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"Non-Communist" Putin Opens Major International Communist Youth Festival
By: Trevor Loudon | New Zeal
"Non-communist" Russian President Vladimir Putin has just opened a mass international communist youth festival in Sochi, Russia. The week long event, timed to coincide with the hundredth anniversary of the Bolshevik revolution, was personally endorsed by the Russian President. Putin personally intervened so that the organizers could secure the Sochi venue.
Various reports have put attendee numbers between 10,000 and 60,000, with 30,000 the most often cited number. That includes a significant number of young Communist Party USA supporters including, Sara Ladino Cano (New York), Yennifer Mateo (Forida), Chauncey Robinson (New York), Emiliana Sparaco (California), Cameron Orr (New York) and Al Neal (Missouri) among them.
The Festival is organized by the decades old and still very much alive Soviet international front organization World Federation of Democratic Youth, and has drawn communist youth from more than 180 countries.
Russian Communist Youth festival delegates
Not surprisingly, veteran US communist and New York based professional Russia propagandist Caleb Maupin and Kremlin financed TV channel RT have been publicizing the event.
Why would Vladimir Putin be putting his considerable political weight behind the largest international communist gathering in decades?
Why are communist youth from all over the world listening in rapt attention to the leader of a country that has allegedly repudiated their Marxist ideals?
What do they know that we don't? Putin is the conservative movement's friend now, right? Right???
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The Mysterious Death of Joe McCarthy
By: Cliff Kincaid | America's Survival
The new book Betrayal at Bethesda looks at the death of anti-communist Senator Joe McCarthy and others. The author J.C. Hawkins asks, how is it that McCarthy could go into Bethesda with a knee injury at five o'clock in a Sunday afternoon and be pronounced dead five days later from acute hepatitis. Hawkins speculates about a CIA role in the Senator's demise, noting that McCarthy had wanted to investigate the infiltration of the agency by Soviet and Chinese intelligence operatives.
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NFL: Blame the media for inflaming tensions
By: James Simpson | Bomb Throwers
And liberal policies for creating the problems that caused them.
(image via CNN, goo.gl/SLt7wk)
Incongruously, the media has been more focused these days on the NFL/national anthem flap than the most deadly shooting in U.S. history that occurred a mere two weeks ago in Las Vegas, Nevada. That by itself should say something. The media has been curiously incurious to dig too deeply into the past of Nevada shooter Stephen Paddock. What are they afraid they will find, another James Hodgkinson?
But the NFL controversy would not exist if the grandstanding Colin Kaepernick had not decided to lend his name to the Black Lives Matter movement by sitting down for the national anthem. And that wouldn't have happened if a bunch of St. Louis (now Los Angeles) Rams had not made a "hands up, don't shoot" gesture at a football game shortly after the acquittal of the police officer who shot Michael Brown in self-defense. And that wouldn't have happened if the media hadn't promoted the notion that Brown, Freddie Gray , and Trayvon Martin were simply innocent victims, instead of the criminals they were.
The media deliberately inflamed tensions in minority communities by promoting the lie rather than telling the truth. Facts were ignored, suppressed, or misconstrued as simply defensive reactions to the "racist" charge. The resulting outrage sparked riots that turned entire inner-city neighborhoods — where black families live and work — into cinders. An unprecedented rash of police assassinations followed.
The media has blood on its hands. But did that stop it?
Media expanded the narrative by using President Trump's very wise and responsible actions on immigration to smear him and anyone associated with him as "racists," "bigots," and "Islamophobes." This in turn signaled the radical Left antifa communists to weaponize the "racist" charge, taking to the streets to protest this "Nazi" takeover by Donald Trump. This calculated message of hate has in turn encouraged the Black Lives Matter crowd to become even more sanctimonious than they were before (but no less violent).
Victimhood is the new heroism in America.
Leftists now lunge at any opportunity to attack public messages of support for the president and this country. A restaurant in Phoenix posted a Facebook message supporting Trump and opposing "political correctness." The restaurant promised not to show NFL games "until the organization got it together."
The post went viral and the restaurant was forced to close its doors on October 9 following threats it received. According to owner Ron Sanchez, "People threatened to burn down the restaurant with the owners in it. It's a crazy world we're in."
Local ABC News reporter Jennifer Martinez tweeted with perhaps a bit too much enthusiasm: "This was the viral FB post that Cup It Up American Grill posted & deleted after backlash. Restaurant is closed indefinitely."
The media has deliberately fanned these flames. But all of it is based on a lie. Police do not oppress blacks. In fact, an opposite case can be made. The following chart shows that while blacks comprise only 13 percent of the U.S. population they represent almost 40 percent of fatal attacks on police. Meanwhile, black crime is off the charts in comparison with every other racial group in this country. Critics argue that blacks' 40 percent share among U.S. prison populations is direct evidence of institutional racism (see table below). In a color-blind society, they charge, incarcerated black populations would reflect their 13 percent share of the general population.
Source: http://www.prisonpolicy.org/reports/rates.html
However, if black crime rates were the guide, it would seem that blacks are, if anything, underrepresented in prison populations. Take homicides for example. The table below shows that, despite representing 13 percent of the American population, blacks commit by far the majority of murders. Stats for 2015 are the latest available. Prior years, however, show similar results. Blacks also commit a disproportionate number in all other categories of violent crime.
There are many more statistics that reinforce this point. I could go on and on. Blacks are not over-represented in prisons because of institutional bias, they are over-represented because they commit more crimes. It is high time we get honest about that fact. Doubtless the SJWs will call me a racist for even mentioning it. But there is nothing racist about telling the truth. You can't fix a problem until you are willing to admit you have one.
But the sad truth is that inner-city blacks do have plenty to be angry about. The media understands this and knows it can count on black anger so it rubs salt in the wound and misdirects the anger toward the media's political opponents — i.e. conservatives, the one and only group consistently willing to stick its neck out to offer solutions that work.
But we rarely get the chance. The swamp doesn't like real ideas, because they usually involve some kind of sacrifice. Just think about what happened with Obamacare. The GOP offered multiple proposals to abolish it when they knew it wouldn't happen. But the minute they had the majority, and a real opportunity? Well, there were too many lobbyists to disappoint. Don't get me wrong. The swamp is all about sacrifice — our sacrifice, but not theirs. And Democrats? Perish the thought!
Inner cities are falling apart before our eyes. Buildings are abandoned and crumbling. Schools teach much about how blacks have been wronged, but little that will help them get right. Massive amounts of drug abuse, prostitution, and violence plague inner cities. More people were murdered in inner-city Chicago last month than the total killed in the Las Vegas shooting. Meanwhile, to add outrage to injury, immigrants, both legal and illegal, are welcomed into the inner city to take those jobs that do exist. All this can be laid at Democrats' feet — but they could never get away with it without a complicit press.
If I were black I'd be seeing red.
But not because of police brutality or excessive police shootings. If anything, there needs to be more police present in inner-city neighborhoods, and those black residents who understand this have been intimidated into stony silence while the left-wing fanatics among them rage and burn. Even Black Lives Matter people don't buy this. Their real objection is capitalism. Why? Because the leaders of that movement are communists!
Not because of phony "white privilege (a concept invented by a hardcore Communist)," or "unequal access." Blacks have been given more "access," — more special grants, racial preferences in hiring and lending, and more welfare as a percent of their population than any other group, except refugees and certain other immigrants, (and what's with that?)
I'd be seeing red because of the horrible way blacks have been used by the establishment Left, black and white, to entrench itself in power. Chicago, New York, Detroit, Baltimore — name the city. If a Democrat runs it, it's a mess. They have entrenched themselves in power and suck tax resources like a bottomless sinkhole.
The only politician in recent memory who has offered to help actually remedy this problem is… wait for it… Donald Trump. If you recall, candidate Trump famously asked "What do you have to lose?"
The Democrats have failed completely in the inner cities… year after year, failure after failure, worse numbers after worse numbers; poverty, rejection, horrible education, no housing, no homes, no ownership. Crime at levels that nobody's seen! You can go to war zones, in countries that we are fighting, and it's safer than living in some of our inner cities! They're run by the Democrats. And I ask you this… What do you have to lose?
Really, what do they have to lose? The media has abandoned the American people, and the lies they promote have had the most profound effect in inner cities, deliberately! The Democrats and establishment Republicans have abandoned the American people, and the lies they promote have had the most profound effect in inner cities. The hard left protesting in the streets and shouting "shut it down!" could care less about the issues they protest. Their real goal is anarchy, and the lies they promote have had the most profound effect in inner cities, deliberately!
Deliberately!
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Scope of Russian Troll Operation Explained
By: Denise Simon | Founders Code
Information Warfare = Troll Warfare
Russian Journalists Publish Massive Investigation Into St. Petersburg Troll Factory's U.S. Operations
A day after Dozhd television published an interview with a former member of Russia's infamous Internet Research Agency, the magazine RBC released a new detailed report on the same organization's efforts to meddle in U.S. domestic politics. Meduza summarizes RBC's new report here.
The Internet Research Agency, Russia's infamous "troll farm," reportedly devoted up to a third of its entire staff to meddling in U.S. politics during the 2016 presidential election. At the peak of the campaign, as many as 90 people were working for the IRA's U.S. desk, sources told RBC, revealing that the entire agency employs upwards of 250 people. Salaries for staff working in the U.S. department apparently range from 80,000 to 120,000 rubles ($1,400 to $2,100) per month.
The head of the IRA's U.S. desk is apparently a man originally from Azerbaijan named Dzheikhun Aslanov (though he denies any involvement with the troll factory).
In August and September this year, Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter suspended 118 communities and accounts run by the St. Petersburg "troll factory," disabling a network capable of reaching 6 million subscribers. In 2016, at the height of the U.S. presidential campaign, this network reportedly produced content that reached 30 million people each week.
A source also told RBC that the Internet Research Agency spent almost $80,000 over two years, hiring roughly 100 local American activists to stage about 40 rallies in different cities across the United States. The activists were hired over the Internet, communicating in English, without their knowledge that they were accepting money or organizing support from a Russian organization. According to RBC, internal records from the IRA verify its role in these activities.
The main activity in the troll factory's U.S. desk was to incite racial animosity (playing both sides of the issue), and promoting the secession of Texas, objections to illegal immigration, and gun rights.
RBC estimates that the Internet Research Agency's total salary expenses approach $1 million per year, with another $200,000 allocated to buying ads on social media and hiring local activists in the U.S.
According to RBC, the IRA still has a U.S. desk, though its staff has apparently dropped to 50 employees.
Note: Formally, the Internet Research Agency ceased to exist roughly two years ago, rebranding itself under different names, but sources say the organization continues to operate as before.
One part of the factory had a particularly intriguing name and mission: a "Department of Provocations" dedicated to sowing fake news and social divisions in the West, according to internal company documents obtained by CNN.
Prigozhin is one of the Kremlin's inner circle. His company is believed to be a main backer of the St. Petersburg-based "Internet Research Agency" (IRA), a secretive technology firm, according to US officials and the documents reviewed by CNN. Prigozhin was sanctioned by the US Treasury Department in December of 2016 for providing financial support for Russia's military occupation of Ukraine. Two of his companies, including his catering business, were also sanctioned by Treasury this year.
CNN has examined scores of documents leaked from Prigozhin's companies that show further evidence of his links to the troll factory.
One contract provided IRA with ways to monitor social media and a "system of automized promotion in search engines."
Prigozhin has a colorful past. He spent nine years in prison in the 1980s for fraud and robbery, according to Russian media reports. After his release, he went into the catering business — renovating a boat and opening New Island, one of a half-dozen upscale restaurants he owns in St. Petersburg. Putin turned to him to cater his birthday parties as well as dinners with visiting leaders, including President Bush and Jacques Chirac of France. A headline in The Moscow Times referred to Prigozhin as Putin's "Personal Chef."
Prigozhin subsequently won lucrative catering contracts for schools and Russia's armed forces. He escorted Putin around his new food-processing factory in 2010. By then he was very much a Kremlin insider with a growing commercial empire. More here.
Trolling NATO? Yuppers
Seventy percent of Russian-language tweets targeting NATO military activities in Eastern Europe are generated by automated Russian trolls, according to a survey done by the military alliance.
"Two in three Twitter users who write in Russian about the NATO presence in Eastern Europe are robotic or 'bot' accounts," the NATO Strategic Communications Centre of Excellence stated in a report made public this week.
The Russian bots sent 84 percent of all Russian language messages. English language tweets against the alliance also were found to be automated, with some 46 percent generated by automated Twitter accounts.
The report criticized the global social media platform for not doing enough to counter Russian bot activities on Twitter. "Our impression is that Twitter in Russian is policed less effectively than it is in English," the report said.
A Twitter spokesman could not be reached for comment. Colin Crowell, Twitter's vice president for public policy, stated in a recent post on the company website that "we strictly prohibit the use of bots and other networks of manipulation to undermine the core functionality of our service." Read more here.


Palate Restaurant is an ideal wedding or function venue with an idyllic setting beside the Waikato River. Mat McLean and his team have a wealth of experience and are equally at home provide a top quality dining experience for large groups.
We can cater for private or corporate functions for up to 100 guests. These functions can be booked seven days a week. Note that there is a minimum spend and hire-age fee for any restaurant book outs.
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Please call us with any questions or enquiries about booking your special event or function at Palate today.


This low-ceiling'd and sultrily lit spot wants you to try a little bit of everything, from a flight of wines to tapas-style shared places like charcuterie, a marshmallow-based S'more Flatbread, or bacon-wrapped dates, which, unless you want your date to wrap up early, you really shouldn't keep to yourself.
It doesn't specialize in a particular type of food, or stand out in the sprawling Bellagio, but it does have four different kitchens specializing in American, Italian, Asian, and seafood dishes, and you know what that means! Yup, you can have locally sourced pasta, burgers and sushi on your table at the same time!
Despite its location near the upscale Anthem neighborhood, this home-style Italian joint offers a good value for your dollar, thanks to reality TV's Chef Carla Pellegrino and her sister, who's Act is turning out traditional beef, veal & pork meatballs served in fresh tomato & basil sauce; penne cooked in vodka & cream; and crispy-skin salmon, all while hiding from a Reno mob boss, presumably.
French Chef Pierre Gagnaire only has one restaurant in the United States, and it's on the 23rd floor of the Mandarin Oriental. That's where you can check out one of the most under-appreciated views of the Strip without having to pay a cover charge -- you do have to pay (dearly) for the food, however, so check out the recently introduced prix fixe menu for some deals.
Tucked away on the second floor of The D Las Vegas, this authentic Italian eatery is easy to miss, but the eats you'll find down the brick hallway by the door are can't miss... think chophouse-style dishes, including seafood that's flown in daily, Caesar salads tossed at your table, and their next-level take on Kit Kat bars for dessert.
The Aliante Casino + Hotel-based steakhouse actually makes the drive through (or, let's be honest, around) North Las Vegas worth it, with farm-to-table foodstuffs you'd find on land (Southern fried chicken, calves liver, a bone-in ribeye, etc.), or... waitforit!... in the sea (Alaskan King Crab, salmon), though if you can't choose you can always get both at the same time, Surf & Turf-style.
Don't let the campy, faux-Italianate architecture in The Forum Shops discourage you: this is a go-to for creative calorie-laden boot-food, like deep-dish lasagna pizza; classic linguine & clams in your choice of classic red or white sauce; and housemade gelato in flavors like chocolate mousse, tiramisu & cappuccino.
This Tivoli Village hangout is kinda quirky (the plates, glasses and silverware don't match, they're opening an after-hours lounge called the Den upstairs), but the Asian-inspired eats (crispy pork dumplings w/ garlic Sriracha vinaigrette; Miso-Butterscotch Salmon) by a former Iron Chef contestant are super-solid.


Haringey's unsung heroes have been recognised at an awards ceremony acknowledging their extensive voluntary contributions to their local communities. Organised by Homes for Haringey's Resident Involvement team, the third annual Rewarding Resident Volunteers Awards were held at the Bernie Grant Arts Centre in Tottenham on Thursday, 10 March. The event was attended by almost 150 people and was sponsored by Homes for Haringey's Decent Homes contractors.
The final eight winners were selected from over 28 nominations. They are: Rose Cameron, Palace Gates Residents' Association; Celia Cunney, Stokley Court Residents' Association; Yvonne Denny, Edgecot Grove Residents' Association; Pauleen Lijertwood, Milton Road; Andrea Holden, Frederick Messer Residents' Association; Phil Goodwin, Homes for Haringey resident Board member; and Mary Marchi, Homes for Haringey resident Board member. There was also a group award given to the Sandlings Youth Committee.
All the winners were presented with an inscribed trophy by Jackie Thomas, Director of Housing Management. The voluntary activities celebrated included working with young people, supporting elderly people and tirelessly campaigning and participating in residents' associations. The Special Achievement award went to Tottenham resident, Quentin Given, chair of the Ferry Lane Action Group.
Cabinet Member for Housing Services, Councillor John Bevan presented nine residents associations with framed certificates and special grants of up to £500. All successfully landed funding to pay for new equipment or projects in their communities.
Music and entertainment was provided by Adreia Suores, a Portuguese born R& B artist and Lady Lykez, a North London rap and hip hop artist.
There was also a category to honour the work of resident liaison officers from the Decent Homes programme. The overall award went to Gillian Jones of Mulalley & Co. There were runners up awards for Katy Creed from Apollo and Elaine Lister from Wates.
Jackie Thomas said: "It's great to recognise our residents who go the extra mile to improve their homes and communities. They're enthusiasm is inspiring and they are making huge a difference to the lives of our residents every day.
For further information on Rewarding Resident Volunteers, contact Sheryl Hendrickson, Homes for Haringey's Resident Involvement team, on 020 8489 4463.


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Meta-analysis of genome-wide association studies identifies eight new loci for type 2 diabetes in east Asians.
Cho YS., Chen C-H., Hu C., Long J., Ong RTH., Sim X., Takeuchi F., Wu Y., Go MJ., Yamauchi T., Chang Y-C., Kwak SH., Ma RCW., Yamamoto K., Adair LS., Aung T., Cai Q., Chang L-C., Chen Y-T., Gao Y., Hu FB., Kim H-L., Kim S., Kim YJ., Lee JJ-M., Lee NR., Li Y., Liu JJ., Lu W., Nakamura J., Nakashima E., Ng DP-K., Tay WT., Tsai F-J., Wong TY., Yokota M., Zheng W., Zhang R., Wang C., So WY., Ohnaka K., Ikegami H., Hara K., Cho YM., Cho NH., Chang T-J., Bao Y., Hedman ÅK., Morris AP., McCarthy MI., DIAGRAM Consortium None., MuTHER Consortium None., Takayanagi R., Park KS., Jia W., Chuang L-M., Chan JCN., Maeda S., Kadowaki T., Lee J-Y., Wu J-Y., Teo YY., Tai ES., Shu XO., Mohlke KL., Kato N., Han B-G., Seielstad M.
We conducted a three-stage genetic study to identify susceptibility loci for type 2 diabetes (T2D) in east Asian populations. We followed our stage 1 meta-analysis of eight T2D genome-wide association studies (6,952 cases with T2D and 11,865 controls) with a stage 2 in silico replication analysis (5,843 cases and 4,574 controls) and a stage 3 de novo replication analysis (12,284 cases and 13,172 controls). The combined analysis identified eight new T2D loci reaching genome-wide significance, which mapped in or near GLIS3, PEPD, FITM2-R3HDML-HNF4A, KCNK16, MAEA, GCC1-PAX4, PSMD6 and ZFAND3. GLIS3, which is involved in pancreatic beta cell development and insulin gene expression, is known for its association with fasting glucose levels. The evidence of an association with T2D for PEPD and HNF4A has been shown in previous studies. KCNK16 may regulate glucose-dependent insulin secretion in the pancreas. These findings, derived from an east Asian population, provide new perspectives on the etiology of T2D.


When do you listen to Christmas music?
There are many times that folks want to get into the "Christmas Spirit", and listening to the songs of the seasons certainly can help!
and many other times narrowed only by your imagination!
Why Listen to Christmas Music?
When is YOUR favorite time to enjoy Christmas music? Do you have a certain tradition that helps you "get into the spirit of Christmas" each year? I'd love for you to share it with me Here.
Just below are a few links you can click to listen to Christmas Music - enjoy!!
and of course, there are CDs you can purchase (including from my first link above), YouTube Videos, itunes, and various other venues from which to find or purchase your favorite songs.
Here are just a few of my very favorites - compiled just before I celebrated my 84th Christmas (a couple of years ago now)!


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Pl. make sure that this particular port :21200 is open and is not blocked by any anti virus or network team. Make sure about the correct right's on that folder.
I had the same problem on an AIX system. What output do you get when you type JAVA -version or JAVA -fullversion as user root?
if you get a warning regarding the "ulimit unlimited then you should enter the command.
i get the proper java version on typing in the command..of course the path should be set along with java home..
My problem seems to be the occupation of the port 21200..sapinst is not able to communicate with the gui on 21200..i tried random ports but with same error..if anyone knows the solution please type in..
Chk which service is using port 21200.
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How Effective Is Acupuncture?
By aviacu July 30, 2018 December 12th, 2019 Acupuncture
Acupuncture: The Alternative Medicine From The Orient
For Mrs. Cooper, her busy life in sunny California has become a tug-of-war of aches and pains. A mother of three and at the same time managing a home business, she found it very challenging to keep a home and manage a business at the same time while suffering from lower back pains and migraine headaches. She tried using the traditional medicines prescribed by her doctor but it seems that these only provided temporary relief or made her feel bad. One day, her cousin recommended that she try other alternative medicines for her ailments.
At first, Mrs. Cooper was skeptical since she knew her cousin was into new age stuff like meditation, yoga, organics, and herbal medicines. She felt she was entering into new, unfamiliar territory. But upon her cousin's insistence, she tried this ancient Chinese practice called acupuncture in Carlsbad.
Acupuncture is a procedure that treats illness through the insertion of thin needles at specific points in the body along with herbal medicine and other modalities. This process is said to alter the body's energy flow into healthier patterns and used to treat a variety of illnesses and heath conditions.
Evidence for Acupuncture is Growing Exponentially
Research into acupuncture as a medical treatment has grown exponentially in the past 20 years, increasing at twice the rate of research into conventional biomedicine. Over this period, there have been over 13,000 studies conducted in 60 countries, including hundreds of meta-analyses summarizing the results of thousands of human and animal studies.1 A wide-variety of clinical areas have been studied, including pain, headache, cancer, pregnancy, stroke, mood disorders, sleep disorders and inflammation, to name a few. The Acupuncture Evidence Project found some of effect for 117 conditions.2
Is Acupuncture Safe?
Just make sure you're getting this treatment from a well-trained acupuncturist and that the acupuncture needles are sterile and disposable. Undergoing this kind of treatment is like receiving an injection. You only feel pain from injections if it is larger diameter and it is a hollow needle. While acupuncture needles are very fine and about the diameter of human hair. When properly inserted by a skilled practitioner, you rarely feel pain. However, you may experience a sense of electricity in the area of insertion. This kind of treatment for most patients find it relaxing and more often they fall asleep during treatment.
The Basic Philosophy of Chinese Medicine
Alternative Chinese medicine like acupuncture views the body as tiny part of the universe, and subject to universal laws of harmony and balance. The Chinese believe that emotions and mental states play a role in causing diseases. Illnesses are also affected by other factors like the environment, lifestyle, and relationships. Acupuncture is based on the Taoist philosophy of yin and yang and the chi. The chi, or cosmic energy, is an invisible force found in the air, water, food and sunlight. In the body, it is a vital force that creates and animates life.
What to Expect When Visiting an Acupuncturist
Like a Western medical practitioner, the first thing an acupuncturist will do is to get the patient's medical history and symptoms. This will be followed by a physical examination. He or she will be looking closely at the patient's tongue, pulse, complexion, general behavior, and other signs like coughs or pains. From this, the acupuncturist will be able to determine patterns of symptoms indicating which organs are imbalanced. Acupuncture needles are always sterilized and it is a safe procedure.
At Aviara Acupuncture in Carlsbad, California, we treat all kinds of ailments. Many patients find their way to acupuncture in Carlsbad after not finding relief for their condition from the medicines they are taking or the procedures or physical therapy they may have had. Once our patients have¬ success, many make acupuncture their first treatment option for issues that arise in the future.
We are conveniently located off the I-5 freeway at Palomar Airport Road.
Aviara Acupuncture & Integrative Health
6120 Paseo Del Norte Suite L-1
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How Effective Is Acupuncture? July 30, 2018
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Sean Mc Manus, Joe Kennedy and John Lewis in 1988
– Demonstrating at The British Embassy in Washington, DC.
Pressure mounts after warnings exposed over RHI
Posted By: December 30, 2016
"There are only two possible explanations: Either the minister was simply not in control of her department and failed to ask even the most basic of questions from officials, or they knew of the warnings and proceeded regardless.
"In either case, it smacks of a minister asleep at the wheel, happy to take credit for others' good work but refusing to take responsibility for their own failings in office."
Andrew Madden. Irish News. Belfast. Friday, December 30, 2016
More than a dozen companies and other bodies warned about the need for cost controls in the RHI scheme a year before its launch.
Arlene Foster has rejected calls to step aside while an independent investigation takes place. Picture by Mal McCann
STORMONT politicians have spoken out after it emerged concerns were raised about the need for cost controls in the Renewable Heat Incentive scheme a year before its launch.
The Irish News revealed yesterday that 13 companies and other bodies warned about 'over-incentivisation" when responding to a consultation by the Department of Enterprise, Trade and Investment (Deti) in 2011.
The scheme was launched the following year but "fundamental flaws" have left the taxpayer facing a bill of up to £490m over the next 20 years.
SDLP leader Colum Eastwood repeated calls yesterday for an independent, judge-led inquiry into RHI and for first minister Arlene Foster – previously a minister at Deti – to step aside while it takes place.
"As each week goes by, we learn more about how DUP ministers were being advised by senior civil servants, whistleblowers and now the business community that the RHI scheme ran the risk of becoming a burn-to-earn cash cow," he said.
"Arlene Foster is a first minister that no longer commands the confidence of the assembly. Yet she refuses to stand aside. That is unprecedented."
Alliance leader Naomi Long also said it was "inconceivable a minister would not be aware of such views being expressed in a consultation exercise".
The first minister has described flaws in the RHI scheme as the "deepest political regret" of her time as an MLA but insisted she acted with the "highest level of integrity" and will not step aside.
She survived a no confidence vote in the assembly last week despite a majority voting in favour of her stepping aside.
Sinn Féin did not take part in the vote, which failed to secure the required majority of unionists.
Sinn Féin MLA Carál Ní Chuilín said the revelations of warnings from companies "only strengthens the case for a robust, time-framed, transparent and independent investigation into the scandal".
"Sinn Féin will be bringing forward a motion in early January, which deals comprehensively with the substantive
issues surrounding this debacle and calls on the first minister to stand aside during such an investigation."
Ulster Unionist Steve Aiken claimed further revelations surrounding RHI could be in store.
"We suspect the full history of what even first minister Arlene Foster called a 'debacle' in her recent statement has yet to emerge," he said.
The DUP and Department for the Economy did not respond when asked for comment yesterday.


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Politifest 2016 UNVEILING THE UNSEEN
Dueling Death Penalty Measures Could Overhaul the System
Jack Schaeffer, vice president of the San Diego Police Officers Association, speaks in favor of a ballot measure that would speed up executions. / Photo by Kelly Davis
Isabella Garcia on Oct 24, 2016
There's one point in the death penalty debate on which both sides agree: The death penalty system is broken.
Those who support the death penalty say that it provides closure for the victim's families and gives the strongest sentences to those guilty of the worst crimes. Those who oppose it say it risks executing innocent people and wastes taxpayer money.
There are two measures on the ballot this November that could reshape the system entirely.
Voting yes on Proposition 62 is a vote to repeal the death penalty and make life without parole the maximum punishment. A yes vote on Proposition 66 would keep and even speed up the death penalty process.
If both propositions were to pass, the one with the most yes votes would overrule the other.
Despite the previous years of support in California, no supporters of the death penalty took Voice of San Diego up on its invitation to Politifest.
Two vocal opponents were on hand, however – and they had a lot to say.
Alex Simpson, the associate director of the California Innocence Project, said the death penalty system is "fundamentally wrong."
John Cotsirilos, lawyer and University of San Diego law professor called it a "dysfunctional system."
Simpson criticized death penalty supporters' desire to get the entire process done as fast as possible.
"You want something done quickly, you want something done cheaply, and you want something done correctly," Simpson said.
He doesn't believe all three factors can actually happen without executing an innocent person.
A "yes" on Proposition 66 speeds up the appeals process from the current 25 years to only 5 years. Simpson said this was problematic because it takes the Innocence Project at least 15 years to reverse a wrongful conviction and even more if the person is convicted of murder.
Cotsirilos mentioned four innocent people who were executed, including Cameron Willingham, a father who was accused of a house fire that killed his children.
"There's about a 4 percent error rate in our courts and that's human error rate that you're dealing with," Cotsirilos said. "Simply human fallibility."
If we applied this percentage to the 700-plus people sitting on death row, it would mean about 30 of them are wrongfully accused, he said.
"If [Proposition 66] works the way that it's supposed to work, then you are guaranteed to execute a person that didn't do it," Simpson said.
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Monica's Story
"When I came to Calvary, I knew this was my chance to better myself."
Monica moved to the Washington, DC area with her sister, but after a death in the family, she was left alone. She explains, "I just wasn't prepared. I didn't have any money saved." Monica had never been on her own, and she tried to stay with friends, but felt like she was imposing. She stayed a few nights in emergency shelter, but didn't feel safe. That's when Monica found Calvary.
She did an internet search for women's housing in the area and the first on the list was Calvary. She remembers her first night, talking with her case manager, and thinking, "I can see myself here."
With the support of her case manager, Monica worked to improve her health and to start saving money. She attended life skills classes that helped her learn how to budget and manage her income. She also participated in on-site therapy where she was able to work through the trauma she had experienced. She says that the thing that helped her most was the safety she felt at Calvary. Once she knew she was safe, she was able to start making real changes in her life.
While at Calvary, Monica says she was motivated by her nieces and nephews. She beams when she describes her dream of having a spare bedroom for them to stay in. She has plans for game nights and movie nights. "I have to make a home so they can come visit me," she says.
Monica's love of children led her to her current part-time job at a preschool. She describes the amazing changes she sees in children as they learn to say the alphabet or write their name. "I feel honored just to watch them play," she explains. The children inspire her to keep learning and to keep playing. "I guess I love it so much because I'm just a kid at heart," she says.
Monica is busy making plans for her future. She has successfully moved out of Calvary into an independent housing program. From there, she is working towards her goal of having her own apartment, with plenty of room for her nieces and nephews to visit. She is continuing to build her job experience so that she can work full-time in education. She is most proud of the new level of independence she achieved. She smiled when she said, "Even one of the other ladies here told me she was proud of me."
During her time at Calvary, Monica worked towards her goals and took the critical first steps toward independence and stability. "It wasn't always easy," she says, "but I stuck it out. Calvary gets you where you need to go."
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Your Burning Questions Answered About 'Joker'
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Warning: This post contains spoilers for Joker.
After nearly 80 years as comicdom's scariest clown, the Joker finally gets his own feature film … and there isn't a Dark Knight in sight. Todd Phillips's new one-shot origin story, Joker, unfolds in a pre-Batman Gotham City and focuses on the grim misadventures of Arthur Fleck (Joaquin Phoenix), a mentally unstable would-be entertainer who eventually becomes a version of the villain we know so well. Co-written by Phillips and Scott Silver, Joker exists outside of any previously established Batman cinematic continuity, be it Tim Burton, Christopher Nolan or Zack Snyder. At the same time, the movie also functions as an amalgam of all those previous iterations, as well as the character's long comic history. Coming out of Joker, you'll likely be wondering about how this movie relates to the larger Bat-lore, and Yahoo Entertainment has you covered. Read on for in-depth answers to all your burning Joker questions.
What's the Joker's real origin story?
There's only one thing that's consistant about the Joker's past: Nothing. Ever since the Clown Prince of Crime claimed his first victims in Batman No. 1, published in 1940 — the same comic that published the Caped Crusader's origin story for the first time — who he is and how he came to be has remained a story open to revision. "If I'm going to have a past, I prefer it to be multiple choice," Joker himself remarks in Alan Moore's 1988 graphic novel The Killing Joke, where the Watchmen author invented his own backstory for the character. In some versions, the Joker is a criminal who falls into a vat of chemicals; in others, he's a failing stand-up comic who meets the same fate; and in still others he's an ancient evil that's been hanging around since caveman times. The cinematic Jokers also hail from wildly different backgrounds: Jack Nicholson took the plunge into a green chemical bath, Heath Ledger was chaos personified and Jared Leto… really liked tattoos.
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AIDS Healthcare Foundation buys Baltimore Hotel in DTLA
Organization will run hotel as an SRO via its Healthy Housing Foundation
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Aug.August 24, 2018 02:00 PM
By Dennis Lynch
AHF CEO Michael Weinstein and the Hotel Baltimore
The AIDS Healthcare Foundation is converting another former hotel in Downtown Los Angeles into housing for the city's homeless.
The organization announced that its subsidiary, Healthy Housing Foundation by AHF, will buy the 204-room Hotel Baltimore at 501 S. Los Angeles Street. It will continue to operate it as a single-room occupancy hotel, in which rooms are rented out on a monthly basis. The Baltimore's existing 76 residents will remain in place, according to the HFF.
The 66,000-square-foot hotel last sold in 2016 for $29.3 million. HFF did not disclose the purchase price.
The 108-year-old hotel is the fourth property that HHF has bought since October 2017 that it will convert to housing homeless Angelenos. It is directly across the street from the 150-room King Edward Hotel that the HHF purchased in April. The organization started with the 202-room Madison Hotel on 7th Street and followed with the former Sunset 8 Motel in Hollywood in January.
All three of the hotels in Downtown are single-room occupancy hotels. SROs are often the most easily accessible and affordable housing options for people in and out of homelessness. Many of the luxe hotels developed in DTLA during the first half of the 20th century were converted into SROs as the neighborhood declined in the second half of the century. Many developed reputations as being dangerous and unclean.
The group is pushing for the City Council to take up the SRO model as a means to address the homelessness crisis gripping the city. Around 58,000 people considered homeless were living in L.A. last year, a 23 percent jump from the year earlier.
Voters authorized the city to spend $1.2 billion to build 10,000 units of housing for low-income and homeless Angelenos in 2016, but rising development costs and the loss of state and federal subsidies means the program could fall short by 4,000 units.
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The Talbot Brothers fue un grupo musical con sede en Bermudas. Fue uno de los grupos más populares de calipso en la década de 1950. Lo componían los hermanos Archie (cantante, guitarra acústica y armónica), Austin (guitarra acústica y armónica), Bryan, también conocido como "Dick" (Tiple, y ukelele), Ross, también conocido como "Blackie" (guitarra eléctrica) , Roy Talbot ( bajo), y su primo de Cromwell "Mandy" Mandres (acordeón).

Biografía

The Talbot Brothers surgieron en 1942 y rápidamente se hicieron populares en los hoteles en Bermuda, pero fue su grabación de Bermuda Buggy Ride, hecha en los Estados Unidos la que los catapultó a la fama fuera de su tierra natal.

The Talbot Brothers fue el primer grupo vocal importante de Bermuda. Interpretaban una especie de variación del calipso de Trinidad con una dulce influencia de música pop. Interpretaron y grabaron muchas piezas clásicas del repertorio del calipso en adición a muchas canciones originales.

Su popularidad entre los turistas americanos los llevó a hacer repetidas presentaciones en los EE. UU. desde los primeros años de la década de los cincuenta, siendo una curiosidad particular de su instrumentación una especie de bajo creado por Roy Talbot. Roy creó el instrumento a partir de una gran caja de carne enlatada y un solo hilo de pescar.

Los Talbots realizaron grabaciones en discos de vinilo de 10" y 12" para "Audio Fidelity" un pequeño sello disquero de mediados de los cincuenta y en 1957 grabaron dos álbumes para ABC Paramount Records que se encontraban con facilidad en los Estados Unidos.

En los años cincuenta realizaron muchas presentaciones para la televisión norteamericana incluyendo el Ed Sullivan's Show.

Archie Talbot fue el compositor del tema principal de la película de 1956 Bermuda Affair, el cual está incluido en el primer álbum que grabó para la ABC Paramount.

Ross, el penúltimo sobreviviente del grupo murió en el año 2000 a los 82 años. Todos los años en Bermuda tiene lugar un torneo de golf en su honor.

El bajista Roy Talbot, último sobreviviente del grupo, murió el 15 de mayo de 2009.

Grabaciones

A continuación un lista de las canciones más populares de The Talbot Brothers:

 "Atomic Nightmare" (Archie Talbot)
 "Jumbie Jamberee
 "Bermuda Buggy Ride" (Archie Talbot)
 "Bermuda Affair" (Archie Talbot)
 "Bermuda's Still Paradise" (Ross Talbot)
 "Give an Ugly Woman Matrimony" (Ross Talbot - F. Reid)
 "Gonna Cut You with the Razor" (Archie Talbot - F. Reid)
 "Is She Is or Is She Ain't" (Louis Farrakhan|The Charmer)
 "Last Train to San Fernando" (Mighty Dictator)
 "Nora, Nora" (Lord Kitchener )
 "She's Got Freckles On Her But She Is Nice" (atribuida a Larry Vincent)
 "You Can Go, But You'll Return" (Archie Talbot - F. Reid)

Discografía parcial

 Bermuda Talbot Brothers in their favorite selections Jay 3009 (10")
 Bermuda Talbot Brothers  ("Bermuda, Vol. 2"); Audio Fidelity AFLP-903 (10")
 Bermuda Calypso Party ("Bermuda, Vol. 3"); Audio Fidelity AFLP-1807; c.1957
 Calypsos; ABC-Paramount ABC-156; 1957
 Talbot Brothers of Bermuda; ABC-Paramount ABC-214
 Talbot Brothers of Bermuda (Volumes 1-3); Talman (reissue)

Referencias
 Este artículo está basado en el artículo homónimo de la Wikipedia en inglés

Enlaces externos
 Vinyl Safari
 CalypsoWorld.org
 "Atomic Nightmare" discussed at Atomic Platters
 1959 clip of the Talbots singing "Bermuda Buggy Ride"
 1959 clip of the Talbots singing "Yellow Bird"

Grupos de música de Bermuda
Grupos de música del caribe

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False Messiahs: Hitler
David Hulme
Following its crushing defeat in the First World War, Germany suffered such political instability, unemployment and inflation that many accepted the appeals of extremists. At that very moment Adolf Hitler found a voice that resonated with their innermost frustrations. What can we learn from one of the darkest periods in human history? Could anything like it happen again?
In times of great national crisis, political leaders can be perceived as saviors, both in their own minds and the minds of their adoring publics. Adolf Hitler was affected by his own scarred psyche and the nation's extreme expectation. Through his rise to power, he suffered many setbacks, but they ultimately served to thrust him forward.
According to historian Ian Kershaw, it was the success of the Italian fascist Benito Mussolini that emboldened Hitler. In November 1923 Hitler led the uprising known as the Munich Beer Hall Putsch, but his unsuccessful attempt to grab power put him behind bars. In the wake of the failed coup, Hitler was tried for treason and convicted to five years here at Landsberg prison. Though he served a total of only 13 months, he spent the time in reasonable comfort, dictating the first draft of what would become the Nazi bible, his embittered manifesto Mein Kampf (My Struggle). There he spilled his venom against Jews, Marxists and Slavs, and spelled out his plans for world domination. Kershaw notes that working on the book gave Hitler "absolute conviction in his own near-messianic qualities and mission." Released at the end of 1924, he had become in his own mind the great leader Germany needed, and too many people were prepared to suspend their critical reasoning and listen.
Clearly the problem lay not with Hitler alone. The people needed him, and he needed their adulation. A man subject to such worship will often encourage a kind of religious fervor in the service of the state. In Hitler's mind, religion and war combined to produce a terrible worldview.
Thomas Schirrmacher (director, International Institute for Religious Freedom): "Hitler believed that God created the world to be at war all the time—the races against each other, and all the races against the Jews. So war was not just an ethical question—should we go to war or not?—but it was the essence of this world. And this is why he was sent by God to save the people through war. He was convinced this is how the world is; this is reality. The war was not a result of his worldview, but the war itself was his worldview. He thought this is what the world is for, which meant that peace only can be a time in between where you gather your tanks until you go to war again. And he thought peace to be a very dangerous thing. In peace weak people take over the power—not the genius people—as a result of peace, and you have to go back to war; and then people like him will be the real leaders again."
This was the twisted mindset that thrust humanity into the Second World War and brought about the deaths of 11 million people, more than half of whom were Jews. And though Hitler would refer to Jesus and Christianity, his approach was very selective.
Schirrmacher: "The history of Jesus was not that He was the Jesus of love—love your neighbor, love God—but Jesus was the violent leader against the Jews who was willing to shed His blood—not for forgiveness (he never speaks about forgiveness) but to fight the Jews. So he was so convinced that he said, "Either the Jews die, or I die. There is no place in this world for the two." He would quote Jesus: "I did not come to bring peace to the world but strife." His most loved example was Jesus going to the temple and drive all the Pharisees out."
This terrifying Nazi period is etched in the minds of many. How did a megalomaniac with such awful ideas ever come to power? After all, it wasn't that he didn't spell out his ideas in his book Mein Kampf.
Some are surprised to learn that both Mussolini and Hitler first gained prominence through the democratic process. Could such leaders emerge again? It's not impossible. Given certain crisis conditions, even the world's best hope, democracy, can allow such people to make progress through the system until it's too late.


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An Young-su (* 20. Februar 1964 in Seoul) ist ein ehemaliger südkoreanischer Boxer.

An wurde mit einem Finalsieg über C.C.Machaiah, Indien, Asienmeister 1983 im Weltergewicht (-67 kg) und 1984 nach Siegen über Abock Shoak, Sudan (5:0), Man Bahadur Shrestha, Nepal (5:0), Vedat Onsoy, Türkei (w.o.), Vesa Koskela, Schweden (5:0), und Joni Nyman, Finnland (3:2), und einer Finalniederlage gegen Mark Breland, USA (5:0) Silbermedaillengewinner der Olympischen Spiele in Los Angeles.

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Q: In vb.net what's the deal with these variable being surrounded by sharp parenthesis? I was reviewing some of my colleagues vb.net code the other day and was mystified at a new level - Unfortunately I don't have the code at hand but it looked something like this:
Public Class foo
  Public Function [new]([bar] As String, [baz] As String) As String
    Return String.Concat([bar], baz)
  End Function
End Class

I have never seen these sharp parenthesis surrounding the name of the function and variable. Anyone can explain to me what the purpose of this is.

A: It's because "new" is a keyword and using [ ] is telling the compiler that it should read the keyword as a literal string instead. This way you can use keywords as variable and method names ... if you wanted.
I think the usage around the variables [bar] and [baz] is just .... well, because he could.

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Atelopus angelito est une espèce d'amphibiens de la famille des Bufonidae.

Répartition
Cette espèce est endémique de la municipalité de San Sebastián dans le département du Cauca en Colombie. Elle se rencontre entre  et  d'altitude sur le versant Est de la cordillère Centrale.

Description
Les mâles mesurent de  à  et la femelle .

Étymologie
Cette espèce est nommée en l'honneur de Miguel Angel Barrera-Rodríguez.

Publication originale
 Ardila-Robayo & Ruiz-Carranza, 1998 : Una nueva especie de Atelopus AMC Duméril & Bibron 1841 (Amphibia: Bufonidae) de la Cordillera central Colombiana. Revista de la Academia Colombiana de Ciencias Exactas, Físicas y Naturales, , ,  (texte intégral).

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Anoure (nom scientifique)
Bufonidae
Faune endémique de Colombie
Faune endémique des Andes


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#40 in a series of background briefs
The changing meaning of
TCQ's allowance for combining exposures reflects a redefinition of the terms "decisive" and "moment."
For the better part of a century now, the idea of "the decisive moment" has held almost mythical status in the imagination of photographers around the world:
The lone photographer stands silently poised, half-hidden in the shadows, camera at the ready, waiting for the geometries of the street scene in front of him to converge in the perfect arrangement, at the precise instant of which convergence he will furtively make a single soft click of the shutter and then quickly slip the camera away, basking in the afterglow of triumph.
The stakes are high: miss the moment and it is gone forever. When failure happens, there's no choice but to swallow hard, and to vow to learn from this most-recent disappointment, and to move on to wait for another visual drama — unseen by all others — to unfold once again.
Alas, the times have changed:
1. The photographer no longer needs great reflexes or a honed sense of anticipation
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Any recent digital camera or smartphone can take a quick succession of photos.
In fact, it is now possible to silently shoot — from waist level, without needing to hold the camera up to the eye — 30 high-resolution frames per second.
"Still cameras" and "video cameras" are becoming ever more similar to each other in how quickly they can shoot high-resolution images (most of the millions of videos posted online every day are shot at no more than 30 frames per second).
In other words, all the photographer has to do when trying to capture "the decisive moment" is crank up the frame rate, mash the shutter for a couple of seconds, and then choose a "best" from all of the resulting photographs.
2. The photographer doesn't know until later which moment was "decisive"
This is already a reality (see the last paragraph of #1 above).
But it will boom exponentially if "the next big thing" in photography is eyeglasses and sunglasses that routinely have cameras built into them. (This may be more likely to emerge from small cottage enterprises than from tech giants.)
Whatever the photographer looks at can be photographed, with no camera or device in hand, and with no awareness on the part of the subject that they are being photographed.
There will of course be enormous "social" consequences of such eyewear; it could change interpersonal relations as much as anything in history since the origin of language.
On an individual level, that eyewear will mean that the "decisive moment" photographer can spend the day walking around, constantly taking pictures of people — all without the knowledge of the people in those pictures! — and later go through thousands of photographs, saving only the few frames that fill the goal of showing a "decisive moment."
3. The term "decisive" increasingly refers to the subject's action, not the photographer's.
The term "decisive" when applied to photography was originally embraced by photographers to describe what they hoped to do — that is, to deliberately capture with their camera that one perfect moment.
But because of #1 and #2 above, the term increasingly refers to what the subject was doing, not what the photographer is doing.
4. That "moment" depicted in the photograph may actually be a combination of photos taken at different "moments."
This development is the result of recent smartphone camera technologies: multiple exposures can be recorded in very quick succession (usually without the photographer's awareness) and then combined to produce what appears to be a single-exposure photograph.
So while it may be heresy to a 20th-century street photographer hunting for "the decisive moment," in the 21st century many photographs described by that term will actually be a combination of moments processed to look like only one moment.
Why does TCQ allow for combining exposures when respected international news agencies have not traditionally allowed it?
5. What is lost? What is gained?
Many photographers might say that something valuable has been permanently lost, both in terms of the thrill of the pursuit and in terms of the sense of achievement.
Unless a photographer shoots with a non-motorized film camera, the legendary quest to deliberately capture "the decisive moment" can never again be the challenge that it once was.
But for viewers who like to see as many photographs as possible of "decisive moments" — the critical instant when the moving elements in a photo are in their most compelling arrangement — the future looks bright indeed.


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Wellness, Beauty Masks, and Beyoncé: Inside Houston's First Coworking Space for Women
The newly opened Sesh Coworking arrives as the number of female entrepreneurs in the city is on the rise.
Peter Holley
https://www.texasmonthly.com/news/coworking-space-women-houston/
Photograph by Peter Holley
At first glance, you could mistake Sesh Coworking for a SoHo loft or one of those Instagram-worthy penthouses surreptitiously rented out to elite social media influencers.
The mid-century-modern furniture is wrapped in plush velvet, the houseplants tastefully appointed, the art eye-catching and modern. And on the morning I visit, the entire scene is bathed in a haze of natural light streaming in from the glass ceiling above—while Britney Spears's "Baby One More Time" wafts across the room on the loudspeaker.
Despite the private shower, red wine facial masks near the front desk, and bottles of red wine in the fridge, founders Meredith Wheeler and Maggie Segrich are quick to point out this place is no spa. The members—who pay $25 for a daily pass and between $139 to $199 for a monthly membership—are here for the same reason.
"The women who come here are here to work," Wheeler said. "This is a relaxing environment, sure, but it's also a very collaborative and productive one."
Hoping to carve out a space designed to accommodate the reality of the changing workday, Wheeler has joined forces with Segrich, a freshly arrived New York transplant and small business owner, to create Houston's first coworking space specifically aimed at female professionals.
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Housed inside a two-thousand-square-foot Montrose loft, Sesh offers typical office accoutrements, with access to workstations, a conference room, lots of seating, and plenty of coffee. But there's also a designated "wellness room" on site, a game area for children, prominently displayed Beyoncé idolatry, and a fifteen-foot indoor tree named after Ann Richards, a beloved Texas feminist and one time occupant of the Governor's mansion. It all adds up, the women say, to a working space rooted in flexibility and support.
That support, the women argue, is what's missing from the modern workplace. Despite notable gains in gender equality, they say, women—especially those toggling between kids and demanding careers—tend to exist in a perpetual state of juggling, with numerous open tabs inside their minds at once. That's even more true, they maintain, for a growing number of entrepreneurs and employees engaged in remote, flexible work, where the line between personal and professional lives has never been blurrier. After starting families, both women said they could no longer tolerate working environments that didn't allow them to prioritize motherhood with the same passion that they approached their careers. Out of this realization, they said, the idea for Sesh was born.
"I think women have a tendency to not just show up as a worker bee to do their job," Wheeler said. "They show up with a list of things in the back of their mind that they also have to accomplish throughout the course of the day, whether that's making their kids' doctor's appointment, checking in with the dog walker or remembering, okay, I need to extend the babysitter's hours because we have an open house this Friday."
"We have all these other roles in our lives in addition to running our careers, but too many offices don't acknowledge that fact," she added.
Sesh arrives at a unique moment in Houston's work history. The city's health is still deeply connected to fluctuating oil prices. But its economy has expanded to include one of the largest medical centers in the world, a massive manufacturing base, and a growing number of small manufacturers, technology companies, and start-ups—many of which rely on female employees and freelancers who work remotely.
And yet, despite a diversifying economy and a population with far more female professionals in its ranks than several decades ago, the city still has no shortage of testosterone-infused boardrooms and remains firmly rooted in energy, one of the least gender diverse sectors of the economy.
At the same time, the number of women-owned businesses has grown dramatically over much of the past decade. Sesh's owners argue the combination of all these trends means there is an appetite for a coworking space that caters to women.
I sat down with both working mothers to discuss wellness rooms and beauty routines, Houston's changing demographics, and what women are increasingly demanding from the workplace.
Texas Monthly: Since we're in Houston, let's start with Beyoncé. You named your conference room the Queen B conference room and her image and lyrics are on the wall. What does she represent for Houston's working women?
Meredith Wheeler: We knew we wanted to honor Houston and strong women and it would be crazy if we didn't give a nod to Beyoncé. I think she represents empowerment for women everywhere. But the fact that she's from here and came from a normal, everyday life and now she's on top of the world, that's inspiring for women. She's constantly preaching empowerment and taking your life into your own hands with hard work, and that's part of our philosophy as well.
TM: Beyond empowerment, part of your pitch, it seems, is the idea that a workplace should be designed to make people's lives easier, which sounds so reasonable, but is still not many professionals' lived reality.
MW: We've found that a lot of women are finding ways to work remotely, freelance, or starting businesses because many jobs don't provide the flexibility they're seeking. They're drawn to roles that acknowledge that they have more happening in their life than just work. The problem is, when women step into a more flexible role, some of the benefits of a traditional work environment are lost: they don't automatically get to sit next to people, they may not have access to a good cup of coffee, they may not have a professional space for meetings, but they also may not feel comfortable inviting people into their home.
Maggie Segrich: And most women aren't working for eight hours straight—they're juggling, and we're no different. I recently moved to Houston from New York and one of the biggest adjustments for me was how much time we spend traveling here. Women are in our car to go drop our kids off. We're in our car to go to our workout or to run our errands or to go to an office or a meeting. So I find that you kind of have to be a little transient. You got to have your water bottle and your coffee and your laptop and your charger and headphones. And if you have little kids, you need to make sure you have all the plethora of things you need to carry for babies.
MW: This is a hub for women to use as a launchpad for work or between meetings in different parts of the city. In Houston, so many people commute from the suburbs into the city and don't necessarily have a place to go between meetings.
We also wanted to provide support for working mothers, who still bear the brunt of most child care. So you'll notice we have some kids' goodies here, too [points to games and toys in one section of the room]. We have child-friendly hours Monday through Thursday from 2:30 p.m. to 4:30 p.m. We want our members to know that their kids are welcome.
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TM: Across the hall from the Queen B conference room there's a "wellness room." That sounds like something you'd find in a spa. How do working professionals incorporate a wellness room into their daily activities?
MW: So with the wellness room, we wanted to create a space that took care of the mental side of life. So in this space, a woman can reserve it and she can come in and use it for whatever she needs—meditation, quiet breathing techniques, taking a nap. There's even enough room for her to do some yoga stretches, private conversations, if she's a new mom a place to pump. Somebody asked if they could come in to cry and get some of that energy out and we said, "Of course!"
TM: Customers can also purchase masks for facials, new thongs, razors, makeup remover, and access to a private shower. Why did you decide to offer those items?
MW: Some of these items just offer a little pampering that you can give yourself on a day when you're stressed or need to prepare for a meeting. But you know, we're women, so sometimes we have menstruation popping up when we least expect it and this space acknowledges that reality.
MS: Or like myself, I go running, I do Pilates, I do yoga, and it gets sweaty in Houston, so you have to bring an extra change of clothes and sometimes you forget your underwear. So, you know, this is just something extra that we've thought about to make women's lives a little easier.
TM: Both of you have a diverse work history that has played out in conventional and unconventional work settings. Are there any particular jobs or incidents that influenced how you designed Sesh Coworking?
MS: When I first moved to New York, I worked in a small financial firm in the Chrysler Building, a department that was inside another department. So we had no windows and I had to walk past all these glass offices full of men, including one of the firm's owners, to get to a window or to get coffee or water. You'd just walk really quickly and hope the owner didn't call out your name and call you into his office.
Maybe it wasn't an intentional thought, like we're just gonna put glass on the front of every office so that when women walk to the bathroom they feel like they're being watched, but that was the result.
MW: It's not necessarily that work spaces are intentionally designed to hurt or discriminate against people. I remember working at a Starbucks a year or two ago and trying to sit in the chairs and running into a fairly common problem for women. We tend to sit forward when we work and men tend to lean back, and these chairs were designed for leaning back. Finally, I just said, "I just can't do this!" I couldn't sit in that chair longer than twenty minutes—forget about getting work done there. So, yeah, subtle differences in design can make a big impact.
TM: Your business arrives at a precarious moment in the coworking world, a time when investors have begun to question the wisdom of pouring money into an increasingly crowded industry that has yet to weather a recession. How do you plan to distinguish yourselves?
MW: In the last five years, it has seemed like some coworking companies were positioning themselves as tech companies, and I think that that skewed valuations and led to where we are now. But we're not a tech company. We're a flexible workspace and community focused company.
MS: Some companies, whether it's through their website or their social media, or even just from the moment that you walk in the door, can seem a little exclusive and not necessarily welcoming to all. We do know of coworking spaces that have an application process where you have to be approved. So if you go to the space, you're stopped at the front desk and that's as far as you can get.
MW: We wanted to always remain approachable and authentic. That's just, I think, our philosophies on life, too.
TM: You all are both mothers with three daughters between you. You've said you hope this space influences them as they get older. What did you mean by that?
MW: It's been really cool seeing our three daughters get to know each other and become friends. But knowing we've created a space that is going to provide them with an alternative, another choice, has been amazing, too.
MS: It's also providing them with an opportunity to show them that THIS is how you can work. I went to my daughter's parent-teacher conference on Monday and at the end, the teacher said, "Oh, how is Sesh? How are you doing? How's the space?"
I didn't even know the teacher knew about it, but apparently my daughter talks about it all the time. Her teacher said, "She is so proud of you," and later she said that to me in person. And I was like, wow. I think that's the first time being a mom that I've heard my daughter say that. And I was just like, this is so cool!
MW: Me and my husband recently picked up my girls from my parent's place, where they were staying for the weekend. So we went into the playroom upstairs and they had a dry-erase board and they had tried to draw our logo and wrote something like, "It's girls Sesh time," and they had all their stuffed animals set up and they were leading a coworking session! I think that says it all.
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Time To Clean House?
It's spring cleaning season. Time to clean out the closet, air the dirty linen, get your house in order. It also sounds like what we may need to do regarding our relationships.
A while back, Bill Cosby called us out saying that many of us needed indeed to clean up our act. He chastised and criticized the African American community for the demise of the traditional, two-parent family and the high numbers of high school drop-outs, incarcerations, and unwed births. A year later, Dr. Michael Eric Dyson responded with his book, Is Bill Cosby Right? (Or has the Black Middle Class Lost its Mind?), describing Cosby's remarks as a vicious attack on the most vulnerable in our society.
Now, author Merisa Parson Davis -a cousin of Cosby -has written a counterpoint to Dr. Dyson's counterpoint in her new title, Bill Cosby Is Right: But What Should the Church Be Doing About It?
"Dr. Cosby's words were a wake-up call to the black church," Davis says. "Today, in the age of Obama, we cannot continue to blame white people for everything. While we have an intact, Ivy-league educated African-American two-parent household currently dwelling at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, only 28% of our black children are growing up in the same type of family with their biological mom and dad, who are married to each other. These issues need to be addressed."
The author takes a very conservative view, suggesting for example, that Hurricane Katrina happened because "New Orleans history shows a culture full of the occult, murder and rebellion against God."
A bit too harsh, simplistic, and superstitious in my opinion, but what do you say?
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Coordination on mental health: a priority in emergencies
S M A P S
In emergency situations, one of the priorities is to protect and improve people's mental health and psychosocial well-being.
Achieving this requires coordinated action by those providing humanitarian assistance, including government entities, non-governmental organizations, and civil society groups involved in mental health and psychosocial support (MHPSS).
In this context, PAHO/WHO heal a regional virtual course on Coordination of Mental health and Psychosocial Support to adequately and meaningfully incorporate mental health and psychosocial support in emergency preparedness and response plans in the Region of the Americas.
A comprehensive intersectoral mental health response was promoted along the lines laid out by the Inter-Agency Standing Committee (IASC). The issues covered in the course included operational tools to detect needs, mapping of stakeholders and interventions, supervision, monitoring and evaluation, project, cycle, mental health resources, and development of good practices.
The course emphasized the need to develop technical working groups on mental health and psychosocial support in humanitarian emergencies and disaster situations, and to facilitate technical working groups (TWGs) on MHPSS at the intersectoral level, in accordance with international principles governing humanitarian action.
"The course on coordination mechanisms for mental health and psychosocial support contributed to strengthening governance and organizing actions at the national level. knowledge was shared on the subject of mental health and psychosocial support in emergencies, as week as practical aspects; a work plan was created; and an intersectoral technical group was established as a reference resource on mental health and psychosocial support."
- Catarina Dahl, PAHO/WHO Brazil.
In addition, special attention was devoted to how to address the stigma and discrimination against people with mental disorders that limit access to mental health services.
"The use of mental health services is seen through the lens of that stigma and discrimination. When people arrive, they are very fearful that they will be considered crazy, that they are going to be given some kind of diagnosis that is coming to be harmful to them in some way."
- Seydi Segura of the Ministry of Health of Costa Rica and course participant
Eliz Bibiani Hozmann of the Brazilian Ministry of Citizenship stressed that "the course added content to the knowledge acquired in everyday work. Although I have 12 years of experience working in mental health, the course added a great deal of extra information on topics that I had no knowledge of".
And added that "The main thing was the coordination and synergies that could be achieved between institutions and professionals, as well as setting up an inter-ministerial group and other non-governmental bodies to deal with these issues."
PAHO will continue to promote the creation and development of intersectoral coordination mechanisms for mental health and psychosocial well-being in emergency situations and to offer support for the effective creation of technical working groups in collaboration with other organizations.
MENTAL HEALTH IN EMERGENCIES
Mental Health and COVID-19
Mental Health and Psychosocial Support in Emergencies (MHPSS)


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OF MICE & MEN DROP NEW SONG "HOW TO SURVIVE"
Posted by NinaBRR on February 15 2019 05:45:39
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"How To Survive" is the first release of new music from the Southern California quartet since last year's much-praised Defy album. Of Mice & Men worked with producer Josh Wilbur (Lamb of God, Gojira, Trivium) on the new material.
"'How to Survive' is an anthem for those who have been the receiving end of unmerited and targeted hatred and abuse," said singer and bassist Aaron Pauley, offering a deeper insight into the impactful song. "It's for the kid who was bullied, beat up, and ignored in school. It's for the teenager who was told that they'll never amount to anything and that their thoughts, feelings, and opinions don't matter to the world. It's for the person who has been told that they're worthless, useless, or not good enough, time and time again. It's for the person who's repeatedly been targeted by those who only seek to tear others around them down." He further stated, "This song is for them. This song is for me. I am them, and I'm still standing. So, turn it up. Feel the rage. If you, too, are that person, you will know it well, and it will greet you like an old friend."
2019 is going to be a busy year for OM&M. The band will hit the road for back-to-back U.S. tours, hitting the road with NOTHING MORE and then BEARTOOTH.
OF MICE & MEN ON TOUR:
WITH NOTHING MORE:
2/28 — Oklahoma City, OK — Diamond Ballroom
3/1 — Kansas City, MO — The Truman
3/2 — Minneapolis, MN — Skyway Theatre
3/3 — Chicago, IL — The Vic Theatre
3/6 — Grand Rapids. MI — 20 Monroe
3/7 — Pittsburgh, PA — Stage AE
3/8 — Philadelphia, PA — The Fillmore
3/10 — New York, NY — Playstation Theater
3/11 — New Haven, CT — Toad's Place
3/13 — Silver Spring, MD — The Fillmore
3/15 — Charlotte, NC — The Fillmore
3/16 — Atlanta, GA — Buckhead Theater
3/17 — Tampa, FL — The Ritz
3/19 — New Orleans, LA — The Fillmore
3/20 — Houston, TX — Revention Center
3/23 — San Antonio, TX — Aztec Theatre
WITH BEARTOOTH, HANDS LIKE HOUSES, + DEAD AMERICAN:
4/19 — Fargo, ND — Sanctuary Event Center
4/20 — Sioux City, IA — Anthem at Hard Rock Casino
4/21 — Wichita, KS — Cotillion
4/23 — Des Moines, IA — Wooly's
4/24 — Springfield, MO — The Complex
4/25 — Memphis, TN — Minglewood
4/27 — Houston, TX — So What?! Music Festival
4/28 — New Orleans, LA — Southport Hall
4/30 — Nashville, TN  — Cannery Ballroom
5/1 — Birmingham, AL — Iron City
5/3 — Jacksonville, FL — Welcome to Rockville*
5/4 — Pensacola, FL — Vinyl Music Hall
5/6 — Knoxville, TN — The Mill & Mine
5/8 — Louisville, KY — Mercury Ballroom
5/9 — Lancaster, PA — Chameleon Club
5/10 — Rockingham, NC — Epicenter Festival*
5/12 — Sayreville, NJ — Starland Ballroom
5/13 — Poughkeepsie, NY — The Chance
5/14 — Providence, RI — The Strand
5/15 — Buffalo, NY — Town Ballroom
5/17 — Columbus, OH — Sonic Temple Festival*
5/18 — Chicago, IL  — Chicago Open Air+
* No Of Mice & Men, Dead American
+Beartooth Only


My prized 1987 Mercedes Benz 560SL Roadster with exactly 83K original miles, is for sale!
It has always been garaged, never been in an accident, or driven in inclement weather -- in a word, "pampered," and it shows. I'll let the pictures represent the cosmetics of the car. Not perfect, but really, really nice to be an unmolested 29 years-old vehicle.
Specifics About This Car:* I have all records, including the service-stamped maintenance book dating back to 1987, as well as all repair orders throughout history. All work on this car has been done by a factory-authorized MB repair shops or dealerships.
* I do have the original hardtop, including the correct stand. I took the hardtop off when it arrived 14 years ago, and it's been on its stand in the back of my garage ever since. "Top down, baby!"
* The original German-made canvas top is in excellent condition. It hasn't been used much, either. (It's not an automatic top; the mechanism works fine, but it is a bit of a pain to deploy, so if the weather isn't good, I just don't drive it.) The canvas is original and in good condition with only two very small plastic indentation creases where the top folds into the tonneau, probably as a result of the soft top never getting used.
* It also has an expensive windscreen that makes a tremendous difference with wind noise inside the passenger cabin. You can actually carry on a normal conversation without yelling!
* The never-used tire jack is in place, as well as the never-mounted full-size spare.
* It has two sets of convertible top handles, one original, the other, a much nicer set of chromed locking handles.
* Both sets of keys, master and valet, are original.
* I have the original owner's manuals, additional books, flyers, reports, magazine articles and other interesting memorabilia.
* It includes an after market interior cover that "canopies" over the entire passenger compartment, shielding it from sun damage. Just throw it over the front windshield, velcro strap it to the outside door handles, and in :15 seconds the car is protected from sunlight. I use it every time I park anywhere near sunlight.
* I also have all four original wheels, which I intended to have chromed and spruced up, but never did. I bought new OEM-compliant wheels instead.
Mechanical Points About This Car:* The damn thing runs like new, with no indication of any mechanical system in the car about to break or stop working. I could provide pages of specifics, but suffice it to say it's ready to be driven anywhere without incident, assuming, of course, there's pavement. The meticulous maintenance records will provide all mechanical specifics one would want to know. The car is very quiet during operation on smooth pavement, with no unusual engine knocks, rattles, strange sounds, noises or squeaks.
Very Special Things About This Car:* It has European headlights, made of brilliantly clear glass and pure white bulbs replacing the ugly, round plastic American-style assembly.
* It has über-rare, optional heated front seats!
* The entire air conditioning system was converted from the no-longer-available R12 freon to R134. This required complete replacement of all A/C components, but results in extremely cold air using "modern " freon. The entire system replacement cost was approximately $3,000.
I won't lecture anyone on these cars. People that want a 560SL have done their homework and (probably) know more about this model vehicle than I do. So, I'll just say one thing: almost everyone agrees that of the R107 model lineup, the 560SLs are by far the crème de la crème of the series!
I'd prefer to sell it to someone who can avoid shipping issues, so, fly in, drive it home! It's ready to go!
If needed, though, use one of the shipping companies here through Ebay, or google 'auto shippers' to get other quotes to your location, but I strongly hope you'll come take a test drive to make sure you like the car as much as I do.
I'll respond quickly to all questions and for clarification of anything.
1987 Mercedes-Benz 560SL One Owner! Only 48,127 Miles! Original Window Sticker!
1987 Mercedes-Benz 560SL - 13k original miles - CA car - Spectacular!