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Everyone can gain from the wonderful benefits of meditation, and you don't need to be an 'expert'. My aim is to demystify meditation and show you how you can begin to meditate today. See my page about easy meditation techniques to learn how simple it can be.
So, what are the benefits of meditation? I have categorised them under physical, emotional, mental and spiritual benefits so that you can see how meditation has great advantages upon all levels of our being. But remember, to gain lasting benefits from meditation you need to practice it regularly, ideally every day.
Meditation is a very effective remedy for stress relief for the following reasons. When we feel stressed or anxious, our brain wave pattern changes, our heart rate and blood pressure rise, our breath is more shallow and our muscles tense up. Our body prepares to 'fight or flight' by pumping adrenaline and other hormones into our bloodstream.
In past times, this type of response came in handy when you needed to flee from animals that wanted to eat you or warriors trying to kill you, and the sudden burst of physical activity allowed our bodies returned to normal when the threat was over .
But these days, we seem to live with many smaller stressors, but on a more constant basis - deadlines at work, family conflicts, passing exams, the harbouring of unresolved emotions and generally trying to keep up with a faster pace of life. Over time, without a way to release, the stress continues to build up and begins to affect our health, a fact which is now widely accepted by the medical community.
A reduction in other stress-related symptoms such as fatigue, and an improvement in any stress-induced dis-ease.
An improvement in sleeping patterns.
A reduction in the levels of the stress-related hormones adrenalin and cortisol.
The level of lactic acid in the body is reduced. Long-term stress can create an excess store of lactic acid in the muscles, which can be harmful.
An increase in endorphin levels, the 'feel good' chemical.
An increase in melatonin levels, the hormone associated with restful sleep.
An increase in the level of DHEA, which is like a source ingredient to many hormones the body needs. Low levels of DHEA make us more susceptible to aging, disease and stress.
Greater ability to remain focused and attentive.
Enhanced learning ability, by increasing concentration and information retention.
You also become more aware of the thoughts that run through your mind throughout the day, and you can then choose to think more consciously rather than on auto-pilot. You can begin to choose your thoughts, and make them positive rather than negative.
Your mind-chatter begins to slow, even when you're not meditating, allowing you to stay more focused on the present moment.
We all know that when we are feeling stressed or anxious, our coping abilities plummet. We become more easily irritated, upset or angry. So the stress-releasing qualities of meditation will also work to soothe our jagged emotions.
But there are other emotional advantages to meditating. When we meditate, we are entering a different level of awareness. We begin to dip into our subconscious mind during the meditation process, and all that resides there begins to come into our awareness.
Emotions that we have been repressing or denying may 'come to the surface' if you like. In other words, we begin to become more aware of what has been lurking inside of us for many years.
You may begin to experience certain emotions, but not know why. This is the process of your body bringing these emotions to your awareness to allow them to be acknowledged and then released.
It is very important that you do not resist or suppress any feelings that you may have, or you will not allow them to flow through you and dissipate. Just observe them, accept their presence and know that they will eventually go.
An increase in our ability to cope with various situations, leading to less volatility in our emotional responses.
A safe way to effectively release the withheld emotions that have been affecting our behaviour on an unconscious level.
More awareness of our emotions, and the ability to choose to let them move though us, rather than get caught up in the drama.
More awareness of our behavioural patterns and the emotions that these create.
As stated under mental benefits, we become more aware of our thoughts, and our thoughts lead to emotions.
If you are receiving professional help for any psychological problems, meditation would be a great compliment to your healing journey to enhance your progress.
Over time, regular meditators will begin to experience less random mental chatter, and this makes way for more quiet spaces between the thoughts that do come in.
It is only when we begin to experience these quiet moments that we allow ourselves access to our Higher Selves, or our higher levels of consciousness. How can you connect with the oneness of the Universe and 'all that is' when your mind is endlessly and automatically filling itself with mostly useless thoughts? Nothing else can get in.
The inner peace and expanded awareness that regular meditation produces increases our ability to receive communication from our Higher Self, our spirit guides and the angels. They are feeding us guidance constantly, but most of us never notice it because our minds are way too busy.
Once we begin to be more still, and live in the present moment, we will naturally begin to feel more connected to the oneness of the Universe, and our intuitive abilities will be enhanced.
We begin to live in a more conscious state. We become the observers and creators of our lives, We begin to witness our own behaviours, rather than react to circumstances with great drama.
Consistent meditation will open you up to the intelligent energy that pervades the Universe, and little by little, your inner peace will begin to unfold.
So with all of the incredible benefits of meditation, why don't you get started? I for one can vouch for the life-enhancing advantages of a regular meditation practice.
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Title: Golden Boy
Series: The Canyon Club #2
Author: Kate Moore
Publisher: Boroughs Publishing Group
In L.A., land of palm trees and perpetual sunshine, charming trust-fund golden boy Josh Huntington meets his match in Emma Gray, an independent single-mother who can't be won by charm...and who makes him past ready to be a man.
EVERYTHING HE WANTS
Lucky in looks, fortunate in birth, Josh Huntington is a prince of privilege, one of LA's golden boys. In his nearly thirty years there have been no clouds in the sky and no dip in his funds—until now. His impossibly strong sense of self-interest is being challenged...and not just by his father's threats to cut his trust fund. There's also his tenant, a prickly young single mom with a six-year-old and a habit of looking down her self-reliant nose at his wastrel ways.
Emma Gray has no use for rich man-boys like her landlord, all charming sensuality and no dependability. Not unless her sink needs unclogging. Josh reminds her too much of her rock-star father and a past that she ran away from. Emma is self-made, from her punk rock wardrobe to her fiercely independent lifestyle. But her quest for family will bring them all together, and soon Emma will learn that the spoiled boy next door desires things she doesn't realize...and can grow up to be a man she never dared imagine.
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He opened the door. Emma Gray looked like a landlord's worst nightmare, with her leather-gloved fist stopped midway in its path to his door. Dark rouged lips, nose piercings, and smoky, kohl-lined eyes intensified the glare she gave him. Purple streaks in her hair hung long and straight over her ears. Her black skull-and-crossbones tank top bared trails of lurid floral tattoos running across her collarbone and down her upper arms. A wide, metal-studded black leather belt cinched her waist above an incongruous schoolgirl-plaid pleated skirt. Her slim legs, encased in fishnet hose, disappeared into unlaced industrial-strength black boots. And she looked seriously aggrieved that he'd opened his door wearing only a pair of black silk boxers.
"Don't you ever wear clothes?"
"Not in bed."
Her gaze dropped. He might have made her blush. Hard to tell under that Swedish death metal band look. At least she lowered her fist.
"What's the problem?" he asked. "Sink? Refrigerator? Shower?" It was a mistake to think shower. The very word triggered images his brain ought not to entertain about his tenant, this prickly, independent, don't-touch-me-ever, single-mom tenant whose rent he needed. He might be at low tide, but not that low.
They stood looking at each other in the common second-floor entry under the breast of Venus overhead lamp fixture while he waited for whatever she intended to say. He had time to imagine several intriguing possibilities before she finally got the words out.
"I need your help."
He did not move. He did not betray by so much as a flicker of a glance the satisfaction it gave him to hear those four words from this girl who did practically everything herself. Her constant stubborn independence irked him, though he was less amused the few times she called him out on his landlord duties.
She glanced back over hershoulder at her unit. That meant she was thinking of her son Max, a tow-headed six year old. "Yes."
"My babysitter didn't show and hasn't called, and I'm due at work in fifteen."
He noted what she could and could not say. "You want me to watch Max?"
"He can take care of himself, really. He has toys and snacks. He can play while you…whatever. You just have to check on him once in awhile and call me if there's blood, vomiting, unconsciousness, or visible bones."
He should not have her on, but the temptation was too strong. "Define 'once in awhile.' Like, every five minutes, or every half hour?"
She blew out a short, sharp breath. "If it gets too quiet, you know, you should check."
"So you want me to keep my music down and my door open."
"Can you do that?"
It was clearly instinctive for her to doubt his capabilities. To ask for his help, Ms. Self-Reliance had to be desperate.
He straightened and stopped his teasing. "Listen, let Max know the plan. I'll put on some clothes and take him to the park or something. How long will you be gone?"
"Six." She turned away. "Thank you."
He left the door open and drifted back into his bedroom to find some shorts and flip-flops. Her accepting his help was a slight admission of his usefulness, and he contemplated how to take advantage of his minor victory.
Kate has lived most of her life along the California coast. That experience has made her a jeans-wearing, toes in wet-sand, married to a surfer, fog-loving weather wimp, with a hint of East Coast polish from spending her college years in Boston. Family history connects her to Irish and English immigrants, Cornish miners, gold prospectors, and adventurers who sailed around Cape Horn bound for San Francisco.
When she's not reading, writing or brainstorming, Kate walks in the redwoods, feed birds, collect books, apples and leaves; she watches tele-novellas on Spanish-language TV and immerses herself in all things English. Her favorite food groups are butter, brown sugar, dark chocolate, and red wine. Kate's early literary influences were The Little Engine That Could, The Little Red Hen, and Winnie the Pooh. Austen, Heyer, Chaucer, and Homer came later and inspired her to put that first plot on paper.
Kate's heroes are honorable, virile outsiders with some grand ambition; her heroines are practical princesses, who drive those edgy loners into love with good sense and good sex.
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These electrical box extenders/insulators eliminate the need to align device screws with extender holes and then try to locate holes in the box, says the company. The BXE-100 extender, for a single device box, and the BXE-200, for use with a two-device 4-in. square box, correct up to 1-in. setbacks. The BXE-300 corrects up to ⅝-in. setbacks with a 4-in. octagonal or round box. In addition, the products fulfill UL File E216710 requirements and comply with NEC 314.20.
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COLUMBUS, Ohio — Daniel Sprong scored 1:19 into overtime to lift the Anaheim Ducks over the Columbus Blue Jackets 2-1 on Saturday night.
Adam Henrique won a faceoff in the Ducks offensive zone, and Sprong beat Sergei Bobrovsky with his second goal of the night.
John Gibson stopped 36 shots in a tight, high-energy game played mostly in Columbus' offensive zone. The Ducks have won four straight and eight of nine.
Markus Nutivaara scored in the first period, and Bobrovsky had 20 saves for Columbus, which has lost five of seven.
The Blue Jackets started it at 12:06 in the first period when Boone Jenner won a faceoff and shovelled it back to Nutivaara, who rifled in a slap shot from above the left circle. It was his fourth goal of the season and first in eight games.
NOTES: Anaheim forward Kiefer Sherwood, who grew up in the Columbus suburb of New Albany, played his first game at Nationwide Arena. His younger brother Kole Sherwood is a Blue Jackets prospect. … Ducks F Andrew Cogliano played in his 900th NHL game. … Columbus F Anthony Duclair was a healthy scratch for the second straight game. Lukas Sedlak replaced him in the lineup. … The Ducks kicked off a five-game road trip. Their only loss since Nov. 25 was a 4-1 defeat to the Carolina Hurricanes on Dec. 7.


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The six Project Mercury manned missions were flown between May 1961 and May 1963. The one-astronaut crews were instructive in tolerance of liftoff stress, work in zero-gravity and pressurized spacesuits. It carried enough food, water and oxygen for about one day. Flight was controlled from the ground, with back-up astronaut controls. A heat shield protected the bottom of the capsule during reentry into the Earth's atmosphere. Parachutes deployed at about 10,000 feet and the capsule landed in the ocean, with an inflated flotation collar. Recovery was made by helicopters and crew from Navy ships.
The 10 Project Gemini manned missions were flown between March 1965 and November 1966. The two-astronaut crews established abilities to endure longer space flights (including an 8-day and a 14-day mission); to perform extravehicular activities (or spacewalks); and pilot rendezvous and docking activities with other space vehicles. Those activities were crucial for the development of a lunar landing capability. The Gemini craft did not have an escape tower, but had ejection seats similar to those in fighter jets (though they were never used in launches).
The Apollo program's manned missions were flown between October 1968 and December 1972. Two crews of three astronauts made Earth orbit-only missions — Apollos 7 and 9. Three made moon orbits and returned — Apollos 8, 10 and 13 (which had an explosion in the service module that cancelled a planned landing). Six made lunar landings — Apollos 11, 12, 14, 15, 16 and 17. More than 840 pounds of lunar rock was returned, some gauged to be 4.6 million years old. The program's dominant use of integrated circuits, spurred many advancements in that field.
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As a Rietveld student Kaweh's apartment was burglarized and his most valuable possessions were stolen. After finding out who did it, Kaweh's anger quickly turned into inspiration. He decided to make a documentary about his burglar.
Both my backups and original files were on the computers that got stolen, so I lost all my work at once. Back then I lived in an old deserted factory in Noord with six other people. The night of the break-in me and my girlfriend were fast asleep. The next morning we got up only to see that both my laptop and desktop computer were missing. Despite the fact that we immediately started inquiring throughout the neighborhood, the burglar entered our home a second time and stole my neighbor's Iphone. A week later there was a third break-in. This time one of my housemates managed to lock the burglar inside and confront him. I was in London at the time.
They got him to give back the stuff he took from the house, including both my computers. When I got home from London I was quite anxious to boot them to see if my files were still there. Almost instantly after starting up the computer I got an incoming call through msn messenger. It was from a number I didn't know. I noticed my screen name had changed and I quickly closed my computer. I see my computer as something that mirrors my personality and now my burglar had taken possession of that. I decided to open it again later. I discovered four hours of home footage that my burglar had left me. He was practicing cool looks as if he were posing in front of a mirror, and introduced himself to the camera. Our connection became very intimate. First he was in my room and now I had entered his.
And you decided to turn this into an art project?
I was always taught that there are a few central questions an artist should ask himself. Who am I, what is the object, and what is our relation? In my previous projects I always started a dialogue with an object and posed it as another. In this case I was handed someone with whom I could start a real dialogue. The first few days I was mad at him, but after studying the images he had shot and uploaded to my computer, I started to get to know him. I felt a connection. My anger quickly turned into interest after I googled him.
He was talented and knew what he wanted to achieve. I found out he had won an award writing for theater, and later even found his telephone number. So I decided to call him. Not only to confront him, but also to get to know him and maybe even work together. He declined my offer, telling me he doesn't want to face his victims. At this point I figured the burglar and our relationship would be the focus of my work. During my research it developed into something with the potential of becoming an ongoing project.
How does this all relate to Noord?
The burglary took place in my house in Noord. I lived there for two years. I think I was asked to exhibit my project because it's as if you open a random door in Noord, and ask "What's happening?" This is a story you could hear in reply.
No, not at all. Without wanting to be offensive, but for me a Noordeling is someone who goes to the Dirk van den Broek to get his month's supply of Best Beer and/or vieux.
But what about the cultural possibilities in Noord?
There is still quite a bit of empty space in Noord, which offers young entrepreneurial Amsterdam the chance to develop itself. A lot of old commercial warehouses are now being used as offices and living spaces for people in the creative industry. It's nice how we can learn from each other, and profit from the cultural environment in Noord. I think Noord will develop quite nicely.
"Noord's potential for new developments has only risen."
A look at how space and power are intrinsically connected to Amsterdam Noord's massive development.
"I think the center has become more settled, and Noord is changing faster than ever before."
August 2010. Ahmed tells us about the tranquility of Noord, and why it is special to him.
"Noord is a construction site, a space in transition."
July 2010. Lara is part of the Mapping for Tourists (now Noord) design team, working on the first Arabic travel guide to The Netherlands.


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Jonas Bendiksen is Norwegian and was born in 1977. He began his career at the age of 19 as an intern at Magnum's London office, before leaving for Russia to pursue his own work as a photojournalist. Throughout the several years he spent there, Bendiksen photographed stories from the fringes of the former Soviet Union, a project that was published as the book Satellites (2006).
Here and elsewhere, he often focuses on isolated communities and enclaves. In 2005, with a grant from the Alicia Patterson Foundation, he started working on The Places We Live, a project on the growth of urban slums across the world, which combines still photography, projections and voice recordings to create three-dimensional installations.
Bendiksen has received numerous awards, including the 2003 Infinity Award from the International Center of Photography, New York, and second place in the Daily Life Stories for World Press Photo, as well as first prize in the Pictures of the Year International Awards. His documentary of life in a Nairobi slum, Kibera, published in the Paris Review, won a National Magazine Award in 2007.
His editorial clients include National Geographic, Geo, Newsweek, the Independent on Sunday Review, the Sunday Times Magazine, the Telegraph Magazine, and the Rockefeller Foundation.


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Уорнер Фрэнсис Джон Плантагенет Гастингс (; 8 июля 1868 — 5 апреля 1939) — британский аристократ, 15-й граф Хантингдон с 1885 года.

Биография
Уорнер Гастингс был старшим сыном Фрэнсиса Гастингса, 14-го графа Хантингдона, и Мэри Вестенра. Родился в 1868 году, в 1880—1881 годах был почётным пажом вице-королевского суда Ирландии и заместителем лейтенанта округа Кингс (современное графство Оффали). Позже служил в 3-м батальоне Ленстерского полка принца Уэльского и вышел в отставку в звании майора в феврале 1900 года. 4 июня 1901 года поступил на службу в том же звании, вышел в отставку в звании подполковника в 1905 году, вернулся в армию во время Первой мировой войны. С 1925 года жил в поместье Бертон-холл в Лестершире. Умер в 1939 году в возрасте 70 лет, был похоронен на приходском кладбище церкви Святой Елены в Эшби-де-ла-Зуш.

Граф был женат на Мод Уилсон, дочери сэра Сэмюела Уилсона и Джин Кэмпбелл. В этом браке родились:

 Мод (1893—1965), жена Уильяма Керзона-Керрика;
 Нора (1894—1985), жена Фрэнсиса Нидхема, 4-го графа Килмори;
 Мэриан (1895—1947), жена Патрика Кэмерона и Джона Бриджеса;
 Фрэнсис (1901—1990), 16-й граф Хантингдон.

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Литература

Графы Хантингдон
Графы Великобритании XIX века
Графы Великобритании XX века
Участники Первой мировой войны (Великобритания)
Гастингсы

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let gFacts;

const data = ['./test/data/concepts_sm.top'];

describe('Expand', () => {
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      if (err) {
        return done(err);
      }
      gFacts = sfacts;
      done();
    });
  });

  it('should create a user database.', () => {
    const userDB = gFacts.createUserDB('SOME_USER_ID');
  });

  it('should create a user database with data', (done) => {
    const files = ['./test/data/names.top'];
    const userDBWithData = gFacts.createUserDBWithData('ANOTHER_USER_ID', files, (err, db) => {
      done(err);
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Q: Symfony 2.4 {{app.request}} is empty in Production I'm using app.request for various and common usages as retrieving locale, current route, etc.
{{ path(app.request.get('_route')) }}
{{ app.request.locale }}

It works fine in Development environment, but in Production the variable is simply empty. It returns always null values, so it results on all kind of errors like:
"Unable to generate a URL for the named route "" as such route does not exist."

How can I access app.request in Production environment?
Edit
I should clarify that app.request actually "exists", but for some reason it returns always empty values instead of the expected ones. If I call a nonexistent method under app.request, for instance app.request.thisdoesnotexist I get an error:
Method "thisdoesnotexist" for object "Symfony\Component\HttpFoundation\Request" does not exist in...

But I'm not getting this error, so app.request is actually defined, but empty.

A: app.request work in any environment. But you missed a ):
{{ path('"'~app.request.get('_route')~'"') }}
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Or try to test :
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A: Finally I've found a solution. It was a deployment issue with my particular setup, but it could help others in similar situations.
To shorten: rebuild your bootstrap.php with
php vendor/sensio/distribution-bundle/Sensio/Bundle/DistributionBundle/Resources/bin/build_bootstrap.php

If for any reason you are forced to run composer updates in Production with the --no-scripts option (as I am due to shared hosting restrictions), forgetting to rebuild that file can cause this issue.

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Kabyle people
Title: Kabyle people
Subject: Berbers, Kabyle language, Genetic history of North Africa, Berber languages, Pierre Bourdieu
Collection: Berber Tribes, Ethnic Groups in Algeria, Indigenous Peoples of North Africa, Kabyle People
Iqvayliyen
Oulahlou (fr)
Ahmed Ouyahia
Mouloud Mammeri
c. 5.5 to 6 million e[1]
Regions with significant populations
c. 5.5 million e[1]
France and Europe
c. 1 million e[1]
Kabyle (native), Algerian Arabic and French (as a result of immigration or language shift)
Sunni Islam, Roman Catholicism, Protestantism.
The Kabyle people (Kabyle: Iqvayliyen) are a Berber ethnic group native to Kabylie (or Kabylia) in the north of Algeria, one hundred miles east of Algiers. They represent the largest Berber-speaking population of Algeria and the second largest in Africa.
Emigration, influenced by factors such as the French conquest of Algeria, deportation, and latterly industrial decline and unemployment, has resulted in Kabyle people living in numerous countries. Large populations of Kabyle people settled in France and, to a lesser extent, Canada.
The Kabyle speak the Kabyle language. Since the Berber Spring of 1980, they have been at the forefront of the fight for the official recognition of Berber languages in Algeria.
Culture and society 3
Language 3.1
Religion 3.2
Diaspora 6
Genetics and physical anthropology 7
Notes and references 9
Lalla Fatma N'Soumer of Tariqa led the resistance against French colonization 1851-57.
The Kabyle were relatively independent of outside control during the period of Ottoman empire rule in North Africa. They lived primarily in three different kingdoms: the Kingdom of Kuku, the Kingdom of Ait Abbas, and the principality of Aït Jubar.[2] The area was gradually taken over by the French during their colonization beginning in 1857, despite vigorous resistance. Such leaders as Lalla Fatma n Soumer continued the resistance as late as Mokrani's rebellion in 1871.
French officials confiscated much land from the more recalcitrant tribes and granted it to colonists, who became known as pieds-noirs. During this period, the French carried out many arrests and deported resisters, mainly to New Caledonia (see: "Algerians of the Pacific"). Due to French colonization, many Kabyle emigrated into other areas inside and outside Algeria.[3] Over time, immigrant workers also went to France.
In the 1920s, Algerian immigrant workers in France organized the first party promoting independence. Messali Hadj, Imache Amar, Si Djilani, and Belkacem Radjef rapidly built a strong following throughout France and Algeria in the 1930s; they developed militants who became vital to the fighting for an independent Algeria. This became widespread after World War II.
During the Algerian war of independence (1954–1962), Kabylie was the area of much fighting due to the maquis, whose resistance was aided by the mountainous terrain, and catalyzed by French oppression. The armed Algerian revolutionary resistance to French colonialism, the National Liberation Front (FLN), recruited several of its leaders there, including Hocine Aït Ahmed, Abane Ramdane, and Krim Belkacem.
Since the independence of Algeria, tensions have arisen between Kabylie and the central government on several occasions. In 1963 the FFS party of Hocine Aït Ahmed contested the authority of the FLN, which has promoted itself as the only party in the nation.
In 1980, protesters mounted several months of demonstrations in Kabylie demanding the recognition of Berber as an official language; this period has been called the Berber Spring. The politics of identity intensified during the 1990s as the regime initiated Arabization due to growing Islamist power. In 1994–1995, a school boycott occurred, termed the "strike of the school bag". In June and July 1998, there were violent protests after the assassination of singer Matoub Lounes and the law requiring use of the Arabic language in all fields.
In the months following April 2001 (called the Black Spring), major riots — together with the emergence of the Arouch, neo-traditional local councils, followed the killing of Masinissa Guermah, a young Kabyle, by gendarmes. The protests gradually decreased after the Kabyle won some concessions from President Abdelaziz Bouteflika.
The geography of the Kabyle region played an important role in the people's history. The difficult mountainous landscape of the Tizi Ouzou and Bejaia provinces served as a refuge, to which most of the Kabyle people retreated when under pressure or occupation, thus preserving their cultural heritage from other cultural influences. The area was occupied by Romans, Arabs during the spread of Islam, functionaries of the Ottoman Empire, and French beginning in the late 19th century.
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Algerian provinces with significant Kabyle-speaking populations include : Tizi Ouzou and Béjaïa, where they are the majority, as well as Bouira, Boumerdes , Setif , Bordj Bou Arreridj , Jijel . Algiers also has a significant Kabyle population.
The Kabyle region is referred to as Al Qabayel ("tribes") by the Arabic-speaking population and as Kabylie in French. Its indigenous inhabitants call it Tamurt Idurar ("Land of Mountains") or Tamurt n Iqvayliyen/Tamurt n Iqbayliyen ("Land of the Kabyle"). It is part of the Atlas Mountains and is located at the edge of the Mediterranean.
The Kabyles speak Kabyle, a Berber language of the Afro-Asiatic family. As second and third languages, many people speak Algerian Arabic, French and, to a lesser degree English.
During the first centuries of their history, Kabyles used Tifinagh writing system. Since the beginning of the 19th century, and under French influence, Kabyle intellectuals began to use the Latin script. It gave the modern Berber latin alphabet.
After the independence of Algeria, some Kabyle activists tried to revive the old Tifinagh alphabet. This new version of Tifinagh has been called Neo-Tifinagh, but its use remains limited to logos. Kabyle literature has continued to be written in the Latin script.
The Kabyle people are mainly Muslim, with some Christians divided among Roman Catholics and Protestants. Some Catholic Kabyles moved to France during and after Algerian independence as pied-noirs. Recently, the Protestant community has experienced significant growth, particularly among Evangelical denominations.[5]
Since the 19th century, there has been a large nominal Sunni Muslim community.[6] Among Kabyle Muslims, the main tradition is Maraboutism,.[7] Many Zaouia exist all over the region; the Rahmaniyya is the most prolific.
The traditional economy of the area is based on arboriculture (orchards and olive trees) and on the craft industry (tapestry or pottery). Mountain and hill farming is gradually giving way to local industry (textile and agro-alimentary). In the middle of the 20th century, with the influence and funding by the Kabyle diaspora, many industries were developed in this region. It has become the second most important industrial region in the country after Algiers.
The Kabyle have been fierce activists in promoting the cause of Berber (Amazigh) identity. The movement has three groups: Kabyles who see themselves as part of a larger Berber nation (Berberists); those who identify as part of the Algerian nation (known as "Algerianists", some view Algeria as an essentially Berber nation); and those who view the Kabyle as a distinct nation separate from (but akin to) other Berber peoples (known as Kabylists).
Two political parties dominate in Kabylie and have their principal support base there: the Socialist Forces Front (FFS), led by Hocine Aït Ahmed, and the Rally for Culture and Democracy (RCD), led by Saïd Sadi. Both parties are secularist, Berberist and Algerianist.
The Arouch emerged during the Black Spring of 2001 as a revival of the village assembly, a traditional Kabyle form of democratic organization. The Arouch share roughly the same political views as the FFS and the RCD.
The MAK (Movement for the Autonomy of Kabylie) also emerged during the Black Spring, It works for the autonomy of Kabylie. On 21 April 2010, Ferhat Mehenni, leader of the MAK, proclaimed a Provisional Government of Kabylie in exile (ANAVAD). It was established officially on 1 June 2010 at the Palais des Congrès in Paris. He was elected President by the National Council of the MAK, and he named nine Ministers.[8]
For historical and economic reasons, many Kabyles have emigrated to France, both for work and to escape political persecution. They now number about 1.5 million.[9][10] Many notable French people are of full or partial Kabyle descent, such as Zinedine Zidane, Karim Benzema, Marcel Mouloudji, Dany Boon, Jacques Villeret, Daniel Prévost, Marie-José Nat, Isabelle Adjani, Alain Bashung, Julie Renard etc.
Genetics and physical anthropology
Over the long history, the area of the Kabyle has been invaded numerous times by other people, affecting some of the mixture of its peoples.
Y-Dna haplogroups, passed on exclusively through the paternal line, were found at the following frequencies in Kabylie: E1b1b1b (E-M81) (47.36%), R1*(xR1a) (15.78%) (later tested as R1b3/R-M269 (now R1b1a2)[11]), J1 (15.78%), F*(xH, I, J2,K) ( 10.52% ) and E1b1b1c (E-M123) (10.52%).[12] The North African pattern of Y-chromosomal variation (including both E1b1b and J haplogroups) is largely of Semitic origin and found predominately in the Middle East and North Africa.[13]
MtDNA Haplogroups, inherited only from the mother, were found at the following frequencies: H (32.23%), found throughout Europe; U* (29.03% with 17.74% U6), common to North Africa; preHV (3.23%), preV (4.84%), V (4.84%), T* (3.23%), J* (3.23%), L1 (3.23%), L3e (4.84%), X (3.23%), M1 (3.23%), N (1.61%) and R (3.23%).
Carleton S. Coon in his The Races of Europe (1939) classified the Kabyle Berbers as "largely Mediterranean with a major Nordic contribution".[14] He described the Kabyle as having traces of blondism, as in other Berber groups. However, they are not ethnically homogeneous. Those with major Nordic contributions have fair, pinkish-white skin, with mixed or light eyes; the rest are of Mediterranean (mainly of classic Mediterranean) or Iberid subtype.[15] But, his work has been largely discredited by scientists and anthropologists, as his type of physical anthropology has not been found to be accurate in terms of assessing peoples' ancestries, and ethnicity is associated with culture and social constructs.
Berber people
Kabylism and Berberism
Kabyle language
Famous Kabyles
^ a b c "Kabyles around the world". Retrieved July 15, 2012.
^ E. J. Brill's First Encyclopaedia of Islam, 1913-1936, Volume 4, publié par M. Th. Houtsma, Page: 600
^ , p. 74L'Algérie en guerre: Abane Ramdane et les fusils de la rébellionBélaïd Abane,
^ Le Djurdjura à travers l'histoire by Ammar ou Said Boulifa 1925
^ Lucien Oulahbib, Le monde arabe existe-t-il ?, page 12, 2005, Editions de Paris, Paris.
^ Abdelmadjid Hannoum, Violent modernity: France in Algeria, Page 124, 2010, Harvard Center for Middle Eastern studies, Cambridge, Massachusetts.
^ Amar Boulifa, Le Djurdjura à travers l'histoire depuis l'Antiquité jusqu'en 1830 : organisation et indépendance des Zouaoua (Grande Kabylie), Page 197, 1925, Algiers.
^ www. kabylia-gov.org, Kabylia Government website
^ Salem Chaker, "Pour une histoire sociale du berbère en France", Les Actes du Colloque Paris - Inalco, Octobre 2004
^ Encyclopedia of the Stateless Nations: D-KJames Minahan, , Good Publishing Group, 2002, p.863. Quote: "Outside North Africa, the largest Kabyle community, numbering around 1.5 million, is in France."
^ Adams et al. 2008, " The genetic legacy of religious diversity and intolerance: paternal lineages of Christians, Jews, and Muslims in the Iberian Peninsula"
^ Arredi B, Poloni ES, Paracchini S, Zerjal T, Fathallah DM, Makrelouf M, Pascali VL, Novelletto A, Tyler-Smith C. (2004). "A Predominantly Neolithic Origin for Y-Chromosomal DNA Variation in North Africa". Am J Hum Genet. 75 (2): 338–345.
^ Elizabeth Caldwell Hirschman and Donald Neal Yates. When Scotland Was Jewish: DNA Evidence, Archeology, Analysis of Migrations ... (quot: Haplogroup J is found at highest frequencies in Middle Eastern and North African). p. 32. Retrieved August 5, 2012.
Provisional Government of Kabylie (ANAVAD)
Kabyle Movement of Autonomy
Kabyle centric news site (Kabyle)
Social web site
Kabyle centric news site (French)
Ethnologue.com about Kabyle language
Algerian linguistic policy (French)
Cultural site (French)
Articles with links needing disambiguation from November 2012
Articles needing additional references from November 2013
Articles with Kabyle-language external links
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Indigenous peoples of North Africa
Tunisia, Egypt, Morocco, Sudan, Libya
United Kingdom, European Union, Italy, Canada, Spain
Chronology, History, Time, Floruit, Astronomy
Spanish language, Canada, France, Italian language, English language
Berber languages, Ǧ, Algeria, Ɛ, Č
Berbers
Algeria, Morocco, Tunisia, Kabyle people, Berber languages
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Houston Texans
Graham fu scelto nel corso del quarto giro del Draft 2010 dagli Houston Texans. Nella sua stagione da rookie disputò 6 partite, nessuna delle quali come titolare, senza far registrare alcuna statistica. Nella stagione successiva disputò 7 partite con una ricezione da 24 yard.

Nella settimana 9 della stagione 2012, contro i Buffalo Bills, Graham segnò il primo touchdown su ricezione della carriera. Nella settimana 11, nella vittoria sui Jacksonville Jaguars, ricevette 82 yard e segnò due touchdown. La sua stagione si concluse con 263 yard ricevute e tre touchdown in 15 presenze, 9 delle quali come titolare.

Nella prima gara della stagione 2013, i Texas rimontarono uno svantaggio di 21 punti alla metà del terzo quarto sui San Diego Chargers con Graham che contribuì con un touchdown. Il secondo TD lo segnò nella settimana 4 nella sconfitta ai supplementari contro i Seattle Seahawks. Nella settimana 11 contro gli Oakland Raiders ricevette un nuovo primato in carriera di 136 yard ma i Texans furono sconfitti.

Il 13 marzo 2014, Graham firmò un prolungamento contrattuale triennale coi Texans.

Denver Broncos
Il 25 aprile 2016, Graham firmò con i Denver Broncos.

Statistiche

Statistiche aggiornate alla stagione 2015

Note

Collegamenti esterni


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Francisco Gabriel Gálvez (c. 1510 – 1578) was a Spanish Renaissance composer of sacred music and was the maestro di cappella of Cuenca Cathedral from 1560 until his death. His only extant score is a five-part motet, Emendemus in melius.

Life and works
Little is known about Gálvez's early life. The musicologist Miguel Martínez Millán (1911–1985) assumed that he was born in or near the Spanish city of Cuenca where there were several members of a Gálvez family active in the musical life of its cathedral. He served as a musician at the Basilica di Santa Maria Maggiore in Rome before being summoned to Spain in 1560 to serve as the maestro di cappella of Cuenca Cathedral. He remained in that post for the rest of his life, although from September 1863 to March 1564 he absented himself to Aragon in a dispute over his pay. He returned when the cathedral offered him a substantial increase and back pay for the period of his absence. He later received another substantial increase to match an offer for his services from the Cathedral of Segovia.

According to Martínez Millán, Gálvez died shortly after 10 July 1578, and the following September Ginés de Boluda was appointed his successor. Gálvez is buried in the Cuenca Cathedral beside an altar in the nave to the left of the choir. He was the first of the cathedral's maestri di cappella to be buried there. Gálvez had presented the cathedral with a bound collection of his works in 1561 and a book of his hymns and Magnificat settings in 1567. Both are now lost.

The only surviving score by Gálvez is a five-part motet, Emendemus in melius, composed for the first Sunday in Lent and held in the archives of the Sistine Chapel Choir. The choir performs the work on its 2019 recording O Crux Benedicta. A transcription by Jesús María Muneta of the manuscript score was published in Tesoro Sacro Musical (a journal of the Sociedad Española de Musicología) in 1975. According to Giuseppe Baini, the director of the Sistine Chapel Choir from 1818 to 1844, Palestrina took the basic theme of his four-part mass Emendemus in melius (composed in 1594) from Gálvez's earlier work. This analysis was later disputed by the Spanish musicologist Samuel Rubio (1912–1986) who wrote that the two works have too little in common. He  also questioned the attribution of the motet to Gálvez. The name of the composer on the manuscript score is written as "Cabreli Cálvez", who according to Rubio, may have been a different person.

References

Further reading
Muneta, Jesús María (1976). "Motete Emendemus in melius de Gabriel Galvez". Cuenca, No. 10. (score and analysis of Gálvez's Emendemus in melius, in Spanish)

Spanish classical composers
1510 births
1578 deaths
Renaissance composers
Sacred music composers
16th-century composers


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Thought for the day: Turning back the tide
One new year's resolution we all should make is to ensure that our networks, PCs and software are protected from e-criminals,...
Simon Moores at Zentelligence
One new year's resolution we all should make is to ensure that our networks, PCs and software are protected from e-criminals, says Simon Moores.
With a little over a month before the big names in information security and digital law-enforcement descend on London for the National Hi-Tech Crime Unit's (NHTCU) 2004 eCrime Congress, there comes a warning that organised crime is increasing its efforts to find new and interesting ways of exploiting Europe's increasingly broadband society.
According to Sophos, the increasing use of broadband internet connections and a general lack of security awareness have resulted in around one in three spam e-mails being redirected through the computers of unsuspecting users.
One-third of all spam circulating the web is now relayed through PCs that have been compromised by remote access trojans, and recently Eugene Kapersky, co-founder of Kapersky Labs and head of its antivirus research, warned that organised crime is gravitating online into spam and virus writing.
He pointed at the latest MiMail worms as the first in a new type of exploit aimed at deriving financial profit from viruses and malware. The most recent MiMail variant collected and forwarded PayPal account details to the worm's author.
Kapersky, referring to the grip that vice and drugs has over the spam industry, remarked, "If you are a spammer or malware developer, sooner or later the mafia will come knocking on your door."
Meanwhile, at a cybercrime conference held in Germany, David Finn, Microsoft's director of digital integrity for Europe, the Middle East and Africa, conceded that the authors of a growing tide of computer viruses, like Blaster and Sobig-F, are winning a one-sided battle with international law enforcement and are getting away with crimes that cost the global economy $13bn in 2003.
With counterfeit software very close to Microsoft's heart, Finn told his audience that counterfeit centres are shifting from California and Western Europe to countries including Paraguay, Colombia and Ukraine, and pirate plants have emerged in Vietnam, Macao, and Myanmar in addition to more established facilities in Indonesia, Malaysia and Thailand.
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Research commissioned by application switching provider Radware revealed that small companies in the UK are fighting off an average of 500 attacks each month from viruses, worms and denial-of-service attempts.
Compared with previous estimates, costs associated with cleaning up after a virus or worm attack have increased by more than 400% over the past 12 months to £122,000, says a report from The Corporate IT Forum.
The Forum surveyed its members - which include more than half of the FTSE 100 and 250 companies - after the MSBlast worm this August. The figure of £122,000 is four times that estimated by the Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) last year.
According to the survey, three out of four IT departments spent around 365 person-hours repairing damage caused by the attack. However, 35% of organisations were affected more severely, with each losing an average of 3,080 person-hours.
In the face of such sobering figures, Vincent Weafer, senior director of Symantec's security response centre, predicts that 2004 could prove a tough year. "We're in for a repeat of this year and should expect two to four MSBlast-sized events in 2004 and a major mass-mailed worm or virus every month on the average."
According to Symantec, the most significant trends this year has been the rise in so-called "blended' threats, exploits that use multiple modes of infection, ranging from hacking and computer worms to denial-of-service attacks and website defacements to create a single, advanced assault that overwhelms defences. "Yesterday's strategy of 'one threat, one cure' is no longer viable today," he added.
Len Hynds, head of the National High-Tech Crime Unit, warns that organised crime is buying in to the digital skill set. "Organised crime", says Hynds,"Whatever its commodity, is driven by a desire for profit, and often its Achilles' heel is its communications processes.
"We are aware that organised crime is now using sophisticated methods to make its communications more secure, and it will recruit people to assist in the process."
He points to a sharp rise in spoof sites mimicking financial institutions and intended to trick customers into revealing their account details and passwords. In the UK alone the number of cases has risen to 40 this year in contrast with just seven in 2002, with bogus websites becoming "far more sophisticated".
The question in the mind of law enforcement and IT security directors alike, is whether increasing global investment in computer security programmes and supporting legislation will reverse the rapidly upward trend in computer crime?
In the near term, the outlook is far from positive, as both technology and people remain easily exploitable by increasingly expert criminals for amusement or profit. The digital equivalent of The Great Train Robbery hasn't happened yet, but for many observers, it's only a matter of time before it does and the criminals involved may not have to flee to Rio or Riga, they'll be there already.
Setting the world to rights with the collected thoughts and opinions of leading industry analyst Dr Simon Moores of Zentelligence.
Acting globally, Zentelligence (Research) advises governments, suppliers, business and the media on the evolution, application and delivery of leading-edge technologies and specialises in the areas of eGovernment and information security.
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The Mississippi Gaming Commission says from August 1st through Labor Day, gamblers in Mississippi bet $9.8 million on sporting events.
A total of 20 casinos have opened sportsbooks since sports betting became legal in Mississippi, and the state has a 12 percent tax on gross casino gaming revenue. The $9.8 million total includes both losing and winning bets, so a portion of that will go to paying off the winners. The total amount on taxable revenue will come out later this month.
Casinos earn around five percent from the bets placed, and the state gets eight percent on the casino's take. When you consider that a casino in Mississippi will become the closest venue to place legal sports bets for 22 out of the 50 biggest cities in the United States, there's potential for huge amount of revenue for the state and the casinos.
At noon on August 1, the Gold Strike Casino in Mississippi accepted its first legal sports bet. This was 26 years to the day after the first legal bet of any kind was made in the state. Mississippi joined Nevada, Delaware, and New Jersey in being one of the four states to allow legalized sports betting.
Mississippi has 28 state-regulated casinos, plus two Choctaw Indian casinos, which aren't included in the revenue to the state since they don't report their figures. The Gold Strike in Tunica and the Beau Rivage in Biloxi were the first two Mississippi casinos to offer sports betting on August 1st; the others came after. The most recent casino to offer sports wagering was the Bok Homa Casino in Sandersonville, having opened a sportsbook on September 1st.
Bettors in Mississippi can make regional bets, or bet on any NFL pre-season and regular-season games, every MLB game, on NFL pre-season games, or on boxing, golf, the WNBA, and NASCAR.
Right now, customers at Mississippi casinos can only place bets in person since the casinos don't yet have mobile betting capabilities, but that's coming soon.
The state could pull in even more gambling revenue if it would legalize mobile sports betting. Estimates of the illegal sports betting market in the US go from $60 to $400 billion every year. While Mississippi was smart to have passed a law in 2017 that anticipated the SCOTUS decision to overturn PASPA, thus allowing legalized sports betting in the country, legislators made a big mistake. They said that legal sports bets can only take place if the bettor is in a casino.
Without Internet-based mobile betting, Mississippi loses out on a huge income from the online sports betting market. Right now, someone in Mississippi can go online at home and place an illegal bet on sports. Why would they want to go to a casino in order to place a bet? Research shows that, unless online sports betting is made legal, 71 percent of bettors won't bother to travel to nearby casinos to place bets. That means all of that tax revenue is being lost to illegal sportsbooks.


Big Lebowski protagonist did, he'd be covered. Vuarnet's 1960s model makes a grand return this year with best-in-test tech. It starts with oversized mineral glass lenses, which offer markedly better clarity than plastic, and, in Vuarnet's case, filter out more harmful infrared light. After that, the 03s have a catalog of sweet features: anti-reflective backsides so you never get the mirror effect when you're in bright light; 100 percent UV protection; and flexible nylon frames with shape memory.


In some ways, running on a treadmill can be worse than running outdoors. Mark's Daily Apple explains how, along with a simple tweak that will help you get more from your treadmill runs: set it at an incline.
Runners typically generate the majority of their power with their posterior chains: the glutes and the hamstrings. It's the hip extension, powered by the glutes and hamstrings, that propels the runner across the terrain. Since treadmill running cuts way back on peak hip extension, instead favoring hip flexion, the already sorely underdeveloped (from sitting and office work and generally sedentary living) posterior chain receives even less attention. Why engage the glute to bring your leg back and your body forward if the tread belt does it for you?
The posterior chain is important for pretty much any kind of movement, so you don't want to lose out on working those muscles.
Update: As pointed out in the comments, the study cited only saw a difference between treadmill and outdoor running at an incline of 0% for speeds up to 7.5 miles per hour (about an 8 minute mile).
Check out the full post for a few more suggestions on improving your treadmill runs...and why you might want to run outdoors more when you can.


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El edificio del Seguro Obrero es un edificio de oficinas chileno, ubicado en el Barrio Cívico de Santiago de Chile, en calle Morandé 107. Recibe su nombre de la Caja del Seguro Obrero, entidad de la que fue sede. Actualmente es utilizado por el Ministerio de Justicia de Chile como su sede principal.

Ubicado en la esquina nororiente de la intersección de las calles Morandé y Moneda, la cual comparte con el Palacio de La Moneda (surponiente), el Edificio de la Intendencia Metropolitana de Santiago (suroriente) y la Plaza de la Constitución (norponiente).

Historia

La construcción de doce pisos y una terraza, destinada para la Caja del Seguro Obrero Obligatorio (creada en 1924), fue diseñada por el arquitecto Ricardo González Cortés, quien había sido influenciado por la Escuela de Chicago y el art déco. Comenzó a construirse en 1928 y fue completado en 1931.

El 5 de septiembre de 1938 el edificio se hizo infamemente conocido por la llamada «Matanza del Seguro Obrero». Ese día, miembros del Movimiento Nacional-Socialista se tomaron el edificio, y se enfrentaron en un tiroteo con Carabineros. Tras terminar la toma, los policías masacraron a los jóvenes al interior del edificio, resultando un total de 59 muertos.

Desde noviembre de 1989 es la sede principal del Ministerio de Justicia.

Véase también
 Población de la Caja del Seguro Obrero
 Lista de edificios en Chile

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Arquitectura de 1931


World of Warcraft: The Burning Crusade has broken the day-one sales record to become the fastest-selling PC game ever in North America and Europe, with a worldwide total of nearly 2.4 million copies sold in the first 24 hours of availability.
Thanks to the latest compatibility update by Microsoft.
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Better Buy: Boeing vs. Brookfield Asset Management
These top companies are moving in opposite directions. Which one is the best choice for investors?
John Bromels
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Jan 8, 2020 at 11:33AM
John has found investing to be more interesting and profitable than collectible trading card games. He seeks growth and value stocks in the U.S., in Germany, and beyond!
If all you knew about two companies was that one seems to be doing everything right and the other seems to be doing everything wrong, which would you pick? The outperformer, hoping its strong performance continues? Or the underperformer, hoping it'll turn itself around?
Well, let's start the new year with a "BA-BAM!" by comparing troubled airplane manufacturer Boeing (NYSE:BA) and well-run asset management company Brookfield Asset Management (NYSE:BAM) to see which one looks like the better buy right now.
Boeing's name is synonymous with flight, but Brookfield's stock has been soaring. Image source: Getty Images.
Brookfield Asset Management is a very diversified company, while Boeing isn't. Boeing is laser-focused on manufacturing aircraft -- mostly airplanes for commercial airlines, but also some military jets in the mix. Brookfield, on the other hand, manages a sprawling portfolio of specialty assets through the master limited partnerships it controls, including Brookfield Infrastructure Partners and Brookfield Renewable Partners. These subsidiaries give Brookfield exposure to industries including telecommunications, transportation, energy, real estate, and debt in locations across the globe.
A well-diversified company, though, isn't necessarily a superior investment. If not enough of your portfolio's assets are outperforming -- or if too many are underperforming -- all that diversity may come back to bite you. However, if you have too many eggs in one basket and that one basket underperforms, that's bad as well.
Even though the commercial aviation industry is doing very well right now, and even Boeing's military business is doing well, Boeing had a lot of proverbial eggs in its troubled 737 MAX basket. The planes have been grounded since March 2019, and there are no signs that's about to change.
Considering that this one model not only made up the bulk of Boeing's sales but also of its backlog, the company's failure to fix the plane's underlying issues -- along with plenty of management missteps along the way -- have set the company on its heels, to the point that the stock only gained 1% in all of 2019, compared to the S&P's 28.9% gain and Brookfield's 50.7% gain. Score one for diversification.
Winner: Brookfield Asset Management
We expect to pay a premium price for an outperforming, well-run stock. However, it's also possible to pay too much. While there's no hard and fast rule about how much is too much, a look at common valuation metrics like the price-to-earnings ratio, enterprise value-to-EBITDA ratio, and price-to-free cash flow ratio can help.
Usually, when a stock price appreciates quickly, these valuation metrics also rise. And since a lower valuation is more attractive, it may not make sense to buy into a stock that's been on an outperformance streak.
However, what's surprising here is that it's actually Boeing whose valuations have skyrocketed. That's thanks to its declines in earnings and cash flow as the 737 MAX saga has dragged on. Boeing is still manufacturing the planes, but it can't deliver them -- and thus, can't get paid for them -- so it's been just parking them onsite. There are even reports of old employee parking lots being used as impromptu tarmacs, because the company has simply run out of room.
As you can see in the chart below, Brookfield's valuation metrics have actually gone down even as the share price has gone up over the past three years:
BA PE Ratio data by YCharts
The expectations game
It may seem like this is a rout in favor of Brookfield Asset Management. However, we also need to consider how quickly and how well Boeing might be able to get out of its current predicament. CEO Dennis Muilenberg, who was at the helm for most of this debacle, resigned in late December. He'll officially be replaced by Board Chair David Calhoun on January 13. That said, there are still valid concerns about management's transparency or lack thereof.
Operationally, if Boeing can just get regulators to greenlight its software and design fixes for the 737 MAX, its current problems may not disappear overnight, but will resolve themselves fairly quickly: The company will be able to deliver a glut of 737 MAX aircraft (and get paid for them). That should almost immediately push Boeing's valuation back down and its share price upwards. Even though it will likely have to shoulder additional expenses to compensate customers for the delays and ready the grounded planes for service, Boeing will still have a wide competitive moat in a lucrative industry.
Of course, there's no telling when that will happen. Meanwhile, the well-managed Brookfield is already rewarding its investors.
The plane truth
Even though Brookfield's shares handily outpaced both Boeing's and the S&P's last year, and even though it's likely that Boeing will -- sooner or later -- recover and see its shares rise in response, the strength of Brookfield's management and its diversified portfolio combine to make it the better buy right now.
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"Anyone who enjoys an original mind riffing (often hilariously) on a world classic should see Gnit." - Ben Brantley
"★★★★" - Time Out NY
""Genuinely hilarious…Gnit is brainy and full of rhetorical magic."" - The New York Times
""Will Eno's existential comedy…is the story of a soul's journey through life…a satire about the absurdities of self-confidence."" - New York
Jasmine Batchelor, Jordan Bellow, Joe Curnutte, Christy Escobar, Deborah Hedwall, David Shih
Kimie Nishikawa (Set Design), Ásta Bennie Hostetter and Avery Reed (Costume Design), Amith Chandrashaker (Lighting Design), Lee Kinney (Sound Design), Daniel Kluger (Composer)
Run time: 1 hour and 50 minutes, plus one 15 minute intermission.
Peter Gnit, a modern-day version of Ibsen's heroic character Peer Gynt, is a carefree young man on a reckless search for Experience and the True Self. Armed with tales from his mother of his early greatness and his absent father, he heads out into the world. Like all true stories of human endeavor and adventure, Gnit is part horror story, part fairy tale, and part road movie. A timely reckoning with received notions of Rugged Individualism and the self-made person. The play is performed with a 19-month break, filled with real-life tales of isolation, loss, courage, and love, and a 15-minute intermission. Come see how it all turns out.
Playwright Will Eno's recent plays include The Realistic Joneses (Broadway), which won a 2014 Drama Desk Award and was named USA Today's "Best Play on Broadway." The Paris premiere of Juste Les Jones, will be directed for the stage by documentary filmmaker Frederick Wiseman. The Open House (Signature Theater) won the 2014 Obie Award, the Lortel Award for Outstanding Play, and a Drama Desk Award, and was one of Time Magazine's Top 10 Plays of the Year. Will wrote the book for the award-winning 2019 Skittles Commercial: the Broadway Musical.
Director Oliver Butler's recent productions include What The Constitution Means To Me, which won a 2019 Tony Award nomination for Best Play. He has collaborated with Will Eno on the first NYC revival of Thom Pain (Signature Theater, starring Michael C. Hall) and The Open House (Signature Theater, Lortel Best Play, Obie Award); and The Plot (Yale Rep). He is a Sundance Institute Fellow and a Bill Foeller Fellow. Oliver is co-artistic director of The Debate Society.
Press and Interviews
★★★★ "Questioned about his odd last name, the antihero of Will Eno's Gnit shrugs and replies, "It's a typo…but we decided to just go with it." That no-big-deal energy is prevalent throughout Eno's new play, whose characters grapple with the biggest of big questions—What is love? Is there a God? What is my purpose?—with almost pathological nonchalance, to both mournful and hilarious effect.
Gnit is a reworking of Henrik Ibsen's Peer Gynt…Eno's more substantial innovation is to substitute a deceptively breezy absurdism for Ibsen's romantic grandiosity. Director and frequent Eno collaborator Oliver Butler has cracked the code on the playwright's comedies of existential dread; he expertly steers Gnit's cast of six through the twists and turns of Peter's eventful but joyless life. The six actors play scores of characters—the quick changes are magnificent." –Time Out NY
"Genuinely hilarious, the turns are unpredictable and the performers, especially the priceless Deborah Hedwall as Mother Gynt, Jordan Bellow as several different characters, and of course Joe Curnutte in the lead role, seem to effortlessly hit their cues…Gnit is brainy and full of rhetorical magic." –The New York Times
"Will Eno's existential comedy…is the story of a soul's journey through life…a satire about the absurdities of self-confidence." –New York
"Enophiles will delight in how snugly Ibsen's peculiar drama accommodates Mr. Eno's flair for playing games with language and his offbeat humor, which cuts to the heart as incisively as it tickles the funny bone." —The New York Times (reviewing the 2013 world premiere of Gnit at Actors Theatre of Louisville, Humana Festival)
Conversation between TFANA Resident Artist Jonathan Kalb and GNIT playwright Will Eno
Conversation between actor John Turturro and GNIT playwright Will Eno
Conversation between director Frederick Wiseman and GNIT playwright Will Eno
Conversation between GNIT actor Joe Curnutte and playwright Johnny G. Lloyd
Principal support for Theatre for a New Audience's season and programs is provided by The Hearst Foundations, JLGreene Arts Access Fund in the New York Community Trust, The SHS Foundation, The Shubert Foundation, The Thompson Family Foundation, and the U.S. Small Business Administration.
Theatre for a New Audience's season and programs are also made possible, in part, with public funds from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the National Endowment for the Arts; Shakespeare in American Communities, a program of the National Endowment for the Arts in partnership with Arts Midwest; the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature; and the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council.
Gnit is made possible by the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature.


Earning a certificate, like one in culinary arts, is one of the many ways people can make more money, earn a promotion or find a new job.
That advice means more for Lewis now because at age 55, he's started classes to earn a certificate in culinary arts. A food-service manager for the Georgia Department of Corrections, Lewis arrives at work at 4 a.m., leaves at 7, and by 8 a.m. is in a classroom at Wiregrass Technical College in Valdosta, Ga. Then he goes back to his job to finish his eight-hour shift.
More and more, people such as Lewis are seeking certificates to help improve their income or job security, or to get promoted. Certificates — which are offered at community colleges and four-year institutions, both online and in person — usually take less time in the classroom to earn than associate or bachelor's degrees. Many, in fact, take less than a year to complete.
The skills taught in these programs tend to focus on what you need to know for particular jobs or within specific industries — from the ins and outs of the business accounting software Quickbooks to preparing to become a personal fitness trainer. In many cases, certificate programs at community colleges are specifically tailored to teach the skills employers in the region are looking for.
Certificates can be a quick way to add skills to a worker's portfolio and increase income. Research shows that earning one of these credentials can offer a real boost in salary. For example, supply chain and logistics managers who get certificates related to data skills to analyze traffic and order patterns can see their salaries increase from $70,000 to $85,000, according to research by Burning Glass Technologies, which analyzes data on labor markets. School administrators who get training in data analysis go from $68,000 to $78,000 a year, on average. Graphic designers who make $54,000 can see their salaries increase to $75,000 if they master front-end web development.
Because they're already in the workforce, older workers often can see for themselves what skills their bosses need them to add.
For older workers who are less certain about which certificate programs to pursue, conversations with community college admissions staff members can offer some guidance, experts say. Discuss your professional interests and ask which programs at the college are most in demand or have the best job placement records after completion.
"If you're going to get a certificate, there are two things that matter," says Sigelman. "Is the skill of value? And is this validation of your skill going to be something that employers will recognize" by coming from a respected institution? "It doesn't have to be Harvard, but it has to be an institution in the local market that employers know," he says.
Lewis is on schedule to get his certificate next year and is confident that it will lead to a promotion. And when he retires from that job, he plans to use what he's learned to open his own bakery.
TELL US: What are some skills, training you want to learn?


During the week, Captain Tom Bowen is a student at the Air Force Institute of Technology (AFIT). On the weekends, he races motorcycles at more than 150 miles per hour. At the races, Captain Bowen also doubles as a recruiter to help tell the United States Air Force story as part of the "We are All Recruiters" program. Watch him tear up the track and wish him luck at his next race!


Idaho Superintendent of Public Instruction Tom Luna requested additional information from the U.S. Department of Education earlier this week before offering guidance to schools and notifying parents.
"I don't want that man talking to my children," said Crista Huff in Douglas County, who has three daughters in school. "Look at other leaders who had socialistic policies and chose to talk to children; this would include Hitler, Stalin, Lenin and Castro. I will keep my kids home from school that day and we will re-read the Declaration of Independence."
Part of the furor comes from a blunder by the Obama administration: lesson plans to accompany the speech originally included a recommendation for students to "write letters to themselves about what they can do to help the President."
"That was inartfully worded, and we corrected it," White House deputy policy director Heather Higginbottom said in an interview with The Associated Press.
"The president has no management or curriculum authority in state public schools. Public education is clearly in the domain of the states...I hope all of these people who are cheering and supporting this precedent-setting event will feel comfortable when the next president justifies his political communication to the kids."
There is a question is about whether the speech will be "political." But it's clear that simply giving the President time to speak directly to children in a classroom setting is seen as political by some.
I remember my parents' outrage about the Weekly Reader when I was in elementary school -- avid Democrats, my parents didn't like the two-page "newspaper" handed out to students every week, often featuring President Eisenhower being "political." For me, it was the DARE program that infiltrated public schools during my daughter's elementary years. Brainchild of the controversial former Los Angeles police chief Darryl Gates, Drug Abuse Resistance Education was forced on students around the country, although it has been found ineffective in curbing drug abuse and may actually increase it. The idea was for (armed) police officers to come into the schools and lecture kids as young as the second grade about drugs. When I objected -- because police (no matter how well-meaning) are not qualified to teach my child about health or drugs, and because the DARE program doesn't work -- the principal looked at me like I came from Mars. Even though she couldn't understand my concerns, she allowed me to take my daughter out of the classroom when the weekly session came around.
All this is to say, we and our children are bombarded by information that's "objectionable" on a daily basis. And kids are subjected to a lot of propaganda we don't even know about. My grandson related that one of his public school teachers told him "rainbows are God's way of apologizing" -- in this way we found out that the teacher was freely proselytizing on the public dime.
Here's the thing: if we agree that God is sending down an apology, we won't care about the teacher's remark. If we like President Obama, it's okay for him to address our kids. Bob Shaffer is speaking directly to the point when he says that we should be deciding these issues on principle -- not personal opinion, or prejudice.


Doing new things can be scary. Stepping out of your comfort zone is hard to do. Even when it's something you really want, chasing that dream can seem like a mountain you don't know if you can climb to the top of. Let me encourage you. The mountaintop is awesome, but there is adventure to be had in the climb. Some things are as much about the journey as they are about the destination. We are always growing as individuals. Everyone has their own pace. It's okay to grow at different times. Don't compare your journey to other people. Your journey is your own. I saw many of these quotes on Pinterest and they were such an encouragement to me I wrote them down and I want to share them with you. This blog is for anyone who needs encouragement to follow their dreams. Chase your dreams. Live life to the fullest. Enjoy your days. Life is too short to wonder what if and let fear rob you of good experiences. It's okay to be scared how something will turn out because that shows you care about it. Passion is a beautiful thing. We were all made for a purpose. We were given a passion for something or maybe multiple things. I just want to encourage you today to ignite that fire of passion and chase your dreams.
"Never let the odds keep you from doing what you know in your heart you were meant to do." – H. Jackson Brown Jr.
I hope these quotes motivate and encourage you as much as they do me. Every day is a new day. What will you do with your life today? Direction determines destination. What direction are you headed? Pray about it not just once but often. Make a list of where you are, where you've come from, and where you want to go in life. Set goals. Make plans on how to get there or how to become what you want to be. Don't worry about what other people think. You just keep working on you. Do your best. Give 100%. Never lose your passion. Kindle the fire. Be all lit up with love for what you care about. Print this out and read over it when you are doubting. Remember doubt kills dreams. You miss all the shots you don't take. It's better to try and fail than to never try at all. It's okay to be scared. Push through it. Don't give up. Sometimes you have to be your own cheerleader. You can do it. You CAN do this. It will be hard. It will be worth it. The journey is going to be great! You're going to be great!! Believe in yourself.