organisation (ILO) has estimated that 300,000 workers will be employed directly in the solar and wind energy sectors by 2022 to meet India's goal of generating 175 gigawatts of electricity from renewable sources.
New York, May 15 (IANS) Shares of American companies that supply chips and other components to Chinese telecom equipment maker ZTE Corp rebounded strongly on Monday, after US President Donald Trump said that Washington and Beijing are working to get the company back into business.
Beijing, May 15 (IANS) In its latest effort to penetrate into the Chinese market, US electric vehicle maker Tesla has set up a wholly-owned subsidiary in Shanghai.
New York, May 15 (IANS) US stocks traded higher on Monday as trade tensions between China and the United States showed signs of relaxation.
Kolkata, May 15 (IANS) Ghana is looking at India as its "partner" for the industrial development in the African country and is expecting the bilateral-trade between the two countries to cross US $4 billion by this year, an envoy said here on Monday.
New Delhi, May 15 (IANS) The Genetic Engineering Appraisal Committee (GEAC) under the Environment Ministry has allowed field trials of Genetically Modified (GM) variety of mustard, which are expected to be held this winter.


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Photographs of a Reggae Legend Between 1978 and 1980, photographer Bruce Talamon toured with reggae singer Bob Marley and shot some of the most popular images of the musician. He talks about his experiences touring with Marley with NPR's Alex Chadwick.
Bob Marley's 60th Birthday Celebrations
Photographs of a Reggae Legend
February 4, 200512:00 AM ET
Heard on Day to Day
Bob Marley performs in San Diego, 1978. Bruce W. Talamon hide caption
Bruce W. Talamon
Between 1978 and 1980, photographer Bruce Talamon toured with reggae singer Bob Marley and shot some of the most popular images of the musician. He talks about his experiences touring with Marley -- who would have turned 60 on Februrary 6 -- with NPR's Alex Chadwick.
Many of the photos were published in Talamon's book, Bob Marley: Spirit Dancer. The images remain an indelible portrait of an artist at the height of his creative power.
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' I shall try, at least,' said Pivi. And up he went, but it was very difficult, and down he came.
' Here are your cocoa-nuts,' he said, presenting them to the woman.
All day Pivi played about in the river, as the natives do, throwing fruit and silvery showers of water at each other. When the sun set he went into the hut. But as he drew near he heard sweet voices talking and laughing within.
' What is that ? People chattering in the hut! Perhaps they have taken my cocoa-nuts,' said Pivi to himself.
In he went, and there he found two pretty, laughing, teasing girls. He hunted for his cocoanuts, but none were there.
Down he ran to the river. ' Oh, lady, my nuts have been stolen !' he cried.
' Come with me, Pivi, and there will be nuts for you,' said the woman.
They went back to the hut, where the girls were laughing and playing.
So they were married and very happy, when in came cross old Kabo.


The Annapurna region is a paradise of natural mystery and culturally loaded attractions. It is very much popular for trekking, hiking, and peak climbing package in Nepal trekking trip. The trekking trails in the Annapurna region lie in the Annapurna conservation area. The beautiful panoramas of the Annapurna Himalayan range are awesome and breathtaking. The trekking in the Annapurna region includes the beautiful villages of the ethnic communities, their costumes, rituals, daily lifestyles, and warm hospitality. Flora, fauna and lush vegetations are other attractions of the trekking in Annapurna region.
The Annapurna region treks offer astonishing mountain views of the major mountain ranges as Mt. Annapurna I (8091m), Dhaulagiri (8167m), Fishtail (6999m), Lamjung Himal and several other snow-capped Himalayas. Some of the trekking trails in this region are Annapurna Base Camp trekking, Annapurna Thorung pass trekking, Ghorepani poonhill trek, Jomsom Muktinath trek, and Upper Mustang trekking. It includes the deepest gorge in the world- Kaligandaki, also a traditional trade route to Tibet, the highest Himalayan pass in the world- Thorung La (5416m), high settlement of the Manang village, Hindu and Buddhist pilgrimage place Muktinath. Upper Mustang trek includes the forbidden kingdom, surrounded by the barren land similar to the Tibetan lifestyle. It is a restricted part, which needs special trekking permit. The Annapurna Sanctuary trek is well loved trekking, which also includes beautiful ethnic settlements as Ghandruk, Ghorepani and the sunrise viewpoint- Poonhill. The region is covered with subtropical forests full of rhododendrons and other wild flowers.
Enjoy the nature walk in the Annapurna conservation area.
Discover the beauties of Annapurna, Annapurna South, Hiunchuli, mountain pick, MT. fishtail, and Himalayan range.
Explore the ethnic culture and lifestyles.
Feel the natural hot spring.
Walk on the green hills, gorges and surprising landscape.
1Day 1: Drive to Nayapul, trek to New Bridge (1500 m).
- Annapurna Base camp Trekking (6Ns): Best Available Lodge Accommodation during treks on twin sharing basis room.
There are multiple selections in meals item in Annapurna base camp trekking. But, it can be basic and may not have choices in menu some of the rest places.
- Breakfast: includes full trip.
- Trekking Guide leader in mountains.
- 1 Sherpa potter for 2 trekkers in a mountain.
- Best Lodge Accommodations Mountain, all meals during trekking, all necessary staff with an experienced leader (guide) and Sherpa porters to carry luggage (2 trekkers: 1 porter) including their salary, insurance, equipment, flight, food, and lodging.
- All the applicable services charges, government taxes, all necessary paperwork and permits (Annapurna Conservations Area permit, TIMS Card).
- Arrangement of Emergency Helicopter service which will be paid by your Travel insurance company.
-Good Vibe Adventure offers you Farewell Dinner on last night.
-Nepal Visa fee (bring accurate USD cash and two passport photographs).
-Entry fees for city sightseeing.
- Travel and rescue insurance (necessary).
-Lunch and Dinner while you are in Kathmandu & Pokhara city.
- Personal expenses (phone calls, internet, laundry, bar bills, bottle or boiled water & Hot Drinks Tea and Coffee, Hot Shower, Batteries charge, Heater during the Trek and Sweet things like desert).
- Extra night accommodation and meals if early departure from the mountain.
-Tips for the guide, porter. (Tipping is voluntary).


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Vertex Security widely known as a Vertex stock broking is the prominent and full-service stock brokerage company in India. It retains licensed membership of both BSE and NSE stock exchanges. It has more than 450 branches in India. This article will brief about Vertex Security reviews, Vertex Security Brokerage charges, and Fees, Vertex Security Offers, Vertex Security Products and its additional features.
Vertex Security was incorporated on 15 September 1993 in Ernakulam, Kerela. It was incorporated as a private limited company but thereafter 2 years it has been reformed in Public Limited Company.
It manages to provide varous investment and trading products such as equity, commodity, currency, insurance, mutual funds, and various others. It provides a superior online trading platform with inbuilt innovative features for the customer's comfort.
Here are the comprehensive details of Vertex Security brokerage charge for different trading segments.
Vertex Security has distinct brokering charges for distinct trading sections. Brokering charges for various sections are given in percentages. Traders have to pay different brokering charges for different service as it depends on their transaction value.
The basic brokerage charge of equity intraday trading is 0.02.Hence if trader is trading with the trade value of Rs.50000 then he has to pay Rs.10 as a brokerage fees.
Here are the details of Vertex Security other Charges which the traders are compelled to pay.
It is necessitated for the traders to pay various other charges along with the brokerage charges during their trading with Vertex Security.
Here are the comprehensive details of Vertex Security Account Opening Fees.
It is necessitated for the traders to pay Rs.500 as Account opening charges and Trading Account Annual Maintenance Charge (AMC) of Rs.100 to the company. But the company does not ask anything for Demat Account Annual maintenance charge (AMC). It is entirely free of cost. Traders are also required to maintain minimum margin money of Rs.7000 with the company.
The company offers full-fledged trading facilities and service to the clients in securities and commodities through its various branches across the cities.
For the traders comfort, the company also offers discount on its various brokerage plans.
How to Open a Demat Account with Vertex Securities?
You will be asked to provide the necessary information and KYC documents such as your Aadhar and pan copy, address and age proof etc.
Once your documents are successfully submitted and verified, the company would get your demat account started within24 hours.
WHY OPEN A VERTEX SECURITY TRADING ACCOUNT?
It provides a secure and efficient online trading platform.
The company has a wide number of branches across the country. It has more than 35 offices in Kerala.
Vertex Security is indulged to provides various distinct sorts of products to its clients such as equity trading, commodity trading, currency trading, insurance, and various others.
Scroll Down to view a list of the products offered through Vertex Security.
The clients can use one single account for all the above-mentioned trading.
The company is indulged to provide brokerage services in equity, equity derivatives, and currency derivatives segments. It also facilitates equity research, equities, and derivative trading, commodities trading, IPO and portfolio management services.
Following table provides information about the company research and recommendations.
The company also facilitates a dedicated Relationship Manager to its clients for maintaining various investment and financial products.
The company provides leverage up to 6x to its clients which concludes that the traders will face an average risk.
Here are the thorough details on various trading platforms offered by Vertex Securities to its consumers. All the platforms have been established in-house and always get progressed on an unremitting basis.
It is integrated with Mutual funds and IPO investments.
You will be fascinated with the downloading link of company trading software once you open your trading account with them. Through this trading platform, traders can trade from anywhere and anytime. It is a speedy and secure trading platform.
ts mobile trading app is available on (NSE MOBILE TRADING). NSE NOW offers real-time streaming quotes, user-friendly features, etc. The company will provide your user name and password which will help you to activate your account.
Being a full- service broker, vertex security provides following communication channels to its clients. Through these medium customers can get in touch with the company customer service representative for resolving their issues.
The company has its presence in around 428 locations across various parts of the country. Traders can even visit their nearby branch for their concern.
Here you can view quite a few complaints receive against Vertex Security. These are the complaints which brokers are failed to resolve which is further listed in different stock exchanges.
The customer care representatives are not available for 24/7 to support their clients.
It is the prominent stockbroking house in India. It is engaged in providing exemplary broking service in equity, equity derivatives, and currency derivatives segments. It even acts as a full-service merchant bank and institutional broker.
To assist their clients in a feasible manner,it has made its presence in major cities of the country and retains extensively qualified financial experts to guide the traders in every possible way during their trade.


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Richard D. Klausner is an American scientist who served as the 11th director of the National Cancer Institute of the United States.

Early life and education
Klausner was born in . His father was a chemist, and Klausner would visit his father's laboratory as a child. He began studying physics at Yale University, but changed his focus to biology, with the plan of becoming a doctor in a rural area.
Klausner received his MD from Duke Medical School in 1976.

Career
In 1979, Klausner joined the National Institutes of Health (NIH) as a postdoctoral fellow. At age 30, Klausner was appointed to the chief of the cell biology and metabolism branch of the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development.

In 1992, he directed the review of the NIH's intramural research programs, in which he recommended sweeping changes. He served as the director of the National Cancer Institute from 1995 to 2001, where he managed a staff of 5,000 employees and a budget of $4.5 billion. In total, he spent more than 20 years at the NIH.

He left the NCI to become the founding director of the Case Institute of Health, Science and Technology of the Case Foundation.

He was the managing partner of the biotech venture capital firm, the Column Group.
From 2002 to 2005, he was the executive director of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.

He was a member of the Searle Scholars advisory board. He was a scientific advisor at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center. He has been an Advisor to the Presidents of the Academies for counter-terrorism and a liaison to the White House Office of Science & Technology Policy, and was the chief strategy advisor for USAID.

Klausner co-founded Juno Therapeutics in 2013, GRAIL in 2015. and MindStrong Health in 2014. He was the chief medical officer of Illumina from 2013 to 2016.

He was president of the American Society for Clinical Investigation from 1995 to 1996.

Research
His research focused on T cells and the potential for CAR-T therapies. He also has published research on the genetics of Von Hippel–Lindau disease, a condition which predisposes a person to developing cancer. He is an author of more than 300 scientific articles.

Personal life
Klausner has two sons and twin daughters.

Awards
 1986 Elected to the American Society for Clinical Investigation (ASCI)
 1993 Elected to the National Academy of Sciences
 1995 Elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
 1997 Dickson Prize in Medicine, University of Pittsburgh
 1998 Raymond Bourgine Award for Excellence in Cancer Research and Gold Medal of Paris
 1999 ASCI Stanley J. Korsmeyer Award
 2000 Medal of Honour, International Agency for Research on Cancer
 2018 Elected fellow of the American Association for Cancer Research

References

External links
 NCI in the Post-Klausner Era

American oncologists
Duke University School of Medicine alumni
Fellows of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
Living people
1950s births
National Institutes of Health faculty
Members of the United States National Academy of Sciences
Members of the National Academy of Medicine
Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center people


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Sony and Disney Test Premium VOD Releases in South Korea
Posted by Laura Dobbins at 12:19 pm on June 24, 2013
Another all-out battle may be brewing between studios and U.S. exhibitors over release of blockbusters on video-on-demand while pics are still playing in theaters.
In recent months, Disney and Sony Pictures Entertainment have tested premium VOD releases in South Korea, with titles available online or on cable VOD three to five weeks after theatrical debut. The trials, involving Sony's "Django Unchained" and Disney's "Wreck-It Ralph" and "Brave," mark the first time Hollywood movies were available to home viewers in the region while they were still in the theater windows — something movie theater owners have vehemently fought against in the U.S.
South Korea has very high levels of piracy, and many studios have even abandoned the home-video market there as a result. The relatively early-release VOD trials in the country may be an effort to capture some marginal revenue given rampant file-sharing.
Still, while U.S. piracy has not hit crisis proportions, studios frequently float trial balloons in international markets before launching them in the States — and the Korean experiments could mean majors are on a path to again try early-release premium VOD in the U.S. Execs at other majors are closely watching Disney and Sony's tests in South Korea and may follow suit, according to the Journal.
Disney and Sony declined to provide results of the VOD tests. But South Korean cable operator HomeChoice said buy rates for premium still-in-theaters titles was 30% higher than other movies, the Journal reported.
Theater chain operators, which in the U.S. include Regal Entertainment, AMC Entertainment and Cinemark, fret that early-release VOD would directly cut into box office sales. According to the National Association of Theatre Owners, releasing a title on VOD while it's still playing in theaters "muddies the value proposition" for consumers.


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